The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

The Londesborough Cup, value 100 soya, in specie,
added to a Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs each, for three-
yr-olds and 'upwards ; the winner of any handicap 'of
1001 value after the weights are declared to carry 71b,
of two of 100 sovs or ono of 200 sovs 10th extra.; =0
horse to carry morn than 10th extra • the second to
receive 10 soya out of the stakes, and the winner to
pay 15 sovs towards expenses. Ono mile. Weights
to be published on the first Tuesday in April.
Age
Prince of Orange 3 VAddio
Notre Dams 3 Lundyfoot
The Bonnie Morn 4 Vindex •
Grmculus Esuriens
Border Chief
La Vletime
Palmerston
Kestrel
Tile Medway 4 Lord Alfred
The Early Bird . 5 De Ginkel
Baroda
Squire Watt 3 Noisy- - 4
Donna
Bourgeois
Hesse Cassel 5 Marchioness
Mirage
The Assayer
Spindle
Balrownie
Berezina 4 Rhino (h b)
Panmure
Gaudy
Rotherham
Hanover. . . 4 Rylstone 4
Baalbec
Ivan
SECOND DAY.
The Flying Dutchman's Handicap of 100 sovs, added to
a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5 if de-
clared by the first Tuesday in March. The winner of
any handicap value 100 soya after the declaration of
the weights to carry Sib, of two or any handicap value
500/. 91b extra ; no horse to carry more than 91b
extra ; the winner to pay 15 sore towards expenses.
One mile and a half.

Age

Age st lb
Baroda
Rhino (h. b.) 5 6 0
Bold Bucc.:leuch 3 5 13
Mirage
Sugarplum 3 5 11
Zeta
Hospitality
Warlock 3 5 9
Kestrel
Merlin
Panmure
Prince of Orange 3 5 5
'One Act
Sly Fellow 3 5 4
The Courtier 3 5 2
Bobby Taft
Gaudy
Squire Watt 3 5 2
Teddy 3 5 0
Uzella
Ghika 3 5 0
Post Horse
leepting is under Bst 71b, it
\e others in proportion.

Age st lb
Early Bird 5 8 9
King of Trumps a 8 8
Defianca 6 8 0
rumicestone 5 7 13
Rotherham
Eulogie 6 7 9
Ivan
Lady Tateon 4 7 8
The Bonnie Morn 4 7 7
Marchioness
Cr raa culus Esuriens 4 7 5
Border Chief 4 7 2
Gamekeeper
Cock of the North 4 6 12
Vandal
Coroner 3 6 11
The Rajah 4 6 9
Aldford
Sole Star
Fanny Fern
Sir George 4 6 6
Mary Hope
If the highest weight ae
will be raised to that, and 0

THE FOUNDER OF THE ROUSE OF
ROMANOFF.

There is an air of romance in the elevation to the
throne of Muscovy of the first of the reigning dynasty
of Russia, well calculated to favour, in the minds of a
serni•barbarous people, the notion of an extraordinary
destiny. During the reign of Godunoff, the boyar Fedor
Romanoff had been compelled by that Czar to become a
monk, from which position be was raised by Demetrius
to be Archbishop of Kieff. In that capacity he was sent
to the King of Poland to incite the King's son—who,
after the battle of Klushino (1610). and the occupation
of Moscow by the Polish General, had been elected
Czar—to the capital. Sigismund, the King, retained
him as a State prisoner ; and while he remained in
durance he learned that the Russians, disappointed at
Sigismund not sending his son to take possession of
the throne, had announced their allegiance to Prince
Vladislaw, and were proceeding to the election of a
new Czar.
Immediately upon hearing this, the boyar Feder
Romanoff wrote secretly to bis brother-in-law, advising
that in their choice of a new monarch the Mu.covites
should be cautious not to doom, him from a powerful
family, and also to circumsclihe his authority by several
restrictions, borrowed from this Polish Constitution, and
which they had imposed up( n Sigistnund's son, at the
recommendation of tho Polish General. This advice,
however, was disregarded. The Russians proceeded to
the election of a Czar untrammelled by any conditions
whatever, and their choice fell upon Michael Romanoff,
the boyar's own son.
The new Czar was then only sixteen years of age, and
his only claim to the throne was the fast that his father
was cousin to the Czar Fedor Ivanovitcb, whose mother
was Michael's grand-aunt. It was with great reluctance
that he accepted the proffered dignity, and his reluc-
tance was supported by that of his mother, who knew
too well the perils of Czarship to desire such an elevation
for her son. The entreaties, and remonstrances of the
clergy, however, overcame the scruples of both, and the
house of Romanoff was founded. Oddly enough the
reign of the new dynasty was inaugurated by a charac-
teristic which Michael's successors have never lost. One
of his first acts was to make a treaty, and almost imme-
diately afterwards to break it.—Dfornin Advertiser.
_ _

A letter from Malta, of the 19th inst., gives the
following account of naval and military movements
there :
The Apolline bark and Nicholas Harvey brigantine,
from London, on the 18th, laden with Government
stores for Malta.
Her Mnjesty'a steam-transport Industry is loading
stores for Constantinople.
The Swedish corvette Lagerhjelke sailed for Gibraltar
and Sweden on the 19th.
The City of London steam-transport, No. 9, loft for
Genoa on the 13th;
The Rajah screw steam-transport, having in tow the
Neapolitan brig Zeffiro, both laden with mules for the
British Commiesariat, arrrived on the 17th from Genoa.
Her Majesty's steam•frigate Sidon left for the Black
Sea on the 12th.
The Jason, steam-transport, from Constantinople,
brought, for Malta, Commander Ileadley, R.N. ; and
for England, Major Piercey, Land Transport Corps ;
Captain Edwards, 2d Dragoons ; and 55 of the Army
Works Corps.
The Queen Victoria steam-transport, from Constaa-
tinople, has arrived at Malta.
The Earsdon steam-transport arrived on the 14th
from Constantinople with Ordnance stores.
The Golden Fleece steam-transport arrived from Con.
etantinopie on the 15th, bridging, for Malta, Deputy-
Assistant-Commissary-General Montanaro Lieutenant
White, 12th Lancers ; Lieut. Dettenar, 7th Dragoon
Guards ; Capt. Barlow, 14th ; and Mr. Nelson Purdie ;
and for Etigland, Lieut. Devine, Royal Artillery ; Sur-
geons Hadley and Sparrow, Assistant. Surgeon Hadley,
Mr. Jackson, Rev. Mr. Escreit, Quartermaster Norton,
Royal Artillery ; Hospital-Assistant Warwick, attached
. to the Turkish Contingent ; likewise Brevet-Major Mein,
let Royale, and Captain Drought, 51st.
The Eagle steam4ransport arrived from Constanti-
nople on the 16th, and left for England on the 17th.
The Retriever and Killingsworth steam transports
,arrived on the 18th from Constantinople, and left for
England on the same day.
The Saxon steam-transport arrived from Constanti-
nople on the 18th, and left on the same day for England.
The Collingwood sailing transport left for England
on the 14th.
The Pioneer steam-transport, which left Malta on the
sth for Gibraltar, put back on the 15th with damage to
machinery.
Her Majesty's steam-transport Transit left for Eng-
land on the 14th.
The Vigo steamer, in the French transport service,
arrived from London and Gibraltar on the 14th with
stores, and left for Constantinople on the 16th.
The American ship Ticonderoga, in the French trans-
port service, arrived on the 17th from Constantinople,
and left for Havre on the 19th.
Tne Eelaireur, French steam-sloop, arrived from Tri•
poli on the 17th, bringing Mr. Potter, the late Consul
there, with whom she left for Toulon on the same after-
-1.10011.
The City of Baltimore, English steamer, in the French
transport service, arrived from Constantinople on the
19th, having on board 4 officers and 225 non-commis-
sioned officers and privates, with the American ship
Gauntlet in tow, bringing 219 non-commissioned offi-
cers acid privates, bound for Marseilles.
The French postal steamer Jourclain arrived from Con-
stantinople, Smyrna, and Syra on the 10th, bringing 96
French military invalids, and left on the same clay for
Marseilles, conveying likewise Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas
Pasley, lately promoted out of the Agamemnon ship-of-
the-line.
Mg The Sinai, French postal steamer, which arrived from
arseilles on the 9th, brought, among other passengers
fur the East, Major Kinner, Col. Kaminitis, Captain
Cacer, 15 officere, and 9 privates of the Land Transport
Cozpe, and 5 officers and 360 non-commissioned officers
and privates of the French army; and the Hellespont, from
Marseilles, which arrived on the same day, brought
LientaCol. Fitzgerald, Captain and Mrs. Hughes, and
Lieutenant Lloyd; 4th.
The Euxine, from Alexandria, brought for Malta Col.
and Mrs. Bradford, and for outhampton
Parr, Major Butler and family, Captains Barber and
Stanbers, and Lieutenant White.
The Triton steam-packet, from C3rfu, brought Col.
Lord Methuen, of the Royal Wiltshire Militia. She
left with the malls for Corfu and Zante on the 16th, cone
veying Captain Isaacs, of the 82d Regiment.
The Ave, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet, arrived from Southampton and Gibraltar on the
15th, bringing, among other passengers for Malta, Cap-
tain Breton, and for Alexandria Colonels Handscombe
and Jack ; Captains Bull, Harvey, Mason, and Rottou ;
Sir R. D. M' ans' and and family ; std Lieut. Wauchope.
She left Alexandria on the 17th, conveying likewise
Captain and Mra. Hughes, and Assistant-Surgeon
sagiaa tj.
The Hydaspe, French postal steamer, arrived from
Alexandria on the 15th, and left the same day for Mar-
seilles, conveying Lieutenant White, 12th Lancers ;
Lieut. Dettmar, 7th Dragoons ; and Surgeon Hadley.
The Alambra, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-packet, arrived from Marseilles on the 16th with
the overland London mails of the 11th, blinginr, for
Malta, Lieutenant Colonels Sillery, Smith, and Ebring-
ton ; Captains Horton and Osborn ; and for Alexandria
went on in the Ave) Sir B. Maxwell ; Captains
Grainger, Harris, Little, Murray, I.l'Neill, Raines, and
Thomas ; and Lieutenants Boffin. and Hutchingson.
The Philippe Auguste, French postal steamer, arrived
from Marseilles on the 17th, bringing, among other pas-
sengers, Major Hope, Royal Artillery ; Lieutenant
Griffir, Royal Artillery ; Surgeon Deakin, 70th ; and
I Sir W. C. Aledlycott and daughter.
The Alexandre French postal steamer, arrived at the
same time from Marseilles.
" The Orontes screw steamer, from Smyrna and Syra,
left on the 12th for Gibraltar and Liverpool with a ge-
neral cargo, having on board Commander Palasco and
25 seamen of the Greek navy, proceeding to England.
" The Tamaulipas screw steamer, from Alexandria,
bound to Liverpool, which left Malta on the 10th, put
back on the 14th, with damage in her machinery.
" The screw steamer Taarus, from Alexandria, arrived
on the 18th, and left on the same day for Liverpool.
" The Robert Lowe, auxiliary screw steamer, arrived
from London on the 18th, with a general cargo and a
few Government stores, and will leave to-morrow (the
20th) for Constantinople and Balaklava.
" According to instructions from the War Depart-
ment, dated January 30, the undermentioned officers are
appointed visitors to the military prisons at Malta :
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. R. Daizell, Lieutenant-
Colonel Erskine, Lieutenant-Colonel Fraucklyn, and
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. J. Browne.
We have been requested to notice the following
order

" Admiralty Feb. 8.
"I am commanded . • • that it is their
Lordships' desire that officeri of the navy should not
wear beards or moustaches on board her Majesty's ships.

• • • • • •
" • •By the regulations of the service men are expected
to be properly shaved, and it is essential that a good ex-
ample on this point should be set by their officers."
Captain Boyle, First-Lieutenant Hervey, Sec and-
Lieutenants Allnutt and Cooper, two corporals, two
serjeants, and 95 privates (80 of whom are old soldiers),
are ordered to he held in readiness to join her Majesty's
ship Calcutta, 84, Captain King, C. 8., flag-ship for
Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K.C.8., as
part complement. Brevet-Major Wemys, of the artil-
lery companies of the Royal Marines, is ordered to
]sold himself in readiness for general service, and two
detachments, each consisting of one captain, one ser-
geant, two corporals or bomleardiere, and 10 eainners
" ,
.are to be held in readiness,—one to proceed to Ply-
mouth for embarkation, the other to join her Majesty s
ship Rodney, in lieu of an equal number of the light in-
fantry companies of the corps.
Her Majesty's ship Nile, 91, Captain Mundy, arrived
at Portsmouth iyesterday from Plymouth, and joined
the fleet at Spithead.
The Calcutta, 84, has been commissioned at Ply-
mouth by Captain Hall, C. 13., late of the Exmouth, for
the flag of Sis Michael Seymour, the newly-appointed
commander-in chief on the East India station. Com-
mander Rolland, also late of the Exmouth, will follow
his admiral to his present ship. Lieutenant Fowler, an
old and very excellent officer, is to serve in the Cal-
cutta as first lieutenant.
The Harier, 17, Commander Derr man, left Spithead
yesterday to join Captain Watson's advance squadron in
the Downs.
The Arrogant, 47, Captain Lyster, completed the re-
yes
adjustmeay nt,
of her comparses in Portsmouth harbour
terd and will most likely join the fleet at Spithead
to-day.
The Alipore, sailing transport No. 8, arrived at Spit-
head on Sunday evening.
The Jackdaw and Grasshopper gun-boats were put
out of deck yesterday at Portsmouth, and the Cock-
chafer taken in.
The gun-boat Hasty went down to the Arsenal-wharf
at Woolwich yesterday morning from the dockyard, to
receive her ammunition ; and will proceed to Greenhithe
preparatory to joining the squadron at Portsmouth.
The gun-boats Griper, Lieutenant Singer ; the Julia,
Lieutenant Clutterbuck ; and the Herring, Lieutenant
Louis Geneste, commanding, were yesterday morning
taken out of Woolwich basin, and steamed down to the
Arsenal, to be provided with their ammunition, stores,
See. These boats are fully equipped with their coinple-
meet of good and efficient seamen.
The paddle-wheel steamer Dee, Master-Commander
Pullen, arrived at Woolwich yesterdaysmrning for her
, and
lying alongside the Aigle coaling, in pparation
return voyage to Portsmouth with boilers and steam
maohinery.
The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle returned to Wool-
wich yesterday scorning from her experimental cruise,
and has likewise commenced coaling at the hulk.
On Saturday afternoon Messrs. John Scott and Sous,
of Greenock, launched the first of six mortar-vessels
which they are constructing for Government service,
Her materials are the very best which can be procured,
and she measures as follows: —Length, 76 feet ; breadth,
23 feet 6 inches ; depth, 10 feet ; tonnage, 167 register.
That she may safely withstand the concussion of the inser-
ters with which slo will be armed, this boat is built of a
§tx.entli equal to that of a ship of nearly 11000 tons