The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-21 00:00:00

CREMORNE GARDENS:'

The tenth annual exhibition of dahlias and other
,ants, under the auspices of the Chelsea Dahlia Society,
as held yesterday in thee gardens. The weather was
lightfully fine, and an additional interest was imparted
the arrangements by the presence of the juvenile Ileind
the Duke of York's School, who performed a variety
of airs during the day. The prizes were atio!ted' as
follows:

FIRST PRIZE.
For the beet twenty-four dissimilar
.blobms—Mr. C.
Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough—a; our. . •
2. Mr. J. Keynes, orS,lisoury.
3. Messrs. Widnall and Davis, Cambridge. • '
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4. Mr. rim hurley, of Coventry.
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5. Mr. Bragg, of Slough.
6. Mr..Bliclt, gardener, of Clewer, near Windsor.
FOR THE BEST SIX FANCY FL*EIIB —AMATEURS.
1. Mr. J. E;iward-, Hull sway.
2. Mr. Pope, gardimr, Chelsea.
3. Mr. J,mes, Rochester. tooth', Newington.
4. Mr. Black, girdel;er, Clec+ or.
FUR THE BEST TWELVE BLOOMS—AMATEURS.
SILYER CUP.
1. I%T.r. Robirmin, Chelsea,
2. Air. Black, Clewer.
3. Mr. J3lnt-o, Newington..
4. Mr. Bennett, ditto.
5. Mr. Hunt, Paddington.
6. Mr. Cook, No:Vng-hill.
The exhibition will continue throughout to-day.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - -

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It will have been seen by our announcement that all
the reports relative to the visits of the Board of Admi-
ralty to the various dockyards have been merely specula-
tion. The First Lord has gone to Osborne and accom
ponies the Queen on her Majesty's two or three days'
cruise to Antwerp. The senior naval Lord has pro-
cetdetl on a trip to visit the Russian and Swedish Squa-
drons at Kiel; Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., is absent
on the-Continent; the Hon, W. Cowper, M.P_, is iu the
country; and Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, the service
will regret tu hear, has been seriously- indisposed sLt
Boulogne. Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. F. Berkeley,
C. 8., M.P., Capttiu Milne, with the Chief Secretary,
Mr. Parker, M.P., are at the Admiralty, conducting the
routine business.

A curt or committee of inquiry has been held at
Devonport, with reference to the allegations of the In-
flexible steam-sloop, Commander P. 11, Dyke, having
touched the ea.t end of the breakwater on her arrival at
Devonport; but al, hough the signal-man at Mount Wise,
three miles distant, could perceive the accident, it ap-
pears no one on board either saw or felt that she had
struck, notwithstanding that she had rubbed off so much
of the copper from her portbow to the paddle-wheel;
there will, therefore, be no court-martial, and this most
celebrated and extraordinary steamer will pursue her
expensive voyage to the West Indies under the ex-com-
mander of the Flying Fish. As the irrflexible is proved
to take the ground so quietly, it is to be hoped that as a
matter of precaution their Lordships will order a large
quantity of copper sheathing to be supplied to her, and
which she can well stow, to supply against future uncon-
scious accidents.—Morning Herald.
The men-of-war in Plymouth Sound are Albion, 90
Captain J. Hope Johnstone, completing advanced com-
plement of 430 men ; Thetis, 38, Captain A. L. Kuper,
C. 8., towed out of Hamoaze by the Vulture steam-
frigate, on Saturday, and under orders for Spitbead,
after having been paid advance, saluting the Port-Ad-
miral ; and Albion, steam-tender, Lieut.-Commander
Crauford, for Port Royal, Jamaica. The ships in com-
mission in Hamoaze are Impregnable, 78, flag-ship of
the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir W. H. Gage,
G.C.H., Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B. ; Agin-
court, 10, depot ship of the ordinary ; Captain Nies,
C. 8., with the pendant of Commodore Lord John Hay,
C.B. ; Crank, 6, packet-brig, Lieut.-Commander Par-
sons, to take out the next mail from Falmouth to Bra-
zils ; Linnet, 6, packet brig, Lieut. Commander James,
refitting; Sylph tender, and Nigger, 14, screw-sloop,
Commander Heath, arrived on Friday evening from
Portsmouth, under orders, left yesterday for the coast
of Africa with the mails, calling at Madeira ; Inflex-
ible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Peche Hart Dyke,
under orders for the West Indies ; Fearless steam.
tender arrived from Portsmouth on Sunday ; Con-
fiance steam-tender, Master Commander Martin, under
repair ; and Camel and Falmouth lighters.
In Barnpool Salamander, 6, steam-sloop, Com-
mander Ellman, .to sail on the 22d for Rio, the Cape,
and East Indies, having gone ont of harbour on Monday.
Mr. Mills, assistant-master-attendant, and party, ar-
rived at Devonport with the Liberty, newly launched 12
sloop, from Pembroke, on Sunday.
Mr. Brown, master of the Agincourt, with a party
under his command, will proceed in the Confiance, on
Thursday, to Liverpool, to navigate the Bacchus to
Devonport.

DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.—The following superannua•
tions took place in this yard on Saturday:—John
Western, shipwright; Andrew Chudleigh, millwright;
John Hurrell, Joseph Staunton, Henry Batten, Charles
Baker, William Lean, William Axworthy, and James
ropemakers; nine in number, at 244 per annum
each.

The vacancy tt Woolwich Dockyard, caused by the
fatal accident to Mr. Rogers, extra clerk, has been tilled
up by Hayman, extra clerk at Sheeraess.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 2o.—The Birkenhead iron steam•

frigate has been commissioned pro tern. by Commander
Stevens or the Blenheim, as steam-guard-ship in the
absence of the lattn. on special service.
The Black Eagio and Vivid steam yachts arrived yes-
terday from the eastward to accompany her Majesty's
yachts to Ostend.
The Fire Queen steam yacht, having received a coat-
ing of composition, was taken out of dock till,. morning;
when the Apollo troop-ship, Commander J. Rawatorne,
was taken in to have her bottom cleaned and over-
hauled.

The Pew,lope steam•frigate will not be ready to coma
ou: of duck fur a month.

Tne Veugexuce. S 4. Captain Sir H. Blackwood, has
her vprnas.is up and Tiddo find topnia,t rigging fitted.
She ill ne newly coppered.

Tho Dragon sfvon...frie.te, Captain 11. W. GifFard, is
progresirfg admirably with hoc outfit.

WOOLWICH, AUGUST 20 —The Lightning steam-
vessel, Master-Commander Petley, returned to Wool-
icli to-day from Diver. It is said she was sent round
to that port to convey his Excellency the Nepaulese
Ambass&dor and suite across the channel on his return
to India, but his Excellency had postponed the time of
his departure, and only intended leaving this afternoon
by the regular railway communication to Folkstone, and
thence to Boulogne and Paris by the vessals of the
company.

The Firefly, the Geyser, and the Buzzard steam-ves-
sels are getting ready fur sea at this port with every
dispatch.

kr. Grant, storekeeper at the Clarence-yard, Ports-
mouth, was at Woolwich yesterday and to-day superin-
tending the fitting of his cooking and distilling apparatus
on board the Wasp at am-sloop, making ready for ser-
vice on the coast of Africa.

Lieutenant William Horton (1842), recently serving
in tle Thetis, 40, has been appoi:ltsd to study steam at
tho factory at Woolwich dockyard.

THE RUSSIAN FLEET.

The following is given by the VosNiche Ztitung, as an
account of thu Russian naval force on the 9th of
August :

4 line-of-battle ships of 120 guns.
6 of 100 to 110 guns.
26 I ef 80 to 90 guns.
13 of 70 to 80 guns.
30 frigates of all classes
50 corvettes, brigs, and schooners.
34 st. an-frigates, sloops, and packets.
This naval force is stated to be divided into five squa-
drons; the Baltic squadron consists o: about 4,000 men,
including the artillery; but the paper states that the
crews are not of the very best quality of men, and
amongst them are many Jews from Poland.
[We believe this force is under-stated, and that the
Russians have more three and two-deckers in the Baltie
and Black Sea fleets, and that they have nearer 50 than
30 steamers. Moreover, we have seen some of the Rus-
sian ships well and ably manned, and that there are a
great many Bothnians and Finlanders among the crews.
—Herald.]

THE LOSS OF LIFE IN THE AfERSE}.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The following are some far-
ther details of the melancholy accident which happened
on tho Mursey on Sunday evening last, by tho upset-
ting of a small boat off liastham, when nine lives were
lost:—

The party in the boat bad been alternately cruising
stout the river and enjoying themselves on the shore
during the day, and between six and seven o'clock in the
evening they put in at Eastham, and proceeded to the
tap belonging to the hotel, where they partook together
of half a gallon of ale. At this time the whole of them
appeared perfectly sober. Amongst the company in the
house, but nut connected with the boating party, were
two elderly and respectably-looking individuals—one of
whom, it is understood, is a gentleman of small pro-
perty residing at Birkenhead. His name is Thorp.
The other is a clerk in one of our Liverpool houses.
They had been passing the day in the village
of Eastham, and had returned to the ferry for
the purpose
,of proceeding home by the steam-packet.
Having fallen in with the boating party, an arrange-
ment was made that they should proceed along with
them to Liverpool. As yet we have not heard of any of
the bodies being found but three. This morning the
boat was run ashore, near Eastham, and there was found
in its forecastle the body of Eliza Walker and the two
children, James and William Spencer. Eliza Walker,
it appears, was in service. in the capacity of nurse, and
ae children found with her belonged to her mistress.
The unfortunate girl took them to Eastham without the
eonsent.of ;heir par,..nts.
The names of the persons who were drowned are—
William Biocide, James and William Spencer. John
Youd, Bell-street.; Eliza Walker end Nancy M'Fall,
John Duncan, John Gerrard, and Thomas Gerrard,
Bell-street.
jos Theph following areii
otihj r names s
ptrhtel;;o personselid,iesrhley r!g,ssaved:--tlaret7e.
t ;
k`; ullie Cooper, Bell-street; and the t
men lying at the terry tap.

COMBINATION OUTBAGB.—We regret extremely to
state that upon Saturday evening last, when the railway
waggon containing parcels was within two miles and a
quarter of Sligo, at about five o'clock in the afternoon, it was
attacked by a party of men, who, having felled the driver, a
man named William Walsh, with a blow over the temple,
shot one of the two horses which were drawing the waggon.
A man named Michael Marran has been identified as one of
the party engaged. Walsh is still in the infirmary, though
his injuries are not very serioas. The outrage is supposed to
be the result of a combination of parties -injured by the run-
ning of this parcel waggon between blullingar and Sligo.—
Sligo Journal.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
FAREWELL NIGHT.
The FAREWELL and CONCLUDING NIGHT of flip SEASON
will be given on SATURDAY, August 24, 1850.

ITRE MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
WIII be presented the Last Act of Donizetti's Opera, entitled
• LUCIA DI L A.MM E R MOO R.
Lucia, Miss CatiPrfne Hayes; Edgardo, Mr. Sims Reeves.
After which Roisinlls celebrated Opera of
IL. BARRIERS DI SIVIGLIA.
Rosins, Madame Sontag ; Il Conte d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari
Figaro, Signor Coletti ; Basilic, Signor F. Lablache ; Bartolo, Signor
Lablache.
In the Lesson Scene Madame Sontag will sing Rode's celebrated
Variations.
To be followed by the L2st Act of
ERNANI.
To conclude with the Ballet, by 31. P. Tagllonf,
LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVER.
In whlcliNlstdlle. A. Ferraris, and M. Charles will appear.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Office of the Theatre.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
Last Nint but Onelof the Season.
TO-MORROW E V ENING
VIII be produced, Bellinl's celebrated Opera,
NOR MA.
To be fbllowed by DonfzettPs.Opera,
L'ELISIR
Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, M. Costa.
The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. R. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brom pton.
For a few nights only, Adelphi Company and Adelphi Pieces,
THIS EVENING.

Will be performed the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Harry Stanley,
Mr. Boyce; Witherton, Mr. Cullenford ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lam-
bert; Paul Pry, Mr, Wright; Marian, Miss Harding.
After which a new and original Zoological Extravaganza, called
/HE HIPPOPOTAMUS. Mr. Tiddywink, Mr. Wright; :sergeant
Bulbus. Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mrs. Tiddywink, Miss E. Harding.
To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street-
MRS. FANNY KEMBLE'S READINGS OF sHAKSPEARE.
Mr. MITCHELL has the honour to announce, that owing to the
distinguished and increasing success of Mrs. Fanny Kemble's Read-
ings, they willbe further continued on Wednesday and Friday Eve-
nings, during-the ensuing week, and a second (positively the last)
Morning Reading. oa Monday. August 26. The Plays are selected
in conclusion of Mrs. Fanny Kemble's present engagement in
London.
THIS EVENING, •
Sbaltspeare's Play of "King Joha."
On Friday Evening, August 23, "Richard the Second."
And the last Reading on Monday Morning, August 26, Henry the
Tourth. Part I.
- Morning Readings at Half-past Two.
Evening Readings to comraence at half-past Eight o'clock precisely.
SMITS, 75, ; Boxes, ; Pit, 35.; Amphitheatre, 23 Private
Boxes One Guinea, One Callnea and a-half, and Two Guineas.
Boxes and Stalls mat be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, Old Rond-street ; Mr. Sams' Royal Library, St. James's-street ;
Messrs. Ehers', Andrews', Hookham's. Allcreft's, Leader and Cock's,
ChaKell's. Harnmend's, and 011ivier's Libraries, Bond-street ; Cra-
mer's, and the Carlton Library, Regent-street ; and at the Box-office
of the Theatre. which ii open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Prqprietqr and Manager, M. W. Batty.,
The best ventilated Theatre in London.

Crowded House. to witness the :ittractive and maznideent Spectacle
of Maze pa, which, with hrtlitant noveldenin the Wonders of the
Arena, form tha most varied and attractive „Entertainments in the
Metropolis.