The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE WEST INDIES.-Hur Majesty's ship Asia, Ad-
miral Hornby, sailed from Tigre Island, coast of Hon-
duras, on the 25th of March, for Valparaiso; the Cham-
pion was at Guayaquil; the Daedalus at Callao; the
steamer Gorgon in the Straits of Magellan; the loaaum
and Trincomalee were at Port Boyd, Jamaica; the
Plumper at Grey Town; the Persian at St. Domingo;
the Vixen and Alarm at Barbadoes; the Scorpion sailed
from Jamaica on cruise, April 21.
The Royal mail steamer, Severn, with the 2cl of April
mails reached Jamaica via St. Thomas, on the 30th of
April, and sailed on the Ist of May for Havannah and
the Gulf of Mexico. The Trent was at Jamaica. The
Dee was pissed off St. Thomas (having on board the
17th of April mails) on the 13th of May, en route to
Jamaica. The Medway at Bermuda. The Conway at
Demerara. The Eagle and Larne at St. Thomas.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY —The Termagant steam-
frigate, Master Attendant C. Brown, commaading (pro
tem.), went out yesterday morning to commence ner
Channel cruise; the Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander
Lord Amelius 13, auelerk, in company.
The Birkenhead iron steam-transport will proceed to
Lisbon, under Commander J. A. Stevens, on Wednes-
day, with stores for the squadron of evolution in the
Tagus, and orders for the Commodore.

The Furious steAm.sloop, building in this dockyard.
and the 11* asp, recently launched at Deptford, are ordered
to be supplied with Mr. Grant's cooking and distilling
galley, which has proved so eminently beneficial to Vie
comforts and sanitary condition of the. crews of those
ships hitherto fitted with these scientific appliances of
multiple gastronomy. A letter last week from the Hey-
card screw-sloop in China states that " the distilling
galley on board that vessel yields upwards t f a gallon of
pure water from the ocean per man per day." This
must be an invaluable acquisition on such a station,
where to the impurity of the water is attributed the ma-
jority of the distempers which affect the crews of Euro-
pean vessels. We think every vessel serving in a tropi-
cal climate ought to be supplied with the galley.
_ .

A butt of iron of the sub-stance of the Bide of the new
iron steam-ship Simoom is ordered to be made at this
dockyard as a target for the Excellent, for the purpose
of testing Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier's proposi-
tion respecting Admiralty folly in building iron vessels
without ascertaining if they may ever be of use in the
navy as vessels of war. _ _ _

The St. Vincent, 120, was recommended by Rear-
Admiral Berkeley and Sir Baldwin Walker, when lately
here, to be reduced to 102-gun ship; an order has since
been issued to carry that recommendation into effect,
which will be managed by razeeing her poop and re-
moving her quarter-deck and forecastle guns. Her new
compl►ment for service will be 900. It is believed the
removal of the poop will remedy her crankuess. When
altered the following will be her armament:—

No. Calibre. Weight. Length.
Guns. Founders. Cwt. Feet. Inehes
- 8 8-inch. 65 9 0
- 24 32's 56 9 6
4 B.inch. 65 9 0
30 31's 50 9 0
34 32's 42 8 0
2 68's 98 10 0

Lower deck

Ditto -
Middle deck

Ditto - - - -
Main deck- - - -
Quarter-deck and forecastle

Total

- 102 guns of longrange and heavy metal

ROYAL bIARINES.

In accordance with her Majesty's Order in Council of
the sth of February, Captain Caleb Barnes and Thomas
Stevens, of the Plymouth division, have been allowed
to retire on full pay on account of their long and merito-
rious services.

There being from the late reduction in the corps su-
pernumerary captains at Portsmouth, Captains William
Stratton Aslett and Charles Ogilvy Hawley are trans-
ferred to Plymouth to fill the vacancies caused by the
above retirements.

First Lieutenant Buck and a detachment of the Ar-
tillery Companies r. joined head-quarters yesterday from
her Majesty's ship Odin.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—The Russian steam frigate
Kamtschatka sailed at 5 P.M. for Lisbon to meet the Duke
de Leuchtenburg, who is at th%- Portuguese capital, on
board of the Russian frigate Pallas.

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICff, JUNE I.—Cwninander William Hotvat
(1846), to the Albion, 90, commissioned at Devonport
on May 29, 1850.
Lieutenant James Dirom (1841), from the Agin-
court, 72, depen-ship in ordinary at Devonport, to the
Albion.

Lieutenant Henry Temple (1841), to the Dolphin. 3,
brigantine, commissioned to-day at Sheerness. The
gallant officer is appointed to command the Dolphin.
Master Samuel W. K. Freeman (1849), to the Resist-
ance troop ship at Woolwich.
Surgeon. Richard Douglas (1831) to the Albion.
Assistant-Surgeon William Webber, M.D. (1841), to
the Albion, from the Agincourt.

Assistant-Surgeon Henry F. Williams, M.D. (1845),
to the Agincourt, vice Webber.
Mate—George Blakeley (1850), to the Albion.
Acting Paymaster and Purser William Henry
Mugford (1644), to the Phcsaix steam-sloop, on the
west coast of Atrica.

Midshipmen—H. L. Robinson, to the Impregnable,
104, flag-ship at Devonport ; A. O. Sutton, to the Vic-
tory, 101, flag-ship at Portsmouth; F. P. Dought and
Henry Holder, to the Albion.
Naval Cadets—Edward Evans, to the Fisgard, flag-
ship at Woolwich; Stanhope G. Price, to the Fisgard;
Edward Adeane and George Frederick Collate, to the
Victory; and John Louis Hope and John B. Barnett, to
the Albion.

Carpent, r Thomas Penfound, to the Albion.

When Rear-Admiral Berkeley. and Captain Sir Bald-
win Walker visited Woolwich dockyard on Wednesday
last to inspect the engines of the Retribution st,am-
frigate and Desperate steam-sloop, which were shown to
them by Mr. Elumphrys, Chief Engineer, they also in-
spected the works of 11 pair of engines in store. One
of these originally made by Miller and Bavenhill, for the
Minx steam-vessel, and of 100 horse-power, are to be
fitted in the Wasp steam-sloop, recently launched at
Deptford, and now in the basin at Woolwich making
ready for service.
The Retribution steam-frigate took a supply of coals
on beard to-day in order to try her engines in the basin
on Monday. She has taken on board her shot and shells
to-day, and will be made ready for sea in every respect
with as little delay as possible.
The Horatio, 24, steam guard-ship, when she went
down the river from Greenhithe on Thursday, had her
steam up to try her engines, and they worked very
well, making, as it was calculated, although not officially,
a speed of ab,,ut nine knots per hour. There were some
defects apparent, as the steam-chest primed and part of
the works bested, but these detects will soon be reme-
died. It would evidently be advisable in future to build
such vessels fur steam purposes as the Agamemnon, 80,
building, promises to be, as the expense of converting
such vessels as the Horatio into steam-ships cannot be
much less than the cost of building an entirely new ves-
sel, and the latter would bo better in every respect, and
have a better appearance, than the old vessels„the Ho-
ratio being described as having a very indifferent, if not
an ugly look.

Tn—e-Firefly steam vessel, Commander Tudor, arrived
at this port this evening from the coast of Africa station,
and is to be paid off here. Commodore Henry Eden is
to inspect her on Monday morning.
The Resistance troop-ship has taken on board the
greater part of the baggage of the Royal Artillery and
Royal Sappers and Miners, who are to proceed in her
to Halifax, Nova Scoria, and Canada. It appears
that when troops embark in her Majesty's ves-
sels six men are only allowed the rations of
four, that quantity being considered sufficient for
six men not doing duty during the period of their sea
voyst4e, and the same rule is adopted with supernume
raries in the Royal Navy when proceeding abroad or
returning home. The men do not approve this regula-
tion, but instead of complaining they join together, and
purch&e a quantity of biscuit for distribution amongst
themselves during the voyage. The Royal Artillery to
embark on Monday in the Resistance brought alongside
that vessel 24 sacks, containing about 27 owt. of biscuit,
but it was nut permitted to be put on board, and it had
to be taken on shore again, and was lying on the wharf
wall at eight o'clock P.M. Had tte weather been wet the
whole of the biscuit would have bean damaged, and the
Admiralty and Ordnance authorities would only be
doing justice to the men to grant them permission to
have a moderate quantity of an article so necessary to
insure the health and comfort of troops on a long voyage.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Hawke, King William-street; hatter, June 21, at
eleven—G. H. Blake, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square,
cabinet maker, June 21, at eleven—J. H. Theobald,
Deptford, coal merchant, June 21, at one—W. Shackell,
Canning-place, Old-street, St. Luke's, bacon merchant,
June 21, at twelve—ll Brading, Shepherdess-walk,
City-road, licensed victualler, June 21, at one—T. Tin-
dall, Hastings, linen-draper, June 20, at twelve—W.
Child, Chertsey, grocer, June 20, at twelve—T. Stirling,
jun.' and W. Stirling, Stratford, slaters, June 20, at one
—R. Green, Brighton, ironmonger, June 20, at half. past
one—C. Cove, Hornchurch, Essex, builder, June 24, at
half-past eleven—C. Houghton, Dudley-grove, Padding-
ton, ironmonger, June 25, at one—H. C. Cawston,
Temple-street, Kingsland, grocer, June 25, at two.
In the Country.
F. Baasano, Deritend, near Birmingham, coach
founder, June 24, at half-past ten, at the Court, Bir-
iningham—E. S. Boult, Liverpool, stock and share
broker, June 24, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J.
Gray, jun., Liverpool, metal broker, June 21, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—W. Pule ton, Wrexham, Den-
bighshire, draper, June 21. at eleven, at the Court,
Liverpool—J. Yeomans, Sheffield, merchant, June 22,
at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield—C. Burgin, Shef-
field, steel manufacturer. June 22, at ten, at the
Council-hall, Sheffield—J. Harshaw and W. Askew,
Leeds, cloth merchants, June 21, at eleven, at the Court,
Leeds.