The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—His Majesty's ship Belvidere,
42, Captain the Hon. G. Dundas, arrived on Ti,ur-day
trom Madeira, which place she left on the 15th of
October, St. Mich tel's the 21st, and Lisbon the 6th of
November. At Madeira a strong party feeling existed in
favour of Don Miguel ; the town was well fortified, there
being upwards of 2,000 Miguelite troops garrisoned in
it, the whole of them being in excellent order and
,fi.cipline; the b itteties were well mounted, and the
Governor of Madeira was prepared for an attack from
the forces of Don Pedro, and was determined to resist
to the last. There was only me brig of war with
Mtguelite colours at Madeira when the Belvid,re left. She
canoe into harbour on Thursday to he pa;cl off, and will be
recommissioned.

The Ch,ryhdis, 4, Lieut.Crawfutti, arrived on Sunday

last from the Cape of Good Hope, which she left on the
7tn of S.ptember, St. Helena 22d, Ascensio❑ BOth, and
Teneritle 17th October. She lift at the Cape the Britt).
mart, 10, Lieut. Qoin, which had arrived on the 24th of
Amiust, from England. Roar Admiral Warren, C. 8.,
hid hoisted his flag on beard the Britomart ; and on the
arrival of the Pylorus, 18, Como.ander Meredith, from
Ceylon, which was expected daily, that ship would receive
the fl and the Britomart would sail to the west coast

:0 relieve the Curlew, 10. Commander Trotter, when the

latter would proceed to England. The Isis, 50, Captain
Polkinghorne, Griffon, 4, Lieut. Parlby, Pluto s earner,
Lieut. Sullivan, and Trinculo, 10, Lieut. Thompson, were
cruising on the west coast; the Talbot, 28, Capt,io
Dickenson, was lying at the Mauritius, and w,,s ahout to
return home. The squadron was generally healthy.
Corninandrr Stow, and the officers and crew of the Badger,
10, which had been converted into a 7eceivotg ship, came
passengers in the Charybdis. She came into harbour on
Wednesday.
The Trinculo, IS, Acting Commander Warren, ha•
captured another slave schooner, the Coaridad, after a
fourteen hours' chase, the greater part of the time within
range of musketry, by wide!) she was nearly unrigged.
The Trinculo was in excellent trim, or she would nut have
taken this lot-sailing vessel.
The El-Arnim], 50, Captain Sir S. Roberts, C. 8., is
arrived at Plymouth for repairs, having got on shore
going into the Tagus. She had previously sprung her
mainmast, and was therefore Alged to reef topsails when
in the entrance of the river. Her keel is considerably
damaged. A courtniartial is ordered, we understand, on
the master, and en the Hon. Lieut. Murray, who was
officer of the watch. She had no pilot on board at the
time of the accident.

ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, OCT. 14.—The Gover-
nor returned from a cruise to toe southward on the :30th
of September, having in the course of it visited Halifax,
Pictou, and Sydney ; the Local Legislature stands proro-
gued to the 10th of January next, then to meet for the
despatch of business. The colonial vessel Forte sailed for
Quebec on the 4th instan,, to bring down the newly-
appointed Chief Judge (Bolton), and his family. Toe
fishery has been tolerably successful. The good eff cts of
the present state of affairs in Portugal on the trade of this
country are very sensibly felt this season, with the excep-
tion of that carried on at Labrador, which has almost
entirely failed. I copy from one of our local papers some
remarks about the weather we have experienced here this
year, which you may probably think interesting :
" There cannot be a doubt that the weather during the
present summer (if, ind,ed, it might be so called) has
been most remarkably uncongenial ; for though it may
have appeared to an indifferent observer to have been
favourable to agriculture, it has, in reality, been far from
it. Take the state of the thermometer (in the night)
since the Ist of May, and we find that the mercury was
below the freezing point one and t.venty times; on one
occasma (the 11th) it sunk as low as 19 deg. ; in the
month of June it was no less than seven times at or blow
32 deg.; in the month of July it w are only eight times above
50 deg. ; whilst on three occasions it was below 40 deg.

The Ratlesnake, 28, Captain Charles Graham, was
paid off into ordinary on Monday.
The .S`lvia transport is still ratting in the harbour ;
elle will, when ready, convey the depot companies of the
7th Regiment to Ireland.

ThePhilotnel, 18, and Cordelia, at Chatham ; the
Barracouta packet, and Zmobia, 18, at Plymouth ; the
Echo steam-vessel, and Supply transport, at Woolwich ;
and the Manly, 10, and Plumper, 10, at this port, are
ordered to be sold out of the service.
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At Spithewl—Romney and Favourite.
In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Excellent, Spir.
rowhawk, Edinburgh, Jupiter, Blonde, Charybdis, Lynx,
and Seaflower cutter.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.-Commander Pa-
trick Duff Henry Hay to be C,ptiin ; Comm ender Mor-
gan, to the Rodney; Lieutenant William Lewis (b), to
the Britannia, as Supernumerary; Lieutenant Frederick
Henry H. Glasse, Mr. James Andrew, Assistant Surgeon,
Mr. Thomas Hart, Second Mister, arid Mr. W. Heiner,
Clerk, to the Rolla ; Lieut. C. W. Pears, to the Vernon,
as Supernumerary ; Lieut. J. B. Driffield, to the Excel-
lent ; Lieut. E. T. Harries, and Mr. J. Tucker, Master,
to the Sparrowhawk ; Mr. J. Wood, Master, to the com-
mand of the Romney; Mr. M. Bradshaw, Master, to the
Ocean ; Mr. R. Marsdru, Clerk, to the Edinburgh.
ROYAL MARINES.—Mr. A. R. Swage, to be a Second
Lieutenant of the Woolwich Div'sion.

The Leveret, 10, Lieutenant (now Commander) La-
pidge, arrived on Wednesday from Lisbon and Oporto,
last from Falmouth. She left Lisbon on the 10th, and
Oporto on die 14th inst., but the intelligence she brines
has been anticipated by the James Watt steamer, arrived
at Portsmouth. Nothing wis known at Oporto of the
operations of the expedition sent f$ orn thence and landed
in the neighbourhood of Figueiras. Both Oporto and
Villa Nova are well supplied with cattle, &c., from the
provinces. General Stubbs is said to have in garrison
;err
.9 03,95m.P.' troops, but chiefly volunteers. His
Maj-sty's ship Stag, Captain Lockyer, senior officer, off
Oporto, sailed for Vigo on the 6ch inst. to complete water,
and was expected daily to resume her stition. The Viper,
schooner, was at anchor off the Bar to receive and forward
wads. The Nimrod was within the Thurs.

His Majesty's cutter Speedy, Lieut. Roepel, and Sylvia,
Lieut. Hei.derson, sailed on Sunday last for 'Milford. The
Bittern cutter, sold out of the service, sailed on Tuesday
fur the liver. The Duck lighter also sailed the sate day
with stores for Chatham. His Majesty's sloop Crutzer,
Lieut. M'Causland, sai ed on Tuesday for the West Indies.
The Camel lighter arrived at this port yesterday with
stores from Cork. The Rolla, 10, was commissioned at
this pint on Wednesday last by Lieut. Glasse. The
H-trues steam vessel, Lieutenant Wright, at Woolwich,
is ordered to be paid if. The Jaseur sloop has been
commissioned at Sh erness, by Comm inder J. Hickett.

His Alaje.ty's ship Canopus, 84, at this port, is ordered
to lie prepared f,r commissioning, and the Howe, 120,
is to be brought forward at Sheerness.

Rem lining in Hamoax!—San Joseph, Andromache.
Athol, Ro.la, Leveret, ()testes, and Alarquis of Huntly
tran•ports. Industry N. T.

In the Sound—Endymion.

ROWE v. GUDGEON.—This cause, which is
in the Lord Chancellor's paper for hearing on appeal, was
C imun need in the year 1795, and involves property to the
amount of about 200,0001. Mr. Gudgeon was r, merchant
and trader at Dominica. Abou' the year 1788 he took a
young ni in named Dodson, who had been previously em-
ployed by him, into partnership. About 1792 Dodson set
sail for Englan I, but the ship ‘t-as never heat d of, and it
is supposed foundered at se-s. Gudgeon amassed a large
fortune in business, and retired to England. Dodsoti's
representa'ive then called upon him for an account of the
partnership dealings and transactions, and of the separate
property of D )(Ism' which h id come into Gudgeon's hands
as ex-cutor to Dodson. Gudgeon stated that no articles
of partnership had been ex•euted b•rween them, hut their
was an understanding between ,hem that Dodson was to
have one-third of the profits. The persons beneficially in
terested in Dodson's property then required Gudgeon to
produce the partnership pap,re, but Gudgeon said he was
unable to do so, as the papers were destri,yed at the inva-
sion of Dominica by the French army. A suit was then
instituted again 4 Gudgeon for one_half sh ire of the p irt-
nership property, and the distribution of D ,dson's effects
which. had come to him as executor. Under a decree of
the Gantt an issue was tried in the Court of Common'
Pleas to determine tit- question whother Dodson took one-
third or one-half of the property. Iri eons• quence of the
destruction of the books arid papers by the French at
Dominica, much evidenca of a secondary nature was ad-
duced on the part of Gidgeon's representatives, showing
the several transactions between Gudgeon and Dodson.
The verdict of the jury was, that Dothan was entitled
only to one-third share of the property. The Vice-
Chancellor granted an order for a nem trial, on the ground
of misdirection of the judge, and against that order that
present appeal is made to true Lord Chancellor. Gudgeon,
Dodson, and their first represent itives are dead. The p ir-
ties promoting the suit are representatives in the second
degree. The present plaintiff is a young lady about 17
years of age, who
will b., entitled to mac-half of the pro-
perty if it is decided that Mr. Dodson was entitled to one-
half of the partnership property.
BARNSTAPLE. .Last week the operatives in
Mr. Millar's lace factory in this town, simultaneously
quitted their work ; the cause we understand to have arisen
from a di satisfaction on toe part of the men to the length
of time they were requited to labour, being from five
o'clock in the morning to seven at night, with intervals of
half an hour at breakfast, and three qu titers of an hour at
dinner; and, as must be necessary to a concern where suet
numbers are employed, the time is marked will great
exactness, and when either of the men wire a few minutes
mulct out of a portion of their wages ; and, according, to
gates were shut against them, and they were
theirlatereptrhee,e4tati,m,
many
y of them live at a considerable
distance from tile will, and cannot go to their homes, get
their breakfast, and return to the scene of labour within the
half hour ; they, therefore, deputed some members of their
body to confer with the inviter, in order to obtain an ex-
tension of their time to an hour each, at breakfast anti
dinner, to which 11Ir. Miller returned a
negative, but
offered to extend the time fur breakfast to three quartet's of
an hour ; but this would not satisfy the men, and they in
consequence struck, and still continue out of work.--
Shertorne Journal.

There is a principle in milk besides the preceding
qualities, a viral principle, a certain degree of vita-
lity, which evaporates on the fluid being exposed to
the air, or on being boiled. In proof of this, I may
mention, that if breast milk be collected in a bottle
and given to an infant, a sufficient aliment is not
afforded ; and that women, when excited by passion,
who have suckled their infants, have often caused
them to be suddenly attacked with convulsions.
The milk in the breast only contains the vivifying
principle. A remarkable illustration of this doc-
trine is given by M. Leroy. Ile states, that the
administrators of the hospital at Aix in Provence
consulted the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, in
1775, to inform them of the means of preserving
fondling infants, as those under their care perished
about the fourth month and a half. They desired
to know the cause of this disaster, and the means
of remedying it. The Faculty appointed M. Leroy,
as their commissioner, to give an answer. He re-
plied that the mortality was caused by feeding the
infants from a boat or cup, and that they did not
receive a principle sufficiently vivifying for their
conservation; that, at the age mentioned, nature
commenced her efforts for development, and that
the infant could not support this critical period,
unless it had taken a sufficiently vivifying principle
with its aliment. He advised the infants to be
nourished by she-goats. These animals were driven
into the wards in which the children were ranged,
each went in search of the child committed to its
nourishment, raised the bed covering with its horns,
and placed its udder near the mouth of its charge ;
and in a short time children were reared in the hos-
pital in great numbers. But the infants to whom
wate►ed cow's milk was given almost always died ;
this milk had lost, by exposure to air, its vital prin-
ciple, and the mortality was always great when
children were nurtured with this aliment. They
were affected with mkrasmus, worms, scrofula, &c.
—Medeeine Maternelle, par M. Leroy.

Within the last few weeks 400 men have left
Norwich for Portugal.

BULL BAlTlNG.—Several efforts have been
made to put down this barbarous practice in the mining
districts of Warwick, but without success. Last week a
publican, named Bowster, living in Rowley Reeis, West
Bromwich, had a bull baited in one of his own fields for
several days. On the Monday alone 26 dogs wore counte
brought by the lowest rabble from Birtnisghatn,
Wednesbury, 8c..!., for the purpose of worrying this poor
animal; and on the Wednesday, instead of employing a
butcher to put an end to the creature's sufferings, his
rapacious owner sold him to some 1-Mows from Brierley
Hill, to undergo similar tortures. Another publican,
named Hackett, caused a small two year old bull to be
tied to a stake in his own premises fur the amusement of
the rabble tippling in his house 'luring the four first days
of the week; each deeraded wretch bringing a doe, being
njoired to pay 6d. before he set his cloy to gnaw the fl .h
fiiim the head and face of the miserable animal. Either
on the Monday or Tuesday one of this bull's horns was
broken off, and the following day the other shared the
same fate, and a portion of the tongue was also torn out of
his mouth by one of the clogs. Oo the Thursday he was
attain dragged to the stake and worried for hours, the
whole of his head and face being mangled and covered
with blood, in a manner too shocking to describe. Two
iron horns had been also rivetted on the broken stumps,
and the hellowings and groans of the wretched beast,
while undergoing this barbarous operation, were truly
appalling. The Rev. C. Toamshend, Vicar of West
Bromwich, is exerting himself to put a stop to these
practices.

THE USE OF THE RIGHT HAND.—The
means employed for supplying the muscles with blood, on
the quantity of which depends the degree of the contrac-
tile power, are next considered by the author, who refers
to the commonly receive opinion, that the properties of
the right hand, as compared with those of the left, are
superior, and that the difference is caused by the difference
in the manner in which thearreries are distri.iured in each.
Toe notion generally entertained is, that the trunk of the
artery going to the right arm passes off from the heart, so
as to admit the blood directly and more forcibly into the
small vessels of the arm. But Sir Charles altogether re
j cts such an explanation, as it is founded on the common
error of seeking in the mechanism the cause of phenomena
which have a deeper source. He observes that there is a
distinction in the wh le right side of the body, and that
the left side is not only the weaker in regard to muscular
strength, but also in its vital or constitutional properties.
The (level opulent of the organs of action and motion is
greatest up on the right side, as may at any time be aster
toned by measurement. or the testimony of the tailor or
shoemaker; certainly this superiority may be said to result
from the more frequent ex,•rtion of the right hand ; tout
the peculiarity extenda to the constitution also, and disease
attacks the left extremities -more than the right. In opera
dancers we in iy sec that the most difficult fe.ts are per-
formed with the right foot, But their preparatory exer-
cises better evince the natural weaku cs of the left limb,
since these performers are made to give double practice to
this limb, in order to avoid awkwardn-ss in the pub ac
exhibition ; for if these exercises be nealeeted an unlzr..ce.
ful preference will be given to the right side. In walking
behind a person it is very seldom we see an equalized mo
tion of the body ; and if we look to the left toot tee shall
find the tread is not so firm upon it, the roe is not 0.0
touch turned out as i❑ the r.ght, and a greater push is
ule with it. From the pcu liar form of woman, and
the elasticity of her step, re•udiog more from the motion
of the ancle than of the heunc,es, the detect of the Irlr
Ito', when it exists, is more apparent in her gait. No
buy hops up in his left foot, unless he be lefthanited. T e
borsem in puts the left foot i❑ the stirrup, and springs from
the right. We think we may conclude that everythin.
being adapted in the conveniences of life to the right hand
as, for, example, the direction of the worm of the screw,
or the cutting en.l of the auger, is not arbitrary, but i•
related to a natural endowment of the body. He who i-
lefthanded is mo,t sensiiole to the advantages of this adap-
tation, from the opening of a parlour door to the (mentor
of a penknife. Oa the whole, the preference of the nab
hand is not the effect of habit, but is a natural provision .
trod is bestowed for a very obvious purpo.e; and the pi
perty does not depend on the peculi,r dis:rioution of tr:
arteries of the arm, but the preference is given to the right
foot as well as to the right hand.—Rell on Me Hand.