The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTIL—The Austrian frigate BeHone, com-
manded by the Archduke Frederick, is taking on
board live stock, &c., preparatory to returning to
Trieste. She will go out of harbour in a day or two.
A grand ball will be given on Wednesday in honour
of his imperial highness, which will be attended by
all the elite of the neighbourhood. Naval officers
who have visited the ship report well of her internal
condition.

The new steamer Spiteful, built at Pembroke, has
been commissioned at Plymouth by Commander
William Maitland, 1840, reported for service in the
Mediterranean.

The Samarang, 26, Captain Belcher, fitting out at
this port for surveying service in the Chinese waters,
is progressively getting manned, but retarded in her
equipment by the unfavourable weather. She is to be
t•upplied with lanterns for night-actions, invented by
Mr.llay, operative chemist, of Portsmouth.

The -Ca»-ibridge, 78, Captain Barnard, recently
from the Mediterranean, is in the harbour refitting,
and, contrary to expectation, is ordered to proceed as
soon as ready to Plymouth for further directions. ller
destination is not known.

The Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, has
left Spithead for the West Indies. She goes in the
first instance to Bermuda, to meet the -Vice-Admiral.
Sir Charles Adam, and for her. Captain to be present
at a Court-martial, ordered to be assembled for the
trial of Captain the lion. C. Elliot, of the Spartan,
26, for having flogged a Midshipman 'of That ship.
We- ascertain by letters of the Sth instant, that the
Formidable, 80, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart.,
has arrived in safety at Minorca, and was repairing
her damages in the harbour of Port Mahon, having
been towed thither by the Cyclops steamer. She has
lost her rudder, and is leaky, and after temporary
repairs is to proceed to Malta. her safety is ascribed
to the light wind which then prevailed, or she would
have been a total wreck at the mouth of the Llobre-
gat,near Barcelona. _ _ _

- The Pilot, 18, is ordered home from the West Indies
to he paid off, having been in commission upwards of
four years.

The; Tyne and Conway?, 26 gun ships, are being
brought forward for commission at this-port.
The new sloop Frolic, 16, Commander Willis, is
ordered to proceed to the West Indies, as soon as
read. She is to convey to the Bahamas, Governor
Sir James Cockburn.

At p_pithead.—No ship of war.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Cambridge,
Excellent, Royal George, Samarang, Frolic, Nau-
tilus, and Thunderbolt, Rocket and Volcano steamers,
and Austrian frigate Bellone.
We have jmt heard that orders have been dis-
patched to the Captain of the Formidable, 80, Sir
Charles Sullivan, Burt., to return to Spithead, as soon
as the repairs of the ship are effected.—Brightou
Gazette.

We learn from Belize, that General Mrazan, Pre-
Aident of the State of Costa Rica, was deposed and
:nurdered in the middle of September, while preparing
to make an attack on Nicaragua. An insurrection
arose in the capital, and his troops were. driven out,
:ollowed by the insurgents ; he was overtaken :at a
distance of live leagues. %% here he was shot, and his
• .oldier. massacred to a man. This event, adds the
accouut, shows that the Indian race, at the head of
which is CarreTa, the rival of Morazan, are about to
become the mailers of Costa Rica, as they aro
already of the red of Guatemala.— Galig,,,,L
Ight to
have
We under:Mild, says the Hampshire Telegraph,
that more wheat has been sown in Sussex this autumn
than waspelavceersbewthberree konaot‘svninwheeoautrse
being-substituted
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beeni sown.

'TIE Coors. --Owing to the long-continued dry
weather in the autumn, the breadth of land sown
with wheat is unusually large, and as the weather
since the grain has sprouted ha been. damp and warm,
the young wheats are very forward, and in most in-
stances looking remarkably tine.— Worcester Chronicle.
CAPTURE OF EIGHTY •WHALES AT ORKNEY.—Ex.
tract of a letter dated Kirkwall, Dec. 6, 1842.—At
Scapa Bay, a shoal of whales has appeared, and a lot
of boats are in hot pursuit, and will in all likelihood
capture them, as they are very near in with them at
this moment. As it is just about post 1 Cannot wait
to tell of their success, besides, I am most anxious for
being off to be in at the death of the monsters. A most
glorious day fora whale hunt. Wednesday, Doc. 7.
The whales were captured yesterday; but I was just out
in time to he too late to,sce them killed. There are
about eighty of them, small and great, measuring
from 6to 18 feet. Twenty to thirty boats were em.
plowed in the chase, with an average of four men is
boat ; and the scene altogether was a most animating
one, especially at the death—the monsters lashing the
sea, red with their own blood, into st thousand forms,
and tossing the boats hither and thither with the
stroke of their powerful tails. The day was calm,
clear, with sunshine, and the "red" sea being sprayed
about between the spectator and the sun, had a very
grand appearance. Two or three boats were more or
less damaged during the conflict, but nothing serious
happened.—Thursday, Dec.:B. The whales have since
been sold for 214/., a stun which, when divided among
the captors, will prove a seasonable relief.
MALTING.—The extraordinary mildness of the at-
mosphere, during the last weck, has kept the malt-
aters extremely busy in turning their couches. We
are told that at no period since 183.5, has barley been
in such a fine state for malt, particularly that frors,
the southern counties.—York Courant.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL FOR' THR
.I)ISTITUTE
premises in
Smeu.=lt gives us sincere pleasure to. that that con-
tributions towards the new and extt-agive
G ray's Inn-road, purchased for t.Lig excellent institu-
tion,
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to floww
firnom p ; pretty copiously.
and 1001.
Within these few days donations of 100/. from Mtn
Lee, e
from B. G.; besides many other -smaller amounts
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of jaccount charity.dofilt.hGe„eame
anciee under beenthe
hrrrohno;he
their bankers, Messrs. Grote and Co. •
CHARITY.---Yesterday, the sitting Magistrates at
Bow-street, Worship-street, and Clerkenwell Police
Courts, each acknowledged a donation of 10/. from
the Goldsmiths' Company, for the relief of the poor.
We learn from Turin that the hamlet of Novette,
in Savoy, has been almost entirely reduced to ashes,
upwards of sixty houses, including the parsonages
having been burnt down, leaving a hundred farni4a.
without shelter-or bread, as the %% hole of their har-
vest, which was in the barns, has also been consurneti,
Time church is much damaged, and narrowly escape('
total destruction.

THE SEASON.—To the numerous other 44 proofs of
the mildness of the season," furnished by our core;
pondents, may be added, that, on Sunda-37 last, theta
very fine mushrooms were gathered on Knavestares
near this city.—York Courant.
EN-liouTE.—On Tuesday last, his Royal Ilighnesa
the Duke of Sussex passed through this city, on his
way to Castle Howard, where, we understand, he will
spend the Christmas.- York COUraitt
PUBES ISM! ANI) TIIE LAITY.—The curate of a pa-
rish church, not a hundred miles from Rowley Regis,
we hear, has been suddenly ejected from the curacy.
It is said that his hearers generally had become indig-
nant on discovering that he had imbibed Puseyite gen.
timents.—Krvokr Ciwonfac,