The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS.

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COMMITTEES CONCLUDED.
21,LANrC.AASrTnisERtro(Mngr. notD i
dulyvo cha i r m
elected
not duly elected ;. Want of quellifi° ca-- --
ymarn. dc
art Carter treating,
TAVISTOCK (Lord R. Grosvenor, chairman). R
n rted
tion. Mr. R. Phillimore duly elected
Feb. 21, ber
CANTERBURY (Mr. K. Seymer, chairman)
Feb. 21, Mr. H. P. Gipps and li ' .—Reported
not duly elected,. guilty by their on. H. B. Johnstone _ agents of bribery.
BLACKBURN (Mr. Deedes chairman
24, Mr. Eccles not "duiReported Feb.
).—Repo .
bribery, y elected •; guilty by his agents of
NEWRY (Mr. u
•H.D. St L • ..___Reported
Seymour, chairman):—Reported
Feb. 24, Mr. lii k rduly elected.
rted
CLITREWA (Mr. J. M. Gaskell, chairman).—ReN •
Feb. 24, Mr. M. - guilty by his
Wilson not duly elected p agents of bribery and •
treating. . _Reported
FROMR (Mr. G. A. Hamilton, chairman/.
holding an
Feb. 28, Hon. D
-.-.. Boyle not duly elected ;
*Mee of profit under the Crown. .
e e chairman).—Re.
BRIDGNORTH (Hon. E. 33" v dulyr' elected. Sir R.
ported Feb. 28, mr. ---• Whitmore
b his agents of bribery.
Pigot not duly elected ; guilty
Smith, chairman).—Re-
CAMBRIDGE CA.MBRIDGE (Mr. Vernon
Macaulay and Mr.
IC Macau eats of bribery.
ported March 1, Mr. S.
;guilty by their ag
O. Stanley, chair-
not duly elected
NTi, (Hon.
W.
ode duly elected.
WATERFORD 0
rt Cllrch 4, Mr. Esmon
Re orted March
man).—Reported eci kington, chairman). p
by his agents
RYE(SirJ..S. Pa
not duly elected ; guilty
Mackinnon
7, Mr. Ma
1 • man), —Mr. Clay and
of treating.
ilf Labouchere, C.lair.
by agents of
HULL \ --r. not duly elected ; guilty
Goderich
Lord
chairman).—Mr. Mangles
bribery.
(Lord Seymour,
GUILDFORD
Mr. Bell duly elected.
CHATH
and 114-- • (Mr. Bramston, chairman). Reported
ABI \
March 7, Sir F. Smith not duly elected ; guilty by his
agents of bri
bery.

CITY COMMISON ERS
ino ester.driayeputhv
Peacock in
commissioners assembled PthSeEGwußißlds.l:lll—r
mr
' the chair. The court proceeded to consider
the claim of the medical officer of health of the city of
London to an increase of salary, on account of his valua-
ble services. After some discussion, the salary of the
medical officer of health was raised from 500/. to 8001. a
year. The court then adjourned.
THE IRISH BRIGADE.---The accounts received, from
opposite quarters of the proceedings at the meeting of
Irish members, held on Saturday, leave no doubt what-
ever that the resulthas been the final and total dOband•
in of the " brigade."

The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain Henry
By-am Martin, is progressing in the most satisfactory
manner in every department. It is with much pleasure
we witness the energy and zeal displayed to get this
noble ship out of the hands of the dockyard officers.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 7.
Her Majesty's frigate Leander, 50, Captain George
St. V. King, which left Portsmouth on the 12th of
February for a cruise off the Western Islands, rounded
Terceira on the 22d of February, and arrived off
Cork on the sth of March. She left that port at
mid-day on Saturday, and arrived here at half-
past seven o'clock last evening. The Leander hove
to off Cork, and received orders from Admiral Purvis
in person to proceed at once for this port, in conse-
quence of the prevalence of typhus fever and small-
pox on board the ships there. The crew of the Leander
are all well. She had fine weather, with the wind from
the eastward until the 26th of February, since which
northerly winds have prevailed. Spoke, Feb. 16, in lat.
42 37 N., long. 13 8 W., the English ship Looshtach,
for Coquimbo ; 21st, 20 miles N.E. of St. Michael's,
British schooner Dispatch, inquired the bearings of the
island, and then bore up for it ; 25th, lat. 44 32 N.,
long. 26 53 W., Dutch ship Maria, 84 days from Bata-
via to Amsterdam, wished to be reported to Hermann
Philips or Hermann Smith ; March 4, lat. 50 52, long.
11 22, 78 miles from Cape Clear, passed a large screw-
steamer, going west.

The Arrogant, 47, screw steam-frigate, Captain S. G.
Fremantle, which left Cork on Saturday previous to the
Leander, is expected here in the course of the day.
The Encounter, 14, screw steam-ship, Captain W. D.
O'Callaghan, from Liverpool, will probably arrive here
to-day.

The Magicienne, 15, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Cap-
rain T. Fisher, went out of harbour on Saturday.
The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 81, Captain S. C.
Dacres, with topgallant masts struck, steamed into har-
bour on Friday last, against a strong head wind.
The Avon, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, which sailed
on Friday with supernumeraries for Portsmouth, had
on board an eight-oared gig, 3611. long, built by Mr.
Waterman, of Anderton, in this port, for his Royal
Highness Prince Albert.

THE WEST INDIES.
The Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir G. F.
Seymour, K.C.8., G.C.H., in his flag-ship Cumberland,
70, Captain Seymour, with the Highflyer, 24 (screw),
Captain Heath&ld, left Port Royal for Bermnda Feb. 3.
The Dauntless, 33, screw, Captain Halsted, remained
at Barbadoes, Feb. 13.

The Calypso, 18, Captain Forbes, was at St. Kitt's.
The Vestal, 26, Captain C. B. Hamilton, was at Ha.
vannah Feb. 15.

The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander Wilson, left Port
Royal Feb. 1, for Greytown.
The Devastation, 6, paddle, Commander C. Y. Camp-
bell, left Port Royal Feb. 1, for Honduras.
The Persian, 12, Commander Mitchell, left Port
Royal for England, to be paid off, Feb. 1.
The Daring, 12, Commander G. Napier, left Port
Royal, on cruise, Jan. 29.
The Alban, steam-tender, Lieut. Commander Mey-
nell, left Port Royal, for Falmouth, Feb. 7.

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE GLADIATOR AND FLYING FISH.
—Woodhead and Co. have given notice, that the account
sales of the proceeds arising from the capture of the
slave-vessel, name unknown, by her Majesty's ship
Gladiator, Captain John Adams (her Majesty's ship
Flying Fish, Commander G. E. Patey, in company).
Jan. 18, 1351, will be registered in the High Court of
Admiralty on and after the 15th inst. _ _ _

PRIZE MONEY FOR THE CLEOPATRA.—HaIford and
Co. have given notice to the officers and crew of her Ma-
jesty's ship Cleopatra, Christr. Wyvell, Esq., captain,
that an account of bounties received for the Pachetto de
Monte Video, captured March 16, 1845, will be forth-
with deposited in the Registry of the High Court of
Admiralty ; in consequence of an appeal in this case,
the distribution has unavoidably been delayed.
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Government
PRUSSIAN MAIL STEAM-PACKET.—The
-uoitee u Governent and the authorities of the departmentPost-
iof that country having decided on ac-
csr_ler,,it.ng the postal communication through the Prus-
lungdom an order was transmitted to this country
for Mr. Elbertzhagen, the agent for the Prussian Go-
vernment in London,'to contract for the building of a
fast steamer, to be employed in conveying the mails from
Stettin to Stockholm, a distance of about 440 miles. In
compliance with his
instructions, Mr. Elbertzhagen en-
tered into arra/1,,
with Mr. Mare, of Orchard-
e construction of an iron vessel
ofh6ao4o tßonlasc,ktwo fifotretenttdwith oscillating engines of 220
collective horse-power, b
vessel, having been built Penn and on, and the
ascertain
finnttzl with here ngines, was
tried down the river to
the name given to the packet, in ermspeed. The Nagler,
emoration of the
late Postmaster-General of Prussiae,olef:ntaMnr,. Penn's wharf;
Deptford, at half-past 10 o'clock aan
the Lower Hope, in Sea Reach, beltaowlu°ranrev:=3,
16.744fi1e arriving at
perne
time was taken, and she ran the
minutes 35 seconds, or at the rate of
hour, with the tide. On returning past the rn
mile, against the tide, she accomplished the distancse in
5 minutes 12 seconds, or at the rate of 11.538 knots pie:.
hour. On again running the measured mile with the
tide, she made the distance in 3 minutes 28 seconds, or
at the rate of 17.308 knot per hour ; and her last run
against the tide occupied 5 painutes 19 seconds, or at the
rate of 11.285 knots per hoar, giving an average speed
on the four runs, two down and two up, of 14.320 knots
per hour. Mr. Elbertzhagen, the agent, Captain Grae-
ven, who superintended her construction, Mr. Water-
man, jun., who designed the vessel, Mr. Hartree, of the
firm of John Penn and Son, the constructors of her
engines, and Mr. F. P. Smith were on board during the
trial, and all were much gratified with the result. The
Nagler is a paddle-wheel steam-vessel, drawing 8 feet 6
inches of water, and her engines, with a stroke of 4 feet
6 inches, made 334 revolutions on the average of the
four runs, the working pressure being 141 b. to the square
inch.

MANNING THE NAVY.—The report on manning the
navy has not yet been made public, but copies of the
document were flitting about amongst the members of
the Cabinet and the committee last week: The United
.S'errice Gazette says :—" The scope of the inquiry, as
originally contemplated, has been wide enough. Ac-
cording to the statement of the noble duke, who lately
presided at the Admiralty, it embraces the state of the
seaman from the day he entered the navy as a boy until
rg cei ve d into Greenwich Hospital," It is one of the

The Ceylon Times of the 18th Jan., which has
come to hand this morning, contains the following
interesting particulars, copied from the Maitland
Mercury, respecting the state and prospects of
some of the northern gold fields :
We have been obliged with information by a
perfectly reliable party, which appears to us to settle
the doubts as to the character of the Bingera gold
field, so far as it has yet been proved.
Some seven weeks since a practised Turon and
Tambaroura digger, a resident of Maitland, was
induced by the exciting accounts of the success of
the Bingera field, which reached Maitland from
Sydney, to proceed to Bingera himself, to see
whether it would be worth while to take a claim
and work. He went by way of the Hanging Rock
diggings. When he reached Bingera he found
that out of some 200 persons scattered about, there
were about a dozen or more parties, eaeh of three,
four, or five men, who were making from two to
four ounces per day, but that t,he others were doing
little or nothing ; great numbers arrived every day
during his stay, and about as many left every day.
disappointed. He found on inquiry, and on work-
ing himself, that the productive ground was con-
fined to a very small space on the forest land, and
was even there purely surface diggings, the gold
commencing among the very roots of the grass,
and in most of the good claims extending not
deeper than nine inches in profitable quantity, and
in none of the claims going lower than three feet
from the surface ; the most profitable of all, the
Blacksmith's Claim, which lay in a kind of shallow
gully, ceasing at three feet. All round the limited
rich ground were holes sunk and being worked,
many by thoroughly practised hands, and they
yielded very little, not above 15 grains of gold per
day, and as carting the stuff to water cost 4s. per
load, none of the parties were working to
profit except those on the small isolated spot
of rich ground. Numbers of persons were
out prospecting all round, many of whom told
our informant that they had run the creeks down
to the Big River, and had prospected on the Big
River itself, finding gold in small specks every-
where they tried, but in such minute quantities
that it was not profitable to work. Our informant
himself ran down one of the creeks six miles, and
his trials yielded precisely the same result, gold
everywhere, more or less, but in too small a quan-
tity to be profitable ; in one case our inform-
ant washed out some stuff from off the bed rock,
a hole having been sunk 18 feet to it, and he did
not get a speck of gold. The conclusion on his own
mind, after five days' thorough inquiry and ex-
amination, was that the country presented every
appearance of being auriferous ; that the productive
part yet found must very shortly be worked out
and abandoned ; that up to that time, rather more
than a fortnight ago, no other productive place
than the original small one had been found ; that
its yield had been greatly exaggerated by report ;
and that prospecting for further rich spots could
only be well prosecuted by parties from the imme-
diate neighbourhood, who could take advantage of
transient rains to wash the trial stuff in many dif-
ferent places. He does not doubt the possibility of
other rich spots being found, or even that eventually
profitable winter diggings may be discovered in the
neighbourhood, but he is not at all satisfied that
they will be found, thinking it quite a matter of
doubt.

But our informant has formed a very different
conclusion as to the Hanging Rock diggings. He
found about the Hanging Rock creeks that many
parties were doing well, one party having obtained
27 ounces in a day ; and that on the Peel diggings,
on the A. A. Company's estate, say eight miles from
the Hanging Rock, the diggings were very rich and
profitable. The disputes as to the right, or rather
power of the A. A. Company to prevent by force
diggers from working these alluvial diggings, pre-
vented our informant from seeking to work there,
but he saw several places in the neighbourhood of
the Hanging Rock where he would willingly have
obtained claims and worked, had it not been that
the abundance of water prevented the hope of pro-
fitable working for some time. Great numbers of
the disappointed Bingera diggers came back by
way of the Hanging Rock, as did our informant ;
and very many of them immediately set to work,
the greater part going to the Peel diggings on the
A. A. Company's land. Our informant satisfied
himself, by personal examination, of the great
richness of these diggings, and of the immense
wealth apparently contained in the celebrated
quartz ridge on the land, the gold in the quartz
being universally diffused, and quite plain to the
eye, and in his opinion the immediate banks and
bed of the Peel itself, in that neighbourhood, will
prove very rich in gold when the water has les-
sened. But even supposing the company succeed
in preventing diggers from working the alluvial
diggings on their estates, the neighbourhood of the
Hanging Rock affords so many profitable spots that
great quantities of gold will be produced at these
diggings during the ensuing summer.

INTERESTING TO NAVIGATORS.-THE
FALKLAND ISLANDS.

Under this head we find in a recent number of the
New York Express the following remarks, in reference
to the Falkland Islands, now attracting so much atten-
tion in this country, because of their exceeding eligibi-
lity for purposes of transportation, when the dispatch of
convicts to Australia shall cease. The importance of
these islands to Great Britain, in a commercial sense, is
strengthened from the fact of the rapidly increasing
number of Australian vessels coming home by way of
Cape Horn ; and, we believe, it is the intention of the
proprietors of some of our great lines of steamers to
establish a coal depot there, in which case there will
necessarily be a vast augmentation to the advan-

taxes already specified by our American contempo
rary, namely—" For the interest of American and other
shipowners, whalers, and all other vessels, it cannot be too
generally made known that the Falklandlslands, off the
coast of South America, now afford an excellent station,
with many good and safe harbours, at which vessels of
every class may find supplies. Ships proceeding to or
from the East Indies, China, or from the Pacific coast
and-Polynesia, round the Cape of Good Hope orCape Horn,
will find, at the Falkland Islands, the means, in ordi-
nary cases of damage, of repair, supplies of provisions,
&c., in short, all such stores as are required by merchant
vessels. There, there are no port or Custom-house
charges, whereas, at all the South American continental
ports, whether in Brazil or on the River Plate, the
charges are very high, delays and vexations frequent,
and labour and articles required for repairs exorbitant.
But the most serious objection to the Brazilian ports is
the prevalence of a malignant yellow fever, particularly
dangerous to the ships' companies, on board vessels in
the harbours. From these reasons, as well as from the
conveniences and facilities afforded by the authorities,
and by the new settlements at these islands, the number
of vessels touching there has been very much increased,
and will, no doubt, continue to increase in every suc-
ceeding year."