The Sun. — 1830-06-07 (London, England)

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.  PORTSMOUTH, JUNE s.—We are sorry to find the necessity of watching our interests at Algiers, pending the present blockade and expected siege, has caused us the loss of a. frigate. The Rattlesnake, twenty-eight guns, Captain the Honourable C. 0. Bridgeman, has been wrecked in Algiers Bay, in the same gale of wind that drove two French menof-war ashore either on the 14th, 15th, or 16th tilt. From the friendly disposition shown to Englishmen by the Dey of Algiers, we hope such assistance was rendered to the crew as to avert the loss of lives. Nothing has been heard of the French expedition since its sailing, excepting that of the frigate La Duchesse de Berri, having seen the fleet two days after its sailing, twenty leagues S.W. of Toulon, then having a fair wind. On the landing of the army a newspaper will be established, with the title of " L'Estafette d' Alger" (the Algiers Express) : this will, supply the news of the army, and will be edited by M. Merle, Secretary to the Commanderin-Chief.  Letters from Captain Maissieu de Clerdal, the Commander of the French division blockading Algiers, state that on the 14th, ]sth, and 16th of May lust, there prevailed in the neighbouring coast of that city winds of extraordinary violence, which compelled him to put out to sea with the vessels then under him. The same letters express the greatest uneasiness respecting the brigs La Syrene and L'Aventure, which were said to have been stranded near Cape Brigut. There is also too much reason to believe that the two brigs-of-war, the Fantle and Palinure, have been wrecked in the Bay of Algiers, and that such portions of the crews as did not perish in the sea, were barbarously murdered by the Algerines. The Asia, 84, Capt. Burdett, came into harbour on Thursday, to be paid off and placed in ordinary. The Talbot, 28, Capt. Dickenson, at this port, is destined to relieve the Tweed, 28, at the Cape. DEVONPORT, JUNE s.—The Naval Department has turned its attention to the advantages derived from the employment of steam, but as yet no experiment of a warlike nature has been tried with steamvessels. Those already in the service, or which are now building on account of Government, are chiefly employed, or intended, as packets or towing' boats. Of these there are eight now in commission, viz. the Messenger, Lieutenant Aplin; Echo, LieutenantBissett ; Meteor, Lieutenant Symons; Cation,: Lieutenant Lepige ; Confiance, Lieutenant Itiehard-7-:, son, all of this port—the Columbia and Lightning, at Woolwich—and the Cornet, at Deptford. Two ' others, viz., the Dee and Alban, are building it Woolwich. These two are all that are constructing at present in Government yards ; but there are several very fine steamers ordered to be equipped for the public service in private yards, and it is supposed that in the course of the year Government will be in possession of twenty steam-vessels, ranging from 200 to 800 tons burthens, arid in case of war capable of being converted into flying cruisers at a very short notice. The Messenger, which is attached to the Mediterranean packet station, was formerly the George the Fourth; she is the largest steamer yet constructed in Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom, of 1,000 tons burden, which is nearly 250 tons above the- Messenger's measurement. The latter has been fitted on a most extensive scale, and will make up beds, we understand, for 60 passengers. The Echo, last week, brought a mail from India, dated as late as the 20th of March, which came through the Red Sea, overland to Alexandria, and was brought from thence to Malta by his Majesty's ship Favourite, where the Echo took charge of the bags, and arrived at Falmouth in 14 days. , The practicability of a regular intercourse with India, in half the time it formerly took, is thus proved to demonstration, and this increased facility of eommunication must be of incalculable advantage to the commerce and general interest of the two cotintries,-.Devonport Telegraph.