The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.— The Victoria and Albertroyal
yachlteptain Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence..G.C.lL, will
sail early to-morrow morning for Plymouth, on her way to
Lisbon and Gibraltar, to make a trial of the time in
which she could, if required, convey the Court to the
latter place. --Mace George of Cambridge arrived this
afternoon by railway, and embarked at the Sallyport
in the gig of Lord Adolphus Fitsclarence, which con-
veyed his Royal Highness on board the royal yacht, for
passage to Gibraltar.
PLintouTn, JoNE: 2-I.—His Swedish Majesty's cor-
vette Najaden, Captain Lilleybrooke, came in at twelve
o'clock yesterday after a pass:tee of 1; days from Boston,
United States. Outside the breakwater she was boarded
by Mr. Walker, the Queen's harbour-master, who con-
ducted her to the merchant shipping anchorage ground,
where she honoured the British flag with a royal salute
of 21 gune, which was acknowledged with the same num-
ber from the saluting battery at Plymouth citadel. She
then saluted the flag of Port-Admit al Sir William Hall
Gage with 17 guns, which were returned by her Ma-
jesty's ship Inarregnable, 104, Captain Sir T. Maitland,
in Hamcaze. The Najaden was in the Sound about 1t)
months since, and has ie the meantime been to Pernam-
buco, Bahia, the West Indies, twice to Boston, &o. She
is bound to Gothenburgh, and calls here for orders
which are in the hands of Mr. W. F. Collier, Consul to
his Majesty King Oscar of Sweden.
Her Majesty's steam-ressel Salamander sailed on
Saturday for Liverpool, to conduct the Bacchus to Pem-
broke.

Letters from the Mediterranean state that her Ma-
jesty's ship Caledonia will leave Malta on the 10th of
July for Gibraltar.
The Penguin packet-brig, 6, Lieutenant-Commanler
Leslie, goes out't f harbour to-day.
The screw-,tearner Nautilus, Captain Pearson, from
London, on Friday evening took in 60 tons of coal, and
on Saturday m)rning left for Gibraltar, Malta, and
Galatz.
Wiud easterly, light.

ILLNESS OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.--•
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England did not, 'sit in
his Court yesterday, in consequence of a sudden attack of
illness. His Honour was expected yesterday morning as
usual, and the Court was opened at the customary hour of
ten o'clock, but about half past ten o'clock a message was
brought that his Honour was so indisposed as to be unable to
attend. Slmtly before the rising of the Court of Chancery
yesterday it was said that the physicians in attendance had
expressed it as their opinion that the illness of the. Vice-
-Chancellor was of serious, if not of a dangerous, character.
His- Honour sat as one of the Lords Commissioners in the
Cohn of Chancery on Saturday, and it was noticed that he
had an unusually uneasy and excited appearance during the
sitting.—Advertiser.

None are so .hard to please as those whom satiety
of pleasure makes weary of themselves ; nor any so readily
provoked as those who have been always courted with .an
emulation of civility.—Eliza Cook's Journal. .
A fire broke out yesterday evening, at sin*
twenty minutes, past nine o'clock, at the Soyer Coffee-house,
110, Chancery-lane, in the vicinage of the Law Institution.
Fortunately from ,the early period of the evening the engines
of. the parish, the London, and the West of England were
early on the set. All the inhabitants were quickly got out
of the house, and' no persons were injured. The upper part
of the premises were totally destroyed, but the bottom of
the'building was comparatively uninjured. According to
the account of the police on duty, it appeared that the fire
had been caused by a lodger in a-state of intoxication having
ignited his bedclothes.
SHAM FIGHT ON WOOLWICU-CoMMON.—:-The
whole of the Royal Artillery in the garrison assembled in
undress uniform 4 seven o'clock A.M. yesterday,
iven went through
pro-
ceededth the
manoeuvres to theiaiiiiion where the troops . . . .
mancouvres of a sham fight,
their advance, and retreating carried on
taking up certain positions in
force or superior tactics.
, ,Thewhsehlonvefirgpojewreasd bya greater
cartridge from each of the guns of
witk ten rounds of blank
the battalions. The usual guard-
from each musket
the Royal Horse Artillery and field batteries, and six rounds
NI It is said that the' sham
Place yesterday mots
ridaanyunmebxet;
of the troops,
preparatory preliminary exercise 9
mounting, which tatkiloesftpblraeceerd.a.il.y at ten A.M., did not take
fight yesterday
in the presence of the ssaichdoronailid'
preparatory to a
tgwtrahnedNd
eispdpinaresaatAWurbalw
to be given at the Royal Artillery
of distinguished _persons. It is certain, however, that tho
grand ball which was
,y_th
inst.,
mess-room on Thursday, the .., . and to wh.ich the
that day being the Npaulese Ambassador and his suite were invited, is post-
poned to Friday, the 2.th, and .
anniver-
sary of her Majesty's coronation would be very appropriately
kept with a grand military display at Woolwich. .

NOVEL AEROSTATION,—On Thursday evening last
a large concourse of persons was gathered around Cremorne-
gardens and the LambethGasworks, in consequence of an
announcement that an inflated balloon, with it ear attached,
was to be towed ip the river from Lambeth to Battersea. The
proprietors of Cremorne-gardeni, finding that the charges of
the Lambeth Gas Company 'for inflating the balloon were
tesosn ithnflaantetdlasetherr annatillYtOpwaed id'udp tetOrtinhe Ginedardtoen lisa.vecsteheeiorfbtahle-
Citizen steamers, gaily decorated whir-flags and streamers,
and with a brass band on board, ariii.enat the Company's
grsornosp,e was s the
got huge
machine, wharf at 5 o'clock, and by means of stropne
machine, with its. car, containing. four'
board and secured to the -bows of the vessel. The funnel
was down, and,
,every precaution taken to prevent accidents.
On arriving at Vauxhall-bridge the balloon was allowed to
rise to a height of 60 or 70 feet, and, a rope being dropped
feoin the car to the other side of the bridge, it was'hauled
over. A similar. .process was performed at- iatterser. The
great- difficulty to be encountered was the landing of the
balloon at
.Cremorne-gardens. As soon as the ropes 'on the
vessel were loosened the balltion commenced a rapid ascent,
which. it.required the efforts of about 20 men to check. On
being suddenly hauled down, the car, containing three gen-
tlenien and a lady, appeared so likely to be immersedin the
river that a very hasty movement took place. among its
occupants, who saved, themselves limn a dimwit-foible immer-
sion lirthrowing out a quantity of ballast.. After a; cond•
derable time the perverse tendencies of the machine were
conquered, and it was borne in triumph to the centre of the
gardens, amidst the cheers of an immense crowd and the dis-
c charge of a quantity of miniatare artillery.

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