The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 10.—His Majesty's ship
Galatea, Captain Charles Napier, C.B. arrived at
Barbadoes on the 10th of August—all well. She
had the misfortune to lose a man overboard at sea in
the night ; cast adrift the life-buoy, but unluckily in
the hurry, without lighting it, and both men and
buoy were lost. The Galatea intended to remain
at Barbadoes until the 16th, and then proceed to
Jamaica, calling at Martinique. On the 28th of
July, in lat. 15. 19. N. long. 30. 20. W., sha spoke
the Garland, bound to Liverpool.
The Algerine, 10, Commander Talbot, arrived
on Wednesday, from Chatham. She will proceed
in a day or two to Rio de Janeiro.
The Herald yacht, Captain Maxwell, is hourly
expected here to embark Mr. Turner, as Envoy-Ex-
traordinary from this country to the Republican
Government of Colombia ; he will be landed near
Santa Martha. Colonel Dashvvood and family alto
proceed in the same ship, as Consul-General for
that country, for the protection of British trade, and
will be landed in the Gulf of Dolce.

The Sparrowhawk, 18, Commander Thomas Gill,
is expected hourly from the Eastward, to anchor at
Spithead, prior to her departure for the West Indies.
The Henry Porcher transport, Lieut. Binstead,
agent, will sail on Monday for Cork, to take on board,
in conjunction with the Lord Suffield and Stentor
transports, the 53d regiment for Gibraltar. These
vessels will then from the latter garrison take the
73d Regiment to Malta; from Malta they will con-
vey the 95th Regiment to Corfu, and from Corfu
they will bring tha 28th Regiment to England.
The Joseph Green transport, Lieut. Robinson,
agent, arrived on Sunday, with stores and invalids,
from Halifax and Bermuda. She sailed on Wed-
nesday for Deptford.
The Wanderer transport may be daily expected
with stores and invalids, from Halifax and Bermuda.
The Pearl, 18, Commander Blake, went out of
harbour on Wednesday, and sailed to-day to resume
her station under the orders of the Commander-in-
Chief at Cork. The Harlequin yacht of Lord
Vernon sailed in company, to try her relative rate of
sailing with this class of men of war.
The Onyx, 10, Lieut. Boteler, sailed on a cruize
yesterday, and returned to-day. The Highflyer,
tender to the Hyperion, arrived from Newhaven on
Monday. The Lightning steam-vessel proceeded
on Tuesday to the River.
Yesterday sailed the Speedy cutter, on a cruize.
The Vigilant ketch arrived on Wednesday from
Plymouth, and returned the following day.
The Winchester, 52, and Volage, 28, have been
commissioned this week—the first at Chatham, for
the flan-ship of Rear-Admiral Griffith Colpoys, for
the West Indies; and the latter at this port, for the
Halifax station. •

The Catherine Stewart Forbes, with 200 con-
victs for Sydney, under the charge of Dr. M‘Ter-
nan, will sail to-morrow for Spithead. The James
Pattison, with 200 male convicts, recently sailed
for the same destination, from Dublin, under the
superintendence of Mr. Gilchrist, Surgeon, R.N.
Arrived on Tuesday the Joseph Green, from
Archangel, for Chichester; on Thursday the Se-
sostris, Yates, for Bombay. The latter will sail to-
morrow. This morning arrived the Bee, Buckpitt,
for Madeira anti Mauritius; and this evening the
Lady Holland, to embark passengers for India.
Sailed on Wednesday the Lady Blackwood,
Dibbs, with goods and passengers for Sydney.
A Correspondent desires us to mention, what we
believe is the fact, that the trial of speed between
Lord Vernon and Lord Yarborough's yachts, al-
luded to in our last, was perfectly acei,!ental. In
justice to the Falcon, he states, it should be known
the latter was out of trim, was too much by the
stern, and altogether too light. Her copper was off
about the bows, and her bottom exceedingly foul;
added to which, her sails, from being exposed to
constant bad weather, were in a very bad condition,
The weatherly qualities of the Harlequin must be
great, as from her rig her yards can be braced con-
siderably sharper than any other square rigged ves•
sel, and she can lie a point or a point and a half
nearer the wind thereby.
The Comptroller of the Navy, Sir T. Byam Mar-
tin, M.P., and Sir Robert Seppings, with G. Smith,
Esq., Secretary of the Navy Board, who arrived on
Saturday evening on an official visit, have given
their attendance daily at the Dock-yard. Among
the points to which the Board have chiefly directed
their attention, are the recent adoption of sonic mea-
sures relative to the internal economy of the Dock-
yard, suggested by their Secretary; and a new
plan of fitting the magazines of ships of war, sub-
mitted to them by the Hon. Captain Elliott, and
upon which the magazine of the Edinburgh, now
under repair, will be fitted. The Board will return
to town on Tuesday.
The gates of the Dock-yard at Brest, which have
heretofore shut out foreigners whose object was to
scan the efficiency of that establishment, arid borrow
hints from it, have, by permission, recently been
thrown open to one of the Surveyors of our Navy,
Mr. Tucker, and another Member of the Board.
A very interesting experiment has been tried
during the last week, in this Dock-yard, to deter-
mine the relative strength of two anchors; one, the
lanchor commonly used in the Royal Navy, some
time since invented by Mr. Pering, late clerk of the
check of Plymouth Dock-yard; the other recently
invented by Lieutenant W. Rodgers, R.N. The
chief peculiarity in the new anchor is that the shank
is made hollow, and has a wooden core, six inches
in thickness, extending nearly its whole lenth. Over
the wood are placed two iron plates three-eighths
of an inch in thickness, and the whole are firmly
hound together by strong hoops. A shackle has
also been substituted for the usual ring, and the
shank so formed that the stock may be unshipped
with the greatest facility. The weight of Pering's
anchor was 30 cwt. 3 qrs. 41b. ; that of Rodgers', in-
cluding the oak, 29 cwt. 0 qrs. 19 lbs. The mode
of trial adopted was by first placing two strong tim-
bers parallel to each other at some distance apart,
and each resting against the walls of two store-
houses. The anchors were hooked to these timbers
by their palms, arid the timbers were so formed that
the whole surface of the palms laid closely agains
them. The perpendicular distance of the upper
part of this bearing from the middle line cf the
shank was about 2 feet 1 inch each. The anchors
were hove towards each other, by means of 'two
threefold purchases, passing through blocks lashed
to their rings; and the falls led away to two cap-
stans, each manned by 40 men. On the first day,
after having hove about twelve minutes, the main
purchase, an eight-inch cable, broke. The next
day a nine-inch hawser, with powerful blocks,
having been substituted, the trial was re-
newed, when Rodgers' anchor broke in the fluke
nearly at the middle, between the throat and the
upper part of the palm ; but from the appearance
of the fracture, it was universally attributed to a
defect in the workmanship rather than the prin-
ciple. The anchor was then turned over, so that
the other fluke was hooked to the timber, and on
Thursday a farther trial took place, when,after heav-
ing about eight minutes, the shank of Pering's an-
chor broke asunder, at about two feet from the
throat. The fracture shewed the iron to have been
united in the most perfect manner. From the re-
sult of this day's experiment, there could exist no
doubt of the superior s'rength of the hollow shanked
over the common anchor, when subjected to a strain
nearly in the direction of the shank. Had it been
possible to have applied the purchase so as to have
produced a powerful transverse strain on the shank,
such as takes place at sea in tripping the anchor,
we conceive its superiority would have been more
fully displayed. It is also to be regretted that, from
the method of trial adopted, we cannot ascertain
how much greater a strain the new anchor might
have sustained. Great credit is certainly due to
Lieutenant Rodgers, for the ingenuity he has dis-
played, and we cordially congratulate him on the
successful issue of the experiment. There still cer-
tainly exist minor objections in the minds of marry
experienced Naval Ofhcerg, which we conceive

would be best removed by a lengthened trial at sea.
Next week we will subjoin a few particulars of for-
mer experiments with which we have been favoured,
which our limits will not at present admit Of.
The Lords of the Admiralty have recently order-
ed the expences of the whole of Capt. Dickenson's
witnesses at the late Court-martial to be paid by
the Treasurer of the Navy.
The 47th Foot marched into the Dock-yard on
Wednesday morning from Chichester, and embarked
immediately afterwards for the Royal Albany Bar-
racks, Newport.—Hampshire Telegraph.
DEVONPORT, OCT. 10.—The Badger, 10, Cap!.
Rowley, is fitting at Chatham, and will he attached
to the North Sea station.

Ninety tubs of contraband spirits were recently
picked up on the North Sea station, by the Basilisk
cutter, Lieut. W. B. Watts, Commander.
Iu Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Orestes, Py-
lades, Royalist, Leveret, Calypso, and Meteor
steamer.

In Barnpool—Undaunted.
A PPOISTMENTS.—Captain C. J. Austin, and
Lieutenants G. 'l'. M. Purvois and John T. Warren,
to the Winchester; Lieut. Charles Wilson Ross,
to the Victory ; Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Surgeon,
and Mr. Joshua Brookes, Assistant-Surgeon, to the
Volage ; Lieut. J. B. Cragg, to the Semiramis;
Capt. Hugh Pigot, Commander Vincent Newton,
Lieutenants Samuel Holland, Charles Edmunds,
Charles Bell, W. John, and A. H. C. Capel, and
Mr. Joseph Bas•an, Assistant-Surgeon to the Tala-
vera ; Commander Henry Bourne, Lieutenants E.
B. Stuart, James Tuson, William Forrester, arid
Edward B. Tinling; M. E. F. Bromley, Surgeon,
Mr. C. Burney, Master, and Mr. George Davis,
Purser, to t he Donegal; Lieutenants W. G. C.
Lydiard, and Launcelot Harrison, to the Ganges.
Commander Henry Bourne (1813), who distin-
guished himself under Sir J. Brenton, and was
severely wounded in the service, is appointed to the
Donegal, 78, the guard-ship at Sheerness.
Major-General the Hon G. A. C. Stapylton,
Chairmen of the Victualling Board, and Commis-
sioner F. Edgecombe, with M. W. Clifton, Esq.,
Secretary, arrived here on. Monday, on a visit of
inspection, The Commissioners held a Board on
Wednesday, at the Royal Naval Hospital, whence
they proceeded to the new works at Cremill Point,
where the foundation-stone of the principal store-
house was laid by General Stapylton.—Devonpori
Telegraph.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS FOR TUE PRESENT REES.

ler Communications under this Head—accounts of
Hunting Exploits " BY' BLOOD AND PlRLD"—are
particularly requested.

His Majesty's Stag Hounds, on Monday, at King's Beech
Hill ; and Friday, at Broom-hill Hut—at Half past Ten.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Peak's
Closes; Wednesday, at Cadney Village; Friday, at Hain-
ton House ; and Saturday, at Fox Dale's—at Eleven.
H. Jolliffe's, Esq.'s Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Plates
Green; Wednesday; at Kingswood Gate: and Saturday,
at Hermitage—at Eleven.

The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Mondry, at Worms Heate ;
Thursday, at the Rose and Crown ; and Saturday, at Locks
Bottom—at Half-past Ten.
The Sasderstead Harriers, on Monday, Vi'ednesday, and
S.turday, at the Kennel—at Ten.

The Upto❑ Harriers, on Tne•d+y, at the Green Dragon,
Corse Lawn—at Ten.

Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Wisthicle Vil-
lage ; and Friday, at Brockhall Turnpike—at Ten.
The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on TneatLiy, at Stock
Howe; and Saturday, at Pea Forest.
Nir. Codringtou'a Hounds, on Monday, at the Wh►at
Sheaf, Littleton—at Ten.

Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Kilnhurst
Bridge ; Tuesday, at Wombwell Wood ; and Thursday, at
Lunn Wood—at Ten.

The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Pateham; Wed-
nesday, at the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at
Ha!f-pact Ten.
The Breok4de Harriers, on Mond,iy, at Newmarket-
Hill and Friday, at Hoddern-House—at Half-past Ten.

Pheasant shooting has commenced in this neighbour-
hood, so far as quantity of game is concerned, under un-
favourable auspices. The preserves were thinned to a
considerable extent last season ; and this circumstance,
coupled with the destruction to the young broods, occa-
sioned by the moisture of the summer, will tend to dimi-
nish the pleasure which the shooter derives from a sport so
invigorating and delightful.—Doncaster Gazette.
W are authorised to state that Lord Newark and George
Savile Folj anbe, Esq. are appointed Stewards of Doncaster
Races for the ensuing year, and not the Marquis of Wor-
cester and the Hon. E. R. Petre, as has been announced.
—lbid.

A meeting of several of the Nobility and Gentry of Ox-
ford, connected with Sir Thomas Mostyn's Hunt, was held
at the King's Arms Inn, Bice:4er. on Friday, the 2d inst. ;
when, in consequence of Sir Thomas having signified his
intention of giving up the hounds, a subscription was en-
tered iuto to enable Mr. Drake to undertake the manage-
ment of the same. From the high respectability of the
spouting gentry who attended en the above occasion, we
have no doubt the Hunt will be kept up with spirit.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.