The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-04 00:00:00

PROMOTION.

Second Master Horace St. Hilier Cook (1847), serving in
the Banshee steam-vessel, on the Mediterranean station,
to the rank of Master.

Several captains have applied for command of the Nile,
90, screw steam-ship at Devonport. It is probable that
Captain Talavera V. Anson (1841) will be appointed.
Captain Joseph Nias, C.B. (1835), recently serving in the
St. George, 120, gnardship of ordinary at Devonport, Captain
Sir George Back (1853), and Captain William F. Lapidge
(1837), have obtained the good-service pensions which be-
came vacant by the promotions of the captains who for-
merly received them to the rank of rear-admiral.
The number of those who have been entered on board
the Fisgard since the recent order to enter landsmen has
been 3d men and 11 boys, and the number to choose from
has been considerable.

The satisfactory manner in which Mr. Barnes, one of the
Government pilots at Woolwich, brought down the Han-
nibal, 90, screw steamship, from Deptford to this port, at
a time the river was greatly crowded by vessels, has ob-
tained for him a highly satisfactory certificate from Mr.
Bean, master of the Fisgard. The Hannibal draws 21
feet, or two feet more than the Agamemnon, 91.
Captain Edward Rea, with Second Lieutenant Henry
Laws Harrison, two sergeants, two corporals, and 100 pri-
vates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, have
been placed under orders to hold themselves in readiness to

• The receipts Include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or-
leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes.

THE NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—Yester-
day the members of the Markets Improvement Corn-
mittee connected with the Corporation of the City of
London, attended by Henry Lowman Taylor, Esq., the
chairman, inspected the works of the new Cattle-market,
in Copenhagen-fields. They report that the extensive
arrangements are most favourably progressing, and
that the brick foundations of the walls and buildings
intended for the market and its purposes are nearly
completed. Five plots of ground have been laid out for
public-houses • three are to be of the ordinary kind and two
of them fitted up as hotels. These are in a comparatively
forward state, it being the intention of the corporation to ap-
ply at the next licensing meeting for licenses to them, so
that in the event of the market being opened at Christ.
mas, 1854, the parties attending it may not suffer any
particular inconvenience from the absence of such
" houses of entertainment" for " man and horse." In
addition to their inspection of the ground and,the build-
ings in progress, the committee received and opened
tenders for the building of the banking-houses, which
are to be placed in the centre of the immense area form;-
ing the square for the cattle market. There were five
competitors, Mr. Wilson, the contractor for the previous
works, being the successful applicant. The amount of
the tender was about 29,0001. There was but little
difference between the amounts sent in by the different
contractors. Mr. Chadwick will shortly commence the
paving of the area, and the making of the roadway of
the market. The committee calculate that they will be
in a position to lay the first "stone" of the principal
range of buildings in the course of a few weeks from the
present time.

[ADVERTISEM MST. ]—A LIETJTENANT OF DRAGOONS
CURED OF RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
AND PILLS.--This officer, who is in the Dutch army,
states that Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured
him of rheumatism, which appeared to be incurable, as
neither sea-bathing, vapour-baths, nor preparations vaunted
as sure remedies, did him any good, and the treatment of
the doctor, after several months' trial, was without suc-
cess. At this juncture he commenced taking these Pills.
and rubbing the Ointment into the complaining parts
twice a day, which effectually cured him in the course of
six weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for
by Mr. J. B. Stratman, of Bois-le-Duc.—Sold by all drug-
4gists ; and at Professor Hollowav'a establishment, 214,
trartd, London,