The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-14 00:00:00

S Ny JUNE 14, 1848.

THE CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD

R ‘ILWAY.

As our readers are aware, that portion of this line
from Chester to Conway, a distance of 451 miles,
was opened on the Ist instant for passenger triffic,
and since that time four trains have traversed the line
each way daily and two trains each way on Sundays,
pa,sing through the tubular bridge at Conway, to
and from the station under the ancient walls of the
old town. The following is a brief notice of this
very interesting and picturesque line, so far as it is
open, by one who traversed it, with a pleasure and
gratification rarely attainable in railway travelling:—
Leaving the joint station at Chester about two in
the afternoon, we passed through a tunnel, and by a
stone quarry, emerging where a view is had of the
river and the old city walls. The line next skirts
Chester's pretty race course, named " The Roodee,"
and crosses the Dee, by a bridge on the site of the
fatal girder bridge, where several lives were lost last
yese. Here there is a fine view of Chester in the
oackground, and of the river, which has here a long
reach, here and there showing a white or a dark
sail amidst the trees, and the line pursues its way
amidst fertile fields and meadows, after crossing the
turnpike road on the level, continues in embankment
to Queensferry (7 miles from Chester), with its small
slated church, and its masts among the trees. The

traveller has the broad clear stream of the Dee at his
right, occasionally disappearing for a while, as the
railway dips into cutting or diverges from the river,
hut it gradually approaches the Dee as it draws near
Flint, and the noble stream, with its opposite bank,
is always a pleasing part of the panoramic view from
the carriage window. Flint (12f miles from Ches-
ter) has little to attract the eye, save its neat station;
shortly after leaving which a fine view is gained of
the mouth of the Dee, with the Biddeston Hill and
tii{bre Island, with its telegraph, and the open sea
beyond. Soon the neat station at Ilolywell (16i
miles from Chester) was reached, and the planta-
tions near it. Still having a bird's-eye view of

the estuary of the Dee, Mostyn is next approached,
which station (20 miles from Chester) is one
of the neatest on the line, and there is a good
Elizahethan hotel in progress of erection. The
names of all the stations on the line are engraved in
gigantic letters on large slabs of slate, let into the
parapet walls of the stations; and this has a very
good effect, besides which, " he who runs (or rather
steams along) may read." On leaving Mostyn the
view is very refreshing; to the left, an eminence,
crowded with overhanging woods ; to the right, the
broad stream of " the ancient, hallowed Dee ;" and
straight before the traveller, the wide expanse of the
open sea. On its land side the line is flanked for
some distance by a ditch or fosse. Passing some
limekilns by the shore, the traveller gradually gains
a more extensive view of the luxuriant vale of Clwyd;
especially after leaving the Prestatyn station (26+
miles from Chester), the hills to
,the left terminating
in a bold spur of bare rock, beneath whose cliff
fumes the tall chimney of some iron works. Socr
the traveller finds himself with a fine amphitheatre
spread before him, combining the most pic-
turesque features of the far-famed Vale of Clwyd.
To the left lies Rhuddlan, with its ruined castle
and the remains of a house in which Edward I. held
a Parliament in 1283, and passed the statute of
Rhuddlan. Beyond it rises the pretty tower of the

little cathedral of St. Asaph. Before the spectator
are seen the bathing places of Rhyl and Abergele,
and the romantic modern pile of Gwrych Castle, the
residence of Mr. Bamford Lloyd Hesketh. Seaward,
the view is bounded only by the horizon, and the
Little Orme's Head is distinctly visible. Rhyl
(thirty miles from Chester) lies about a field's
breadth nearer the shore than the railway. There is
a good substantial station erected here, and a carriage
way from it to the shore. Crossing the river Clwyd,
or, as it is th,re called, the Vorydd (ford ? or ferry),
by a neat drawbridge, and the road from Rhyl to
Abergele, the line approaches the shore, and skirts it
along the whole of the line of the bay on which
Abergele stands. That village, seen distinctly from
the railway, with its humble whitewashed church, is
about half a mile from the AI ergele station (thirty-
tour miles and a quarter from Chester), which
is placed near the road from Abergele down to
the beach, which the line crosses on the level—
safety gates being placed at the crossing, so as to
prevent any crossing of the line while a train is►
passing.. The line next runs under the grounds
of Gwrych Castle, and the castle is a fine object at
various points, with its numerous outlying towers and
turrets, and battlemented curtAins, crowned by the
overhanging woods, snd below it the luxuriant gar-
dens. It comes upon the eye like a renovated castle
of the olden time, belted round with trees, upon the
brow of a lofty ridge of rocky hills. Plunging for
a while into cutting, the train emerges to treat the
traveller with another pleasant glimpse of the placid
sea, its surface dotted here and there by a distant
sail, or a smoke-vessel ploughing its rapid way, and
leaving its black wake in the atmosphere, as well as
its white one on the sea. Near the termination of
the grounds of Gwyrch, the traveller sees the bold
cliff above the battle famed pass of Cefn-yr-Ogo,
with its lofty cave in the face of the limestone rock,
from the mouth of which extensive sea views are
commanded. Again for a while through deep
cutting, and then through a tunnel, the traveller
emerges into a second and smaller amphitheatre,
that of the pretty little bay of Colwyn ; the vale
dotted with houses, and well-wooded, and here and
there a silvery line marking the flow of some moun-
tain stream. To the right are the shore of the little
bay and the sea; and shortly afterwards the line di-
verges from the sea, passing under the grounds of a
pretty Elizabethan mansion, and it soon afterwards
approaches the greatest work (hitherto) on the line,
the celebrated Conway tubular bridge. But having
already exceeded our limits, we must leave all notice
of that great undertaking to a future occasion, and
only add here, that we know no place within the iron
girdle of our railways which is more worthy of a visit
for the beauty of the surrounding scenery, and for the
deep interest it awakens in the far• gone past, by the
venerable and crumbling walls which encircle and
especially by the frowning towers and battlements
of that once magnificent castle, still stately in its
ruins, which Edward I. reared to repel the insurrec-
tionary struggles of the Llewelyn of that period.
Within an hour and a half of Chester, only half an
hour of Rhyl, and a quarter of an hour of Bangor,
Conway is accessible at small sacrifice of time to any
of those who seek a little recreation, whether residents
of Liverpool, Manchester, Chester, or their neigh-
bourhood; and to visitors to the Welsh coast it forms
an agreeable day's excursion, which few, we think,
will oinit.—Manchester Guardian.

STORNAWAY, JUNE s.—Last week a monster of
the deep about nine feet in length, was taken into the
harbour. The ichthyologists or Stornoway have, conse-
quently, been revising their natural history in order to
oiscover to what genus it belongs, but their opinions are
varied. From its appearance 1A e are led to suppos- that
it b,Lings to that order termed by naturalists " belachi,"
of which th.-, shark and ray-fish are a species. The pro-
jection of the upper jaw beyond the loser, the shve of
the mouth, the position of the teeth, its pectoral fins
and gills, evidently indicate it to be of the shark tribe.—.
, Ross-shire Advertiser.

WORKING OF THE COUNTY:,
COURTS' BILL.
MR. EDITOR,—A very important and interesting paper
has recently been
published, pursuant to an order of th
House of Commons, viz., a return from every Count
Court established throughout England and Wales uthe total number of plaints entered in each Court iron
the time when the Act came into operation up tt
and inclusive of the 30th day of November, 1847, mcdi
fying the number of plaints for sums above 10/., above-51.
and not exceeding 101., and the total number of day,
each Court has sat within the above period, and de
average number of hours comprised in each sitting ; th•
total number of causes tried by each Court during th/
above period ; the gross total amount of monies
received in each court from the time when Xhe
Act came into operation up to the said 30th aa)
of November, distinguishing the amount received
for fees for each officer, and on account ,01
the general fund from the amount received to the credit
of suitors ; the total number of causes tried in each
Court with the assistance of a Jury specifying the 114 m•
bar of such causes in which a verdict has been given it
favour of the party requiring a jury to be summoned.
The object in calling for the above very comprehen4ive
return was to ascertain in the fullest possdbli
manner the nature and extent of the b si.
ness transacted in the various County Co , ts•
Every one who peruses this return will ;be
astonished at the number of plaints that have been en-
tered within a period of little more than twelve months
It affords a proof of a very general disposition on the par
of tradesmen and others to give lithe new system a fai
trial, and while it is satisfactory to observe the vast amotin
recovered in so short a period through the medium of tl*st
C urts, it is much to be regretted that the amount of e'
paid to the different officials in the several cases shoult

greedy exceed the amount which the pu_ klic were led to
pderivould constitute the utmost aiiibirAof costhincurrei
by parties suing in these Courts. The Act had beet i
operation but a very short time before there were vpr
general complaints of the conduct of the officials in x
acting double, and, in some 'instances treble the amo n
of fees to which they were justly . entitled. bi
was done, not by charging higher fees than t iosi
set forth in the schedule to the Act, but ;13j
charging the same fee two or three times over
where the Legislature evidently intended they skink
only be charged once. With the exception of the amours
of fees payable therein, the working of the new Couht3
Courts appear to have given pretty general satisfaction
Of course, among a body of several thousand suitiors
some indie'idual cases of apparent injustice would oceur
against which it was impossible for any Act of Paella
ment,or the rules of any Court, toprovide; but, as a wbble
the system has worked satisfactorily, with the exceptiln
have already stated. I now proceed to give some of tho
details which are contained in the document above ;re
ferred to. I will first take the return from the C(iur

established for the district of Clerkenwell, in which

are, perhaps, a greater number of retail shopkeepers than
in any other psrt of the neighbourhood of the metropolis
of a similar extent. The return from such a disttict
will afford, perhaps, the best means of judging low
far that class of tradesmen have availed themselves
of a comparatively cheap and expeditious mode' of
recovering debts that were due to them, and which Was
established for their particular benefit. It appears that
the total number of plaints entered in that court, within
the period above stated, was 11,949, and by which, id nu
less than 5,025 cases, the amount sought to be recovered
was under 11., being nearly one-halt of the total number.
The cases in which the amount did not exceed 2/. were
2,634, and those which did not exceed 5/. were about
the same in number, while those above 101. amounted to
784. (It will be recollected that 201. is the highest sum
for which proceedings can be taken in these Courts.)
Of the above cases, 7,463 were tried ; the remainder
were settled in some way before the procied-
ings had arrived at that stage ; but the part of the
return, in which the public will take the great-
est interest, is what were the expenses incurred by
these proceedings, and how much of the total amount
claimed was ultimately recovered by the several suitors?
It appears that the total number of cases tried in
which either party required the intervention of a jury
was only 15, and out of that number, in nine instances,
the party requiring the jury obtained a verdict in his
favour. I may here state, that by the 70th section' of
the Act, it is provided, that in all actions where the
amount claimed shall exceed 5/. it shall be lawful for the
plaintiff or defendant to require a jury to be summonad to
trythe -aid action ; but, where the claim is under 5/. it is dis-
cretionary on the part of the judge whether he will grant
an application for a trial by jury; and it is a curious cir-
cumstance that out of 1,776 cases, in which the parties had
a right to have them tried by a jury if they wished it,
only fifteen persons attached so much importance to that
ancient mode of settling the matter, as to incur
the additional expense of some fifteen shillings or six-
teen shillings, which a trial by jury would entail upon
them. Having stated the number of plaints entered, and the
number above a certain sum, I now come to the result,
and I find that the total amount paid into the suitors'
fund (that is recovered by the above-mentioned 13,394
suitors) was 9,0611. 7s. 6d.; and that the fees payable in
the various stages of the proceedings adopted for the re-
covery of that amount were, to the Judges, 1,8051. 7s. 4d.;
to the Clerks, 1,5451. Us. 10d. The clerk's fees amounting
to nearly as much as those payable to the Judges; and the
bailiff's fees to 8151. 75. 7d.; in addition to which there
was 1,241/. 13s. received as fees, but paid afterwards into
the general fund. By way of explanation of this latter
item, it should be stated that the 37th clause of the Act
directs that the fees named in the schedule shall be pay-
able to the judges, clerks, bailiffs, &c., but it contains
also a proviso that it shall be lawful for the Secretary of
State to lessen the amount of the fees to be taken as to
him shall seem fit; and again to increase each fees so that
the scale of fees given in the schedule be not in any case
surpassed, and in every Court in which the fees allowed
to be taken by the Judges,
&e., shall appear to be more
than sufficient, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of
State to order that a certain part only of the fees shall
be paid, the amount of the residue to. be paid to the
treasurer, and form part of the general fund of the
Court. It appears, therefore, that the cost of recovering
9,061/. 7a. 6d. amounted in fees alone, to no less than
4,4071. 19s. 9d., or nearly 10s. in the peund; and this
is exclusive of the attorney's bills, or the fees paid to
barristers if any of those gentry were employed. Now,
I most readily admit that the trial of 7,463 causes, in any of
the Courts at Westminster ball, would havecost consider-
ably mere than 4,407/. 19s. 9d.; and that, thanks to the
manner in which Juries too often suffer themselves to be
humbugged by the gentlemen of the Long Robe, nothing
like so large a proportion of the amounts claimed as
9,061/. 7s. 6d. would ever have been recovered by actions
brought in the superior Courts ; still, as so much has
been said about the cheapness of the New Courts, it
does seem a little surprising that the expenses
of suing in them should amount to 10s. in the
pound on . the sums actually recovered. With
regard to the Clerks' fees, nearly equalling those
payable to the Judges, the fact admits of a
very easy explanation. The Judg I
have already said,
es do not collect their
own fees; the Clerks do; and as
occasionally charge double or treble what they are ac-
tually entitled to. The total amount received in this
court within the period already stated amounted to
13,469/. 7s. 3d., of which upwards of 4,400/. was spent
in law. I now give soother extract from the Return-
viz., that relative to the County Court of the City of
Westminster, in which the greatest number of plaints
were entered, amounting to no less than 13,394, of
which 4,735 were to recover sums amounting to less
than 11. not so great a proportion to the whole as that of
Clerkenwell; but then it should be recollected that the
shopkeepers of Westminster are of a very different class
to those of the latter place; and thus I find that the
plaints to recover more than lee are no less than 1,268
while those in Clerkenwell were only 784. The number
of cases tried was 8,416. The number in which either
party required a jury was 24, and out of that number
ten who so required a jury obtained a verdict in their
favour. The total amount paid into the suitors' fund
was 12,4241. 9s. 10d., and the fees paid for the recovery
thereof amounted to 6,989/. 15s. 10d., being, as in the
case of Clerkenwell, about 10s. in the 1/., and in the
latter case rather above that amount. I will not trouble
your readers with any further details, having given the
returns of the two courts in which the greatest amount
of business has been transacted, and which will be suffi-
cientonly trouble
be
asle establishede:
to enable them to form an opinion as to the work-
ingll,6 of the new measure. I will, thereore,
them with the return of the total nhumvebebreoefn
fefollows:-
plaints, &e.,e.,
entered in the sixty courts which
e a r s a to
under the Act, and which, togetherwithpwardso
ftlloef. other
; 4 parti-
culars
to
the total thereinnom
beenrumo
fer ad,
plaintsap
entered was 429,215, of
which 31,443 were to recover u
recover between 5/. and 10/.;595, to recover between
99
2/. and 51.; 95,518 to recover between 11. and 21.; and
the number brought to recover a sum
thea nottotel number of
was no less than 161,042, and l
sum paid into the
causes tried was 267,445. The tote
suitors' fund, amounted to 345,122/. 3s. 9d., upon the
recovery Jule
recovery of which, the fees to amounted to
82,6521. 14s. sd. 73,7771.
To the clerks, ges
1 Is. 3d. To
the bailiffs, 46,889/ Os. 9d., and to the general fund there
was paid 52,117/• 103• I Id., the gross amount of money
• 3s. 9d.
I s 3d. of which 345.122/.
received being 600,559/. ,
s d
went to the suitors' fun d+ and 255,436/. 17s. 4d.
of the Court, being 89 /. less
to the Judges and officers 686
ears. It •
than the sum received by the cif! is really too
ssed.l
bad, that the fees of a Court, pro e y established for
the more easy recovery of small debts and demands,
should amount to so enormous a sum, and be so greatly
disproportioned to the amount, actually recovered. It
may be said that the suitors are satisfied, otherwise they
would not resort to those Courts; but that is not the case.
Of two evils they choose the least, and prefer those
Courts, dear as they are, to those of Westminster Hall,
where the fees are much higher; and in addition, they
would have to employ barristers, &c.; while the delays
therein amount almost to an absolute denial of justice.
- Weekly Dispatch. CENSORIUS.

JOHN MacnEit,.—A younger brother of John
Mitchel sailed from Liverpool on Saturday, 10 the Bri
tunciia, for New York. He purposes, it wax conjuctured
to proceed to Bermuda, on matters of a family nature'
to his brother. Tne Great Western steam-ship plies rt
•
t4ularly between New York and Bermuda, the voyage
being about seventy hours.
The Earl of Burlington had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday at the Ilome•office.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—At a quarter to one o'clock
this afternoon the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord
Auckland, accompanied by Lord John Russell, Lord
Campbell. Lord St. Germans, Lord Palmerston, and
rJaptains Berkeley and Milne, arrived at the Clarence-
yard by express train from London, on a visit to Sir C.
Napier. On the Admiralty dig being hoisted in their
barge the Victory saluted it with the usual complem,,nt.
The distinguished officers and•statesmeu disembarked at
the new stairs in the dockyard about one o'clock, and
were received by Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Dundas, C.B , M.P., Rear-Admiral Pres-
cott, C. 8., Captain Chads, C. 8., Captain Sir Baldwin
Walker, K.C,B Captain James, H.E., Mr. Fincham, Mr.
Browne,swdeo
opmo
would
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dnrecc.rhri Vepaqil
officers. i
chain
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meesoo Flag-Lieutenants
rptvsawoecdmee
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tidohe,eks
experimentsue
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wholeiroom iron
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by the commissioners appointed to inquire
Wiiwitinlhoagtyio'coahatihn.nd similar structures, proceeded to witness the test-
sstiihvfiiepcis3c.hmtaharadanecter, by Capt. James, R.E., F.R.S., the nature of
we
tcoaunr
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dtooethhyeamrd; afterfirst tghliasutehienigPr
aLtotrhde-
„. Merlin steam-packet, Lieut. J. 0. Bathurst, refitting
1_ for the Mediterranean service in dock; thence inspecting
;. the Ajax steam-guard-ship, the Pembroke, and the
Orestes, in dock; the new basin and foundries, Mr.
Bramble's new dock and slips, the Royal Frederick, and
the Princess Royal, on the slips, the wood mills, and the
.t hydraulic room, where Captain James exhibited to the
[r Premier and Foreign Secrectary a highly interesting
it xperiment of pressure upon iron girders; thence their
e Lordships and their distinguished friends took water at
.5 the King's-stairs, and visited the Excellent, Captain
o Chads, when that officer showed them some experiments
_ in gunnery practice. After inspecting sundry other ob-
it .„jects,..4.c th&tsarty. adiqurned to the Crown
Tavern, Pem ro e-stitYei,"Virelq*Slf"--Cliarles Napier
S. entertained them at a most sumptuous banquet. The
_ entertenment was intended to have been given on board
the St. Vincent, at Spithead, butts gale had been blowing
„ since daylight, and the sea was running so rough as to
deter the uninitiated in nautical life from attempting a
dinner on shipboard. Their Lordship slept at the
George Hotel.
To-morrow, should the weather be fine, their Lord-
ships will visit the squadron at Spithead, and after-
wards Lord Auckland and Captain Milne will return
to the Admiralty. Captain Berkeley proceeds from
Portsmouth on a short visit to Ropley House, Alresford,
Hants.
THE LATE ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN CHADS. Some
misapprehension having existed with regard to the dis-
tressing accident which so recently befel Captain Chad:,
late of the Styx, steam sloop, and which has gone the
round of the papers, it may be as well to state that, in-
stead of the arm being fractured in three places, as was
at first reported, or in two, as was subsequently said,
the actual amount of surgical injury was confined to
fracture of one rib of the right side, with puncture of
the lung, and severe contusion of the right shoulder,
from the effects of which the gallant officer has almost
recovered. The long duration of the stage of collapse
after the occurrence of the accident, and the amount of
internal injury probably inflicted, were the principal
causes however of alarm. It affords us mach pleasure
to be enabled to state that this gallant officer is
now rapidly convalescing, and that at no very distant
period he will again be enabled to serve his country
with the same unimpaired judgment, energy, and ex-
cellent feeling which gained him the esteem and love of
those who have sailed with him, and the approbation of
the Commodore who inspected, and the Admiralty who
so generously and meritedly gave him his promotion.
We have also to correct the statement that Captain
Chads in falling dragged one of the, men with him.
The seaman, Shearman, fell first. Captain Chads en-
deavoured to save himself by springing from the ship's
side in order to clear the boat, touching no one.
Mr. Pincham, master shipwright of Portsmouth Dock-
yard, has arrived in town to attend at Somerset-house,
relative to some contemplated alterations in the consti-
tution of the Board of Surveyor of the Navy, as we un-
derstood.
The Royal Frederick, three-decker, of 110 guns, built
at Portsmouth by the ex Surveyor of the Navy, was
ordered to be detained ou the stocks two or three years
longer ; she is ready for launching when ordered.
The Prince Regent, 90, Captain W. F. Martin, got
under weigh and made sail for Spithead, also, on Mon-
day morning, but in a short time resumed her former
birth, and re-anchored.
The Vindictive, 50, Captain M. Seymour, is fast dis-
mantling at Portsmouth, and will be paid off on Thurs-
day.

The Swift, 6, packet-brig, Lieutenant-Commander
Lory, was paid off at Devonport on Monday morning
and the officers and crew turned over to the Express, 6,
packet-brig.
The Termagant, screw steam-frigate, is ordered to
proceed from Seaward's factory when she has received
her engines, to Sheerness, there to receive the jury gear
of the Rose, where she will be tried at a draft of water
of 14ft. 6m. forward and 17ft. 6 in. abaft.
The Conflict, screw steam-frigate, having had her
stern altered at Wigram's, is ordered to be removed to
Seaward's factory on the 17th, where she will be com-
pleted in her machinery fittings, and will tnen be sent
to Sheerness to be prepared for sea service.
The Sharpshooter steam-vessel, Lieut. J. C. Bailey
commander, arrived this morning from Milford, and came
into the harbour this afternoon.
Her Majesty anl the Court will leave the Clarence-
yard at half-past three o'clock P.M. to-morrow for
London.

The following gallant act has only just come to our
knowledge :—About half-past eight o'clock on the even-
ing of Wednesday last, Master Davidson, a midshipman
of the Hastings, 72, Captain Morgan, flag-ship of Sir
Francis Collier, fell overboard from the hulk of that
ship (the Victorieuse), in this harbour, whe❑ Lieutenant
Everest, of the Hastings, who was officer of the watch at
the time, and who luckily happened to be walking the
deck of the hulk, heard cries for help from the water,
and, without a moment's hesitation, with all his clothes
on, plunged overboard and rescued the poor boy from a
watery grave.

Al 3 ajo SQUADRON.—It is intended there shall be a
sx
is
The
brig
sail. ad
Frolic,rol6 guns, umm r,
built comprising
Captainand just recommissioned at Portsmouth by Com-
squnt h summer,
mander Vansittart; the Helena, 16
guns, built by
five
Hendry,ori
Sir William Symonds, and also just recommissioned
at Portsmouth by Commander Smith; and the Rattler
and Sharpshooter screw sloops, will probably be mem-
bers of this squadron; as also the Pilot, 16 guns, at Ply •
mouth, just commissioned by Commander Lyons, and
the Heynard, 60-horse propeller sloop, about to be put
in commission at Woolwich. The latter vessel is a
model sloop in which the applicability of the screw prin-
ciple is to be severely tested. She is built on designs
furnished by the Navy-office, of 516 tons, 147 feet long,
27 feet 10 inches beam, and 12 feet 6 inches draught ;
to carry an armament of two 32-pounder guns of 56
cwt. each, and six 32-pounders of 25 cwt. each; to stow
three months' provisions, and carry 15 days' fuel, a
complement of 100 men, and engines of 60-horse power
by Rennie. Commander P. Cracroft is the officer
selected to command this vessel; he left the Royal
Naval College, Portsmouth, on Monday morning, for
Deptford (where the vessel at present lies), to superin-
tend her fitments for commission, by order of the Com-
missioners of the Admiralty.

APPOINTMENTS.
Surgeons—C. Coffey (1846) to the Pilot sloop, at
Devonport; J. M`Whinnie (1847) to the Frolic sloop, at
Portsmouth; T. Kincaid (1848) to the Helena sloop, at
Portsmouth; J. C. Buchanan to-the Tweed corvette, at
Devonport.
Chaplain--The Rev. C. Austen, of the Vindictive fri-
gate, dismantling at Portsmouth, to the flag-ship Ocean,
at Sheerness.
Naval Instructor—George Ennis to the Ganges, 84
guns, at the Nore.

Assistant-Surgeons—J. Rose, M.D., to the Frolic;
H. Johnson to the Minos steamer, on the Lakes or
Canada.
Acting Assistant-Surgeons--Robert Irvine to the
Pilot; Sidney Bernard to the Hibernia; George Moore
to the Tweed.
Midshipman—H. C. Farrington to the Ringer brig, at
Chatham.

to the
LettersP i Pilot;
from
Gm. GP
l.ytuoffu
ttho tthhei
s e Frolic.rn n g
Naval Cadets—J. K. Wood, to the Tweed; G. Twin
m
announce the
arrival of the Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, in the
Sound, and of her having carried away her anchor in
bringing up, to the imminent danger of every man on
board. Here again is anoiher instance of the unsafe-
ness of the present established anchor for the navy,
which has scarcely varied in form for centuries. The
equipment of the Bellerophon on the sea service estab-
lishment has only just been completed, and the first
time her anchor is let go it fails, although under the
most favourable circumstances both as regards season
and anchorage. It was bat a short time since that the
Queen, 110, was placed in imminent danger from the
same cause, and from most stations complaints are con-
stantly made of the cumbrous, nay, treacherous, anchors
now supplied to her Majesty's service.
Wind, W. by S., flesh gales and cloudy weather.
ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY.—Four officers, 88 men,
and nine women left head-quarters this morning by the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway for Wool-
wich; and three officers, 90 men, and their baggage
came to head-quarters by the same route this afternoon.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP HASTINGS.—This ship is now
manned at Portsmouth, and will be ready to quit that
station for the East Indies by the beginning of July.
She takes out to,Rio de Janeiro Mr. Southern, as Minis-
ter to the Argentine Confederation, vice Lord Howden,
returned home. Mr. Southern was lately at the Por-
tuguese Court. His retinue and equipages are being
shipped at Portsmouth, and suitable accommodation is

being made for the Minister ou board the Hastings,
but which being only a small class two decker, it is
xpected some of the baggage must bo sent in another
vessel.

WOOLWICH, JUNE 12.—The Firebrand steam-frigate,
Captain James Hope, C. 8., arrived at Woolwich on Fri-
day last from the south-east coast of America, and will
be paid off at this port on Saturday next. The vessel is
in excellent order and the crew must efficient. Her rig-
ging and a considerable portion of her stores have been
taken on shore to remain until she is again ordered fur
enamissim

[PRICE SD.

The Styx steam-vessel was taken into dock to-dayl
have her bottom examined and be refitted for sea.

The Virago steam-sloop is ordered to Sheerness to
morrow, if the tide will suit to get her out of the basin
to be made ready as an advance steam-vessel at that port
The Caradoc, Holyhead mail steam-packet, left Green,
hithe on Friday mo, ning at half-past two o'clock, ant
arrived at Purtsmuuth at halt-past four o'clock Elm.
making the passage, a distance ut 170 miles, in 14 hotir
against a strong head wind, and only three hours of th
tide in her favour.

The officers and part of the crew of the Egyptian
frigate Scharkies are now on board the Nymph
,re-
ceiving-ship, opposite Woolwich Dockyard, and the 're-
mainder will join this evening until their own vessel is
fitted with her engines and screw-propeller at Blackwail.

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ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB
Wind and water, the trust e:ements of the jay jack
tar, were yesterday in full force. There were no mis-
givings as to wnetner the beats would succeed in reach-
tug the distance for want of the propelling powers: no
exclamations, such as " there is hardly enough air to
blow a rushlight out." No expression of hopes "that
the breeze would freshen a little towards flood," but
rather,• on the part of some, who had an interest at
stake on the matter, that some of the light spars of the
beautiful
and that the mischance
of
occasion of the first match of the club,. about a fort-
tb
moment craft would
might
givem mar the wey,
:fforts of hours. On the
fort-
night ago, and perhaps the most tedious on record,
it could be termed for the first three hours but little
else than a drifting match,
bered that the distance was shortenei, and many and
visitor, well calculated ansi it may be reindua;
mournful were the complaints of both visitors and
sailors. They were fortunately spared any occasion ,for
murmurs on that score yesterday, and as it proverbially
falls to our lot never to be satisfied, many of the com-
pany thought the repeated heavy showers anything but
agreeable'
"1""le' of the " turnpike sailors," the
squall' " a leetle too stiff "—stiff enough-they haci it,
and although far from an agreeable day to the ordinary
had been entered to contend :
Lions of the pretty fleet entered to contend.
The following
It was the great we should say; of
the
season.
It
100 being open to all Royal Yacht Clubs, for
Heroine 35 Southamptotno teGsetntehre,dpiw.
a prize of
with half a minute vs., unlimited tonnage, a time race,
the lesser, per law allowed by the greater to
Yacht. Tons. Port.
Owner's Name.
Arrow 84 Ditto --
Ino 25 London Thomas Charnberlayne, Ilsq.
Frolic 12 Ditto Henry Gibson, Esq.
Alfred Esq.
Darin 25 Ditto Cox,
John Wick', E a
Daring 31 Plymouth Gr Bs.
egory. Cook, Esq.
Belvidere 50 London Charles Mare Esq .
Belvidere 26 Ditto RL lion.Lord'A.P--
Our remarks, a fortnight since, with aspect t, Ati,p.
well-known qualities of some of these boaptesct to the
fresh in the recollection of those to whom such must' be
are of interest, and to repeat them would be to unnaetelet' sr
sarily occupy space. The Musquito was the " (1411;
stinger" to be feared. She is of iron, and it will be re-
membered was launched from the firm of the eminent
Mare, at Blackwell, two or three days only before the
last match, for which she was entered, but in which She
did not contend, as her sails were found not to fit her
spars, and she could not be got ready in time. First-
rate old y%:chtsuien spoke in glowing terms of her ap-
pearance, and she was hence, although untried, looked
upon as a most formidable rival. She shared with the
Daring and Heroine the favouritism. The first-named
of these two won the last match in a calm and light
wind; but although a stranger in the Club maul then,
her fame had travelled from Plymouth. She had had,
it was said, her na,,st carried away twice, or some such
thing, which betokens that she was a most powerful
weatherly thing; and of the Heroine, if our memory is
not traitorous, she beat the Secret in the corresponding
race of yesterday (the Stranger's Prize) two years ago,
and that character is enough "to get her a situation"
anywhere.
The City of Canterbury steamer had been chartered
by the Club for the accommodation of members and
their friends, and left London-bridge at ten yesterday
morning, calling in at Blackwell, with an exceeding
respectable, and, considering the unfavourable aspect of
the weather, very large party on board.
The distance to be sailed was from Erith round the
Nore Light and back; and on the arrival of the steamer
at the former, the boats, with the exception of the Frolic
and Belvidere, took their places.
At 24 minutes 30 seconds past twelve the signal was
given, and the whole of the boats canted round at the
same instant, the wind being south-west. The Secret
tot;lt the lead, Ino second, the Daring third, Heroine
fourth, the Musquito fifth. One of the Daring's crew
fell overboard just at the moment of starting, but was
soon picked up. At Greenhithe the Musuuito was
first, Heroine second, Arrow third, Secret fourth, Daring
fifth. The Heroine immediately after passed the Arrow.
At Northfleet Hope the Heroine carried away her top-
sail yards, but rigged afresh arid kept her place. At
Coalhouse Point they were obliged in a heavy squall tr
strike their topsails, and, without any material change,
they arrived at the Nore in the following order:—
The Musquito, 2h. 41m.; Arrow, 2h. 46,n. 155.;
Heroine, 2h., 49w. 301.; Daring, 2h. 53(n. 45a.; Ino,
2h. 57m. 20a; Secret, 2h. 58m.
In Passing Sheerness, on the return up, another heavy
squall- came on, and the boats rode through it feauti-
fully. There was a splendid race shortly afterwards
between the Daring and the Secret, the Inn having got
disabled before her arrival at• Yantlet Creek, in which
the Secret, alter the exhibition of great nautical skill,
passed her antagonist. The Heroine and Arrow here
changed places with each other, and shortly after pass-
ing Coal-house Point the Arrow gave up. The Mus•
quito continued her lead all the way up, and the boats
came in thus:—
Musquito, 7h. 25m. 505.; Heroine, 7h. 44m. 50A.;
Secret, 7h. 54m. 405.; Daring, 7h. 58w. 50s.
The prizes were presented to Mr. Mare, by Lord
Alfred Paget, with an appropriate address, and thi.
vessel then returned to London with her company.
The Dryad, Waterman 10, and a number of yachts
belonging to noblemen and gentlemen accompanied the
match. elrvaalelid,, qualifica-
tions

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
took their usual early walk on Monday morning.
The Royal children rode and walked in the Park
and pleasure grounds.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
in the evening.
The Court will, it is expected, leave Osborne this
(Wednesday) afternoon for town.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager paid a visit to
her Wiyal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, on
Monday, at Cambridge House.
The Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and the Princesses
Anna and Amelia of Saxe Weimar and suite, yester-
day visited the new hall and library and the chapel of
Lincoln's Inn. They were received by Mr. Swans-
ton (Queen's Counsel), the Treasurer, Mr. Parton
Cooper (Queen's Counsel), one of the benchers, and
the Rev. Mr. Anderson, the preacher.
The illustrious visitors added their signatures to
those of other royal and distinguished personages in
the ancient book of the Society.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Monday at
Gloucester House.
Lord John Russell left his residence in Richmond
Park yesterday for Portsmouth. The Eart of Auck-
land and Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for
Portsmouth.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the Mauritius, and also
from the Governor of New South Wales.

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ARISII OF ST. I.IIARY, NEWINGTON.—Last night,
An pursuance of an order of the Court of Queen's Bench.
a vestry meeting of the ratepayers of this parish was
street, Newington,
held, by adjournment, iu the Boys' Sehotlroom, High-
persons to fill the office of governors and guardians o.
for the purpose of electing sixteen.
the poor, under the provisions of the local Act of the 58
Geo. -TH., c. 69, and to declare the final state of the pull
of the ratepayers of the parish, taken in pursuance
such order. Mr. Ambrose Boyson, churchwarden, pre-
sided.
sociation nominated the following persons:—Messrs. C.
At the meeting on Friday the Ratepayers' As-
Pugh, W. Garland, S. Stevens, C. Lane, Jolland, W.
Mills, Swainflon, T. Wills, W. Sentence, Moss, J. May.
G. Garrett, Buckingham, C. Roads, T. Griffin, and J.
Wills; and on a show of hands they were declared
elected; the poll was then demanded by the opponent,
of the association on the part of Messrs. J. Cook, J.
l'hwaites, W. Dover, H. Seward, W. Hero, J. R.
Burton, F. Hardy, H. R. Silvester, J. Brooker,
JeCooper, J. Kingdon, T. R. Mulcock, J. B. Eis-
dll, and T. Jones. At six o'clock last night the
chairman declared the poll finally closed, and shortly
after announced the numbers of the votes polled for each
candidate in each list, viz.:—The Ratepayers' Associa-
tion List—Griffin, 1,593; Sentence, 1,589; Pugh, J. Wills, 1,165; Lane, 1,153; Garland, 1.122; Stevens,
1,098 1,194;
1,117; Swainson, 1,112; T. Wills, 1,099; Jolland,
; May, 1,091; Garrett, 1,084; Buckingham, 1,084;
Roads, 1,084; May, 1,073; and Mills, 1,067. The
largest number polled iu the opposing list being 606,
lowest majority
the chairman declared those gentlemen duly elected, the
being 461.
THE BRIGHTON STEAM-BOAT QUESTION.—The
petithn of Mr. Hewitt Davis and a vast body of share-
holders against this scheme, and in opposition to the fur-
ther expenditure of capital, has been presented to the
House of Lords by Mr. C. Nash, the Parliamentary
agent. Petitions of the South Wales Company shai °-
holders have also been presented, calling for an investi-.
gation. Also petitions of shareholders and others of
the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Di;blin line
against the Bill now pending, and praying
quiry, have been presented by Mr. Nash, agent to the
oppo,ition.
Riotous Mons.—It is not generally known that
for an in-
when the police are assaulted by riotous mobs, the of-
fenders, on being identified, are liable, if sent for trial, to
seven years' transportation.