The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30. The under-mentioned
officers received the thanksof the Lords of the Admiralty
yesterday, through Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8.,
for their participation in the honourable issue to the ex-
ertions made in getting the Sphyx steam-sloop eff the
shore of the Isle of Wight recently :
"TO TIER ♦DMIRAL SUPERINTENDENT AT PORTSMOUTH.
" Admiralty, March 25.
" My Lords desire that you will convey specially and
publicly their Lordships' approbation to Mr. Bellamy
and Mr. Watts, for the indefatigable exertions by which
they and the artificers under their orders contributed so
effectually to the preservation of the Sphynx.
"By command of their Lordships.
" H. G. WARD."
Mr. Bellamy is Assistant-Master Attendant, and Mr.
Watts Senior Assistant-Master Shipwright of this
dockyard.
Mr. Nicholls, secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir H.
Pigott, Cork, recently appointed to the post of Clerk of
the Cheque, at Greenwich Hospital, has been twenty-
six years in the service, instead of twenty-two, as stated
by a Contemporary. We may infer the appointment
has been conferred upon Mr. Nicholls from his merits,
as he never directly or indirectly solicited it ; it is there-
fore doubly gratifying to the worthy recipient. Mr.
George Nicholls, paymaster and purser (1809), late of
the Formidable, suoceeds his nephew, as secretary to the
Commander in-Chief at Cork.

The Agincourt. 72, Flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, was at Penang on the 6th ult., looking out
hourly for the Vernon, 50, with Rear-Admiral Ingle-
field, to relieve her.
The Scout, 14, Commander Loring, was at Shanghae
on the filth of January.
The Childers, 12, Commander Pitman, was at Wham-
poa on the 30th of January, where she was stationed to
keep in check the turbulent Chinese during their carnival
(the new year opening), one mode of showing their en-
joyment being the demolition of the British factories,
which they are in the habit of attacking, in spite of the
numerous examples which have been made to deter them.
About five weeks from the date of our letter 20 heads
were struck off as an example to the rio!ers to refrain
from such lawless depredations upon the British and
other property. In her passage from Spithead to China
the Scout touched at Bahia, Simon's Bay, Mauritius,
Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, Hong
Kong, &c., in all a run of about 23,000 miles; one por-
tion of the passage extremely tedious and squally.
The Driver steam-sloop, Captain Hayes, has been re-
lieved on the East India station, and is on her way
home; and we are informed by the latest advices the
Castor, 36, will immediately follow.
Mr. Airey, Master of the Iris, 26, Captain Munday,
died at Sirgapore on the 22d of January from dysen-
tery contracted at Labuan. A number of the crews of
the Iris and Wolf were also attacked with fever while
at that station. Lieutenant Heath, of the Iris, has been
placed in temporary command of the Wolf, vice Gordon,
deceased, and Mr. Jayling, Midshipman, has been made
an Acting Lieutenant.
Mr. Winstanley, late Clerk of the Royal Yacht, is
promoted to the rank of paymaster and purser.
Commander C. H. Douglass (1844) is appointed to the
Coast Guard service.

The Dragon steam-frigate, Capt. Ramsey, is loading
seed for Ireland.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 30.—The Earl of Auckland,
K.C.8., First Lord of the Admiralty, and Vice-Admiral
Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., First Naval Lord, visited
Woolwich Dockyard to-day at a quarter before eleven
o'clock A.M.' and were received on their arrival by Com-
modore Sir Jas. J. Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and K.C.H.,
Superintendent of the Dockyard; Captain Hay, com-
manding the Terrible steam-frigate; Captain Beatson,
R.E., in 'charge of works; Lieutenant Fowler, Flag-
Lieutenant; Mr. Dyer, Secretary to the Commodore;
Mr. Lang, Master-Shipwright; Mr. Lloyd, Chief Engi-
neer ; Mr. Elson, Master-Attendant ; Mr. Jenkins,
Storekeeper; Mriouchet, Store-receiver; Mr. Reid,
and Hr. Chatfield, assistants to the Master Shipwright,
and Mr. Atherton, assistant to the Chief Engineer.
Their Lordships immediately went on board the Ter-
rible steam-frigate, at present in the harbour taking on
board grain and meal for Ireland. The quantity already
en board exceeds 500 tons, taken down the river from
Deptford in barges. She has also 400 tons of coals on
board, and six of Captain Smith's paddlebox bmits, two
over her own paddle-boxes, and four on deck, in addi-
tion to her longboat, for distributing the meal when she
arrives oa the coast of Ireland.
From the Terrible their Lordships proceeded to the
Amphion steam-frigate, in charge of Lieutenant Sibbald
during the absence of her commander, Captain Wil-
li-ms, who went in the Odin steam-frigate with pro-
visions to Ireland. Their Lordships went down into
the engine-rooms, and the Earl of Auckland examined
the principle upon which the engines have been con-
structed, and appeared greatly pleased with the advan-
tages they possess of being entirely under water. Their
Lordships landed at the steps of the wharf wall from
the Amphion, and proceeded from the east dock to visit
the Blenheim, 72 guns, fitted with a screw-propeller and
engines by the Messrs. Seaward. Mr. Seaward was
present to explain the works, and the foreman of the
shipwrights engaged upon the vessel stated the progress
of the works upon her. The screw-propeller, cast of
gun metal by Messrs. Seaward and Co., measuring six-
teen feet in circumference, and weighing upwards of six
and a half tons, arrived to-day in a barge from their
works, and is now ready to be fitted to the vessel. From
the Blenheim their Lordships proceeded to the west-end
et the yard, and went on board the Growler steam-
vessel, lying alongside the entrance to the basin, and
minutely inspected the fittings of the vessel while the
men were taking her into it to be made ready for sea.
The Growler has had about 500 beds put into her, and
is fitted similar to a slave-vessel, only she has much
greater accommodation between her decks. The Growler
is intended for the conveyance of free blacks from the
coast of Africa to the West ladies. Their Lordships
ordered that four of Mr. Haig's pneumatic engines, each
capable of discharging 6,000 cubic feet of air per hour,
should be fitted to her. These engines only occupy a
space one foot six inches broad by one foot six inches
high, in addition to one foot in height for supporting
them, and Mr. Lloyd worked one of them by hand for
several minutes while their Lordships inspected them,
and stood in various parts of the vessel to feel the effects
produced in discharging the foul air, and producing an
agreeable and regular supply of pure air from above. Two
of the engines have been placed in the fore part and two
in the after part, and if the engine-room were fitted with
them, the ventilation would be perfect. They appear
so simple in their construcition, and are so easily worked,
as to render them admirably adapted for troop-ships.
On leaving the Growler, their Lordships inspected the
Niger in the inner basin, fitting with engines and a screw
propeller, and after inspecting the progress of the Royal
Albert, 120 guns, and the strong manner is which that
vessel is put together, again went to the east end of the
yard to look at the residence of Dr. Luther, a request
having been made to their Lordships that Dr. Luther
sheuld have a more suitable dwelling-house, if not the
one formerly occupied by the surgeon of the yard, but
for several ) ears past inhabited by the store-receiver.
The greatly increased number of persons now iu the
dockyard, and the additional duties required of Dr. Lu-
ther, render it desirable that the surgeon should have
ample accommodation, and their Lordships desire to
afford every facility to meet the increasing demand for
surgical and medical attendance. Their Lordships then
inspected the new building in progress of construction
for working two of Nasmyth's hammers, and shortly
after 1 o'clock rem., left for town, having been about two-
and-a-half hours on board the -vessels in the harbour and
basin, and in the yard.
The Cyclops steam-vessel was taken out of the basin
to-day, arid is to be taken to Sheerness to be made ready
for sea.
Reports have been received at the Admiralty of trials
of sailing Corry, commanding; between the Sutphee r b
America, 50 guns, Captain
, guns, Captain Armor
Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., Knt.; and the Thetis, 36
guns, Captain Henry J. Codrington, C. 8.; and the re-
L.
ports of Captain Curry, commanding the squadron, are
particularly favourable to the latter of these vessels. It
appears there have been seven trials, and that the Thetis
took the lead upon all but oneoowcocrasiannd n, wsuhpeenrisohriety in
meeting was
second; and that she proved herself to be a splendid
a sea. Teasnifestinggreatfi power
frigate wag designed by
three of a headft' the in
members of the School of Naval Architec-
ture in 1842, and was launched in AuguA last at Devon-
port dockyard.

MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is
10 per milk , which, at the English Mint
price of
3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of `;5.40 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25.35, it follows that gold
is 0.20 per cont dearer in Paris than in London.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4324
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 34 I7s. 10id.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.8;
and the exchange at Hatuburgh on London at short
being 13.7, it follows that gold is 0.81 per cent. dearer
in Harnburgh than in London.