The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

THE' ARMY,

APPOINTMENTS..
Captain Francis Toner, of the Hon. East India Com-
pany's service, has been appointed recruiting officer for
the company's army at Liverpool.
Sir John Cheape, K.C.8., has been appointed Aide-
de-Camp to her Majesty.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cunynghame (half-pay, 61st Regi-
ment), has been appointed aide-de-camp to General Vis-
count Hardinge, commander-in-chief, vice Captain
Charles Earl of March, unattached. -
Lieutenant Lutman, 3d West India Regiment, has
relieved Lieutenant Chamberlayne, Ist West India
Regiment, as Fort Adjutant at the Bahamas.
Lieutenant Orme, 3d Light Dragoons, and Captain
Bickerstaff, 6th Dragoon Guards, have been appointed
aides-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Jackson, com-
mander of the forces, Cape of Good Hope.
Ensign Beasley, 3d West India Regiment, has been
appointed garrison quartermaster at Jamaica.

- Captain -Gore, 71a Foot, has been appointed assistant
military secretary to Major-General Gore, commanding
the forces in Nova Scotia, vice Captain Bonito, 84th
Regiment.

captain Smart, 76th Regiment, has been appointed
aide-de-camp to Major-General Gore.

Captain flankey,-69th Regiment, "late deputy-assist:
ant quartermaster-general, bas been appointed major of
brigade at Barbadoes, vice Brevet-Major Robeson, lst
West India Regiment.

Lieutenant die Hon. A. Bury, 69th Regiment, has
been appointed fort adjutant at Trinidad, vice Lieuten-
ant Joyce, 2d West India Regiment.
Captain Maneor, 48th Regiment, has succeeded Lieu-
tenant Kippen as acting paymaster of the depot.
Lieutenant Swann, 54th Regiment, has been appointed
acting paymaster to the depot.
Lieutenant Baker, 85th Regiment, has succeeded Capt.
Gubbins as depot paymaster.
Lieutenant Grimston, 2d Foot, has succeeded Ensign
Belfield as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Bedingfield, 48th Regiment, has suc-
ceeded Lieutenant Welby as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Shiffner, 54th Regiment, has succeeded
Lieutenant Clarke as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Daubeny, 67th Regiment, has relieved
Lieutenant Jameson as depot adjutant.
Lieutenant Fielden, 72d Regiment, has been appointed
depot adjutant.
Staff-Surgeon T. Foss, M.D., has relieved Staff-
Surgeon T. D. Hume, M.D.; at the Recruiting Depot,
Liverpool.

Captain Rawnsley, Royal Artillery, has relieved
Captain Beatty at Kilkenny.—British Army Despatch..

HIGHLAND EMIGRANTS IN AUSTRA MA.

(From the Spectator. )
The accounts which have been already received from
the Highland emigrants are highly satisfactory ; and as
there are still some 200,000 inhabitants in the Islands
and along the North-western coast of Scotland, the
greater portion of whom must either starve or seek a
livelihood elsewhere, every means ought to be taken to
carry on the work which has been so well begun. On
the sheep-farms of Australia, old men and boys, who
have been unable to earn a farthing on the bleak and
barren Western Islands of Scotland, will receive liberal
wages, while providing the raw material for our thriving
woollen manufacture. The extracts from letters already
received, if circulated in the Highlands, would soon pro-
duce as great a mania for leaving home as has pre-
vailed in Ireland since the potato famine. Donald
Maekenzie, formerly of Earlish, Skye"—where he must
have found it hard work to earn Bd. or 10d. a-day—
writes home to his friends, that he has been " hired for
shepherding," and thathis wages are "751. for 12 months,
with rations and dwellings. Lest his old friends should not
understand what the rations comprise, he adds, "I have
of meat for the family, per week, 281 b. beef or mutton,
and 201 b. flour, 41h. sugar, and ilb. of tea. We did
not feel any hunger since wo left home, and we have
flesh three times a-day." What a marvellous change
within a single year ! And yet Donald seems to have
been rather a moderate man in his bargain : his old
neighbour Sandy Wlnnes, " who left Waternisb, his
father is in Gedintaler,"---where he will surely not be
allowed to remain much longer, has at the rate of "160/.
a-year." Donald might have got a large sum too, but
he says, "I took one sum for a year, and am content
for it." Another fortunate shepherd, John Mackinnon,
aged 62, hardly knows how to make his friends in the
island of Skye believe the wonderful stories he is about
to tell them. The transformation from a wild and
savage country like that where he had been only a few
months before, to the beautiful region where he is now
located, "partly green and partly thickly wooded,"
and where "they do not care about a sovereign
more than you of a penny at home," must seem
magical. But he is resolved not to exaggerate—" Now,
Sandy, it is no profit to me to tell you lies. That I will
not ;" and then he proceeds to give him an idea of what
Australia is, as illustrated by his own experience. Six
weeks and two days only since he landed in that El Dorado,
with only ten shillings in his pocket ; and now, "I have
in my possession this night, after paying all my expenses,
twenty pounds sterling ; and that may tell you what
sort of a place this is. How long I would be in Skye
before I would gather as much ! but here they are no
more in a person's eye than twenty farthings." This is
a specimen of the class of men that Australia requires,'
and of whom we have still many hundreds of thousands
more than our farmers can afford to feed and lodge com-
fortably, much less to offer 751. a year of wages in addi-
tion. The time may come, however, much more rapidly
than they are prepared to expect, when they will be
forced to bid against America and Australia, unless they
wish to be left without labourers. What would a Dor
setshire labourer, with a wife and seven children say,
were his employer to offer him and his family 2001. a-
year, with the following rations :-80 pounds beef or
mutton, 60 pounds flour, 12 pounds sugar, and a pound
and a half of teat Well may Donald Macaskill, " for-
merly of Borlin, Isle of Skye," in writing to his sister at
home, that he has got such wages as we have just stated,
add—" My dear sister, it is very difficult news to believe
at home, but you can only understand by this account
that I left the starvation behind. I can give as much
to my dogs now as I was getting to my family at home
to keep them alive with."

ANOTHER EXTENSIVE CONFLAGEATION.—Last night,
about a quarter before ten o'clock, a fire, attended with
a considerable destruction of property, broke out on the
premises, known as Kranmer's German Hotel, situated
at 18, Burr-street, St. George's in the East, nearly facing
the warehouses of St. Katherine's Dock, and within a
short distance of the London Docks. The fire was first
discovered by police-constable Riley, No. 53 of the H
division. Whilst passing along the street his attention
was attracted by an unusual glare of light in the second
floor of the hotel. He at once gave the alarm, but
owing to the fact of no one making their appearance, it
was feared that a terrible loss of life had taken place, for
the flames were rushing out of the different windows, and
were extending so far across the roadway in the direction
of the docks as to threaten theiT)st serious results.
B
The engines of the London rigade, of Messrs.
Hoare and Co., the brewers, and the West of Eng-
land Office were remarkably early in arriving, and
a plentiful supply of water having been procured from
the fire-mains of the East London Company, the engines
were called into operation, but the fire by that period
was curling round the windows of the hotel, and were
attacking an ancient tree, covered with hoar frost and
snow, immediately facing the house, and made the snow
drop like a shower of rain upon those standing beneath
it. The inmates of the adjoining houses, on seeing the
fire progressing so fiercely, at once made a precipitate
retreat, and carried their children almost in a state of
nudity through the water and snow into the houses of
their neighbours. The engines having been worked
with full vigour for two or three hours, the flames were
ultimately extinguished, but not until the premises in
which they began were nearly destroyed, and serious in-
jury done to those adjoining. The total loss is very
considerable, but, owing to the confusion which pre-
vailed, it was impossible to ascertain whether the pro-
perty was insured or not. Inspector White and Inspec-
tor Foay were of great assistance to the firemen in
keeping an immense crowd of spectators out of the reach
of danger.
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. The ordinary
monthly meeting was held last evening at the society's
rooms, 20, Bedford-street, Strand ; Mr. T. Moore,
F.L.S,, in the chair. Various donations to the library
were announced, and many thousand British plants had
been received since the annual meeting, which would be
distributed to the members next month. The Rev. A.
Bloxham sent for exhibition specimens of Trifolium
patem, discovered by the Rev. W. U. Coleman on the
railway embankment, Ashby•de-la-Zouch.