The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-04 00:00:00

WOOLWICH-FRIDAY

THE ARMY.

About ten o'clock yesterday morning, the streets of
.Greenwich presented the singular spectacle of upwards of
250 men, one or two from each of the line regiments, from
the Ist Royals to the 99th inclusive, with the exception of
the Highland regiments and the Rifles, and one or two
others. The singularity consisted in their various-coloured
facings and numbers, each being attired in the costume of
the regiment to which he belonged. They appear to be
all young mem who have volunteered to join the regiments
about to proceed to the East Indies, and were on their way
to Chatham for that purpose. They only left Ireland,
where the depots to which they were attached are stationed,
on Tuesday, and were conveyed by steam to Euston-square,
in the incredible short space of time of less than two days.
They appear in excellent health and spirits at the idea of
their intended journey to a foreign land.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Fairy surveying vessel liar now been given up as
lost, At twelve o'clock yesterday the portion of the crew,
consisting of Lieutenant Cudlip and nine men, who hap_
pened to be on board the Violet, tender to the late infor-
tundte vessel, attended at the Pay-office, in her Majesty's
Dock) ard, Wc,olwich, when the crew received the amount
due to them to the 31st December. It is now considered
certain that the Fairy went down during the late gales,
with Captain Hewett and forty-one hands on board, and
all perished, leaving none to tell how the circumstance
took place. The scene yesterday at the Pay-office was a
most melancholy one, as several of the widows of those
who kst their lives attended personally to obtain the
respective amounts to which their husbands would have
been entitled had they been alive. The Lords of the
Admiralty, sympathizing with these unfortunate widows,
of whom there are upwards of thirty, and 101 fatherless
children, ordered that the pay should be calculated to the
31st December.

It is gratifying to know that Captain Phipps llornby,
the superintendent of the dockyard, has come forward in
the most p'aiseworthy manner and originated a subscrip-
tion for the relief of the widows, many of whom must
suffer great privations from the sudden loss of their hus-
bands and means of support, and there can be no doubt a
generous public will cordially second him in the task of
aff)rding some degree of consolation to those who have
lost their natural protectors, who were employed in the
public service fur the benefit of the country, and whose
labours may be the means of saving the lives of thousands
of our maritime countrymen.
The Salamander steam frigate, Commander Ilastiugs
Reginald Henry, arrived at Sheerness on Monday.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
J. M. Waugh, left Sheerness on Tuesday, wilt volun-
teers for her Majesty's vessels at Portsmouth and Plymouth.
The Avon steam vessel, Lieutenant Commander R. O.
Pritchard, arrived at Chatham on Monday from Ports-
mouth, with invalid soldiers, and returned on Tuesday to
the latter station.
The Falmouth, Second Master Everson, arrived at
Woolwich yesterday from Plymouth.
The Goodwill sailed yesterday for Portsmouth.
The Boxer, steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, had a por-
tion of her wages due to her crew paid yesterday. The
balance will be paid on the'r return from leave of absence.
The Piuto, steam-vessel, Lieutenant W. S. Blount, will
be ready for sea in a few days.
The Prince Regent, transport ship, sailed yesterday
from Deptford, with the 79th Regiment on boai.d, for
Gibraltar. She was towed down the river by a steam-
vessel, and passed the Royal Arse: al, Woolwich, at about
three o'clock, P.M.
The Lizard.—Mr. William Stanley, Clerk in Charge,
has been promoted to be Purser.
ROYAL ARSENAL.

The Little Ben, after being detained three days, owing
to the quantity of ice on the river, sailed to-day, with the
detachment of the Royal Artillery, for Purfleot.
The Sir James Kempt, Ordnance sloop, arrived yester-
day from Portsmouth, with a cargo of large guns and other
stores. .

The Mary, schooner, arrived to-day with 1,500 ten inch
and eight inch shells.
The Vigilant, schooner, arrived about the same time,
with 60 tons of shells of various sizes.
Tne Fanny, brig, arrived to-day with a full cargo of 32
pounder shot, from Messrs Graham and Co.
The William, schooner, arrived with a cargo of 12 and
18 pounder shot, from the same contractor, nearly at the
same time.
A number of arrivals are expected to-morrow, consist-
ing of vessels loaded with military stores, aff)rding proofs
that the supply will be well kept up in the Royal Ar-
senal, in case the country may be called upon to forward
them to various pa:ts of her Majesty's dominions for their
protection, or for actual service in other varters of the
world.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE•

(LLOYDS.)

LONDON, JAN. 2.—Wind this day at noon, light airs
from N N. \V., and with fine mild clear weather.
DEAL, JAN. I.—Wind W. by S., light.—Arrived the
Nautilus, Mackweod, Monte Video ; Quebec, Living-
stone, Dalhousie; Essex, Virginia ; Isabella, Blyth, Mau-
ritius ; Douglas, Douglas. Montreal ; Endymiou, Wheat-
leye, Quebec ; Ottawa, Chapman, ditto ; Ontario, Bra-
dish, New York ; Barbara, Gordon, Quebec. Sailed the
Greyhound, Hutchinson, for China ; Circassian, Tatchell,
Lima ; Britannia, East, Barbadoes.
LIVERPOOL. JAN I.—Wind N. W., ft esh.—Arrived the
Mary Ann, Webb, from Calcutta ; Hellen Hamilton, Nichol,
Maracaibo, sailed, Nov. 1 ; Diadem, Mitchell, Jamaica,
sailed NOT. 2 ; Catarique, ;
Simpson, ditto ; Mersey, ditto ; Robert Watson, ditto;
'Courier, Montreal ; Margaret, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Ann Rankin, Mirimichi ; Europe, Marshall, New
York ; Leopard, New Oilcans ; William Rathbonc, Davis,
Bonny ; Commerce, ditto. Off port William, Terceira ;
Ann, Hine, from Wicklow to this port, was driven on
shore on West Hoyle, 30th ult., crew saved. The J. P.
Dobree was to sail from Black River, Jamaica, Nov. 19,
for this port.
Coin:, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Vistula, from Quebec.
DEAL, JAN.l.—Thu Australia, Thompson, of Alloa,
being waterlogged, wr.s abandoned in lat. 45, lon. 54
crew saved by the Ottawa, Chapman, arrived in the Downs.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind W. N. W., fresh breezes.
—Sailed the George the Fourth, Ward, for Calcutta, and
brought up at St. Helens.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. I.—Arrived the Lloyd's, Bland-
ford, from Quebec.
CowEs, JAN. I.—Arrived the Francis Jeffray, Block,
from Rio Janeiro ; Crescent, Domaille, Rio Jhneiro ;
Rhode Island, Binger, Virginia; New York, Wachter,
New York.
DOVER, JAN. I.—Arrived the Constitution, Peabody,
from New Orleans; British Empire, Seatly, Quebec.
BRISTOL, JAN. I,—Arrived the Emanuel, Pearson, front
Quebec ; Ann Eliza Jane, Craw, Quebec ; Bolivar, Tay-
lor, Quebec; Sir F. B. Head, Revely, Quebec; Thomas
Worthington, Wakeham, Quebec; Wellington, Mirami-
chi ; Lovely Sally, Bushell, Newfoundland; Hope, New-
foundland.

GLOUCESTER, JAN. I,—Arrived the William Duke, Pcr-
riman, from Xabia.
CORK, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Lady Turner, Harvey,
from Newfoundland. Oft port, Oporto, Spiers, Nassau;
Mary Ann Henderson, Ewing, Monte Video. The Ganges,
arrived here from Quebec, passed on the 25th instant, a
vessel's bowsprit, &c., apparently of a vessel of about 200
tons, painted black, and at the end an iron crane instead
of a heart. The Lady Turner, arrived here from New-
foundland, passed on the 16th instant, in lat. 54, lon. 23,
a ship of about 400 tons, lower masts standing, main and
mizen topmasts alongside; she had a poop and top-gallant
forecastle; there were tents in the tops, and appeared to
have been but lately abandoned ; was painted gieen in-
side, had brass capstan, and mahogany doors, with name
and paint outside washed off.
SWANSEA, DEC. 31.—Arrived Hortensia, Storey, Cuba.
MILFORD, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Pembroke Castle,
Stanbury, from Quebec ; Alpha, John, Dalhousie.
KINOSToWN, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Dove, Woodburn,
from St. John's, New Brunswick.
LowesTOFF•E, JAN. I.—The Pioneer, of Cork, has been
assisted into this harbour, with loss of bowsprit and bow
stove, having been in contact with a laden vessel, off
Orforduess.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—The Exile, from Corunna to
Plymouth, with mainsail spli►, lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Arid,
arrived at F...linouth. Tyne, London to Honduras, Nov.
10, lat. 17, lon. 68 ; Isaac Newton, Liverpool to New
Orleans, 20th, lat. 26, lon. 33; Hope, Quebec to Glou-
cester, 25th ult., lat. 50, lon. 10, by the Helen, Hamil-
ton, arrived at Liverpool. Nicholas Biddle, Mobile to
Liverpool, 19th ult., Ist. 45, lon. 28, by the Diadem, Mit-
chell, arrived at Liverpool. Acadia, Liverpool to Halifax
and Boston, 9th ult., lat. 50, lon. 21 ; Prince Albert,
bound to Cork, 25th ult. ; Emerald, 29th, off Cork, by
the Ganges., Blytb, arrived at Cork. Fame, Boston to
Smyrna, Oct. 21, lat. 42, lon. 53, by the Euphemia,
Cooper, arrived at Newfoundland. Olivia, Oct. 16, lat.
16 N., and Lach, London to Mauritius, by the. Roberis,
1 Elder, arrived at St. Helena.

ENIIGRATION TO JAMAICA FROM IRELAND
—.The agitation against emigration to Jamaica in the Wil.
limn Kerr, has had its eflect. It appears from the Lime
rick papers, that a meeting, at which some of the leading
inhabitants of Limerick attended, was held a few days ago
for the purpose of discouraging their fellow-citizens and
countrymen from emigrating to Jamaica. Amongst those
present were Sir David Roche, M.P. (who presided);
Counsellor Moore, deputation from the Dibernian Anti-
Slavery Association ; W. (lowly, Esq., J. P., &c.
Christmas-day Mr. Moore, attended by some members 0!'
the Society of Friends, visited the different chapels, "tit
denounced the plan of emigration to Jamaica, P- S "
atrocious and damnable scheme to entrap the unwary
Irish-
man." On Saturday Mr. Thomas Steele harangute.dr. 'the
peoWe in different parts of the streets, and follow, "d by a
great multitude, proceeded to the place 'sll_
,t'unce.svh?s,-
sel lay, which all approached as if it vraesrse a
bayPthhe "
Mr. Steele beggel of the mob to
1 ship "in dead silence.—an advice PLN !deb they strictly
followed ; and on Sunday Mr. Steele resumed his ardu
ous task of admonishing
for
Jamsaaiilce
vessel,
the people against emigration.
The Limerick Reporter states that the vessel
from the quay:: of' the city yesterday morning
with about twenty on board, the majority of whom
were
unfortunate feinale: of bad character, although the num-
bers engaged a:row:lied to ore: three hundred.—Evening
Paper.
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'rile Duke of Wellington will leave Stratlifield-
sayc next week, for Apslcy house. A small party
of friends are with his Grace, and he will recetre
more visitera before coming to town for the season. Tug'
Marquis and ;Marchioness of Douro will shortly go on a
visit to the Noble Duke.