The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-29 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENTS IN PARIS

le I,J4.eria,,a 't% er.curnh9r ft the
new portion of the Rae de Rivuli, beLe‘ the Rues
St. Martin and St. Denis, are being removed, and in
a few days the road will be given up to the engineers
for levelling. At present the garden of the Hotel
_crekagevilliers and the lightning-rods of the Tuileries
can be seen from the Hotel de Ville. The parts of
the street opened for traffic attract considerable crowds
every day, who watch the progress of the new build-
lags and ocher works with marked interest. The
prolongation of the Rue de Rivoli was decreed by the
111 W of the 4th of October, 1849. It is 2,500 metres
la a straight line from the Ministry of Marine in the
Place de la Concorde to the Hotel de Ville, and
''.,out 22 yards in wida. The demolitions commenced
ek the 16th of January, 1852, and the contractors
t'elertook to complete them by the 18th of Septem-
ber. They have succeeded in completely clearing
the
street, with the exception of the small por-
Pn just mentioned. The demolitions were
divided into seven sections :—The first comprised 37
houses between the Rue des Poulies and the Rue de
la Alonnaie ; the second, 29 houses from *le Rue de la
l'ionnaie to the Rue des Bourdonnais ; the third, 26
houses from the Rue des Bourdonnais to the Rue des
,
leavandieres ; the fourth, 18 houses from the Rue des
houses from the Rue St. Denis to the Rue St. Mar-
; the sixth, 20 houses from the Rue St. Martin to
the Rue de la Coutellerie ; and the seventh, 43 houses
froth the Rue de la Coutellerie to the Hotel de Ville.
li,
to this be added the dependencies of the houses, the
total number of edifices which have disappeared is
240, and their demolition has obliged not fewer than
12)000 persons to seek new lodgings. This number
ig greater than the entire population of the chief
e,Plaaes of several departments—such as Evreux,
Aucb, Quimper, &c. The new street
‘l6ll cause the names of the Rues Be-
-1,_153", des des Mauvaises Paroles, des Deux Boules, du
Chevalier-du-Duet, de la Vielle-Harengerie, des
▪ avandiree d'Avignon, Trognon, St. Benoit, Jean
a,e ▪
I,
Epine, de la Tixerandierie, de la Petite-Bou-
!Illes and others, to disappear from the list of Pari-
sian streets. The surface of the ground cleared is
sh▪
out 35,450 yards, of which 21,662 will be taken by
s street and the rest will be sold. The sum of
17 ,
05,749 f. has been awarded to the owners of the
lololished houses, and 3,218,137 f. 85e. to the oecu-
PLera. The demolitions and other operations have
'3%t 200,000 f., so that the total sum paid by the mu-
4„iciPality is 21,318,886 f. 85c. In diminution of this
aunt the city has received 724,116 f. for materials
,"‘,133
the demolished houses, 755,9661. 75c. for 2,118
Virda of ground sold. The remainder of the ground
he sold will, it is expected, produce 2,477,259 f.
Deducting these items, the total expense of the street
;44111 be 17,356,545f.101., but the expense will be
icreased by about 7,000,000 f.. by the prolongation of
'a arcades to the Rue des Poulies.

PUBLIC DEBT.
Parliamentary return in relation to the public
debt gives the following particulars of its variations
of ring the last 30 years, both as regards the amount
idniocipal and the annual cost for the payment of
rest. It will be seen that the reduction in the
Etlt'cipal effected during that period has been only
,000,0001., or 6 per cent., but that as regards the
annual charge for interest it has been 3,326,4241.,
eearly 11 per cent. The lowest point at which.
18',, national debt ever stood of late years was in
te '4) when it had declined to 772,196,8491., or to
414 millions below the sum at which it now stands,
hie. Emancipation loan in 1835 and the Irish
t,tillne loan in 1847 having far more than. coun-
terbalanced all subsequent reductions. It is. to be re-
-I,l4lrited, however, that, owing to the conversion of the.
knree-and-a•Half per Cents., and the low rates paid
tIOn the unfunded debt, &c., the actual cost of these
In igations is now smaller than at that period. DLIT-
c;I the next seven or eight years this charge will
I,,.Perience a further diminution of 3,207,500/., of
600,000/. will take place by the Three-and-s.t-
eilarter per Cents. becoming Three per Cents. in
Till occur
1854, while the cessation of the remainder..
It '3.occur through the expiry of the Long Annuities
tillitrinary, 1860, for 1,293,5001., and of other. an-
le„,'") amounting to 1,314,0001., during the inter-
-58"1,2g time. The annuity held by the Bank for
hi-I'W/. does not terminate till 1867. The un-
toitlcied debt, which is included in the subjoined
was less in 1851 than in any other year of the
1 i
?s, its amount being 17,742 8001. In 1822 t was
1,
- nigh as 36,281,1501.
Total Debt.

Year. tAmount. Cost
X.
X.
X1:343,551
1822 ..• 832,811,295 ••• .29y78,454
1823 826,443,364 •••

- .26,4. „,..
••• 813,521,672 ... 30,16L421
1824
1825 ... 806,122,467 ... 29,197.157
1826 ••• 808,367.590 .•• 29,228,96;
1827 ... 805,023,742 ... 29.417,543
1828 ... 799,979,540 .„ 29,309,032
1829 - ..
96, 742, 482 .. 29,156,611
. ,
1830 783,096,646 ..: 29,118,859
...
1831
... 781,095,234 ... 28,341,416
1832 ... 779,796,549 ... 28,323,752
1,833 779.565,783 ... 28,522,507
1834 -
... i -
72,196,849 ... 28,504,096
IRR-
i-.3 787,526,466 ... 28,514,610
1836 ...
... 788,398,570 .•. 29,243,599
1837 786,319,738 ... 29,489,571
1838 ..- -
785,373,740 ... 29,260.238
1839 ••••• 786,512,734 ... 29,454.062
1840 •787,448,075 • 29,381,718
-
1841 "
790,874,608 .„ 29,450,145
11842 ....., 791,250,440 ... 29,428,120
i,,,84,,3, ••• 790 576.392 ... 29.269,160
-"" •.. 787,598,145 .•• 30,495,459
1845; ••• 785.053,022 .•• 28,253,872
.846
... 782,918,984 .•• 28,077,987
1,847
... 790,348,331 ... 28,141,531
1848 791 809 338 ... 28,563.517
1849 - ' '
790,927,017 ••• 28 323 961
1,859 ::•. 787 •029,162 .•• 28,091,590
'B5l ... 782,869,382 ... 28,017,127

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STATE OF TRADE.
74(1"r0m the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
thkt 4NeurrEa, TUESDAY.—By the America we learn
for a few days
prior to her sailing from New
Aork
thQ, on the 15th instant there was a renewal of
ittse reports of injury to the cotton crop in South
LtdDlinat Georgia, Alabama, and Florida,
Previously come to be regarded as greatly exag-
talatel ; that, on the 4th instant there were heavy
,
in South Carolina ; and that the consequence
has %I: renewed demand for cotton at New York, New
/':°?3, and Charleston, with an upward ten-
detei 41 prices ; the lc. before lost at New York
4,011,, recovered. The expectation of another crop of
totd°v,'°°o was daily becoming fainter. The crop
°s6sn'een made up, showing a total of 3,015,029
61againA 2,355257 last year, being an increase
ti,,,g72, over the crop of 1850-51, and 918,323
that of 1849-50. These accounts have imparted
tomefresh •
lltlye life to the Liverpool market, where. prices
4, ;regained 1-161 to per lb. Here, the effects
Sell:,;.l2°P.lY an increase of firmness on the part of
h— in maintaining the quotations of last
Reek,
tadather more disposition among buyers to operate
NI, °se prices. A general feeling of caution, ow-
pt ± Prevails, which restricts the aggregate bus hiness
tr 4 the day to a very moderate amount. The Germans
4sitill giving out but few orders ; and that small
twio Ile which had taken place in 16's to 24's water
tot 4 is therefore still unrecovered. But the demand
Ntoranaon mule yarns which followed the arrival of
i
Nv overland. mail has rather increased to-day the up-
It
itttil tendency of 30's, 40's, and 50's. And the
t/) °not% then received from Calcutta have given rise
I,4,..llnrchases of light 40 and 45-inch shirtings and
C. 6-4th jacconets, which have slightly added to
p' value.
t 14-1-trax, SATETEDAY.—The amount of business
eilacted in our Piee-hall to- day has been very
,1,411 but there ia, we understand rather more
io tbe warehouses, and to order, 'both in plain
lod
itis'4"s" goods. Prices, however, do not improve.
tittl"' respect to yarn, every spindle is running full
; but the merchants are becoming a little more
D of giving out their orders at the present rates,
Dicere seems to be some uncertainty as to the future
of the raw material. There is not a great deal
datattifh in wool ; but the quotations are firm, and
da
for lig advance has been, in some instances, obtame
44tne favourite sorts.
Ilstai°,l)DEttsriELD, TUESDAY.—There has been a ge-
-1244 heaviness in the market to-day, and goods have
of 13(1 off more slowly than usual. A few parcels
%tat aver and pilot cloths have beenn the principl
l,:antions in finished goods. Amogst the balk,
qiin:ver, rather more has been doing. Black doe-
ilk„e ',fancy tweeds of dark pattern, and grey mixtures
hod "en the prevailing articles inquired for, and a
4.l(in number of those have changed hands ; but,
,the market altogether, there has not been as
'kpc,et!i()ing in seasonable goods as was to have been
ktk eIInALE, MONDAY.—W e have had a very brisk
4,'t in flannels, and more business would have
ket, 11 transacted if the manufacturers could have
too Uteri the prices, as they consider themselves but
py remunerated with oil and wool at their present
sobs:' There is no change in the wool market worth
G•

A EAT
ahItFREE- TRADE BANQUET AT MANCHESTER.-
influential meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League,
'ittln4` Manchester yesterday, it was resolved that a great
t
-11-I,be
't shall field in the Free-trade Hall on Tuesday,
k of November next, to which Mr. Cobden, Mr.
ZTC,,"-, and all the leading Free-trade Members of the House
t4r/;;ill, Mons shall be invited. The meeting was attended, by
Armitage, Mr. Crook, M.P., Mr. T.
•;.',anah Bazley,
• Buckle Mr. R. M. Philips, and most of the leading
itt'ost activemembers of the council of the League were
ktl4"Pite at the meeting. Mr. George Wilson presided. The
~
sae
to include English, Irish, and Scotch Members or
pa"tge, and the object is to mark the determination of
‘kvt;r fully to carry out free-trade policy which they
Akq.far ady laced in thethe commercial legislation of the
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THE SUN,

LITERATURE.

(LATITAL ~1.17.1RET; or, SELF-LOVE and
SELF- CONTROL. 2 Vols. Shoberl.
This work is not one of the ordinary class of
novels, it is more calculated to interest the thoughtful
and philosophical than to attract the admirers of start-
ling incidents or romantic tales. The hero, as may
be supposed, is Irish, and the events described take
place in Ireland. Ltd away by a prospect of imme-
diate benevolence, he consents to allow a Unitarian
chapel to be built on his grounds, and even superin-
tends the progress of the building and its opening
ceremonial. These mistaken ideas of tolerance he
afterwards regrets, but they involve him in many
trials, and cause great affliction to his mother, Mrs.
More. This lady is, in fact, the heroine of the tale,
the chief part of the first volume being devoted to
her conversations with her friends on moral, and even
theological subjects; her idea of self-love is not
that which is generally meant as selfishness, but au
exalted standard of personal duty, which she believes
should be considered before any advantage to others.
There is much depth of thought in her arguments,
and real piety, which contrasts forcibly with the infi-
delity and malignity of Mr. Schelling, the Unitarian,
who is Cathal More's evil genius. The description
of the fearful sufferings of the poor during the time
of the potato disease is awful from its reality. The
following extract is from a conversation between Mrs.
More and her son
And is it not better to be of use to men than to
spend one's days in idle dreams about the nature of
things?'
There is a cant now-a-days, about benefiting man-
kind, which Ido not at all admire. We are apt to for-
get that each man is born to look after himself, and not
after other people.'
" ' And would you have selfishness govern the world?'
"'Not selfishness, but self-love, which is often opposed
to selfishness. Selfishness is, I think, to our animal
nature what self-love is to that part of us which is im-
mortal; the one considers the interest of the soul, the
other grasps at a momentary gratification of the body.'
"' But it is the interest of the soul to be virtuous; it is
virtuous to assist others, therefore self-love leads us to
philanthropy.'
" And EO it does, as long as philanthropy is a virtue;
but when the desire to be of use to others jars with any
duty of our own it ceases to be so.'
" Ido not understand you, mother; you say one is
to help others in one breath, and in the next that it is
wrong. Ilow can benevolence be wrong?'
" I mean that it is right to do good to others when
it does good to ourselves, and wrong when it injures
ourselves.'
" But, do you know, notwithstanding what you have
said, that sounds very selfish?'
"' No! because by ourselves I mean our whole selves,
our future as well as our present interests.'
"' And so you think we may overlook our own duties
to ourselves from excessive philanthropy ?'

" • Exactly.'
" "rhen you place our duty to ourselves above our
duty to others.'
" •Yes; every gift, every faculty we possess, is given to
us to help ourselves, and each man's occupation is solely
to advance his real interests. Our duty to others is
contained in our duty to ourselves, but it is secondary,
though the two always harmonize.' "

NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SEPT. 27.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—Soon after one o'clock on
Saturday morning a destructive fire broke out at the
upper end of Pile-street. The two borough engines
were soon on the spot, but it was some time before
they could be effectively worked for want of water,
as the turncock could not be found, and when he
came considerable further delay occurred in finding
the fire-plug. Fortunately there was very little
wind, and a good supply of water for one engine was
obtained from one of the town pumps. The powerful
barrack engine was brought by the troops, and as
soon as the water was laid on an immense quantity
was thrown on the burning buildings, three houses
being by that time in flames, all of which were even-
tually destroyed with their stock and furniture. The
sufferers are Mr. Reason of the " Brown Jug," and
Messrs. Cole and Jolliffe, cabinet makers and up-
holsterers, the whole of whose vast and valuable
stock fell a prey to the devouring element; and it is
stated that they were only insured to a trifling
amount (5001.).
FALL OF PART OF THE CLIFF NEAR ST. LAW-
RENCE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On Sunday morning a
part of the cliff at Old Park fell, blocking up the
road along the undercliff between Ventnor and
Sandrock. The four-horse coach that runs from
Cowes to Blackchine and Ventnor was obliged yes-
terday to make a road through the meadows, the main
and only road along the undercliff being blocked up
by the stone and chalk which had fallen. A number
of men are employed removing the debris, but it will
be some time before the road will be again passable
for carriages. These landslips often take ,place in
the winter, but we:have uo recollection of any former
one of this extent occurring at this season of the year.
Cowes and the island generally were never known
to be so full of company at this period of the year as
it is now.
The corn harvest is at length finished, much of the
wheat having been carried in a very bad condition.
The farmers have been paying their men such low
wages that they could not get their work done ; a
little more liberality and all would have been well
saved.
A SWAT FOR THE CURIOUS.—On Saturday night,
the 18th instant, Solomon Dunford,
,a labouring man,
in the employ of W. M. Dansey, Esq., of Egypt
House, was at Williams's beer-shop. Just before
eleven o'clock he went out, leaving his basket behind,
and did not return. On the following day search
was made for him to no purpose, fears being enter-
tained that he had walked overboard; the steam-boat
docks at the Fountain-wharf were dragged for the
body, but without success. The brother's faith led
him in another direction, and he went to Portsmouth
to a certain cunning man, to consult him as to what
had become of his lost brother, when he was told that
" he had been dragged away by three men, and that
he was then on the sea, but not in the sea, and that
he would hear from him in seven days, if he was not
on an island." The stupid fellow returned perfectly
satisfied, but could not so easily satisfy others ; the
woods round the town were searched, and the harbour
dragged. A man in the Preventive service, stationed
on the Fountain-wharf, declared that if the body was
to be found that he could find it in a very short time
if he had a loaf of bread baked in a tin. The loaf was
procured hot, a hole cut in it, and three ounces of
quicksilver put into it, it was then put in a small raft,
and so placed on the water that the wind would blow
it into the dock, the man declaring that if the body
was in the dock the loaf would be attracted to it, and
where the loaf stopped there the body would be found.
The loaf stopped at the head of the stage, but the tide
was then too high to touch the bottom with the boat's
oar ; this was between ten and eleven o'clock, at
twelve the tide had fallen considerably, and he tried
to find the body with his boat's oar. Some say he
lifted the body up, others that it rose on the loaf's
stopping; but others that the Medina steam-vessel
arrived at the stage at twelve o'clock, and the motion
of her paddles caused the body to float. Certain it is,
that it was near where the loaf stopped against the
fstage, which is a very curious coincidence. The cir-
cumstance has caused no trifling comment.

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COURT CIR CULAR.
BALMORA.L, MONDAY'.
The inclemency of the weather prevented her Ma-
esty from attending Divine service yesterday.
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The Earl of Beverley had an interview with Dn.
Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo
nial•office from the Governor of St. Helena.

SYDNEY.
The following extract of a letter of the latest date,
from a merchant at Sydney, indicates the expectation
entertained by the people at that place that their own
mines will not be totally eclipsed even by the extra-
ordinary yield at Mount Alexander. The writer
also refers to the abovementioned invention of Sir
Thomas Mitchell:—

"Sydney, 'Tune 22, 1852.
" I think we shall have somo great diggings here soon.
You will see that wo shall have our Mount Alexander
yet as well as the Victorians. There are:depo6its to the
northward, on the Peel river, called the Hanging-rock
Diggings, which are being developed very quietly. The
parties there are doing wonderfully well. We hear of,
and see weekly, large nuggets of 10oz. to 20cz. an up-
wards from that qu ar ter. They are doing as well—d the
few that aro there—a 3 those at Victoria.
" Sir Thomas Mitchell has been testing his new in-
vention—the Bomerang propeller for steamers in lieu of
the screw. Haw
as tried it on a steamer here, and it has
answered very ell. Sir Thomas says ho will be able to
get 20 knots an hour out of it. It will be the very thing
tor ocean steam-ships. Ho:hs taken out a patent, and
wishes to go home to bring ita out."

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or 111 E NEW SHERIFFS.—Yester-
Sw"Ri"IN Mr Croll, the new Sheriffs, were
11
sworn in at Guildha •
and
They. were accompanied from the
the hustings by the Lord Mayor,
Court of Aldermen to
day Alderman Carter.
Ilfr. Swift, and Mr. Cotterell (the
several of the aldermen,
' b the principal City officers. i
late Sheriffs), and attended 3'
companies to which the new
Several of the members of the
Sheriffs respectively belong
The new carriages and liveries were greatly admired.
n Monday, at noun, the
THE SlioTTlisllAM CASE.—~la
irrell terminated.
fourteen days' watch over Elizabeth Sq"
One of the committee assures us that every means was taken
to ascertain whether she had possession of her sight and
hearing, but she gave no indication that she had the use of
.
entirerm of
these faculties. lie also says that during the
the linen
fourteen days she neither ate nor drank, and that
was unsoiled. At the close of the watch her parents were
allowed to see her. After embracing them she became
powerfully affected, and for some minutes it was feared that
she was dead. The committee have unanimolsly signed a
declaration that they acquit the girl and her parents of
fraud. Many hundreds of persons visited her during the
watch ; on Sunday seventy were present, and at the close of
I the term the cottage was crowded.—lpswich ,Express.

_LON-DON,

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE

The navy will be gre:ifiee to lea:n tbet the Admi •
ralty, appreciating the distinguished services of
Commander Tarleton, at Burinah, have promoted
him to the rank of captain, and have further evinced
their sense of, this officer's eligibility by appointing
him c intain of the Fox, 42, the flag-ship of the
commander-in•chief, Commodore Lambert. This
officer entered the navy in September, 1803, as first-
class volunteer on board the Leander, 50 ; as mid-
shipman of the Pallas, 32, Captain Lord Cochrane, he
assisted in that frigate, Ns bile cruizing off the Azores,
at the capture of four valuable Spanish vessels, one
of the richest of which, laden with treasure, he car-
ried as prizemaster to Plymouth. On April 6, 1806,
while her boats with all but 40 of the crew were
absent on an expedition up the Garonne, the Pallas
gave chase to, and drove on shore, two corvettes and a
large armed frigate-built store ship, mounting in the
whole 64 guns ; and on this occasion Mr. Tattnall was
the only quarter-deck petty officer left on board. In
the course of the following month he witnessed the
destruction of the semaphores along the French coast,
and was present when the Pallas, having singly at-
tacked the French 40-gun frigate La Minerve, in
company with three 18-gun brigs, ran foul of the
former in as attempt to board, and by the tremend-
ous shock was rea need to a complete wreck. In
December, 1806, shortly after he had been removed
with Lord Cochrane to the Imperieuse, 38, he was
placed in charge of a prize in the Bay of Biscay, and
sent to England. On his passage, however, the
vessel he was in was driven by stress of weather in a
sinking state under the island of Belleisle, and was
there taken possession of by a force sent for that pur-
pose from the shore. On the following day he was
sent over to Quiberon Bay, and .thence marched to
the dept at Verdun, a distance of 500 miles. At
the end of eighteen months he was deprived, with
all the midshipmen then in France, of his parole, and
taken to Givet. Here he was placed with 1,200
British seamen in close confinement in the barracks ;
and it wes not until December 1809, that, having
failed in two attempts, he at length succeeded in
effecting his escape in the disguise of a
female, and reaching Ostend; whence, through the
agency of a smuggler, he was conveyed on board the
British fleet. In the ensuing January he passed his
examination ; and in May, 1810, he joined on promo-
tion the Neptune, 98, flag-ship, in the West Indies, of
Sir Alexander Cochrane, who immediately nominated
him Acting Lieutenant of the St. Pierre, 18, Captains
Flinn and Houston. In this sloop he returned to
Portsmouth in July of the same year; and on the
10th of the next December he was again ordered to
act as Lieutenant in the Racehorse, 18 ; in which (the
appointment being confirmed April 18 following) we
find him present, May 20, 1811, when in company, off
Madagascar, with the 36-gun frigates Astraea, Phoebe,
and Galatea, at the capture (after a long and warmly
contested action with the French 40-gun frigate Re-
nommee, Clorine, and Nereide) of the Renommee, and
on the 26th of the same month, of the Nereide, and
the settlement of Tamatave. Invaliding from
the Racehorse about May, 1812, he was next ap-
pointed-Jan. 5, 1813, to the Portia, 14. He coin-
inaded the boats of the President, 38, at the capture,
during the siege of St. Sebastian, of the island of
Santa Clara-and, whilst in the Tonnant, 80, com-
manded the Tonnant's boats at the destruction of
Commodore Barney's flotilla up the Patuxent; had
charge of a gunboat in the attack upon Baltimore,
and again commanded the boats of the Tonnant in
company with those of a squadron under Captain
Lockyer, of the Sophie, 18, at the capture, on Lake
Borgne, of five American gunboats, under Commo-
dore Jones, which did not surrender until the British
in the course of a desperate conflict, had been occa-
sioned a loss of 17 men killed, and 77 wounded. In
narrating the details of the latter very gallant affair,
Captain Lockyer, in his dispatch says-" I cannot
omit to mention the conduct of Lieutenants Tattnall
and Roberts, of the Tonnant, particularly the
former, who, after having his boat sunk alongside,
got into another, and gallantly pushed on to the
attack of the remainder 'of the flotilla." We may
add, that the launch, the boat alluded to, had 16 of
her crew killed and wounded. On the promotion of
Captain Lockyer, Mr. Tattnall, having been the
senior lieutenant engaged, was ordered by Sir A.
Cochrane to succeed him in the command of the
Sophie. From February to May, 1815, he acted as
captain of the Dictator, 64, and Carron, 20 ; he was
then placed on half-pay, without his promotion, how-
ever, being confirmed. At length, in March, 1819,
on a partial change taking place at the Admiralty
Board, his case, without application on his part, was
laid, by Sir Edward Codrington, before Sir George
Cockburn, who at once placed him in acting command
of the Spey, 20, then on the eve of her departure for
the Mediterranean. He was officially promoted April
14 following, and has not been since afloat.-. Herald.
Commander Nepean, whose death we announced
yesterday, was son of the late Lieutenant-General
Nepean and brother of Captain Nepean, R.N. He
entered the navy March 3, 1798, as first-class volun-
teer on board the Caton ; was promoted to the rank
of lieutenant, Sep'. 25, 1806 ; and next in succession
appointed, 29th of the same month, to the Raven,
sloop, Captain James Grant, stationed off Lisbon and
Oporto ; Dec. 21, 1806, to the Bellerophon, 74,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Albemarle Bertie,
in the Channel ; April 8, 1808, to the Humber,
Captains John Hill and Robert England, employed
between Falmouth and the Downs ; about July,
1809, to the Imperieuse, 38, Captains Lord Coch-
rane, Thomas Gould, and Hon. Henry Duncan,
attached to the force in the North Sea and Mediter-
ranean ; and, in 1811, to the regular service, which he
left in 1814. While belonging to the Raven he was
wounded in her boats in au attack upon a privateer ;
and when in the Imperieuse, in 1809, he assisted at
the destruction of a fort in the River Scheldt, took
part in the operations connected with the siege of
Flushing, and was a second time wounded in an affair
with five Dutch schuyts near South Beveland. His
last appointments were April 25, 1823, to the water
guard, in which service he continued, we believe, but
a short period; October '2B, 1841, to the post (which
he retained until the close of 1843) of Admiralty
agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel ; and
January 4 and May 22, 1845, to the San Josef, 110,
and Caledonia, 120, both commanded by Captain
Manley Hall Dixon, at Devonport.
APPOINTMEICTS.

Captain—Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B. (1837), to
command the Agamemnon, 90, screw-steamship, com-
miqsioned this day at Woolwich.
Commander—Hebert Hall (1852),recently Acting-
Commander the Hound brig, 8, on the west coast
o
of Africa station, to the Agamemnon.
Lieutenants—William H. Holland (1841), First-
Lieutenant of the Hogue screw steamship, to the
Agamemnon ; John E. Parish (1846), recently First-
Lieutenant of the Conflict steam-sloop, on the south-
east coast of America station, to command the
Sharpshooter, commissioned this day at Portsmouth ;
and John Bythesea (1849), to the Arrogant steam-
frigate at Portsmouth.
Paymaster—Edward D. Back (1846), to the Ca-
lypso, 18, on the North America and West India
station.

Clerk in Charge—John Donald (1845), to the
Sharpshooter.
Second Masters—John Thompson (1848), from the
Arrogant to the Sharpshooter; John R. Richards
(1852), to the Arrogant, vice Thompson.
Master's Assistant—John P. Grant, to the Sharp-
shooter.
Alidshipmen—L. Dent, to the Hogue, and the
Hon. J. Fitzmaurice, to the Arrogant.

Gunner—William Betinson, to the Sharpshooter.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 28.—The Sharpshooter, com-
missioned this day at Portsmouth, is an iron steam-
vessel of 202 horse power.
The baggage of Captain Innes's and Captain
Marston's companies of the Royal Artillery was put
on board the Megsera steam-frigate, Commander
John 0. Johnson, at Woolwich Dockyard, to-day,
and the companies are to embark to-morrow for a
passage to Barbadoes.

AQUATICS.
GREAT ROWING MATCH.

Two very excellent rowing matches took place yester-
day over the usual regatta course, from Putney to Mort-
lake. The first of these was for 50/., between Williams,
a waterman of the Tower-stairs, and R. Power, of
Whitehall. and rowed up. The second was between
Sinclair and Perry, and was rowed down. Both matches
created considerable sporting interest, and the Curlew
steamer, which had been chartered to accompany the
races, was crowded with sporting men, who speculated
freely upon the results.
In the first match betting was 5 to 4 on Power, who,
losing the chance of station, took the Putney side of
Fulham bridge, his opponent being on the Middlesex
side of the centre arch. It was a very capital start, the
pace being extremely good, and the men continued
almost scull and scull up to Finch's, where Williams
began to draw away from his opponent, who, however,
strugeled very manfully', although unsuccessfully, Wil-
liams ultimately winning by several lengths.
Perry and Sinclair, both landsmen of considerable re-
nown, shortly afterwards started from Mortlake to
Putney for 30/. They had before contended, when Sin-
clair was the conqueror. Betting was even, but in some
cases sto 4 was invested on Sinclair. Both men were
in capital condition, and rowed in old-fashioned boats--
a novelty now-a-days. Perry had the best station, but
his opponent took the lead, and kept it to Barnes Rail-
way-bridge, where th( y became scull and scull, and a
most exciting race fdlowed all the way down. Perry,
in the course of a smart spurt, drew slightly in advance
of his opponent, and cam© in first by a length and a half
only.

The Queer, by her warrant of the 6th of August
last, has granted to Caroline Southey, the widow of the late
Poet Laureate, a yearly pension of 2001., " in consideration,"
as in the warrant is set forth," of her late husband's eminent
literary merits." A like warrant of the 9th of the same month
confers a pension of 751. a year on Miss Louisa Stuart Costello,
" in consideration of her merits as an authoress, and her
inability, from the state of her health, to continue her ex-
ertions for a livelihood."