The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The usual term of service of
the following ships and vessels has expired. Many of
them are ordered home and on their way to be paid off.
As far as is known in the latter case, the port of paying
off is stated:—
The Ardent, 3 gum, Commander Nowell, Mediter-
raneaa station; not known where to be paid off.
The Brilliant. 22 guns, Commander Watson, C. 8.,
Cape of Good Hope, to be paid off at Sheerness.
The Bulldog, 6 guns, Commander Key, Mediterranean;
not known.
The Calypso, 18 guns, Commander Worth, Pacific;
Chatham.
The Childers, 14 guns, Commander Pitman, East
Indies; Chatham.
The Columbine, 16 guns, Commander J. C. D. Hay,
East Indies; not known.
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The Constance, 50 guns, Commander Courtenay, Pa•
cific; Devonport.
The Contest, 12 guns, Commander M•Murdo, Coast of
Africa; Portsmouth.

The Eurydice, 26 guns, Commander Anson, Cape of
Good Hope; Portsmouth.
The Harpy, I gun, Commander Tomlinson, Brazils;
Portsmouth.

The Giffon, 3 guns, Commander Thuriburn, Brazils;
aot known.
The Herald, 22 guns, Commander Kellett, Pacific;
not known.
The Hound, 8 guns, Commander G. H. Wood, West
Indies; not known.
The Inflexible, 6 guns, Commander Hoseason, East
Indies; Woolwich.
The Medea, 6 guns, Commander Lockyer, East In-
dies; not known.
The Melarnpus, 42 guns, Commander Mason, East
Indies; Chatham.
The Nimrod, 18 guns, Commander Belgrave, Cape of
Good Hope; Devonport.
The Pandora, 6 guns, Commander J. Wood, Pacific;
Devompert.
The Raleigh, 50 guns, Commander Herbert, Brazils;
Portsmouth. _ _ _

The Scout, 14 guns, Commander Johnstone, East
Indies; Chatham.
The Spitfire, 3 guns, Commander Willes, Mediter-
ranean; Woolwich.

The Terrible, 21 guns, Commander Ramsay, Mediter-
ranean; not known.

Vie above list does not include discovery ships, troop
ships, receiving or store ships, stationary vessels, and
such like.

Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope
Station ;--
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" May 25.—The Governor is still very ill, though
nut of danger. The Geyser steam-vessel arrived here,
from St. Helena, on the 30th ult., having run in and
landed the Bishop at Table-bay on her way up. She
will be here for the next three months at least, in con-
sequence of some necessary repairs connected
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machinery. The Orestes left, this (s
15th instant, for a cruizi in the Mozambique. This
vessel has been thoroughly cleaned out, and her crew
turned over to the Seringapatam in the mean time, in
consequence of sickness having shown itself. Some few
men have been invalided;and there are eleven in hospital.
The First-Lieutenant (Mr. Ellerman) will invalid home
in the Childers, having lost his voice, and thereby be-
come incapable of performing his duty as efficiently
as he has been accustomed to do. The Nimrod is
expected here shortly, from the Mauritius, on her way
to England, the Eurydice having left this to relieve her
on the sth ult. Mr. English, secretary's clerk, has been
appointed by the Admiral purser of the Orestes, vice
Eeles, who is to be invalided, in consequence of his
having met with a serious accident whilst shooting.
He was loading one barrel of his guo, when by some
means the trigger of the other was caught by a bush and
a bullet with which the piece was charged passed- through
the fleshy part of his right arm, below the elbow. Hei
going en favourably. The squadron now in the Bay
consists of the Southampton (flag), Geyser, Dee, Chit.
ders, and Seringapatam."

THE PORTLAND BREAKWATER.

At 10 o'clock this mortiir g a guard of honour, with the
Queen's colour and the splendid band of the Royal
Marines marched from their head quarter barracks to
embark from the Clarence-) ard, and at the same moment
gun detachments from. the artillery. companies of the
corps, with their field pleees, left their b. arracks for em-
barkation the Sphynx steam-sloop, m order to take
part in the ceremony of Flying the foundation-stone of
the breakwater at Portland.
Nearly all the daily and professional weekly journals
have appointed Commander Bate (1848) to the Young
Hebe, surveying-vessel, in the East Indies. The above
officer is
. appointed to command the Royalist, 6-gun• brig,
to continue the survey comm.-neer' and prosecuted by
Captain Collinson, C. 8., late of the Young Hebe.
Wind—S. by W., fresh breezes and squally.
CHATHAM, JULY 23.—The Childers, 12. gun brig,
Commander J. C. Pitman, from Bombay, arrived off the
dockyard at this port on Sunday afternoon, the 22d in-

stunt, to be paid off; she was towed up the river by a
steam-vessel.
The Hercules store -ship, Master Commander R.Fulton,
is having her defects made good, and as she is wanted
for further service, every expedition is used in discharging
her cargo. It is reported that she is to take out female
convicts.
The Phaeton, 50, a new gun frigate, recently launched
at Deptford, and now at this port, is ordered to be
brought forward to be fitted as an advanced ship.
Mr. D. Morgan, extra clerk in the Store Receiver's-
office, has been placed on the establishment of this yard
as a third-class clerk.
The Duck naval lighter sailed on the 19th inst. with
stores for Portsmouth and Plymouth, and the Goodwill
naval lighter remains waiting to be loaded.
This morning the following detachments :—viz., 1 ser-
geant and 17 rank and file, with 1 woman and 3 chil-
dren of the .58th Foot ; 1 corporal and 16 privates of the
65th; and 1 sergeant and 14 rank and file of the 99th
Regiment, with 5 women and 4 children of the 65th,
under command of Captain Rupert B. Deering, with
Ensign Muns, officer of the 99th, marched from this gar-
rison, en route for Woolwich, for embarkation on board
the ship Adelaide for Hobart Town. The above troops
form a convict guard.
At nine o'clock this morning 1 bugle major with 6
buglers, 5 sergeants 15 corporals, and 53 privates of
the Royal Sappers and Miners, under command of Cap-
tain Jervois, marched to Gravesend, and proceeded by
the half-past 11 o'clock steamboat for Woolwich, and 1
sergeant, 1 lance-corporal, and 18 privates of the same
corps also left head-quarters the same morning en route
for Southampton.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 24.—The Commander-in-Chief,
Admiral Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.B. attended by Flag-
Lieutenant Cochran, proceeded to Weymouth to-day to
make the necessary preparations for the grand ceremo-
nial of laying the foundation-stone of the i3reakwater at
Portland by Prince Albert to-morrow.
The Adelaide schooner, fitted with steam machinery,
&c., to perform the office of a tug for the Colonial Go-
vernment, arrived at her destination, Port Adelaide, on
the 7th of March, from England. The officers (Mr. C.
Forbes, Acting-Master Commanding ; Dr. Sloss,
Assistant-Surgeon; and Mr. C. Chatfield, Acting Second
Master), and men who navigated her, were sent passen-
gers to Sydney, where they arrived on the 26th of
March in the merchant brig Emma, to join the Havan-
nab, 26, Captain Erskine. There is some merit due to
the officers who safely navigated so fragile a vessel so
perilous and lengthy a voyage.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius
Beauclerk, passed through Spithead to the westward this
afternoon, supposed for Weymouth.
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Sir F. Collier, the Commander-in-Chief, who immedi-
ately rejoined the Hastings, and a few hours afterwards
the Inflexible steam sloop, Commander Hoseason, sailed
for England, via Bombay. The Meander, 44, Captain
the Hon. H. Keppel, does not return here for the present,
but on being relieved at Hong-Kong by the Amazon, 26,
Captain Troubridge, proceeds to Manilla and Labuan to
assist in the projected expedition of Sir James Brooke
against the pirates of Borneo. His force will consist of
her Majesty's ship Meander, 44, Albatross, 14, and
Royalist, 6, and the Hon. East India Company's steamers
Nemesis and Semiramis. The Albatross sailed from
Manilla for Singapore on the 11th of May, but had not
arrived on the 3d of June; she is to remain at Singa
pore for a few days, and then proceed to Labuan. The ,
Mariner, 12, Commander Farquhar, was at Shanghai on
the 17th of May. The Hastings, with the Admiral, and
the Fury will sail for Trincomalee immediately after the
arrival of the overland mail from England, expected here
(Singapore) about the 6th of June.