The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

chase will be won by either EMBLEMATIC, Jerusalem, or
Wee Nell, and I expect when the numbers go up the judge
will place
EMBLEMATIC

A Welter Stakes (handicap) 015 SOVA each, 2 ft, with 30
added ; for 3.yr-olds and upwards. Mile and a quarter.
9 subs.
Mr Clayton's Coverdale, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b.. (Wilkinson) w.o.
The Aintree Plate (Handicap) of 50 soya, Entrance 2 soya.
One mile. 14 subs.
Lord Bateman's Danaus, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (inolu. 71b extra)
irnshaw) 1
Mr Barber's Jack's Alive, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b (J. Gr
(Taylor) 2
Betting-7 to 4on Danaus, who won in a canter by a
length and a half.
The Hunters' Steeplechase, of 50 soya each, with a cup,
value 100 soya, the gift of the gentlemen of Liverpool,
added; for bona fide hunters that have never started for
any handicap steeplechase, 12st each. The Grand
National Steeplechase Course; about four iniles and a
quarter-30 subs.
Capt. Tempest's Bright Hopes, aged
Mr J. Aspinall's Dreadnought
Mr J. Millward jnn.'s Jocular, aged .... (Mr. Davison) 3
The following also ran :—Philo, Cholmondeley, Jacob,
and Parroquet.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Jocular, 3to 1 agst Jacob, 4 to
1 agst Dreadnought, and 6 to 1 agst Bunbury.
After repeated refusals and falls the race was reduced to
the three placed, Bright Hopes winning easily by eight
lengths. A head between the second and third.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

Her Majesty's gunvesscl Ringer, commissioned
at Woolwich by Commander W. E. Gordon on the
29th ult. for the slave preventive service on the
West Coast of Africa, is ordered to take in her am-
munition at the powder buoy off Woolwich Arsenal
on Monday, and to swing at Greenhithe fo: the
adjustment of her compasses in preparation for sea.
The gunvessel Lindrail, Commander Thomas H.
M. Martin, from North America and the West
Indies, fitted out and commissioned in September,
1860, was yesterday taken into basin at Woolwich,
and commenced stripping in readiness for being
paid off.
The Aurora screw frigate, Capt. Sir L. M. Clin-
tock, sailed from Spithead for the north coast of
Scotland on Tuesday evening.

The Dee paddle steamer sailed from Spithead on
Tuesday evening for Devonport, with the Pioneer
screw sloop in tow. The machinery of the Pioneer will
be transferred to the Mega3ra screw troopship, for
service in that vessel, which is also coated inter-
nally with the patent Spence preservative cement.

One of the recommendations of the recent Com-
mittee of Inquiry in the dockyards, has just been
adopted at Devonport. The inspectors and leading
men are now able to work occasionally with their
gangs, in consequence of their being relieved clerical
duly, which is to be performed hereafter entirely by
clerks.

The screw steamship Princess Royal, 89, Cap-
tain Jones, flag of Rear-Admiral G. St. Vincent
King, C. 8., got up steam on Tuesday morning, and
proceded from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound,
where she exchanged salutes with the Royal Ade-
laide. She has since shipped her powder, and is
preparing to depart for the Cape station, to relieve
:he Narcissus, 39, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir W.
Walker, K.C.B.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Charles Wake, to the
Bulldog, commissioned ; Capt. F. H. Shortt, to
the Gladiator, commissioned; Capt. A. Wilmshurst,

commissioned ; Cornelius W. M'Dcrmott, pay-
master to the Bulldog; W. Telmer, surgeon, to the
Black Prince; Lawrence A. C. Roberts, Marma-

duke L. Kelham, Alfred Vautier, and R. F. Hoskyn,
midshipmen, to the Bulldog ; Gilbert E. Harrison,
nominated to a naval cadetship; Richard 0. Jones,
master's assistant to the Bulldog ; George Deveson,
clerk, to the Bulldog ; Robert Roughton, chief

engineer to the Bulldog ; R. W. Hulford, engineer,
to the Bulldog; John Adams, John APKenzie, and
John T. Morgan, assist.•engineers, to the Bulldog.