The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 25.—The Columbine, 16, Commander
Elliot, sailed yesterday for the Coast of Africa ; she proceeds
direct the B'glits of Benin and Biafra, to relieve the Pelican

sloop o f wati.
he Tribune, 2.-1, Cwt. Williams, sailed yesterday for
Lisbon, to relieve the MagiC4.f'nne, 24.
The Pique frigate is ordered to :,ke en board two 68_
pounder guns, for throwing hollow shot.
The Curlew brig, Commander Norcott, is hourly exvccted

from the African coast.
The Conway, 24, Captain Bethune, was at Sydney on the
24th of March last.—The Imogine, 28, arrived at Callao on
the 12th of April ; and the Fly, 18, at Valparaiso on the 23d
of April.
The lower.deck guns of the Cornwallis have been sent
from England for that ship, some time sincereport of
her coming to :England to embark them is therefore un-
founded.
The dergen steam-frigate, Commander Dacres, was to
;have Woolwich W.-dm), frit- this port. She will consequently
be here to-rnerrow morning, 41.11 her way to the North coast of
Spain. She will tow the Venerafshs, 74, down to Plymouth,
on Thursday next. A small detachment of the Royal Marine
Artillery will be embarked on her arrival here.
It will be seen, with no little surprise, that with our many
steam-vessels lying at Woolwich, the Admiralty are obliged
to contract for the remov,l of two depots of troops from this
garrison to and from Jersey, with private individuals, and
though we have two men-of-war at Spithead, the Edinburgh,
74 and the Pique, 36, without orders, and doing nothing.
At Spithead—Edinburgh, Pique, and Berkshire Indiaman,
for Calcutta.
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Hastings, Excellent,
Royal George, Actaeon, Orestes, Pantaloon, Messenger
steamer, and Diligence naval transport.
PROMOTIONS. -Assistant- Surgeon—John Munro, M.D., to
the tank of Surgeon. ."'tasters—The following Acting Mas-
ters and Second Masters, to the rank of Masters ; the Acting
Masters being re-appointed to the ve;'els in which they are
now serving :—Lucius C. Bailey, Zebra; David Craigie,
Pelorus ; T. R. Lord, Raleigh ; Thomas B. CA;finor, Fa.
vourite ; Charles Tozer, Trincuo ; Samuel Lark, Sap;'ho;
George H. Skead, Modesto • Robert W. W. Miller, Lily ;
W. T. Wheeler, Pearl; H. Mapleton, Snake • R. Salmond,
African ; George Grant, Nimrod ; C. H. Dillon, Thunder ;
David Duncan, Wolverine ; A. B. Usborn, Beagle : C. R.
Airy, Hyacinth ; John Cater, Medea ; J. R. Aylen, Wasp ;
W. Parsons, Orestes; W. Langdon, Pilot; S. Haynes,
Rose; F. D. S. Edwards, Lapwing; William Every, Opos-
sum ; W. Barrett, Spey ; J. C. Hutchings, Ranger ; E. P.
Cole, late Rover ; R. Frampton, Waterwitch ; A. L. Pan-
chen, Forester; Joseph Chegwyn.
APPOINTMENTS.—Commander : Henry R. Sturt, to Coast
Guard, vice J. S. W. Johnson, resigned. Lieutenants: Wm.
Crooke, to the Peterel ; D. B. Bedford, to the Ilerald ; E.
Bevan has joined and taken command of the Pantaloon, vice
M' Donnell, promoted ; Frederick Lowe and James A. Gordon,
to the Cornwallis ; J. C. Robinson, to the North Star ; Neils
Williamson, vice Thomson promoted, and Philip Bisson, vice
J. Craske, to the Poictiers ; George Williamson, to Ocean,
vice N. Williamson ; Horatio Blair and Daniel Leary, to the
Coast Guard, vice Thomas Stuart, to Pembroke, and J. Pit-
field, resigned; Chapman Wise, Agent in charge of mails in
contract steam-vessels, vice G. G. Miall, promoted. Mas-
ters : Jeremiah Ryan, Acting Master, to Penguin ; Henry
Webb, Second Master and Pilot, to the Actaeon ; W. Wood-
year, Second Master, to Hastings ; H. B. Harris, Second
Master, to Royal George, vice J. Haynes, to Rose ; H. K.
Bower, Master's Assistant, to the Victory ; Cummings,
Master's Assistant to San Josef, to Jupiter ; James Stud-
will, Master's Assistant, to Orestes. Purser : J. D. Jones,
Snpernumerary, to Hastings. Surgeon : W. T. Ballantine,
late of Thalia, to be Surgeon of the Island of Ascension, vice
Brownrigg. Assistant-Surgeons : William Roberts, to Se-
ringapatam ; William Hobbs, to Hornet (and not Botietta, as
stated in our last). Mates : G. D. Keane and H. N. S.
Micklethwaite, to Edinburgh ; F. T. Chetham, John Fisher,
and C. F. Chimmo, to Hastings ; G. S. Boys, to Bonetta ;
W. Parsons (acting), to Orestes ; R. D. Aldrich, to Buzzard;
E. K. Barnard, to Royal Adelaide ; John Gordon, to Her-
miles. Midshipmen : W. B. Hellard, to the Hermes; Wm.
Cudwell, to Excellent; E. Lamberr,and H. V. A. Poulett,
Vols. Ist Class, to Actaeon • J. W. Drummond, to Britannia.
Clerks: W. M. S. Whitefield, to the Pique; John Hutch-
ings, to Actaeon; E. A. Smith, additienai, tr, Cos Hastings.
Warrant Officers : John Farrell, Gunner, and John Williams,
Boatswain, to, P:,erel.
ROYAL MARINES.— Mr. Hugh Bower Mends, to be Second
Lieutenant of the Woolwich Division ; Second Lieutenant
Symonds, ordered to North Coast of Spain.
(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Au°. 25.—Her Majesty's steamer Spitfire,
Lieut. A. Kennedy, Commander, arrived here yesterday, 15
days from Malta. Left on the 9th inst.—H.M. S. Talavera
and Castor, refitting; also H. M. steamers Blazer and Con-
fiance. Left Tunis on the 11th inst., at night. The Prin-
cess Charlotte, flag-ship of the Hon. Sir R. Stopford, and
squadron, were lying there, with three French line-of-battle
ships. Left Gibraltar on the 17th inst. The Hermes steamer
had arrived the same morning from England; the Volcano bad
left the previous night for Malta. Commander Lord Francis
Russell had arrived and taken command of the Harlequin, vice
Erskine, who came home passenger in the Spitfire—left at
Gibraltar the Wolverine and Harlequin, brigs of war. Yes.
terday, the 23d, the Spitfire fell in, of Ushant, with a large
American vessel—she hoisted a white flag with the letter U
in the centre, and was supposed to be one of the American line
of packets from Havre, bound to the United States. The
Confiance had arrived at Malta from Naples, and brought
news of an eruption both of Mount Etna and Vesuvius.
By the courtesy of Lieut. Kennedy of the Spitfire, we have
received Malta papers to the Ist August. H. M. S. Talbot,
Captain Codrington, arrived there on the 27th July, from
Mahon. The papers contain little news of importance.

THE GLANVILLE FAMILY.—This new wor
fiction, by a Lady of Rank, may border on that species of
publication which is known as a fashionable novel, but it is very
far superior to even the better class of such productions. The
main story is the recital of the gradual development ofo
has
the
"tender passion" in the breast of a gentle heroine, wh
betrothed herself at an early age to one for whom her love in
after years gives place to her passion for another. The cha-
racters of Lord Raymond, Frederick Perceval, Edward Glan-
ville, and the Rivers's, arc well and naturally drawn hile
the imperturbable solemnity of Charles Dalrymple is ost
amusing relief to the dialogues of the more profound charac-
ters. It is not only as a first production that we commend the
present publication; it is worthy of an author better known,
and of a fair place in public estimation. Indeed, there is muck
throughout " The Glanville Family" that will amuse as well as
instruct, and which affords a presage of still better future per-.
formance.—Courier. [We may add, that the authorship of
this work ought to be avowed. It would not discredit Miss
Austen, or the author of " Evelina."]
THE MOORS.—(From the Dumfries Courier.)—
From sportsmen we learn that moor game of all kinds is more
plentiful than it has been for years—especially black-cocks,
which, from whatever cause, are still gaining on their cousins-
german, the grouse. Partridges are also found on the moors,
where they manage to pick up a living, without, we believe,
eating heather ; but a more numerous branch of the same
family still prefer the valleys, amidst the corn fields of which
they will find free quarters, with plenty to eat for a week or
more after the Ist September. Much execution was done last
week, and were it always proper to mention names, we could
enumerate extraordinary instances of sport, notwithstanding
the efforts of the poachers. Even before the 12th August,
disguised boxes of game were shipped by all the steamers ;
and there can be no doubt that the regularity with whicb
these vessels sail, and the new markets they open up,
have put guns into the hands of hundreds who never
carried a gun before. The poacher's in fact, is a gainful
trade, and we are aware of individuals who earn in this way
little short of 200/. a-year. Their numbers, therefore, are
gradually increasing, while their daring is beyond all bounds.
Occasionally they enter gentlemen's shrubberies in broad day
light, and think nothing of shooting hares within or without
garden walls. A friend who had a few coveys of grouse on
his property instructed his people to warn intruders off ;
but still they came, and if interrupted at one spot, com-
menced operations at another, until they had attained their
object—extirpating the whole game on a limited domain.
But some pursue a different course—raising coveys by means
of dogs, and maim;ng tender pouts in a manner that dis-
qualifies them from flying, that they may the more easily be-
come their prey in autumn without the expense of powder and
shot. These things arc unseemly, and should not be. Poachers
have no right to mar the pleasures of others in thus reck-
lessly persecuting birds, which, although in one sense ferce
nature, are notoriously not their property ; and if the pre-
sent system continue, the Game-laws may be made doubly
stringent sooner than they imagine. Around the lofty Low-
thers a party of six gentlemen found excellent sport last week,
and indeed everywhere the foaler has found his toils re-
warded, wherever adequate care has been taken to preserve
the ground. In another column we have inserted a para-
graph from a Perth paper, which gives a favourable account
of the winged statistics of portions of the Highlands; and we
observe from the Inverness Courier, that matters are much
the same in the north. But poaching in that quarter is greatly
kept under, by persons specially appointed for the purpose—
a most necessary precaution, in the case of estates so well
peopled with game, that the right to bag black, brown, and
grey feathers, frequently brings the owner a few hundreds of
annual rent.
ANOTHER STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION.—An
accident occurred on Friday evening to the Antelope steamer,
when opposite to Moville, on her way to Glasgow. It ap-
peared that one of the lower plates of the boiler gave way,
and the water gushing out suddenly into the hold destroyed, we
regret to say, eighteen head of cattle, and slightly scalded
four or fire others. No person on board received any injury,
and the vessel, which was towed in this morning by the Isa-
bella, will, we understand, be able to proceed on her voyage
this evening.—Derry Sentinel of Saturday.
THE GzEsARTAN OPERATION.—On Friday an in-
quest was held in New Gravel-lane upon the body of Sareh
Bunyan, aged 43 years. The deceased it appeared had been
subject to fits, and on the morning of Tuesday was taken se-
verely ill. Mr. Goulbern, a surgeon, was sent for, and found
her labouring under symptoms of apoplexy. He immediately
bled her, and administered the usual remedies, but without
effect, the poor woman dying in a few hours after being at-
tacked. As she was far advanced in pregnancy it was thought
advisable to attempt to save the life of the child by the Cm-
sarian operation, and Mr. Dougal, an eminent surgeon, with
assistance, performed it with great skill, commencing about
five minutes after the woman had expired. The infant, how-
ever, was dead. The jury retired,a verdict of " Death by the
visitation of God."