The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 24.—The Barrosa transport sailed
on Thursday for Cork, to embark part of the 16th Regi-
ment for Ceylon ; she will return to England with part of
the 78th from Ceylon ; on her passage out she will touch
at Rio.

The Wolverine, 16., Corn. Hon. E. Howard, •arrived on
Monday from Sheerness ; she is destined to the Mediter-
ranean, whither she will proceed in a day or two.
The orders for the return of the Canopus, Edinburgh,
and Thunderer to England, were sent out by the last Malta
packet ; the Canopus is to be paid off at Plymouth, the
Edinburgh at this port, and probably the Thunderer also,
as it is understood she brings home one company of Royal
Marine Artillery.
Five packets Left Falmouth on Friday and Saturday last
with mails, namely--Ranger, for Lisbon ; Spey, for Bra-
zils ; Lightning, for San Sebastian ; Swift, for Mexico ;
Reindeer, for the West: Indies ; and on Wednesday last
the Lyra, for Lisbon.
The Seaflower cutter, Lieut. Roche, with her tender the
Cracker, arrived on Sunday frocu Jersey.
The Algerine, 10, left Madras for Calcutta, on the 3d of
August ; the same day the Rose, 18, arrived there from a
cruise. The Hindoo, a free trader, from Liverpool to Bom-
bay, was totally wrecked on the night of the Bth of August,
withie four miles of that city ; her crew and passengers
were all saved, but the cargo entirely lost.
At Spithead—Wolverine, Francis Charlotte, convict ship..
In Harbour—Britannia,Victory, Excellent, Royal George,
Samarang, Pantaloon, Athol, Seaflower, and Cracker.
Arporalm:ENTs.—Mr. George Dix, Secretary's Clerk
in the office ofAdmiral Sir P. C. H. Durham, is promoted
to the rank of Purser ; Commander J. Monday, Lieu-
tenants John Tyson, F. Blood, and H. D. Forster, Mr.
R. Douglas, Surgeon, Rev. J. E. Surridge, Mr. J. B. Ser-
jeant, Purser, Mr. RA,bert Rouse, Mate, Mr. John Tot-
tenham, College Volun:eer, and Mr. T. J. Graham, As-
sistant Surgeon, to the S.:ag ; Lieutenant E. W. Pitt, to
the Victory, vice Simmonds ; Mr. W. Webb, Assistant-
Surgeon, to the Royal Adelaide; Dr. Thompson, Assist-
ant-Surgeon, and Mr. John Smart Peddie, Supernumerary
Assistant-Surgeon, to the Britanoia ; Mr. Henry Need,
Midshipman, from Endymion, to the Wolverine ; Mr. F.
G. Simpkinson, Midshipman, and Mr. Gallon, Master's
Assistant, to the Sarnarang ; Mr. Voules, Midshipman, to
the Seaflower ; Mr. C. Powell, Mate, to the' Excellent.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—His Majesty's ship Inconstant,
36, Capt. Pring, left Portsmouth on Wednesday, for this
port, where she is to wait orders. She has 10,000 mus-
kets on bot,..rd for the service of the Queen of Spain. She
arrived here on Thursday.
The Manchester steamer, arrived at Falmouth, has
brought accounts from Lisbon to the 12th inst. Don Mi-
guel had not been bemal of for some time, and his partisans
had ceased to disturb the country. The Queen had cre-
ated Admiral Sartorius a Peer, under the title of Vis-
count de Piedade.
The Serpent sailed from Portsreouth on Wednesday for
the East Indies.
The Diligence transport is loaded with stores, for the
North coast of Spain, and is now waiting at Portsmouth
for the Speedy cutter, which is to accon:pany her to St.
Sebastian. •
The Athol, troop-ship, is to proceed to Ascension with
stores, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope, where
she will land 10,000/., received on board at Portsmouth,
and from thence return with the 98th regiment.
The Edinburgh, 74, and Castor, 36, are ordered to be
paid off at Portsmouth ; the former to be put into ordinary
and the latter to be re-commissionad.
The Portland arrived at Trieste on the Bth inst., from
Venice, to take King Otho back to Greece.
The Cornwallis is expected here daily from the Tagus ;
she will then take out to the Mediterranean station the
new Commander-in-Chief.
His Majesty's steamer Blazer arrived here on Friday
from Woolwich, with blankets to be transhipped on board
the Lightning steam vessel to the North coast of Spain. The
Blazer proceeded for Falmouth on Tuesday, and will take
the next. Mediterranean mail.
The Talavera, 74, was towed from the Sound into Ha-
moaze on Saturday, by the Blazer stemer. She is t
have her defects made good, Sicked, and her hold re-
o
stowed.
The Britomart, Lieut. W. H. Quia; was paid off into or-
dinary on Wednesday.
The Wizard, 10, was taken into dock on Wednesday,
to be repaired. by Lieute-
The Savage was commissioned on Monday,
nant the Hon. E. R. Curzon.
Remaining in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef,
Talavera, Stag, Savage, Pigeon, Renard, Ithadamaathus
steamer, Falmouth, Drake, and Swail lighters.
In the Sound.—lnconstant and Speedy.
APPOI NTMEENTS.—Lieutenants C. S. Williamson and
A. Leathart, Mr. J. W. Bateman, master, Mr. J. Kittle,
surgeon, Mr. A. D. Bain, assistant-surgeon, Mr. H•
Vaughan, mate, and Mr. J. Taylor, purser, to the Wolve-
rine ; Mr. L. C. H. 'rouge, midshipman (late of the Hya-
cinth), to the Inconstant ; Mr. Francis Bourchier, extra
mate, and Mr. Thomas Belgrave, midshipman, to the Sa-
marang ; Mr. John Thompson, M.D., to be additional as.
sistant-surgeon of the Britannia ; Lieutenant J. Tyson to
the Stag ; Rev. J. E. Surride, chaplain, to the San Josef ;
F. G. Sinikinson, midshipman, to the Sarnarang ; Edward
Williams, second master and Pilot, to the Victory, for ser-
vice in the buoy boat, vice Duncan ; J. S. Peddie, addi-
tional assistant-surgeon, to the Britannia; C. Powell, mate,
to the Excellent ; F. J. Graham, assistant.surgeon, J. To-
tenharn, college volunteer, and R. J. Rouse, college mate,
to the Stag ; Charics Riley, boatswain, late of the Arro-
gant, to Portsmouth ordinary.
Mr. Webb, surgeon of Navy-row, has been appointo
''supernumerary assistant-surgeon to the Adelaide.

ALLERY OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE,
LOWTHER ARCADE.

On Thursday there was a private view of the improve-
silents which have been in progress in the repository of z,ri- 1
inal and useful inventions with which the pu.;;1.16 are so
well acquainted. It has been closed for it Week or two to
allow of an entire ar.d complete examination of the works,
to remove such as have already become known and practi-
cally useful, and to substitute others of more recent inven-
tion or improvement.
Amongst the articles to be added is, we are told, Dr.
Arnoi.'‘'s stove, which, from what we have heard of it, is
one of the most efeetive and truly economic leiventionsfor
domestic uses which has been made for a very long period.
The small quantity of fuel required to keep this stove in
a state of full activity for warming the apartments, or for
cooking, is so very trifling, as it has been stated to us, that
it must add materially and extensively to the comfort of the
working- classes—that is, after the stove has been set up,
-and the erkiense of this is not by any means extravagant ;
however, when we see it in operation, we shall then be able
to give an exact account of all the details with which it is

Cot nected.
The principal object of the view to-day was to display
-the variety and power of the new solar, now called hydro-
oxyon, microscope in the enlarged room, which has been
!fitted up for the purpose of holding, if necessary, from 400
Ito 500 persons. This was the first trial of its power in the i
apartment, which it was stated s to be opened to the pub-
Ikeon Monday next. The experiments were upon a large
scale, according to the size of the object ; and it certainly
acted with great force and beauty, in detecting the hitherto
mysteries of the construction of the minuter animals and
animaleulw, ana the construction of the fibrous parts of
leaves and flowers, and of all the entomological tribes, from
the emperor butterfly down to the smallest moth. None
of their minutest ramifications can escape detection, and in
that way it is a most excellent adjunct to natural history.
We think, however, that objects unpleasing, deformed, or
ferocious, the infliction of unnecessary pain even upon the
smallest of the creation endowed with vitality, should be
avoided—a bad or morbid feeling may be fond of such
sights, but it is part of the duty of public exhibitors, parti-
cularly of science, to correct those vulgar notions, and to
improve the taste of the public.