The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

NAYAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE ROYAL YACHT.—The defects of the Royal yacht
Victoria and Albert, Capt. Crispin, are ordered to be
made good for her Majesty's early excursion in 1853.
Some of our contemporaries seem doubtful as to
whether the Cressy, 80, building at Chatham, will be
converted into a screw-ship or not. There can be no
longer any doubt on the matter. There can be no justi-
fication for launching any ship without a screw propeller.
The Cressy was designed by a committee of the late
School of Naval Architecture, and will be fitted with
engines of 400-horse povier.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 6.

Her Majesty's steam-yacht Fairy, Captain Cris-
pin, came into harbour at eight o'clock this morning
from Cowes, with intelligence to the Commander-in-
Chief that their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, the
Duc de Brabant, and the Comte de Flandres, would in-
spect the dockyard during the morning. She returned
at half past 8 for the Royal visitors, who embarked in
her from Osborne-pier at 10 o'clock. Prince Albert's
standard and the Belgian Royal standard were hoisted
at the main of the yacht, and were saluted by the
Russian corvette-of-war Dvina, at Spithead, and the
Platform battery ; as also by the Victory on entering
this harbour. The Fairy was very skilfully laid along-
side of the dockyard sheer jetty, on which the Royal party
landed, where Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs and staff, and
the captains of the fleet, and officers of the dockyard were
in waiting to receive there, and escort them over the
establishment. Their Royal Highnesses were first con-
ducted to the Duke of Wellington, 131, in the steam
basin, receiving her maclainery, on board which they
went, and remained some time. From her they pro-
ceeded to the ships on the slips building—the Prince of
Wales, 120 ; Marlborough, 120 ; Royal Sovereign, 120 ;
Royal Frederick, 120 ; and Princess Royal. The steam
factory was also inspected ; after which the illustrious
party embarked at the north corner of the dockyard in
the Port Admiral's barge, and were conveyed on board
the gunnery ship Excellent, Captain Chads, C. 8., who
exercised the crew in shell and shot firing at the targets,
and other duties. From. the Excellent their Highnesses
proceeded to the Neptune, 120, Captain Scott, and in-
spected that ship, from -which they went to the Blenheim,
60 (screw), Captain Henderson, C. 8., and inspected her
also. On leaving the Blenheim the Royal Princes and
party re-embarked in the Fairy, which conveyed them
back to Osborne, saluted. as before.
The Leander, 50, Captain King, was brought into No.
2 dock to-day, to have her bottom cleaned, which was

found to be very foul.
The Monkey steam-vessel arrived this morning from
the eastward, with 30 marine artillerymen and supernu-
meraries.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 6.

Her Majesty's steani vessel Spiteful, Commander
Charles Parker, was unroasted on Saturday. Her crew
will be paid off to-morrois
The steam-frigate Magi•cienne, Captain Thomas Fisher,
was placed at her sailing moorings on Thursday.
The Nile, 90, is to be placed in dock and fitted with a
screw propeller.
A frigate or corvette of 28 or 36 guns was observed at
10 a.m. yesterday reaching down by the wind off the
harbour. She carried Ohre° royals, topgallant sails and
courses, square mainsail, jib and flyingjib, and, as her
masts raked considerabki-, she is supposed to be a foreign
man-of-war, probably belonging to Denmark.
A. large paddle-wheel steam-packet, under all canvas
and steam, was observeOl going fast' up Channel, inside
the Eddystone, at half. past 4 o'clock, on Sunday after-
noon ; she was high out; of the water, barque-rigged, had
painted ports, and looke d like one of the Peninsular and
Oriental boats—probabl; y the Madrid, from the Mediter-
ranean, for Southampto:n.

WOOLWICH, DEc. 6.
AM'OINTMENTS.

Master.—Francis B. Henwood (1852), to the Dido,
18, at Devonport.
Surgeon.—Hugh CrHagan, M.D. (1846), to the
Cruiser steam-sloop, at Woolwich.
Assistant-Surgeon.— J. M. Tronson (acting), to the
Victory flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Clerk.—F. W. S. Ponsonby (1852), to the Furious
steam-frigate, at Portsa mouth.
Commander Hyde Parker arrived at Woolwich Dock-
yard to-day at 12 o'cloo::k noon, and immediately hoisted
his pendant on board tl ie Cruiser steam-sloop, and issued
notices that he is in ws.nt of petty officers, able seamen,
and stokers, to serve fai. the fine sloop he has just com-
missioned.
The Fisgard, flag-ship of Commodore Henry Eden, is
in want of twenty-fire: boys who have been a year at
least at sea, but none under that period of service will
be entered at present.
A contract was entered into on Friday last at the Ad-
miralty by two eminent engineering firms for the con-
struction of eight pain: of engines, each pair to be of the
collective power of 40120 horses, and all adapted for screw-
propelled ships of war.. John Penn and Son have ob-
tained the contract for the 400-horse-power engines for
the Royal Albert, 120, building at Woolwich Dockyard,
and now decided to ham e new engines on John Penn and
Son's patent trunk prim ciple, which gave such satisfac-
tion in the Agamemnon, 90, also built at this dockyard.
The engines, although. nominally of 400-horse power,
will be made to work xila to the power of 1,200 horses ;
but engines of 600 nominal horse power would have
been desirable in the Royal Albert, as she is a powerful
first class ship of war, and worthy of having engines
of equal power at least as the Agamemnon, the latter
vessel being fitted wit h engines of that power. The
other ships to be converted into screw steam-ships,
and fitted each with engines of 400-horse power by
John Penn and Son, are the Princess Royal, 90, building
at Portsmouth ; the Royal George, 120, at Sheerness ;
and the Euryalus, 50,. building at Chatham. Messrs.
Maudeslay, Sons, and Field have contracted for the other
four pairs of engines o:T 400-horse power each, and they
are to be fitted with ,screw propellers for the following
ships of war :—The E).anouth, 90, building at Devonport;
the Clarence, 84, building at Devonport; the Cressy, 80,
building at Chatham; and the Majestic, 80, also building
at Chatham. The ex g,ines of 600-horse power, making
by John Penn and Son for the St. Jean d'Acre, 100, are
now nearly completed, and will be ready for commencing
fitting on board when. she is launched from Devonport
Dockyard, where she, is building and nearly ready for
launching. The engines of the Royal Albert will be
ready in June next, by which time the vessel will be
ready for launching; and in the course of another year it
may be calculated that the following powerful ships will
be ready for sea, and al .1 fitted with screw propellers :
ADDITIONS TO THZ SCREW STEAM NAVY IN 1853.
. .

The Royal Albert . l2O building at Woolwich
The Duke of Wellington. l3l fitting at Portsmouth
The Royal George l2O Ito bnes se converted at Sheer.
The St. Jean d'Acre
The Princess Royal.
The Agamemnon — 9 l fitting at Sheerness.
The Exmouth
The Clarence .............
The Sans Pareil
The Majestic BO building at Chatham.
The Cressy BO building at Chatham.
.
The Impeneuse ... 50 fitting at Woolwich.
The Euryalus .. 50 building at Chatham.

Making a total 0f.......1,167 guns of large calibre.
The above vessels are all in so advanced a state that
there will be no difficuulty in completing them next year
should any emergency arise to require their services,
and, with the vessels already fitted with screw propellers,
they will form one of the most powerful channel fleets
ever possessed by this country. The above list does not
include any of the guard-ships, or any of the ships now
building which are ordered to be fitted with engines
already in store, the Algier, 90, building at Devonport •,
the Hannibal, 90, building at Deptford, and several
others, being ordered to be fitted with engines already
made for screw ships of war.

GERMANY.
The Government of Hesse-Darmstadt has con
eluded with the house of MM. de Rothschild a
loan of 1,200,0001 florins) at 41 per cent. interest
for the construction of a ra oad. The loan is
taken at the rate of 100 florins 46i kreutzers for
100 florins of capital.
A letter from Frankfort states that some Eng-
lishmen who have arrived there have made an offer
to purchase in one lot all that remains of the Ger-
man fleet. The offer has been submitted to the
Diet.
A subscription was opened on the 3d at Frank-
THE SCREW 90-GIIN SHIP AGAMEMNON.—The nom
fort, at the office of MM. Rothschild, and at Man- nal horse-power of the Agamemnon, 91, screw-ship,
heim at the office of MM. Ladenberg and Son, for Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, at Sheerness, is 600, not
the construction of a railway from Neustadt to the 500, as stated in a contemporary. To state that she
Hardt, by Landau to the Franco-Bavarian frontier can work up to more than double that power is a piece
at Wissemberg. The amount is 4,400,000 florins, of information that is vulgarly termed " a mare's nest ;"
divided into 8,800 shares of 500 florins each. The the Agamemnon, we need scarcely say, is not fully
Bavarian Government guarantees 4 per cent. for manned. Whoever heard of a ship being fully manned
25 years. The concession is for 99 years. at Sheerness ? Of her 850 officers and men, she has
barely one-half of her ship's company, and requires
The Saxon Government has followed -the example
_about 300 blue jackets to make up her number. The
of that of Prussia, and ordered all the workmen of
Agamemnon will be out of the hands of the engineers
that country to quit Switzerland before the end of
by the 11th inst., and will be completed by the dockyard
this month. by the 28th. In about a fortnight after that she will be
A letter from Vienna of the 29th ultimo., in the ready for sea.--Morning Herald.
Journal de Frankfort, says :—" Independently of THE 92-GuN SHIP LONDON.—We stated on Saturday
the the seven Archdukes, the following persons that the London, 92, Captain Mundy, was ordered
to-day decorated with the Order of -the Golden. got ready for proceeding to Spithead.
were .
authorities
The
eead to sail.
Fleece : Count de Fiquelmont, Count Wratislay, are to report when she is in every respectbete
same number
number
Prince. Frantmaunsdorf, Count Lankoronsky, Her fuhllercon:iplemeinit weR believed willB2o h
not 850, as in the
Prince Bathyani, the Landgrave Egon and Baron as in sister slaip o
being
.
Wimpfen."' .. Agamemnon, the later being a screw . ship There is no
foundation for the expectation that it was determined
A decision of the Emperor of Austria, applies the
she should remain at Sheerness until April. The ad-
decree concerning the liberty of the -press to the
vaned crew of the London is 445, but she is about 40
army. In consequence, no military raan can be
blue jackets short of this number.—lbid.