The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-23 00:00:00

Daedalus, 19, Captain Wellesley, was ordered to take
on board twenty months' provisions and stores at Val-
paraiso, and proceed with them to Kotzebue Sound to
supply the Plover and Investigator, in search of Sir
John Franklin. The Amphitrite, 26, Captain Frederick,
it will be recollected, is also on her way from Ports-
mouth with stores for the supply of the Arctic expedition
in Behring's Straits.
Alarm, 26, Captain Ramsay, and Persian, 12, Com-
mander Bullman, left Port Royal March 27, for Havannah
end Bermuda, to meet Sir George Seymour, the new
commander-in-chief.

Alban, steam-tender, Lieut.-Commander Crawford,
left Port Royal March 31 for Greytown and Bermuda.
The Vulcan, formerly the steamer belonging to the
Customs, but subsequently sold to a company who sent
her to California, has been purchased there to run to the
southern ports.
PORTSMOUTH. TUESDAY.—This evening the friends
of Admiral Sir John Ommanney, K.C.B. gave him an
elegant and recherche dinner at Dent's Hotel (the Port-
land), Southsea, in honour of his appointment to the
command in chief at Davenport. Admiral the Hon. Sir
Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at this port,
presided.
Lieutenant-Governor Lord Frederick Fitzelarence,
Lady Capel, and suites, went out to-day in the steam-
vessel Sprightly, Mr. George Allen, Master command-
ing, to inspect the Turkish frigate at Spithead. The
Lieutenant-Governor was saluted with 15 guns on
leaving.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 22. —Captain Smithett, of her
Majesty's steam-packet Vivid, at present fitting at Wool-
wich, received orders yesterday afternoon to leave for
Dover, and proceed in the Garland mail steam-packet,
Lieutenant Commander Wylde, to Ostend, to be in
readiness to embark the Prince Royal of Prussia at this
port for conveyance to England, to be present at the
opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park on the lit
of May next.
The Governolo Sardinian war-steamer, Captain Baron
Di Tholosano, did not leave Woolwich to-day as in-
tended, the officers having received and accepted an jai,
vitation from the officers of the Woolwich Division of
Roy Marines to be present at the ball to be given
mess-room of their barracks, on the evening of Thursday
the 24th inst.
PRESERVED MEAT FOR THE NAVY.
The following circular (No. 76) has just been issued
by the Admiralty:—
"My Lords are pleased to direct that the undermen.
tioned instructions be observed in future, whenever pre-
served meat may be issued on board her Majesty's ships
and vessels:—
" 1. The
canister is to be opened with the lever knife
furnished for the purpose, and is to be cut completely
sou ad the body near the top.
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Great care is to be used that the meat bo not
broken in being taken out of the canisters.

—;.3. It the meat he intended to be eaten cold (it being
already fully cooked), it may at once be turned out whole,
upon the canister being thus opened; but it any
snould be found in snaking it out unbroken, a difficulty
hole must
be stabbed with a knife in the bottom of the canister to
adasit the air, and thus to effect the desired object.
"4. Whpu the mast is intended to be eaten warm, the
canister, after being opened as directed in the first para-
graph, sh,uld stand in 14. copper of boiling water, im-
mersed to about two inches from the top, from 15 to 20
minutes only, in order that the meat may become suf-
ficiently:varm.

5. If
a good soup bo required, it may be obtained
by adu ing to the jelly, thus dissolved with the fat, a
quantity of boiling water, with the necessary seasonings.
" G. Ina hot climate, when it is intended that tne
meat shall be eaten cold, every possible means of cooling
ti i.hoeld be adopted previously to the cloisters being
opened."
CARE OF ORDNANCE STORES IN THE NAVY.—The
following circular has recently been issued by the Ad-
roirdty :—" The attention of my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty having been drawn to the condition in
which the guns and shells have been returned into store
from some of her Majesty's ships their Lordships desire
the captains and commanding officers of her Majesty's
ships and vessels will strictly observe the several direc-
tions contained in the Admiralty printed instructions,
not only with regard to the return of the said stores but
also as to their care and preservation while on board,
for which they will be held responsible; and they are to
cause the.guns, carriages, shells, and shot to be properly
examined on all convenient opportunities, and kept in
good order, taking care that attention is paid to the
under part of the gun covered by the carriage and the
trunnions, so as to ensure their being occasionally
scraped tend cleaned."

DEMANDING TOLL FROM THE POLICE WHEN ON
DUTY.—A case bas recently been decided at the Leigh
petty sessions, which we have been requested to notice as a
caution to toll-collectors. James Richardson, toll-collector,
Pennington-gate, was summoned before James Pownall and
J. S. T. Greene, Esqs., by Mr. Superintendent Fowler, for
demanding and receiving toll from him as he was returning
from the Warrington petty sessions. Mr. Littler appeared
for defendant. Toll was demanded in consequence of Mr.
Fowler having a gentleman in the conveyance with him.
Mr. Fowler quoted the opinion of Sir F. Pollock and several
others, to show that it did not matter how many were
in the conveyance, provided the officer was on duty at the
time. The defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of
la. and costs.
AN INCORRIGIBLE 110UsEBREAKER.—A man, who
bad earned the title from the police of being " a first-rate
cracksman," was tried this week at the Manchester sessions,
and transported for ten years. The man has had an expe-
rience of penal settlements which falls to the lot of but few,
this being his third sentence of transportation. When taken
by the police, he and two companions were starting on a
new expedition, having a carpet bag containing 27 skeleton
keys very ingeniously constructed, and other implements
suggestive of the business on which they were intent. Silk
handkerchiefs, value 31. were found also in the bag, which
he had stolen. Ile had but recently retuxned from trans-
portation.