The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—The Thalia, 36, Capt. Charles
Hope, is under orders for China, whither she will pro-
ceed on Wednesday next. When at Leith this frigate
picked up an abundance of valuable men, with which she
nearly completed ber crew; she wants about 15 hands
only. A few days since she was supplied, at the request
of her Captain, with three of Rodgers' Patent Anchors, a
bower, a stream, and a kedge.
Tho Queen, 110, Captain Rich, was towed out of har-
bour on Thursday. It is expected that Vice-Admiral
Sir Edward Owen will re-hoist his flag on board this ship
on the 20th instant.

The Powerful, 84, captain M. Seymour, came into
harbour on Tue3day to be paid off. She will be re-cora-
tnisioned by Captain Nicholas Lockyer, C.B.
The Snake, 16, Commander the Hon. W. B. Devereux
sailed on Wednesday for the Mediterranean.
Extract of a letter from her Majesty's ship Dublin, Rio
de Janeiro, Oct. 30th, 1841 :—" On the 20th October, as
stated in my last letter, we left Rio, and we were parti-
cularly fortunate in malting a good offing. On the
following, in the afternoon, it came on to blow hard, and
for the first time since I have joined the Dublin, we
were under close reefed 'topsails ; it continued to blow
with more or less violence for the three ftilloWing days.
On the 25th it was more moderate, so that we could open
the ports, and dry and air the ship. A leak having
shown itself in the Admiral's cabin, 'advantage was taken
of the weather, to ascertain whence it came and to stop
it. For this purpose it was necessary the carpenter should
be lowered over the stern .on a grating, and whilst in
the act of repairing a trivial defect, he providentially
discovered a very important one. The head of the rudder
was so much damaged by an extensive spring or rent,
that it was imp'•acticable to proceed in that state to Val-
paraiso; the ship's head was immediately put to the
northward, the wind favoured us, and although we were
then 550 miles distant from the port we had left, in nine
days we made the passage there and back again, 1,100
miles."

The Pandora packet, arrived at Falmouth, left Barba-
does Nov. 1. and St, Thomas's the 27th. At Barbadoes
were the Rover, Sappho, and Fair Rosamond ; at Ja-
maica, the Comas and Magnificent. The Electra, from
Port Royal, had called off Jamaica, and after landing
specie, proceeded to Honduras.—We regret to state,
that the West Indies continued' es:weeding/3, unhealthy ;
we are informed of the following casualties in the
United Service, by death :—Mr. Crosby, Master's As-
sistant of the Firefly steamer ; Me. John M'Lean,
sistant-Surgeon of the Rover • Mr. Alexander Scott,
Assistant-Surgeon of the Fair liosamond, and 11 of the
crew. At the camp near Kingston, on Nov. 16, Captain
Beresfoid, of the 60th Rifles ; and Mrs. Espent, the
daughter of Col. Harrison.
The Star (Mexican packet), arrived at Falmouth on
Sunday, with a. freight of 5,000 dollars on merchant's
account, and 150,000 on account of the diVidends of the
Republic. Her Majesty's ship Pilot left Vera Cruz on
the 18th November, for Carnpeaclu, to bring about a
settlement of the adverse position of that province and
Mexico, as to the attainment of which there existed little
doubt. The Racehorse sailed on the 26th November
from llavannah for Bermuda. The Star left the Tweed
at Bahia.

The Speedy, cutter, arrived on Monday, from the
River, and returned on Thursday ; the Cracker sailed
the same day for Jersey. The Emerald arrived on
Wednesday from Plymouth.
The Rose, arrived at Bahia from a cruise on the 11th
of October, and sailed again for Rio Janeiro on the 17th
October.

The Electra arrived at Honduras from Jamaica, on the
9th November.

The Vindictive, 50, Captain Toup Nicolas, C.B. is
now fully manned, and will be ready for sea on Tuesday
or Wednesday next, her complement having bean filled
up by 40 volunteers from Liverpool, and 43 from Ply-
mouth: This fine frigate is exceedingly well manned,
having more than 200 able seamen besides petter officers
on board ; it is most most likely she will be appointed
to attend on the King of Prussia, in the room of the
Warspito, which takes Lord Ashburton to New York.
On Tuesday, the Tyne, and on Wednesday, the Sa-
marang and Orestes, were taken into dock. The Carys-
fort was taken out of dock on Tuesday. The Vindic-
tive was taken out of the basin on the same day.
The Ringdove, 16, is in the basin, and ready for com-
missioning.

The Rirmidable, 84, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan,
Bart., is nearly ready for sea, at Sheerness. She may
be expected at Spithead about the middle of the ensuing
month.

The Nautilus, 10, was this week commissioned by
Lieut. Sydney Thomas.
The Carysfort, 26, was commissioned on Wednesday,
by Captain Lord George Paulet.
The Hazard, 16, Commander Bell, sailed to-day, for
China.

The Driver, steam-vessel, Commander S. Harmer,
proceeded from Woolwich to Deptford dockyard on
Thursday, and was taken into dock there to examine her
bottom and have her defects made good.
The Vixen steamer, Commodore Boyes, sailed this
afternoon for Plymouth, and will proceed thence to the
Brazils.

The ship Joshua Carroll, detained by her Majesty's
ship Lily, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, on the 20th
October.

The Numa transport sailed on Thursday forßarba4loes;
In llarbour.--St. Vincent, Victory, Powerful, ENeel-
'pia, Vindictive, Warspite, li,oyal George, Carysfort,
Rapid, Nautilus, Adventure, naval transport, and Echo,
steam tug.
At Spithead—Queen, Thalia, Hazard.
By the List of the Navy made up to-day, which will
be found in our third page, it will be seen that there are
in commission, as sea-going ships, 25 sail of the line, 37
frigates, 40 sloops of war, 56 smaller vessels, 60 armed
steamers, besides surveying ships-and troopers. The
sailing craft mount 4,440 guns ; the force, therefore, is
pretty much the same amount under the Tories as under
the Whigs ; but during the autumn all the ships in com-
mission have been getting manned, and excepting the
Queen, Formidable, Powerful, and earysfort, which re-
quire about 1,000 men to complete them, the whole may
be reckoned on as ready for instant sea service.
The King of Prussia has conferred the order of the
Red Eagle of the 2d class on Capt. Walker, now em-
ployed as Admiral in the Turkish service.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTIONS—Commander—William Ward Perceval
Johnson (late of Winchester), to the rank of Captain.
Lieutenant—John Halliburton Murray (Flag Lieute-
nant to Sir H. Dishy), to the rank of Commander.
Mates—Edgar Slade (1827), Henry John Giles (1831),
Arthur Lucas Mansell (1835), James Beautine Wil-
loughby (1837), to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captain—Lord G. I'aulet, to the
Carysfort.

Lieutenants—C. Dyke, to the Cambridge L. de T.
Prevost, to Vernon -; H. Bacon, to Calcutta ; E. M. Ley-
cester, to Indus ; E. F. Roberts, to Inconstant ; W.
Crawford (a), to Impregnable ; J. G. Bickford, ,to Rod-
nep ; C. J. F. Ewart, to Monarch; H. G. Austen, to Ma-
gicienne; M. Bouchier, to Ganges; J. M. R. Ince, to Im-
placable; J. C. Johnston, from Thalia to Warspite ; J.
Russell and F. B. Sleeman, to Geyser ; J. M. Potbury, to
be Flag Lieutenant to Sir Samuel Pym ' • Thomas Bailey
and Edward Courtenay, to Isis ; J. P. Davey, to Illus-
trious ; Hugh Berners, to Lightning ; G. T. Paterson
(from the Powerful), to Ferret ; J. Caldwell (from the
Powerful), J. J. B. E. Frere, and W. R. Smith, to Carys-
fort ; A. P. Wilmot, to 'Wolverine ; Thomas A. B.
Spratt, to Beacon ; Lord E. Clinton, to Harlequin ; 11.
J. Nourse, Gabriel Johnston, and R. Hill Wharton
(additional), to Southampton ; Brook Young, to the
Vanguard ; and George Snape, to Snipe revenue cutter.
Master—George Heather, to GI eyset.
Surgeons—G. Munro, to Carysfort ; Robert M'Lean,
to Geyser.

Assistant Surgeons—F. W. R. Sadler, to Minden ;
Dr. G. 5PKay, to Queen; Dr. J. B. Nicholson, to Thalia,
vice White promoted ; R. Douglas, to Calcutta.
Pursers—Charles Hillier, to Geyser ; Thomas Giles,
to Carysfort.
Mates—W. T. Turner, to Serpent; N. J. Sulivan, to
Fly ; P. E. Forbes, to North Star; William Armytage,
to Dido ; H. D. Blanckley, to Illustrious ; B. Hawkes
(from the Excellent) to Thalia.
Midshipman—G. Digby, to Thalia.
Clerks—W. Bateman, to San Josef ; John Chapman,
Clerk-in-Charge, to Pantaloon, vice Bateman.
'Puke, Ist Class—G. uke, E. Grose, 11. Lister,
and W. Charlton, to Illustrious; J. Curtis, Dickens,
and 11. Sheriff, to Queen ; D. Spain, to Hazard ; T.
Sullivan, to Fly.
Royal Marinrs.—Second Licut. F. W. -Davis (from the
Royal Naval College), to the Marine Artillery Companies.
ROYAL MARINEB.—The following appointments and
promotions have taken place in the Royal Marines:—
Captain Robert Henry, of the Chatham division, to be
Captain in the Marine Artillery, vice R. C. Steele, de-
ceased; First Lieut. Samuel Hawkins, of the Woolwich
division, to be Captain, and appointed to Chatham, vice
Henry; Second Lieut. J. L. Brauner, of the Woolwich
division, to be First Lieut , and appointed to the same
division, vice Hawkins.

the particulars of the
THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE FROM
the schooner Whim,
Captain Kerridge, of Harwich,
ofich vessel, it will be
extraordinary
r aDo
rodmi
eiNa
voyo .
voyageW e lately
performed
remembered,' owing to the death the chief officer and
the illness of two of the crew, was safely navigated
from St. Domingo to ~,the English coast by the
Captain and one seaman, named Lilly. The appren-
tice lad, named Last, who had a very bad leg, was,
y ,
after the Whim's arrival in the West India Import Dock,
put on board the Dreadnought hospital ship, at Green-
wich, where he is recoveritg ; but the poor unfortunate will be unable to prosecute his profession as a sea-
man. The other seaman, an Irishman, who was unable
from a lingering disorder to perform his dot on board
was unceremoniously sent about his business, Captain
belief that part
Kerridge entertaining a strong
of his illness was feigned. Lilly, y
the other sea-
man, who with Captain Kerridge `gallantly
brought
home the Whim from St. Domingo, has proceeded to
Lilly, the only Harwich. In addition to the extraordinary and almost
incredible duties performed by Captain Kerridge and
been justly appreciated
Lilly, the latter acted as cook,
,assissed occasionally by
the master. Captain Kerridgo's unparalleled and meri-
j4,4'sysiegxaStiotann.
other gentlemen
and several
sea-
manto rio tot sn exertions,heav tl able a st.ewell
work,as thhaovsee c.lt*
interested etehees toed owners
irhs
additional steam.
ahnorselawer, on the
The Bristol Stearn BSt al
tifeee at Whimit 1.- ---
Company intend,
vlsrlielti;:tof°4s43ooen
station between Bristol and Cork i thus giving a steam
communie4tion three times a Week between the two
test.: gvesgpiraitnegr,aed placing 2 2 o
ports, for the conveyance of passengers, goods, and let-
ters, as each vessel will convey a mail. bag. Should the
intercourse hereafter increase so as to be sullieient for
the support of four vessels, the Sine o.4.mpany will be
prepared tq m place R fourth vessel on the station.__
6 144E91 Mercuq,