The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

VIOLENT STORM.—REMARKABLE FALL OF THE
BAROMETER.—During the night of Thursday last, the
wind, which for the last three or four days has been
south-easterly, increased in fury till it blew quite a gale
from the south-east, and there is great reason fo fear
much damage to shipping. Contemporaneously with
this high wind, an extraordinary fall of the barometer
has been remarked, a circumstance which indicates a
great storm. Previously, the barometer had been very
high, but was gradually declining. Thus, on Thursday
week, the 12th inst., it stood at 30 38 all day. It fell on
the subsequent day to 30.32, 30.24, 30.09, 30.04, 29.70,
29.68; and on Thursday evening last, about nine o'clock,
it was 22-sg. During the night, however, it fell to 29.10,
and had fallen during yesterday still further; for last
evening, at five o'clock, it stood at 28.85. It therefore
fell 048 during the night, and 0'25 during yesterday; in
I all 013 (more than seven-tenths) during twenty hours.
1 —Manchester Guardian.

MALTA, Nov. 14.—The various packets due have all
arrived.
Serious fears were lately entertained for the safety of
her Majesty's steamer Volcano, which was known to
have left Marseilles on the morning of the Ist inst. On
the 10th, at six A.M., her Majesty's steamer Hecla was
sent out to look for her, and at three P.M. saw her under
sail, and on coming up took her in tow. The Volcano
had experienced very bad weather, and been obliged to
blow off her steam and use her sails. She had the mis-
fortune also to carry away her foreyard. By this delay
that portion of the India mails' sent through France did
not go forward, the Oriental having sailed on the Bth.
It is now here, and will be forwarded by the Ariel on
the arrival of the Achilles from England.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steatrer
Iberia has been taken off.this station and sent home,
touching at Malaga and Gibraltar. Her place is to be
supplied by the Ariel, one of the swiftest boats we have
ever seen on this station.

The Trident appears likely to prove a complete failure.
She has been tried by the Admiral under every circum-
stance considered favourable—laden by the head, and by
the stern. She will next be tried on an even keel, and
if then unsuccessful, will be sent home in despair of her
being ever useful here.
The Dutch squadron under Prince Henry is still here.
It is reported it will _put to sea in the early part of next
week.

Her Majesty's ship
Tyne will leave port on Monday
next, it is said, for England, where she will be paid off,
having been four years in commission in April next.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—The Polyphemus steam-
sloop, Commander, M'Cleverty, arrived last evening from
Lisbon, having made the passage in the extraordinary
quick time of four days.
The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander Caffin, came
into the harbour yesterdayornd went under the masting
sheers, where her•l3-inelreetak and shells were re-
moved, placed in an ordnance hoy, fiend transferred to the
gun wharf. She will complete coals, and take on board
stores for Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker's squadron, off
Lisbon, to-morrow, and leave in the evening, or Tuesday
morning.
Commander Gower Lowe has commissioned the Re-
sistance troop-ship, and his officers and crew have been
turned over to that ship from the Crocodile.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lushington, was removed
from the basin yesterday morning, and moored off Cold-
harbour, Gosport, where she will complete for sea.
The Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Master Com-
mander Leen, put out the marines she had on board
belonging to the eastern divisions into the Terrible
yesterday, and that vessel left with them after dark for
Woolwich, calling at Sheerness to disembark the men
belonging to the Chatham division.
The Rhadamanthus came into harbour and disem-
barked the men of the Portsmouth division this morning.
The authorities, who have had the superintendence of
these men since their arrival at Plymouth in the Terrible,
are not entitled to much credit for their arrangements.
They were embarked in the Terrible at Lisbon, and
taken by that vessel to Plymouth; on their arrival they
were transferred to the Rhadamanthus and brought
here—the Terrible arriving six hours before them; then
the majority of them were transferred again to the
Terrible for a passage to join their divisions at the east-
ward; and as a climax to this apparent bad management,
the remainder, after forty for hours' spell at Spithead
during awful weather, were landed here on Sunday
morning during a heavy squall of wind and rain, soaking
both men and baggage through. All this might have
been avoided by the exercise of a little common sense.
Why not have suffered all the men, with the exception
of those belonging to Plymouth, to have remained on
board the frigate until her arrival at Spithead? It was
well known she was to call here on her way to the river
long before she left Lisbon. But perhaps the movements
have been conducted with a view to accustoming the
men to the performance of such manoeuvres!
The Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres, was at Cape
Mount, coast of Africa, on the 30th of September; at
which date
The Lily, 16, Commander Newton, was en route from
Sierra Leone to Ascension and England. The cause of
her coming home is in consequence of two officers in her
having written for courts-martial upon themselves.
The Water witch, 8, Commander T. F. Birch, was
cruizing, having left for St. Helena on the 22c1, after
taking in a tine prize for adjudication.
The Ferrett, 8, Commander Sprigg, was cruizing off
She •Bar.
The Cygnet, 6, Commander Montresor, was at the
Gallinas.
The Wanderer, 12, Commander Somerville, was en
route to the Pongas.
The Snake, 16, Commander Brown, arrived at Mauri-
tius, from the Cape, on the 10th of August.
The Semarang, 26, Captain Sir E. Belcher, arrived
at the Mauritius, from China and Si: gapore, on the 25th
of August, en route to England.
PLIDIOUTH, Nov. 20,—Last night this port was visited
by a tremendous storm from the southward and west-
ward, occasionally accompanied by heavy rain.
During the height of the gale, about three this morn-
ing, the small schooner Providence, Captain Allen, of
Falmouth, then lying in the mouth of the Catwater,
with one anchor and a kedge, dragged her moorings,
and not having, any of her crew on board, unfortunately
fell across
Captain
Boussin, belonging to Port-au-Prince, in ballast
the bow of the brig Heros of about 200 tons,
from London, bound for St. Domingo. The brig had
two bowers and a kedge down, and would have ridden
out the gale in safety, but for the accident to the schooner.
They both drove ashore under Queen Anne's battery.
The brig lies with her stern towards the land, hull in-
jured, and jib-boom carried away. The schooner lies
across the brig's bow, her mainmast gone by the board,
and being lightly built and most exposed, will probably
go to pieces next tide. The stores of both are landing.
The schooner Alpha, of Plymouth, Captain Harper,
broke from her moorings between the island and the
main, and went ashore in Firestone Bay. She is laden
with Delabole slate.
This morning the Danish brig Niord, Captain Quaat,
having signalled for assistance, the Queen's Harbour-
master, Mr. Walker, promptly supplied her with a
frigate's chain and anchor.
The American barquo Columbus, 750 tons, drawing
111 feet of water, Captain Wood, from Hamburgh,
with ballast and goods, for Batavia, in endeavouring to
dock at Cattedown, in order to examine her bottom, on
Wednesday, just at the pitch of high water, had her
two stern fastenings broken by a barge under sail up
Catwater, in consequence of which the Columbus swung
alongside the quay, with her stern on soft ground : she
strained severely, and the next tide the water ran into
her. While clearing the bold, on Thursday, the main-
mast sprung in the wake of the mainyard by the lifting
of her keel and keelson. To prevent injury to the crew,
her larboard main-rigging was then cut away, and
her mainmast fell on her starboard side, carrying other
spars, rigging, and
gear with it. The extent of the
damage is yet unknown.
WOOLWICH, NOT. 21.—The Grappler steam-vessel,
Lieutenant Lysaght commanding, will leave Woolwich
on Tuesday next for the Island of Ascension, and will
embark Mr. Hook, one of the Slave Commissioners, for
the coast of Africa. Captain Hutton, R.N., the new
Governor of Ascension will also embark in the Grappler
for a passage to that island. The Grappler is one of the
experimental vessels, constructed of iron; and, upon trial
down the river, was found to he very fast, and reported
to answer well.
The Rosamond (late Eclair), Commander J. Foote,
was tried down the river on Friday, and found in good
order. She embarked one bombardier and nine gunners
of Marine Artillery in the afternoon of the same day,
and it is said she will proceed to the Cape of Good Hope
to relieve the Thunderbolt steam-vessel, Commander
Boyle.
The Gorgon steam-vessel, Commander Crouch, is to be
paid off about the 27th instant.
The Growler steam-vessel, having had her carpenter's
defects made good at Deptford dockyard, was towed
down the river to Woolwich on Thursday, and taken
into the basin on Friday, to have her machinery put in
order.
The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, C. 8.,
will leave Woolwich early in the ensuing week. Her
destination is not yet known, but will be communicated
on her arrival at Portsmouth.
The harbour at Woolwich presents a very animated
scene at present, owieg to the number of vessels in
commission at that port, at present consisting of the
following:—
The William and Mary yacht, bearing the flag of
,eLlileausttei nfrasnntr Lr
eyysianggh. .e
esel,
Rear-Adiniral Sir F. Collier, C.B. and K.C.H.
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The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, C.B.
The Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander J. Foote.
The GorgonEstnegalme -vsteesasmel,.lC.eossmeim, amndaesrteCrrcouecmhm.
The Avon steam-vessel, Captain Denham.
Commander
S. B. Cook. etsosethl
Master-Commander Thomas.
The Niger, recently launched, the • Plover, and the
The The
IBvl.oaecalcierk,
The Grappler, stteeanmde-vr
Sulphur, depot for the Royal al arines.
In the Docks--The Amphion, 36-gun frigate, with
steam screw propeller, Captain W. Williams, and the
Vixen steam-vessel. _
In the Basin—The Medea steam-vessel, Commander
Hammond, the Geyser steam-vessel, Commander Brown,
the Fearless, the Monkey, the Ariel, the Charon, and
Tartarus steam-vessels.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
W. 11. de Carteret, Clerk, Birkenhead.
E. J. Fellow, Master's-Assistant,
to the Caledonia.
Richard Michael, Acting Second-Master, to the
Zephyr.
Agent
T. B. Gitt, SurgeOn, and for • Sick-quarters, at
Donaghadee.
Holden, Clerk, to the Medea.
James
W Battershell, Clerk's-Assistant to the Medea.
G. •
Crichton, Acting Second Engineer, to the
George
Stromboli.
al‘Clytnont, Third Engineer to the Stromboli.
James
Henry Leyland, Third En inter to the Lucifer. g
Patrick Steven, Assistant-Surgeon to the Thetis.
E A. Pore, her Lieutenant, to the Sidon.
William Stubbs, Naval Cadet, to the Geyser.
G. H. Barnard, Naval Cadet, to the Rosamond.
Grenville Temple, Midshipman, to the Hibernia.