The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-13 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, bEPT. 11.—The Vernon and Talbot
frigates arrived at Malta on the 19th ult., the former from
England, the latter from Palermo and Messina. The
Hazard arrived there on the 24th from Zante ; the
Ganges sailed from Corfu on the 17th ; and the Van-
guard from Corfu for Candia.
The Indus, 78, Captain Sir James Stirling, passed
Gibraltar on the 22d ult. (eighteen days from Spithead),
on her way to Malta. The Monarch, 84, Captain Cham-
bers, arrived at Gibraltar, on the 24th, in i 4 days from
Spithead.
The Comus, 16, arrived at Jamaica on the 24th July,
from the Havanna'', with 270,000 dollars.

By letters from St. Helena to the 14th July we learn
that her Majesty's brig Waterwitch, Lieut. Matson, had
arrived there on the 11th, to pick up two prize crews,
the commander being the only officer on board. On the
25th June, the Waterwitch captured the Donna Eliza,
a Brazilian vessel, completely fitted and ready for receiving
slaves, from under the forts of Benguela, and had sent
her to Sierra Leone, in charge of the gunner, for con-
demnation. The Waterwitch was to leave St. Helena,
to return to her station, on the date of the letter.

The Dido was commissioned on Saturday last, at
Sheerness, by Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel.
The North Star, 28, was commissioned on Thursday
at this Port, by Captain Sir J. E. Home.
The Viper brigantine was commissioned in this har-
bour on Monday last, by Lieut. J. Curtis. .
The Avon steamer, Lieut. C. Jenkin, arrived to-day
from Sheerness, on her way to the Westward with
supernUmeraries.
The Carron steam vessel is expected to leave Wool-
wich on Monday night, for this port, on her way to Ber-
muda, where she is to be borne as a tender to the Illus-
trious, the flag-ship of. Vice-Admiral Sir C. Adam.
The Collingwood, recently launched at Pembroke,
arrived on Tuesday in charge of Mr. Brown, Assistant-
Master Attendant at this dockyard, and came into har-
bour on Wednesday.
A frigate, to be called the Eurydice, and to mount 26
guns, is about to be laid down. Her building is to be
superintended by the Hon. Admiral G. Elliot, upon
whose plans she is to be constructed.
The Alban steamer arrived yesterday from Hull, with
the depot of the 73d Regiment, to join the head quarters
at Gosport.
The Warspite was taken into dock on Tuesday, to ex-
amine and clear her bottinh ; and the same day the'
Princess Charlotte was Tut, out of the basin.
The store-ship Tortoise, with convicts for Van Die-
man's Land ; and the ship Sultan, with emigrants for
South Australia. sailed this morning from Spithead. The
Tortoise calls at Plymouth for 100 convicts, from the
hulks there. _ . .

IMPORTANT TO ]MIDSHIPMEN.—The Lords of the Ad-
miralty have issued orders for all midshipmen to pass
in gunnery on board the Excellent, previous to passing
at the Royal Naval College. The day fixed is the
second Monday in the month after the second Wednes-
day in the month, the first Monday being the passing
day at the College, and the first Wednesday the passing
day for seamanship.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS.—Lieutenant--A. D. Fordyce, to the
rank of Commander.
Mates—F. W. C. Hickey, C. W. Hallett, H. A. Nor-
man, to the rank of Lieutenants.
Acting Masters—R. 0. Stuart, H. Paull, R. Godden,
J. H. Ashton, and John Jarvis, to the rank of Master.
Assistant Surgeons—W. Bayne and Dr. J. M. Deas,
to the rank of Surgeon.
Clerks—S. Lord, E. H. Moubray, R. A. Godson, J.
Millingham, and W. B. V. Ferrer, to the rank of Purser.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Charles Hope, and not
David Hope, as stated last week, is appointed to the
Thalia ; the Hon. Henry Keppel, to the Dido.
Lieutenants—John Barnes (from the Victory) to com-
mand the Nightingale brig ; T. S. Hall, to the Victory,
vice Barnes; G. F. Mends, to the Malabar; George
Winson, to the Cambrian ; Thomas Mitchell, to the
Formidable; A. Parks, to the Victory, for service of
Cuckoo; Thomas Kisbee, to the Driver; Henry S. Haw-
ker, to the Aigle ; T. H. Christian, to the Excellent ;
Alfred Royer, to the Belvidera ; Thomas H. Prior, to
be Admiralty Agent in charge of Mails.
Masters—Peter Wellington, to the Thalia; R. 0.
Stuart, to the North Star.
Surgeon—Dr. Geddes, to the 13elvidera.
Assistant-Surgeons—J. C. S. Kevern, to the Theroine;
T. H. Keown, to the Pantaloon.
Chaplain—Rev. I'. G. Hill, to the Malabar.
Purser—W. Wilkins, to the Hecate.
Second Masters—V. Mills, to the Royal George, for
service of Emerald tender ; J. D. Pascoe, to the Rhada-

manthus.
Mates—H. Wardrop (from the Excellont) and C. H.
Simpson, to the Malabar ; L. P. Pigott, to the Cam-
brian ; W. B. De Blaquiere and A. D. Gorden, to the
Excellent ; F. B. Sleeman, to the Driver ; J. P. Palmes
to the Royal George.
Midshipman—F. Marryat, to the Excellent.
Volunteers, Ist Class—F. E. Boyce, to the Driver ;
St. John Coventry, to the Powerful ; E. L. Vernon, to
the Belvidera.

Clerk—C. IL Jones, to be Clerk in charge of the Pan-
taloon.

Naval Instructor—John Nicholas Laverty, to the
arspite.
The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants at
the Naval College, on Tuesday, Sept. 7 :—Messrs. W.
G. Luard (made Lieutenant in May last, for services in
China), Wm. Armitage, F. D. Younge, Stephen F.
Douglas, John Cartwright, James K. Hancock, Lord 0.
W. Butler, Mr. Norman Shairp, Hon. It. F. Boyle, Mr.
Charles Bromley, Charles T. Leckie.
The following gentlemen passed on the same day
for Marine Cadets :—J. Baum, J. W. C. Williams, E.
P. Usher. _

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Mr. W. Hutton and Mr. F. Dalton, are appointed
Clerks in the Dock-yard, at Woolwich, and Mr. James
Fowler is promoted to an Inspector of Shipwrights, vice
Freeman superannuated.
Col. Churchill has been presented by the Chief of
the Jews of Damascus, Signor
Farkhi, with a magnifi-
cent Arab charger, valued
at 100 guineas, as a mark of
his sense of the deep interest the Colonel has evinced in
the welfare of the Jewish people of that city.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT.IO.—The Scout, 18, Commander,
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J. P. D. Larcom, sailed for the Mediterranean on Friday.
last. Captain Bunce, with a party of marines, embarked
on board the Malabar, 72, last Saturday. The Belleisle,
72, Captain Toup Nicholas, arrived from Cork on Sun-
day, where she has been entering men to complete her
crew. The Impregnable, 104, Captain T. Forrest,
with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason,
arrived from Portsmouth on Tuesday. The Meteor,
steamer. Lieutenant J. Waugh, sailed on Tuesday,
with volunteers for different ships fitting to the East-
ward. The Cornwallis, 72, Captain P. Richards, ar-
rived at Madeira 9th July, after the extraordinary short
passage of six days from the Lizard ; she was to leave
for India the 12th. The Scylla, 16, and Bramble, 10,
are ordered to be brought forward as surveying vessels,
for Torres Straits. Lieut. Snow and a party of ma-
rines, embarked on board the Spartan on Tuesday.
In Harbeur—Caledonia, San Josef, Malabar, Cam-
brian and Spartan.
In the Sound—lmpregnable, Belleisle, and Nightingale.

FINDING OF A HUMAN SKELETON —As
some men were at work on Wednesday in widening the
coach road to Mr. Fullerton's Park, at Denaby-lane-end,
near Thryberg' they found the bones of a human being.
They appeared to be the bones of a man, and the body
of which they had formed a portion, appeared to have
laid with the face downwards, and with one arm (the
right one) doubled underneath it. There were no
clothes, buttons, shoes, or anything of the kind near the
place; all the teeth were perfect in the jaws, except one.
The bones were discovered about two feet from the sur
face of the ground, which at that place is covered by a
small wood or copse, and is partially enclosed. Mr.
Fullerton's lodge was built about twenty-five years ago.
and at that time a portion of the fence was pulled up,
and a coach road made through the wood from the
Tinsley and Doncaster road to Thrybergh Park. The
wood was formerly resorted to as a favourite place of
encampment by gipsies, and it is conjectured that the
,
bones are those of one of the members of that wanderin o
race.—She, field Mercury.
PRECOCIOUS SIIOOTING.—A boy,
teen years of age, apprentice to John Perry, PatteT y innog
maker, Darlaston, had courted for some time a waryl
ley,
more than fourteen years old, daughter of
johnns to
bricklayer, who has lately transferred her affects upon
another lad about the same age. This so preyed
d
the first, that he vowed revenge, and on S tt!
aectrto carry his
last, soon after nine o'clock, he proceead_
oration,
seated
intention into effect. The object of his d
for the benefit of
with several others at an open window., ~, ,about six-
- the back of
busily occupied working the eyel:electrified
the evening breeze, and little dreamulg
by a report
a new cotton-dress, when she was ot oano•er, was
loud as a discharge of artillery,
J.
who had received
cries of a child, some three
shoulde Fortunately for
accompanied by the
the contents of a pistol in i
fired ftrSo:ll the opposite side of the
" Miss Bayley,"
heated, or most likely she would
room in which she was s .
)oung rascal absconded imme-
a-treder through the doorway of the
street, and took ahime
not have escaped. has been heard of since, or is
From the examination of the
diTrorile;l-as had a sound thrashing from
his master, we knoe
it appears that the pistol
child by the surgeon,
with .
wounded
have been loaded anything more than
takenatelY' intoan dc
uswtohdeyt-h,
could not
but wadding could be found in the
nothing:
powder, as
hire Examiner.
Stafords
TOODM.E—A T u
CAUSED BY A RUSTY NAIL.—SIN-
CAsE.—On Friday afternoon an inquisition was
GULAA
taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a highly respect-
,enot.
ae Jury, at the Blue Posts, Tottenham-court-road, on
view of the body of George Veitch, aged thirty-five.
Mary Veitch, widow of deceased, stated that, to her
knowledge her husband, up to the time of his death, had
never had a day's illness. On Monday last, while open-
ing a window, he ran a rusty nail very deeply into the
palm of his left hand, which immediatly swelled to a
great size ; nothing, however, was applied, and on the
following day his fingers were so stiff as to render him
unable to move them. Still no notice was taken, and he
subsequently complained of sore throat. On returning
home on Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, he went to
bed, and at two he woke up in a frantic state, telling
her he had got the toothache, and to fetch a doctor. He
soon afterwards died. This evidence having been corro-
borated, Mr. Wakley said that the evidence certainly
tended to show that the deceased lost his life through
the injury accidentally sustained in the hand by the rusty
nail ; and it was extraordinary that, when symptoms of
lock jaw were evinced, by the terrific and violent action
of the nerves, causing the fingers to be rigid and stiff,
medical aid was not procured ; although, perhaps, it
would not have been of any benefit, for to counteract such
symptoms the whole Materia Afedica had been searched,
and all kinds of means to be adopted, but in vain; all
' bad fail 4 Verdict..-" Accidental death,"