The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-08 00:00:00

G U-ST lB5l,

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Frances Bruce, and Sir
George Cooper, left town early yesterday morning for
Hamilton Palace, on a visis to the Duke and Duchess of
Hamilton. Her Royal Highness travelled by the North-
Western Railway.
The Oxford University Commission bad a meeting
yesterday at the official residehce of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing-street. Present—the Bishop 61
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., and the
Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary).

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH,
,THURSDAY.

This morning, at 9 40, the Fairy Royal yacht, Cap-
tain Lord'Atidphus Fiti.darence, G-.C.H., embarked the
Qacen, Prince Albert, and, the Court from Cowes for
Gosport, under the usual. salutes and attendant care-
monies. Oa disembarking from the Royal yacht her
Majesty was received by the Port . Admiral, Admiral
Suprinteaden!, Lieutenant-Governor, Captain Super-
intendent, with their respective se,,ffi, a guard of honour
of the 48th Foot, commanded by Lieutenant• Colonel the
Hon. A. Dalz4, and Mr. R. Willoughby Stevens, of the
Railway Company. The American General Stuart and
Colonel Alexander Fisher Mackintosh, K.ll , were also
present. The special train (in charge of Mr. Cornelius
Stoviii, general manager, and Mr. Beattie, superin-
tendent of the locomotive department and engineer of
the South-Western Railway Company), left the Cla-
rence-yard at tire minutes to 11 ter Lontior, whence
her Majesty will return on Saturday morning at 10 30.
The Rodney, 92, has been this day ordered for com-
mission at this port by Captain Charles Gtainm, C B
brother of Sir Jacies Grahaw. M.P. -
The Tieer
„, new steaui-friewe is being stripped of her
rigging, but tor what is not accurately ascertainable.
ROYAL MARINES.
The annual inspection of the Povernouth division el
Royal Marii.e4, under Colonel-en:iimundvit Mtezies,
cornmeeced yesterday by sjor-G eneral Lord
Funlareeee and Colonel Owen. KJ! , Deputy-
Aojatuat. General of the Royal Marint,i. •The inspec-
tion commenced at Fortin' Barracks. The inipecting
°facers commenced their • Cutif a by .reviewirig the divi-
sion in htay.e Matching order on pktade Ut eh,
in9p:7cting CAI eflictrs' and men, their arm?, accoutre_
meats, and kite, and afterwards the nien's dinners iu
the barrack-room:, their books, &e., in the ine.s-rof,rsa,
which yieldecturtpaaltiecl satisfaotion.. The inspectioo
yegcrday was coutioed•to the barracks. Te-day the di-
vhion was revieved an ...klaslite-cenunen, and went
through all the tuarceuvrs ordered with that precision
and accuracy which the Portsmouth division of the gal-
lant Marine corps ii so justly famed for. 1 -
Woor.wren, Ave. 7.
A rpm NTNENTS.

Lieutenants—Henry Lloyd (1841), William Uorton
(1842), and William IL Pyre (1949), to the Waterloo,
120, at Sheerness; Goorge Welker (1841), Francis F.
Porteous (1942), and John C. Bync, (1846), to the Rod-
ney. 90, at Portsmouth; Chandos S. S. Stanhope.(lB46),
to the Calypso, IS. at Chatham; Edmund Remsred
(1845), and Henry C. Majendie (1850), to the Grecian,
12, at Devonport; and L3wis J. Moore (1848), to the
Virago steam sloop at Devonport.
• Masters—Edward Williams (1840), to the Waterloo;
Richard Themas-(1841). to the Arethusa, 50, at Lisbon;
Charles H. Dillon -(1880. to the Gossamer cnttor at
Sheerness; Frederick F. F. Taylor (1846), to the Gre-
cian; David Craigie (1833), to the Rodney; and Second
Master George H. Inskip (1846), Acting Master to the
Virago.

Surgeons—Thomas Henry Lowry, M.D. (1845), to the
Virago; Thames J. Layton, M.D. (1850), to the Gre-
cian; and James Rae (b) (1850), to the Volcano.
Paymasters and Pursers—Henry B. H. Long (1814),
to the Waterloo; William H. Bateman (1849), to the
Virago; and Alfred Whitehouse (1850), to the Grecian.
Chief Engineer—Archibald Bain, to the Virago.
Assistant-Surgeons—John T. Robinson (1848), to the
Grecian; George H. Edwards (1847), to the Waterloo;
and William R (b) (1845), to the Virago.
Assistant-Engineers—Frederick J. Newton, Frederick
W. Suttun, and William Owen, to the Virago.
Second Master—Wilfred E. Trontbeck (1848), to the
Waterloo.
• Clerks—James H. Jackson (1848), to the Waterloo;
and William E. Kelly (1849), to the Grecian.
Gunners—James Seymour, to the Waterloo; George
Parsons, to the Virago; aid Tobias Mulkey (acting), to
the Grecian.
The Vesuvius steam sloop arrived at Woolwich to-day
from Davenport, to embark Captain Crawford's company
of the Royal Artillery for conveyance to Jersey.
The Ptceaix 8, screw steam sloop, of 260 horse
power, Commander Thomas H. Lysught, from the west
coast of Africa, arrived at Woolwich to day, and will be
paid off at this port.
Mr. Digby G. Dent, sen., third-class clerk in Devon-
port Dockyard, has been promoted to the second-class,
vice Gibbs, superannuated.
The Virago, steamer, is to be commissioned at Devon-
port with a complement of 160 officers end men.
The Grecian is also to be commissioned, with a com-
plement of 130 officers and men.
The Styx and Waterwitch were both to sail from De-
vonport on the 7th, after post.
The Sinbad, lighter, Follett master, arrived at Devon-
port on Wednesday, with stores from Woolwich.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, Auc. 7.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE