The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-19 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17.—One hundred additional ma-
rines from the Woolwich Division, are ordered to be sent
immediately to Passages to reinforce the battalion under
Major Owen's command. Lieut. James Lynn, of the Royal
Engineers, quartered in this garrison, is ordered to embark
also for the same quarter.
The Inconstant, 36, Captain D. Pring, is'lo proceed to
Plymouth, there to wait for orders. She will sail about
Monday.
The Cameleon, 10, was, on the 2d inst., at Lisbon. She
had been for a month cruising off Cape St. Vincent, for what
purpose does not appear, and was going to the same station
again on the following day.
The Edinburgh, 74, and Castor, 36,, are ordered to be
paid off at this port ; the former to be put into ordinary,
and the latter to be recommissioned.
The Lightning steam-vessel arrived on Sunday from the
river, on her way to the north-coast of Spain, and having
completed her coals, proceeded the following morning.
On Wednesday noon the Stork, revenue cutter, Lieut.
Fothergill, fell in with the Ariadne, Trenwick, master, of
this port, totally dismasted off Selsey Bill, and in great dis-
tress ; though blowing very hard, Lieut. Fothergill took her
in tow, and got her under Bemhridge in the course of that
night, and on Thursday evening towed her into this har-
bour—she is coal-laden, and from Seaham.
The Prince was moved from her moorings on Thursday,
to those lately occupied by the Venerable, and the Victory
took her station on the following day, as harbour guard-
ship, Captain T. Searle, C. 8., bearing the flag of Rear Ad-
miral Superintendent Sir Frederick Maitland, K.C.B. Air.
Maybery, Surgeon of this ordinary, has been discharged
from ill-health without' being superseded. Mr. Edward
Williams, second master, is 'appointed to supersede Mr. J.
J. R. Duncan in. charge of the buoy-boat ; twenty-five ser-
viceable men have this day been discharged from this ordi-
nary, and twenty-one of them are awarded 15/. per annum
each for their civil service. _ _

The packet ship Quebec, Hebard, got away this evening
for New York.

Arrived this evening the Cambrian, Dring Master, from
Miramichi, on the 15th, ult., with the loss of sails, bul-
warks, .cleckload, and boats. The carpenter, by name Fos-
ter, was washed overboard, and lost on tho 2d in long. 30.
A large fleet of merchant ships are still lying at the
Mother-bank, and during the tempestuous gales all have
rode it out well. Every day this week we have had an ar-
rival ; most of the ships are foreigners, the greatest part
having been beating about in the channel for nearly a
month, and compelled at last to seek shelter in an English
roadstead.

At Spithead—lnconstant, Barossa (transport), Sarah
(convict ship), Quebec (American packet), Castle Lachlan
(West Indiaman).
In the Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Samarang, Serpent, Pantaloon, Atholl.
APPOINTNIENTS.—Lieuts. C. S. Williamson and A.
Leathart, Mr. J. W. Bateman, Master, M. J. Kittle, Sur-
geon, Mr. A. D. Bain, Assistant Surgeon, Mr. H. Vaughan,
Mate, and Mr. J. Taylor, Purser, to the Wolverine ; Mr.
L. C. H. Tongc, Midshipman (late of the Hyacinth) to the
Inconstant ; Mr. Francis Bourchier, Extra Mate, and. Mr.
Thomas Belgrave, Midshipman, to the Samarang ; Mr.
John Thompson, M.D., to be additional Assistant Surgeon,
of Britannia.
The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at the
Naval College, on Tuesday and Wednesday :—Mr. Fran-
cis John Digging, and Simpson 11. Ricketts, late Hyacinth ;
John Rashley Rodd, Portland ; Alexander Hamilton, Ser-
pent ; Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, Fairy ; Wm. Richard
Smith, Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte, and William
Everard Alphonso Gordon, Excellent ; Thomas Belgrave,
late North Star ; Fred. Archd. Campbell, 'Water Witch ;
Alexander Rodney Bligh Carter, Talavera ; Charles Cod-
rington Forsyth, Beagle ; John Wyborn, Belvidera.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
The Goodwill, lighter, sailed on Wednesday for Fal-
mouth, and from .thence to Pembroke with stores. The
Duck lighter, sailed on Thursday with stores for Ports-
mouth. The Buoy boat, sailed on Thursday with stores
for Falmouth.

Britomart, will be paid off on the 20th instant,
having been prevented by bad weather, from being paid off
as stated in our last.

The Reynard Packet, Lieut. Dunsford; arrived on
Tuesday from Falmouth, for general repairs. .
Forty-nine men were dischared on pension yesterday, from
the Ordinary at this Port.
In Harbour—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Stag, Brito-
mart, Pigeon packet, and Goodwill lighter.
In the Sound—Talavera.
The Blazer, steamer, arrived here yesterday.
H.M.S. Stag, 46, Commodore Sullivan, was taken out
of dock on Tuesday, and warped alongside the Jetty to be
rigged.
Extract of a letter from the Wanderer brig of war,
dated Halifax, Nov. 12, says—" We are refitting along-
side the Pyramus hulk, having during the whole summer
been cruising in the Bay of Fundy ; and as soon as ready,.
we are ordered to accompany the Admiral, Sir Peter
Halket, to Bermuda, and thence to Jamaica, who proposes
to sail on the 1 7th instant, in the Melville, 78, which has
had a thorough refit. This goes home by the packet brig
Delight, by which vessel two of our gentlemen, Mr. Map-
pleton, Mate, and Mr. Gardner, Clerk, go passengers.
We experienced a very tempestuous Passage during our
late trip to St. John's. The Forte frigate has left the
station for England."
NOTICE TO MARINERS.—A green buoy, marked with
the word " wreck," has been placed about 30 fathoms
E S.E. of the wreck of a brig, on the north end of the
Brake sand. The buoy lies about half a mile S.E. from
the North Brake Buoy, and in four fathoms at low water
spring tides.

At Cherbourg, on the 4th instant, about six o'clock
in the evening, a-luminous body, of the species of meteors
called bolides, was seen to the eastward, and proceeding
from north to south ; the wind at the moment was blowing
violently, and the rain falling in torrents.
Duke Charles of Brunswick, Lords A. Fitzdarence,
Tenterden, Arden, Count d'Orsay, Mr. IN ombwell, and
many other fashionables, occupied private boxes at Drury-
lane Theatre on Thursday evening, to see the new ballet
of the Devil on Two Sticks. The cachoucha, one of the
most celebrated of the dances of Spain, and executed by
Mdlle. Duvernay with as much spirit as gracefulness, was
encored.

HELTEN HAM, OXFORD, and TRING

RAILWAY.

Yle Parliamentary Plans and Sections deposited with
the (Clerks of the Peace, establi'sbed numerous contradic-
tions' to the recent Report of Directors of this Company
(signed " Pearson Thomson," Chairman) and at the same
time furnish accurate means of comparing the Engineering
qualities of this projected Line with the Railway from
Cheltenham to Swindon, already sanctioned by Parliament,
and the following facts elicited from those authentic sources,
are promulgated for public information.
By the Directors' Report, &dyer. By Plans and Sections deposited
tised in the Times Newspaper, with
,the Clerk of the Peace,
Dec. 7 : on or before Nov. 30
ACTUAL MEASUREMENT.
Gloucester to London.
Miles Ch.
By Tring
By Swindon

DISTA WC FS.

Gloucester to London, 91 miles!
shorter by Trig; than Swindon.

Cheltenham to London, 233 miles
shorter by 'rring than Swindon.

TUNNELS.

No single Tunnel will exceett
500 yards in length.
GRADIENTS.

For the Traffic from Worcester
to London, there will be a saving
of 5 miles, and the Gradients of,
this Line (excepting- the Dales-1
well Plane) do not in any case
exceed 16 feet per mile.

Difference 5 54

Cheltenham to London,
. 61
By Tring
IBy 'Swindon ll9 50

INCLINED PLANE.
Excepting . the " Plane" at
Dodeswell.)

Difference 19 69

TUNNELS.
At Sandwell, near Andoversford.
Tunnel, 47 chains ; or 1,034
yards.
a RA DIENTS.

The first Gradient upon the
Tring Line, after quitting the
Gloucester and Birminghamr'Ra'il-
,way, is I in 212 ; or 26 feet per
for mile.

INCLINED PLANES.
M. CH.
One of 1 2
and
One of 1 3

1 in 414 ! !

1 in 30 ! !

Although the Directors' Report is prudently silent
upon the point, the Tring Prospectus states the distance to
be six miles less from Oxford to London.
The actual distances by sections, however, prove,
Oxford by Tring to London
Oxford by Didcot to London ....

Difference only l mile 40 chains.
It may be alleged, perhaps, and truly, that the London
and Birmingham Station, at Euston Grove, is nearer to the
city than the Great Western Station at Paddington,
whence these respective distances are calculated ; but on
the other hand, it is worthy of observation, that the latter
Depot is nearer and more direct both to Piccadilly and
Oxford-street ; and it may be fairly assumed, that as far as
the traffic from Oxford and Cheltenham is concerned,
not being commercial, three-fourths, at least, in number of
Passengers will be destined for the West end of London.
The fares to the City, by public conveyance, are at present
the same from both places.
The several inaccuracies thus enumerated are, however,
trivial indeed, when contrasted with the total suppression of
facts of material value in determining the comparative su-
periority of the two lines.
Admitting the distances to be more or less favourable to
the Tring, the first enquiry is naturally directed to the ge-
neral features of the country to be traversed. What are
the respective summit heights to be attained ? This must
be acknowledged at all hands, a principal ingredient in the
comparison, inasmuch as Mr. George Stephenson, and other
Engineers of ability, have proved that twenty feet of verti-
cal rise may be generally esteemed equal to one additional
mile of distance.
The followingstatements are indisputable, being deduced
from the Parliamentary plans and sections already refer-
red to.

LONDON AND OXFORD.
BY TILING. Ascent. , BY DIDCOT.

-
, —7 ft. Ascent.
From Euston Grove to Tring 348 From Padding,on to Oxford
From Oxford Depot to Tring 202 Depot (no intervening
summit)
CH. - From Oxford to Paddington Nil
21 ... feet 550 Tunnels (none) _ _

M.
5 Tunnels 2

In making the journey from London to Oxford and back
again, the traffic must therefore overcome 423 feet of Verti-
cal rise by the Tring, more than by the Didcot Line,
making an average excess each way of 2111 feet, which is
equal upon Mr. George Stephenson's evidence to an extra
distance of IOA- miles between Oxford and London.