The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 15.--Rear-Admiral Sir Wil-
liam Parker, K.C.8., is said to have been appointed to
the Indian command, to which he proceeds immediately
overland, accompanied by his Secretary, B. Chimmo
q. The Cornwallis, 72, will be commissioned, for
los flag, at Plymouth, by Captain Peter RiAards, to
which ship Corn. Charles Richards, wi!l also be ap-
pointed.

The Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, is waiting
or orders, to proceed to North America and the West

The Vernon, 50, Captcin W. Walpole, was towed
to the Nore on Thursday, and may be hourly expoctcd
at Spithearl,_ _ _ _

The Vindictive, 50, and Fair Rosamond, were un-
docked on Saturday, when the Prince Regent, 120,
and Viper, were taken into dock.
_

The Fearless steamer, %las commissioned at Wool-
wich on Wednesday, by Captain Frederick Bullock';
and at the same place the Meteor steamer, was com-
missioned yesterday, by Commander John Washington,
both for the surveying service, the latter vessel will
complete the sun eys in progress by the late unfortunate
Fairy.

The British Queen steam ship, Lieutemict E. Frank-
lin, R.N., Commander, arrived on Wednesday morning
from the River, and sailed in the afternoon for New
York. She carries out G 5 passengers. Two special
messengers, one the bearer of Government despatches,
and the other with dispatches from the American Am-
bassador, left London for Southampton by the railway
train on Wednesday forenoon at 11 o'clock, which dis-
patches were put on board the Queen, off Cowes,
where she waited for them, and then proceeded.
La Belle Alliance transport is now loading at Dept-
ford with stores for our ships in China ; four Assistant•
Surgeons, from the Queen, take a passage in her to
join the Melville ; they left on Saturday in the Mercury
tender for the River.
The Boadicea transport, Lieut. Ward, Agent, has
been all the week discharging Naval stores larought from
Ascension ; she has taken on board victualling stores,
and will proceed to-morrow for Woolwich.
WRECK OF THE HEROINE INDIAMAN.—FALMOUTH,
SUNDAY.—The Leeds stermer, which came in from
Gibraltar yesterday, and takes this letter, at 2 p.m ,
brings the disastrous news of a large Indiaman, the
Heroine, having heel" wrecked ofF Cape Spartel, with a
considerable loss of life. The Gibraltar Chronicle of
the 23d says—" On the night of Sunday, the 14th
instant, the British Indiaman Heroine, from China
bound to London, was totally lost near Azyla, not far
from Cape Spartel. Out of sixty persons on board,
about thirty-four are believed to have perished, princi-
pally Lasears. The ves'el is a complete wreck, and it
is feared that no part of her valuable cargo can be
saved, though every measure is taken to effect that de-
sirable object, as well as to afford the necessary protec-
tion on the coast. Her Majesty's agent and Consul-
General hastened from Tangiers to the wreck to render
personally ad the aid in his power.
The French frigate Magicienne, of 40 guns, has

seen wrecked on the Bombay Shoal, in the Palawan

Passage, on her way to Manilla. Her crew was saved
by the English ships Mysore and Clifford, and the
French vessel Favourite. The Fiend, corvette Da-
()aide had started for the wreck, with a view to save all
she could from it.
At bpithead—lndus, Tweed, Pelican, Nautilus,

Boadicea transport.
In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Rapid, Sylvia, Alban, Echo, Boling, and
Fanny.