The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 22.—The Hope, 10, packet-brig
Lieutenant-Commander G. Snell, arrived here from
Falmouth this morning. She is to come into harbour
and be paid off.
The Resistance, fitting for a troop ship at this port,
is to have a complement of 100 men. She is to carry,
eight guns—six 18-pounders, lOcwt. each, 3ft. 4in. long.
and two 9-pounders, 25cwt. each, 7ft. 6in. long.
The Crocodile, 26, is to be fitted with topmasts and
yards of a sloop of war, and, with the Scylla and Wolf,
to be furnished with Harris's gh tni n g conductors.
The Fly, 18, Captain Francis P. Blackwood, is to be
supplied with three stream anchors 7cwt. each, and two
kedges 4cwt. each, on Lieutenant Rodgers's plan.
In consequence of the shortness of the days at the
present season, the sailmakers of this establishment are
to be placed on job and task-work until the expiration
of the financial year.
Notice has been given to Messrs. Bailey and Pegg for
the termination of the contract entered into with them
for the supply of British iron.
In the Sound.—Dido, 20, corvette, Captain the Hon.
H. Keppel, Mediterranean ; Hope, 10, packet brig, Lieu-
tenant• Commander G. Snell, late from the West Indio.
In Hamoaze in Commission.—Caledonia, 120, plaid-
, ship flag of Port-Admiral Sir Graham Moore, Bart.,
G. 8., and G.C.M.G., Captain H. Eden ; the San Josef,
110, flag of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Sir Samuel
1 o
Pym, K.C.8., Captain F. Burgoyne 1 the Minden, -
pital-ship, for China, Captain M. Quin ; the Implacable,
.
74, Captain E. Harvey, from the Mediterranean ; the
Fly, 18, Captain F. P. Bhtckwood, surveying expedition;
the Bramble, mate in charge, C. B. Yule ; the Sylph,
tender to the guard-ship at Portsmouth, Burney, master;
the Netley, tender to the Caledonia, Burney, master •
the Avon, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander C.
Jenkins, particular service —repairing ; the Adventure,
navy, transport, second master A. Wallis ; and the Swale,
Camel, and Devon, lighters.

AN UNFORTUNATE FAMILY.—There is a
trite saying, that " one misfortune follows fast upon the
heels of another." The following distressing circumstances
speak as to its truth :—Mr. David Johnston, overseer at
lnverpeffer, died in a fit of apoplexy about two months ago,
leaving a wife and large family to mourn his loss. Shortly
before Mr. Johnston's death, one of his sons, a lad of four-
teen years of age, was apprehended on suspicion of having
laid a piece of wood across the railway at Carnoustie. He
was only a short time in confinement. Nevertheless, this
untoward circumstance embittered the last moments of his
dying father. On the day preceding Christmas, one of Mr.
Johnston's daughters received the contents of a fowling-
piece in her body, from the effects of which she died on
the morning of Thursday week. She was a servant in the
house of a widow lady at Carnoustie, and was engaged in
the kitchen when the only son of her mistress (a mere boy)
came in with a loaded gun. He playfully presented the
piece at her, which accidentally went off, attended with
the fatal results above stated. This fatal accident has
deprived the boy's mother of her senses. Another son
of Mr. Johnston's, a farm-servant at Seston, was, while
driving manure, two or three weeks ago, jammed between
the cart and a wall, by which two or three of his ribs
were broken.—He is in a fair way of recovery.—Mon-
trose Standard.
SINGULAR FOREIGN HORSE.—In a foreign
journal we find a notice by Dr. Bloch, of Berlin, of a
horse he had seen there absolutely destitute of hair, and
which he considers as a particular species in the caballine
genus, as the naked dog of Egypt constitutes one, ac-
cording to him, in the canine genus. The native soil of
this species is the marshy districts of Persia. It appears
'that three of them were brought into Europe at the con-
clusion of the late war between the Russians and Turks.
At a recent examination of some teetotallers at
Cardiff, for disturbing the peace by a concert in the
street in praise of teetotalism, one of them spoke of
" two drunken characters who signed." " What," said
the Magistrate, " when they were drunk ?"—" Oh, yes,"
was the answer ; "it is generally the best members who
sip) when they are drunk."—Carmarthen Journal