The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-17 00:00:00

THE LATE GALES.

On the 11th instant the Marlborough, a largo merchant
vessel, was wrecked at Torbay, near Plymouth, and Capt.
Rutt and the whole crew perished. The particulars of the
latter calamity are not yet known.—Liverpool Chronicle.
The equinoctial gales continue to prevail ; on Monday
night the wind blew a perfect hurricane, doing much injury
both on land and along the coast.—Hampshire Telegraph.
Notwithstanding the tremendous gales which have pre-
vailed during the week, we are happy to state that the men
of war in the Sound, and the shipping in the different parts
of the Harbour, have sustained no injury whatever. The
hurricane on Wednesday night afforded the most decisive
proof of the superiority of this harbour, as a roomy and
safe place of refuge for shipping in dangerous weather. Six
sail of the line, with the Fly sloop, Pantaloon, Partridge,
and Scorpion brigs, and Diligence transport, besides several
merchantmen, rode out the gale in perfect safety in the
Sound, under shelter of the Breakwater, which being now
advanced towards completion, after nearly '25 years of con-
tinued labour, is affording evidence of its great utility in
protecting this harbour from the fury of the western gales.
The stories circulated that the anchorage in the Sound is
injured by the erection of the Breakwater, has been, in
this instance, most satisfactorily refuted. The sea raged
most terrifically outside the Breakwater, and the tide rose
nearly as high as in the fatal hurricane of November, 1824,
when 36 vessels went on shore, but it was remarked, that
for two miles or more, inside that great national work, the
sea presented a comparatively calm appearance, and it is
now past all doubt, that treble the number of vessels might
have rode out the gale in safety under the protection of
that mighty bulwark, which is one of the wonders of the
age.—Devonport Telegraph.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 15.—The North Star, 28, Capt.
Vernon Harcourt, arrived on Wednesday from the South
American station, with a freight of thirteen hundred thou-
sand dollars, principally from San Blas, on the north-west
coast of Mexico, and en private account. She left San
Blas on the 22d of April, Valparaiso on the 22d of July,
and Rio Janeiro on the lst of September.
The Pique, 30, Capt. Rous, sailed from St. Helens to-
day, followed by the Inconstant, 36, Captain Hayes, C. 8.,
from Spithead, which-went out of harbour yesterday, to
join the squadron under Sir Charles Paget.
The Pique, in her short cruise, from Wednesday morning
to Thursday noon, experienced very bad weather ; and in a
perfect hurricane on Wednesday night had to beat off Port-
land Bill, to prevent getting on shore ; when doing so the
main-topsail blew out of the bolt-ropes, and her depen-
dence was upon her courses ; she was very wet, but under
her lower sails clawed off the land to the satisfaction of her
officers.

Major Wright, with two captains, five subalterns, 15 ser-
jeants, 15 corporals, nine drummers, and 250 privates of the
Woolwich division of Royal Marines, embarked yesterday
on board the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, to join our squ-
dron in the Tagus.
The Nymph cutter arrived last night from Santander,
with fifty invalids of the British Legion.
The Scylla, 18, Commander Robb, commissioned in
June only, has been found so defective at Plymouth, that
she is ordered to be paid off, and her Commander, officers,
and ship's company arc transferred to the Satellite, 18,
which w►ll proceed to the West India station, as soon as
ready.

The Snake, 16,'is ordered to be paid off, and her Com-
mander (Warren) will commission the Serpent.
The Athol, troop ship, came into harbour yesterday to be
stripped, and examined for further service.
The Ganges, late demonstration ship, is taken into the
basin to be stripped ; the l'elorus sloop is also taken into
the basin. The Greenwich, 74, is nearly rigged alongide
the Dock-yard, preparatory to her proceeding to the East-
ward to be broken up, having been sold to Mr. Sedger of
Rotherhithe, for 5,:3001.
Mr. Brunswick steamer Will not leave Plymouth again
until Monday next.
At Spithead—Westminster, American packet.
In Harbour—Britannia, Excellent, Royal George, North
Stlr, Conway, Athol', Pluto steamer, Bracker cutter, Bar-
rossa transport.
ArrorNTMENTS.—Lieutenant William Viner Read, of
the Victory to the command of the Echo steam-vessel at
Woolwich ; Lieutenant Hamond, to the Blonde ; Lieut.
Cerroll to the North Star ; Mr. Mowbray, Midshipman,'
from the North Star to the Harrier ; Mr. Barnard, Mate,
from the North Star to the Harrier ; Mr. Bernard, Mate,
from the North Star to the Blonde ; Lieutenant R. J. W.
Dunlop, to the Winchester ; Lieutenant J. T. Layc, to the
Fly, vice Campbell, to the Howe ; the Rev. Alexander
Henry Small, to he Chaplain of the Victory, vice Ferris ;
Mr. Justus B. Kooystra, extra Mate, Mr. C. R. Read,
Midshaprnan, Messrs. H. S. Harvey, J. E. Parish, and H.
F. Elliot, College Volunteers to the Conway ; Mr. Sholl,
Purser to the Ordinary at. Chatham, vice Mr. Marsden,
appeared to the Ordinary at Sheerness, vacated by
Mr. Vallach, who has retired ; Mr. Beecroft, Master of
the Blonde invalided from that ship and joined the Sul-
phur, as a Volunteer to assist in her surveys on the coast
of Mexico ; Lieut. Henry Parry, to the Coast Guard
Service.

The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the
Naval College on Tuesday and Wednesday :—Mr. Charles
Richardson Johnsen, Beagle ; Charles F. Gorton, late
Cockatrice ; Ferd. H. Stevens, Hercules ; C. A. Isaac-
son, Bellerophon ; It. H. Risk, Pembroke ; C. Clavell,
Astrea ; H. Charleton, Hercules ; G. A. Phayne, late
Tribune ; E. Crouch, late Challenger ; J. F. Warre, late
Jupiter ; W. K. Joliffe, late Al *trine ; W. H. Kennedy,
late President ; H. S. Hawker, late Sapphire.

(From the DevonportTelegraph.)
DEvoNronT, Ocr. 15.—His Majesty's ship Partridge,
Lieut. Bisson, is ordered to proceed to Lisbc►n with des-
patches and supernumeraries for-the squadron.

The launching of the Sappho, 14 guns, at this dockyard,
which was to have taken place on the 24th, is postponed
for the present. The Dido, a new ship of 20 pins, is
comm!ssioned at Sheerness, by Commander the Hon. Dud-
ley Pelham. The Comus, Trincu!o, and Savage, at this
port, are ordered for commission.

In the ga!e on Tuesday last, the Royal Adelaide (guard-
ship) ported one arm of her mooring chain.
The Pluto steamer sailed }'ester a}' for Portsmouth and
Woolwich.

is ready for
The Inconstant, Bt3, Capti;:" John illYes'
sea ...3ortsmouth.
Lieut. Edward Holland, Flag Lientenaij to Admiral
Fleming, at Sheerness, is arp )inted to command Z!le Scor-
pion, vice Lieut. Robilliard.
'The order for paying off the Beagle surveying vessel at
this port has been countermanded at the request of Capt.
Fitzroy, and she is now to be paid off at Woolwich.
APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. E. Ommaney is appointed to
the Pique, 'vice Lieut. Campbell, sick ; Lieut. Win. N.
Read, of the Victory, to command the Echo ; Rev. Alex.
H. Small to be Chaplain of the Victory ; Messrs. C. R.
Read, Midshipman, and H. F. Elliot, College Volunteer,
to the Conway ; Lieut. J. 'l'. Layc to the Fly, vice Camp-
bell to the Howe ; Captain Henry Byam Martin to the
Charybdis ; Mr. J. A. A. Riddell, mate, to the Pluto ;
Lieut. R. IV. Pelly, to be additional Lieutenant of the
Winclie,ter ; Mr. J. Macklin, Gunner, to the Conway.

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lictnaining .irt Adelaide, San Josef,
Scylla, Hermes steomer, Beagle, and Devon lighter.
In the Sound—Bellerophon, Vanguard, Pembroke, Her-
cules, Russell, Minden, Fly, Pantaloon, Scorpion, Partridge,
and Diligence navy transpoil•
At Spithead on Thursday—North Star and Athol.