The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-14 00:00:00

Yesterday the George Clinton arrived, embarked
passengers, and sailed for New York.
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart.
G. C. 8., having been appointed Governor of Green-
wich Hospital, vacant by the death of Admiral Sir
Richard G. Keats, Rear-:Admiral the Hon. George
H. L. Dundas succeeds to Sir Thomas Hardy's situa-
tion (as first sea Lord) at the Admiralty Board, and
Rear-Admiral William Parker, C. 8., is appointed a
Lord of the Admiralty.
Admiral Sir George Martin, G. C. 8., succeeds to
the commission of Vice-Admiral of England, vacant
by the death of Admiral Sir E. Thornbrough,
G. C.B. ; and Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford,
G. C. 8., 'is appointed Rear-Admiral of England.
Rear-Admiral William Hall Gage is appointed to
the command in the Tagus, in the room of Rear-
Admiral William Parker, and will proceed thither in
a few days to hoist his flag in the Asia until the Hast-
ings, 74 (at Chatham), which is to be commissioned
by Captain Henry Shiffner as his permanent flag-ship,
arrives out. John Irving, Esq., is appointed secretary
to Admiral Gage.
PLYMOUTH, ARPIL 10.—Sailed the Pantaloon, 10,
Lieutenant Dacres, and the Pike, Lieutenant Loney,
to rejoin the Lisbon packet service at Falmouth, the
former taking a relief detachment of the 66th Depot
for Pendennis Castle. Also sailed the Cato, with, pas-
sengers, for New York ; the Bolivar, with passengers,
and Lavinia, for Quebec. The Thunderer, 84, for
Malta, and the Jupiter, with the 92d Regiment on
board, from Cork, arrived at Gibraltar on the Bth ult.
The Surrey, with 260 convicts, under Mr. John Smith,
surgeon, R.N., is expected to sail to-morrow. The
depot of the 22d Regiment is to remove in the Mait-
land transport to Hull ; the depot of the 53d Regiment
to this garrison. The new police establishment for our
dockyard is nearly completed. Eight of the present
warders are to be superannuated, four at 201., and four
at 151. per annum. In Hamoaze—San Josef, Savage,
Diligence, N. T., and Falmouth lighter. In the
Sound—Canopus, Racehorse, and Surrey convict ship.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
DEVONPORi, APRIL 12.—The Meteor steam-vessel,
Lieut. W. H. Lymons, arrived here yesterday after-
noon, from Malta and Gibraltar. She left the former
place on the 9th of February, and Gibraltar on the 3d
of March, in company with the Barham, Admiral Sir
Pulteney Malcolm ; they parted and subsequently
again joined company. On Saturday last the Meteor
took despatches from the Admiral and proceeded for
this port. The Meteor spoke the Flamer steamer,
bound to Gibraltar and Malta on Sunday last, and the
Carron on Tuesday, off Cape Finisterre. The Edin-
burgh passed through the Gut two days before the
Meteor left. The Rolla was at Gibraltar. Lieut. H.
Schomberg, of the Barham, had been appointed to the
Britannia.
The Medea Government steamer, Commander H.
J. Austin, arrived from Milford yesterday. She has
a new sounding machine on board, which she has been
trying in the Channel, and will proceed to Ports-
mouth, taking round the seamen belonging to the Re-
venge, 74, now on leave in this neighbourhood.
The last letters from the Mediterranean state that
the vacancy created by the departure of the Hon.
Captain Percy would be filled by Captain Sir Samuel
Roberts, who would take the command of the Mala-
bar, 74; Hon. Capt. F. W. Grey, of the Actaeon, to
the Endymion ; Commander the Hon. G. Grey is
promoted to the rank of Captain, and appointed to the
Actwofi ; and Flag Lieut. R. Morgan, to be Com-
mander, and command the Scout.
A transport is ordered to repair to Cork for the
purpose of taking on board the depot of the 58th
Regiment, and conveying it to this place, when the
depot of the 22d Regiment will embark on board the
same vessel for Hull, to relieve the depot of the 53d
Regiment, which will be stationed in this garrison.
Remaining in Hamoaze—Medea and Lightning
steam-vessels' and Meteor steam vessel—quarantine.
Ships at Spithead on Thursday—Rainbow. In
Portsmouth Harbour—Victory, Portsmouth. Royal
George, Excellent, Revenge, President, North Star,
Tyne, Espoir, Speedy, Emerald, Sylph, and Gos-
samer.

FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR R. KEATS.

The funeral of Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin
Keats, G.C.8., late Governor of Greenwich Hos-
pital, took place on Saturday at Greenwich, and was
performed with all the pomp and dignity of naval and
military observance. The town, from an early hour
of the morning up to the hour of the funeral, was
much thronged with strangers, anxious to witness the
imposing spectacle. It was thought, up to a day or
two back, that the funeral, in conformity with the wish
of Lady Keats, would be strictly private ; but his
Majesty, who was an old shipmate of Sir Richard's,
and who had a warm regard for him, gave orders to
have his funeral conducted with all the honours due to
his high station in the British service. Orders were,
in consequence, issued to the naval officers of his
Majesty's household to attend the funeral in full uni-
form. The Lords of the Admiralty, including the
First Lord ( Sir James Graham), were also in at-
tendance. At a little after three o'clock the proces-
sion, headed by the band of the Royal Marines, formed
in the great quadrangle of the building, opposite the
Governor's house ; and on the coffin being brought
out (borne by eight pensioners, who served under Sir
Richard in the Superb), a signal was hoisted from
the top of the house, on which a party of artillery,
stationed with field-pieces on One Tree-hill, where a
flag was hoisted half-mast high, fired minute-guns,
which they continued regularly to discharge until
the body was deposited in the Royal Chapel,
where the Rev. Dr. Cole read prayers over it. The
firing during this part of the ceremony ceased, but
resumed on the re-forming of the procession, and
continued until the body reached the mausoleum
in the burial-ground of the institution. The whole of
the great square was lined with pensioners, and the
upper quadrangle, in addition to lines of pensioners,
was skirted by 100 nurses and 200 girls, whose appear-
ance added much to the interest and impressiveness of
the scene. The chief mourners were Sir Richard's
nephews, Captain Keats, R. N., and the Rev. Richard
Keats. The line of the procession from the south gate
of the hospital to the mausoleum presented an imposing
appearance. A regiment of marines, in single files,
formed an avenue (the men leaning on their arms re-
versed), through which the procession passed. The
crowd on either side the Marines was very dense, and