The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

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liehed, Dissent seems so firmly planted and so vigour-
ously upheld by the eloquence of the Welsh Disent-
lag ministers, that we doubt, if St. David himself
were to re-appear, whether he could now lure the
Cymry back to the Church, from which the English
prelates have driven them from their obstinate illibe-
rality of feeling and determination, instead of quali-
fying themselves for their flock, to force their flock
to abjure their language in the worship of God. The
result is now evident—they have abjured the Church !

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p?ssed through the Custom-house, were lodgei in
the bands of Mr. Morris, manager of the Branch
Bank of England here, for transmission to London.

The merchant barque Geutoo, belonging to
John Bremhain, of this port, arrived last night is
charge of Mr. Daniel Morrison, the mate. The Gen-
too is laden with a full cargo of timber for Loudon,
' and left Sierra Leone on the 30th of January. Her
master, Mr. William Laiceman, was seized with the
coast fever on the 2d February, and died on the 7th.
Her only passenger, Lieutenant Crofton, 3d West
India Regiment, and two of her seamen, Edward
Martin and Peter Swede, were subsequently attacked,
and the last-named lay in a very dangerous condi-
tion, when the American corvette John Adams, 20
guns, hove in sight, about the 20th of February, and
her commander sent a surgeon on board the barque,
who successfully administered to the sick. Oranges
and lemons were also sent from the friendly Ameri-
can, which then sailed for Liberia and the south coast
of Africa. Off the Azores, on the 25th of March,
the Gentoo experienced a frightful gale from the
north-west, and on approaching the Channel she
has had to encounter the prevailing tempestuous
weat her.
Wind S E., smart breez9.

CIIATIIAM, APRIL 9.—The Columbine, 16 guns,
Captain C. D. Hay, from the East Indies, arrived
yesterday afternoon opposite to the dockyard, having
been towed up by the African steam-vessel. On board
was a detachment of Royal Marines, paid off from
the Cygnet at Plymouth, consisting of 1 sergeant, 1
corporal, and 9 private, and they joined their head.
quarters at Chatham this morning. The Columbine
is to be paid off without any of her internal fittings
or bulk-heads being disturbed. The crew commenced
this morning discharging her stores and guns.
The Peictiers, 74, Captain Peter Richards, C. 8.,
was paid down six months on Saturday last, and on
the Bth instant the pay clerks from the Pay-office,
Chatham Dockyard, proceeded in the Chatham yacht
to Sheerness, and then paid down the Wellington,
72 guns, ordinary guard. ship, Captain David Price,
six months.
A court-martial assembles on the 10th instant.
The members forming the court meet at nine A.M.,
on board the Ocean, 80, flag-ship, for the trial of the
Assistant-surgeon on board the Clyde 42, lying in
Saltpan-reach. The charge against this officer is for
drunkenness. Messrs. Essell and Hayward, solicitors,
conduct the prosecution.
The lst.battalion of the 12th Regiment, recently
arrived at this garrison from ‘Veedon, were inspected
by the Commandant-Colonel James Simpson, who
was attended by his staff; and after passing through
the ranks, consisting of about 600 men, they passed
by the general in review order, and elicited much
praise. The battalion contains a fine body of men.
The Rosamond steam-sloop, Commander Foote, is
ordered to be paid off at Woolwich on Friday, the
12th instant.

The Hercules store ship, Master-Commander Ro-
bert Fulton, will leave Northfleet Hope on Sunday,
the 20th inst., for Malta and other stations in the
Mediterranean.

THE EXPERIMENTAL BALLOONS.
The last experiment made by Mr. Shepherd with
the message-balloons, which were sent up on the 11
of March from the roof of the Admiralty buildings,
at Whitehall, have been very successful. A letter
has just been received at the Admiralty containing
one of the slips, picked up on the the 7th of March
by a commercial traveller from Birmingham, who
found it and observed several others of the same kind
at Altona, near Haniburgh, a distance of about 450
miles from London. The slips must have dropped
from the balloon in its flight over the north of
Europe, and its ultimate fate is as yet unascer-
tained. The balloon referred to was made of gold-
beaters' skin, with an expansive balloon suspended
underneath to receive the gas as the expansion took
place in the upper regions of the atmosphere, which
accounts for the great distance it is known to hare
travelled. By the aid of similar balloons, Captain
Collinson and Captain Austin my be able to make
known their positions to each other by dispatch.
ing them with slips in the Arctic regions, and they
may also be able to convey intelligence to Sir John
Franklin and his gallant companions, informing them
where provisions and friends are waiting or searching
for them.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
EPSOM SPRING MEETING.

Tho subjoined list of the flat races to be run to-mor-
row on the Downs, and of the steeplechases to be decided
on the following day, within ten minutes' walk of the
town, embrace the entries made on Tuesday evening,
and show an amount and ♦ariety of sport to which it
will be difficult to take exception. The first day's pro-
ceedings will commence at half-past one, with the Trial
Plate, to be followed, at two, by the Two years old
Stakes, the great race being fixed for three o'clock; these
events over, the heats will commence, and if they come
up to anything like the Epsom average, may be got
through about six o'clock.
The steeplechases, we presume, will not commence so
early, or be run at such short intervals. The ground se-
lected is on Epsom Common, about a mile from the town,
on the right 01 the road leading to Leatherhead. The win-
ning post will ho within a quarter of a mile of the Wind-
mill, and the start will take place at the distance post, the
line proceeding past the winning chair, through the en-
closed lands adjoining the Windmill, over some quick-
set hedges. It then takes a westerly direction towards
Newton read, then turning to the right up the valley,
leaving the pond on the right, up the hill, and finishing
with nearly half a mile of straight running. The fences
will be about thirty in number, and will comprehend
posts and rails, hedges and ditches, and two or three
water jumps ; and the distance, twice round, will be
about tour miles. The stands fur the accommodation of
the public will be placed o❑ the hill, very near the win-
ning chair, and will afford a good view of the whole line
of comae. The directors of the Brighton Railway have
announced extra trains each day at low fares; there can
be no doubt, therefore, that the meeting will be success•
ful. The following are the present arrivals:—lanthe,
Bornec, Quiver, Cheerful, Buckhound, Sister to Pillage,
Salute, Ada Mary, Ellerslie, Mounseer, Radulphus, Leo,
British Yeoman, Molly, Rachel, and Fugitive.
The enteries are as under:—