The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-03 00:00:00

DEATHS.

DAVIES.—On the 2d inst., at his residence, College-place,
Camden-town, Thomas Davies, Esq., solicitor, of Cole-
man-street, aged 67.
DoßsoN.—On the 30th ult,, at Bath, Etheld. Cathn. Wake
Dobson, only daughter of Captain George Dobson, R.N.,
G.Neoci 1G.G...0n. the 28th ult., at Thurstaston Hall, Lieut.-
Colonel GAegg, aged 87.
HINES.—On the. Ist inst., at Limehou.se, Mr. Henry B.
Bank of England, fa 0 yearo MOM"
Hines, cashier,
aged 01.

Capt. Lane's Pomona, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Fordham) 1
Mr. Onslow's Southport, 3 yrs, ist 101 b (Challoner) 2
Mr. Bryan's Stanton, 3 yrs, ist 71b (A. Edwards) 3
Libellous, Barb Pigeon, and Sweetbread also ran.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Libellous, 3to 1 each agst Pomona
and Sweetbread, and sto 1 agst Southport. Stanton came
away with a slight lead, followed by Sweetbread, Southport,
and Pomona ; Libellous and Barb Pigeon coming on next.
On entering the cords, Pomona took a clear lead, and a fine
race in with the first four ended in favour of Pomona by a
head, the second beating the third by a head. Sweet-
bread was fourth, close up. The winner was claimed.
Renewal of the Sweepstakes:of 100 sous each, h ft, for three-
yr-old colts, Bst 71b. The winner of the Two Thousand
Guineas
e
B
of extra.tdofocrard7ASisbtesroid, Bst 71 4 subs.
Duke b
Mr. Merry's Starlight, Bst 71b..... (Rogers) I
(Custance) 2
Betting-5 to 4on Asteroid, who made play throughout,
and won by two lengths.
The One Thousand Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100
soya each, h ft, for three-yr-old fillies, Bst 71b each. The
owner of the second horse to save his stake. D.M. 41

subs.
Mr. Fleming's Nemises, Bst 71b .... (G. Fordham) 1
Mr. Cartwright's Fairwater, Bst 71b. (J. Osborne) 2
Mr. Saxon's Brown Duchess, Bst 71b...... (L. Snowden) 3
Preceptress, Bas Bleu,
Sweet The following
Hawthorn,
also R
n,LadraynL:—ouisead,paonlde,
Queen of the Vale.
Betting-9 to 4 agst Brown Duchess, 4to 1 agst Precep-
tress, 9 to 2 agst Fairwater, 8 to 1 each agst Lady Louisa
and Sweet Hawthorn, 10 to 1 each agst Bas Bleu and Ne-
mesis. The starter experienced neither difficulty nor delay
in forming the competitors in a line, and, to use a trite turf
simile, when the flag was dropped a moderate sized sheet
would have covered the lot. Fairwater, on the whip hand,
with Preceptress at her girths, made the running, Nemesis
and Brown Duchess being next the first two, separated
from the ruck by about a length. On reaching the win-
ning post of the first half of the Ab. M., Nemesis joined
Fairwater, and in the dip took the lead, Preceptress at the
same time giving way, Brown Duchess and Fairwater fol-
lowing on in pursuit of Nemesis, who ran home a clever
winner by a length, Fairwater beating Brown Duchess by
a head for second. Preceptress was a bad fourth, Queen
of the Vale fifth, Sweet Hawthorn sixth, Lady Louisa
seventh, Redpole eighth, and Bas Bleu last.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft, for three-yr-
olds and upwards. T.Y.C. 7 subs.

Mr. W. Crawford's Nicholas, 4 yrs, 7A 12Ib (Custance) 1
Baron Rothschild's King Tom filly, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Daley) 2
Sir J. Hawley's Gallus, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Wells) 3

Tiara, Ingestre, and Rockley Os° ran.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Gallus, 4to 1 agst Tiara, sto 1 agst
Rockley, and 6to 1 agst Nicholas. Gallus was the first
off, but after going a short distance Nicholas deprived him
of his lead, and won cleverly by two lengths ; four lengths
between second and third.
The Newmarket Two-year Old Plate of 200 soya; colts,
Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; wianers c xtra. The last five

furlongs of R.M. 81 entries,
Baron Rothschild's Wingrave, Bst 71b .... (J. Osborne) 1
Count Lagrange's Marignan, Ist 121 b .. (11. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. Merry's Discretion, Bst 51b (Custance) 3
The following also ran :—Farfalla, Ballerina, Ballet Girl,
Lady Harriet filly, Lord Stanley, f by Orlando, Coulon,
Madge Wildfire, c by Tadrsor, Fantasia, Breechl•ader,
Hopeful Duchess, Drosera, Vela, Strawberry, King of
Hearts, Sugarstick, Cutler, and Master Fenton.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Marignon, sto 1 agst Wingrave, 6
to 1 agst King of Hearts, 8 to 1 agst Fantasia, 10 to 1 each
agst Coulon and Discretion.

After several breakinge away a good start was effected.
Cutler, Discretion, Kingof Hearts, Marignan, Coulon, and
Bellarina composed the front rank to the cords, where Win.
grave merged from the centre of the ruck, and took third
place, Marignan and Discretion being first and second. Half
way up, Wingrave made his effort, and, after a fine race,
won by a head, three lengths between the second and third.
Coulon was fourth, and King of Hearts fifth. In the last
lot, beaten some distance, were Hopeful Duchess, Fantasia,
Strawberry Leaf, Sugarstick, and Vela.
A Plate 100 sews. Weight for age. RM.

---- -
Duke of Bedford's Asbroid, 3 yrs, Gst 111b..(Challoner) 1
Count Lagrange's Mdle. Chantilly, aged (H. Grimshaw) 2
Lord W. Powlett's Premised Land, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b
(S. Rogers) 3

Betting-6 to son .steroid, 2to 1 agst Promised Land.
Mdlle. Chantilly made play, followed by Promised Land
and Asteroid to the Dishes, when the duke's colt came out,
and won very easily by twenty lengths. Rogers easing
Promised Land half way in the flat, was passed by the
French mare, and firished a bad third.
Match, R.M., 200 sous, h ft.
Mr. Lacke's Robinson Crusoe, Bst 81b, receives.
Lord Chesterfield's Cage, Bst 51b pays.

LATEST BETTING.
CHESTER CUP.
13 to 2 agst Chere Arnie (taken)
13 to 2 agst Man at Arms (taken)
13 to 2 agst Wallace (taken)
100 to 7 agst Flirtation (taken)
22 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
25 to 1 agst Ben Webster (taken)

THE DERBY.
400 to 100 agst Dundee (taken)
3900 to 600 agst Diophantus (taken)
10 to 1 agst Rouge Dragon (offered)
14 to 1 agst Kildonan (taken)
15 to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
15 to 1 agst Klarikoff (taken)
2000 to 100 agst Imaus (taken)
1000 to 45 agst Retator (taken)
2000 to 60 agst Neighbour (taken)

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-THURSDAY.

There was very little done, except upon the current
events of the day. Any )f Godding's three would have
been supported. 7 to 1 would have been taken about either
Chere Arnie or Wallace, and any _
slight advance upon that
about Malt at Arms. The only investments we noticed
were 20 to 1 taken against Flirtation, and 40 to 1 to a small
amount about BenWebster.—On the Derby, Kildonan was
freely backed at 100 to 7, and nine ponies were taken
against Diophantus, Imaus and Big Ben were also
backed, but only to small emus.—Closing prices :
CHESTER CUP.
7to 1 agst Chere Arnie (wanted)
7to 1 agst Wallace (wanted)
7to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (offered)
20 to 1 aget Flirtation (taken)
25 to 1 aget Light (offered)
30 to 1 agst Ben Webster (taken)
THE DERBY.
4to lon the field (offered)
9to 1 agst Diophantus (taken)
14 to 2 agst Kildonan (taken)
25 to 1 aget Imaus (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Big Ben (taken)

DIOPEINTUS.—The owner of Dundee made a bet on the
course of 1,000 to 500, that he would beat Diophantas for
places in the Derby.
ELLERDALE.—This brood mare, for which Mr. Blenkiron
only recently gave a high price, died whilst on a visit to
Orlando, at the Roy al Paddocks, Hampton Court. Mr.
Blenkiron is truly unfortunate, for only a few months back
ho lost Kingston, one of the most popular stud horses of the
day.
WALLACE .—This horse is now the property of Mr. G.
Fitzwilliam, who purchased him for 3,000 guineas. It is
rumoured that the horse will not be delivered up by his
tvrmor nucr Aft9t tho PM Par tla Chestor cup.

A report has been issued by the Royal Commis-
sion, at the head of which is the Prince Consort,
appointed in 1841 for the purpose of inquiring whe-
ther advantage might not be taken of the rebuilding
of the Palace of Westminster, for promoting and
encouraging the Fine Arts. With regard to paint-
ings, the commissioners have found that under the
existing conditions of lighting oil pictures prove
altogether unfit for the purpose, and they have there-
fore restricted the works now in progress to fresco
or to the water-glass process which has been for some
years practised with good results in Germany. They
report that there has been unnecessary delay in the
instance of the Peers' robing-room, to be painted by
Mr. J. R. Herbert, but they believe it is to be at-
tributed rather to repeated experiments and a con-
scientious study of the subjects by the artist than
to any feeling of indifference or interruption from
other occupations. Mr. W. Dyce undertook to
complete the painting of the Queen's robing-room
by June, 1855 (afterwards extended to June, 1856),
and had at that time received the stipulated remu-
neration ; the commissioners have to state that the
work is to their extreme mortification, still un-
finished. The delay now is understood to be from
ill-health. They regret the more any impediment
to the completion of this work, since the portion
already executed is in their judgment highly
creditable to the artist. In one of the large com-
partments of the Royal Gallery Mr. D. Maclise
is painting the meeting of Wellington and Blu-
cher after the battle of Waterloo ; and, find-
ing fresco painting imperfectly adapted for a
multiplicity of details, he has adopted the stereo-
chrome or water-glass method of painting, of which
a full account is subjoined. The commissioners feel
bound to add that such is the encouragement now
extended to painting by opulent lovers of art that
the artists could in almost every case be more profit-
ably, though not more honourably employed in
other and less arduous undertakings. With regard
to statues, a committee, consisting of the Prince
Consort and Lords Stanhope and Llanover, have
recommended, in addition to Gibson's marble statue
of ber Majesty, already completed for the Prince's
Chamber, a series of 37, comprising Edward
the Confessor, Harold, and then from William
the Conqueror downwards, to be placed thus :
In the Royal Gallery 12 (the Sovereigns of the
Houses of Brunswick and Stuart), in the Queen's
Robing-room 5 (the Tudor series), 16 older Save-
reigns on the landing-place and in the adjoining
porch, and on the lower landing-place the four
most ancient of the series, selected as representing
thp Saxon and Norman periods, the 20 on the land-
ing-places to be of metal, the other 17 of white
marble ; and they recommended that Mr. W.
Theed be invited to undertake two of the latter
(William IV. and George IV.), and Mr. T. Thorny-
croft other two (Charles I. and James I.), at £BOO
each. Accordingly, the report proposes that the
vote this year be £3,200, instead of the usual
£4,000, for the balances of former grants in hand
for payment of works in painting are in advance
of those works.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT ILKESTON,
DERBYSHIRE.

A most determined and cold-blooded murder was
perpetrated at a late hour on Wednesday evening
last, at Ilkeston, by a young man, named George
Smith, aged 20, a twist hand, upon his father,
Joseph Smith, aged 40, a shoemaker, and a man of
property, residing in Bath-street, in that town.
The facts of the case are as follow :—On Wed-

nesday last, the son, George Smith, succeeded in
extracting his father's bank book from a drawer in
the house, and went to Nottingham with it. The
book contained entries of moneys paid into the
bank amounting to £l4O. He presented the book
at the bank in Nottingham, but the cashier refused
to give him the money, and he went direct to a
spirit vaults in the same town and pledged the book
for a sovereign. He returned by the last train from
Nottingham tollkeston on Wednesday evening, and
proceeded to a public-house in the latter town. He
then went home, and afterwards returned to the
public-house, and remarked to cne of his com-
p panions that " he thought there would be something
amiss at his father's house that night." Smith left
the public-house about a quarter to twelve o'clock
on Wednesday night, and about 20 minutes past
twelve o'clock Superintendent Hudson was pro-
ceeding along Bath-street, and met two of his
officers close to Smith's house. They heard screams
of " Murder !" and on passing under the bed-room
window of the house, the younger brothers of the
murderer shouted out, " George has shot our
father." The police then went into the house, and
were horrified at finding Mr. Smith, senior, lying
on his back on the floor quite dead, his brains
being scattered about the room and the greater
part of his skull blown off. The deceased was
in his night-shirt, and had evidently come down
stairs to reprimand his son for staying out so late
and taking the bank-book, when the latter deli-
berately presented a pistol at his father's head
and shot out his brains. Mr. Norman, surgeon,
was speedily in attendance ; but death was instan-
taneous. As soon as the murderer had perpetrated
this horrid tragedy, he rushed out of the house in
his shirt sleeves and his coat off to a house of the
companion he had been drinking with, a distance
of 200 yards from his father's, where he knocked
at the door and said his father had just shot him-
self. He was at once taken into custody by Super-
intendent Hudson, who afterwards proceeded to
examine the house for the wadding, but it was
found to have been embedded in the brain of the
murdered man. They then searched for the gun
or pistol, and shortly after daylight yesterday
(Thursday) morning a policeman found a pistol at
a distance of about 50 yards from Smith's house.
It had been thrown over a hedge into a field, and
had evidently recently been fired out of. The pri-
soner was yesterday (Thursday) morning brought
before Mr. Radford, county magistrate, at Smalley,
and remanded. The inquest was opened yesterday
(Thursday) afternoon at the Queen's Head,
Ilkeston. As we said before, the murdered man
was well-to-do in the world, and the murderer
was " asked" in Belton Church, Leicestershire, to
a girl named Ellen Cox, for the first time on Sun-
day last. There is not the slightest reason for
supposing that the prisoner is insane. He says
his father shot himself. The tragedy, as may well
be supposed, has caused the greatest excitement in
the neighbourhood.
On Wednesday morning the murderer wrote a
note in lead-pencil to his sweetheart at Belton, in
which he said he was afraid his father would
make away with himself before long. Detective
Davis has gone over to Belton to try to get pos-
session of the letter.

EXPORT OF GOLD TO AMERICA.—The Liverpool,
New York, and Philadelphia Steamship CompanY'B screw
She
steamer Kangaroo sailed from Liverpool yester 000 In gold
daY:
took out abold 60 0041 podmogem and Ivo gits,
ill Welt,

-orfolk harbour, in rear of the enemy, would be
incalculable to thel Northerners. A few sunken
ships at the mouth of Norfolk Har-
bour would be a very frail barrier against the ap-
proach of the Great Eastern under steam. Since
her last visit to America the great ship has, of
course, had her usual share of ill fortune and em-
barrassment, which culminated the other day when
she was seized in execution by Mr. Davis, high
sheriff of Pembrokeshire, in satisfaction of the
debt due by the Company to Mr. Scott Russell. At
first, this seizure threatened to put a final stop upon
the intended voyage to America, and, in fact, ac-
cording to the strict letter of the law, Mr. Russell
might have put her up to auction and knocked her
down to himself the day after the sheriff had made
his monster capture. Matters, fortunately, were
not pushed to thiP extreme, though it was some
time before the claims were finally adjusted, and
the sheriff's officers were actually in possession till
the ship was almost on the point of sailing.
The rate of speed attained during the last voyage,
except during one or two days, was, on the whole,
considered low for a vessel from which so much was
anticipated in this respect. The deficiency was
attributed on all hands to the very foul state of
the vessel's bottom. Accordingly when the Great
Eastern returned, and she became at once plunged
in her usual chaos of difficulties—her screw bear.
ings out of order, her decks deficient, and
everything wanting more or less of readjustment
and repair, it was decided to lay her up for the
winter on a gridiron at Milford Haven, and put
her into thorough order. The gridiron was easily
made, and the Great Eastern as easily laid upon it,
and it was then found beyond a doubt that from
whatever cause the lack of speed proceeded, it did
not arise from a weedy bottom. There was a cer-
tain amount of green slime all over below her water-
line, but on the whole the bottom was considered
unusually clean and free. Whatever little slime
there was, however, was soon removed, and the
whole bottom coated thoroughly with white paint.
The gridiron on which she lay was short of her
enormous length by very many feet, and thus a
short space at the stern, and a considerable portion
of the bows, projected over without support at
either end. During some of the high flood tides of
winter, when it was feared she might float, it was
found necessary to pump water into her forward
compartments. This precaution, of course, brought,
an undue strain upon the part of the bow left un-
supported, and the iron compartment showed signs
of bulging and leakage. For this evil there was
unfortunately no remedy till the ship was afloat,
when the defects were at once made good. In the
meantime while on the gridiron some important
improvements were effected. The old and unsightly
deck was coated with pitch and a new two-inch
deck of the best seasoned pine laid over it. All
the lower decks were caulked. This change is to
the eye the greatest that has been effected, and
nothing can equal the beauty of the wide, smooth,
snowy expanse of deck as it now appears. Feed-
pumps were also fitted to the paddle-engines, the
screw-shaft lifted, turned down and fitted with
massive brass bearings turning upon lignum vitae.
The difficulty of effecting this improvement was
exceedingly great, and at one time it was thought
almost certain that the entire screw shaft would
have to be lifted out. Fortunately the skill and
ingenuity of Mr, D. Gooch saved the shareholders
this vast expense, and the work has been effectually
performed at the smallest possible cost. Other
minor improvements in the way of new passages of
communication between the main and lower deck
saloons were also made at the same time, and all
changes which it had been felt could be made for
the better thoroughly carried out. Among others
was that of removing the immense square yards
from the fore and mainmasts. Square sails for such
a vessel as the Great Eastern are practically absur-
dities ; nothing short of a gale astern affects them,
and their enormous size gives all hands some hours'
work to set them, while taking them in in heavy
weather is all but impossible, as was shown during
the brief summer gale on the first voyage. The
resistance they offer when steaming head to wind
is sufficient to diminish speed almost a knot an
hour. These alterations, of course, make a great
change in her external appearance, and the re-
moval of all the sails gives her a lighter and
more sea-going look abaft. The funnels have
been painted of a bright red, and the abominable
f
white line round her, which gives her the lo k
o o
in the ba_ck, has
being " hogged," or breaking
been renewed in all its old deformity. o com-
plete is the optical delusion caused by this line, that
even experienced sailors and engineers cannot at
first sight bring themselves to believe that the ap-
parent sinking is not real, and that the vessel has
not sustained injury by being laid on the gridiron.
Itis almost unnecessary to say that no such alarm-
ing symptoms have appeared, and that the vessel
is as strong and perfect in her hull as on the day
she first left the Thames.
Most of the passengers came down to Milford on
Wednesday by a special train, which left Padding-
ton at eight in the morning. There is very little doubt
but that in this voyage there would have been 300
or 400 first-class passengers but for the great un-
certainty which prevailed that the differences be-
tween the company and Mr. Russell would be so
adjusted as to let the vessel start at all. Very
many, therefore, declined to take their passages on
the mere understanding that she would go on the
Ist "if no unforeseen difficulty prevented." About
100, however, were bold enough to venture (and
among them were several ladies), and these arrived
at Milford at four on Wednesday afternoon. The
Great Eastern lay some four miles out, in the
centre of the noble harbour, but one of the Water-
ford boats, the City of Paris, was hired for the use
of passengers. In this, after the luggage delay;the
party embarked, and proceeded down the harbour.
Just as they were close alongside the huge vessel
an annoying delay was occasioned by the City of
Paris getting hard aground. She was moved ahead,
and turned astern, and passengers ballasted from
one side to the other, but all in vain. Fortunately
the tide was rising, or the passengers might hav_eoV
a weary time of it ; as it was, some were sent tailto r"
last,
in small boats and others were going, whtenEastern
with the aid of a hawser from the Great more
and a quick tide, the City of Paris got.
colossal sister,
afloat, and dropped alongside
heeraused a greater
The contretemps had, wt.etvoesris'azil:;:lit
that
ts
timethe
delay than was convenilei;
ship to
were well on
hour fixed for the big
none
was passed before all thedisappointment of many,
board. So, to the
were allowed up her lofty sides,
bells were rung, the gang-
but passengers
all made ready for a start.
when immediatelyanthde
ways hoisted P
u great difficulty, however, in slipping
There was greathe
moorings, and it was past 8 when they dropped
with a great rattle and splash into the water, and
once more left the huge ship at freedom. In a
minute more, and amid cheers from all the little
boats in the harbour, she slowly began her voyage
at half speed—the paddles
25 revolutions. Her
es going nine and the screw
sier appearance, as she seemed to
slide out of the harbour in the dusk, of the evening,
was a grand sight. Though with nearly 7,000
c9l in hers 41w hem ud light in the Water

The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Cockburn, lying at
Spithead, is ordered to go into Portsmouth harbour
on Monday, and embark alongside the dockyard
one Wing of the 55th Regiment, now stationed at
Aldershott, for conveyance to the Channel Islands.
The Diadem
Islands and will,dise onbark
in
her a rrihsvisatlhh
etmtbhaer.klCl
a winghan
of the 30th
Channel
Regiment, with the
ith
to Portsmouth, and, embarkingw thee remainingshe7l return
wing
of the 55th, convey them to the Channel Islands,
returning with the remainder of the 30th,
which
regiment proceeds to Aldershott. Her Majesty's
will be in attendance on
the paddleDiadem steamer
at
the Channel
heannel Islands, and will assist
in embarking and disembarking the troops.
TtacyeA,dwveinthturet ,h
thescrew headquarters
troopship,
of the Royal Commander
E.
Marine Battalion on board from China, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Gascoigne, steamed into
Portsmouth harbour yesterday to land her freight,
and berthed alongside the dockyard. Shortly
after going into the harbour, the Adven-
ture was officially inspected by Captain J. B.
Dickson, of her Majesty's ship Trafalgar. Her crew
afterwards unbent sails preparatory to dismantling
and being put out of commission, the ship and her
machinery requiring a thorough overhaul and re-
pair, more especially the la'ter, which has been in
an unsafe condition the past three years. Captain
Lacy commissioned the Adventure on the 20th of
April, 1857.
The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
at Portsmouth, is ordered to fill up stores and pro-
visions immediately for foreign service.
The Icarus, 11, screw, Commander N. Salmon,
V.C., steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday
to Spithead, where she will take in powder and
shell before leaving for foreign service.
The Pigmy paddle, Master-Commander John-
stone, left Portsmouth yesterday for Portland, with
provisions, &c., for her Majesty's ship Colossus.
The Sampson, 6, paddle, Capt. G. S. Hand, C. 8.,
had her masts taken out alongside the shear jetty
of Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday. Her crew will
be paid off from her to-morrow.

The Jasper, 1, screw gunboat, Lieut. Commander
Pym, will pay off her crew and be put out of com-
mission at Portsmouth to-day.
Yesterday the Mariner, 12 gun sailing sloop, was
brought up from the ordinary at Chatham and
placed under the floating shears to receive the
boilers, cylinder, and the heavy portion of the
machinery for the line-of-battle screw steamer Bom-
bay, 81, until the latter vessel has been undocked
and is in a condition to receive them on board. In
consequence of the height of the Mariner out of
water about 50 tons of iron ballast were sent on
board from the dockyard to bring her down. During
the afternoon the large cylinder, weighing 22 tons,
was lifted by the powerful shears and placed on
board the Matiner. The condenser for the Bonai
bay, weighing 10 tons, was landed at the dockyard
from one of the lighters yesterday afternoon.
The Defiance, 91, recently brought from Pem-
broke, was placed yesterday alongside Devonport
Dockyard, for the purpose of returning her jury
gear and navigating stores.
~The paddlewheel steam frigate Magicienne, 16,
was removed yesterday from Devonport Dockyard
to the hulk Lively, in Hamoaze.
The paddlewheel steam surveying-vessel Bann
will not be removed from the Dockyard at Devon-
port until to-day.
The paddlewheel steam tender Avon, W. Long,
second master, in charge, embarked seamen belong-
ing to the Channel fleet at Plymouth on Wednes-
day, and in the evening left for Portland.
The screw steam gunvessel Surprise, 5, was re-
moved yesterday from the dock in Keyham steam-
yard, and went outside Plymouth Breakwater to
try her machinery.
The training ship Daedalus, 19, at Devonport,
has received her masts and bowsprit, and will be
taken to the dockyard to be rigged for service at
Bristol.

The following appointments were made 'yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Edwin Boulton, chief engi-
neer, to the Indus, for the Princess Royal ; Thomas
Rose and James Sawyer, third-class assist.-engi-
neers, additional to the Neptune, for disposal on
the Mediterranean station ; Henry S. Pemberton,
Samuel J. Bird, and James H. Ferguson, acting
third-class assist-engineers, additional to the Nep-
tune, for disposal 'on the Mediterranean station ;
John Hancock, acting third-class assist.-engineer,
to the Majestic ; and George H. Johnson, clerk, to
the Illustrious.