The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 6.--Thefollowing is an extract of a
letter from an officer of the British Legian in Spain, dated
Oriete, Jan. 16:—
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44 We are now driving the enemy before us from village to
village with little or no loss. This is the sixth village we
have occupied since we left Vittoria, which was on the 3d
inst. The enemy annoy us very much at night • they come
down in numbers, and fire upon our fires, but seldom do any
harm. All our fires must be out before dark. I will relate a
circumstance which I think will amuse you :—One evening,
whilst the men were sitting round the fire cooking their din-
ners, a volley was fired amongst them, and strange to say, not
a man was hurt, but a shot went through the cooking-kettle
and spilled all the soup, which was the only loss sustained.
We are, now within six miles of Salvatierra, which we are to
attack in two or three days' time ; our men appear all ripe, and
anxious for the blow. The enemy are in great force. The
French (3,000) came in on the 13th inst. I have not seen
them, but understand they are a fine body of men."
His Majesty's surveying vessel, Mastiff, Lieut. Thomas
Graves commanding, arrived here on Tuesday, from the Me-
diterranean., She left Malta on the 31st Dec. The Beacon
was to follow in about a fortnight.
The Vestal, 26, Captain Jones, arrived on Monday from
Sheerness, and sailed to-day to the West Indies, with super-
numerary marines and boys for the fleet. This ship has
21,0001. on board for the West Indies.
The Victor, 18, arrived at Calcutta from Madras on the
14th of September. The Hyacinth, 18, left Sydney for Ma-
dras on the 6th of August.
The Leveret, 10, Lieutenant Bosanquet, arrived at Sierra.
Leone on the 2d of December, from the River Gambia. Dur-
ing, her passage she captured two vessels fitted for slaves,
Laving oh board 3,000 doubloons. The Leveret and her
prizes were about to proceed to the Cape.
The Strathfieldsay, convict ship, in charge of Mr. Wilson,
surgeon, R. N., arrived on Thursday from the River, with 70
prisoners, and this morning embarked 130 more from the Le-
viathan hulk, for New South Wales.

The whole of the outward-bound vessels got undcr weigh
from the Motherbank on Wednesday, and proceeded, with a
fine wind at N. E., for their several destinations.
The New Frederick brig sailed on Wednesday, with 35'
horses for the use of the British Legion, under General Evans.
The cutter, General Evans, with 100 recruits for the same
service, sailed this morning.
PROMOTIONS. ROYAL MARINES. - Second Lieutenant
Campbell John Pegus, of the Chatham division, to be First
Lieutenant at the Woolwich division, vice James Thompson,
promoted to the rank of Captain at this division, in the room
of Captain Timpson ; Second Lieutenant A. Fleming of the
Woolwich division, to the rank of First Lieutenant, at this
division, vice William White, who is placed on the reserved
half-pay.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, FEB. 4.—The Royal Tar steamer,
which came in here last week for a supply of coals, is still lying
off the West mud. She is bound for St. Andero, with officers,
soldiers, and fifty horses, for the British Legion in Spain. The
Spitfire steamer is ordered to proceed to the West Indies im-
mediately. She may be expected to call in here in about ten
days on her way down Channel. The Tartarus steamer, Lieut.
James, proceeded to Falmouth on Friday evening to take out
the next Malta mail • on her passage out she was obliged to put
into Cawsand Bay from the violence of the gale. In Hamoaze,
Royal Adelaide, Harpy, Prince Regent transport, Royal Tar
with horses bound to Spain.--At the Island—Pluto under
quarantine.—Hampshire Telegraph.

APPREHENSION OF A POACHER.—On Thursday
Aaron Cane, a reputed poacher, was brought before the Bath-
forum Magistrates, charged by Thomas Newth, gamekeeper
on Claverton Estate, with poaching. On the previous even-
ing he encountered the prisoner. A desperate struggle took
place between the parties ; in the course of which the keeper
received a severe blow between the eyes from the butt-end of
the poacher's gun ; the keeper however succeeded in appre-
hending him, with a hen pheasant, quite warm, in his posses-
sion. The prisoner was fully committed for trial.—Devizes
Gazette.

From remarks on Street Architecture in the Architectural
Magazine for February.
Conducted by J. C. Loudon.
Many accidents take place from the corners of the streets,
instead of being curved off, being left so as to form a right
angle : but we will hope, now these subjects are more consi-
dered, that the method of rounding the corner houses will be-
come general. If several streets intellect a principal one,
where a greater distribution of light is required in the room, a
bow window in the rotundity of every turn, on the same level
with those in the front, but not to extend beyond the line of
the streets of which it forms the right angle, would have the
advantage of enlarging the room, and affording- A better view
of the adjacent town, than could otherwise be obtAined. We
often see the uniformity of architecture in a street dezttroyed by
the various shapes of the roofs; and by the necessity or length-
ening the chimneys of the houses at the corners, in order to
prevent smoky rooms. Curved, or Mansard, roofs are best
adapted for such occasions ; and they have an advantage over ,
the common roofs, as less expense is incurred in their construe- 1
tion, owing to the reduced quantity of brickwork ; but all the
rLipoopfsed. Thecouldbe effect,easil which was d
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chimney shafts at the extremities of the streets, could be
preserved, in a great measure, by having them of the same
height as the rest, with a thin metal cap permanently affixed
on the top, to prevent the downward blasts of wind, which
often occur in such situations, and render the rooms smoky.
In applying such a cap, 'there would be no occasion for a
chimney-pot ; and, when the flues were carried up the neces-
sary height, the upper surface should be splayed off, so that
when eddies of wind, in a steady horizontal direction, acted
upon them, they would be obstructed, and rise to-mix in the
air again.