The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-03 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
The select preacher at St. Mary's for the ensuing month
is the Rev. J. H. Marsden, of St. John's College.
The premium for the Hulsean dissertation was on Mon-
day last adjudged to John Murray, 8.A., of Trinity College.
Subject—" How far our Saviour's Miracles were typical of
the Nature of the Christian Dispensation."
The subject of the Seatonian Prize Poem for the present
year is " St. Paul at Ephesus."
On Monday last the Rev. Richard Parkinson, M.A., of
St. John's College, Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Man-
chester, was elected Hulsean Lecturer.
At an ordination held on the 18th ult., by his Grace the
Archbishop of York, at Bishopsthorpe, the following gentle-
men of the University were ordained :
PRIESTS.—John Horsley Newton, B.A.,Trinity College ;
John Dixon, B.A.,Walter Hamilton Etty, 8.A., and Joshua
Waltham, 8.A., St. John College ; Wm. Ryland Melville,
8.A., St. Peter's College ; Emmanuel Strickland, 8.A.,
Queen's College ; Gregory Rhodes, 8.A., Trinity.
DEACONS.—George Birch Reynardsnn, 8.A., Trinity
College ; John Epworth Gresham, 13. A., John Leverack
Ison, 8.A., and T. Edwards, 8.A., St. John's College ;
Ebenezer Elliott, B. A., St. Peter's College ; Benjamin
Trapp, M.A., Clare Hall ; Curzon Curshaw, 8.A., Caius
College ; Wm. Dabius, Corpus Christi College ; Thomas
Sutton, 8.A., and Charles Walter Robinson, 8.A., Em-
manuel College ; Robert William Dayrell, BA., Magda-
lene College.

THE ARMY.

(From the United Service Gazette.)
BREVET PROMOTIONS.

In the Gazette of the 26th of November we alluded to a
difference of opinion then existing between the King and
his responsible advisers, on a subject of much interest to the
services—we mean the brevet—his Majesty, desiring that
the boon should appear early in January, and the Ministers
wishing that it should be delayed until the natal day of the
Princess Victoria. At the same time we took occasion to
express our surprise at any inclination being felt in any
quarter to thwart the intention of the Sovereign. _

We have, therefore, great pleasure in announcing that
the Gazelle of this evening will contain the long-expected
reward, which those who have risked life and health in their
country's cause are so well entitled to receive. 'We feel sa-
tisfied that the value of the boon will be greatly enhanced in
the estimation of the army and navy by the knowledge that
they owe it entirely and exclusively to the firmness and per-
severance of the King, and to his anxious and unceasing in-
terference on their behalf. Under any circumstances they
would receive it with feelings of gratitude, but in thepresent
instance it comes recommended to them, not only as the of-
fering of a grateful country, but as the special gift of a kind-
hearted Monarch.

As to the effect it will have on naval promotion, we be-
lieve our Hampshire contemporary, the Telegraph, to be
pretty correct in stating that 102 Captains will 'either ob-
tain their flags, or retirement, the Hon. G. Paulett included,
and that the consequence will be an addition of two shil-
lings half-pay daily to the 200 officers who will then be at
the top of the list. As far as can be judged, about 55
officers will be put on the active flag list—active, at least,
in a comparative sense, for the great bulk of those thus
raised in rank can tell of fifty years' servitude ; and the list
of Admirals will then comprise about 185. At the last
promotion, of July, 1830, the list was 198, at which time
48 or 49 Captains were promoted. '
The Military Brevet will include—
All Colonels of 1829, including Sir William Gomm.
All Lieutenant-Colonels of 1822, including Lieutenant-
Colonel Robert Dalyell, unattached.
All Majors of 1822, including Major C. C. Johnson,
half-pay 10th Foot.
And all Captains of 1822.
In the present arrangements, subalterns have not been
included, but it is understood that Lord Howick, in the
propositions he intends:submitting to Parliament, will take
care that they be not excluded from some proportionate
recompence, either honorary or pecuniary.
By the intended measure the following regiments, com-
mands, and staff situations will become vacant :-
Ist and 2d Life Guards, Oxford Blues, Grenadier
Guards, as also the senior majority—Coldstream Guards,
Scots Fusileer Guards, 16th, 39th, and 66th Regiments.

The command at Chatham, at present held- by Sir
Leonard Greenwell.
The command of a division of Marines at Woolwich.

The command of the Royal Artillery in Ireland.
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The command of the Royal Eniineers in Ireland,
Portsmouth, Devonport, Leith, Gibraltar, the lonian Isles,
and Canada.

The Quartermaster-Generalship in the East Indies.
The Deputy Adjutant-Generalship of the Royal Artillery.
The same office in the Royal Marines.
The Lieut.-Governorship of the Royal Military College.
The office of Inspecting Field-Officer of Militia in Jersey.
Twenty King's Aides-de-Camp, besides
Thirteen Colonelcies of Artillery,
Eleven do of Engineers,
Two do of Marines, _ _ _

Leaving at the' disposal of the authorities a number of
appointments, independent of the promotion consequent on
the elevation to superior rank of so many regimental officers.
But it is not intended, we learn, to fill up the twenty vacan-
cies in the King's Aides-de-Camp that will be created by
the operation of the brevet.
(From a Dublin Correspondent of a Morning Paper.)
Colonel D'Aguiler, Deputy Adjutant-General, has re-
turned to the Royal Hospital from England.
Lieut. Thos. J. Burke, from the Ist (or Royal) Dra-
goons, has been appointed an extra Aide-de-Camp to his
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant in the room of Lieut.
Andrew Browne, on the half-pay of the 52d Regiment, who

has resigned.
Assistant-Surgeon Smith, of the 34th, who is now doing
duty with the depot companies of his regiment at New-
bridge, has received orders to hold himself in readiness to
join the service companies in Nova Scotia by the earliest
opportunity which may offer.
Detachments from the depot companies of the 73d and
75th regiments have been ordered to be selected and held
in readiness to join the service companies of those corps at
the Cape of Good Hope by an opportunity which is ex-
pected shortly to offer. The following are the numbers of
which these detachments are to consist, namely, 73d Regi-
ment, two Ensigns (Erskine and Harding), and two rank
and file. 75th, one Captain (Herbert), two Lieutenants
(Richard and George), one Ensign (Cox), two sergeants,
and 50 rank and file. _ _

'A detachment from the depot companies of the 27th
Regiment, now at Chatham, are also under orders to em-
bark for the Cape of Good Hope.
Lieutenant-Colonel Chaplin, of the Coldstream Guards,
has proceeded to England on leave of absence, having been
relieved on duty with the Ist battalion of the regiment in
this garrison by Lieutenant-Colonel H. Bentinck.
Staff-Surgeon John Glasco, lately employed at Grenada,
has been appointed surgeon to the Liverpool recruiting dis-
trict, in the room of Staff-Surgeon Elliot, who has been re-
moved to Barbadoes.