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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Auu. 10.--:The Fairy, tender to the
ro) at yacht, Acting Master Commander R. W. Roberts,
having.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 must 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 about."
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Letters have been re•
ceivcd at Woolwich, dated her Majesty's ship Er, bus,
Whalefish Islands, Davis's Strait,,, July 8, 1845, from
one of which the following is Ln extract :
" We are diseharging 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 Barrett° 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 for 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 service 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 Codrington
Forsyth, captured, after a short resistance (one man
being severely wounded), an Arab dhow, with eighty-
three slaves bn board, and a crew of fourteen men,
armed with spears, crecses, swords, and double-barrelled
guns. The slaves were principally small children,
who had been kidnapped at the Portuguese 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, and Isar.
lequin, 16, are all ready for the pendant.
The Admiralty would do well to commission a ship
forthwith at this and the eastern ports to 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—lL IL Foote, 1842, late commanding the
Heroine, to the rank of Commander.
Acting Master—J. G. 11. Than, of the Fairy, royal
tender, to the rank of Master.
Mates—E. L. Browne, 1836, of the Spiteful steam-
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.D. 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, steam-sloop,
vice Harcourt, to the Vestal, vice Gregory, deceased.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander—lL F. Gambier, late of the Satellite,
to the Sappho, vice Hope, promoted.
Lieutenant—W. G. Deane, to the Excellent.
Surgeons—J. Lardner, to the Tasmania, convict-
ship ; J. Carmichael, M.D., to the Samuel Boddington,
convict ship.
Mate—W. A. R. Lee, to the Seaflower.
Assistant-Surgeons—J. P. Lawrence, to the Victory
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COAST-GUARD.
Removal—Lieutenant John hill (b), from Toreros*
to Flzmborough•hcad EtlitiUlls vie. Lieutenant J. O'Reilly
(a), removed.

7=7= NAItNIAGE IN HIGH LIFE —The marriage of Lord
Augustus Loftus, fourth son of the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ely, with Miss Emma Greville, eldest daughter of Captain
Grevitle, and cousin of the Countess of March, was solemnised
on Saturday, in the parish church of Fulham, in the presence
of a select circle of the friends of both families. After the
ceremony the happy pair proceeded to Lansdale House, the
residence of Lady Shelley (her ladyship's aunt), where a
sumptuous dejeuner was given in celebration of the event.
Early in the afternoon the happy pair left Fulham for Hatch-
ford 'Luse, the seat of Lard Francis Egerton, near Windsor,
IMPROVEMENTS IN HYDE PARK.—On Saturday
the erection of the new iron gates at the Albert-gate ranee
into Hyde-park; from Knightsbridge was completed, oiEla very
handsome addition they make to the already great improve-
ments effected at that point. The gates, which consist of two
openings for carriages and two for pedestrians, form a hand-
-1 some screen across the road, are affixed to buttresses on eat!!
' side, each buttress being surmounted by the figure of a stag,
and Ate lighted IDy six large lamPtt