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London, England, 1824-03-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGEACE.

FALMOUTH. MARCH 23. Wind -IkT.W. Arrived the John,
Eclipse, Sappho, Amity, and Enterprise, from London. Sailed the
Marquis of Salisbury packet; for America) and Providence, CHAU..
PIT, for Figuera.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 2:L—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Persev'erance,
Nicous, for St. John's, New Brunswick; and several coasters,
bound round land.
PORTSM.WTH MA Reif ---Arrived the Nimble, -
GiaiON, um faondon. Sailed the whole of the outward bound fur
their different destinations. Remains, his Majesty's ship MAIDSTONE.
DEAL, MARCH 2.4.—Wind N.C.—Sailed the Britannia, SMITH,
for Madeira. Passed through for the RfVer, the Catherine,
M'lscrosu, from India, with two other ships, names unknown.
Remains, the Jack 'FAT, ANDERSON, from Jamaica.
Disarms, Maacu 24.—Off the ;mil., the Cyrus, HALL, twenty-
two weeks from the Sandwich Islands.
DOTER; MARCH 24.—Off the port, the Royal Gorge, f China.
GRAVESEND, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Kent and Gavial Kyd,
from China; and OfFity, Powrt, from the South Seas. Sailed:the
Mary, IImtaINCTON, for llonduras; Lovely Ann, 11sevis, for l'a-
raiba; and Rambler, Ileasz, for I lamhurgh.
BavavtA, (cavort: 11. 165.3.-I'he Commission pert fur the im-
provement of the charts ot; the Indian Sea, have made known that
a rock has been discovered which has never been noticed in Any
charts, in 5 deg. 56 min. 40 sec. Southern latitude, and longoude
from Greenwich 114 deg. Id min. and 54 sec. layinl
.1; E. six
leagues off the Southerly height of the Island of Great 3oloitilio.—
This rock appears like a small island, MD toOlided by small pointed
rocks above water. The soil of the island is a reddish saotl, on the
middle of which, with vig:-dure, there s: ands a tree about six teet high.
PIRACY. KlausrON (Jamaica), JANUARY 51.—We learn that a
Curactla vessel,. pilor.built, has been c Inured by a piratical felucca,
off l'orto-Hico. The pirates afterwards scuttled their own vessel,
having previously put the crew of the Cur•coa vesseliin hoard. As
the piratical felucca w.as sinkitig, the Cut-Aso:I sailers jumped over-
board, and attempted to save theinstlvei; but th‘ey were shot in the
water by the pirates. On: boy ;lune escaped to the shore—he was
nearly drowned. Ile however found his way by land to St..lulas,
Porto-Rie,,, and gave information of the atrocious deed. The
pirates hove sailed in the cal.tured Curagoa vessel on a cruise. This
e,fssel is a. llsitimore Se hooner, with two topmasts, and
li.iardod waist. Whoi captured she bad on board a considerable
quantity of specie.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 24.
Sums Etsvenro Lova stus—The Lillias, from Cadiz; Sisteh, and
S:pcedwell, from Stangate Creek ; 'Frau Meths, irons Antwerp ;
Industry, fi llamburgh ; Dart, from Ostend ; Commerce, from
Brussels ; Georgia, from Virginia ; Ilarriet, from Amsterdam ;
Bee, from New Yolk; Ann, from Charente; Union, from Dun-
kirk ; and Jane, from St. Lucia.

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ENTLnED OUTWARDS--The Rose, for the Cape of Good Hope;
Coventry, for Jamaica; Naples packet, for Naples; Prince of
Waterloo, for Ostend; and Pomona, for Lisbon.

CLEA RING OrnswAans--Tbe Mercy, for Barbadoes; Albion, for
Honduras ; Tyne, for Marisa.: ; Larch, for Malta; Eweretta, and
Percival, for St. John's ; and Maria, fur Quebec.

111ARLVE SOCIETY.

The Anniversary Festiv7r:f this useful and patriotic
Society, was -celebrated yesterday at the City of London
Tavern by a grand dinner.
Ms Royal Highness the Duke of CLARIECIL was in the Chair,
supported by Lord BOLTON, Vice-Admiral Sir GEORGE COCKBURN,
K.C.B. Vice-Admiral Sir It. STAFFORD. K.C.B. KEITH DOUGLAS,
Esq. M.P. T. WII.soN, Esq. M.P. Captain WooLsres, Captain
Palmy, Shawn THORNTON, Esq. and many commercial men of the
first respectability.
After the cloth had been removed, ig The King' was
drank with four times four, and followed by the national
anthem, the company joined in the chorus.
Mr. S. THORNTON, as the elder Vice-President, then
gave " The health of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Clarence, and thanks to him tor his gracious condescen-
sion in presiding over the meeting of the day." Ilk
Royal Highness expressed his gratitude for the hand-
some manner in which his health had been drank, and
his best wishes for, the prosperity of the Society.
The Navy" then having been drank with rapturous
applause, Admiral Sir It. STOPFORD returned thanks in
the name of the Naval Officers preseht, and of the Pro-
fession in general, for the honour which had been con•
ferred.upon them.

The Duke of CLAnstscE then rose to give a toast,
which he was sure needed only to be named to be re•
ceived with approval. It was unnecessary for him to'
recount the otigin and the history of the Society ; they
all knew that it had existed many years and had con-
ferred great benefits on the sea service in general. In
1823, it had received on its books 801 boys, 225 of
whom had been sent to sea in the King's service, 216 in
that of the East India Company? and '276 in the Mer-
chants' service. In the present year, from the Ist of
January to March 24, 257 boys had already been re-
ceived, of whom 21 were employed in the King's ser-
vice, 103 in that of the East India Company, and 112
in the Merchants' service. These were proofs of the
good manasement of that Charity; and of the great be-
nefits which it produced. His Royal Highness concluded
by 4iving—" Prosperity to the Marine Society."
'1 his toast having been enthusiastically drank, the
boys paraded the room, bearing the Union Flag, and at-
tended by their Masters. They looked clean and well,
and on leaving the room gave the Royal CHAIRMAN
and the company three hearty cheers.
Several other toasts were then proposed and drank,
and at ten o'clock his Royal Highness retired, and the
Chair was filled by Mr. MVSPRATT. The donations and
subsciiptions received in the course of the day amounted
to the sum of 660/.

The Lord Mayer of Dublin (Sstmt) was yesterday
examined at considerable length before the Arlizatis' Committee—
Mr. Hume in the Chair. The Committee did not break up till
half-past four o'cicck.
The following are some further particulars of the ore
which took place on Monday morning at %Voobvich,
.a brief acc3unt of which we gave in our ht,t :
It commenced on the premises of Mr. Chambers, a baker and
flour-factor,-situated, with about 12 others, in a vall,y called Ash-
down, in the parbh of Woolwich, and was first discovered about
three in the morning, by a young man, named Kent, in Mr. C.'s
employ, who was awoke by a suffocating smell ; he got up and
opened the winalow of his room, which was on the third floor of
bis master's house, and had :scarcely returned to his bed,.before
he was alarnlrd,by a noise at the bottom of the house, which.
he thought was water, but on opening the room door, found
a torrent of flame and smoke rushing up stairs ; he instantly
proceeded to alarm his master and all the family, and having
done so, attempted to get down stairs-himself, but found it impos-
sible ; he then jumped out of a window, and alarmed the neighbours.
Mr. Chambers, at this dreadful juncture, retained much self-posses-
sion, and collecting his family, six in number, into the front first-
floor room, closed the door, and flinging a bed into the street-, causrd
four of his children to jump'out ; the two youngest were thrown
out.—Mrs. Chambers fainted, and was obliged to be lowered into
sonic persons' arms. Mr. Chambers had scarcely got into the street
when the flames furiously rushed upwards, and burst forth at each
window, communicating to the adjoining houses of Mr. Parkinson
and Mn Shipt, which were also in a few minutes in Mantes, as were
all the houses on the spot, back and front. The flames were com-
pletely subdued by live o'clock in the morning. Mr. Chambers is,
pat tialiy insured.