The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

NAVAL

MALTA, JAN 14.—Ths Locust has bass paid off and
taken lam dock. The Ineroatatkm of coral and *bells which had
collected on her bottom Irma/mut four inches thick; :11i1 has been re.
moved, and having been turned over so tender to the Triton, and had
that vessel's atteill and crew pet into her whilst Triton is repairing.
she will leave for Patens and Corfu on the 15th, carrying theri=
Media, Lieut. Turner, will carry en the ledlen malls to Alexandria
alter the arrival of the Madura from MareeWee, hourly expect, d.
Volcano is daily expected from the Parson* to be paid off here into
ordinary, end crew to be sent home If they wish it. Rodney mad
Vanguard will sell to Join Sir C. Napier, en route to England on the
17th. _ .

iORTerOuTH, JAW. 26 —President, 60, is ordered to sett
this evening for Sheerness to be paid off. A correspondent nays
"Tex sending this frigate to the eastward has caused great intoned
nienee to the °Mose end crew, who wise all prepared for paying otr
at this port, naturally expecting it would ben as the ship was Ann
here. The men will sow be paid or at fnissrams, and be put to the
trouble end expense of ending their way beet hereto:la great many
of them being to this port. The expose of a new and has best
incurred to seed bar away from ker proper port. A mi•al Decree
will suffer to the amount of newly Inf. by the ship being ordered
away. The tradesmen carving the ship will also be put to conned
able expense or,sesteln man kegs."
DEVuNPOKT, JAW. 24.—The Linnet packet arrived from
Falmouth this morning, end came Into harbour to refit.—Cram
gasket hes been ordered to complete her fitting with all possible de.
peek.—Adventure stordahip le taking in stores fur Deptford, soft
where she is to mil with acme for the coast of Ahem—Sixteen
mandates nys, been the Agincourt, 72, ordinary depot, and font
bender boys, Beim the Impregnable, let (fleg.thip, have beam
wised to join the Excellent, gunnery ship at Parteniouth.—The
Indy et Mr. J. Sheehan, late gunner of ship Osborne, in Ifs.
ntense, who was supposed to have been blown over the side of that
slip, in a gale of wind, ma the night of the nth ult., was found yes-
, tansy near the Steam Ferry Bridge, at New Peerage, a dart dietitian
from the skip. An inquest was held in the oxen of the day, and a
verdict "Drowned whilst in the execution of hie duty " returned.
WOOLWICit, JAN. 25.—" Some seven or eight years sinee
says a correspondent, "the thee existing Board of Admiralty, allowed
the Earl of Dundnal Ito furnish plans for the constructional the buil
and machinery of • steam vessel, which his lordship considered would
be superior to any other vessel in the navy. The vowel was noel-
hely built with • double head, or' more properly opening, with
been end stern alike, there being a redder at each end of the encl,
Ye bell being precisely pints to that of the Ant and of the Bee,
*leg between the bridges in London. Bbe was named thelann Her
aniline., or the rotary principle, were prepared from dodges of the
nth earl, but on her first trial it was rowed that the principle of bar
msitasery was defective. From that time till the beginning of the pre-
en& year, the steel has been lying In the basin at Woolwin
lel Uoptford, perfeetiy useless, all the subsequent attempts made to
leseseve her machinery having proved completely futile. What wen
warm the various alterations that took place In her, the quantity et
leek eansamed in experimental trials, the wages of irtlsans and tem.
wary sews, to which is now to be added the total abeadonment of
her as machinery, cost the nation an expense which may dearly
be erderse at some fifteen or twenty thousand pounds." At the
agent of the present year the Admiralty resolved to aban-
don*, Idea of rendering her rotary engines serviceable, and the
@nen+ bent r been broken up at Malta, and her old engines brought
▪ wealskii, it was determined to place them in the Jaime, and
It that morel as a tug for service atOibraltar. The engine, having been
rep tired, and, indeed, almost re.asade, were fitted in tile Janus, and
on Tuesday she was tried down the river for the first time, when the
engines were found to work well. With 18 revolutions, which ie. rar
tiler over than under the proper nom
• speed of rather more than 10 1.
220-base power.

PORTSKOUTII, JAN. 25.
was this day marched into Coin.
son. The depots of sth Fusiliers,
Brigade, from Portsmouth. reh
at Portsmouth, prooeed for

roper number of rev u
i 0 knots on hour. ' a. 4
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duty to TiPoor
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