The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-28 00:00:00

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 24.—The Hercules, Captain Nicholas, -
C. 8., arrived at Cork on the 13th to take on board drafts for
the regiments in Canada, and the Vestal, 28, Capt. T. Car-
ter, left Portsmouth on Thursday, to take on board such de-
tachments as the Hercules could Lot accommodate. The
Hercules was expected to sail yesterday. The Minden, 74,
Captain Sharpe, C. 8., left Gibraltar on the 121 h, with the
11tfiltegiment of Foot, augmented by volunteers from other
regiments, to 600 rank and file, to whom were attached 180
women and 200 children. She goes, on the first instance to
Bermuda: this ship left her lower deck guns at Gibraltar, and
will return -for them. The Jupiter, troop ship, sailed the
same day with the service companies of the 7th Regiment on
board, which she brought from Malta, for Barbadoes, to re-
place the With gone to Halifax.
The Asia, 84, Captain Fisher, arrived at Cork on Monday
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last, from the Mediterranean, for the purpose cf conveying
recruits and reinforcements to the regiments at Gibraltar,
Malta, and Corfu.
The Cornwallis, 74, Captain Sir Richard Grant, conveyed
a part of the 76th Regiment to Halifax, as well as the 65th.
She would, after landing the 34th Regiment at St. John's,
return to Bermuda, to join the Admiral's flsg.
'I he Wellesley, 74, Captain Maitland, with Rear-Admiral
Sir Frederick Maitland's flag on board, on his war to his corn-
' mend in the Indian Seas, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope ;
and within a few hours of her arrival there, was driven out of
Table Bay by a violent gale of wind, with the loss of two
anchors. She returned on the Bth of December, having been
two days at sea, and had Bono to Simon's Bay to get new
anchors.
The Wasp, 16, and Racehorse, 18, arrived at Lisbon on
the 10th inst., from England, after encountering heavy gales.
The former was to proceed immediately to Gibraltar and
Malta. The other men-of-war at Lisbon were, the Donegal,
Edinburgh, Scylla, and Trinculo. The Wasp had the misfor-
tune to lose two of her men by drowning, at Lisbon. In
hoisting- up a boat it capsized, and four men in it went over-
board ; two were saved; the others met a watery grave. The .
officers and ship's company have entered into a subscription
for the benefit of their wives and families.
Tho Minden, Bellerophon, Russell, Talavera, and Jupitd„
were at Gibraltar on the 10th instant. The Bellerophon had
brought the 73d regiment from the lonian Islands, for service
at Gibraltar ; the Russell brought the 11th regiment, front-
Zante, and transferred them to the Minden, for Bermuda.
The Orestes, IS, Captain Newell, will leave Gibraltar •
about the end of March, for England, to be paid off.
The Tribune, 24, Capt. Tomkinson, sailed or► Thursday for .
Sheerness, to be paid off. _ _

The Electra, 16, Commander Preston, sailed on Thursday
for the South American station.

The Tartarus and Medea steamers have been commissioned
this week, and with the Meteor, it is presumed, are destined
for service in the St. Lawrence.

Tho Calliope, 24, Captain Herbert, arrived here on Tues-
day, and sailed on Thursday for Plymouth, on her way to the
South American station.

The Partridge, 10, Lieut. Morris, sailed on Thursday for
the Sheerness station.

The Rattlesnake, 28, was at Madras on the 29th October,
and expected to sail for England, to be paid off, in the middle
of November.

The Modeste, 16, is expected to be at Spithead in the first
week in March.

The Pique frigate, when seen last, a few leagues to the
westward of Cape Clear, had three of her ports stove i❑ by
the force of the sea, and one soldier had been killed,
having been washed off the main deck and thrown down the
hatchway.
It is expected that the Ranger packet, Lieut. Turner, will
be got off to-morrow from the beach on which she now lies,
on the west side cf Falmouth harbour, it being there spring
tides. Everything has been cleared out of her, and casks are
placed under her to render her buoyant. She dragged ashore
with two anchors a head.

The Hind cutter, from the Mediterranean„ arrived at Ply-
' mouth on Friday last, the I 6th instant, with the loss of her mast,
which was carried away in a violent gale of wind off Ushant
two days prior, and in which she was half filled with water;
good management, however, and a fortunate shift of wind, car.
ried her into Plymouth, where she will be paid off. Her mast
was brought into Plymouth by a vessel which had picked it up
at sea on Monday last.
At Spithead.—Eden.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George,
Apollo, Pantaloon, Brisk, Nautilus, Arab transport, Messen-
ger and Wildfire steamer.
PROMOTIONS AND A rPOINTMENTS.-Commander John Shep-
herd, (b) of the Sparrowhawk, to the rank of Captain;
Lieutenant G. Elliot of the Actaeon, to the rank of Com-
mander, and to command the Sparrowhawk; Mr. James
Saunders is promoted to the rank of Master ; Commanders
J. N. Nott, to the Medea, .Jos. Sherer to the Dee, and R. H.
King, to the Cruizer ; Commander William P. Stanley,
Lieutenants Henry T. White, George Kenyon, Alexandur
Little, George Dixon ; Mr. John Thomas, Master ; Mr. W.
Bell (a), Surgeon ; Mr. John Walker, Purser ; Messrs.
William Lambart and John Minter, Assistant Surgeons; Mr.
Charles Gillard, Boatswain ; and Mr. George Cherguin,
Carpenter, to the Malabar ; Mr. Houseley, Assistant Surgeon
to the Medea ; Mr. William Drake, Purser, to the Caliope;
Mr. Henry Baker, Assistant Surgeon, to the Excellent; Mr.
Thomas W. Jewell, Assistant Surgeon, to the Apollo; Mr.
H. W. Sadler, and Mr. Charles Lyne, Clerk's Assistants,
from Britannia, to the Hastings; Lieutenant Henry Payne,
Gallwey, to be Flag Lieutenant to Vice Admiral Sir Robert
Otway, vice D'Eyncourt.
On Thursday, at ten, a court-martial assembled on board
the Howe, at Sheerness, for the trial of Lieut. (commanding)
J. M. Motley, 2d master Hart, the pilot, and crew of the
Speedy, which ran on shore during the 18th ult., at liar-
borough. The Court adjudged Lieut. Mottley guilty of ne-
glect in not having caused the lead to be kept going when
near the land, he having depended on a standing order to that
effect promulgated by him, without visiting the deck during
the approximation of the Speedy to the shore on which he was
ultimately wrecked, to ascertain that his order was in that
instance obeyed ; but in consequence of Lieut. Mottley's
zeal and activity in getting off the coast, and saving a large
proportion of the stores, the Court only sentenced him to be
reprimanded, and further admonished him never again to
put such implicit confidence in a pilot. Mr. Hart, the se-
cond master, was acquitted, it appearing that he had not
taken charge of the deck more than five minutes before the
vessel struck—a catastrophe entirely owing to the neglect of
the pilot, an aged and infirm man, who attributed his having
mistaken his distance to the change effected in the character
of the line of coast, in consequence of deep snows. 'The
Court, however, did not admit of this excuse, as the pilot had
not taken proper precaution in heaving the lead ; he was
thus sentenced to be incapacitated from acting as pilot to any
of her Majesty's ships and vessels in future. The pilot, who
is nearly 70, was obliged to be assisted in and out of Court,
where he was permitted a scat during the proceedings.--
Kentish Observer.
Monday and Tuesday a Court-Martial was held on board
the Royal Adelaide, on Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Roper
Curzon, commanding her Majesty's brig Savage, on a charge
of having taken improper liberities with John Baker, a boy of
the Ist class, belonging to that vessel. The boy's assertion
as to the fact was entirely unsupported. Among the wit-
nesses he called—it was proved in evidence—was one of a
most depraved character, whom the seamen would not permit
to associate with them ; whilst every officer on board, down to
the boatswain's mate, proved the prisoner to be a strict officer
and a gentleman, nor would they believe the accusation, The
past-mate complained of this strictness, and called it " irrita-
bility, or zeal for the service." The sentence of the Court
was, that "the charge had not been proved."—Plymouth
Journal.

(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Fsn. 24.—The Vestal, 26, Captain T. R.
Carter, is hourly expected to call at this port, from Sheerness,
on her passage to Halifax.
The Malabar, 74, was commissioned on Monday, by Com-
mander Stanley, for Captain Edward Harvey. She is to
have a complement of five hundred men, and will only embark
half her marines for the present. A party of Marines, under
the command of Captain Spurin, will embark on board this day.
The Alligator, 28, Captain Sir James John Gordon Bre-
mer, Knt., K. C. H., was paid advance of wages on Wednes-
day, and sailed on Thursday, to form a settlement on the N. W.
Coast of South Australia.

The Britomart, 10, Lieut. Stanley, went out of harbour,
on Tuesday, into the sound, having had her hold restored.
She was paid advance of wages on Wednesday, and sailed on
Thursday, in Company with the Alligator.
The mast and rigging belonging to the Cutter Hind, which
was dismasted a few miles off this Port, during the snow storm
on Thursday, the 15th instant, was picked up at sea, and
brought into harbour on Monday, by the George, trawl-vessel.
The Camel lighter sailed on Sunday with stores for Fal-
mouth, and from thence to Pembroke. The Duck lighter
arrived on Tuesday with stores from Woolwich. The Cre-
mill, victualling-hoy, having casks on board, sailed on Tues-
day for Falmouth, in order to get off her Majesty's brig Ranger,
which had been driven ashore on Trefussis Point, during the
gale of Thursday, the 15th instant.
The Partridge, 10, Lieut. Morris, went out of harbour on
Tuesday, and endeavoured to get to Sheerness, but she en-
countered a gale of wind, which threw her on her beam ends ;
she took in a quantity of water sufliciest to cover the tanks in
her hold, and two of her guns getting loose, she was in much
danger and obliged to return.
The Pelorus, 18, Commander Harding, has been ordered to
Rangoon, East Indies.
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Captain Sandom sailed on the 15th inst., from Liverpool,
via New Yolk, to organize a naval force on the Lakes in
Canada. Lieutenant Duflill, R.N., late Commanding the
Salamander steam-vessel, accompanied him.
Mr. Wm. Drake, of this town, Purser, 1825, is appointed
to the Calliope, 28, rice Gruse, retired.
In Harbour—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Malabar, Lily,
Espoir, Mutine, Hind cutter, and Plato Dutch Indiaman.
In Barnpool—Savage.
PRONIOTION.-Mr. Jas. Saunders, late Acting Master of
the Terror, bomb-vessel, just returned from the North Pole,
to be Master.

On Sunday morning Mr. Odlin, an opulent farmer
of Irby, committed suicide by placing his fowling-piece in his
mouth and blowing his head to pieces. The servant man
seeing his master with the gun, asked him if he was going
out shooting, to which'he replied, " May he I am." No
other cause is assigned for this terrible act than that the de-
ceas -d thought he should lose by some open fields being in-
closed.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
SHIPWRECK.—We are sorry to record the loss of
the schooner Brothers, of this port, which foundered in the
storm on Wednesday night, off the Land's End, and by which
sad event, six unfortunate beings were cut off in the prime of
their days.—Devonport Independent.