The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 4.—The Oaprey and Daring,
two of the new 12 gun-brigs are in the basin and
and masted; sad are only waiting orders for the com-
pletion of the others, when they will all be commis -
sioned without delay.
There are no ships in harbour except the guard-
ships, tenders, &c.
APPOINTMENTS —Mr. F. Rooke, Mate, to St. Vin-
cent ; lion. 11. Moreton, Midshipman, to ditto, vice
Mr. T. B. Reid, Master's- Assistant, to Speedy ; Mr.
Knapp, Naval Instructor, to Armenia.
We have received Cape papers this morning to the
10th February. The •Wincheiter and Thunderbolt
were lying in Simon's Bay,. and the American sloop
of war St. Louis, and the French sloop Favourite, in
Table Bay. The Enrigeetta slaver, a prize to the
Thunderboit, in charge of Lieutenant lion. F. Kerr,
arrived on the 2d February with 213 slaves. A third
had been also captured by same vessel.
The New Naval Regulations, promulgated by the
'Admiralty, contain many most salutary changes and
improvements, calculated to confer lasting benefits on
this branch of her Majesty's service.
The Right !-lon. henry Corry, one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, accompanied by Captain Brandreth,
R.E., has proceeded in the steam-yacht Black Eagle
to Cowes, todetermine on the immediate erection of a
pier opposite her Majesty's contemplated marine re-
sidence. Norris Castle will, it is- said, he ultimately
purchased for her Majesty. The Osborne estate, it is
understood, has been taken for one year only at 1,000
guineas.
The noble ships Rodney, 92, and Coliingwood, 80,
at this port, are fast progressing for commissioning.
Both will be masted in a few days, but will not hoist
the pendant so early as reported. -The former goes to
the Mediterranean, and the latter to the Pacific, as
flag ship of the new Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Ad-
miral Sir G. Seymour.
We have just heard that a large naval and military
promotion has taken place—but it is not yet officially
deciared ; also an extensive one in the Royal Marine
corps. A day or two will give particulars. Rumour
says that twenty captains are made rear admirals.
The Hastings, 72, at this port, has been selected to
relieve the Illustrious, 72, on the North American
and West India station. She will not he commis-

sioned, however, until June next as Sir Charles
Adam's period of service does not expire before
August.
The Fantoine, 16, and Cygnet brigantine are being
hastened at Chatham for immediate service. Both
will be commissioned shortly, the latter for the coast
of Africa.

The following ships are in dock here :—Prince Re-
gent, 120 (ordered to be cut down to the class of the
Rudney, 92, also in dock); Lily, 18, and troop-ship
Athol.
The new 12-gun bri, Flying Fish, is daily looked
for from Milford,. to her completed for commission.
She will be brought round to this port by the Master
of the Victory, harbour guard ship.
The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, had not arrived
at Lisbon on the 17th Marcli,althowib hourly looked
for from Malta, on her way home. 'The Albion, 92,
Captain Lockver, C. 8., was the only ship of war in
the Taaus at the above date.
The Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts,
Bart., arrived at Jamaica on the 16th February, from
Madeira, which she left on the 26th January, and
immediately transferred the Minister for Mexico to
the Inconstant frigate, for a plssage to Vera Cruz,
where she will remain in the room of the Pique
frigate, ordered to rejoin the Admiral.
PLYMOUTH.—SaiIed on the 28th ult., the Larne
sloop, for the Western Coast of Africa, and the Tor-
toise, with Governor Finlaion, for Ascension. Ad-
miral Sir D. Milne has returned from leave, and re-
hoisted his flag on board the Caledonia. The Black
Eagle Government steamer arrives here on Sunday,
with the Lords of the Admiralty, on a tour of in-
spection, to report upon the site of a projected new
dock for steam-vessels. Captain Boldero, Clerk of the
Ordnance, is expected here, on business connected
with the barrack department.

SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.
The public have already been made aware of the
general features of this important line. As it is an-
other link of the great chain of railways by which it
is intended to traverse the length and breadth of the
country, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to
give some further particulars regarding it. It is now
a matter of certainty that, in the course of about two
or three years, a continuous line of railway will be
completed from London, or we may say from Land's
End, to Edinburgh and Glasgow. The Scottish
Central Railway is proposed to branch off from
the Edinburgh and Glasgow line near Falkirk ;
and passing through the towng of Stirling, Bridge
of Allan, Dunblane, Blackford, and Auchterarder,
will terminate at Perth, thus forming about forty .five
miles more of a great trunk between London and the
north. The journey from London to Perth may then
be performed in about twenty hours. The line will
not only command a vast passenger traffic from and
to the south of Scotland and England, but also that
froni and to the west of Scotland and Ireland, being
both a south and north line and an east and west line ;
in fact, being to Scotland what the York and
North Midland or Manchester and Leeds lines
are to England. Besides the constant and tho-
rough trade arising from commerce, it will also
derive much revenue from the pleasure-going
part of the community,' as it lies so far on the
route between Edinburgh and Glasgow and the
Trosachs, and many other places of summer resort,
such as the Bridge of Allan, Spa, Pitcaithly, Wells,
&c., and the numerous shooting quarters of the
English and Scotch nobility. As to the heavy trade,
it has the advantage over almost every other line in
the country,"in so as it will have •no direct water
conveyance to compete with, either by sea or canal.
It will thus not only secure the large trade in manu-
factures between Dundee and oth,rinorthern towns
and Glasgow, as well as that arising from cattle and
sheep on their way from the north to the greet
Falkirk markets, but will also be the means of sup-
plying the whole of the district through which it
will pass, and the Owns and country e,.st and north
of Perth, with coals and lime from the rich mineral
districts of Falkirk and Lanarkshire.--Scotsman.

MISFORTUNES .N.EVkdi, COMB .ALoNE.—!We see, the
King of Hanover is announced, as well aS: the I,27ieror cf
Russia, to visit Faila diu t::,
is all for the best that these two monarchs should make their
visits at the same time, as instances have been known of one
violent poison counteracting another.—Punch.