The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-09 00:00:00

WOODTHORPE.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 7.—The Salamander steam-
frigate, Commander Austin, arrived this morning from
Sheerness; she has been to the Humber, and conveyed the
Salsette to Sheerness, which ship was employed in the
quarantine service. The Salsette it is reported will he
converted into a troop ship. The Philomel was the only
man-of-war in commission when the Salamander left
Sheerness.

The Philomel, 18, Commander Smith (b), arrived at
Sheerness, Saturday se'nnight, from the Mediterranean,
her time of service having expired. The Philomel has
for the last eighteen months been protecting the British
interests off Gibraltar. She is waiting her orders to be
paid off into ordinary.
The Cruizer, 16, has been commissioned at Sheerness
by Commander James Barrow, son of the Secretary to
the Admiralty.
The Forester, four-gun brig, will be commissioned next
week by Lieut. G. G. Aliall for the coast of Africa.
The Lynx, 10, was launched from this dockyard on
Monday; she is to be commanded by a Lieutenant, and
will be commissioned during the ensuing week.
Captain J. Hayes, C. 8., is ordered to construct a
frigate on his own system of ship-building. She is to
mot: nt thirty.six 32-pounders, to have the slum masts
and yards as the Castor, to carry 300 men, and five
months' provisio❑ under hatches, with 150 tons of water.
She will he built in this yard.
The three-decker, to be named the Royal Frederick,
and to mount 120 guns, is ordered to be laid down in this
yard. She will be one foot shorter, and four feet more
beam than the Neptune. When launched, we understand,
there is no dock in England in which she can be coppered.
Her extreme breadth is to be 60 feet.

Some complaint having been made to the Admiralty
from the seamen of the Atria, surveying ship, a Court of
Inquiry was held on board of her on Thursday last, and
on the report to the Admiralty an order was issued that
afternoon to pay her off forthwith.
At Spithead.—Vestal and Racer. At St. Helens—
Seaflower cutter. In harbour—Victory, Royal George,
Excellent, Challenger, Favourite, /Etna, Wasp, Rapid,
Raven, and Sparrow cutters, Salamander, Dee and
Messenger steamers.
DE•ONPORT, THURSDAY, SEPT, s.—The Forth, new
frigate, arrived on Monday from Pembroke Yard. The
Eclipse packet, Lieutenant Griffiths, arrived at Falmouth
on Saturday from Brazil, with the mails and 70,000
dollars on freight, left Rio, 14th, Bahia, 21st, Pernam-
buco, 26th July. The Columbia steamer, Lieut. Ede,
sailed from Falmouth on Wednesday, for Woolwich. In
Hamoaze—San Josef, Endymion, Spey, Confiance steamer,
and Orestes transport. In Barnpool_Speedy.

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MEN-OF-WAR ON FOREIGN STATIONS —The
Isis, 42, Capt. Polkinghorne, arrived at the Cape on the
16th of June, from the Mauritius. The Pelorus, 18,
Commander Meredith, was to leave the Cape of Good
Hope about the 15th of June, for the Mauritius, and was
then to proceed to Ceylon. The Blanche, 46, Captain
Fat quhar, arrived at Barbadoes on the 25th of July, from
Antigua ; and the Pearl, 18, Commander Gordon, on the
day previous, from Bermuda. The Arachne,lB, Commander
Agar, also arrived at Barbadoes on the 28th of July, from
a cruize; and the Dispatch, 18, Commander Daniell, on
the Bth, from Bermuda ; the Hornet arrived at Buenos
Ayres, from Rio Janeiro, on the 23d of June. The Gold-
finch packet arrived at Jamaica on the 19th of July, from
Falmouth, with the mails. The Pallas, Fly, and Gannet
were there.

PRonOTIONS AND ArpoiNTmENTS.-Commnder James
Barrow, to the Cruiz?r ; Commander John sPCausland,
to the Ringdove; Lieut. T. V. Anson, to the Spartiate,
as supernumerary; Lieut. G. G. Miall, to the Forester;
Lieut. T. Young, to the Coast Guard Service ; Lieut.
Walter Toby, and Mr. Hastings, Clerk to the Favorite ;
Lieut. Matthew Dixon, Rev. J. M. Edwards, Chaplin, Mr.
J. S. Swayne, Surgeon, Mr. James Scott, Purser,
Messrs. David Jardine and Robert Gordon, Assistant
Surgeons, to the Ocean ; Mr. George Doak, Assistant
Surgeon, to the Spey packet: Mr. Smith, Clerk, to serve
in that capacity in the office of Admiral Sir Richard
King.
ROYAL MARINES.-Capt. C. A. Whiting, and Secood
Lieutenant G. W. H. Doyel, to the Ocean; First Lieut.
G. A. Parker, from the Magicienne, to the Spartiate ;
Second Lieut. G. A. P. Danvers, from the Spartiate, to the
Magicienne.

It is a horrible superstition in the South of
Ireland, that the left band of a corpse, if dipped into the
churn, will make the cream produce considerably more
butter, and of a richer and better kind, than it would
otherwise have done. "In the year 1816,1 saw a woman,
who had been apprehended and taken into custody, on a
charge of raising cream' by means of a dead man's
hand ; and two hands in a shocking state of putrefaction
were exhibited in evidence of the fact. It was after-
wards, however, proved that these hands had been con-
veyed into the dairy by some persons who wished to
injure the poor woman." But the circumstance was
sufficient to prove the existence of the superstition, which
then became a general subject of conversation in the neigh-
bourhood where it occurred.—Mirror.

A QUEER FISH.—Some time ago, a young
man, a native of New Luce, set out for a day's fishing in
the water of Luce, where he was pretty successful, and,
in course of the day's sport, caught a very dark-coloured
(or rather we should say, a black) trout, weighing between
one and two pounds. After returning to New Luce, he
gave the trout to the servant of a friend to fry for break-
fast next morning. When the hour of breakfast arrived,
the trout was served up ; but on dissecting him, it was
discovered that a fish of rather a different species was
contained within him—an adder of considerable size, finely
speckled, and in full preservation, being found in the
trout's stomach, a circumstance which had the effect of
suddenly turning the stomachs of all present now and for
ever against this species of fish.-. Glasgow Paper.

The movements of the Duchess de Berri are, it would
seem, closely watched by this Government. You are aware
that she had left Naples for Rome, and that both she and
her friends about her bad given out that Prague was the
place of her destination. Now, it was well known to the
members of the French Government, that the terms on
which the Duchess stood with her proscribed relatives at
Prague were by no means such as to make it probable that
she would be induced to visit them. There was even rea-
son to believe that Charles X. had more than once intimated
his wish to her that she would not think of repairing to
Prague during his stay in that place. Whether M. de
Chateaubriand succeeded, in his late
,journey to that place,
in appeasing the anger which the exiled King feels against
his daughter-in-law, is a point which has not perhaps been
quite ascertained ; hut it is probable that he did not, and
the Duchess is now directing her course towards Massa, the
very place where she had formerly concerted her memo-
rable scheme of effecting her landing in France, in order
that she might cause her son to he proclaimed King,
and herself Regent during his minority. The adoption of
every means whereby the repetition of such an enterprise
might be prevented has been deemed, at all events, a pru-
dent course by the French Government, and orders have
been transmitted to Toulon that a ship of war shouhl be
immediately despatched to the waters of Leghorn, for the
purpose of keeping an eye on the motions of the Duchess
and tier friends, and stopping without hesitation all coast-
ing vessels of a suspicious description, or having on board
suspicious persons. Secret agents have also been sent to
watch the movements of the Duchess, and instructions
have been transmitted to all the French Consuls on the
coast where she might embark, so that the authorities in
France may he better prepared to receive her, should
she really think of landing in France again, than they
happened to be last year. M. de Cbateauhriand is gone
to Rome to meet the Duchess, and if he really is able to
exercise any influence over her actions, there is reason
to believe that he will induce her to give up all thoughts
of embarking in so extravagant and hopeless an enterprise
as that of effecting a second landing in France. But if
she was mad enough to think of it seriously, it is to he
feared that she will not have enough sense to listen to his
wholesome advice.

The German papers, and among them the most accre-
dited orga❑ of the members of the Holy Alliance, the
Augsburg Gazette, have been amusing the world, for
the last three months, with statements relating to a
Congress, to be held sometimes at Toplitz, at other times
at Troppau, and then in some place of Germany not yet
exactly fixed upon. The late meeting of the Emperor of
Austria with the King of Prussia at Theresenstadt, and
now that of the Emperor of Russia with the King of
Prussia at or near Stettin, have formed the grounds on
which the German journalists have speculated so largely
on what might be intended and what might take place.
No political meeting, however, having the character of a
Congress, has been or is contemplated by any of the
Powers of Europe. The three members of the Holy
Alliance may indeed Inca for the purpose of conspiring
against the liberties of Europe, and the freedom of man-
kind ; but the total separation of England and France
from that iniquitous confederacy, to which they were
formerly to a certain extent parties, has destroyed the
mania about congresses ; for, as no questions of general
interest to the Powers of Europe, besides the Belgian ques-
tion, for which there is a " Conference" already provided,
offer themselves for discussion, the three despotic Powers of
Europe can have no motive for wishing that a general meet-
ing take place, but to propose measures destructive of the
liberty that some states already enjoy, and detrimental to
the prospects that others have of acquiring it. England
and France can, of course, be no parties to any congress
having any such object in view. The reign of the Tories
is at an end, and the tools of the restoration have been
crushed for ever. An alliance between the people of the
two countries has, in a manner, sprung up of itself. It is
founded on a community of political and other interests,
and it can gain nothing from consultations with, and pro-
posed by, those who are alarmed at its existence, and
would labour hard for its destruction. Without the par-
ticipation of England and France, no meeting could, under
the denomination of a Congress, be held by the Powers of
Europe in times like the present, of general peace and
tranquillity. All the assertions of the German papers are,
therefore, built upon mere vague conjecture, and for a time
at least they may require notice only for the purpose of
their being contradicted.
In our political circles fears have begun to be enter-
tained that the King of Holland is again endeavouring to
impede the labours of the Conference, with the view of
finding money and grounds of justification for renewing
the war with Belgium. In quarters wbere the best in-
formation on this subject is possessed, it is believed that
such is really his intention, and that he will lose no time in
applying to the States-General, at their approaching meet-
ing, fur their aid in executing that intention.
The prices of the funds have varied a good deal to-day,
but nothing of importance occurred at the Bourse. The
Miguelite scrip is quoted at 54.
Extract of a letter of the 25th ult. from Ancona :
" To day's post brings accounts of fresh disturbances be-
tween the Swiss soldiers and the centurions having broken
out of Lugo. Some were killed on both sides, but the
people remained neutral. It is also reported that there has
been a contest at Bologna between the Austrian troops and
the populace, in which an Austrian officer and 20 of his
men perished. An express was immediately sent off to
Ferrara, whence a squadron of cavalry arrived without
delay, and attacked the people indiscriminately, making
great havoc. It was also rumoured at Macerata that there
had been disputes at Zamboni between the centurions and
the troops, in which four soldiers lost their lives."

FRENCH FUNDS.—PAnts, SEPT. 7.
Five per Cents., IC2f. Vc. loc.
Four and a Half per Cents., 99f. 75c.
Four per Cents., 92f.
Three per Cents., 75f. 90c. 80c.
Bank Actions, 1,715 f.
Rente de Naples, 91f. 90c. 91f.
Roman Five per Cents., 89% 90.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 1614.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40,76.
Royal Spanish Loan, 82%.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 67%14M
Belgic Loan, 1831, 96 95%6
EXCITANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 50c. ; money, 25f. 45c.
Three months, paper, 251. 40c.; money, 25f. 35c.
—fours Au/hen/kw.