The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

c At Wheal Mary Emma meeting, held yesterday, the
accounts showed a balance in hand of 3111. 18s. 3d.
At the meeting of the Economic Mining Association,
the accounts showed a clear balance of 12/. 15s. in hand.
During the week sales have been effected in Tremayne,
Penzance Consols, Alfred Consols, West Alfred Consols,
West Wheal Alfred, Spearne Consols, East Wheal
Leisure, East Wheal Reeth, West Providence, West
Frances, Wheal Harriet, Tincroft, Stray Park, Treleigh
Consols, Tregorden, Bodmin Wheal Mary. Trelawny,
East Gunnis Lake, Mary Ann, Bedford United, East
Tamar, South Tamar, Herodsfoot, West Caradon, Devon
and Courtenay, Heiguston Downs, Black Craig, Wheal
Arthur (Calstock).
In Foreign Mines, Cobre, Copiapo, St. John del Rey,
United Mexican, and Mexican and South American have
changed hands.

SPORTING ITEMS.
KING OF TRUMPS.-Mr. John Shepherd,. the trainer,
has purchased Mr. Woffenden's half of King of Trumps
for 500 sovs. We hear that Mr. Shepherd has since re-
fused 1,000 sovs. for him.
Nancy, winner of the Chester Cup, is said to have been
sold to a Mr. Margetson, a publican of Hull, for 1,2001.;
she remains with Job Marson.
The stallion Jerry, by Smoleniko, the property of the
Earl of Glasgow, died at Middleham, on Wednesday
last, aged 31. He won the St. Leger in 1824, and was
the sire of many good horses.
Valentine, by Venison out of Proserpine, and colt by
Old England out of Nitocris, both three years old, have
arrived in India. ,

The chesnut yearling filly by Robert de Gorham out
of Yawn is named Belgravia.
800, by the Ugly Buck out of Wapiti, 3 yrs, is now
called Kakiatos.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
THE COMMAND-IN-CHIEF AT MADRAs.—The ill-
health of Lieutenant-General Sir George Berkeley
having compelled him to resign his command, the office
has been bestowed on Lieutenant-General Sir Richard
Armstrong. This officer was Lieutenant-Colonel of the
26th Cameronians some twenty years ago, and for some
time commanded at Bangalore. He was also through-
out the campaign in Burmah. On his return home, he
was appointed to command a district in North America,
where he rendered good service, and upon relinquishing
the command received a warm expression of thanks from

the municipal authorities of Kingston. Previous to his
proceeding to India, he had seen a considerable amount of
service in Europe. He was in the Peninsula from
August, 1808, to the end of the war in 1814, serving at
Oporto, Busaco, the actions of Pombal and Redinho, the
defence of Alba de Tormes, battles of Vittoria, the
Pyrenees and Toulouse. Sir Richard's India experience
will be of value to himself and the Madras army, but the
infirmities of age have crept upon him, and may inter-
fere with the active discharge of his new duties. The
Duke of Wellington must sadly feel the necessity of a
new Brevet, when called upon to name officers for com-
mands in which rank, as well as physical capability, are
indispensable.
LIE COMMANDER•II4-CHIEF AT SHEERNESS.—We be-
..

Have that the successor to Vice-Admiral the Hon. G.
Elliot, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, will not
be appointed until after thelHouse of Commons' discus-
sion on the new scheme of naval retirement. Vice-
Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy„ C. 8., we hear is still
the favourite.

GOOD .SERVICE PENSIONB.—It is well known that

there are at present in the gift of the First Lord of the
Admiralty two Good Service Pensions—one for an Ad-
miral and another for a Captain. It is believed, however,
that they will not be given away until after the retire-
ment has been considered. It is not:at all unlikely that
they will be absorbed in a now general pension fund, in
which the Royal Marines will most deservedly have
some better share than they hold at present.
SUSPICIOUS CRAFT.—We stated last week that her
Majesty's steam-vessel Lucifer, Lieutenant Commander
Jackson, had been ordered to the coast of Donegal, from
Cork. We understand that this movement is in conse-
quence of the appearance of a very suspicious-looking
craft in that quarter, with long black hull and rigged
like a lugger. After a short time the Lucifer proceeds
to the Isle of Man to protect the fisheries.
FLAGS AT THE MAlN.—There are no less than four
full Admirals in active employment at the present mo-
ment; and in the course of a few days, when the intelli-
gence of the promotions shall have reached the Mediter-
ranean and West Indies, there will be four Admirals'
flags flying at the mainmasts of the respective flag ships.
TROOPS FOR THE CAPE.—It was rumoured at the
Horse Guards yesterday, that the 2d,. Queen's Royal
Regiment, is to embark for the Cape of Good Hope.
SECURING HEAVY GUNS.—In consequence of the
heavy armaments now becoming general in the service,
the Admiralty have ordered that in future all men-of-
war are to be fitted with an eye-bolt between each ring
bolt on the lower and main decks.

LAVA FOR TRA➢IWAYS.—A foreign firm, Messrs. Orsi
and Armani, have proposed to the Government a
metallic lava as a substitute for granite on tramways;
and the Admiralty have ordered its properties to be
tested at Woolwich, and to be reported upon by the
dockyard officers.
bTAFF OF IRELAND.—Major-General His Royal High-
floss the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., has returned to
Dublin from leave of absence in England, end resumed
the command of the district. Major-General Thomas E.
Napier, C. 8., has returned to Limerick from leave of
absence in Dublin, and resumed the command of the
district.

OFFICERS UNDER ORDERS FOR INDIA.
For Bengal-10th Regiment, Captain M'Gregor,
Lieutenant Medhursr, Surgeon Meekler ; 18th, Royal
Irish, Captari Borrow, Lieutenants Martin, Lillie,
Graves, and Piercy, and Ensign Stacpoole ; 22d Regi-
ment, Captain Bamfylde, Lieutenant Hughes, and
Ensign Moore ; 24th Regiment, Captain Macpher-
son ; 29th Regiment, Captain Westropp, Ensigns
Browne and Langford ; 32d Regiment, Ensigns
Ricketts and Foster; 53d Regiment, Captain Ross, Lieu-
tenants Steward and Grubble, and Assistant• Surgeon
Hardie, M.D.; 60th Rifles, Ist Battalion, Cap►ain Butler,
First Lieutenant Holloway, and Second Lieutenant Fox;
61st Regiment, Captain Gordon, Lieutenants Croasdaile,
Brackenbury, Berry, and Twynam, Ensigns Pattoun
and Daly; 70th Regiment, Captain Ryan; 75th Regi-
ment, Captain Hotham; 80th Regiment, Capt. Ormsby,
Lieutenants Duperier and Gray; 87th Fusiliers, Captain
Herring, First Lieutenant King, and Second Lieutenant
Butler; 96th Regiment, Ensign Menzies; 98th Regi-
ment, Lieutenant Browne, Ensigns Meares and Tvvy-
ford; Bth Regiment, Lieutenant Craster for Bombay.
For Madras-25th Regiment, Captain Hamilton,
Lieutenant Manners, and Ensign Holmes; 51st Light
Infantry, Ensigns Morley, Agg, and Mitford; 84th Re-
giment, Captains Cassan and Mitchell; 94th Regiment,
Captain Sykes.
For Bombay-64th Regiment, Ensign Willcocks;
78th Highlanders, Captain Mac Andrew, Lieutenant
Purvis, Ensigns Martin and Berrowes; 83d Regiment,
Captain Austen, Lieutenant Crawford, and Assistant-
surgeon Innes.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY DINNER.
On Saturday last the members of the Royal Academy
of Arts gave their anniversary dinner at their apart-
ments in Trafalgar-square. It was attended by a
numeroua assemblage of guests, among whom were—
His• Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord Chancellor,
the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State
for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the
Secretary-at-War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Speaker, the President of the Board of
Trade, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Com-
missioner of the Land Revenue, the Belgian, Danish,
Portuguese, Sicilian, and Prussian Ministers, the Lord
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Master of the
Rolls, the Lord Chief Baron, the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-Geueral, the Governor of the Bank, the Chair-
man of the East India Company, the Chairman of the
Board of Customs, the Master and Warden of Dulwich
College, the President of the Society of Antiquaries, the
President of the College of Physicians, the President of
the College of Surgeons, the Field Officer-in-Waiting.
Dukes,Wellingtor,Northumberland,Newcastle,Loinster;
Marquises Anglesey, Clan ricarde, Northampton, Douglas,
Hertford; Earls Carlisle, Granville, De Grey, Aberdeen,
Cawdor, Lovelace, Harrowby, Morley; Viscounts Har-
dinga, Canning, Gough; Bishops of London and Ox-
ford; Lords Brougham, Charles Townsend, Ashburton,
Stanley, Sudeley, Northwick, Colborne, Monteagle,
Overstone, Ward, Londesborough; Mr. Justice Talfourd,
Mr. Baron Alderson, Right Hons. W. S. Gladstone,
Sidney Herbert. T. B. Macauley, Hon. Douglas Pennent,
Francis Charteris, Colonel C. B. Phipps; Sirs G. Clerk,
H. Ellis, E. Lytton Bulwer, R. H. Inglis, G.'".Staunton,
the Dean of St. Paul's, Colonel Bawdon; Messrs. 11.
Munro, B. Hawes, J. P. Arden, G. Young,D. Salomons,
T. Baring, C. Hamden Turner, W. Russell, B. Disraeli,
S. Rueber, S. M. Peto, E. Bicknell, S. Cartwright, C. H.
Newdegate, E. L. Betts, C. Macready, C. Dickens, J. G.
Lockhart, F. Howard, W. Ewart, R. S. Holford, T. Jack-
son, J. Davis, J. Bell, H. Colborne, J. Forster, J. H.
Green, &c.The chair was of course occupied by the new Presi-
dent of th©
lonyasol
Royal Academy, Sir CHARLES LOCK EAST-
withll a
E P,
' ho, after the Queen's health had been drunk
retnthusiasm, proposed the health of the
co
Prince
ilroposas follows:—I have now, gentlemen, the
Highness Priecee' :')e
Highness
to
you " The health of his Royal
encouragement of art
mily,,, His Roy'at°
irit., and the rest of the Royal a-
;ghness's liberal and habitual
1
disposition on the part
attributable to a genuine
arises, I venture to say, from
as auxiliaries in the national wor
of
hmaiversally. know n. If that
ilsoßoyal Highness be greatly
love for the fine arts, it also
o E education. Tho
Conviction of their utility
same enlarged view looks to the benefitse to be derived
from the application of art and of seince to manufac-
tures, and Lees in that application the etneuts of social
improvement as well as commercial Advantage The
great scheme for bringing together, the productions
- "
of the world
sindustry, the inteleAting results of
which most of those whom I ha, re the honour to
address have already had the gratifica .tion of inspecting,
owes its success hitherto to the sup': ort which it has
received from his Royal Highness— a support, gentle.
men, which )-.as bon manifested not* in a mere nomi-
nal oraroDage, Dot alone in good wi 11 les, but also in
an active participation in the labour of superintend-
ence. And, with reference to such labour. .3, let me be per-
mitted to add that, in the performance O. official duties
undertaken by him, his Royal Highmes s brings to the
i
authieicts requiring his attention not only knowledge and
inellgence but equanimity and benevalance—qualities
calculated at all times to promote th, e satisfactory dis-
patch of business and to effect the solution of difficulties,
but which, n
acme of his Royal
acquire admirable
influence of
such
much higher value from the
received with much
AveI7RNaCE nrearil example. Highioess's exalted sta-
tion,led to the toast in a A perch which was
enthusiasm. He ssici—Mr. President,
my Lords, and Gentleman, you have
been very kind in