The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-25 00:00:00

N i VAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2:3.—0n Tuesday arrived his
Majesty's cutter Span-ow ; and on Wednesday, the
Arrow cutter, from a cruise. On Thursday sailed
the Swipe arid Ilightlyer cutters.
The Java, 52, Capt. Carroll, C. 8., will be paid
uff on Wednesday, in this harbour.
Ships in Harbour.—Victory, Royal George,
Ganges, Java, Galatea, and North Star.
Sailed on Saturday, the Anacreon, Smith, for
Sierra Leone. Arrived on Monday, and sailed the
same day, the Cambria, Moore, for New York. Ar-
rived on Tuesday, the Alexander, Anderson, and
sailed yesterday for Madras and Calcutta. Passed
by the Warren, Blass, for the South Seas. Arrived
the Bodvel, Terry, for Bristol, with loss of main-
boom.

It has been reported by a pilot of Portsmouth to
Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon, that be yesterday saw
off the Needles part of a wreck floating, apparently
the stern of a north•country-built brig, about 150
tons, painted green inside; but could not see her
name, or go close to the wreck, the sea being very
rough.
Captain W. Young-, after many years' arduous
service as resident Agent for Transports at Dept-
ford, has been superannuated, and is succeeded by
Capt. S. Warren, C.B.

The Rainbow, 28, was on Thursday taken out of
the dock she has for some days occupied, and on the
same day removed into a covered one, the repairs
she requires being more extensive than were in the
first instance contemplated.
A reduction of about 150 has taken place this
week in the number of men and boys employed in
the service of the Ordinary at this port. We re-
gret that the boys are reduced, because we consi-
der they were in this service initiated in a know-
ledge of part of a seaman's duty. They were taught
to knot, splice, and perform work in the rigging loft.
They were also instructed in rowing and managing
boats, and bending, unbending, loosing, and reefing
sails. By this course they were at once put to use-
ful work when they were discharged into men of
war. On the present reduced scale there are
scarcely men sufficient left on board the several
ships in ordinary, to raise and lower the ports and
keep them clean swept.
Mr. Gill, Foreman of the Dock Yard at Dept-
ford, is appointel to this Yard, in the room of Mr.
Atwell, who has applied for retirement.
The following workmen are ordered to be en-
tered in this Dock Yard from Deptford Yard :
Shipwrights thirty ; caulkers three, smiths six,
riggers and sawyers fourteen.
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy have
ordered the Rope-yard in his Majesty's Deck-yard
at Woolwich, to be shut up in about fortnight.
Twenty of the men there employed are to be su-
perannuated, and the other forty to be sent to the
Dock Yard at Chatham.

By a recent regulation of the Post-office, News-
papers can now be sent to Swan River, Van Die-
man's Land, and Sydney, on the same terms as
they can be to the East Indies—that is, twopence
per ounce.—Hampshire Telegraph.
DEVONPORT, JAN. 23.—An experiment is to
be ♦ery shortly tried at Woolwich, to fire ship guns
by percussion, on a plan submitted by an officer of
the Royal Navy, a resident in Hampshire.
By letters from the Mediterranean, dated Dec.
23, we learn that his Majesty's ship Pelorus, 18,
Commander Michael Quin, while in the act of tack-
ing inside the harbour of Minorca, on the 15th of
December, struck the ground, and was not got off
until six days after, though every possible exertion
was used, and the officers and crew were zealously
assisted by the French, Dutch, and American ships,
then at Minorca. She was immediately towed up
the harbour, where she shortly after sunk and is
bilged. Her main keel, stern ports, Sze. are badly
damaged, and her rudder carried away. No life
was lost, nor a man hurt, and most of the articles
on board were saved. Commander Quin, officers
and crew, were waiting orders to proceed to Malta,
where it was expected the Court Martial would be
held to inquire into the circumstances attending the
loss of the Pelorus.

The Leveret tender, Lieut. Worth, arrived yes-
terday from cruising.
The Tavy, dock-yard lighter, is ordered from
this port to Malta.
In liamoaze.—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid,
Ariadne, Reindeer packet, and Meteor steam-vessel.
Island.—Vigilant and Leveret.

NAVAL FORCE OF GREAT BRITAIN

FOR 1830.

Admiral of the Fleet—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Clarence, K.G., K.T., G.C.8., D.C.L.
Admirals—Of the Red, 13; White, 16; Blue,
15—Total 44.

Vice-Admirals—Of the Red, 21; White, 21;
Blue, 21—Total 63.

Rear-Admirals—Of the Red, 25; White, 20;
Blue, 22—Total 67.

Superannuated Rear-Admirals, 45 ; superan-
nuated and retired Captains on full pay, 11.
Captains—On full pay, 589; on the half-pay of
14s. W. per diem, 101; on the half-pay of 12s. per
diem, 101—Total 851.

Commanders—On full pay, 735; on the half-pay
of 10s. per diem, 150—Total 905.
Lieutenants superannuated, with the rank of Com-
mander, 800; Poor Knights of Wincisor (Lieute-
nants), 7.

Lieutenants—On full pay, 2,579; on the half-
pay of 7s. per diem, 302; on the half-pay of Gs. per
diem, 700—Totnl 3,581.

Masters—On full pay, 224; on the half-pay of
7s. per diem, 100; on the half-pay of 69. per diem,
230; superannuated, 21—Total 524.
Pursers--On full pay, 314; on the half-pay of
59. per diem, 100; on the half-pay of Is. per diem,
200--Total 644.

MEDICAL OFFlcEtts.--Physicians, 12; Surgeons
on full pay, 738; ditto retired on full pay,s3; As-
sistant-Surgeons on full pay, 738; ditto retired on
full pay, 53; Assistant-Surgeons on full pay, 363 ;
Dispensers of Hospitals, 13; Hospital Mates, 3--
Total 1,182.

Cliaplaiiis--On full pay, 4G ; ditto on retired list,
24--Total 70.—IIampshirc.7'eleg,raph.

YORKSHIRE MANUFACTURES. During
the whole of the present mouth the woollen-cloth business
in Leeds has been pretty steady ; all tie mills are working
full hours, and the clothiers in the neighbouring- villages
in this borough are better employed than is usual at this
season. The London buyers, who are generally absent a
few weeks at mid-winter, are now again in the woollen-
markets, and stocks, which had accumulated for the last
four weeks, again begin to move. About two mouths
ago, we intimated an opinion that foreign wools, owing
to the early interruption of the navigation of the Elbe,
were likely to become scarce, and the deficiency in the
markets of wools from Is. td. to 2s. per lb., has esta-
blished the correctness of that conjecture ;—within the
last three or four weeks foreign wools of this descrip-
tion have advanced from fire to seven and a half per
cent., partly owing to the small stocks en hand, and the
imi.ossibility of renewing them till the spring, and partly
to the perfection now attained in Yorkshire in the finish-
ing department, by which woollen cloth from middle
wools are made to appear nearly equal to those from Su-
perfine ones. The finer foreign wools, and English wools
generally, are steady in price, and though the quantity of
English wools consumed during the last year much ex-
ceeded the quantity grown, yet, while the markets are
burthenrd, as at present, with a staples stock, equal at
least to two years' growth, no material improvement in
price can be expected. The linen trade in Leeds, which
consists principally of flax spinning, continues steady, as
far as the working of the mills is concerned, but the spring
demand for goods his scarcely csirnmeneed.—Huddersfield
market on Tuesday last was, like the four markets which
preceded it, comparatively brisk, and still improving, this
being the best of the five. A very considerable quantity
of goods were sold, principally of the coarse sorts. In
the stuff market, at Halifax, on Saturday last (whitt has
for several weeks been very flat), a little more activity
prevailed ; but in Bradford market little business has
been done for several weeks, and stocks are of cour3e ac-
cumulating, as all the work
employed,..-Leeds allercurg.
people keep tolerably well