The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 24.—The Admiralty have or-
dered the Retribution steam-frigate to be tried under
steam by the officers of the dockyard, to ascertain, now
she is light, where the weakness in her construction pre-
vails, and what is the cause of the very extraordinary
and dangerous rolling motion which always takes place
when she is at sea. Messrs. Maudsley and Field, the
contractors, who made her engines and machinery, have
been informed that their work has been executed ac
cording to the agreement, and it is now the object of the
Admiralty to find out why the Retribution is not fit to
be trusted at sea. _ .

The inquiry on board the Emerald cutter relating to
the catastrophe which happened to her by running down
a sloop, has been made, and terminated by a full and
satisfactory report that no blame was attributed to any
one on board her. Her defects will be made good in a
few days.
The Recruit iroa brig, now in dock at Devonport, has
been pronounced to be an unsafe vessel as a man-or-war,
rigged and stowed as she is at present. To render her fit
for a packet it will he necessary to reduce her masts and
yards, land her guns and ammunition, and add twenty
tons of sheet lead as ballast. On her passage from Ma-
deira to Plymouth she was very nearly swamped, having
got stern way in a gale of wind. Part of her hammock
nettings were washed away. From her buoyancy the
most particular attention is obliged to be constantly
paid to her helm and steerage. It is quite evident that
neither brigs nor steamers, constructed of iron, are safe
vessels as men-of-war.
The Polyphemus steamer is to have her defects
made good at this port, and to be taken in hand
immediately. When she quitted Carthagena, her Ma-
jesty's frigate Spartan was lying there with the Van-
guard.
The Penguin packet, from the Brazils, has brought
accounts of the departure of Commodore Sir Chas.
Hotham, K.C.8., in the Devastation, for his command at
the Island of Ascension; and of the arrival at Rio
Janeiro, in two vessels freighted for the purpose, of
the officers and crew of her Majesty's late brig
Osprey, wrecked on the coast of New Zealand. They
are ordered home for an inquiry by court-martial to
take place.
W OOLWIC H, Nov. 24.—The .lEolus store-ship was
towed down the river on Saturday, on her way to Ply-
ylouth and the west coast of Scotland, with meal for the
inhabitants.
Commodore Sir J. Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and
arrived at Woolwich dockyard at three o'clock
P3l. to day, and was received by Rear-Admiral Sir
• Francis A. Collier, Lint., C.B. and K.C.H., Commander
Smith, of the William and Mary yacht, and the autho-
rities of the yard. At the time of the arrival of the
Gallant Commodore, Sir Francis Collier, Sir Thomas
Basting, Knt., Rear-Admiral Sir Chas. Napier, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Dundas, C.8.,_ of the foundry department
of the Royal arsenal, and Captain Dalyel!, of Green-
wich Hospital, were on board the Sidon, with Captain
I I entierson, C. a, and on landing were introduced to the
Commodore.

DUNMOW. —THE DODGE ARTFUL. Last week
Mr. Valiance, the governor of the Dunmow Union
Workhouse, discovered that the scales for weighing the
paupers' bread had some clay fixed on the bottom of the
weight side, so that each pauper had upwards of an
ounce more bread delivered to him than was allowed.
On Friday, James llatley was taken before the Rev.
J.. P. 11. Chessbyre, anti the offence being sworn to by
one of the inmates as having been done by him, he was
committed to gaol for 14 days.—lpswich Express.
THR HADDINGTON BURGHS.-011 Friday last it
Was officially announced in Iladdington, that at the first
general election the opponent to Mr. Balfour of Whit-
‘ingham, the present representative of that district of
burghs, is to be either Lot r 1 John Hay, brother to the
4larquia of Tweeddale, or Lord Mulgund, eldest son of
14)etlar1 of Minto.— Ro.ss•shire Advertiser.
i P4PfYRTATION or VENlSON.—Venison, imported
whole from Ilamburgh, was offering in Hull shambles on
ik Tuesday at &d. per lb. for foreparts; and Is. for haunehea.