The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-02 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 30.—The Wellesley, 74, Captain
T. Maitland, sailed on Thursday, with the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, K.C.8., as Commander-
in-Chief on the East India station. She went through
the Needles, and will call at Plymouth to see if she can
pick up about twenty men, of which number she is short of
complement.

The American frigate Independence, of 62 guns, Com-
modore Nicolson, sailed on Thursday for Rio de Janeiro ;
at the same moment the Pique frigate, of 36 guns, Captain
Boxer, got under way, to accompany her down Channel.
It was blowing a fresh breeze with smooth water at the
time, and it was beautiful to see how wonderfully the
Pique excelled the Independence in sailing and quick-
ness of working ; for when both ships got their anchors
to the bow, the Pique was about half a mile to lee-
ward, but in two short tacks she went to windward
of the Independence ; and as they got out of sight the
American frigate was at least three miles to leeward. With
regard to working, the American, it should be observed, is
a long heavy ship, but then she has a crew of 620 men ;
and though the Pique is a shorter ship, mid only carries 36
guns, she has the mast and yards of the old 64's, and a com-
plement of only 280 men. On an average the Pique was
always two minutes and a half in stays, while the Indepen-
dence was always two minutes longer ; of course owing to
this circumstance, in short tacks she lost ground. We have
no doubt that, when these ships put themselves before the
wind, the Pique will lose some of her advantage. In work-
ing out, the Independence was obliged to hand her royals,
but the Pique carried on. The Pique is ordered to proceed
with provisions and stores, from Plymouth to Lord John
Hay's squadron, off St. Sebastian.
The Alligator, 28, Captain Sir J. J. Bremer, having been
paid yesterday, sailed this afternoon for the chops of the
Channel, with orders to relieve any ships prevented coming
up Channel by the easterly winds, and at the expiration of
a fortnight, if the present wind should so long continue, she
will proceed to Plymouth, where she will lay about ten days,
preparatory to her exploratory voyage on the north-west
coiner of the Island of New South \Vales ; and, upon her
report of the character of which, a settlement will be formed
as near as possible to our East India possessions.
A wall squadron will sail from this port on Tuesday, to
lay off Brighton during the period of her Majesty's taking
up her residence at the Pavilion ; it is to consist of the
Hyacinth, IS, Corn. W. Warren, two cutters, and the
Emerald tender. The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir
Philip Durham, will hoist his flag on board the Hyacinth,
where it will fly on the arrival of the Queen, on Wednesday.
The Earl of Yarborough, as Commodore of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, will accompany these•vessels, in his beau-
tiful yacht the Kestrel, and will be joined by as many other
yachts as his Lordship can assemble. The Noble Earl re-
turned to Cowes from a cruise to the westward on Thursday
List, during which the Kestrel encountered some very
heavy weather, and had an opportunity of trying and esta-
blishing her admirable qualities.
The Medea steam-ship, Commander Austen, arrived on
Wednesday ❑ight from the westward, and proceeded early
on the following morning to Sheerness.
The Blonde, 46, Commodore Mason, left Valparaiso for
England on the 25th of June, with a valuable freight of
silver on board. She may be hourly expected at Spithead.
The Arab transport sailed on Wednesday for Cork.
Ships at Spithead.—ilotspur transport, Toronto, Ame-
rican packet.
In the Harbour.—Britannia, Victory, Edinburgh, Mel-
ville, Excellent, President, Tyne, Royal George, Hyacinth,
Thunder, Jupiter, and Raven.
The Electra, 18, a remarkably fine vessel of her class,
was launched from this Dock-yard on Thursday, and is or-
dered to be fitted for commission. It is understood that
Commander the Hon. Dudley Pelham, the late gallant and
intelligent candidate for the representation of the county of
the Isle of Wight, on the Liberal interest, and son of the
Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough, is to have the com-
mand of her.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. Archibald
Reed, of the Andromache, is appointed to the rank of
Commander; Selim 'Mustafa (an Egyptian in our ser-
vice), to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to the
Wellesley ; Lieut. H. W. Gifford, to the Hyacinth ;
Lieuts. R. S. Robinson and James West, and Messrs. R.
H. Dundas and T. T. Plonaer, volunteers first class, to the
Tyne ; Mr. It. Easto, Master to command, Mr. W. Lang-
don, Second Master, and Messrs. E. Rowe and John Haw-
kins, Second Masters, to the Jupiter troop ship ; Com-
mander Henry Boteler, to the Packet Agent at Dover ;
Lieuts. George G. Miall and H. Tyron, to be Agents in
steam-packets to Spain, Gibraltar, &c. ; Lieut. H. P.
Jones, to Holyhead Mail-packet, vice Owens, resigned ;
Lieut. Roepel, to be Agent to the Ocean packet, which will
sail from Falmouth on Monday next, with the Mediterra-
nean mail ; Lieut. G. Pooley, to the Coast Guard ; Mr.
H. Chads. Midshipman, to the Edinburgh ; Mr. John
Rees, Assistant-Surgeon, and Mr. Russell Patey, Midship-
man, to the President ; Mr. Mooney, mate to the Thunder ;
Rev. H. Jones, Jones, Chaplain, to the Wellesley ; Mr. A.
Bryson, Surgeon, Mr. Geo. Phillips, Boatswain, to the
Salamander ;• Mr. G. F. Rowe, Assistant-Surgeon, to the
Comet ; Mr. J. Roddam Tate, to be Secretary's Clerk to
Sir F. Maitland ; Mr. G. W. G. Robins, Clerk, to the
Thunder ; Mr. E. B. Robins, Clerk, to the Madagascar,
vice Winsom, invalided ; Mr. John Roberts, Boatswain, to
the Tweed ; Mr. G. Blaskey, Gunner, to the Crocodile ;
Mr. T. Westlake, Gunner, to the Delight ; Mr. Erasmus
Roberts, Gunner, and Mr. W. Ellis, Carpenter, to the
Tyne ; Mr. Richard Lawler, Gunner, and Mr. J. Stub-
bington, Boatswain, to the President ; Mr. J. Compton,
Gunner, and Mr. T. Worster, Boatswain, to the Thunder ;
Chas. E. Rosamond, Boatswain, and Mr. Freeman, Car-
penter, to the Jupiter ; and Mr. W. Hait, Boatswain, to
the Tyne.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
The Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, arrived from Portsmouth
yesterday (Friday), and will immediately proceed to the
North Coast of Spain.
The brig Delight, 10, Lieut. William Lory, sailed on
Thursday, for Falmouth.
The Donegal, 78, has bent sails, and will go out of har-
bour in a day or two.
The Terror, bomb, just returned from the Arctic re-
gions, with Captain Back, is to be brought round from Lough
Swilly to this port.
The Comet steamer, Lieut. Gordon, proceeded for the
Coast of Spain, on Thursday ; and the Messenger steamer,
Mr. King, master, left for Portmouth the same day, with
stores and supernumeraries.
The Jupiter, troop ship, was commissioned at Ports-
mouth on Monday, by Mr. Easto.
The. Nautilus was paid off into ordinary at Ports=tith
on Monday.
The Al ?A, PQM* gir James 0, Bremer, C. 8.,
went out of Portmouth harbour on Wednesday.
The Pembroke, 74, sailed from Cork for the Mediter-
ranean on Saturday.
On Monday the Rochester lighter sailed fer Pembroke,
with Mr. Walker, assistant Master Attendant, and a party

PRICE sd.

of riggers, to .rig the Lily, 10, launched from the Dock -yard
the 28th inst.
The Hyacinth, 18, Commai,l-• '
for the East todia ';• Warren, is ordered
and will about the 10th 91 0"-

The Edinburgh, 74, Captain Henderson, will relieve 11:0
Malabar, 74, Captain Sir W. Montague, on the Lisbon
station.

The Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. J. M'Donnell, sailed fcr the
coast of Spain on Saturday last.
The Brisk brig is ordered for commission ; and the Nau-
tilus brig will be re-commissioned as soon as she can be got
ready.
The Rasehorse was unlocked on Tuesday, having had
the copper on her bottom shifted ; and the Hamadryad
docked to have the copper on her bottom examined.
The Fore ter, 3, was ecalmissioned on Saturday last, by
Lieut. G. J. Rosenberg.
The Rhadamanthus steamer will touch here on her way
to the Mediterranean.

Remaining in Hamoase—Royal A aide, San Josef, Do-
negal, Crocodile, Favorite, Forester, ;oittire steam-vessel,
and Diligence transport.
In the Sound—Wellesley, Pique.
At Spithead on Wednesday—Wellesley, Pique, Alli-
gator, and Hotspur.
The Brune, Superintendent's ship, at Chatham, being
worn out, the Poictiers, 74, is to take her place, as a depot,
and will be commissioned by Capt. Rains, of the Ordinary.
An additional pair of shears, hanging over into the-har-
bour, is about to be erected in this Dock-yard. The spars
will be 140 feet in length, shipped upon the jetty, and pro-
perly secured. They will be competent to mast a three-
deck ship ; and if found to answer, the present use of the
sheer-hulk will be discontinued.

The annual survey of the ships in Ordinary will take
place by the Admiral Superintendent, the senior Captain of
the ordinary, and the officers of the yard.
SHIPS IN DOCK—Thunderer, Endymion, Resistance,
Lancaster, and Hamadryad. At the Jetties—Clarence,
Seahorse, Canopus, Britomart, Espoir, Spitfire and Mes-
senger steamers.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 30.

THE CORPORATION AND KING ERNEsl'.—Mr. Sheriff
Bryan reached town on Thursday morning, after present-
ing the " loyal and dutiful address' of their Honours to
his Majesty of Hanover. Mr. Sheriff Bryan had the ho-
nour of " dining with the King and Queen", with both of
whom, it appears, " he had frequent intercourse during
his sojourn." "At Gottingen the Sheriff had the honour
of dining at the sumptuous entertainment given by the
King to a large party of nobles and heads of colleges."
After this, who will deny that Sheriff Bryan has eaten his
way into the good graces of the Hanoverians
EXCLUSIVE DEALING—LORD AND LADY LONDON-
DERRY.—Yhe Marquis of Londonderry yesterday visited
Belfast. During his short stay, he had occasion to make
some trilling purchase ; but, before doing so, he took care
to ask whether the person into whose shop he went was a
Conservative, and, on obtaining a satisfactory reply, he pro-
ceeded to make his purchase. This is carrying out the
spirit of his and his lady's late ukase to their Durham
dependants ; and, when compared with other numerous
circumstances connected with Tory dealings, shows that
the exclusive system is in full and systematic operation
among the party.—Northern Whig.
If a Peer of the realm can so far forget the duties he
owes to society as to indulge his own malignant desires to
the point of unchristian persecution reported by our con-
temporary, can it wondered at that the ignorant and unedu-
cated should resort to reprisals, and break out into violent
resistance, such as has been once or twice shown by the
populace against Guiness's beer ?
TITHE CAMPAIGN.—The Parsons and the Rebellion
Ruffians are much earlier in the field than usual. The fol-
lowing is from the Limerick Star Notwithstanding
repeated discomfitures, the epicurean tastes of the Clergy
of the Establishment will not be satisfied without another
tithe war—the hard-earned food of the poor delver of tiro
soil must be obtained, es en at the price of his blood, to
sate the eager appetite of the parson. Of this we have
had but too many instances, and are likely to have more.
The tithe campaign is vigorously going on in many quar-
ters, and, from the animus displayed, the result, we four,
will prove more appalling than at any former period. Our
table has been crowded with applications from tithe suf-
ferers, for advice and assistance. The poor, industrious,
and calumniated peasant, so fur from being prone to disturb
the country by forcible opposition to the collection of tithes,
is anxious only to know how he may get rid of the oppres-
sion, by taking advantage of' the illegality attending most
of the proceedings for their recovery. This, which is per-
fectly justifiable from the tyrannical and partial nature of
the tax, will, undoubtedly, in a great many cases, prove
successful."
ARMAGH ORANGE DINNER—ATTEMPT TO WRECK A CHAPEL.

ArtstAGH, FRlDAY.—Yesterday the " Armagh Conser-
vative Club" dined together in the Tontine Building, Sir
Thomas Molyneux in the chair ; the company were not so
numerous as expected, but as only the faction were ad-
mitted, we are not enabled to say who the company were,
or the toasts. We understand, however, " the Battle of
the Diamond" was not given, but that Sir Thomas endea-
voured to support the correctness of his orderly-book. We
observed Dean Carter, Mr. Hunt, agent to Lord Mande-
ville ; Mr. Fox, of Longford ; Mr. Patten, Sovereign, and
a few others going in ; but the rest of the company were of
a mixed description of tradesmen and others, with whom
Sir Thomas is not in the habit of associating. As far as
we can learn, the evening passed off quietly, the choir
singing. " the Old English Gentleman," when Sir Thomas's
health was drank ; but, we have no doubt, the public
will be gratified with an enlarged edition of this fete in a
few days.

An attack was made on the chapel of Lougbgall last
night, with the intention of pulling down the bell and belfry
of the chapel ; but information having been forwarded to
Artnagh, a party of police, well armed, were despatched to
the place, and arrived just in time to preserve the building.
Two cable ropes, eighteen and seventeen feet long each,
were, with the assistance of a ladder, fixed round the root,
with sticks six feet long each tied to the end of each rope,
and a crow iron ; the party, about thirty, fled on the ap-
proach of the police, leaving their apparatus, consisting of
ropes, ladder, and crow-bar ; but, we are sorry to say, the
villains made their escape through the darknoss of the night,
and it is to be feared, from the threats mentioned in the
neighbourhood, that they will, if possible, accomplish their
object at some other time.—Correspondent of the Dublin
Evening Post.
THE LUCIFER STEAMER—A COLLISION.--On Wed-
nesday evening the Government packet the Lucifer, and
the opposition packet, belonging to the City of Dublin
Company, the Athlone, prepared to start at the same hour
from Kingstown Harbour, in order to try the sailing qua-
lities of the respective vessels. The „Athlone left the wharf
first, and was quickly followed by her competitor. The
latter, after passing the old jetty, ran foul of the schooner
Margaret and Jane, which was lying anchored in the
harbour, and drove in a portion of her timbers down to the
water mark. The crash sounded fearfully from the shore,
and the utmost confusion prevailed, the crew of the schooner
running upon deck with the utmost trepidation, and some
jumping into a boat which was alongside. Prompt mea-
sures were adopted by the captain of the steamer, or the
schooner would ha►e been run down completely. The
paddles were backed, and, after some time, the vessels got
clear, and the Lucifer, crossing the entire of the harbour,
passed out close to the western pier, She had lost much
way by the accident, and the Athlone had gone far to sea
before the other cleared the light-house. Lieutenant Hut-
chinson was very efficient in the services which he rendered
to the schooner, and, under his directions, she was brought
into the old harbour, where she now lies. Her top spars
were carried away when she attempted to make sail, hilt
fortunately no person was hurt.
NATIONAL TRADES' POLITICAL UNION.—The usu :1
weekly meeting of this body was held at the Corn Ex-
change on Tuesday evening. ➢lr. Thomas Dillon was called
to the chair.

COUNTY KILDARE.—Messrs. Archbold and O'Ferrall
dined last Tuesday in the town of Kilcock, with the free-
holders of Kildare.
MR. SPRING RICE.—In allusion to a letter on the late
Kerry election, published in the Pilot, that journal declares,
that " if Mr. Rico will not coerce his tenants to vote with
his principles, he should prevent his agent coercing against
his principles," adding that " an agent ought to act in
unison with his employer, and has not the same claims as
the tenant, who, by right, is only bound to pay his rent,"
RENNIE, PROFESMIR OF THE IRISH Hmtv.---On Sa-
turday morning last, at the age of 42, Mr. V. Rennie, the
nelehrated Professor of the Irish Harp, expired, after a
lingering illness, at the Harp Society House, in Cromac-
street, Belfast. Rennie was a native of Cushendall,
Antrim, and, by his father's side, was tc,ourid cousin
to Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Piiet. His taste for
music seems to have 1)00. innate, as at the early age of
eleven years tie was able to execute upon the viitha the
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