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

VESSELS EN ROUTE TO ',DIFFERENT PORTS.

To the Islands—The Beacon surveying vessel, Commander
Graves ; the Polyphemus, Lieut.-Commander Sark.
To Constantinople—The Devastation, Com. Kitchen.

To Tunis and Barcelona—The 'Vesuvius, Com. Ommanney.
To Tunis and Genoa—The Medea, Commander Warden.
To Gibraltar—The Queen (11(:, Captain Sir C. Sullivan ;
the Warspite (50), Captain 1. Vi . P. Wallis ; the Acheron,
Lieutenant B. Aplin, commander.
Powrsmourn, JUNE 2.—The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H.
Blackwood, Bart., is still in Tarbert roads, no orders for her
immediate departure having yet arrived. She will previously
proceed to Plymouth and equip for fortign service; it is be-
lieved her destination is China.

The Cornwall, 50, troop-ship, Lieutenant Howe, is daily
expected with naval and military invalids from China.
The Vernon, 50, just paid off at Sheerness, is to be docked
and surveyed for re-commission forthwith.
The Prometheus steam-vessel, Commander J. Hay, is ra-
pi(lly entering her hands acid equipping in harbour here.
Her destination when ready will be the coast of Africa. She
will take dispatches and supernumeraries for the Penelope,
22, steam-frigate, Captain W. Jones, and other vessels on the
African station.

The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir G. R. Sartorius, is being dis-
mantled in the harbour prior to being paid off. Should her
timbers be found on overhauling sound and firm, she will be
re-commissioned to form one of the squadron of exercise.
She has been upwards of 50 years in the service.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander 11. B. Young, was at
Ascension on the 25th of March. She landed commissariat
silver at the Gambia, and touched at Sierra Leone. No case
offerer of any amount has occurred on board her. _ _

The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, sailed on Friday
to relieve the wind -bound vessels in the Channel, and with
orders, should she see the Indus, 80, Captain Sir James Stir-
ling, Knight, to send her into Plymouth, to be paid off, in-
stead of making this port, so that the proverb, " It's an ill
wind that blows nobody good," will suit the good people of
Plymouth exactly.
The Vindictive, 50, Captain J. Toup Nicolas, C. 8., was at
Callao on the 28th January, moored within 50 fathoms of the
Mole, to afford protection to the British Minister and resi-
dents, if required, another revolution in Peru being ex-
pected every hour. The Vindictive had a sailing match
with the American frigates United States and Constellation,
46, Commander Kearney, which sailed from Callao on the
20th of January, in a rim of about sixty-five miles in eight
hour?, by the wind, with royals set; the Constellation was
decidedly eclipsed, being left, half topsails down, astern,
and the United States was left about eight miles astern.
When the breeze freshened the Vindictive gained more, and
had it blown strong her advantage would have been infinitely
greater.
The Eurydice, 26, Captain G. Elliott, and Fair Rosamond,
2, schooner, Lieut.-Commander A. G. Bultnan, were at Halifax
on the 13th ult.; the Illustrious, 72, Captain J. E. Erskine,
with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief on the West India and North American
station, arrived at Halifax on the 18th of May ; and the
Hermes, steam-sloop, Lieut.-Commander Washington Carr,
the 10th, from Kingston, Jamaica, where fever had been
awfully severe, and had proved fatal to many on board. No
communication whatever was allowed from the shore, and
the quarantine flag floated from her mast-head ; theßesistance,
42, Commander G. G. E. Patey. and Apollo, 8, Commander
W. Maclean (troop-ships), left Halifax for Quebec on the
sth of May, with the second battalion 59th (Rifles), and
other troops on board.
The Queen, 110, Captain Sir C. Sullivan, arrived at Gibral-
tar on the 17th ult. from Malta, and was there on the 19th
with the Locust steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander John
Lunn. _

We have good authority for stating that Captain A. Corry
will be the Commodore of the experimental 12-gun brig
squadron during their trial, and that he will hoist his broad
pendant as Commodore of ' the second class on board the
Firebrand steam-vessel, the command of which, when the
trial is concluded, will devolve on Captain James Hope.