The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, SLTNDAY. —The Talbot, 26, Captain Sir T.
Thompson, Bart.. arrived this morning from the Pacific sta-
tion. ‘'.he Ipft Valparaiso on the 2,1 of December, at which
time the Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear-Admi-
ral Sir Cr. oo Counnalider:in. Chia; the Constance,
50, Ca'ritala Sir Baldwin Walker; the Carysfort, 26, Captain
Seymour; and the Nereus, coal and store-ship, Master-Com-
mander Bateman, were at anchor there.'

She arrived at Rio on the 11th of January, and left on the
16th for England. leaving the Seagurpacket and Crescent
receiving ship at Rio.
No vessel had recently arrived from the Parana, but the
Racer, 16, Commander Reed, was daily expected when the
Talbot left, and on her arrival the Curagoa, 24, Captain
Broughton, was to sail for England.
The Talbot has experienced very severe weather on her
passage home; she has been beating about since the Ist inst.
The first land she made was, St. Alban's Head. She has
brought home about 100,0001. In dollars, bars, and gold dust,
on merchants' accounts, which will be landed to-morrow
morning and transmitted to the Bank of England by Messrs.
E. and E. Emanuel, of Portsea and Portsmouth, freight
agents and silversmiths to the Queen. Lieutenants Bathurst
and Cartwright, of the Collingwood, and Mr. Plumbly, pay-
master and purser of the Juno, have come home invalided
in the Talbot; also Lieutenant Birtwhistle, of the Spy, pro-
moted. She will come into harbour to-morrow morning,
after being inspected by the Commander-in-Chief..
Captain the Hon. John Gordon, late of the America, having
at the court-martial held upon him, stated he had taken
steps to have Captain Onslow, of the Daphne, put in posses-
sion of that portion of the freight money accruing to him
endit
is transhippedalleged o
"robbed the A America, (Captain Gordon) from the freight taken out of the Daphne,
lea; taondp:atyhe Paul"Dap by
hnehavbriinnggi(ngso
home a freight belonging to the Talbot, we are informed
Captain Sir Thomas Thompson, Bart., means to apply to have
Captain Gordon's bounty paid to him.
A Court of Inquiry, of which Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker,
C. 13., is president., commenced sitting yesterday on board the
Salamander steam-sloop, to investigate the transaction
alluded to briefly in The Sun of Thursday. It is expected
to be a very protracted investigation, the matters for consi-
deration being of a very conflicting and voluminous char-
acter. Captain Hamond was summoned to attend on yester-
day morning at nine o'clock. A court-martial is expected
to be the result, when, perhaps we may be enabled to fur-
nish the particulars.
The Salamander, Acting-Commander Ricketts, came into
harbour yesterday. She was commissioned on the 24th of
June, 1842, since which time she has steamed 35,988 miles,
and sailed 14,484. During the above time she was two years
and one month at the Georgian and Society Islands, nearly
the whole time at anchor. She has gone at times under sail
alone, with a good breNse, ten knots; steaming with favour-
able weather and wind, she made 81%, 9.6, and 10 knots,
which she frequently accomplished in her passage from An-
tigua to Spitheaci.
His Highness the Conde de Montemolin is expected here,
to visit the various objects of interest abounding in this im-
portant arsenal.
The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, Sag of Vice-Admi-
ral Sir Francis Austen, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief on the
West India and North Ainerican station, was on his way
from Antigua to Port Royal. Jamaica, to hold a court-mar•
tial on the 23d ult. The Imaum, 72, Commodore Lambert,

the Electra, 14, Commander Maitland, and the Vesuvius,
team-sloop, Commander Austen, were at Port Royal on the
23d ult. The Hermes, steam-sloop, Commander Car, was, at
the soma date, cruising in the Gulf of Mexico.
Captain Courtenay had taken the command of the Endy-
mion, 44, vice Lambert, who bad accepted the post of second
in command, vice Pring, deceased.
WOOLWICH, MARCH 20.—The • Blenheim, 72 guns, fitted
at Blackwell for a block ship, with a screw propeller, was
towed down the river to-day to be docked at Woolwich ; but
at the time of writing this communication she was partly
aground on the Essex side of the river, in a place a short
distance from Blackwell, known under the designation of
Bugsby's Hole. The cense of the Blenheim grounding was
in endeavouring to avoid a brig which ran across her bows
and became entangled With her, the tide running up strong
at the time. The brig continues across the bows of the
Blenheim, but, as the tide will rise for another hour, the
vessel may be got off with ease, as the Monkey, Govarnment
steamer, and a hired steamer, are assisting to disentangle
the brig, and tow the Blenheim into the middle of the river.
The Mastiff, surveying vessel, Co:nmander Beecher, and
the Woodlark, tender to the Mastiff, are both in the basin at
Woolwich Dockyard, refitting, preparatory to their proceed-
ing during the ensuing season to resume their duties in sur-
veying the coasts of the Orkney Islands.
Brevet-Major Stransham, Lieutenant Fitzgerald. Lieu-
tenant Taylor, three sergeants, four corporals, one drummer,
and sixty privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Ma-
rines, have been placed under orders to embark for service
in the Warspite, 50 guns, commissioned at Chatham. An
equal number of the Chatham division of Marines will come
to Woolwich to do duty in place of those draughted for the
Warspite.
Lieutenant-Colonel Coryton, Royal Marines, left Wool-
wich this morning for Spike Island, near Cork, to take the
command of the Ho) al Marines serving in Ireland.
The Amphion, steam-frigate, in charge of Lientenant•Sib •
bald, is to have a massive piece of brasswork fitted to the
.tern, at the part where the axle of the screw-propeller re-
volves, the great velocity and friction causing that part to
get very hot when the engines are at work ; a similar case
of brass was cast at the foundry at Woolwich for the Blen-
heir', and weighed very nearly 6 tons.
Vessels in the Harbour—William and Mary, yacht, Am-
phion, steam-frigate, North Star, hospital-ship, Black Eagle,
Bloodhound, Rifleman, Sharpshooter, Teaser, and Minx,
steam-vessels, Hebe, receiving-ship, Wye, hospital-ship, and
Benbow, Royal marine depot.
In the Batin—Terrible, steam-frigate, Mastiff, Plover and
Woodlark. surveying-vessels, Cyclops, Niger and Torch,
steam vessels.
In Dock—The Vixen, steam vessel.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHAMPON RACES-MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

The following is a list of the arrivals up to three o'clock :
Susannah, Congress, Nectar, Halo, Doleful, Queen Mary,
King of Morven, Chippeway, Fernhill, Protection, Infringe,
Princess Royal, Icicle, Trojan, Ranthos, Wee Boy, Maid of
Athens, Fort William, Roderick, Glendower, Wolf-dog, Mir-
millo, Euclid colt, Wit's-end, Brother to Stitch, Publican,
The Hind of the Forest, Fugitive, Rotherathorpe, Mother
Carey's Chicken, Moonlight, Old Bromp_ton, Master Downes
The Sheriff, Best Bower, The Magnet, Hydrometer, Comme
it faut, Salopian, Spectator, Lucy Ashton, Woodcraft,
Beverlac, Good Boy, Faithless, besides several others, whose
names we have not been able to ascertain. Upon no pre-
vious occasion have the arrivals been so numerous or the
prospects so brilliant. It is calculated that sixteen or seven-
teen will start for the Handicap, and twelve or fourteen for
the Althorp Stakes.
Entries for the Queen's Plate.—Mr. Fowles's b c Ranthos,
3 yrs—Sir C. Cockrill's ch c The Duke of Richmond, 4 vrs—
Mr. Pettifer's ch c by Epirus, 3 yrs—Mr. Wreford's b g Wits-
end, 4 yrs—Mr. Moore's b h Wolf-dog, 5 yrs—Mr Whiles's
Ur f Infringe, 3 yrs —Lord Waterford's b c Watch-dog, 3 yr&
The races commence each day at half-past one o'clock.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—Frutuer.
NORTRANYTONSHIEE STAKES.-6 to 1 apt Halo (taken).
G to 1 agst Euclid c (taken), 15 to 2 agst Doleful, to 12
agst Magnet (taken), 18 to 1 agst Daughter of the Star
(taken), 16 to 1 apt Watchdog, 25 to 1 agat Princess Alice
(taken), 100 to 5 agat Queen Mary.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.-7 to I apt Liberator.
DERBY.-6 to 1 apt Van Tromp, 10 to 1 apt Planet, 12 a*
tO I agst Epirote, 20 to 1 apt Glentilt, 20 to 1 Liberator
(taken 25 to 1), 25 to 1 apt Conyngham (taken), 1,000 to
20 agat Will-o'-the- Wisp (taken), 1,000 to 25 agst Pavilion
(taken), 1,000 to 20 agst Oxonian (taken).
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-12 to 1 agst Vanish, 18 to
1 agst Pink Bonnet.
I AMESBURY COURSING MEETING—Fa:ray.

The Druid Stakes ;were won by Mr. Parkinson's Sedlitz,
Mr. Gordon's Camlet ran up; thr Deptford Stakes were won
by Mr. R. Bagge's Twilight, Mr. Miller's Mischief ran up;
the Stonehenge Stakes were won by Mr. Parkinson's
Smuggler Bill ; and the Everleigh Stakes by Mr. W.
Etwalt's Wyandotte, Cap ain Squire's Helen ran up for the
latter, and Mr. Buckworth's Baksheesh for the former.
SATINWAY.—The Great Wiltshire Picture—The four
winners above-mentioned ran for the picture, when Twilight
beat Smuggler Bill, and Wyandotte beat Seidlitz—deciding
course, Twilight beat Wyandotte, and won the picture; the
Beacon-hill Stakes were won by Mr. Rake's Royal Consort;
Mr. Vipan's Varna ran up; the Amesbury Stakes were won
by Mr. Etwall's Wanton; Mr. Randall's Lucy Bertram
ran up.