The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 17.—The Cornwallis,74, Capt. Sir R
Grant, arrived at Halifax on the 10th of January, with the
65th Regiment, 470 strong, besides 40 women and 92 chil-
dren. She landed them immediately, except the flank Coal-
panics, which she took, with the 34th Regiment, on the 13th,
to St. John's, New Brunswick, from which place the 34th
Regiment would proceed in sleighs to Quebec. This regi-
ment bad been preceded by the 85th, 34th, and the 43d, as
well also as by Major Pringle's Company of Royal Artillery ;
and so well had the Commissariat Department executed their
duty, that Colonel Booth, with his division of the 43d, found
no difficulty in completing half the distance on the sixth day
after leaving Fredericton. The offer of Sir Richard Grant
to convey troops in so large a ship as the Cornwallis, in the
d'pth of winter up the Bay of Fundy, was considered by those
who understood the naTigation of that part of the world as a
very bold undertaking, and could only be warranted by the
urgency of the case. The weather had continued very fine
for two days after his sailing, when the Alert packet came
away.
The Alligator, 28, Captain Sir J.' G. Gordon Bremer,
sailed on Monday last for Plymouth, for the intended new
settlement in the N. W. corner of New South Wales.

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The President, 52, arrived at and sailed from Madeira
on the 17th ult. The Tribune, 24, arrived at Cadiz on the
27th ult. _ _ _

The Hercules, 74, Captain Toup Nicolas, C. 8., tailed cn
Saturday from Plymouth to Cork, to embark troops for Ca-
nada; the Lynx sailed on Sunday from the same port, for the
coast of Africa.

The Malabar, 74, has this week been commissioned at Ply-
mouth by Captain Edward Harvey.

The Vestal, 28, Captain T. W. Carter, and Calliope, 28,
Captain Herbert, were to sail from Sheerness to day for
Spithcad.
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, sufficient to cover the tanks in
her hold, and two ,or her guns getting loose she was in much
danger and was obliged to return.
The Barossa transport arrived in the river Shannon on the
3.1 instant, with the 78th Regiment on board, from Ceylon ;
she had a very long passage, and the crew end soldiers had
suffered much from had weather and want of provisions; 3.5
persons had died ox board of her.
The brig Hopewell, Dixon, master, from Sunderland coal
laden, got on the Horse Sand, in running into Spithead,
about seven o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, at a time
when a wretchedly cold E. S. E. wind threw a considerable
sea on that bank, and it was so thick she could not see the
Nab light. The vessel soon gave signs of having injured her
bottom, and the crew immediately took to their boat, think-
ing she might go to pieces, and got safely on board the Belle
Alliance Indiaman lying at Spithead. Her stern has since
broken off, and her decks are blown up ; on the following night
the lanthe, Mackenzie, corn laden, from Limerick, touched on
the Dean Sand and beat over, but is leaky, and is obliged to
come into harbour.

At Spithead—Electra.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George,
Apollo, Pantaloon, Partridge, Nautilus, Brisk, Pluto steamer,
Diligence naval transport.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Edward Harvey to the Malabar;
Captain Sandom to command the armed flotilla on the lakes
of Canada ; Lieutenant Honourable H. A. Murray, to the
Modeste ; Lieutenant Montague Hayes to the Cruizer ; Mr.
T. R. H. Thompson, Assistant Surgeon, to the Cockatrice,
on the South American station, to take passage out in the
Calliope; Mr. Kean, Assistant Surgeon, to Haslar hospital;
Lieutenant W. Roberts, to be additional Lieutenant, and Mr.
J. King, additional Master, to the Victory, for the service of
the Dasher, Weymouth packet ; Mr. Thomas H. Keown,
Assistant Surgeon, from Britannia, to be Hospital Mate, at
Haslar; Mr. William Lambert, Assistant Surgeon, from the
Excellent, to the Malabar ; Mr. Robert Macure Sandom,
Mate, to the flotilla at Canada ; Mr. George B. Fuller, from
the Excellent, to be Clerk-in-charge of the Charybdis; Mr.
R. H. Dalton, College Mate, to the Volage ; Mr. W. F.
Warren, Mate, to the Vestal ; Mr. Richard bawler, Super-
numerary Gunner, Mr. George Watts, Supernumerary-boat-
swain, Mr. William Cook, Supernumerary Carpenter, and
Mr. Thomas Price, Supernumerary Cook, to the troop ship,
Apollo.
The following gentlemen passed their examination in Navi-
gation on Tuesday last, at the Royal Naval College :
Messrs. Alexander Charles Gordon, Robert Macure Sandom,
Honourable Spencer Lytteltoa, William Ponsonby Johnson,
Robert Hamilton Dundac, George Marriott, James Ptolemy
Thurburn, Alexander M‘Naghten, William Lumsden M‘Ken_
zie.—Hants Telegraph.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
Puvatourn, FEB. 17.—The Cutter Hind, 6, Lieut.-Com.
Codd, arrived on Thursday evening from the Mediterranean
station. She was totally dismasted a short diatance to the
westward of this Port.

The Brig Savage, 10, Lieut.-Corn. the Hon. E. R. Cur-
zon, arrived on Monday, from the North Coast of Spain, and
came into Barnpool, on Tuesday, to refit.
We have received letters from the officers of the Vanguard,
80, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes, Knt., dated Malta, Jan.
24. No particular news —all well on board.
The Calliope, 28, Captain Thomas Herbert, may be ex-
pected at this Port, from Portsmouth, during the ensuing
week.

The Brig Espoir, 10, Lieutenant Thomas Paulson, will go
out of harbour this day (Saturday.)
The Packet Mutine, 10, Lieut.. Corn. Pawle, having had
her defects made good, was taken cut of ti,)ck on Friday, and
warped alongside the Sheerhulk the same day, to have her
masts put on board.
The packet Star, Lieut. Christopher Smith, R. N., will
sail from Falmouth for the West India Islands, on or about
the 3d of March next ; this splendid vessel still remains un-
rivalled in points of sailing, accommodation, and comfort for
passengers.
The schooner Bonetta, Lieut. H. P. Deschamps, has cap-
tured in the Bight of Biafra two slavers, one a Portuguese
brigantine with 332 slaves on board, on the 4th, and a schooner
under Portuguese colours also, on the 15th Nov., with 313
slaves on board. _ _ .

The Talavera, 74, Capt W. B. Mends, is ordered to take
troops from Gibraltar to Halifax.
The brig Algerine, 10, Lieut. W. S. Thomas, was off
Madras on the 10th of October, when one of the men on
board, with a boat-hook, hauled up a sea-snake, which was put
in a bucket ; one of the marines, in attempting to take it up,
or do something with it, received a bite in the hand, and al-
though the bite from this reptile is generally considered in-
nocuous, the man was siczed with nausea, and died in two
hours after.

The Comus, 18, was at Halifax on the 18th of November.
The Victor, 18, left Sydney for Madras, September 12 ; the
Raleigh, 18, left Madras for Calcutta, November 14.
In the Sound.—Alligator and Hind, cutter.
In Barnpool—Savage, refitting.
In Harbour.—Royal Adelaide, San Josef Lily, Espoir,
Britornart, and Mutine.

THE COLOSSEUM.—The morning exhibitions of
the Colosseum are now exceedingly attractive. Since the
commencement of the present month many families of dis-
tinction have visited this gigantic structure, which, since it has
merged into the hands of Mr. Braham, has been renovated
and improved by an outlay of some thousand pounds. A new
Optical Gallery, which is a recent addition to the many no-
velties of this place of amusement, will well repay the curious
for a visit. The celebrated Panoramic View of the Metro-
polis, as seen from the top of St. Paul's, the Swiss Cottage,
the Waterfalls, the Sculpture Gallery, the Conservatories,
&c. &c., are as eagerly sought after as ever. We understand
that some novelties are in preparation for E, ger.
BILLY BLACK IN PARLIAMENT.—What is the
difference between Faux and Vaux ? D'ye give it up? The
one wanted to blow up the House of Commons, and the other
does blow up the House of Lords. What M. P. best repre-
sents the present state of the poor? D'ye give it up? The Hon.
Member far Southwark, who, by wishing to keep up the coal
monopoly, would compel those who have to die with Duke
Humphrey, to be starved by Alderman Humphrey.
THE NEW LIGHT.—The exhibitions on Thursday
and Friday evenings by Mr. Gye, Jun., of the new and beau-
tiful light which he has made by a certain admixture of oxy-
gen and hydrogen gases, was very interesting. The power
of the flame, which was not an inch in diameter or lieirtiith,
is equal to that of fifty common gas-lights. A copy of' The
Sun was placed at the end of the Speaker's old dining-room,
at the greatest possible distance from the burner, and the
smallest type was read with the greatest ease. Mr. Gye
placed the light behind coloured preparations, which had the
effect of considerably softening it, but it was acknowledged by
all that in beauty and brilliancy it was, " when unadorned
adorned the most." Upwards of 100 Members, and many
scientific gentlemen, were present on each occasion,—Mr.
Hume, Mr. Wakley, Colonel Trench, and Sir George Strick-
land, took a particular interest in the enquiry, and proposed
several questions to Mr. Gye. If it were possible to possess
this light without danger, for modern improvements would be
of gi eater public advat.tage, but we are afraid it is impossil-41°,
and that this surprising brilliancy is neither more nor less than
an amalgamation of gases, which ignorance or inattention
might convert into a most deadly " coal damp," the conse-
quences of which might render Mr. Gye a second Guy Faux.