The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

( From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSI.IOUTIT, JAN. 13.—The Inconstant, 36, Capt. Pring,
sailed on Saturday with the first division of the 93d High-
landers, from Cove for Halifax. The Pique, 36, had arrived
at San Sebastian, and no doubt before this has landed the men
of the late Legion at Cove ; and, having embarked the re.
mainder of the 93d Regiment, followed the Inconstant.
The So►ereign transport, Lieut. Nash, Agent, is ordered
to fit with all haste and take in provisions for 200 men, whom
she will embark at Cork, most probably to augment the troops
in the West Indies, weakened by the regiment which the
Cornwallis will convey to Halifax.
The Minden, 74, Capt. A. R. Sharpe, arrived at Gibraltar
from Lisbon on the 29th ult. ; and the Orestes, 18, Comman-
der Newell, the same day, from the Spanish coast.
The Sardinian frigate Eurydice arrived at Gibraltar on
Christmas-day, 65 days from Rio Janeiro.
The Partridge,' 0-gun brig, has been commissioned by Lieut.
W. Morris (8), 1813; she is not attached as before to the
Royal George yacht.
The New York packet President, Captain Chadwick, sailed
yesterday for New York. Captain Calder and Mr. Case, of
the 32d Regiment, went passengers in hor.
The Apollo frigate is ordered to be got ready as a troop
ship with the utmost expedition ; 300 men are employed upon
her. One side will be fitted up on a plan suggested by Mr.
Blake, the master builder of this yard, and the other side in
the usual manner.

Captain John Coode, C. 8., who commanded the Albion,
74, at the bombardment of Algiers in 1816, is appointed Cap-
tain Superintendent of Plymouth Hospital, vice Captain
Phipps Homby.
The Tyne, 28, Hon. Captain Townshend, !ailed on Tuesday
to the Mediterranean.

The Phoenix steamer, at present on the north coast of
Spain, having been found defective and requiring repairs, is
to be replaced by the Dee, now fitting at Woolwich.
The Isabella Government freight ship sailed on Tuesday,
for Van Diemen's Land.
It is said Captain Hyde Parker has consented to accept the
situation of Captain Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard,
and that Captain Mends, of the Talavera, will succeed him in
the command of the Rodney.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. J. L. Parkin
(late Flag-Lieutenant to Sir William Gage) is promoted to
the rank of Comm -alder ; Mr. J. S. Hill, Second Master, to
the Britomart ; Mr. John G. Williams, Assistant-Surgeon,
to the Espoir ; Messrs. C. R. Kinnear, and J. M. Minster,
Assistant- Surgeons to the Royal Adelaide ; Lieut. G. Beau-
foy, and Mr. J. C. Mottley, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Nau-
tilus ; Mr. J. W. Symonds, Second Master, Mr. W. Thomas,
Additional Clerk-in-Charge, and J. Armit Miller, Assistant-
Surgeon, to the Partridge ; Mr. A. Housloy, Additional As-
sistant-Surgeon, to the Britannia; Mr. George Bruce, Car-
penter, from the Portsmouth Ordinary, to the Excellent.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 11.—The President, 52, sailed on Friday
last, for South America; and the Thunder, surveying vessel,
for the West Indies ; the Columbia steamer arrived on Fri-
day, and sailed on Saturday for the coast of Spain; the Mes-
senger also arrived from Portsmouth, the same day, and pro-
ceeded for Woolwich on the Wednesday following ; the Tyne,
28, Capt. Townsend, arrived on Wednesday front Portsmouth,
and sailed again on the same evening for the Mediterranean ;
the Mutine Packet, Lieut. Pelvic, arrived on Thursday from
Falmouth.

The lever target, for practice without the expenditure of
powder and shot, invented some years since by Capt. George
Smith, R. N., and adopted in our nary, has been lately intro-
duced in the service of the Sardinian artillery and navy. A
machine for preventing the collision of steam-vessels in a fog
has also been perfected, at considerable expense, under the di-
rection of Capt. G. Smith ; the principle of which is to strike
a gong by a cluck-work apparatus which is totally indepen-
dent of the engine or paddles, and can be equally used while
the vessel is at anchor or under weigh. The great advantage
of this invention is, that the course the steamer is pursuing is
correctly pointed out. An invention for a similar purpose,
lately promulgated by Lieut. Bellaire, depends entirely on the
movement of the steam engine ; therefore if the steamer be
lying too, or at anchor, no notice of her situation is given.
The officers of the French frigate Dryade, in the Tagus,
lately exhibited to our naval officers there a spare anchor, with
which she is furnished, and which takes to pieces. It was put
together with great facility, and is somewhat similar to one
. invented by Captain G. Smith, when in the Ganges, in 1829 ;
and also that invented by Messrs. Mogan and Little, of this
town ; the shank in all of them being principally inserted in
a hole in the corner of the anchor.

MEMORAND 11;;;L;T:0Ct. 18, 1 ti37.—All flag-
officers who have been appointed to commands, or to ports,
since the first of January, 1837, and who shall hereafter be
appointed, to be allowed a fresh entry of one volunteer of the
first class, in addition to the one applied for by the captain of
the flag-ship.
BRIGADE ORDER.—Major- General Sir J. B. Savage can-
not retire from the command of the corps of the Royal Ma-
rines (in which he has served for a period of sixty-one years),
without expressing the gratification which he has, upon all
occasions, derived from its loyalty, discipline, and professional
value. He feels confident of their upholding, in all after-
times, the high and distinguished reputation which they have
already so deservedly attained ; and leaves them with a re-
quest that they will accept the assurance of his lasting best
wishes and regard for their welfare, prosperity, and renown.
—By command,
J. WILSON, A. A.G., Commandant, Royal Marines.
(From the Devsnport Independent.)
PLYSIOUTZ, JAN. 13.—At the paying off of the Malabar at
this port, on Friday last, the following voluntary subscriptions
were raised among the seamen ♦nd handed to the Treasurers
of the respective institutions :—Naval end Military Bible So-
ciety, 21. 10s. ; Naval and Military Boys' Free School,
21. 191. 3d.; Female Orphan Asylum for the Daughters of
Seamen and Marines, 31. 4s. 4d.
The Malabar, 74, was warped from her moorings alongside
the jetty on Monday, for the purpose of being taken into dock
and examined, previous to her being put into commission.
The Espoir, 10, Lieutenant Festing, was warped alongside the
sheerhulk on Thursday to have her masts put on board, and
brought alongside the jetty to be rigged, the same day.
The Alligator, 28, Captain Sir John James Gordon Bremer,
went out of Barnpool on Saturday into the Sound.
The Tyne, 28, Captain Townshend, arrived on Wednesday
from,Portsmouth, and sailed again on Thursday for the Me-
diterranean, to relieve H.M.S. Saphire, 28, Captain C.
Rowley, whose period of service has expired.
The sloop Racehorse, 12, Commander William Henry
Crauford, was warped to her sailing moorings on Saturday.
The Forte, 44, is ordered to be fitted as a receiving hulk
for the Legion coming from Spain.
The Hythe victualling-hoy, having been repaired, was
launched from the mast slip in this Dock-yard on Wednesday.
Commodore John Taylor, son of Mr. N. Taylor, is pro-
moted to the rank of Rear Admiral of the Brazilian Navy.
Lord John Browne, third son of the Marquis of Sligo, has
just been appointed Volunteer of the First Class to H.M.S.
Racehorse, fitting at this pert.
In Harmoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Lily, Racehorse,
Espoir, and Mutine packet.
In Barnpool—Britomart.—ln the Sound—Alligator.
Miss Charlotte Fifc has been appointed Ward-Matron of
Plymouth Hospital, v. Miss Nicholson, deceased.