The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Captain Kingcome, who commanded the Belleisle as
a troop-ship, has been appointed to commission the iron
screw steam troop-ship Simoon, at Portsmouth.
Lieut. Charles G. Rigge (1838), of the steam Fervice
at Devonport, and who formerly.commanded the Trident
steam-vessel, has been appointed to the rank of com-
mander.

Master. G. A. Waters, to the Simoon
Assistant-Surgeons—James Whither to Greenwich
Hospital, vice Domville promoted; Richard King to the
Victory, flag-ship, Portsmouth.
Second Master—F. B. Youel, to the Sinaoom.
Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, Commaner Be!grave, with
General Cathcart and suite on board, en route from
Portsmouth to the Cape, put into Plymouth on Monday
afternoon, with her rudder-head wrung. As we antici-
pated, she encountered the heavy weather of Saturday
night and Sunday. She ought not to have gone to sea
in the late weather.

Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., weighed anchor at
eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, and made all plain
sail, with the wind at N.N.E., down Channel.
Malabar, Indiaman, and the Sir Robert Peel, Ame-
rican packet, arrived at Portsmouth from London yes-
terday morning. Fresh breezes and squally; wind at
N.N.E. _ _

Orders have been received at this port to pay off the
Pilot, 12, Commander V. G. Hickley, on her arrival
from Portsmouth.

DEFENSIVE PREPARATIONS.--The vacant embrasures
on the land side of the Citadel at Plymouth are to be
forthwith mounted. _ _ _

FORTSMOUTII, FEB. 10.—We are enabled to state that
Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling is selected to fill the
vacancy at the Admiralty Board caused by the retire-
ment of Rear-Admiral Dundas.

The Investigator, Indiaman, sailed to-day for Madras.
SHEERNESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEZ. 9.—Her Majes-
ty's steam-frigate Cyclops, during her late passage
home from the Cape of Good Hope, sprung her bow-
sprit and jibboom, and while aground off the Isle of
Wight carried away part of her forefoot. Her bowsprit
was removed today, the new ono being nearly ready to
be fitted. She is reported ready to be removed from the
drydock into the basin by the 18th inst., bat it is not
expected that she will bo complete in her fittings before
the end of March.

"--Her iajesTyTship Horatio, 24, screw steam guard
ship, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, has her top.
masts fidded, and has commenced setting up her topmast
rigging.
Tho strong winds which prevailed (from S.W. to W.)
during the greater part of the past week subsided on
Saturday, but came on the following morning with in-
creased violence, continuing until this afternoon to such
an extent that her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, could
not be removed, as was intended, to her moorings in the
harbour. Should the weather permit, she will be taken
out of the basin to-morrow, or, as the tides are falling,
she will have to remain here 12 days longer.
Among the regulations recently promulgated relative
to the entry and qualifications of masters -assistants, it
is ordered that in future they are to be placed under the
instruction of naval instructors, who are to receive the
usual tuition-money, which is not to be deducted from
thapay of the master-assistants, as is the case with mid-
shipmen and naval cadets, but the expense thereof is to
be defrayed by the Admiralty.
WOOLWICH, FEB. 10.—Captain Stephen G Fremantle
(1842), having completed a course of study of steam at
the factory at Woolwich dockyard, was examined on Sa-
turday last and yesterday by Mr. Charles Atherton,
chief engineer, and passed in a very satisfectory manner,
having obtained a high certificate of his knowledge of
steam and the working of marine steam engines.
NATIONAL MELODIES.—If we
Burlington-street,
mistake not the
Messrs. Robert Cocks and Co., of New
were foremost in bringing out the beautiful melodies of
" Morceaux" for the
Scotland and Ireland, arranged as
drawing-room (by Vincent Wallace). That farm. (who do
not let grass grow under their feet) are now issuing a selec-
tion of the favourite national melodies of the Principality,
newly arranged for the piano-forte,7by that. favourite com-
poser and pianist Brinley Richards. The title of this series
is " Recollections of Wales." The melodies are treated in a
style as novel as it is masterly and captivating. The same
accomplished artist—who is rapidly winning for himself an
European fame—has composed two lovely romances for the
piano-forte, full of poetry though. without words. They are
always heard with rapture, and Mpublic elicit repeated
Angel'seate
den-
cores. We allude to " The Vision" and T
Song"—the latter of which sweetly interprets that unutter-
able thought of Longfellow—
" Ye sounds so low and calm
Tbat, in the groves of balm,
Seemed to me like an Angel's psalm."
THE RAwmAESLI COLLIERY RELIEF
hPUND.—The
fund collected for the widows and orphans of t e sufferers by
the awful explosion at the Rawmarsh Colliery, on the 20th
of December, has reached the large sum 2,400/. Of this
9
amount Sheffield alone has contributed Odol
2s.F weeklyromthis forfund
vi
it is in contemplation to allow to each 1
life, and 6d. per week for each child until 14 years of age.
This will require a sum of 3,9001,, and the amount collected,
with interest at 5 per cent.,the deductions from the
probable marriages of widows
and
provisilonnd
will amply allow of this the deaths of children,

, 1852

C:3TTRT CIRCU L,A

WINDSOR, FEB. 10.
The followieg were the additions to the Royal dinner
rwty yeser,lay—hiir Ro) al Highness the Duchess of
the Lady in W•:iting to her Royal highness, L'ldy
France; Br Speth, the Earl of Hu!-
Brix?, the Baroness
grave, and Lien.tenaut-Colonel Francis Stsmour.
I-I!,r Majesty's private band attended aft,r dinner in
the Castle, awl performed the f,llowing compositions:—
Overture "Marguerite de Anjou" ... Meyer beer.
Qaartetto, Op. IS. Allegro me nun lento,
Scherzo, Andante, Minu?tto and Trio
Allegro. Finale, 2 violins, viola, and
Violoncello, Messrs. Sainton, Day, End,
and 11. Chipp ..• ••• ••• ••• Beethoven.
Romance, Chcear et Marche du Bo3af Apis
"L' Enfant Prodigue" ..• •.• ••• Auber.
The baud of the Royal Horse Guards performed a
l'vfatinale in the Scotch Terrace this morning.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park and Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Royal Children, took their usual walking and pony ex-
ercise.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived in
town on Monday morning from her residence, Frogmore,
near Windsor. Her Royal Highness visited the Duchess
of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, and in
the afternoon left Clarence House, St. James's,for Frog-
more.
The Privy Council which was appointed to be held on
the 13th instant, at Buckingham Palace, will be holden
this day at Windsor Castle, instead.
Lord Rendlesham and a deputation had an interview
with Lard John Russell yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
The Cambridge University Commission had a meeting
yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present, the Bishop
of Chc ster, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, and
the Rev. W. H. Bateson (Secretary).
The Attorney. General of Ireland had an interview
with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.

THE UNITED STATES.
(Extract of Letter.)
CINCINNATI, JAN. 23, 1852.—The winter in the
United States is unprecedented in the memory of the
oldest inhabitauts-15 below zero! What are they in
the north? East, west, north, and south it prevails'with ex-
treme severity, and the roads are impassable. The
mails have occupied six days in the transit usually ac.
complished in forty-eight hours. Such is the novelty—
such a thing never having occurred before—that every
ridiculous species of article that can be converted into a
sledge are made available, as soap and candle-boxes,
sugar vats, wine baskets, &c., and the streets are
crowded. It has snowed hero incessantly for two
months.
Extraordinary to relate, letters state that at New
Orleans they have snow from four to six inches deep.
Near Lake Erie there have been two avalanches, and
nine persons and eleven horses have perished.
Kossuth is not a favourite in the slave states. They
shy invitations to him. The State of Virginia requested
him not to go through their territory to come to Cincin-
nati; consequently he will pass by Pennsylvania, and
not proceed further than this.

Here is a taste of their quality from the Daily Cincin-
nati Commercial of Jan. 19:—
"EXPENSES OF ROSSI:ITT:CS SUITE.
" Otsego,' the Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Herald, states that the wine bill of Kossuth's
suite, at Brown's Hotel, was 75 dollars a day, and the
cigar bill 15 dollars a day. One day they employed
thirty or forty hacks. The average daily expense was
about three hundred dollars."

The same writer says great things were promised
Kossuth in Ohio. One speaker said fire hundred thou-
sand dollars could be raised, and ten hundred thousand
men. If Kossuth relied on these promises, he will cer-
tainly bi disappointed.
Daniel Webster will not be President. Ile is too
clever.