The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Commander Charles Brown, lately retired from the
office of master, attendant at Portsmouth Dockyard, is at
present engaged at that port with Me committee in
completing the ri.vision of the rigging warrants.
Albion, 90, Captain J. Hope Johnstone, has com-
munced entering her additional half or advanced com-
plement. Ninety blue jackets are yet regain d for her.
Alecto steam-sloop, at Woolwich, notwithstanding
that she was condemned by a committee of master ship-
wrights at Woolwich, has been ordered to be repaired.
More good money is thus to be thrown away upon an-
other of the bad legacies to the navy.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain H. W. Giffard, at
Poi tsmoutb, is manned within a dozen. She will be
ready to go out of harbour on the 3d September.
Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, Captuiu E. P. lialst, cl,
does not progress in het manning, nor never will until
her complement is increased to the fair prop°, Lion of men
for the work. She is now short of her working com-
plement 100 men.

Flamer steam-vessel, Commander St. Leger, IA ill be
ready to leave Portsmouth on the Ist of September, f.r
I)evonport and the coast of Africa. She has had her
complement further increased to seventy officers and men,
of which she is half-a-doz-n short.
Fox, 42, Commodore La:Lbert, has hauled off from her
hulk at Portsmouth, and bad her compasses swung yes-
terday. She is fully manned within pelf-a•duzeo, and
will be at Spithead and ready to proceed to the East
Indies by the 2d September.
Retribution, 22, bteam-frigate, Cartsin Warden, is
fully manned with some thirty, blue j Ickets. She will
bo out of the hands of the dockyard by the 7th Sept.,
and by that time will havr completed her crew. Like the
Dauntless, she bids fair to have a happy and united ship's
cumptny;

Sealark, 8, Commander Sotheby, arrived at Madeira,
July 17, from Devonport, and aailed on the 19th for the
coast of Africa.

Thirtarus steam-ressel, Lieutenant-Commander Sir
Godfrey Webster, Bart., with the (Beers and crew of
the Porcupine, are expected to be paid off ou Tuesday
next at Woolwich.

Trafalgar, 120, Captain the Hon. &I. Stopford, is now
manned at Sheerness, with her advanced complement,
within a score of blue jackets.
Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir 11. M. Blackwood, Bart.,
has not yet. completed her advanced complement. Men
seem rather shy of the ship, and she seems to have been
rather unfortunate in entering itinerants. She has va-
eancier fur a score of blue jacks tr.
The American 50. gun frigate St. Lawrence, that an-
chored vu Tuesday at Cowes, piss, .d through Spithe ad
in the afternoon, saluting the flag of the Commander-in
Chid, Admiral the Hue. Sir illaden Capel. The Vic-
tory returned the salute with the same number of guns.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Apollo troop-ship,
Commander Rawstorne, has had her copper stripped ff,
and is being caulked down ready for newly coppering.
She is to be supplied with iron bedsteads.
The Fairy royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch,
was hauled on the graving slip yesterday to have the tan
of her propeller overhauled, a rope having fouled it. The
screw was found to t ave sustained no injury, and she
wa, taken off to-day.

The Britannia, 120, bas been taken to her moorings
to-day, where she will complete her rigging. She will
be commi.siuned on Saturday by Captain Yates, of the
Nu-triune.

The newly-launched steam sloop Furious was hauled
alongside the j,tty to-day, pretaratory to being taken
into the basin and rigged

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESHLY.—The steamer Sprightly
arrayed on Monday from Portsmouth with the Magi-
eienne. The Sprightly sails to-day with seamen and
riggers for ChAiham.

-The Magicienne having been ordered as an advance
steam-vessel, was placed at her moorings yesterday.
Tie Binspareil steam-block ship, building in No. 5
slip, will be launched on the 24th of September. She
will be fitted with her machinery in the Unton D.,cks.
Two iron steam vessel 4, the Principe Caragiorgievich,
Captain Bane, and the Principe Stirln, Captain Cerno-
gorcevich, built at Newcastle for a company at Trieste,
and for the navigation of the river Danube, put in here
esterday fur a supply of coal, on their passage from
Newvatle to Gasatz.
Wind—North; light breeze.
APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, Ara. 28.—Michthipman Albert Dent, to
the Albion, 90, at Devunport.
Gunner George Cooke, to the Dauntless steam frigate,
at Portsmouth. _ _

Boatswain George Lath, to the Fox, 42, at Ports-
mouth.

The Tartarus sttsam vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Sir Godfrvy Webster, Bart., is to be taken into the basin
immediately, and will be paid ( ff there.

MONEY MARKLT.—The premium on gold at Paris
is fq par mine, which, at the English Mint price of
3!. 17s. 101 d. pf r ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.36; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.321, it follows that gold is 0.14 per
of tt. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
He mburgh the price of gold is 4344 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 3!. 17F. 101 d. per ounce for
standara gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i; and the ex-
change at llamburgh on London at short being f 3.94,
it follows that gold is 0.17 per cent. dearer in Ham-
burgh than in London. Ti.e course of exchange at
New York on London for bills at 60 da) s' sight is 1101
per cent., and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23.40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.67 per cef.t. in favour of Eng-
land, and after making allowance for difference of
interest and charges of transport, the present rate
leaves a small profit on the importition of gold from the
United States.