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

1852.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Sir F. T. Baring's Board of Admiralty will quit their
offiecs this day, and Rear-Admiral the Duke of Nor-
thumberland and his colleagues will read themselves in
and enter upon their duties on Wednesday morning.
The Gallant and Noble Duke will not occupy the First
Lord's official residence in the Admiralty-square, but
will reside at Northumberland House. It is expected
that his Grace will immediately fix a day for receiving
officers. Sir F. Baring left the Admiralty yesterday for
Portsmouth.
COMMODORE MARTIN'S SQUADRON... Commodore
Martin and his ships, Prince Regent, 90, Captain
Harris; Leander, 50, Captain Mores; Hogue, 60,
screw-ship, Captain ill`Deueall; and Dauntless, 33,
screwefrigate, Captain Halsta remain at Queenstown,
ready for sea at a moment's notice. We hear that
the Dauntless is to be sent to Davenport for stores
and provision:. Her crew will most likely be
paid wages there, when she will rejoin the
Commodore. A protessional conteuiporary has the
follewing with reference to the late cruse: —" In the
run from Lisbon the Dauntless and Arethusa had one
small trial of sailing on a wind. Moderate breezes under
all plain sail. The Arethusa beet the Dauntleis but
very little—about 800 or 900 yards alter three hours'
sailing. We hear that the new masts, yards, sails, &c.,
of the Dauntless have wonderfully improved her sailing
qualities. In the gale of wind she behaved remarkably
well, and when running free elle could spare a great deal
of sail to any ship in the squadron. Mr. Fincham may
now fairly claim having produced the first steamer that
was fully capable of keeping company in fair or foul
weather, end under all circumstances, with a squadron
composed of the fastest sailing frigates in the navy."
SIR E. BELCHER'S ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.
—Sir Edward .13eleher's two ships and their two tenders
are progressing gradually in their mannings and fittings.
The ships have ,on their books about 120 officers and
men out of their comp/enema of 192, and they will be
out of the hands of the dockyard about the the middle
of this month.
Mr. Hogarth, 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
and 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 as 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 Highflyer steamer-sloops, at Woolwich,
to have their armaments put on board; and the former
is to be navigated to Davenport, to form one of the
reserve squadron at that port, in charge of Captain
Ramsay, 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.
Reer-Adtniral Deans Dundas, C. 8., in his flag-ship
Britannic, 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 the 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. She 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 Patey, who has been appointed to
the Bloundhound 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 passage from Singapore, are ordered to be paid off.
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
Younte, fitting at Woolwich, is entering a complement of
65 cflicers 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. Com-
mander Crispin ail
go out in the Fairy royal yacht
tender, on Thursday, for a similar purpose.
Neptune, 120, at Portsmouth, has had her tides clean
scraped, and is now being painted. She will be out of
the dockyard hands in the course of a fortnight.
Polyphemus, 4, steatn-Sloop, Commander Phillips,
fitting at Woolwich, will be ready for tea by the 9:h or
10th instant. She has more than half her complement
of 100 on her bootie., but few of them are blue jackets.
Resistance troop-ship, Master-Commander Bradshaw,
loading with stores at Deptford, a ill be ready to leave
for Portsmouth and Davenport on Monday next.
The Simoom screw etcana-frigate, Captain Kingcome,
has had her compasses adjusted in the steam-basin at
Portsmouth.

St. George, 120—The following warrant officers, au-
pernumaarics in the St. Gcorge, at Davenport. have
been superannuated on the following pensions:—John
Harvey. carpenter, 801, pf:r annum; Edward Williams,
701, and Peter Tucker, boatswain, 451. per annum,
St. Vincent, 120, Portsmouth—A party of riggers are
fitting the St. Vincent; her tops aro over the mast-heads,
and her rigging is progressing.
Veinvius, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Barnard, re-
turned to Plymouth Sound on Monday evening, from a
cruiso to the chops of the Channel to relieve the home-
ward-bound merchantmen detained by the prevailing
easterly winds.
MALTA, FEB. 18.—The French steamer Nil, expected
four days since from Alexandria, has been rendered
unfit for 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.
Tho 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 cuurt of inquiry, composel of Pear-Admiral
Hat voy, and C,Ttsai 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 e,:un in the late gale at sea, and
another ran through one of the ports.
A gellent act was performed at rea aitcr the storm.'
A " middy" of the Trafalgar, named Sheepshanks, while
skylerliing" on the poop, fell overboard, and imme-
diately the second-master, Skeed, plunged over to save
him, and hoppily succeeded. In the meantime a lad,
named Lamb, gallantly jumped off the poop—a height
of 45 felt; on le ing 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 hoy replied, " Oh, sir, young Sheepshaults is
the pet of the mess. We could not afford to lose him,
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
capteins in port, except Johnson. of the Albion, mem-
bers, to try a man named Melees, A. 8.. for having
caused the death of. John Furneaux, A. 8., by giving
him a blow on the Slat ult,, by which be caused him
to fall from the maintop, and of which he died on the
4th of February inst.
The tprisoner, who was defended by Lieutenant
Meade, of the Royal Marines, received an exceltent
character, and, as the blow was not premeditated, wa,
sentenced to be imprisoned for six calendar months in
one of her Majesty's gaols.
A generel court-martial assembled on Monday last
Lieutenant-Colonel Huez, president, to try private,
a
Shields, 76th Regiment, for being druelt and knocki-n*g-
down' Sergeant Long; and, on being removed to the
guard-room, again striking down the sergeant of the
guard.
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to re-
ceive 50 lashes, to be imprisoned for two years, and to
lore id. per day for a year.
i tls t. , this
report
there
e shipping,
The corporal punishment was inflicted
Letters from Tunis, of the 10tohn
loss among the shipping
the Ist inst., during
, torrents flowed down the
mountains, several walls have
dcrumbled down, the N.B. gale. Besides loss to th
trees have been blown down, ln,,6oaonddae
se-
veral Arabs have been drowned.
SHEERNESS, MARCH 1. IT
her moorings on Friday er
90, Captain the Hon. Mo t Majesty's ship London,
as a guarpcittsses.
otlf,eadDjuoswtinnag her compasses n ague:Stopford, was swung at
and Saturday, for the purpose
orders forthwith to complete As she is to be stationed ~in
ship it is expected she will receive
850. Her '
ship is only 340. T resent complement as an advanced
'to her crew to the full com-
plement,port, it is reported, weilitein the Downs,
of her also.be
under the con) Q. T.
am squadran
stationedof reserve at this
mend of Ca tam the Hon. S.Carnegie,
24; her itt
jest Y's ship
der-in-
MajQatY'S scrow•SteptiMer Horatio, ..., e-
Waterloo, 120, Captain G. R. Mundy, flag
Chief at the N • her guns placed on
of. Vine-Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, Comman.,
ore, ishavingboard.

It is an extraordinary fact, that the muskets and
pistols supplied to that valuable body of men consti-
tuting the coast guard are still fitted with the common
flint locks. This circumstance is worthy the notice of
the new Board of Admiralty and the Master-General of
tho Ordnat,ce.
The Dutch galliot Van Becltzetlerfehn, which went
on shore last
week, on the West Barrow Sand, has he-
come a total wreck. With tho exception of a cabin-boy,
who was picked up by a fishing smack and conveyed to
Southend, all her crew perished. Ono of the bodies was
found on the sand, and landed at Whitstable by tbo
Lally Rookh, of that port. The galliot was laden with
oats, part of which was saved by a Colchester barge, and
taken into Whitstable.
The ship Persia also went ashore on the edge °f the
Ouse Shoal, but got off Without assistance, with tho loss
of tho anchor and thirty fathoms of chain.

WOOLWICH, Mitilen
APPOINTMENTS.
is!ld 0647), to the Polyphemus ateatu.alQop M Wool.
"nob, for aervioe on the coos of —Lieutenant Walter Stria-

Clerks—Edward f.-7. Cooke (1849). recently serving in
the Southampton, .50, and John G. Wilson to the Herald,
os, at Chatham, for surveying service in the South
Seas.

I'IIO3IO'TION.

Thomas Arm trong to be Acting Gunner.
Captain. Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the
Navy, and Mr. Watts, Assk7.ant-Surveyor, visited Wool-
wich Dockyard to inspect the progress of the Agamem-
non, 90, building and to be fitted with a screw propeller.
The gallant officr also inspected the Ilithflyer steam-
sloop, now ready for clunisbion, and the Torch steam-
ve.sel, tender to the Herald, for surveying service.
The Lightning sfeare-vessel, Atastr Commander
Allen, arrived here to-day from Portsmouth.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CLXXIX.
ODDS AND ENDS FROM LIVERPOOL

TO THE LL'i OR VP' THE SUN.
Slh,-2-1. sure sign that the racing season has really
!ommenced is to be found in the extraordinary Iluctua•
ions of the various candidates for the stakes about to
come off. Since dotting down my remarks yesterday,
that, great certainty for the Liverpool Spring Cup--
othuerpmraisrek—ethas
tshnerpinr,,isseti ab
dutlhaeccwouonrltdblt,
manner.disapp Rumourearingfrom
states ihattl:cre has been a row in the stable, but
whether this is the case or no, the true particulars will
no doubt ooze out in the course of the day. This de-
clension,. of Surprise has considerably altered the odds
for the Spring Cup. Yesterday afternoon and evening
a stiff commission was put upon the Abbess ofJerveaux,
who rose from sevens to fours; and later in the day a
large sum was sent into the market in support of Hun•
gerfurd, who immediately was elevated from twenties, his
nominal price yesterday morning, to sixes, and this
morning even that cannot be obtained. It is
evident his
mchoavneememtussotfna(nAy beco consequence
that hare oc-
curred .
Then only
en
the last eight-and-iorty hours, with respect to
the steeplechase, is the breaking down of Hardwick
andP cari u roy4 th e advance upon a large outlay of Warner
from
side
position to 12 to 1; the decline of Sir
John upon the upward movement of his stable compa-
nion; the introduction of Abd-el-kader as Osborne's
horse, Venture being a very improbable starter; the
announcement that Postilion and Mefferd are not likely
to run; and the tremendous rush upon my fancy animal,
Maria Day, who is to be tooled by Frisby. Tho fields
for the Spring Cup and Steeplechase are as near as
possible comprised in the following list:—
Liverpool Spring Cup—llungerhmd, Abbess of Jer-
veaux, Melford, Ischia, Truegirl, Zelmyra filly, Snow-
drop, and Banahee. Dan Carlos somewhat doubtful.
Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase—Sir John,
Abd-el-Kader, Sir Peter Laurie, Peter Simple (d),
Chieftain, Bourton, Bedford. (6 yrs), Agis, Warner,
Maria Day, Joan of Arc, Miss Mowbray, Carrig (d),
Dolly's Brae, Silent Friend, La Gazza Ladra, Bedford
(5 yrs), Vietress, Laurienne, Cogia, Maurice
Daley, and Royal Blue (d).
points,Sir
Peter
iAunaltered.au hTh i
ef:
opiniony
iaanrtiiMaria
ippaartyee,mv
,Laiali
In
Gsl
cal
zanzu
almoLon moat r
Victress, and Mau-
rtaaiclnia,
rice Daley; and I still think Maria Day and Mau-
rice Daley, with La Gazza Ladra and Victress, good
enough to fill the foremost places.
The betting this morning on the couple .of races
above-mentioned is unc,•ramonly brisk. Spring Cup---
4 to 1 agst Abbess of Jerveaux, taken freely; 4 to 1
sgst Ilungerford, taken freely; 6 to 1 agst Melford; 8
to 1 egst Snowdrop; 8 to 1 agst Truegirl; 10 to 1 agst
Ischia; all sorts of odds agst Surprise, varying from 8
to 20 to 1. Liverpool Steeple Chase-8 to 11 egst
Chieftain; 10 to 1 agst Maria Day; 10 to 1 agst Miss
Mowbray; IQ to 1 agst Victress; 12 to 1 agst Warner;
15 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra; 15 to 1 agst Cogia
(Tasker up); 18 to 1 agst Bedford (6 yrs); 18 to 1 asst
Abd-el-Kader; 25 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie; 25 to 1
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 Mis 3 Mowbray
12 to 1 agst Mr. Higgins's Maria Day—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Gooch's Victress
16 to 1 asst Mr. Goodwin's La Gazza Ladra.—Laken
16 to 1 Mr. J. Bird's Cogia
20 to 1 ugst Mr. Barling's &dford, 6 yrs old—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Warner—taken
20 to 1 apt Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-Ksder
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 CORM -
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;
1,009 to 15 was offered against him for the Chester Cup.
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
16 to 1 agst Bardolph, sst 61b—taken
Dettß V.
9 to 2 agat Mr. Merry's Ikbbie Noblo
15 to 1 agst Mr. Stabbing's Alfred the Great—taken
and afterwards offered
16 to 1 apt Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio
20 to 1 agst L,rd Zetland's Augur
20 to 1 agst Lord Bibblesdale,'s Lapidist
20 to 1 agst Lord ilibblesdale's Kingston
50 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Phantom
Augur and Lapidist were backed in the early part of
the day at 18 and 20 to 1, but towards the close ware
quite out of favour, as much as 22 to 1. in hundreds,
having been laid once agst Lapidist, and 20 to 1 offered
agst
Nothing dune on the Metropolitan Handicap or
Chaster Cup.