Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 3 June 1854, page 3


NAVAL PREPARATIONS.

Portsmouth. March 7

Nothing is now talked of here but the anticipated grand spectacle of the Queen visiting the fleet at Spithead, on Friday. It is expected to eclipse the memorable

review of the fleet last summer.

The royal yachts, Fairy and Elfin, are both ready to attend on the Court on their arrival. The Fairy will be tried, after thereftttal of her machinery, to-morrow There is no truth whatever in the repeated rumour that captains and officers of the royal yachts are to commission the war steamer Gladiator

The Blenheim, CO, Captain the Hon.' F. T, Pelham got on shore in going to Spithead yesterday afternoon, and remained stranded on the Spithead bank, off Southsea Beach, until five o'clock, this morning, when she got off, her guns, heavy stores, and other things having been got out into lighters. She is supposed to be

uninjured. The accident was caused by endeavouring to steer clear of a collier, or some such craft, which had anchored directly in the course of the men-of-war going out or coming into harbour.

Rear-Admiral Corry hoisted his flag, white at the mizen, on board the three-decker Neptune, 120, this morning in Portsmouth harbour, and the steam-tug Pigmy is engaged in transhipping her crew from the Prince Regent at Spithead. She will be rigged and ready to leave on Saturday for the rendez

vous.

The Dauntless, 33, Captain Ryder, has come into Portsmouth harbour, and discharged her Grant's galley, to be put to rights.

The Odin, 16, is in the factory basin. Her new boilers, ordered to be made at Woolwich, not being ready, her present ones are being made serviceable as fast as possible.

The Scourge, 6, has received most of her machinery, and is being prepared for commission with all despatch. The

Resistance 42 (troop ship), has been placed in No. 2 dock to have her lower works examined. She will be refitted for service as fast as possible.

The Dauntless and Valarous are ordered to be ex-

edited by additional labour and time of working.

The St. Vincent, 101, three-decker, is now ordered to be fitted in all respects for sea service, in case she

should be wanted.

The man caught in the dockyard yesterday morning, having drifted in a waterman's boat, which he had helped himself to at Gosport, on the previous night, to cross to Portsmouth in, has been given over to the civil powers for a breach of the ferry laws.

The Cesar, 91, Captain Robb, is shipping her provisions, sea stock, c, and will be at Spithead by Friday.

A BACHELOR'S KETTLE The bachelor's kettle is a

crafty means for inducing a man to remain a bachelor by making his life as easy as a gloVe. See what he can obtain for three shillings. He asks his landlady, or Polly, the housemaid, to purchase one pennyworth of patent fireWood which firewood consists of a sort of wheel or a sort of gridiron mysteriously formed of small pieces of wood, claimed to make them more captious and peppery. One of these structures he places in a little stove or grate he kindles it-he places the stove on the hole to give the smoke and the chimney a chance of becoming acquainted-he sur-mounts the pile by a flat tea-kettle containing water

and by the time the farthing Avhecl or gridiron had burned itself out, there is boiling water enough to

make moderate coffee for a moderate man. And if he will consume two patent fire wood instead of one, and has a little flat pan adapted to his apparatus, ho pair manage to dish up a steak or a chop while the coffee is brewing. Bachelorship apart, there is really something in this power of making a cup of coffee for one' self, say before starting by the six o'clock train on winter's morning, before fires are lighted or housewives stirring. Dickens's Household Words)

"You ARE NOT GOING TO LEAVE OUT Poor IRELAND?"

Directly any measure is proposed, you are sure to see an enthusiastic Irishman jump up in his seat, and inquire indignantly if the benefit of it is to be extended to Ireland. We should not be in the least astonished, if a Bill was to be brought in for " The better management and general improvement of the Thames Tunnel," at some wild Irishman springing forward, and gravely inquiring. " if Ireland was, to be

included in the intended measure for if not, he should bring all his influence to bear in opposition against it !" We really belive that if a Bill were proposed for "The erection of Soup kitchens in the Metropolis for the Relief of the Briefless Barristers of Lincoln's Inn," that these Hibernian zealots would object to it unless it could be proved that Carrick-fergus, and Downpatrick, and Dungannon, and Kilkenny, and Tipperary, and Westmeath, and Youghal were specially brought within its provisions. We are positive they would oppose the pulling down of Temple-bar, because the removal would be no kind of advantage to Sackville-street in Dublin Punch.

TITLES OF THE CZAR The following is a list of the Czar's titles, which always head every ukase : Nicholas, by the grace of God Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, of Moscow, Kiells, Vladimir, and Novgorod; Czar of Kazan, of Astrachan, Poland, Siberia, and the Taurian Chersoncsus ; Seignior o Pskoff, and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Wallachia, Podolia, and Finland ; Prince of Esthonia Courland, and Semgalia, of Bialystok, Karelia, Tver, Jougria, Perm, Viatka, Bulgaria, and many other countries ; Seignior and Grand Prince of the territory of Inner Novgorod, Tsheniigoff, Riaizin, Polotsk, Rostof, Jaroslav, Bielozero, Oudoria, Obdoria, Kou dina, Witebak, Mtislaf, and Lord of all the hyper-Korean region ; Seignior of the land of Here, Karta lina, Grousinia, Kabardinia, and Armenia; Hereditary Seignior and Suzerain of the Circassian princes, of those of the mountains, and others : Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, SaintOrmarn, Ditmarseu, and Oldenburg, &c., &c." To these titles must now be added that of "Lord-fearing God," which the Czar has recently assumed. The heraldic blazoning! correspond to the description given above.