The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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. PORTSMOUTH, OCT.. I.—Vice-Adoliral Sir EdWard
Owen, K.C.R., is appointed Commander-in-Chief in the.
Mediterranean, and will hotst his tlag on board the
Queen. The St. Vincent, 120, will be substituted for'
the flag of Admiral Sir Edward Codriugton, on Tuesday.
Captain George F. .Rich will be Sir Edward Omen's
Flag Captain. The. Queen is to bear a complement of
926 men.

The Vindictive, 50, at this port, was this day ordered
to be commissioned ; her complement of. men is to be
510-ten more than the Warspite's. . Captain J. Toup
icolas, of the Belleisle, is appointed to command her.
The Hazard, 18, was commissioned at this port yes-
terday, by Commander Charlei 'Bell.
The Impregnable, 104, with The flag of Rear4Adiniral
Sir Francis Mason, will soil to-morrow from *month,
for Malta. • . .

The Ardent, steam-frigate, Commander John Russell,
sailed
yesterday for the Brazils; teaching at Madeira.
The Carron, steam vessel, intended as a tender to the
illUstriouS, sailed yesterday for Bermuda.
The Ringdove, 16, Commander 11. K. Stewart, came
into harbour on Monda.),l to be_paid oft
-The MOP, yesießayror Liverpool and
Bristol, for seamen.

The Charybdis, brigantine, Lieut. de. Courcey, left Ja-
maica for the Bahamas and Halifax, on the 14th of Au-
gust ; the Hydra, steamer, Commander Murray, left
for Carthagena on the 19th August.
The Rolla arrived at Bathurst (River Gambia), frOm
Sierra Leone, on the 22d July, and sailed on the 2701
On her return. The Torma,gant arrived at Bathurst on
the same day from Portendick, and the Wanderer, on
the 28th July ; and both sailed on the 29th to Leeward.
The-Madagascar and Satellite were taken out of dock
yesterday ; the Hazard taken into dock. The Madagas-
car and Pantaloon went out of the basin on the same day.
The following vessels are fitting at Woolwich :
Siren, 16, Heroine, 10. •team-vessels—Vixen; Devasta-
tion, Rhadamanthus, Volcano, Avon, Lightning, Dasher,
and Widgeon.
The following memorandum has been published, dated
Admiralty, Sept. 8, 1841 :—" Pursers serving as clerks
are only to wear tho uniform of the station in which they
are actually serving. By command of their Lordships,—
J. Barrow?'

In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Illustrious,
Warspite, Madagascar, Belvidera, Royal George, Driver
steam-frigate, North Star, Ringdove, Pantaloon, Viper,
Apollo troop-ship, Diligence naval transport, and Echo
bteam tug.
PLYMOITTH, SaPT. 30.—0 n Thursday sailed. the Mer-
bury tender, and Diligence transport, for Portsmouth ;
also the Roch ford lighter, for Woolwich and Deptford.
Arrived the Devon lighter from Liverpool, od Swale
tender; from Falmouth, 'The Ferret, 10, Lieutenant W.
S. S. Thomas; was taken, into dock to .have her bottom
examined. A Court of Inquiry has been held on the Lie—
utenant and Second Master of this vessel, to inquire into.
the circumstances of her getting on shore,. but the result
has not transpired- On Saturday the Albion steamer,
Mr. King, master, with the depot of the 48th from Cork,
put into this port, on her way to Guernsey, for which
place she sailed the same day to disembark the depot.
On Wednesday, the Forester, 10, Lieutenant G. J. Nor-
cock, was paid oir this day.
Lr liarbour.—Caledonia, San Josef, Malabar, Cam-
brian, Spartan, Nightingale; and Ferret.
In the Sound—lmpregnable, Belleisle, and Tortoise,
convict- ship.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PIZOMOTI3NS.-Mate-Henry 'William Hire (of the
Pilot), to the rank of Lieutenant.

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APPOISTMENTS.—Captains—Geo. F. Rich, to the
Qucen, (for the flag of Vice Admiral Sir E. Owen), vice
E. Codrington, to the St. Vincent ; J. Toup Nicolas (of
.the &Eelsle) to the Vindictive.
Commanders—Charles -H. Seale, to the Serpent ;
M. A. Slater, Acting, 'to the William and Mary
(commanding the Lightning) ; James B. Hay, to the
Queen.
Lieutenants—George Smythe, and F. W. C: Hickey,
to the Volage ; James C, Johnson, R. A. Oliver, J. T.
Thurburn, and Edward J. B. Clarke, to the Thalia ;
Langton Browell and David A. Buchan, to the Vixen ;
Thomas Edwards and Percy Parkhurst, to the Styx ;
Henry G. Morris and Edward R. Power, to the'ilarle.-
(pin ; James C. Robinson and Edward M. Noble, to the
Serpent ; E. B. Nott, to the Siren ; James B. West and
Cospatrick B. Hamilton, to the Aigle; James A. Abbott,
Henry Eden, endgames Hunt, to the Dido; Probyn,
to the Isis ; Robertson, to the Hazard ; A. Boyle,
from North Star, to be. First Lieutenant of the Queen.
Masters—James • Boxer, to the Volage ; James Ton-
kin, Acting, to the Formidable ; W. T. Mainprise, to
the Aigle ; Francis Edington, to the Harlequin ; W.
J. B. Hilliard, to the Serpent ; Julius Dor, to the Siren;
J. H. Aston, to the Styx ; R. C. Allen, to the Vixen ;
F. W. Paul, to the Hazard.

Pursers—J. H. Cook, to tha Volame ; Kenneth L.
Sutherland, to the Harlequin ; John Brickwood,' to the
Siren ; Walter Clatsworthy, to the Thalia ; John Har-
shaw, to the Vixen ; W. L. Freeman, to the Aigle ;
C. Bullmar, to the Dido ; W. A. tiarris, to the Hazard.
Surgeons—Wm. Kent, to the Aigle ; R. Birtwhistle,
to the Volage ; Charles K. Nutt, to the Harlequin ;
James Lambert, to the Serpent ; Wm. Roy, to the
Siren ; David G. Miller, to the Styx ; Richard Douglas,
to the Thalia ; John Naulty, to the Vixen ; A. Dona-
hoe, to the Dido.
Assistant Surgeons—T. H. Graham, to the Aigle ;
John Simpson, to the Dido; Bower, to the Lynx;
R. A. Godson, to the Serpent,
Acting Master—J. Warner, to the Ferret.
Second Master—J. Gallon, to the Illustrious; John
Garner, to the Rhadamanthus.
Clerk—C. Jenkins, to the Spartan.
Mates—George Graham, to the Belvidera; Henry
Clarke, to the North Star.

First Engineer—R. Sago, to the Victory, for service
of the Wildfire.

Midshipmen—P. W. Darnell and W. Perrier, to the
Spartan; Allan Percy, to Warspite.
Volunteers Ist Class—Juhn Edward Riley, to the Isis.
Master's Assistant—George Stabb, to the Belvider...
ROYAL MARINES—Lieut. Shoveller, to the Volage.

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.--,
We understand that the editorship of this distinguished
periodical has been placed in the hands of that Prince of
Whimsters, ThonmS Wood. We warn its competitors
to look to their subscribers. Never was there a man more
likely to make a Magazine popular, or to keep it so, than
Thomas Hood. Campbell, Bulwer, and Theodore Hook,
Who have, in turn, ruled over the " New Monthly,"
exeroised their functions admirably, each with his own pe-
culiar excellence. But with due reverence . for
names so eminent, he it said, not one of them possessed
56 thoroughly as Thomas Hood those mixed powers and
tastes best calculated for the gratification of the mixed
company Of Magazine readers. By the world, indeed,
he his known but as a Ulan who brings laughter to our
fire-sides in the very teeth of Christmas bills and bank-
rupt debtors. Yet he is only not celebrated for graver
powers, because the exceeding brilliancy of his wit has
drizzled .the vision of his readers, and blinded them to his
other unqueAtionablo merits. .11. ox capable he is of ima-
gination and tenderness, and pathos, let the "Plea of the
Midsummer Fairies," and some of the sweet ballad
stanzas in the same volume, attest. For these reasons we
haVe sangniae expectations of the coming " New
Monthlies," under the editorship of Thomas Hood.
What a galaxy of wit and genius, by-the-bye, does
not the mention of this periodical conjure up before
us. Within a few years its pages boast of contributions
from Campbell, Bulwer, Hool, Hood, Leigh Hunt,
Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, T. Moore, Miss Landon, Mrs.
Hemans, Lady Morgan, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Hall, Landor,
Barry Cornwall, the Smiths, Banim, and a host of less( r
stars.—Nortliampton Mercury.
WOOD PAVEMENT.—On Saturday, at the
meeting of the Marylebone -Vestry, one of the pro-
prietors of Rankin's patent wood paving, which has for
some time been exhibited at the Polytechnic Institution,
Regent-street, and by its thousands of- visitors been
much admired, proposed to lay down GOO yards as an
experiment in Oxford-street, on the descent between
South Molton and Duke-streets. The gentleman pro-
duced a model to the Board, and said that the only pos-
sible objection to wood—its slipperiness, was obviated
by their blocks, which presented a good foot-holding in
e,.ery direction, and the proprietors were willing to lay
down a specimen on a hill where there was the most
severe and continual traffic, in blocks of Norway fir or
English elm,- at 16s. a square yard, the same to be kept
in repair for seven years at 6d. per square yard. He
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with a gentleman who was in sydney on the arrival of
Gould, suspected of murdering Mr. Templeman, when
•he was reported to have been a most refractory fellow
during the voyage, and frequently punish.td for his mis-
conduct.. The consequence has been that the convict, in-
stead of being an " assigned servant," was sent to the
barrack for refractory offenders, and now works on the
public roads attached to the chain gang, which •is the
most irksome and degrading employment to which a
convict can be subjected, short of working in the mines
at Moreton Bay, or eo Norfolk Island.