The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JULY s.—On Tuesday the Sir Edward Paget,
for the Cape, Madras, and Bengal (which arrived the previous
day) sailed, having called at this port for despatches. Cap-
tain Brandreth, Royal Engineer, went passenger, he being
appointed Commissioner to superintend the transfer of the
Island of St. Helena from the East India to our Government.
The President, Moore, sailed this afternoon for New York,
with 30 cabin and 130 steerage passengers (some of them
settlers for Canada), and a considerable sum in specie for
merchants.
The Hungerford, for Madras and Bengal, will embark pas-
sengers and sail to-morrow. The Norfolk, Button, with con-
victs for Van Diemen's Land, will sail on Monday.
The Champion, 11, Commander Duncombe, was to be at
Toulon on the Ist instant, to convey a mail to Malta. She
had on the 25th ult. visited the principal towns in Catalonia
and Valencia, where the news of Don Carlos having surren-
dered had produced the most lively rejoicings.
We have pleasure in stating that the British Tar which
sailed from this port on the 17th April, with emigrants, sent
out under the management of the Petworth Emigrant Com-
mittee, arrived at Montreal on the 4th of June, with all on
board in good health and spirits : one child was born on the
passage. The British Tar was detained at Grosse Island (the
quarantine station) eight days, owing to measles having broke
out on board. But for this circumstance her passage to Mon-
treal would have been a very quick one. A considerable party
from the House of Industry, Isle of Wight, went out in the
British Tar. Mr. Brydone, the Superintendent, speaks in terms
of perfect satisfaction with the allowance of provisions to the
emigrants, its quality, and excellent state of preservation
during the voyage.
The Esperanza schooner, which was detained some time
since by Captain H. D. TROTTER, of his Majesty's ship Cur-
lew, upon suspicion of slave trading, has been ordered to be
liberated. The crew of the Panda, piratical vessel, brought
from the coast of Africa in the Curlew, now on board the Vic-
tory, are ordered to be conveyed to Port Salem, United States,
in the Savage, 10, Lieut. LONEY ; which vessel is afterwards
to proceed to the Halifax station.
WOOLWICH, JULY 4.—The Spitfire, Lieut. Symons, will
take the August Mediterranean mail. The Confiance, Lieut.
Waugh, sailed on Wednesday for Falmouth with Captain An-
drew King, C. B, appointed to superintend the Foreign Packet
Station.
Ships at Woolwich.—William and Mary, Royal George,
and Fanny yachts ; Phoenix, Medea, Salamander, Firebrand,
Spitfire, Lightning, and Comet steamers.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 3.—Came in the Pike, from Falmouth, to
refit ; the Mary transport, from Hull, with the depot of the
53d Regiment on board ; and Messenger steamer, for Pem-
broke. Sailed the Woodbridge, with a detachment of the
66th Regiment for Quebec; and the Cambria, for Sierra
Leone. The ships ordered to be rigged and prepared for
commission at this port are now complete. The Donegal, 78,
will be paid off on Wednesday. The Talbot will be docked
on Monday ; the Briseis taken out.
In Barnpool—Jupiter.
In the Sound—Messenger.
In Ilamoaze—San Josef, Donegal, Portland, Talbot, Wolf,
Dee, Pike, Nightingale, Briseis, and Tyrian.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captain James Scott (author of " Naval
Recollections"), to the President, the flag-ship of Vice-Ad-
miral Sir G. Cockburn, G. C. B. ; Lieuts. T. Lyell, J. G.
Dickson, L. Browell, Lord C. E. Paget, G. A. Henry, and
C. Edmunds, Mr. J. Hately, Surgeon, Mr. P. Forest,
Purser, Messrs. A. R. Bradford, and R. M‘Lean, Assistant-
Surgeons to the Winchester; Lieuts. N. Lefebre and H.
Gaitskell, Mr. R. Rogers, Master; Mr. A. Gordon, Surgeon;
Mr. W. Finlayson, Purser; and Mr. J. Gorthy, Assistant-
Surgeon, Zebra; Lieut. F. G. Bond, Gannett; Lieut. R. A.
Cartwright, Mr. J. S. Taylor, Master Jeffery,
Surgeon ; Mr. H. Brenton, Purser ; and Mr. A. Lyon,
Assistant- Surgeon, Rose ' • Lieut. H. Johnston, Mr. E.
Gulliver, Master ; Mr. J. Armstrong, Surgeon ; and Mr.
D. Deas, Assistant-Surgeon, Thalia; Lieut. R. T. Eyre,
Pelorus ; Lieut. T. P. Thompson, Mr. A. Rolls, Master,
Mr. J. Mein, Surgeon, and Mr. L. Birtwbistle, Assistant..
Surgeon, Columbine ; Lieut. G. F. Dashwood, Ocean ;
Lieut. A. Plymsell to the Chatham Ordinary ; G. Mowbray,
Esq., to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral Warren ; Mr. A.
M•Laren, Surgeon, from the Orestes to the North Star; Mr.
R. Maxwell, Surgeon, Orestes ; Mr. P. Sherlock, M.D.,
Surgeon, Eclipse ; Mr. W. Ekin, M.D., Surgeon, Lapwing ;
Mr. A. Linton, Surgeon, Seagull ' • Lieut. A. Kennedy and
Mr. A. Gilchrist, M.D., Surgeon, Spitfire.
The following officers are appointed to the Coast Guard :
Commanders Ross, to the station near Dublin; H. Layton,
Killibegs ; W. Finlaison, Skibbereen ; and Lieuts. W. C.
Boyce, J. Campbell, J. Jones (d), and J. Pyne.
ROYAL MARINES. First-Lieut. H. B. Skinner, and
Second-Lieut. W. S. Budd, Thalia; Second Lieut. C. J.
Pegus, Tribune.
NAVAL PROMOTIONS IN THE QUARTER ENDING 26TH OF
JUNE, 1834.—T0 be Captains : H. W. Bayfield, W. T.
Dance, W. B. Greene.—To be Commanders : R. Morgan (a),
C. Walcot, James Gordon (b).—To be Lieutenants: T.
Stephens, W. R. Payne, E. Peirse, G. K. Ogilvy, T. P.
Thompson, H. J.
JamWindh, S. P. Gallwey, G. Masterslaghan, J. Richardson, R. Engledue.—To be :
J. S. Taylor, D. Quintom.—To be Purser : W. Brydone.
ROYAL MARINES.—To be Captains: R. Leonard, G. Pat-

toun, D. Galloway.—To be First Lieutenants : G. Honing-
worth, J. M. Coppinger, F. A. Campbell, G. E. Hunt.—To
be Second Lieutenants : P, F. E. Daniel.
J. Bates, Esq., Master, R.N., and Secretary to the Royal
Yacht Squadron, is specially appointed pilot to convey her
Majesty and suite to Rotterdam.
The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that Lieutenants
of the Navy shall be eligible for the Coast Guard Service, if
at the time of their appointment they are under the age of 45
years, instead of 40, as heretofore.
This day being the anniversary of the Admiral Count Cape
St. Vincent's brilliant victory, the Portuguese frigate Duchess
of Braganza fired salutes in celebration of the important
event ; and this evening the gallant Admiral, and his hopi-
table lady, entertain a large party of friends at their residence
at Purbrook, to which the officers of the Braganza are invited.
A double sheer for masting ships (with one arm projecting
over the Basin, and another over the Harbour Jetty) is about
to be erected in this Dockyard, on the completion of which
the sheer-hulk will be paid off and broken up. This vessel,
the Prince George, is the first ship in which his present Ma-
jesty went to sea.
During three years and a half forty-six first commissions
have been granted to Gentlemen as Second Lieutenants in the
Royal Marine corps ; but in ifuture only one commission will
be issued for three vacancies, until the number is reduced to
eighty-two. Forty-one Lieutenants have been promoted to
be Captains, seven Captains to be Majors, and seven Majors to
be Lieutenant-Colonels, within the same period.

The following fifteen ships are ordered to proceed home,
to be paid off, their period of service having expired :—The
Asia, from Lisbon ; Malabar, Actwon, and Rover, from the
Mediterranean ; Dublin, Samarang, and Satellite, from South
America ; Curacoa and Magiciene, from the East Indies ;
Vernon, Sapphire, Tweed, and Alban, from the West Indies ;
Pluto, from the coast of Africa.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Lord Bishop of Winchester has appointed the Rev. James
Browne, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Milton, on the cession of the
Rev. R. Dickenson.

The Rev. Richard Brown, M.A., has been instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the Vicarage of Southwich,
Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. R. J. L.
Maydwell ; on the presentation of Walter Lynn, Esq., of Chewton
House, in the county of Southampton.
The Rev. Charles Robert Ashfield, 8.A., to the Rectory of
Burgate, Suffolk, on the presentation of the Bishop of Ely.
The Rev. Mr. Hinde has been elected Chaplain of New West-
minster Bridewell.

C.W. Goodchild, 8.A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, has
been appointed Second Master of the Grammar School, Yarmouth,
Norfolk.

Mrs. Butler, widow of the Rev. R. Butler, of Inkpen, Berks,
has bequeathed 2,000/. to the Bishop of St. David's, in trust, to re-
ceive the interest, and apply it to the use of the College at Lampeter.

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Leeds Intelligencer.)
BRADFORD.—There was little alteration on Thursday in
the general aspect of the Bradford Market. The stock of
wool is short, prices, consequently, looking up. The demand
for piece goods, whether for home or abroad, was limited;
purchasers display extreme caution, the high price of wool
operating so as to prevent much business from being done.;
people exclaim, "we will wait, we will wait, wool must come
down." They are probably mistaken. There is a good de-
mand for yarn at old prices ; the spinners declare, however,
that they make no profit worth striving after.
HALlFAX.—Business on Saturday quite equal to that of the
preceding market day ; that is to say, somewhat brisk. Low
lastings were especially in demand. Wool steady ; an advance
spoken of.
HUDDERSFIELD.—An increase of trade in the market on
Tuesday. The manufacturers seem to have made up their
minds that wool will rather go upwards than downwards ; they
therefore stand steadily out for their prices, and on Tuesday
realized them in some instances. . .

BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—There is not any improvement
in business. Buyers still cautious, only making limited pur-
chases.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The Flannel Market on
Monday last was well attended, and considerably more busi-
ness was done than for some time past, and in some instances
upon low and middle qualities an advance of prices of last
week took place. Finer qualities also went off better. The
appearance we had last week of a brisker market has this day
been fully realized.
YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY 3.—ln the Wool Market this
week wool was well supplied, though not so large as last
week, nor yet buyers so numerous, there being about 200
sheets unsold ; and, taking it altogether, it was a very dull
market, prices a little lower. Hogs, 265. to 28s. and 295. ;
Ewes, 235. to 245. ; Hogs and Ewes mixed, 255. to 265. per
stone of 161bs. ; in Moor wools no business.
DONCASTER WOOL MARKET, JUNE 30—To-day's market
went off much less briskly than before, buyers being, in many
instances, unwilling to risk the prices asked. There was a
plentiful supply of wool, about two-thirds of which was sold :
lots averaging about one-third Hog fetched from 235. to 265.
per stone of 161 b.
The blanket manufacturers of Earlsheaton and neighbour-
hood arc pretty well employed.

HEREFORD MIDSUMMER PAlR.—This annual
fair took place on Tuesday last. The supply of cattle was
rather large, but there was but few buyers, except for imme-
diate use ; steers and stores were not in great request, which
is attributed to the scarcity of grass keep, owing to the long
drought. Prices were a shade lower. The show of sheep
and lambs was generally acknowledged to be one of the largest
ever seen in the city. The quality was mostly first-rate, but
the demand not adequate to the supply. There were a great
many pens of stores, for which the price even was not asked.
Of pigs both the supply and demand was small. The horse
fair presented, as usual, a scene of great bustle, and there
were a good many excellent animals for harness and the saddle,
which sold readily at tolerable prices. Horses for agricultural
purposes were not in great demand, though there were many
Powerful animals offered for sale. The quantity of wool
pitched fell far short of expectation, many owners held their
stock back in expectation of an advanced price at the fall of
the season ; though on this head opinion seems to be very
much divided. On the fair day, there was not much sold ;
the principal sales were effected on Wednesday, at the follow-
ing prices—Good 21s. to 22s.—very fine 235. and upwards...—
Prices of Stock : Beef, sd. to 51d. • Calves sd. to 5 ; Sheep,
sd. to 51d. ; Lamb 51d. to 6d.—Hereford Times.

Mr. Howison, in his new work, " European Colo-
nies," gives us hostorical sketches of the aborigines, their pure
European masters, and the various breeds which civilization
has introduced ; with aecounts of what they do, what sort of
people they are, and how they pass their time. His authority
for the past is the collections of former travellers. Some-
times, like Vaillant, charmingly vivacious, even though they
may have improved the forms of nature, or heightened her
colours ; sometimes, like Barrow, full of matter more grave
and more trustworthy. The authority for the present time is
Mr. Howison himself—the experience of a sensible man of the
world, and an elegant man of letters, who has visited or resided
in the places he describes.—Spectator.
INHUMAN ATROCITY.—
A few nights since a
horse, the property of an industrious poor man, living at
Augbriss, in Tireragh, was brought to the top of a high cliff
on the sea side, and by main force thrown down on the rocks
by some diabolical miscreants. The earth over the precipice
was torn up in several parts, which clearly demonstrates that
the poor brute made a hard struggle for his life.--.Sligo
Journal.

The royal powder magazines at Weedon, in this
county, are at length entirely evacuated, there being upwards
of 700 tons of gunpowder contained in them, the whole of
which is safely lodged in the royal magazines at Purileet, in
Essex ; and great praise is due to Messrs. Pickford and Co.
for their prompt and zealous attention to the safe security of
so dangerous an article whilst under their care, taking up-
wards of fifty boats to convey it. The above company is
busily employed in conveying the guns from the same place to
the Tower of London, to the number of about 100,000 ; to-
gether with a large number of accoutrements, bedding, swords,
pistols, pikes, iron and brass cannons, &c. &c. The whole of
the extensive storehouses and buildings are ordered by Go-
vernment to be cleared as soon as possible; as to their future
intentions respecting the disposal of the property is not pub-
licly known, but generally believed the establishment will be
closed during peace.—Northampton Free Press.

Died, on the 6th June, aged 52, in London, Mr.
Ralph Rylance, a gentleman who spent almost the whole of
his laborious life in the service of Messrs. Longmans, the
great publishers. He was the author and translator of even
multitudinous books, bearing the names of veterans in litera-
ture, and not of one to which his own name is affixed. He
was a native of Bolton in Lancashire, where his very brilliant
talents were early discovered by the munificent Roscoe, who
put him to school under the celebrated Lempriere, where he
acquired the classical languages with astonishing facility, and
soon after became so able and extensive a linguist as to read,
write, and speak with fluency about eighteen tongues ; and,
near his death, was heard working at the Welsh and Celtic, for
the purpose of composing an ethnic essay on the affinities of all
languages. He had studied English intensely, and formed his
style from that of the age of Elizabeth; was extensively ac-
quainted with ancient history and literature, that of Europe,
and of his own country ; was an ardent admirer and thorough
familiar of "our matchless poet," and good old " Chaucer's
Wall of English undefiled." He first came into this county
( Shropshire) about twenty-five years ago, to collect materials
for " The Beauties of England and Wales," where he gained
great admiration for his beautifully elegant sonnet composed in
Ludlow Castle, " Here Milton sung." He soon acquired
many Salopian friends all round the Wrekin, by his amiable
disposition, his fertile glow of conversation, and his racy powers
of music and song. In politics he was a liheral Whig, and in
religion, though differing from his nearest and dearest friends,
he was always steadily and faithfully attached to the Church
of England, in whose defence he latterly diverted the pure and
vigorous stream of his powerful pen, in several neat volumes,
which we could readily name, with many others, " but that we
are forbid to tell the secrets of the prison-house." In the
words of his most favourite and beloved poet, he was—
" Ev'n just such a man
As e'er my conversation cop'd withal—
That no revenue had but his good spirits
To feed and clothe him," Bre.
And many who read this short notice, whose convivial tables
his wit has often set in a roar, will regret his somewhat early
death, and remember, with cordial fondness, his ardent and
grateful friendship, his sweetness of manners, his exuberance
of fancy, and his most extraordinary facetious drolleries of
humour.-_Shrewsbury Chronicle.

THE LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAIL-ROAD•

This magnificent enterprize is now proceeding with consi•
derable rapidity. The excavations are nearly finished at the
foot of Primrose-hill, and the clay which had been removed
from that quarter is used for the purpose of making the ern:
bankment necessary to elevate the road near the Regent
canal. It is calculated that the first twenty miles of the road
will be finished within two years, and that the whole line will
be completed in four. One of the difficulties which have hi"
therto attended the construction of these roads, is the 0.01"
blishment of a sufficient foundation for the iron rail, which
has been usually laid in a sleeper of granite, or other stone,
and sometimes on wood. But the expense of these materials
has been found so enormous, that it has been suggested to
substitute for them slabs of slate, fixed in a bed of concrete.
With a view to prove the strength of this material, some
experiments were made on Wednesday last, at the pre'
mises of Messrs. Cotham and Nallen, in presence nt.
Solly, the Chairman of the Company ; Mr. Stephenson:
the Company's surveyor ; Mr. Palmer, the engineer ; ana
other gentlemen ; from which it resulted, that slate of a
certain thickness will answer all the purposes of granite as a
sleeper for the rail, at less than half of the expense of that
material. It was found, through the medium of the hydraulic
press, that a cubic inch of slate will sustain a pressure of three
tons and a half, and that consequently slate of an inch and a
half thick is more than equal to any pressure which it can be
required to support on the rail-road. This is an importal
discovery for the undertakers of these enterprises, as it
tend considerably to lessen the outlay which they have hitherto
demanded. Slabs of slate of sufficient size and thickness
may be had for the purpose in abundance, from the quarries in
Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland. It will require some file-
unity to fix them in the concrete, so as to prevent them from
being shifted from their places by the vibrating motion of the
wheels of the engines and waggons. In order to ascertain the
best mode of effecting this object, it has been arranged that
three or four hundred yards of the Birmingham and London
Rail-road should be laid with slate sleepers in the first instance.