The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-15 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL. FEB. 14.

STOCK ExcliAsais.--The share market has been buoyant
to-day, and a very good business has been transacted, wit),
however, some slight fluctuation in prices, the: leading lines
being chiefly in demand, and particularly London and North-
NVesterns and Midlands. The market at the close became
less active.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 14.
S:rOCH EXCHAPOIL—There has been a good amount of
business done to. day, but the market closes rather uesker.
The transactions were as follow:—Eastern Counties. 7114—
London and North-Western, 1314—Ditto, New Quarters,
6 (C), Quarters, 3,4 p.- Chester: and Birken-
head, 18—Peak Forest, S3—Great Northern, IS 3.16
Leeds Stock, 581,:,—East Lancashire, 13%—Sheflield Stock,
3314—Ditto, 101'. Preference, 11% - .Ditto, New Preference,
Ix? p.—Ditto (No. 1), 125,y-,South-Eastern and Dover, 12i
15-16—Caledonian, I3—Leeds. Fifths, 7 3-16 dis.—South
Staffordshire, 3% n.,---York and North Midland, 24%—Great
licithern (A), 6%—Shropshire. Union, 3 dis,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
' The navy estimates for 1851-2 - will be about 5,700,000/.
The Admiralty packet service has been reduced to about
80,0001. • •
Captain R. Harris (1849), whO wee promoted from the
Ganges, 84, in honour of the Queen's visit to Ireland, has
been selected by Commodore Martin as his flag-captain,
to
re-commission the Prince Regent, 90. A better selection
could not have been made. Her present first lieutenant,
Mr. Barnard, who has jast been promoted, will rejoin her
as the commander. It *as reported at Portsnaonth yester-
day, that a line—of-battle ship or man-of-wa'r brik was passed
off Portland by a steamer, arrived at Portsmouth. This is,
no doubt, the Prince Regent, 90.
Lieutenant James Hosken (1828), who will be recognised
as the popular commander of the Great Westein and Great
Britain, has been appointed to Cothmand. the Banshee, ex-
Holyhead steam-packet, for the mail service in the,Mediter-
ranean.
Lieutenant Charles Wake, 1$4(1), has ,heea appointed to
commission. the Bonetta, 8, At Chatham; The gallant officer
is now servinsai first lieutenant in the Hecate steara•sloop.
Rear-Admiral the. HOn:g. F. F. Berkeley, C.P., M.P.,
accompanied by the Surveyor .of the Navy; Captain Sir B.
Walker, K.C.8., visited Chatham DoCkyard oh Tuesday.
• They' arrived by the halfpast eleven train, and proceeded on
board the Cumberland, T 0; "flag-ship of Sir G. F. eymonr,,
and very minutely examined. every pa s t of the ship, after
-which-targted'thtriscawem‘2o,- in :dock,.fitting. for ,
the ordinary guardakipt 1 9 thal3o-gan lOtip,lll4laing, after
which they_risturned.to town.. „
PRIZE MONEY. FOR. THE ARYNARD.-rAtetiiii. Stilliell
have given notice that ,an account, .of bbanties granted' for
certain pirates who were killed, or captured, and for others
who were engaged but escaped 'from 'two Chinese piratical
vessels -destroyed between the 22d :and 24th of March, 1850,
by,the screw.steam-sloop Reynard, were deposited in the re-
gistry on the 12th instant. '
EFFECTS OF SHOT ON WOOD AND IRON SITIPS.—A butt,
representing a section of a wood-built man-of-war, showing
both sides the ship, was some short time since ordered to be
constructed, and to be placed, at the same distance from the
Excellent as the iron butt that vras'recently practised at
from that ship. About ten' days ago this erection, on account
of the expense, was ordered to be discontinued,' but by a new
order the butt now progresses again. It is for the purpose
of satisfactorily testing the effect of shot, fired at the same
range of direct fire on the different substances wood and iron.
The Excellent had some useful and splendid practice. at the
old Swiftsure, 72, a year or two ago, and after being tho-
roughly riddled by shot and shell, she was sold for 1,5001.,
her value not being deteriorated by her being made a target
of. There are now in Portsmouth harbour many old obso-
lete vessels (that would "never, under any circumstances, be
sent to sea), whose top sides are sufficiently sound for testing
the effect of shot, and whose value, if sold to break lip, r
would not be at all lessened by a few shot holes made through
them. Any one of these would have served the desired pur-
pose, and saved the expense (which is said to be consider-
able) incurred in building this new butt. - This further
testing of the effects of shot on wood vessels has been adopted
to satisfy the iron ship-builders that the former reports have
been correct as to the.awfully destructive effects of shot on
iron vessels.

Express and Ferret brigs, having their repairs completed,
were taken out of Na.: 2.and 3 docks, at Devonport, on
Thursday afternoon.
Horatio screw steam-frigate has been sent from Chatham
to Sheerness, and after her engines have been sufficiently
tried, she will be placed in ordinary.
Captain Yates, of the Britannia, has receivedan additional
five weeks' sick leave. We are sorry to hear the gallant
officer is still seriously ill. •
Commander Crispin has rejoined the" royal yacht, from Ad-
miralty leave.
Pike, old steam-packet, left Devonport on Thursday, in
charge of Mr. Hayle, mate of the Confianee steam-tug, for
Portsmouth, her boilers after frequent patchings, having
been found too defective for service.
Sampson steam•frigate, Captain Jones, and Bloodhound
steam-tender, have had their compasses adjusted at Devon-
port, by Mr. Thompson, Queen's harbour-master, and are now
waiting orders.
The American ship Peter Hatterick, laden with cotton,
which was disabled, and came into Portsmouth Harbour last
week, having been in collision with another vessel off the
Wight, was brought into.the south dock yesterday to have a
leak stopped.
The Cornwall convict ship has anchored at Spithead. She
will complete her number to 300 from the convict ships here,
and proceed with them to Gibraltar.
SOPERANNUATION.—gr, George Clothier, late timber in-
.spector at Chatham, discharged on the Ist f April last, has
been awarded a pension of 2001. per annum.
PORTSMOUTH, FER, 13.—The Arab, 12, Commander
Morris, arrived to-day from the' East India and China sta-
tion, and the Cape of Good Hope. She sailed from the Cape
on the 23d of December, when the Commodore, in the Castor,
36, was off Qnilimane. The Orestes, 14, Commander
Hawker, was on her way to the Mozambique, after refitting
in Simon's Bay. The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Parker,
was cruising in the Mozambique to the northward. The
Hermes and Dee steam,vessels, and the Seringapatam store-
ship, were iuSimon's Bay. The Dart brigantine was in the
M zambique. Lieutenant Stratton, from the Orestes, and
Mr. Masterson, clerk of the Royalist, have come .home pas..
sengers in the Arab, which touched at St. Helena en the 2d
of January where prizes to the steamers Rattler, Cormorant,
and Sharpshooter were awaiting adjudication.
PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The General Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company's paddle-wheel steamer. Queen' Captain
,l'hornas, put in for fuel this morning. She left Constanti-
nople the. 14th of January; Smyrna, the 19th; Malta the
25th ; and Gibraltar, the 6th of February.
Her Majesty's ship Powerful, 84, Captain a e Hon.
Richard H. Dundas, left Gibraltar for England on the sth
inst. The steam-vessel Janus, 2, Lieutenant-Commander
Richard A Powell, was the only man-of-war at the Rock.

The Queen has brought a small mail from Gibraltar; sue
has one passenger, Captain Richards, and a full cargo of
wool, copper, silks, gum, galls, opium, madder-root, oranges,
&c. She had but 2 cwt. of coal left when she entered the
harbour, and will proceed for the Thames this afternoon. •
The Athol troop-ship, 4, Lieutenant-Commander William
A. R. Pearse, which arrived from Portsmouth on Tuesday,
was paid wages on Thursday.
The steam-vessel Pike sailed on Wednesday with super-
numeraries for Portsmouth.
The Pandora, 6, Commander Byron Drury, went from
II amoaze into the Sound on Wednesday.
The frigate Portland, 50, Captain Henry Chads, arrives( at
Rio Janiero in 56 days from this port; officers and crew all
well.
Yesterday, when .eight leagues south-west of the Start-
pcint, the crew of the Plymouth pilot boat No. 18 saw the
wreck of a vessel, bottom up. She was fir-built, about 300
tons, and had painted white ports; about 40 feet of her keel
was perfect, but from the fact of its being broken both at
the stem and stern, it is supposed that the vessel had been
stranded and washed off again from the shore.