The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.
Mates—Richard P. Gresham (1850), of the Excel-
ent, to the Dragon, steam-frigate, Portsmouth; W. G.
Scovell (1848), of the Excellent, and A. G. J3roadhead
(1849), of the Excellent, to the Retribution steam-frigate,
Portsmouth; Thos. J. Young (1848), of the Excellent,
to the Dauntless screw-frigate, Portsmouth.
Assistant-Engineers—Thomas E. Woodfield, to the
Salamander steam-frigate, Devonport; Charles Moxley,
Samuel Madden, and John Burgess, to the Flamer, steam-
sloop, Portsmouth.
Midshipmen—A. H. W. Battiscombe and Richard
Harrington, to the Dragon; A. J. Wootton and C. H.
Carpenter, to the Trafalgar, 120, Sheerness; John
Swinburne, to Salamander; J. P. Townsend, W. S. De
Kantzow, and Robert H. Switon, to the Retribution;
George G. Buckley and W. D. D. Selby, to the Daunt-
less.

Naval Cadets—F. S. H. Webber and R. J. Onslow,
to the Dragon; Richard Sheepshanks, to the Trafalgar;
Harrington Hudson, to the Retribution ; Thomas K.
Hudson and Joseph Crispin, to the Dauntless.
The following appointments have also been made:—
Lieutenants—Ross M. Floud (1840), and Francis
Rooke (1844), the surviving officer of the ill•fated
Avenger, to the Dauntless screw frigate ; Thomas
D. Williams (1850), to the Apollo troop-ship Ports-
mouth.

Master—Charles J. Parker (1841), who was promoted
for services in China, to the Dauntless, vice Vincent
Williams, who has declined the appointment.
The Boord of Admiralty will commence their annual
tour of inspection of the dockyards and ports at the
latter end of the present week.
Arachne's (16) bottom having been completed at De.
vonport, she was taken out of No. 2 dock on Monday
morning, and the Ringdove, 12, was taken in the same
tide to be broken up.
Kestrel, 4, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander Baker,
would not have Seen paid off at Devonport, but on
examination she was found defective. As we have
stated, orders have been received to pay her off, after
which she is to be carefully surveyed and her actual
state reportef.

The Vengeance has received her mizentaast at Ports•
mouth, and will be brought into the Angle Dock to•day.
The Termagant, steam. frigate, was removed from it yes-
terday, the beams having been placed over her engine
for stopping her mainmast seven feet further forward.
The Termagant will be masted and prepared again as
an advanced steamer.

The Seaflower cutter and buoy-boat were undocked
at Portsmouth, on Monday.
The Fire Queen, iron steamer, was docked at Ports-
mouth, on Monday, to have her bottom examined. She
was payed over with Mr. Hay's composition eight months
back, and has been lying in the dirty water of the harbour
for the last two months; but her bottom was perfectly
free from barnacles and weeds. There was a slight coat-
ing of soft brown soapy matter on it, which came off with
the lightest touch of a mop. There was no oxide, and
the varnish was hard and perfectly smooth; altogether,
the iron was as clean as the copper sheathing of ships is
after lying up the harbour for a considerable time. She
is to be again payed over with Mr. Hay's composition.
We uuderstand the Government have some intention
of purchasing the yacht Nancy Dawson, lately returned
from the Pacific, after having been of much assistance
in the Arctic regions to the Herald and Plover. She
will be placed (if purchased) to run between the river
Plate and Rio, in room of the Kestrel. We hear she was
surveyed by the authorities on Friday last. She is a safe,
wholesome little vessel, but some of the revenue cutters,
now being paid off, would answer the purpose of carry-
ing the intermediate mails in South America just as well
as the Nancy Dawson.
The Dauntless was commissioned on Monday at Ports-
mouth. She is rigged, and will soon be ready for ser-
vice if required.
The Retribution also hoisted the pendant on Monday
at Portsmouth. Captain Warden having joined, the
shipwrights have something to do to her, altering her
spirit-room, hatch, &e. 'She will now make a useful
vessel, and carries a sufficient armament:—
On her main. deck l2 guns, 32-pounders ,9 feet, 50
cwt.
„ Quarter-deck ... 7 guns, 8 inches, 9 feet, 64 cwt.
„ Forecastle
shot, 95 cwt.
ft Of If 2 guns, 8 inches, 9 feet, 64 cwt.

Total 22 guns.
With 2 brass 24-pound howitzer guns. The riggers of
the yard are fitting her.
The Inflexible has not yet sailed from Portsmouth for
Plymouth, the Alban not having arrived.
The Alfred, Indiaman, arrived from the River at
Portsmouth yesterday morning, outward bound. The
Downsbire, Indianian, was also coming in.
The Bombay sailed for the Cape and Bombay from
Portsmouth OD Monday.
The Blackwall, Indiaman, was beating up to Spithead,
yesterday.
The Apollo is ordered to be refitted at Portsmouth,
and to be ready by the 10th of September.
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PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Tbe Fire Queen, steam-
yacht, has been taken into the dock vacated by the Bea-
flower to day to have her bottom scraped and to be re-
paid with composition.
The Bombay convict-ship eailed from Spithead this
afternoon for Cowes, to embark prisoners, &c.
The New York packet sailed from Spithead last
evening.

The Inflexible steam-sloop, Commander Dyke, sailed
from Spithead this evening, for Plymouth, en route to
the West India station.
WOOLWICH, Aua. 13.—Mr. Thomas Crouch, senior
extra clerk at Woolwich dockyard, has been placed on the
establishment as a third-class clerk.
The crew of the Perseus receiving-ship, recently lying
off the Tower of London, and commanded by Lieutenant
Greet, were paid off to-day at Woolwich.
The Advice and the Jasper steam-vessels went up the
river yesterday to John Penn and Sons' establishment,
adjoining Deptford Dockyard, and passed Woolwich
this morning at a qurter before six o'clock, having the
Tiger steam-sloop, fitted with engines of 400-horse
power by that firm, in tow to take her to Sheerness to
be made ready for sea.
The Lords of the Admiralty intend visiting Woolwich
Dockyard to-morrow, and will afterwards embark in the
Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander S. B.
Cook, and proceed to Sheerness.
The Firefly stearn•vessel had her steam up in the basin
to-day, and is now taking on board a supply of coals.
Vessels in the Harbour, in Commission—Fisgard flag-
ship, Black Eagle and Lightning steam-vessels.
Nut in Commission—Hydra, Jasper, and Advice
steam-vessels, and the Mastiff.
ILI the Basins—Rosamond, Monkey, Dwarf, Firefly,
Mini, Buzzard, Locust, Polyphemus, and Geyser steam-
vessels.
In Docks—Wasp, Princess Alice, and Alecto steam-
Tomb.