The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

Vast as are the benefits which the Reform Bill,
provided it gets fair play, is calculated to confer
upon the country, the condition must be per-
formed,—the Bill must get fair plat,—or the
people of England are cheated at once of their most
reasonable expectations and of their most
valuable rights. That the Tory faction should
have endeavoured to frustrate the objects of the
Reform Bill by rejecting or distorting its best
judged provisions, while it was yet before Par-
liament, is nothing wonderful ; and that the same
party should now, after it has become law,
attempt, by pettifogging quibbles and sly ma-
mceuvres, to throw difficulties in the way of its
natural and regular operation,—to disgust elec•
tors with the detailed formalities affixed to the
establishment of their novel qualifications,—
and to deter liberal candidates, by threaten-
ing them with enormous expense,—such things
are all within the scope of troubles and an-
ttoyances, which prudent men, acquainted
with party proceedings in this country, could
scarcely fail to anticipate. But there are other
dangers which ought not to be overlooked,
which are likely to be more fatal, from the sub-
tlety and treachery of their character, and from
the likelihood of their taking the friends of Re-
form by surprise. These risks do not proceed
from without,—they are not the work of public
enemies to reform,—they are not to be found in
the armoury of open party warfare ; and yet they
surround us on every side, and if not exposed to
the constituency in all parts of England, and pre-
pared against by timely precautions, there is no
conjecturing the extent to which the composition
of the new Parliament may he corrupted through
their influence, and the labours of two arduous
and exhausting years defeated. One of these
dangers arises from the sloth, indifference, or
:selfishness of many of the new electors them.
selves,—copholders or leaseholders, undoubt-
edly qualified as such under the Bill, but in•
capable of voting upon their respective qualifica-
tions, unless, if objected to by individuals in an
Averse interest, they have gone before the Com-
missioner and proved their claim to the franchise.
In several parts of the country the Tories have
tried, and are still trying, this game of spnula-
tive perverseness, offering the most impudent
objections to the best ascertained qualifications,
and taking their chance that the persons objected
to will, from indolence, ill-humour, or other
causes, decline coming forward to establish their
elective rights, especially if they have to travel a
considerable distance ; thus, so far as in them
lies, leaving the decision of the county contest
to the old constituency, which it was the pur-
pose of the Reform Bill to control by an in-
fusion of younger and better blood. The con-
duct of such electors cannot be too severely re-
prehended. They abandon the duties which
their hardly acquired constitutional power has
entailed upon them, deprive their reforming
countrymen of the benefit of privileges which
were given to be exercised for the good of all,
and betray an imbecile, abject, and unmanly dis-
position. Every man who has obtained a right
of 'voting under the Reform Biil ought at once,
and at any inconvenience, to hasten now and
put that right beyond all question. The trouble
need never at any future time be repeated. The
liberal electors are those to whom we address our-
selves, for we are bound to confess that among the
Tories there exists little, if any, of such luke-
warmness or infirmity of purpose. To the liberal
electors, theta, we say most earnestly, go at once,
and every where meet objections, and have your
votes passed by the commissioners. But there
is another mischief besetting the Reform inte-
rest, and that is internal division. More than
one complaint is made that in places where the
canvass of reformers has already been suctess-
folly completed, and where the return of reform
candidates would, by the application of a little
common sense, public spirit, and mutual for-
bearance, be secure, some selfish and meddling
quack interposes, and raises the pretensions of a
yet unheard-of individual, which if partially sup-
ported can but serve to split the strength of the
country party, to let in some Tory enemy
through the rent thus foolishly or maliciously
occasioned. Bath seems to be a case in point.
Tnat city, meaning the self-elected Corporation
of it, was for a considerable time represented by
a Lord of a Tory family, as colleague to Col.
Paliner. The more expanded constituency un-
der the new bill has been for three months past
canvassed by Mr. Hobhouse, brother to the
worthy baronet Secretary at War. Mr. Hob-
house is a gentleman resident at Bath, a tho-
rough, steady, and enlightened reformer. He is
supported by the great bulk of the reforming in-
terest in that city, by the two members for West-
minster, and by Lord Grey's Government, so
far as its influence extends. We have said that
it is three months since Mr. Hobhouse came be-
fore the Bath electors, and that he is a staunch
friend of reform and of liberal Government. It
is likewise known that a strong and inveterate
corporation or Tory faction exists at Bath, quite
ready to profit by any act of impolicy or iniquity
among the professed friends of reform. What
then must be thought of some amongst the latter,
or rather of one individual amongst them, when we
state that he has just gone to Bath for no object,
inconceivable as it may appear, but the evil one of
breaking down the Reform interest, of dividing
the house of good government against itself,
and so far helping, what yet he will, we trust, be
unable to effect ? This man is Mr. Joseph
Hume. It may be another of his blunders. He
may not be conscious of designing mischief, or
agree that it is mischievous to play the game of
the Tories, but if the pushing and interloping
gentlemen had been bribed for it. he could not
more directly and infallibly promote the cause of
Toryism against that of the people of England,
than by setting off for Bath, and making a speech
at a partisan meeting there, in favour of Mr. Roe-
buck, a gentleman of whom the city heard no-
thing before, and who (albeit an harmless per-
sonage in his own sphere, for any thing we
know about him) would probably, as Member
for Bath, be no more than a tool or faggot. in
the hands of the Member for Middlesex. The
latter would doubtless have small objection to come
forth in the Reform Parliament, as chieftain of
a convenient junta of his own, a circumstance
attaching more personal weight than has here-
tofore appertained to that Hon. Gentfetnan.—
This is no time for Mr. Hume'..s•crooked and
intractable crotchets. He has no right to impair
the public strength employed:honestly in support
of reform. If Mr.,'Hume has prevailed upon
Mr. Roebuck to pledge himself to the further-
ance of certain political projects, it may be a
solid motive for the Member for Middlesex to
recommend him, but none, upon the fate of it,
with the Bath electors to vote on bAtitili* of Mr.
Roebuck. Mr. Huthec,howFvezy'does not limit
his protecting care to Bat?i He is represented
in some of the papers to be about escorting Dr.
Bowring to a town in Lancashire, the seat
which the said Doctor is essaying to appropriate.
unto himself. Mr. Hume and Dr. Bowring, it

will be recollected, were partners in the business
of a certain Greek loan, and can back each
other's explanations, when called upon by the
constituents of Bolton.- But Mr. Hume had
better be ready with a reply to questions, which
cannot fail to be put to him, when he mounts
the hustings of the metropolitan county, respect-
ing his recent conduct at Bath. Can it he pos-
sible that any portion of the electors of Essex

have lent an ear to Mr. Alexander Baring ? for
we understand it is true that he has the modesty
to ask for their suffrages. There .is not in
England, whether old Tory, or renegade Whig.
a politician whom we deem it more the duty of
every English elector to discountenance, for
his offensive, insidious, and unprincipled votes,
as well as speeches, (for they were often opposed,
though never right) on the reform question, than
Mr. Alexander Baring. He comes too as the
antagonist of Mr. Western, a gentleman whose
integrity, consistency, and general conduct in
Parliament, for a period of near 40 years, al-
though we differ from him on one or two ques-
tions, it is impossible not to admire, and would
be ungrateful, on the part of his countrymen, to
forget. No, no, Mr. Baring, money will not do
all things, much as you are indebted to it. You
must not be member for Essex.— Times.

Before we enter upon the task of exposing in
detail the numerous fallacies, in. regard to ex-
change operations, which pervade the evidence
taken by the Parliamentary Committee of last
Session to inquire into the principles and prac-
tice of banking, we will point out the cause of
the contraction of the currency; in doing which
we shall also show the cause of the prevailing
perplexity and embarrassment which pervade all
the active operations of the empire, banking in-
cluded. We have before us an account, not yet
published, showing the extent of the external
commercial transactions of Great Britain with
each of the 32 different parts of the world, with
which accounts are kept by the Government, in
each of the last 50 years. In each year since
1813 the results are exhibited in comparison
with the quantity of corn, which formed part of
he imports; the average price of w heat, the amount
of taxes, expenditure of the Government, and of
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, and the relative value of manufac-
tured products in each year. Since 1826 there
is also exhibited the quantity, in weight, mea-
sure, or tale, of every article given and received
o and from each country ; and the mean com-
mercial price assigned to each article, whereby
he actual amount of the transactions is deter-
mined, and all the doubt and equivocation which
heretofore prevailed in regard to official values is
dispelled. By these accounts it appears that
down to 1793 the exports and imports bore an
kpproximation to each other ; and that the whole
,•)f the external transactions of the country were
mutual and beneficial to all parties concerned
in them, both individually and in the aggre-
2ate ; but with the commencement of the war in
1793 the exports began to exceed the imports
both in quantity and amount, and continued so
•o do, in an increasing degree, down to the close
the year 1815, during which period of 23
years the exports to Europe, Africa, the Ame-
icas, and the foreign West Indies, exceeded the
imports from thence to the amount of
330,000,000/. ; from the East Indies and China,
and from the British West Indies, the imports
;_.xceeded the exports thereto by about
100,000,0001. ; but, as there was no involution
4 transactions between the East Indies and
China, and the British West Indies and the rest
)f the world, on British account, to any extent
-0 affect the question, that excess of import had
ro hing to do tawards equalizing the excess of
.xport to Europe, America, &c. Now the com-
inon•place notion is, that if a nation exports
nore than it imports, the difference is equalized
by bullion, gold, or silver; and this baneful fal-
itcy pervades the whole of the evidence on the
Bank question. But so far from 330,000,000/.
excess of export from 1793 to 1816 having been
qualized, either in the whole or in part, by
the excess of export was augmented
by the further exportation of bullion to the
unout of 50,000,0001. to 60,000,000/. It will
're in the recollection of every person who has
'ived through the period of 1793 to 1806 that
every guinea of the 112,298,9331. of gold coin-
ed from 1663 down to 1815 had totally disap-
peared from circulation, while the whole supply
if coin and bullion remaining in the Bank of
England on the 28th of February of the latter
year amounted to only 2,036,910/.: the aggre-
._;ate excess of value given or exported in the
23 years, including bullion, may therefore be
egarded as approximating to 400,000,000/.-
1 value to be given away (which is what the
case, as so far stated, amounts to) so seem-
ingly preposterous as not to deserve a moment's
further attention. But, if our readers will give
hemselves the trouble to bestow their attention
to the elucidation which it is our intention to
submit to them, they will not only find that
seemingly preposterous disparity reconciled, but
it will lead them to a solution of all the pre--
g vailin embarrassments and dangers which they
portend. Now, by an account presented to
Parliament in 1822 (vide p. 803, Vol. V. of
Parliamentary Papers of that Session,) it appears
;hat in the same 23 years-1797-1815—there
was raised by loans, and the funding of Exche-
quer, Navy, and other Bills, 618,163,587/.,
out of which 188,522,3401. was applied within
the same period to repurchase part of the Stock
created for the total sum raised, leaving a net
amount of 429,641,2471., for which a net amount
of 22,737,3711. of Annuities were created. We
next find, by other accounts, that while these
two operations of an increasing excess of export,
and of funding, were going on, there was also
another, of a new and important character, in
corresponding activity—a creation in different
parts of the world of bills on the British Go-
vernment. Official accounts represent that in
1793 there were so drawn bills to the amount of
2,785,2521. ; in 1794, 8,335,591/. ; in 1795,
11,040,236/. ; and, in 1796, 10,149,916/. ; in
1814, 26,405,028/. ; and, in 1815, 20,128,118/.
For the intermediate years we do na find any
official account, but for the years 1807-1813,
the amounts annually must have been equal to
those of 1814-15 ; so that it appears in the
.ag-
gregate of the 23 years, 1793-1815, British Go-
vernment bills, to an amount equal to the excess
of export during the same period, were drawn in
different parts of the world, which bills equalized
the mercantile account ; whiie a corresponding
sum at home was converted into permanent An-
ti u hie's, as before stated.—Morning Herald.
In our late observations relating to the renewal
of the Bank Charter we endeavoured to show,
upon general principles, the danger of departing
from the present monetary system in the existing
position of 'the country, and we think that we
may boldly refer to the evidence taken before
the Committee of the House of Commons to'
prove that there is no necessity for it in conse
quence of the conduct of the, Bank. On., the'
contrary, whenever the Directors have been left

1 to themselves they have acted with due cau-
tion, and that circumstances over which they
had no control forced them into their embar-
rassments in 1826. By one rash act of a reck-
less Ministry everydepartment of the complicated
machinery of that vast establishment has been
thrown open to public criticism ; and we assert
that its most violent opponent cannot lay his
finger upon any one point of the evidence and
say there is malversation, or imprudence, or a
want of due precaution. The dead weight, and
the arrangements- that have at different times
been entered into between the Government and
the Bank, have, in their due course, received the
sanction of Parliament ; and we put them beside
the question, because, allowing in its fullest ex-
tent all the censure that can be lavished upon
the Directors for their share in them, it can only
amount to this, that two patties equally capable
of acting and judging far themselves entered
into certain bargains, and one of those parties
has had the best of the bargains. We state this
hypothetically, and we think in all fairness of dis-
cussion we may now dismiss this part of the ques-
tion, which has at various times given rise to so
many loose assertions. We will now address our-
selves to that part of the evidence that has been so
much carped at by a portion of the Journals, which
relates to the panic of 1825, and the accidental dis-
covery of a box of 11. notes, which saved the Bank
from destruction. The great bulk of the
notes which were at that time issued were not
" Godsends," as they have been called, but had
been deposited by order of the Directors, when
the small-note circulation ceased to meet any
emergency, and that emergency arose probably
much sooner than was contemplated. But it
does appear to us a matter of comparatively
small importance under what circumstances these
notes were produced. They performed their
function ; and the true question is, could the
Bank by any foresight or prudent manage-
ment have prevented the panic of 1825, or
did they by any improvidence produce or as-
sist in producing it ? There were various
causes that induced a spirit of speculation in
1823 and 1824. The recognition of the indes
pendence of the South American States, and the
incessant announcement of national prosperity
from the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day,
the present Lord Goderich, given in the most
extravagant terms, in language bearing the stamp
of official authority, as unmeasured and thought-
less as could have possibly escaped from the
most irresponsible and isolated Member of Par-
liament, were the most prominent. The country
was thus placed in a peculiar situation. After a
long and dreary war it was expected that the
blessings of peace were fast flowing in upon
her ; the riches of South America were opened
to her view, and an exhaustless trade was to be
the immediate consequence ; whilst a Minister
of the Crown was encouraging the delusion.
The country bankers at that period were placed
in a position of some difficulty and tetnptas
Lion. With their own small-note circula-
tion still at their command, they were pressed
by their customers for accommodation to
meet the new demands that the spirit of
enterprise and speculation had created, and
in Lancashire, where a small-note circula-
tion did not exist, the deficiency was made up,
according to the evidence of Mr. Smith, one of
the Directors of the Manchester Joint Stock
Bank, by bills of exchange that were discounted
with the utmost freedom. It was in November,
1824, that the Bank first had an intimation of a
demand for gold, mid consequently of an alter-
atiou approaching in the rates of the exchanges ;
but the speculation still proceeded, and country
bankers, by yielding to the desire of their cus-
tomers for excessive issues, gave effect to it. It
soon became apparent that the mills and manu-
factories which had been erected were not of ne-
cessity required, high prices here, unnaturally
produced, forced the cheap mcrchandize of the
Continent into this country, and as rapidly forced
out our sovereigns. Every market of the Con-
tinents of Europe and America were glutted with
British manufactured goods, and then it was that
the country circulation, which is influenced by
prices distinct from the working of an unfa-
vourable commercial exchange, interfered with
the London circulation. The Batik of England
was in perfect security until a simultaneous call
was made upon it by the country ()tinkers, who
had all over-issued themselves, and produced a
crisis that no prudence could guard against. The
action of the Bank with regard to its circulation,
according to Mr. Norman's evidence, had been
steady from .January 1822, to April 1824, the
period of the most active speculation, and then
an increase only took place in it by reason of an
excess of bullion in the hands of the Bank. It
was an increase on bullion, and the advance of
notes for bullion is an operation independent of
the control of the Bank. We must now quit
this subject for to-day, believing that, if we were
even to stop here, we have said enough upon it
to show that the Bank had no share in the
panic of 1825, but in relieving it, and causing
it to bear as lightly, as possible upon the com-
mercial body.--Morning Post.
By the arrival of the Parker, Captain Besein,
from Demerara, we: have received Papers from
that colony to the sth of August. Up to that
period the colony was tranquil. Considerable
interest had, however, been excited among the
colonists from the following occurrence :—Some
time since a proprietor had been brought before
the assessors, consisting of twelve gentlemen, form-
ing a sort of Jury, the President standing in the
situation of Judge, charged with ill-treating a
slave. The assessors, not thinking the evidence
sufficient to bear out the charge, acquitted the
accused. The President upon this expressed
himself in strong, and, indeed, it is said, such
insulting language, that nine of the assessors re-
fused to sit in the Court again. The Presi-
dent upon this fined them 1,500 guilders each,
which they refused to pay, upon the ground, as
put forth in their statement, " that they were
seriously injured, and because they were adopt-
ing measures for having all the circumstancs laid
before his Majesty in Council, every effort with
the constituted Legislative authorities ofthe colony
having failed to procure relief, and even the com
mon right and privilege of an interdict having been
denied, to bring the case into a judicial position
for ultimate appeal, if necessary." The Presi-
dent, upon this refusal, immediately put in an
execution upon certain of the properties of these
gentlemen for the total amount of the fines,
which was seventeen thousand and one guilders,
and filially, on the 20th July, put them up to
public auction ; but such was the public feeling,
that not a single bidding was made—the asses-
sors themselves, to avoid the property continuing
under the control of the President, buying it in
for twenty thousand guilders, the surplus over the
fines being to cover the law expenses. The
affair appears to have excited considerable inter-
- est among the colonists, the parties being some
of the most respectable. Among the residents
Lean, B. J. Hopkinson,
there,' Messrs. J. M.
-U. J. Bach, H. Halkett, J. W. Abony, W. Ur-

quhart, E. Bishop, T. S. Mewburn, and A.
Simpson, being assessors, whose property has
been thus taken in execution.—Morn. Chron.

We are glad to perceive from an article re-
qpecting the transmission of the Hamburg mail,
That the Post-office authorities, of whom the
Duke of Richmond is the chief, have at length
been pursuaded to take into their consideration
the convenience of the public in their arrange-
ments for the conveyance of letters and news.
The principle on which that important public
department has hitherto been managed, has been
the very reverse of that which ought to have
guided its arrangements ; the object having al-
most invariably been less to serve the public than
to serve the revenue, and not to make any ar-
rangements for the accommodation of the com-
munity, unless there was a certainty of an addi-
tion to the former accruing from them. The
better plan would have been a perseverance in the
principle on which the post-office was originally
established—namely, to accommodate the public
in the first place, and let the revenue take care of
itself in the best way that it could ; for it is
rot, be it observed, with the transmission of
mercantile letters, as with other matters on which
taxes are imposed. There may be an imme-
diate loss sustained by the Government in the
Post-office revenue upon them, and yet such an
Indirect gain from the greater import and export
of goods, consequent on the increased facility
of communication, as more than to counterba-
lance it. The facility and rapidity of communi-
cation, especially between places such as Ham-
burg and London, where an important trade in
various articles is carried on, operates, in fact,
like a reduction of duties on the articles ex-
ported and imported, and is one of the most im-
portant subjects to which the attention of the
Government of any country can be turned.
Where trade does exist it increases it, and where
it does not, it has a direct tendency to create it.
We trust, therefore, that the Duke of Richmond.
will not only afford every facility to the publi6 in
the communication with Hamburg, but that he
will also direct his attention to the necessity and
utility of similar arrangements with other parts
of the Continent.—Morning Advertiser.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)

Poicrsmourli, SErr. 15.—His Majesty's steam-ship
Dee, Commander Robert Oliver (b), will proceed to the
river on Wednesday, with the Alban, steam-vessel, for the
purpose of having her engines repaired.
His Majesty's ship Conway, 28, Captain Eden, arrived
on Friday night, from the West Indies. She lert Havan-
nal' on the 18th of August. The following came passen-
gers invalided :—Mr. W. E. King, Master of his Majes-
ty's ship Magnificent ; Mr. W. H. Dobbie, Mate of his
Majesty's ship Gannet; Mr. William Reid, Mate, and
Mr. E. G. Triggs, Master's Assistant, both of his Majes-
ty's ship Ariadne ; thirteen invalided seamen from the
,quadron ; and six natives of Western Africa ; Mr. B.
Lloyd, Clerk, !ate of his Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk,
dismissed from the service per sentence of a Court Martial;
three privates of the 56th Regiment, ,ind four privates of
the Second West India Regiment ; and a considerable
quantity of baggage belonging to Earl Belmore, late Go-
vernor of Jamaica. The Conway arrived at Port Royal
on the 27th of July, where she landed Earl Mulgrav-, the
new Governor and suite, and Lord Seaford. She sailed
thence on the Sth of August, and from Havanna!' on the
18th. His M ijesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain C. Phil-
lips, was at Jamaica, Senior Officer, and refitting after the
hurricane which she experienced off the Bahamas, on the
night of the 6th June, in which she was nearly lost. His
Majesty's ship Victor, IS, for whose safety great anxiety
has been manifested, escaped the devastating effects of the
hurricane, an I was left cruising in the Bay of Fundy, with
his Majesty's ship Racehorse, Arachne, and North Star.
His Majesty's ship Winchester, Flag-ship, was at Halifax.
The Conway is expected to come into harbour to-mort ow,
to he refitted, and to receive a new forem at.

His Majesty's ship Dryad, 42, Commodore Hayes, C.B.
and Lightning, 18, Commander Dickinson, were paid off
on Thursday, the former into Ordinary, and the latter
under orders to be re-commissioned.

The Lightning has been hauled alongside the Sheer
hulk, and her masts taken out, preparatory to her being
docked to undergo some repairs.
His Majesty's cutters Seaflower, Lieutenant J. Morgan,
and Sylvi i, Lieuten int T. Spark, will proceed shortly to
Jersey, to afford protection to the English oyster fishery.
The orders for his Miyesty's cutter the Raven, to pro-
ceed to the coast of Africa, to rejoin his Majesty's ship
/Etna, surveying vessel, have been suddenly counter.
manded, and she has received instructions to proceed to
Gibraltar, where she will be joined by the /Etna, and both
will then proceed together to Lisbon, to strengthen the
squadron of Admiral Parker, fur whom the Raven will
take, out important despatches. The Raven sailed at 3
o'clock yesterday.
The Sylvia, transport, received on board ,it this port, in
addition to those she took in at Sheerness, sixty male con-
victs on Tuesday last, under the medical charge of As-
sistant-Surgeon Jewell, R.N. who is proceeding out to
join his Mijesty's ship Winchester. She will sail the
moment the wind shall come fair.

The Georgina, male convict ship, left Deptford on
Wednesday last for this port, to receive on board 184
convicts for New South Wales, under the medical charge
of Dr. J. Hal, R.N. She may be expected here the
moment the wind shall shift.
Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm's squadron is daily
expected here from Cotk, when it is reported the Done-
gal, 76, flag ship, will be paid off and recommissioned to
receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
fur the South American command.
It gives us the most sincere pleasure to be able to state
that the reports of the loss of his Majesty's ship Vmctor
were incorrect. By the C,,nway, which arrwed on
Friday from the West India station, we have received this
gratifying intelligence.
At Spithead—Conway, and Sylvia transport.
In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, and Excellent ;
Doe and Alban, steamers ; Seaflower, Sylvia, and Raven,
cutters.

PRO3IOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Mr. W. G. Field,
late of His Majesty's ship Winchester, and Mr. B. Chet-
wood, Mate of his Majesty's ship Castor, are promoted to
the rank of Lieutenants.—Mr. Baird, Assistant-Surgeon
of the Lloyd Hospital at Haslar, is appointed Assistant
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Bitannia.—Mr. J. Adams is
appointed Clerk to his Majesty's ship Ariadne.—Mr. G.
Blane, College Mate, is appointed to his Majesty's ship
Donegal.—Messrs. J. Nott and W. Anderson, Clerks, are
appointed, the former to his Majesty's ship Mynx, and the
latter to his Majesty's ship Winchester.—Mr. J. Cleverly,
late gunner of the Philoniel, is ordered to be borne on the
check at this port.—Mr. J. R. Gage, Carpenter, of the
Hazard, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Lightning, vice
Janes, who goes to the Hazard.—Lieut. C. Moss is ap-
pointed to the Coast Guard station, at Sittingbourne.—
Mr. G. King is appointed Surgeon to the Naval Hos•
pital, at Haulbowline Island, Cork.
Six privates of the Woolwich Division of Royal Ma-
rines were yesterday relieved from the Sylvia transport at
Spitbead, by the same number of men from this Division,
under the command of a sergeant ; and the former were
tried by Court Martial on the same day, for highly insub-
ordinate conduct.
On Thursday last Second Lieutenant Daratt, of this
Division of Royal Nlarines, and Second Lieutenant Atcher-
Icy, of the Plymouth Division of the same corps, with two
sergeant.,, one corporal, and forty-four rank and file, dis•
embarked from his Majesty's ship Dryad, lately arrived
front the coast of Africa.
That intelligent individual, Mr. Thomas Waghorn, who
has so ably advocated the object of steam navigation be-
tween England and India, and who, it will be recollected,
made a journey overland from London to Bombay about
two years ago, charged with despatches, and ascertained the
practicability, usefulness, and safety of a regular courier esta-
blishment ria Egypt and the Red Sea, was among the candi-
dates who passed the requisite examination for a Lieute-
nancy, on Wednesday se'noight, on board his Majesty's
ship Victory. Mr. W. is the author of several pamphlets
on the subject of steam power as applicable to the purposes
of navigation, and has suggested several improvements con-
nxted therewith, particularly a must for steam-vessels, a
model of which has been submitted to the consideration of
the Board of Admiralty. His high acquirements in this
particular branch of science seem likely to obtain for him
the notice and patronage of their Lordships; for which he
is also qualified by the completion of his full period of
servitude in the Royal Navy.
On the occasion of the paying off of his Majesty's ship
Lightning, on Wednesday, the petty officer. and seamen

presented to their worthy Commander Dickinson, an ele-
gant sabre and appendages, together with a pair of hand-
some gold epaulettes, as a token of their esteem for his
officer-like and gen lemanly conduct towards them during
the three years and four months they were under his com-
mand ; and at the same time they presented handsome and
v,luable rings to the First Lieutenant Fowler, Mr. Pope,
Master, and to Mr. Fllenherhassett. Seventy of the sea-
men afterwards dined together at the True Blue, nolv.re
g eat harmony prevailed.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

Tne Royal Frederick, 120, will be laid down on the
sl p in this dock-yard, from which the Neptune, 120, will
be launched on the 27th inst.

Three eighty-gun ships, upon the plan of the Surveyor
of the Navy, are ordered to be laid down immediately.
In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Excel'eut, Dee
and Alban steamers, Seaflower and Sylvia cutters.
At 'pithead.—Conway and Sylvia transports.
Extract of a letter, dated Sinton's Bay, Cape of Gtotl
Hope, 23d June, 1832 :—" The only ship of war lying
here is his Maj-sty's ship Curlew, bearing the flog of Ad-
miral Warren, and which is now under orders to sail fur
Algoa Bay ; the Adlniral's fl ig will, during her absence,
be kept flying ashore. The Isis, Talbot, and Undaunted,
are at Mauritius; the two former are soon expected here;
the Talbot will, from hence, proceed to the S .uth Ame-
rican station, to take in treasure, and vill thence sail to
Eng'and. The Ganges Indiaman will sail in a
day or two fur England ; she came in here to
land passengers, and has got all her cabins filled ; she
brings no news. The brig Osbarn, S. Keen, Master,
is now in the Bay, and will also sail for St. Helena
and London in a .few days. This vessel experienced a
very heavy gale of wind off the Mauritius, when she
threw 200 bags of sugar overboard. The brig Welling-
ton, W. Robinson, master, is also in the B.y, from Liver-
pool, with 150 Irish settlers, the scenes of drunkenness
and fighting amongst whom exce ds any thing before ex-
perienced here: when England s•nds such samples out to
visit her slave colonies, let nothing more be said about
improving slaves,—our slaves at the Cape would nut he
seen in the streets with such worthless wretches. The
only other vessel in the Bay is the schooner Rapid, John
Ross, toaster, bound on a sealing and whaling voyage. We
have bad very fine weather this season, and rains, I believe,
have fallen genet illy all over the colony, so that we may
expect a fine harvest. This colony has not as yet been
proclaimed a free port, although we have the King's Order
in Council published in the London Gazette, to say, it
will he so ; it is expected to be published on the last of
this month—it will do great good for the Cape."
(From the Devonport T'elrgraph.)

PLYMOUTH, SETT. 15 —The Cockatrice went out of
Harbour into the Sound on Thursday.
The Fisgard, 46, was taken into dock on Tuesday, to
be inspected, and her defects made good.
We understand that the Statira, 46, and Tigris, 46,
two frigates of the largest class, now on the stocks in this
dock yard, where they have been in complete frame for
five or six years, during which their timbers have been
well seasoned, are ordered to be taken to pieces. About
two years since they were thrown out one foot beam, and
their sterns have been altered twice.

Hie Maj-sty's ship Britannia, 120, Capt. Rainer, ar-
rived from Lisbon on Sunday. She left the fleet off the
Tagus on the 3.1, when things in that quarter remained in
statu quo. She will he docked imrnedia•ely, to have her
bottom inspected, having been aground, by which it is
supposed her copper and false keel have received some
trifling damage. This fine ship has been greatly improved
by the alterations she has lately undergone, and, according
to all reports, is a match for the Caledonian on every point.
The latter, though increased in power and stability, by her
extende I beam, is now no longer the crack sailor of the
fleet as in former times, when she used to take the shine in
all weathers out of the " Mercuries " of the Mediterranean
squadron.

His Majesty's ship Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. G. Dacres,
tender to the Royal George yacht, arrived from Oporto
on Saturday, but brings no news, later intelligence having
been received by the Hermes steamer.
We hear that the Vernon, 50, and Castor, 36, will
shortly be paid off.
The Andromache, new 28-gun frigate, arrived on S:I•
t Hay from Pembroke.
The Winchester, 52, Capt. the Right Hon. Lord Wil-
liam Paget, was expected at Halifax on the tat inst. from
Saint John's, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. From
the former place she was to convey part of the Rifle Bri-
gade to Halifax. The Winchester was to remain at Hali-
fax until the Ist of November, and then to proceed to Ber-
muda, where she was to be stationed until relieved. S e
was very healthy.