The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 11.—The Wellesley, 71, with the
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, arrived at
Madeira on the 19th ult., and was to proceed on the 224
for the Cape of Good hope and Bombay.
The Blonde, frigate, Commodore Mason, C. 8., will be
paid off on Monday, and the Belvidere, Capt. Strong, on
Friday next.
The Clio was at Barcelona on the 19th Oct.; the Dido
was at Tarragona, and the Talavera cruising.
Extract of a letter dated her Majesty's ship Buzzard, at
sea, Bight of Benin, 4th August, 1837 :—Aniungst the
changes of this station are the following and the latest,
viz. :—The Curlew has left Sierra Leoee, and gone to As-
cension, after having lost, through Sierra Leone fever, her
Second 'Alaster, Assistant Surgeon, C'erk in charge, and 20
men. The Buzzard has lost altogether, her Assistant-Sur-
germ, Mr. Morrison ; Acting Master, Mr. Hale-run ; three
men, and one boy, out of 46 casts, and may therefore be
,oesidered fortunate ; her Commander, Lieut. Stoll, and
Clerk in charge, Mr. F. Siddall, were the only officers on
board able to do any duty for a month, with six white men
and a few blacks. Waterwitch, up to 3d August, very
healthy. Bonet ta lost four or five men. Scout, Lieutenant
Ackland, Mr. Lockyer, Mate, and 10 to 15 men. Colum-
bine, Mr. Rolls, Master, and four or five men. Dolphin,
Lieut. L. Roberts, Commander, Dr. Davis, Mr. Ennis,
Second Master, and eight men, and two boys. These are
the casualties in the Bight by fever. The Thalia, Pylades,
and Leveret, being down at the Cape, are of course very
healthy. The Pelican, Commander B. Popham (now
senior officer), is healthy, Columbine, Commander Hen-
derson, is gone ; and Dolphin, Lieut. Marsh (late Ist of
Pelican), is going to Ascension ; Curlew is also gone
there. Commander Adams, of Waterwitch, is very un-
well, and it is expected will be obliged to be invalided
and go home, in which case, Lieut. Marsh removes from
Dolphin to Waterwiteh, and Licut. Dacres (2d of Pelican)
goes to Dolphin pro tempore. No accounts of Fair Ro-
samond up to this date. Viper, it is supposed, is at
Ascension., getting p: ()visions. There are five slavers in
the Bonny, one at Bimbia, one at Cameroons, and thirteen
at Whydah and Lagos, all 'Spaniards, under the flag of
Donna Maria—a flag prostituted here to all purposes
when. villainy requires a cover, and which is procurable at
Cape de Verds as readily as a basket of oranges at Prince's
and St. Thomas's. Amongst the recent appointments are,
Lieut. Marsh, Ist of Pelican, to command Dolphin ; Mr.
Grant, Master's Assistant, to be Acting Master of Co-
lumbine, vice Rolls, deceased ; Mr. Harder, Master's As-
sistant of Columbine, to be 2d Master of Buzzard, vice Ha-
leron (Acting Master) deceased ; Mr. J. W. Elliot, Assistant
Surgeon of Columbine, to Buzzard, vice Morrison, de-
ceased ; Mr. Cole, Assistant-Surgeon of Scout, to Dolphin,
vice Davis., deceased. No appointments yet for Second
Master, Assistant-Surgeon, and Clerk in charge, to Cur-
lew, there being no officers here to fill the vacancies. At
Sierra Leone, the fever has swept off a great portion of
the white residents, including many of the first and oldest
established merchants. It appears to be the same descrip-
tion of fever that caused such sad havoc in 1823 and

1829-30. The cases on board
.the ships proving fatal, do
not, exceed four days in most instances. The Rolla, Lieu-
tenant Glasse, is cruising off Bonny, and has escaped up
to this date.

MALTA, OCT. 18.—The ships in this harbour arc—The
Princess Charlotte, 104, bearing the flag of Admiral the
Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. ; Ceylon,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Briggs, G.C.M.G. ;
Rodney, 92 ; Asia, 84 ; Bellerophon, 80 ; Vanguard, 80 ;
Portland, 52 ; cutter Hind ; steam-packets Volcano and
Firefly ; the steamer Confiance ; the Ottoman cutter (with-
out a name) ; the Greek Government transport, Fenice ;
and the French steam-packet Licurgue. The Rapid, 10,
Hon. Lieutenant Kinnaird, sailed on the 12th for Tunis,
and the Wolverine, 16, Hon. Commander Howard, for
Athens, on the 6th.

Lieut.-Colonel Owen, K.H., who so gallantly distin-
guished himself in the command of the battalion of Royal
Marines on the North Coast of Spain, is appointed De-
puty-Adjutant-General of Marines, vice Major-General
Sir John Savage ; Lieut.-Colonel Parke, C. 8., succeeds
Lieut.-Colonelo wen in command of the battalion on the

Spanish coast. Second Lieut. Jackson of the Woolwich
division is promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, at
the Chatham division, vice Sidney Smith Crispo, placed on
the reserved half-pay.
The Calliope, 28, has been this week commissioned at
Sheerness.
The Columbia steam-vessel has embarked at Woolwich
ten privates of the Royal Marines of that Division, to join
the battalion on the North Coast of Spain, to complete
which, it is reported two Majors will proceed to the same
quarter, in this vessel. Lieut.-Colonel Parke, it is under-
stood, will also take passage in the Columbia.
The Comus and Wanderer sloops-of-war were at the
Havannah on the 22d September ; the Scylla, 18, arrived
at Lisbon on the 28th October ; the Pearl, 20, left Ma.
deira for Rio Janeiro on the 14th September ; the Pe-
lorus left the Mauritius for Madras on the Bth July.
The building of a new three•deckcr, of the same dimen-
sions as the Royal Frederick, now on the stocks in this
Dock-yard, was commenced at Pembroke-yard last week ;
she is to be called the Victoria.
APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant Arthur Lowe, to the Ex-
cellent t Mr. G. R. Franklin, Second Master, to the
Alligator ; Mr. R. Hall, Clerk-in-charge, to the Forester
Mr. Edw. D. Black, from the Blonde, to be Clerk-in-
charge of the Basilisk ketch, on the South American.
station ; Mr. E. G. Porcher, Volunteer First Class, to the

Donegal ; the Rev. Rowland Wilson (Chaplain of the
Belvidera), and Mr. W. Anson, Midshipman, to the
Edinburgh ; Mr. Chas. Fegan, Mate, to the Britannia ►
Mr. Chas. Cheshire, Midshipman, and Mr. Roderick Dhu,
College Vol., to the Tyne ; Mr. P. Barclay, Midshipman,
to the Hyacinth ; Dr. C. Alison, Surgeon, and Mr,
Augustus Slight, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Wasp ; Mr.
John Milner, Secretary's Clerk, and Mr. Colman, Assistant
Clerk, in the office of Rear-Admiral Ross ; Mr. Edward
Waller, Secretary's Clerk, in the office of Rear-Admiral
Sir John Ommanney ; Mr. W. T. Lower, Mate, from the
Excellent to Crocodile ; Mr. G. Popplewell, Mate, to the
Excellent ; Mr. Wm. White, .Issiatant-Surgenti, to the
Thunder.

The following Mates and Midshipmen passed for Lieute-
nants at the Naval College on Tuesday :—Mr. W. L.
Lambert, C.A.D. Pasco, W. H. Mowbray, E. Fitzgerald,
G. K. E. Wright, W. C. Chamberlain, J. J. Dornford, of
the Blonde ; F. -W. Warren, no ship.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—The Crocodile, 28, Captain Pol-
kinghorne, went out of harbour into the Sound on Monday,
and will sail this day (Saturday), for Barbadoes, Puerto
Cabello, and Chagres, with Consuls for each of those places.
The Edinburgh, 74, Captain Henderson, arrived on
Tuesday, from Portsmouth, and sailed again yesterday for
Cork and the Mediterranean,
The Sloop ra""";le Commander Walter P. Croker,
sailed on ".;uesday-mo;ning, fcr the East Indies.
The Brigantine Forrester, 6, Lieut. Rosenberg sailed
on Tuesday for the Western Coast of Africa.
The Brig Rolla, 10, Lieutenant Glasse, came into
Harbour on Tuesday to be paid off.
The eamelion, 10, Lieut. Bradley, was warped along-
side the ShcerAhulk on Wednesday, to have a new fore-
mast put on board, which having been done, and her de-
fects made good, she went out of Harbour yesterday, and
proceeded to Lisbon to rejoin the flag of Rear-Admiral
Sir William Hall Gage.
The Belleisle, 74, Was warped alongside the Sheer-hulk,
on Wednesday, to have her masts taken out. H.M.S.
Druid, 46, was warped from her itioitrings, on Tuesday!
along-side the Sheer-hulk, to have her masts taken out, and
was placed to her moorings the saitie day. H.M.S. Leda;
46, having had her defects made good; Was taken tint of
Doek on Thursday and tho Andromeda taken in to be ci-
amined, H.M.S. Bellona, 74, wet warped frtint het
itidorin6.s, on Friday; to have her ritasiCk
The Naval TiOnapOrt t}illgence sailed on Wednesday,
Itr,ith stares, !:•61' rortsmouth. The Swail, lighter, sailed on
rhiaay, with Stores, for Falmouth.

In the Sound—dinburgh, Pique, Crocodile, and Ca:.
melion.

Ia liarnpool—Ailigator,
In Ilinmiao--Itoyal Adelaide; San Josef; and

The Cornwallis) 74) was at HalifaX on the Ath Octoheli
and would leave on the 10th for Bermuda, the cold weather
having set fn. The Champion, 18, arrived at Halifax in
four days from Quebec, and was refitting to accompany the
Admiral to Bermuda, and whence she will go to Jamaica ;
the Sappho, 18, had also arrived from the Gulph of St.
Lawrence, and was ordered to Bermuda)
The Minden, 74, Captain Sharp, C. 13., after embarking
a company of ltoyal Marines, has sailed from Lisbon for
Barcelona. The Minden is to be attached to the Mediter-
ranean squadron.

The Ringdove, 16, Commander Nixon, which arrived
yesterday, from Halifax, whence she sailed on the 23d ult.,
leaving there the Vice Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles
Paget, sailed from England on the 26th June, to convey
the intelligence of the death of his late Majesty, to the
West In dies, which she she did by arriving at Barbadoes,
July 23d ; sailed again the 25th ; was caught in a hurri-
cane oas the 26th ; made Bermuda August the 7th ; and
sailed on next day to Halifax, where she arrived on the
17th. Thus, in a little more than six weeks, having been
in Europe, Africa, Island of Palma, west Indies and
North America (Bermuda.)--.lumaica Despatch, Septem-
ber 11, 1837.

The Gazette of Friday night contains a Decree, pub-
fished in the Madrid Gazette of the 14th instant, by which
Santa 0; Tuz de Santiago, in Teneriffe, and other ports in
the Cans ry Islands, are established IP Forts for forQign
oommero,.