The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-02 00:00:00

APPOJNTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, JAll I.—elerks—Thomas W. Wells
(1848), to the Britannia, 120, at Portsmouth; Harold
Millett to the Queen, 110, flag-ship on the Mediter-
ranean station.

The Sprightly steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich
on Monday last, and went up to Deptford to land
about 60 old chronometers, which have been brought
round from vessels recently paid off at the eastern
ports. She also conveyed the party of Royal Marines
who, had been serving in the Havannah, 19, on the
Australian station, from Plymouth, the port where the
vessel was paid off, to Chatham, to join the head-
quarters of their division. The Sprightly will leave
Deptford and Woolwich to•morrow, and will take
round to the eastern ports a number of new chro-
nometers for the vessels now fitting at them for sea-
service.

The Dee steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander
William J. Crowder, arrived here at half-past three
o'clock P.m. to -day from the Cape of Good Hope, and
shortly after went down the river to show the state of
her engines to the engineers of the steam factory. The
Dee is to be paid off here, having been in, commission
since March, 1848.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Deputy Adjutant-General's Office,
Woolwich, Dee. 30, 1851.
Her Majesty having been pleased to sign the com-
missions of the Gentlemen Cadets promoted to be
Second Lieutenants (the names appeared in the Gazette
of this evening) in the Royal Regiment of Artillery,
they have been appointed to the following companies,
viz.:—

Second Lieutenant Thomas Bland Strange to Captain
F. D. Cleveland's company, 12th battalion.
Second Lieutenant Francis Lyon to Captain W. J.
Smythe's company, 6th battalion.
Second Lieutenant Markham Le For Taylor to Cap-
tain C. Sandham's company, Ist battalion.
Second Lieutenant Raynsford Cytherus Longley to
Captain J. R. Domvile's company, Ist battalion.
Second Lieutenant Edward Keate to Captain A. F.
W. Papilon's company, 11th battalion.
Second Lieutenant Thomas Wright Blakiston to Major
T. P. Flude's company, 7th battalion.
Second Lieutenant Arthur Lister Kaye to Captain H.
W. Montressor's company, 6th battalion.
Second Lieutenant Jones Julian Smith to Captain J.
W. Fitzmayor's company, 3d battalion.
Second Lieutenant Eardley Maitland to Major Shut-
, tleworth's company, 2d battalion.
Second Lieutenant Maurice Edward Covey Stocker to
Major J. G. Walker's company, sth battalion.
Second Lieutenant William Arnold Burrowes to Major
Markland's company, 4th battalion.
Second Lieutenant John Lardner Clarke to Captain
C. R. H. Kennedy's company, 7th battalion.
Second Lieutenant Algernon Purling Joy to Major
St. J. T. Browne's company, 4th battalion.
G.ion.
second Lieutenant Henry Thornhill to Captain C.
Dunlop's Company, 7th battalion. reatwicke
Second Lieutenant Arthur Thornton
Pearce to Major H. Poole's company, 2d battalion.
Second Lieutenant Thomas Priaulx Carey to Captain
G. Graydon's company, Ist battalion.
.
Second Lieutenant William Francis Walker to major
J. Hill's company, Bth battalion.
- general.
J. E. JONES, Colonel, Assistant Adjutant
Dated December 17, 1851.
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman, ,
tg de order-book,
of , dated Deoem-
b
K,C.H., Commandant of the garrison, has caused the
following to
eCommandant t
obe enteredin he dreoro-sbook
b
ein commencing the
new year with as clear a list of defaulters
of their crimes will admit of, begs
commanding officers
of battalions, &c., will explain to the •
non-commissioned
officers and men that he is induced to take this lenient
step by the general exemplary conduct of the regiment
in garrison for a long time past; he therefore directs
that men under confinement in the garrison cells and at
punishment drills be released on the 31 t • t,. withthe
exception
s ins t.,
exception of those h
w ose offences and general character
their commanding officers do not consider worthy of
this indulgence."

HORSES POISONED w-.DRIEFIELD —Mr. Thomas
Wilberfoss, of Wetwang,. has lost three' valuable draught
horses, under circumstances at present involved in mystery,
though there is no doubt that their deaths have been caused
by poison. A fourth horse is also in a very precarious state,
and not likely to recover. The stomach of one of the horses
has been sent to a chemist in York for analyzation of its
contents. It is not said that any one is suspected to have
intentionally or otherwise administered the poison. There
is, however, a very reprehensible practice among farmers'
servants of drugging their master's horses for the purpose
of making their skins look sleek and smooth and in good
condition. Many of the waggoners have no little pride in
having their horses prim when they go to deliver corn. They
tie up the animals' tail 3 and plait their manes with gay
ribands. Several old cads and jockies are said to be going
about the country selling to farmers' servants receipts for
horse " constitution balls," and other nostrums for drugging
horses, and the waggoners get these prescriptions made -up
at druggists at their own expense, the ingredients being
often of a very dangerous nature, and highly injurious to
the horses. It is not long since that a farmer in this neigh-
bourhood detected one of his servants in this practice, and
very properly summoned him before the magistrates for
Lis conduct, when he was severely dealt Ad-
vertiser.

MUSIC AND DANCING-ROOMS IN THE METROPOLIS:
—With the view of insuring good order and proper regula•
tions in places licensed by the magistrates of Middlesex for
music and dancing in the metropolis and its vicinity, they
have passed a standing order requiring the clerk of the
peace annually to transmit a list of the persons making aP"
plication for music or dancing licences, under the statute of
the 25th George the Second, cap. 36, to the Commissioners of
Inland Revenue, and to the police courts of the districts in
whih the houses occupied by such persons are situate, . for
the purpose of ascertaining whether any and what complaints
have been made against them during the year; and that the
answers from the Inland Revenue Board, and the police
authorities be laid before the Court of Magistrates when
such licences are applied for, or for the renewal of licences
already granted.