IMPORTANT NAVAL PREPARATION
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IMPORTANT NAVAL PREPARATIoNs.-
We are enabled to state, from sure author.
iIy, that orders were issued from the Navy
Department, on the dlh inst, for the pur
chase of four brigs or schooaers 10 be con.
reTted into bomb ueSsels. to carry each a
gun ten feet in length aadten inch caliJre.
They are 10 be from $50 to 300 tons bur.
then. The purchase is to be made without
delay and the necessary alterations and
arrangements to be effected with the utmos,
despatch. The destination Of these yes.
sells is evident enough. A shin of 500
tons is to be procured, right away, 10 carry
stores and munitions for the use Of these
bomb vessels. Two steamers, The Ban.
gor and Aurora, have been purchased. and
will sail for the Gull, under names OF the
Scoorge and Scorpion, as soun as some
alteration are made in them. Events Of
great moment are brewing.


n o. Picoyns.