The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-05 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's sloop Fantoma, 14, Commander J. H.
Gannys, arrived at Spithead yesterday evening from the
Australian station. .3he sailed from Port-Philip on the
4th Fab., and Rio on the 10th April. She left her Ma-
jesty's ship Electra at Port-Philip. The Fautome's passage
has been a very long one. She has brought no news, but
20,000 oz. of gold on freight, and Lieut. Moller, of the 46th
Regiment. She signalled the barque Berkshire on the
26th ult, off the Western Islands.

Her Majesty's ship Cossack, 20, Capt. Fanshawe, is
ordered forthwith from Spithead to Halifax.
Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, Capt. W. H. Hall,
C. 8., was paid off, all standing. yesterday, at Portsmouth,
and will be recommissioned this morning by Captain the
Hon. F. T. Pelham, C.B. (late Commodore and Captain of
the Fleet), as the depot ship of the steam fleet in reserve at
that port.
Her Majesty's ship Dauntless, 21, Capt. Ryder,. was
taken into the steam basin yesterday at Portsmouth to re-
ceive new boilers, &c.

The steam tralsoort Tynemouth left Spithead on Tues-
day night for the Thames, to disembark the Army Works
C)rps sho brought home from the East.
Her Majesty's steam despatch gun-vessel Intrepid, R.
Commander Wood, is ordered from Portsmouth to Fal-
mouth.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Vivid, Master Commander
W. H. Allen, left Portsmouth for Woolwich yesterday.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Medea, 6, Commander Peirse,
has gone into Portsmouth harbour to be paid off.
The crew of the screw steam-ship Edinburgh, 60, Capt.
Richard S. Hewlett, are ordered to be paid off on Tuesday,
the 10th inst. She will be recommissioned as a gunnery
ship at that port.
The crew of the pan'dlewheel steam-ship Heels., 6, Com-
mander Aplin, bent sails on Tuesday, and she steamed
from Hamoaz) into Plymouth Sound.
The crow of the surveyin", ship Pandora, 4, Commander
Byron Drury, are ordered to be paid off at Plymouth this
day (Thursday).
The screw steam-transport Australia, Capt. Burn, from
Portsmouth, touched at Plymoutflou Tuesday morning and
s ailed in the afternoon for the Ceimea.

The war department of Woolwich Aseenal is engaged in
forwarding 65 tons of shell, to be shipped on board the El-
lenborough in the London Docks, bound for Sydney.
The steam-transport Chester, No. 182, arrived at Wool-
wich yesterday morning from the East, last from Spithead
with Ordnance stores, and was-ordered to enter the Vic-
toria Docks to discharge.
The Calypso, 18, has been taken into dock at Chatham
for the purpose of being b: ought forward for sea.
The following circular having reference to the service of
officers, has been forwarded to commanding officers of de-
pots and regiments :
" Commanding officers are hereby informed that the
statements of the services of officers, according to the
printed form sent to regiments and depots, with the circu-
lar memorandum of the 19th of September last, are to be
completed immediately to the 31st of March, 1856, and for-
warded to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards. Those
actions only which have been noticed in general despatches
are to be inserted in the records of such officers as may
have been engaged therein.
" By command.

G. W&TIIMIU.LL, A.G.",

A SAD CASE.--A BEAUTIFUL FEMALE
SLAVE.

Same years ago a married man removed from Virginia
to Missouri, taking with him a young female slave, a
mulatto, of remarkable beauty and great intelligence,
who had been born in his family. Though a married
man, be became the father of a child by this young wo-
man. Having been unsuccessful in his business in Mis-
souri, he resolved to remove to one of the Eastern States,
and as the women in question would have become free by
her removal, and as his wife would, under no circumstances,
consent to his bringing the girl with him, he gave her
free papers for herself and his child, and left for the East.
These papers were afterwards found to be invalid, not hav-
ing been recorded, but she remained unmolested by her mas-
ter for six years, during whichtime she married and became
a member of a religious communion in Missouri. By this
marriage she had another child, but was left a widow,
after which she supported herself and her two children
by her labour, maintaining a high character for perse
vering industry, probity, and every womanly virtue.
About three years since her former master returned to
the place of her residence on business a errand, and met
her accidentally in the street. Upon conversing with
him, she asked him to make her free papers valid by
having them properly recorded, which he promised to
do if she would bring them to his lodgings the next day.
She brought the papers with her on the following day,
when, after some conversation with her, her master
proposed that she should resume her former illicit rela-
tions with him. She in vain urged that her religious
principles, and the life that she had led since her former
connexion with him, rendered it impossible for her thus
to degrade herself. He persisted, and finding her im-
movable, he became furious, tore up the papers she had
placed in his hands, and the next day put her in the slave
pen for public sale. Some persons who knew her, hear-
ing of her situation, interposed in her behalf, and one of
them, a lawyer, had knowledge of a fact which he
thought might be the means of securing her freedom.
Her master bad left the State in debt, and, after her de-
parture, one of his creditors attached the girl as his pro-
perty, but was induced to relinquish the attachment on
receiving a letter from her master, deearing that she
NM free. This letter was obtained and a suit was
commenced, and the girl released from prison—one of
her friends, a slaveholder himself, becoming security in
a bond of 2,000 dols., that she should render herself and
her children up if the suit should be decided against her.
The suit has been pending ifor three years, and her
alleged master having again got into difficulties, her
friends are soliciting subscriptions to purchase her en-
tire freedom. Towards the sum required-800 dols.—
uipwards of 400 dole. have been collected for the purpose.
—Nero York Journal of Commerce.

Sporting Intelligence.

BEVERLEY RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
Kingston-on-Hull Stakes. 6 furlongs,

Remedy
Squire Watt
Nine ran.
Driffield Stakes. 4 furlongs 1051 yards.
Colt by Burgundy—Polish
Polly Paterson
Six an.
Bishop Burton Stakes. 4 furlongs 1051 yards
Blink Bonny
Pontifical

Thirteen ran. Won in a canter.
Londecthorongh Stakes. 1 mile.

Saipitia
Peace

Nine ran.
Beverley Cop. 2 miles.

Midhope
Phoenix
Gathercole
Niue ran.
The Forlorn Plate. 2 miles.

Midhope
Squire Watt