The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

added. About two miles. 5 subs.

'rho Whistler also ran.

About two miles. 4 subs.

Capt. Hunt's Theodine (£4O), 12st 41b .. (Mr. Edwards) 1
Mr. Land's Hassock, 4 yrs (£4O), lOst 131 b (Gammage) 0
-No betting. Theodine came in alone.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Curlew (taker)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 6 agst Abd-el-Kader (taken)
20 to 1 agst Tease (taken)
20 to 1 agst Emigrant (taken)
25 to 1 agst Telegram (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
2i to 1 agst Nucleus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Chore Arnie (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 15 agst Sir William (taken)
DERBY.
1000 to 20 agst Sir 'William (taken)

CARMARTHEN STE.
The OpE

,PLECHASES—TUESDAY,
L Handicap.

Confederate
Little Ugly Monkey
Kibworth Lass

1

2

Kibwort]

3
Lass fell.

ACCEPTANCES FOR T]
TONSHIR]
Yrs st lb
Trumpeter 4 8 7
Blue Jacket
Roman quadle
Schism
Old Robert
Claire 4 7 8
Ariadne 4 7 6
Sam Spode 5 7 2
Royal Sovereign
Prince of Denmark 5 6 13
Precursor
Birmingham 4 6 11
.Nowstead 4 6 9
Timandra
Yellow Rose 4 8 :6
Lovett
Audroyby Stockwell
--As-you-like-it 4 6 5
Regius Professor a 6 5
Minster
b g by Vatican
Moorc
Lady Mary 4 6 4
ock
Fly-by-day
The Dane 4 6 0
Paul Jones
Don Cossack .. 4 5 12
Rat tlobone
Horace

EJE GREAT NORTHAM.
STAKES,

Yrs st lb
The Pitman 3 5 7
General Hess
Man-at-Arms
First Lord 3 5 5
Weatherbound
Simple Simon
Birdcage
Maid of Orleans
Uncle Ned
Yoicke
Lard Milton . 3 5 2
Chance Shot 3 5 2
Professor Dick
Springwell
Narcissus
ch c by Stockwell
—Bribery 3 5 0
Danae
Tommy Noble
c by Tadmor—Main-

stay
Mesmer .. 3 4 10
Forager 3 4 8
ch c by Newcourt
—Treacherous
Philomel
The Monk (h b)
Teal
Ci wellyan

2HE NAVY.

The screw steam ship Nile, 90, Capt. K. Barnard,
was taken out of No. 3 dock at Keyham steam-yard,
Plymouth, on Tuesday, and placed under the sheers
in the basin, for the purpose of receiving the heavy
portion of her main shaft; her topsail yards are
crossed.

The Severn, 51, screw steam-frigate, Les been
undocked at Chatham, and will proceed to Sheer-
ness to be fitted with her machinery.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Vesuvius, 6, Com-
modore Charles Wise, last from the West Coast of
Africa, left Plymouth on Tuesday for Woolwich,
where her crew will be paid off.
Two despatch gunboats, named the Pelican and
the Steady, were launched yesterday from the ship-
building-yard of Messrs. W. C. Miller and Son,
Sefton-street, Liverpool. Their dimensions are :
Length between perpendiculars, 145 feet ; length
for tonnage, 127 feet 10 inches; extreme breadth,
25 feet 4 inches ; breadth moulded, 24 feet 6 inches;
depth of hold, 13 feet; tonnage, 425 tons; draught
of water when fully equipped, 9 feet 3 inches for-
ward, and 11 feet 6 inches aft. The engines of 80-
horse power, will be supplied by Napier, of Glas-
gow. They are to carry each one 95-cwt. pivot-
gun and four 241 b. carronades, and are to be
rigged as three-masted schooners. The launching
was very successfully accomplished, and the
beautiful model of the two vessels were much
admired by professional men who were present.
Messrs. Miller have also on hand two more gun-
boats, to be named the Heron and Dotterel, of
267 tons each, which are intended to be more
heavily armed than those just launched.
Three hundred and fifty service men belonging
to Major Bolton's and Major Lukin's batteries of
the depot brigade Royal Artillery will leave Wool-
wich this morning for the camp, in order to relieve
the barracks at head-quarters. Instructions were
yesterday received at Woolwich for the guidance
of officers and others on recruiting service, stating
that no enlistment of drivers is to take place
until further orders, as the corps already numbers
400 above its prescribed strength. The standard
for the admission of gunners is ordered to be in-
creased to sft. Gin. for growing lads under the age
of 19, and sft. 7in. above that age. The Admiralty
regulations for the augmentation of the navy, by
which an unlimited number of first-class lads has
been hitherto admitted on board the receiving ship
Fisgard, at Woolwich, were yesterday recalled, the
admission of all classes to be reduced to 20 per
week henceforth.

The system of uniting sheets and slabs of iron
andlri one
whichsoli dhma
sa sbse
ut hn
de
eprr o
mos siertnaerlirtnmyi
consideration
War Department and the Atediel
past, is now favourably received, and a marine someds
timeneag "
tion of the
boiler has been completed by Mr. W. Bertram, late
of her Majesty's dockyard, Woolwich. The boiler
is constructed entirely under the patent process of
welding without a single seam or rivet, and is of a
cylindrical shape, 4ft. in diameter, Bft. long, with
an internal tube 2ft. 2in. in diameter, and bell-
mouthed at the front, increasing to t 1) form 3 feet
6 inches at the fire-box, from which small tubes of
11 inch diameter proceed to the end of the boiler.
The boiler has been severely tested and proved to
1801 b. on the square inch. The form was selected,
after mature deliberation, as a test of the possibility
of accomplishing the process, which appears to be
now no longer disputable, and which it is stated is
equally applicable in the construction of heavy
ordnance. A number of beams are in course of con-
struction by the same process at Messrs. Westwood
and Bailey's, Blackwall ; Messrs. Napier's, at Glas-
gow ; and also by a firm at Newcastle, as deck
beams for the steam rams now building for Govern-
ment, and are said to be the largest blocks ever
manufactured.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—George Hunt, second-class
assist-engineer, to the Hogue, for service in the
Harpy; E. T. Read, second-class assist.-engineer,
to the Hogue, for service in the Goshawk ; H. T.
Iles, second-class assist.-engineer, to the Forte ; H.
Knight, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Hawke, for service iu the Magpie; and I. Bolton,
acting third-class assist.-engineer, to the Hogue,
for service in the Harpy.
The first of the series of extensive military ope-
rations which are to be carried out by the troops at
Chatham, under the direction of Major-Gen, Eyre,
commanding that garrison, took place yesterday
morning with complete success. The plan of opera-
tions which it had been previously arranged should
be carried into effect consisted in forming the whole
of the garrison into an army of observation in ad-
vance of a garrison or other strongly fortified posi-
tion menaced by an enemy, so as to cut off the ap-
proach of the opposing force and to repel the ad-
vance, the line of country included in the opera-
tions extending from the river Medway to a point

Major S. De Burgh's Ganyrued• (late Torn Gurney),
aged, 12st 711) (Capt. Vane) 1
Mr. Phillips's Heads or Tails, 6 yrs, 12st (Capt. Townley) 2
Mr. Lane's Johnny Raw, aged, 12st„ „ (Witherington) 3

The betting opened at 5 to 4 on Ganyinede, and closed
at 2 to 1 on Heads or Tails, 6 to 1 ag,st:cach of the ethers.
Won by two lengths ; six lengths between second and
third. Tho Whistler walked in. •
The Slough Handicap Plate of GO sovs. About throe

miles. 18 subs.
Mr. Darling's Nicholas, list 71b . (Eatwell) 1
Capt. Hunt's Slasher, Ost 101 b (Capt. Townley) 2
The following also ran :—Tho Premier, Theodine, Illus-
trator, Itutrord, Acton, Haphazard, and Peru.
Betting-2 to 1 aget Theodine, 3to 1 aget Nicholas, sto
1 each awn, Iluirord and Slather.
The finish was loft to the first two, Nicholas taking the
lead at the last fence, and winning by a longth and a half.
A Selling Steeplechase of 5 sore each, with 20 added.