The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-21 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—ln your paper of the 13th inst. you are pleased
to remark on the appointment of Lieutenant
to the Coast Guard, and express astonishment at so
young an officer being appointed to such a billet. You
are pi'rhaps not aware that a man may be a young lieu-
tenant or commander, but an old officer. But to the
point—" young officers joining the Coast Guard," and
the reasons why they do so. The first thing that natu-
rally occurs after a man gets his lieutenant's commission,
is to endeavour to obtain his commander's rank by ser-
vices, merit, or interest. lie serves at sea, and may or
may not have au opportunity of distinguishing himself ;
but if he has no interest, he must not expect promotion,
because there are hundreds of young aristocrats who, in
the Navy, like every other profession, literally block up
all the avenues to promotion, and he must wait till they
are all served. His eight or ten years' service as lieute-
nant only leave him still in the same place; he is unor
too old as he was before too young. There is no pny
within 700
promotion for time, unless the lieutenantis
calculation,
of the top of the list, dthen be only gets
will take thirty years to attain,
Well
weigh
thing
i all these
from the ss. to the 6s. half-p
week after week the shame-
things in his mind, and seeingatrna
ge of the Admiralty, so
which, at aan moderato
less prostitution of the
ap
many meritorious officer, unluckily
discouraging to says " I won't knock
sea, but will give up all thoughts of
about any more at
n and bear upfor the Coast Guard, and spend
proniotio
remainder of my days in a sort of retirement, the
the
get,and the only refuge for the poor destitute
best I can
without interest, he naturally ,
lieutenant." Trusting this brief sketch may enlighten yourself and
friends how it happens that many officers, much against
their will, join the Coast Guard—l am, Sir
YOUR CONSTANT READER,
One of the many Lieutenants at the time
Captain Peel entered the Navy.

LIE UNITED SERVICE CLUB.—His Excellency
Vice-Admiral Cecille, the French Ambassador, dined on
Tuesday evening with the members of the United Ser-
vice; Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrance, K.C.B. in
the chair. Amongst the company present were Rear-
Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, Sir W. Dillon, Sir F.
Fellow, General Brotherton, Sir A. Duff, Captain C.
Graham, Captain Bethune, Captain Milne, Captain
Mundy, Captain C. Frankland, Sir T. Hastings, Captain
Price, and other distinguished naval officers. The toast
"to the health of the gallant French Admiral" was
proposed by Sir Thomas Cochrane, and feelingly replied
to by his Excellency, who alluded in appropriate terms
to the friendship and good understanding which existed
between the navies of England and France in all parts
of the world, and especially at this present time on the
Mediterranean s tatioii, under the respective
of Admiral Sir William Parker and Admiral Bauddin.
DUNDEE TRADE.—There has been icoromands
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SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTI-
NENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
The usual half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
the above company was held yesterday at the Bridge-
house Hotel. Mr. Macgregor, Chairman of the South-
Eastern Railway, in the chair.
Mr. G. S. HERBERT, the secretary, having read the
advertisement convening the meeting, the common seal
was attacbtd to the registe: of proprietors; after which the
report was submitted to the shareholders, which repre-
- serked the undertaking to be in a highly prosperous condi-
tion, and statedthat negotiations were going on for selling
. the boats to the Southampton Railway Company. The re-
ceipts of the past half-year amounted to 11,0111.105. ld.,
and the expenditure to 8,136/. lls. 6d., leaving a balance
in hand of 2,874/. 18s. 7d., which, with the balance of
861. 13s. 10d. from last half-year, made a total of
2,961/. 12s. 5d., out of which it was proposed to pay ss.
per share, leaving a balance in hand of 1811. 2s. sd.
Mr. GILBERTSON made a long speech upon the state of
. the company's affairs, with the simple view, as it would
seem, of insinuating, a charge of jobbing a
Mgainst the
. chairman, because, forsooth, his brother, r. W. F.
Macgregor, had been employed to build one of the boats.
The CHAIRMAN, however, indignantly repelled the
insinuation, at the same time calling upon the meeting
to appoint a committee of inquiry if doubts were enter-
tained of the honesty of his management. He admitted
that the engines of one of their boats had been con-
structed by a Liverpool firm, in which his brother had
a fractional interest, but that boat had turned out to be
the cheapest and best of the lot, while all the boats,
which were eight in number, had cost less per ton than
those of any other company whose vessels were of the
same class.—(Cheers.)
After the report had been adopted, and the dividend
declared, the meeting, as a mark of their confidence in
the Honourable Chairman, re-elected him a director by
acclamation, and the proceedings terminated with the
customary vote of thanks to the same gentleman, which
Mr. Gilbertson seconded amidst the applause of the
shareholders.

BANK OF EN GLAND.
The General Court of Proprietors held on Thurs-
day last, and adjourned to yesterday, met at eleven
o'clock, for the purpose of taking the determination by
note, in print or writing, of the question on the follow-
ing resolution, proposed at the Court, for a dividend,
viz.:—That a dividend be made of Q. 10s. per cent. in-
terest and profits, for the half-year ending the sth April
next, without any deduction on account of the
income-tax.
At' the meeting of the Court, Messrs. Gribble, Vigne,
Cazenove, and Sullivan were appointed scrutineers to
take the votes.
At four o'clock the ballot closed, and the scrutineers
having retired for the purpose of examining the votes,
returned into court in about ten minutes, and declared
that the question was determined in the affirmative.
The GOVERNOR then informed the proprietors that
the dividend warrants would be paid on Saturday the
7th of April next.
The Court then adjourned.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1849.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*233
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 61
Turbercular Diseases... ... ... 196
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 122
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 42
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration •• 198
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations... ...
Premature Birth ...
Atrophy ••• ••• ••• •••
Old Age
Sudden ... ••• ••• ..•
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance
Causes not specified ... •••

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ...

Population
Enumerated,
1841
West Districts... 300,711
North D:Aricts.. 375,971
Central Distr:cts 373,653
East Districts ... 392,444
South Districts .. 501,190

Totals... ..... 1,948,369

Male 3

Females ...

Males

Female 3

... 64
... 12

... 25
... 10

1,083

Average weekly Deaths
Deaths, 1844-S. in the
Five Winters. Week.
. 170 ... 184
. 218 ... 185
. 211 177
252 ... 215
319 ... 322

". 1,169

... 1,083
... 537
... 546

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

... 753

Total ... ... 1,521
*ln this number are included 9 cases of death by
Cholera, 43 by Scar] itina, and 46 by T)phus Fever.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.

LORI) CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 20,1849.
Orders for the Court's going into mourninz, on Thurs-
day next, the 22d instant, for his late Majesty the King
of the Netherlands, viz.—The ladies to wear black silk,
fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-
rings, black or white slides, fans and tippets.
The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed,
fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles.
Tho Court to change the mourning on Thurs-
day the sth of April next, viz.—The ladies to wear
!kick silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets,
or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver
stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black
coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or
white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured
swords and buckles. And on Thursday, the 12th of
April next, the Court to go out of mourning.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 19.

It is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
has received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, the copy of a letter and its inclosures addressed to
their Lordships by Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,
K.C.8., Commander in-Chief of her Majesty's Naval
Forces on the west Coast of Africa, announcing that
war had, in the month of February last, been declared
against the Chiefs of Gallinas; and that he, the said
Commodore, bad established an effective blockade of
that coast between Solyman Point on the South and
Cazee on the• North.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 16.
BRITISII MARRIAGES ABROAD.— NOTICE.

There being reason to suppose that in many cases of
marriages heretofore solemnized in the chapels or houses
of British Ambassadors and Ministers at Foreign
Courts, and in the chapels of British factories abroad,
the clergymen by whom such marriages were solem-
nized, have retained in their custody the records
of such marriages, in consequence of there not hav-
ing been at the time any fixed office appointed in
this country for registering the same ; but arrange-
meets for that purpose having been made in the year
1816, since which period such records have been trans-
mitted, through the medium of her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the Re4istr3-
office of the Lord Bishop of London, in Doctors' Com-
mons: this is to give notice to all such clergymen or
their representatives, or others, who may be in posses-
sion of such records as aforementioned, dated before the
year 1816, that they are requested to transmit such re-
cords to the Foreign-office, in order to their being depo-
sited in the London Registry-office.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 19.

The following prometi: ns have this day taken place,
consequent on the death of Rear-Admiral Thomas Searle,
C. 8., on the 17th instant:--
Fu :r-Admiral of the Blue, Philip Browne, to be Rear-
Admiral of the White.
Captain William Bowen Mends to be Rear-Admiral
of the Blue.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Sutherlandshire.
The II nourable George William Sutherland L.ve-
son Gower, commonly called the Marquis of Stafford
and Lord Strathnaver, to be Deputy Lieutenant,
March 9.
Commission by the Lm•d Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
Henry Edward Francis Lambert, Esq. to be Deputy
Lieutenant, March 16.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouth.
John Arthur Herbert, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant;
George Cave, EsHq.ITEHALL be Depu,ty- MLieutenallen Gant, March 16.
W.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Hubert Smith,
Salop,.
of St. Leonard's, Bridgnorth, in the county of
Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Co
of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
• Thomas Stafford, jun., pawnbreker, West Smithfield.
BANKRUPTS.
George Morris, broker, West Cowes, Isle of Wight,
March 29, at half-past one, and April 26, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-
street-buildings; Parker, St. Paul's-church-yard.
John Waite, licensed victualler, High Holborn, March
29, at two, and April 27, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry; Govett, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road.
Charles Oswin, dentist, Harley-street, Cavendish-
-square, March 30, at two, and May 1, at twelve, at the,
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab-
church-lane; Jones, Clifford's Inn.
Jocl Wilson, steel manufacturer, West Bromwich,
Staffordshire, April 4 and 25, at twelve, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming-
ham; Hodgson, Birmingham; Vincent, Temple.
Richard Smith, tanner, Hathern, Leicestershire,
March 30 and April 27, at ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ;
Brewster, Nottingham.
Thomas Carlill, grocer, Kingston-upon-Hull, April
4, and 25, at ten, at the Leeds District Court, Carrick,
official assignee, Hull ; Horsley, Staple Inn; Walker,
Hull; Shackleton, Leeds.
John Wesson, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, March
30 and April 27, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, officialassignee, Nottingham; Wells,
Nottingham.
James Hodgson and Joseph Hodgson, cotton
spinners, Underbank, Yorkshire, April 3 and 24, at
twelve, at the Leedsirii District Court. Hope, official as-
signee, Leeds ; V esworth and Co., ray's Inn, •
,va
_v.: ffo, , ebad,en•rtidi
eg Cronhelm,elones,
brew Brecon, April 3
er,
Thomas i3k
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Bristol ; Baker, Abergavenny
?•-• May B • I
• '*". • er, official assignee,
• n, Bristol.
•Etiwin Brooker, carver and gilder, Cheltenham, April
Mid May 1, at twelve, at the Bristol District court.
',Stop Qffioitti assignee, $60191; 1.41.11d0)

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George Kyrke, lime burner, Wrexham, Denbigh-
shire, April 3 and 30, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; William-
son and Hill, Great James-street, Bedford-row; Parker,
Wrexham; Mallaby and Co., Liverpool.
John Lewtas, cabinet maker, Manchester, April 4 and
26, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hob-
son, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory, Faulkner,
Gregory, and Skirrow,:Bedford-row; Bell, Manchester.
Henry Ridsdale and Henry Carter Snell Chauncey,
sharebrokers, Liverpool, March 30, and May 10, at
eleven at the Liverpool District Court. Turner official
assignee, Liverpool; Bradley and Son, Staple Inn ; Car-
son and Ellis, Liverpool.
Charles Lee, jeweller, St. John's-wood, March 29, at
two, and May 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Crowder
and Maynard, Coleman-street.
George Howes, innkeeper, Northwich, Cheshire, April
2 aad 25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Cole, Adelphi-
terrace; Saxton, North wich, Cheshire.