The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the United Service Gazette.)
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Brace, K.C.8., is to be ap-

pointed to the command of the squadron at Lisbon and the
coast of Portugal, and will hoist his flag in the Donegal, 71,
at Plymouth. Captain F. Brace and Commander Samuel
Pritchard will join him.
Rear-Admiral Sir Fred. L. Maitland, K.C.B , is to he.
appointed to the command of the East India squadron, and
will hoist his flag in the Wellesley, 74, at Plymouth. Cal.-
tain Thomas Maitland, Commander Kingcome, and Lieut.
Jerniugham, from the Excellent, will join her.
Rear-Admiral C. B. Ross, C. 8., is expected to succeed
Vice-Admiral Sir G. E. Hammond in command of the
squadron on the South American station, and go out in
the President, 52, having Captain James Scott as her corn-
wander.
The President is in dock at Portsmouth, ordered to be
fitted as a flag-ship, and will be taken out in a fortnight.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 24.—The Talbot, 28, Captain Pen-

nell, arrived on Monday from Rio de Janeiro, which por
she left on the 17th of April, with 400,000 dollars on board.
The Dublin, 52, Captain Tait, with Admiral Sir G. Ha-
mond's flag on board, the Stag, 46, Commodore Sullivan,
and Semarang, 28, Captain Broughton, were at Rio ; the
Imogene, 28, was at Pernambuco ; the Fly, 18, at the
River Plate, to which station the Semarang was to be sent,
and the Fly would then proceed to the Falkland Islands.
The Cleopatra, 28, and Harrier, 18, had been sent round
the Horn into the Pacific. The Blonde, 46, Commodore
Mason, was at Valparaiso on the 12th of March, but would
proceed m a few days ago again to Callao, where the Ac-
taeon, 28, was waiting her arrival. Politics in the South
American Republics remained pretty much the same as
they have been for some years. The Chilians and Peru-,
vians were still at war ; the former, having a navy, was em-'
ployed in blockading the ports of the latter, but which
neither English, Americans, nor French respected, and'
their merchantmen passed in and out of the blockaded'
ports with perfect impunity. The Chilians indeed hadj
marked out a camp for 3,000 men to be assembled near;
Valparaiso for embarkation, to be landed on various parts I
of the Peruvian coast, but it was believed the troops would
never be collected together, and the expense of maintainine I
the navy on one side, and the inconvenience of suffering
under the blockade on the other, would, it was thought, in-
duce the belligerents speedily to come to a peaceable under-1
standing. Captain Smart, who was recently promoted, came
homy in the Talbot, which ship on Wednesday proceeded
!o Plymouth to be paid off.
Lieut. Huntley,late of the Lynx, arrived yesterday in the
William Mills, from the coast of Africa, being charged with
despatches from Commander Craigie, the senior officer oil
the coast, and sent home at the request of the merchants!!
and masters of merchant ships trading in the Bonny River,
with the account of a new treaty of trade and commerce;
entered into by Captain Craigie, of her Majesty's ship.
Scout, with the new King (Pepple). The usurpation o`l
Anna Pepple, who was a slave of the late King (and whose"!
ferocious conduct had excited considerable alarm in the
minds of several traders), had been put an end to, and the
present treaty was considered highly advantageous to Bri-
tish commerce. There were sixteen British ships in the,-'
Bonny on the 16th of April last. Her Majesty's brig Dol-
phin had captured the Dolons, Spanish slaver, with 300,
slaves on board.

The Cornwallis, 74, with the flag of the Hon. Sir C.
Paget, arrived at Madeira on the Ist of June, and was to
sail on the 2d for Bermuda, and thence to Halifax, to re-
lieve the Melville. The Comus arrived from Lisbon on,
the 21st of May, and sailed the next day for Barbadoes and'
Jamaica. The Don Pedro and a frigate, having on board 11
Governor and troops for Goa and Mozambique, arrived at'
Madeira from Lisbon on the same day as the Cornwalli,i
and were to proceed in a few days, touching at Cape de
Verds. Her Majesty's ship Pearl left Madeira for Lisbon'
on the 2d of June, where she arrived on the 12th.
The Donegal, 78, will be commissioned to-day at Ply 2
mouth, by Commander S. Pritchard, for the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir Edward Brace, K.C.8., who is to command in
the Tagus. Captain Francis Brace, with Lieutenants
James V. Baker, Bainbridge, Frederick Cannon, and James
Augustus Mends ; Mr. J. N. Sewell, Purser ; Mr. Mills,
Master ; and Mr. G. 11. Harper, Second Master, are ap-
pointed to her.
The Wellesley, 74, is commissioned at Plymouth, for thei
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Len is Maitland, K.C.8.,
who is to assume the command in the East Indies. The!
following officers arc appointed to her :—Captain Thomas
Maitland, Commander G. Kingcome, Mr. James Spreut,
Master, Messrs. Alexander Kibroy and R. D. Pritchard,
Assistant-Surgeons ; Mr. Charles Parker, Second Master
of the Portsmouth yacht ; Messrs. Edward W. Vansittart,
and the lion. Robert Boyle, Midshipmen ; and Mr. Alex.
C. Birtwhistle, College Volunteer.
Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G. C. 8., will
arrive here on Tuesday, re-hoistbis flag on board the Prin.,
cess Charlotte, and sail on Friday, to assume the command'
in the Mediterranean.

The Pique, 36, Hon. Captain Rous, will go out of har
bour on Tuesday.
The Seringapatam, 46, Captain Leith, has received her
orders to proceed to the West Indies ; she takes the Rom-
ney, 50, under her charge, which ship goes out of harbour'
on Monday, and both will get away on Tuesday.
Report asserts that the Edinburgh, 74, will be commis-
sioned in this harbour.

A party of Marines, to consist exclusively of mechanics
and artificers, has been selected at this Division for service'
at the Island of Ascension, which situation is selected as
the head-quarters of the future Commander-in-Chief of the
South Atlantic station, including the Cape of Good Hope,
Brazils, and Coast of Africa. One of their first duties will
be to erect a house for the Admiral.

APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. It. Philips, to the Sparrow.
hawk; Mr. Edward Leach, surgeon, to the Blonde ; Mr.
John Houston, surgeon, to the Talbot ; Mr. A. Scott, as-
sistant surgeon, and Mr. H. N. Baker, mate, to the Bri-
tannia ; Mr. John Kellock, acting master, to the Cocka-
trice ; Mr. R. M. Floud, mate, to the Hazard ; Mr. E.'
Couch, clerk's assistant, to the Russell ; Mr. Benjamin)
Bull, boatswain, to the Samarang. Lieut. John Chambers,
R.N., is placed on the reserved half-pay list.
One of the first acts of our gracious Queen was to sign
an order in Council, containing a plan by which the old and
inefficient officers of the Royal Marina corps are to be
placed on a retired list, and their duties transferred to
younger and more active men, who will be necessarily pro-I
motet! thereby.
The crew of the Revenge, 78, on beinz, paid off on Sa-I

turday last, evinced a noble feelinm of kindness towards
brother tar, of the name of Wm."Collingwood, who mor
than live years ago was compelled to serve in the navy lot
that term, having been convicted in an act of smuggling
Collingwood has faithfully served in several ships, and fin
nearly all the time as a petty officer, yet being by the rules
of the service allowed only half pay we, believe as a lands-
man, he was found when he presented himself to the par.
table, to be in debt in the purser about thirty-one shillings,
on hearing of which his mess-mates and ship-mates made
up a purse for him of IN., in token of their approbation 0!
his many good qualities. He has told us the talc, and
told us to express hi: thanks thus publicly for the kind-
ness of the Revenge's crew.
The ship's company of the Revenge, on that ship's be-
ing paid off, subscribed 61. 7s. in aid of the funds of the
Seamen's Hospital ship Dreadnought.
PLY mouTn, JUNE 22.—The Beagle, 10, Commander
J. C. Wickham, arrived here on Tuesday from Ports-
mouth. She will proceed in a few days for New South'
Wales. The Thisbe, .16, has been taken into dock this
' week to be inspected. It is expected the Ringdove, 16,
Commander Nixon, will sail for the West Indies in a day
or two.

TILE ELECTIONS.—AIready the Tories, with all
the help of a Tory purse and excellent organization, are begin-
ing to influence the elections. Reformers ought to be equally
alert. There is no time to throw away, and the Reformers
srw.ild everywhereßeform at once imitate the City of London, and
Ciubs, the means of returning Reformer,
organize,
to Parliament.
GREECE As IT ice.—Next in interest to the en-
quiry as to what Greece was, is ;,:hat which seeks to learn what
she now is. And this latter most in;:resting,
and in many
points of view, important question, is on the we of being amply
and satisfactorily replied to, in the shape of a wt;-k, from the
pen of Mr. George Cochrane, late of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge; a gentleman who has just returned from a residence of
several years in Athens and its vicinity—tbe whole of which
period he has devoted to enquiries, observations, and investi-
gations, having for their object that impartial estimate of the
actual condition and prospects of Greece, which he is now
about to give to the world.
CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S " SNARLEY Yow."—,
This new work promises to become a great favourite. The
Athenmun justly observes, that " There is no novelist his
time who has given a more varied interest to his production!.
His conceptions are vigorous and clear—his narrative is rapid
and dashing. He has seen much and marked well, and he
calls less upon his imagination than his memory for his details
of character. He is also blessed with a strong sense of the
humorous, and lie seldom undertakes to raise a smile, that he
does not succeed in raising a horse-laugh. There is no sickly
sentimentality in his pages, and we arc induced to think that
it is to this healthy constitution of his mind, as much as to his,
fertility and graphic power, that he owes a favourhism, which,
has placed him at the head of the sea novelists.
THE WAR I N SPAIN.—The Memoirs of Colonel
Charles Shaw, who has so eminently distinguished himself
during the last seven years in Portugal as well as Spain, are
to appear in the course of the week. The period for th;gb-,
lication is well chosen. The account of the war • •
being brought down to the dissolution of the Britisk . •
on the 10th of the present month. The memoirsiw.r
prise, we understand, an immense body of corms,
the most interesting nature.

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