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

About two miles. 4 subs.

Capt. Hunt's Theodine (£4O), 12st 41b .. (Mr. Edwards) 1
Mr. Land's Hassock, 4 yrs (£4O), lOst i3lb.. (Gammage) 0
No betting. Theodine came in alone.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Curlew (taken)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHACE.
100 to 6 agst Abd-el-Kader (taken)
20 to 1 agst Teaso (taken)
20 to 1 agst Emigrant (taken)
25 to 1 agst Telegram (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN lIANDIOAP.
25 to 1 agst Nucleus (taken)
25 to 1 agst Chere Amie (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
1900 to 15 agst Sir William (taken)

DERBY.
1000 to 20 agst Sir 'William (taken)

CARMARTHEI STEI
The Ope:

PLECHASES—TUESDAY.
L Handicap.

Confederate . • . •
Little Ugly Monkey
Kibworth Lass
Kibworth

1
2
3
Lass fell.

ACCEPTANCES FOR Tl
TONSIIIRI
Yrs st lb
Trumpeter 4 8 7
Blue Jacket

:IE GREAT NORTHAM-
STAKESt

Yrs st lb
The Pitman 3 5 7
General Hess
Man-at-Arms 3 5 5
First Lord 3 5 6
Weathorbound
, Simple Simon
Bird cage
Maid of Orleans
Uncle Ned
Yoicks .. 3 5 2
Lord Milton 3 5 2
Chance Shot 3 5 2
Professor Dick
Springwell .. 3 5 0
Narcissus
ch c by Stockwell
—Bribery
Dank)
Tommy Noble
c by Tadmor—Main-
stay
Mesmcr 3 4 10
Forager 3 4 8
ch c by Newcourt
—Treacherous
Philomel
The Monk (h b)
Teal
Gwellyan.

Roman Candle 6 8 2
Schism
Old Robert
Claire z 4 7 8
Ariadne
Sam Spode 5 7 2
Royal Sovereign 5 7 0
Prince of Denmark 5 6 13
Precursor
Birmingham 4 6 11
Ne watead
Timandra
Yellow Rose 4: 6 6
Lovett
Audrey by Stockwell
.it 4 6 5
Regius Professor a 6 5
Minster
b g by Vatican
Lady Mary 4 6 4
Moorcock
Fly-by-day
The Dane
Paul Jones
Don Cossack 4 5 12
.7.attlebone
Horace

2ffß NAVY.

The screw steam ship Nile, 90, Capt. K. Barnard,
was taken ont 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, has 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 1I feet 6 inches aft. The engines of 80-
horse power, will be supplied by Napier, of G las-
gow. They are to carry each one 95-cwt. pivot-
gun and four 241 b. carronades, and are to be
igged as three-masted schooners. The launching
was very successfully accomplished, and the
beautiful modsl 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 gaidanco
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 oft. 7in. above that ago. 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
Fisg.ard , 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
in one solid mass by the process termed " welding,"
and which has bent under the consideration of the
War Department and the Admiralty for some time
past, is now favourably received, and a.marine steam
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, Oft. in diameter, Bft. long, with
an internal tube 2ft. 2in. in diameter, and bell-
mouthed at the front, increasing to a D form 3 feet
6 inches at the fire-box, from which small tubes of
n 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
eocirdunalainyce. applicable
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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; 11. T.
Iles, second-class assist-engineer, to the Forte ; H.
Knight, acting second-class assist: engineer, to the
Hawke, for service in the Magpie; and J. Bolton,
acting third-cl Ass 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 level die ad-
vance, the line of country included in the opera-
tions extending from the river Medway to a point