The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WOOLWICH, APRIL 12.—The Black Eagle steam-ves-
sel, Master Commander S. B. Cook, was taken into the
basin at this dockyard to-day to be examined, having
gone over one of the buoys in the harbour on returning
from her recent voyage to Sheerness with the Hon. H.
G. Ward, Secretary to the Admiralty.
The Vixen steam-vessel is to be taken out of dock to-
morrow, having undergone a complete repair and been
wholly new coppered on her bottom.
The Rifleman and Sharpshooter, the former a wooden
host and the latter an iron boat, fitted with screw-pro-
pellers, were taken into the basin to-day, to be prepared
for further experiments to ascertain the best description
of screw-propeiler, and the most eligible form of the
veAsels fitted with that invention.

The Teazer, weolen vessel, and the Minx, iron vessel,
are also to be again tried, to ascertain their speed and
qu ilities with various forms of screw propellers. The
Dwarf had nearly 50 trims with screw-propellers with
the object of txscor!aining the best mode in which they
en!.f red the water on revolving, and every opportunity
will still he atf.intel to test the invention to bring it to
the greatest possible per f,
Tile Princess Alice, Dover steam packet, Lieutenant
Commander Seriven, t.rrived at Woolwich to-day, and
was taken into the basin to have some repairs male to
the frame of her machinery.
The Hydra steam-vessel, Commander Morrell, arrived
at Woolwieh yesterday, and will be paid off here. She
has been three years and eight months employed on ti e
coast of Airity..
The Mastiff surveying-vessel, and her render, the
Woodlark, were tak,n oul of the basin yesterday, and it
is exp,ct,d they will leave Woolwich on the 25th lost, to
re...ufno their surveyii,g dui ies on the coast of the Orkney

l'!•14
'iels. I•Sp,.etly, tender to the Bl:tzer sorveying
arr:ved at Woolwich yesterday, to refit for tier survey-
ing duties.
The Blenheim, 72 guns, block-ship, fitted with a
sc ew propeler, had tn:r steam up to day to try the cor-
rectness of the fittings of h:-T engines, four of 115 horse-
power each, constructed on the locomotive principle,
with a horizontal stroke, and by that plan so low es to
he ten feet ander the water-line. The water was let into

the dock opposite the blacksmith's shop, where she is at
present, and retained by the eaison after the tide had
receded. The funnel of the Blenheim is corktrueted on

the telescopic principle, and may be lowered to within
six feet of the deck, and the steam-pipe for blowing off
the steam may be made level with the deck.
Intelligence was received to-day at the Woolwich
d,.ekyard of the death of Commander Bremer, R.N., at
Edinburgh, son of Commodore Sir J. J. George Bremer,
K.C.8., and K.C.H., the superintendent here, who is at
present in Devonshire, on leave of absence.

MR. GALES SECOND BALLOON ASCENT.--Mr.
Gala made his second ascent yesterday,
from the grounds
of the Rosemary Branch, Peckham. Time assemblyge
inside the grounds were fully 5,000, and outside another
cypher would not cover the calculation. At a quarter-
past six the word " Go" was given by Mr. Gale, and he
and his fellow-aerial travellers, Messrs. John Ellwood
and Geor :e Sharpe, were disengaged, with the machine
that carried them, from the cords which held them and it
from their upward flight. A temporary excitement, of a
most painful kind, wa< created by the appearance of the
balloon (shortly after Mr. Gale had descended to the
lower car, and discharged his fireworks), by the machine
to all appearance losing form, collapsing, and descending
with fearful velocity. We are happy to say that this
was quickly dispelled by a fast-riding 'y
horseman,'onant'enge-common,nwthh:
returned to the starting plac
descent of the aerial voyagers announced the safe
furthieorisidLey sofPHtE-cLkThEaßni-OT.
Na
HOUSELESS POOR.—Yes-
terday the committee of the abao?te
season,
in closing
toohfpeetihnr
opening;
numberhgr eoenasylums
tfhfoorrtouftnhiae)teepcetn- December
made a report
l individuals who, since its
them-
selves of the shelter thus afforded
weather. Upwards of 130,000 men
eti.rur"t.; the very
everelllwsomheenvLray
-nds chil-
dren have participated in its benefits,,and amongst whom
upwards of 300,000 rations of food were distributed.
The expenses of the past year, from the vast number of
applicants, were greater than any preceding year since
its institution.
Extensive preparations are being made for the
erection of the proposed spacious railway station at
Monkwearmouth. The cost of the structure will be
about 8,0001. Mr. T. Moore is the architect, and con-
tracts have been let to Mr. Wm. Tone, mason ; Mr. J.
Pattinson, joiner ; Mr. Cook, painter and glazier ; and
Messrs. Dannett, plumbers.