Star.
London, England, 1824-05-08 00:00:00

NAVAL lA7 ELLIGENCE.

Off Totbay, the Betsey, .1%P11.f., from %logadore.
The Qum( CHARII.OITE, Captain NASH, was put nut of cmnis-
sion at Portsmouth on Monday last. The SERINGRPATANI has been
ordered to be brought forward for being commissioned; Captain
BranN has been spoken of as likely to command her.
The JASTILR, Captain the Honourable G. It. NV. Taurus's, having
undergone a refit at Portsmouth. has returned to Jersey, in order to
afford protection to our oyster fisheries near that island.
Admiral Sir Gamma Disarms flag was struck on board theVic-
"oat, at Portsmouth. on Saturday last, going upon leave ; Captain
T. DONDAS, of the Butwaza, has in consequence hoisted a broad
pendant un board his ship, during the absence of the Commakder-
, 7hief.

the Bastuss: cutter sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday last for
Sheerness; and the Amtow cutter, Lieutenant J. Powuar, on Mon-
day, on a cruise.

Four frigates will be commissioned immediately; namely—the
SERLNGAPATAM, at I'oll,4lloMb ; the &win, at Woolwich ; the
DARTMOUTH, at Plymouth ; and the DIAMOND, at Chatham. Some
line-of-battle ships are said to be bringing forward likewise, to be
stationed at the different ports, in addition to the present number of
guard-ships.
The workmen on the F.Tsa bomb, in Chatham Yard, are em-
ployed ritra hours iii expediting that vessel for sea. Tue same ex-
ertions are making in tia• other Dock-yards, where bondi.vessels
are filling, Irons which it is inferred that more active operations
I are iu r•intemplation again at Algiers.
I.l."lnt:Tus 11av 6--The shiplWanderer, of this port, Captain
Wit i ,API.D Mater (whose arrival we announced yester-
tliy), from Si.,rra Lone, bring: timber for the Dock-yard. The
ship FailfPicl, for Liverpool ; and Lady Ridley, for this port, left
Sierra Leone at the same tintr—the 19th March.
Fatatoutti, MAY 6.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived the Union, from
London; and Juhn, NVILLIS, from Cardiff for• Naples.
PO WPOIOL'III, MAY 7.—. WOW S.W.—Sailed the TEftsoa bomb,
for off Algiers ; Surrey transport, fur Malta ; Cato and Prince of
Orange transports, for Cork ; Marquis of Iluntly and 5..11y trans-
ports, for Greenock ; and the JASPER, to the Westward. Arrived
the Glaphyra, MARTIN, from Antigua, and proceeded up channel.
Ships in Ilattnior—VlCTOßY' WIILLESLEV, ALMON, IiULWA DK,
ROYAL GEORGE, WILLIAM AND MARY yacht, JUPITER, SAMAR ANG,
MEDINA, CV aRNR, SPA RROWHAWR, LINNET, al:(1
DEAL, MAI' 7.—Wind S.S.W.—The Setinapairm, from Bahia
to Ilamburgli, was off the South Foreland this morning, and is re-
ported to be in Dover Roads. Passed, the Sultan and Yeoman, from
London to Smyrna. The whole of tae outward bound have sailed.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 6.—Arrived the Claude Scott,, Irons Ma.
ranhant ; Albion, Fisirta, from Campeachy ; Pritish Tar, from
Si, ri a Leone—sailed 11th March ; Brothers, 1111.1., from New Or-
leans; and Jane, SALTER, front Virginia.

Yesterday considerable .curiosity WAS excited in Mae:friars-
road : two n:t-n, one vi.ry stout, and the other an extraordinary thin
personage, wagered to run against each other from the Obelisk,
near the Sutrcy Theatre, to the Obelisk in Bridge-street, op-
posite Fleet-market; but that the lank racer might be equal
to his fleshy competitor, it was determined that he should carry
a brewer's mash tub o❑ his head; and at the proposed time the
parties started. At fr,t the fat one kept equal pace with his opponent,
but he had nut run tar, when the man with the tub got ahead of
his:, and continued so until lie arrived at the place of destination,
'when he received the wager.
Glee b •ts.arc depending upon the rowing match from Oxford
Whitelmili on Tuesday near, by six Gentlemen in a six oared
eutter, Lord News.v is said to be one of the party. Two years
iiIICt this Nob:eau:l was a Member of Christ Church, Oxford ; be
ammo Ids serv.,nt, in'two wherrys, with two persons in each boat,
iccomp!ished the above arduous task i sixteen hours in good style.