The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)
PORTSMOUTI7, MAitcrr 24.—The Netley, tender to his
Majesty's ship San Josef, arrived on the 17th instant from
Plymouth, and returned to that port on Wednesday.
His Majesty's gun•brig Onyx, 10, Lieut. A. B. Howe,
sailed on Tuesday for Cork.
His Majesty's ship Talavera, 74, Captain T. Brown,
arrived on Thursday from Sheerness, last from the Downs,
Ind report says, she will shortly sail for the Western
Islands, for the protection of British inte•ests, during the
present unsettled statue of affairs there. She sailed from
Sheerness on Sunday last.
His Majesty's ship Britannia, 120, Captain P. Rainier,
C. 8., went out of harbour and anchored at Spithead on
Monday, and is expeet..d to proceed in a few days on a
short experimental cruise. Many absurd rumours respect•
ing her destination are in circulation, amoog the number,
that she is to proceed forthwith with troops to Jamaica,
but we understand that this service will be performed by
the Jupiter and Romney troop ships, ordered to be fitted
out at Plymouth.
His ;Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, Captain G. Burdett, was
paid off into ordinary on Friday.
The Emerald, tender to the Royal George yacht, hre
come into harbour for the better repair of some defects.
The Lady Harewood, rile convict ship, which sailed on
the 15th inst. from this port for New South Wales, with
200 convicts on board, under the medical superintendency
of Dr. Inches, put back on Tuesday in consequence of foul
wind. She will proceed for her destination the moment
the wind is fair.

The Recovery, tranqport, Lieut. Brady, agent, arrived
on Tuesday from the West Indies with the head-quarters
of the 35th Regiment, under the command of Lieu ..-Col.
George Toulon ; she brought passengers—Captain Gor-
don, of the Ist Royals ; Lieut. Montgomery, of the 36th
Foot ; and Mrs. Mallett, widow of the late Colonel Mal-
letr, of the 86th Foot. The troops were disembarked on
Thursday, at Gosport, and proceeded to Forton barracks.
The Nereid, frright ship, Capt. Jay; arrived on Friday
to receive on hoard Ordnance stores for Gibraltar.

The Arab, transport, Lieut. Harris, agent, will proceed
to Cowes this day to receive on board the 82nd Regiment,
-under the command of Lieut.-Col. Wte. Balfour, for con-
veyance to Leith.
The Neva, transport, Lieutenant Adamson, agent, was
spoken on the 7th instant. by the Atlas, from the Mm-
ritius, i❑ latitude 35.54 N., longitude, 34.50 W. The
Atlas supplied her with pro%isions, and the Neva pro-
ceeded with the intention of calling at Terceira for a fur-
ther supply.
At Spithead—B itanni t and Tal avera.
In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, and Confiance,
steam-vessel.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Os-
borne Foley is appointed to his Majesty's ship Asia.
[This appointment has been announced in anticipation, a
month ago, but it has only now taken place.] Lieut.
Josiah Thompson is appointed to his Majesty's gun-brig
Brisk, vice Butterfield, promoted.—Mr. J. Morrison, As-
sistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's packet brig Pigeon, is
appointed to his Majesty's ship Conway.—Mr. James
Lambert, late Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship
Wellesley, is appointed to the Pigeon, vice Morrison.—
Commanders Wm. Hen. Haswell, Henry Bolton, Francis
D. Hutcheson, and E. R. P. Mainwaring, are appointed
to the Coast Guard in Ireland.—Lieut. John Mc. Clin-
tech Clive is appointed to his Majesty's ship St. Vincent.
—Lieut. R. N. Kelly of the Kent Coast Guard, is ap-
pointed to Locharbour.—Lieut. It C. Oster, is appointed
to his Majesty's ship Ocean, Flag Ship at Sheerness.—
Mr. Charles Martelli, Mate, is appointed to the same
ship.—Mr. Wm. Dunn is appointed Clerk to his Ma-
jesty's ship Rattlesnake.
The following Midshipmen have been found duly quali-
fied in n avigation to serve as Lieutenants in the Rsyal
Navy, viz Mr. W. Greet, late of his Majesty's ship Ocean;
3lr. W. T. Newenham, late of his Majesty's ship Gloucester.
On Monday, Sir W. Burnett, Cannmissioner for Naval
Affairs, made his visitation atthe Royal Hospital at Haslar,
and on the following day he visited his Majesty's ship Prince
Regent, the Dock-yard, and the Royal Marine Infirmary.
There was no case in either in the slightest degree resem•
bling cholera.
When the Bill for the Consolidation of the Admiralty,
Navy, and 'Victualling Boards, should have passed. it is
confidently reported that a material alteration will take
place in the Naval uniform. The junior Officers, we hear,
will have red facings and cuffs.
We understand that the quantity of timber required for
the building of the Vernon, at Woolwich, has been sup.
pli d from other yards. Every practicable despatch is being
used in expediting the building of this ship ; between two
and three hundred shipwrights, besides blacksmiths and
others, are almost exclusively employed on her.
A method of deducing the longitude from the moon's
right ascension, by Mr. Thomas Kerigan, Purser of the
Royal Navy, and author of several works on navigation
and nautical stronomy, communicated to the Society by
Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C. 8., was read
before the Royal Society on the 15th inst.
The South Sand Head Light Vessel, which the late
heavy gale had driven into the Downs, has been remoored
at its former station near the Goodwin Sands.
We have t eceived letters from his Majesty's ship
Pelorus, 18, Commander Richard Meredith, dated
Teneriffe, Jan 18th, 1832, by which we learn that she ar-
rived at Teneriffe after a fortnight's passage from England.
It will be recollected she sailed from this port on the 2nd
of January, for the Cape and African station, via the river
Gambia, with despatches for Rear. Admiral Warren,
C.B. On her passage out, she entered a strong westerly
gale for several days in the Bay of Biscay, during which
she lost her jolly boat. His Majesty's ship atna, 6, sur-
veying vessel, Commander Ed. Belcher, and Raven, 4,
surveying vessel, Lieutenant William Arlett, were found
lying at Teneriffe, performing quarantine, when the
Pelorus arrived there. The latter ship was also ordered
to perform quarantine for twenty days, but she was about
to sail on the following day (Jan. 19th) for the Gambia,
after having taken on bawd a supply of water and wine.
The inhabitants of Teneriffe are represented as being much
alarmed about the cholera. His Majesty's ship Isis, 50,
Captain J. Polkinghorn, bearing the flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Frederick Warren, and Charybdis, 3, Lieutenaut
R. B. Crawford, had touched at the Island a few days pre-
viously on their way to the Gambit, hut on being ordered
to perform quarantine, she only remained there a few
hours. The Pluto, strain-vessel, Lieutenant Geo.
Buchanan, had not touched at Teneriffe; she intended to
proceed from Gibraltar direct to the Gambia to join the
Admiral.

The ship Abercrombie, Captain Inn: s, which put into
St. Helens last week from London, bound to Bombay and
Cl,inr, on board which ship a suspected case of cholera
had been discovered, and she was in consequence placed
under quarantine, sailed on Tuesday last with a fine wind
at north. The pilot-boat, with the bomboat-woman and
others, who had had communication with the ship, went
to the Motherbank, but have all been since released from
restraint by a special Order in Council.
Nearly one hundred vessels from London, Sunderland,
Newcastle, and other places in the North of England, at
which the cholera is supposed to prevail, have arrived and
been carefully examined at the Motherbank, but we are
happy to say not one suspicious case has been discovered
to p;evail on board.
An Order in Council, dated the 17th inst. has been re-
ceived at the Custom. house of this port, directing that, in
the event of any person dying or being affected with
symptoms of cholera, OR board any vessel or boat sailing
from any British port, at the time of, or subsequently to,
her leaving her port of lading, the mastet or other person
in charge shall cause a yellow flag to be kept hoisted, and
shall not himself leave his vessel, or permit any other per
son to do so, or to have any communication with any
other vessel, or with the shore, until the said vessel shall
have ben duly examined by the proper officers of Cus-
toms, and regularly released, or ordered to a quarantine
station, as the case may be. A second order, of the same
date, directs that clean bills of health may be given at all
the out-ports, ten days after the last case of cholera shall
have been declared convalescent ; and a third order, also
of the same date, directs that all vessels, arriving from fo-
reign ports with enumerated articles, must be furnished
with the necessary certificate or declaration, to prove that

the said articles were not the produce or manufacture of
Turkey, or, in the absence of such certificate or declaration,
they will be subjected to quarantine.
Ilis Majesty's 'ship Ganges baying been paid off on
Friday, at this port, her detachment of Royal Marines,
under the command of Captain Timpron, disembarked in
the morning, and joined head-quitters ; and the ruda-com-
inissioned officers and man belonging to the Woolwich
and Chatham divisions marched for their respective divi
&ions on the following moil-ling, under the command of
First Lieutenant Skinner, of tile latter division.