The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Plymouth Journal.)
Royal Marines.—Commissions:; S.!cond Lieutenants
are to be conferred on Messrs. Gerrard Montagu, C.
Forbes, and Hutchinson, provided they attain the
newly required qualification. These gentlemen and all
future candidates for Cemmissiors in this corps, are to
,join the Excellent, and remain in her for some months,
in order to receive probationary instruction ; and their
Cominissions will depend upon the degree of proficiency
they acquire in an initiatory, hut not high course of
matherxitics and other qualifications.

The Navy in general wdl be pleased to hear the ser-
vices of that active cod meritorious officer Captain
Thomas S. arlo, C. 8., have been rewarded by the Board
of Admiralty in the grant of a good service pension of
1501. a year.
The Skiljack schooner left Port Royal for Montego
Bay, July 20 ; the Co;nus, 16, left for Carthagena on
tho 27th ; the Hornet, 6, for Chagres, on the 28th ;
the Charybdis brig arrived at Jamaica on the 28th, for
Carthagena, with 150,000 dollars ; the Racehorse, 18,
was at Grenada on the 17th July.
The R. Y. S. schooner Menai, E. Smith, Ell., sailed
from Gibraltar for Portsmouth on the 17th of August.
The Turquoise R. Y. S. cutter (Lord Loraine), and
Gondola R. Y. S. schooner (Lord Canning), arrived Lt
Gibraltar on the 14th August from Oporto, and sailed
thence on the 17th for Barcelona.
The senior Surgeon of Greenwich Hospital (Assis-
tant Physician) W. GladAone, has accepted the re-
tirement of 501. per annum, in addition to his full-pay.
As the command at Lisbon is no longer to devolve
on a flag officer, end the presence •of a linc-of-battle
ship can be dispensed with, the Donegal, 78, Captain
Drake, with the flag of Sir John Ommanney, K.C.8.,
was to sail from Lisbon on the 25th ult., for Plymouth
to be paid off, her period of service having just expired.
The Espoir brig, would then he the only ship of war at
Lisbon.

The Druid, V"lage, and Hyacinth, were at Capsing-
moon, China, on the 27th April.
The Serpent sloop-of-war, lion. Commander Gore
arrived at Barbadoes from Jamaica, on the lOar of July,
and sailed for Bermuda on the 27th ; and the Victor
sloop-of-war, Commander Dawson, arrived on the 23d
July at 33.malea, from England.
The Kite steamer arrived at Demerara from Barba-
does, 16th July.
The Modeste sailed from Mauritius for China on the
22d May.
The Britomart arrived at Sydey (N. S. W.) from
Port Essington, 30th April.
The Cambridge arrived at Barcelona from Ports-
mouth 22d August.
The Crocodile sailed from St. John's, Newfoundland,
for Labrador, 30th July.
The Forester, from the coast of Africa, for Ascen-
sion, was spoken 21st July, in lat. 8 deg. long. 14 deg.
The Vanguard, 80, arrived on Thursday from Ports-
mouih, and sailed on Sunday for the Mediterranean.
The Cornet, steamer, sailed on Friday with Marines
for Portsmouth and Woolwich, to be paid off.
The Firebrand sailed on Friday, with the Admiralty
for Falmouth and Pembroke.
'Fhe Shearwater, steamer, arrived on Sunday from
Portsmouth.
The Belleisle arrived on Monday from Gibraltar,
and was towed into harbour on Tuesday by the Car-

ron steamer.
The Hamoaze, lighter, sailed on Monday with stores
for Holyhead and Liverpool.
The Nightingale arrived on Monday with marines
and sores from the North Coast of Spain.
The Southampton arrived on Tuesday from Chatham.
The craw of the Rodney were paid two months ad-
vance on Wednesday.
Remaining in Hamoaze.—lmpregnable, San Josef,
Calcutta, livlleisle, Sylph, Nctley, Carron (steamer),
Nightingale, Falmouth (lighter).
In Barnpool.—Sheart.ater (steamer), bound to the
%Vest Indies.
In the Sound.—Rodney, Southampton, Lord Lyn
dock (eon\ ict•ship).

A PRETTY PLAYTHING.—Grown-up people
have their toys as well as child; en ; the following is one of
them —At Burton Constable, the seat of Sir Clifford
Constable, in Yotkshire, has lately arrived from Parir,
new and most ornamental piece of furniture, viz., a mecti-
nieal orange tree, in full size, as you meet them on the
Continent. The leaves are of bronze, the flawers of Sem*
China—the oranges are yellow glass lamps, and there ire.
:even birds of the finest plumage, which sing, move tl eirt
wings and bodies, end hop all over the tree from branch tos
b: arch. There is a nest with three young ones in it, 'chid%
or ca tilde mouths, and the old ones appear to feed thou.:,
Tbe works are in the tub of the orange tree.
Yesterday afternoon a woman named Emma
Barber attempted self-destruction in one of the cells
ate
tacked to the Polite She
e Court, Worship-street. was..
brought from the New Prison, having been
Wrdno.Eday last on a charge of stealing being
remanded from
35 emend
eiig taken out
knives from a
i
man of the name of Lust, a hawket.
of the van she was placed in a cell, where there was also
another woman. She had tied a silk handkerchief tightly
iso was so horror.
round her throat, and her fellow piner
t'richea that she was unable to riveany alarm. Sergeant
Grove, one of the officers, aeicidelcntallllev
iwnsetnatnttoly tchueteteilll:
and found her nearly stem:
handkerchief; when samdc...regsstocoratwivaesssuvneciaTlllivedp,laacneed
the shortly after recovered.
vas not pressed by the prose
at the bar, but thehecrhat
charge
o6have been once in the possessiot.
eutor,
of prop::t'yo,kannedr'tbat her ri.la ives wee reap, c After
ionition from the worthy Magistrate she left the bar.
an
aTrnhree railway navigators, named King, Enole
and Smith, were en Monday evening lodged in the comic
gaol, Springfield, charged with an aggravated assault e
lan, Brentwood, committed on Sunday nigh•
tAhne
affray took place, in ehich Superintendent Davi
Perry, a policeman, and the parish constable were st
ver,ly bruised.—Chelmsford Paper. ,
The Northern and Eastern Railway from Slum
ditch to Broxbourae will be opened on Tuesday next, lte
the public dinner, usual on such occasions, is deferred ti
the works are completed to Bishop's Stortfor4.--Chebs
ford Chronicle.