The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.--The Right Hon. the
Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., First Lord of the Admi.
ralty, is expected to visit this port on Thursday, and
make a cursory inspection of the ships and works in
progress, prior to the opening of Parliament. The
Noble Earl will most probably be accompanied by
one or more of his colleagues, and will inspect the
Meander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel (who went
to town on leave to-day), at Spithead—an intention
his Lordship has announced to the Commander-in-
Cbief. The Meander will touch at the Cape of Good
Hope. Parcels for officers and men in the Cape
and China squadrons will be in time up to Saturday
next.

Extract of a letter from the Vengeance, 84, Cap-
tain Lushington, dated Malta, Jan. 8 :—" We sail
this afternoon with provisions for Sir William
Parker's squadron at Palmas Bay, south-east of Sar-
dinia. The Porcupine arrived on the 3d from
Gibraltar. We expect to return to Malta in about
fifteen days from this. Nothing further hest ranspired
about the lost Avenger, but some curiosity has been
excited and hopes raised by a Maltese brig which
passed the island of Galita on the night of the 2d
inst., reporting having seen a light on the island."
The Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, flag of Rear-
Admiral Inglefield, Commander-in-Chief on the
China and East India station, sailed from Manilla for
Borneo and Singapore on the 4th of November.
The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at
St. Helena on the 3.1 of December from Kabenda.

The Undine steatn-ves.sel, Acting-Master Allen
commanding, in dock for refit; accidentally caught
fire today. The damage done is trifling. Rear-
Admiral Prescott, superintendent, and Mr. grown,
master-attendant, went on board this afternoon to
inspect the injuries. It is expected she will be un-
docked again next week.
Wind, E.N.E., fresh gales, and dark, hazy weather.
—5 P.m., Tuesday.
Woonwtcn, JAN. `2s.—The Heels, steam-vessel,
recently commanded by Captain Stunner, and paid
off on her return te Sheerness from foreign service,
has been brought up to Woolwich to-day to be re-
fitted and again made ready for sea.
The Lightning steam vessel Master Commander
Petley. was taken out of the basin yesterday, having
had the injuries to her paddle boxes and bulwarks re-
paired,.and she is now as effective as if no collision
had taken place between her and the Banshee.
The Dee steam transport vessel, Master Commander
Thomas Driver, has had her mast scraped to ascer-
tain the extent of the injury it sustained during the
late fire, and it has been found that although the out-
side was considerably charred, the depth was not so
great as anticipated from its appearance immediately
after the fire, and both the mast and boom have been
reported as still fit for service in this vessel.

The crew of the Bramble, formerly in the survey-
ing service, and at present on board the Fisgard, 44
guns, flag-ship of Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer,
K.C.B. and K.C.H., were paid off to-day at Wool-
wich.

Twenty-five boys, shipwrights' apprentices, one
caulker's apprer.tice, and seven blacksmitns' appren-
tices, were entered at Woolwich Dockyard to-day,
the preference being given to boys who were best
educated and received the schoolmaster's certificate of
being the most diligent and attentive. Each boy was
on entering placed under the charge of one of the
workmen, selected according to seniority in the
branch the apprentice was entered for, to learn him
his trade, for which the instructor will receive 2s. per
week. In cases where boys have parents in the same
branch in the yard, they are placed under their charge.
Seven of the men of the factory and five of the men
of the dockyard establishment having been found on
passing the gates to have pipes in their pockets, on
Friday last, the Commodore has issued strict injunc-
tions against smoking in the yard ; and in order to
prevent the possibility of such being the case, he has
made known that any of the workmen found with
pipes in their pockets when searched on leaving the
yard will be dismissed.