The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—The Comet stenll.ll3Sel.
Lieutenant-Commander Pretyman, having returned
into harbour from surveying service. wider thn orders
of Communaer Sherringham, of the Fearless, which
latter vessel had become disabled in her machinery,
sailed on Sunday for Brighton, to convey the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., to this
port, to resume his duties. The Comet, however, did
not bring the gallant Admiral, who preferred coming
in his yacht, the Fanny. His flag was rehoisted op
board the Excellent, having been struck upwardi of
five weeks. The health of the gallant Admiral is
by no means re-established, but is sufficiently re-
stored to admit of his conducting the port duties.
The Hecla, 4, steam sloop, Commander Duffill,
arrived from Devonport on Monday, and came into
this harbour to replenish coals. She will go round to
Woolwich to refit, and then proceed to the Mediter-
ranean.

The Fearless surveying-vessel, Commander Sher-
ringham, having had the damage to her engines re-
paired, left the harbour for the Southampton river, to
resume surveying operations, yesterday morning.
The Queen, 110, Captain Martin, was inspected on
Monday by Rear-Admiral Parker, and having com-
pleted stores and provisions, sailed this morning for
Plymouth. Those of the crew who were turned over
from the Camperdown received wages on Monday, at
which time such of the crew as were newly entered
received two months' advance wages. It is expected
that the St. Viccent, 120, Captain Rowley, now in
the Sound, Plymouth, will return to Spithead on the
arrival of the Queen.

All further attempts to raise the Swiftsure, the
hulk (74), moored in Porchester Lake as a receptacle
for Captain Norton's shells, to be fired from the Ex-
cellent gunnery-ship, under the superintendence and
direction of Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, Knt., but
which heeled over and sank last week, are abandoned,
and we are informed she will be fired at and destroyed
where the has foundered. This will be very dead game,
however, the vessel having sunk up to her upper-deck
ports.

The experimental squadron is not yet ready, nor do
we expect, from appearances this morning, that it will
be yet for several days. The brigs are still incom-
plete in many departments, and the umpire's vessel,
the Firebrand, very backward in (quipment indeed.
The Pantaloon is the only brig belonging to the
squadron at this port which has bent sail.
SHEERNESS, TUESDAY—The Mutine, 12, Com-
mander R. B. Crawford; Espiegle, 12, Commander
T. P. Thompson, new experimental brigs ; and
Cruiser, 16, Commander E. G. Fanshawe, were
towed from Chatham by the Monkey and Africane
steam-vessels on Saturday, and anchored at the Little
Nore, where, yesterday, they were inspected by the
Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir J. C. White.
This day at noon they got under weigh for Ports-
mouth, with a fresh breeze blowing from the north-
east. The Mutine had a quarter of an hour's advan-
tage over her competitors in breaking grourd. The
Espiegle, however, appeared to be the favourite. The
Port Admiral attended the squadron in his yacht as
far as the Great Nore, to observe the performance of
the respective brigs under canvass.
Sir G. Cockburn, and other members of the Board
of Admiralty, are expected to visit and inspect this
port and arsenal daily.
The name of the successor to the late Captain P.
Fisher, as superintendent of this dockyard, with the
charge of the ordinary, has not been announced up to
post time this evening.
No commissions have arrived for any ships now
ready for the pendant at this port.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, accompanied by the Princess Mary, left the
seat of the Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton, Gleuces.
tershire, yesterday morning, for their residence
at Kew.

Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, transacted
business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Tun JEWISH Fg6TITAL OF THE FEAST or TEN
TABERNACLE.—This evening (Friday), at sunset, the
festival of the Feast of the Tabernacle commences, which
is celebrated with much pomp and rejoicing by all mem-
bers of the Jewish persuasion. The festival continues
during the following eight days. On the first and last
two days no business whatever is transacted. All those
who have the means erect tabernacles in their gardens,
the tops being covered with green willow, and decorated
with fruits and flowers, and branches of the palm and
citron. The seventh day is the grand clay, on which oc-
casion the five books of Moses, or the Pentateuch, splen-
didly decorated, are carried seven times raund the Syna-
gogue, accompanied by the priests and elders, carrying
the sulab and citron, each member of the congregation
holding in his hand a bunch of myrtle, which he strikes
on the bench as the procession passes seven times, con-
sidering that as the leaves of the myrtle fall, so will their
sins. The whole of the congregation remain standing,
chanting the prayers appointed for the occasion. After
the Pentateuch is placed in the ark, the Chief Priest
standing in the centre, receives the offerings of the con-
gregation towards the support of the poor. On the
eighth day the rejoicings of the law takes place, the
bridegroom of the law appointed for the occasion, read.
ins the last seven chapters of the Pentateuch.