The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)
Porrsato UT kr, MAY s.—His Majesty's steam-vessel
Canfiance,•4', Lieut. Belson, proceeded on Saturday to
Sheerness, with his Majesty's schooner Viper in tow
having on board nearly 200 prime volunteer seamen, who
have entered at this port, for his Majesty's ships Vernon,
SD, and Castor, 36, fitting out at Woolwich.
His Majesty's surveying-vessel Mastiff, 6, Lieut. J.
Wolfe, commanding, which left Malta on the 29th of
March, in company with his Majesty's ships Donegal and
Meteor, which have arrived several days since, anchored
at Spithead on Wednesday, having, through stress of wea-
ther, parted company and put into Gibraltar, whereshe re-
mained eight days. His Majesty's sloop Philoniel, 18,
Commander Smith, was the only vessel of war at Gibraltar.
The Mastiff came into Harbour on Thursday, tinder orders
to be paid off, and re-commissioned for the same service.
His Majesty's steam-vessel Echo, 2, Lieut. Robert
Otway, came in on Friday from Falmouth, having been
despatched from that port with Mr. Hamilton Baillie, Sur-
geon of the Astrasa, labouring tinder severe mental aberra-
tion, for the purpose of placing him in the Asylum at
Hasler, but who, on the passage hence, unhappily effected
*4f-destruction.
The William Harris transport, Lieut. Stevens, agent,
sailed on Tuesday for the Little Nore, with troops for
Chatham. After landing which she would proceed to
'Woolwich and Deptford.
The Hope transport, Lieut. Ryder, agent, sailed on
Tuesday with Government stores for Sheerness, where
she arrived on Thursday.
The Maitland transport, Lieut. Davison, agent, arrived
on Tuesday from Jamaica, with the 33rd Regiment tinder
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Knight. They were dis-
embarked on Thursday, and marched for Fort Cumber-
land. She brought passengers, Captain Mayne, R.N. late
of his Majesty's ship Magnificent ; Lieut. M. Thomas,
R.N. ; Mrs► Ingle)), (and family) wife of the late Captain
logien', of the 84th Regiment.
The Lord William Bentinck, male convict ship, pro-
esededfor Van Diemen's Land last evening with 186 con-
victs, tnsdee the medical superintendency of Dr. Henderson.
The Orestes transport, Lieut. Garrett, agent, was off
Margate on Thvirsday last, on her way to Quebec.
The Athol was undocked yesterday, after having been
feted up in a temporary manner with fir plank. She is
ordered round to the eastward, in order, it is supposed,
that she may be surveyed by the advocates for larch
limber, of which she is built. It would appear from this,
that all parties are not satisfied as to the propriety of
breaking her up. From an examination of the state of
this ship, we may say, with safety, that the durability of
larch has been proved to be greater than that of fir, but
less than that of oak.
The Briton has been docked during the present week,
and cn examination, her defects have been found to be ra-
ther gmater than were anticipated. She will probably be
undocked the beginning or middle of next week.
The Meteor, which was paid off on Thursday, will be
docked during the week, previous to her going on another
station. The Mastiff will also be docked shortly, prepara-
tory to her being re-commissioned.
His Majesty's surveyir e-vessel Meteor, 6, Commander
Richard Copeland, which arrived last week from the Me-
diterranean, was paid off on Thursday, and was yesterday
re-commissioned by the same officer, for the like service.
His Majesty's ship Britannia, 120, Donegal, 78, and Ta-
lavera, '74, still continue at Spithead, ready for immediate
service. The Donegal, we hear, will not, as reported,
proceed to sea with the experimental squadron, but will
shortly proceed to the eastward, to be paid of.
In Haibour—Victory, Royal George, Briton, Meteor,
and Mastiff, surveying vessels, Pantaloon and Emerald
tendere.

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—The following
ilftir,ers are appointed to his Majesty's ship Vernon.—Cap-
lain Sir F. A. Collier, C.B. and Lieuts.J. H. Wyndham,

C. H. White, IL I. Otway, J. W. Innes, and C. NY
Pears :—the following officers are appointed to his Ma-
jesty's ebip Castor :—Captain Sir R. Grant, and Lieuts.

s. C. Dacres, J. M'Cleverty, H. Jellicoe, and Hon. T.
Pelham ; Commander W. Robinson and Lieut. J. Den-
anan are appointed to his Majesty's ship Snake; Lieut. G.
Ramsay, of H. M. ship Orestes, is appointed to his H. M.
ship Nimrod ; Lieut. C. Eden is appointed to bis Majesty's
ship Victory; Mr. J. W. Hotham is promoted to the rank
of Lieutenant, and appointed to his Majesty's ship Alfred,
vice Barry, deceased; Mr. C. E, Tennant is promoted to
the rank of Lieutenant; Mr. J. H. Murray, Mate of his
Majesty's ship St. Vincent, is promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant ; the Hon. S. T. Carnegie (third son of the
late Admiral Earl Northesk) is promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant ; Mr. C. Cleveland is appointed master of his
Majesty's packet brig Cygnet ; Mr. T. Davies is appointed
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Astrsea, vice Baillie, de-
ea:useri; Mr. J. S. Pope, late of his Majesty's ship Wel-
lesley. is appointed Clerk of his Majesty's ship Excellent ;
Mr. W. R. Walters, Mate of his Majesty's ship Talavera,
is appointed to his Majesty's revenue cutter Cheerful; Mr.
J. L. Jones is appointed Purser of his Majesty's ship Trin-
enlo ; Mr. J. Johnson is appointed Chief Engineer to his
Majesty's steam.vesfe! Dee; Mr. H. Duncan is appointed
Chief Engineer of his Majesty's steam-vessel Conflance,
vice Johnson; Messrs. A. Lewe, J. E. Bingham, and J.
R. Engledue, Slates, are appointed to his 111,,jesty's ship
Excellent; Mr. W. Turner, late of his Majesty's ship
Prince Regent, is appointed Clerk of his Majesty's ship
Revenge ; Mr. J. Saunders, Master of his Majesty's ship
l'rinculo, is appointed Supernumerary Master of the Royal
George yacht, and to command the Emerald tender;

Lieut. J. Hill, Commander of his Majesty's revenue cutter
Camelion, is appointed to his Majesty's Revenue cutter
Badger ; Mr. Charles Herriott is appointed a Second Lieu-

&wait of Royal Marines at the Cbatham division.
Mr. William Harvey, Midshipman of his Majesty's ship
Talavera, has been found duly qualified in seamanship to
serve as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
By a recent order of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, two Midshipmen (denominated extra Midship-
men), are to be allowed to each of his Majesty's ships.
John Symonds, Carpenter of his Majesty's ship
Britannia, Mr. John, Boatswain of the Princess Charlotte
in Ordinary, and Mr. John McLachlan, Boatswain of his
Majesty's ship Donegal, have during the week bten sur-
veyed at the Royal Hosfital at Haslar, and recommended
for superannuation, as being unfit for further service.
By a recent regulation, Second Masters are abolished in
the navy, and such persons as have entered in the line of
Master must serve eight years before they can serve as
Mastrra. -

7 The Exceik.nt, 50, exercising ship in this harbour, is
to hear, as part ri,f her complement, 15 Midshipmen, who
have either passed their examination, or who are within a
year of serving their tiiipe, and who are to be appointed by
the Admiralty.
A Board of Admiralty (to which we alluded last week)
consisting of Sir .fames Graham, Bart. Admirals Sir T.
M. Hardy, Bart. G.C.B. and G, H. L. Dundas, C.B.
and the lion. Captain Cleo. Elliot, Secretary, arrived at
Sheerness, in his Majesty's steam-vessel Lightning, on
Thursday, and after minutely examining the Dock-yard at
that port, dined with Vice-Admiral Sir J. Beresford,
K.C.B. Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. The Board I

proceeded to Chatham in the same steamer on the follow-
;ng day, and having effected the ueeesaary inspection re-
turned to Sheerness in the evening, and inspected the Vic-
tualling-office, and dined again with the same gallant
officer. On Saturday after again visiting the Dock -yard,
' and going over the Ocean, fitting in the Basin, the Board
re-embarked in the Lightning, and returned to London.
His Majesty's cutter Ewan, 10, Lieut. J. E. Lane, was
on Tuesday placed on the slip, At Sheerness, for examine
tion.

The Clyde, convict ship, sailed oa Wednesday from
Sheerness, for New South Wales, attended by the Con-
fiance steamer.

We regret to state that the boat of the Swan cutter, at
Sheerness, was accidentally sunk in that harbour on Wed-
nesday, and one seaman moMt unfortunately drowned, leav-
ing a wife and family.
The Falmouth Dock-yard lighter, from Chatham, for
Deal and Plymouth, ran foul of the Terrible, Victualling
Depot at Sheerness, on the 28th ult. and received trifling
damage.

By a letter from his Majesty's ship Imogene, 28, Capt.
P. Blackwood, we learn that she sailed from Rio de Ja-

neiro on the 22d of January, and arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope on the 16th of February, all well. On the
same day his Majesty's abip Alligator, 28, Captain G. R.
Lambert, arrived from England ; and on the 20th, his
,Majesty's ship Curlew, 10, Commander H. D. Trotter,
from the Mauritius. The Imogene sailed again on the
22d of that month, for Trincomalee.

The following is the number and amount of
claims preferred against the city for damages occasioned by
the late riots :
I Action for ...............X25,000118 For 1,000, and not ex. 1,500
1 Ditto 12,000'2.91,000
For 7,000, and not ex. 8,000 9-- 300, ... • 500
2 --4,000, ... 5,000 12 --200, ••• 300
6 3,000 ... 4,000 9 100, ••• 2110
3 2,000,, ... 3,000 6 Under. lOO
5-- 1,500, ... 2,500 —Bristol Mercury.
i , STATR... DF TRADE.—Tfie woollen cloth
,trade all, BeekiB -still very flat, but at Huddersfield there
it''../..' viftimore liminess. ,
,irone on Tuesday than for several weeks
e"t., The worsteik stliff trade at Bradford and Halifax
epiaj!l ..x4 ,
1 :,i‹r stationarhlantl without any inaiiitial clitinve iti
.4.4 • ;.‘,.‘tp, tuaivh,..,7-itteo 7reu Ip.
......7,,f„
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mir 7.
The SPEAKER took the ehair at Four o'clock.
On the motion of Lord MORPETH, the Hartlepool Dock
Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the Magistrates
and inh ihitants of Liverpool against the punishment of
death for other offences than those of murder.
Mr. LITTLETON presented a number of petition
from Dissenters against Negro Slavery. The Hon. Gen-
tleman also presented petitions from places in Staffordshire,
praying for a repeal of so much of the Beer Act as allowed
persons to trade in that beverage by a license from others
than magistrates ; and, further, that no house should he
allowed to be opened in that trade of a less value than
la per annum. The Hon. Gentleman could not support
the whole prayer of the petitioners; but he was of opinion
that it would be beneficial that those houses should in some
way be under the control of the magistrates.
Mr. HUME was sorry to hear that his lion. Friend
would in the least give in to the cry raised against these
new beer-shops. He thought that it would be just that
that they were put on a level with the licensed •ictuallers
in regard to hours—he did not see why these restrictions
should be laid upon the poor man who was in want of his
glass of beer, and that the man who could afford to drink
wine was not tobe meddled with.
After a few words from Mr. SANnroan and Mr.
TREVOR,
Mr. FYSHE PALMER said that lion. Gentle-
men were expecting too much when they thot.ght that the
system, which had only been in operation for two years,
should be perfect : only give it time, and it would come
round of itself.
The petitions were then read and ordered to be printed.
The lion. Gentleman then presented a petition from
Sir C. Wolseley and others, in the county of Stafford, pray-
ing for the abolition of the Bank of England and private
banks, and for the establishment of one conducted by the
Government.
Mr. SANFORD presented a petition from the manu-
facturers of Dorset and Somerset against the Factory Bill.
The petitioners stated that the Bill would interfere with
their manufactories, and that they had not been in the
habit of overworking the children they employed.
The Hon. MEMBER then presented a petition against
the Registry Bill, and one from the town of Trent, in Cum-
berland, against the new system of education in Ireland.
Colonel LINDSAY presented a petition from Fife,
signed by seventy-three clergymen of the Church of Scot-
land, against the new system of education in Ireland.
It was very seldom, said the Honourable Member,
that the Clergy of Scotland interfered with secular
matters, and therefore the House ought to pay more
attention to their representations, especially upon the sub-
ject of education, with which they were well acquainted.
The Board which had been constituted could not last, from
the opposing materials of which it was constituted. It
had been proved by past experience that it would not pacify
Ireland ; for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act,
and the Repeal of the Catholic Disabilities had only led
to further demands, and the result now was, that the
Government were driven to the extinction of tithes.
Mr. DUNDAS supported the petition, which came
from a most learned body, some of whom were profes-
sors in one of the Universities, and he believed it spoke
the opinion of the great majority of the people of Scotland.
Mr. HUME thought the petition might have been
presented without the remarks which had fallen from the
Hon. Member who spoke last; but these remarks having
been made, he felt called upon to deny that the petition
spoke the feeling of the people of Scotland ; for the only
public meeting which had been held upon the subject,
had come to resolutions favourable to the system by
a majority of live to one : be meant the late
meeting which had been held in Glasgow. He could state
upon good autbori!y, that it was both a large and respect.
able meeting, and many who attended it were as learned as
any one who signed the petition.
Mr. GORDON was of opinion that the petition should
be supported by every Scotch Member in the House. It
seemed that toleration bad been granted, but now some-
thing more was required.
Mr. O'CONNELL said, they did not want toleration now,
for the Catholic was on a footing of equality with the
Protestant. Religion had been prostituted in Ireland
by a few canting hypocrites, for the purpose of keeping
up the spirit of dissension between the Protestant and
Catholic; but, thank God ! that spirit had decreased, was
decreasing, and would so continue, until the number or
those whose interest it was to perpetuate it, would be so
small, that they would not be worth the counting. As to
the petition before the House, he thought the meeting in
Glasgow had given a direct contradiction to the greater part of
it. There was one fact to which he had before adverted, and
which not one of the high Protestant party had ever
thought fit to combat, and that was, the dismissal of two
officers of the army at Malta, because they could not con-
scientiously adopt a religion which they disliked.
Sir R. INGLIS said be had onee brought that very
subject forward, and he was supported in it by the Hon.
and Learned Member—a circumstance that that Hon. and
Learned Member had forgotten. The language of that
Hon. Member was scarcely parliamentary, and such as he
would not have addressed to any body of gentlemen out
of the House, in speaking of canting hypocrisy.
Mr. O'CONNELL observed, that he alluded to the
canting hypocrisy out of the House.
Sir R. INGLIS would leave the Hon. Member to
settle that with the parties to whom he had
alluded, as he best could ; but it could not
be supposed that those Members who advocated petitions
like the present could be made answerable for all that par
ties said out of the House.

Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSSON had no doubt but that
the petition was very respectable, but he must deny the
statement made by the Hon. Member for Edinburgh, that
the clergy of Scotland were universally against the new
system ; he believed that there was a majority in its
favour.. The proposed plan was not so well understood
in Scotland as it was in Ireland. He saw nothing in it
that,wati at all reprehensible.

Colonel LINDSAY, in moving that the petition be
printed, denied that the clergy of Scotland had shown any
intolerance in their petition; they merely prayed that none
of the national funds should be voted for the purpose of
carrying that system into effect.
On the motion for the House going into Committee,

Mr. TREVOR wished to ask of the Noble Chancellor
of the Exchequer, whether any steps bad been taken to
punish some persons who had used language, at a meeting
of a Union in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, wbich,
in his opinion, went to set aside the Royal Proclamation,
and which bordered very closely on sedition.
Lord ALTHORP said he could only repeat what he
had before stated to the House, that the Government
would take every step to have the laws respected.

Sir R. VYVY AN inquired of the Noble Secretary for
the Foreign Affairs whether any more papers relative to
the rati6e4tion of the Belgian treaty would shortly be laid
on the table.

Lord PALMERSTON wou!d inquire whether it was
usual to lay such acts of ratification before the House, if
so, they would be produced; but he thought it would not
be a beneficial proceeding during the pendency of the
question.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
The Order of the Day for taking into consideration the
Breach of Privilege was then read. On the motion that
the printer of the hand-bill complained of be brought up,
Mr. HUME was anxious to know for what offence that
Gentleman was to be brought up—he was not present, and
the proceedings of the House gave him no information.
The SPILAMita explained to the Hon. Gentleman, that
the breach of privilege was a hand-bill that was printed and
circulated in Sunderland, detailing and commenting upon
the proceedings of a Committee of that House
Mr, Reid, jun., was then brought to the bar.
To queat;ens put by the SPEAKER,
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He said that the hand-bill shown him was printed by
him by order from the Committee of the Sunderland Wet
Docks, at a meeting where more than a hundred attended.
In answer to questions put by different Members, he
said he got the or der verbally, from a number of Members
of the Committee, of which he was a Member himself.
He was then ordered to withdraw, when
Lord STORMONT said, that be must move that the
witness be declared in contempt, for be had in two ways
committed a breach of the privileges, being both the
printer of the paper and a Member of the Committee from
whom the or der for its printing proceeded.
The SPEAKER thought the best way would be for the
other person in attendance to be examined by the House,
when a more clear explanation might be got.
Mr. Wright, the London attorney and writer of the
letter, was next called upon. He made a long address to
the House, the substance of which was, that in writing
the letter he had no idea of committing any breach or in
any way offending the usages of Parliament.
In answer to questions put by Mr. O'CONNELL, he
said be wrote the letter to the Committee, as his clients
and acting as their attorney, and had no connexion with
the printing of it.
Lord STORMONT asked whether he bad any instruc-
tion from the Committee to write such a letter as might
appear either in the public papers, or in tie shape of a
hand-bill.
The witness said, No.

The witness having withdrawn,
Mr. CAMPBEL L thou=ht that the bus:ness hat hien