The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Vice-Admiral Sir Edward
Owen, K.C.B, with his Secretary, E. Vidal, Esq., will
embark on board the Queen, 110, Captain Rich, in
about three weeks, to assume the command in the Me-
diterranean, when Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason will
proceed to the Tagus, and remain there with a small
squadron. The Queen is now at Spithead, completing
her foreign stores and fitments.
That splendid 'steamer Vixen, Commander Boyes,
has proceeded to Rio de Janeiro to touch at Plymouth.
She takes despatches for Rear-Admiral Thomas, C. 8.,
commanding in the Brazils. This vessel can accommo-
date three hundred. soldiers with all their equipments,
her engines are 140-horse power, stores fifteen days' full
consumption of fuel, and is armed with two ten-inch
guns for shot of 981b5., and four eight inch guns of
681bs. The Geyser steamer, just commissioned at Chat-
ham by coinmander E. Carpenter, is a sister vessel, and
rumour sends her to the North American station.
Those two powerful frigates, Vindictive, 50, Captain
Nicholas, and Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay,
C. 13., will go out to Spithead during the week.. Both
ships are destined for special services, but no positive
orelers for.cither. Ateitort,,,Conveys Lord Ashburton in
the Warspitc it is said the Vindictive
will bring over the Kin.. of PruSSia to this country.
The Nava/ Quarterly Obituary, just published, reports
the demise of three Admirals ; five Captains ; eleven
Commanders ; twenty-three Lieutenants ; three Masters;
four Surgeons, four Surgeon's Assistants ; and five
Pursers. In the Corps of Royal Marines are one Major-
General ; one Lieutenant-Colonel ; two First-Lieute-
nants, and two Second Lieutenants.
The corvette Hazard, 20, Commander Bell, has pro-
ceeded to Plymouth on her way to China, and will be
followed in a few days, by the frigate Thalia, •42,
Captain Charles Hope, now nearly ready for departure
26, has been commissioned here by
from Spithead.
The corvette Dido, 18, Capt. the Hon. Henry Koppel,
goeleraulet,-and the Ringdove, 18, and
hnne
has left for the Mediterrnane:atnt,.oanidiosntotthfeorpeCnhdiannat, as re-
ported.
CaptainTyTnh6e 2C6La, roywrsdiflolGr
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faat tresrh
Rapid, 10, Lieut. Earle, is ordered to the West Coast of
Africa. -
The brig Wolverine, 16, is ordered for commission at
Chatham, it is reported, by CommanredmeraiJn.sSi.nJpolliynmsoonu.th
aslhli,pi.s to proceed
Sound, waiting
ai,vawitiitnhgththe
At Spithead.—Queen, 110, and Thalia, 42.
The Isis, 50, Captain
ela,hrraiiviSaaiir4otf
tha
In Harbour.—St. Vincent, Victory, rowel ful txcel-
lent, Royal George yacht, Carysfort, Warspite, Vindic-
tive, Rapid, Echo, and flag tenders,— r)
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coursep oe rheads
ndeeepealttiilleesnotf theind
indicates
THE INCREASE IrNeoTpliel
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the distress
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ocl less expressive
isiee i
u tiie oExciseftlie
' l'.'Ah The Eosycl
been this : the moiety of the yearly land-tax and as-
sessed taxes due on the 29th of September, was not paid
until after the sth of January following t but in the
year which has just closed, a new and much more rin-
rous system has been introduced, and generally rttroseti
for the purpose of obtainino. payment, 1 '. .. ~1
which it is said that no less than i.,„ -,3- circular, of
from the Office of Stamps and Pa'x,,,'',:,°°(l were issued
litan districts alone, threat.- . roe the metropo-
against 4efaulters on .t)--- . "
--ed Exchequer process
of September. r^" - -.< nalt, year terminating the 29th
to early ,-- . - --- ...nis.excited fears, which naturally -led
th"
~- eaynient, and thus produced the -amount upon
_v taxes to which the halencersheetAs indebted for the
increase it exhibits. But this is a positiic anticipation
of the, ordinary receipts, which will be ,felt at the close
of the current quarter ; when a deficiency-Will neces-
sarily appear equal to the *mint obtained by. the appli-
cation of the screw in tae quarter which has lust closed.
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