The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-26 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—0 n Monday the Nassau, Tre-
mayne, arrived from Sierra Leone ; she left the colony July
25, just as the rainy season commenced, with a cargo of timber,
being one of the last ships of the season. The colony was ge-
nerally healthy. New Barrack apartments had been completed
for the troops. The trade of the colony has greatly increased.
Not less than 20,000 tons of shipping, trading in timber and
gum, had left the colony this season. Since the Ashantee war,
the traders in gold dust, in the interior. had taken a new course;
to Sago (the capital of Bambarra, about a month's journey
from Sierra Leone), thence to Timboo (the capital of the Fulla
Country), and down to Sierra Leone ; the trade is now very
considerable by this route. General Turner had returned from
his first visit to the settlements on the Gold Coast, made with a
view principally to the extension of trade. Commodore Bullen
was cruizing in the Bight of Benin, in the Maidstone.
Yesterday arrived the Sovereign transport, Lieut. Kelso, 22
days from Halifax, with two companies of the Royal Artillery,
detachments of the 74th and 81st Regiments, naval invalids,
and ordnance stores. The Sovereign left lying in the harbour,
his Majesty's ships Jupiter (flag), Menai, Orestes, Grass-
hopper, and Rifleman. The Sappho was daily expected from
Bermuda. The squadron was healthy. The Ocean, with
troops, had arrived and passed on toQuebec with the remainder.
The following passengers came by the Sovereign :—Doctor
Baxter, Inspector of lfospiitals, Major Strabenize, L. Griffin,
Cornelius Longmore, Sergeant 13ur1ow, it. A., Lieut. Lutman
and family, 81st Regiment, Mr. and Mrs. Jupp, Ordnance De-
partment.
A letter from his Majesty's ship Tees, elated 25th March,
Madras Roads, states, that the Surgeon f the Larne had died
at Rangoon ; that Madras had been uncommonly sickly during
the last year, having lost nearly half its. native population,
which originated in excessive drought, producing a partial fa-
mine and extensive cholera morbus, in its different stages.—
The Tees lost at Trincomalee, last January, 11 men and a
boy ; ,but on going to sea, on her way to Rangoon, the health
of the crew was restored. Mr. J. Starck, acting Purser of the
Tees, was appointed Purser of the Slaney.
The Doris and Jasper sailed from Madeira and Teneriffe and
Brazil, August 28th ; Grasshopper from :Newfoundland for
Halifax, August Bth.
The Albion, 74, Capt. Ommanney, was towed out oCharbour
yesterday, by the Lightning steam-vessel (foul windS having
detained her there), fitted for the Lisbon station. She will sail
in a few days, to relieve the Superb, 78, Captain Sir Thomas
Staines, K.C.B.
On Sunday the Thetis, 48, Sir John Phillimore, Knt. C. 8.,
arrived from Plymouth, and is completing her preparations to
take the Right Hon. Stratford Canning to Constantinople. The
Scout, 18, Capt. Wigston, came into harbour yesterday, to be
paid off: Remain at Spithead—Albion, Glasgow, Thetis,
Tweed, Bustard, and Piranga. In the Harbour—Victory,
Ganges, Wttrspite, Pyramus, Volage, Fly, Victor, Scout,
Mastiff: The Thracian is paid off:
The Bustard, 10, Capt. Sandom, will sail to-morrow morn-
ing tin. the Jamaica station.
Capt. the Hon. Robert Saunders Dundas (son of Lord Visct.
Melville) is appointed to command the Volage, new 28, at this
port. Lieutenant john Parker, and Mr. A. Frame, Purser,
are appointed to her.
Capt. the Hon. Fred. Spencer is appointed to the Talbot, new
28, at Plymouth. Lieut. R. Hay is appointed to her.
Capt. Furneaux is appointed to the Hind, 20, at Woolwich.
—Lieut. 0. F. Dawson is appointed to the Bustard.
It is understood that the Rainbow, 28, Capt. lion. Henry J.
Roos; Talbot, 28, Capt. Hon. Frederick Spencer; and the
Volage, 28, Capt. Hon. R. S. Dundas, are intended for the
East India station.

It is reported in the Naval circle, that a ship of war, pro-
bably the Jaya, is to be fitted to take out a new Governor-Ge-
neral to India; and that his Grace the Duke of Buckingham
has accepted of that appointment.
A new steam vessel of 300 tons, is to be employed on the
Coost of Africa, by which the long windward possage between
Cape Coast and Sierra Leone will be greatly facilitated. Lieut.
Austen is to command her. The Colonial brig Prince Regent,
is to be sold out of the service.

The Members of the. Royal Yacht Club held their last meet-
ing, for the season, on the 13th inst., at their commodious new
Club House, at Cowes, which has been taken for a term of
years, when Mr. Richard Stephens, the Tide.surveyor of that
port, was chosen to fill the vacancy of Secretary to the Club. It
is understood that the Royal Yacht Club have intentions of pur-
chasing Ilrownsea Castle, as an occasional rendezvous during
the summer season.