The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHATHAM, AUG. 21.—The Bulldog] steam sloop
Commander Davis. Workmen are still employed i❑
fitting her for sea ; the painters have commenced paint-
ing her cabins, &c. She will not be out of the hands of
the dockyard before the end of the month, when it is ex-
pected that her first duty will be to convey troops to the
Cape of Good Hope.
The Duck, Savage master, and Aid, Smallmnn mas-
ter, arrived yesterday, the former with stores from Ports-
mouth, and the latter with stores from Plymouth. The
Good Will, Pledge master, remains loading with stores
for Sheerness.

Samuel Lash, leading man of sailmakers, is superan-
nuated on a pension of 341. per annum.
The Captain-Superintendent Captain W. 11. Shirreff,
accompanied by Colonel Charles Menzies, K.H., second
in command of the Chatham division of Royal Marines,
with Commander G. Benton, of the Poictiers guard •
ship, and Commander Davis, of the Bulldog, Captain
Mould, R.E., Director of Works at this yard, and Dr.
W. Rae, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, embarked from
the Queen-stairs at eleven o'clock a.m. yesterday, on
board the Chatham yacht, to meet the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty at Sheerness, their Lordships
being expected to pay an official visit to that yard.
PORTSMOU TH, FRIDAY.—The America, 50, Captain
the Hon. John Gordon, came into harbour yesterday
morning to discharge her freight, 1,800,000 dollars,
which were sent up by South Western Railway, and con-
signed to Messrs. Shaw and Maxwell, of London.
The Gladiator steam frigate, Captain Robb, is refit-
ting, and will, when ready, convey part of the 74th
Highlanders to Dundee. Three companies of this
regiment embark early to-morrow, on board the Athol
troop-ship.
The Admiral Superintendent has kindly allowed Mr.
Lees, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, to remast his yacht,
the Maude, at the sheers in this yard. The Maude, a
very beautiful schooner, carried away her foremast in a
squall at Spithead a short time ago.
The new boat-house in the dock-yard is being rapidly
finished. The roof and flooring are to be of cast iron,
and supported by pillars of the same metal. The mast
pond which adjoins this building, and which will be now
used as a chamber or basin for boats, is connected with
the harbour by a tunnel bored under the principal
thoroughfare in the dock-yard.
At Spithead, the Columbine, 16, and Alfred, India-
man, Commander Booth.

In Harbour—The Excellent, gunnery ship, Captain
Chads, (1.8., with the flag of the Port Admiral, Sir
Charles Ogle, Bart.; the Victory, 104, Captain Pascoe,
with the flag of Rear Admiral Superintendent Parker,
C. 8.; the America, 50, Captain Hon. John Gordon, the
Gladiator, steam frigate, Captain Robh, refitting; the
Athol, troop-ship, Master Commander Yearn, preparing
for sea. _ _

At the Jetty—The Penelope, steam frigate, fitting
for the pendant.
In the Basin—The Amphitrite, 26, and Trincomalee,
26, ready for commissioning.
In Dock—The Cambrian, 42, repairing; the Naiad,
altering into a coal depot; the Prince Regent, 120,
razeeing to a ninety gun ship o❑ two deck-_•; the Rat-
tlesnake, repairing and altering, and the Edinburgh, on
being made a steam block ship.
Building—The Royal Frederic, 110 ; the. Princess
Royal, 110; the Leander, 50; and the Dauntless, 28, and
Arrogant, 42, steam frigates, on the screw-propelling
principle.
ROYAL MARlNES.—Lientenant Giles is ordered to
Plymouth for duty. Lieutenants Cox, Wilson, Langley,
and Hadfield, have been granted a month's leave of ab-
sence, the last officer on a medical cer►ificate.
The North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart.,
arrived at Ascension on the 24th of June, en route to
England, to be paid off. She will be paid off at Chat-
ham, without removing her bulkheads or interior
fittings.
The Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, arrived at St.
Helena from Ascension on the 21st of June.

The Retribution steam frigate, Captain Lushington.
and the Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, arrived
at Gibraltar on the 6th inst., en route to Corfu, to convey
the Rifle Brigade thence to Gibraltar, for embarkation
for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Orestes, 18, Commander Cannon, has also arrived at
Gibraltar, on her way home to be paid off. She has been in
commission since August, 1842.

The Brill,ant, 22, Captain Watson, has returned to Cork
from the Azores, and on completing provisi,ms and stores,
will take dispatches and letters to the Channel Fleet.
The Trident, steam packet, Lieutenant Commander Rigge,
again damaged her machinery, on her passage to Devonport,
whitth being repaired, she sailed for the Mediterranean on
Sun+lay.

The Rite, steam vessel, which has been some time offered
for sale, without finding a purchaser, was towed from Sheer-
ness to Woolwich on Tuesday, to be fitted for commission as
a surveying vessel.
The Thetis, 36 gun frigate, on the design of the committee
of the School of Naval Architecture, will be launched at
Devonport, on the 31st. instant.