The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-09 00:00:00

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Wind S.W. ; tide five hours' ebb; weather flue.
Arrived, May 9—Busy Bee, from Sines ; Hebe, from
Libau ; Nicaner, from Leghorn; Ripple, from Nevis;
Crispin, from Guernsey; Jane, from Borriana ; Malabar,
from Mauritius; Arabia, from Colombo; Clio, from Monte
Video; her Majesty's steamer Medusa, from Sierra Leone.
Sailed, May 9—Sir E. Banks, steamer, for Calais;
Dahlia, for Algoa Bay.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Wind S.E., light.
Passed—Despatch, from Trinidad ; Clotilde, barque,
from Cadiz ;' Don Pedro, screw steamer, from Lisbon ;
Warban, ship, from Bombay; Lord Harding, brig, from
the westward; Spiph, from Barbadoes ; Isles of the South,
from Hobart-Town ; Prince Albert, from Jamaica ; Mer-
maid, from New Zealand—all for London.
Passed in tow—Richard Robinson, from Bombay ; Con-
queror, from Ceylon.
Passed—Britannia, screw steamer, from London, for
Gibraltar.
Anchored—Adelaide, from London, for Demerara.

TIIAVERS COLLEGE, WINDSOR.—A vacancy has
occurred in this excellent foundation for naval officers by
the death of the governor, Lieutenant Charles Okes, on
Monday last. The appointment rests with her Majesty
upon the recommendation of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Mr. Okes was made lieutenant in 1807, and declined the
rank of commander in order to retain his appointment as a
Naval Knight, which he obtained in 1830; and upon the
death of Lieutenant Carter, he was elected governor of the
college. Lieutenant Okes was universally esteemed by his
brother knights, and had highly distinguished himself in
the service. He will be buried in the catacombs of the
Chapel Royal of St. George on Saturday next. Lieutenant
Richard Francis Jewers is now governor.
A particularity of the decree of amnesty just
published in Spain deserves to be pointed out. Art. 4 de-
clares that all persons detained for having taken part in
attempts against the reigning dynasty and existing insti-
tutions must take an oath of fidelity to the Queen before
they can be set at libery. But the following article adds
that Art. 4 does not comprise such persons as in virtue of
special laws might be excluded from residing in the Spanish
States. "It may be deduced from this clause," says the
_Mats, "that the Infantes, who, according to the royal
order, are to be conveyed to a foreign country, will not be
called on to take the oath in question."
THE SITE OF TYBURN GALLOWS.—The site of
Tyburn gallows has been a frequent subject of discussion
among London antiquaries. It may be interesting to those
who care for such questions to learn that yesterday, in the
course of some excavations connected witn the repair of a
pipe in the roadway, close to the foot pavement along the
garden of this house, at the extreme south-west angle of the
Edgeware-road, the workmen came upon numerous human
bones. These were obviously the relics of the unhappy
persons buried under the gallows.
CHATHAM AND THE MEDWAY.—When Mr. Chis-
holm Gooden a few years since drew the attention of the
Government to the desperate prospects of Chatham Dock-
yard, on which such enormous sums had been expended,
the only reply vouchsafed was, a notice of the recent im-
provements as to the extension of the slipways, together
with the promise of a letter of thanks from the Lords Com-
missioners and their then hydrographer • but after the lapse
of half a dozen years, even this poor acknowledgment has
as yet been actually withheld. Mr. Gooden's predictions
are being rapidly verified. Owing to the shameful neglect
of the embankments, he foretold eight years ago that it
would soon be impossible to take up a line-of-battle ship to
Chatham. On the 9th of last November it was accordingly
found impossible for the Cressy (80) to proceed thither, and
on more than one other occasion vessels of even lighter
draught have been compelled to discharge their guns and
heavy stores at Sheerness to enable them to proceed up the
Medway.—Hans Bush's Navies of the World.
It is complained in the wine trade that excessive
charges are now incurred in drawing samples of wine in
bond. No more than three gills are allowed for each sam-
ple, and for these 6d. duty is charged. There are 32 gills
to the gallon, and the duty so charged is equivalent, there-
fore, to ss. 4d. per gallon, while the duty fixed on all wines
at present is 3..