The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The statement that Mr. Brown, master of the Agin-
court, at Devonport, has been appointed to the Victoria
and Albert royal yacht, is incorrect.
Commodore-Superintendent Henry Eden, of Woolwich
Dockyard, has proceeded on leave of absence, we believe,
to be married to Lady Beresford. Commander James
Wolfe, additional of the Fisgard, has been acting for the
Commodore as senior officer in the ordinary; and Mr.
Bellamy, the master attendant, as acting superintendent
of the dockyard. _ _ _

The Hon-. Armar Lowry Corry, brother of the present
Earl of Belmore, and nephew of the Hon. T. L. Corry,
M.P., late Secretary to the Admiralty, has been ap-
pointed naval cadet to the Fisgard, flagship at Woolwich.
FIFTY' GUN FRIGATES.—We stated some weeks since
that the Admiralty had determined to build two 50-gun
frigates from the design furnished to the board by the
late committee of naval architecture, Messrs. Read
(master shipwright of Sheerness), Chatfield (assistant
at Woolwich), and Creuzo (principal surveyor at
Lloyd's), the constructors of the Cressy, 80, Thetis, 36,
and Espiegle, 12. On the Ist of January, these 50-gun
frigates appeared in the Navy List, one of them as the
" Bacchante, 50, Portsmouth,,building," and the other as
the " St. Fiorenzi, Woolwich, building." The conver-
sions for these frigates are being made, and slips will
very shortly be appropriated for their construction.
MORE CONVICTS IN THE DOCKYARD.—The convict
establishment at Woolwich is likely to be increased to
between 500 and 600 felons; and the Hobe frigate is
ordered to be transferred to the convict department, for
the purpose of accommodating the wretches.
HIGH-PRESSURE MARINE ENGINES IN THE NAVY.-'-'e_
The first high-pressure marine steam-engine, introduced
et de
'into a ship in the navy, is ordered to be fitted to _
• •
Mini, iron screw gun-vessel, at Woolwich,
hingh.piruous.
horse power engines are to be taken out, and
sure engines of 10-horse power are to
is still in the
The Niger screw-sloop, at Woolwich,bn ntroduced.
hands of Messrs. Maudslay, who are adjusting
She She will not be ready before the end vaaslytehe
shipwrights will have something to do with her after the
engineers leave her.
unport with the Niger, to
The Basilisk, paddle-wheel sloop, to be tried with the
Niger, will proceed q u a dr o n tthoe r e.
form a portion of the
latodvpa
The eole, steam
sSohe'will ;lot go to Devonport just
nowcieesvd ssteam
art Sheernesss
com-
plete her refittings.
yet. When the Niger and Basilisk have taken up their
moorings at that port, the squadron of eight vessels will
be made up without the Hecla.
The Juno, 26, Captain Patrick Blake, is ordered to be
paid
off at Chatham, without disturbing her internal
fittings.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.--The First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, the Right lion. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring,
Bart., arrived here this afternoon, at three o'clock, from
his seat near Andover (Stratton-park), in order to be
present at a meeting of his constituents this evening,
prior to his nomination to. morrow. The head-quarters
of Sir Francis are the Fountain Hotel. •
Mr. H. D. P. Cunningham, R.N., who has recently
returned from the Cape of Good Hope as secretary to
Vice-Admiral J. R. Dacres, has just received a medal
from the Society of Arts, for a plan of a carriage for the
conveyance of a life-boat along a coast, and for facili-
tating the lauziching of her, which has been applied by

him to the Life-boat Establishment lately ormed at
Table Bay.
This carriage is of such a peculiar construe ltioll as to
require only eight men to attach the oat to it in 80
seconds, and to travel with so much ease as to enable
the life-boat, with hawsers, and all other portabte means
for rescuing shipwrecked people, to be eiouveyei t to the
most remote parts of Table Bay within whicl i wreaks
usually occur, in the short space of 20 mire ea; and
that, too, over ground which no ordinary carri age could
travel without much difficulty and delay. 1 men it as
remembered bow many fearful instances of ship.' wreck and
loss of life have occurred on the dangerous shores of
this bay, the means thus afforded of so spec !dily con-
veying succour to the spot must be viewed b y ail per.
sons interested in the cause of humanity with , much ga.
tisfaction. A model, from which tke carriage at Cape
Town was constructed, has been brought to Ent ;land by
Mr. Cunningham.
Mr. Cunningham also furnished the Life-beeet Esta-
blishment at Cape Town with an apparatus for enenging
people out of a stranded wreck under circumsts races in
which boats could be of no avail, and which wt's suc-
cessfully tried in Simon's Bay, on which occasion per•
son was landed from the vessel in five minutes after a
communication from the shore had been established by
means of a line. This has also formed a most satisfac.
tory addition to the means now established at Table Bay
for saving life from shipwreck.
The Alban steam-vessel, Master Commander Mrsnser
Bradshaw, sailed this afternoon for the river, taking such
supernumeraries as required a passage to the Eastern
ports. It is understood she is to be paid off forthwith.
Wind N.W. by W., light breezes, and dark cloudy
weather.

PLYmoETTE, FEB 3.—Her Majesty's steamor Rhada,-
manthus, Maer Commander J. Aylen, went up har-
bour yesterday worning with a battalion of Royal Ma-
rines from Waterfora,

Her Majesty's sloop .Heroine, 8, Commander Chatles
Edmunds, is ordered to be ready to sake the African
mails on the Ist of April.
The Drake lighter arrived on Tuesday from Ports-
mouth with stores for the Devonport dockyard. She had
a boisterous passage of 15 days, and is very le3ky.
On RA after the Ist of June next the Government
sailing packet brigs, which convey snails from Fal-
mouth to South America, are to be paid off. The mails
will afterwards be forwarded by contract merch'ant
vessels.

Two bricklayers and fivo stonemasons are to be dis—
pensed with in the dockyard, and that part of the estab-
lishment is to be discontinued; only one of each branch
will be retained. It is currently reported that one as-
sistant, two foremen, three inspectors, and 16 leading
men are to be superannuated before the Ist of April.
Orders were received on Thursday to enter 16 boys as
shipwrights' apprentices; some of •here have elder
brothers in the yard who have recently completed their
indentures, and they have been thus selected to the ex-
clusion of other candidates.

Her Majesty's ship Vanguard, 80, Capt. G. F. Rich,
Failed from Malta on the 17th, for England. She brings
home the crew of the Mutine, and will be paid off at
this port. _

SHIPS IN THE HAnnoun.—The Impregnable, 104„
Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, with the flag of Admiral
Sir if. Gage; Agincourt, 72, Captain Mends, with the•
flag of llear•Admiral Sir John Louis; Caledonia, 120,
Captain T. W. Carter; Apollo, troop-ship; Nautilus,
tender to the Impregnable; Rhadamanthus, steamer;
Crane, Linnet, Diligence, and Drake packets; and Con-
fiance, steam-tug.
Her Majesty's ship, Caledonia, 220, Ceptain Carter,
is to fill up her complement from 350 to her seagoing
complement as soon as the ships in course of dismant-
ling are paid off.
The naval apprentices attached to the San Josef were
paid etc-half of their wages on Wednesday, the other
half being reserved, by order of Captain Sir Thomas
Maitland, to assist in clothing those who may be drafted
into sea-going ships, or paid to their parents at a future
period, as Sir Thomas may be disposed to direct.
Woo',mut, FEB. s.—The Black Prince, 72 guns, has
taken on board her anchors, cables, and other stores,
which were landed at this doekyard when it was con-
templated to fit her as a convict ship, and on Wednesday
next she will be towed to Sheerness and thence to
Chatham.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.

Very few horses were backed for the Chester Cup,
nor did the prices vary to any material extent, except in
the instance of The Tartar and Jock o'Sot, both of whom
sprung several points; The Tartar had the strongest
party. Of the outsiders, Executor and Lugar were most
in favour; they were also in force for the Metropolitan
Handicap. The Flying Dutchman was backed very freely
for the Derby at 13 to 3; the outlay could not have been
much short of 1,000/. Nunnykirk, TJriel, and Elthiron
were also in great favour, and several I,ooo's to 15 and
20 were taken about the colt out of Flambeau's dam and
Indus. Strongbow was quite at a discount. Closing
prices.—

CHELTENHAM STEEPLECHASE.
4 to 1 agst Vengeance
4 to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George
5 to 1 agst Mr. Wallace na Equinox
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
16to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George—t to 50/.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Coghlan na Edward the First—
taken to 501.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Buchanan's Alfred—taken
25 to 1 apt Napoleon
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken
egst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken freely
agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou
agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter
agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa
agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—taken
CHESTER CUP.

10 to 1
12 to 1
12 to 1
15 to 1
16 to 1
17 to 1

17 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—t 18 to 1
25 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joc o'Sot—taken
27 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress— taken
27 to 1 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher
40 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—tkn repeatedly
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Lord Howth's Peep-&-lisy Boy—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair

taken and afterwards offered

500 to 10 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou—taken and
afterwards offered
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Maughan's Rathmines—taken
4to 1 agst Mr. John Day's lot—take 5 to 1
DERBY

13 to 3 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—tlnt
7to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—t freely
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken freely
25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley s btrongbow
30 to I agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout
50 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's c out of Flambeau'
dam—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Colonel Peel's Indus