The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-11 00:00:00

PROVISIOES FOR THE NAVY.

The following are the terms upon which the
Government contracted last week for the yearly
supply of beef and pork for the navy :—Beef, 3,050
tierces and 5,050 barrels; pork, 2,400 tierces and
2,200 barrels. The beef was taken at 51. 2s. 6d. to
51. 16s. per tierce for Irish, and 51. 16s. for American ;
the port was taken at 51. 12s. to 51. 19s. per tierce for
Irish, and 51. ss. for Hamburgh. Of this quantity
Messrs. Allen and Anderson took 1,300 tierces and
800 barrels of pork, at 31. 17s. to 51. 18s. 10d., and
1,600 barrels of beef, at 31. 16s. Bd. to 31. 19s. l ld.
A match between the yacht America and the new
Swedish yacht Sverige (on a challenge from the
owner of the latter), for 400/., is to come off to-mor-
row in these waters, provided a seven-knot breeze be
blowing at the time appointed for the start (11 o'clock).
The course is from Ityde through Spithead, 15 miles
outside the Nab-light, and back to Hyde. This match
was appointed to take place yesterday, but the stipu-
lated-for breeze not appearing, the trial was postponed
until Monday.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 9.—The long-deferred official
visit of the new Lords of the Admiralty is to take
place on Monday, the 11th inst.
Her Majesty's brig Linnet, 8, was placed at her
moorings on Wednesday, masted on Thursday, and
commissioned to-day for Commander Henry Need.
The Seagull, 8, and Scout, 14, were docked on
Thursday for breaking up.
Thirteen hired labourers were discharged from the
gun-wharf on Monday.
The Cork Steamship Company's paddle-wheel
steamer Prussian Eagle, Captain Tooker, from Lon-
don for Plymouth, was, at half past five o'clock on
Friday morning, abreast of the screw Australian
mail-packet Melbourne between the Needles and
Beachy-head. The paddle-boat arrived at four roc,
the screw at half-past five r.m., wind northerly. The
Prussian Engle used her fore and aft foresail and jib;
the Melbourne had her jib, forestaysail, fore and att
foresail, mainspencer, and mizen. Captain Tooker
reports a very large flet of outward-bound ships off
Dungeness at six P.M. on Thursday. Between the
Bolt-head and the Start tile Prussian Eagle observed
floatit g on the water the body of a stout man in
sandy red trouser!, white belt and boots, no jacket or
cap.
The Belfrit, Seem Company's screw steam-vessel
04car left Plymouth on her ordinary voyage to
London on Sanday last, the 3,1 inst., wind blowing
strong tram the southward. Off Beachy-bead, on
Monday night, the master, Mr. D. M'Kinlay, was
about to go below, when a heavy sea struck the ship ;
he caught hold of the cabin door for security, but the
hinges gave way and he was washed overboard, and
never seen again.

SDRERNE.Si, SUNDAY, EIGHT A.M.—Her Majesty's
screw line-of-battle ship Agamemnon, 90, Captain
Sir Thomas Maitland, has been warped to the swing-
ing moorings abreast the dockyard wall, preparatory
to being placed underneath the shears in the fitting
basin, to be masted. Two officers belonging to her
have been sent to Plymouth and Portsmouth to open
rendezvous for the entry of seamen. Her comple-
ment, inclusive of marines and marine artillery, is to
be 820 officers and men.

Her Majesty's ship London, 90, advanced ship, Cap-
tain G. R. Mundy, has entered upwards of 40 men,
since ordered to increase her complement to 445. Her
removal to Portsmouth for the winter is not yet posi-
tively determined on.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Lizard
left port for Chatham yesterday at nine A.M., and re-
turned in the afternoon with Mr. C. Morgan, chief
clerk in the Pay-office, in charge of public money.
Her Majesty's screw steam-frigate Aniphion, 34,
has struck topmasts and sent down lower yards for
the winter months. The screw steam guard•ship
Horatio, 22, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, is
making preparations for the same purpose. Both
vessels will shortly proceed to the Mouse and back,
to try their engines and machinery.
The good service pensions enjoyed by Captains
John Edward IValcot and James Hallway Plum-
ridge, as also the naval Aide-de•Campship, held by
Captain Norwich Duff, are placed at the disposal of
his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, First Lord
of the Admiralty.
By the death of the Rev. Hugh Salvia, Chaplain,
R.N. (1823), the Greenwich Hospital living of
Alston, in the gift of the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, has become vacant, and must b. conferred on a
naval chaplain, who, in addirion to the emoluments
derived from the preferment, will still be in the re-
ceipt of his half pay.
The committee of naval officers appointed to adju-
dicate on the relative strength of the " trial anchors'
will embark on Thursday next in the Port-Admiral's
yacht, and proceed to Woolwich, to be present at the
breaking of the anchors on Friday and Saturday, the
15th and 16th inst.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, OCT. 9. Lieutenant Francis G.
Probyn (1849) additional lieutenant on board the
Penelope 10. cm-frigate,
flagship on the west coast of
Africa station, to the Linnet, 8, brig, fitting at
Devonport for service on the west coast of Africa.
Clerks in Charge—Joseph Singleton to the Trident
stearn-vesel, on the south-east coast of America
station ; Wilmot B. Mainprise (1845) to the Ceylon
receiving. ship, at Malta.
Clerk's Assistant C. K. Foulkes to the Impregnable
flag-ship, at Devonport.
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PROMOTIONS.(II4), serving in . the
Commander' on the reserved list.
Commander James Lamont Coast Lieutenant uGt euna
onti (1838), retired Com-
mander of 1830, to be
retired Commander of 1816.

From further information which has transpired
regarding the Danish Railway concessions granted to Mr.
ha
Pets, it appears that they embracedallthe lines in the king-
dom The forfir which
section
arrangements
of6bmiles il es will
not been previously
trom made.
t.e
port of Tonningen by Husum to Flensburg, and another in
comprise line
connexion with it from Schleswig to Rensburg, the existing
traffic upon these showing, it is stated, a return of 11 per
cent., while they will also shorten the distance between Lon-
don and Hamburgh and London and Copenhagen, reducing
the former to 32 hours and the latter to 40. It is specified
in the grant that goods conveyed by these channels to the
Baltic are not to be chargeable with Sound dues. The esti-
mates for the first section, as fixed by the statutes, show
the cost to be 540,0007., or 8,3001. per mile, including
land, rolling stock, stations, &c., ready fur efficient
working.
Advices from St. Petersburgh of the 2d instant
state that owing to the large shipments of produce, and es-
pecially of tallow, the rate of exchange was again less fa-
vourable for this country. Freights were extremely firm, and
there were no vessels disengaged. The details are also given
of the failure of Podsossoff and Sons, the largest tallow
dealers in that city. Their liabia.es are for 400,0001., but
the creditors are chiefly local. The houses connected with
England 10:e a little, but none more than 5,000/. M. Pod-
sossoff had other occupations, the principal of which was
gold washing, and in this he is supposed to have sunk a largo
capital, although the business is said to pay. If allowed to
continue it, he hopes to meet all his debts in five years, but
an immediate liquidation of his estate would yield, it is
feared, only 25 per cant. The speculative losses by which the
present event has been brought about must, it is presumed,
have been spread over a considerable period.
The Teviot Brazil mail steamer on Saturday took
out spout 35,000/. in foreign gold coin for the River Plate.