The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

NA VAL INTELLIGENCE.
rORTSMOUT EDNESDAY.—Commander Alex'
louder Murray (1840), who was midshipman of the
Sophie during the Burmese war, gunnery lieutenant
of the Princess Charlotte (flag ship), at Acre, end
who had just brought home and paid off the
Favourite, 18, after three years' service on the West
Coast of Africa, is promoted to the rank of captain.
Lieutenant William Keigwin Nicolas (1809), first
of the Impregnable, flag-ship at Devonport, who wo
midshipman of the Malta in Calder's action ; and of
the Defence at the destruction of the'French frigate 3
at Sables D'ollonne, and employed in boat service;
lieutenant of the Ville de Paris in Basque Roads in
1809 ; senior lieutenant of the Pilot, and wounded et
the defeat of the French frigate Legere in 1815;
brother of Captain Toup Nicolas, Superintendent of
the Royal William Victualling Establishment, Devon-
port, is promoted to the rank of commander.
Lieutenant Arthur Mellersh (1837) first of the
Superb, 80, at Spithead, is also promoted to the rank
of commander.

Lieutenant Vashon Baker (1839), late first of the
Espiegle, 12, recently paid off, to the rank of com-
mander.

The ship Kent, 659 tons, leaves Deptford for this
port on the 17th inst., to embark detachments of the
45th and 91st Regiments for the Cape of Good Hope.
The ship Fifeshire, 463 tons, leaves Deptford oa
the 12th for this port, to embark detachments of the
20th Foot for Canada.
The Elfin, royal dispatch boat, was tried to-day at
the measured mile in Stokes. bay by Commander
Crispin, of the royal yachts, when her mean speed
after four runs, was recorded as 12.572 knots; steal°,
gauge, 81b. ; revolutions, 57. She was also tried
several times at full speed, and made the complete
circle in 2 min. 25 sec. This result corresponds with
that obtained in the different trials in the river, but
when certain alterations have been made it is not et
all improbable that a greater velocity, than the above
may be recorded.

The Sphynx steam-sloop, one of the reserve squad'
ron, which received partial orders to be prepared for.
service on Saturday, was to-day ordered to be manned
from the Excellent, and taken to Spithead by COW'
mender Hewlett, of that ship. It is also reported to
us that a North Sea pilot was ordered to go on board.
Orders were received at the Royal Clarence Vie"
tualling Establishment, Gosport, this morning to
superannuate 10 first class labourers, and to discharge
23 second and third class without superannuation, and
to superannuate one baker and one carpenter.
The Echo steam-tug embarked troops from Haslar-
wharf this morning, and put them on board the
Constantine freight ship at Spithead, then proceeded
to Cowes to embark a detachment on board the
Apolline for Halifax, after which she brought another
detachment from Cowes, and put them aboard the
Constantine.

Wind—N. by W.; moderate breezes and floe
weather.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market was lather flat to-dal'
and prices somewhat lower. The sales are—Great Western, Quartel9'
6 dis.— Ditto, New 171. Shares, 4% dis.—Bristol and Exeter, Third''
11% dis.—Midland, 644.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.
Srocx EXCHANGE.—The market was very dull to-day, and
prices rather lower than yesterday. The sales are—Caledonian'
Preference, 11/. Bs. 9d.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Preference,
lip
—London and North-Western, 127—Ditto, New Quarters, 3
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 10%—Midlands
G4%—Ditto, Halves, 123 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No." 4)'
6%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension, Dres. 1 and 2), bl
dis. Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), guaranteed 6 per cent.
1850, 3% dis.

MANCHESTER, MAY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day 'were as follows:""
East Lancashire, 15% —Great Northern, (A), 4% Dover (No. 4).
6 11-16—Ditto (No, 4), Registered, 6 9-16—Manchester and Bir.
mingham (C), Quarters, 2 15-16 p.—Sheffield, Preference, Ors"—
Ditto (No. 1), 7% dis.—North Staffordshire, 5 7-16 dis.—West Riding
Union, dis.—Eastern Counties, 7 11-16—London Stock, 127—'
Grimsby, Old, 20—Sheffield and Lincoln, 14 9-16.
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 9.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The following are to-day's transactions
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stcur Valley, 10%—Caledonlan,
26% London and North-Western, New, 3% p.— Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 10%--Midland (Con. Bit,:
mingham and Derby), 43—North British, Quarters, 3% —North
Staffordshire, 51. 1 ls. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A).
dis.•—Ditto (B.), 4 c. dis.— South Staffordshire, 4% diS. —South
Eastern, 20

YORK, MAE 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fOl°
~,,„. lows :—Great Northern, 101. 6s. 3d.—Yerk, Newcastle, and Bervrw" (Newcastle Extension), 14% —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 4%.
GLASGOW, MAY S.
Srocx•ExcnANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange W..:
day has been as follows :—Clydesdale Junction, 61%—Glasgow:
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. 2), Gl(—Nom British, Prefar
ence, 225,

GENERAL GILBERT.—This officer, to whose energy
and skill is attributed the recent victory in India, is the
same General Gilbert who was examined and personally
interested in the great horse cause tried some two 01:
three years since in Bristol. The General was a gret!t
steeple-chase and racing man.—Bristol Times This
is correct. The General who has so gloriously distin-
guished himself in bringing to a close the late metoorapie
campaign in India, is indeed the same individual who
rode his own horse at the Taunton and Exeter races,
about nine years ago. At Hardo
only half a neck.—Taunton Courier.]
wn he was
A HINT FOR CONSlntarots " POLOM2B.—The
Liverpool Mercury says, on Tuesday an application ivay
made to Mr. Rushton, the circumstances beaten 133'
of which, if
proved, would produce rather a distate for an article of
food usually looked upon as a dainty, and commonly
known as the German sausage or polony. Inspector
Jones, of St. Martin's Market, said he had good grounds
for supposing that a certain polony manufacturer is
Dryden-street was in the habit of making up such
articles from horse. flesh, which he procured from the
knackers' yards. The polonies were made by the person
alluded to in his own dwelling-house, the horse flesh
being chopped up with a machine, then mixed with
bread, and seasoned, to make it savoury. He (the in'
spector) wished to know if he could have a warrant So
go and search the premises. He knew the horse flesh
was taken there, but it was speedily disposed of, and
nothing could then be found except the sausages.—Mr•
Rushton: Have you obtained any of the polonies? 10'
spector: We got a sausage maker to compare theta
with others, but they are so spiced it is difficult to forts
any idea as to the composition after being made up.-111T-
Rushtons If they are bad, I should think the parties who
make them may be proceeded against for selling what is
unwholesome food? Inspector: They are so peppered
and spiced we cannot decide as to the quality.—Mr.
Rushton : Then they are good sausages, I suppose. In-
spector: I should not say so when it is known from what
they are made.—Mr. Rushton: We have no power to
interfere, if people like to eat horse flesh in sausages; the
Act of Parliament does not prevent them making sausages
of horse flesh; but if they expose that which is unfit for
human food they may be brought up under the Act. In-
spector: There is about five cwt. a week of horse flesh
got from the knackers' yards at Vauxhall-road and Kirk'
dale: it is made into sausages. and supplied in twenty or
thirty shops in Liverpool and other parts of the country.
—Mr. Rushton: This exposure will damage the polony
trade. Inspector: They pay a farthing a pound for the
horseflesh, and get a large shoulder for 15d., weighing
about 701bs. They are thus enabled to sell the sausages
at a cheap rate; they have purchased it for years from
the knackers' yards, and the sellers were given to under-
stand it was taken to the boarding houses resorted to by
captains, to feed dogs.—Mr. Rushton: You can only deal
with it as unwholesome food. Inspector: It cannot be
recognised; I have had a person in the trade to examine
it, and he could not say the polonies were unwholesome.
—Mr. Rushton: All you can do is to be on the alert; you
cannot, under present circumstances, enter upon the pre-
mises; but if you find anything which is unwholesome
as food, the Act may be brought to operate. The in-
spector then lett the court.
PROTECTIONIST PETITION-MAKING. A. corre-
spondent of the Brighton Guardian states that in the
neighbourhood of Piecombe several signatures—or rather
crosses—were obtained last week by representing the
prayer of a petition to be in favour of a repeal of the
malt duty, whereas the petition also prayed for the re-
storation of a protective duty on corn.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A most Miraculous Cure of
a Bad Leg of Sixty Years' duration by Holloway's Ointment '
and Pills.-111r. Barker, of 5, Graham's-place, Drypool, at the
age of 18, had a breaking out on one of his legs, which ulti-
mately formed into an ulcerous sore, and increased in severity
until he was SO years old, when it entirely took away his
power of walking; at last, after seeking relief in vain for so
many years, he had recourse to Holloway's Ointment and
Pills, and these invaluable Medicines have cured him so com-
pletely, that he is now enabled to walk as well as most men of
50 years of age.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Hollo-
way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
On the 3d inst at Leamington, the wife of the Rev. F.
Dawson, of a son.
On the 6th inst., in Eaton-place, the lady of Lieutenant-
Colonel Campbell, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at the Rectory, Bradfield, Berks, the wile
of the Rev. Thomas Stevens, of a daughter.
On the 6th inst., at Redbourn, Harts, the wife of the Ref,. W. Scrocold Wode, of a son.
At Beauchamp-house, Leamington, on the 6th inst., the
lady of R. M'Alpine, Esq., of a soa.
On the 6th insf., in Montagu-street, Portman-square, the
wife of Major Henry Farrant, 81st Regiment, of a son.
On the 6t st., at St. John's-terrace, Nottng-hill, the
wife ot Stephen Cracknall, Esq., of the Middle Temple, of
a son.
On the 6th inst., at Upper Southwick-street, Elizabeth,
wife of Dr. R. G. Latham, M.D., 1.R.5., of a son.
On the Ist inst., at Mount Pleasant, Marden, Kent, Mni
Henry Brown, of a (laughter.

M.
On the Ist inst., at HAR
enllaßlEDn Church, Reginald bert
Walpole, Esq., eldest son of the Rev. Robert Walpole,Ro rector
of Christ Church, St. Marylebone, London, to Anne Eliza,
third daughter of John Heaton, Esq., Pies Heaton, Den-
bighshire.
On the sth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, George
Hall, 'Esq.. of Brighton, and of Portslade, Sussex, to Marl
Isabella Viscountess Hood, daughter of the late Hon. Mrs'
Stopford.-

DIED.
At Brighton, on the 3d inst., aged 67, Joseph John. West,
M. 0., formerly of Blackheath.
On the sth inst., at Hampton-court Palace, Mrs. Fitz-
Gerald, aged 83.
On the 6th itht.' at Portsdown-lodge, Cassandra Eliza
Austen, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Francis Austen.
On the 6th inst., Christopher Rawson, Esq., aged 72.
On the 6th inst., at Southampton, Richard Webber, Esq-
son of the late W. Webber, Esq., of Binfield-lodge, Berks. On the 7th inst., Hannah, wife of Mr. J. Atkinson, °J.,
Park-terrace, Highburv, aged 83.

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aliddiesex. Thursday, May 10, 1849.