The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Auc. 10.—The Fairy, tender to the
ro) al yacht, Acting Master Commander R. W. Roberts,
'aving:completed the necessary preparations for sea, left
yesterday for Antwerp, to be in attendance upon her
Majesty.
The Cambrian, 36, Commodore Chads, was paid off
yesterday. The Cambrian, considering she is is a new
ship, is in a very deplorable condition. Her bowsprit is
rotten, mainmast sprung, and her rib timbers in a very
unsound state. She will require a most expensive refit
before she can again be sent to sea.
The Barretto Junior transport, which accompanied the
discovery ships Erebus and Terror on their departure
from England (under command of Captain Sir John
Franklin), having proceeded with them as far as Whale-
fish Island, Disco, parted company with them on the
12th ult., and passed Spithead on her way to the Downs
on Wednesday. The following is an extract of a letter
received from her :

" The Downs, August 7.
" I hasten to tell you of our arrival, not sorry at having
turned our backs upon the frigid zone. We had a boisterous
passage:out, though not a long one, rounding Cape Farewell on
the 23d and 24th of June, in a heavy gale of wind from the
S. E., in lat. 59 10 N., lon. 46 47 W. The discovery ships
behaved gloriously ; there was no small sea on, for, high out of
the water as we are, we had one of our dead lights stove in.
Two days after we entered Davis's Straits the weather became
very fine, and we saw the stupendous mountains of West Green-
land, covered with ice and snow, also three large icebergs,
which in a few days thickened on us, but fortunately we had
generally leading winds, which enabled us to thread them
without danger. We left our excellent and good friends of the
discovery ships at Whalefish Island, Disco, on the 12th, all in
good health and high spirits as to their future enterprise, full
of hope as to their ultimate success. They are famously strong
ships, well manned, and impossible to be better officered. We
left them complete in full three years' provisions, stores, and
feel, besides five bullocks, which we killed there for them.
Our passage home has been a short one ; the first week we
passed in Davis's Straits, in a heavy gale of wind and thick
weather right up. We had both the land and the ice to keep
clear of; however, we got out untouched. The rest of the
passage has been fine for a northern climate. The wind being
fair from the N. E., we have come.home by the English Channel,
instead of as usual north abcut."

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Letters have bean re-
ceived at Woolwich, dated her Majesty's ship Erebus,
Whalefish Islands, Davis's Straits, July 8, 1845, from
one of which the following is an extract :
" We are discharging the transport as quickly as possible, for
the season is far advanced and we are in a great hurry to get
up the country ; but we have plenty of time yet, if the weather
keeps fine. We calculate on being absent two years and a half
at most, unless we get through into the Southern Ocean, when
it may be three or four years before we return. We are all
well, and lam very happy. We have the best treatment, and
one of the best of captains, and a good set of officers through-
out. The Barretto Junior, the transport ship, sails the day
after tomorrow (July 10) on her return. The naives here
are civilised, and as shrewd at making a bargain as you or I
would be in any transactions at home,"
The following general order relative to the Arctic ex-
pedition has been promulgated amongst the officers and
men of the American navy
GENERAL ORDER.
" Information has been received at this department that her
Britannic Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror are proceeding to
make a further attempt fur the accomplishment of a north-
west passage by sea from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
In compliance with the request of the British Government,
communicated by her Majesty's Minister at Washington, and
to the end that the Government of the United States may mani-
fest its interest in the effort to advance the bounds of human
knowledge, all officers in the naval urvice of the United States
are hereby authorised and directed to afford every assistance in
their power, in case of need, to the commanders of these vessels
in promotion of the object of the expedition.
"GEORGE BANCROFT.
" Naval Department, June 11."
The Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts, Bart.,
'was at the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th of June,
from a five months' cruize in the Mozambique Channel.
On the 4th of April her pinnace, whilst cruizing be-
tween the port of Mozambique and Cape Delgado,
under the command of Lieutenant Charles Codringtou
Forsyth, captured, after a short resistance (one man
being severely wounded), an Arab dhow, with eighty-
three slaves on board, and a crew of fourteen men,
armed with spears, creases, swords, and double-barrelled
guns. The slaves were principally small children,
who had been kidnapped at the l'ortuguese settlements
on the coast by the Moors, and by them sold to the
Arabs, who take them to Muscat. The boat, on her way
to rejoin the Helena, unfortunately lost seven of her best
men from a sort of yellow fever. The dhow was such a
wretched craft that she was sunk soon after her capture,
not being in a fit state to send to an English colony, and
the slaves put on board the Helena.
The Athol troop-ship, Master-Commander Pearce,
progresses very favourably in her equipments for sea,
and will be ready in a few days.
The Neptune, 120, is expected shortly to be commis-
sioned at this port to supersede the Victory as ordinary
guard ship.

- The Kingfisher, 12, Scourge steam-sloop, an 1 Har-
lequin, 16, are all ready for the pendant.
The Admiralty would do well to commission a ship
forthwith at this and the eastern ports t 3 pick up the
seamen lately paid off from the Alfred, 50, and Cam-
brian, 36, at Portsmouth ; and Scout, 16, and Ferret, 10,
at the eastward. Jack will soon have spent his money,
and be in want of another ship, and the hands thus at
liberty are good serviceable men, and worth preserving
to the service.

PROMOTIONS.

Lieutenant—H. R. Foote, 1842, late commar ding the
Heroine, to the rank of Commander.

Acting Master—J. G. IL Thain, of the Fairy, royal
tender, to the rank of Master.

Mates—E. L. Browne, 1836, of the Spiteful hteam-
sloop on the Chinese station ; P. G. Nettleton, 1837, of
the Eclair steam-sloop, Acting-Lieutenant on the coast
of Africa ; W. E. Shaw, 1837, late of the Electo steam-
sloop ; and C. I). Fegan, 1837, of the Philomel, surveying
vessel on the south-east coast of America—to the rank
of Lieutenant.

Clerk—J. W. Ozzard, of the Agincourt, to the rank
of Purser, and appointed to the Vixen, ateam•sloop,
vice Harcourt, to the Vestal, vice Gregory, deceased.