The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTE LLI GENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21.—The Vanguard, 80, Capt.
Hon. D. P. Bouverie, was towed out of tl;e harbour on
Wednesday by the Herines steam-vest7el, and the Belle-
rophon, 80, Capt. Jackson, C. 8., yesterday by tl.c Sala-
mander steam-vessel. '

The Salamander steam-vess2l, Lint. Duffil, arrived yes-
terday from the eastward, an-I proceeded this afternoon to
St. Sebastian, having taken in at this port Lieut. Clapper-
ton, one corporal, and ten gunners of the Royal Marine
Artillery, to be borne as part of her complement, and six
small field howitzers. Brigadier-General Evans, Colonel de
Lancey, and Commander W, Robertson (the latter to join
the Castor) took passage in the Salamander.
_ _

The Maitland transport is ordered to fit for Barbadoes,
to which island she will proceed in the early part of June,
to bring'the 19th Regiment to England.
The Maria and Stakesby transports are ordered to
complete provisions for three months each, for 570 troops;
and to be fitted, as well as the Maitland, with an addi-
tional deck.

It is rumoured, that should the line of battle-ships, fitting
out form a squadron, ant assemble at Spithead, (of which
there is little doubt), the Howe, if she can he manned in
time, will repair to this anchorage, with the flag of Vice-
Admiral Fleming.
Advices from Bermuda are received to the 30th of March.
His Majesty's ship Champion had captured on the 3d of
that month the slave brig Reconnuce, pierced for 16 guns,
after a long chace, during which guns, anchors, boats, &c.
were thrown overboard. She ran on shore up the East of
Cuba, and 288 slaves were forced on shore, and 30, princi-
pally women, drowned in attempting to land. The brig,
however, was got off, and, with 188 slaves, taken to the
Havannah.

The Lyra packet arrived on Friday at Falmouth from
Mexico. Sailed from Tanipico 12th March, Vera Cruz
26th, and Havannah Bth April„ and brought 466,000 dol-
lars on freight. The Mutine packet arrived at the Ha-
vannah on the 18th March. The Tyrian packed sailed
from Vera Cruz for Tampico, 21st March.

The contemplated naval promotion and army brevet, we
are assured, is for this year set aside, unless Mr. Banner-
man's motion in the House of Commons to take into con-
sideration the hardships under which the old officers of
both services labour, has the same effect on the Ministers
which the motion for granting prize money to the seamen
who fought at Navarin produced—namely, to do that which
they are willing, but fearful to do, more particularly nohen
mooted by a Member of the Liberal party.
The Terror bomb-vessel, which was strengthened for the
purpose of going in search of the ice-bound whalers, is now
to be employed in another northern voyage of discovery ;
Captain Back, who has been appointed to command her, in-
tends to go up Wager River, as far as he can ; from which
point he anticipates he can complete his survey of the
northern shore of the American continent, from Cape Turn-
again, which he reached in his first expedition, to Victoria
Headland, the point where he made the sea in his last expe-
dition ; Lieutenants W. Smyth and Owen Stanley have
been appointed to the Terror.
The Sulphur arrived at Rio from Portsmouth on the
19th of Feb., and sailed on the 23d for St. Catharine ;
Starling from Portsmouth, 21st ; Cleopatra' from St. Ca-
therine, 2d of March, and Spider from Falmouth. The
Rattlesnake arrived at Bombay 30th December.
AT SPlTHEAD.—Vanguard, Bellerophon.
In HARBOUR.—Britannia, Pembroke, Royal George,
Excellent, Buffalo, and Stakesby, Moira, and Maitland
transports.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Russell
to the rank of captain ; Commander Wm. Robertson to the
Castor ; Lieut. John Cheere to the Caledonia ; Lieut. T.
S. Brock, to the Magpie cutter ; Mr. Jamas Osborne, sur-
geon, to Chatham Ordinary ; Mr. Dumaresque, extra col-
lege mate, to the Britannia ; Mr. Riddell, mate from the
Pembroke, Mr. John R. Allen, second master (vice G. H.
Skead, appointed to the Racehorse) to the Salamander ;
to which are lent also, Mr. Clifford, Mr. Paterson, and
Mr. R. L. Curris, mates, to the Salamander ; the Rev. H.
H. Franklin to be chaplain of the Pembroke ; Mr. T.
Lewis, mate, to Cornwallis.

( From the Devonport Telegraph.)
H. M. S. Cornwallis, 64, Captain Festing, was taken into
dock on Monday, to have her bottom examined, when it
was found that she had received but very little or no damage
by touching the ground in going out of harbour, but she
must remain in dock until the next springs, as the tides
have not lifted enough to take her out.
Commander Robert Russell, is promoted to the rank of
Captain ; Lieutenant James Maitland, late Flag Lieutenant
to Sir Patrick Campbell, is promoted to the rank of Com-
mander ; Lieutenant Josias Drew is appointed to the Coast
Guard station at Mullion, near the Lizard ; Lieutenant
David Keys, of the Ordinary at this port, is placed on the
out-pension list of Greenwich Hospital ; Mr. William
Reed, Mate, to the rank of Lieutenant ; Mr. P. Campbell,
Mate, to be Lieutenant of the Buzzard ; Assistant-Surgeon
Deas to be surgeon of the Island of Ascension, but he is
come home passenger in the Trinculo ; Lieutenant R.
Tryon to be Flag Lieutenant to Sir P. Campbell ; Lieute-
nant. Thomas S. Hill, to the Pylades ; Mr. William Jenkin,
Clerk at the Admiralty, is appointed receiver of Stores at
Woolwich, vice Mr. J. B. Williams, superannuated, after
43 years service ; Mr. F. W. P. Bouverie, Mate, late of
the Malabar, to the Vanguard ; Mr. William Lawes, ad-
ditional Clerk of the Vanguard, to be Clerk in charge to,
the Terror ; Mr. A. L. Selwin, Midshipman, to the Asia ;
Mr. H. Dumaresque, extra College Mate, to the Britannia ;
Mr. John R. Aylen, Second Master and Pilot, to the Sala-
mander ; Mr. G. H. S. Reid, seconder Master and Pilot,
of the Salamander, to the Racehorse ; Rev. A. H. Small,
Chaplain, to the Royal Adelaide ; Mr. M. A. Feeley-,
Clerk in Charge, to the Magpie.

Mr. Francis Gruzelier, foreman of the Rope House at
Portsmouth, is appointed Master Ropemaker of this Dock-
yard, in the room of Mr. Baldy, deceased ; Mr. Richard
Courtis, foreman of the line and twine spinners, to be tOre-
man of the Ropemakers, vice Condy, superannuated. Mr.
T. Turner, foreman in the ropery at Chatham, was appoin-
ted foreman to the line and twine-spinners, vice Courtis; but.
being unable to join on account of age and infirmity, Mr.
Daniel Christopher is appointed in his stead. Mr. W. Gard,
leading man of the ropemakers here, is appointed layer at.
Portsmouth, and joins immediately.

His Majesty's brig Trinculo, 16, Commander Buget
(acting), arrived from Portsmouth on Tuesday ; she is or-
dered to be paid of at this port.
His Majesty's cutter Magpie, 4, was commissioned on
Friday, as a surveying vessel, by Lieut. Thomas Saumarez
Brock.

The Offices of the Royal Mat ines gave a superb dinner
on Tuesday at the Barracks, on which occasion they were
honoured by the company of the Right Hon. Lord Ame-
lius Beauclerk, our new Port-Admiral, Major-General Sir
Willoughby Cotton, K.C.H., &c. &c.. Captain Superin-
tendent Ross, C. 8., Captain Superintendant Hornby, C. 8.,
Captain Cotton, Captains Sykes, Sharpe, Sulivan, Festing,
Dixon, Thomas ; Commanders Ogle, Knox, Devonshire,
Robertson ; Lieut. Boteler, (flag) Thomas Williams, Esq.,
(Admiral's Secretary) &c. &c. Colonel Abernethic in the
Chair.

The Masters of the yard vessels at this port, are to per-
ford the duties of pilots as at Portsmouth, but, at reduced
rates. One regular pilot only being left to perform the
various duties.

Lieut. Wesley, of this division of Royal Marines, is ap-
pointed Adjutant to the battalion now serving under Major
Owen, K. H., on the north coast of Spain..
The Pembroke went out of the basin, in the Dock-yard
at Portsmouth, on Tuesday, to mooring's in the harbour.—
The Vanguard was towed from Portsmouth harbour to
Spitliead, by the Hermes stetriner, on .Wednesday. The
Hermes touched here yesterd.ty on her way to Falmouth,
The l.._latnander steamer is to call at Portsmouth, to
take out stores for the ships on the North Coast of Spain,
and despatches for Lora John Hay.
Remaining in Ramoaze—ltoyal Adelaide, Minden,
Cornwallis, TrineAilo, Magpie, Transit freight ship.
In the Sottad—Talavera.

A detachment from the depot of the 321 regiment, 'con-
sisting of SO men, embarked on board the Arab transport,
on Wednesday evening, and are to proceed to Canada to
join the service- companies.
The Maitland transport arrived at Portsmouth on Tues-
day, 68 days from St. 'Helena, having on bor.rd the re-
giment of the East India Company's Service, -which formed
the garrison of that island ; and the Hermes, on Wed-
nesday, from Sheerness,

EXPORT or AssEs.—The lower Irish, and even
the yeomanry are sometimes accused of (importing everything,
and importing nothing, unless it be the wages of labour, and
the price of all sorts of farm produce, ,town to huge hampers
of eggs paid in English or British money. But there is one
exception, and that is the long-edged assinine tribe, which
seem to have been little known as beasts of burden, or truu-
dellers of carts, across the chwanel, till within the last ten or
dozen years. Before steam-boats becamilltso rife almost every
horneward-bound Irish rouper we met seemed to have ex-
pended his earnings On ass flesh, and as the Patlanders ge-
nerally travel in groups, we have repeatedly observed strings
of donkeys, to the number of twenty, thirty, or forty, passing
through this town on their way to Port-Nessock, where bul-
lock-bonus are very generally found in which they can be
strived fur a perlret trifle to the north of Ireland. In fact,
Lot a few years have elapsed since we were told by a Galloway
loliman that five hundred head of cuddies had passed his bar
in loss than a fortnight. At one time we were of opinion
that that thetrtldell
numerous
bye-path the donkey-drivers
d:hutthatwas a mistakeare
oforritg:ei.nd oattintga is the nt
take for the sake of economy. —Dumfries Courier.
On Tlinrsdav evenin, aft, inquest was held at
Brightside, touching the death of Mary Watson, a a woman, 47
3c," of age, who died there on the •
previousday, from the
wa::t of common necessaries of life.