The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY.—The Madagascar, 42,
Commander, Sir J. S. Peyton, arrived, with the Galatea,
nt Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 9th of December. By the
last accounts the Melville, 74, with the flag of Sir Peter

Halkett, was at Bermuda.
The Hercules, 74, Captain Berkeley, arrived frem Ply-
mouth on Monday, and sailed on Thursday for Sheerness,
with the Royal Marines of the Thunderer on board, be-
longing to the Chatham division. She returned, however,
to Spithead, owing to strong easterly winds, and with a
large portion of her crew incapacitated from duty from the
effects of the prevailing influenza,
The Thunderer, 84 guns, Captain Wise, C. 8., will be
paid off at Plymouth on Tuesday next. The influenza has
prevailed to a great extent among her crew, or she would
have been put into ordinary some days since. Ships at
Plymouth—Royal Adelaide, Thunderer, San Josef, Corn-
wallis, Inconstant, Stag,Trinculo, Scylla, Savage, and Rhada-
manthus. The Savage was to go into the Sound yesterday ;
and the Stag frigate will-follow in the course of next week.
The Beagle surveying ship, lately returned from the
South Seas, after a surveying expedition which lasted five
years, is now fitting out at Woolwich for a voyage to Torres
Straits and the north-western coast of Australia, where she
will proceed in the course of a few weeks, under the com-
mand of Lieut. Wickham. The land expedition, consisting
of Lieutenants Gray and Lushington, of the army, and
Mr. Porrer, as surgeon and naturalist, will proceed in the
vessel to their destination—the Swan River, where they
will receive the aid of troops from Captain Stirling, the go-
vernor, to prosecute their researches in the interior.
The /Etna and Raven, surveying vessels, arrived at
Sierra Leone, from Gibraltar, on the 19th of November.
The Pearl, 20, returned to Lisbon on the 7th inst., from a
two months' cruise off Madeira. The Wasp, 18, left Ja•
maica for Carthagena, on the 23d of November ; and the
Forte, 42, for Vera Cruz, on the 30th. .Both these ves-
sels may be daily expected in England, with specie on

board.
The Griffon, Lieutenant D'Urban, sailed to-day for the

Nest Indies.

The Volcano steam-vessel, Lieutenant M'llwaine, pro.
ceeded to Falmouth on Thursday, to take out the nex.
Mediterranean mail.
The Abercrombie Robinson, Scott master, for Madras
and Calcutta, is expected at Spithcad ; she will take on
board Major-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, appointed to
the Bengal staff, and will sail about Wednesday.
A few days since the Camelion revenue cruiser, Lieut.
J. H. Helby, captured and took into Weymouth the Ed-
ward, French smuggling cutter, of 40 tons, with a crew of
"seven Frenchmen and one Englishman, and a cargo of fifty.
one tub S-of foreign spirits. The Edward is an exceedingly
fine vessel, nearly new, and sails well. During a chase of
several hours she made every exertion to escape, but she
had more than her match in the superior sailing qualities
of the Camelion, which vessel was lately built by Mr.
Thomas Inman, of Lymington.
On Wednesday last, the Ferona sloop, of 120 tons bur-
then, bound to London, ran on shore on the rocks called
Atherficld Lcdge, Isle of Wight, when, by the great exer-
tions of Lieut. Bailey, R.N., of the Coast Guard, and his
men, after carrying away one anchor, they succeeded in
getting her off, and on Thursday evening brought her
into Portsmouth harbour, without a rudder, and much
damaged.
Orders have been sent to Woolwich to prepare for em-
barkation more of the Royal Artillery for the north coast
of Spain. Lieutenants Warburton and Dickson, and 50
men, are in readiness the moment one of his Majesty's
steam-vessels arrives from the westward to convey them to
St. Sebastian.
At Spithead—Hercules.
In Harbour—Britannia, Edinburgh, Excellent, Royal
George, North Star, Sparrowhawk, Pelorus, Pantaloon,
Sea-flower, and Cracker.
List of men-of-war building at the several dock-yards :
Portsmouth Constance, 36 ; Electra, 18 ; Hazard, 16 ;
Indus, 80 ; Royal Frederick, 110 ; Royal Sovereign, 110 ;
Termagant, 10.
Plymouth—Flora, 36 ; Grecian, 16 ; Hindostan, 80
Persian, 16 ; St. George, 120 ; Sappho, 16 ; Nile, 92.
.Woolwieli—Amphion, 36 ; Boscawan, 70 ; Chichester,
52 ; Trafalgar, 120.
Sheerness—Royal George, 120 ; Calliope, 28 ; Gipsey,
cutter ; Alegcera, steam-ves.!el.
Chatham—London, 92 ; Active, 36 ; Arab,- 16 ; Ca-
lypso, 18 ; Chesapeake, 36 ; Coquette, 18 ; Cumberland,
70 ; Geliab,•Bo ; 114ceander,
Pembroke--Acorn, 16 ; Algiers, 110 ; Cambrian, 36 ;
Collingwood, 80 ; Cyclops, steam-Vessel ; Daphne, 18 ;
Gorgon, steam-vessel ; Lily, 16 ; Penguin, packet ; Pet-
ter, r, packet ; Pilot, 16 ; Sybclle, iii ; Victoria, 74.
Deptford—Worcester, 52.
APFOINTMENTS.—Rear-Admiral Sir F. L. Maitland,
K.C.8., to the command of the Tagus ; Captain Clasell,
from the superintendence of the Falmouth packets, to be
Superintendent of Chatham Dock-yard ; reported that
Rear-Admiral the Hon. D. P. Bouverie will supersede Sir
T. Briggs at Malta Dock-yard ; Captain Sir R. Grant, and
Commander Watkins, to the Cornwallis, Hon. Sir C.
13,iget's flag-ship ;- Captain Fairfax Moresby, U. 8., to the
Pembroke, vice Sir T. k'ellowes, said to be appointed to the
Vanguard ; Lieutenant G. G. Macdonald to command
the -Pantaloon ; Commander Francis Harding, Lieu-
tenant V. A. Massingbird, Mr. C. T. Thornton, Pur-
ser, and Mr. J. W. Reid, Surgeon, Mr. W. Forbes, Act-
ing Master, Mr. Carpenter, Boatswain, and W. Dove, Car-
politer, to the Pelorus, in this harbour ; Lieut. H. Lacon,
Mr. E. J. P. Pearn, Master, Mr. R. Storkcs, Second
'Vaster, and Mr. J. Connor, Gunner, to the North Star ;
Mr. C. G. Phillips, extra Mate of the Edinburgh, to the
Howe ; Lieut. J. H. Ward to the Excellent, vice Hast-
ings, promoted ; Lieut. It Jauncey to the Snake ; Mr. A.
P. Green, Midshipman, and Mr. W. M. Gill, Assistant-
Surgeon, to the Griffon ; Mr. G. Moyle, Mate, from the
Edinburgh, to the Excellent ; Mr. C. F. Stevens, Clerk,
to the Minden.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield intend quit-
ting Piretig Park this week for Chesterfield House.
MANuELLA, A TA I.> MADUID.—A story
under this title, of the most absorbing interest, and includ-
ing disclosures of a remarkable nature, relative to the
secret machinations out of which has arisen the existing
civil war in Spain, has just appeared, from the pen of an
eminent English author, who has recently returned from a
long residence in Madrid. The writer, though neither a
partisan of the Carlists nor Christinos, was placed in the
most favourable position for acquiring intelligence known
to but a few ; and as the facts thuS elicited are of a highly
romantic nature he has embodied them in a work of fiction,
which, for intense interest and singular development of cha-
racter, will yield to no production of the kind in our language.

AMERICAN Boys.—" An American of ten or
twelve years of age is as much of a young man as an
European at sixteen and when arrived at that age, he
is as useful in business, and as much to be relied on, as
a German at twenty-four, or a Frenchman at fifty. Some-
thing similar to it may also be found in England.; but,
neither climate nor education promote it to the same ex-
tent as in America. From the earliest period of his life
a young American is accustomed to rely upon himself
as the principal artificer of his fortune. Whatever he
learns or studies is with a view to future application,
and the moment he leaves school he immerses into active
life. His reputation, from the time he is able to think,
is the object of his most anxious care, as it must affect
his future standing in society, and increase the sphere
of his usefulness,"—Grund's Americans, in their Social,
,Moral, and Political Condition.
AMERICAN STEAM-BOATS, CANALS, RAIL-
ROADS, &c.—" In the year 1831, there were on the Western
waters alone, 198 steam-boats running. The number of
miles of canals in the United States completed on the Ist
January, 1835, and which would not long after be com-
pleted, is estimated at 2,864, and their coast at 12,214,6201.
sterling. The extent of railroads was nearly 700 miles,
without including any of the large projected schemes for
extending them to the west, and connecting the southern
states with those of the east and north. These, however,
have already been partially carried into execution ; and it is
expected that in less than 20 years a traveller in the United
States will be able to traverse the country from the western
extremity to the shores of the Atlantic, and from the borders
of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, without being once obliged
to slacken his speed, or to exchange a locomotive car or a
steam-boat for the less expeditious mode of a carriage drawn
by horses."—Giund's Americans, in their Social, Moral,
and Political Condition.

Williams, the convict, who is now in Chester
Castle, under sentence of transportation for life, for strip-
ping and ill-using a girl on the walls, has been concocting,
with another felon, of the name of Bootle, a plan to
escape from prison. Williams had procured a broom-
handle, out of which he had, with some pieces of iron,
manufactured a most terrific weapon. Bootle was to ring
the night-bell, and on the arrival of the turnkey they were
to rush on him and murder him, then secure the keys, and
liberate themselves. A man who had been committed for
want of sureties overheard the plan communicated, and by
that means saved the turnkey's life. The miscreant was
heavily ironed and handcuffed, and, after a search, the
weapon was found secreted in the nightroom. On Williams
being charged with his intention he most impudently avowed
it.—Chester Chronicle.
The parish of Clerkenwell, in consequence of the
alarming disease and distress caused by the influenza, have
raised a subscription for the relief of the poor, and we are
happy to state it is rapidly increasing, and food and medical
attendance have been procured. Yesterday the parish
officers visited the abodes of those afflicted, and rendered
necessary relief.