The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-19 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., the
Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, proceeded in his
yacht, the Fanny, yesterday morning, to Spithead,
and went on board the Fox, 42, to inspect her. He
was received on board by Commodore Lambert,
Commander Tarlton, and the officers of the ship,
with yards manned • and the ship's company were
mustered and the ship inspected. This ship has an
uncommonly fine crew, and promises to be one of the
most efficient frigates in commission. The men are
already much attached to their ship and captain. She
has the best crew of any vessel that has sailed from
Portsmouth for the last twelvemonths. She is already
in good order. The complement of the Fox is 310
officers and men, and she carries the following
armament

Main deck—Four B.inch guns, 52 cwt., 8 ft. long.
Twenty 32-pounders, 39 cat., 7 ft. 6 in. long.
Quarter.•deck and forecastle—Four 32-pounders,
45 cwt., 8 ft. 6 in. long. Four 32-pounders, 39 cwt.,
7 ft. 6 in. long. Ten 32-pounders, 17 cwt., carro-
nades 4 ft. long.
Such a frigate as the Thetis, however, with only
38 guns, would cut the Fox up and remain without
range of half her guns.
The Commander-in-Chief also mustered and in-
spected the Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain Gif-
fard, and was received with manned yards when he
went on board. These two ships, with the Apollo,
Commander Rawstorne, will be paid wages to-day.
This Dragon, although of nearly 1,300 tons, only
carries 6 guns—namely, two 68-pounders, 95 cwt.,
10 ft. long, on pivot slides and carriages, and tour 10-
inch guns, 85 cwt., 9 ft. 4 in. long, on slides and car-
riages. She Las now 560• horse power engines.
Commodore Superintendent Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
struck his broad pendant on board the St. George, in
Hamoaze, at sunset yesterday, and proceeded on leave
of absence. Mr. Henderson, the master-attendant,
presides over the dockyard during the Noble Lord's
absence ; and Captain Nias (formerly of the Herald,
at China) has the charge of the ordinary.
Officers, 'maims, and boys, are to be sent on board
the Bellerophon, 78, immediately on her paying off at
Devonport.

Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart, li.H., is at Port
Royal, Jamaica, from the Havannah.
Falmouth lighter, Carrick master, which put into
Plymouth Sound on Sunday, with a foul wind, with
stores from Holyhead, for Portsmouth, sailed on
Tuesday.

PORT-S➢SOUTII, WEDNESDAY.—The Apollo troop-
ship, Commander Rawstorne, will be paid wages to-
morrow.

The Penelope steam-frigate, having undergone a
thorough repair, will be undocked to• morrow.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 18.—Her Majesty's ship Belle-
rophon, 78, Captain Baynes, from the Mediterranean,
is hourly expected at this port, where she is to be paid
off and recommissioned.

The steam-vessel Wasp, on arrival from Wool-
wich, will he paid advance here, and will take the
mails to the coast of Africa, touching at Madeira.
The frigate Portland will be taken out of dock on
Saturday.
The owners of the Vulcan paddle steamer, which
left Plymouth on the 18th of July, for San Fran-
cisco, have received advices from her. She made
Cape Ortegal July 21, passed between the Grand
Canary and Teneriffe the 28th, and was off the Cape
Verds on the 4th of August ; trade winds light and
variable. At that date her after hold was still full of
coal in reserve for any calm under the line. The
Vulcan was formerly in the service of the Revenue
department.
The brig Comet, Captain Smith, 2l days from Ma-
deira, with wine, was off the port this morning, and
landed a mail and passengers—Mr. Garvagh, Mrs.
M'Donald and servant. Her crew and passengers are
well, and the island
.was; healthy at the period of her
departure.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 18.—Mate—William B. A. F.
Paterson (1850), to the Firefly steam-vessel at Wool-
wich.

Midshipman—Arthur Onslow, to the Firefly.
Assistant Engineer—Charles H. Putt, to the Re-
xibution steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.

The Lords of the Admiralty returned to town at a
late hour from their official visit to the eastern ports
and to Queenstown and Holyhead, and to-day re-
sumed their duties at Whitehall.

Admiral Baron Mackau, of the French navy, and
formerly Minister of Marine, visited Woolwich Dock-
yard to-day, shortly before one o'clock, and was re-
ceived by Commodore Henry Eden, superintendent,
and Mr. Lang, master shipwright, and several of the
heads of the departments. The gallant Admiral accom-
panied Commodore Eden to view the Agamemnon,
80 guns, now entirely in frame, to be fitted with a
screw propeller and engines of 400-horse power. He
then visited the building where Nasmyth's hammers
are worked, at the blacksmiths' shop, in which great
alterations are being made by removing the cumber-
some and unsightly brick chimneys over the forges,.
and substituting cast metal forges with iron smoke con-
ductors, which pass below the ground, and ultimately,
discharge the smoke through the tall chimney ad-
joining the saw-mills. Passing along the docks, in
which were the hydra and Alecto steam-vessels, he
proceeded to the San Fiorenzo, building. After vi-
siting the store delait, and having the Warrior convict
ship pointed out to bim, and several details connected
with convict labour in the dockyard explained, he
visited the saw-mills and witnessed the machinery in
operation, converting the various descriptions of
timber used in the service. At the west end of the
yard he went on board the Wasp steam-sloop, pre-
paring for commission and for service on the coast of
Africa. That vessel is fitted with a screw propeller, and
Mr. Humphrys, chief engineer of the dockyard,
pointed out the mode in which the screw propeller
was raised or lowered by screws, and taken up on
deck through the well when requisite. The Admi-
ral appeared to look at the masts of the Wasp parti
cularly, as they are of an excellent construction, and
fitted with Harris's lightning conductors. He then
went to the factory, and inspected the boilermakers'
and foundry department, the steam-engine for setting
the works in motion, and the machinery for finishing
the works of steam-engines. Mr. Lang then con-
ducted him over the Royal Albert, 120 guns, and the
Admiral was evidently gratified with his visit.
The Firefly steam-sloop, Commander George A.
Seymour, has now completed all her crew, with the
exception of a sailm Iker and gun-room steward.
Lieutenant Trevenen has been indefatigable in his
exertions to render the sloop comfortable, and the se-
lection of the crew by her gallant commander has
made an excellent ship's company. The Firefly, ac-
cording to present arrangements, will leave on the
22d inst. for Greenhithe, to have her compasses ad-
justed, and is to take out the mail of the Ist of Oc-
tober to the coast of Africa.

The Wasp steam-sloop is to be tried down the
river next week, and is expected to make a speed of
about six knots per hour. Her engines are only of
100-horse power, and her tonnage about 1,000, giving
a every proportten tons. ion of the small amount of one-horse power
to

AN ANTIQUEWhich
app
ALYEI{TISEME' NT,
Ad vertismc nt
eared at Ayleshani, in the county
extraordinary
of Norfolk, 16SO :
"By hi;; Majesty's letters patent, Bed taken cif and
Recrkt • eiecl by
ISAAC ARD PUNCHg,
Barber, Perrewig maker, Sur on Parish Clark, School-
master, Blacksmith & Man Midwife. I shaves for a penile,
cuts hare for two pence, and oyld and Powdird in the bar-
gare, young Ladies gentely educated, lamps lited by the
year or quarter, young Gentlemen also taut their Grammer
language in the fleetest manner & greet keer takin of their
inarrels & Spelen. Also Saline Singing and /force strewing
by the reel makir, likewise maks & Mends all sorts of butes
& shews, teaches the Ho boy and Jews harp, cuts corns,
blades & Blisters on the lowest terms. Cowtillions & other
dances taut at hoam and abrode, also deals holesale & retail
in Perfumery in all its branches, sells all sorts of Stashinary
ware, together with blackin ball, Red herins, Gingerbread,
Coles, Scrubbin brushes, treycle, mousetraps, & all ether
sweetmeats. Likewise God-fatner's cordial, red rutes, Tatoes,
Sasnges, Black Puddins, and other Garden stu.T.
I teeches Goggrify & all them outlanguaged kind of
things. A bawl on Wensday and Friday. All performed
God willon by me

"Isaac PLNCRARD.

"To be hard off at my wharehouse were you may be
sarved with the very best Bacco, by the ounce, ream, quire,
or Single sheet.
N.B. Also Likewise, beware of Counterfects for such is
abrode."

A witty word spoken by a rich relative is a very
witty affair—even when the wit is not very apparent; but
nobody laughs at the wit of a man in disgrace, or whose
coat is out at the elbows. —.Eliza Cook's Journal.

A NOVELTY.—Mr. Acres, of the Dolphin Hotel,
Herne Bay, has a table large enough to dine twelve gentle-
men, made out of the canopy of the pulpit, belonging to St.
Margaret's Church Canterbury, the fittings of which were
lately sold off.