The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGECE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JULY I.—The Seringapatam, 46, Cap-
tain Leith, with the Romney slave depot ship, to lie at the
Havannah, will sail to-morrow for the Bahamas and then for
Havannah, after which the frigate will proceed to Bar-
badoes. These ships, undermanned as they are, will have
arduous work in contending against the Gulf stream.
The Orestes, sloop of war, arrived at Gibraltar on the
18th ult. ; the Fly, 18, at Buenos Ayres on the 4th April.
The Sparrowhawk, 18, Commander Shepherd, sailed on
Sunday for the South American station.
The Messenger steamer arrived on Monday from the
the river, on her way to Devonport, with Marines for the
Donegal ; she returned from Devonport on Wednesday.
The Prince Regent transport sailed on Tuesday for the
north coast of Spain with stores. The Cracker cutter re-
turned from a cruise off Sussex to-day.
Commander T. Robins has been appointed Governor of
the Comity Gaol at Oxford.
Captain Sir J. J. G. Bremer is to be appointed to the
temporary command of the Hercules, 74, while Capt. Ber-
keley looks after his election interests at Gloucester. The
Hercules will sail about the end of the week, with the Cas-
tor, 36, Captain Collier, and Pique, 36, Hon. Capt. Roos,
in company, for Corunna, where they will pick up the In-
constant, 36, Capt. Pring ; and the three frigates will have
a trial of sailing, under the superintendence of Sir G. Bre-
mer. On the raturn of the Pique Captain Rous will give
up the command, and will be succeeded by the Hon. Capt.
F. Grey. The Castor anchored at Spithead last evening
from Sheerness.

APPOINTMENTS.—Lieuts. W. W. Chambers, Richard
Symonds, and A. W. Jerningham, Mr. E. Stewart, Purser,
Mr. George Owen, Assistant Surgeon, and Mr. C. J. Par-
ker, Second Master, to the Wellesley ; Lieut. F. W. Foote
and R. L. Atkinson to be additional Lieutenants of the
Cornwallis, in the West Indies ; Lieut. Morshed to the
Hazard ; Lieut. John Bowden to the Ordinary at this port,
vice Burbidge ; Capt. Phillips, Royal Marines, and Mr.
J. N. Jewell, Purser, to• the Donegal ; Mr. J. Richards,
Purser, to the Post Office Packet Establishment at Liver-
pool ; Dr. Evan Alexander, Assistant-Surgeon, to the
Royal Adelaide ; Mr. Richard Hodges, Master, to the
Ariadne, coal depot, Mr. Sydney's appointment having been
cancelled ; Mr. Williams, Secowd Master, to the Ports-
mouth yacht ; Mr. G. Andrew, Second Master, to have
charge of the Buoy Boat, vice Williams ; Mr. H. W.
Baker, Midshipman, to the Britannia ; Mr. David Elliott,
Mate, to the Hercules ; Mr. S. H. Henderson, College
Volunteer, from the Vanguard to the Donegal.
PROMOTION.—Mr. W. Barry to the rank of Lieutenant.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 29.—The Donegal, 78, was com-
missioned last Saturday by. Commander J. P. Pritchard;
when ready Sir E. Brace will hoist his flag on board her,
and proceed to Lisbon. The same day the Talbot, 28,
Captain Pennell, arrived from Portsmouth, and came into
harbour to be paid off. The Wolverine, 16, Hon. E.
Howard, went out of harbour. On Monday the Ringdove,
16, Commander Nixon, sailed for the West Indies. On
Tuesday the Messenger arrived from the eastward, with
Marines for the Donegal and Wellesley, and sailed again
the same day for Portsmouth. On Wednesday the Race-
horse, 18, Commander Sir E. Home, arrived from the West
Indies, and the Lightning, Lieut. Shambler, from Pem-
broke. The Royalist, 10, went out of harbour ; and the
Blazer steamer sailed for Falmouth.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR
THE WEEK.
Tuts DAT. —Entomological, 8 P. M. ;
Tnuasnar.—Zoological, 3 P. M. ; Botanical, 81 P.M.
The Conversazione of the Architectural Society postponed
from the 27th ult. to Tuesday, the I Ith inst.

Two additional reports of the Select Committee on
railway subscription lists have been printed by order of the
House of Commons. They refer to the means employed by
the Westminster-bridge, Deptford, and Greenwich Railway
Company, and the City or Southwark-bridge and Hammer-
smith Railway Company, to fill up the list of their subscribers.
The former project was begun in April, 1836, and the Com-
mittee reports that to January of the present year the con-
duct of the Directors was unexceptionable. Then, however,
finding money scarce, they could not " continue so strait-
laced," and a resolution was passed to " use every exertion
to place the reserve of shares on the line or elsewhere without
delay." In consequence of this resolution Mr. Price, the En-
gineer of the Company, asked a Mr. Gibbs to take some shares.
Gibbs, after some hesitation, took 1,005 shares, amounting in
money to 50,250/. ; but, having an objection to sign for them
himself, he procured, through the agency of a person named
John Lee Jacobs, a number of persons to sign for shares at
103. a-head, and the Clerk of the Solicitor of the Company
was present at the signing, attested the signatures, and filled
in against them the moneyed accounts of the subscriptions and
deposits. The Committee consider the Directors of the Com-
pany responsible for the acts of Mr. Price, the Engineer, Mr.
Hoppe, the Solicitor, and Mr. Paine, his Clerk, " which have
occasioned the affixing to the deed of colourable and not real
subscriptions to the extent of 1,005 shares of 50,250!." The
report on the other Company is similar, but the amount of co
lourablc subscription is greater, 99,5501.; and the deficiency of
the sum subscribed, necessary to comply with the Standing
Orders, is no less than 86,2.15/

On Thursday evening, soon after eight o'clock,
the Star, a Gravesend steamer, was on her way to London,
with a very large and respectable complement of passengers on
board, when on arriving off Greenwich Hospital, the City of
Glasgow steamer being on one side of her, also coming up
the stream, one of the Greenwich steamers came away from
the wharf as the Star was passing, and although hailed bt
Captain Tisdell, the master of the Star, to stop, his requesy
was disregarded, and she came stem on the larboard quarter
of the Star with a fearful crash, knocking away her bulwarks
on that side, and doing other damage. The alarm, particu-
larly among the females on both vessels, was very great, and
several were thrown down by the shock, but none were hurt.
The Greenwich steamer received great damage, and she re-
coiled from the Star, which is a much larger and stouter
vessel, a considerable distance. The passengers in the Star
were much incensed at the reckless conduct of the Greenwich
steamer, and numbers of them signed a declaration that Capt.
Tisdell was not to blame.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 7.—Last night the
palaces and country houses of the great folks on the Bosphorus,
were illuminated in a most splendid manner; the port-holes
and rigging of the ships of war were also decorated with lamps ;
fireworks were let off, innumerable guns were fired; and al-
to‘Tether the scene was animating in the highest degree.
There was a talk of these rejoicings on the return of the So-
vereign being repeated for three nights in all; but this was a
mistake. The English schooner, Swiftsure, which arrived
here two days ago, was boarded at night in the Dardanelles,
by a piratical boat, containing half a dozen Greeks well armed.
Captain Woolley immediately barricaded himself in his cabin.
Tho pirates soon discovered that the cargo consisted of nothing
but iron ; they, therefore, attempted to get into the cabin, but
the Captain showed a good pair of pistols, and declared he
would blow out the brains of the first two who entered, so that
the villains contented themselves with plundering the seamen
and then went away. It is well for the Captain that they
did not forco his companion, for his pistols were not loaded,
he had neither ball nor powder 1 Gun boats of the Greek
Government have lately captured in the Gulf of Salonica se-
veral boats belonging to pirates and sent them to the island of
Skiathos. The pirates themselves took refuge in the moun-
tains and escaped. The merchants continue to complain
loudly of the ruinous rates of postage charged by the French
boats. One mercantile establishment paid 201. for letters
marked to come by Vienna, whereas had they really come as
intended, he would have only paid 41. lOs., and most of the
letters would have reached them earlier. The last Vienna post
brought London news only 20 days old. It arrives every
week, whereas the French boats arrive only once in ten days.
When the franc is worth only 4f Turkish piastres, we cannot
understand either why it should be calculated by the agent
here at sf.
Mr. Pearson, head gardener to Mr. Murray, of
Broughton, has hit on an expedient for feeding pheasants and
other game, which, if extensively introduced, would go far
to render the Bill for indemnifying tenants for damage done
to their crops, a dead letter. From the east nook, not of Fife,
but the Lothians, he procured a variety of the potato named
" the everlasting," which clings with such extraordinary per-
tinacity to the soil that once established it, is impossible to
root it out, unless you trench the ground and then riddle it.
Its fertility, too, is so great, that our informant, a highly in-
telligent horticulturist, proposes, so soon as his seed is ripe,
to plant- it out in the woods as a treat to the pheasants, and
even the hares, during winter and spring. From what is al-
ready known, the pheasants would soon find out and excavate
the hidden treasure, and should the frost ever be particularly
severe in such well-sheltered places, it would be easy to assist
them by loosening the earth with a pick or spade. The hares,
six of which, eat as much young clover as a single sheep, are
capital scrapers when it suits their purpose ; and when the
experiment of bribing the enemies of the early crops to dine at
home, in place of abroad at the farmer's expense, is fairly in-
troduced, Mr. Pearson, we doubt not, will receive, as he de-
serves, a premium from the Highland and Agricultural So-
ciety of Scotland.--Dumfries Courier.

PJUCE OF CANALS, DuCtk
lOSETRANCE COMPANIES,Sze. &c, 4e.

LO'Ntiiji,li f.4.1'5A V.; JUNE SO.
Nuir.her Dividend Pi Ice
of per CANAI S. PaL -. , Per
Mares. Annum. . Chafe.
1,706 7 pc: cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 971. ISs. sh. jf,';)
ler 4/. Ashby .de-le-Zotich .. ....... Average 113/. sh. 65
i,tliti ' ''''i lik.,i:lgltoke 1001.50. 55
1,005 5/. bre7;nitOr and 414,rgavenny l5O . sh. 100
8,000 1...!65h. 91. 9s. Uirmingham, i.. lett.? O.,Te ~,,.. .... .8i . & 71/. 218
4,000 Ditto sod Liverpool J unci..,!2.1.! et, 1!"," ri 31
(PA . Bridgewater and Taunton ....1061. 511, ~.:11 V 2 64
s:-.)3 41.. Chelmer and Blackwater . ION sh. 11'2
500 481. t,44otrY 101. sh. 700
4,545 Croydon .... Average 311.2 s 10d. sh. 3
2060 t 41. Os. Dudley ...... . ...
.. ~. 10•'1. sh. 65
600 71. Derby ,•;00/ eh 153
20.000
:1:t.'913 9!, Elio:a-nem and Chester Iverage 133/. sh. MI
2:31 41t. f;..,..!,i5h. ,,),,i. v.. 070
1,297 28/. FM. 71 m1(19140
11,00 12/. Grand Jurieff.: ..,,,, - „ion!. sh. 204
2,' 49# I/. Grand Union ... ,a,../.,,,,,,..,,,,kr1. sh. 21
1 5410 Grand Surrey
120,0001. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan .......... .....,,,aOO/. 10
:;`,173 4.,,,.... Grand Western
0'!) IN: 120: 9d. Wainorgansliire, Average cost 1721. i:.;. Id. 230
'7lO 101, Onnifliato l5O/. eh. 202
6,233 11.15 a Titattlet,•flel'l.,,,, ..... Average 571. 6s. Cd sh. -35
100 Kensington • • '1.14" • 100 eh all pd. 10
23,323 11. 2s. Kennet i lel Avon, A vefagt SW, IBs. 10d. eh. 22i
2,31171 201. Leeds and Liverpool • 1041. sh. 570
3455 131. I,eicester 1 SR!, sb. 243 C
10197 41. 10e. Leicester anel Northainie on... Aver v.!. • Os. E... 3
2,400 11/1, MoIIMOUt hslii re leB/.sh. 200
150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/ sh. 200
500 25/. Mersey and Irv:ell lOO/. Si). 500
3,00 C IL 10s. • Macclesfield lOW. sh all pd. 54
217 17/. N eath 1011/. sh. 323
1,786 301. Oxford 10;1, ,Sh. 528
2,400 5!. Peak Forest A vei..ge about 78/. sh. 11'4
21,118 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver, 331. lils. f,d. sh. :f1
5,069 6/. per cent. i',uc:-lale Average f"-',/. sh. 114
500 8/. Shropshire 1 5/. sh. 138
600 91. [Os. Somerset Coal '5O/. sh. 148
3,600/. 45 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 115
100 40/, Staffbrd and Worcester 144. sh. 710
500 4,7, Shrewsbury ll5l. sO. 243
300 9/. St 011rbridge
3,647 2/. ,s. St ratfard-on . Avsai ...Average 79/. 9s. L'Al. sO. 50
533 12!. Swansea - 100/. sh. 2.20
3,702 1/. 9s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh. 265
2,6:) '3st, nst. los. Trent and Mersey, i share 1(401. sh. 550
8,1-11) ... ...... Thames 41,1 Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. 93. ,h. 2
1,0005h.1
151 Warwick a. 141 Birmingham lOOl sh 2-15
I,o(.loish. j -
941 11,.. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. ISO
6,000 4/.os. Worces( ,r anu Birmingham_ Av. 76/. Se. s'y SI
5,000 225. Wilts an. Berke .. Average 071. 10s. 86. sh. 21
800 3/, Wyrley and Essington 1251. eh 73
126 ....... Wisbe,tch lB5/. sh. 45
905 1/. Wes and Arun llO/. sh. 225
1.10,.'K5.

2,600& }3D. c. Commercial 100/. sh. 55
1,06518 h. -
199,06711. 6 per et. East India c'oek 116
3,235,3101/. 50s. p.ct. Loneon Stock 51
Ditto Bonds
1,350,0001. 5/. per et. West India
2.1:09 2/. I 9s. Bristol
09,124/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3
1;35'2,75-2 4p r cent. St. liatharine Stock 91
500,0R1 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds o,r 10 years 99
Shoreham (Labour
2.500 ........ Deptford I'ier "01. sh. 3!.
BRIDGES.
1,600 Ws. 1-1 amm ersin II 5O/. sh. 221
7,231 Simthwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Sd. sh. 2
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14
5,000
5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. „.... (it)!. pit 191
5,1)00 Ills. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71.... ..... .. ..... 40/. pd 159
60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto BMW:6 llB
5,918 14s Vauxhall Av-.rage M. lOs ld ch. 161

AS-C,RANCF COMPANIES. -
2,000 31 lOs Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 80
50,06,0 S 5 per cent. 1 Alliance, British; Foreign 1001. sh. lov. pd 12
' 1. and 15s.
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. Si. pd 51
24,000 !l per sin Atlas
1,200155. 5/, inrminghain I ire
20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 41
12,000 61. per cent. Brit.‘ll Commercial 504 sb. 5/. pit 64
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medial, &c. Life, ICOLsh. 12/10s pd 4
4,000 21 lOs County 1001. sh. 101. pd- 42
20,000 ss. Eagle
WO {5 per cent.
and 301 bi.} Economic Lit:: lOOO/. AL 2501. pd 375
2,271 225. per cent. European Liu 00/. sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New ‘,O/. sh. 21. pd 11
1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 147
20,000 3/. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 33
10,000 6s. 60. Hope 504 sh. 51. pd 51
2,100 51. 7s. 6d.. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 501. pd 121
7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10
13,158 12s. per sh. Indemnity Mai ine 100/. sli. 8/. pd 165
2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 82
3/. Ditto Life 79
10,000 Ris. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 26
5 000 10s. London, Firs 251 sh. 121. 103, pd 151
3,990 10s. London, Shill 251. sh. I*.a. 10s. pd 151
30,0.10 .5/. per cent. Palladium Li ts 50/. sh. 2/. pd 2/ 8s Od
50,006 l' rotector Fi,:. 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 180 60
2,500 I/. Provident late .... . 1)411. sh. 10!. pd 20
100,000 5/. percent. Rock Life 20/. sh. 21. pd 61
1580,220/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stork... 225
6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51
50,000 4 per cent. United Kin,;(lom Life 2/. pd
JOINT SIOCK BANKS
25,001 Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14
5,000 Australa.ia 4O/. sh. 401. pd 57
10,0011 10 percent. Ban% of Bit mingham 5l/. sh. 1(11. pd 13
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 14
30,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 20/. pd 191
3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 30
45,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 19
50,000 71 per cent. Manchester and Li'verpool}
100/. sh. 15/ pd 211
Discount
20,000 7 percent. Manchester 100/. sh. '251 pd 264
20,000 ...... ... Provincial Bank of 1 reland 100/. sh. 251. pd 40
20, CO National Bank of Ireland s°i. sh 1711. pd 1:31
10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 35/. pd 29
10,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 20
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire
_____
____ 50/..1 h. 51. pd 9