The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN'S PLATE WEIGHTS.
Her Majesty's Master of the Horse has expressed his
consent to the alteration of weights at Newcastle on-
Tyne, as suggested by Mr. Radford, the acti►e Secretary
of the Racing Committee.
The distance of the Queen's Guineas is three miles,
and the imposts have been thus altered:—

at. lb. at. lb.
3 years old were 7 2 will be 7 4
4 ~ ), 9 2 „ 810
5 „ ~ 10 0 „ 9 4
6 and aged „ 10 5 „ 9 7
We hope that the new tariff will induce a large access
of imports, the unpopularity of the previous one being
evidenced by its coming last year to a match, with 5 to 1
on the four years old, versus his senior by the year,
giving 121 b.

- Chester, Shrewsbury, and Manchester, under the old
regime, will watch the innovation with deep interest, and,
should it be found beneficial in the increase of fields, a.;
we anticipate that it will be, they will of course follow
suit, and their petition meet with a similar reception.
THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAYER.—The weights
for the 102 horses entered will be published by Tues-
day. 7th January, instead of the 9th, as originally in-
tended.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS.

Gunner—Theodore Trizise, tot.ie Athol troop-ship.
To be Acting Gunners—William S. Deere, Henry
Blyth, Tobias Mulkey.
To be Acting Boatswain—George Sergeant.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE GRAPPLER STEAM VESSEL.—
Otomanney, Son, and Co., have given notice that an
account of the tonnage bounty received for the capture
and destruction of the Brazilian schooner Esperaucs,
No. 2, on the 23d February, 1849, by the Grappler, and
also of the net proceeds and tonnage bounty received
for the capture of the Brazilian schooner Esperanc 1, No.
1, on the 17th of March, 1849, will be delivered into the
registry of the High Court of Admiralty on the 30th inst.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE WEST INDIES.—A fatal
accident ocourred on board the Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop,
Commander Dyke, Nov. 1, while lying off St. John de
Nicaragua. It appears that the crew were at general
quarters firing at a target with the large guns, and
whilst a quarti•rmaster, of the name of Hayman, was in
the act of ramming home a cartridge, it exploded, and
completely blew him to pieces; the captain of the gun
losing a portion of his lett thumb at the same time.
Comet, steam-vessel, Commander Otter, surveying at
the Hebrides, is ordered to Queenstown to be laid up for
the winter.
Woodlark, surveying vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Thomas, lately engaged at the Orkneys, is ordered to be
paid off at Woolwich this day at noon.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A CONVICT.—Reuben Clifford, a
convict, while employed in discharging the cargo of a
coal-brig at the dockyard, Woolwich, yesterday, was
taken suddenly ill, fell down, and expired almost im-
mediately.
ACCIDENTS AT WOOLWICH.—A lad named Isaac,
a caulker's apprentice, felt into the King William
Dock at Woolwich-yard, a depth of from twenty to
thirty feet, and fractured his thigh. He was immediately
conveyed to the Royal Marine Infirmary, where every
attention was paid to him. Mr. Wilson, timekeeper at
the factory, when passing up the yard yesterday morn-
ing, from the slippery state, of the stones,fell down and
fractured his arm.

PORTSM ,UTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Phaeton, 50, Cap-
tain G. Elliot, sailed from Spithoad this morning for
Lisbon, with dispatches and supernumeraries for the
squadron of Commodore Martin.
The Rogue, 60, Captain M'Dougall, got steam up this
morning at ten o'clock, and tried speed at the measured
mile in Stokes' Bay until two P.M.
The Amphitrite, 26, Captain Frederick, has been un-
docked today and placed is the basin for rigging, &Q.,
where she has been masted and comm4sioned.

The Eurydice, 26, has been brought d iwn from the
ordinary to-day and placed in the old basin, in readiness
for docking to undergo a thorough overhaul, and, if ne-
cessary, repair, prior to recommission.
Mr. Sabben, assistant-surgeon of the dockyard, has
discovered a method for preventing corrosion, oxidation,
&c., of iron tanks, shot, &c. The process is by means
of a covering of zinc, and is extremely simple as well as
inexpensive, taking into consideration the immense de-
struction and corrosion from oxidation, more particularly
in ships' tanks, which are now constantly requiring clean-
ing out and repairing. The perfect success of this in-
vention, it must be admitied, can only be safely tested
by time; at present, however, it has received the moss
favourable opinion of scientific men.