The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-10 00:00:00

JOURNALS,

The late conduct of the Heads of Colleges, with re-
spect to the nomination of a Vice-Chancellor, has in-
duced us to look a little into the origin of the power
which they thus possess. According to the ancient
statutes of the University, all those elections in which
they have now the power of selecting two candidates
were open to the whole body of the Senate. No such
power is given them by the Antigua Statuta, orby King
Edward's statutes. But in Queen Mary's reign, when
it was thought necessary to exert an arbitrary power to
overcome the consciences of men, the Heads of the
University were found to be the fittest tools for such a
purpose : Cardinal Pole, when he reformed the Uni-
versity, was the author of the statute which first gave
them this power :----
" Hwc autem forma in ejus (Vice-Cancellarii) electione
servabitur. Pridie festi omnium sanctorum convenient
prmpositi collegiorum, item omnes cujuslibet facultatis doc-
tores et baccalaurei theologise, qui turn in Universitate
aderunt. Hi duos vitae et morum honestate, literarum
scientia, et in rebus gerendis magis aptos et idoncos eligent
et nominabunt."
That the Cardinal was wise in putting power in
such hands for the accomplishment of his purposes, no
one can doubt, when it is known that the Heads of the
University were the persons who demanded that the
remains of Bucer and Fagius should be disinterred, and
burnt at the market-cross. The following is an extract
from the diary of the proceedings of Queen Mary's
visiters, which is still preserved :
" 12th Jan., 1556.—1tem. At one, the Heads met in
the schools, where and by whom it was concluded that for
as much as Bucer had been an arch-heretick, teaching by
his lifetime many detestable heresies and errors, suit should
be made unto the visiters by the University, that it might
be taken up and ordered according to the law ; and like-
wise P. Fao-ius."
When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, the
Senate recovered their ancient rights ; and in the body
of statutes given to the Univcrsity the first year of her
reign, the election of the Vice-Choncellor is made an
open election. But in the 12th of Elizabeth, when
her Majesty and her Ministers were anxio:ls to crush a
spirit of civil and religious freedom which was rising in
the University, they resorted to the same means as
Mary had done before them. In 1570, a new body of
statutes were sent to the University by the Queen's au-
thority (having probably been drawn up• the Heads
themselves). In these the Cardinal's mode of electing
a Vice-Chancellor is restored, but in a more arbitrary
manner than everhe hadproposed. According to Queen
Mary's statutes, Doctors of all faculties, and
Bachelors of Divinity, resident in the University,
were admitted to the nomination ; but this was
not sufficient for Whitgift. the Master of Trinity, and
his brethren the Heads : they succeeded in having the
nomination limited to themselves ; and at the same by
another statute secured to themselves the power of ap-
pointing the Caput ; and by a sweeping clause in the
40th statute, that all elections " de quibus aliter a
nobis non est provisum sequenter modum et formam in
clectione Procancellarii prcescriptum," they obtained
for their successors the power of nomination over va-
rious professorships and other offices. That the Uni-
versity will long continue to submit to a power thus
thus obtained and employed, is scarcely credible. We
trust that not many weeks of the approaching Session of
Parliament will have passed over, before a petition has
been presented to the Legislature to take such steps as
may lead to a total revision of the University statutes.
—Morning Chronicle.
The solemn and secret investigation which the
Privy Council have been engaged in, with the inten
tion of discovering whether the destruction of the Par-
liament edifices was the work of diabolical incendia-
rism or of criminal neglect or connivance, has not yet
absolutely terminated ; but as yet they have only in-
volved the affair in greater mystery. The two great
points, we believe, which occupied the attention of the
investigators were to discover whether those fires were
the work of the political incendiaries and emissaries
who had been so successful at Bristol, Derby, Not-
tingham, &c., or whether it might not have originated
in the cogs cupidity of some one or more persons
whose perso'nal interests might be greatly promoted by
such a sweeping destruction of public property. These
are the two queries to which the inquiry is now pon-
fined ; for as to the !mil stigma that was attempted to
be thrown upon the whole body of English workmen
in the building line, that ig now given up, as utterly
without a shadow of proof, oncl was most probably
invented by the culpable party to screen them •
selves. Some very curious, and ;ether startling
information has, it seems, been Aicited in the
course of the delicate investigation ! But as the
characters of certain parties are implicated in it, and
as the subject may, and indeed ought, to come
before the highest tribunal in this country, we abst.'un,
as a matter of delicacy, from saying more on this pait.
of the business, but we are quite sure that the investi-
gation latterly should not have been so very delicate.
Had any of the hard-handed, " unwashed artificers,"
been concerned in this diabolical act, the delicacy of
the inquiry would have been dispensed with, and we
think this circumstance is tolerably decisive as to the
working classes not having participated in the dis-
graceful crime. The Members of the Council, how-
ever, were very prompt and punctual in their attend-
ance, with the exception of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Now on such occasions we cannot admit of
any excuse for so gross a neglect of public duty, ex-
cept very bad health ; but in his Lordship's case there
was no such excuse, nor indeed any excuse offered, for
he was in town, and in good travelling condition, as,
on the next day after the inquiry, which he did not at-
tend, " this feathered Mercury" who held the nation's
purse, flew, as his friends say, " on the wings of love"
to the north, when, we say, "he should have been
in the south," and the Right Honourable and
Noble holder of the nation's purse-strings took very
good care to keep out of the way of investigations
which are troublesome things, and should not be al-
lowed to interfere with the tender sfections of the offi-
cial heart. It is a pity that his Lordship's friends
should, by those flimsy exc7ises for his neglect of duty,
have held up their patron to public ridicule, if not
something worse. We regret that it should be so, but
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certainly some rich men are very unfortunate in the
sort of persons whom they honour with their friend-
ship, The voluntary absence of any member of the
Cabinet at such a moment is, however, universally
condemned upon principle, and as a bad precedent in
future. Meanwhile the shells of the two precious
vampings for the Lords and Commons are nearly corn-
pleted, and are covered with common barn roofs, with
dripping eves, instead of being guttered, as would have
been more proper and secure. Into these contrivances,
which, with their recesses, &c., remind us very much of

abattoirs, are the I\lembers of the different Rouses to

be led or driven, accord* to the most approved me-
thods in such cases, for the purposes of grave delibera-
tion ! But we live in an age of prodigies. From these
camp structures orders are to issue for the erection
of substantial buildings, to replace tiose just de-
stroyed. All the ground between Palace7prd and
the river belongs to Parliament, and, including CoL4:011-
garden, is quite ample for every purpose of Parlia-
mentary comfort and convenience, provided that very
sufficient lot be laid out with honesty and sound judg-
ment. It would he a rational source of pride to the
nation to see their Legislative Assemblies elegantly, as
well as conveniently lodged ; and all this can be done in
the most complete manner without meddling, in the
with the ancient, beautiful, and interest-
slightest degree,
ing chapel of St. Stephen, its noble crypt, the hall of
Rufus, or the splendid and inimitable cloisters and

oratory that surround the quadrangle at the Right Hon.
the Speaker's house ; but we cannot expect any thing
but a vile job and spoliation, unless every fair opportu-
nity shall be afforded to the whole profession of archi-
tecture to come into the field of competition ; and, as a
sine qua non, the candidates should be bound, not only
not to remove a single particle of the noble structure
just mentioned, but should give full proofs of their
capability for restoring those monuments of historic
grandeur to something of their original state, in a per-
manent manner ; and all these can be rendered most
useful for public purposes. The chapel might be
restored as a place of worship, and its ever-endur-
ing crypt would be invaluable, wherein to depositgboice
documents of state business. The public dining-rood;
which forms the eastern half of it, might still be .
ap-
propriated to its present rational purposes ; indeed this
part of the building is perfect, notwithstanding that

the fire brought the enormous weight of the House of
Commons down upon it, with a sudden and tremendous
crash I and the flames actually burned its doors ; yet,
from the wonderful skill with which it is constructed,
the furious element was completely set at nought. Yet
what one of the most furious elements in nature could
not touch, the hand of the Vandal spoiler threatens
with destruction, for we have been informed that the
architect who is directing the present operations in
these precincts has given orders to have the doors of
the Speaker's public dining-room taken of their
hinges, and the splendid window taken out. This
seems evidently a preparatory step to demolitiOn, and
certainly was a most arrogant piece of presumption in
any man, and, if it be the case, the orderer must rank
as a perfect barbarian ; but we hope the Speaker will
send his warrant to arrest any man who shall dare,
upon any pretence, thus wantonly to destroy the most
valuable public property.—Morning Herald.
A heavy responsibility will attach to Ministers in
the next Session of Parliament respecting Canada.
The mercantile letters received on Saturday are very
interesting. 'We have several now before us, giving
detailed accounts of the rapid improvements making in
steam navigation and other internal works. But of
what avail is this if the system of revolution, and con-
sequently of desolation, is suffered to continue ? The
French faction is now uniting with the Irish in beard-
ing the Government, and their present object is to get
an Irishman returned to the House of Assembly. In
short these revolutionists are doing all they can to
thwart the Government, the British American Land
Company, and all the useful institutions of the country.
--Morning Post.
We are compelled once more to return to the affair
of the Central Criminal Court Act, and to the share
of the Chancellor in that measure. Upon the appear-
ance of a letter, signed by Mr. Charles Phillips, the
Old Bailey counsel, we felt that it was a duty
we owed as well to our readers as to ourselves, to inves-
tigate the circumstances of the case as closely as possi-
ble : because, if the statements contained in the epistle
of that learned gentleman were true, we must have
been most grievously misinformed, and it would have
been required of us, in common justice, that we should
have made a full and candid admission of our error.
Now we do not mean to.say that Mr. Charles Phillip;
has willinsly and knowingly made a statement at vari-
ance with the truth ; but at the same time, recent
and careful investigation of the facts, and infonna•
tion from authority far superior to that of the
learned counsel, justify us in declaring that he has,
by speaking rashly and hastily of matters not within
his own knowledge, given to the public an ac-
count of the matter which it would be a departure
from the precision of language to characterize as other
than grossly mistaken and incorrect. We, too, it will
be obvious, are about to speak of matters not within
our own knozvledge, but in repeating the circumstances
of the case as we have heard them narrated, on what
we believe to be competent authority, we shall at least
bring the question to a point which, if it do not settl3
the matter in dispute, ought at least to provoke a set-
tlement of it, as our readers, we think, cannot fail
presently to see. 'We do not, of course, pledge our-
selves to perfect accuracy in every individual and mi-
nute detail of the narrative we are about to place befor.3
the public, but with regard to the essential facts,—
and most particularly those that relate to Lord Brougham
and his share in the preparation of the Central
Criminal Court Act,--we openly and freely confess our
strong and entire belief in each and all. We there-
fore call upon the parties who will be named in our
narrative as taking a personal and active part in the
affair to contradict, if it be untrue, the statement
that follows :—When Mr. Const resigned the chair at
Clerkenwell, a struggle for the vacant seat took place
between Messrs. Rotch and Marriott. The sup-
porters of Mr. Rotch, finding themselves not so
strong as they supposed they were, proposed that there
should be two Courts, and of course two Chairmen.
Business, we take it, was to be made to keep these
courts going. This plan, however, was foiled, princi-
pally, we believe, by the very praiseworthy exertions of
Sir Peter Laurie. Intermediate sessions at Hicks's-
hall were then resorted to, and it became necessary in
consequence that the Aldermen should appoint ses-
sions to be held more frequently at the Old Bailey.
Early in January, 1833, we think it was on the 6th
day of that month, Sir Peter Laurie, who was then
Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Wood, and Mr. Clarke,
the clerk of arraigns, waited on Lord Melbourne,
the Home Secretary, and stated that the civic authori-
ties had no objection to hold Sessions more frequently,
but that it would be necessary to pass an Act, enlarging
the powers of the commission ; because, as the com-
mission was one of gaol delivery, it could not try petty
offences without delivering the whole gaol, and for that
the presence of the Judges was essential. We have
not been able to ascertain exactly at what time the
draft of the Central Criminal Court Bill, the disco-
very of wilLth was no secret, was communicated to the
Government; at all events, it is certain that the
draft of the bill was rommunicated in the first in-
stance to Lord Melbourne, ne...
to the Chancellor, and
these troubles as to Sessions were the rause of the com-
munication which came from the city of London
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through its officers and functionaries. We believe t...
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Mr. Clarke was the organ of communication, and that he
acted under the direction of the civic authorities in making
it, Well, the draft of the measure having been so
communicated, Sir F. Roe, and Mr. Under-Secretary
Phillipps, and Mr. Clarke, were for some time busily
occupied in perfecting the details. When these learned
gentlemen had put the Bill into a complete, and as it
seemed to them, a satisfactory form, then, but not
till then, it was sent to Lord Brougham. What is
more, it was printed at the private press in the Home-
office before Lord Brougham ever saw it, and it was
sent to him only because the Attorney-General was
not in Parliament. Had not Sir John Campbell been
without a seat, the Bill would have been transmitted
to him and introduced in the House of Commons, not
in the House of Lords. Lord Brougham havin7
made some very trifling alterations in the draft
so amended jointly by Sir Frederick Roe, Mr.
Under-Secretary Phillipps, and Mr. Clarke, it
was returned by Lord Brougham to the City autho-
rities. It was considered and debated at several meet-
ings of the Court of Aldermen, and from them sent
back again to the Government. Thus, then, stands
the case :—The bill was originally drawn, some years
ago, by Mr. Shelton, and it was revised by Sir Johi
Sylvester ; it was recently communicated, in conse
quence of the circumstances we have mentioned, ly
Mr. Clarke to Lord Melbourne : its details were fur.

ther revised and amended, and adapted to present
exigencies by the united labour of Sir F. Roe, Mr.
Under-Secretary Phillipps, and Mr. Clarke: it was
then :shown to the. Chancellor, and by him ap-
proved, with a few trifling alterations : lastly, it
was discussed and agreed to by the Court of Alder-
men. Can it -then be doubted, that if Mr. Charles

Phillips had any part in this performance, it was

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about as important a one as that of the Cock in the
dramatis personae of the play of Hamlet ? As to the
share of Lord Brougham in it, over and over again
have we been assured that the alterations he made in

the bill vv•re of the most trifling nature. One, and
only one, of theni will we particularly designate, and
we mention it, first, because it is eminently character-
istic of the man, and, seconcly, because the city autho-
rities thought it of a character by no means, trifling.
In fact, they considered it not only not trilling, but,
on the contrary, so important as an invasion of the
privileges of the city, that they compelled Lord
Brougham, much against his will, to withdraw it.
The alteration to which we allude was, that Lord
Brougham put HIMSELF at the head of the commis-

sioners appointed by the Act to be the judges of the
court. Now, as the city claim by charter precedence for
the Lord Mayor for the time being, " the heads of the
city" remonstrated with " the head of the law" on
the subject, and Lord Brougham promised to remove
from the Bill the enactment complained of. However,
the committal of the Bill took place ; the third reading
was appointed for a given day, and still the Chancellor
had not performed his promise. The city took alarm,
a petition to the Lords was drawn up, and some of the

civic authorities lia,qtmed to Westminster, where they
intrusted their petition to Low 4 Wynford, making his
Lordship filly acquainted with the'whoN 44ir. They
determined at the same time to give the promising but
forgetful Chancellor another challcs of avciding sge.4

tar,.

an expose as the petition must bring on, and the head
of the House of Lords at Westminster finding what
step the heads of the House of Lords at Guildhall
were about to take, wisely obviated the necessity of
the presentation of the petition by consenting to
withdraw himself from the eminence he had usurped
from the other great functionary, the Lord Mayor.
Here for the present we are inclined to pause, once
more challenging authorised contradiction to the nar-
rative which agairr we declare that we believe to be the
true version of the matter ; but at the same time cau-
tioning all whom it may concern to recollect, that
among the parties we have now brought upon the
scene, there are men too honest and too high-minded
to allow false statements to pass as true, and who will
ring without ceremony, and show for mere brass, any
Brummagem counterfeit that may be presented as cur-
rent coin of the realm. In conclusion,—will Lord
Melbourne or the authorities of the Home Office,—
will Mr. Under-Secretary Phillipps, Sir Frederick Roe,
or Mr. Clarke,—will Sir Peter Laurie (as Lord
Mayor at a time of which we have spoken,) or Mr.
Alderman Wood, or any of the Court of Aldermen
who discussed the measure,—will the Remembrancer
who attended at the House of Lords at every stage of
the bill, and who drew the petition that was given to
Lord Wynford—will these collectively, will any one
of them individually, contradict one essential fact in this
statement ? If not, we must still be permitted to be-
lieve it true.—Times.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. B.—We have received letters from
Jamaica to the 24th September. The Admiral (Sir George
Cockburn) not having returned from his periodical visit to
the North American coasts, Commodore Pell, C. 8., was in
command, whose ship (the Forte) was lying in Kingston
Harbour, and the Fly, Rover, Larne, Racehorse, Arachne,
Rhadamanthus, and Magnificent, were at Port Royal. The
Cc uiser, 16, Commander M'Causland, had sailed for Ber-
muda ; and the Tweed, 18, Lieutenant Austen, acting, on
the 2d September, for Halifax and England. The latter
ship had fifty men in the hospital after her arrival at Port
Royal for Nassau, who were infected with fever. The
Cruiser, during her last Cruise, unfortunately grounded on
a shifting bank, in attempting to enter the harbour of St.
Juan Nicaragua, though in charge of a pilot, and out of
any danger pointed out by the Admiralty Charts or the Co-
lombian Navigator. After five days' incessant exertion,
being lightened eighty tons of her top weight, and materially
assisted by the French brig La Jules, of Bordeaux, she was
got off. The Swallow packet sailed on the 29th of August
for Mexico, and the Firefly for St. Jago de Cubt... W. G.
Nunes, Esq., had been appointed Secretary to the Governor,
in the absence of Colonel Doyle.
This morning his Majesty's ship Tweed, Commander
Henry E. Hamilton, arrived from the West India and
North American station. She sailed from Halifax on the
21st October, when the President, Captain James Scott,
with the flag of the Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn, and
the Comus, Commander W. Price Hamilton, were there,
refitting ; the latter having returned from a cruise round
Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador, where she had
been employed for the protection of the fisheries ; also the
Gannet, Commander Maxwell, and Pincher (tender to the
flag-ship), Lieutenant Dowse. The Tweed has suffered
very severely from yellow fever during the last two months
of her servitude in the West Indies. The disease first
made its appearance after she left Belize, and continued to
prevail during her passage from that place to Nassau (New
Providence), and from Nassau to Jamaica. Scarcely as
individual escaped ; she had in all 160 cases, out of which
number seventeen died on board, and a great many were
left dangerously ill in Jamaica hospital. On her passage
from Jamaica to Bermuda seven died, but since leaving the
latter place, on the Ist October, she has been perfectly
healthy. At Bermuda she left the Cruizer, repairing the
damage she received by getting on shore at St. Juan de
Nicaragua. The Tweed left her guns behind at Halifax,
to be conveyed to the Cruizer by his Majesty's ship Gannet,
as that ship was obliged to throw her guns overboard, to
lighten her. Amongst those who died of fever on board
the Tweed, were Commander Bertram, Mr. Wm. Bothwell,
Surgeon, Mr. Henry Holmes, Assistant-Surgeon, Mr. Budd,
Mate, and Lieutenant French, Royal Artillery.
The malignant cholera, which had carried off upwards
of 600 people in the town of Halifax, had entirely disap-
peared when the Tweed left, and fortunately had not ex-
tended itself through the province of Nova Scotia, but had
made its appearance at John's, New Brunswick. The Pre-
sident was the only ship in the squadron that suffered from
this disease : she had altogether about sixteen cases, of
which number three died. No officer was attacked. Lieu-
tenant Parnell, late of the Racer, Captain Kelly, Rifle
Brigade, Mr. Lawson, and Dr. Charles M'Arthur, late
surgeon of the flag-ship, came home passengers in the
Tweed. She also brought home seventeen invalids and ten
convicts.
The following promotions and appointments have lately
taken place on the North American and West India sta-
tion : Lieut. H. G. Hamilton (Flag-Lieutenant) to be
Commander, and appointed to the Tweed, vice Bertram,
deceased ; Mr. Henry Wellington, mate of the President,
to be Lieutenant, vice Hamilton, promoted ; Lieut. Willis,
of the Skipjack, to be Flag-Lieutenant to Sir G. Cockburn,
vice Hamilton ; Lieut. Bosanquet, of the Pincher, to the
Tweed ; Lieut. Rich. Dowse, to the Pincher, vice Bosan-
quet ; *Mr. James Gordon, to be Surgeon, and appointed to
the Tweed, vice Bothwell, deceased ; Mr. J. Robertson (6)
to be Surgeon, and appointed to the Racer, vice Wesley,
El:ceased ; Mr. Aug. H. Gilbert, Purser of the Racer, to
the Tweed ; Mr. Jeffrey, Acting Purser of the Fly, to the
Racer ; Mr. William Orr, Assistant-Surgeon of the
Tweed (who was Acting Surgecn during nearly the whole
period of her sickness, the Surgeon having been one of the
first who died from the disease), has been appointed Assis-
i- Surgeon of the flag-ship. The unremitting professional
exertions OAe +1 is officer, who had himself a severe attack of
. •
the disease, and n,":
humane attention to the sick were be-
yond all praise, and will long be gratefully remembered by
all on board.
Vice-Admiral Sir Geo. Cockburn, Lady Cockburn, and
family, had returned from a tour in Nova Scotia, and were
expected to proceed to Bermuda, in the Praskleflt, in the
first week of November.
The Pacific, a vessel taken up by Government to bring
home invalids from the Royal Artillery, 83d, 96th, and Rifle
Brigade, and the widows and orphans of the soldiers who
died of cholera at Halifax, under the charge of Lieut.-Col.
Earby, of the Royal Artillery, an officer lately promoted,
was to sail from Halifax Nov. 1.

Yesterday, the American line-of-packet ship Montreal,
Chadwick, (vice Champlin, left home sick), arrived in
twenty-one days, from New York, with one hundred pas-
sengers, more of whcm having landed here the ship pro-
ceeded on to the river.

The following appeared in the United States Gazette :
" The Marine Corps—We understand that when the Pre.

sident returns to Washington, there will be a re-organiza-
tion of the Marine Corps, by which that branch of the
national defence will stand as an army regiment under naval
laws, when afloat or in dock-yard. This will create the
necessity for new appointments, of ten Second Lieu-
tenants.'"

This morning arrived the Stentor transport, Lieutenant
Davison, Agent, from Gibraltar, with part of the '23d
Regiment of Welsh Fusileers on board. The Mary trans-
port, with the remainder of the regiment, is hourly expected.
This regiment will be quartered at Haslar and Fort
Monckton. The 86th Depot will be moved from Hadar
to Forton; and the 68th Depot from Forton to Cambridge
Barracks. The 23d Regiment will ultimately remove to
Vvrinchester. They have been eleven years absent from
England. The Stentor left Gibraltar on the 29th ult. by
the assistance of the Jasseur, Commander Hackett, whose
zealous services in the Gut are highly praiseworthy. •
The Guardian, Holland, from Malaga, with fruit and
wine, for Yarmouth ; and the Columbine, Brown, from
Leghorn, with timber, for Portsmouth, have arrived and
received pratique.

Yesterday the Marquis of Anglesey's yacht the Pearl,
arrived from Naples, which port she left on the 19th ult.
The Noble Marquis has been cruising since April last,
during which he visited Castclarnare, Messina, Malta,
Syracuse, Palermo, &c. ; and, we are happy to hear, with
considerable advantage to the state of his health. The
yacht has proceeded to Hamble for the winter.
The Lufra yacht, Lord J. Scott, arrived on Sunday
from the Black Sea. She touched at Malta and Gibraltar,
and experienced very bad weather.
His Majesty's ship Revenge, and the Nile, large new
steamer (built in the river Thames) left the Tagus on the
10th ult. for the Mediterranean. The Hastings.(flag), Stag,
and Castor, were in the Tagus on the 26th ult.
The Blonde frigate (Commodore Mason) arrived at the
Falkland Islands on the Ir:th of July, and was to sail the
next day for Valparaiso.
On Sunday the Salamander steamer, Com. Castle, sailed
for the River. This afternoon, the /Etna and Raven, went
oat of the • Harbgnr, fitted for surveying the Canary
Islands, and shores of Western Africa.

At Spithead—La Regina (Sardinian), expected to sail
to-morrow for Sheerness, Tweed, Xtna, and Raven.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Royal George.
Two packet brigs to be called the Dolphin and Bonetta,
have been laid down at Sheerness Dockyard. They are to
be 90 feet on the gun-deck, by 29ft. 3in., 320 tons burden,
and to be constructed similar to the Pandora.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 6.—Letters from Gibraltar state that
the 'Uedea, Jup4er? And Romney, had passed up for

Malta. The Andromache, with Lord Napier and suite, for
Canton, was spoke, all well, in May. The Dublin was
undocked on Monday. Came in the Lister, from Oporto,
with wine, in twenty-five days ; and the Euphan, Drysdale,
from the Canaries, for Newcastle, with barilla, having been
run foul of and damaged off the Lizard.
In Hamoaze—San Josef.
The Madagascar, Captain Lyons, from the Mediterra-
nean, and the Pearl, Captain Gordon, from the West
Indies, are hourly expected home. The Britannia, 120,
Captain Spicer, is expected home about the middle of De-
cember. The America and Melampus are in a very great
state of forwardness, and it is expected they will be taken
out of dock about Christmas.

The classification system in the different dock-yards,
which caused so much discontent among the artisans, has
been greatly ameliorated of late. In this yard there are
now only five shipwrights, out of nearly 600, in the third
class, and no smith, joiner, or sawyer ; and by recent in-
structions, the apprentices of good character are to be placed
in the second class as they conic out of their time, instead
of the third. The latter class is in future to be considered
as appropriated to very inferior workmen, or as a punish-
ment to those who commit offences or have injured their
character by habits of intoxication, or other improper conduct.
APPOINTMENTS.—Lieuts. J. S. Godden, Edwd. Biffin,
W. S. Petch, and W. Pender, to the Coast Guard Service ;
Lieut. Peter Duthy, to the Vernon, vice Gordon, whose
appointment is cancelled ; Mr. J. Frazer, Assistant-Sur-
geon, to the San Josef ; Mr. H. G. Shute, to be Mate of
the Racer.

ROYAL MARlNES.—Captain John Campbell is placed on
the retired list, vice Major Atcherley, deceased ; Captain
Haig, from half-yay, to the Plymouth division.
COWES, Nov. B.—The Portuguese Government has
given permission for vessels of the Royal Yacht Squadron
to enter the ports of that kingdom, on the same footing as
men-of-war. On Tuesday the Janette schooner (R.Y.S.)
Captain George Wyndham, R.N., arrived from Bourdeaux.
Sir William Maxwell, Bart., has purchased the Ganymede,
formerly Col. Madden's.

Yesterday arrived the French ship Juniper, Le Sage,
Master, sixty days from Guadaloupe, for Havre de Grace,
with a cargo of sugar, to wait the rise of tides at that port.
She landed passengers here. Also arrived the Norwegian.
brig Caroline, Johnstone, Master, from Porsground, for
Truro, with timber and deals, wind bound.
On Wednesday, at five A.M., the schooner Falmouth, of
and for Falmouth, Nicholls, Master, from London, with a
general cargo, carried away her fore-stay, and the mast soon
followed. She was afterwards taken in tow by the Ranger
pilot vessel, and brught in here.