The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-30 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTIL—THE EXPERIMENTAL BRIGS.—
These vessels remain in statu quo, ready for being
commissioned, and consist of the Daring, Osprey,
and Flying Fish, at this port, newly built, with the
Watery. itch, Pantaloon, and Lily. The general be-
lief is that the pendant will not be hoisted in these
vessels until the present warlike aspect shall have
passed away.
Captain Manley Dixon (son of the late Admiral Sir
Manley Dixon) is appointed to the command of the
ships in ordinary at Plymouth; and Captain Hen-
derson, at this port, will shortly be superseded from
the like service, his period having expired.
The cutter Sylvia, Lieut. Tumour, has arrived
from Jersey, to be stored and re-fitted, and is in the
harbour for this purpose.
A letter from the Inconstant, 36, Capt. Fremantle,
of the 23d July, reports her arrival at Jamaica from
Barbadoes, having recently been employed in convey-
ing the Governor of the Leeward Islands to and from
the several places within his command. The only
ships at Port Royal were the Spartan, 26, and steamer
Hermes, which vessel had been sickly.
The steam-ship Firebrand will be commissioned
shortly by Captain A'Court for the broad pendant of
Commodore A. L. Corry, to superintend the evolu-
tions of the experimental brigs.

The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, is still at
Plymouth, and is not ordered to the coast of Mo-
rocco, as reported. She is kept in readiness, however,
for immediate departure, if necessary.
The surveying ship Thunder, and brigantine Spy,
are to be re-commissioned at Chatham as soon as
ready, the former to return to the West Indies, and
the latter to the coast of Africa.
The Thalia, 42, Captain Hope, and Champion, 18,
may be expected shortly from the South American
station, with a large amount of dollars on account of
merchants.
The Royal yacht came into the harbour on her re-
turn from the trial cruise on Sunday, having pre-
viously landed the Hon. 11. T. L. Corry, one of the
Lords of the Admiralty, at Cowes. Sir -William
Symonds, the surveyor of the navy, returned in her,
and her speed is reported as considerably increased by
her new machinery and boilers, fifteen knots per hour
having been accomplished. If this be true, the Vic-
toria gnd Albert is unquestionably the fastest vessel
in the world. Her speed under canvass could not be
properly ascertained, as the winds fell light on her
starting, and continued until her return to port. She
is now moored up the harbour, and will in due course
be inspected by the Lords Commissioners, now on
their official visit of inspection.
The Neptune, 120, and several other ships, are
being masted and otherwise brought forward, for ser-
vice, if required.
The America, 50, Captain the Hon. John Gordon,
had not arrived at Rio de Janeiro from England on
the 10th July, but was daily looked for.

The BOMBARDMENT of TANGIERS.
(From Punch.)
The fact is well known to all England, that the
Boy Jones—nephew of George Jones, Esq.—has for
some time been a volunteer of the first class on board
her Majesty's ship Warspite. This fact—as we have
before observed—is highly honourable to the Earl of
Aberdeen, he having ♦ery properly set Jones to watch
Joinville. We have been favoured with a letter from
Master Jones on the late bombardment of Tangiers ;
and though the Standard may, for its own base pur-
poses, contend that the letter was not written by
Jones on board the Warspite, but by our boy Dick
behind the counter of our office, No. 194, Strand—

.e care as little for the abuse of our Contemporary
as for his praise. What matters it to the man in the
moon, whether fools try to pelt him with mud or
sugar-plums ? And now for Master Jones's letter :
" Warspite, Bay of Tangiers, Aug. 7, 1844.
" Mr. Punch,—There was a good deal of fighting
here yesterday, but after all nothing to what I've seen
at half-price at Astley's. At half-past 7 A.M., the
French steamers got their steam up, and took Admiral
Joinville and other ships in tow before the batteries
of Tangiers. It was plain, however, to be seen
that the ships didn't much like the business, for some
of 'em went in all sorts of confusion ; and if the
Moors hadn't had pity on the poor things, Lord ! how
they might have peppered 'em. Our gunner's mate
went mad with disappointment, and has been in a
strait jacket ever since.
" Well, at about half-past eight, the Suffren and
Jemappes fired away, but with a good deal of dignity
like and consideration. They were at it till about
two in the afternoon—the Moors banging away for
dear life. Then the ships sheered off, and the Moors
left their flags a-flying, and there was such a roar of
laughter aboard of us, you'd have thought it was
pay-day. Bless your heart, while the fight was going
on, you should have seen some of our men. They
looked at the Frenchmen, for all the world, as you
may have seen boys look through a pastry-cook's
window at the tarts—their mouths watering, but not
being able to get at 'em.
" There has been a good deal of talk about the bad
gunnery of Joinville. Poor young man ! I dare
3ay he did quite as well as he could. But when you
remember that he was making his first appearance
before a British audience, who knew what was what,
you must allow it was trying to his nerves. I've
seen young fellows in his state at the Coburgh, and I
always cried out " Bravo," to encourage 'em.
" The French, however, did fire slow,—but I am
sure they only did so from the best of feelings. How
could it be otherwise ? Isn't it enough to make a
human creature sick to go banging at walls and
houses—dropping rockets in honest people's dwellings
—killing women and children in the street, and all
for what numskulls call glory. I'm sure of it, Prince
Joinville felt ashamed of the work, and so did all the
worthy fellows employed in it—and that's why they
didn't put any heart into the matter—but banged
away by fits and starts, and then hauled out of the
bay, whilst the Moors were still cock-a-whoop. For
myself, I know if I were a Prince, and sent to do
such work, I should feel myself very little better than
a housebreaker—a Jack Sheppard with a cocked hat;
and then for the glory of the thing—l'm bless'd if I
should rest of nights—l should dream of nothing
but of the police and Newgate.
"Joinville has gone off down the coast, they say, to
gut some more houses. If I hear anything worth
sending of his doings, you shall have it. In the
meantime, believe me, truly, your own Correspondent,'
" THE BOY JONES."

SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S PUPILS.
(From Punch.)
Mr. Punch,—l am one of the suspended letter-
carriers, about whom there has been such a fuss in
the newspapers ; and I, with my brethren in afflic-
tion, knowing the impartiality of your judgment,
address you that fair-play may be done to all of us.
We are charged with opening letters addressed to
Lord Bentinck, Mr. Tattersall, and to other horse-
racing gentlemen. Well, we confess it : we broke
open their letters—every one that fell into our hands
—but we did it, as Sir James Graham broke the
letters of other people—all for the sake of public
peace and public morals. I should like to know what's
the use of high people, Queen's Ministers, and all
that, if we poor small folks ar'nt to copy and learn
from them.

Sir James said that what he did, he did for the
peace of the world and the well-doing of society. He
hal heard or dreamed of cut-throat conspiracies, and
so he went to work and opened right and left. And
what's the consequence ? 'Why, all sorts of good.
They do say that the Italians who were all lately
shot in the back, were only found out by the news
that was sent of them from the Home-office—news
picked out of opened letters to Italians here in Lon-
don. Isn't this something comfortable to think of ?
Doesn't it do an Englishman's heart good to know
this ?
Well, Sir, I and my fellow-suspended took Sir
James—good pious man as he is—for our pattern ;
and knowing that there was such a deal of roguery,
and hedging, and hocussing, and all that going on
upon the turf—we opened all sporting letters that we
might know all about the wickedness, and, like Sir
James, make the most of it.
All we wanted, Sir, was to put honest folks upon
their guard as to what was going on ; just as good
Sir James broke seals only to let the Emperor of
Russia and King of Naples know the wickedness that
was being got up against 'em. I repeat it, we merely
wanted to find out roguery, to make the most of it.
Well, Sir, and for this, we are to have our charac-
ters taken away—to be suspended—to have our
mouths deprived of our honest bread, and to have all
sorts of bad names given us in the newspapers ; whilst
Sir James Graham keeps his seat and his salary, and
his character—or all that remains of it—to boot.
Well, this comes of being conceited, and copying
one's betters ! For the future, as I want to do right,
I shall just do the contrary of Sir James ; and, in
the meantime beg, Mr. Punch, that you will do all
you can for A SUSPENDED POSTMAN.

LEITH, WEDNESDAY.—HERRINGS IN THE FIRTH Or
FORTH.—The large shoals of herrings which set in, to-
wards the end of last week, in and about Eyemouth and
Dunbar, have this week reached near our own shores as
far up
as Inchkeith. On Monday and yesterday there
were from thirty to forty boats out, and the take has
been immense ; some boats averaging fifty and sixty
crans, and the fish are remarkably fine. On Monday
they were selling at 10s. per cran, and yesterday they
were sold as low as Bs. ; retailing at lid. and 2d. per
dozen. So extensive and dense were the shoals, that the
waters were literally alive with this most useful of all
the finny tribe. Along the coast they have been carted
off, in bulk to the amount of thirty and forty carts daily,
for the use of the neighbouring towns and villages. From
the fineness of the weather, the scene of so many boats
gathering in these treasures of the deep, has bean of the
most animating kind.
Tux WitA.TIIIIR AND TUE. Czors.—All the pro n-
eial papers, received this morning, give most favourable
accounts of the prospect of the harvest. The weather
everywhere is most propitious.