The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-01 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Orders came down on
Sunday to complete his Majesty's ships Ocean and
Windsor Castle for sea with the greatest expedition,
and for their lower-deck guns to be landed. On
, Tuesday the order for landing the guns of the Ocean
was countermanded; and from what has transpired
on the occasion, we have every reason to suppose
the ulterior destination of the hater ship will be the
Mediterranean station, probably to relieve the Asia.
The two ships (with the Revenge and Melville,
froM Portsmouth)--will; at first be employed in re-
moving the, troops from Portugal, some of whom will
proceed td Malta. "- - - •
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The Lightning. steamer, Lieut. G. Evans, came
in on .Tuesday night from the Downs with 80 men
fur the Windsor Castle and Ocean, which ships
were towed out of harbour yesterday by the
Lightning.
The Scorpion (tender to the Victory), Lieute-
nant Appleby, came in on Monday from Portsmouth,
with 7,0001. in specie for the Dock-yard. She re-
turned again yesterday.
The Orestes, 18 Capt. W. Jones, and the Bit-
tern tender, Lieutenant Rochfort, .came in yesterday
from 'Portsmouth.

In Hamoaze—Britannia, Maidstone, Erebus, Rey-
nard, Leveret, Royalist, Lightning steam-vessel, and
Hope and Jupiter transports.

In Barn-Pool—/Etna.

At the Island—Nightingale, Bramble, Vigilant.
In Catwater—lndian Trader, Cato, and South-
worth transports.
In the Sound—Ocean, Windsor Castle, Briton,
Undaunted, Britomart, Infernal, Orestes, Bittern,
and Pearla and Tejo Portuguese.—Transports—
Borodino, Wansbeck,Britannia,Vibelia, and Stentor.
Lieut. J. W. Pritchard (1808), First Lieutenant
of the Britannia, is promoted to the rank of Com-
mander, we understand, at the powerful request of
his Royal Highness Don Miguel, this officer having
been in attendance on his Royal Highness during his
visits afloat. -

Mr. David Burnes is appointed Assistant-Surgeon
of his Majesty's ship Blonde, at Portsmouth. -
Capt. Chas. Inglis (late of the Victory), is ap-
pointed resident Commissioner of the Navy, at Port
Royal, Jamaica, in the room of Commissioner Short-
land, deceased.

Captain Edward Lyons is appointed to command
the Blonde frigate, at Portsmouth, to be fitted for
foreign service.—Commandcr Thomas Smith, late
First Lieutenant of the Genoa, is appointed to com-
mand the Brisk, 10, in the Mediterranean. Lieut.
Kingcombe, of the Wellesley, is promoted to the
rank of Commander. Lieut. C. Calmady Dent,
serving in the West Indies, has been promoted to
the rank of Commander. Lieuts. H. W. Hill (son
of Captain H. Hill, of the Melville), and James
Maitland, are appointed to the Tribune ; Lieut.
Wm. Crook, to the Melville ; Lieut. Sir W.
Dickson, Bart., to the Raleigh. Assistant-Surgeon
Mein, late of the Genoa, is appointed Hospital Mate
at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. Mr.
Patrick Coleman, is appointed Assistant-Surgeon, of
the Sybille, on the Coast of Africa. Mr. F. Brown,
of the Conflict brig, late of the Syhille, is confirmed
in the rank of Lieutenant.
Capt. H. Mitchell, of the Royal Marines, is em-
barked in the Revenge.
Mr. J. Town, Master of the William and Mary
yacht, is appointed Superintendant of the Victualling
establishment of Portsmouth, at Weevil, on the re-
duced scale.

The Sybille, Commodore Collier, C.B. arrived at
Sierra Leone, Nov. 25, from Benin.

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The Earl of LAUDERDALE is said to have
tendered his gratuitous Support to the Duke of WELLING-
TON'S Administration.—Leeds Intelligencer.

' CHANGE or AIR.--An Irishman being ill
the Doctor examined
do him more ser-
hwienin,t toan
and then
Doctorthen
tntlod knowi nothingailment,
would
vice than change of air. "0, by the powers," exclaimed
the Hibernian, "its that last medicine in your shop I
would try ; for my wife would throw me out of doors if
she see me wear a wig.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.--On the 19th
inst. an inquest was held at Ipstoue,, Staffordshire, on the
bodies of HANN" SMITH, aged 62, and her children,
W3f. SMITII, aged 24, ,losrrit Stririi, aged 19, and
HANNAH Surrn, aged 12 whose deaths were occasioned
by the roof of the house falling in upon them. The family
,
consisted of five persons, and owing to the house being out
of repair, they were sleeping on the ground floor at the
time when the accident happened. Wm. Smrrir, the
husband, alone escaped.— IVorcester Journal.
The difference between woollen weavers and
immediate
•nor can we hear of any
their employers which
, have extended to Bury and the
neighbourhoods have not yet come to any amicable conclu-
sionprospect of an
event every way desirable. In the mean time, large
bodies of the unemployed workmen daily parade in the
streets of the town. This turn-out is beginning seriously
to affect all branches connected with the woollen business.
The dyers have now little to do. The masters, we are
informed, are using every effort to dispense with the usc
of as many hands as possible, and the result is likely to be
a more extentive use of machines in that business.„..-21/an-
cheater Herald.

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

The article entitled " Whiggisnf' is spirited
and ferocious—no one can possibly slumber
over it—and this is saying a great deal for a
modern Magazine Paper. We wish, however, it
had more generosity and less insidious state.
ment ; it would then not be quite so excep-
tionable as at present. With regard to eloquence
and energy, it is altogether a superior concern ;
-but unluckily materient - superat opus. The
criticism on " Swedish Poetry," the hint of
which is confessedly taken from a paper on the
same subject in one of the earlier numbers of the
" Foreign Quarterly Review," affords matter for
thought'and enquiry—the specimens of transla-
tion annexed, are, some of them, eminently
happy. " The Battle of Vittoria," gives a lively
account (detailed by a young Ensign to his
great-aunt by letter) of that decisive con-
flict ; a spirit of strong reality pervades it
throughout ; it is no compilation, but manifestly
drawn from personal observation—as such, it is
well worth reading. Mr. Hogg's account of
" Fairies, Brownies, and Witches"—though cha-
racteristic, is somewhat prosy, we have plodded
through it with difficulty, heightened by the
barbarous dialect in which the characters are
discussed. The inquiry concerning " Country
Banks and the Bank of England" is importantH
and full of sopud wholesome observation. We
may possibly, in a few days, revert to the sub-
ject; but at present we must dismiss it with this
general but merited praise—that even the most
practised Bankers will derive some new hints
from its perusal.