The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald.)
PORTSMOUTH, FY!. 6.—The following Alidshipitien
passed their examination in seamanship on Wednesd,tv, Or;
toard his Majesty's ship St. Vincent, in the presence t,f
Captains Burdett, Rowley, and Parker, viz. :—Mr. S.
Stanfell, of the Pearl ; Mr. G. B. Anstruther, of the
Undaunted; and Mr. F. W. Mant, of the Childers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Inglis, of the Plymouth division of
Royal Marines, has been ordered to be surveyed, prior to
his being allowed to sell his unattached commission.
Major-General James Campbell, Deputy Adjutant-Ce-
neral of Royal Marines, has been allowed to retire from
the service. Sir James Cockburn will, it is said, for the
future be at the head of the Marine Corps; but whether
with military rank, or a seat at the Board of Admiralty,
is not yet determined. Major Wright, the Assistant
Adjutant-General of Royal Marines, remains, but under
another denomination, and with a considerable reduction
of salary.

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.-Oapt. the Hon.
G. R. W. Trefttsis is appointed to his Majesty's ship Win-
chester, vice Austin, invalided. Commander Thomas
Gallwey is appointed to the Ordinary at Chatham, vice
Gregory. Lieut. Charles A. Barlow is appointed to his
Majesty's ship Asia. Lieut. Edward Bevan is appointed
to his Majesty's ship Revenge, vice Nash. The Hon. H.
A. Murray, of his Majesty's ship Magnificent, is promoted
to the rank of Lieutenant. S.cond Lieut. Charles Wil-
liam Pearce, of this Division of Royal Marines, is pro-
moted to the rank of First Lieutenant, and appointed to
the Woolwich Division, vice George Baker, who has be. n
invalided in Haslar Hospital. The R,v. Edmund Winder
is appointed Chaplain to his Majesty's ship Asia. The
Rev. Thomas Quarks, Chaplain of his Majesty's ship Bel-
viders, is appointed to act as Schoolmaster of that ship.
Mr. James Ormiston APWilliattis is appointed Assistant-
Surgeon to his Majesty's ship North Star.
Captain David James Ballinghall, and Lieut. P. J.
Dusatoy, and R. J. M•lCillup, with a detachment of Royal
Marines, consisting of three wojeants, two corporals, two
drumtners, and one hundred and twenty-six privates, em-
barked on board his Majesty's ship Asia, on Tuesday last.
Second Lieutenant Martin Deacon, with 01Ie subaltern,
one corporal, and twelve gunners, of the Royal Marine
Artillery, embarked yesterday.
His Majesty's ship, Actaeon, 26, Captain the Lion.
Fred. W. Grey, was launched at this Dock-yard, ou Mon-
day, at half-past one o'clock p.m., before a very nume-
rous and highly fashionable assemblage of persons. She
was named by Miss Fanny Seymour, slaughter of our
much respected Commissioner.

His Alajesty's ship Tyne, 28, Capt. Hope, sailed on Sun..
day for Havre (with Mr. Gore, Secretary of Legation), to
embArk Mr. For, appointed Minister to the Republic of
Buenos Ayres, with whom she will proceed direct to that
port.

The Linnet, tender to his Majesty's ship Wellesley,
Lieut. St. John, arrived on Saturday from her cruising
station, to repair damages, sustained by a schooner run-
ning foul of her in Weymouth Roads. She will talcs the
Guard at Spithead.

At Spith;ad—Uudatintid, Vigilant.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Wellesley, Ganges, Asia,
Royal George, Ildvidera, Tweed, Sapphire, North Star,
Actieon, Onyx, Cracker, Hennes, Linnet, and Snipe
tenders.

His Majesty's ship Undaunted, 46, Captain E. Harvey,
fitted for channel service, went out of harbour yesterday
afternoon. It is believed she will eventually be ordered to
Lisbon, to relieve the Briton, now in the Tagus.
The estimates for the present year are, we understand,
made out for twe thousand additional seamen, and one
thousand additional marines. Whether this number of
marines will be disposed of in strengthening the present
companies, or in forming new ones, we are not aware.
The corps of Royal Marine artillery is, we understatiff, to
be seduced to one-half the present number.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
DEVONPORT, FEB. s.—His Majesty's ship Nautilus, 10,
Commander Lord George Paulett, having refitted, went
out of harbour on Wednesday.
His Majesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain Phillips, went
out of harbour on Wednesday, and will sail immediately
for Milford Haven, where she is to remain for the present,
but to be still under the orders of our Port Admiral, Sir
Manly Dixon.
Remaining in Hamoaze—Caledonia, Kent, Revenge,
Savage, Primrose, Leveret, Carron and Confiance, steamers,
and Neve, Silvia, Orestes, and Arab transports.
At the Island.—Nautilus. Sound.— Ariadne.
Sir Robert Seppings, Surveyor of the Navy, arrived here
on Tuesday, on official business at the Dock-yard, and left
for London yesterday.

It is reported that the claims on Messrs.
MACDONALD and CAMPBELL, the army agents, against
whom a commission of bankruptcy was issued a short time
ago, amount to 300,000/.--- Observer.
The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, not-
withstanding reports to the contrary, has not entirely re-
linquished the idea of purchasing Buckingham Palace front
the Crown. A few years ago_ the- Noble Duke expended,
in decorating and furnishing his mansion at Charing-cross,
upwards of 200,0001. ; and it is now perhaps the best_
appointed house in London. It is the recollection of this
recent cost that is the stumbling-,block witit his Grace,
and occasions him to pause before he enters upon so large
a speculation as Buckingham Palace must necessarily be ;
although the ground at Charing-cress would he most ad-
vantageously appropriated, were Northumberland-lionse,
and its extensive contiguous buildings, to be taken down.
court Journal.

The Duke of BEDFORD'S property in the
parish of Bloomsbury is daily increasing in value. A new
square, parallel with Torrington-square, is now in pro..
green of coinpletion. It is to be named Rothsay-squate.
This is the only portion of the Duke's property in the
parish as yet uncovered with houses. It is, perhaps,
worthy of remaik, to show with bow much opposition all
innovations are met, to state that iu 1755, when it was
first contemplated to form the new read from the city to
Paddington, the then Duke of Ideoemin opposed it in
Parliament, on the ground that it was likely to deteriorate
his property. It has increased its value almost fifty-fold.
The .Act won, 26 guns, Captain the Hon. W.
F. Gagy, was launched on Monday last from tliim dock-
yard. The ship went off at half-past one in fine style,
amidst the reiterated cheers of the spectators on shore and
seamen ou board, while tke bands were pLsying the mi.
tional airs. The dletceon was constructed and built under
the direction of the School of Naval Architecture, and is
considered by all naval men here as a very beautiful and
effective ship. Several experiments are to be tried on board
the Acttson; a new rudder, by Cipt. LIHOU;; the light
ning conductors, by Mr. HARRIS; and a new windlass,
invented by Mr. PEARCE, master of the Ganges. Captain
LIHOU'S rudder is fitted on a plan strikingly superior to
the old mode; it possesses the advantage of easier steerage,
and a reduction of the back-water—objects tending to in-
crease the ivelocity of sailing. Its utility also consists in
giving a ship the means within herself of repairing 'and
re-shipping her rudder, in case of damage, with the great-
est facility, under any circumstances at sea, or on a fnreign
coast where resources are not at hand. The necessity to
dock or heave down a ship to clear the gougings of the
broken rudder-irons is totally removed by this mode of fit-
ting, which has been most highly reported on in a survey
held by order of the Lords of the Admiralty by a com-
mittee of naval officers at Woolwich, on the Raleigh,
similarly fitted; and would have proved of material service
recently, when the Barham amid Winchester, two flag
ships, on the West India station, and the Opossum packet,
with mails and treasures on hoard, lost their rudders.
Captain Limy, of the Royal Navy, the inventor of this
important improvement, is fitting the Vindictive, a cut-
down 74, and several other ships at the various sea-ports .
of the kingdom. The lightning conductors, as fitted on
Mr. Haeatis's plan, are formed by two laminae of copper,
made to overlap each other, so as to form one continuous
line of metal from the spindle of the vane to the step of the
mast, where it is made to intersect, with another line of
metal communicating with the keelson bolts; and that
there may be a suffieient communication with the masts
and the sea to ensure the electrical fiuid's being carried
quietly off, in the event of the ships being struck, there
is a line of metal from the mast partners in the side at
each mast, which communicates to the bolts of one of the
iron knees, and others that are driven for the purpose ; from
the bowsprit the metal is continued front the bed to the
sea, down the stein, and from the mizen mast tinder the
deck, down the stern post. The advantage of conductors
being fitted in this mlnner is evident, from the impossi-
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and out of geer, as circumstances may require. The bar-
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the spindle of a capstan us the lower deck, so that the
barrels may be worked singly or together, and by which
one cable may be hove in, the other wore; at the same
time it saves all the men at the nippeirs, while those em-
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working the ship....Eutapshire Telegraph.