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THE NAVY.

Sir J. Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty,
has announced his intention of paying his official
v:sit to Woolwich Dockyard immediately after the
return of the Board from Cherbourg.
Advices from Malta to the 24th of July mention
that the Wanderer steam gunboat, as well as the
Caradoc steamer, had been sent to Alexandria
with telegraphic despatches from Lord Malmesbury
and the Admiralty, with reference to the massacre
at Jeddah, addressed to Captain Pullen, of her
Majesty's steam frigate Cyclops at Suez. Her Ma-
ljesty's screw steamships of the line, Princess Royal
,nd Coequeror, stood close in to Malta on the 22d
of July, when the Harpy steam sloop carried out
their letters. The Vulture steam frigate had parted
comp Any, and is said to have proceeded to Naples.
to relieve the Centaur steam frigate on that station,
The Princess Royal, from a cruise in the offing
off Malta, and the Caradoc, from Alexandria,
entered the port of Malta just as the mail was
leaving. The Charles, bark, with Government
stores, reached Malta on the 24th of July, from
London.

11,r Majesty's ship Firefly, Commander Day,
from the coast of Africa, was yesterday received
int) basin at Woolwich to be dismantled and paid
oft:

A Board of Admiralty arrived at Portsmouth last
evening on their annual official visit of inspection
to all the naval departments, which they will com-
mence this morning.
The Orion, 91, Captain D'Eyncourt, and the
Brunswick, 80, Captain Ommanney, arrived at
Spithead yesterday, from Plymouth.
The Black Eagle Admiralty steam yacht, Master
Commander Petiey, arrived at Portsmouth yester-
day to join the Rural squadron.
The Vivid and Banshee Admiralty steam vessels
anchored at Cowes yesterday, and joined the Royal
squadron.
The following additional ships have been taken
up by the East India Company for the conveyance
of the reinforcements of cavalry and infantry about
to be despatched t viz.—Pomona, 1,265
tons, Captain W. B,`llBoll, to convey troops to
Calcutta ; Lady licalgkingen, 946 tons, Captain J.
H. Y. ling, un ter orders for Bombay ; Cressy, 720
tons, Capt. E. Gooch, to convey reinforcements to
Madras ; and the Charlotte Jane, 663 tons, Cap-
tam W. Ru-sell, to proceed with troops to Cal-
cutta. The whole of the reinforcements, to the
number of nearly 5,000 non-c munissiena officers
and men, selected from the East India Company's
cavalry and infantry depots at Chatham, Maid-
stone, Canterbury, Colchester, Aberdeen, Win-
chester,
Fermoy, Limerick, and the other stati, ns,
are ordered to be held in readiness to embark at
Gravesend by the 7th of August. The infantry
will all be equipped with the Enfield rifle, in the
use of which they have undergone a course of in-
struction at the several stations.
A return has just been ordered to be made to the
authorities of the number of I,ne-of-batte
frigates, and other vessels now attached to the
ordinary at Chatham, and lying iu the Medway.
The following are the names of the various ships of
war there, nearly the who!e of which are fit to be
brought forward for service immediately they are
required :—Monarch, 84 ; Powerful, 84 ; Superb,
80 ; Goliath, 80, screw steamer ; Leander, 50 ;
President, 50 ; Severn, 50 ; Vernon, 50 ; War-
spite, 50 ; Winchester, 50 ; Gloucester, 50 ; Bac-
chante, 51, screw steamer ; lsis, 41 ; Africaine,
44 ; Mercury, 42 ; Latona, 42 ' • Ac ice, 40 ; Dia-
mond, 27 ; Eurydice, 26 ; 'Vestal, 26 ; Cleopatta,
26 ; Trincomal,e, 24 ; Terpsichore, 18 ;
20 ; Daphne, 18 ; Frolic, 16 ; Jumna, 16 ; Comus,
14 ; El.ctra, 14 ; Mariner, 12 ; Kangaroo, 12 ;
Fautome, 12 ; Despatch, 12 ; Daring, 12 ; Alba-
tross, 12 ; Arab, 12 ; Resistance, 10 ; Rattlesnake,
8 ; Dolphin, 3 ; and Wye, 3, screw steamer. In
addition to the ab we the following steam floating
batt4r;es are lying at Cha' ham :—Thunderbolt,
16 ; Etna, 16 ; and Trusty, 14, besides several
mortar vessels which have been sent to that port

for preservation.
TIN Argus steam sloop, at Sheerness, was in-
spi-eted yesterday. Her crew were paid their ad-
vance, and she is under orders to leave Sheerness
to-morrow for Portsmouth.
The Meeanee, 80 guns, as Leen taken into the
fitting basin at Sheerness, to complete machinery,