The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-17 00:00:00

arrived ynterday afternoon from Liege, and proceeded
immediately to the Palace.
The Journal de Frankfort says that it has a letter from
Vienna, announcing another alliance between the family
of Saxe Coburg Gotha and the reigning family of France,
by the marriage of Prince Augustus Victor, Captain of
tCavalry in: the Austrian service, to_ her Royal Highness
the Princess Clementine.

FINSBURY MEETING IN FAVOUR
OF MESSRS. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND
JONES.

On Wednesday a meeting waheld in the large room, White
Conduit-house, to address the people of England, and to peti-
tion both Houses of Parliament to grant a free pardon to the
above persons. The room was crowded to excess, and from
ten to twelve thousand individuals were obliged to go
away. The following resolution, moved by Thomas
Savage, seconded by 111 r. Thomas (the Barrister),
and supported by Feargus O'Connor, was unanimously
carried :—Resolved," That the governing spirit of the Cri-
minal Laws of England is that of mercy to persons accused of
cringe, and in that spirit our ancestors have taken care to exact
the most scrupulous attention to minute forms of law, that the
accused may be secured an instant acquittal in the event of
those forms not being complied with, giving to the accused
the benefit of any doubts that may arise, wisely considering it
much better than even many guilty persons should escape pu-
nishment than that one who is innocent should suffer un-
justly." The following resolution, moved by Mr. Watson, se-
conded by Mr. Wilkinson, and supported by Dr. Wade, was
also unanimously carried :—Resolved—" That the non-
compliance, in the cases of Messrs. Frost, Williams, and Jones,
with the special forms required by the statute law of the land,
entitle them to an immediate acquittal; and this meeting can
discover no reason why they should be made an exception to
its wholesome and general working, unless it be that they are
tJ be punished for their political principles and opinions, even
at the expense of the integrity of the law." The following re-
solution, moved by Mr. Moore, and seconded by Mr. Mason,
on being put to the meeting, was carried :—Resolved—" That
this meeting feeling that the integrity of the law ought to
be vindicated, and that no political opinions or principles
ought to deprive any person of its protection ; feeling also, that
political integrity or morality have heretofore distinguished
Messrs. Frost, Williams, and Jones, we cannot contemplate
their present position without emotions of the deepest sym-
pathy and commiseration, and we therefore determine to exert
our utmost power to procure them a free pardon ; and we
recommend every City and Borough throughout the land
to instruct their representatives, and to petition both Houses of
Parliament to address the Queen, that she may be graciously
pleased to extend her Royal Pardon."
An address to the people of England, embodying the senti •
ments expressed in the resolutions, was then moved by Mr. T.
Savacs, and seconded by Mr. SWAIN, and unanimously
adopted.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

. .
We have received accounts from Malta to the 29th ult.
The following is extracted from the Malta Gazette:-
4' MALTA, JAN 29, 1840.
" The Rhadamanthus, steam frigate, arrived on the
24th instant from Vourla, which she left ch the 24th, by
which we learn the arrival there, on the 18th, of the Gor-
gon, from Malta, and that the Admiralty have, at the re-
quest of Sir Robert Stopford (whose health, at his advanced
age, is suffering from the severe winter at Vourla), sanc-
tioned his leaving the Levant for Malta, and that Rear-
Admiral Sir John Louis is to proceed from Malta to
assume thr command at Vourla. The Rear-Admiral
will leave very shortly, hoisting his flag in the first ix-

stance, we believe, in the Rlirdamanthry, from whence
it will be transferred to the Powerful or the Ganger.
Lieutenant Mends, Flag-Licutenant, will accompany
the Rear-Admiral, before whose arrival at Vourla the
Princess Charlotte will not leave. Captain Austen, of
the Bellerophon will, most probably, :as senior officer
in Port, carry on the Dcck-yard duty in the absence
of the Rear-Admiral. The Asia, Ganges, Castor, and
Daphne, returned to Vourla as soon as:they have refitted.
The order for the sailing of the Benbow from Vourla has

been cancelled, and she remain there. The Dido has
proceeded to Constantinople to relieve the Carysfort, and
the Phoenix to the Dardanelles with despatches. The
Rodney was to leaveVourla on Thursday last for Plymouth,
to be paid cif (having been upwards of four years in c,,m-
mission), calling at Malta, but where she will not tako
pratique. The Vanguard, after getting pratique will
proceed (about the 10th proximo) for Corfu, there to take
on board military invalids for conveyance to Portsmouth,
where she will be paid off. Mr. Knapman, late purser
of the Rodney, invalided, gill take his passage in her to
England.
" The weather continues very severe at Vourla, and the
cold almost insupportable. On the 15th instant, as the
Rodney's launch was conveying a cargo of water on board,
ju,t as she got alongside a heavy squall came on, swamped
and sunk her, leaving her cargo, Lieutenant Wise, Mr.
Kynaston, mate, and the crew, on the surface, and but for
the expedition in manning the boats to pick them up, the
whole must have met with a watery grave, for the best
swimmer could not have :kept long afloat from the severity
of the cold, and the heavy sea at the time.
"R. Y. C. vessels in port. The schooner Flower of
Yarrow, Lord Exmouth, who gives a ball to his friends in
this garrison, on Friday next, at the Auberge de Provence.
Schooner Louisa, Mr. Jekyll, laid up for the winter; and
schooner Menai, Lord Egerton, waiting orders from her
owner at Rome.

" On the 23d instant, his Netherland Majesty's double
banked frigate Rhine arrived from Syracuse. Prince
Henry, serving on board this vessel in the rank of com-
mander, landed on Sunday afternoon under the customary
salute cud honours, and accompanied by the captain of the
ship, and John Clones Ross, Esq., the Dwch consul at
this port, proceeded to pay a visit of ceremony to his Ex-
cellency the Governor at the palace.
" In port, Ceylon 6 (bearing the flag of Rear-admiral
Sir J.-Louis, Bart.), Vanguard tO, Bellerophon 78,
Ganges 84, Asia 84, Castor 36, Daphne 10, Zebra 16,
Beacon 8, Magpie 4. Steamers, Rha4amanthus 4, Con&
ance 2, Alecto 2, Hermes 2, Acheron 2, H. N. M. frigate
Rhine, and the French steamers Rhameses and Eurotus."
PORTSMOUTIL—The Magicienne 24, and: to have a corn-
pleMerit of 210 men, was commissioned yesterday, in this
harbour, by Captain W. Butnett.
The Pearl 18, was commissioned at Sheerness on Mon-
day. by Lieut. B. A. Wake.
.Bouna.v.—ln consequence of an order that has come
out for the construction of certain vessels of war of the
largest class in this dock-yard, very considerable altera-
tions are to be made. The new slips shout to be laid
dawn will extend as far as the saluting battery, and as
they will mask some of the guns of the fort, Government
has determined to erect a fort on the sunken rock, with a
small light-house attached, which will rff:woally protect
the harbour, and at the same time do away with the neces-
sity of the light vessel. The Vanguard is said to be the
model for the. new ships. Mr. Allen, the new master
bolder, arrived by the Berenice.

The Blonde, 42, Captain Bourchier, sailed this morning
for Plymouth and China. _
_.... ._.

The Pembroke, 72, Capt. Moresby, was paid off yes-
terday. The system of not allowing so many persons on
board on pay-day answered uncommonly well; the whole
crew were entirely sober, and the Marines marched into
their barracks without a man being intoxicated.
The Flamer steamer put back into Plymouth a second
time on Sunday last.

The Turquoise yacht, Sir I-13de Parker, was at Gibral-
tar on the Ist instant.

The Columbia steamer sailed yesterday, with part of the
Pembroke's crew for Plymouth and Cork.
A line-of-battle ship, a first-rate, is about to be put on
the stocks, to be called the Royal Albert.
Oct Wednesday morning a barque, from Liverpool,
bound to London with a general cargo, was wreaked off
Bode ; the crew, to the number of ten, took to the boat,
which was swamped, and every soul perished. It is
thought, had they remained in the vessel, that the preven-
tive men might have saved them.
•

At Spithead.—Blenheim, Crescent, and Asia, West
byflamer.).

In Harbour.—Britannia, Victory, Exc.:Alent, Pique,
Andromache, Royal George, Magieienne, Pantaloon,
Raven cutter, Messenger steamer, Adventure, naval
transport.

In. Dock.—Queen, St. Vincent, Warspitc,
H trrier, Tweed, Success hulk, Fanny tender.
In Basin.—Madagascar, .Magicientie, Victor.
Orders were despatched to Rear Admiral the Honour-
able George Elliott, the Commander-in-chief at the C tpe,
to proceed with his flag in the Melville, to join the squa-
dron in the East Indies, some time previous to the melan-
choly tidings of Sir Frederick Maitland's death reaching
England. Admiral Elliott will be confirmed in the East
India command, and a Admiral will be sent to take
his late station at the Cape and Coast of Africa.
APPalNTME:4T3.—Captain—Wiliiam Bernet, to the Ma-
gicien ne. _

Commander—Charles Colville Frankland, to the Pearl.
Lieutenants—B. A. Wake, to the Pearl; John C.
Hoseasot, to the Cambridge; Benjamin Sharpe, of the Ex-
cellent, to the Magicienne; John Jcayes, to command
Gleaner steamer; Charles Leach, to Thunderer.
Masters—H. Etnes, to the Magicienne ; Henry Maple-
ton, Acting Master, vice Peacock resigned, to Andromache.
Assistant Surgeons—John Tait, and James H. Steele,
to the Thundercr.
Purser_Richard Singer, to the Magicienne.
Mate—H. A. Hollingworth, to the Thunderer.
Gunner—John Galbraith, to Magicienne.
Boatswain—George Eastbrook, to Magicienne.
Carpenters—Wm. Cook, to the Thunderer; George
Hill, to Magicienne; George Bruce, to the Cambridge.
The following candidates were examined at the Naval
College, on Tuesday, and found qualified as Lieutenants :
—Mr. Charles Sydney Dunbar, ,Minden; Mr. Wm. Hal.
lett Conolly, no ship; Mr. Octavius Bentall, no ship •
Mr. Archibald Douglas Jolly, Howe; Mr. Wm. Wallace'
Walker, no ship ; Mr. Henry Ley, no ship; Mr. George
A. Seale, Britannia; Mr. Wm. J. R. Card, Pembroke;
and as a Naval Instructor, Mr. Fred. Bonter.

SIJOREDITCII.—On Monday evening last a
party of gentlemen celebrated the Royal
Nuptials in a
supper at the Jane Shore tavern Augustus Wynne, Esq.
was to have been the Chairman but in consequence of
his unavoidable absence, that office devolved on a neigh-
bour. After partaking of Mr. Golding's most excellent
fare, and enjoying the evening in the greatest loyalty and con-
viviality, a society was established to commemorate the auspi-
cious event, to called the Prince Albert Association for the
Relief of the Necessitous Poor. Several subscriptions were
entered into, and this evening appointed to carry the same into
full effect,