The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-24 00:00:00

THE ROYAL NAVY.

PORT/MOUTH, OCT. 22.—Yesterday afternoon the Pyra-
mus frigate, Captain Robert Gambier, sailed for Vera Cruz,
with Mr. Morrier, his Majesty's Commissioner to the Republic-
of Mexico, resident in that city, and Sir Robert Ker Porter,
Consul-General to Colombia, resident at La Guyra.
Yesterday sailed the Kains transport, Lieutenant Burdwood,
with part of the 99th Regiment on board, for the Isle of Mau-
ritius; Thetis, Lieutenant H. Hopkins, for Rio Janeiro, with
provisions for the South American squadron • and the Sove-
reign, Lieutenant Keisall, for Cork, to, take the remainder of
the 42d Regiment thence to Gibraltar. The Russian corvette
Modeste, Captain Baron Wrangell, sailed this day, to visit
the Russian settlements on the north-west coast of America ;,
as did all the outward-bound merchant ships which had pat
into this port by contrary winds.
DEvovronT, OCT. 20.—Sailed the Helicon, Dispatch,
Pandora, and Victor, on an experimental cruise ; Enterprize,
Brown, Master, from London for Vigo, fitted with a diving
bell v;-1(1 apparatus, for the purpose of searching for the treasure
of the Spanish galleons, sunk in Vigo Bay many years since.
Mr. S. Smithson is appointed Purser of the Shamrock ;
Dr. J. W. Sinclair, permanent Assistant Surgeon of the Royal
Naval Hospital, at this port, vice 4obertson, superseded; Mr.
J. Irving, Sec,retary to the two last Commanders in Chie'f at
Cork, to be a Purser in the Royal Navy. In Haninaze—
Britannia, Genoa, Ni;;ndsor Castle, Druid, Shamrock, Talbot,
and Lion anti Swallow, revenue cutters. Between Island and
Main, Camelion Lyra, and Reynard.
CowEs, OCT. 22.—Sailed this morning, to join the Ame-
rican squadron in the Mediterranean, the large American
frigate Brandy-wine, Captain F:tewart, having obtained sup-
plies here. Lieutanant Bevis, of the Ranger, has brought in
128 casks of brandy and geneva ; Lieutenant Franklin, 89
casks; Mi. Boreham, 124 casks.

BIRDS MISTAKEN FOR METEOItS.-All account
recently published by Professor Hanstein, of a shooting star
seen In the day-time, has excited a good deal of speculation
among astronomers. Mr. Dick, a writer in the Quarterly Jour-
nal, has now shown, however, pretty clearly, that it could be
nothing else than a bird. Whilst making these observations
12 years ago, on Venus, when close to the sun, he, whilst look-
ing for the planet, remarked a body passing across the field of
the telescope, apparently- of the size of Venus, but varying a
little in this respect ; at first it was mistaken far the planet,
but its rapid motion corrected the error. In some instances four
or five of these bodies appeared to cross the field of view, some
times in a perpendicular, and at other times in a horizontal
direction.. They appeared to be luminous bodies, somewhat
resembling the appearance of a planet, when viewed in the
day-time with a telescope of a moderate power. Their motion
was rapid, and inclined to a waving or serpentine form. After
12 months' observation, Mr. Dick was enabled, by observation
of some which were larger than' others, to decide they were
birds, whose bodies, illuminated by the solar rays, reflected
light enough to produce the appearance. In a hot summer's
day, when a similar phenomenon has been observed, there was
every reason to attribute it to a number of winged insects flying
rat no great distance from the telescope. Mr. Dick iobserves,
that Professor Hanstein's account of the kind of motion as
being unequal, and resembling that of a rocket, corresponds to
the motion of birds through the air. He remarks, too, that an
appearance observed by the bate Mr. B. Martin, of certain
bright round bodies running towqeds the sun, when viewed in
particular circumstances, may be explained in the same manner.
A BOOK is said to have just appeared without
title-page, designation, or printer's name, consisting entirely of
a list of men notorious about town for running in debt and not
paying ; or, as the phrase among. them is, not caring who
auifers. The first number contains 4,000 of such names,
greatly to the annoyance of many, who may perhaps be thus
shamed into honesty. It is threatened to be continued pe-
piodically.
A CAUTION.-Three men have lately been tra-
velling in differenr parts of the country, offtring for sale shawls
and .handkerchiefs, stating them to be manufactured from
camel's hair. They sell them from lbs. to 20s. each, though
not worth more than
Au order'` was sent on Saturday from the Home
Department to Newgate, for the immediate conveyance of
WILLIAM CunesTreas, who was tried and convicted at the
last Old Bailey Sessions, for embezzling money belonging to
Messrs. Hoares bankers, to the Justitia hulk, at Woolwich,
preparatory to his transportation to New South 'Wales. The
Woonzan will sail in a short time, with 150 al m
Leand, convicants, d
frthe
om
Woolwich and Sheerness, for. Van D
I Sesoeteis will also sail in a short time, with 150 male convicts,
jewel's
from Portsmouth, for Sydney.