The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-06 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JuNx s.—The Lightning steam-yacht, Mas-
ter Commander Petley, has been placed at the disposal of the
Prince of Egypt during his sojourn at this port. Mr. Petley
was presented to his Highness this morning, at the George
Hotel, by Major Dickson, R.A., appointed Equerry in Wait-
ing to his Royal Highness.
The Comet steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander W.
Pretyman, left last evening for Devonport, with supernume-
raries. She put on board the Canopus, at Spithead, a detach-
ment of marines, which arrived yesterday afternoon, per rail,
from Chatham.

The Polvphemus steam-sloop, Commander M`Cleverty,
left last night for Lisbon with dispatches.
The Eurydice, 26, Captain George Elliott, is progressing
very rapidly in her fittings for sea, and has nearly obtained
her complement. Much jealousy has been exhibited by the
" craft" at Captain Elliott's recommissioning this ship, but
as he did not serve his time out in her by nearly six months,
his re-appointment to her was only a usual thing and a bare
act of justice; but an act of gross injustice both to Captain
Elliott, and the gallant admiral his father, has by the same
board been perpetrated within the last few days, which a
press of other matter has compelled us to defer mentioning
until the present moment. It is well known the Eurydice
and Spartan (now fitting at Devonport), both 26 guns, the
former built on the design of Admiral Elliott, and the latter
by Sir William Symonds, are to compete in sailing, &c.,
when ready. The Eurydice was professedly built to try an
experiment of great importance, viz., if a lighter draught
of water cannot be obtained for ships of war with the same
sailing advantages. Now the Spartan has been newly cop-
pered, not so the Eurydice, although the necessity for it
exists in as great a degree as in the other case. Thus the
Spartan will have a very manifest and important advantage
over her competitor.
Two of Mr. Rolt's excavators, employed in the new steam
basin, having incautiously undermined a considerable body
of earth, it gave way and buried them yesterday afternoon.
A number of men were immediately set to work to dig them
out, but some time elapsed before they could be extricated.
Both were much hurt, but one so seriously that he was taken
to Haslar Hospital. He was reported to-day to be dead.
SHEER NESS, JUNE s.—There are but few arrivals or sail-
ings to report as having occurred during the past week. The
Fearless steamer brought Captain Brandreth, Royal En-
gineers, director of architectural and engineering works, on
a visit to the Dockyard on Tuesday, and returned with him
to Chatham the same evening.
The Polyphemus steam-sloop, Commander James J.
M'Cleverty, arrived from Woolwich on Wednesday, and
having taken on board a few supernumeraries from the flag
ship, sailed the same day for Portsmouth.
The Dido, 20, Captain J. B. Maxwell, progresses favour-
ably with her equipment and manning. She has her top-
masts fitted, the main on a principle of Commander Le-
febvres for trial.

The Boscawen, 70, was towed down from her moorings at
Standgate-creek, on Tuesday, to be re-caulked and painted.
The Havannah, 20, razee, is not to be commissioned at
present. She is having her tops covered to protect them
from the weather, and will be discharged into ordinary, as
an advance ship, in a few days.
The following vessels occupy the Basin :—Howe, 120,
under repair; Conquestador and Worcester, 50-gun frigates,
and Havannab, 20, fitting as advanced ships; and Dido, 20,
fitting for sea.
In Dock—Chichester, 50; Horatio, 44; Dragon steam -
frigate ; and Dart, 8, building.
In Harbour—Ocean, 80, tiag.ship pro tem. ; Raven, 3 ;
African, Wildfire, and Cuckoo steamers.

THE FORTIFICATIONS.-The new works continue to pro-
gress slowly and steadily. The scarp of the battery forming
opposite the Dockyard-gate is now being proceeded with.
The musketry walls connecting it to the old works of Gar-
rison Point on the one hand, and to the line of bastions ex-
tending from the Thames to the Medway on the other, are
well nigh completed. Each wall is upwards of 120 yards in
length, three feet thick, from ten to twelve feet in height,
and has loop-holes for musketry at every three and a half
feet distance. A ditch, fifty feet wide and fifteen feet deep, is
to surround the battery. It is almost formed, and will com-
municate with that from the Medway, which is to be cleared
out and deepened, and the bastions extending along it are to
be heightened with the mud procured by the excavation.
The following guns have been ordered for the new works :
—One 56-pounder, 97 cwt., 11Yeet long; 17 eight-inch guns,
65 cwt. each, 9 feet long ; 28 32-pounders, 56 cwt. each, 9
feet long—total, 58. The 24-pounders will be mounted on
iron carriages, but all the heavier guns on wooden carriages
with traversing platforms.
Sixty-tree guns of a similar description have already been
received, and are to be mounted on the old works surround-
ing the garrison. The alterations and repairs there are pro-
gressing favourably, the pivots and tramways for the traversing
platforms of all the 32-pounders being already laid down ;
the parapet has also been heightened along its whole extent.
One or two companies of artillery are to be in future perma-
nently stationed here, and new and extensive barracks are to
be erected for their accommodation, the present being con-
fined and incapable of accommodating more than 300 men,
which is the average number of troops forming this
garrison.
Captain Alexander, R.E., the active and intelligent
officer under whose superintendence the works have pro-
gressed so far, is ordered to proceed to the Bahamas. He is
to be succeeded by Captain Whitmore from Chatham.
The four company depot of the Ist battalion of the Rifle
Brigade, consisting of Major Robert Walpole, Captains
Norcot and Raynard, Lieutenants Glyn, Stewart, Oxenden,
Brown, Butler, and Churchill, sergeants, corporals, and 209
rank and file, arrived here on Monday from Chatham, and
relieved detachments of the 28th and 78th Regiments, which
returned to Chatham, under Captain Tobin of the 11th Regi-
ment, the same day.

AN IMPUDENT IMPOSTOR.—There is the greatest sen-
sation felt in the neighbourhood of Stroud, and the vil-
lages contiguous, by the appearance of a Mr. Coushman, a
oi-disant " prophet." He professes to be endowed with a
miraculous power of healing" the most extreme cases of
disease, and even such physical ailments that are not classi-
fied in the nomenclature of the faculty; he having for a
period of thirteen years (as he states) prayed without in-
termission for the attainment of such a desideratum. He
has deigned to visit this locality, leaving for a time his
native county, Essex, at the ardent solicitation of certain
aged families in the neighbourhood. He makes no formal
charge, but gives . his patients the strongest intimation
that he cannot subsist without some "pecuniary
assistance," in the performance of his " great mission."
He is about 70 years of age, stands about five feet
eight inches high, is extremely ignorant, especially
of the Scriptures, and though he meets with such
unprecedented success, he is by no means mentally calcu-
lated for an impostor. The number of visitors he re-
ceives of both sexes, of all ages, and of every grade
of society, for physical aid, and the extermination of
constitutional disease, is a fact incredible, and an anomally
of the 19th century. He arrogates (he says) to him-
self "no power," ' but in the performar.ce of his
cases trusts alone to the efficacy of prayer and the
faith of his patients. This impostor is making
harvest out of the hard earnings of the a rich
poorer classes, and
duping thousands of weak-minded and credulous indivi-
duals who suffer their assent to precede their reason ; and it
is devoutly to be 'wished that some influential party would
speedily adopt means to rid the neighbourhood of so dele-
terious a nuisance, for it is needless to add that all who visit
him arc under the impression of their convalescence, while
they eventually find themselves relapsed and duped of their
money. We have heard that "the prophet" has found be-
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ITEMENT. Yesterday
Mr. W. Baker, deputy- coroner, held an inquest at the Three
Cranes, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, on Thomas Midwinter, aged
46, a grocer, &c., in Brick-lane.' It appeared by the evi-
dence that the deceased had been for some years actively
engaged in the parish business, having tilled every office, and
just completed his term of churchward aris_i_i
p. lie was
universally esteemed. The parishioners, to mark their ap-
probation, had subscribed a silver tea-service,
which was to
be presented at a public meeting on Tuesday. evening. At
•
four o'clock in the afternoon, being previously gocd health,
he was suddenly seized with' a fit,
si
me-
dical assistance, died in twenty
said, from congestion of the vessels and ..rof the brain, arriving from. Smith, surgeon,
notwithstanding
minutes,
excitement. The deceased alwaysfobreetrhaeydediedne,vNouesvaetrbie ard
anxiety
for the correct and assiduous discharge of his duties,-
N Natural death, caused by
churchwarden."
said to a friend a inivneurtdelocrt,t7
excitement."
DREADFUL FILM AT A FACTORY.—NORWICH, FRI-
DAY AFTERNOML—EarIy this morning this city was thrown
into consternation by a disastrous fire in the St. James's
Factory, situate in the outskirts. The property is termed
No. 2 of the Norwich Steam Power Company, that company
having within the last few years raised two immense fac-
tories near the city. It appears the alarm was raised at about.
four o'clock, by a boy, who perceived fire and smoke issuing
from the engine-house, which, a large brick double-rocfed
building, was found to be in flames. The result was, that
the engine-house is gutted, and its valuable contents, ma-
chinery, &c., much injured. Departments in the factory were
hired by nearly all the manufacturers of Norwich. Some
600 or 1,000 persons have been temporarily thrown out of
employment ; but the works will soon be set going again.
ROYAL NAVAL ScaooL.—The Directors of the Croy-
don Railway Company have, through their secretary, Mr.
R. S. Young, handsomely granted the use of three acres of
land, contiguous to this Institution at New-cross, for the re..
creation of the pupils.

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SPORTING IN TELLI GENCE.
' (RECEIVED TIS q.
MANCHESTER RACES.—D 2 FRIDAY.'
The.Broughton Stakes, of 15 soya. each, 5 ft, and 30 added.
One mile and three quarters. •
Mr. Cookson's Fair Star, 3 y-rs (T. Williams) 1
Lord Stanley's Tour de Force, 3 yrs
Mr. Osborne's Hopeful, 3 yrs
The Railway Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. One
, . mile and a quarter.
Mr. Meason's Fair Charlotte, Bst llb ... ..... (Whitehouse) 1
Mr. Worthington's Dear Husband, 7st 91b .. •
Philip, Bst 101 b, Barbara Young, 6st 10Ib, and several
others, ran.
Handicap of 3 soya. each and 50 added. One mile and a
quarter.
Mr. Eddison's Little Joint, 5 yrs, Bst 71b -...(Templeman) 1
Mr. Mostyn's Chartist; 3 yrs .
Plate of 504 heats, 2 miles and a distance.
Mr. Dawson's Kiss-me quick, 4 yrs (Winteringham) 00 1 1
Mr. Salvin's Thalia, 3 yrs 1 0 2 2
Mr. Shepherd's .Forest Flower, 4 yrs 0 1 0 3
Mr. Osborne's Beda, 4 yrs
Mr. Walmes;ey's Heir at-Law, 4 yrs
Byrne, the rider of Roderick Dhu in the hurdle race on
Wednesday, died the following day, from the injuries he re-
ceived in his fall.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
ASCOT HEATH, 1846.
Tuzsmtv.—Nominations for her Majesty's Vase :
Romance, 3 yrs Humdrum, 3 yrs
Peri colt, 3 yrs Coranna, aged
Kliondooz, 6 yrs Wolfdog, 4 yrs
Burgundy, 3 yrs Kisheng, 4 yrs
Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs Grimston, 3 yrs
WEDNESDAY.—Weights for the Royal Hunt Cap :
The Cure, 5 yrs. 9st 71b !Advocate geld., 4 yrs, 7st 71b
Evenus, 6 yrs, 9st 51b Spithead, 3 yrs, Ist 51b
Lightning, 5 yrs, Bst 111 b i Colleen Raw n, 4 yrs, 7st 51b
Aristotle, aged, Bst 111 b I Loconcodaon*u4t,ysrs;,r7s,st7sBlt lb
b 8
Antler, 5 yrs, Bst 91b
Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst 71b IRowland Hill, 4 yrs, 7st 31b
The Merry Monarch, 4 yrs,l Gannet, 4 yrs, 7st
Bst 7lb Young Eclipse, 4 yrs, 7st
Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs, Bst 61b B. f. by Revolution, out of her
Ironmaster, 4 yrs, Bst 61b ! Highness, 3 yrs, 7st
Mendicant, 3 yrs, Bst 51b : Saint Demetri, 3 yrs, Est 121 b
The Devil-to-pay,syrs,Bst 51b Sotades, 3 yrs, Est 121 b
Red Robin, 4 yrs, Bst 31b L'Hirondelle c., 3 yrs, Est 121 b
Espoir, 5 yrs, Bst 3lb Snake, 3 yrs, Est 51b
Beaumont, 5 yr.-, 7st 131 b I Nell Cook, 3 yrs, Est 2lb
Javelin, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b 1
Leaconfield,
3 Candle,y r 8
,3 yrs,
Sat
261bst
Falseßeport,
5 yrs, 7st 91b Polka, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
Sir Francis, 4 yrs, Ist 71b
Bourra Tomacha. 6 yrs,7st 91b
Petitioner, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
Queen Pomare, 7st 71b Peasant, 3 yrs, sst 71b
F. by Sir Hercules, T.aglioni, Regalia, 3 • - sst7lb
4 yrs, 7st slb yrs,
FRlDAY.—Weights for the 300 sous. given by the Great
Western Railway Company :
Alarm, 4 yrs, 9st Taglioni filly-, 4 yrs, Est 12Ib
The Baron, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b Master Stepney, 4 yrs, Est 121 b
Mentor, 4 yrs. Bst 101 b Burgundy, 3 y-rs, Est 1011)
Inheritress, 6 yrs, Bst 51b Cocoa Nut, 5 yrs, Est 81b
Antler, 5 yrs, Bst 21b Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs, Gst 71b
Akbar, 5 yrs, Bst Rowland Hill, 4 yrs, Est 616
Lightning, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b Flahoulagh, 4 yrs, est 61b
Pride of Kildare (dead) L'Hirondelle colt, 3 yrs, 6st 41b
1 Pine Apple, 6 yrs, 7st 91b Remedy, 3 yrs, 6st
Est
Lord 5 yrs, 7st Blb Her Highness filly, 3 yrs,
Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, 7st 81b Sotades, 3 yrs, Est
Beaumont, 5 yrs,7st 61b St. Demetri, 3 yrs, Est
Devil-to-Pay, 5 yrs, 7st 61b Draco, 3 yrs, 6st
Rowena, 5 yrs, 7st 51b Lynceus, 3 yrs, Est
Columbus, 4 yrs, 7st 51b Youl.g Eclipse, 4 yrs, sst 121 b
Titmouse, 4 y-rs, 7st 41b Sister to Flambeau, 3yrs, sst4lb
Vol-au-Vent, 5 yrs, Ist 41b The Little Vulgar Boy, 3 yrs,
Ruff, 4 yrs, Ist 41b sst 41b
Javelin, 4 yrs, 7st 31b Polka, 3 yrs, sst 41b
Chertsey, 4 yrs, Ist Geraldine, 3 yrs, sst 21b
Gwalior, 4 yrs, 7st Petitioner, 3 yrs, sst
The Mangler, 4 yrs, ist Curiosity, 3 yrs, sst
Advocate gelding, 4 yrs., ist Peasant, 3 vrs, 4st 131 b
Connaught Ranger, 4 yrs, 7st Sister to Pergularia, 3 yrs,
Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs, 6st 1216 4--,t 121 b
NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER, 1846.
TvEsnay. —Col. Anson's 'ago, Bst 71b, agst Lord Eglin-
toun's Dole, Bst. 21b. A. F. 200, h ft.
WEresasnAy.—Mr. Merton's Peasant, Bst 71b, agst CoL
Anson's Turpin, Bst 41b. D. M. 200, h ft.
FRIDAY.—Mr. Payne's Collingwood, Bst 31b, agst Lord
Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst. R. M. 200, h ft.
HOUGHTON, 1846.
MONDAY.—Lord Glasgow's Phy_salis, Bst 71b, agst Lord
George Bentinck's Ennui, 7st. T.Y.C., 200, hft
FRIDAY.—Lord Eglinton's Sotades, Bst 71b, agst Lord
Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst 21b. A.F., 260,11 ft.
GOODWOOD, 1846.
Nominations fur the Orange Prize:—
Joe Lovell, 5 yrs 'L'Hirondelle colt, 3 yrs
Miss Elis,4
.yrs Footstool, 3 yrs
Rose of Cashmere, 4 yrs Coranna. aged
Clumsy, 4 yrs Valiant, 4 yrs
As-you-like-it, 4 yrs Lothario, 6 yrs
Wolfdog, 4 yrs Red Deer, 5 yrs
Black Strap, 4 yrs Refraction, 4 yrs
Odd Ireland, 4 yrs Alexa, 3 yrs
Burgundy, 3 yrs Sting, 3 yrs
Orlando, 5 yrs Malt, 3 yrs
Grim. m., 4 yrs Humdrum, 3 yrs
The Cure, 5 yrs The Baron, 4 yrs
Wood Pigeon, 4 yrs Peri colt, 3 yrs
Maynuoth, 4 yrs Vol-au- Vent, 5 yrs
Pantasa, 4 yrs Leaconfield, 3 yrs
Regalia, 3 yre - Antler, 5 yrs
Khondooz, 6 yrs Queen of Tyne, aged
La Mlle mai gardee, colt, 3 yrs Mentor, 4 yrs
A-la-mode, 5 yrs Grimston, 3 yrs
Sweetmeat, 4 yrs Jericho, 4 yrs
Burlesque, 3 yrs Alarm, 4 yrs
Brother to Sir Henry, 3 yrs Miss Sarah, 4 yrs h
Flahoulagh, 4 yrs Red Robin, 4 yrs.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM Ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LAUNCH OF TILE EARL OF CARDIGAN'S SPLENDID ISTaw
YACHT, THE ENCHANTRESS.—On Tuesday afternoon, this
beautiful 3 acht, a schooner of 214 tons, was launched from
Mr. Joseph White's yard, in the presence of Lord Wilton,
Spencer de Horsey, Esq., William Lyon, Esq., and several
other members of the R.Y.S. ; she has since been masted,
and is now on the slips being coppered.
WARLlKE.—lletachments from the several depots at Al-
bany Barracks continue to be shipped off to our American
colonies as fast as the men are tit for service.
The Duchess, new yacht, built for the Commodore of the
Royal Victoria Yacht Club, has been hauled upon Mr.
Ratsey's patent slip, to be coppered.