The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Potasmotrrn, TIJURSDAY.—The Admiralty have
been employed to-day in inspecting the Excellent
gunnery establishment, Captain Chads, C 8., trans-
acting official business, inspecting the defective
machinery of the Victoria and Albert, &c. A number
of rope-mak ,rs and riggers'-labourers are to be dis-
charged. The Board entertained all the heads of the
local departments and a few friends at the George
Hotel this evening, which may be considered the
close of their onerous labours as official visitants to
the port for the present year.
The Arrogant steam drigate, Captain Fitzroy, came
out of the basin this morning to finish her refit along-
side the Blake hulk.

The Cormorant steam•sloop, Commander Schom-
berg, was hauled down the harbour to the Maidstone
coaling-hulk, to take in her stock this morning. It
is reported she will take the place of the Inflexible on
the East India station.

Wind—W.S.W., light airs, and cloudy weather.

TILE MEDITERRANEAN.
Extract of a letter dated the 22d inst :—" The
Pasha of Egypt's yacht Sharkie left under steam on
the 20th, with a strong breeze from the N.W.
During her stay here numerous were the visitors,
who expressed themselves much satisfied with the
kind reception and courteous attention they received
from her captain and officers. Mehemet Ali and his son
Ibrahim are no more, and it is very doubtful if the pre-
sent Pasha of Egypt will ever use her as a yacht. Her
Majesty's steamer Spitfire arrived on the 18th, having
been relieved by the Locust. All was quiet at Naples,
Palermo, and Messina. The steam-frigate Terrible,
Captain Ramsay, returned on the 20th from taking
a survey of Graham's shoal, the least water on which
was found to be thirty-two fathoms. Six miles to
the eastward of the above mentioned another shoal
had been discovered with eighteen fathoms on it.
lier Majesty's steamer Growler, Commander Stod-
dart, arrived early yesterday morning, having on
hoard the two sons of the Emperor of Morocco and
their suite, amounting to eighty-five persons,
amongst whom are two very ancient female nurses to
take care of the infant Royal pilgrims (aged twenty-
five and twenty years), who were saluted shortly
after anchoring with twenty-one guns from each ship
of the squadron, and manned yards. Soon after-
war.is the Commander-in Chief, accompanied by the
Admiral-Superintendent and the Captains of the fleet,
waited on their Royal Highnesses, who with their
suite live under a tent rigged up for them on the
poop of the vessel. The Growler has on board ten
Arab horses intended as presents to the various Sheks
to whom the Princes in their pilgrimage to and from
Mecca may wish to present them. The Growler
proceeds to-morrow to Alexandria with her royal
freight. The Oberon and Spitfire steamers, under
the orders of Captain Sir James Stirling, of the
Rowe, 120, left yesterday evening to search for a
rock said to be situate between 90 and 100 miles
to the eastward of Malta. Some months hack an
iron steamer from the eastward put into Malta, and
was docked, she having reported striking on the
said rock, and had two or three sheets stove in. Sir
James has with him a lieutenant and the master of
the Howe, and upwards of twenty young gentlemen
belonging to different ships. It is to be hoped that
the search will be a successful one ; the rock has been
talked of for the last thirty years. The surveying
vessels have not been able to find it, and there are
many who doubt its existence. On the return of the
Spitfire it is said her crew will be turned over to the
Volcano, to convey that vessel to England.

" Ships in Harbour—The Caledonia (flag), llowe,
Powerful, Vengeance, Terrible, Olin, Growler, Mer-
lin, Ceylon, Volcano, and Triton.
" The Thetis is on her way from Genoa to Malta,
to be docked. The Bellerophon and Porcupine are at
Leghorn ; the Bull log at Civita Vecchia ; Prince
Regent and Locust at Nap!es; Frolic on the coast of
Syria; Anr.elope on passage to Corfu; Medusa at
Marseilles; Obzron and Spitfire in search of the
rock."