The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTS:•IOUTIT, MAY 24.—The Lightning steam-vessel,
Master commanding William Roberts, acting,passed through
Spithead on Sunday, from Woolwich. bound to Cork, having
on board Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot. Knight, K.C.8., ap-
pointed to the command on the Irish slation,, vice Itair-'
Admiral William Bowles, C. 8., appointed by her Majesty to
a sea* at the Admiralty, vacated by Sir George Seymour, ap-
pointed to the command on the South American station.
The B 1 izer steam-vessel, Captain J. Washington, sailed on
Sunday evening, and the Nautilus, 10. gun brig, Lieutenant-
Commander W. Tringham, on Monday morning from Cowes,
with troops (500) from Parkhurst Barracks for Guernsey.• -
The Emerald tender arrived on Thursday with supernu-
merary seamen. She reported that she saw the Indus, 78,
Captain Sir J. Stirling, off Portland, wind bound.
The Raven cutter, 4, Lieut.-Com. John Stephens, arrived
on Wednesday with supernumeraries for the ships now fitting
out at this port. .
His Majesty the King of Saxony is expected shortly to
pay a visit to this port, and orders have been received by the
heads of the various departments to show his Majesty every
attention..
The Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, Master Commander
Thomas Laen, is ordered from Cork to Glasgow to embark
the depot of the 79th (Highlanders) for Cork, after which
she will proceed to Liverpool and embark the 38th for Dublin.
The Caledonia, 120, Captain A. Milne, is shortly expected
to leave her moorings in Plymouth Sound for Spithead, to
join the other flag-ships forming the squadron of exercise.
She has been paid advance, and her crew mustered and in-
spected by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir David Milne, G.C.8.,
who expressed his satisfaction at the very efficient state of
the crew, &c.
The Prometheus steam-vessel, Commander John Hay, is
undocked and entering her crew fast. Her destination is the
West African station, via the Cape..
The Albion, 92. aptain Lockyer; C. 8., left the Tagus for
the Mediterranean on the llth inst.
The St. Vincent, 120, flag-ship of Sir Charles Rowley,
Commander-in-Chief at this port, is completing her stock of
provisions; has already her lower deck guns on board, pow-
der,. shot, shells, and water, and has transferred her'super-
numeraries to the Victory, 104. •
The Boretta brigantine, Commander Brock, now fitting for
sea, at Chatham, will be ready for service in the early part of.
-next month. Her destination is the Mediterranean.

The Sparrow, 6, Commander Otter, now commissioning
at Chatham, will not be ready to leave for Spithead for some
days.. Her destination i 5 the coast of Scotland, for surveying
service. • _ _

The Rattlesnake, troop-ship, Master-Commander Richard
Brown, lately arrived, with military invalids, from China, is
in the harbour, dismantling preparatory to being paid off.
Amazon, old 42, is being rapidly brought forward as a razee
corvette, at Sheerness, and will very speedily be ready for•
commission.

The Collingwood, 80, Captain Henry Eden, is rapidly en-
tering her seamen, being well known as 'a crack ship. Ad-
miral Sir George Seymour, Knt., G.C.H., the successor of
Rear-Admiral Thomas to the command in the Pacific, will
speedily hoist his flag in her. It is reported Lady Seymour
and daughter will accompany the gallant Admiral, for which
preparations have been made.
Notwithstanding the rumoured recal of the Queen, 110,
to Malta, it is rumoured here that the Indus, 80. Captain Sir
James Stirling, Knt., made out her number in the Channel,
and is supposed to be coming to Spithead to join the squadron
of exercise, her qualities not having had a fair trial in the
Mediterranean.

The Cygnet, 6, brigantine, Commander Henry Layton, is
daily looked for at Spithead from the Nore, en route to the
Cape of Good Hope.
The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, was inspected on Tues-
day last by Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White, Com,
mander-in-Chief at the Nore, after whiA she was paid off.
The name of the officer has not yet transpired upon whom
will devolve the command of the summer squadron of excl.-.
cise. The illness of the Commander-in-Chief here will pre-
clude him from sailing in the St. Vincent. The Gallant
Admiral has recently had an attack of his old complaint
which confined him to his bed. It is reported Sir John Cham-
bers White will have command of the squadron, but we only
give this as a report.
The Malabar. 72, Captain Sir G. R. Sartorius, Knt., ar-
rived last night from Lisbon, last from Cork, but not to be
paid off, it being asserted that she also will join the squadron
of exercise.

The Raven cutter, Lieut. John Stephen, arrived this morn-
ing from Sheerness with supernumeraries.
In Harbour—Victory, Excellent, Rattlesnake, Echo, and
Prometheus.

In Dock—Collingwood, Prince Regent, Scourge, Victoria
and Albert, Lily, Athol.
At Spithead—St. Vincent, Malabar.
APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenants—F. S. M‘Gregor, John Strettell, to Prome-
theus ; R. M. Sandom to the Excellent. -
Master—Thomas Hart (acting) to the Prometheus.
Surgeon—J. D. Tweddell to the Prometheus.
Purser—John Barnet (acting) and Paymaster to Prome-
theus. •
Mates—Selby Silburn to the Prometheus ; Hon. F. Wal-
pole from the Excellent to the Collingwood.
Assistant-Surgeon—R. P. Chapman to the Prometheus.
Clerk—W. W. Parminter to the Collingwood.
Gunner—Thomas Boyle to the Prometheus.
Boatswain—William Ware (acting) to Prometheus.
Engineers—Robert Frazer (Ist) and William Rowley (2d)
to the Prometheus.
Naval Cadet—W. H. Jones to the Collingwood.

Midshipman—Edward Scott to the Excellent.
Master's Assistant—W. H. Canning to the Victory.
This being her Majesty's birth-day, the Royal standard
was hoisted at an early hour on all the Government offices,
and on the ramparts of the town, and at twelve o'clock a
Royal salute was fired from the Platform Battery.

MirxrAßY.—The annual inspection of the Portsmouth divi-
sion of Royal Marines took place on Thursday, on Soutlisea-
common, by Major-General the lion. Sir H. R. Pakenham,
K.C.8., dge., Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth Garrison, Ad-
jutant-General J. Owen, K.K., and Colonel-Commandant G.
Jones. The men went through the various evolutions and
formations with the greatest precision, and elicited the
warmest eulogium from the General and Staff. The Royal
Marine Artillery excited the wonder of their commanders and
spectators by their extraordinary speed in limbering and un-
limbering their guns, firing, &c., which were all performed in
the incredible short space of one minute.
The General and Staff very highly complimented the men
and their officers upon the astonishingly high and serviceable
state of discipline to which this unrivalled corps has arrived,
and expressed high gratification at the soldier like bearing
and fighting order exhibited by the men. Vast numbers of
the beauty and fashion of this locality attended the gratify-
ing spectacle, which lasted until nearly sun-set.
This day the field-day operations were resumed, though not
on I,he same ground, the scenes of action being removed to
Cumberland Fort, about four miles from Portsmouth, where
the operations performed were of the most astounding cha-
racter, the various regiments forming the garrison of the fort
and of Portsmouth taking the parts respectively of besiegers
and defenders, which the excellent space around the fort on
the shore side assisted admirably to display. The bomb and
rocket-practice was most precise and efficient, and was the
wonder of all beholders. The whole were under the com-
mand of Major-General Pakenham, Colonel Trevor, of the
59th, Colonel Menzies, Royal Marines, Colonel Jones, Royal
Marines, and Adjutant-General Owen, Royal Marines. The
operations commenced a little before twelve, and did not con-
elude until nearly three. The officers of the Royal Marine
Corps give a splendid spread to their Colonel and Adjutant-
General, which General Pakenham will also honour with his
presence. A ball upon a spendid scale will also' be given this
evening by the officers of the mess, to which all the rank and
beauty of the garrison and vicinity are invited.

LYCEUM THEATRE. The following fashionable
persons have visited this theatre during the week:--Her
Royal Highness -the Duchess of Cambridge, Lord Eliot,
Lord Moan tcharles, Baroness A hlefeld t, the Baron Angel,
the Baron Koller, the Duke of Leeds, Marquis of Wor-
cester, the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp. Earl and
Countess of Wemyss, Lord Viscount and Viscountess
Canning, Countess Ailesbury, Lady Elizabeth Paul, Lord
Braybrooke, Lord Carew, Lord Edwin Hill, Lord Curzon,
Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord Gardner, Lord Vivian,
Lord and Lady Jocelyn, Lord Lucan, Count and
Countess de Sternberg, Lady Hillsborough, Lord Car-
rington, Sir John Guise and family, Lady Louisa Forbes,
Mon. George Howard, Hon. George O'Callaghan, W.
IL C. Plowden, Esq., Captain Carlton, Captain Alger-
non Smith, Mr. Hume, Morgan O'Connell, Esq., M.P.,
Mr. Sheridan and Hon. Mrs. Norton, Captain West, the
Misses Howard Wyse. Sir Richard Bulkeley and Lady
Phillips, Colonel Wildman, Sir Harvey Bruce and lady,
Captain Pixley and family, Mr. Peel, Captain Lock, and
Hon. F. Charteris, &c.,
Tnit NAPOLEOX Musxuat.—Press of matter has
prevented our further notice of this instructive and very
amusing exhibition, which we have again visited with in-
creased pleasure. The numerous works of art, curiosities,
and historical mementos that are to be found in this unique
museum, illustrate very effectively, and make us better
acquainted with the =most important epoch in European his-
tory, viz., Charles I. to the death of the Emperor Napoleon.
The collection has been very considerably augmented by
several fine paintings, also many valuable relics which were
the Emperor's at St. Helena, including some of his plate,
said to be broken up there, but fortunately preserved and
brought from that place by the Count de Las Casts. We
feel satisfied that our country friends now in town, and also
our London readers, will, after they have examined this
unique museum, and probably seen our Great Duke there, or
some ofthe Royal Family, Who often visit this most attrac-
tive eichibition, be highly gratified.
I 'RELATIONSHIPS EXTRAORDINARY.."—AH Odd sort
of relationship was lately formed by a pair of nuptials ex-
traordinary in Camden. A widower, who was not very
young, became smitten by a beautiful girl and married her.
A short time after a son of this man, by a former wife, be-
came also in love, not with a younger person, but with the
mother of the father's new wife, a "Widow lady still in the
bloom of life. He offered himself, and soon 'the young man
and the widow were united in .the bonds of matrimony ; so
that, in consequence of these two connexions a father became
the son-in-law of his own son, and the wife not only the
daughter-nn-law of her own son-in-law, but still more, the
mother-in-law of her own mother, who it.' herself the
daughter• in-law of her own daughter, while the husband of
the bitter is the father-in-law of his mother-in-law, and
father-in-law °fills own father.—
,Caledonian Mercury.
CHURCH* Or SCOTLAND.--OH the motion of Mr.
Ho:sman a return has been made to Parliament showing
the number of vacancies in parishes by ministers since
the Ist May, 1843. The order is entitled, " A Return
of all Crown presentations to parishes in Scotland which
have been vacant since the Ist day of May, 1843, speci-
fying in each case the cause of vacancy, the name of the
minister appointed, and the' parish from which he may
have been translated." The return numbers 115 minis-
ters, of which 79 have the following note attached :
"The incumbent ceasing to be a minister of the Church
of _Scotland." Others were translated, and .a n,ote is
added to the return in the following words :—" In the
above return some of the vacancies are stated to have
been oeeas'oned in consequence of the resignation of the
presentees before induction. To prevent misapprehen.
slog, it is proper to mention that these resignations were
voluntary, and that none.of them were made in conse-
quence of objections on.the part of the parishioners."
THE POST-OFFICE.—We understand that an offer
hai been made to have London letters delivered in New-
, castle,,Sunclerland, and Shields, in twelve hours and a
half from the time of their leaving the metropolis. Tlja,
sanction of Government is all that is required to ensure
l the execution of the plan.—Durham Chronicle.