The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

11S OAKS.

COLIZT-MARTIAL.---A court-martial assembled yes-
terday on board the Waterloo, 121, flagship, to try Mr.
Thomas Yeatman, second-master, of the Cuckoo steins.-
Vessel, on the following charges :—First charge, absence
without leave ; second charge, disobedience of orders
and retarding the fitment of the said vessel • third and
fourth charges, being drunk on board the duckoo, and
also on board the Waterloo ; fifth charge, being again
absent without leave, and apprehended by the master-
at-arms of the Waterloo. The court sat for three hours
on the part of the prosecution, and after hearing the
prisoner's defence, they decided that the Ist charge was
fully proved •, the 2d charge was not proved ; the 3d,
4th, and. sth charges were also fully proved ; and the
sentence of the court was that Mr. Thomas Yeatman be
dismissed her Majesty's service.
A Russian barque prize has arrived at the Little Nore
from the Baltic.
Yesterday three more Russian prizes, the Emilie,
Tilton master ; the Aura, Mathson, master ; and the
Johanna, arrived in the West India Docks, from the
Baltic r the prisoners were removed to the Crocodile,
and the necessary instructions forwarded to the Queen's
Proctor, to obtain the lawful condemnation of the
prizes in the Court of Admiralty.
Advices were received yesterday at the Admiralty,
under date Elsinore, May the 18th, that another Rus-
sian prize; called the Primus, had arrived, in charge of
an English prize .crew, off that port, and sailed for
England.
Mr. H. G. Swainson, acting Second Master, on board
the James Watt, who brought the prize Aland home,
and Mr. Henry Stewart, mate on board the Gorgon,
who brought the Ida home, have joined the Waterloo
as supernumeraries, waiting a passage to their respec-
tive ships in the Baltic.
The Star, 8, sloop, Commander Frederick P. Warren,
from the South-east coast of America, arrived at Sheer-
ness yesterday afternoon. She was visited and inspected
by Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, of the Waterloo. The
crew were beat to quarters, and put through their va-
rious exercises, great gun practice, firing, &c., also
sending down and up topgallantyards, &e., all o which
was done so as to call forth the high approbation of his
lordship. The Star remains at, Sheerness, waiting
orders.
The Royal Albert was put under the muting shears
yesterday, and is getting her machinery on board. Her
boilers, which have arrived at Woolwich, are to be
shipped on board the Rhadatnanthus steam store-vessel
for conveyance to. Sheerness.
The Powerful, 84, Captain Mansel, has got her lower
rigging and topmasts up, and is rapidly progressing in
her equipment in No. 2 dock at Portsmouth.
The Royalist, 8, Commander Bate, is alongside Ports-
mouth Dockyard jetty dismantling, to be paid off and
placed in ordinary.
The Sphinx, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, Captain Clifford,
has hoisted the pennant at Portsmouth, and is now
nearly complete.
The Victoria and Albert, Royal steam yacht, Captain
the Hon. Joseph Denman, beings completed for masting,
leaves the dock at Portsmouth this day (Tuesday.)
The Harpy, 4, iron paddle steam-vessel, Lieutenant
Lindsay, is ready to leave the basin at Portsmouth as
soon as ordered. She has no medical officer on board.
The Admiralty have intimated to the Mayor of Sun-
derland that it is the intention of the Government to
keep a vessel of war cruising in the North Sea, for the
protection of our merchant shipping. It is also proposed
by the Ordnance to put the defences at the mouth of the
Wear into an efficient condition.
A fine Sardinian screw steam frigate, built for that
Government by Messrs. Smith of Neweast!e, and fitted
with engines by Robert Stephenson, is at present at.
Greenhithe, to have her compasses adjusted previous to
her departure for the Mediterranean.
In consequence of the recent Treasury order with re-
gard to the exportation of machinery, Messrs. Pow and
Fawcas, the large iron manufacturers in North Shields,
who arc loading the vessel Ahramaudus with engines
and manufactured iron for Bremen, have had to apply for
leave to export those articles, which has been granted
them upon the condition of the exporters paying a Cus-
tom-house officer to proceed in charge of the articles, to
see that the engines are put into two steamers intended
to tow vessels into Bremerhaven, and not to pass into
the hands of thet Russian authorities. It is also stated
that a Newcastle house will be permitted to send machi-
nery to Vienna under a similar arrangement.
Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant, and Dyke have received
orders to send to Woolwich the engines of .100-horse
power made by that firm for the Harrier, 16, screw steam
sloop, that they may be forwarded to Portsmouth, the
Harrier having been brought round from Pen-an-of:
where she was launched, to Portsmouth to be fitted.
All the preparations were, complete for the sailing ol
the Himalaya from Queenstown on Sunday With
the
service troops of the sth Dragoons and their horses on
board •, and, in addition to the cavalry, 140 men of the
68th Light Infantry.
The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday gave notice at
Lloyd's that a vessel was required forthwith to convey
100 pieces of ordnance to Constantinople.
The Lords of the Admiralty also gave nietiee yester-
day at Lloyd's that several ships of from 500 to 600 tons
burden were required to convey draughts of regiments,
each numbering about 436 rank and file, from the River
Thames, Portsmouth, and Coils to Quebec.
The enrolled pensioners of Chelsea Hospital will be
reviewed this day in Hyde-park, by the Commander-in-

- - Chief.
Yesterday morning the light company, with draughts
from the other companies of the 46th Itegithent, in all ,
.144 men, marched from the Infantry Barracks in Sheet-
street, Windsor, under the command of Captain Vesey
and Lieutenant Dallas, and proceeded by the Great
Western Railway to Kensington Barracks, there to take
garrison duty. The remainder of the 46th, consisting
of five companies, are expected to arrive at Windsor
.to-day from Weedon. .
Lionel Lambert, mate of 1852, serving as First Mate
of the Retribution steam frigate, in the Black Sea, is
promoted to be Lieutenant,
The Tonning, hired steam-transport, Commander W.
Ilales Franklin, arrived. at the Motherbank on
Sunday
night, and clone. into Portsmouth harbour yesterday

At first Honey Suckle was in so good edour-thab the
investments which were made quickly advanced her to
6to 1 ; meanwhile Meteora receded to Bto 1. A re-
action, however, took place, and Meteora again shone
forth first favourite at 3 to 1, and Honeysuckle dropped
off to 10 to 1. sto 1 taken about Bribery, 10 and 12
to 1 about Malmsey, 10 and g)to 1 about Sortie, and 10
to 1 to 1001. about Miss Worthington.
Subscribers mustered in strong numbers, and alto•
gether a good deal of business was transacted.
Closing prices : .

THE DERBY.
3to 1. agst Lord Derby's Dervish (t).
6to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Andover (t).
Bto 1 agst Mr. Payne's The Trapper (t).
10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Hermit (t).
10 to 1 ag3t Baron Rothschild'A King Tom (t).
12 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Wild Huntsman (t).
15 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Hospodar (t).
15 to 1 agst Mr. Clarkson's Neville (t).
15 to 1 agst Mr. F• Knowles' Marsyas (t).
25 to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Knight of St. George
(taken).
40 to 1 agst Mr. C. Spence's Canute (t).
40 tb 1 agst Lord Clifden's Alembic (t).
50 to 1 agst Mr. Copperthwaite's Early Bird (t).
50 to 1 agst Mr. Shepherdson's New Warrior (t).
50 to 1 agst Mr. Newland's Bracken (offered).
1,000 to 10 agst Sir T. Burke's Grey Plover(t).
1,000 to 10 agst Lord Lonsdale's Welham (t).
1,000 to 10 agst Mr• F. Knowles's Marble Hill (t).
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. Howard's Prince Arthur (taken
five times).
1,000 to 5 agst Mr. Bignell's First Lord (t).

OAKS.
3to 1 agst Lord Derby's Meteora (t).
5 to 1 agst Lord Bruce's Bribery kt).
10 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Honeysuckle (t).
10 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Sortie (t).
10 to 1 agst Miss Worthington (taken to 100

EPSOM RACES.--THE PREPARATIONS,

The preparations for the-. due celebration of Epsom's
carnival of sport-were never, perhaps, on a larger scale.
Since last year a complete change has been effected in
the economy and arrangements at the Grand Stand. The
building has been thoroughly cleaned aryl redecorated ;
the roof has been raised to a considerable altitude, and
has been rendered as secure as wood and iron work can
make it. The principal feature is, however, the new
stalls which have been erected in front of the top balcony;
they have been constructed to accommodate parties of
six or nine, and have quite as much privacy and comfort
as a " snug box at the Opera." These stalls are let by
subscription, and the undertaking has succeeded beyond
expectation. Few, if any, are now at the disposal of the
clerk of the course. Each subscriber is furnished with a
key to hti stall; and his name is painted in legible charac-
ters on the, door. The out-door arrangements will, as
usual, be under the direction of Mr. Charles Martin.
The victualling department will, as heretofore, be
il
-
con-
ducted by Messrs.. Jaquet and Woodruffe, who w
again have Mr. Farrah as their chef de-cuisi
i e—a,
ever
suffi-
cient guarantee for the excellence of the provsions,
article of which' will be prepared " the premmisesost " arid
for this purpose the cooking apparatus is on a ex-
tensive scale.
Notwithst tnding the late heavy showers of rain the
course is in capital condition—indeed, no expedient has
been neglected that could r en der it what traineed and
rs and
jockeys call " good going." It has been well roll
bush-harrowed ; every rut filled up, bare places returfed,
and roadways covered with tan.
A number rf horses arrived in the course of Sunday
and yesterday, and by this time the principal Derby
horses are located in the neighbourhood. Visitors, too,
dropped in numerously.
On the Derby-day and Oaks-day trains will run at the
usual first and second class fares from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
and return from Epsom after S p.m. Additional fast
trains will run froth London at 9.5 a.m. un m
til 1.20 p.m. ;
and from Epsom from 4 p.m. till 8 p.m. It ust be
remembered that the ordinary trains d
-between Lonn
and.Croydon, and between London and Epsom, lbe
entirely suspended during the hours advertised for run-.
ning the additional trains. They who wish to avoid
trouble and annoyance will do well to procure their
tickets at one of the special booking-o
ea reached vitt Kingston.
Trains on the Derby-day will run from the Waterloo sta-
tion to Kingston every half hour from 8 a.m. until 1.30
pin., and parties walking to the course from Kingston
will find a near route indicated through the fields.
Ike, fields.lke,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—May 29

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
BRIGGS V. LORD AND LADY OXFORD,

Their Lordships gave judgment in this case. The
appeal was from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart,
who confirmed the Master's report. The question
turned upon the construction of a deed, dated the 17th
March, 1832, under which the Oxford estates are settled.
Mr. Briggs was appointed by the deed to superintend
the management.of the estates, and to receive the rents,
and he claimed, poundage on the sale of certain timber
sold by the trustees of the settlement. The Court
below held that he was entitled to poundage, but their
Lordships after remarking that the deed was so drawn
as to render a literal interpretation not rationally pos-
sible, said that they were of opinion that, on the true
construction of the deed, Mr. Briggs was only d
to,poundage on the income of the property ; and th ere
a.
fore as the produce of the sale of the timber cruse
a
g
e
•
cipal and not income, he was not entitled to po d
The matter must therefore be referred back to the
Master to review his report.
HINDSON V. WETIrEIIIIIJ.
This was an appeal from a
Islasdecison of
tote validity of a
Stuart. The question involved
red
the will of the
Vice-Chancellor
devise to the solicitor, who prepa
on y
testator in the cause. The case -was 1 being opened
when the court rose.