The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-17 00:00:00

ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB.

The entries for the first match of the season of thi-
distinguished club, on Monday next, have just closed,
and are as follows :
SECOND CLASS.
Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Phantom
Thought .
Maud
THIRD CLASS.
Vesper ..... ...
Sea Nymph
Kitten
Vampire
The Prince of Wales large steamer of the General
Navigation Company has been engaged to accompany
the match, and also the usual full military band, starting
at 9 o'clock from London-bridge.
The omission of the first class in the above is accounted
for by there not being a sufficient number entered.

ST. PETERSBURG.—The advices from St. Petersburg
are to the Bth instant. An American and two Russian
ships had arrived at Cronstadt, and the navigation there-
fore must have been completely open. The American
had her cargo waiting for her. From Odessa the letters
are dated the sth, and great surprise is expressed that
no blockade has been established or talked of. Ships
were being laden, and several had been sent to the Sea
of Azoff, where their cargoes are ready. At Riga, also,
according to the latest accounts, a large fleet were tak-
ing in produce, and at Archangel a number of ships were
expected, which will likewise probably be allowed by the
allied Powers to bring away their cargoes, although the
Russian merchants appear full of astonishment at the
liberality which has been shown.
THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT RlCHMOND.—Yesterday
Mr. Carter held an inquiry into the circumstances con-
nected with the death of George Lane, aged 26, a guard
on the South-Western Railway, who was killed on
the Richmond Railway last Sunday night. Some
particulars connected with the frightful occurrence ap-
peared in this paper on Monday. Francis Forrester, a
porter on the line, said that, at a quarter to eleven on
Sunday night last, he was on duty at the Mortlake
railway station. The passengers in the train inquired
for the guard, owing to the train having shaken much
as it came along. He asked the driver if he had any
guard, and he replied that he had when he was at the
Richmond station. Not being then able to find him, his
place was supplied by a porter. On going down the
line, he found the deceased lying across the outer rails.
He saw he was a guard by his clothing. It appeared
that some of the wheels of the engine or c irriag,es had
passed over him and mangled his body. The break he
was in was two or three carriages from the engine, and
was termed a composite carriage. There were six or
seven carriages behind the break. His cap was found
six or seven yards this side of the body. In his opinion
the deceased must have been standi►,g on the steps of
the carriage and have slipped down, as his boots were
found about five yards away between his body and his
cap. Other porters gave similar evidence, and the jury
returned a verdict of accidental death.
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A FARM BAILIFF.—
Yesterday the police received information of an enor-
mous sum having been embezzled from the Charlotte's-
hill Farm Estate, Berks. The delinquent is John Kirby,
about 30 years of age, who has been employed as bailiff
of the estate. A. full description of him has been circu•
lated ; but it is supposed he has left for Australia, his
deficiency having been going on for months pas , and he
has not been seen for weeks ; but no suspicion was en-
tertained till a few days since.

Last night a terrible conflagration burst out ;
from 200 to 300 houses have been consumed.
Prince Napoleon, accompanied by his staff, and
assisted by the crew of the Rolland, lent his per-
sonal aid to extinguish it ; his clothes were burnt
in the endeavour. Buildings having been thrown
down on two points; the fire was at length mastered.
The Turkish squadron, consisting of 22 vessels,
was ready to start for the Black Sea. The sailing
of the fleet has already been announced by telegraph.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 4.—Prince Napoleon ar-
rived here at twelve o'clock on Monday. All the
French inhabitants of Constantinopleassembled and
prepared tomeet him at the landing place of Tophana.
The Sultan had ordered out two squadrons of the
Turkish horse guards to await him there, and a regi-
ment of the foot guards were drawn out to receive
him. Gen. Baraguay d'Hilliers went to meet him,
with his aide-de-camp, in the embassy caique, and
joined him as the Roland turned Seraglio Point.
The general went on board. Salvos of artilery
from the Turkish ships of war lying at anchor at the
Golden Horn, and from the British and French war
steamers, welcomed Prince Napoleon to Constanti-
nople. They all manned their yards. Great num-
bers of the inhabitants were gathered on the flat
balconies which crown the tops of the houses of
Pera and Galata, whilst hundreds of people hurried
down the steep hill leading to Tophana, in the ex-
pectation of seeing the nephew of the great Napoleon
land. They were, however, disappointed ; the
Roland proceeded on her course up the Bosphorus,
passing by the Sultan's palace of Tcheragan at
Bechik-Tash, and stopped at the'green palace at
Defterdar Bournou, which the Sultan had had pre-
pared with great sumptuousness for his noble
.fuests. Ciamil Bey, the introducer of ambassadors,
was in attendance, and neared the Roland in the
-Sultan's caique. He welcomed the Prince Napoleon
in the name of the Sultan his master expressing to
lure the great pleasure Abd-ul-Medjid felt at being
ionoured by the visit of so distinguished a mem-
ber of the Imperial family of France.. The Prince
Arent on shore in the Sultan's barge, and entered
,he green palace with his numerous suite and at-
cendants. That afternoon he had an interview with
the Sultan at the Imperial palace of Tcheragan,
when he presented all tee officers forming his staff
end attendants. The Sultan has ordered two
palaces to be prepared for his royal guests--Lthe
me immediately adjoining his own residence ;
he other the green palace at Defterdar Bournuu,
shout half a mile higher up the Bosphorus.
Prince Napoleon having arrived first, the choice
.vas given to him, and he selected the green
palace ; leaving the other, which, being nearest
to the Sultan's seraglio, is considered the
,nost desirable, for his Royal Highness the Duke
af Cambridge. This has been done from motives
)f delicacy and politeness. Monday was a fine
lay, and everything attending the arrival of the
Prince may be said to have been most propiti-
ms. The Bosphorus was in full beauty as the
Roland slowly wended its way up to Defterdar
Bournou—a blue unspotted sky, and still bluer
waters, with both banks covered with the green
verdure of early spring, through which peeped
the pretty white mosques, and tall tapering white
minarets in elegant relief ; whilst the country
residences, the clustering villages, and numerous
shipping, gave the scene an appearance of life pleas-
ing and most strikingly novel to the stranger. Those
on board that ship may well have been startled at
the picturesque beauties that surround the capital
of the Turkish empire, and as they sailed up be-
tween the shores of Asia and Europe they must have
been dazzled by a scene, which at first bewilders,
and to which the eye must be habituated in order
to appreciate its variegated and peculiar beauties.
On Tuesday Prince Napoleon held a levee at his
palace at Defterdar Bournou for all the corps
diplomatique, who proceeded there towards mid-
lay, and were presented to him by General Bara-
;nay d'Hilliers, the ambassador of France. Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe, and M. de Wildenbruck,
the Prussian ambassador, arrived very late, not
;laving received notice in time, and conse-
quently had a special audience of him together.
General Prim also arrived simultaneously with
Prince Napoleon. He is accompanied by a
numerous staff of officers, and by a body guard of
twelve Catalan soldiers. M. Branytski, a very
wealthy Polish exile from Russia, is also here. He
is a colonel in the Paris National Guard, and is
one of the principal shareholders in the institutions
of Credit Foncier and other enterprises which have
been started in the reign of Napoleon 111. Yes-
terday General Baraguay d'Hilliers gave a grand
entertainment to Prince Napoleon, at which
all the Turkish Ministers of State were pre-
ient, and all the representatives of the different
Powers at Constantinople. The Prince was seated
tt a table between Reschid Pacha, the Turkish Mi-
iister of Foreign Affairs, and Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe, the British Ambassador. Lord Raglan
tnd all the officers of the British staff were present.
)n Monday, when Prince Napoleon went to visit
the Sultan, his Imperial Majesty came to the gate-
way of the palace to meet him—au unprecedented
attention on the part of Abd-ul-Medjid. The Sul-
tan has been to visit his imperial guest in person.
This is another honour which has never been shown
uefore by the monarch o these realms to any per-
ion but a crowned head. The Hungarian General
Klapka was presented to Prince Napoleon on
Tuesday.