The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF INQUIRY ON COMMODORE PLUMRIDGE.
—ln consequence of certain representations made to
the Admiralty by Mr. %Vymond Hanley, the late sec-
retary to Commodore Plumridge, when in the East
Indies, their Lordships ordered a court of inquiry,
composed of the Commander-in Chief at Devonport,
Admiral Sir W. IL Gaga, G.C.IL, Capt. Sir Thomas
Maitland, C. 8., of the flag-ship, and Captain Hope
Johnstone, of the Albion, 90, to investigate the
charges against Commodore Plumridge, before paying
off the Cambrian, 40. The committee commenced
their inquiry at the commodore superintendent's office
in the dockyard at 10.30 A.M. on Saturday, and con-
tinued until 4 P.M., when they adjourned until 10
o'clock yesterday morning. The persons examined
were Commander Morris, Lieut. Lloyd, Mr. T. C.
Pullen, the muster; Mr. Beal, the paymaster; and
the ship's joiner, all of the Cambrian; and the surgeon,
Mr. C. H. Brien ; the naval instructor, Mr.
Speed ; and several of the seamen were to have
been examined yesterday. The inquiry was strictly
secret, and the witnesses were forbidder, to make any-
thing pubiic. It is known, however, that Commodore
Plumridge lied Mr. Hanley were the closest friends
for about eighteen months, when, upon some dif-
ferences arising between them in the East Indies, the
Commodore discharged his secretary on the station,
and left him to find his way home. Upon these dif-
ferences the ex-secretary has brought charges against
the Commodore ; but it is likely that the result of
the court of inquiry will prevent a court-martial.
Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., returned from
leave on Saturday evening, and re-hoisted his flag on
board the St. George,, 120, at nine A.M. on Sunday
morning, and has resumed his duties as superintendent
of the dockyard. . _

There is no truth in the report that Captain
Milne, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, will be
appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral Price as superin-
tendent of Sheerness Dockyard. It is more likely
that it will be offered to a senior captain nearer Sir
Charles Hotham's seniority than that of Captain

Captain the Hon. Keith Stewart (1842), who has
come here from New Zealand in the Rattlesnake, it is
generally stated, is to commission the Calliope, 26, at
Devonport, to relieve the Havannah, 19, Captain
Erskine, as senior officer of the New Zealand division.
Captain Stewart is son-in-law of the Governor of New
Zealand, Sir Charles Fitzroy.
ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW CROSS.—Miss Bur-
dett Coutts has presented the munificent sum of 1001.,
the moiety of which sbe has appropriated to the pur-
chase of two debentures, qualifying her to nominate
pupils to the institution.

Commander A. P. E. Wilmot has not yet commis-
sioned the Britomart. Their Lordships' directions are
waited at Devonport before the delivery of the com-
missions and appointments to the officers of the Brito-
mart. In consequence of her defective state she has
been docked.

Lieut. Gardiner, commanding the Oberon, steam-
vessel, in the Mediterranean, has at length been re-
lieved, it is said, at his own request, in the command
of that vessel, by Lieut. R. B. Harvey, formerly of
the Bellerophon.
Fisgard, commodore's flag-ship at Woolwich, will
be paid off and re-commissioned.

The Antelope, steam-packet, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Smyth, went on shore at Fiume Point, in the
Dardanelles, on the night of the 15th ult., while in
the prosecution of her voyage from Samos for Con-
stantinople, but was got off through the assistance of
one of the Austrian steamers, and, we understand, has
not sustained any material damage.
Dragon, 6. steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, was to
have sailed Nov. 1 for Mahon, with the mails brought
thither by the Medusa, but was detained by the heavy
westerly gale now blowing.
North Star, 26, is ordered from Sheerness to be
laid up in ordinary at Chatham.
Spy, brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander G. Wes-
tern, is ordered to be paid off at Chatham.
Duck, lighter, Savage, master, left Devonport on
Saturday with stores tor Portsmouth and the River
yards.

CHATHAM D OCKYARD. —The Admiralty have
granted the widow of the late Richard Grandy, master
of the Fortitude, convict depot, a pension of 251. per
annum.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Her Majesty's frigate Port-
land, flag of Rear-Admiral Moresby, sailed for Val-
paraiso on Friday with a light breeze from the west-
ward.

The crew of the steam-vessel Geyser were paid
wages yesterday, and she sailed to-day with the mail
for Brazil.

Tae Seagull packet brig sailed this afternoon for
Falmouth to take the December mail to South Ame-
rica; she will be the last Government vessel employed
on this duty.
The frigate Cambrian was unmasted yesterday;
her crew will be paid off on Tuesday.
The crew of her Majesty's ship Albion are to be
augmented to a full complement of 820 men.
The Wasp steam-vessel, which arrived on Wed-
nesday, had a long passage of 10 days from Wool-
wich, during which she experienced very heavy
weather. At one time it was feared that the masts
would roll out of her; she took shelter at Teign-
mouth on Tuesday night.
The steam-vessel Greenock left the harbour at
6 A.M. on Thursday, and having made a trial trip
round the Eddystone returned at 1 F.M.
The surveying-brig Pandora, having been repaired
and ordered for commission, was taken out of dock
to-day, and masted.

The Calliope and Britomart were placed in dock
to-day preparatory to being commissioned.
The Nautilus, apprentices' brig, came iu from the
Sound yesterday, and is moored under the Obelisk at
Mount Edgecumbe for the winter.
The new dock and basin now in progress at the
Devonport Dockyard are ordered to be completed on
the plan of Mr. W. Edye, the master shipwright.
Mr. David Derry was this day elected mayor of
Plymouth, and Mr. M. Jeffry mayor of Devonport,
for the ensuing year.
This afternoon, about three o'clock—tide low—the
copper-bottomed schooner Enriquito, Captain Tono,
discharging at the Millbay pier, suddenly fell over on
her beam ends. She is from Havannah, with 773
cases of sugar for Messrs. Bryant, Brunel], and Co.
The last six cases, about a ton, were in the slings
half way up the hold, when, there being no mast-
head teakle fastened ashore, and no ballast abroad, sbe
parted her warps, stem and stern, and fell over. One
of her seamen, on the topgallant yard, was jerked to
the topsail yard, fell with his back• on the main yard,
and then rebounded on the pier ; his arm was broken,
and he received other injuries, and was conveyed im-
mediately to the Devon and Cornwall hospital. The
mate jumped overboard, the crew got on her side, and
the Custom-house officer (Axvvortuy) being to lee-
ward had a narrow escape, and has lost his commis-
sion paper, books, &c. By the rebound of the slings
a labourer on the
.pier bad his head cut open and
shoulder injured.
Nov. 10.—An ineffectual effort was made last
night to raise the schooner, by attaching the chains of
three cranes to her masts. Subsequently, under the
authority of Mr. T. W. Fox, jun., two lumps were
obtained from the dockyard, and being cradled be-
tween them, the Enriquito was towed by the Phee?ix
steamer into shallow water. On the fall of the tide
it is intended to pump her out and lighten her. Shy
belongs to the master and M. Marcus of Denis, and is
uninsured.

CHATHAM, Nov. 11.—The Spy, 3-gun brigantine,
Lieutenant and Commander George Western, from
the coast:of Africa, was this day towed up the Med-
way to this port from Sheerness by the Adder steam-
vessel. The Spy arrived at Sheerness yesterday, and
Nv ill be paid off as soon as she has returned her stores
to this dockyard and dismantled.
The Royal standards were hoisted on Saturday last
at the several forts of this garrison, at the Dockyard
of the Ordnance, in celebration of the Prince of Wales'
birthday.

DUBLIN THEATKICALS.—Miss Catherine Hayes
has been performing, with great eclat, a series of Italian
operas, comprising Luc,- czia Borgia, Linda di Chamouni,
Norma, La Sonnambula, and Lucia. She has been supported
by Signor Bordas and Madame Macfarren, who has appeared
for the first time in Ireland, and has played with decided suc-
cess the characters of Orsini, Pierotto, and Adalgisa, altering
the last into a contralto.

The unanimous judgment of Westminster-hall
places Lord Campbell among the most efficient judges who
have occupied the exalted position of Chief Justice of Eng-
land. his accurate and extensive knowledge of law—his fa-
miliarity with the practice of his court—his intimate ac-
quaintance with the habits, manners, and customs of the
various classes of society appealing to the tribunal over
which he presides— his firmness. suavity, and well-regulated
temper—all combine to form a judge who commands the re-
spect and wins the obedience and regard of all the profes-
sional men practising before him, and who also makes the
suitors feel that even-handed justice has been administered
to them by one thoroughly conversant with the science and
the practice of the law.— Times.

During the past week the weather has been bois-
terous and wet. Shortly after midnight, yesterdav week, a
brisk gale set in from the westward, continued' almost
through the entire week, and subsided only on Saturday. On
Monday a slight sprinkling of snow was also experienced,
but subsequently no other signs of winter were observable,
save cold, sharp breezes and cloudy skies. Yesterday was
tolerably fine and clear.—Lirespool Albion.

EXTENSIVE FIRE.—At a few minutes before two
o'clock this (Tuesday) morning, the neighbourhood of Great
Russell-street, Bermondsey, was thrown into great confusion,
through a fire breaking out in a range of premises belonging
to Mr. Harredine, a rag merchant, in Butler's-walk, Ber-
mondsev-street, which extended into Blue Anchor-place, the
whole being of great magnitude, and which was adjoined by
belou gingand to Mr. Murrall, a straw-merchant,
several other erections used for
pttliee
r''iv:riarteetr°a'nnisadeis schools,manufacturing purposes. Numerous engines of
the London Brigade and West of England Company speedily
arrived, and plenty of water having been procured, the whole
force was brought to bear upon the conflagration, but it was
nearly three o'clock before the mastery over the fire could be
obtained.

PERNAMBUCO.—LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11.—By an
arrival from Pernambuco we have adyice4 from that port to
the sth ult, Exchange 28 to 281.