The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

three yrs old, BEt; fur, 9st; five, 9st 71b; six anti
aged, 9st 121.). Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Vat)
wanner to be sold for 100 soy.., it demanded, Sze., andi
allowances if to be sold for less. Ilestr,, one mile.

Mr. Pedley's Sweetheart, 4 yrF, 7-t 41b (300... 1 w.Q.
Mr. Galpin's Despair, 9st 21b (600 (J. Howell) 2 dr
Mr. Uutton's Nutgirl, 6st 41b (804) (B. Harrison) 3 dr
Betting—First heat-2 to 1 ou Sweetheart, and 5 to,
2 agst Despair.
Won easily by half a length. Sweetheart walked over
for the second heat.
Hunters' Stakes of 50 sous. each, with 20 added for•
horses that have beau regularly hunted during Ow
seasons of 1850 ur 1851. Three yrs old, 9st 511;;
four, lOst 71b; five, list 51b; six tend aged, 12s$..
Mares and geldings allowed 311), and maidens, 514.
Winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Professionals al•.
lowed to ride by carrying 51b extra. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Gregson's Ormsby, 5 yrs, list 71b...(Owner) 1 1.
Mr. Collingwood's -May Queen, 9st 21b (E. Doley) 3 2
Mr. Davis's Gay Lad, 6 yrs, list 71b (Mr. Biviil) 2 dr
Mr. Hutton's Nut-gitl,-3 yrs, 9st 210 ...(Skeene) 4
Betting—First heat-6 to 4on Ormsby. Won by foul•
lengths. Second heat—Any odds on Ormsby. Won its
a canter by ten lengths.
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 revs, each, with 20 added.
Heats, two miles. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Gregson's Orm•by, 5 yrs, list 71b (Owner) 1 1
Mr. Collingwoud's May Queen, 9st 21b (1)01°Y) 3 2
Mr. Davis's Gay Lad 6 yrs, list 61b (Mr. Sevin) 2 dr
Mr. Hutton's Nutgirl, 3 yrs, 9st 21b (Skeene) 4 dlt
Both heats won in a canter.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
7to 2 agst Calculator f 7to 1 agst Nancy (t)
ST. LEGER,

7to 1 egst Aphrodite I 15 to 1 agst Newminstet
CESAREWITCH.

.000 to 20 agst Sunrise
.000 to 15 agst Borneo
000 to 15 agst Dan Tucker

1000 to 15 agst Knight of
Gw.ynne

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
000 to 60 ngst Elizi Middleton.

DERBY, 1852.
to 1 agst Hobby Nobble 12000 to 60 egst Treasurer

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

Captain Thomas Ferris, whose promotion from S
commander (1815) to the reserved half-pay list of:
captains, we announced on Wednesday, has served 17
years on full pay. He entered the navy February
20, 1801, as a boy on board the Edgar, 74, Captain.
Edward Buller, with whom and Captain James.
Wallis, he afterwards served in the Achille, 74, on.
the Channel and Irish stations, latterly as midship-
man, until May, 1802. From the following Sep-
tember until promoted to the rank of lieutenant
October 19, 1807, we find him employed under Si r
Richard John Strachan in the Donegal and Renown,
74's, and the Caesar, 80. He assisted during that
period in the Donegal's capture in 1804, of the Spa—
nish 44-gun frigate Amtitrite, and a ship with fa
cargo on board worth 200,000/., and was present, im
the Cmsar, at the capture, November 4,lBos,ofthes
four line-of-battle ships escaped from Trafalgar, a
also at the destruction, September 14, 1806, off
Cape Henry, of the 74 gun ship Impetueux. Re-
joining, March 8, 1808, the Donegal, then com—
manded by Captain Pulteney Malcolm, Mr. Ferris
escorted, in the following summer, Sir Arthur Wel—
lesley's army from Cork to Portugal ; was present at
the destruction, February 24, 1809, of three French
frigates under the batteries of Sable d'Olonne ;
wit—
nessed the ensuing discomfiture of the French ship—
ping in Aix Roads ; and assisted in an attack mad&
by Captain Charles Grant, of the Diana, on the two
French frigates A:mazone and Eliza, protected by the
fire of several strong batteries, near Cherbourg,
November 15, 1810. After a further servitude of a
few months with Captain Malcolm in the Royal Oak,
74, he was appointed, March 3, 1812, to the Hannibal,
74, Captain Sir Michael Seymour ; and while in that
ship he contributrad to the capture, March 26, 1814,
of La Sultane, of 44 guns and 330 men. On leaving
the Hannibal be became first lieutenant, Sept. 5,
1814, of the Tanais, 38, Captain Joseph James, in
which frigate he served on the Irish and Jamaica
stations until his return home in March, 1816. He
then took up his commission as commander, having
been advanced to that rank on the 20th of September,
1815. With the exception of an appointment in the
coast guard, which he held from July 6, 1830, until
the year 1833, he has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Henry Watson Hall's name having been
placed by mistake on the reserved half-pay list, will
now be transposed back to the active list of Lieute-
nant, R.N. _

GALLANT RESCUE.—" H.M.B. Rolla, Sept. 2.
As the above-named vessel was passing through the
Straits of Dover, on Tuesday, the 26th ult., having
a five-knot breeze, with studding sails slow and aloft,
George Thorn, naval apprentice, fell overboard by ac-
cident, and would certainly have perished, he being
unable to swim, had it not been for the gallant and
courageous conduct of Charles Loxton, sailmaker,
who at the imminent risk of his life (being dressed in
heavy woollen clothes), jumped overboard, and suc-
ceeded in supporting the boy till both were picked up
by the ship's boat. The young man was some time in
the water with the boy on his back, and when picked
up was exhausted, and unable to attend his duty for
several days."—Portsmouth Guardian. [lt is to be
hoped that all the naval apprentices will be speedily
taught to swim. They have an excellent` instructor
at Portsmouth in William Morgan, a naval appren-
tice, who has obtained a silver medal fur his profi-
ciency in the useful and necessary, but much-neg-
lected art of swimming.]
Buzzard, steam-sloop, at Devonport, was taken
out round the Eddystone ou Wednesday to exercise
her machinery.
Defence, old 72, stationary convict in Portsmouth
Harbour, has been cleared of her convicts, brought
alongside the yard jetty, and is being jury-rigged, for
the purpose of being sent to Woolwich. None of her
fittings have been disturbed, as she will be still used
as a convict-ship.
Trafalgar, 120, Captain Greville, and tie Oberon,
steam-packet, in charge of Lieut. Veitch, were at
Gibraltar, from Portsmouth, on the 25th ult. and
were to leave for Malta on the 27th. The Trafalgar
will proceed to join Sir William Parker.
Vesuvius, steam-sloop, has been taken into dock
at Devonport for the purpose of expediting her fittings.
DEVONPORT DOCEITARD.—A survey was held on
Tuesday at the superintendent's office on the arti-
ficers above sixty-five years of age, a large superan-
nuation being about to take place in the dockyard.
It was stated that Captain Lord Edward Russell,
of the Vengeance, 84, had lost 1401. in bank-notes on
Wednesday last on his return from London, but as
he stopped for some considerable time at Brighton,
he was unable to decide whether the money was
stolen at London, Brighton, or Portsmouth. We are
authorised to state that on his Lordship's arrival in
Portsmouth the notes and bills were quite safe, there-
fore, there is no difficulty in deciding that, if stolen,
the robbery must have been committed here.—Parts-
mouth Guardian.
Captain William Henry Anderson Morshead, C.B.
(1842), who has been appointed to command the
Dido, 18, Chatham, entered the navy in 1823, passed
his examination in 1830, and was promoted in 1832.
His succeeding appointments were to St. Vincent,
120 ; Malabar, 74 ; Talavera, 74 ; and Edinburgh,
74 ; September 28, 1837, as senior to the Favourite,
18, Captain Walter Croker, whom he accompanied to
the East Indies ; and June 1, 1838, in a similar capa-
city, to the Hyacinth, 18, Captain William Warren.
On March 13 and 14, 1831, he commanded the boats
of the latter vessel at the capture of the last fort
protecting the approaches to Canton, and also of the
city itself. During the second series of operations
against it he was slightly wounded, and gained the
public mention of Sir Fleming Senbouse. Being
rewarded with the rank of commander June 8,1841,
and appointed 16th of October following
himself by
Co-
lumbine,ol 16, he further distinguished
b
of e
manner in wbich he destroyed a largef numer
in the
fire-
junks intended for the destruction of
March shippinglB42. In the
neighbourhood of Ningpo, .tiabtntascokas
inopethrae
course of the same year be participatedde
upon Chapoo and Woosung, and ,
For these services be was re-
compensedthe Yang-tse-liiang.
mi sio no
oil
in datedthe
early Decemberpart
the companionship of
23, 1842, and the next day
with a postco
the Bath. He paid the Columbine.with
of 1843, and has not
Compton
der Lord William (1842), who
been since employed.
• ted to command the Modest!, 14,
hasC
been
eaaennptpeoriend the navy une, 1831,. passed his ex-
was promoted to the rank of lieu-
tenant Sheerness, is second son of the marquis of Northamp-
ton.
amoia
;tii7ecienmlbBe3r7l;6, 1839; joined a few days after-
wards the Melville, 72, flag-ship, at the Cape of Good
Hope, and then in the East Indies, of Hon. George
Elliott; and, on the 13th of February, 1841, was ap-
pointed to the Wellesley, 72, Commodore Sir James
John Gordon Bremer. The great exertions of his
Lordship when in command, jointly with Acting-
Lieutenants George Campbell Fowler and John
Astle, of the barge and two cutters belonging to the
Wellesley, had the effect on the evening of May 24
following, of preserving that ship, then in the Boca
Tigris, from a most formidable and well-planned
attempt made on the part of the Chinese to destroy
her by means of a flotilla of nearly 20 fire-vessels, the
whole of which, although in many instances chained
in couples, and some even three together, were towed
clear without doing the slightest injury., On Oct.
the
reduction further commanded the Wellesley 's boats at the
1844, Elizabeth, daughter of Rear-Ad *r mi a 1 lion.
reduction of Cbinghae. He insrried, August 21,
George Elliott, C.B.—Herald.
The Centaur steam-
PORTSMOUTLI• WEDNESDATa•
flag of Rear-Admiral W.
frigate, Captain Cannobna's been swung to-day to ad-
justW. Henderson, C
d store ship, Master-Com •
The Hercules troop an
compasses, prior to dropping out to Spithead.
her
mender Fulton, has had bar paying off deferred until
next Tuesday.
spare topmasts. She mans but slowl
The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8.,
is fitting her y,
notwithstandiDg the popularity of her naptetia,