The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-03 00:00:00

NAVAL rNTELLIGENCE.

(From the :Deronport Indep;n4eJ.)
Tan *Gnu EXPEDITION.—Her Majesty's steamer
Kite, 2, Lieut. Gooch, arrived here yesterday (Friday)
front the coast of Africa, bringing home the following
officers of the Niger Expedition :—Captain William
Allen, Senior officer : Commander W. Ellis, and Dr.
Thomson, of the Soudan ; Lieut. Sydney, Dr.
Pritchett, Mr. W. Forster, Master ; Mr. W. Bush,
Purser, and Mr. J. E. Terry, Clerk-in-Charge. The
Wilberforce was sent up the river by Captain W.
Allen, with a crew of black men. Captain A. towed
the. Wilberforce to the mouth of the river in the Kite,
and saw that the 'Wilberforce entered with a full cargo
of coals. Lieut.. William Henry Webb, and Mr.
Joseph Webb, Clerk-in-Charge, proceeded up the
Niger, in the 'Wilberforce, on the 2d July, with the
intention of communicating with the party at the
Farm, the men not to go beyond the conflu-
ence, unless the officers should be in good health, and
strong injunctions were laid on Lieut. Webb to re-
turn 'immediately the least case of sickness should
appear. The Soudan was left at Fernando Po,
charge of Mr. Sturgess, Acting Second Master,
with a few volunteers f'rom the Kite. The Wilber-
force left the Albert at Ascension, on the 9th of
March, under the command of Commander Fish-
bourne. The Kite sailed from Clarence Cove, (Fer-
nandoPo) on the 6th of July, and touched at Sierra
Leone for coals. She also called at Bonavista, Tene-
riffe, Madeira, Lisbon, and Corunna, which latter
place she left on Tuesday last. The Lynx, 3, Lieut.
Burslem, vas lyingat Corunna. Captain W. Allen
had a severe attack of fever on the passage home, but
we are happy to state that the (gallant officer is per-
fectly recovered, and that the other officers are in
as good health as could possibly be expected, con-
sidering the dangers to which they have been ex-
posed in their long and arduous services. We trust
that the. Admiralty will soon confer on them such
marks of especial favour as their perilous exertions
fully entitle them to.
The Albion, 90 gun ship, will be launched from
this DOek-yard on Tuesday, next, at five o'clock in
the evening. The following are the dimensions of
this fine ship :—Length on gun-deck, as per draught,
204 feet 1 inch ;of keel for tonnage, 165 foa ;
breadth extreme, 69 feet ; breadth for tonna e,
feet -2 inches ; breadth for moulded, 58 feet 4 ignches •
depth in hold, 23 feet 8 inches ; burden in tons, old:
Oath, 2,088 21-94ths ; armament, gun-deck 32 guns,
; others 58 guns, 321bs.
HoF Majesty's sloop Sappho, 16, Commander E.
was paid off yesterday (Friday).
':i7s6lhe Devon, lighter, sailed yesterday (Friday) for
Pembroke. She has on board Mr. Henderson, and a
party of seamen, who will navigate the Superb (to be
launobed on Tuesday next) to this port, where she is
to be commissioned.

Slips in Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Capt.A.Milne;
San ,Josef, 110, Capt. F. W. Burgoyne ; Kite, 2,
steamer, Lieut. Gooch; Avon, steamer, Lieut. Byng ;
Spitaul and Confiance, steamers; Adventure, naval
transport ; Duck, lighter.
In the Sound—None.

A curious admission has been recently made by
the Debuts and the Constitutionnel. It is now found
that the dreadful ordonnance of June against English
lir ens and threads, will net effectually exclude them from
the French markets ; this branch of industry being so
ranch bThind in France, that the English will be able to
undersell the French manufacturers, even after payment
of the enormous duty recently imposed. These journals
throw out a hint that a further duty will be laid on.
The Counter Francais, however, which takes a wider
and batter view of commercial affairs than the Constitu-
tionntl or the Dobats, laughs at the idea of an additional
duty, which would, it says, only operate as a premium
for contraband trade in every part of France.—Letter
from Paris.
The vintage haj commenced in the environs of
Dijon, being even earlier than in 1822, which was a very
forward season.