The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Alban, steam-tender, Lieut.-Commander Cranford,
is waiting at Devonport for the Inflexible, to proceed
to Port Royal.
Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-Com-
mander Cook, returned to Woolwich from Chatham,
yesterday afternoon, her services not being required
by their Lordships this week.
Blenheim, 60, screw steam-guard-ship, Captain
Henderson, C. 8., steamed out of harbour, saluted the
flag of Admiral Capel, on Thursday evening, and an-
chored at Spithead, where she yesterday received her
powder and live shells, and is preparing for her sea
cruise.

Britannia, 120, at Portsmouth, bas her lower rig-
ging and tops over the mastheads ; the seamen and
marines of the Illustrious are rigging her ; she has her
proper lower masts and yards, but her other spars
will be only that of a 72-gun ship.
Buzzard, steam-sloop, when completed at Wool-
wich, is to be navigated to Devonport, to be com-
pleted as an advanced steamer.
Confiance, steam-vessel, Mr. Martin, commander,
is to proceed from Liverpool, with a crew and gear,
to navigate the Bacchus, quarantine vessel, to Devon-
port.
Crane, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander Parsons,
will be complete by the 30th, and will leave Devon-
port for Falmouth, to be in time to convey the mail
of the 6tb Sept. to the Brazils.
Dauntless, 24, screw-sloop, at Portsmouth, has
hoisted the pendant. Captain H. P. Halsted joined
his ship yesterday morning. She is still in the steam-
basin, but completely rigged. Her party of Marine
Artillery, consisting of First Lieutenant Hewett, 2
sergeants, 1 corporal, 1 bombardier, and 53 gunners,
will embark on board to-day. Dauntless is complete
in the engineer's department, with the exception of
her spare screw.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain H. W. Giffdrd,
will go to Spithead on the 28tti, and be ready to pro-
ceed to the Mediterranean on the 29th. She is only
a score of blue-jackets short of her complement
Firefly, steam-vessel, will be ready for commission
at Woclwich by the Ist of September.
Flamer, steam-sloop, has not yet hoisted the pen-
dant at Portsmouth. She was taken out round Spit-
head, and along the measured mile in Stokes Bay,
yesterday morning, to test her machinery, after tho-.
rough repair. She will be ready to take out the Sep-
tember mail to the coast of Africa.

Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, went under the
sheers, at Portsmouth, for the purpose of taking out
her bowsprit, it having been found that it was sprung
by the Britannia getting athwart her hawse a few
days ago. She has received a new one, and it is
being gammoned and clothed.
Furious, steam -frigate, building at Portsmouth,
is ordered to be launched on the 26th inst.

Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander P. 11. Dyke,

was taken into No. 5 dock at Devonport, on Thurs-
day forenoon. When the water was pumped out, it
was found that she had rubbed her copper off, from
the larboard bow aft, so far as the saddle-boa, all of
which was replaced, and the ship was to be taken out
of dock at high water to•night, for which purpose
they were lightening her.
Iphigenia, old frigate, formerly used by the Marine
Society, and the Perseus, old receiving ship, have
been ordered to be broken up.
Linnet, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander Creser,
will have her defects made good at Devonport, by
the 31st inst.

Myrtle, steamer- tender, at Sheerness, is ordered to
have her defects made g)od.
Nautilus, 6, apprentices' brig, Lieutenant-Coin-
mander Dolling, from Plymouth, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning, and anchored in company with
the Rolla, 6, apprentices' brig, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Fenwick. Both vessels tired royal salutes as
her Majesty and Court passed Spithead, en route to
Osborne, yesterday morning.
Niger, steam screw-sloop, Commander Heath,
sailed from Spithead at daylight yesterday morning
for Plymouth, having embarked 5,0001. for Sierra
Leone. She is now ordered not to sail for the coast
of Africa until after the arrival of the mail at Devon-
port on the morning of the 20th instant.
Retribution, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, will
be out of the hinds of the dockyard, at Portsmouth,
by the 26th. She has about 130 on her books. The
riggers of the dockyard are employed in rigging her.
Her patty of Marine Artillery, consisting of First
Lieutenant Powel, 2 sergeants, 1 corporal, 1 bombar-
dier, and 43 gunners, embarked on board her hulk
yesterday afternoon.
Salamander, 6, steam-sloop Commander Eilmau, is
now nearly manned at Devonport.
Stromboli, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A.
Beauclerk, sailed from Portsmouth for the Downs on
Thursday evening.
Termagant, 24, screw-frigate, at Portsmouth, will
be completed by the dockyard by the 171 h inst., and
by the engineers on the 20th. She has been placed
under the sheers in the old basin, and will be masted
next week. It is reported that she will be comn,;s-
sioned shortly.
Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, C. 13., was to go into

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the Sound at Devonport,. yesterday. She bas been
ordered to complete her crew to 340 men, and to be
at Spithead as soon vs possible, after having been paid
advance.

Tortoise, lighter, will leave Woolwich to-day with
stores for Devonport.
Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir 11. M. Blackwood,
Bart., is receiving a thorough caulking of her upper
works, at Portsmouth. It is not yet decided whe-
ther she will receive new copper.
Wasp, screw steam-sloop at Woolwich, will be out
of the hands of the dockyard by the 30th September.

PORTSMOUTIL BOAT BRIGADE EXERCISE: The
dockyard and victualling yard boat brigade, under
Colonel Davis, master attendant of the Clarence-yard,
finished their summer exercise on Thursday evening.
The boats assembled outside the harbour, and com-
menced their exercise with their great guns—ad-
vancing and retreating, clearing the breach, and
other evolutions. The boats afterwards retreated

into harbour, and occasionally turning their heads
and firing at a supposed enemy. The boat brigade
has been altogether very well managed; the men and
officers have a vast deal of esprit, and they have at-
tained a great proficiency in the management of both
their guns and boats.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY. —This afternoon, at a quar-
ter to one o'clock, the Fairy Royal yacht, Captain
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, embarked the Queen
and Court from the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport.
The usual ceremonies were observed by the digni-
taries of the port and garrison. The guard of honour
was furnished by the Royal Marines, and commanded
by Lieutenant-Colonel Delacombe, Captain M'liil-
lop, First Lieutenants Searle and Wilson (the latter
bearing the colours). CJlonel-Cornuaandant Menzies,
KAI.' and Adjutant Stewart were also in attendance.
Tne Emperor of Russia's beautiful yacht, Queen
Victoria, was dressed in flags, and fired a Royal
salute on the Fairy passing.
Rear-Admiral Bowles and Captain Sir Thomas
Hastings visited this port to-day, and went on board
the Excellent,

The Nautilus instruction brig, Lieutenant .Com-
mander Wiling, arrived at Spithead from Devonport
to-day.
The Devonshire, the Alfred, and the Black wall,
Indiamen, all sailed, outward bound, yesterday from
Spithead.
CHATMAM, AUG. 10.—The Tiger steam-sloop
arrived from the River Thames on the 13th instant.
Having had her machinery fitted she will be taken
into dock and be brought forward for service at sea.
Arrived—The Favourite, M. S. Christonson; master,
from Norway, with a cargo of spars for the dockyard,
and the ship Wakefield, P. M‘Leary master, from
Savannah, with a cargo of pitch pine for the yard.
The Magicienne steam-sloop is completed for ser-
vice at sea. She is ordered to be navigated to Devon-
port on Saturday, the 17th instant.
The Admiralty have ordered the period of service,
in thel dockyards of the seamen riggers to be extended
to three years instead of eighteen months, as here-
tofore.
The Lords of the Admiralty are expected this day
to make their annual official visit to the Dockyard.
Captain P. Richards, C. 8., Captain-Superintendent
of the yard, with the principal officers of the several
departments, are in readiness to receive their Lord-
ships on their landing at the Queen's-stairs.

WINDSOR ROYAL REYLL.—The Royal Revel at
Windsor, on Monday, under the patronage of her Majesty
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, promises to be of a
far more attractive character than it has ever before as-
sumed. Her Majesty has just caused a donation of 101.,
and the Prince Consort of 51., to be forwarded to the co:n.
mittee in aid of the expenses of the gala, which will include
wrestling, foot hurdle races, gingling matches, climbing
soaped poles, backswording, ana other rural sports; to con-
clude with a splendid display of fireworks in the evening, in
the Bachelor's Acre. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent has also subscribed 51. Both the railways having ter-
mini in Windsor have arranged to run special trains, leaving
the town at eleven o'clock at night, for all places between
Windsor and London. Amongst the subscribers in aid of the
Royal Revel Fund are the Master of the Horse, Lord Rokeby,
Sir John Cathcart, Viscount Barrington, Colonel Bouverie
(Equerry to Prince Albert), Colonel Reed, and Mr. Hatchell
(the Member for the borough), the Master of her Majesty's
Household, &c.

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—On Monday last the Bir-
kenhead Dock Company set three hundred stonemasons to
work on the construction of their wharf walls near the ex-
tensive warehouses belonging to them. The utmost activity
now prevails all along the shore of the Wallasey-pcol, and
we understand the large float and stone of the large docks
in that locality will be sufficiently complete to be opened on
the Ist of October next,—Liverpool Mercury.: _ _

COMBEEMERE ABBEY.—The Noble Lord of this
fine old abbey, accompanied by Lady Combermere and the
lion. ➢Liss Cotton, has returned to town. Immediately on
his Lordship's arrival he caused notice to be given to his
tenant-farmers of his intention of again returning them ten
per cent. on the amount of their several rentals, Ivhich de-
duction was made on Tuesday by his Lordship's agent, and
gratefully received. Lord and Lady Combermere are now
at Buxton, where they will remain for a short time, and
thence return♦ to the abbey.—. Chester Courant.