The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-01 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WooLwicir, JULY 30.—The Victoria and Albeit
royal swain yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
G.C.8., has been ordered round from Portsmouth to

Woolwich, and her Majesty will embark at the dock-
yard here for Germany. The royal yacht is expected
in the river on Monday next, the 4th of August, as
orders have been given to the boats' crews to hold them-
selves in readiness on that day, to assist in mooring the
Victoria and Albert near!.) ,i.posite the place of em-
barcation.

The Grampus, 50-gun ship, is fast approaching com-
pletion ; the workmen have been employed during the
last month from six o'clock in the morning until seven
o'clock in the evening, in order to have her ready for
sea as early as possible.
The Meteor steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
George Butler, arrived at Woolwich from Cork on Mon-
day, and is ordered to be paid off. She is to be re-com-
missioned, and have a complement of 33 men.
The Fearless steam-vessel, Lieutenant Read in charge,
arrived at Woolwich from Portsmouth on Tuesday. Iler
officers and crew are to be transferred to the Dasher
steam-vessel, the latter being better adapted to the sur-
veying service than the Fearless.

11;-; Dee steam troop vessel, Master-Commaneer
Driver, has been taken into the inner basin to have her
defects made good. and is ordered to be got ready for
sea as soon as possible to convey troops to Halifax, Nova
Scotia.

The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander A.
Parkes, will be ready for sea next week, and will proceed
to the coast of Scotland to protect the fisheries. Her
principal station will be near Leith.
The Sinbad sailed on Saturday for Portsmouth and
Devonport.
The Monkey steam-vessel, Master William Bryant,
left Woolwich on Sunday for Sheerness, Portsmouth,
and Devonport.
Mr. Frederick Siddall, Paymaster and Purser, is ap-
pointed Secretary to Commodore Sir Francis A. Collier,
C. 8., vice Breaks. Mr. Breaks' salary as Naval Store-
keeper and Victualling Agent at the Cape of Good Hope
is 6001. per annum.
Vessels in the Harbour.—William and Mary yacht,
Meteor, Dwarf, and Medea steam-vessels ; Diligence,
transport ship, and Cyclop steam-vessel, belonging to the
King of the Netherlands.
In the Docks.—Grampus, 50 guns, and Phoenix
steam-vessel.

In the Basin.—Terrible, Alecto, Avon, Dasher,
Lizard, Cuckoo, and Wildfire steam-vessels.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH PAPERS.
BRUSSELS, JULY 28. —lt was stated some days ago by the
Journil Courtray, that M. Hocedez had declined the mission
which was offered hire to arrange the difference which has arisen
between us and France. We learn that this is a mistake, M.
Hocedsz has arrived to.day at Brussels from Courtray, with the
intention of proceeding to Paris.
M. Van de Weyer arrived at Antwerp this morning.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Warsburg, which
positively affirms that in the conference of the Deputies of the
Zollverein assembled at Carlsruhe, the question of the navigation
of the Rhine and of the Maine will be brought forward. Holland
and several States belonging to the Zollyerein have sent representa-
tions on the subject. Bavaria will propose a great reduction, if
not the entire abolition of tolls on the Rhine and the Maine.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaUSSELS, JULY 26.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ........
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • ...
Ditto Three per Cent —
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • •
Ditto, ditto, 1840 .. .. 102
Ditto, ditto, 1844........ ..
Ditto of the City, 1833 .
Ditto, 1843 .... ............ 102%
Bank of Belgium... • • • ••• • • • -
-Brussels Papers, July 27.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 23.
5 per Cent. Aletalliques.. ..
4 per Cent. ditto .. ...... 102 IA
3 per Cent. ditt0........................ 78
Loan, 1834 ............................ 158
Ditto, 1839 .
Bank Shares .............. ........... 1626
Esterhazy's Loan ........ . . •• • •
RAILW
The Northern, or Ferdioand ............ 2123(
Vienna--Xilan • • • . • • • • • • • • 137
Gloggnitz • • • • - • •• • •• • • 151';
Perth • • ...... 112 M

DUTCH FUNDS.—AALSTERDAIt, JULY 28.
Money. tills.
Actual Debt, 216 per Cent.......... • • 63% 6414
ititto, 3 per Cent .......... • —• • 77 77%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. • ....... • • • • • • • • • • 100% 101
Amort Syndic, 4 per Cent..
Ditto, 3yz per Cent• ... • ... ——• • •• 93 9334
Commercial Company, 4,/, per Cent 164% 16514,
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.. ——
Exchange on London, at sight ..
Two months..... .... ••• • • • 12 22)6
On Hainburgli, at sight
Two months.— .. • •
On Paris
Two months. .. ..
Dutch Papers. July 29.

MR. WILSON'S ENTERTAINNtENTS.—This very po-
pular vocalist has commenced his progresses in the provinces, in
which he proposes to include Guernsey and Jersey, in the south,
and the principality of Wales in another direction. His opening
entertainment in Chichester, on Monday, was most auspicious. A
very crowded audieince on the eve of " Goodwood" was scarcely to
be exp,cted of the Chichester folk ; some were engaged in pre-
parittg to v!ctimise their lodgers; and others, let us hope, the
greater number, to entertain their friends from a distance. Nu.
merous, however, the audience was, and of the highest class in
rank and intellect. There was a wealth of good looks too, which
all England, no, nor all the world, could excel. The fair dames
of Sussex mustered in some force, and the heights of Torres
Vedras were not more impregnable than the battery of bright
eyes, nor the troops that manned the said heights more potent than
were the soul-sweet and heart-subduing smiles that greeted the
melodious interpreter of Burns and his brother bards of Scotland.
We know, for isn't it in Lempriere Y that an accomplished son of
Jupiter built the walls of Thebes by the music of his lyre, movie
Amphion Lapides canendo, as jolly old Horace sings ; but Wilson
has effected an exploit quite as great; for, in the south of Eng-
land, he has moved, " by concord of sweet sounds," crowds of
people, rocks of sense (to make the case a parallel one), who
cannot be supposed to have very strong sympathies in common
with Scotland, and not one of whom, a stray " Pheesic student,"
and the Scotch banker excepted, know anything of the vernacular
of the north "Oh potent charm of song." Yet it is not song
merely that works the wonder. " Wilson is so true to nature,"
say people of keen discernment and profound sense, who, though
they have never seen the peak of Ben-Lomond, or sniffed a salt
herring in the Broomielaw, can still recognise nature even when
she meets them far away from her native hills. What Moore did
for the dear, and now deathless, melodies of Ireland, when he
wedded them to Immortal verse, Wilson has done for what were,
before his day, the comparatively little known lyrics of
idhlys
of song,
land, And, apropos of tbat, it were ill done to omit making some
reference to the manner in which " Tam Glen,"
Nancy," " Mary Morrison," and other such like gems of song,
are illustrated by the graceful instrumentation of Mr. Land.
HEREFOUD ELECTION.—On Tuesday the frie n is of
Sir it. Price had so far completed their canvass-as to show that it
would be madness in any Tory candidate to attempt to oppose him,
and accordingly Mr. Fitzgerald, greatly to the chagrin of those
who looked forward to all the advantages arising from a contested
election, has declined to come forward.
REVIEW IN 11YDE PARK.—It is intended, should
the weather prove favourable, to have a grand review of all the
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We understand that Lord Mahon will succeed Mr.
Emerson Tennent as one of the Secretaries to the Board of Control.
Mr. Emerson Tennent will visit Egypt on his way to Ceylon,
in the hope of being able to conclude with the Paella the
postal treaty, in respect to which Mr. Bourne has so lamentably

DOVER, JULY 30.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince George and the
Princess Mary, arrived by special train about three o'clock this
afternoon. They were received at the station by Colonel Jones,
commandant of the garrison, a guard of honour from the 43d
Regiment, and a royal salute from the Western Heights, and im-
mediately proceeded to the Ship Hotel. At six o'clock her Royal
Highness and the Princess Mary embarked on board the Princess
Alice, Commander Smithett, accompanied by Sir John Hamilton,
and proceeded for Calais. It is a squally evening, with rain, and
they will have a disagreeable passage. His Royal Highness Prince
George returned by train to London immediately after the depar.•
ture of the Princess Alice for Calais. A guard of honour attended
at the embarkation, and a second salute from the heights an-
nounced the departure of their Royal Highnesses,


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RAILWAY COMMIT 'E ES
(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP X.
SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE MINE.
This Committee met today at the usual hour, Viscount Coorte-
nay in the chair.
Mr. Greenwood's evidence, connected with the traffic tables,
was resumed, and occupied their consideration some time. At
the termination of this, which was but a detailed recapitulation of
the evidence given yesterday, the engineering evidence was pro-
ceeded with.

Mr. Fowler examined by Mr. BAINE, Q.C.—ls a civil engineer,
connected with the Stockton and Hartlepool, Groat Grimsby and
Sheffield, and many others, which he either solely or conjointly with
other engineers, planned and constructed. In June last was re-
quested to survey the country between Sheffield and Gainsborough,
for the purpose of selecting a line between these points, and ac-
cordingly laid out that now before the Committee. The length of
this railway to the Grimsby Junction will be 31* miles, the enVre
line between Sheffield and Lincoln, 43* miles, and from the points
of divergence to Sheffield, 27* miles. There were on the Sheffield
and Lincoln line no curves whatever less than half a mile in radius,
while there were four on the Bawtry branch less than 30 chains, in
eluding one of less than 15 chains. The steepest gradient on the
former was l in 120, the amonnt of tunnelling 880 yards, and of
embankment above 40 feet in 478 feet; the,stecpest gradient on the
latter was 1 in 100, the amount of tunnelling 3,225 yards, and of
embankment 1,494 feet. The entire cost of the Sheffield and Lin-
coln would be 677,0001., that of the Bawtry branch, 694,0001.
The witness was partly cross examined by Sergeant WRANGIIAM,
but nothing of importance was elicited differing from the evidence
In chief, and at four o'clock, the Speaker having been announced
at prayers, the Committee adjourned till twelve to.merrow.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30.
The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
agreed to :
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Exten-
sions, Stoke Branch, and Midland Railways Junction ).
South Eastern Railway (Widening and Extension of the
London and Greenwich Railway)
London and South Western Railway (No. 2).

Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Huntingdon
Line) Bill was read a third time and passed.
Leeds and Bradford Railway (Shipley to Colne) Mistake
Rectifying Bill was read a third time and passed.

THE S tJN, LIONnON,_ FRIDAY MORN ING, AUGUST l, 1845.