The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 21.—0 n Thursday, the Philomel,
10, Captain Lord Wm. Paget,. sailed for the Mediterra- '
nean. The .Pelican, 18, Captain Hon. C. L. Irby, is ex-
pected to sail on Tuesday next, for the same station.
The Ringdove, 18, Captain Thornbrough, is expected
from Chatham, to be paid wages, and proceed to the
Halifax station, to relieve the Rifleman.
The Arachne, 18, was paid off on Tuesday by Captain

Baird, and laid up in ordinary.
On Tuesday the ship Woodbridge, Lamb, master, was
released from quarantine, having been put under that re-
straint for fifteen days, from having lost her former
master, (Deane), and nine of the crew, on the passage
from Sierra Leone, and arriving here (for orders) with six
others ill, from the effects of fever. She sailed to-day for
London, to land her cargo, consisting of timber, ivory, and
bees-wax. Two boxes of gold dust were landed from her

here, and forwarded to the-owners.
The Southworth, Lieut. Sanders, is to embark MP
companies of the Royal Artillery, at Woolwich, and take
them to Barbadoes, returning thence with two companies

relieved.
The experimental ships which are building on the seve
ral scientific principles of Sir Robert Seppings, Captah
John Hayes, R.N. C. 8., Captain W. Symonds, R.N., am.
Mr. Sainte (the builder of the Marquis of Anglesey's cele
tante(' yachts), are all in progress toward completion. Sir
Robert Seppings is the constructor of the 'l'yne, 28,
Acorn, IS (laid down only the Ist of August), and the Sa-
tellite, 18; the Tyne• will he launched at, Woolwich, and
Om Acorn at Chuthatn-yard, about the Ist of next month;
the Satellite has been Just launched at Penibroke.—Cap-
inin Hayes is building the Challenger, 28, anti Wolf, trii ;
and Captain Symonds, the Columbine, IS, at this Dock-
yard. Mr. Sainte's brig, to be called the Pearl, 18, is
building in a merchant's yard, at Colchester. Captain
Hayes, we understand, is to command his ship, the
Challenger, during the experimental cruises, that his prin-
ciples of ship-building may have all the aid which his
knowledge of practical seamanship can give them. • The
Challenger and Wolf; are expected to be launched early in
November.
The Dartmouth fripte, Captain Henry Dundas, came
into harbour on Monday, to be docked. Remain at Spit-
head :—Blonde,
.Galatea, Pyramus, Pelican, and the Rus7
elan ships Moller and Sinavin.. In the Harbour : Victory,
`Asia, Melville, Spartiate, Diamond, Dartmouth, Swinger,
Arrow.
The Romney, 50, Capt. N. Lockyer, C.B. was at Corfu
on the 17th ult. and was to sail on the 20th for Spithead.
Capt. Merrier is appointed to the harrier; Capt. Chas.
Cotton, of the Camelion, to the Pelorus, vice Capt. Na-
pier, resigned. Mr. It. H.' Stopford, of the Cambrian, is
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to the
Rose,—Lieutenant Arthur Skinner to the Pyramus ; Lieut.
D. F. Grant to the Pelican; Lieut. George Snell, to the
Melville.—Mr. Huey, to be Surgeon, and Mr. M'Con-
chay, to be Assistant-Surgeon, of the Pelorus.
Lieutenant R. Spencer (of Portsea) is appointed an
Agent for Transports ; Lieut. Connor to conunand one of
the' Post-Office Steam Packets, on the Weymouth station.
This day is the anniversary of the great battle of Tra-
falgar (fought 21st October, 1805); Captain Inglis and
the Officers of his Majesty's ship Victory gave a dinner to
Captains Stanucovitch and Lukee, and the ,Officers of the
two Russian ships of war at this port. -The Galatea (Sir
Charles Sullivan, Bart.) lying at Spithead, dressed co-
lours on the occasion.
On Sunday, Sen. Don Sebastian Cainachio; Minister
from the Republic of Mexieo, made a visit to his Ma-
jesty's ship Victory, and was saluted with the honouridue
-to 'his rank. lUK Excellency left on Monday for London.
The Specie brought to England by the Hussar, has been
sent on (by the Canal) to the Mint; and that ship sailed
on Wednesday, for Chatham, to be paid off.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 19.—Arrived the Thetis (on Sa-
tur(lay) from Portsmouth, and came into harbour to
be paid off, and recommissioned, if in a fit state; the
Satellite, 18 (new), from Milford yard; and the BraMble,
from Spithead.—Sailed the Bittern tender, for Liverpool,
and the Coquette, yacht, IL Thorold, Esq., for
The Pelorus, 18, Capt. Chas. Cotton, is expected to sail
to-morrow for the Mediterranean.—Remain, Britannia,
Windsor Castle, Forte, Thetis,- Pilorus, Camelion, Shel-
drake' .and Mutine.
The Plymouth Naval Club celebrated the Anniversary
of Lord Duncan's action off Camperdown, on Wednesday
se'nnight, at Whiddon'S Hotel; between thirty and forty
officers we
Major Burke,
Borrekeise:rett.-
Vice;'
i
Ordinary, shared in 'theCwholoonel,. Abernethie in 'the Chair,
Leacofh'.of the
that
Hampshire, Telegraph.

amendment has taken Owe in' one branch of
Ist Hwy EI•IXST oP TRADE.—As a proof that con-
, we mention that the duty for the
Btridatelreithiltet this towli
hot six weeks, paid by Messrs. Thomas Marslaud and
Son, amounts to between 17,000/. and 18,0001. which
is a greater stun than we have ever recorded them to
have paid.—Stockport• Advertiser.
demand, on the
I RUN T 1141) Et-At the Staffordshire and Shrop-
enumber of orders
shire Quarterly Meeting 1
last week, iron advanced 11.
ra
works,considerableal
ld
th
whole, ismaterially improved. Besides the undoubted
gradual revival of trade, there is another cause for the
per
htaPinid. atitillieerlearigse
.
rise of the prices in the present quarter, in the dimi-
, „jailed supply consequent nit the late lamentable failures
and panic tie third of the furnaces in the kingdom
having been " blown out," or ceased to work.---
Shrewsbury Chronicle.