The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—On Tuesday last the Sovereign, Cap-
tain Griswold, sailed for New York, and the Commissioner for Ar-
bitration for the prevention of the Slave Trade at the Havannah,
under the new Treaty, went passenger.
The Buffalo store-ship was paid off on Wednesday, and re-com-
missioned yesterday by Mr. J. W. R. Sadler. The Speedy cutter,
Lieut. T. S. Norrington, arrived this morning from Plymouth.

At Spitheacl.—Curlew.
In Harbour.—Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Actaeon, Ma-
dagascar, Rattlesnake, Salamander, Victor, Water Witch, Came-
lion, Buffalo, Seaflower, and Speedy.
(From the Devenport Telegraph.)
DEVONPORT, JAN. 10.—The Curlew, Commander Hon. Joseph
Densman, went out of Portsmouth Harbour on Monday, to Spit-
head, and is now waiting orders.
The Buffalo was paid off on Tuesday, but Mr. Sadler will keep
charge of her until further orders.
The Speedy cutter arrived on Sunday from Portsmouth, with
supernumeraries for the Pique and Royalist. The Nimrod was at
Lisbon on the 28th ult. The Pelican, 18, Commander Brunswick
Popham, is under orders to sail from Chatham, for the west of
Africa, to relieve the Pelorus. The Rattlesnake was commissioned
on Monday, by Captain W. Hobson.
The Madagascar, Captain Edmund Lyons, was inspected as to
her preparation for battle, &e., on Saturday, and went into Ports-
mouth Harbour the same day to be paid off into ordinary. She will
be paid off about the 17th.
Mr. Geo. R. Halliday, midshipman, of the Actaeon, passed his
examination in seamanship on Wednesday, on board the Victory,
at Portsmouth.

Several gentlemen, friends of Mr. Hume, met this
morning at the Salopian Coffee-house, Charing Cross, and
passed resolutions in support of him.
The Augsburgh Gazette states from Constantinople
December 13, that confidence is gradually returning, and
every body hopes that peace will nut be interrupted; at least
the accounts from Alexandria are satisfactory, and Mehemet
Ali seems disposed to accommodate himself to the present
state of things, and to comply with the just demands of the
Porte. The sanitary state of Constantinople is satisfactory,
the cold season having rendered the cases of plague scarce.
FOSSIL REMAINS AT CAPE BRETON.—Re-
mains of vast animals are found, which it would appear for-
merly ranged in the vicinity of the Bras d'Or. Enormous
bones, resembling thigh bones, six feet in length, are reported
to have been seen lying at the bottom of the lake. In the
bed of the Wagamatcook, shcrtly after the settlement on that
river, an extraordinary skull was discovered. One of the teeth
was taken to Sydney, which resembled in general appearance
the molares of the human jaw, its greatest measure was about
eight inches, but whether that length had been transversely or
longitudinally situated in the jaw could not be determined by
those who had not seen the skull from which it had been
taken. The thickness from the root to the crown of the
tooth was four inches, and the width across the crown about
the same. There were ten processes upon the crown, five on
either side. The Indians have a story, that a huge animal
once raised its head out of the water of the Middle Barrasol
of Aspy Bay, near Cape North, and so terrified them, that it
was long before any would venture thither again.—Mr. Mar-
tin's History of the British Colonies. Vol. 111.
PEDRO'S RECRUITS.—One evening there came to
the quarters of Colonel Shaw a miserable looking creature in
the shape of a soldier.—" Oh Sir 1" said he to the command-
ing officer, " I'm very distressed in my mind, and I've got
something to say to ye, cornel. Sir, I'm a weaver to my
trade, frae Glasgow, and my name is Sandy MacGregor, Sir;
six months sin sync, a ship was lying in the Clyde, and some
o' my freends were in her, listed for Don Pedro. I jist gaed
aboard o' her to hae a parting glass, and when I was sittin'
below wi' the lads, haeing a bit crack like for the last time, up
gaed the anchor, and awa' we sailed for Portigale, and
here am I a sodger, Sir. God kens I had nae thought o'
being a sodger whan I gaed into the ship ; I thought I wad
hae lived and dee'd in the Gallowgate ;—no that I am a
coward, Sir, (though I'm a weaver,) or am I feared for the
feghtin. No, no ; but I left a wife and seven bairns at hame,
Sir, and oh 1 they hang heavy at my heart, and I eauna sleep
at nicht thinking o' them and what they'll do for the scullin
(schooling), and me here. I want to write to them to tell
them that I'm here and living, and expect to see them again
when we pit MacDoual (Miguel) out o' the wey." Poor
Sandy MacGregor's case was not a singular one during this
civil war in Portugal. Ten London pickpockets went on
board one of the ships to plunder the recruits for the Queen;
and whilst they were plying their trade below, sail was made,
and away the astonished pickp9cicots and all steered to join the
Liberating 4rmy.-:-,-.4kwaziddie,s shiches.