The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Right Hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty
entertained his colleagues and the heads of depart-
ment, in honour of the Queen's birthday, on Wednes-
day last, at the Admiralty. There were present on
that occasion the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir T. B.
Martin, G.C.8., Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 13.,
M.P., Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. Berkeley, C. 13.
M.P., Captain llouston Stewart, C. 8., Captain A.
Mike, Mr. Parker, M.P., First Secretary ; Captain
W. A, B. Hamilton, Second Secretary; Admiral Sir
C. Adams, K.C.8., Governor and Rear-Admiral Sir
James Gordon, K.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor of
Greenwich Hospital ; Rear-Admiral Sir W. Pell,
and Sir 11. Hart, Commissioners of GrFenwich ;
Commodore-Superintendent Eden, Captain Lord
Hallyburton, the heads of departments at Somerset
House ; Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8.,
Surveyor of the Navy; the lion. Mr. Dundas,
Storekeeper-General; Lieut. Col. Green, Chief Di-
rector of Works ; Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Mr. Robson,
Colonel Owen, C. 8., R.M., Adjutant-General ;
Commandant Parke, C. 8., Captain Sir G. Pechell,
Bart., M.P., Dr. Sir W.Burnett, F R.S., Medical
Director. General ; Captain Townsend, Commander
Fordyce, M.P., &c.
DEVoNpoRT, MAY 15.—We have had a grand re-
view, in honour of her I‘l9jesty's birthday. All the
troops assembled on Mount Wise, with the exception
of those on guard, and the firing was very good ;
but the veterans have praise of beating both the ma-
rines and line. The ships also fired at noon.
The Otter, steam-packet, from Holyhead, arrived
yesterday morning. Orders are down to pay off both
the Otter and Fire-Queen at this port.
Lieutenant William H. Connolly (1846) died on
Tuesday last at the residence of his father, Major
General Connolly, R.M., King's-terrace, South,ea.
Toe gallant deceased was only twenty-nine years of
age. His illness commenced some months back while

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and crew.

Commander Fiyrer, is about to fit his patent
w'neel-stop on board the Dauntless, steam-frigate, at
Portsmouth. In a notice we gave some time since,
we explained that this invention is to prevent the
men at the wheel, when steering the ship, from being
thrown over it, when the ship may be struck by a
heavy sea.
Commander Read goes out in the Avon, West
India packet., that sails to-day from Southampton, to
join the Itnautn, Commodore's ship at Jamaica.
TILE CUCKOO STEAM-VESSEL SUlNK.—lntelligence
was brought to Portsmouth yesterday morning that
the Birkenhead, troop-steamer, Commander StevenA,
had arrived at Jersey, from Cork, with the 26th Re-
giment on board ; and we are sorry to say that the
Cuckoo steamer, Commander Dutnaresq, in conveying
a party of this regiment to the lauding place at St.
llilliers, in consequence of a beacon being washed
away, grazed a rock and knocked a hole in her
bottom. She ran alongside the wharf, however, and
the soldiers were landed safely, but the Cuckoo sunk
alongside. She can, it is said, be easily raised again.
The Birkenhead proceeds on to Dover before she re-
turns to Portsmouth.

PORTSMOTJTII, THURSDAY.—The Ajax, GO, steam
guard-ship, Captain Quin, it is expected will sail
next week for Queenstown.

The Thetis, 40, Captain Codrington, C. 8., will be
paid off at Plymouth on her return from her present
cruise. _ _

Commander Forsyth's expedition (Lady Franklin's
rather) is fitting out with much dispatch, and we are
happy to state subscriptions are coming in rapidly in
furtherance of the grand object. Besides the general
subscription lists another has been opened by a private
firm to assist in the good work, Shaw, Maxwell, and
Co., of Salisbury-street, Strand. _

WOOLWICH, MAY 16.—The Desperate, 8, steam-
sloop, of 400-horse power, fitted with engines by
Maudslay, Sans, and Field, was towed down the river
to Woolwich to-day from the East India Docks,
Blackwell, by the Jasper and the Advice steam-
vessels, and is now ;eking ballast on board prepara-
tory to being tried down the river on Monday week,
the 27th inst. The Desperate is fitted with a screw-
propeller.
The Inflexible steam-frigate bad her steam up in
the basin to-day to try her engines, and will soon be
ready for service.
The Retribution steam-frigate is ordered to be ex-
pedited in order that she may be ready by the let of
July next, as it is expected, if affairs on the continent
remain in a quiet state, that her Majesty and Prince
Albert will visit Gibraltar and Malta during the ap-
proaching season, and the Inflexible and Retribution
form two of the vessels of the royal squadron.
The Princess Alice, Dover mail steam-packet, in
having new boilers made for her at the factory at
Woolwich Dockyard, and will shortly come round to
have them put on hoard.

LITERAT URE.
THE ZOIST. No. XXIX.

The present is a very interesting number of this ex-
cellently conducted quarterly journal of cerebral phy-
siology and mesmerism. Tne remarkable case of
severe hysteria cured by mesmerism, written by Dr.
Guisan, of Vevey in Switzerland, and communicated
by the Hon. Caroline Courtenay Boyle, is so re-
markable in itself, and is so completely authenticated
by honourable persons, who can have no possible in-
terest in misleading, as to imperatively call upoi,
medical men calmly and impartially to investigate
the powers of mesmerism es a therapeutic and am,
anaesthetic agent. The following observations on the
tiFcessity of investigation by Dr. Elliotson, in a pa.e
On the Superstitions of Mesmerism," appear to us
particularly worthy of attention :

" Now all the phenomen of mesmerism are a part of
na•ural knowledge, and therefore es deserving of invee•
tigation as any other part. To doubt this in regard 0
toe ord,nary niestnerie phenomena, shows a person to b
nut a whit superior to a priest of the middle ages or a
peasant of an Paiian village. Our business is only to
ascertain whether each point is tree; and this is more-
over a duty, far the subject far transcends all the sciences
of inanimate nature. cud is one of the must useful arts.
Mesmeric sleep-waking, from what appears pri found
corns to high activity; rigidity, lessened and heightened
sensibility; peculiar susceptibility of impressions from
various inanimate objects and from living beings; mental
attractions and repulsions; the excitement of individual
cerebral organs, &c., are only such phenomena as are at
present too generally admitted for a person to deny them
without exposing himsell to ridicule. Higher phenomena
are not so generally admitted, and some of them are fan-
cied to be supernatural. Cerebral sympathy of sensation,
even of information and emotion, may be admitted and
thought natural; clairvoyance, so far as it consists of an
intuitive knowledge of the course of a disease and its
remedies, in the patient him)elf, or even in another
person ; of knowing present objects of vision without
the eyes; nay, the power of influencing another by the
mere will, may bc admitted. But the higher clairvoyance
which perceives the absent and distant, the past and the
future, is doubted, and, if believed, considered preter-
natural. If these things are true, they are of necessity
in the course of nature; and the mode of effgcting them
must be a natural process. We have no miraculous
faculties, nor can anything we do bo miraculous; nor
can it or anything we do be necessarily wrong, unless it
never can t e dune with good results and without mischief.
As the higher varieties of clairvoyance, if true, must be
natural facts, the whole deserve close investigation."

THE LAND WE LITE IN. Part XXXII.

In the current number of this popular periodical—
" the pictorial and literary sketch-book of the British
Empire"—we find an illustrated description of the
" Exhibitions of London." But for the extreme
cheapness, completeness, and compactness of several
hand-books to the metropolis recently published,
we should anticipate as large a circulation of the
present instalment of the Land We Live In as
it unquestionably deserves. Tne embellishments
accompanying the letter press represent St. James's
Park near Buckingham Palace, the Britiah Institu-
tion, the National Gallery, the Society of Arts,
Soane's Museum, and includes a variety of sketches
from the larger pictures of Barry. The literary
matter associated with these excellent engravings 1,
remarkable for its intelligence.

DRESSMAKERS' AND MILLINERS

ASSOCIATION.

This association, formed in 1843 for the aid and
benefit of this class of persons, held their annual meet-
ing yesterday at the rooms of the Statistical Society,
No. 12, St. James's-square. In the absence of Lord
Ashley, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey presided,
and read a letter from Lord Ashley expressive of his
regret at not being able to attend. The annual
report was read by Dr Gavin, which congratulated
the supporters of the association on the success that
had ettended their eff Its to ameliorete the condition
of those engaged in dre.‘stnaking. The system pm-
sued and its results bad been investigated by persons
who were practically acquainted with the business,
and the opinion they had recorded was uniforinb
favourab!e to the institution. The hours of woik
had been reduced in London on the whole,
and much more att,ntion was paid generally
to the health and comfort of the young females.
'rile subscriptions during the past year were insuffi-
cient to meet the expenses, though they had received
sev,-ral generous donations, and among others 501.
from Lady Hoghton, of Astley Hall, Lancashire.
The number of persons registered by the association
was fewer last year than during several years,
the diminution was accounted for by the great generiatli
increase of emigration. The report observed with
satisfaction an increase in day workers,
ewhicloh ytmenendets.
tended
to assimilate dressmaking with other employments.
With the view of establishing a provident fund, the
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to
receive deposits, and to a 0 s
manager of the institutieotnasbaand
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statementseveral sums
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showedbe placed
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tors, in whose nalnTe
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in a savings bank.
debt of 1101. incurred by the associetion during the
past year—the receipts having been 3371., and the ex-
penditure 447/.lBs. On the motion of Mr. Robert Dick-
son, M.D., seconded. by Mr. L, evi, the report was
unanimously adopted. (The Earl of Arundel was
here obliged, from a previous engagement, to resign
the chair, and was succeeded by General Kenah,
GB.) The ladies committee and the committee of
gentlemen were then named for the ensuing year, and
votes of thanks were passed to those who had been
connected with the association. A vote of thanks to
the chairman having been unanimously passed,
General Kenah, in returning thanks, begged to men-
tion that it had been ascertained that one or two
persons had taken advantage of the cessation of a
society similar to their own, called " The Dress-
makers' and Milliners' Home," to impose upon the
benevolent public by illegally collecting subscriptions
in the name of that society, and keeping the sums
subscribed. He cautioned the public to be upon their
guard against such impostors.

PERSONAL ADVENTURES IN UPPER AND LOWER
CALIFortmA, BY W. R. RYAN, ESQ.—"Mr. Shoberl signa-
lises his publishing career with great activity, and has this;
week presented us with a characteristic account of California,
whither so many hopes and wishes tend. Mr. Ryan's story
is full of strange adventure, and his accounts of all cb;sses of
the p• pulation in the wild and unsettled country through
which he passed afford a very striking picture of man (vari-
ous races) in an extraordinary condition,
curbed, and aiming at one engulphing object."—Literary
Gazette. with passions un-
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