The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 1 1. --By advice!. from New Orleans
of the 22d of March, we get very late intelligence from
Mexico. Pedri,za was firmly seated in the President's
chair, and trade and tranquillity were fast returning to
that hitherto distracted country. Money was getting in
abundance, and the conductors, or convoys of specie, from
the mines to Mexico, and from Mexico to the coast, were
daily and uninterrupted.
Lieut. Stirling, Fiag Lieutenant to the late Hon. Sir
11. Hotham, arrived at the Admiralty on Saturday, with
the intelligence of the death of that officer. The Admi-
ralty immediately conferred the vacant command in the
Mediterranean on Sir Pulteney Malcolm, judging, in the
present critical state of affairs in that quarter, that from
his personal acquaintance with the French and Russian
officers, and his having recently held the command for a
period of three years of the squadrons of the three nations
in the same quarter, he was the best qualified for it. Sir
P. Malcolm arrived here this morning, and hoisted his flag
on board the Dee steam frigate, in which at noon he sailed
to Lisbon, to join the Britannia, 120, which will be
flag ship. Captain Pigot commands in the Mediterranean
pro tempore. Lieutenant W. Griffiths, Richard Morgan,
(a), H. W. Johnstone, John Fulford, and Mr. Eyde
Secretary to Sir Pulteney, two Clerk., and five Midship-
men, go out also in the Dee, to join the Britannia. Major
Gascoygne, of the 94th Regiment, takes passage in the
Dee for Malta.

Rear• Admiral Hall Gage has been appointed to the
command of the combined squadrons assembled in the
Downs, vice Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who has been ap-
pointed to the command of the ships in the Mediterranean.

The largest mast ever made in this country,
or, we believe, in any other, was erected on the river side
of the new basin at Woolwich on Tuesday last, as a main
piece for sheers for masting ships, either inside the basin
or out in the river,—length 124 feet, circumference 12
feet, from the wharf to the mast head 103 feet.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.---Oil Saturday last
as a young man, the nephew of
of Lawton, Cheshire, was inspecting the works of a bone-
mill, his right arm unfortunately got entangled in the
machinery, and was completely severed from his body ;
and, on instinctively putting his left hand up to extricate
himself, that also was drawn in, and, melancholy to relate,
likewise cut off. Wolverhampton Chronicle of
Wednesday.

S'FATE OF TRADE,—We regret to state that
the woollen cloth manufacture of the West Riding still
continues in a very linguid condition. Very little business
was done in either the coloured cr white cloth halls on
Tuesday, and the stocks are in consequence accumulating.
Huddersfield market was also very indifferent. The carpet
trade is somewhat better, and many of the masters have
given an advance of ;vages. Bradford market on Thurs-
day was tolerably brisk, and a fair quantity of goods were
sold.—Leeds lutellipencer.
When Mrs. DrcKoNs was buried, in the
beginning of last week, the grave was not wide enough to
rt:ceive the coffin, and several vain attempts were made,
edgewise and lengthwise, to insinuate it. While this
operation was going on, and the mourners, &c., were
crowding round the grave, an alarm was given that the
ground was giving way under them, and the clergyman,
followed by the rest, made a precipitate. but not unneces-
sarily swift retreat, for the sides of the aperture fell in
directly, and it was more than an hour before the earth
could be cleared away, and the grave made ready for the
body. The age of Mrs. DICKONS at the time of her death
is uncertain, but 58 years was marked upon the coffin ;
and as she made her appearance at Vauxhall Gardens in
1787, at about thirteen years old, it is probable that the
date is very nearly correct. Her first part on the stage
was that of Ophelia, and it is remarkable that she in-
troduced into it the song of " Mad Bess," which we ap-
prehend was one of the earliest innovations Of the kind.
A plan for the disposal of the unique collec-
tion of drawings by the old masters, made by the late
President of the Royal Academy, at an expense of nearly
4.0,000/., was intended to be produced and recommended
by Lord WHARNCLIFFE, at the annual dinner of the
academicians and visiters at Somerset House ; but in con-
sequence of sonic silly etiquette relating to precedence, by
an Ambassador from a Northern Court, the dinner as-
sumed a sombre character from the beginning, which the
urbane and accomplished President, notwithwanding all
his efforts, could not dispel. The subject, therefore, re-
mained unnoticed.