The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 28.—0 n Sunday his Majesty's
troop-ship Romney, Mr. James Wood, R.N., Master,
arrived here from Jamaica, whence she sailed on the
11th ult. with the service companies of the 77th Rer
giment commanded by Colonel Bradshaw, and about
150 naval invalids from the fleet. This regiment had
been ten years in the West Indies, in the course of
which it lost, principally from the effects of the cli-
mate, fourteen officers and 636 rank and file, besides
women and children : eight men died on their passage.
The ships on the station being kept actively employed
were generally healthy. There were lying at PoO
Royal the Magnificent, Pearl, Larne, Cruiser, Thun-
derer, Rhadamanthus, Jackdaw, and French brig- 9f
war, Le Reynard. The Cruizer was then under orders
for the Grand Cayman ; Rhadamanthus for Barba-
does; Thunderer to survey the Musquito shore about
Cape Gracifts a Deos, having completed the survey of
_the Great Bahama Bank. The Alban was to return
from Pemerara to Port Royal, and the Pearl to return
to England. The Marquis of Sligo, the new. Go-
vernor, had also happily succeeded to a good portion
of the popularity of the Earl of Mulgrave by his mea-
sures ; but all•parties were anxiously looking to the
Ist of August, when the Slave Emancipation Law
will commence its operation.
The 77th "Regiment has landed, and forms part pf
this garrison, the 84th Regiment depot having removed
to Forton, and the 12th Regiment to Winchester.
The SeafloWer, Lieut. Morgan, sailed this morning
on a cruise. At Spithead—Portuguese frigate. In
Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Romney, North Star,
Childers, Orestes, Buzzard, and Speedy.
The Duke of Buccleuch, for Madras and Bengal,
will sail to-Morrow, having embarked passengers.
The Havannah, 42, is to be commissioned at Sheer-
ness, by Captain W. StanhOpe Baduick.
The Melville, 74 ( Sir John Gore), was at Bombity
on the 25th April. Captain Blackwood, of the Imo-
gene, had entirely recovered from his severe illness.,
FOREIGN STATIONS.—The Forte arrived at Port
Royal, 15th May ; the Wasp and Rainbow were at
Barbadoes, on the 22d of May ; Ringdove left Lisb`pn
for Madeira, June 8 ; Alligator arrived at Sydney,
February 14 ; Challenger at Valparaiso, February li6,
and Dublin, Feb. 23 ; Satellite at Bahia, April 21.,
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 26.—Arrived the Jupiter, Mr. R.,
Easto, master, from Corfu, last from Cork ; and the
Donegal, 74, Capt: A. Fanshawe, from Spithead, and
was towed into harbour, to be paid off. Sailed the
Salamander, Commander Castles, for -:WPOlwicli ;
Viper, for Falmouth, to take a Lisbon mail ; Sylvia
and Thalia transports, for Cork. The Pandora saled
from Falmouth on Saturday, with a mail for Mexico.
Came in the Woodbridge, and embarked a detachmSnt.
of the 66th regiment for Canada ; also the William
Maitland, to load granite for Bermuda. The laulh-

47th and 59th -Regiment to Gibraltar; and the 23d
Fusileers from Gibraltar to Plymouth. _

The Industry will convey a detachment of Royal
Marines from tins port to Pembroke.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Capt. A King,
C. 8., and Mr. W. Porteous, surgeon, to the Astrea ;
Commander W. T. Dance, to be captain ; Lieut.
H. J. Puget, to the Thalia; Lieut. E. B. B. Tin-
ling, and Messrs. F. A. Ellis and Sir J. W. E. Nichol-
son, Bart., mates, Orestes; Lieutenants E. P. Thomp-
son, Revenge ; Lieut. Wm. Parsons and Mr. Brown,
master, Seagull ; Mr. J. S. Taylor, late acting mas-
ter of the \% ulf, is confirmed ; Mr. G. Drysdale, sur-
geon, North Star ; Mr. W. C. Watt, surgeon,
Sheerness Ordinary ; Mr. R. Wilson, master, Wolf;
Mr. .1. Nice, master, Mr. W. Taylor, acting purser,
and Mr. \V. -110111 s, mail, Buzzard ; Mr. W. Loring,
mate, Victory ; Mr. Rhode, mate, San Josef ; Mr.
J. Brancling, master's assistant, Tyrian ; Mr. F. H.
Niblett, master's assistant, to the Talbot.