The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Commander-in.-Chief ct Portsmouth, Admiral
the lion. Sir Bladen Cape', 1C.C.11, wont to Cowes yes-
terday afternoon, in the Sprightly steamer, Maiter
Commander Aller, to meet tho royal rquadron on its
return.

The El6n, royal steam dispatch vessel. Mester Com-
mander Balhston, will go from Portsmouth to Cowes to-
(lay, t) Le in rEadiness there to meet the royal squadron,
txpeced to arrive last night or this morning.
Capt. Cockburn, said to be posted from the Hastings,
72, flag ship in the East Indies, to the death vacancy of
the Rattlesnake, has arrived home lay the overland mail
from Singapore.
Commodore Plumridge, in the Cambrian, 40, arrived
at Trinconallee June 20, and was about to leave for
Chatham to be paid off.
Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., left Ascension
July 2, in hia flag-ship the Centaur steam-frigate, C?pt.
Buckle, for Princess Island, to meet the Bonetta, 3, bri-
gantine, Lieut. Forbes, to send her to England.
Commander Wodehouse, of the Phce3ix steam•sloop,
was at iN.censior, July 7, where, on survey, the boilers
of the steamer had been condemned. Commander Wode-
house has resigned the command, and Commander Ly-
saght having been appointed, has proceeded in the Niger
to relieve him.

Lieut. 11. M. Elliot is coming home in command of the
A lb a t rose, 12, from the East Indies.
Lic ut. Smith, of the Contest, 12, Commander the Hon.
J. S. Spencer, having been left in charge of a priz ) on
the coast of Africa, has proceeded to the East Indies in
the Lily, 12, Commander Baker.

Mr. Benjamin Wilson Pidcock has been appointed Se-
cretary to the Commodore-Superintendent at Woolwich
Dockyard, vice Pen horn, promoted.
In order to secure competent officers for the lighters
Welched to the dock and victualling yards, their Lord-
ships,have ordered that not any person shall be appointed
as " master" or "mate" of one, unless capable of working
a day's work, taking a meridian altitude, and navigating
a vessel to a port abroad.
THE NEW DOCK.—The new and very capacious dock
No. 9, situated at the northwest corner of Portsmouth
Yare, was opened yesterday, for the purpose of taking
in the Neptune, 120. The cassoon was floated out of the
entrance, and the ship's bow brought to it, but the sea
refused to accommodate old father Neptune, for it was a
sluggish tide, and the water did not rise high enough by
six inches, and the ship could not be docked. A band
was in attendance, and a good many ladies and gentle-
men were assembled to see the ceremony, in which, how-
ever, they were disappointed. It will take place to-day.
In the meaLtime the blocks at the bottom of the dock on
which the ship's keel will rest will be lowered an inch or
two, so as to make sure of getting her in.
EXCELLENT PRACTICE.—Another experiment will be
tried next week, by Captain Chads, of the Excellen',
Of) a butt-section of an iron steam-vessel's side, and
it is now being prepared at the factory, in Ports.
inouth•yard, by Borne of the people belonging to the
manufactory of " kamptulicon," in the Greenwich-
road, under the inspection of Mr. Walter, of the
Ilo3al Marines, the proposer of the plan. The kamp-
tulicon is, we beliele, a preparation from caoutchoqc
(india-rubber) and pulverised cork; it is made into
plank-shared pieces, of any desirable breadth, length,
or thickness; it is perfectly elastic, and slightly com-
pressible. The planks aro compressed into the inter-
stices between the ribs of the butt, till they present a
surface on a level with the inner edge of the ribs; these
are up and down—supposed to reach from one deck to
the other; and are the same thickness as the ribs are
broad. Over this is placed another planking of kamp-
tulicon, running horizontally, making the kamptulicon
over the iron plates some eight or nine inches thick,
and over the inside edge of the ribs about four inches
thick It is supposed that the :hot striking the butt
will go through, merely making a round hole in the iron,
but that the quick and elastic closing of the kamptuli-
con v ill entirely prevent all splinters from flying off.
We can offer no opinion respecting the probable result
of the experiment, but we imagine if it should succeed
it will be rather an c.xpetnivc proctes, the lining inside of
a lorge Eteeiner.
The Adventure. store-ship, Master Commander Peter
Willington, arrived at Spithend on Thursday morning,
from Rio and Ascensicn, to which places she sailed in
the spring with naval stores for the use of the squadron
at.thosl places. She brings no news of later dates than
has been received. From Rio rim brings home a small
freight of gold, satued at 30,0000, on account of one of
the mining companies, which was leaded last night, and
was c,nveyed to London tc-day by Mr. Chambers, of
Common Hare. She has brought home a few invalids,
who were larded at Basler Ilospital by the Sprightly,
whi :h ve:s:,..! went ant to her soon ef,er her arrival. The
Adventure suffered a little from the fever at Rio, Mr.
Willington having bad a slight attack himself. She has
brought home condemned naval stores, with which she
will sail for IVoole ich on, Saturday.

The Apo)l3 troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, is
undergoing some extensive alterations, suggested by
Captain 131.1ine. The cabins are all to be removed from
between deck!, and the crew of the sbip are to have it
to mess in. The main or gun-deck is, in future, to be
appropriated for the troops. Her copper is so thin, that
about the bow it appears to have been actually washed
off by the water.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAr.—The Neptune, 120, advanced
aree-decker, was brought down to-diy for the purpose
of being used in opening the new dock at the north
corner of this dockyard, but the tide not having risen
high enough, the ceremony will not take place until to-
morrow.

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The Portsmouth Royal Naval Club 11643 their guar-
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terly meeting at the India Arms Hotel, Gosport, yester-
day. Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., pre-
sided, and Admiral Sir Jeha Ommanney, K.C.8., filled
the vice-chair.

PEMBIVICE.—On Saturday, August 3, the Royal
Dockyard brigade vv.* e inspected by Colonel-Com-
mandant Sir '2. S. Pasley, Bart. The brigade was
drawn up in line, the artillery battalion on the right
and the infantry on the left. After receiving the
Commandant with a general salute, and being minutely
inspected by him, the line broke into open column,
and marched past in slow and quick tin -.e. The infantry
battalion were then put through a variety of evolutions,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Abetbell,
firing on each fresh formation, and concluding by ad-
vancing in slow time and saluting, when they were
marched off tf.e ground, and the Artillery battalion,
commanded by Major Weatherley, advanced with their
brigade of field-guns, two batteries of 9-pounders, and
one of 6-pounder brass gums. After saluting, the two
flank batteries of 9-pounders retire-i, and the battery of
6-pounders, commanded by Cap'ain Chevallier, per-
formed a number of manoeuvres, changing position and
firing with great rapidity.
Ile infantry were then inspected at the garrison gun
exercise.
The Colonel-Commandant expressed himself highly
satisfied at the efficiency^. of the whole brigade, and with
the exce!lent way in which all the evolutions and ex-
ercises bad been perfornied after so short a period of
drill practice.
CHAITIAM, Aua. 93.-=‘-The Magicienne steam-sloop
was on Wednesday, the 21st, navigated to Davenport by
a party of seamen riggers from Chatham and Sheerness
dockyards, in charge of the master of the flag-ship at the
latter port. This ship is is be placed in the ordinary at
Devonport as an advanced ship.
The Tiger steam-sloop was taken into the lower stone
dock on the 22. i inst., to be fitted for service at sea; and
when she is completed she is to be navigated to Ports-
mouth, to be pieced in the 'Oidinary there as an advanced
ship.
The ship Fslzabe tin R. G. Scheeh master, from Dant zie,
has arrived with a cargo of timber for this dockyard.
The Cumberland, 70 guns, ins fast progressing in her
rigging; she al be completed by the end of the month,
as the ordinary guard-ship at this port. During the
last two days her main-deck, quarter-deck, and fore-
castle guns have been received from the gun-wharf at
Chatham, consisting of 44 guns. Those for her main-
deck tve two 8-inch 65 cwt. each, end nine feet long, and
26 32'a (Monck's new gun), each nine feet in length,
and 50 cwt.; and for her upper-deck are 16 32-pounders,
each 42 cwt., and eight feet in length. Her log er-deck
guns will not be put on beard at present.
Tee Peictiers, 72, at present the ordinary guard-ship,
will be put out of commission on the:3oth inst., and the
Cumberland will be commissioned on the 31st inst.; the
officers and men belonging to the I'oictiers will then be
turned over to the Cumberland.
The following woritem n fur length of vervice have
been superannuated, and pensions granted them:—James
Therepsen and Richard Moar, shipwrights, and William
Ven'aeder and Samuel Enwell, sailmakers, who are
each to receive 241. per year.

JOHN eGAIINT'S PALACH AT LINCOLN. —The
Leautiful oriel window, so well known to antiquarians, and
which excited the attention and admiration of the Archico-
Ligical society in 184-8, was advertised for sale a short time
since (preparatory, it is supposed, to some alterations), when
Etrl Brownlow became the purchaser. His Lordship has
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itnhethceocuansttylemoaAiisctirialtN.eisli
fworitinh
appropriate site, it having been one of the official Teri-
antinces of the Prince John. The south wall, which contains
this window, is the only portion of the palace that has not
fallen a prey to the hand of time, or the taste of a late pro-
prietor. The front next the street, which was pretty entire
when Buck publi,hed his view in 172 G, with the arms of
England and France quarterly on a large
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sculpture,
hhaassibssuesertvnililNe.nejaa-
tirely pulled down and rebuilt, and deprived of its ancient
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p
ys'e of Chichester came
into residence at the Episcopal Palace on Monday and was
Welcomed by a merry peal cf a Cfatinclig NU&