The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Aram 7.—The Acheron steam-palket arrived on
the 31st ult. front Gibraltar, bringing the London mails of the
13th idem. Those for the lonian Islands and Greece were
despatched by the City of Dublin, contract steamer, on the
same day.
The Phoenix steam-frigate was sent away to Beyrout on the
Ist inst., and the Gorgon steam-frigate to Alexandria, on
the 4th.

The Thunderer sailed for Syracuse to water, on the 2d inst.,
and was followed, on the 4th, by the Bellerophon. Both are
to return here immediately, when the latter proceeds to Eng-
land, calling at Gibraltar.
The Edinburgh left for. England (calling also at Gibraltar)
on the 4th inst., and will be followed next week by the Hast-
ings, not yet out of quarantine, and the Implacable, which
latter vessel has been recalled expressly from Corfu, where by
this time Rear-Admiral Sir John A. Ommanney has arrived
with the division under his command, from the Bay of Mar-
morice.

The Lotus, small iron steam-boat, for the Oriental Compa-
ny's service on the Nile, took her departure for Candia and
Alexandria on the sth inst., but having burst one of her boil-
ers, she was- descried by the look-out man at the Palace, at
7 a.m., on the 6th, standing in again for the port from E. S. R.,
but not being able to fetch in, she came to an anchor outside
under Fort Rini()li, when a signal was made from the Palace
to the flag ship, that she was in danger of getting on shore,
Whereupon the Queen's boats were sent to her assistance, and
they moored her safely in Valetta harbour by noon, where she
will, most likely now remain to be towed up by the (Great)
Liverpool.
The Carysfort left Malta on the 3d, to relieve the Tyne on
the lonian Islands station.
The Talbot is looked for shortly from Constantinople, having
been relieved there by the Magicienne on the 17th ult. It is
reported that Captain Cothington will give up the command
of the former vessel, having urgent business which calls him
to England, and that Captain Robert F. Stopford will be ap-
pointed to succeed him.
It may be in the recollection of some of our readers that in
the gale of December last, the Royal Austrian Danube Steam
Company's vessel Seri Farms, of near 600 tons, with Turkish
troops on board, bound fiom Constantinople to the coast of
Syria, was unfortunately wrecked in the Gulf of Moudaniah,
and was so completely on the beach that it was considered
almost impossible to float her off again ; but from the extreme
exertions of Captain Benjamin Ford, of that Company's ser-
vice, she was floated off, after taking out her machinery, and
towed to Constantinople, making an immense quantity of water.
In consequence of no dock being available, and such extensive
repairs being required, her keel being completely gone, and
several holes through her bottion, it was considered necessary
to heave the vessel down, and, the state of the beach where it
was to be performed there being five fathoms water close to
shore, rendered it exceedingly difficult, but we are happy to
say that on the 20th ult. it was successfully completed by the
scientific plans of Captain Benjamin Ford, who deserves the
utmost praise, assisted by a few of the crew of her Majesty's
ship Talbot, under the direction of Mr. J. Biddlecombe,
master, and Mr. Vlainprise, second master, for their valuable
assistance; on which occasion the agents of .the Company have
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will repair to Malta to refit.
We have a letter from Candia, dated the 22d ult. ; but de-
spatches for Sir Robert Stopford, of a later
date, were put on
board the French steamer • at Syra, on the Ist inst. by the
commander of the Hydra
steam-frigate, the contents of
which have not
transpired.
The Revenge, ship of the line,
and a British sloop of war, arrived at Suda, and were followed
by the Medeah steam frigate, the latter, conve3ing an orde
from' Sir Robert Stopford to Captain Waldegrave of the Rer
venge, the senior officer of the naval British force, .to unite-
with the local authorities to put down and expel the insur-
gents. The 3,000 troops from Constantinople had arrived,
and it was expected that with the active interference of the
British force, tranquillity would be speedily restored.
We have nothing later from Syria than the-24th ult., from
whence accounts are very contradictory. Whilst some letters
describe the country as quiet and trade restored, others declare
that disorder and rapine continue to prevail, and that the inha-
bitants of the Lebanon district are in a state of positive in-
surrection, protesting they will not subject themselves to the
Ottoman rule, and, in fact, that nothing short of a free
indepenclince will content them. All accounts,. however,- agree
that the plague was extending itself rapidly along the whole
line of coast.
Four British and two Austrian ships of war were still at
Marmorice.
The Swedish corvette Nayaden left Smyrna on' the 25th
ult„ for Malta, on her return to Sweden, calling at Athens,
and the Chapman frigate of the same nation was to leave
Smyrna fur Constantinople on the 30th.
Her Majesty's troop-ship Apol'o, with the 60th Rifles, under
the command of Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. T. Ellis, sailed from
Malta for Jamaica on the 4th inst.
On the 6th ult., the Cornwall transport, with the head-
quarters of the 92d, the Somersctshirc transport, with the re-
mainder of this regiment, and the Abercrombie Robinson,
with the 47th, sailed for Barbadoes from: Gibraltar, at which
latter port her Majesty's troop ship Atholl put in on the 4th cn
her-way to Barbadoes with the 59th. -
The French steamer Leonidas, which arrived on the 4th
instant from the Levant, beings his Excellency the Chevalier
Tricoupi, Lady Tricoupi, family and suite, appointed Ambas-
sador of the - King •of Greece at the ourt of St. James.
Prince Mavrocordato, whom he relieves, is looked for with
great anxiety in Greece, as the only individual who can avert
the calamitous results of a revolution which is on. the point of
-breaking out. King Otho (to use a vulgar phrase) is a Rus-
sian to his very back bone. The British Minister supports the
constitutional parts.