The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Devonport Independent.)
DEVONPORT, MARCH 4.—The broad-pendant of Captain
Superintendant Ross, C. 8., is now flying on board the Ply-
mouth yacht, Admiral Sir William Hargood, Commander in
Chief at this port, having struck his flag in the San Josef, and
gone on leave of absence.

During the violent gale on Saturday afternoon, the Impreg-
nable, 106, lying in Hamoaze, dragged an anchor of her moor-
ings, but was brought up without doing or receiving any da-
mage.

The Alban steamer sailed on Sunday for Gibraltar, but was
obliged to return in consequence of stormy weather and a
heavy sea, in which she sprung her foremast. She having had
her defects made good sailed again on Thursday.
On Sunday the Viper brigantine, Lieut. Robinson, arrived
with the mail from Lisbon, having drifted from the Lizard in
the late heavy gale to the eastward of this port. During the
recent tempestuous weather, she lost her boats, sprung her
foremast, and received considerable damage about her sails
and rigging.
The Nautilus, Lieut. Crook, went out of harbour on Sun-.
day, and sailed on Tuesday for Falmouth.
The Skylark packet was taken into dock on Monday to be
new coppered.
On Tuesday his Majesty's ship Talavera was removed from
her moorings to the dock-yard, in order to be docked, and to
be fitted out and kept ready for service at sea.
The Rover, Capt. Eden, went into the Sound on Wednes-
day, and it is expected she will sail for South America this
day.

The Meteor steamer, Lieut. Duffil, will start this day for
Woolwich.
The Rinaldo packet, at this port, is ordered to be sol a out
of the service.

The Lapwing packet, Lieut. Foster, put in here rja lirednes
day morning, from stress of weather. She left Falmouth on
Friday with the South American mails on ljoard ; but in the
gale of Saturday she was driven up Charnel as far as Torbay,
and it was but by a strong effort ar..44 a press of canvas she

- In Hamoize—San Josef, Dublin, Skylark, Viper; Meteor,
steam-vessel, Industry, transport.
In the Sound—Romney troop-ship, Royalist, Rover, Lap-
wing, and Tavy, attached to the harbour-master.
The Pique, Castor, and Ringdove, were cruizing off San-
tandira, on the north coast of Spain, on the 20th of February.
The Nimrod, 18, Corn. M‘Dougall, sailed from Lisbon on
the 22d of February, for the north coast of Spain.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. Sydney Pren-
fell, of the Excellent, to the Winchester ; Lieuts. Wil-
liams, and Arthur W. Jenningham, and W. Rendal, Mate to
the Excellent; Lieut. J. C. Johnstone, to the Melville;
Lieut. J. Foote, to the Caledonia ; Mr. Daniel King, sur-
geon, to the Rattlesnake, vice Magrath ; Messrs. John Cald-
well, Henry Baker, and Wm. Rogers, Assistant Surgeons, to
the Victory ; Mr.' .H. Fossman, Assistant Surgeon, to the
Alban ; Mr. J. J. Winsom, Clerk, to the Scylla ; Mr. A.
Hooper, Clerk, to the Thunderer ; Mr. G. W. Bentham,
Mate, to the Andromache ; Mr. J. C. Bennett, Mate, to the
.Rattlesnake ; Mr. James Stopford, Midshipman, to the Jupiter.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 14. —The Magicienne frigate, Capt.
Plumridge, arrived on Tuesday last, with dispatches from
China and India. She was only eighty-five days on her pas-
sage, out he fourteenth of which she was becalmed; but having
run from the Mauritius at a daily average of 184 miles, she
has made a very quick voyage. She left Madras on the 15th
of December; the Mauritius-(where she remained only a few
hours) January 10, hove-to off St. Helena for seven hours on
the 2d of February, and sighted Pico and Fayal on the Ist of
March. She brings home important dispatches from the
Governor-General of India, from the Naval Commander-in-
Chief, and from the factory at China, brought thence to
Madras by the Andromache, 28, Captain Chads, C. B.
Our East India Squadron was disposed of as follows :—The
Melville, with Sir John Gore's flag, was at Cochin on the
13th December, on her way to Bombay, to meet the Winches-
ter, with the Hon. Sir T. B. Capel's flag ; Lord Clare re-
turns to England in the Melville. The Curacoa frigate,
Capt. Dunn, was at Calcutta, waiting to bring home the
Governor-General Lord W. C. Bentinck, who was expected
to embark on the 17th of March ; the Imogene frigate, Capt.
Blackwood, was daily expected at Madras, from China ; the
Alligator frigate was also expected there from New South
Wales, having been relieved by the Hyacinth, sloop-of-war,
Commander Blackwood ; the Andromache frigate, having de-
livered her China despatches to the Admiral, at Cochin, was
sent to Madras, and would then go to Trincomalee ; the Har-
rier, sloop-of-war, Commander Vassall, left Trincomalee on
the 22d of November, for Columbo, to settle the case of the
Dutch bark Batavia, seized by that sloop in March 1833, at
Penang, for a breach of the navigation laws. The Lady
Flora, free trader, had been spoken with off Ceylon, and was
daily expected at Madras ; the Talbot, 28, Zebra, 18, Rose,
18, and Algerine, 10, had passed the Cape of Good Hope for
the India station, prior to the 10th of January.
The Magicienne has been absent from England three years
and a half, in which period she has been 586 days underweigh,
and has gone over 74,000 miles of ground. On her passage
home she sailed 2,017 miles in eight days, averaging 252
miles a day ; she was only 22 days from the Mauritius to St.
Helens-200 miles a day. Owing to the care and attention
of the Captain, and the skill and talents of her medical of-
ficers, this ship has been particularly healthy; although for
many months the crew were subject to such sickness as must
occur to ships anchored in the Canton River and Manilla
Harbour. Lieut. Tennant, and Mr. Evans, Gunner, from
the Andromache frigate, with Captain W. Ford, R. M., and
Capt. Forbes, of the Madras Native Cavalry, and Mr. Rose-
veau (a lunatic), Clerk of the Trincomalee Navy Yard, came
home passengers.
The Magicienne will be paid off
.at this port, for which
purpose she came into harbour last evening. _ _

The Magieienne spoke the schooner Apprentice, from the
Mauritius to London, on the sth January ; the barque Henry
Wellesley, from Columbo to London, near the Line, on the
4th February; the American ship Brookline, from Cowes to
Manilla, on the 10th ; and the brig Hope, from Liverpool to
Baltimore, on the 28th ult.
The Rattlesnake, 28, Captain Hobson, for the East Indies;
the Scylla, Commander Carpenter, for Halifax, and the
Pelican, 18, Commander Popham, for the Coast of Africa,
with the Maitland, transport, Lieut. C. Binstead, Agent, re-
main wind bound at Spithead.
The Camelion, 10, Lieut. John Bradley, returned this
evening to Spithead, from cruizing off Brighton.
The Actaeon, 28, Capt. Lord E. Russell, and Victor, 18,
Commander Crozier ; the "former for the Pacific, and the
latter for the East Indies, are detained by westerly winds in
Yarmouth Roads.

The Messenger steam-vessel arrived on Monday, from.
Woolwich, and returned on the following day, with the furni-
ture of the Herald yacht, to be appropriated for the fitting of
the Jupiter, which will take out Lord Heytesbury to India.
It is reported to be the intention of the present Admiralty
to divide the Transatlantic station again into two commands,
as before.. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Halket, G. C. H., is ap-
pointed to hoist his flag for the West Indies, and Rear-Admiral
N. Thompson will go to the North American station.
Captain P. I. Douglas will be Flag Captain to Sir P.
Halket, and Commander Trotter, with Lieutenant T. R.
Sulivan, will go with him.
In Harbour.—Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Magici-
enne, Water Witch.
On Thursday the York convict ship parted from her stern
moorings and swung with her stern to the eastward until
within one foot of the ground. By the assistance of Mr.
Hepburn, the Assistant-Master Attendant, with a party of
riggers, aided by the convict establishment, she was safely se-
cured by two ten-inch cables in a short time.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.-Mr. Thomas Chalmer,
late Midshipman of the Madagascar, to the rank of Lieutenant ;
Lieuts. Hon. Robert Le Poer Trench and George K. Ogilby,
of the Thalia ; Mr. D. Goalen, Master ; Mr. Alexander
Neill, Surgeon ; Mr. J. Jones, Purser ; Mr. James Steill,
Assistant- Surgeon ; Mr. Carter, Clerk ; and Messrs. A. A.
Villiers and James Stopford, Midshipmen, are appointed to
the Jupiter; Lieuts. Harris and Washington Carr to the
Excellent ; Lieutenant Gore, of the Melville, to the An-
dromache ; Lieut. Henry W. Hill, of the Andromache, to the
Melville; Lieut. G.D. O'Callaghan to the Andromache, vice
Tennant, invalided ; Commander Edward Belcher, Lieute-
nants Wolf and R. R. Beechy, and Mr. Cudlip, late Mate of
the Buffalo, are appointed to survey part of the Irish coast, in
a steamer to be appointed for that purpose ; Mr. E. S. Cozens,
Second Master of the Melville, to be Acting Master of the
Alligator, vice Vanzetti, Acting Master of the Magiciennc ;
Messrs. J. Caldwell and R. B. Hind, Assistant Surgeons to
the Victory ; Messrs, R. J. Scott and R. L. Jack, Assistant
Surgeons to the San Josef ; Mr. Cole, Mate, to the Alban ;
Mr. W. Cashman, Mate, to the Ganett. Royal Marines—
Capt. R. L. Hornbrook, to the San Josef, vice George
Hookey ; Second Lieut. Berney Varlo, to the Jupiter; Se-
cond Lieut. G. A. F. Danvers, of the Magicienne, to the An-
dromache, vice R. T. B. Sheppard, deceased.
Messrs. John Irving and Thomas Chaloner passed their
examination for mathematics on Tuesday last, to qualify them
for Lieutenants' Commissions. Eight Gentlemen failed in
their efforts on account of the sudden revival of an old order
from the Admiralty, regarding an examination in the use of
the sextant, quadrant, and azimuth compass, making it more
rigorous than has hitherto been the case, and the intention to
act upon which order should have been communicated to the
fleet.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—THE WEATHEIL—On Saturday
last, during the morning, it blew a perfect hurricane from the
westward—the wind sending forth a drift of spray that pre-
vented vessels being seen to each other, although but half a
cable's length off.—At this critical period the Magnet, of
Exeter, drove on the rocks of Queen Ann's Battery, and beat
very heavily, with but a shadow of a chance of preserving her
masts or herself entire. However, a pilot, with about twenty or
thirty men, soon boarded her, and a strong hawser (one end
attached to a cannon on the pier at the Barbican) being car-
ried out to the vessel, a very strong and effectual purchase was
made ; and the schooner fortunately being only in ballast, and
the tide still making, was hove off, and safely brought into the
Pool. On the examination of her bottom not so much damage
was found as anticipated. Her stern-post shook, after part of
keel cut and carried away, and some of the buttock planks pe-
netrated by the rocks, and chafed. It was favourable that the
rocks on which the vessel drove were of a soft texture, proved
by her having beaten some of their crests down, and bringing
in portions of the same attached to her bottom.

On Sunday the Two Sisters, Dyer master, from London to
Cork, came in with loss of canvas, bulwarks, stanchions, boat,
&c. These damages she received on Saturday night, when
lying to, off Scilly, by being struck with heavy seas ; one sea
struck the vessel on her starboard quarter, washed a dog-kennel
overboard, whilst its inmate, alarmed at so heavy and sweeping
a movement, bolted, and saved his life ; not, however, without
being carried some height up the leach of the mainsail (Which
at that time was split to pieces by the force of the sea), and
descending on deck again in safety. Monday, the wind S. S. W.
and W., very squally—Tuesday, blew heavily, wind N. and
N. W--Wednesday was fine weather, Wind W. and W. by N.
—Thursday morning, at daybreak, it was blowing very hard
from E. to N. E., with heavy rain, at noon backed into W.,
and as suddenly flew round W. N., and cleared up ; several of
the vessels which were bound West taking advantage of these
shifts sailed for their destinations.—Friday morning early wind
at N., but at ten o'clock veered round again to S. W., where it
has continued all day, and very fine : several more vessels, al-
though wind in their teeth, sailed to the Westward, taking ad-
vantage of the day.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)

DEvo:cronT, Mmicii 14. —The following have joined the
Jupiter, 50, which was re-commissioned at Chatham on Sun-
day:—Captain Edward H. A'Court (brother to Lord Hey-
te§bury); Lieutenants R. Byron (1825), Hon. R. Le Poer

TG. Keith Ogilvy (1834); Mr. S. G. North-
cote,Jones, Purser; A. Neill, Surgeon ; J.
rencNhlaster; (1833);J• L.
Steil!, Assistant-
-'
~;:•baeon ; Lieut. Burney Varlo, Royal Ma-
rines ; Mr. R. Godden,' ,-..-?nd Master ; and Messrs. Brown
and Carter, clerks. Her com
pic„,:nt is 230 men, including
thirty-nine marines, and she is to be armj with eight long
six-pounders in addition to her present armament. ..
His Majesty's ship Talavera, 74, lately paid off at th;.7rlt•
will be taken into dock on Monday next, and is to be broUgt:
forward for commission as soon as her defects are made good.
The Fountain, tank vessel, will shortly leave for Jamaica.
Mr. N. I. Lee is appointed as master, and Mr. R. Ross as mate.
( From the West Kent Guardian.)
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WooLwlcn.—Vice-Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Capt. Super-
intendent Warren, Commander Bullock, and Mr. Brown the
Master-Attendant of this Yard, proceeded to Northfleet in the
Lightning steamer on Tuesday to inspect that part of the river
fixed upon for the New Pier (the Bill for which is to be
brought in on Friday next), when they were of opinion that if
the Pier were kept within the lines of two wharfs which are in
the vicinity of the intended site, it would not be any impedi-
ment to the flow of the tide or navigation of the river.
Mr. Massey, manufacturer of the patent logs, is fitting to
the Carron Steamers one of his patent sea perambulators for
registering a ship's rate of sailing.
Oliver Lang, Esq , the Master Shipwright of this yard, has
been presented by his Majesty the King of Denmark with a
diamond ring of the value of one hundred guineas, as a
token of his Majesty's estimation of Mr. Lang's professional
skill, in introducing solid keels in shipbuilding, and his
Mr. L.'s) tube scuttles, for admitting light and air between
decks.

The Lively, lighter, has arrived from Portsmouth with naval
stores, and will return in a few days.
The Lightning steamer is to proceed to Dublin to attend
upon his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.
The Messenger streamer, Mr. King muster, arrived from
Portsmouth on Thursday morning.
Seven blacksmiths are to be entered in this yard from
Chatham. .

Mr. Estelt is to be master of the Fountain tank-vessel, in-
stead of Mr. Lee, who is to go as mate. Mr. Ross's appoint-
ment as mate being cancelled.
The Marquis of Huntly has been taking in convicts in the
Warren Bight, for New South Wales. She sailed yesterday
for Sheerness.

Rev. T. Bowman, perpetual curate of Queenl3orougth, is ap-
pointed to the Chaplaincy of his Majesty's ship Ocean, lying
at Sheerness, vice Edwards.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 12. —The average prices of wheat and
rye for the first week in March (2d to the 7th) having been
15f. 39c. and Bf. 99c. per hectolitre respectively, the import
duties were on wheat 37f. 50c., on rye 21f. 50c., per 1,000
kilogrammes.
BRUSSELS, MARCII 13.—We learn that orders have been
issued to grant unlimited furloughs to all the militiamen of the
class of 1828. The militiamen and volunteers who are at their
homes with furloughs till the Ist of April may remain there till
the Ist of July. Those who are at home in consequence of
sickness are not included in this order, but are to return to their
corps as soon as they are recovered. These regulations are
applicable only to the infantry.
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BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRussemi, MA Cu 13.
Actual Debt, 9.% per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOl
Loan of City, 1b32, Four per Cent RN
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent IIOX
Society of Commerce DI
—Brussels Papers, March 13.