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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PonTsitotrrlr, SUNDAY.—The Talbot, 26, Captain Sir T.
Thompson, Bart., arrived this morning from the Pacific sta-
tion. She left, Valparaiso on the 2d of December, at which
time the Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-Admi-
ral Sir G. Seymour, Commander-in-Chief; the Constance.
50, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker; the Carysfort, 26, Captain
Seymour; and the Nereus, coat and store-ship; Master-Com-
manch.r Bateman, were at anchor there.
She arrived at Rio on the 11th of January, and left on the
16th for England, leaving the Seagul packet and Crescent
receiving ship at Rio.
No vessel had recently arrived from the Parana, but the
Racer, 16, Commander Reed, was daily expected when the
Talbot left, and on her arrival the Curagoa, 24, Captain
Broughton, was to sail for England.
The Talbot has experienced very cavern weather on her
passage home ; she bas been beating about since the lst inst.
The first land she made was St. Alban's Head. She has
brought home about 100,0001. in dollars, bars, and gold dust,
on merchants' accounts, which will be landed to-morrow
morning and transmitted to the Bank of England by Messrs.
E. and E. Emanuel, of Portsea and Portsmouth, freight
agents and silversmiths to the Queen. Lieutenants Bathurst
and Cartwright, of the Collingwood, and Mr. Plambly, pay-
master and purser of the Juno, have come home invalided
in the Talbot; also Lieutenant Birtwhistle, of
the Spy, pro-
moted. She will come into harbour to.-morrow morning,
after being inspected by the Commander-in-Chief._ _
Captain the Hon. John Gorr' ring
at the court-martial held upoi ,aken
steps to have Captain Onslow, SOWS-
sion of that portion of the I him
(Captain Gordon) from the fri tne,
and transhipped to the Amerif (so
it is alleged) " robbed Pet, ging
home a freight belonging to .med
Captain Sir Thomas Thotnpso, lave
Captain Gordon's bounty pail
A Court of Inquiry, of win trker,
C. 8., is president, commence, ' the
Salamander steam-sloop, to ion
alluded to briefly in The St .!ted
to be a very protracted invest osi-
deration being of a very cot tar-
acter. Captain Hamond was ter-

raapraing. st. Akio o!cluck, .I.eted
.rtre- the result, • when; peth to•firr-
hish the particulars.
The Salamander, Acting-Commander Ricketts, came into
harbour yesterday. She was commissioned on the 24th of
Jui:e, 1842, since which tini:3 she has steamed 35,988 miles,
and sailed 14,484. During tl.e above time she was two years
and one month at the Georgian and Society Islands, nearly
the whole time at anchor. She has gone at times under sail
alone, with a good breeze, ten knots ; steaming with favour-
able weather and wind, she made 814, 9.t, and 10 knots,
which she frequently accomplished in her passage from An-
tigua to Spithead.
His Highness the Conde de Montemolin is expected here,
to visit the various objects of interest abounding in this im-
portant-arsenal.

The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, flag of Vice-Admi-
ral Sir Francis Austen, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief on the
West India and North American station, was on his way
from Antigua to Port Royal. Jamaica, to hold a court-mar,
tial on the 23d ult. The Imaum, 72, Commodore Lambert,
the Electra, 14, Commander Maitland, and the Vesuvius,
stem-sloop, Commander Austen, were at Port Royal on the
23d ult. The Hermes, steam sloop, Commander Car, was, at
the soma date, cruising in the Gult of Mexico.
Captain Courtenay had taken the command of the Endv-
mion, 44, vice Lambert, who had accepted the post of second
in commend, vice Pring, deceased.
‘Vootwicw, MARCH 20.—The Blenheim, 72 guns, fitted
at Black wall for a block ship, with a screw propeller, was
towed down the river to-day to be docked at Woolwich; but
at the time of writing this communication she was partly
aground on the Essex side of the river, in a place a short
distance from Blackwall, known under the designation of
Bugeby's Hole. The cause of the Blenheim grounding was
in endeavouring to avoid a brig which ran across her bows
and became entangled with her, the tide running up s,rong
at the time. The brig continues across the bows of the
Blenheim, but. as the tide will rise for another hour, the
vessel may be got off with ease, as the Monkey, Government.
steamer, and a hired steamer, are assisting to disentangle
the brig, and tow the Blenheim into the middle of the river.
The Mastiff, surveying vessel, Coeimander Beecher, and
the Woodlark, tender to the Mastiff, are both in the basin at
Woolwich Dockyard, refitting, preparatory to their proceed.
ing during the ensuing season to resume their duties in sur-
veying the coasts of the Orknev Islands.
Brevet-Major Stransham, Lieutenant Fitzgerald, Lieu-
tenant Taylor, three sergeants, four corporals, one drummer,
and sixty privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Ma-
rines, have been placed under orders to embark for service
in the Warspite, 50 guns, commissioned at Chatham. An
equal number of the Chatham division of Marines will come
to Woolwich to do duty in place of those draughted for the
Warspite.
Lieutenant-Colonel Coryton, Royal Marines, left Wool-
wich this morning for Spike Island, near Cork, to take the
command of the Royal Marines serving in Ireland.
The Amphion, steam-frigate, in charge of Lieutenant Sib.
bald, is to have a massive piece of brasswork fitted to the
stern, at the part where the axle of the screw-propeller re-
volves, the great velocity and friction causing that part to
get very hot when the engines are at work ; a similar case
of brass was cast at the foundry at Woolwich for the Blen-
hein, and weighed very nearly G tons.
Vessels in the Harbour—William and Mary, yacht, Am-
phion, steam-frigate, North Star, hospital-ship, Black Eagle,
Bloodhound, Rifleman, Sharpshooter, Teazer, and Minx,
steam-vessels, Hebe, receiving-ship, Wye, hospital-ship, and
Benbow, Royal marine depot.
In the Ba.tin—Terrible.str am-Meats. Mastiff, Plover and
' Wood/ark, surveying-Vessels, Cyclops, Niger and Torch,
steam vessels.
In Dock—The Vixen, steam vessel.

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late of the America, havi
pon him, statedit had tak
w, of the Daphn ut in poss•
freight money accruing to h
'reight taken out the Daphi
ica, and the Da, 138 having
ter to pay Pa .by bringi
o the Talbot,. '-
~are inform
on, Bart., m • • apply to ha
Lid to him.
tich Rear-Ad • • Hyde Park
A sitting yeste yon board t
o investigate be transacti
iun of Thursd It is expect
stigation, the • ters fJr con
inflicting and fi• minous ch,
s summoned t ttend on yebt,
Ic, A ainvpial is expect
laps 'we MayoW'enabled to fl