The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-07 00:00:00

NAVAL

Anwirwurr, Barr. B.—Arrossnuavra.—To Heela—
Lieutenants : W. E. Fisher, C.H. Sampson. Acting Master :
H. D. Mirline. Acting Pawn :G. Penfuld. Midshipmen :
J. F. Griffith", and F. C. Coevalar. Navel Cadet : C. J.
Broworigg. Master's Asais:ant : E. Goss. Clerk : B. B.
Webber. Boatswain :J. Gardner. Carpenter : W. Han-
mar. Gunner :H. Journ. Pastenite Ikpnonjia —Surgeon-
superiatend,nt : J. Salmon.
To be foremen of shipwrights : W. Moody, at Woolwich ;
A. Moon, De.vonprert ; W. B. Robinson, Pembroke ; 1).
Harding and P. Thornton, filleernne.
Davonrour, Barr. 6.—Flying Fish, 12, Commander
niter, WM paid Wynn no Monday and sailed on Tuesday
with mails for the coast of Africa.—Spartan, 22, was taken
into dock yesterday.—Heel, steamer, at this port, is to be
'brought forward for imunnission forthwith.—Niobe, 28, will
be launched on Tuesday, the 18th of this month.—Black
Eagle, Admiralty steam yacht, arrived ynterday from
Portsmouth, having Admiral Dundas and family on board,
bound to Pembroke. Sae came ioto harbour for coals, and
will sail early on Thursday morning.—The Salamander, at ,
will sail this day in charge of Mr. Davy, supernumerary
master of the Impregnable, with Mr. Henderson, master at-
tendant, and party, who are to navigate the °ataxia, 60,
from Pembroke to this port.
2 its 82n.uuswor DItIVEL—The follow/log is a copy of
a letter from on board the steamer to • friend in England :
° Valparaiso, June 30, 1849.-1 take the opportunity by the
present mail of informing you of our arrival at this port on
the 11th. You will see by the rapers of our having called
at Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and Monte Video, at which lest
named place we remained a week in quarantine, having
several cases of small-pox oa board, which, lam happy to
say, all terminated favourably. Soon after oar departure
from the River Plate we came through the Straits of Ma-
gellan, anchoring every night, and cut wood in Bougainville
Bay, where we remained at anchor eight days. We had a
moat anxious time of it, passing through the channels, very
narrow. constant hail and snow storms, and the weather so
very thick that frequently we could not see a quarter
of • mile a head of the ship. It was • splendid
sight to see the immense ridges of mountains
towering above our heads, varying from one thou
sand to two thousand feet above the sea, and covered with
perpetual snow. I scarcely renumber having seen such
heavy %malls as those we experienced off Cape Forward,
that are called by the natives "Nillicraws;" one of them
blew our starboard piddle-box boat overboard, although we
had Ina sails set at the time. We fell in with a small
American schooner, which had made repeated attempts to
pus Cape Fsrwarci for ten days, and could not snow, ed ; she,
however, got a favourable start and proce!dad. After paw-
ing the straits we fell in with such heavy north-west gales
that we wen compelled to rasa into Lord Nelson's Straits,
passing through matrons narrow channels, until we
came oat of the Gulf of Pence, to the south of the pi-
nwale, palled Tres Montag, and close to the Wand en
whisk the Wager frigate, one of Commodore Ann's
ships was yenned very many years back. We
sailed the greater part of the passage from England, only
steaming when absolutely necessary. Stu is a beautiful
In boat. The admiral is here, with flag in the Gor-
gon, the Asia having sailed for Coquimbo and Callao,
I believe, on the 6th June, and will be there about two
month.. The Champion is antis, at the latter piece.
The Amphitrite, from the *oast of Africa, is gone to the
Sandwich Islands. The Inconstant is at California ; and
the Cowman to the northward, about to collect freight,
and to be here the end of August, on her passage to Eng-
land. The Herald and Panders, I believe, at Panama,
ordered home; and the Cockatrice at this port. The Daphne,
which arrived here on the 18th, basing been detained in the
River Plate fur a length of time, sag's on the 2nd of July
for the Fejee Islands. I fancy we shall be here for some
time yet. There are little or no intermediaw freights for
men of-war now, being always shipped in the mail
steamers, which run up and down the oust
twice • month, although only once to Panama, so that the
only chains • ship has is perhaps the charge of a trip to the
northward before coming home. The admiral is very much
like d, and iikewise all the family. He is exoteciingly quiet,
and does not put himself in a fever, as some commanders-in-
chief are in the habit of doing. There was a talk of our
going to Yncauver's Island, but the distance is so great, and
no means of recalLng the ship it wanted, that I do not think
we than be sent. A sailing•vesul is of very little use there,
on account of the strong currents and narrow channels.
The first lieutenant of the Daphne is invalided, being unfit
fur duty from having broken his thigh. The mail 1 in
a few hours for England."