The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
MALTA, MARCEL 4. Admiral Sir Robert Stopford 1
having received two days' grace, was released from quaran-
tine on Wednesday last, and the Gorgon on Saturday . The
Carysfort will be released to-morrow, and the Princess
Charlotte on Friday next. On Thursday evening his Ne-
therland Majesty's ship Rhine, (having on board Prince
Henry, of Holland, as second Captain or Commander,)
after saluting the British Admiral's flag, which was re-
turned by the Bellerophon, was towed out by the boats of
the squadron, and sailed for Athens and the Levant. The
Castor sailed for Vourla en Saturday. The Rodney will
sail for Plymouth, and the Ganges for Vourla, to-morrow,
or Friday, the ►atter conveying such letters for the
ships in the Levant as may arrive by the Blazer,
due here to-day. The Megara arrived o❑ Saturday
night from Alexandria, whence she sailed on the 24th
ult., bringing the East India mail despatched from Bom-
bay on the 3lat of January by the Berenice, which reached
Suez on the 18th ult. The mail from England was for-
warded by the Volcano, which took her departure on
Sunday afternoon for Marseilles, whence she will return
here about the 13th, with the London overland mail of the
4th inst., when those for Egypt, Syria, ald India will be
despatched to Alexandria by the Megara. Those for Gi-
braltar will be conveyed by the Hermes, and these for the
lonian Islands and Greece by the Coufiance. The Zebra
will sail for Corfu after the return of the Hydra from
Vourla to relieve the Jascur. The Acheron arrived with
the mails from the lonian Islands on Monday.
The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Austen, is ready
for sea, and will proceed in tho course of the ensuing
week to the Mediterranean.

The Andromache, 28, Captain Baynes, C. 8., is still at
Spithead, waiting for orders.
The Vanguard, SO, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes, came
into harbour on Tuesday. She will be docked for the ex-
amination of her bottom, and immediately recommissioned.
The Pantaloon, 10, is cruising off the Kentish and
Sussex coast, to prevent French boats from fishing within
the prescribed limits of three miles. It is probable she
will continue upon this service some time. She was off
Brighton on Thursday. k't4its
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20.—The Emerald tender arrived
from Portsmouth on Saturday last, with supernumeraries,
and has since sailed on her return to that port. The Nau-
tilus, 10, Lieutenant G. Beaufoy, arrived from the coast
of Africa on Sunday. She left Sierra Leone the 28th of
January; the Harlequin and Buzzard were there when
she sailed, the Lily and Forester were at Ascension, and
the Wolverine at Prince's Island. The Pique, 36, Capt.
E. Boxer, returned, after a short cruise to the westward,
on Sunday, and waits for orders. The Minden, 72, is or-
dered to be fitted as a demonstration ship. The Sans Pa.
roil, sheer-hulk, has been taken into dock to have her de.
fects examined. The Thunderer, Inconstant, and Persian,.
fitting at this port, have nearly completed their crews,
and
,
ate in a very forward state. The St. George, 120
Ferret,
.10, will be launched from this dockyard in,, and
the
course of the summer.

In Harbour—The Impregnable, the San Josef, the
Thunderer, the Inconstant, the Persian, the Nautilus, the
Carron and the Columbia steamers.
In the Sound--The Pique.

NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS.
Lieutenant—John fliers Greer (1799), to the rank of
Retired Commander, retainieg his out-pension of Green-
wich Hospital.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—T. L. Massie, to the Thunderer.
Lieutenants—R. F. King, to the Persian; Alexander
Dawson, to the Astrea ; George Sprigg, from the Mel-
ville, to command the Brisk, vice Armitage ; Thomas
Courtis Ross, to command the Curlew, vice Rose.
Purser—James Yorsten, to the Inconstant.
Assistaut-Surgeons—R. Faris and John Tait, to the
Thunderer.
Mates—Mr. William Butler, to the Cyclops Mr.
John George Nops, second Master, to the Jupiter.
Volunteer Ist Class—Samuel Marryat, to the Britannia.
Boatswain—Mr. William Robertson, of the Victory, to
the Royal Sovereign yacht, a Milford.
Commander Bamber has been placed on the out-pension
of Greenwich Hospital.

Lord Cranstoun, who has been making a tour
of several mouths on the Continent, has returned to this coun-
try, and is novr enjoying the sports of the field at Melton
Mowbray.