The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, August 19.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Prince Leopold, crossed the lake, by steamer,
to Brannen, and drove home by Goldau.
Iler Majesty has felt a good deal fatigued by
the heat. The Royal Family are well.

DEATH OFMR. COMMISSIONER

GO ULIJ URN.

The death of Mr. Commissioner Goulburn wa
announced this morning at the Court of Bankruptcy
The late Commissioner, who was in the 82 1 year
of his age, was compelled through illness and gene-
ral debility to discontinue his attendance at
the court a few months since, Mr. llazlitt,
one of the registrars, being appointed acting
commissioner iu his place. The late commissioner
was appointed to this court in 1844 by Lord
Lyndhurst, and, although Mr. llazlitt has per-
formed the duties during his absence, he can do so
now no longer until regularly appointed in accord-
ance with some singular rules prevalent at this
court, so that the business generally stood over.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Surgeon J. Balfour Cockburn, M.D., Royal En-
gineers, and principal medical officer at Fort Pitt
Hospital, Chatham, having completed his period of
service at head-quarters, Chatham, has received
orders to proceed by the next mail to Gibraltar, to
take medical charge of the Royal Engineers at that
station. He will be relieved at Chatham by Surgeon
T. W. Fox, M.B.
Orders have been received at Chatham directing
a detachment of three officers and 70 men of the Ist
Battalion of the Bth (the King's) Regiment and two
officers and 7G men of the Ist Battalion of the 14th
Regiment to be held in readiness to leave the garri-
son and proceed to Malta, to join the service com-
panies of those regiments, both of which are under
orders for service in India. The Ist Battalion of
the Bth Regiment returned home from India in
1860, and the Ist Battalion of the 14th from the
West Indies in 1864.

The first iron plate for the keel of the ironclad
turret-ship Glatton, 2, 500-horse power, ordered to
be built at Chatham Dockyard, was lowered into
the third dock, in which she is to be constructed,
yesterday. The moulds placed in the dock show
that the Glatton will be constructed with perfectly'
flat•midship sections, which will give her a compa-
ratively light draught of water, as she is intended
for coast defence, and to operate in harbours and
along parts of the coast where a great depth of
water is not to be obtained.

Her Majesty's paddle steamer the Medusa, Staff
Commander G. B. Swain, steamed up to Woolwich
Dockyard this morning, from Sheerness, for the
purpose of being in readiness to take in tow the
monster iron dry dock being constructed at North
Woolwich, under Admiralty contract, and which
is expected to be launched on the 2d of Sep-
tember.

Her Majesty's steam storeship the Fox, Stag
Commander R. B. Bath, proceeded down the river
yesterday morning from Woolwich, for Pembroke
Dockyard, with boilers for the Inconstant.

The sum of £170,000 is to be placed in the next
Navy Estimates for the purpose of defraying the
cost of constructing storehouses on the occasion Of
the conversion of Deptford dockyard. The river
side of the dockyard will be retained by the Admi-
ralty for the storing and shipment of stores required
for foreign stations; and the remainder of the
dockyard will be handed over to the War Depart-
ment, who will erect storehouses on it in connec-
tion with the Military Store Department. The
Royal Victualling-yard will remain as heretofore.
The Sharpshooter, 6, screw sloop, Lieut. and
Commander B. S. linmilton, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning from the South-east Coast of
America. Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley will inspect
her to-day, and, after discharging her powder and
shell, she will proceed into Portsmouth harbour to
be dismantled and paid out of commission.