The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-06 00:00:00

culo, 16; Curlew, 10 (ordered home) ; Britomart, 10 ;
Forrester, Griffon, Lynx, Brisk, and Fair Rosamond,
schooners; Pluto, steam-vessel; /Etna and Raven,
surveying vessels.
South America.—Spartiate, 76 (Rear-Admiral Sir
Michael Seymour, Bart., K.C.8.) ; Dublin, 50 ; Sama-
rang, 28 (ordered home) ; Conway, 28 ; Challenger, 28 ;
Tyne, 28 (ordered home); Satellite, 18 ; Pylades, 18 ;
Snake, 16 ; Rapid, 10 ; Beagle, 10 ; Hornet and Cocka-
trice, schooners.
The following ships are fitting out :—At Portsmouth,
the Edinburgh, 74 ; Blonde, 46 ; Belvidera, 42 ; Spar-
rowhawk, 16 ; Nautilus, 10 ; Charybdis, 3. At Ply-
mouth, the Canopus, 84; Endyruion, 50; Ringdove,
16 ; Rolla, 10 ; Saracen, 10 ; and Leveret, 10. At
Sheerness, the Thunderer, 84; Jasseur, 18 ; and Rover, 18.
Steam-vessels employed on various borne services.—
African, Confiance, Dee, Firebrand, Firefly, Flamer,
Phoenix, and Carron, carrying from one to six guns.
Packets employed.—Briseis, Eclipse, Goldfinch, Lap-
wing, Lyra, Mutine, Nightingale, Opossum, Pandora,
Pigeon, Plover, Reindeer, Reynard, Rinaldo, Royalist,
Skylark, Spey, Swallow, and Thais.
Troop Ships.—Jupiter, Romney, and Athol ; and
Buffalo, store ship.
The British Navy is composed of 557 ships and vessels,
of all rates, of which number 171 are in commission.
NAVY RATING,—An order of the Admiralty, dated the
18th of December last, regulates the entry and rating of
young gentlemen on board his Majesty's ships. The order
directs that in future the number of mates and midshipmen
in each ship be, for first-rates, 24 ; second, 20 ; third, 16 ;
and fourth and fifth, 10 ; sixth, S ; sloops, 3 ; cutters and
brigs, 2 ; guard-ships, 8. Of this aggregate number there
must be selected from mates, who have passed both
examinations, or from college midshipmen in first-rates,
S ; second, 8 ; third, 5 ; fourth, fifth, and sixth, 4 ;
sloops, 1 ; cutters and brigs, 1 ; guard.ships, 4. The
Admiralty claim the approval of all these appointments.
In case of an excess of collegians or admiralty mates, the
Admiralty will appoint two young gentlemen, but not more
than two, in each ship as extras. The number of volun-
teers of the first class, and of college volunteers in each
rate, is in future to be as follows—

Volunteers College
Ist Class. Volunteers.

Ist and 2d rates (sea-going ships) 3
3d rates 2
4th and sth rates . 2
6th and sloops 1
Guard-ships 3
Brigs.. 0 i 1
When the first class and College Volunteers have com-
pleted four years' servitude, and there are no vacancies in
ships to rate them as tnid,hiptnen, they may, is that case,
be borne as extra midshipmen (but not more than two in a
ship) until vacancies occur ; their vacancies in the Volun-
teers' class are not to be fflled up while they remain as
extras. By the 9th article, which directs that quarterly
returns should be made to the Admiralty of mates, mid-
shipmen, and volunteers, the power of disrating midship-
men, masters' assistants, and volunteers, again reverts to
the captains, which the former took away. Captains'
clerks, in future, mty be selected from such persons as
have been-clerks in the offices of flag officers.

By an Admiralty regulation, dated the Ist of the present
month, the college volunteers, as they leave the college,
will not have, as before, one year's service allowed to them,
unless the progress made by them in their professional
education warrants it ; but they will be allowed only for
such portion of the year as the examining officers shall
deem it right to certify for, according to their respective
qu ilifications.
During the past year, the half-pay list of the Royal
Marine Corps has been decreased by the death of three
Major-Generals, ten Captains, four First Lieutenants, and
three Second Lieutenants. Three Captains and three
Lieutenants have been added to the list. The saving to
the public by the decease of these officers is 2,8451. 2s. ;
the Major General having had COs., the Captains 75.,
first Lieutenants 4s. 6d. per day, and the Second Lieu-
tenants, 54/. per annum.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)

DEVONPORT, JAN. s.—Serious affrays have recently
occurred at Waterford, between the bargemen on the river
and the naval force on the station, consisting of the Speedy
cutter, Lieut. Henderson, and the Wickham, revenue
cutter, which were despatched from Milford, about a month
since, to free the navigation from the impediments offered
by the bargemen. These men would not suffer any vessel
to proceed beyond the bridge to discharge her cargo, but
insisted upon their right of transport of all merchandise
above the bridge. On the appearance of the two cutters
in the river, which is only sixty yards wide, they were
assailed from both banks with a hot fire of musketry from
the bargemen, which shivered their bulwarks and did
other damage, besides wounding several officers and men.
The attack has been several times repeated during the

last three weeks, and none of the crew could venture on
shore without a strong police guard. They were fired at
wherever they appeared. One or two attempts were
made to board the Speedy, in boats, loaded with armed
men, but they were beaten off. An Englishman who
lauded from one of the London steamers, offered a reward
of 500/. to any one who would set fire to the vessel. Upon
search being made for him, he decamped, and is supposed
to have landed in the West of England. It was expected
that the bargemen, who were quite furious, would make a
grand rush upon the little crew of the Speedy, and they had,
therefore, been reinforced by a party of rifllemen, with
two 32 pounders, which were kept loaded with grape
shot. A large ship was, however, expected to relieve
•the cutter, as there was no appearance of the bargemen
ceasing their attacks, and the feeling of the low Irish was
excited to the highest pitch of desperation. In this un-
pleasant duty, Mr. Knowles, mate of the Speedy, received
a shot in the right arm, by which his shoulder bone was
severely fractured ; two other officers were also slightly
wounded, but no lives had been lost on board the Speedy.
One of the cutter's boats employed in sounding in Tramore
Bay, was upset, when Mr. Wright, the second master,
and his crew, bad a narrow escape from drowning, having
been picked up by a fishing boat, in a very exhausted

condition.
The Tortoise, lighter, arrived here yesterday from
Dublin, where she has been to lay down buoys- for the
packet service.
His Majesty's brig Leveret, Lieutenant Trail!, was un-
docked on Thursday, and is being got ready for sea with
all possible despatch.
His Majesty's brig Rolla, 10, Lieutenant Glass, was
paid two months in advance on Thursday last, and is
expected to go out of harbour this day, to proceed to
Falmouth.

His Majesty's sloop Racehorse, 18, Com. Cotton, came
into harbour on Wednesday, to be paid off, and it is
expected will be immediately re-commissioned.

The case of incendiarism at March on the Bth
instant, has, after an investigation of several days, with
the examination of 20 persons, been made out against
Robert Brigstock, jun. and Thomas S'orey, who were
fully committed on Monday.—Norwich Mercury.
On Tuesday night last, about twelve o'clock,
a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. James
Warner, at Seaming, which consumed two stacks of
barley, a new waggon loaded with straw, and a stack of
clover hay. The engines from Dereham were on the spot
soon after, and by the indefatigable exertions of those pre-
sent, the flames Were prevented from extending to the
dwelling-house.—Norwich Mercury.
About five or six o'clock on the night of Sa-
turday last, an incendiary fire broke out in a stack of
barley, the produce of sixteen acres, on an off-farm in
South Walsham, in the occupation of Mr. William Jary,
of Burlingham. By great exertions the fire was prevented
from spreading to other stacks and the farming premises.
_Norwich Mercury.
The Ministerial evening journal gives the fol-
lowing, as communicated to it by a National Guard on duty
at the Tuileries, on the 31st of December :—" Oa the day
before yesterday (the 31st), immediately after dinner, the
National Guards and the troops of the Line on duty at the
Tuileries having signified their wish to present their re.
spects to the King and Royal family, they were introduced
into the hall of the Marshals, where the King, accompa-
nied by the Queen, the princes and Princesses, and Ma-
dam. Adelaide, received us, and addressed us in the follow-
ing terms:—' My dear comrades of the National Guards,
1 thank you for your kind visit, and wish you all a happy
new year. If it resembles that which is now coming to a
close, it will be according to the wishes of my heart.
Thanks to our common efforts, we have maintained the
public peace—the guarantee of our institutions. Your
sentiments are in accordance with my own, and I rely on
always h icing your assistance in securing our liberties, and
with them the prosperity of France.' Then, turnin to
the soldiers of the Line, dear
he said, ' I am happy,
comrades of the Line, in receiving you in this hall, which
I have consecrated to our national glory. The portraits
you see around you are those of our brave Marshals, all of
whom sprang from your ranks; and, I do not doubt, their
exploits will in turn inspire you, if France ever calls for
the use of your arms.' These words were received with
cries of Vive le Roi ! ' Before they withdrew, their
Majesties permitted those who were to guard them through
the night to pass in files before them, which they did,
repeating their acclamations of Vice le Roi ! Vive la
Reins ! Vice le Due d'Orleans ! Vive la Famille Royale
Gclignani's Messenger.