The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

• Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, C.B ,
formally hoists his flag on board.the umberland, 70,
his flag-hip at Chatham, and strikes it again and
proceeds on. leave until the ship is ready for sea.
The Eev. Fortescue Wells, B.A. (1549, has been
appointed chaplain to the Cumberland, 70, ti tg ship of
Sir George Seymour, for thrl'West
Nava' Instructor—William S Limon (1W)), has
been sprinted to the Catnberland.
Toe ALBION, 90.—The report that the Albion, 90,
Capt. hope Johnstone, had been seen dismasted in the
Bay of Biscay, has been proved to he unfounded by the
intelligence that a line-of-battle chip had passed
through the Straits of Gibraltar to the eastward on
the 3d inst. There is no doubt that this line-of-battle
ship mas the Albion, for no other two-decker • is en
route to the eastward in that. part of the station ; and
as westated before. the Albion was ordered to proceed
direct to Malta, without touching at Lisbon or Gib-
raltar.--Herald.

Lieut. De Horsey is raising men for tke Cumber-
land at Portsmouth, and Lieut. Kynaston is raising
mell for that ship at Devonport.
Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart, K. 11., now that
her men from the West Indies have rejoined, is only
twenty men and boys short of her full complement.
She is out of the hands of the dockyard, and is
ordered to be paid wages previously to going to sea.
Impregnable, 78, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland,
C. 8., flag-ship of the Port-Admiral at D2vonport,
will be paid wages this day.
Avon, steam-tender, Second Master Commander
Veiteh, arrived at Devonport, onn-Thesdiy Morning,
from Portsmouth, and, after being supplied with coals,
was to leave—with Lieut. Robertson, of the Fisgard,
and party, who navigated the Rosamond from Wool-
wich—so soon as the weather moderated.

Crane, packet, Lieut. Parsons, will be paid off at
Devonport to-morrow.
DEVONPOET, TUESDAY.—The weather is still very
boisterous—wind from the S.W. As soon as it
moderates, Mr. Henderson, with a party under his
command, will proceed to Falmouth in the Virago,
steam•sloop, for the purpose of towing the Astrea,
store-ship, and Aurora, coal depot, to this port, the
establishment at Falmouth having been broken up.
DOCKYARD.--The candidates for apprentices in
this dockyard (above seventy in number) have been
examined during the past week by the schoolmaster,
and their respective abilities will be ascertained by
the proper officers previous to being transmitted to
their Lordships.
Woomvic a, JAN. 15.—The Resistance, 10, troop-
ship, Master Commander Bradshaw, arrived at
Gravesend to-day with three companies of the Royal
Artillery on board—Captain Gambier's Bth battalion,
from Malta, Captain Riddell's Company, Gth bat-
talion, from Corfu, and Captain Dunlop's Company,
7th battalion from Gibraltar. The Monkey steam-
vessel went down the river in the afternoon to tow
the Resistance up to Woolwich to-morrow morning,
after putting her powder on shore at Purfleet.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander James Raw-
storne, was reported by Lieutenant Thomas D.
Williams, of that vessel, as being in the river, with
the head-quarters of Captain Morris's Company, 2d
battalion, and Captain Crawford's Company, 6th bat-
talion, from Jamaica ' and the Jasper steam-vessel
will leave at an early hour to tow her up to Woolwich.
It will be a circumstance of rare occurrrnce to witness
the landing-of five companies of the Royal Artillery
from foreign stations in one day, and joining the
garrison, should both vessels arrive at the dockyard
about the same time to-morrow.

The Hercules store and troop-ship, Master-Com-
mander Fulton, will leave Greenhithe on the 20th
inst , and proceed to Cork to embark troops at that
port for service on the Mediterranean stations.
The Atholl store and troop-ship, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Pearse, will not leave Deptford until the 23d
inst., when she will proceed to Devonport, and thence
to the Island of Ascension.

Master-Commander S. B. Cook, of the Black Eagle
steam-vessel, has been Acting Master •Attendant
and Harbourmaster at Deptford victualling-yard
during the last two weeks, owing to the indisposi-
tion of Master-Attendant and Harbourmaster J. P.
Pearn.

In the naval appointments of Saturday, the 11th
inst., the name of Mr. F. Leheux was given as As-
sistant-Surgeon to the. Impregnable ; it should have
been Assistant-Surgeon F. Le Keux.

SHIP NEWS.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals-The Marmion, from Van Diemen's Land,
off Torbay, salad from Hobart Town, Oct. 5; Favourite,
from Port Philip, in the London Dock, sailed Sept. 10.
Arrivals at Port Philip—The Duke of Portland, Aug.
23, from Adelaide; Digby, Sept. 6, from Liverpool;
Brilliant, 15, from London.
Departures from Port Philip—The Francis Ridley,
Aug. 31. for Sydney; Lord Aliburton, Sept. 4, for
Lima; Edmond, 7, for Adelaide; Ward Chipman, for
Acapulco.
Arrivals at Sydney, previous to Sept. 10—The Earl
of Ilardwicke, from Whaling; General Hewitt, from
London.
Arrivals at Hobart Town—The Undine, Aug. 24,
from London, and sailed Oct. 1, for Launceston; Re•
bocca, Sept. 5, from Hokianga; North Esk, 11, from
Mauritius; Vigilant, 15, and Victoria, 18, from London;
Harriet Nathan, 24, from California; Cacique, 30, from
Honolulu; Nile, Oct. 3, from London and Portland, with
convicts. _ _ _

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Departures from Hobart Town—The Chaseley, Sept.
14, for California, put back, and aailei again Oct. 3;
Maria Somes, Sept. 7, for Sydney; North Esk, Oct. 3,
for Sydney.
Arrivals at Launceston—The Omega, Sept. 2, from
St. Denis, and left 17, on her return; Baretto Junior, 1,
from Hobart Town; Mid Lothian, 5, from Melbourne;
John Souchay, 14, from Hobart Town; Marine Plant,
25, from Melbourne; Alice, from Wellington; Mary
Clarke, 29, from Adelaide; Robert Syers, 30, from Ade-
laide; Thomas and Joseph Crisp, Oct. 3, from London.
Departures from Launceston—The Sir John Byng,
Sept. 14, for Sydney; Princess Royal, 16, for Adelaide;
Vixen, 26, for Sydney.
Vessel spoken with—The Emma Eugenia, London to
Hobart Town, Dec. 17, on the Equator.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 15.—Wind S.S.E., fresh.—Ben
Muick, Dhin, from Rio Janeiro, in the English Channel;
sailed Nov. 27. Brilliant, from Liverpool. at Rio
.Janeiro. Arrived, Dublin from Calcutta; Theodosia
from Demerara; Margareta from Havre. Sailed, As-
trologer for Constantinople. Sarawak for Philadelphia;
John Moore for Bombay; 'Mary Caroline for Mobile;
Jenny Lind for Halifax; Jane Steward for Constanti-
nople; Marion for Bombay. Clrared outwards, Born.
bay packet for Africa; Themis for Nantes; Theresa for
Nantes; Nyosothis for Nantes; Richard for Pernam•
buco; Esprit() for Pernambuco; America for Now York;
Dido for Africa.

REDCAR, JAN. 14.—The Lord Coke, Rotterdam to
Stockton-on-Tees, which got upon the `sands west of
this, was got off last night, and proceeded.
HULL, JAN. 13.—1 t is supposed that a vessel ha'
been lost, with all hands, on the banks at the mouth of
the Humber. A boat was washed on shore at Kilnsia.

BERWICK, J. 14.—The Hero, of Arbroath, which
struck on the bar 9th instant, will discharge. The yes
sel that sank in the fairway on the same day, near the
Fern Islands. is supposed to have been either the Lady
Panmure, of Dandee, or the Margery, of Braughty
Ferry, near Dundee, but nothing has yet come ashore.
PORT PHILIP, AUGUST 18.—The stern of the long
boat of the Lady Denison, with the name on it, and a
variety of other articles on the west coast of Van Die-
man's Land. See Sydney (New South Wale 3) paragraph
of Oct. 11.

August 27.—The Flying Dutchman grounded going.
into Port Albert, and sustained some light damage.
A quantity of floating timber was passed in Int. 38 N.,
long. 45 W.
The Courier, of Jersey, bound to Bordeaux and
Mauritius, was lost on the Stables d'Olonne, on the 9th
January; crew saved.
The Juniper, Liverpool and Oporto to Sydney, New
South Wales, with wine, &e., struck heavily, after
rounding Cspe Yeller, Sept, 1, and afterwards run on
shore near St. George's Head, and is likely to become a
total wreck.