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 the committee in
completing the revision of the rigging warrants.
Albion, 90, Captain J. Hope Johnstone, has com-
menced entering her additional half or advanced com-
plement. Ninety blue jackets are yet required 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 l.gacivs to the navy.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain W. Gifford, at
Portsmouth, is manned within a dozen. She will be
ready to go out of harbour on the 3d Septsrnber.
Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, Captain E. P. Halsted,
does not progress in her manning, nor never will until
her complement is increased to the fair proportion of men
for the work. She is now short of her working com-
plement 100 men. _ _

Flamer steam-vessel, Commander St. Leger, will be
ready to leave Portsmouth on the Ist of September, for
Devonport and the coast of Africa. She has had her
complement further increased to seventy officers and men,
of which she is half-a-dozen short.

Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, has hauled off from her
hulk at Portsmouth, and had her compasses swung yes-
terday. She is fully manned within half-a-dozen, and
will be at Spithead and ready to proceed to the East
Indies by the 2d September.

Retribution, 22, steam frigate, Captain Warden, is
fully manned with some thirty blue jackets. She will
be out of the hands of the dockyard by the 7th Sept.,
and by that time will have completed her crew. Like the
Dauntless, she bids fair to have a happy and united ship's
company
Sealark, 8, C•mmmander Sotheby, arrived at Madeira,
July 17, from Devonport, and sailed on the 19:h for the
coast of Africa.

TArtarus steam-vessel, Lieutfnant-Commander Sir
Godfrey Webster, Bart., with the officers and crew of
the Porcupine, are expected to be paid off on Tuesday
next at Woolwich.

Trafalgar, 120, Captain the Hon. M. 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-
eancies for a score of blue jackets.
The American 50-gun frigate St. Lawrence, that an-
chorel on Tuesday at Cowes, pissed through Spithead
in the afternoon, saluting the flag of the Commander-in.
Chief, Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel. The Vie-
t iry returned the salute with the same number of guns.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Apollo troop-ship,
Commander Rawstorne, has had her copper stripped off,
and is being caulked down ready for newly coppering.
She is to be supplied with iron bedsteads.
The Fairy royal yacht, ?Jester-Commander Welch,
was hauled_on the graving slip yesterday to have the fan
of her propeller overhauled, a rope having fouled it. The
screw was found to have sustained no injury, and she
was taken off to-day.
The Britannia, 120, has been taken to her moorings
to-day, where she will complete her rigging. She will
be commissioned on Saturday by Captain Yates, of the
Illustrious.

The newly-launched steam sloop Furious was hauled
alongside the jetty to-day, preparatory to being taken
into the basin and rigged.
PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The steamer Sprightly,
arrived on Monday from Portsmouth with the Magi-
cienne. The Sprightly sails to-day with seamen and
riggers for Chatham.
The Magicienne having been ordered as an advance
steam-vessel, was placed at her moorings yesterday.
Tie Sanspereil 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 Union Docks.
Two iron steam vessels, the Principe Caragiorgievich,
Captain Bane, and the Principe Stirbeg, Captain Cerno-
gorcevich, built at Newcastle for a company at Trieste,
and for the navigation of the river Danube, put in here
yesterday fir a supply of coal, on their passage from
Newcastle to Galatz.
Wind—North; light breeze.
APPOINTMENTS.

Woo',wren., Auo.2B.=Midshipman Albert Dent, to
the Albion, 90, at Devonport.
Gunner George Cooke, to the Dauntless steam-frigate,
at Portsmouth. _

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

The Tartarus sOam vessel, Lieutenant• Commander
Sir Godfre-y Webster, Bert., is to be taken into the basin
immediately, and will be paid off there.

MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 8)i- per smile, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 10W. pfr ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.36; nod the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.32 f, it follows that gold is 0.14 per
nt. dearer in Paris than in London. By advice' from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 4346 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for
standera gold, gives an exchange of 13.91; and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 9f,
it follows that gold is 0.17 per cent. dearer in Ham-
burgh than in London. The course of exchange at
New York on London for bills at 60 days' 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 cent. in favour of Eng-
land, and after making allowance for difference of
interest and charges of transport, the present rate
kaves a small profit on the importation of gold from the
United States.