The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-25 00:00:00

two miles, will be lengthened, and made exactly two
miles. The great match between Voltigeur and The
Flying Dutchman will consequently be full two miles.
LrennELD RACES.—Lord Ward has accepted the
stewardship of this year's meeting, in conjunction with
Viscount Lewisham. The races aro fixed, as usual, for
the Bth and 9th of September, being th© week inter-
vening between Warwick and Doncaster Races.
Sir W. Milner's The Golden Age, by Th© Era out of
Osberton's dam, 2 yrs, has arrived at H. Hill's, Aske, to
be trained for his engagements.

Lady Godiva has been sold for 200 gs. to the Marquis
of Westminster, as a brood mare.

Deicoon passed through Paris a few days ago en route
for Greece.

Mickleton is struck out of the Newmarket and Metro.
politan Handicaps.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)

RUMOURED INCREASE OF THE LONDON GARRISON.
—We understand that his Grace the Commander-in-
Chief has expressed an opinion that it will be unnecessary
to increase the military strength of London during the
Great Exhibition, beyond removing the battalion of
Guards from Chichester to the vicinity of the metropo-
lis; every prccantion will, however, be taken by the au-
thorities at the Horse Guards on the occasion of such
an excess of visitors ; and buildings have been surveyed
for the accommodation of alditional troops, should their
services be required, in aid of the civil power, which
latter force we understand is to be augmented by 1,000
men.

THE LATE FIELD-MARSHAL GROSVENOII.—It may
not be generally known that the late Field-Marshal used

to tak; pleasure in relating that he commanded the
Guard at the Bank during the dreadful scenes which
took place at the riots in London in 1780—now 71 years
ago.
DIRECTOR-GENERAL OE TUE ARINY MEDICAL DE-
PARTMENT.—We have reason to believe that no final
arrangement has been made with respect to this branch
of th 3 service; but we know that the amalgamation with
that of the Ordnance Medical Staff is under consi-
deration.

THE LATE COURT-MARTIAL.—The Commander-in-
Chief has not yet yet come to any decision on the Ge-
neral Court-Martial recently Bela on Lieutenant Harris,
of the 4th King's Own Regiment, but we regret to say
that an unfavourable result is anticipated.
THE LATE FRACAS AT I)EVONPORT.—We under-
stand that the late fracas which took pace at a ball
recently held at Devonport between a gallant captain
and subaltern of the Royal Marine Corps is likely to be-
come the subject of a court of inquiry.
REDUCTION CF NAVAL CADETS.—It is reported lint
the Admiralty have determined to reduce the number of
entries of Cadets in the Naval Service fJr the year 1851,
from 190 to 80. This is stated to be absolutely necessary,
or the List will iu a few years be again clowded with old
Mate 3.

INCREASE OF THE SQUADRON ON THE COAST OF
ArracA.—lf the monthly increase of the Squadron
on the Coast be any criterion, the Government are
at length in real earnest in their determination to
put down the Slave Trade; for no less than six ves-
sels have been commissioned, and have sailed, or
are now about to be despatched to the Coast, within the
last few weeks—viz., Sampson, 6, bteam frigate, Captain
Jones, with her tender, the Bloodhound steam vi_ssel,
nearly ready; Volcano, 3, steam ves3rl, Commander
Rivers, left, this week; Penguin, 6, Commander Ethe-
ridge, to be ready this month; Spy, 3, brigantine, Limi-
ter ant Commander Hill, to sail in a few days direct to
the Coast Irons Sheerniss; and Athol, store ship.
FL AG CAPTAIN TO COMMODORE MARTIN.—The gallant
Commander-in• Chief of the Western Squadron, who has
been advanced to the privileges of a red pendant, has not
yet nominated his Flag Captain; but it is believed that
Captain S. C. Dacrcs, who now commands the Leander,
50, to which ship Commodore Martin has shifted his
pendant, from the Prince Regent, 90, will have this
nomination; and as soon as the Prince Regent is ready
f,a- re-commissioning will shift over to her with the
Commodore, leaving the command of the Leander to be
filled up by the Admiralty. The Prince Regent in
command of Commander Fend may be expected at Spit-
head the latter end of next week.

IRON OR WOOD FOR SHIPS-OF-WAR.— Several
highly influential men connected with the shipping in-
terest, and more e:pecially with the various extensive
steam companies, have united in a request to tho Admi-
ralty to institute further trials of the comparative
effects of shot on iron and wooden vessels before their
Lordships' final condemnation of iron as a material for
building ships-of-war or steam-packets. They allege
that if wooden ships were subjected to the same
severe trials of shut from such a fixed battery as ou
board her Majesty's ship Excellent, the results would be
as destructive as presented by the iron targets, and hav-
ing urged their Lordships to institute now trials under
various cirmnstances, upon their representations a butt,
to represent the section of both sides of a line-of-battle
ship, is being constructed in Portsmouth Dockyard,
against which percussion shells, by several projectors, are
to be tested.
SICKNESS ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S SHIP AMAZON.
—We are sorry to hear, by a letter dated November 19,
that her Majesty's ship Amazon, Captain Barker, had
no less than 59 cases on her sick list, the fever and ague
having broke out on board just alter the paddy cuttieg.
The Amazon was ordered away on the 20th from Hong-
Kong to Manilla and Singapore, at which division Cap-
tain Barker was to remain as senior officer. Her late
commander Captain E. N. Troubridge, lies buried in
" Happy Valley," Hong-Kong, by the side of his late
Commander-in-Chief, Sir Francis Collier.
A Court of Icquiry is being held at Sheerness on Mr.
Clements, Second Master of the Apollo troop-sip, Com-
mander Rawstorne, on various charges.
The medical officers alluded to last week, as having
resigned their commissims in the Navy, on account of
their appointment to \Vett India colonial service, are
Messrs. Bainbridge and Tucker.
COAST-GUARD PROMOTION.—The promotion of Mate
to the rank of Lieutenant in the Coast Guard this year,
has been that of Mr. Hoblyn, who, it will be remem-
bered, was broke, by sentence of a court-martial, when a
Lieutenant. Mr. Hoblyn was the only Mate in the
Coast-Guard Service.

Their Royal Highnesses the hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess Mechlinburgh-Strelitz left London
this morning at half-past eleven o'clock by express train
on the South-Eastern Railway, for Dover, en route for the
Continent. Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied
to the London-bridge Terminus by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge and their Royal High-
nesses the Duchess Dowager of Cambridge and ,the
Princess Mary.

COLLEGE OF CHRIST CHURCH. BRECON.—
THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S AND ,THE
REV JERMYN PRATT..
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
shall be obliged by your inserting the follow-
ing in your next journal:—
In a letter sent by tin Bishop of St. David's to the
Archbishop of Canterbury (in answer to one written
by Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P. for Marylebone), the
accuracy of the Record of the College of Christ Church
in Brecon, which I had printed in 1846, has been de-
nied. Now, Sir, Ido most unhesitatingly assert that
the information given of the state of the college and
school was (when I visited it in 1846) strictly in accord-
ance with the truth; and, moreover, I do not believe
that any respectable person will be found in Brecon or
its vicinity but who could affirm that this collegiate foun-
dation was, in 1846, as I represented it in my Record.
I am, Sir, &c.,
Campsea Ashe Rectory, JEIRMYN PRATT.
Woodbridge, Jan. 22.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Everard Mylne,
of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 21.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Myers
Wood, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.

BANKRUPTS.
George Robert Galloway, brush manufacturer, St.
John-street, to surrender Jan. 30, at one, and March 6,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basinghall-street; Broughton, Falcon-square.
James Henry Lemere, draper, Maldon, Essex, Feb.;,
at half-past one, and March 8, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham-
bers, Basinghall-street; Ashurst and Son, Old Jewry.
James Moses Bridgland, pianoforte maker, Phoenix-
street and Denmark-street, Soho, Feb. 7, at eleven, and
March 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen-
nell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-
street ; Cox, Pinner's-hall, City.
Samuel Lee, bookseller, Loughborough, Leicestershire,
Feb. 7, at eleven, and March 7, at ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official
assignee, Nottingham; Gregory, Leicester.
James Graham, builder, Manchester, Feb. 4 and 25,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser,
official assignee, Manchester; Faulkner, Manchester.
John Johnson, wine merchant, Coventry, Feb. 6 and
March 6, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court.
Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Browett,
Coventry.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Abbott and W. Abbott, jun.. Bermondsey-street,
patent hat felt manufacturers, Feb. 21, at eleven—J.
Roden, Stamford, Lincolnshire, draper, Feb. 14, at eleven
—L. fudge, Great Barford, Bedfordshire, apothecary,
Feb. 18, at twelve—S. Browning, Farringdon, Berk..
shire, nurseryman, Feb. 18, at half-past twelve—R.
Turner, Worthing, Sussex, draper, Fob. 20, at two.
In the Country.
W. H. Pine, Honiton, Devonshire, mister, Feb. 20,
at one, at the Court, Exeter—S. Shepherd, Collumpton,
Devonshire, merchant, Feb. 20, at one, at the Court,
Exeter—J. Frampton, Came Abbas, Dersetshire, glove
manufacturer, Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—
J. Dominey, Ilmineter, Somersetshire, currier, Feb. 19,
at cloven, at the Court, Exeter--W. Oakes, Oldham,
clock and watchmaker, Feb. lit, at twelve, at the Court,
Manchester—J. H. Veitch, Durham, printer, Feb. 20,
at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Gor.
a -
. Sheffield, steel melter end manufacturer, Feb. 15, at
ey,
Yorkshire,
ten, at the Council Hall,pape r
Sheffield—J.
manufacturer,effleld— F eVr ;5 rd, at,
ten,
E c
at the Council Hall, Sheffield.
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PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
W. Walford, Wolverhampton, common brewer, is. Id.,
any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and three,
at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham.
C. S. Fenwick, Tynemoutb, Northumberland, banker,
15. lOd., on Saturday, Jan. 25, or any following Satur-
day, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of
Mr. Wakley, Newcastle•upon-Tyne.