The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
Potursmount, MAY 27.—The Pique aired yesterday
from Lisbon, and came into harbour to-day to have her
foremast taken out, and for the examinztion of her other
masts. She sailed from the Tagus the day after the Panta-
loon, up to which time all was quiet.
The Revenge arrived at Gibraltar from Malta, on her
way to this port, on the Gth inst. Th.! Orestes arrived at
Gibraltar on the 10th ; the Carysfoot arri‘ed at Constan-
tinople 3d inst., on which day the Volage sailed thence.
The Lyra packet arrived on Tuesday at Falmouth, with
letters from Barbadoes to the 17th April, Jamaica to the
20th, and from St. Thomas's to the 26th. She brings intel-

lic.,renee that Charlestown, in the island of Nevis-, was en-
tirely burnt down. The whole of the Colonies were in a
state of perfect tranquillity ; but with the exception of Ja-
maica, the small-pox appears to have spread into all the is-
lands, and also to Demerara. The dise;►sa was in a great
many cases proving fatal to the coloured population, vacci-

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nation having, it appears, been for a considerable time almost
entirely neglected in several of the Colonies, in whiCh re-
spect Jamaica is stated to be fully the most culpable. The
crops had partially suffered in some districts of Jamaica
from the extreme drought, but not to an extent much to
affect the average produce.
The Hornet, brigantine of six guns, recently paid off at
Sheerness, is ordered to be re-commissioned for service be-

ween Rio Janeiro and the Falkland Islands.

The Messenger steam transport arrived on Tuesday from
Plymouth, and the Diligence transport, with stores, from
the River. The Gossamer tender sailed on Wednesday to
resume her duties in protecting the mackerel fishery on the
coast of Sussex. The Plymouth yacht returned to Ply-
mouth on Thursday.
The Fair Rosamond, Lieut. Oliver, will go out of har-
bour on Monday, and sail in the course of the next week to
the West Coast of Africa.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. W. W.
White, Acting Master of the Swift packet, is confirmed in
his rank as Master ; Lieut. George Morritt, to be addi-
tional Lieutenant of the Hastings ; Messrs. F. Slight and

R, A. M'Donald, Assistant-Surgeons to Royal Adelaide ;
Mr. F. Somerville, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Ringdove
as W. L. Methven, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Wizard ;
Mr. J. Vaughan, Assistant-Surgeon to the Larne ;
Mr. R. Studwell, Second Master, to the Royalist ; Mr. R.

H. Martin, of the Revenge, to be additional clerk of the
Russell ; Mr. Robert Willcox, midshipman, and Messrs.
James Exeter, boatswain, James Brown, gunner, and Free-
land Card, carpenter, to the Hazard ; Messrs. T. PurkG,
boatswain, and Mr. M'llonald, carpenter, to the Romney
receiving ship ; Mr. Robert Kellard, additional clerk to the
Princess Charlotte ; Mr. W. Tarrant, boatswain, to the
Minden ; Mr. James Monk, gunner, to the Britannia, vice
Weeks, superannuated.

Royal Marines—First Lieut. Richard W. Pascoe to be
Captain at Chatham vice Payne, deceased ; Second Lieut.
Gascoyne to be First Lieutenant vice Pascoe ; First Lieut.
and Quartermaster Tinklar, to be Captain at Chatham vice
Chas. A. Whiting, deceased ; Second Lieut. John Urqu-
hart to be First Lieutenant at Portsmouth vice Tinklar.
Messrs. George Shirley, gunner, at 851., Rich. Robert-
son, carpenter, 851., and Robert Maney, at 651., late'of the
ROyal Naval College Establishment, have this week been
pensioned off and discharged. Mr. John Weeks, gunner,
of the Britannia, has been superannuated at 751. per annum.
The Portsmouth Naval Club will assemble on the Bth of
June for their second quarterly dinner. Captain T. Brown,
C. 8., will preside.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 25 —The Hermes steamer, Lieu-
tenant Blount, sailed for Falmouth on Saturday last ;
she takes out the next Malta mail. Tho Jaseur, 16, Com-
mander Hackett, came into harbour on Monday to be paid
off. The Pembroke, 74, Captain Morseby, was taken into
dock the same day to have her damages repaired. Sailed,
for Portsmouth, the Messenger steamer ; arrived the
Blazer Steamer, from Falmouth. The Saracen, 10, Lieut.

Hill, went out of harbour on Wednesday ; arrived the
Rhadamanthus steamer, Lieutenant Duffil, from the coast

of Spain ; the Tweed, Phoenix, and Columbia were at
Passages, and the Royalist and Salamander at St. Sebas-
tian ; arrived on Thursday, from the Mediterranean, the
Wolverine, 16, Hon. E. Howard, Commander, and came
into harbour for the purpose of being docked ; Donegal, 78,
and Wellesley, 74, are to be commissioned in a few days.
The 59th depot companies have had their destination
changed from Cork to Newry ; and those of the 68th go to
Cork.

A grand field day will take place on Southsea Common
of all the troops of the garrison, on Monday next, in honour
of the King's birth-day. The line will be formed at 12 at
noon, and will be augmented by all the disposable men at
Gosport.

We beg leave to congratulate the friends of the
University upon the commencement of two works of great im-
portance and interest : we mean the Fitzwilliam Museum and
the Public Library.; the foundations of both these great build-
ings are nearly completed, and every proper measure has been
taken for carrying on the works with as much expedition as is
consistent with their careful and effectual execution. —Cam-
bridge Chronicle.
Thursday an inquest was held at the Dog Tavern,
Holywell-street, Strand, before Mr. Higgs and a respectable
Jury, on view of the body of Mr. James Weigh, aged 72, a
master boot and shoe maker, residing in that street. It ap-
peared, from the evidence of Henry Edwards, a private watch-
man attending in Holywell-street, that on Wednesday night,
between 10 and 11 o'clock, he met the deceased in a state of
intoxication, and with his assistance he got home. George
Sellick, who had worked for the deceased for the last eighteen
years, left his master in good health and sober about seven
o'clock, and on knocking the following morning, about eight,
to obtain admission, he received no answer, and suepectiag
something to be wrong, he broke a pane of glass in a window
at the back of the premises, and got in ; he immediately saw
his unfortunate employer stretched on the stairs, quite stiff and
cold, with his head almost doubled" under his body ; two sur-
geons were in immediate attendance, but the deceased had
been dead for some hours. By the Jury—He was very much
addicted to drinking, and came home drunk almost every
night. Mr. Bennett, a neighbour of the deceased, deposed
to the intoxicated habits of the deceased for many years
past; he always dreaded that he would die of some accident
occasioned by his incurable intemperance. Mr. Turner, who
lives next door to the deceased, heard a fall that morning,
about three o'clock, and Mr. Weigh cry out, Oh, God ! oh,
Lord !" and then set to and Swear ; but it was so usual that
he took no notice of it. Mr. Shiel, surgeon, of Norfolk-
street, gave it as his opinion that he died of apoplexy, brought
on by intoxication, and the Jury returned a verdict to that
effect.

On Saturday an inquest was held at the Spread
Eagle, Millbank, on view of the body of William Sommers.
Reed 19, who had for many years creditably filled the office of
"''Jack of the Water" at Westminster-bridge-stairs. It ap-
peared from the evidence of James Pocock, a servant of Sir
Robert Sidney, of Palace-yard, that on Saturday week he was
standing at Westminster-bridge-stairs when he saw a boat
without any person in it go adrift, and the deceased, who was
quite tipsy, get into another boat and follow it. He rowed a
few yards, When he stood up and immediately fell backwards;
but, soon recovering himself, he rowed on again, and succeeded
in catching the other bout. He then got off his seat, and
staggering towards the head of his boat, he fell overboard and
sun, but almost instantly rose again, and struggled for a few
seconds, and then sank to rise no more. Witness immediately
gave the alarm, and in about two minutes a boat passing under
the bridge, he accompanied the watermen to the spot, where
they picked up his hat, but could see nothing of the body.
The drags were procured, and they dragged for half-au-hour,
but without success. In his opinion the accident would not
have happened if the unfortunate " Jack" had been sober.
Matthew Parry, a labouring man, stated that he was walking
along the banks on Friday morning, when he perceived a body
floating, and with a stick brought it to the shore. The Thames
police boat passing at the time, one of them recognised it us
that of the deceased, and it was immediately conveyed to the
Spread Eagle. Verdict—" Accidental Death."
In Mr. Mackenzie's Manual of the Weather, pub-
lished in 1832, we find the following passage :—" The years
corresponding with the 1782 and 83, are 1836 and 37. In
the former pair of years, the first summer and the last winter
had by far the greatest proportion of the falls, the cold ex-
ceeding upon the first summer ; on the contrary, in the last
pair of years, the greatest falls are upon the first winter and
the last summer ; the cold being excessive upon both the sum-
mers of the pair, but more particularly severe upon the last, or
summer of 1837, a season which promises to exceed in cold,
rain, snow, frost, any summer within the last 500 years. It
will, therefore, behove the rulers of the land, of all ranks, as
well as the public at large, to be as well prepared for this severe
visitation of nature as circumstances will permit—for not only
arc these years exceedingly unfavourable, but the year 1838 is
equally unpromising ; consequently this, and the following year
of 1839, will form a period of distressing privation, since upon
these two last the deficiency of the years 1837 and 1838 will
fall with greatest effect."

We understand an investigation is at present in
progress respectinf, the abstraction of money from letters be-
tween Janetown and Lochalsh, in Ross-shire. The practice
has been carried on for some time, but has hitherto baffled de-
tection. In consequence of a bank-note fur 20/., which had
been sent in a letter that never reached it: destination being
offered for change, a clue has been obtained, and it is said that
one of the runners, a simple looking lad, who had never been
suspected, has absconded from the country. —lnverness Couriar.
Early during the present spring, a hen, belonging
to a peculiar breed of poultry kept in the' pleasure-grounds of
Earl Fitzwilliam, at Wentworth House, hatched a brood of
seven chickens ; and then, like many other unnatural mothers,
she deserted the little outcasts, and abandoned them to their
fate. But when their cruel mother forsook them, their father
took them under his gracious protection, and has since that
period performed the two-fold part of a most affectionate father
4nd mother. Chanticleer accompanies his children during the
day, seeks tliern food. it 4 glmillem pr6t9etlqn, nil driring
,night he carefully broods them under his tvide.spread and
sheltering wings. The young birds are now in feather, and
the proud father may be seen daily in the menagerie grounds
of Went Worth House parading his offspring, and chuckling
them to feast on every. grub and luckless insect rlfip.llll4ye th.d
rnigfoFttirpst to 99rpfl within rettch,—pencgatcr (ft4ette,