The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
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PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—1 n Harbour—Britannia, 120,
hiP ; Victory, 104, ordinary guard-ship ; Excellent,
gunnery-ship
Royal George, yacht ; Racer, 16 ; Messen-
gesteam-transport ; Vulcan, revenue steam-vessel , Numa,
trs?Port, and tenders Fanny, Emerald, and Gossamer.
ir,4llasen—Ganges, 84 ; Daphne, 18, and Camelion, 10.
"°elt—Not anything in commission.
At Spithead—No vessel of war.
ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, &c., DURING THE
WEEK.
South Saturday the 17th the Daphne was commissionedfor
America ; and the tender Gipsy sailed with super-
• 114Meraries for Sheerness.
a To-day the Vulcan, Revenue steam vessel, arrived from
ertlize.
ao.lt Will be seen from the foregoing that but little has been
ein
g at this port during the past week, as to arrivals, sailings
, although:ret: the crews of the ships in Harbour, have been
ClvelY employed in mooring the old sheer hulk, Prince
ellege. She is now, however, on the mud, and the Ex-
firedt has commenced shell practice at her ; out of seven
hand Yesterday, six took effect, and every assistance was at
ha
_l,-n the event of her taking fire. Fortunately (per-
she-escaped that calamity. To-day, four shells have
4. fired with equal effect, the last carrying away her
sewn moorings, and therefore putting an end, for the pre-
,l ,to further proceedings. The distance is 1,200 yards.
all he Magicienne
dispatch.
and Revenge are being got ready with
paragraphs The ' which have appeared in the papers rela-
'e to the mutiny on board the Sulphur, are altogether
tunsatisfactory.
t The fact is, the ship is no longer under
t., command of Captain Belcher. Her late purser, and
I:,°l‘ her mates (who both accompanied him across the
41-11, us of Panama, on his being appointed to the corn-
pa4u), are at this moment in England, and the ship on her
-sage home.

b K's Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the
alike and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington,
Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Peel, Hon. Mr.
r,lthurst, Lady Augusta Somerset, Earl and Countess of
oYtes, terfield, Lord Forester, &c., have accepted invitations
hi.,cc Duke of Rutland to partake of the munificent hospi-
eL,nB at Belvoir Castle. The Duke of Rutland does not
befllt' Proceeding to the above splendid seat until a day
"e Christmas.
" Marchioness Cornwallis and Lady Louisa
11°Nvallis will leave Park-crescent this morning foi
Nhton.
The Earl of Wilton left Grosvenor-square on
tersZldaY, for Egerton Lodge, his hunting box, in Leices-
fe?str R()hen Peel leaves Privy-gardens this morning
dray Manor in Staffordshire.
at tji;°lll Fitzroy Somerset arrived yesterday afternoon
Viscount
Horse Guards, from Dover.
toolBc°unt and Viscountess Galway have arrived at
1.81,"'s Hotel, Brook-street, from Italy.
tt.sh";,e Duchess-Countess of Sutherland arrived at
an 4,.g,e Castle, near Berkhampstead,on Thursday evening,
11,0 t vil,'at to the Countess of Bridgewater. Her Grace has
15ath'84d Oatlands, Lord Francis Egerton being still at
D 0 au d;", Nov. 23.—The Turkish Ambassador
aoat:a%te arrived this afternoon in the Britannia stean!-
Itrri rapt. Samuel Bushell, from Boulogne. On his
he Was received, under a salute from the heights,
Tglia,,rd of honour, commanded by Lord Lennox. .
Dowager Countess of Sefton and the Ladies
4-laellux, left Arlington-street, yesterday, for. Stokel farm.
Rteet °n• Colonel Molyneux has arrived in Aringtoni-s
ilhottf and the Hon. Mr. Molyneux, at Frankfort,oti
.?‘ expected. The Hon. Colonel H. Molyneux (6
ill
tot,e? is in command of his regiment at Zante, and
'eft 4! consequence, be able to attend the late Earl of
it,4 8 °l)SeqUieS.
YO The late Right Hon. Cutlar Fergusson was, when a
'44 Man, about the year 1794, incarcerated in the
tiled.-- 7 along with the then Lord Thynne, for riotous pro-
for hlinP at the trial of Arthur O'Connor, at Maidstone,
tip treason.
etldesl, Excellency General Count Woronzow and his
left ttl", Count S. Woronzow, a fine youth of sixteen,
an Green Park Hotel at an early hour this morning,
se :sit to the Earl and Countess of Haddington, at their
thjrtYningliam House, near Dunbar, N. 8., en route to
laatier "th• The Count will pay short visits to the great
and will
turing towns of Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield,
an return to town in about ten days. The Countess
l'rok4inily still remain on a visit to the Countess of Pem-
at Wilton House.
Cot,: regret to announce the death of the Dowager
'Weges!,°f Dartmouth, which took place at Blackheath on
the th-fBQaY last. Her late Ladyship was the daughter of,
-1"(1 Earl of A lesford, and born in 1760. The Hon.
dPrances l'inchY was united, in 1782, to the late Earl
brhorhattrnouth,
t whom she had issue 15 children, among
eharlotare
_the bypresent Earl of Dartmouth, Hon. Lady
%aril lNeville, the Hon. Lady Paget, wife of Sir Ed.
014 sget, &c. By her Ladyship's demise the families
will bnt' Begot, Earl of Aylesford, Earl of Dartmouth, &c.,
Wliplaced in mourning.
totner -,,LIAAts THE WEAVER.—In Newtown, Mont-
Ina ittjai.uire, the excitement consequent upon the corn-
"if.alina; this poor man appears rather to increase than
the:", our Contemporaries having directed the attention
ir
aeonr, readers to the subject. Considerable misapprehen-
abt,reyaila as to the channel through which the prisoner
f3,4„4-1 his liberation, and even Mr. John Williams, his
interface, considered that Lord John Russell hail positively
the cared' and caused his release : such, however, was not
Drier tse',,he having been bailed out by those sureties, who,
Lord
G',lr- Williams's appeal to the public and application
‘-live, were objected to as ithseeure.—Shrewsbury
ury
Ileara ILT.
n TlUTTONs.—Looking at the brilliant ay-
„`"ver,c;e (:if a gilt button, the substance of the gold which
re°vedt by no means obvious to us ; but when it is
.nitto, that five grains of gold, worth 15d., will gild 144
metal an inch in diameter, the amazing ductility of the
it no lo
thick nger surprises us, and we can easily credit that
of tip : neu does not exceed more than the 214,000 th part
gela I° the coarser branaes Of lJi manufacture.