The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, DEC, 23. —The Inconstant, 36, Captain
P. ing, which arrived on Sunday last from Lisbon, in five days,
was ordered this morning to convey Lieutenant-Col. Aslett,
of the Royal Marines, to the north coast of Spain, to serve
in the battalion under Colonel Parke, and to bring home as
II any of the late British Legion as she can stow, landing them
ether at Cork or Plymouth ; she will sail early to-morrow
DSunday) morning. When the Inconstant left Lisbon, the
onegal, Minden, Hercules, Scylla, and Cameleon, with a
French frigate and brig, were lying in the Tagus.
The President, 52, Captain James Scott, sailed on Thurs-
day with Rear-Admiral Ross's flag, as Commander-in-Chief
the Pacific. Admiral Ross will have no jurisdiction on the
merican coast this side the Horn, it being intended to remove
Commodore Sullivan, in the Stag frigate, to Rio Janeiro, but
under whose command the Commodore is to be, is not yet

known.
The Melville was paid advance to-day, and will proceed
'with the Hon. Rear Admiral Elliot's flag, for the Cape of
Good Hope, on Wednesday ; report says she touches at Rio
Janeiro.
The Forester brigantine, Lieut. Rosenburg, left Madeira
for the Coast of Africa on the 17th ult.
The Wasp, 16, Commander the Hon. Dudley Pelham, will go
out of the basin on Tuesday.
The Fair Rosamond, on the Coast of Africa, has captured
an armed slaver : one British seamen on boarding her was
killed in defence of .the life of his officer.
In Harbour.—Britannia, Victory, lixcellent, Royal George,
Tyne, Electra, Wasp, Pantaloon, -Seaflower cutter, Messenger
steamer, and Cracker tender.
At Spithead.—Melville, Inconstant, Thunder, and Phila-
delphia, outward bound American packet.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—MCSSrS. William Henry
Johnson, William Laws, and John Mitchell, to be Pursers ;
Commander John Reeve, Lieuts. J. C. H. Tracy and C. H.
Lapidge, Mr. R. W. Miller, Acting Master, Mr. Benjamin
Dyer, Purser, Mr. Robert Gourley, Surgeon, Mr. Robert
Johnston, Assistant-Surgeon, Thomas Scott, boatswain, and
Philip Larder, carpenter, to the Lily ; Lieutenant H.
G. Goldsmith, to command the Megmra steamer ; Mr.
W. Page, Purser, to the Royal Adelaide, vice Punier ;
Mr. Thomas Woodward, Purser, to the Phoenix ; Mr.
Henry South, Purser, to the Volage.; Lieut. A. Kellet,
to command, Mr. W. Webb, Second Master and Pilot, and
Mr. J. Mountsleven, additional Clerk-in-charge, to the
Brisk ; Lieut. W. Critchell, to the Electra ; Mr. John Scott,
Second Master aid Pilot, to the Thunder ; Mr. H. L. Par-
sons, Mate of the Electra, to the Samarang ; Dr. Thomas
Shallon, additional Assistant- Surgeon, and Mr. Robert
Chamber, Additional Assistant- ,3urgeon, to the Britannia ;
Mr. Henry Le Vesconte, Mate of the Excellent, to the Cal-
liope ; Mr. Oliver J. Jones, College Mate, to the Excel-
lent ; Lieut. Owen Stanley, and Mr. J. E. Vallack, Mate, to
the Britomart ; Mr. R. White, Mate, to the Pique; Mr. J.
W. Purser, Midshipman, to the Comet steamer ; Mr. James
Beckett, Master's Assistant, to the Thunder ; Mr. .lames
Stocker, boatswain, to the Minden ; and Mr. John Griffiths,
gunner, to the Brisk.—Lieut. Bird Allen is not promoted,
aS stated in this paper of the 11th inst. ; we shall bo most
glad to say our anticipation has been realized.
Rural. MARINES.—Second Lieutenant Maxwell is promoted
to t:as rank of First Lieutenant, vice Lieut. Jaaies, placed on
half-pay. Mr. George Budges Rodney, a grandson of the
fist Lord Rodney ; Mr. J. Unities Symonds, son of Corn-
seander Symonds ; arid Mr. John Maurice Wernyss, sou of an
old m irioe office-, have received commiesioos as Second Lieu-
teaaaits of the Portsmouth
(From the Deeonpoi t Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Dac. 23.—The Malabar, 74, Captain Sir Wil-
liam Montage, Bart., K. C. H., came into harbour on Satur-
day inerning. She is dismantling, and will be ready to be paid
f, oa Saturday, the 6-h January.
The Racehorse, 1 a, Commander William Henry Crawford,
will be leady to go out of Harbour, Ist Jan.
The Lily, 16, is expected to be commissioned this day.
She :s to have a complement of 110 men. The following
Officers have been appointed—Commander John Reeve, Lieut.
J. J. C. H. Tracy. Mr. R. W. Millar, Acting Master, Mr.
Binjamin Dyer, Purser, Mr. R. Gaurly, 'Surgeon, Mr.
Robert Johnstoe, Assistant-Surgeon, Mr. Thomas Scott,
Boatswain, and Mr. Piiilio Land. r, Carpenter.
The Actaeon, 2S, Coptain Lord Ed ward Russ.ll. it is re-
pea ed, has been disinasted, arid suffered considerably in a gale
of wins:, but no lives lest.
The steamer Colombia, Lieut. Ota ay, sailed on Seturday,
for Portsinouth. The steamer Lightning arrived on Tuesday,
torn Dublin, and sailed on Wednesday, for Woolwich.
. The Swail, lighter, arrived on Wednesday, from Fair Bath.
lighter, sailed on Tuesday, with stores for
Portsmouth.
The steam-packets will in future sail, sv:th the Mails for
',taboo, from this Port, instead of Falmouth.
'The Genoa, 74, was warped from he: moorings alongside
the Jetty, on Tuesday, to be taken into dock and broken up.
Tide chip has been laying at her moorings, in Ilamoaze, ever
since_ her return from the Battle of Navarin, 20th of October,
182.7, where she suffered severely.
Lieutenants Hamilton Fleming and Phineas Priest are
ordered to join the Alligator, with 20 additional Marines.
Captain Brandreth, Royal Engineers, has been appointed
Superintendent of the works carrying on at the Pembroke
Dock-yard, vice Capt. H. J. Savage, gone on foreign service.
Penrose Charles Penrose, youngest son of Thomas Pen-
rose, Esq., R. N., Portland-square, is appointed Second Lieu-
tenant of the Royal Marines, at this Division.
In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Malabar/ Race-
horse, Comet and Lightning, steamers, and Goodwill and
Swale, lighters.
In Barnpool— Alligator, and Britomart tender.
In the Sound—Pique.