The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN,

At the Dann Mine meeting, en Thursday;resolutions
were unanimously carried that thi- evntnittee appointed
on Cie 29th Au7lust, 1849. cease to rot from that day,
and that Messrs. Cook, Davidson, aye, Oliver, Green,
sen., and Grorge Batters, be the committee of manage-
ment, t...) whoin is entru3ted the arrangement of the
present difficulties, pecuniary and otherwise.
During the week shares have changed hands in Al-
fred Consols, Wes.t Alfred, Br!don}, 11,1ary Ann, West
Providence, Vest Caradon, Tincroft, West Phcelix,
Great Bryn, Devon Great Consols. Garreg, Merllyn,
South Tamar, Robins, Black Craig, Venton, North bas-
set, South Caradon, Trdeigh Consols' Treviskey, Wheal
Brewer, Bryn-Arian, West Wheal Rose, Busptrvo,
Galt-y-Alaen, West Callington, Cara Valley, Wheal
Reeth, Wheal Uny, Cord Mawr Pool, General Mining
Company for Ireland, Low's Patent copper Company,
Mining Company of Ireland, Wheal Golden, St. Aubyn
and Grylls, Tra,inack and I3osence, Trelawny, Ty ward-
reath, Comford, Carvannal, Condurrow, and Wheal
Basset.
In Foreign Shares, transactions have taken place in
St. John del Rey, Linares, and Worthing,

THE AttAY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
CAPTAIN PENNY. THE ARCTIC SEARCHER.—We
understand that Captain Penny has again volunteered
his energetic and indefatigable services in the new Arctic
Searching Expedition; but the Admiralty do not seem
inclined to aveil themselves of the services or experience
of any but officers belonging to the Royal Navy. It is
said Captain Penny will have an expedition fitted out
for him by private subscription.
We arc gied to find that the Admiralty have awakened
to the sense of the westernmost port requirements, and
have ordered that the new basin and dock works be
cleared of water at the Government expense, in order
that the contractor may commence operations. These
works are a disgrace to the country.
THE CAPTAIN GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—L is most
likely that Captain Alexander T. E. Vidal (1825) will
receive the Good Service Pension vacant by the promo-
tion of Captain Walpile.
Commander S. L. Crofton (1850), who was promoted
from the command of the Rifleman at Brazils, will suc-
ceed Commander Lavie in the command of the Alecto,
steam-sloop, on the coast of Africa.
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.—Major-General Carden, of
the Royal Engineers, Colonel Colquhoun, of the Artil-
lery, and Sir Edward Belcher, are appointed a commis-
sion to examine and report on the state of the defences
in the Channel Islands, which are of the first importance
in the general review of the state of our fortifications.
KOSSUTH AND THE BLUES.—We have reason to be-
lieve that the retirement of Mr. Algernon Massing-
berd from the Blues has been brought about in a great
measure by an intimation he received that his attention
to the celebrated Hungarian Magyar, in placing his
mansion in Eaton-square at his disposal, as well as ac-
companying- him in his progress through this country,
was by no means befitting the position he held in the
Household Troops of her Majesty. Mr. Massingberd
is now in America, and report avers that he is deter-
mined to attach himself to the fortunes of Kossuth.
ROYAL MARINES RECRUITS.—WO can state from
authority that the number of recruits approved for the
Royal Marines, during the last six months, ending 31st
Decsmber, 1851, was 326 (and not 286), whose height
ranged in the following order :--89, between 5 ft. 7i
in. and .5 ft. 8 in. ; 128, between 5 ft. 8 in. and 5 ft. 9 in.;
64, between 5 ft. 9 in. and 5 ft. 10 in.; 30, between 5
ft. 11 in. and 6 ft. ; and 15 6 feet and upwards.
THE CAPE GOVERNMENT.—C. H. Darling, Es q.,
Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia, is appointed Lieute-
nant-Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and will have
all the business of launching the new constitution at Cape
Town, in the absence of the new Governor, Major-Ge-
neral Cathcart, on the frontier.
CAPE STAFF.—Major-General Charles Yorke has
been placed on the Staff, as second in command at the
Cape, under the orders of Major-General Cathcart.
Major-General Yorke served in the Peninsula with the
52d Regiment, and has a medal with 10 clasps. He was
also at Waterloo. Ile proceeds to the Cape forthwith,
in the Hydra steamer. Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Sey-
mour, Scots Fusilier Guards, is appointed military se-
cretary to Major- General Cathcart, and Captain the Hon.
R. W. P. Curzon, of the Grenadier Guards, aide-de-
camp.
TROOPS FOR RANGOON.—It is expected that a wing of
the 51st Light Infantry, stationed at Madras, will pro-
ceed to Rangoon, should the authorities there evince a
spirit of hostility at the demand of the British Govern-
ment.
Dr. Hale, recently appointed Deputy Inspector-
General of Hospitals for Bombay, arrived at that Pre-
sidency on the 18th of November.
The new military chapel at Winchester was opened
with Divine Service on Sunday last by the Rev. Robert
Gleig, M.A., Chaplain-General to the Forces.
ORDNANCE.—The hired barracks at Corry-square,
Newry, are ordered to be given up to the proprietor.
Ball-practice ground has been hired at Enniskillen,
from the Earl of Enniskillen, for the use of the troops,
consisting of four companies and head-quarters of the
31st Regiment, and the Enrolled Pensioners.
Paymaster Arnold Thompson, of the Coventry Re-
cruiting district, retires upon half-pay after a service of
upwards of fifty years, forty-seven of them as Paymaster.
A RELIC OF TRAFALGAR.—The Admiralty have
given orders that one of the old Victory's anchors in
store at Woolwich Dockyard is to be forwarded to
Portsmouth, and to be presented to the committee, with
the view of placing it on a monument to be erected at
South Sea Beach.

THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION OF 1852.
Among tho volunteers of the new Arctic Expedition are
Captain Sir E. Belcher, Captain Kellett, Captain Om-
manney, Commanders Pullen, M'Clintock, and C. C.
Poi 4th, Lieuterants Osborne and Browne, Mr. C.
Richards, Clerk, and Mr. Bell, Assistant Engineer at
Portsmouth.
THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE STEAM RESERVE
AT DEVoNPuItT.—It was generally believed that Captain
Austin, C. 13., would have been appointed to this office.
We believe is was offered to that officer but declined by
him. Capt. Austin has no notion of employment under that
of the superin:endence of a dock or victualling-yard, or
the packets at Southampton. There is no doubt if
Captain Austin had followed up Penny's discoveries up
the Wellington Channel, and had not come home from
the Arctic regions for another season, he would have
had anything he might have asked for.