The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.) KP
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 3.—The Pantaloon was taken into
dock on Thursday ; the Hyacinth, 18, Commander Black-
wood, will be paid off on Wednesday next. The Victory,
Samarang, and Athol will be taken out of the basin when

the weather moderates.
The Dido, Captain Davies, C. 8., fitting out Sheerness,
is destined, it is understood, to the East Indies.
Promotions and appointments.—Messrs. Jorrocks, H.
Tylden, and M. Burney, Mates, to the rank of Lieutenants ;
Captain W. B. Mends, to the Talavera ; Captain T. Sulli-
van, C. 8., to the Stag, intended to be employed as Com-
modore in the Pacific ; Captain H. B. Martin, Lieutenants
T. L. Massie, and J. G. Crosbie, Mr. J. C. Rutter, Master
(acting), Mr. Peter Loney, Second Master, Mr. H. Barn-
ber, Purser, and Mr. D. Burns, Assistant-surgeon, to Carys-
fort ; Lieut. W. Arica, to Confianco steamer ; Lieut. W.
James to the:Echo ; Lieut. R. E. Owen, to the Carron ;
Lieut. J. M. Waugh, to the Blazer ; Lieutenant G. Keith
Ogilvy, to be Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Sir F.
Maitland ; Mr. Clarence Taylor, Mate to the Inconstant :
Mr. O'Brien, Clerk of the Inconstant, to be Clerk-in-
charge to the Savage ; Mr. Robert Whitmore Clarke,
Assistant-Surgeon to the Opossum ; Mr. Smith, of the
Endymion, and Mr. T. D. Le► Vesconte, Mates, to the Ex-
cellent:; Mr. Douglas, Mate, to the Satellite ; Mr. David
Wise, Surgeon, to the Semarang ; Mr. T. Miller, Mid-
shipman, to the Pembroke ; Mr. H. Hamilton, Coll. Mate,
to the Serpent ; Lieut. J. Rawstorne, to the Coast Guard,
Sussex ; Lieut. Thos. Hoare, Assistant-Surgeon, to the
Royal Adelaide ; Mr. J. Heatham, Clerk-in-Charge, to the
Blazer ; Mr. T. G. Mitchell, additional Clerk, to the Bel-
lerophon ; Mr. C. Blyth, Clerk, to the Fly ; Lieut. J. T.
Strong, to the Bathurst Coast Guard vessel, Queen-

borough.
THE CHARLES EATON.—In compliance with instruc-
tions from the Colonial Office, the Isabella, a colonial ves-
sel, has been despatched from Sydney into Torres Straits,
in quest of the crew of this vessel. The East India Com-
pany's brig Tigris has been also sent by the Bengal govern-
ment for the same purpose.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
DEVONPORT, DEC. 3.—We hear that the Princess
Charlotte, 110, will be commissioned by Captain Pym,
C.B. She is intended for the flag of the new Commander-
in-Chief in the Mediterranean. Captain Pym is sup-
posed to be appointed to this splendid ship merely to
enable him to complete a few weeks' time, to make him
eligible for his flag, in the expected promotion, which it
is understood will come out early after the meeting of
Parliament. The promotion will, it is said, extend to
Captain Richard Thomas, 22d October, 1805, and
will make about 40 Flag Officers ; the remainder are to
be placed on the retired list of Rear-Admirals and Captains.
This promotion will create the following vacancies :—Three
Colonels of Marines (not to be filled up,) saving 2,0701. per
annum. The Lieutenant• Governor of the Naval College
(not to be filled up), 600/. per annum. Two Yachts, which
will be paid off, saving 2,0001. a year. One Captain of
Greenwich Hospital ; four Superintendents of Dock-yards ;
and one Captain of the Ordinary.
His Majesty's ship Conway, 28, Capt. C. R. Drinkwater,
made her number off this port on Thursday, and proceeded
for the East Indies.
The Prince Regent transport, Lieut. Scrymgour, R.N.,
has put in here, in consequence of a westerly gale. She left
Torbay on Wednesday, having, on Tuesday, while riding
there, experienced an extremely severe gale from the N.W.,
during which she lost an anchor and cable, and upset her wind-
lass. Most of the vessels in the bay drove from their an-
chors, among the rest his Majesty's ship Conway. One brig
was driven to sea, having lost two anchors ; and two vessels
were completely dismasted by the force of the hurricane.
Appointments to the Woolverine, at Chatham.—Com-
mander Hon. E. Howard ; Lieutenants, Alfred Lethail,
Charles Smith Williamson ; Master J. W. Bateman ; Sur-
geon, James Kittle ; Purser, J. Taylor ; Assistant-Surgeon,
A. D. Bain ; Mate, H. T. Vaughan ; Clerk, W. H. Bate-
man ; Mid. Chas. Sullivan ; Volunteer, Ist class, E. Ridge.
Captain W. B. Mends, of Stoke ; Mr. S. G. Northcote,
Master ; and J. J. Ball, Second Master ; are appointed to
the Talavera.
Captain Daniel Pring is to succeed to the command of
the Inconstant ; Lieut. W. Loring, Mr. F. Webster, Col-
lege Volunteer (from Semarang), and Mr. Wm. Broom,
Gunner, are appointed to the Carysfort ; Lieut. Lord Henry
Russell, to the Hastings ; Mr. T. Rogers, Assistant-Sur-
geon, to the Asia ; Dr. Livesay, Assistant-Surgeon to the
Thunderer ; Captain H. B. Martin, to Carysfort; Lieute-
nants T. L. Massie, J. G. Crosbie, and W. Loring, to Ca-
rysfort ; E. E. Owen to command Carron ; W. James, to
command Echo ; W. Arlett, to command Confiance ; J. M.
Waugh, to command Blazer ; J. Rawstorne, to Coast Guard,
Sussex ; T. Hare and P. Barnes, to Coast Guard ; J. C.
Rutter, Acting Master, to Carysfort ; F. Denison, Mate, to
Inconstant ; Peter Loney, Second Mister, to Carysfort ; H.
K. Bamber, Purser, to Carysfort ; J. 'leathern, Clerk in
charge, to Blazer ; T. G. Mitchell, Additional Clerk, to
Bellerophon ; C. Blyth, Clerk, to Fly ; Lieut. the Hon.
E. R. Curzon, Mr. N. B. Pearce, Second Master and
Pilot, to the Savage. Mr. Percival Wilkinson, of Ports-
mouth Gun-wharf, is appointed Deputy Storekeeper of the
Ordnance at Sydney, New South Wales ; Wm. R. Smith,
Mate, H. T. D. Le Vesconte, Mate, to Excellent ; C.
Taylor, Midshipman, to the Inconstant ; W. M. W.
Douglas, Extra Coll. Mate, to Satellite ; W.F. Innes, Vol.
first class to Bellerophon ; David Wise, Surgeon, to Se-
marang, vice Lane, superseded.
Remaining in Hamoaze, Royal Adelaide, San Josef,
Stag, Pigeon, Britomart, Spitfire steam-vessel, Goodwill and
Duck lighters.
In Barnpool—Cockatrice.
In the Sound—Talavera, Catherine Stewart Forbes, and
Prince Regent transport, bound to Cork and West Indies.
At Spithead on Wednesday—lnconstant, and Barrosa.
In Portsmouth Harbour—Britannia, Royal George, Ex-
cellent, Victory, Semarang, Hyacinth, Athol, Pantaloon,
Fanny, Gossamer, and Emerald tenders, and Serpent.

Prince Canino, who has lately suffered considerable
uneasiness from the imprisonment and condemnation of his
son, for shooting the garde de chasse, has received, it is
stated, an intimation from the Papal Court that the sen-
tence of death passed on the young Prince will be exchanged
for perpetual banishment from the Italian States.
The autumn examination of the children in the Cen-
tral Schools of the National Society took place on Wednes-
day, the 30th ult. In consequence of the absence of com-
pany from London, very general invitations were issued to
the masters and mistresses of National Schools in the metro-
polis, and to the parents of the children. The attendance,
notwithstanding the wet day, was enough to show the lively
interest they took in the Institution. The children's per-
formance was very creditable.
The Seine has risen to the height of nearly five
metres, according to the scale of the bridges. The piers of
the bridge of the Carrousel are completely under water,
and the roofs of the floating-baths are on a level with the
quays. A variety of objects, such as straw, fragments of
timber, &c., are seen carried down the river.
BISHOP BLASE.—The celebration in memory of
St. Blase, and in honour of laying the first stone of a
new Yarn Factory, took place here on Thursday last, and
passed off in a manner well calculated to give public sa-
tisfaction, and to afford enjoyment to a numerous portion
of industrious and deserving operatives. Attracted by the
novelty of the promised sight—interested in the associa-
tion of so popular and splendid a festival with the subject
of our local prosperity ; and especially invited to recrea-
tion out of doors by the favourableness of the weather, the
whole active population, and no small portion of the neigh-
bouring inhabitants, were spectators of this cleverly " got
up" and admirably conducted pageant of commemoration,
in which the Pagan story of Jason's argonautic expedition
to Colchis in search of the Golden-Fleece is singularly
dove-tailed into the monkish legend of a Christian Bishop !
Norwich Gazette.
On Saturday morning last, a respectable woman,
Mrs. Davidson, residing in the Merkinch here, was disco-
vered in her own house, with her head on the fire, and her
body shockingly burned and disfigured.—lnverness Courier.
SHOCKING MURDER AT SHEFFIELD.—EarIy on
Tuesday morning a horrid murder was committed at Shef-
field, by Joseph Farmer, a butcher, residing in Far-gate, in
that town, on the body of Joseph Wilks, his step-son. The
wretched perpetrator of this crime was occasionally much
addicted to liquor, and when in that state exhibited all the
violence of an insane person. His malignity on these occa-
sions was principally directed towards his wife and her two
sons by a former marriage, produced by a strong impression
that he was suffering injury from them in a pecuniary way.
On the night in questions being in liquor, he went home
about eleven o'clock, and having sat down in a room where
his family were at supper, the first thing he did was to put
his hand in his pocket and draw therefrom five .51. notes,
which he threw into the fire. They were snatched from
thence by his wife, who prevented their destruction by im-
mersing them in some ale which chanced to be on the table.
Farmer then took up a table knife and made a stroke at
her. A little before one o'clock, two young men passing
the house and hearing some noise, approached the shop
door in order to discover what was going on when the door
opened, and out issued a young man, Wilks, who declared
his father had stuck him. Two watchmen being called in,
accompanied by Mr. T. Hunt,-burstopen the door of Far-
mer's house, and secured him. On Wednesday an inquest
was held before Mr. Badger on the body of the deceased,
when it appeared that a wound was inflicted between the
fifth and sixth ribs on the right side, which had produced
death. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against
Farmer, when the Coroner issued his warrant fer his com-
mittal to York Castle. The deceased was about 20 years
of age, and was much respected.—Doncaster Gazette.