The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PoaTsmouTit, SEPT. I.—Her Majesty's ship Caledonia,
haring bean released from quarantine, sailed on Sunday

morning for Plymouth, to he paid off.
'LT Majesty's ship Hercules, Capt. T. Yell()las, sailed
on Monday morning, to join the Pembroke, at Plymouth.

Her 'Majesty's ship President, eif 52 guns, was commts• I
sinned on Thursday by Capt. James Scott, for the flag of
Roar-Admiral C. 11. Ross, for the South American station.
The MeF.senger steam-vessel sailed this morning for Ply-
mouth with supernumeraries.
The Isabella Spanish steam-vessel sailed on Monday for
the River.
Her Majesty's ship Pearl went out of harbour this morn-
ing. She will shortly proceed to the West Indies.
Her Mnjosty's ship Melville was commissioned this morn-
ing by Capt. the Hon. It. S. Dundas, for the flag of Rear-
Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, for the Cape of Good
Hope station.
Her Majesty's ship Wellesley is expected in here hourly
from Plymouth, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F.
j L. Maitland.

The Rhadamanthus is expected here from Woolwich, on
her way to the Mediterranean, to relieve the Medea.
Lieut. T. P. Rocpel is appointed to command the Don
Juan steam•packet to Lisbon and Gibraltar.
The ships fitting at this pOrt proceed but slowly, on ac-
count of the few seamen there are to be had.

Ships in Harbour.—Britannia, Excellent, Edinburgh,
Melville, President, Pique, Alligator, and Hyacinth. At
Spithead—Pearl. _

(From the Hampshire Tele.;raph.)
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—The Pique, 36, Capt. Boxer,
will go out of harbour on Monday, and sail in the course of
the week for the Mediterranean.
The Wanderer, 16, Commander Bushby, left Jamaica
for Chagres on the 3d of July ; the Satellite, 16, Com-
mander Robb, arrived at Jamaica from Vera Cruz July
Ist ; the Aladaeasear, 42, Commodore Sir John Peyton,
was at anchor off Vera Cruz on the 4th of June ; the Bs:1-
videra, 42, Captain Strong, will return from Barbadoes to
England by the circuitous route of visiting Vera Cruz and
the Spanish Main for treasure ; the Pickle schooner and
AlJan steamer wt re at Port Royal June the 26th, on which
day the Comus, 16, Hon. Commander Carey, left that an-
chorage for Carthagena ; the Conway, 28, Captain Drink-
water, arrived at Madras April time 21st ; the Raleigh, 16,
Commander Quin, was at Manilla, April the 12th.
The Blonde, 46, Commodore Mason, and Actmon, 26,
Capt. Lord E. Russell, were at Callao on the 6th May ;
the Rover, 16, Commander Eden, had shipped two millions
of dollars at San Blas, and expected to be at Valparaiso on
the 20th of that month, when she would tranship them to
the Blonde, which ship by that time expected to be relieved
by the Stag frigate, Commodore Sullivan.
The Goshawk, a merchant brig, left Callao on the 16th
May, with 300,000 dollars on board, for Liverpool.
The Seaflower cutter, Lieutenant Roche, and Cracker,
tender, sailed yesterday to Jersey, to protect the oyster
fishery ; the Messenger steam-vessel proceeded the same
day for Plymouth.
The Alligator, 28, was taken out of the basin on Thurs-
day ; the Thunder and Wasp were taken out of dock into
the basin ; the Nelson, 120, and Arab transport, were taken
into dock.
The Arachne, Samuel Munden master, arrived yester-
day, and the Friendship, William Bailey master, from
Galipoli, to-day, at the Motherbank, laden with oil, bound
to Cronstadt and St. Petersburgh. They have been ad-
mitted to pratique, and will sail as supplied with some sails
and provisions.
The Duke of Argyll, Briton, for Madras, and Duke of
Buceletsch; Martin, for Bengal, sailed this morning ; the
Lady Flora, for Madras, and Triumph, for Bombay, are
hourly expected here from the River to embark passengers.
The Sampson, New York packet, from London, hove to
off St. Helen's, this evening ; her passengers went out to bar
in Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon's vessel, and she proceeded
.on without anchoring.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.-Mr. W. P. Cro-
zier, Mate, of the Royal George, Mr. C. R. Bamber, late
of the Edinburgh, and Mr. Rowley (son of Sir Charles
Rowley) are promoted to the rank of Lieutenant ; the lat-
ter gentleman has not yet passed his mathematical exami-
nation to qualify him for the rank ; Commander Walter
Croker, Mr. Henry Williams, Surgeon, and Mr. Edward
Davies, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Favourite ; Lieut. R. F.
King to the Minden ; Lieut. Lord Henry Russell, Messrs.
A. Cumming, H. Winthrop, J. B. Dickson, C. H. Hallett,
Edward M. Mathews, Henry Bainbridge, William Moor-
som (from Excellent), and Charles J. Hoffmeister, Mates,
Lord Wm. Compton and the Hon. Frederick Kerr, Mid-
shipmen, and Mr. A. W. Lane, Naval Instructor, to the
Melville ; J. A. Smith, Esq., late Secretary to Sir P. Hal.
kett, to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral Hon. George El-
liot ; Commander Thomas Ogle, Lieutenants Joseph Gill,
Henry Lawrence, H. J. W. S. P. Galway. and William
Barrie, Mr. William Guthrie, Surgeon, Messrs. George
Sloan and George Ball, Assistant-Surgeons, Mr. Robert
Beecraft, Acting Master and Pilot, and Mr. Wm. Hervey,
Second Master and Pilot, to the President ; Lieutenant
Charles de Courcy Ross, to be Flag Lieutenant to Rear-
Admiral Ross; Lieut. Hon. F. Hit:tings, to the Hercules ;
Mr. B. Drury, Mate, to the Alligator, Mr. F. H. Stevens,
Mate to the Hyacinth ; Mr. Aurelius Paget, Midshipman,
from the Pique to the Pearl ; Lieut. H. M. Ellicomba to
the Pique, vice Lieutenant E. Ommanney, appointed Flag
Lieutenant to Sir John Ommanney ; Mr. Vm. Fisher,
Midshipman, from the Pearl to the Pique ; Mr. Robert
Hall, Midshipman, from the Donegal to the Castor ; Lieut.
Decourdeaux, to a steam-packet to be employed between
Falmouth and Gibraltar ; Mr. John Gordon, Assistant-Sur-
geon to the Lapwing packet ; Mr. H. G. R. Page, Assis-
tant-Surgeon, to the Donegal ; Mr. James Allan, Addi-
tional Assistant-Surgeon, to the Britannia.

Friday morning, a ruffianly athletic looking fel-
low, attired as a countryman, was proceeding through
Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, in a state of intoxication,
when several boys followed and hooted after him. The
fellow, in a fit of excitement, turned round and pursued
some of them, and at length he seized on a poor little boy,
about seven years of age, and lifting him up over his head with
all his strength, dashed him on the ground, which rendered
him insensible, and he bled profusely. The passengers who
witnessed the brutal transaction with indignation cried out
Shame ! horrid !" and remonstrated with the ruffian, who
threatened to serve them in the same manner, which he would
have done had they not kept at a distance. Some humane
persons, however, followed and watched him until they met
with a policeman, to whom they gave him into cuitody, when
he was taken to the station-house, and ultimately before a
Magistrate. He gave his name Edward Sheppard. The
boy was carried to a surgeon's, and is in a weakly condiL
tion. The prisoner was ordered to find good bail, and the
parties who gave him into custody were highly complimented
for their interference in brin;ing the wretch to justice.
FRENCH CARD.—" To the Great Restorator
Re-
establisher, Before the Mint House.—There is Every Thing
To eat, and To be had it ready at any Thime in .The day,
With neatness, and delicacy. Parlours, and several rooms,
size disposed, for a Large, and Private societys, nothing will
be neglected for the best attendance.—N.B. Some furnish
rooms for tte foreigners and a Proper place, for their horses
they are prepared accordingly."

During Saturday Smithfield-market and its neigh-
bourhood were rife with bustling intimations of the cele-
brated Bartholomew Fair, which was opened this day.
Show.aen's booths have been erected bedizzened with
the gaudiest decorations, and bearing the most attractive
titles, while in the windows of several houses placards are
exhibited, each of them presenting the seductive announce-
ment, " A ball will be held here during the continuance of
the • fair—admission 6d. a head." What an irresistible
temptation—pleasure and economy combined.
During the present year, to the 14th Qf August
inclusive, 700 vessels have entered the harbour of Cron-
stadt, and 490 have sailed thence. 'Fill the 30th of July
inclusive 465 vessels had entered the harbour of Odessa,
and 400 had sailed thence.—Journal de St. Petersburg.

" I wonder what these ghosts of mail-coaches carry
in their bags," said the landlord, who had listened to the
whole story with profound attention. " The dead letters,
of course," said the bagman. " Oh, ah—to be sure" re-
joined the landlord ;" I never thought of that."—P; sthu-
711011S Papers of Me Pickwick Club.
The Provisional Committee appointed to distribute
the money raised by public benevolence among the die-
tressed class of the Spitalfields Weavers, have closed their
accounts ; from which we learn, that the bull given at the
Opera-house on the Ist of Juue produced 3001., and the
cash received by general subscription 2,7051. 6s. ; the total
amount being 3,005/. Gs. The whole sure has been ex-
pended with the exception of a balance of 9/. 9s. Od.,
which remains at present in the hands of tha Committee,
The forty-fiist, anniversary of the Royal Sea-bathing
Infirmary, Westbrook, near Margate, was held at Margate,
on Muuday. The annual sermons in its behalf were de-
livered on the preceding day in the principal churches and
chapels in the isle of Thanet, when liberal collections were
made in aid of its funds. On the 28th the annual visita-
tion of the infirmary took place by the committee, medical
boards of London and Marvte, and a numerous body l
governors, subscribers, and visitors of the isle of Thanet
o,
the Right lion, the Lord N,lycir in the chair, whor
come fi ant London eX111"0lyfoorie order,impos-
siblethepurposcole.anilitneisss:an.:
to speelc too higely of
economy which pervade eve.? part of this noble establish-
ment, and the admirable adaptation of the whole to the
various classes of patients ofie:l'e .lry age who ;Are admitted
within its hospitable walls.
en-
tertainment w u
as uiven eyening a splendid
deney of the Lord Mayor{ to a
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gr eesni
tielPol th4R 10911 assembled on this ocOasiou•