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THE NEW SLooPs Of -WAR.-The twenty.
seventh Congress having made an appIopri.
alton for the increase ofthe Navy, SIX sloops-
Oi>war, of the first class, were order, to be
built, under direction Of naval cOnstruc.
tors, AID to be named after the towns ffst
settled by the emigIanIs TO the New World
namely, jamestown, Albany, Gfrman.
town, Portsmouth, Plymouth aud ST. Mays.
The keel of the ST. Mary's (launcheh on the
23d) was laid in the month Of June, l843,
but owing to an exhaustion of the first an,
prOprlatiOn, and the unavoidable dt lay in
obtaining dItlonal funds, she has just been
completed. Her length is one numbered
aud so feet between pcrprndIculars, b eadlh
thIrty-sIx feet, eighteen feet hold, twelve
huuOrcd tons burden, aud is pierced for 26
guns. Her beautiful model was designed
by Col. Brodre. The rlgglng aud armament
are ready, and We learn that she can be
prepared Tor sea in lout four weeks.


NddiSonian.