The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 18.7—0 n Monday the Romney, 50,
Captaia.N..Lockyer, C.B. arrived from the lonian Islands,
Malta, and Gibraltar, with invalided detachments of the
7th, 12th, 18th, 23d,' 28th, 43d, Slat, 64th, and 88th Re-
giments, and Rifle Brigade; the Romney left at Corfu the
Weazle, and at Malta, the Zebra, Chanticleer, and Mastiff.
The Raleigh had arrived from Spithead, and sailed for
Alexandria. The Romney was released from quarantine
on Wednesday, and is now refitting at Spithead.
The following extract from a private letter from Malta
(received by the Romney) contains the latest intelligence
respecting the Greek Navy
MALTA, OeT. 1.-Sir Harry :Neale continues in the Archipe-
lago, with nearly all, the squadron, a few of the sloops being em-
ployed in convoying the trade thither and back.. The Greek
pirates require the presence Of the united squadronkof England,
France, and Austria, to keep them in check. The.Greok fleet
consists mostly of brigs, not brigs of war, but they are all armed.
Six of them lately deserted the Greek cause, and went pirating.
One of them is now here, sent in by the Medium, Captain T. Cur-
tis. She .has part of the cargoes of several different vessels on
board, which she plundered. The prisoners, in justification, say,
" We had no pay nor provisions, and with arms in our hands, we
were not going to starve." It will be quite impossible to protect
our trade, with our present force, if this example is followed by
the Greek fleet generally, and which there is some reason to ap-
prehend. . The Greeks had .an affair with the Turks, off Myti-
lene, about a fortnight since, which lasted two days, but neither
party could claim advantage. The Pacha of Egypt has threaten-
ed to come and settle the matter for the Turks, but having heard
that Lord Cochrane was coming with his sixty-eight-poundere;
he suddenly became indisposed. Lord C., otherwise Mr.: Hunter
Blair, has departed this coast, in his English schooner, sadly dis-
satisfied, for Alarseilles.

This morning the Russian line-of-battle ship Constan-
tine, 74, Commodore Bellinghausen, Captain Cussin, and
the Helena frigate, Captain.Baronskoff, arrived here from
Crenstadt, last from Copenhagen (where they lay a week),
bound to the Mediterranean. It is now, we believe, fifteen
years since the Russians had such a naval force in those
seas. They are expected to sail in about ten days.
The Orestes sloop of war, Captain W. Jones, while
lately cruising off the coast of Labrador, suddenly, in a
thick fog, fell aboard of an iceberg, and but for the fortu-
nate circumstance that she had just hove to, to sound,
every soul would have been lost, as she had just previously
been running seven ,knots. The first intiquttion the crew
had of the ice was by the jib-boom and bowsprit being
curried away, by Striking against it; the rebound happily
prevented her bows from touching the mighty mass, and,
she drifted from it ; it was considerably higher than the
Orestes' masts-head, and appearing completely to over-
hang them ; it was drifting to the southward. The Orestes
left Newfoundland on the Ist of September for Halifax.
A letter from Halifax, dated October 14, states the ar-
rival of the Jupiter (Admiral Lake) from Quebec. The
Menai and Rifleman were ordered to sail for England with-
out. waiting to be relieved; the former was to sail on her
arrival from. Quebec, the latter in about ten days. The
Contest, Lieut. English, had arrived from Newfoundland,
to refit. The writer, in his remarks on the American cor-
vetotte Lexington, aptain Sherbrick, which tried her rate
of sailing with the Orestes, says—" The Lexington is not
a handsome ship, but carries very heavy metal, and most
astonishing masts, yards, and rigging. She mounts two
medium long 21 and twenty-two 32-pound carronadei

(formerly Washington's guns) all upon one deck. These
however are only until others are cast for her, when it is
intended she should mount twenty-four long 24's, twenty
of them to be what are called the medium guns, and the
other four the regular long guns. Twelve more of them
are to be built, to carry the same metal. No single decked
vessel in our service will be able to cope with any of them
at long shot. During the time the Orestes was in company
with the Lexington, she conitantly had her Funs run out,
and the officers deelared they could, at any time, pour in a
broadside in a minute and a half. Notwithstanding her
advantage of masts and sails, the Orestes beat her upon
every point of sailing."
The Shamrock, Capt. Martin White, is arrived at Pem-
broke, to refit, having been employed during the last twelve
months in surveying the Bristol Channel.

On Tuesday, the new experimental frigate Challenger,
It by Capt. Hayes, C.B. was launched at this Dock-
yard. Sho is considered a very 'tine vessel of her class.

Yesterday, orders were unexpectedly received to pay off,
and lay up in ordinary, the Diamond frigate, Capt. Lord
Napier, and Dartmouth frigate, Capt. ._henry Dundas,
which ships had been recently refitted for service until May
next, when their regular period of service would expire.
The Spartiate, T 4, Captain Frederick Wan cn, is or-
dered to be fitted for'the flag of the Commander-in-Chief
iii ihe Tagus, and to relieve the Ocean, 80, the present flag-
ship. The crew of the' Spartiate is to be completed to 575
men. Capt. Patten and Lieut.. Taylor, Royal. Marines,
with an augmentation to 125 Men,of- that corps, have em-
barked in her. '. • „

A Court-Martial was held on Wednesday, on Mr. John
Retallick, Master of his Majesty's ship Athol, on charges
or drunkenness and disobedience of orders, which not being
proved, Mr. R. was acquitted. Captain Sir M. Seymour,
Hart. K.C.B. President.

On Monday Right last, we experienced a heavy gale of
wind. At six o'clock it came on to blow, at S. and S. E.,
attended with heavy rain ; at seven, at E.; at
E. eight,' at
N• 4 ; and at nine it blew a hurricane. The Louisa,
transport, from Sierra Leone, at this time drifted foul of
the Roebuck quarantine cutter; and with such rapidity,
that before the crew had tine to veer away her cable; she
carried away
her
leeward, un
the cutter's bowsprit, topmast, and stove in
the larboard, bow, nearly to the Ivater's edge ; both the
huncr hav_ty
transport and critter drifted together a considerable distance
the cut ter ohlsiqoureely. ,
been let go,
til the sheet anchor of the transport brought
meterhup, which,
i disentangled them ; and the cutter's sheet
brought her up within one
red ar e
8 of the . shore. Fortunately the transport
struck
would probably have sunk 'her.—Hampshire Telegraph.
otherwise the c.oncuss.ion
W happy •- 4

e are happy to heQr that the fever lately so prevalent
the villege the decline.—
Leeds Intelligence?. ear "rndfatil, now on

A poor woman having
asked a butcher in Bath market
the price of a joint of meat, the latter, thinking she could not
athird to purchase it, Mid, in a joke, a "penny a pound." A gen-
tleman standing by, and hearing the reply,
insisted upon liii selling
the woman the meat at the terms he
named, and the butcher re-
fusing an earnest compliance with what hei,d in
levity
proposed.the gentleman brought the matter. before the Magistrates for deci-
sion, who 'said if he had offered it'at a farthin )(mod he must
abide by such offer. —*Bath Journal. g per 1