The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

DUTCH RHENISH.

The receipts for the fortnight ending August 15, 1858,
amount to £8,414, and for the corresponding period of last
year to £B,lOO, showing an increase of £313. The receipts
since the commencement of the present book-year, on the
Ist of May, including the above, amount to £51,465, show-
ing an increase over the corresponding period of last year of
£3,929. The working expenses for the fortnight amount to
£2,833, or 33.67 per cent. of the receipts, and from the
Ist of May to the 15th of August to £19,380, 0r.:37•66 per
cent. Tim accounts for the last year having been -kept
upon a different system, no fair comparison of the fort=
nightly expenditure is possible, but the expenditure of the
year 1857-58 was 55 per cent.

TILE NAVY.

The steam transport Dee, Master Commander Pullen,
sailed from Woolwich yesterday morning with steam gear
for the western yards, and convoyed the gunboat Ripple to
Portsmouth.

The Orion, 91, screw, Captain Edwin C. T. D'Eyncourt,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fre-
mantle, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron;
the Caesar, 91,:screw, Captain Charles Frederick; the Re-
nown, 91, screw, Captain Arthur Forbes; the Brunswick,
80, screw, Captain Erasmus Ommanney ; and the Racoon,
21, screw, Captain James A. Paynter, sailed from Spithead
yesterday for a short cruise in the Channel, the first move-
ment of the Channel fleet.

The Hydra, 6, paddlewheel steam sloop, Commander R.
V. Hamilton, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning at
daylight with supernumeraries for Plymouth.
The Terrible, 21, paddleweel steam frigate, Captain
Frederick H. 11. Glasse, arrived at Spithead yesterday
forenoon, with 300 men paid off from the Royal Albert, 121,
screw, Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, at Plymouth.
She discharged them to the Echo and Sprightly steam-ves-
sels, and returned again to Plymouth.
Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour went out to Spit-
hiad in the Fire Queen steam vessel, Master Paul, yesterday
afternoon, and visited the Russian commodore Popoff on
beard the Russian corvette Rends, at Spithead ; on leaving
he was saluted with 17 guns. The Russian Commodore and
captains of his squadron dined with Sir George Seymour in
the evening at the Admiral's residence in the dockyard.
Yesterday, at 2 p.m., the paddlewheel steam vessel
Cologne, built by Messrs. Westwood, Baillie, and Campbell,
for the General Steam Navigation Company was successfully
launched trom their yard at Millwall. The vessel is about
500 tons, builders' measurement. The Cologne, after-launch-
ing, was towed immediately to the factory at Deptford-
creek.

The Board of Admiralty have concluded the purchase of
the double-action pump, the invention of Mr. Delpech, and
which is in general use is the French maritime service. One
of these pumps is ordered to be fitted on board her Majesty's
experimental corvette Galatea, under construction in
Woolwich dockyard. In a recent experiment to test the
capabilities of the above-named pump, a 300 gallon tank of
water was emptied in the short space of 52 seconds.
The Valorous, 16, screw steamer, Captain W. C. Aldham,
having been docked at Chatham, has undergone a careful
examination in order to ascertain whether she has received
any injuries, but only some very slight defects were dis-
covered, which were immediately made good, and she was
yesterday undocked.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Diadem, Captain Moor-
som, R.N., arrived at the new harbour at Holyhead on Mon-
day evening at 7 o'clock with the Loris of the Admiralty.
Next morning Sir John Pakington, M.P., First Lord, ac-
companied by two other Lords of the Admiralty, Lord
Lovaine and Admiral 'Milne, Mr. Corrie, secretary, and
suite, inspected the new harbour works. Their lordships
were conducted over the several departments of the works
by Mr. G. C. Dobson, resident engineer of the Admiralty ;
Commander B. Priest, R.N., Admiralty agent; Mr. Charles
Rigby, one of the contractors for the works, &c. Aft pr
minutely examining the progress of the construction of the
northern breakwater and superstructure, their lordships
proceeded to Salt Island to ;inspect the works in the old
harbour. They then went in Mr. Rigby's steam yacht Marie
to South Stack Island, whence they returned early in the
afternoon. Captain Mends, C. 8., R.N., of her Majesty's
ship Hastings, now stationed in the harbour, was also In at-
tendance upon their lordships, and salutes were fired from
the Hastings on the arrival of the Diadem, and during the
inspection of the harbour.