The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-21 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

PonTsarou ,TIT X E 19.—The preparations which have
been making for the bombardment of Algiers, and the annoy-
ance of the Dey, are now completed, and the last of the vessels
ordered upon the service, will sail to-morrow, should the weather
moderate (it now blows strong from the south-east, with con-
stant rain). His Majesty's steam-vessel Lightning, with Mr.
Gaza (Master Attendant) on board, accompanied by tbs. Admi-
ral Berkeley transport, Lieut. Sanders (laden with coals), sailed
on Sunday ; and the Algerine, 16, Captain Hon. 111. Stopford,
with the mortar vessels Falmouth, Lieut. Laws, and Goodwill,
Lieut. Thorne, sailed on Tuesday, for Algiers Bay ; the Infer-
nal bomb, Capt. Barclay (which ship arrived here on Tuesday
from Chatham), Hamoaze mortar vessel, Lieut AlacCausland,
' land, and the Industry transport, with Ordnance stores, will
probably sail to-morrow for the same destination.
The Terror arrived at Gibraltar on the 22d ult. from Spit-
head, and sailed again for Algiers.
On Tuesday the Sparrowhawk, 13, Capt. the Hon. R. S. Dun-
das, sailed for Rio Janeiro, with about 300,0001. (about 30 tons
of silver and gold) for the Brazilian Government, and dis-
patches for Rear-admiral Sir George Eyre. The Sparrowhawk
will proceed from Rio to the Mediterranean station.
The Medina, 20, Capt. Charles M. Walker, will sail tomor-
row for Constantinople, taking Win. Turner, Esq. Secretary to '
his Majesty's Embassy at the Sublime Ottoman Porte.—Lord
Strangeford returns to England for a short time.
Vice-Admiral Lord Amalius Beauclerk is appointed to eom-
mand his Majesty's ships at Lisbon, and on the coast of Portu-
gal. His Lordship will proceed to his command in the Blanch.
Rear-Admiral Willoughby Lake, C. B. sailed yesterday. in
the Jupiter, 60, Captain D. Dunn, to succeed Rear-Admiral
Fahie, in the North American command, who will return home
in the Salisbury, 60, Captain Maud.e.
Captain Fitz Studdert has commissioned the Champion,
Captain Henry Litchfield, the Orestes, and Captain Francis
Fetid, the Pylades new experimental sloops of war.—Captain
Octavius Vernon has commissioned the Britomart, 16, at this
port. Capt. E. F. Scott is appointed Inspector of the Coast
Blockade, at Whitby (Yorkshire) ; Capt. Scott, to raise sea-
men at Liverpool. Lieutenants C. H. Seale, It. i%loiarity,
H. Strond, J. M. Williams, and W. H. Brady, to the Ra-
millies for the Coast Blockade service) ; Lieut. W. Nevill, to
the .Tasseur ; Lieut. W. Tucker (b.), to the Pylades; Mr. J.
Brown (a), to be Purser of the Blonde; Mr. Kimble, to be
Purser of the Britomart.

DAVENPORT.—SaiIed the Cyrene, 20, for the Mediter:

rancan. Arrived the Kite, from- the Irish station, to be paid
off. Remain—Britannia, Ocean, Dartmouth, Sappho, Nun-
rod, Meteor, Plumper, Zephyr, and Blanche, in the Sound.
Yesterday the Kaines transport, Lieut. Burdwood, sailed
for Liverpool, to embark the 94th Regiment for Halifax, and
take the 20th Regiment thence to Barbadoes. The Princess
Royal, Lieut. Hewett, will sail to-morrow on the same service.

THE TEA TRADE.—The followiug extraordi-
nary circumstance is deserving to he known. It is as charac-
teristic as true, and may tend to show to what length the Direc-
tory will go. It has been sent to us by a Correspondent, on
whose veracity we can safely answer.—" At the Company's
last sale of teas immediately after the sale of the black teas, a
broker inquired how it happened that the Company had brought
to much into the market that sale. The Director replied, that
they could scarcely keep their seats for the clamour out of
doors, and stop their mouths ; that at the next sale there should
be a greater quantity brought to sale than now was offered.
This acknowledgement produced a most serious effect upon the
sales of the private trade, which had not then taken place, and
on the following day the sale of teas produced a serious loss to
the sellers. Now this, to say the least, was an untamed and
most injudicious, if not unjust act, particularly so when it is
known that out of the amount of private sales, the East In-
dia Company take away a tax of 26 per cent."--( The Indian
Observer.)

THE CHINA TftADE.—The following is from
the Penang Gazette of the 22d November :
" Yesterday morning arrived the ship Edmonstone, Captain
Wm. Morgan, from Canton Lth October, and Singapore the
10th inst.—Passengers Mr. and Mrs. Bryce.
" We have seen letters from Canton, which state that the
opium sales are very discouraging. The following prices are
quoted of this drug, viz.:—
Patna, per chest,
Benares, do.
Malwa, do.

. . . 1,500 Sp. Drs.
• • • 1,400 do.
▪ .
_1,050 do.

" There had been a partial advance on Eastern produce be-
fore the trade with the Honourable Company's ships was opened,
but the last accounts quote the following prices, viz.:—
Tin, per pecul, . . 23 Sp. Drs.
Pepper, do. - 13 do.
Cute!:, • do. . 7 do.
Bede Nut, do. . 31 do.
Rattans, do. . - 3. do.
"Accounts from Malacca state that the ate Regulations
established AT BATAvia, leaving a duty of 24 per cent. on all
goods the produce of Europe and America, imported from
ports eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, has bean extended to
the port of Malacca ! !"

DOVER, JUNE 20.—The Monarch steam-boat
sailed this morning for Calais, with Mr. and Mrs.
ROTHSCUILD. It is said Mr. ROTLISCHILD re-
turns in the Monarch this evening, and that his
lady proceeds to Frankfort.

We have received papers from Antigua to the
sth ultimo. On the departure of Sir B. d'UnnAm,
for Demerara, the Government had devolved on
Gen. Anti Ls., the Commandant of the troops.
The Session of the Legislature of Antigua had
commenced on the 22d of April. 13y accounts
from Dominica, it was stated that the Earl of
Huntingdon had issued writs for the election of
Members for a new (louse of Assembly in that
island. In Antigua, as well as in the other islands,
the proceedings here relative to the state of the
West Indies generally, excited the most intense
interest.

It has been erroneously stated that Lord
ELDON denied the existence of the Colombian
Governments. All that the Noble Lord said on
,the subject was that he had no authentic proof
of the existence of such Governments. Surely,
in the present state of things, his Lordship could
not have spoken otherwise, as no formal recog-
nition has taken place cm the part of the British
Government.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, Downiug-street,
which sat till a quarter past four. There were
present—the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of
Liverpool, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Lord Bexley, Mr. Can-
❑ing, &c.

On Saturday a Committee of the Lords of the
Council assembled at the Council Office, White-
hall, to hear Appeals from the Island of Jersey.
Major-General MURRAY arrived on Saturday
morning at the Colonial Office from Demerara.
A recent letter from Carlsruhe, states that the
valuable estate of Steakenhoff had lately been disposed of by
lottery, and that the fortunate ticket which transferred the pro-
perty was held by nine poor families resident in the small vil-
lage of Bubenback, who had clubbed together, and thus, by
one of Fortune's liberal freaks, would each be provided with a
decent competency in future.
Accounts from Rome speak of the banditti as
being very active on the papal dominions. Thirty of them
lately visited an innkeeper on the high road to Naples, and paid
the landlord with an assignation of Cardinal P.'s, payable on
his Eminence travelling through !
LORD MACDONALD.—Died on Saturday last, at
his house in Welbeck-street, in the 51st year of his age, the Rt.
Hon. ALEXANDER WENTWORTH, Lord MACDONALD, the
representative of the ancient Lords of the Isles in Scotland,
leaving no family. He is succeeded in his title and estates by
his next brother, the Hon. Major-General Godfrey Bosville.
Lord Macdonald's death will be long lamented, both on account
of his private worth, and his great zeal for promoting the im-
provement of his extensive property in the llebrides.