The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, APRIL 23.—8 y the Plover
packet, arrived at Falmouth, from the West Indies, accounts
are received from Jamaica to the 14th ult. The following
is a letter, dated Jamaica, March 14 :
" The mail is,making up for England, and few words will
suffice to convey the situation of affairs in this quarter. The
first great blessing is, that we enjoy an universal quietude in
every island in this Archipelago, and agriculture, manufac-
tures, and trade are going on most prosperously, though the
Legislators of this island are doing their best, by an obsti-
nate opposition to the Government authorities, to excite dis-
content in the minds of all classes, apprentices included.
We only trust that Lord Sligo, who has prorogued the
House of Assembly till the 14th April, will be armed with
such powers from the mother country, by Lord Glenelg and
the British Ministry, as will prevent the anarchy and con-
fusion which must otherwise ensue from the want of local
provisions to carry the great change in the situation of our
slave population into effect. The Magistrates and Vestries,
however, it should be remarked, are, with much good sense,
doing that, for quietude and safety, in their local districts,
which the expired law would have compelled them to do,
but which our short-sighted House of Assembly has left as
a matter of option only.
" Part of a French squadron, under the command of
Admiral Macaud, arrived at Martinique on the 29th Feb.,
with 1,000 soldiers on board, but as the dispute between
France and America is understood to be at an end,
through the intervention of Lord Palmerston, it is pre-
sumed the Admiral will speedily return to Europe.
" WEST INDIA SQUADRON, MARCH 14.—The Forte
frigate is gone to Vera Cruz ; Comus, 13, Meteor steamer,
Pickle and Pincher schooners, are at Jamaica ; Wasp, 18,
gone to Nassau and Bermuda, with Commissariat specie ;
Nimrod, 20, at Chac, bres ; Cruizer, 16, at Carthacrena ;
Gannet, 18, at Bermuda ; Champion, 18, at Honduras ;
Skipjack and Lark schooners, on cruises ; Dee steamer,
at Mondego Bay ; the Comus would return to England on
the arrival of Commodore Pell from the Spanish Main ;
the Vestal, 28, arrived at Barbadoes on the 4th March,
and the Racer, 16, on the 6th March ; the Gannet and
Racehorse, sloops of war, were lying there also on the
10th March, and was to sail on the following day for
Bermuda.

" Captain John William Spellen, of the Royal Artil-
lery, died on the 4th March at Demerara, aged 47.
Also, at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 29th February, Dr.
Henriques, a well-known medical practitioner of that island,
aged 67."

- The Flirt brig, Captain Sargeant, arrived yesterday, hav-
ing left Santander on the 11th instant. She took out sup-
plies for General Evans, and brings home 23 invalids, 29
women, and 22 children ; the whole of whom have been
put on board the Swiftsure, carefully attended to, and pro-
vided with new clothes, and will be sent to-morrow by the
Irish steamer to their homes, by the agent at this port.
The following is an extract of a letter dated Santander,
April 11 The Ringdove, Captain Lapidge, at Portu-
galette, has already commenced the war against Don Car-
los, by firing at and dispersing a body of his troops ; all the
British officers are in high spirits. The good people of
Santander are rejoiced that the British Government intend
to wage war in earnest against Don Carlos—leading, as it
inevitably must, to a speedy termination of the frightful
state of things in this country."
A detachment, consisting of Captain Garmston, Lieu-
tenant Stevens, two sergeants, one corporal, and fifty pri-
vates of the Royal Marines of this division, and a detach-
ment of the Marine Artillery, consisting of Lieutenant
Parke, one sergeant, one corporal, one bombardier, and
twelve gunners, embarked yesterday on board the Phcenix
steam-vessel, Commander Henderson, and immediately
proceeded to Santander to be placed under the orders of
Captain Lord John Hay ; where a battalion of Royal Ma-
rines is rapidly forming, of which Major John Owen, K.H.,
is to have the command, and for whom the Phcenix will
touch at Plymouth. Two detachments, each of 150, from
the Woolwich and Chatham Divisions, have also embarked,
or will do so immediately, on board the Rhadamanthus
and Salamander steam-vesse:s, and to make up the strength
required for the battalion, 30 marines are to be taken from
each of the flag-ships—at Sheerness, Plymouth, and this
port. With the force that has already proceeded from Ply-
mouth and this port to the north coast of Spain, including the
Marine Artillery, and that on the point of departure, the
battalion will be 640 strong. Mr. Dabbs, surgeon, R.N., is
to be attached to the battalion. The 150 marines from the
Chatham division are to embark on board the Salamander,
under the command of Captain Steele.
His Majesty's ship Buffalo was commissioned at this
port this morning by Captain Hindmarsh (Governor of
South Australia), to which new colony this ship will take
out settlers, and remain with them until they are securely
lecated. Tee Buffalo then proceeds, in command of Mr.
Sadler, to New Zealand, for timber.
The Lightning steamer, Lieutenant Shambler, arrived
this morning, in eight days, from Lisbon. She brings
home a mail, but was compelled by severe weather to an-
chor under the lee of Cape Finisterre. This vessel accom-
panied the Prince of Portugal, as an escort, from England
to the Portuguese capital, where his Royal Highness landed
an the Bth instant, amid great rejoicing, and was married
on the following day to Queen Donna Maria. The. Light-
ning brings no news ; there had been no change of Ministry ;
and though the Minister of Finance had resigned, his situa- '
tioi had not, on the 15th, been filled up.
The Quail cutter, which recently encountered such sad
disasters, was towed into this harbour to-day, from Jersey,
under jury masts, by the sloop Sons of Commerce, of
Cowes. The officers of the cutter have expressed a very
grateful sense of the excessive kindness and hospitality
which was shown them during their stay at Jersey, where
the wreck of the cutter awakened the most unbounded
sympathy amongst all classes of society. We understand
the Lords of the Admiralty have expressed their approba-
tion of the conduct of Lieutenant Bisson, and the officers
and crew of the Quail, in refusing to leave the wreck of
that cutter, although in an unmanageable state, in the Bay
of Biscay, when offered to be removed into a French mer-
chant brig.

The eight line-of-battle ships recently commissioned are
getting fast ready for sea : the 3,200 seamen requisite to
man them, independent of the Officers and marines, are
nearly all raised at the different ports, there being only 240
men required by the returns to the Admiralty on Thursday
last.

IN HARBOUR.—Britannia, Vanguard, Bellerophon, Pem-
broke, Excellent, Royal George, Lightning, Buffalo, and
Quail.

AT SPITHEAD.—EuIing Grove, and Heber, merchant
ships.

APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Hindmarsh, Mr. F. W. R.
Sadler, master, and Messrs. James Bowler and N. Phillips
to the Buffalo ; Lieuts. G. L. Wolley (1820), to the Or-
dinary, vice Lieuts. R. Dwyer and Wm. Pitt.—Mr. James
Dirom, mate, and Mr. I. P. Palmer, midshipman, to the
Pembroke ; Mr. A. Wodehouse, volunteer Ist class, from
the Phoenix to the Asia ; Mr. Forbes, assistant-surgeon, to
the Phoenix ; Mr. George Henry Dabbs, to be additional
surgeon to the Castor ; Mr. Frederick E. Forbes, extra
collge midshipman to the Pearl.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 23.—The Delight brig, Lieutenant
Moore, sailed on Saturday for Falmouth.
The Tartarus steam-vessel sailed on Monday for Fal-
mouth.
The Pandora packet, Lieutenant Inner, arrived here on