The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the .11anzpshire Telegraph.)
PORTShiOUTH, JAN. 25.—The Minden, 72, Captain
Sharpe, arrived at Plymouth, on Wednesday, from the
Mediterranean, to be paid off. She brought home the
crow of the Tribune frigate.
The Columbia steam-vessel failed from Plymouth yes
terday sennight, for the north coast of Spain, to bring to
England one hundred and fifty of the Royal Marine batta-

lion in that quarter.
The Flamer steam-vessel sailed from Plymouth on
Monday for the \Vest Indies; but put back on Tuesday,
on :Account of the westerly gale.

The Vanguard, 84, is ordered home, but we presume she
will not quit the Mediterranean before either the Ask or
Bellerophon ; and it is questionable if Sir Robert Stop,-
ford, with the discretionary power he has, wilt permit his

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squadron to be reduced by these sh;ps till he hears at
others on their way to replace them.
The Crescent, slave depot, destined for RiO de Janeiro,
and the brig Fantome, 16, Commander ButterMd, for
Weht Africa, still remain at Spithcad.
The Inconstant, 36, Captain Pring, is daily expected i
from Vera Cruz, with a large freight of specie on mer-
chants' account. Private letters from her (of date 25th .1
November) state that she was to quit that port for Port I
Royal and Havannah on the Ist December, and expected
to be paid elf at Portsmouth.
The Acorn, 18, arrived at the Cape of ,Good Hope on
the 18th November, from Simon's Bay; the Melville,
72, sailed from Simon's Bay on the 10th November, for
Ascension.
The new steamer, Strrmboli, is daily expected, here )
from Glasgow, on her way to Chatham, for immediate
commission.

The Sparrow arrived at Rio de Janeiro from F'alkland
Islands on the 17th November.

The Druid, 46, Capt. Lord J. H. Churchill, left the
Cape for New Zealand, early in Novenaber.
The Wanderer, 16, Hon. Cornmander Denham, is still
at Plymouth.

Leiters from the troop-fr;gate Apollo, Mr. Kearley,
master, of the 24th of December, from Qiiiraltar Bar,
state that she was under orders to embark a. detachment, bf
the 8.3 d Regiment for Jamaica.
At Spithcad—Pembroke, Fantome, CresOa, •
In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Blenheim, Pxcellent.
Royal George, Blonde, Pique, 'Andromache. PantS!eon,
Raven Cutter, Messenger, steamer.

In Basio—Madagascar, Magicicarc, Andromache, and
Victor.

In Dock—Queen, St. Vincent, I,Varspie, Dublin,
Tweed, Harrier, Fanny tender.
A letter, dated Bermuda, Nov. 28, says the Admiral.
is at present at this place, in the Winchester, awl
is expected to remain hero till January next,, when be ,
will proceed to Jamaica, returning about Apr►l, going
to Halifax ; the Cleopatra, Captain Lushington, has
sailed for- the West Indies .; the. Ringdov.,, 1.
Honourable Captain Stewart, sailed yesterday. for
Jamaica. The Pilot, Com. Ramsey, and the SatAite,
Corn. Robb, arc refitting. The latter has had a most se-
vere attack of yellow fever, having lost sevezt officers and
men at one period ; and of 113 officers and men, 83 were
incapacitated, Corn. Robb being the only' officer capable
of doing duty ; and he was shortly afterwatuls at4ek,d,
but is recovering. These islands are still sulfa-Mg from
the affects of the hurricane of the 12th September, and
will exhibit long its ruiuous effects. /

NAVAL PROMOTIONS AN D APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants—H. Guttskell, to the Nimrod ; George
Alexander Leary, to the Royal Sovereign, for service
the Asp; A. J. Grmme, to the Ordinary at Portsmow‘h,
vice Barnes, appointed to the Victory ; R. Collinson,
ditional to Wellesley, to take passage in Blenheim.
Master—W. E. Hyne, to the Nimrod)
_G Albert H.

Cole, of the Britannia, to be Master and /2-ilot of the
Victory, vice Armstrong, sick ; R. Yulck to Britannia,
vice Cole.

Surgeon—Edward Hilditcb, to be Junior Surgeon and
Medical Storekeeper at the Naval 'dospital, Jama ca.
Assistant Surgeon—Andrew Lillie, to Britannia, for
service at Hasler Hospital,
Mate—A. M. Shairp, of Blenheim, to be Chief Officer
in the Coast Guard ; R. L. Place, to Blenheim.
Vols. Ist Class—W. D. Loch, to the Blenheim ; J. R.
Harward, to the Pique ; Hon. H. J. Cole, of Britannia,
to be lent to the Blonde.
Carpenter—John Chapple to Pique, vice Williams.
The following Midshipmen passed their examinaCjott zt
the Naval College on Wednesday : —C. H. Sy nionds,,, gico_
helm), G. H. Hodgson and W. H. Young (Pembroke),
Harry Smith and David Robertson (Talaverej.
A detach= :t of Royal Artillery, cons► Fang of Second
Captain Knowles and Lieutenants Spencer and Shuttle-
worth, Sergeant John Wolfe and thir,y three gunners and
drivers—all volunteers—embarked at Woolwich ou Than
day, on board the Meteor ster.m.vessel, for a passage to
this port, to embark on boa;, d the Blonde frigate, which,
with the Blenheim and, Andromache, is ordered to pro.
coed to join the suadron 'War the command of Sir Fre.
derick Maitland in the East Indies.

( From the Harlequin of the 28th December.)

The Hydra steam-frigate, Coin. Milward, arrived
.in.
this port on Tuesday from Vourla, making the extraorw-
nary passage in 59 hours. It was the intention of Admiral
Sir B. Stopford to have left Vourla on the 20th inst.., with
three or four ships of the line for Malta, but he received
orders by the Rhadamanthus to remain with 11-,,e whole of
the Squadron, in consequence of which 'are has unbent
sa'ls, stackened his yards and moored, s;tl is suppnsod, for
the winter. The weather had been dreldully cold with hard
frost. Mr. North, mate of the flP„,g_ship, whom we men-
tioned as being ill with feve:, caught by a journey to
Ephesus, is since dead. P.& two seamen tried for d.!ser.
ticn belonging to the ',ianges have been acquitted, for
want of proof. In a:dother part of our paper we mentioned
the lose of a stea:,fer in the Black Sea, and by private
letters recel%:ed by the Hydra, it is supposed to 'be the
Monarch., with 300 deck passengers, she having ,undered
at w..d. The Stamboul steamer, Captain B. Ford, bad
sot arrived at Smyrna from Constantinople on the
inst., being five days over her time.

CORN-LAW MEETING AT DUNDEE.-A
general meeting of the inhabitants, called by Provost Hackney,
was held in the High-street on Monday, at twelve o'clock
noon, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament tor
an immediate repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws. The
Provost in the Chair. Resolutions were agreed to, after
some interruption from the Chartists, and petitions to Par-
liament, founded on the resolutions, were also agreed to. The
Provost then declared the meeting to be dissolved, but the
Chartists seemed determined by foul, if not by fair, means, to
obtain something in the shape of victory. One fellow called
out fro n the crowd on Mr. Beckfurd to take the Chair, and Mr.
Rockford, no doubt labouring under a due sense of the honour
done him; was proceeding to the front of the hustings to
harangue his fellows, when by the firmness of our Chief Ma-
gistrate, aided by the prompt energy of Mr. Corstophan, Su-
perintendent of Police, the hustings were in an instant cleared
of the Chartist agitators, and an end put at once to their pro-
jected proceedings. The vast assemblage then quietly and
gradually dispersed, without the least symptom of disturbance.
—Dundee Courier.

WOODEN PAVEMENT AT WHITEHALL.— I
This mode of paving promises to be ultimately successful. The •
part immediately in front of Whitehall has been opened for a
week, and though there has been a vast deal of passage on that
side of the street—the other being shut up, it is in every re-
spect as firm and even as when it was laid down. There is a ,
substratum of compost, of about a foot deep, on which the
wooden blocks are placed. These blocks are of a diagonal shape,
about six inches in length, breadth, and depth, and are fast-
ened together by means of pegs, forming one solid and compact
surface. Each row leans in a contrary direction to the ...me next it,
thereby contributing to the strength of the pavement. There
is very little noise made by carriages passing over it, and
from the facility. with which the horses proceed the draught
is evidently diminished. The whole bread.ch of the street in
front of Whitehall will be open by Tuesday or Wednesday. We
would advise the parish authorities. who stop up the
Strand during Church hours, ?rom Temple Bar to
Catherine-street., to adopt this neve pavement, and get rid of the
present arbitrary and unjust practice of changing the route, and
annoying those living in r
Aired streets, merely because their
predecessors had thougkt fit to build Churches in thoroughfares.
HALL.--Names of gentlemen
to whom. itie Court of Examiners granted certificates of
quaii-
fxation on Thursday :—George Friend Whiteley ; I.amc
lelivY
I Ileovor, Newark-on-Trent ; Abraham COX, Edinbur
I John Evans ; William Banks Fegan, Gosport; 'Piercy Howell,
Brighton.