The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-09 00:00:00

THIS DAY.)

THE 80.

P SHIP.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 8.

The Bombay troop ship, Capt. Thoma 3 Flamank,
still remains in the Sound. The troops were landed
by Government steamers at the Royal William
Victualling-yard, yesterday. The detachments
have been located in the Millbay barracks, and the
sick sent to the military hospital. The sufferings
of the men have been very great during the six
days they were battened down between the decks
with spare stores, cattle, &c., during the fury of
the gale, which carried away the top gear of the
ship. In addition, they had to sustain the loss of
their clothes, and were deprived of the means of
cooking, and of the regular rations frem the 23d
ult. until tiaeir arrival in the Sound. Nautical
men are loud in their praise of the pluck and per-
severance displayed by Captain Flamank during
the fearful gale, but by the non-nautical he is
blamed for not going into Cork on the evening of
the 10:1; and still more for not sooner accepting
assistance after the vessel became a wreck. It is
said that the captain was unwilling to go into
Cork on tile evening of the 10th, as he was anxious
to have his decks cleared and put in a more pre-
sentable condition before the ship was seen by any
officials or others from the shore.. The history of
the Bombay during the 49 years she has been
afloat would be a very interesting and chequered
one, and present many instanees of hair-breadth
escapes. There are persons resident here who
made voyages to India and back in her more than
40 years since, and others who remember, years
since, seeing her roll so fearfully in a gale off the
Cape of Good Hope as to shake out the whole of
her masts. From an Admiralty despatch received
here on Monday afternoon last, directing that the
Bombay shall be supplied with any spars from the
Royal Dockyard at Devonport that cannot be pro-
cured in the merchant yards here, it is presumed
that she will be repaired at this port.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE
SHOW.'

The exhibition opened yesterday morning at 8
o'clock for its second day's show, and so great was
the influx of visitors that they doubled the thou-
sands who passed through the Baker-street Bazaar
Am Tuesday. Indeed, during an experience ranging
over the entire period of 18 or 19 years since the
Smithfield Club Cattle Show was removed from
Goswell-street, never can it be remembered that so
many persons visited the show on a second day.
Notwithstanding this, with the exception that the
implemc-•nt galleries became now and then 4 little
crowded, and, as is usual, that the public will con-
gregate and crowd round the most important prize
animals, the locomotion was easy and comfortable
to every one. Some -complaint was made on the
previous day as to the ventilation, but yesterday,
so great are the facilities for ventilation at the dis-
posal of Messrs. Boulnois, not only was the show,
even where the pig and sheep classes are located,
free from the slightest oppression of atmosphere,
but it is a fact that some of the exhibitors com-
plained that there was too much cold air let in
upon the animals. The sales yesterday were much
more brisk among the classes than on the previous
day.' In Class 5, No. 29, second prize of £lO to Mr.
Isaac Niblett's Hereford steer, sold to Mr. J. C.
Yinge, of Bristol. In Class 6, No. 44, Mr. W.
Heath's £lO prize Hereford ox, sold to Mr. Feeble,
of the Red Lion, New Cattle-market, it is said for
£55 ; while in Class 9, No. 55, the gold medal and
prize of £25, and silver medal as a breeder, to Mr.
Richard Stratton, of Broad Hinton, found a pur-
chaser in Mr. G. C. Davis, of the Black Bull, New
Cattle-market. In the sheep and pig classes most
of the principal sales were effected on Monday, but
in Class 30, the first prize 173 of £2O, and Mr.
Francis Jordan for his pen of long-woolled sold to
Mr, H. Barclay, of Great Titchfield-street. In
Class 32, Mr. Thomas West's pen, No. 190, second.
prize of £lO, sold to Mr. W. C. Hayhow, of Hor-
ton ; Mr. Jeffrey was the purchaser of Sir R. G.
Throckmorton's and Mr. J. Overman's pens of short
woolled, prizes of £lO and £5 in their class.

THE DINNER.