The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The letter of our correspondent at the Cape of Good
Hope, which we received this morninz, dwells with con-
siderable interest upon the effect which the Slave Com-
pensation Bill will have on the holders of that condemned
property in the colony, We subjoin an ex rct :

" Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 6.
" The slave question kteps ell very intent upon whatever
bears upon the subject. But although great interest is
taken about it here, it will no doubt be quietly arranged.
The compensation money clause does not appear to be well
understood, but yet sufficiently to operate on the slave
market prices Slaves are more valuable here than in the
West India colonies. They are now worth more than 100/.
each, To liberate them, therefore, for 40/. will prove
ruinously hard upon the holders here, especially as, with
few exceptions, they are all mortgaged for much more than
the compensation of them. The difference, in very many
instances, must be paid out of the goods and chattels of the
proprietors, and bankruptcy must ensue. The slave trade
appears to be on tie increase on the west coast ; and all
slavers are in fact pirates, so that we need an increase of
ships to keep a v gilant look-out for them. Our good
Admiral keeps his squadron constantly at sea. The Trin-
culo came into port on the 31st, having taken two laye
vessels, with full cargoes. The Pelorus will sail hum.-
diately for the coast. We do not expect the Isis to return
from lu r six months' cruise until next month.

" A most unusual quantity of rain has fallen here this
have fallen nearly one half—say about 51. the bag, and
year, and
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Barleycrops,
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wheat at 1/. for a bag of 1901 b. A much greater depte.
ciaiion is expected in the ensuing three months. We ale
anxiously expecting the arrival of our new Governor (Sir
Benjamin d'Urban), who is, it is said, to bring with him
abl list of reductions and alterations among the officials.
Some are redly needed; our court of justice salaries are
quite sufficient for half a dozen colonies. Money is now
61. per cent here, but we fully expect that our approictAng
slave and mercantile operations will reduce it to 41. per
cent. Several families on the frontiers of the colony have
been murdered by the Corannas, and their flocks stolen.
A party of them were lately pursued by a commando of
farmers, who rode after them 44 hours on horseback ;
came up with them near the great Orange 'River, when a
determined battle tcok place, in which one farmer was
killed and several wounded. They, however, retook all
the cattle and sheep, and recovered seven poor children, of
families which they hail formerly murd. red. Six of the
Corannas were killed in the contest. Our Cape farms,
are very fine shots ; they rest their pieces on their saddles,
for what is neat,s., and rarely miss their mark.

We have been favoured with an extract from a letter
(rain an officer in the Pacific, of so late date as Nov. 3d
(receive•d overland), a hich states that the Samarang, 28,
Captain C Paget, was on her way to San Blas, whence
she was to return to Callao, with specie, in May, calling
at the intermediate ports for increased remittances f.r
Europe. At Callao the treasure would be tranferred to
the Dublin, 50, Lord James Townshend, which ship, if
the Blonde had previously arrived out, the Samarang
w.,uld proceed with to England. The letter states that
the Gover nor of Peru, foolishly guided by his mistress,
was pursuing measures that greatly distracted affairs in
t' at country; in the course of which several hundred
mvicts had escaped from Lima, and, seizing all the horses
they could, had, joined by numbers of the natives, corn-
mi-nced a warfare of robbery and pillage, stopping many
of the sources of trade, and even rendering the road between
Ca'lao and Lima unsafe for travellers.

His Majesty's schooner Nimble, L;eut. Charles Bolton,
captured on the 7th ult., off the Isle of Pines, and carried
his prize into the Havannah, the fine fast-sailing Spanish
schooner Manuelita, having 485 slaves on board, and a
crew of 34 men. The Nimble, on the 3d of the previous
month, near the same place, captured the Spanish
schooner Joiquine, o ith 329 slaves, and 25 men, which
vessel withstood a i'esperate resistance of one hour, in
which the slave Captain was killed. She also, a few days
afterwards, drove on shore the Spanish schooner Amisc.id
Habenera, on a part of the Isle of Pines inhabited by
only a few fishermen. After landing the slaves the crew
blew up their vess Ito prevent capture. The success of
the Nimble has so mortified and exasperated the slave mer-
chants at the Havannah that they have determined to fit
out a large slaver or pirate to mount 20 guns to capture
her. There were several large armed vessels preparing
on the 7th ult. at Havannah to engage iu this infamous
traffic. The zeal of the Commander-in,Chief on that
station will no doubt discover itself in their early capture
or destruction. Lieu.enant Bolton has in less than nine
months captured three vessels and upwards of 1,000 slaves.
On Wednesday evening the Nimrod, 20, Capt. M‘Dou-
gall, arrived at Plymouth in sixty hours from Santander,
bringing intelligence to Government of the change in the
Spanish Ministry. Captain M'Dougall proceeded to the
Admiralty with the despatches from the Spanish Govern-
ment. The Nimrod also brings accounts of the loss of
the Spanish frigate Lealtad, wl.ich was driven on shore
near Santander, in a gale of wind, and was totally
wrecked ; the crew saved. This sh;p hid been watching
the northern coast of Spain for some time, in expectation
that Don Carlos would attempt to make his escape thence,
but the Nimrod did not bring any intelligence of that
Prince's movements. The Nimrod unfortunately lost the
boatswain and thirteen of her crew (out of fourteen), by
the swamping of one of her boats, whilst employed in at-
tempting to supply the Lealtad with an anchor and cable.
The Nimrod is ordered into this port (as well as the
Revenge, 78, from Lisbon), to be refitted.
MOVESIENTS ON FOREIGN STATIO NS. —Barbadoes,
Dec. 3.—Arrived the Vestal, from England and Bermuda;
Sapphire and Arachne, from Antigua, Dispatch, flow St.
Thomas's. Sailed the Ariadne, for Martinique; Victor,
for Tobago. Jamaica, Dec. 12.—Sailed the 'hada:
e Oct.lL Africa. Arrive d
the Lima,
Dublin Oct.
Rhada-
msnthus, for St. Domingo; Thunder, on a cruise; Rover,
ied the Samarang,thie
west coast
from ti
Valparaiso, and sailed
f
for Cartbagena ; Pigeon packet, for Mexico. St. Helena,
Dec. 7.—Arrived from the Cape the Pelorus, and sailed
2f for
Panama.
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Valparaiso, and
22.—Arrived
and Pylades ; the former is to proceed to Lima, the latter
for the Intermedios.

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Tiiphook, Esq , his secretary, proceeded to London to re-
ceive his final instructions. Should the wind become fair
the Endymion will sail about Thursday next.
The Belvi&ra, 42, Captain C. B. Strong, is destined to
the West India station, to relieve the Pallas, 42, Captain
Walpole, Mr. Chatfield, Consul at Guatemala, will take
his passage.
The Tyne, 28, Captain C. Hope, was paid
i off into or-
dinary this morning. A steamer of 700 tons s ordered to
be laid down in this dockyard.
We have had nearly another stormy week of weather,
the wind varying from S.S.W. to W.N. W. To .day it
was more moderate, with some appearance of a change.
All the outward bound remain safe.

At Spithead—Endymion.
In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Excellent, Edin-
burgh, Blonde, Belvidera, Sparrowhawk, Rainbow, Cha-
rybdis Nautilu9, Jupiter, Sparrow, and Firebrand and
Lightning eteamers.
PrtomurroNs AND APPOINTMENTS. Lieut. S. U.
Fremantle, to the command of the Arachne, vice Coin-