The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the liampshire Telegraph.) -
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 21.—We learn by letters from
Gibraltar, dated June 2, that the Canopus and Tyne
had called there on their way up the Mediterranean.
The Favourite, is, was at Malta on the bth of May,:
having been to Marseilles. Sir Josias ROwley,-with,
six sail of the line, was at Napoli on the 25th of May.
The Scout., 16, was sent to Alexandria ; the Hind,
cutter, to Constantinople ; and the Alfred, 50, mid
Rover, 16, to Tripoli. The Malabar had recelW_•ii
orders to retUrn to. England.
The Belvidere, 46, Captain C. B. Strong, arrived'
at Barbadocs on the 19th of May from this port, and,
having transhipped the colonial silver (which she con-
veyedout) to the Forte, 46, Commodore Pell, C. 8.,
that ship'sailed for Jamaica, leaviiirr Captain Strong in_
the command of the Leeward Islands.

Letters have been received this week from Captain
Sir R. Spencer, R.N., Governor of the new settle-
ment at King George's Sound ( Western Australia),
dated January 4. Every thing was going on
The Honiton colonists arrived in safety. Sir Richard
has some land in cultivation ; he says he only wants
settlers. Fish were abundant. Sir Richard's infant
son had been named William Albany Australia. A
ship had been in the Sound with sheep for sale. The
family reached Australia in four months, without asale.
On Sunday the Hastings, 74, Rear-Admiral Sir W.
H. Gage, Caiztain H. Shiffner, sailed for Lisbon, to
relieve the Asia, 84, Rear-Admiral W. Parker, C.B.
and the Revenge, 78, Captain W. Elliott, sailed to)
join the Mediterranean squadron. Lady Howard dd
Walden and the Duke of Portland (her father) went
passengers in the Revenge for Lisbon.
His Majesty conferred the honour of knighthood on
Wednesday on Captain H. Senhouse, R. N., on being
appointed Knight Companion of the Royal Guelphid
Order. • _ _

Commodore Taylor, who commands the Brazilian
squadron, gave a splendid state dinner to the young
Emperor on board his frigate on the 20th of March,
in Rio Janeiro harbour, to which Sir Michael Sey-
mour and the officers of our squadron were invited, as
well as. all the foreign Ministers. The Commodore
was about to proceed to sea on a cruise.
Lieutenant-Colonel Adair, C. 8., with one half of
the Royal Marine Battalion, and the company of
Royal Marine Artillery, under his orderi, are recalled
from further service in the Tagus. - -
The Lapwing cutter, Lieutenant J. G. Raymond,
captured on Monday, off the Lincolnshire coast, the
fine fast sailing French smuggling lugger Fox, of
Dunkirk, from Flushing, with a mgt. of 6,0001b5. of
foreign tobacco, and a crew of seven men, three
English and four French.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Came in the Lightning,
from Dublin, last from Holyhead, having landed there
the Marchioness Wellesley and suite. She sailed
again for Woolwich. Also sailed the African, Lieut.
West, for Falmouth and the Mediterranean. The
Canopus, 84, Capt. Hon. J. Percy, arrived at Gib-
raltar on the 28th ult., on her way to Malta. She
landed the 12,000 stand of arms (purchased by the
Spanish Ambassador in this country for the Urban
Militia) at Corunna. The Jupiter has landed part of
the 51st regiment at Cork, from Corfu. The Nile,
96, and Pique, 32, are to be launched on the 21st
July. The Sarah, Rennison, from London to Quebec,
on nearing the west end of the Breakwater, missed
stays, tailed ashore, and was there wrecked, a heavy
ground swell being up at the time. The crew and
passengers were saved.
In Hamoaze.—San Josef, Portland, Talbot, Wolf,
Pylades, Dec steamer, Nightingale, Briseis, Tyrian,
Hope transport,

At the Oand.—Silvia.
In the Sound.—Viper.

APPOINTMENTS.—CICUt. W. Parsons, to command

the Seagull, to be fitted as a packet ; Lieut. Philip
De Saumarez, to the Caledonia ; Lieut. W. C. Bur-
bidge (to command), Mr. B. Dixon, Surgeon, and
Mr. John Halcrow, Acting Master, Buzzard • Mr.
Alan M'Laren, Surgeon, and Mr. W. Cox, Purser,
Orestes ; Mr. J. C. Bulman, Purser, Childers ; Mr.
W. Bruce,, Purser, Talbot ; Mr. D. Duncan, Acting
Master, Algerine ; Mr. J. Rundle, Acting Master,
African ; A. Kant, Esq., to be Secretary to Rear-
Admiral Sir T. B. Cape!, as Commander-in-Chief
in the East Indies.

ROYAL MARINES.—Major Lawrence and Captains
Farmer, Humby, and T. E. Jones, of the Royal
Marines, have retired on full pay ; Capt. C. Menzies,
K.H., has been appointed to the vacant Artillery

Company.
The Buzzard has been commissioned at this port,
by Lieut. Burridge, for the west coast of Africa ; and
Seagull, schooner, at Sheerness, for the packet service.
The Curlew, 10, Commander, H. D. Trotter, was
paid off into Ordinary on Tuesday.
Major-General Sir J: Cockburn. Bart., and K. C. H.,
Inspector-General of Royal Marines, with Major
Wright, the Assistant. Adjutant-General, arrived here
on Sunday, and on Monday morning inspected this
division in heavy marching order in the Barrack-
square. On Tuesday morning he reviewed the men
at present at head-quarters, who, with all the officers'
servants and men employed at head-quarters, were
formed into a small battalion on Southsea Common.
On Wednesday he inspected the men at quarters
practised at the gun exercise on Southsea Common ;
and on Thursday the Royal Marine Artillery Labora-
tory and other practice, under the direction of Capt.
Stevens, on Southsea Common. On Friday, accom-
panied by Colonel Sir R. Williams, he went to Fort
Cumberland, with a few men, to try the abilities of
fourteen candidates who had arrived at these head-

quarters to contest the appointment for Adjutants to
one present vacancy, and to others as promotions give
rise to them ; and though all acquitted themselves
much to the satisfaction of the Major-General, it is
not vet known on whom the appointment will fall.
When we consieer the number of candidates for these
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sppointments we cannot but admire the esprit which
the present arrangement of bestowing them produced
in the corps, and the great advantages which must be
the result.

The Dean and Chapter of Exetei, in new
paving and beautifying their ancient cathedral, found
last week• the leaden coffin of Bishop Bitton, who died
in 1307. Near the bones of the finger was discovered
a sapphire ring set in gold, in the centre of which is
engraved a hand with the two fore fingers extended in
the attitude of benediction.

Two whales have been found below the
Swin, and are brought up to thci Greenland Dock ;
they are a goorl deal decayed ; and on Monday a fish,
about thirty feet long, was discovered in the river be-
low the Hope by a fishing vessel, and with the assist-
ance of a merchantman killed, and brought up the
river to London. These fish are supposed to have
been driven out of their native seas by the late storms.
THE BEER BILL.—Mr. Warburton's at-
tempts to resist the absurd enactment against the con-
sumption of beer on the premises have been vain. A
man calls for a mug of beer, he pays for it, it is handed
to him, he puts it to his mouth instantly and drinks.
How does the law apply in this case ? The landlord
cannot apply the stomach-pump and get back the pec-
cant draught. The beer has been drunk on the pre-
mises, and how is it to be ascertained whether it has
been sold to be drunk on the premises or not? If the
drinking without the landloid's permission will excuse
the landlord in•the eye of the law, there will always
be such drinking, as if no law existed to the contrary.
'I he landlord cannot prevent people on the premises
from pouring down their thWiats the beer he sells
them, and should he be liable to penalties fin' hat o
cannot prevent ?—Examiner