The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTIMOCTIT, JAN. 10.—The Brilliant, 22, Captain
'Watson, sailed from the Cape for Simon's Bay on the
24th of October.
The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, sailed on the follow-
ing day for the Mauritius; and, on the same day, the
"Thunderbolt steam-sloop, Commander Boyle, left for
Al ea lay.
The ?mishit, ii, Captain Stanley, flag of Rear-
Admiral "sores, was in Viaten's lay, sad the ssinadrisit
•n the sfatien geaerally was healthy.
Letters from St. Helena to the 22d of November, and
Ascension to the 27th, inform us that those islands were
healthy.
The Thomas Arbuthnot convict ship, Captain
Thompson, sailed from Spithead this morning for Port
"%nip, w•it.h a superior class of delinquents, officially
walled " exiles." These are the first "exiles" sent to
the above settlement, which the inhabitants of that re-
spectable place are very wroth at, and hare memorialised
the Government on the subject. The mast ingenious
trades and professions are carried on on board this ship;
in fact, we believe all trades in vogue have their repre-
sentatives on board. The most ingenious affair,
however, is a newspaper in manuscript, published
every Saturday, having its foreign and domestic corres-
pondence, advertisements, and indeed all the necessary
accessories to an apparently well-conducted journal.
The articles are well written and the arrangements well
made. The name of this paper is the Citadel, and the
conductors dub the captain of the ship " the governor."
The Citadel having no opponents enjoys a large circula-
tion. The editor is a man who has been of considerable
note in the legitimate literary world ; but all names and
circumstances in connexion with their present position
is strictly preserved secret Si ith regard to these " exiles,"
the great majority of whom are juvenile offenders from
Milbank, Pentonville, and Parkhurst (Isle of Wight)
prisons.

- The Kestrel is to be fitted for immediate commission,
it is reported, by Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., Second
Lieutenant of the St. Vincent, for service on the North
American and West India stations, to relieve the Pickle
schooner. _ _

The Resistance troop-ship, Commander Lowe, sailed
yesterday morning at nine o'clock, with the hea:d-quar-
tors division of the 36th Regiment, for Corfu.

The Dauntless screw steam-frigate, for 24 guns, was
masted in the basin yesterday, and afterwards docked,
to he coppered and fitted for commission.
The Albatross, 16, Commander Farquhar, is ordered
to Plymouth to be paid advance, and receive final orders.
The Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison, having re-
ceived a splendid mark of the estimation in which he is
held, from his friends and some of the inhabitants of
this,district, on Tuesday last, in consequence of his re-
moval from this command by promotion, the friends and
admirers of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., superin-
intendent of this dockyard, intend to get up a subscrip-
tion to present that gallant officer with a similar testi-
monial on his vacating his present onerous appointment,
at the expiration of his term (rapidly approaching), as a
mark of their appreciation of his universal kindness to
ail under his control ; his proverbial politeness to all
who have had occasion to seek an audience of him ' • and
his condescending urbanity during the period he has
presided over the interests of this important dockyard.
The Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, a beautiful new
frigate, built on the design and under the superintend-
ence of some members of the late Committee of the

Suppressed School of Naval Architecture, will sail for
Lisbon, it is expected, to-morrow, with officers and su-
pernumerary seamen, and stores for Sir William Par-
ker's squadron. On her passage from Devonport to
Spithead, we are informed she had to beat up all the dis-
tance, but proved herself a dry and most excellent sea-
boat. On leaving the Sound the whole weight of her
provisions and stores was nearly 850 tons, when her
draught of water forward was 18 feet 10 inches ; aft.,
I.'o feet 4 inches ; mean, 19 feet 7 inches; heights of ;
ports from the water, forward, 9 feet Si inches ; amid- 1
ships, 8 feet li inches; and aft., 9 feet. It is affirmed
that she is to compete in sailing and other qualities
with the Inconstant, another crack frigate of 36 guns,
built on the design of the late Rear-Admiral Hayes.
The Terrible and Retribution steam-ships are ordered
to proceed immediately with naval and other stores to
Ireland. The former is to be at Deptford to-morrow to
be fitted and stored ; the latter is beiug rapidly pre-
pared for the feed service at this port by the officers and
crew of the Sidon. Lieutenant Murray is left in com-
mand of the Terrible at Sheerness.
The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, left
Spithead yesterday morning for the coast of Africa sta-
tion, taking out officers, supernumerary seamen, and
marines for distribution among the squadron. On ar-
riving on the station, she will take the broad pendant of
Cw‘mnodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., Commander-
ilk-Chief, from the Devastation, at present carrying it.
The Naiad coal and store-ship, for Callao, Master-
Commander Browne, sailed yesterday from Spithead for
Rio, where she w ill discharge 10 boys for service in the
squadron under Sir Thomas Herbert : whence she pro.
ceeds to Valparaiso, where she discharges 150 boys for
the Pacific squadron. She has also 700 tons of coal on
board.
In consequence of the death of Commodore Daniel
Trine-', late second in command on the North American
and West Indian station, the Commander-in-Chief,
Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Austen, K.C.8., has promoted
the following officers :—Commander O'Callagan (1841),
of the Vesuvius steam-sloop, to the rank of Captain, and
appointed him to the Imaum (Commolore's ship); Flag-
Miwutena.nt 11. G. Austen (1841, son of the Admiral), to
the rank of Commander, and appointed to the Vesuvius,
vice O'Callagan ; Mr. E. W. Bridge, mate of the Vin-
dictive flag -ship, to the rank of Lieutenant ; and Lieut.
Fletcher (1845), of the Electra, to be Flag-Lieutenant.
The same advices which contained the above, also
contained the report of Captain O'Callagan'a being so
ill from attacks of yellow fever as to be compelled to
invalid home. By the Hyacinth, which arrived here
on Friday afternoon from the above station, we learn
that the day prior to her sailing from Barbadoes
(the 9tli ult.), the Hermes steam-sloop, Commander
Carr, arrived at that island with Governor Reid, from
Bermuda, who was installed with all due ceremony as
Governor of Barbadoes, The Hermes was to sail on the
10th, with Sir Charles Grey for Jamaica, to which
island he had been appointed governor. The Viper
brigantine, Lieutenant- Commander Hore, and the
Persian, 16, Commencer Coryton, were the only men-of-
war at Barbadoee when the Hyacinth left. The Princess

Royal transport was also there, and the Vindictive flag
ship, with the Admiral, was expected early in January.
Lord Howard do Wakden and Sir William Codrington
had arrived out in the Severn mail packet, to see to the
better management of their estates. The Hyacinth
proceeds to Sheerness (where she was commissioned) to
be paid off.
The ettaleigh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
and the Constance, 50, Captain Sir B. Walker, we learn,
by private letters, parted company on the 29th of Sep•
tember, in latitude 23 deg. 44 min. S., and longitude
32 deg. 40 min. W., after being together 100 days, and
competing in sea-going qualities. The Constance
shaped her course towards the Falkland Islands, and
the Raleigh for the River Plate, where she arrived on
the 13th of October. In every sea-going goof quality,

we are informed, the Raleigh beat her competitor,
outselling her many miles, and on two occasions, the
Constance was left " half courses and hull down.'
The squadron in the River Plate was distributed as
follows, on the 29th of October :—the Vernon, 50, Cap-
tain Fitzgerald, flag of Rear-Admiral Ingiefield ; the
Ral..igh, 50, Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert ; the
Eagle, 50, Captain G. B. Martin ; the Melstnpus, 42,
Captain Campbell ; and the Comus, 16, Commander
D'Eyncourt, were at Monte Video.
The Curacoa, 24, Captain Broughton, and the Dol-
phin 3, Lieutenant-Commander Miller, were at Rio on
the 18th of November, the latter having arrived from
Monte Video five days prior.
The Grecian, 16, Commander Tindal, was at Buses.
The Racer, 18, Commander Reed, was at Colonia.
The Satellite, 18, Commander Rowley, was at
Irlaldenado.
The Firebrand, steam frigate, Captain Hope, and
the -Harpy, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Tomlinson, was at
Buenos Ayres.
The Acorn,lS, Commander Binghana.was at Paraguay,
The Alecto steam-sloop, Commander Massingherd,'
had proceeded up the I.Trugay to relieve the iron steam-
vessel Lizard, Lieutenant Commander Tyldeu.
The Dido, 20, Captain Maxwell, sailed from Monte
Video for the East Indies on the 29th of October.
The Carysfort, 26, Captain G. If. Seymour, arrived
at Valparaiso on the 19th of October, from Sydney
and New Zealand (where she had landed the new
Governor and specie), and remained there on the 24th
refitting.
The Salamander steam-sloop, Captaim Harnond, left
Valparaiso for Rio and England on the Ist of October.
The Sampson steam frigate, Captain T. Henderson,
lest Valparaiso on the 25th of October for Talcahuano,
and on an experimental sailing cruize.
The Nereus store-ship, Master Commander Bateman,
was under orders, at the above date, to proceed from
Valparaiso to Callao.

COMrOSITION OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES,—
The Chamber of Deputies is composed of 459 members,
contains sixty-six lawyers or notaries, seven physicians,
forty-four officers of the army, either on half pay or in
active service ; two officers of the navy, in active ser-
vice ; eighty-two magistrates, fifty-two administrators,
thirteen civil engineers, twenty-seven merchants or
backers, eight manufacturers, eight iron• masters, nine
ministers, fifteen members of the institute, fifteen diplo-
matists, and six literary men, three of whom arc chief j
editors of daily
ties are ra.>stlynewspapers. The remaining 115 depu- I
landed proprietors.
SuPPOSED
man named Bilby 9l) E.—On Saturday afternoon a
the discoveredhodyfisir\vin the water, near
Waterloo-
bridge,
, of 16 and 17aacMjia* rvis, formerly a
furniture dealer, W. Is
minster-road. On getting the body e ma-place, West-
_ the head and face
found to be mutilated, and the side ashoreof the skull was
aperture. From.. I
disfigured. In the head was a lserr.
latvPinaftortunate w.,,
in;uiries there seems no doubt that'tehe
committed suicide by jumping from
and that the injuries were the result ofehrliQsc'br.".'l",
illtne, hut on
against the piers in his descent. The deee.l.:;,'ag
Friday Light, retired to his bed in good stair ---"'
one of the inmates of the house in whial.
going into his bed room on Saturday mo • lodged
gone out, an,l
,roing, it was
ascertained that during the night he had
:
nothing was seen or heard of him till h is body was found
in the river.
—Two ships-of-the-
STATE OF Till DUTCE NAVY.
line of 84 guns, five of 74 (of w'nieh three are building),
two of 60, one of .54, eleven of. 44, two of 38 (building),
three of 32, nine of 28, fi,ur of 20 (of which two are
building), two of 22, two clf 20, eleven of 18 (of which
one is building), one of lii, eleven of 14, seven of 12 (of
which four are building)., two of 8, five of 6, fire of 5,
four of 4, and three of 3 guns ; in all 92 vessels, with
2,356 guns of different calibre. Besides, there are ten
Steam-boats, carryir4g 64 guns, two iron steam-boats (and
one building), five transports, ten gW2-bOath and one
b9a2lJ-1,0591.
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