The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Plymouth Jourvul.)
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENT.-I\late—G. L.
Bowyear, of the Winchester, to the rank of Lieutenant,
and appointed to the Racehorse, vice Powell, drowned.
Masters—Daniel Lye, to the Royal George yacht, vice
Oake, deceased ; R. Read (additional) to the Victory,
for the Echo. Purser—John Richards (from the
packet service at Liverpool) to the Ordinary at this
port, vice Jonathan Gain. Mate—G. A. Seale, to the
Victor. Midshipmen—Charles T. Compton, Hyde
Parker, and W. T. A. Hood, to the Vanguard. Vol.
Ist Class—H, V. A. Poulett, to the Crocodile. Car,
11(

,Jenter—W. Cooke, to the Rodney ; John Atwater, to
superintend the repairs of steam vessels, &c., at Liver-
pool ; William Tozar, Acting Second Master to the
Devon lighter.

The appointment of Lieut. Bamber to the Vanguard
has been cancelled.

The Sinbad lighter arrived on Monday, with stores,
from Portsmouth.

On Tuesday, the Emerald tender arrived from Ports-
mouth, and sailed, with supernumeraries, for the Van-

guard.
The Nightingale arrived on Tuesday, with st s,
from the North Coast of Spain. •
The Meteor, steamer, arrived from Falmouth on
Wednesday.

The repairs of the Vanguard, 64, are nearly complete.
She will go out of dock on Monday, and complete her
refit in the Basin.

The Falmouth, lighter, sailed on Friday, with stores,
for Deptford and Woolwich.
The Sinbad, lighter, arrived from Portsmouth with
stores on Monday.
The Champion, 16, was taken out of the south dock
on Tuesday, and the Imogene, 26, taken in the same
tide.

The Meteor, steam vessel, arrived from Falmouth on
Wednesday, for stores for the Packets, and sailed on
Thursday.

The Ferret, 10, brig, was launched from this Dock-
yard on Monday.
The Rose, 18, arrived at Monte Video on the ltith
March, from Rio de Janeiro. The Camelion arrived
at Buenos Ayres, 20th March, from Rio. The Ac.
taaon, 28, was lying at Buenos Ayres on the 21st of
March.

The Victor, 16, Commander Dawson, will proceed
to the West Indies in the course of the ensuing week.
The Donegal, Revenge, and Espoir, were lying at
Lisbon on the 18th ult.

Remaining in Hamoaze.—lmpregnahle, 104, Cap-
tain Eden : San Josef, 110, Captain T. Taylor, C.B. :
Rodney, 92, Captain Maunsel : Nautilus, 10, Lieute-
nant Beaufoy ; 'Etna, 6, Lieutenant Wilson ; Night-
ingale, Sylph, Carron steam-vessel, Meteor and Sinbad,
lighters.
In the Sound—Cambridge, 78, Captain E. Barnard ;
Inconstant, 36, Captain D. Pring.
The British Queen, steamer, which sailed from
Portsmouth on the Ist of May, was spoken on the 7th
May, in lat. 46. long. 38., having thus performed one
half her voyage within six days!

DEA"I'II IN A CAB.—On Thursday an inquest
was held before Mr. Higgs, at the St. George's Hospital, on
the body of Samuel Dean, aged 40, a cabdriver. It appeared,
from the evidence of another cabman, that between three and
four o'clock on Tuesday morning last, they were upon the
stand opposite the Duke of Devonshire's house, Piccadilly.
Deceased was inside his cab, and the waterman, thinking that
he was ,
asleep, went to wake him, as his cab was " losing w ay.
Finding it difficult to rouse him, he examined him more
)s.
closely, and then found him quite dead. He mounted the cab
and drove him to that hospital. Mr. Edmond Young, house-
surgeon, said deceased was admitted at four o'clock on Tuesday
morning.twoi.iu He was dead, and appeared to have been so about
sFrommoeaffection external
of
the
examination
heart.
Verdict,
h e should
Natural
de-
ceasedra died 01
d,ath."