The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-20 00:00:00

N AVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Llamphire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTN, Maim' 18.—The Imogene, 28, was at
'?t-mte Video on Dee. 10.
'flu Snake, id, Corn. Milne, remains at Spithcad,
waiting her orders for the West Indies. Llettt. Paget takes
passage in her to rcsurm., the commaud of the Magnificent.
The North Star, 28, was paid advance of wages on Monday,
and proceeded to Falmouth, fur the north coast of Spain.
The Mangles, convict ship, Captain Carr, is at Spithead,
destined for Van Diemen's Land, with upwards of 300 con-
victs, which have been taken out of the hulks in this harbour.
The escort consists of Major Nunn and two other officers of
the 80th Regiment, with the colours of the corps, and 32 pri-
vates. She will sail in about a week. . .

The Marquis of Hunt!ey transport errived this evening ; she
will take on board detachments of the Rifle Corps, 47th, 59th,
a.id 63th Regiments, from this garrison for the Mediterranean.
At Spithead.—The Sdake, 46, and Diligence transport,
:Tith the Elphinstone. from Hobart Toa n ; Hero, from the
Black Sea : Iberia, from South " America ; and La Flora de
Lisbon. all wind bound, for London.
In Harbour.—Britannia, Victory, Princess Charlotte, Ex-
cellent, Royal George, Pelorus, Sparrow, Diligence, navy
transport.
Promotions and Appointments.—Mr. Richard Hayes, and
Mr. John Pead, clerks, are promoted to the rank of purser;
Mr. M. Thompson, Surgeon, to the Sappho ; Mr. David
Craigie, Second Master, and Mr. W. Bone, Clerk-in-charge,
to the Viper ; Mr. R. M'Crae, Assistant- Surgeon, to the
Scorpion; Mr. George Parsons, Master, to the Asia; Mr.
E. J. Burslem, Mate to the Dolphin ; Mr. J. A. Paynton,
Mate, to the Excellent; Mr. H. Maxwell,_Mate, to the Spar-
row ; Mr. Frederick George Ligh, Col. Mate, to North Star ;
Mr. Joseph Stevenson, Surgeon, W. Powell, Boatswain, and
William Scdden, Carpenter, to the Larne ; Corn. Edward
Boys (a) (1834) to be Agent of Packets at Dover, vice Hart,
superannuated ; Capt. James Lillicrap and George Sayer, and
Licuts. Charles Knighton and Amos Plymsell, to the Out
Pension 'of Greenwich.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 16.—Sailed on Saturday last the
Scylla, 18, Hon. Corn. Denman, for the coast of Spain ; as
soon as she arrives there the Ringdovc, 16, wiil return to Eng-
land, and, it is said, will be paid off at this port. The Flamer
steamer, Lieut. Potbury, arrived on Monday from Woolwich,
and the Comet steamer, Lieut. Gordon, sailed fJr Woolwich
OR Tuesday, to refit. The Trinculo, 16, Corn. E. Coffin,
dropped into the Sound on Wednesday. The Viper schooner,
6, was paid off on Thursday, and will be recommissioned to•
morrow.

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William Pitt, a private of the 4th Regiment of Light Dra-
goons, was tried by a Court Martial on Tuesday last for dis-
charging his carbine at Sergeants Honey and Perceval, in one
of the barrack rooms at Exeter, on Friday last. The sentence
will not be promulgated until the minutes of the Court have
been laid before the King._
( From the Devonport Independent.)
The Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, sail this day for
Lisbon.
The Trinculo, 16, Commander Coffin, went out of Harbour
on Tuesday. She will be paid advance of wages and sail for
Gibraltar this day. H. M. S. Sappho, 16, Commander Fraser,
was warped from the Jetty alongside the sheer-hulk to have her
masts put on board, on Tuesday.
The Vestal, 28, Captain Jones, will not return from the
West Indies as soon as expected, as three of her officers take
passage to join her in the Snake.
The steamer, Echo, in charge of Lieutenant W. James,
having Commander Edward Belcher, appointed to the Sul-
phur, surveying vessel, arrived at Barbadoes, from Lisbon,
all well, on the 10th of January, after a very boisterous passage.
The Revenge, 78, Captain William Elliott, may be ex-
pected in England from the Mediterranean, to be paid off,
about the middle of April. The Talavera, 74, Captain W.B.
Mends, is destined to supply her place in the squadron.
The Messenger steamer, on Tuesday, removed a detachment
of six officers and 200 Dutch troops, from the Dutch private
ship, President Sehlmmolpeninek, repairing in Catwater, to
the Genoa hulk, in Hamoaze.
Ships in Harbour—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Cornwallis,
Comus, Scorpion, Sappho, Viper, Messenger, Flamer, Firefly,
Lightning steam-vessel.
In the Sound—lnconstant Trinculo.
It is reported that Captain Plumbridge, R.N., is appointed
to succeed Captain Clavell as Superintendent of the packet
Establishment at Falmouth.
We are happy to find that the Admiralty have again the case
of the Senior Clerks in the Navy into their consideration, by
promoting Mr. John Poad, who we are informed entered the
Navy in 1809, passed his examination for a Purser in 1814,
and has actually served upwards of 27 years. We only hope
that Mr. Poad's late colleague will be the next, having en-
tered the Navy before M. Poad, and passed for Purser prior
to him.
The Carysfort, 26, Capt. Martin, sailed on Sunday last for
Malta, taking despatches for Sir Josias Rowley, Bart., and
supernumeraries for the squadron. She will touch at Lisbon
Gibraltar, where she will land Capt. Sheriff, R.N., harbour
master at the latter place. Lieut. J. Fraser, Royal Marines,
also went passenger to join the Asia, 84, vice Noble, dismissed
by the sentence of a court-martial. The Carysfort is destined
to relieve the Volage, 28, which has been nearly four years
its commission.

On Friday, a pensioner, who had lost one arm,
named Marshall, happening to be in a public-house with a
man named Stainton, who had a long time since kicked him,
he began to reproach him with the circumstance. Stainton
said he was sorry for having kicked him, and hated to hear it
always brought up, after he had so many times declared his
regret at having done so ; he then offered Marshall ss. never
again to mention the matter. The pensioner refused to take
the money, but said be would shake hands if Stainton would
give a pot of ale, which was immediately complied with.
After the ale was drank, and Stainton was leaving the house,
Marshall followed him, reproaching him bitterly with cowar-
dice in kicking him, and used such provoking expressions that
Stainton, who was not quite sober, turned upon and knocked
him over a wheelbarrow. Marshall fell on his head and almost
immediately expired. At the inquest a verdict of Manslaughter
was returned against Stainton.—Lincoln Gazette.
A young woman, named Rebecca Walker, whose
parents reside at Crossland, died on Friday last, after remain-
ing in a state of asphyxia for nine weeks. She became insen-
sible and apparently dead, and it was only on the closest in-
spection it could be perceived that she breathed. During this
time nothing was administered to her but a spoonful of water
occasionally. Before her death she became a complete ske-
leton. On a post mortem examination her heart was found to
be of the size of a chicken's.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
On Monday afternoon, the peaceful inhabitants of
the village of Thames Ditton were thrown into the utmost
distress by the following melancholy accident :—Two young
men, who had almost from their infancy been engaged
in the same pursuit, were employed in obtaining gravel from
the bed of the river Thames, nearly opposite the beautiful scat
of Sir Edward Sugden, the boat in which they were at work
suddenly sunk, and the poor men with it, alas I to rise no more.
They have each left a wife, the eldest four, and the other
three small children, to deplore their untimely death. Their
names are Thomas and William Wheeler, sons of a very old
and respected native of the above village.
About 7 o'clock on Sunday last a showily dressed
young man, evidently intoxicated, rolled into a barber's shop
in John-street, City-road, and, throwing himself into the ens.
tomer's chair, desired that he might be shaved. While this
was going on lie fell fast asleep, and the barber having
finished the shaving, considered that he might cut the young
gentleman's hair, the luxuriant curls of which were speedily
reduced to a very short crop, and having used every endeavour
to awaken the young man, who was labouring under the effects
of good liquor for the purpose of obtaining payment, without
effort, the barber thought it prudent to call in a policeman,
and he was ultimately taken to the station house, and yester-
day morning, when restored to his sober senses, he was in-
formed of the charge made for shaving and cutting hair. " Cut-
ting hair "he roared out ; " cutting hair I" and then clasped
his head in an agony, and pulled off a wig, which presented a
want appearance, being denuded of its curls and fair propor-
tions. He now broke out into the most ludicrous lamenta-
tions, and it shortly appeared that he was a journeyman hair-
dresser at the west end of the town ; that he had made the
wig himself, and had given 6s. an ounce for the hair, in order
to cut a swell, as he called it, in the shop. The John-street
barber was sent for, and a very laughable scene took place be-
tween them. The journeyman hair-dresser's abuse was un-
measured, while the other barber declared that neither he nor
any one else could have discovered the ." gentleman's" hair
to be false. The charge ended in the journeyman hair-dres-
ser's discharge, and the John-street barber giving up his claim
for cutting and shaving, which amounted to 4d.
We regret to state that the Hussey, of Swansea,
;Liliphant, foundered in Carnarvon Bay on the 23d ult. She
sailed Ij.,;;:a Youghall on the 22d laden with corn, for Liver-
pool, and on the by a sudden squall, upset, and was seen
b
to go down by sonic trutin;oats in the bay. One of her
buoys and two or three oars, with
thereon, have been since picked up, t- name Hussey painted
which L.:ves lou of
her unfortunate fate, together with the loss of the wt., cbt
rew'
consisting of the master, three men, and a boy.— Cambrian.
The ancient custom of electing a mock Lord
Mayoi at Deptford is about to be 'revived. The custom has
been extinct for the last forty years, and was, particularly
among the lower orders, a very high holiday. The last "my
Lord" i,s now living, and has been prevailed on to enact the
same part this year ; and the gravel pits, which enjoy the
sobriquet of the " city of Deptford," will be the centre of ope-
rations. The procession, one of a very grotesque nature, pe•
rambulated the bounds of the parish, and imitated, in other
respects, with ludicrous perfection. other parochial transac-
tions. The paraphernalia to give effect to this ceremony are
in preparation, and early in June next, it is said, will take
place.
MECKLENBURG, MARCH 2.—The late Grand
Duke, notwithstanding his great age, looked very robust, and
his bodily health was excellent ; but nature appears gradually
to have refused to exercise its functions, for latterly he hardly
took any food, so that his body after death looked as if it
were dried up. It was not thought necessary to open it.
The present Grand Duke is very popular; he has hitherto
made but few changes in the public offices. What excites the
most attention here is the approaching marriage of the Prin-
cess Helen (born January, 1814) with the Duke of Orleans.
You may consider this affair as settled. The portraits have
already been exchanged, and in the summer there is to be a
personal interview at Toplitz. The princess is very sensible,
accomplished and agreeable, and may be called handsome ;
she is particularly distinguished for her fine expressive eyes,
and is in all respects extremely amiable. We most sincerely
wish her all happiness in this union, to which she is perfectly
entitled.