The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Sir F. T. Baring's Board of Admiralty will quit their
offi2cs this day,
.ap.d Rear-Admiral the Duke of
rde ends da y themselves.
morning.
Nor-
thumberlaod and his (.l°l
,_,;nc,3ti4g:costiwi;lvl
The 2.tlelartiutpaand tliNhibrle Duke will not (wimpy the First
Lord's °alai residence in the Admiralty-square, but
will reside at Northumberland House. It is expected
that his Grace will imtnediately fix a day fur receiving,
c flicers. Sir F. Baring left the Admiralty yesterday- for
Portsmouth.
COMIoDORE MARTIN'S SQUADRON. Commodore
Martin and his ships, Prince Regent, 90, Captain
Harris; Lauder, 50, Captain Dern; Rogue, 60,
zerew•ship, Captain Al'llutigall; and Dauntless, 03,
screw-frigate, Captain Halsted, remain at gurenstowr,
read; for sea at a moment's noli'c. We hear that
the Dauntless is to be sent to Devonport for stores
and provisionr. Her crew will• mast likely be
paid wages therP, when she will rejoin the
Commodore. A professional contemporary has ',Le
following',with reference to the gle ernise:—‘t Ia the
' run from. Lisbon the D3.U*11114,13 and Arelhu,i had one
,small trial of sailing on a wind.. Moderato brecvs under
all plain sail. The Arethusl beat the Datintleis bur
very little—about 800 or 009 yards after Oirc.e hours'
sai:ing. • We hear that the now masts, yards, sails, &e.,
of the Dauntless have wonderfully improved her tailing
qualiiies. In the gala of wind she behaved remarkably
well, and when running fat, she could spare a r,fl at tit:4l
of sail to any.ship in the squadron. Mr. Fah:horn rosynow flirty claim having produced the first steamer that
was. fully capable of keeping company in fair or foul
wettliQr, and under all circumstances, with a squadron
conaposed of the fastest railing frigates in the ntiv)."
Fitt la. BELcrunt's ARCTIC SEARcitING EXPEDITF.N;
—SirEdward Beleber's two ships end their two tenders
are pregressinggradu:dly iu their ma.nuini,,,s and fittint;s.
The ships have ,oli their booli about otricers and
men out'of their-complement of 192, and they' ;Will be
ont of the hands of the dockyard about the the middle
of this month.

Mr. liogarth, of Aberdeen, who fitted out Penny's ex-
pedition, is supplying most of the preserved meats, and
Edwards and Co. are supplying a large quantity of the
patent preserved potato, which is so highly spoken of
arid recommended from all quarters of the world.
Commander Pullen's ship the North Star, fitting at
Sheerness, is entering her complement of thirty-five, and
as soon sis ready will be towed up to Deptford, to load
with stores and provisions.
Mr. F. W. Pym, midshipman, has been appointed to
the Assistance.

THE STEAM RESERVE.—The Admiralty have ordered
the Valorous and Iligbflyer steamer-sloops, at Woolwich,
to have their armaments put on board; and the former
is to ba navigated to Devonport, to form one of the
reserve squadron at that port, in charge of Captain
Ramsey. The Bull-dog steam-sloop, at Portsmouth,
will be commissioned most likely. The Vixen steam-
sloop, is ordered to be fitted as an advanced vessel,
and placed in the_ first class, instead of the Bull-dog.
Rear- Admiral 'Deans Duadas, 0.13., in his flag-ship
Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, was spoken on the
18th ult., by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Madrid, in lat. 37.48 N., long. 9.10 W.—
all well.

Captain Denham's surveying-ship Herald, fitting at
Chatham, has entered more than half her crew. She
will be completed by the dockyard about the middle of
this month, and will be ready to sail, with her tender,
the Torch, for the South Seas about tho Ist of May.
Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, of the Horatio, 24,
screw-steam guard-ship, at Sheerness, was on leave of
absence Until Saturday last. Sho will not be out of the
hands of the dockyard before the 22d instant, and will
be ready for sea the next day. She is 50 blue jackets
short of her complement of 216.
Lieutenant Russell Patsy, who has been appointed to
the Bloundhouud'steam-vessel, on the coast of Africa,
commands that vessel not as a tender, but as an inde- '
pendent vessel. She is ordered to have a complement
made up of 55 men.

Lieutenant West, of the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship, at
Sheerness, has proceeded on leave of absence to March
12. The Waterloo will be completed by the 6th March.
Lieutenant P. Johnson, and part of the crew of the
Reynard steam-sloop, lost in the Chinese Seas, who
were landed at Devonport on Thursday evening from
the Woodbridge, Indiaman, in which vessel they had
taken passsde from Singapore, aro ordered to be paid oft
Lieutenant C. A. P. V. Robinson, just promoted, and
appointed to the Sampson steam-frigate, at Portsmouth,
has not yet joined, nor has Second Master J. M. Share.
.Antelope, 3, steam•packet, Lieutenant Commander
Young, fitting at Woolwich, is entering a complement of
65 officers and men.

Dasher steamer, Commander Archibald Lefebvre, ar-
rived at Portsmouth, from the Channel Islands, yester-
day, to have defects made good.
Elfin royal steam-tender, Master. Commander
Ballis-
ton,'with Commander Crispin on board, was taken out
round Spithead to test her engines and machinery pre-
vious to the removal of the Court to Osborne. Cern.
mander Crispin wil go out in the Fairy royal yacht
tender, on Thursday, for a similar purpose. •
Neptune, 120, at Portsmouth, has had her sides clean
scraped, and is now being painted. She will be cut of
the dockyard hands in the course of a fortnight.
Polyphemus, 4, steam-sloop, Commander Phillips,
fitting at Woolwich, will be ready for sea by the 9th or
10th instant. She has more than half her complement
of 100 on her bookr, but f7lw of them are blue jackets.
Resiitance troop-ship, Master-Commander Bradshaw,
loading with stores at Deptford, will be ready to leave
for Portsmouth and Devonport on Monday next.
The Sirioom screw steam-fiigate, Ciptaiu Kingccme,
has had her compasses adjusted iu the swam-basin at
Portsmouth.

St. George, 120—The following warrant officers, sit-
pernumerari?s in the St. George, at Dlvonport, hare
been superannuated on the following ensions:—John
Harvey, csr;,enter, 801. pfi. annum; Edwatcl
701, e,,,: Peter Tucker, boatswain, 451 per annum,
Vincer;:., 120, Portsmouth—A party of rigcrs aro
fittno S. Vincent; her tops are over the malt-h:ads,
and her rigging i3.progre.ailig.
Vuititiu;;, 6, st2cm-FAcop, Commander Barnard, rc-
turned.to PlyMetrili SOund on Monday evening, from a
cruise to the chops of the Channel to relieve the home-
ward-bound merchantmen det,ined by the prevailing
easterly winds.

MALTA, FEE. 18.—The French steamer Nil, expected
four,da3s since from Al(!xundrie, has been rendered
unfit fur immediate service by an accident, and the
Osiris (in her stead) has arrived to-day.
The Superb will sail, it is said, on Saturday for
England.

The Phaeton is under orders to proceed to Corfu to
relieve the Indefatigable, ordered to the Channel squad-
ron. _ _

The foremast of the Bellerophon, on being examined,
is found quite rotten.
The rudder of the Albion is condemned.
The Trafalgar's mast is.not sprung, as was thought to
be the case.

A court of inquiry, compose 3 of Rear-Admiral
Harvey, and Captain Purcell, of the Superb, has been
sitting to inquire into the cause of the collision between
the Albion and the Trafalgar..

The Vengeance lost a gun in the late gale at sea, and
another ran through one of the ports.
A gallant act was performed at tea after the storm.
A " middy" of the Trafalgar, named Sheepehanks, while
" skykrking" on the poop, fell overboard, and imme-
diately the second-master, Skead, plunged over to save
him, and happily succeeded. In the meantime a lad,
named Lamb, gallantly jumped off the poop—a height
of 45 feet; on being brought on board, and asked by
the captain (Greville) why he had encountered so much
danger, and put him (the captain) into so much fear, the
gallant bey replied, " Oh, sir, young Sheepshanks is '
the pet of the mess. We could not of to lose rum,
at any rate."
A general court-martial assembled on Monday last on
board the Albion, Rear-Admiral Harvey, President,
Captain Purcell Greville, and the remainder of the
captains in port, except Johnson, of the Albion, mm-
bets, to try a man named Minos, A. 8.. for having
caused the death of John Furneaux, A. 8., by giving
him a blow on the 31st tilt., by which be caused him
to fall from the maintop, and of which he died on the
4th of February inst. .
The r, priso n c r , who was defended by Lientensnt
Measles of the Royal Marines, received en exceltcnt
character, and, as the blow was not premeditated, was
sentenced to be imprisoned for six calendar months in
one of her Majesty's gaols.
A .general court-martial assembled on Monday last,
and, on being removed to the
Lieutenant-Coloael Jima, president, to try Private
down the sergeant of
Shields, 76th Regiment, for being drunk and knocking
dgguouwaarrtinirSeeerregrangtota song; and,
the
The prisoner was found guilty, end sentenced to re-
t was intlictethiesamrso,rannindat.o
ceive 50 lashes, to be imprisoned for two
there
Letters from Tunis, of the 10th inst., lose
hled.eeprepredraeyi
pfourniashymeaern.
)iensgloss to the shipping,
report serious
on ItThe Ist inst., during
down, torrents flowed down the
lossthe N.E.a mo ngga
ale.
e Bs beisput
date-
trees have been blown
mountains, several walls have 1,600
crumbled down, and se-
veral Arabs have been
SHEERNESS, MARCH 11l
drowned.
9hoe,rczopotraiinngtshoenuen. mo er Majesty's ship London,
the Downs as a guarir ship it of ndiustilag her com ntague:Stoplord, was swung at
Friday and Saturday, for the purpose
As she is to be statielledin
orders forthwith to .
plsrastut, 850. Complete her crew to the full
it is expected she will receivec,
. -tier present
ship is only 340. The of reserve at this
port, it is reported, willstaelasm
hsqusadertioenned
in
the Downs,
complement as an advanced
under the command ofCa to'nethet Hon. S. T. Carnegie,
of her Majesty's screw steamer Horatio, 24; her Ma-
jesty'sof Vice-Admiral the Hun. JOSCeiille Percy, Corainan,
ship Waterloo, 120, Captain G. R. Mundy, flats
e
der-in-Chief at the. N" ore, 'i, having her guns placed on
board.
It is an extraordinary fact, that the muskets and
pistols supplied to that valuable hod), cf men consti-
tuting the coast guard are still fitted with the cummou
flint locks. This circumstance is worthy the notice of
the new Board of... Admiralty and the Master-General of
the Ordnance. .
Tao Dutch galliot Ven Boa zatlerfelie, which went
on shore last week en the West Barrow band, has be-
come a total wreck. With the exception of a cabin-boy.
who was picked up by a fishing sratelt and conveyed to
Southend, all.her craw perished. %s rt ae of , the ',elms was
found on the sand, and landed at Whitstable by the
Lalla Bookh, of that port. The galliot was laden with
oats, part of which was saved by a Colchester barge, and
taken into'hitstable.
The ship Persia also went ashore on the edge
off
pus© Shoal, but gotwithout assistance, with the loss
of the anchor and thirty fathoms of chain. of the

WOOLWICH, MARCH 1. Lieuten
APPOINTMENTS.
ant Walter Strict-
laud (1847), to the Polyphemus eteam-sloop Wk..)l.
wiob, for bet vice on the coast Of Africa'

Clerks—Edward S. Cooke (1549), recently serving in
I the Southampton, 50, and John G. Wilson to the
19S, at Chatham, for surveying. service in tho South

Pl:UMullu\

Thomas Armstrong tohoActing Gunner,

Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.13., Surveyor of the
Navy, Lud Air. Watts, Asistant-Surveyor, visited Wool-
wich Dockyard to irepect thQ progress of the Agamem-
non, 90, budding and to be fitted with a screw propeller.
The gallant etlicor also inspected the liigh.flycr ctcarn.
sloop, now ready for commission, and the Torch steam-
vesel, tender to the 11Pruld, fcr surveying service.

Tilt,. Lightning steam-veszel, bisster Commandtr
Allen, arrived here to-day from Portsmouth.

SPORTING NOTES.
CLXXIX.
ODDS AND ENDS FRONT LIVERPOOL. tz.^.

TO TILE E1)11•0:i OF TIIE SL'.Y.
corn 2 earl is sure
ttlij;11; to et
broßcclxlitr atraiisif)tin:lrh;Sil ir1C7U111):
tions Of the various ca-odidates at out to
come off. Since d _acing down. niv nerrirlis yestereciy,
th:lt great certainty for the Liverpool Spring Cur
Surpris.,—has surprised the world by diiappearing trout
the Inarkut the in.:,:cootint:L:ble manner. Pc.mour
that there has been a row in the stable, but
whethet: C.d..; is the case or no, the true ,n‘rticulars
no dett'_,t, oozy, out in the course of the d'ay. This de-
clension of Surprise has considerably altered the u(lihi
f)r the Si. Ting Cup. Yesterday afternoon and evening
into the rn an inliinte,get: not
,ts)., oa
a stiff commi,tion was put upon the Abbess ot Jervcaus,
who rose trAn s-ivetis to
~st,'oalsiref,;,
varied
lrarcttetrn itr,iytclmieti:sa,ybias
large sun' was sent
end tliis
tchBdtaie3trtdcal)ianT:;t
cvi'knt his chance must not be &spired.

TLo oLly movements of any cousequunce that have oc-
curred in the laA eight-ana-;city hours, with respect to
the steeplechase, the breaking down of Hardwick
and Perjury; the advance upon a large outlay of Warner
from an outside position to 12 to 1; the decline of Sir
John upon the upward movement of his stable conipa-
nion; the introduction of Abd-el haler as Osborue's
borer, Venture being a very improbable starter; the
announcement that Postilion and Melford are not likely
to run; and the tremendous rush upon my fancy animal,
Maria Day, who is to be tooled by Frisby. The fields
for the Spring Cup and Steeplechase aro as near as
possible, comprised in the following list:—
Liverpool Spring Cup—llungerford, Abbess of Jer-
veaux, Melford, Ischia, Truegiri, Zalmyra filly, Snow-
drop, and Banshee. Don Carlos somewhat doubtful.
Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase—Sir John,
Abd-el-liader, Sir Peter Laurie, Peter Simple (d),
Chieftsin, Bourton, Bedford (6 yrs), Agis, Warner,
Maria Day, Joan f Arc, Miss Mowbray, Carrig (d),
Dolly's Brae, Silent Friend, La Gazza Ladra, Bedford
(5 yrs), M'lon, Vietress, Laurienne, Cogia, Maurice
Daley, and Royal Blue (d).
My opinion remains, in most points, unaltered. The
race I anticipate will lie among Sir Peter Laurie, Chief-
tain, Maria Day, Ls Gazza Ladre, Victress, and Mau-
rice Daley; and I still think Maria Day and Mau-
rice Daley, with La Gam Ladra and Vietress, good
enough to fill the foremost places.
The betting this morning on the couple of ram
above-mentioned is uncommonly brisk. Spring Cup-
-4 to 1 aget Abbess of Jervtaux, taken freely; 4 to 1
agst llungerford, taken freely; 6 to 1 eget Melford; 8
to 1 agst Snowdrop; 8 to I agst Truegiri; 10 to 1 eget
Ischia; all sorts of odds eget Surprise, varying from 8
to 20 to L Liverpool Steeple Chase-8 to 11 eget
Chieftain; 10 to 1 agst Maria Day; IQ to 1 agat Miss
Mowbray; 10 to 1 agat Victress; 12 to 1 eget Warner;
15 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra; 15 to 1 agst Cogia
(Tacker up); 18 to 1 agst Bedford (6 yrs); 18 to 1 agst
Abd-el-Kuder; 25 to 1 ao.bst Sir Peter Laurie; 25 to
agst Sir John (no backers); 1000 to 30 agst Maurice
Daley; 100 to 1 each agst Postilion and Fernhill.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

March 2, 1852.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Atkinson's Chieftain—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Mason's Miss Mowbray
12 to 1 agst Mr. Hig,gins's Maria Day—taken
12 to 1 .agst Mr. Gooch's Victress
16 to 1 agst Mr. Goodwin's La Gezza Ladra—taken
16 to 1 Mr. J. Bird's Cogia
20 to 1 agst Mr. Barling's Bedford, 6 yrs old—taken
20 to 1 agat Lord Waterford's Warner—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader
20 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John .
Chieftain, Miss Mowbray, Maria Day, and Bedford in •
general favour; but very little done. •
LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
4 to 1 agst Mr. King's Abbess of Jerveaux—taken
20 to 1 agat Mr. Gooch na Surprise
The advance of the Abbess of Jerveaux is the conse-
quence of the sudden and inexplicable retirement of
Surprise, against whom 20 to 1 was currently offered.
His appearance at Liverpool is more than doubtful;
1,000 to 15 was offered against him for the Chester Cup.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
16 to 1 agst Bardolph, sst 61b—taken
DERBY.
9 to 2 agst Mr. Merry's Hobble Noble
15 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Alfred the Great—taken
and afterwards offered
16 to 1 agq Mr. J. Stanley's-Orelio
20 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur
20 to 1 agst Lord liibb!es(Ne's Lapidist
20 to 1 agst Lord Ribbiesialo%; Kingston
50 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Phantom
Augur and Lapidist were hacked in the early part ~f
tho day at 18 arid 20 to 1, but towards then close were
quite out of favour, es mach as 22 to 1, in hundreds,
having been laid once agat Lapidist, and 20 to 1 offered
azst etrl!.
-Nothing &Le ou the MetropoLtan Handicap or
Chester Cup,

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