The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 7.--The command on the Brazil
station has been offered to Rear-Admiral Sir James Alexander
Gordon, K. C. 8., and no flag officer will in future be sent to
the Cape. How far the Brazil command will extend, or who
will have charge of the African coast, we are not aware ; but it
is believed that Commodore Sulivan's successor would have
charge of the Cape. We further understand that a Commo-
dore is to be sent into the Pacific, and that another Commodore
will have charge of the African coast ; if the latter is deter-
mined on, it is as it should be, as no officer having charge of
this coast, with his attention distracted by duties either at the
Brazils or the Cape, can do his duty effectually.
We have strong reasons for believing that the Hon. Admiral
Fleming will immediately assume the command in the Medi-
terranean, giving up in the meantime the emoluments of Green-
wich Hospital, but with the right of returning to the situation
whenever he relinquishes his services afloat. Precedents can be
found for this, and which precedents will also show that Gallant
Officers formerly were not so nice, but thought themselves en-
titled to the pay of both situations.
The Druid, 46, Captain Lord John Churchill, and the Alli-
gator, Capt. Sir J. J. Bremer, are to meet the Hon. Rear-
Admiral Elliott, in the Melville, at Singapore; and by a letter
from Madras we find that several regiments are ordered for
embarkation, amongst which is the 24th Native Infantry, which
was to proceed to Penang immediately.
The Pique, 36, Capt. Boxer, and Andromache, 28, Capt.
Baynes, went out of harbour this week, and remain at Spit-
head for orders; both ships have been paid wages.
The Wasp, 16, was at Gibraltar on the 20th ult. ; the Trin-
cu.° at Cadiz ; the Donegal, Revenge, and Espoin, were at
Lisbon on the 24th ; also the French frigate Juno.
The Vanguard, e 4, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes, was at
Malta, on the 16th February, and was to sail on the 24th for
England, via Gibraltar and Lisbon. She was shortly to be
followed by the Rodney, 92, Commodore Parker, and Asia, 84,
Capt. Fisher. The former is to come into this harbour to ba
paid off. The Rodney goes to Plymouth for the same purpose,
and the Asia to Sheerness.
The Meteor steam-vessel sailed from Falmouth on Sunday,
for Channel Soundings, to relieve the homeward-bound ships
detained by easterly winds.
The Stromboli steamer, was taken into dock to-day, to see
if she sustained any damage by getting on shor..! in the Clyde
River; she is ordered to be got ready for sea in this port.
The Cyclops steam frigate, with the 24th depot on board,
reached Cork Harbour in thirty-six hours, from Spithead, a
distance of 320 miles. She had not embarked the 61st Regi-
ment on Thursday noon.
The Raven cutter sailed on Tuesday for Sheerness, with
supernumeraries, for her Majesty's ship Cambridge ; and pro-
cee ed as far as the Ower's light, when she encountered a fresh
easterly gale, with a very heavy sea, having had her jib blown
to atoms and sustained other damages, and not being able to
make headway, bore up again for Portsmouth, and came into
harbour on the following day.
AVPOINTMENTS.—ChapIain—The Rev. P. P. Smith to the
Thundcrer.

Second Masters—F. F. F. Taylor, to the Magicienne ;G.
W. Beaumont, to the Dolph:n.
Purser.—Mr. John Ward (1821) to the Pique, vice Ker.
rigan, who resigns from ill-health.

Clerk-in-charge.—W. D. Howe, to the Dolphin.
Clerk.—W. H. Harris (additional) to the Cambridge.
Mate.—H. Vernon Craven, to the Thunderer ; Thomas
Carmichael, from Larne, to the Wellesley ; B. J. Turner, T.
A. Alldridge, and W. d. Forsyth, to be chief officers of the
Coast Guard ; the latter to the Selsey Station, vtee Lieutenant
Lavingt on, removed to Bognor.

Mr. Grenville's dinner party on Friday evening
in Hamilton-place, consisted of the Archbishop of York, Earl
of Carlisle, Earl of Burlington, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lady
Dover, Lady Elizabeth Howard, &c.
OMNIBUS INJUNCTION.—III the Court of
Chancery on Wednesday, Mr. Wigram moved for an injunction
to restrain ‘lr. Pearce, a proprietor of omnibuses running be-
tween Paddington and the Bank, from using the name of " Con-
veyance Company" on his carriages, and from clothing his ser-
vants in coats trimmed with gold lace, to resemble those of the
plaintiff. More thaii two years ago a similar application was
made to the Court, and it was allowed to stand over on an un-
dertaking by the defendant that he would abstain from imitat-
ing the plaintiff's carriages, and use silver lace. Since then
the parties who were plaintiffs have ceased to form part of the
company, and circumrtances now rendered it necessary to renew
the application. Mr. Parry, on the other side, said he had ad-
vised his client to adhere to the agreement, and he was now
ready to do so. Mr. Wigram accepted this assurance ; and
the application for the injunction was not persisted in.
The continuance of easterly winds preventing the
arrival of the homeward-bound merchant ships has caused very
great distress to dock and river labour; rs and their families.
This, combined with the privations to which bricklayers' la-
bourers have been for some time subjected, owing to want of
employment, has increased to an mormous extent the number
of applicants for relief at the office of the Mendicity Society,
which, during the past week, has been necessarily kept open till
near midnight. he meals given away in the above period
were no fewer than from 5,800 to 6,00, of which number up-
wards of 1,600 were distributed on last Saturday alone. Re-
lief has also been afforded by the society in various sums of
money, and hundreds of poor creatures have been furnished
with work at the mills, stone-yard, and oakum-rooms belong-
ing to the institution in question, for which labour proper re-
muneration has been made.

_EVENTING _EDITION-.

PERTEISHIR:: ELECTION.

STATE OF THE POLL—FRIDAI, Fir,sr
Drummond. St,;•wart.
Perth
Bridge of Earn... :... 161
Blairgowrie
Crial
277
Duiteld
179
we
125
Deune

1,586 1,127
Majority for Drummond
Mr. ,Stewart, sin ce the announcement of the first day's
poll, has reigned.