The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENeE.

PORTSMOUTH, .JAN. 11.—Admiral Sir Charles Ogle,
Commander-in Chief at this port, gave another magni-
ficent entertainment at the Admiraity-house on Friday
evening, surpassing in splenelour and hospitality even the
two former. It was brilliantly attended, all, or nearly
all, the rank of both services at the port and the ilite of
the neighbouring gentry being present.
The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, will be docked to
morrow, to have her copper rer.ird. mid, it is reported.
to be altered in her gripe, keel, and stern-pie:A, and her
anidthip magazine done away with.
The Scourge steam bomb-vessel, Commander Caffin,
was undocked on Thursday. her copper having been
cleaned, and some necessary alterations made in the pipes
connected a ith the engines under water. The Rauh r
steam (screw) sloop, Commander Smith, was imme-
diately taken into the dock vacated by the Scourge, the
contemplated alterations in her screw propeller not
having been completed when she was last clicked. By
these alterations she will be ennhkd to ship or unship
her screw at any time without difficulty, or raise it suffi-
ci%ntly to be clear of the water, if it should he desirable
to get the vessel under canvass. This (which, for want
of a hatchway through from the quarter-deck to the
screw, such as has rec. ntly been made, could not be done
before, without going into duck) can be accomplished at
sea in a gale with ease.
The Bittern, 16, Commander Hope, is repairing de-
fects with all idspatch in the harbour, and will be ready
for sea in a few days, excepting as regards men, of whom
she is short.

The Alban steam troop-ship, Master• Commander
Aylen, will be rea‘iy for Eea to-morrow, when she will
leave for Plymouth and Cork, taking Royal Marines
and supernumeraries.

I he Curlew, 10, at this port is ordered to be strength-
ened and Cued fur the trial of a 13-inch mortar on
board her.

An experiment will be tried next week of firing from
the Excellent gunnery ship shot and shell at an old
steam funnel, to ascertain what effect the firing may
have on it. The funnel will be fixed on a floating stage,
and secured by cliains, as in the usual way on board
steam-vessels, and placed at a regulated distance from
the ship. We believe this trial has been ordered at the
suggestion of Captain Chads. In an important trial, as
this will be, we think a new funnel might have been
granted, as it is scarc,ly probable an old will present
su_th res'stance, atter having been weakened by wear,
as one new from the foundry.
The Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander Gordon, was
at Callao, on the Ist of November. A private letter says
---`• On, of our boatS capsized on the 20th of Octob,
and Dr. Thompson, the assistant-surgeon, and three
seamen (Benjamin Serjeant, George Emery, and John
Batten) were drowned. We had been at Callao since
the Ist of August doing nothing ; the Admiral is down
among the island with the Modeste and Salamander, at
Otaheite, and has been there for the last twelve. months.
The Amerila, 50, after h•av,n,„; the Sandwich IsLnds,
expected to go to the Columbia River; and report also
says that the Admiral goes there in the Collingwood,
after having been the round of the islands."
Ile Hydra steam sloop, Commander Young, was at
Ascension on the 25th of November, undergoing repairs,
and rot expected to leave for E .gland until Feb uary.
The Cacique steam-510.,p, late y captured by the Pene-
lope, having Laken in a cargo of provisions for the
squadron itt the Bight of 13enin, sailed from Ascension
on the 25th of November, Lieutenant H. B. Gray, of the
Hydra, having been appointed by Commodore Jones to
command her.

The Actaeon, 26, Captain Mansel, was at St. Helena
on the 21st of November.

The Frolic, 16. Commander Hamilton, was at St.
Bias, from the Sandwich Islands, on the 16th of Novem-
ber, collecting freight for Engl,nii—all well.
The Aniaz•m, 19. Captai Stopford, was at Genoa, on
the Ist inst., last from Barce!ona.

The Per.•ian, 16, Commauder Coryton, was at Sacri
ficioi, on the sth ult.

The Rhadruanthos steam-troop-ship, Master Com-
man ler Laen, is order,d fr ,113 the Irish station to the
Mediterranean, to join the squadron under Vice-Admiral
Sir W. Parker.
The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander W.
Pretyman, returned on Friday from the Thames, whittn r
she had attended the Centaur new steam-frigate to get
her engines and machinery.
The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, on the Cape of
GOod Hope station, may be expected home in April,
according to private letters received recently.

It is re-ported that the 100 senior eaptain-sof the navy
have been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, thus
embracing those of 1808 down to those of 1813, as far
as Sir \Vatkin Pell, inclusive. It is also stited that the
following alteration has been made in the naval uniform
—viz., Captains to wear the star, crown, and anchor;
Commanders, crown and anchor; and Lieutenants, the
anchor, on their epaulets; and all officers of wardroom
rank, to wear two epaulets.