The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 22.—0 n Sunday,
the Egginton, Lieutenant J. S. Godden, arrived
from Callao, last from Rio Janeiro, whither she
took provisions for the squadron. She left Rio
on July 20, when the Blanche frigate, Captain
Mends, was waiting there to bring to England the
result of the negociations conducted by M. Garcia,
the Buenos Ayrean Minister, for the restoration of
peace with the Brazils. The Heron, 18, Hon. Cap-
tain Grey, was hourly expected to return to Rio
with M. Garcia, from Buenos Ayres. Mr. Ricketts
Consul-General in Peru, and family, came home in

the Egginton.
On Tuesday the Amphitrite transport, Lieutenan
Ward, Agent, returned from Lisbon, with 120 in,
valids from the army, which was rather sickly, and
heartily tired of the country. Saw the Wellesley
and Warspite, off the rock of Lisbon, on the 2d inst.
then seven days from Spithead ; left the Spartiate
(flag-ship), and Pyramus, in the T;:gus.
On Monday the Maria transport, Lieut. S. P.
Pritchard, agent, arrived from St. John's, New-
foundland, in three weeks, with Major Skinner's
company of Royal Artillery. The Orestes, 18, Cap-
tain Jones, had returned from St. Peter's, where she
had been to settle a dispute concerning the Fisheries.
The Manly, Lieut. Field, was visiting the various
stations around the island; as was also the Gover-
nor, Sir Thomas Cochrane, in the Forte yacht, pre-
paratory to his returning to England, in the autumn.
Three ships, with settlers on boaid for Canada, had
put into St. John's, in great distress, both from want
of provisions and repairs ; indeed, the state in which
these ships must have left England was most dis-
graceful, and should be inquired into by competent au-
thority; one of them, called the Mariaof London,had
a plank actually dropping out of her counter. Pas-
sengers by the Maria—Lieut.-Colonel Lewis, R. E.,
add Lady, Capt. Lock, and Dr. Lucas, Lieut. and
Mrs. Lowe, and Dr. Kiley, R.N.
On Monday arrived the Valleyfield, Johnson,
from Hambro' for Bombay, for passengers, and sailed
again on Thursday; on Tuesday, the Mint, Smith,
from Quebec, with timber ; and on Friday, the J us-
tinian, Smith, from St. PeterSburgh, with hemp, for
the dock-yard; Mars, Young, for Bristol ; and
Mary, Brickford, from London, for Newfoundland,
put in by strong adverse winds.
At day-light to-morrow morning, Rear-Admiral
Sir Thomas Hardy will sail from St. Helen's with
the Experimental Squadron, on the third cruise, to
try the rates of sailing of the respective ships, com-
bined with capacity--the desideratum in the con-
struction of ships of war. The following is the
draught of water, &c., of each ship, after having re-
ceived on hoard six months' provisions and stores for
foreign service :
Heights of ports in
midships. Draught of Draught of
Starboard. Larboard. water forward. water aft.
ft. in. .t t. in. ft. in. ft. in.
Sapphire 4'7 ... 4 7
Tyne 5 24 4 9
Challenger ...5 01— 5 01 l6 7 l6 7
Satellite 5 4 5 4.
Acorn 5 6-It. 5 5
Columbine ...3 84... 311
Wolf 5 3...5
An account of water the ships stow :—Sapphire, 62
tons ; Tyne' 70 ; Challenger, 85 (this was the
quantity she had when she sailed from St. Helens—
is capable of taking 90 tons, with four months' pro-
visions, and 85 with six months) ; Satellite, 52 ;
Acorn, 50; Wolf, 25; and Columbine, 44 tons,
with 23 tons of ballast only.
The Right Honourable Cord Yarborough, on
Wednesday, paid oft' and laid up for the winter his
frigate yacht, the'Falcon. His Lordship during the
last summer has visited Lisbon and Gibraltar; and
in the beginning of the month, accompanied by
several of the yachts of the Royal Yacht Club,
visited Cherbourg, at the openirg of the new basins
and launching of a three-decked ship. The works at
Cherbourg were destroyed by the English in 1758.
They were afterwards resumed, on a stupendous
scale, by Louis XVI. and carried on till the Revolu-
tion, when their progress was interrupted; since
which, they have been going on with great spirit,
and two immense basins, building slips, and the docks
connected with them, have been completed. The
basins are excavated out of granite rocks; one is 30
feet deep, and the other 60 feet deep ; the ships are
launched into, and docked out of, the smaller one,
which will contain about 16 sail of the line. The larger
basin is for the fleet, when ready for sea, in which 24
sail of the line can be moored, with the greatest ease,
by means of sachors inserted in the granite,and, when
wanted, can he at sea in a few hours. The two basins
communicate with each other, and with the harbourd.
The covers over the slips and docks are on a gra!'
and magnificent scale; they are erected on granite
piers, with the roofs constructed on a most excel-
lenttheY are regularly slated, each roof having a
number
containing 27 windows principb., and executed in a very superior style :
of rows of lights, each row cont .
There are two three-decked ships, and two ships of
building
100 guns,
on two decks,
tiered of a most beautiful form,
and are of very
large dimensions. The length on their lower decks
ng ; they are consi-
is 217 feet, and breadth 57 feet. There are like-
wise building frigates of very large dimensions, and
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several very large steam-boats.
Last evening, Aldhorottgli Richardson, Esq. in
in common with all other
his yacht, the Zebra, arrived from Cherbourg and
the greatest attention from the
Guerns4 ; left the former place on Thursday after-
noon,French Authorities, and particularly from the
Duchesses ofßerri and Angouleme.;who were making
a short stay at that garrison, They gave a splendid
ball, to which all the English were politely invited,
and for whose accommodation the gates of the town
were left open all night. These Princesses visited
strse,ceived,
several of the English yachts during their stay. The
Georgiana yacht, T. F. Best, Esq.and the Altisi-
dora, W. H. Saunders, Es
q. were left atCherbourg.
No news there.
Three Russian brigs of war have arrived here
from Cronstadt, bound to the Mediterranean: two
of them came into harbour to-dal.

is to be made Deputy-Speaker of the House of
Lords, for the purpose of assisting the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, in hearing and de-
ciding cases of appeal addressed to this High
Court. The health of Lord Tenterden has for
some time past been such as to render the labo-
rious and incessant duties of Chief Justice of

the Court of King's Bench almost too much for
him to discharge : though he has never shrunk'
from the performance, however great the sacrifice
of ease which this required. In the House of
Lords; however, his great legal knowledge, varied
experience, and excellent temper, will eminently
fit him for the duties of his new station : and his
services be thus quite as valuable to the commu-
nity, at the same time that they will be much
more agreeable to himself.
Sir James Scarlett, the present Attorney-Ge-
neral, is, we hear, to be raised immediately to the
bench, and to fill the distinguished situation of
Lord Chief Justice, the Court in which, for so

many years, he has taken the lead at the bar.—
We apprehend that this appointment will give
universal satisfaction. The talentq, experience,
temper, moderation, character, and manners of
Sir James Scarlett, combine to point him out at
the bar, for the post to which he is about to be
called. Though uniformly consistent in his po-
litical views and attachments, which have always

been on the side of liberal measures ; yet, his
forensic duties and reputation have occupied so
much larger a share of public attention than his
Parliamentary labours, that the political has been
almost absorbed in the legal character, and the
occasionally patriotic member much less known
than the daily and hourly distinguished and suc-
cessful advocate. His elevation to the bench
will, therefore, be likely to receive the congratu-
lation of all parties ; and, from no inconsiderable
experience of his extraordinary qualifications, we
should deem it quite safe to predict that as a
Judge, lie will attain even far higher reputation,
both among his contemporaries, and with poste-
rity, than he has yet enjoyed as a Barrister :
though, by universal consent, he has for years
past stood at the highest point of eminence,
which this grade of his profession would admit.
Mr. Brougham is named as the successor of
Sir James Scarlett, in the office of Attorney-
General. That this will raise an outcry on the
part of the defeated faction of the " Outs," and
their disappointed advocates, who can doubt ?
The commanding eloquence, and the undaunted
firmness of Mr. Brougham, as the leading organ
of the Whigs in the House of Commons, have
brought on him—as the same qualities have, in
other days, brought on the most distinguished
men that ever sat within the walls of Parliament,
the hatred and reviling of all who desire to bring
the principles, of which he is the representative,
into disesteem. When truth cannot be dis-
proved, nor arguments refuted, the common
practice of those who are defeated by these power-
ful weapons, is to resort to calumny. Alen of the
lowest understandings are competent to the task
of abusing those of the highest ; and slanderous
epithets, and assertions, may be easily created by
one blockhead, and repeated, ad illfinition, by
others. It is easier also to comprehend a ca-
lumnious imputation than to follow out a train
of reasoning, or fathom a well drawn induction.
Hence it is, that in all vulgar minds, slanderous
aspersions and insinuations are sure to meet a
more welcome reception than higher or nobler
matter. With the vulgar, among the ad-
vocates of bigotry and tyranny,—and these
are unfortunately as often found among the
higher as among the lower orders of so-
ciety,—the name of Mr. Brougham has been,
therefore, associated with all the calumny that
the John Bull, the Age, and similar prints,
have endeavoured to affix to it. , But, with the
great mass of the nation, and with the whole of
the intelligent and liberal portion of it, the name
of Mr. Brougham is associated with all that is ele-
vated and enlightened in politics and literature.
Of him; it is really no flattery to say, that he
is without an equal, among his countrymen, for
the extent and variety of his attainments. His
ever-active mind seems, at some period or other
of his youth, to have been turned to the study
and contemplation of all that a mortal can desire
Languages, the Arts, Law, Commerce—all seem
to know. History, Politics, Science, Literature,
equally familiar to his capacious understanding;
and ,nothing, however unimportant or minute,
appears __ to have eluded his grasp. As the leader
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in a Pamphlet for the Mechanics' Institute—or
as the companion of a social hour in a political
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very consideration, however, that endears him so
much to those whose •
cat;4e ne advocates ; and
whatever may be the outcry raised by
the faction
to whom lie has been so long, and now, we may
add, so successfully opposed (for no man has
contributed more largely in his day to the spread
of those liberal opinions which have at length
triumphed by niacing those who possess them in
power), we believe that the great mass of the
country will rejoice to see Mr. Brougham in the
distinguished place
which we feel persuaded he
will fill with the dignity and moderation that is
so characteristic of true greatness of mind.
The other appointments spoken of are, that of