The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
Ponesmoul u, Nov. 25.—The Harrier, 18, Commander Ca-
rew, arrived at ValparLiso 13th Aueust, with 100,000 dollars,
which .he transhipped to the Actaeon, 28, for passage to England.
The Wanderer, 16, Commander Busby. arrived at Quebec
on the 20th of October, and having landed 100,000 dollars for
the use of the Commissariat Department sailed again on the
22d for the 'West India station.
The French sloop-of-war La Perouse, Captain Tournoir,
for the Havannah, and the Snake, 16, Commander Milne, for
a cruise, left Jamaica on the 13th of October; her Majesty's
brig Harry, Hon. Lieut. Clements, has left Barbadoes for
Sierra Leone ; the Gannet, 18, is ordered home from the West
Indies, to be paid off.
The Belvidere, 46, Captain Strong, was paid off on Mon-
day. The officers entertained their gallant Captain in the
evening at the George Hotel, in Guy's best style, and parted
every one with respectful and friendly feelings towards his late
shipmates and superiors.
The Messenger steam transport, arrived on Tuesday from
Guernsey and Jersey, with detachments of the 60th and 70:h
Regiments, the latter to be embarked in the William Miles
freight ship, for Trinidad.
On the day the Belvidera was paid off Captain Strong, the
officers, and ship's company contributed 71. Os. 6d. to the
schools for the children of seamen, marines, fishermen, and
watermen, Bath-square, Portsmouth, and Ordnance-row,
Portsea. The Marine party of the ship on receiving their
wages at the Pay office, on Tuesday, immediately contributed
31. towards the same benevolent object.
In the Harbour—The Britannia, Victory, Melville, Ex-
cellent, President, Royal George, Tyne, Electra, Wasp,
Thunder, Pantaloon, Partridge, and Messenger steamer.
At Spithead—The Hyacinth.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. G. L. Adams,
Mate of the Harrier, is promoted to the yank of Lieutenant ;
Lieutenant Tennyson D'Eyncourt, late Flag-Lieutenant to
Sir Robert Otway, to the Calliope ; Mr. John George Harri-
son, Surgeon, and Mr. Bailey, Midshipman, to the Thunder ;
Messrs. J. J. Dornford, J. B. Keast, and Lambert, to the
Tyne ; Mr. H. L. P. Parson, Extra Mate, to the Electra ;
Messrs. G. R. Wolege and M. Falcon, Mates, to the Presi.,
dent ; Mr. Russell, Patey, Midshipman, to the Sparrowhawk ;
Mr. Roger Curtis, Mate, to the Samarang ; Mr. C. Shipley,
Volunteer of the First Class, to the Conway ; Mr. Thomas
Dyke Acland Fortescue, Volunteer of the First Class, to the
Hyacin►h, to join the Wellesley; Mr. A. Murray, to be As-
sistant Surgeon at Haslar Hospital.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 25—On Saturday last, her Majesty's
brig Briesis, arrived at Falmouth from the West Indies, having
sailed from St. Thomas's on the 21st of October. She brings
on freight 170,000 dollars. The Echo, steamer, with the
mails from Jamaica, arrived at St. Thomas's on the 20th,
having left Port Royal on the 14th. The accounts by this
packet state that the crops throughout the islands had every
appearance of being abundant, and were considered in a more
forward state than could have been expected after the hurri-
canes. _ _

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Columbia, Lieutenant Otway,
arrived on Saturday from Woolwich, with Lieutenant-Colonel
Parke and a party of marines, and came into harbour to take in
a supply of coals. She sailed on Sunday for the north coast
of Spain.
The brig Rolla, 10, Lieutenant Glasse, was paid off into
ordinary on Saturday last, and her Nlajesty's ship Racehorse,
18, was commissioned the same day by Commander Henry
William Crawford.
The Hamoaze lighter, sailed on Friday with stores for
Pembroke.
The Scorpion, 10, Lieutenant C. Gayton, on leaving the
harbour of Carthagena, on the 26th of October, ran foul of
the Neapolitan brig Asia in quarantine, and did her some
slight damage.
The Winchester, 52, Captain Sparshott, with the flag of
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Thomas Capel, K. C. 8., and the
Conway, 28, Captain Drinkwater, were at Calcutta on the
19th of July i • the former ship was loaded with specie for
Madras, and thence would take specie to another settlement.
The Conway had gone to Rangoon, and Wolf, 16, to the
Mauritius; Rattlesnake, 28, and Victor, 16, were at New
South Wales; Raleigh, 16, and Zebra, 16, at Trincomalee.
Mr. Alexander Kent, Purser, Secretary to the Hon. Sir
Thomas Capel, in the East Indies, is appointed pro ternpore,
to the situation of Naval Storekeeper at Trincomalee, vice
Curgenven, deceased.
The Minden, 74, Captain Sharpe, arrived at Gibraltar, on
her way to Malta, on the 29th ult. ; the Orestes, 18, ar-
r

ved there on the 26th ult. ; and the /Etna, surveying ship,
Capt. Vidal, arrived there from Teneriffe, on the 30th ult.
The Champion, 18, Commander King, left Halifax for Ber-
muda, on the 21st ult.

The Itnogene, 28, arrived at Valparaiso from Rio Janeiro,
on the 14th July ; Inconstant, 36, arrived at Lisbon on the 3d
instant; the Scout, 18, arrived atAscension on the 15th Sept.;
the Beagle, surveying ship, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope
on the 21st September.
The Cornwallis, 74, sailed from Halifax on the 14th Oct.
but put back in consequence of a foul wind on the 15th, being
laden with timber for Bermuda Dock-yard. She sailed
again, however, on the 12th with the Sappho and Wanderer
sloops of war.
The Wanderer, 16, arrived at Quebec the 22d October,
from Halifax, with 103,000 dollars in specie on board, for the
commissariat department, and returned again early on the
morning of the 24th.
In Ilarbour.-11,)yal Adelaide, San Josef, Racehorse.
In Barnpool.— Alligator.
In the Sound.—Pique.