The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2.—On Monday the Orestes
corvette, Commander the Hon. S. Carnegie, got under
weigh, and proceeded through the Needles on her way
to the West India station, taking dispatches for Sir
Charles Adam, K.C.8., which she will land at Ber-
muda, and thence go to Jamaica and the Leeward
Islands.
On Monday the Success hulk, with the mooring
lighters, was towed into the harbour for the winter
season, operations on the wreck of the Royal George
at Spithead being discontinued until next summer.
Major-General Pasley will quit this neighbourhood
in a few days for London.
On Sunday the Calcutta, 84, Captain Rich, arrived
from Quebec, where she arrived from Plymouth on
the 30th September, and left on the Bth October,
bringing home the 2d battalion of the Coldstream
Guards, under Colonel Lascelles, which disembarked
on Monday, per Echo steamer, at Spithead. She will
return to Plymouth in a day or two. The Pique, 36,
Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, is hourly expected
from the same quarter, with two companies of the
Grenadier and Colstream Guards; also, the Crocodile,
26, Mr. Elson, master, commanding.
The crew of the Jaseur, 16, Commander Willis, is
to be turned over to the new sloop Frolic, lately
launched at this port.
The brig Racer, 16, Commander Harvey, recently
from the West Indies, is paid off, and is to be surveyed
for re-commissioning.
The Thunderer, 84, Captain Pring, is refitting in
Plymouth Sound, destined, according to report, to
proceed to Rio de Janeiro with dispatches.
The Cambridge, 78, Captain Barnard, may be ex-
pected to arrive from the Mediterranean in about a
fortnight, to be paid off. The Inconstant, 36, Cap-
tain Mitchell, was at Malta on the 12th October, but
had received no orders at that date to proceed to
England.
At Spithead—Calcutta, 84.
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent.,
Royal George yacht, Resistance, Jaseur, Nautilus,
Echo, and Austrian frigate Bellone.—BrightonGazette.
Woonwica, Nov. 2.—The Dee steam-vessel,
Master Commander Thomas Laen, which sailed yes-
terday with two companies of the Royal Artillery
for Barbadoes, has been ordered to call at Portsmouth
and Plymouth on her passage out. Immediately on
the two companies of the Royal Artillery being
landed in the West Indies, the two companies they
are sent to relieve at that station will embark in the
Dee and return to England. The employment of
steam troop-ships to convey regiments and detach-
ments from one distant station to another, and the
use of railways for the same purpose at home, will be
found equivalent to the addition of 2,000 or 3,000
men to the army, if the comparative periods of time
occupied in an inactive state by the men, when con-
voyed in transport sailing vessels instead of steam, or
when marching on land instead of being conveyed by
railways, be taken into consideration.
The Gorgon steam-vessel, one of the present first-
class steam-vessels, has been ordered to be brought
forward immediately at Woolwich for commission.
The Acheron and Megmra steam-vessels, which
have been refitted at Woolwich, have been ordered to
Sheerness, for the purpose of being commNsioned at
that port.
The Sulphur, late surveying vessel, and at present
used as a hulk for the crew of the Sultana, belonging
to the Imaum of Muscat, has been ordered to be
fitted up for the use of the engineers' apprentices
under a course of instruction. They are to be under
the superintendence of Commander G. Smith, who
was recently appointed additional to the William and
Mary yacht, with Mr. William Shaw as first engi-
neer. The boys are to be instructed by Mr. Shaw,
who will have the entire control of the mess depart-
ment, Bc.c. There are upwards of thirty boys at pre-
sent receiving instruction in this branch of the naval
service in the dock and school, under the superintend-
ence of Mr. John Dennin, ono of the engineer fore-
men belonging to the factory.

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Societies for putting down the smoke nuisance have
during the Season been formed at Manchester and
Leeds. The Society at Manchester states that the
difference between the wear of linen on ordinary days
and on Sundays, or holidays, when the fires of the
furnaces of that town are not in full action, was
found, on a low estimate of the destruction of clothing
and extra expense of washing, from sooty particles in
the air, to be a loss of one-halfpenny per head each
week for every working man's family. This for Man-
chester alone would amount to a charge upon the in-
habitants of 30,0001. per annum, and in London, at
the same average, to an annual charge of 162,520/.
ARCHES' COURT. —The case of Jones v. Jones came
on for hearing yesterday, being a suit for nullity of
marriage, on the ground that the wife was married in
a wrong name. It appeared that the surname only
was incorrect, and the Judge (Sir Herbert Jenner)
was of opinion that the libel could not be admitted,
and that a party being married -even under an as-
sumed name, did not vitiate the contract H
.I,ac-
cotdingly decreed the marriage valid, •

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