The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Thomas Roberts, Esq., master-
builder of this Dock-yard, has obtained a Patent for a new
mode of joining pieces of timber together by scarfing, which
for utility of purpose and simplicity of application, is highly
spoken of.
The Pike schooner and the Royalist brig were paid ad-
vance of wages on Monday. The former sailed on Tuesday
for Falmouth, and the latter vessel to cruise the channel.
The Talavera, 74, Capt. E. Chetham, was paid off on
Thursday into ordinary.
Melampus and America are to be unlocked, and the
Wellesley and Pylades take their places in dock.
Capt. Symons, Surve3or of the Navy, has received the
honor of knighthood.
Sir Charles Schomberg died at Barbadoes, on board the
President, on the Ist of January, having left Dominica,
where he was Governor, from ill health. He was buried
with military honours at Barbadoes.
• Sir George Cockburn was at Barbadoes on the Ist of
January, and sailed on the 3d for Trinidad and Jamaica. '
By the arrival of the Nightingale, at Falmouth, from
Jamaica, we learn that the squadron were all assembling at
Port Royal, to meet the Admiral, who was expected daily.
The Hastings, Stag, Leveret, and Pantaloon, were in the
Tagus when the Nautilus left, Feb. 1.
Captain Symons, of the Serpent, had invalided, and the
First Lieutenant of the Forte had been put in acting, it
was reported.
The Dee, steamer, arrived at Barbadoes, from Trinidad,
15th Dec. ; Wasp, from Antigua, 16th ; and Pincher, from
Martinique, Ist Jan. Dispatch, arrived at Trinidad, from
Tobago, 14th Dec.
The /Etna, surveying ship, was at the Canary Islands on
the 23d Dec. ; crew in good health.
Lieut. T. Lemon, of the Royal Marines, has been ap-
pointed First Lieutenant, vice Shepherd deceased, and is
appointed to the Plymouth Division.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14.—The America, one of the old
74's, was taken out of dock last night, having been reduced.
to a5O gun ship. She went into dock in March, 1827, and
is now one of the finest models in our service. The im-
provement made in her stern by the master shipwright, T.
Roberts, Esq., excites the admiration of all naval men ; and
we understand that all ships with round sterns are to be
altered upon the same principles.
The Wellesley, 74, will be taken into dock this day if the
tide rise to a sufficient height ; the Pylades, 18, will come
in astern of her.

His Majesty's ship Talavera, Capt. Chetham, C. 8., was
paid off into ordinary at this port on Thursday last. On
this occasion medals, with handsome gratuities, were pre-
sented to three old and able seamen for their lour, services and
good conduct. To Edward Wrighton the Lords of the Admi-
ralty have granted a pension of 301.165. per annum, a medal,
and a gratuity of 15/. ; to John Saxton a pension of 30/. Bs., a
medal, and a gratuity of 151. ; and to William Payne, a pen-
sion of 24/. 165., a medal, and a gratuity of 71. The distribu-
tion of these rewards took place on the morning previously to
the ship being paid off, when the crew were assembled on the
maindeck, the three fortunate veterans standing in advance of
their shipmates. The gallant Captain, in awarding them, ad-
dressed the crew in a style quite characteristic of the British
seaman, and was listened to with great attention. Such re-
wards cannot but prove incentives to good conduct, and tend
materially to improve the character of the seamen, every man
and boy being aware that by good conduct in the service he
will obtain a certain reward. The following gratifying testi-
mony to the discipline and bearing of the ship was promul-
gated shortly after the Talavera came into harbour :—" The
Admiral Commander-in-Chief has great pleasure in expressing
to Captain Chetham, the officers and ship's company of the
Talavera, his satisfaction with the high order, discipline, and
general appearance of the ship, and his own personal observa-
tion, this morning, on her coming into harbour, he feels it due
to them to notice ; and he requests Captain Chetham will be
pleased to communicate to his officers and ship's company this
mark of his approbation."
The Druid, 46, is to be brought forward instead of the
Arethusa.

The Royalist, 10, Lieutenant C. A. Barlow, sailed on Tues-
day on a cruise, and the same day the Pike schooner sailed for
Falmouth to take out the next Lisbon mail.
:The African steamer, Lieutenant Joseph West, which sailed
from hence last week for Falmouth, to take out the Malta
mail, on her arrival at that port found the Firefly had had her
boilers repaired, and proceeded with the mail to Malta. The
African returned to this port, and, it is said, will take out Sir
R. Wilson, the new Governor, to Corfu, vice Lord Nugent.
The Leda, 46, has been caulked, and replaced by the Ne-
mesis, 46, for the same purpose.
The Melampus frigate having been fitted with a new stern
on Mr. Roberts's principle, by which she is both improved in
appearance and rendered more efficient in action, will go out
of dock. The America will also be taken out of dock.

Remaining in Hamoaze—San Josef, Dublin, Rover, African
steam-vessel, Industry navy transport.
In the Sound—Romney.
( From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 14.—The Athol troop-ship, Mr. Kar-
ley, Master- Commander, arrived on Sunday, in twenty-three
days from New Providence. She left Jamaica on the 20th of
December, and brought home a company of the Royal Artil-
lery, under the command of Captain Lalor, and also invalids
from the Bth, 22d, 37th, 56th, 64th, and 86th Regts. These
men were under the charge of Captain Leighton, of the 56th
Regiment. Captain Thoreau, of the 37th Regiment, with
Mr. Dormer, Master, and Mr. Gain, Purser, of the Rainbow,
and Mr. France, Surgeon of the Rhadamanthus, came pas-
sengers.
The squadron under Sir Josias Rowley returned to Malta,
from Vourla, on the 19th ult., for the winter.
Information has been received from Vice-Admiral Sir
George Cockburn that he will accept the seat of first Sea
Lord at the Admiralty Board. The gallant Officer may be
expected to arrive in a fortnight. Vice-Admiral Sir Robert
Otway will succeed him in the West India and North Ame-
rican commands, and it is expected will shortly proceed to the
West Indies to hoist the flag in the President. James Pin-
horn, Esq., is appointed his Secretary. Captain Freemantle,
it is understood, will be Flag Captain, and Lieut. Otway (the
Admiral's son) Flag Lieutenant.
The Jupiter, 50, will be commissioned by Capt. A'court,
and armed en flute, to convey Lord Heytesbury (his brother)
and family, the newly-appointed Governor-General, to Cal-
cutta. She will be fitted and furnished by the Board of
Green Cloth, and the furniture now in the Herald yacht will
be used as part of what may be required.
The Pique, Hon. Capt. Rous, is ordered to Spithead. It
is believed she will relieve the Castor at Lisbon.

On Thursday the Seaflower cutter, Lieut. Morgan, with
the Duchess of York tender, tailed for Jersey, to protect the
Oyster fisheries —Remain :—Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Acteon, Rattlesnake, Victor, Camelion, Waterwich,
and Buffalo.—The Britannia was paid off to-day. The
Acteon will go out of harbour on Monday, fitted for the South
American station. The Pelican sailed on Thursday on a trial
cruise, after her repairs.
The Jupiter, with invalids from the Mediterranean, and
Athol, troop ships with invalids from the West Indies, have
both sailed for Chatham, to land them there.
The Salamander steamer, Corn. Castles, sailed yesterday
for Plymouth, with the Royal Marines paid off from the Bri-
tannia, belonging to that division.
The Maitland transport, Lieut. C. Binstead, Agent, has put
into Spithead by contrary winds. She is destined for Malta
with stores for the fleet. _ _ _

The four line-of-battle ships named last week as being in-
tended for commissioning are now ordered to remain at their
moorings in ordinary.
The Dee steamer and Wasp sloop-of- war were at Barba-
does on the 19th of December.

The Scylla, 18, Commander Carpenter, will leave Sheer-
ness on Monday.
The Formidable is to be commissioned as the flag-ship in
the Medway. The Ocean is in future to be employed as a
breakwater for the protection of some part of Sheerness Dock-
yard, but whether to be filled with stones and sunk, or to be
strongly moored as a floatinr, protection, is not yet decided.
Yesterday Sir William Burnett, Superintendent of the Me-
dical Department of the Navy, Lord Ashley, one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, Captain Symmonds, the Surveyor of the
Navy, and Mr. Taylor, the Admiralty Civil Engineer, made
an official visit to this port. They immediately comir.enced an
active investigation into the various departments, and returned
to London this afternoon.

It will be gratifying to our naval readers frequenting the
Gulf of Florida, or the Bahamas, to learn that our Govern-
ment arc now building two light-houses in the Bahamas. One
near the " Hole in the Wall," island of Abaco, and the other
on Gun Cay, in the Gulf of Florida, upon plans proposed by
by Captain Kitson, of the Royal Engineers, under whose di-
rection and superintendence they are now building ; and who
has lately visited the United States of North America, for the
purpose of obtaining a contractor for them, in his Majesty's
brig Arachne, Captain James Burney. The necessity of these
lighthouses is too well known by all navigating the Bahamas
and the Gulf of Florida, with the treacherous currents and
tides; and although it will require a considerable sum of money
to erect these desirable structures upon such barren, desolate,
and uninhabited places, as well as an annual expense to our

Government, yet humanity alone calls for the expenditure,
where the safety of life and immense property demanded it,
since the numerous wrecks in the neighbourhood of the lights,
plainly prove the necessity of the measure. A third light-
house has also been planned for the Elbow Cay, on Cay Sal
Bank, near to the Havannah, but, for the present, that one is
not to be built.
Lieutenant Johnstone and his Coast Guard boat seized the
Elizabeth cutter, of Southampton, a few days since, off the
Nab Light, with 75 tubs, the crew, consisting of three men,
were convicted on Saturday last, and each sentenced to a fine
of 1001., and in default of payment to an imprisonment of six
months.

Richard Blake, Esq., is appointed Master Shipwright of
Portsmouth Yard, vice Peake, deceased ; and John Fineham,
Esq., and will succeed as Master Shipwright at Sheerness Yard.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Hon. J.
F. De Roos, to be Captain ; Lieutenant W. M. J. G. Pasco,
to the Rover ; Lieutenant C. M. Mathison, and Rev. George
Rose Lewen. to the Dublin ; Lieutenant Richard Robinson
is appointed to the Acteon ; Lieutenant Wm. Luez, of the
Astrea, to command the Pigeon, pro tem. ; Lieutenant P.
D. Hastings to the Excellent; Lieutenant Wm. Christie to
the Coast Guard ; Mr. J. E. Vallack, Mate, to the Speedy ;
Mr. J. M. Saulez, Mate, to the Seaflower ; Mr. E. A. Smith,
Clerk, to the Rattlesnake ; Mr. R. S. Stokes, Clerk, to the
Ocean ; Mr. D. H. °tiller, Clerk iu charge, to the Blazer ;
Mr. Scdley, of the Secretary's Office at Malta, to be Registrar
of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Malta; Mr. F. A. Surtees,
Volunteer First Class, and Mr. F. Thomas, Midshipman,
to the Rattlesnake.
Captain Fish6r, R.N., is appointed (by the Duke of Wel-
lington, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports) to the Cap-
taincy of Sandown Castle.
The following Mates and Midshipmen passed for Lieu-
tenants at the Naval College, on Tuesday :—John Borlase,
Hugh Mallet Kingman, John Murray Cooke, and Gabriel
Johnson, Britannia ; H. G. Austen, Childers ; Henry Simp-
son, late Racer; E. Sydenham Markland, Rochfort Maguire,
Henry Wm. Baugh, late Samarang ; the Hon. Mark Kerr,
late Madagascar; Graham Eden W. Hammond, Dublin;
Robert B. Harvey, Talavera ; Fred. Erskine Johnson, late
Belvidera ; Henry Trollope, Forte;' Arthur Duncombe
Shafto, late Conway; Edward R. James Balfour, late Vo-
lage ; Thomas Wilson, Phoenix ; Francis H. Harper, late
Brisk ; Rich. B. Barivell, Carnelion ; Wm. Codrington For-
syth, late Jupiter; Geo. J. Hall Munro, late Madagascar;
Thomas B. Horner, Rattlesnake Michael Lawless, late
Isis; Rowland Edwards, Investigator; George Yates. Patter-
son, and John Charles Blacket, of the Victory.
The ship Hercules, for New South Wales, with convicts,
and the Sophia, for Madras, Bengal, and China, are at Spit-
head, waiting for a fair wind.
The °Akers of the Britannia had a parting dinner to-day
with Captain Rainier, at the George Inn.