The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE MEETING.

iF A public meeting of the Conservative party in
the borough was held last night, by adjournment
from Saturday, at the Marylebone Literary Insti-
tution, Edward-street, Portman-square, to consider
the selection of a fit and proper person to represent
the borough in the Conservative interest.
Mr. -Haig occupied the chair, and ' amidst some
interruption from some of the opposite party, spoke
of the importance of • wresting that important
borough from the .Whig-Radical grasp. He ob-,
served they had reason to believe that if a proper
requisition were presented to him, Mr. Bond Cab-
bell would come forward as a ConservatiTe candi-
date. (Cheers, and cries' of " How about his starved
cat," and great uproar.)
Mr. STEWART, M.P., for. Cambridge, Mr. Pia-
DEAUX, and several other gentlemen, addressed the
meeting, and resolutions were adopted, pledging
the meeting to support Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell,
in case he should assent to be put in nomination, or
any other Conservative who might be 'willing to
come forward.

Thanks to the chairman terminated the proceed
:ngs.

As Sir B. Hall will not be gazetted to the
Peerage till Friday, it is believed the new writ
will not be moved for before Monday next.

THE NAVY.

The Agamemnon, 91, screw, Capt. Thomas Hope,.
has received sailing orders, and will proceed to the
Mediterranean.

The line-of-battle ship Rodney, 90. and the sail-
ing frigate Severn, 50, in dock at Chatham being
converted into screw steamers, have pa& upwards
of 200 shipwrights employed on board, fri order that
they may be completed with all despatch:
Her Majesty's iron troopship Simoom, Commander
Cooke, arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, with the
headquarters of the Fifeshire Artillery Militia, un
der Lieut.-Col. Wynne, from Plymouth, for garri-
son duty at Pendennis. On landing them the
Simoom returned up Channel the same afternoon.
The Pioneer, 4, screw, despatch gun vessel, Com-
mander May, has sailed from Spithead for Liver-
pool to pick up bands.
When the Urgent screw steam troop-ship, now
just returned to Portsmouth and docked for repairs,
was at Gibraltar, his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales went on board and requested to see the quar-
ter-boats lowered at a moment's notice by Clifford's
new system, as fitted in all troopships. This was
instantly done, and Captain Hire had the honour
of proving to his Royal Highness that a boy of 15
years of age had (single-handed) perfect control
over the lowering. The lad in the Prince's pre-
sence lowered the boat half way down, then stopped
it, then lowered away again and cast it off. When
in the Bay of Biscay, the ship going 11 knots, a
mat was thrown overboard, representing a man,
and a boat was lowered and the mat picked up
in one minute and 40 seconds. His Royal High-
ness was much pleased with the simplicity and
efficiency of the system as practically demonstrated
to him by Captain Hire.
The new screw steam-frigate Ariadne was, on
Monday, towed down to 'Woolwich from the Vic-
toria Docks, to be fitted with her machinery of 800-
horse power, to be supplied by Messrs. Maudslay
and Sons, after which she will be removed to dock
at Chatham.

The steam transport Oscar, Mr. T. H. Tropp
commander, yesterday sailed from Woolwich, hav-
ing embarked war stores. The Samian Gem has,
commenced receiving war stores from Woolwich;
also the Prospero and the Disraeli.
Sixty seamen and marines were draughted on
Saturday from the Wellington to the Topaze, 51,
both in Plymouth.
The screw steam corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt. H.
S. Hillyar, went outside Plymouth Sound on Mon-
day to try her engines. Mr. Ward, assist.-engineer,
was on board to report on the state of her ventila-
tion.
The screw steam sloop Falcon, 17, Cemmander
Fitzroy, left Plymouth under steam on Monday,
for the coast of Africa.
The gunboat Snap, Lieut. W. F. Johnston, was
placed in dock at Devonport on Monday, to make
good 'defects ; her boilers are ouCtrf repair.
The steam sloop Virago, 6, Commander Dunn,
from Pembroke' and Falmouth, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Monday with 87 men—viz., 20 for the
Aboukir, and 67 for the Impregnable, The Virago
requires some repairs.
The naval transport Diligence, J. Crook master,
left Plymouth on 'Monday with stores.
The screw steam frigate Termagant, 25, rejoined
the fleet at Portland on Sunday evening, after a
cruise in the Channel.

The Melpomene, 51, screw steam frigate, Capt.
Ewart, arrived in the Mersey yesterday from Spit-
head,-for the purpose of entering seam, en for the
Royal Navy.
The following gentlemen were yesterday pro-
moted to be Masters:--John D. Switzer, Wm. T.
Clifton, Henry C. Sedmond, John Molloy, Adolphus
E. Parks, John D. Rogers, Richd. C. Drew E. J.
Kellow, John R. Ryan, Henry R. Harris, Andrew
J. Armstrong, Daniel Pender, E. L. B. Williams,
and James H. Lawrence.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. R. H. Harington
to the Agamemnon ; Lieut. R. Ti. Roe to the
Donegal; Lieut. W. O. Butler to the Flying Fish ;
Lieut. J. Burgess and Lieut. the Hon. H. Lascelles
to the Topaze ; Lieut. J. B. Mitchell to the Victory;
F. T. Jameson, master, to the Dauntless ; and W.
F. Greet, additional master, to the Wellington.
The Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty
Rifles (402 strong), commanded by Lieut.-Col. Ross,
assembled at Dingwall on the 16th inst., were
clothed, armed, and marched to Fort George, a dis-
tance of 19 miles (including a ferry), on the same
day. The manner in which the men of the regiment
assembled, after only 14 days' notice, is most credi-
table to them. Several of the volunteers marched a
distance of more than 40 miles the day previous to
the assembly, in order to be present at the muster.
As barrack accommodation cannot be afforded to
the Royal Sussex Artillery at Eastbourne during
their training, the regiment is ordered to assemble
at the depot at Lewes on the Ist of July.
Messrs. John and Robert White, of Cowes, Isle
of Wight, have received orders from the Govern-
ment to build a screw gun-boat, on improved prin-
ciples, of 425 tons. Messrs. White, at the present
moment, are completing a steam squadron for the
Turkish navy. Miring the late war they built the,
fastest gun-boats afloat—the Lapwing and the Ring -
dove.
The Admiralty have ordered the Carnatic, old
74, to be sent to the building yard of Messrs. White,,
to be prepared as a coal depot for the 'Poidand
Roads station.
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11 Admiralty ender hay been received at Chat-