The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Powrsatotyrn, JAN. 20.—The transports, Helen, Crown, and
Regulus, which sailed on Christmas Day, reached the Tagus in
four days and a half, from Spithead, with part of the 12th Lan-
cers on board.

On Tuesday the Waterloo transport, Lieut. Ward, arrived from
Trinidad, with Major Taylor, and the head-quarters of the 9th
Regt.: she sailed on the 3d December. The Thetis and Princess
Royal transports are on the passage with the remainder of the Re-
giment. The Waterloo has since sailed for Plymouth, the Regi-
ment being intended for that garrison. The 21st Regiment is
also coming home, to be stationed at this place. These regiments
were relieved by the 19th and 86th Regiments, from Cork. We
are happy to hear that the Leeward Islands are all healthy and
prosperous. The following is the distribution of the troops in
the islands :—Barbadoes, Ist Battalion Royals, 25th Regt. and
detachment lat West India Regiment; St. Lucia, head-quarters
35th Regt. and one Company Ist W. I. Reg-t. ; Dominica, de-
tachment 35th Regt. and one company Ist W. I. Regt. ; Anti-
gua, head-quarters 93d Regt. and one company Ist W. I. Regt. ;
Montserrat, one company 93d Regt. ; St. Kitt's, detachment 93d
Regt. ; Demerara, 19th and 60th Regts. ; Trinidad, head-quar-
ters of 86th Rest. at Orange-grove ; St. Joseph's, head-quarters
Ist W. I. Regt. ; Tobago, detachment 86th Regt. ; Grenada,
!Detachment 27th Regt. ; and one company let W. I. Regt.: St.
Vincent's, head-quarters 27th Regt.
The Bishop of Barbadoee was gone on a visit to Demerara and
Berhice, in the Valorous, 28, Capt. the Earl of Huntingdon. His
Lordship was to proceed to Trinidad after Christmas.
On Wednesday last sailed, the Company's ship Atlas, Hine, for
.Bombay C4ear, for the Cape, Madras, and Bengal; Sir Edward;
Paget, for Madras and Bengal ; Madeline, for the Mauritius ;
Denmark Hill and Countess of Harcourt, for New South Wales,
and several other outward-bound ships.
Yesterday, the Leonidas embarked troops and sailed for Malta; j
and to-morrow the General Palmer, Truscott, will sail for Madras.
Sir Thomas Hardy is hourly expected to return to Spithead,
from the Tagus, with the ships which left England under his
orders. Sir Thomas will again shift his flag to the Sybille
frigate, Capt. F. A. Collier, C. B. and resume the command
and equipment of the Experimental ships. The Wellesley, 71,
will come into Harbour, and, it is said, be paid off and recom-
missioned.

Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, K.C.B. is expected to
arrive here, and hoist his flag, on Monday next, in the Asia, 84,
Capt. Edward Curzon, which ship went out of Harbour this af-
ternoon, Sir Edward will sail at the latter end of the week for the
Mediterranean, to relieve Sir Harry Neale.
_ _

On Sunday evening last, his Majesty's ship Nimrod, Captain S.
Sparshott, on her passage from Cork to the Clyde, brought up in
Holyhead Roads, during a gale of wind from N.N.W., and about
midnight she dicve on shore and bilged ; the officers and crew
were all saved.

The Imogene cutter (R. Y. C.), Captain S. Parnell, the pro-
perty of Captain the Hon. R. Fulke Greville, was blown out of I
Dungeness, with loss of anchor, in a violent gale from W.N.W.
on Monday last, with a number of other vessels of all descriptions,
and arrived here on Tuesday, being the only vessel that made a
passage to windward.

Ten sawyers and fifty labourers have been entered into work
this week, at our Dock-yard.—Hampshire Telegraph.

THE LIGHT IN THE GARRET WINDOW.-A!
Tale of the Trongate.—Many of the friends in whom I can find
no other fault, have gone to live in the westermost -estergate,
where stood the holms and hills of the Laird of Blythswood, when
Iv
was young. But they have not forgotton the Drygate, for
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sure am I it is the rather to see it again, than to call and invite
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the haunts of their father's boyhood, I often spend the after-
noon and evening in that new city now built on the heights
above where once stood the outlying village of Anderston, and
find night overtake me before
I can get home. I never liked
Ingram Street •
since it was carried through Mr. Glassford's
back garden, nor Wilson Street, since the corporation of
Nottingham became its lairds ; so I walk home by
the bridge
over St. Enoch's burn, and along to the West Port, and
through the Trongate. Many's the time, at the latest hour,
I have panted St. Mary's steeple ; but never yet did I turn
up to note the hour upon its horologe--an easy thing, how-
ever mirk, since they burn the gas there—but I have seen,
and wondered as I saw, just beneath the western face of
that, upon the roof of the outstanding tenement, one story
high, built by the late John Bell, the blase of glaring flame
from two sky-light windows. It mattered not what was the
hour there was the light shining out from the slates. I
have said the land was of one story only. But what made
me wonder—there was never a glimmer in the wall windows,
or a skinkle in the shops below. Dwelling in the building,
I knew there was none. Entrance to it I was sure there wag
but one. " Preserve me," said I often, as I passed and still
saw the light, "the company in that warehouse must be very
busy in the dullest times, or else taking stock every night in
the year"—for I knew by the sign on the front that it was a
warehouse—" since the blazing of their candle, or the burning of
their gas, is like the fire of the bottle-work—an undevalling
thing." I was satisfied with this for some time. But, by and
bye, I could not rest contented with believing that that house
had orders to pack up goods every night, and decided, when they
moved to another part of the town, and their warehouse was
empty, to try to get up the only stair—that at the right hand of
the gateway to the Leigh Kirk—but the outer door was firmly
locked. This was the case every time I attempted it. Never a
watchman came on the station but I interrogated him if he knew
whose apartments these were, where, like love, " a flame far ever
,
burneth." No one of them would own he knew. The packman
at the stairfbot denied, in day-light, that there was any blaze
an the leads at night at all! I could not endure this sus-
pense. Was it a club of gamblers—or radicals—or young doctors
met here? There was a secret in the thing. At last I durst not'
pass the place without trying to solve it, or leave it without regret- I
ting that I could not. On Thursday night last, I made another I
effort. The clove to the west of the land where the street widens,
I had often retraced, but, in desperation, I tried it again. At !
every door I knocked. At length, up what I thought a blind en-
try I crept ; but not a cranny was there there. I heard some i
sounds, however, and followed them. They were of singing. I I
listened, and my blood froze as I heard the chorus—

" Cut away : cut away : cut away !"
I turned about to escape--stumbled—fell—forced open a door—
found myself among about fifteen hard-working tailors—and saw
the two sky-light windows shining forth their blaze of light above
me ! Glasgow Free Press.