The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-28 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 26.—The following is an extract
of a letter from an officer of the Buzzard, dated Fernando
Po, June 3, 1837 :—" Among the recent changes on this
station are the following :—Lieut. Batt, Ist of Columbine,
to command the Dolphin, vice T. L. Roberts, deceased ;
and Mr. Stoddard, Mate, to be Acting Lieutenant of Co-
lumbine till the pleasure of the Commander-in-Chief shall
he known ; Lieutenant Birch, Ist of Scout, to Lynx, vice
Huntley, gone home with despatches ; Mr, Bailey, Super-
numerary Assistant of Thalia, to Buzzard, vice Morrison,
deceased ; Lieut. Q. L. R. Stoll to command Buzzard,
vice P. Campbell, appointed Flag Lieutenant to the Com-
mander-in-Chief. The Dolphin and Scout are very sickly ;
the former has lost her Commander, Assistant-Surgeon,
nine men, and one boy, all buried here a few Says ago.
Lieut. Roberts was universally beloved by the ships' com-
panies of the Buzzard and Dolphin, both of which vessels
he had commanded, and in both of which he was successful
in capturing slavers. Since his return, only a few months
he was in the Dolphin, and captured one corvette ship with
718, and a few days before he was taken ill, a schooner
with 352. He was interred with military honours at the
head of Lander's grave, the noted African traveller, and
the Assistant-Surgeon at the foot, and four of his people on
each side. The Scout and Dolphin both caught the fever
at Bonny River ; the former proceeded via Accra, to As-
cension ; the latter here, for medical assistance ; two bad
cases were on board her when she sailed 26th May, and
Second Lieutenant (Acland) of Scout (since dead), and
several of Scout's people were very ill when she left Accra.
The gunner had died, also the gunner of the Columbine.
The Columbine sailed on 27th May, for Bonny, to afford
any protection requirod by the merchant ships during the
present revolution in the Government there, and which has
affected the palm oil and ivory trade to such an extent that
ships are leaving half full and some with nothing at all.
Rolla sailed this morning on a cruise. Charybdis captured
a three-masted schooner a short time back with 487 slaves
on board. The Pelican is hourly expected to assume the
senior officer's place in the Bights. The Lynx is at the
Cape ; the Curlew at Sierra Leone and Gambia : the Buz-
zard will still remain in this neighbourhood, so soon as she
has finished caulking and re-coppering, for which purpose
she is now here, th copper being in so bad a state as to
have been hanging off in sheets for a long time back."
The Pembroke, 74, Capt. Moresby, was to proceed yes-
terday from Plymouth for the Mediterranean, calling at
Lisbon with supplies for the squadron there. The Her-
cules, 74, Capt. J. Toup Nicholas, with the service orders,
will leave Spithead in a few days ; one of these ships, how-
ever, will, it is expected, relieve the Malabar, 74, Captain
Sir W. Montagu, which ship will be paid off on her return
to England.
The Cornwallis, 74, was at Halifax on the 25th July ;
Champion, 18, at Quebec, July 13 ; Harrier, at Coquimbo,
April 25 ; Lightning steamer, at Elsincur, on her way to
Stockholm, 15th inst. ; Firebrand steamer, at Antwerp,
16th inst., to bring the King and Queen of Belgium to Eng-
land ; Andromache, 28, left Singapore for Acheen on the
3d March ; and the Imogene, 28, left Rio Janeiro for the
Pacific, May 28th.
The Barham,s2, Captain Corry, was at Gibraltar on the
16th instant, and would return to Valencia as soon as re-
provisioned. The Volcano steam-packet, Lieut. M'llwaine,
left Gibraltar for Malta on the 11th inst. The Governor
of Gibraltar has issued a notice that he has received orders
to erect a light-house on European Point, for the safety of
navietors approaching the Bay of Gibraltar.
The Melville, 74, Captain Douglas, will be paid off on
Monday, and re-commissioned by Captain the Hon. Ri-
chard Saunders Dundas, for the flag of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. George Elliott, who succeeds Admiral Campbell in
command at the Cape.
The Arab transport is fitting for the Meditterranean ;
and the Prince Regent and Parmelia transports for six
months' service.
The Pique, 36, Capt. Boxer, is destined for the Mediter-
ranean station.
The Edinburgh, Alligator, and Hyacinth are fitting in
the Basin. The Tyne will be masted next week.
At Spithead—Caledonia, Hercules, Isabella Spanish
steamer, True Briton, for Madras, and Berkshire, for
Bombay.

In HARBOUR—Britannia, Victory, Melville, Edinburgh,
Excellent, Royal George, Pique, Alligator, Hyacinth,
Pearl, Prince Regent, Parmelia, and Arab, transports, Mes-
senger steamer, and Raven cutter.

In consequence of the health of Rear-Admiral Sir Ed-
ward Brace not allowing him to assume the arduous com•
mand of the British Naval force in the Tagus he has ten-
dered his resignation to Lord Minto, and his Lordship has
promptly named as his successor Rear-Admiral Sir John
Ackworth Ommaney, recently a candidate for the represen-
tation of the southern part of this county. Sir John will
hoist his flag in the Donegal, 78, at Plymouth ; Captain
Drake will be his flag Captain ; the other officers of that
ship will remain in her.

APPOINTMENTS.—Capt. the Hon. Richard S. Dundas
and Com. W. David Puget, to the Melville, to which ship
the following officers are re-appointed :—Lieuts. T. K. Sul-

livan, R. Harris, and 11. Schomberg ; Mr. John Macdo-
nald, master ; Mr. Isaac Nott, surgeon ; Mr. E. O'Maley,
purser ; Mr. George Doak, Assistant-Surgeon ; Mr. James
Jeffrey, second master ; and Mr. John Bedun, gunner, Cap-
tain Sir W. Elliot, C. 8., to the Royal Adelaide, vice
Sykes ; Lieutenant Woodford J. Williams, from the Her-
cules, vice Broadhead ; Mr. C. F. Gorton, mate ; Mr. J.
M. Deas, Assistant-Surgeon, vice Chambers ; and Mr. T.
Turner, additional clerk to the Pique ; Lieut. R. H. Ban-
bury, from the Minden, to be Flag Lieutenant to the Hon.
Admiral Bouverie ; Lieut. W. E. Triscott to the Pem-
broke ; Lieut. James Hogg and Mr. T. S. Copinger, mate,
to the African steamer ; Mr. George Walker, mate, to
the Edinburgh ; Lieut. Thomas Edwards, and Mr: G. C.
Fowler, extra College mate, to the Alligator ; Mr. G.
Heathcote, mate, and Mr. J. Allen, additional Assistant-
Surgeon to the Britannia ; Mr. James 0. Macwilliams,
Surgeon to the Scout ; Mr. H. G. R. Page, Assistant-
Surgeon of the Melville to the Donegal ; Lieut. G. Mac-
adam to the Hercules ; Mr. Thomas R. 11. Thomson, hos-
pital mate to the Haslar ; Mr. W. Comben, additional
acting master, to the Victoria for the Fearless, Mr. John
Blackmore, mate, from the Minden to the Edinburgh ; Mr.
F. W. Paul, late second master of the Talbot, to the Red-
wing steamer, at Liverpool ; Mr. Richard Singer, assistant-
cletk 9f the Pylades to be clerk of that ship.
RdirAL MARINES.—First Lieut. D. A. Doratt to the
Minden ; First Lieut. Wm. Lee to the Pembroke ; Lieut.
C. C. Zioare, of the Plymouth division, has been allowed to
excharikit with Lieut. Hamilton Fleming, of the Portsmouth
division.

Lieut. F. J. White, serving in the battalion of Royal
Marines at Passages, was taken prisoner by the Carlists
on the 15th inst. ; he was on horseback, and going from
Passages to Oyarzun, when a party of Carlists surprised
him. The circumstance was seen by some women, who
conveyed information to Col. Owen at Passages, and by
his application to the civil and military Spanish authori-
ties a parley was immediately applied for, and Mr. White's
restoration as a British officer demanded. They refused
to give him up, but removed him to Tolosa, with an as-
surance of his safety until the determination of General Gui-
belada, the Carlist Chief of the Province, could be obtained.
Mr. White is the son of the Town Major of this Garrison.
A Court of Inquiry was held on board the Saracen, in
this port, on Saturday, by order of Admiral Lord Aure-
lius Beauclerk, before Captain F. Moresby and Com-
mander Aldridge, of the Pembroke, relative to the cause
of Lieut. Hill's (Commander of the Saracen) withhold-

ing the un!al certificate from Mr. D. P. Dumaresq, late
Scnior Mate of the brig. After investigating the cir-
cumstances the Court recommended Lieut. Hill to grant
the customary certificate, and on Mr. Dumaresq's quit-
ting the ship lie was greeted with three hearty cheers
from the officers and ship's company.—Plymouth Chronicle.

REGULATIONS OF THE ADMIRALTY RESPECTING THE
RANK, PAY, AND SUPERANNUATION OF ENGINEERS OF
HER MAJESTY'S STEAM-VESSELS :-
" Admiralty, August, 1837.
Engineers employed in her Majesty's steam-vessels are
to be appointed by warrant from the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, or on death vacancies on foreign stations
by the Commander-in-Chief.

RANK.—To be distributed in three classes, and to rank
next below carpenters, and with each other according to
standing on the official list
PAY AND ALLOWANCES.—First class, 91. 12s. a month,
and 6d. a day for each apprentice or engineer boy placed
under him for instruction ; second class, 61. 16s. a month ;
third class, 41. 18s. a month, when serving within the tropics
to be allowed half the amount of the pay of their respective
classes in addition, during the time the steam is up, or while
employed on repairs. They will also be entitled to extra pay
as warrant officers, according to the scale established in the
regulations of her Majesty's service at sea, when employed
to repair the defects of other steam-vessels than those
in which they are serving. When employed by order of
their Lordships in steam-vessels, or in dock-yards, the fore-
going is to be considered as their full pay- ; but when borne
on the books of the guardship of the ordinary of the diffe-
rent ports for harbour service and not so employed, engi-
neers to be paid as follows :-Ist class, 61. 6s. a month ;
2d, 41. 4s. do. ; 3d, 31. 3s.
SUPERANNUATION.—On the scale for warrant officers of
the Royal Navy, as by order in Council of the 25th Nov.,
1816. No one to be eligible for the appointment of En-
gineer until he shall have passed such examination as the
Admiralty may, from time to time, think proper to require,
before the chief engineer and inspector of steam machi-
nery, or such other officer as their Lordships may appoint
for that purpose.

. .
Four classes of apprentice or engineer boys are also to be
established in the service of her Majesty's steam-vessels at
the following rates of pay :-Ist class, 11. 14s. a month ; 2d,
/. 6s. ; 3d, 11. 3s. ; 4th, 14s. 6d.

By order of their Lordships,

To all Flag Officers, Captains, &c.

C. WOOD.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

John Callaghan, charged with embezzling various sums
of money, received by him on account of the parish of St.
Paul, Covent-garden, was brought up for final examination.
Alter evidence had been heard,
Mr. Phillips said he was prepared to prove several similar
cases against the prisoner, if the Magistrate thought it ne-
cessary.

Mr: MlNsituLL said there was no occasion to proceed
any further, as he had made up his mind to commit the pri-
soner for trial.

The prisoner's solicitor requested that he might be re-
manded to the prison from whence he came, instead of being
sent to Newgate. _

Mr. MINSHULL had no objection to that course being
adopted, and would remand the prisoner until Monday
week ; but it must he understood that he was already com-
mitted for trial, and when brought up again, would be com-
mitted in the usual way.