NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 66, 7 November 1844, Page 3

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Admiralty having accomplished the most laborious, responsible, and difficult • task of perfecting the new Naval regulations and instructions, have now commenced an investigation of the merchant seamans registry, with a view to make such alterations and arrangements as its present useless state urgently requires. The total complements of sea-going ships are to consist of— 1,000 to r 950 men; second-rates, 850 to 750 men; third-rates. 700 t 0620 men ; fourth rates, 500 to 420 men; fifth-rates, 360 to 320 men ; sixth-rates, 240 to 200 men ; sixth-rates (st. ships), 200 to 175 men; sloops, 150, 140, 130, 110, to 89 men ; sloops, (st. vs.), 145 to 100 men ; gun-brigs, schooners, and cutters, 70 to 60 men; ditto (st. vs.), 80 to 60 men. On a Paymaster's first appointment tc a ship, if he join her at a place where there shall be an accountant of the naval or victualling establishment, an advance in the following proportions will be al lowed him for the purpose of making payments of savings of provisions to men who may be discharged between the regular payments of such savings :—first, second, or third rate, 20/.; fourth or fifth rate, lit. ; sixth rate, 10/.; smaller vessels, 5/. The new Naval Regulations stipulate that Commanders-in-Chief may only grant four days'leave of absence, instead of ten as heretofore, and that the advantages of three months' full pay in advance to Officers appointed from half-pay be extended to Naval Instructors and to Clerks in Charge. The Lords of the Admiralty have given instructions that every facility shall be offered to officers who may be desirous of making themselves practically acquainted with steam navigation, the " Bee/' St.-V. has been attached to the " Excellent," as a tender, for the use of the students on board that vessel, and officers can make themselves acquainted with working of the steam-engine at Woolwich dockyard. Many officers have placed themselves as pupils under Messrs. Seaward, Napier, and other eminent engineers, in order to qualify them for appointments on board any of Her Majesty's steam-vessels. The following ships and vessels building at Chatham are ordered to be completed and ready for launching this year: Raleigh, 50 ; Active, 36 ; Calypso, 20 ; Arab, 14 —Watt and Bulldog, steamfrigates, Mr-John Johnson, boatswain,, and Mr. M'Cree, carpenter, have been superannuated ? the first on 56/. per annum, and the latter on 65/. The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered Chatham dockyard to be lighted with gas. Such an improvement will be highly desirable, for it is much wanted.

The Poor Man after Lodgings. —The fashionable part of the town is not to be thought of, so it is of no use pausing there. Then the wide, cheerful, open streets are hurried through with a sigh —everything there would be too dear. At length bills are seen in a window, in a quarter not altogether odious, and it is supposed prices ought to be moderate. The rooms are neatly furnished, the entrance is respectable, the maid servant tidy. The mistress of the house wears a black silk gown, and a smart cap with yellow ribbands, and has a French watch at her side. She is extremely civil, and attends the inquirer up stairs. Then comes the trying question, on which all turns. It is deferred as long as possible, and is at last put with an assumed air of indifference, thou«li with' an anxious heart. Alas ! the answer is fatal. The terms are too high; and abashed and confused, the disappointed lodging-seeker shakes his head, and says,«' he's afraid it won't suit." Whereupon the hostess stares at him with an aspect of astonishment bordering on indignation ; she feels too much contempt to expostulate, and closes the colloquy by down yaniJß som pot 9J py RfH convicicH air to vfl from afl 1 legs, is a