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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Comensuder Charles Brown, lately retired from the
office of master, attendant at Portsmouth;Dockyard, is at
present engaged et that port with ti .e committee in
completing the revision of the rigging warrants.
Albion, 90, Captain J. Hope Johnstone, has cona-
merced entering her additional half or advanced com-
plement. Ninety blue jackets are yet required for her.
Aketo steam-sloop, at Woolwich, notwithstanding
that she was condemned by a committee of master ship-
wrigh:s 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. Gifford, at
Portsmouth, is manned within a dozen. She will be
ready to go out of harbour on the 3d September.
Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, Captain K P. lialst,d,
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 s taeae Portsmouthm-ve s et,
on h
Commanderte
t o St.f
September,Leger, will be
ready to leyfor
Davenport and the coast of Africa. She has had her
complement further increased to seventy officers and men,
of which she is half-a-dozm 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 7Lh Sept.,
and by that time will have completed her crew. Like the
Dsuutless, she bids fair t have a happy and united ship's
comp

Sea 8, G)mmander Sotheby, arrived et Madeira,
July 17, from Doropporr, and sailed on the 19:h for the
coast of Africa.

Tartarus btem-vessol, Lieutenaqt-Coromander Sir
Godfrey Webster, Bart., with the cffi,!ers and crew of
the Porcupine, are expected to la? paid elf on Tuezday
next at WotAwieb.

Trafalgar, 120, Captain the lion. M. Stop fora, 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 ye:: completed her advanced comps men'. Men
scam rather shy of the ship, and she seems to have been
rather unfortunate in ent ring itinerants. She has va-
sanciee. for a score of blue jackets.

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The American 50-gun frigate St. Lawrence, that an-
chored on Tuesday at Cowes, passed through Spithead
in the afternoon, saluting the flag of the Commander-in
enicf, Admiral the Hon. Sir Madera Capel. The Vie-
t )fl returned the salute with the same number of guns.
PORTSMOUTH', WEDNESDAY.-The Apollo troop-ship,
Comai&nder Rawstorne, has had her copper stripped off,
and is lying 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 fan
of her propeller overhauled, a rope having fouled it. The
screw was found to have sustained no injury, and she
was taken of to-day.

The Britannia, 120, has been taken to her moorings
to-dny, where she will complete her rigging. She will
be comtnissimitA on Saturday by Captain Yates, of the
Illuhtrious. _

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-
cionne. ' 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.
The S ,nspareil 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
yesterthy for a supply of coal, on their passage from
Newcastle to Galatz.
Wind—North; light breeze,
APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, AUG. 28.—Midshipman Albcrt Dent, to
the Albion, 90, at Devonport.
Gunner George Cooke, to the Daantless steam frigate,
at Portsmouth.

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

The Tartarus stoam•vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., is to be taken into the basin
immediately, and will be paid off there.

MONEY MARKLT.—The premium on gold at Paris
'is 81 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of
x thaanndgaer da
tgpo
Paris
iovne san
Londonex-
c32l:llsl/37;oe.riolf°1132:1;in'g3P'6r2; 50a.u3n12d7k, hieftoerfollows that golf is 0.14 per
c tt. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 434/ per mark, which,
at the Engli:di Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13,91; and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.9 e,
it follows that gold is 0.17 per cent. dearer in flam-
burgh than in London. The course of exchange at
New York on London for bills at 60 da)s' sight is 1101
per cent., and thc par of exchange between England and'
America being 109 23.40 'per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.67 per cc- t. in favour of Eng-
-1 after
.making ailowanc diffurence of
intered; rnd phlkrg:K.,i.t transport, the present-rata
Paves a small profit on the importation of-gold fium the
United States,