The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

FIRST CLASS.

Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Belvidere 25 Right Hon. Lord A. Paget.
leo .... 25 H. Gibson, Esq.
Prima Donna
Secret
Fawn 25 J. F. Selby, Esq.

SECOND CLASS.

Ranger .. 12 E. W. Roberts, Esq.
Whisper
The contest will be for three very handsome pieces of
plate, two being for the first and second boats, and the re-
maining one for the winner of the second class. The course
selected fur the contest is from Erith down to the Chapman-
lived and back to Greenwich ; but it will be borne in mind,
that should there not be sufficient wind to enable the yachts
to get down to Chapman-head, the Commodore may in his
discretion shorten the distance. The Meteor has been en-
gaged, and will convey the members of the club and friends
to witness the match.

DEATH or LORD LURGAN.—She death of this
nobleman was currently reported yesterday.
ARRIVAL OF THE PEEISSULAR MAIL.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, Captain J.
Bowen, from the Peninsula, arrived at Southampton at half-
past eleven o'clock yesterday, and landed mails from the fol-
lowing places and dates, in charge of Lieutenant liar, Admi-
ralty agent. Tilt mails were forwarded to London by the
half-past twelve o'clock train. Dates of Sailing:—Gibraltar,
April 15th ; Lisbon, 20th and 21st ; Oporto, 22d ; mid Vigo,
23d. Stations of her Majesty's Ships :—ln the Tagus, the
Hibernia, (flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker), Tra-
falgar, Canopus, Superb, America, Sidon steam frigate,
Plicentx, and Polj pheinus. At Gibraltar, the Virago. At
Oporto, the Gladiator, Jackal, and Nautilus. Stations of
Vessels of War of Foreign States.—ln the Tagus, Cygne
(French brig), and Villa de Bilbao (Spanish frigate). At
'Vigo, on the 11th inst., the Isabella 11. (Spanish frigate).
'lns Fox CLus.—The third meeting of the Fox
Club this year was held on Saturday at Brookes's. The chair
was taken, at half-past seven o'clock, by Earl Fitzwilliatn,
and among the distinguished noblemen and gentlemen pre-
sent were, Lord Zetland, Dr. Lushington, Lord Fingall, the
lion. 0. S. Byng, Lord Milton, Sir R. Heron, Mr. Philips,
the Hon. E. Mostyn, Mr. Denisrn, Lord M. Hill, Mr. R.
Alston, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Fox Mantle, Mr. Rutherford,
Colonel Keppel, Mr. Howard, Colonel Ferguson, ir R. Adair,
I Lord de Manley. Lord James Stuart, Lord trafford, Lord
Leicester, Lord Sudely, Lord Duncan, &c.
CoLmsrow AT SEA.—About 9 P.m. on the 15th in-
stant, eight leagues south of the Lizard, the ship Emma,
Et:zard master, of and from Bremen, bound for New York,
with 186 emigrants, ran into the Dutch schooner Van Speyk,
cVoesffeseeranmdasctoetrt,ono.f arinlide fuserhtmosrtreradlnainois,tfrionmmiSeidirilantaemly,v,w,einth,
collision, sprung
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Emma at
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has since been brought into the pier to repair.—
SCRIP.—West and Tannery, who
have been charged with uttering forged scrip, were brought
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na nd se ido nfo HrHouse
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aeunpiBdrAir. Hobler for the prisoners. Additional evidence was
adduced to prove the identity of West with Perry, the writer
of several letters instructing brokers to sell forged shares.
Mr. Clarkson then brought forward a new case against West.
It was that he had uttered 100 forged shares of the London
and South-Western Railway Company to Messrs. Berkeley
and Co., sharebrokers. Evidence similar to that adduced in
the other case was called, and distinctly showed that West
had issued the forged scrip, and obtained the market price of
the real scrip for them. The Lord Mayor refused to take
bail.

EWS P APER ACTIVITY.-The Rainbow, Captain
Benjamin,ifrom New York, in passing the Irish coast, sent
by a fishing boat a file of the New York Journal of Commerce
into the Cove of Cork, from which the Cork Reporter, in its
paper of Saturday' the 24th, published the American news
brought by her. At the same hour, and on the same day,
all the London Morning Papers, and the Glasgow North
British Mail, published at great length the same news, which
was landed at Liverpool on the previous evening. We may
further observe that the London Morning Papers, contain-
ing the above-mentioned news, were circulating in Birm-
iiignam, Manchester. and Liverpool, as early as the Cork
Repn:ter's account appeared in that city I—Liverpool Euro-
-1 pean Times.
Tile University of Dubin has just conferred the
degrees of S.D. and D.D. on the Rev. Hugh M'Neile,
Canon of Chester and Incumbent of St. Jude's, Liverpool.
It is said that this honour is meant more especially to mark
the approbation of the university of Mr. W.Nefle's last work,
" The Church of Grist and the Churches