The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-24 00:00:00

Charleton, deceased. To be Captains—Lieutenant James Mac-
donald, by purchase, vice Gammell, who retires; Lieutenant
Samuel Weymouth, from the 32d Foot, vice Winchester. To
be lieutenant--Ensign Richard Henry John Beaumont
M'Cumming, by purchase, vice Macdonald. To be Ensign—
Christopher Galwey, Gent., by purchase, vice M'Cumming.
94th Ditto—Ensign and Adjutant William Spiller, to have
the rank of Lieutenant.
95th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Samuel G. Dalgety, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Price, appointed to 78th Foot.
98th Ditto—Lieutenant Richard Wolfe to be Adjutant, vice
Stevens, promoted.
99th Ditto—Ensign Robert Webster, from the 51st Foot, to
be Ensign, vice St. Leger, who exchanges.
2d.West India Regiment—Ensign JameS Esten Dickenson
to be Lieutenant, vice Kettlewell, deceased ; Frederick Codd,
Gent. to be Ensign, vice Dickenson.
Royal African Colonial Corps—Charles' Nott, Gent. to be
Ensign, vice Carmody, deceased.
UNATTACIIV).—To be Lieutenant-Colonels of Infantry,
by purchise.—Major Philip C. Taylor, from the 81st Foot,
vice Major--General John Miller, who retires; Major Chess-
borough Grant Falconer, from the 78th Foot.—=To be Major of
Infantry, by purchase—Captain Robert S. Webb, from the 3d
Light Dragoons.—To be Captains of Companies, by purchase
—Lieutenant Hon. Henry Sutton Fane, tiom the Coldstream
Foot Guards; Lieutenant George Montagu, from the 71st
Foot ; Lieutenant Lord Sussex Lennox, from the 28th Foot ;
Lieutenant John Palk, from the 32d Foot; Lieutenant James
Wemyss, from the 4th Dragoon Guards ; Lieutenant Richard.
Airey, from the 34th Foot.—To be Ensigns, by purchase—
Henry Curling, Gent.; Edward Simms James, Gent.; George
Robinson, Gent.
BREVET.—CaptainJames Macfarlane, Adjutant of the East
India Company's Depot at' Chatham, to have the local rank
of Major as long as he may continue to do duty with the
Depot; William Thorne, Esq. late Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
and Major on the half-pay of the 25th Light Dragoons, to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on the Continent of
Europe only.
The under Mentioned Officers have been allowed to dispose
of tkeir half-pay t
Major Charlzs Reynolds, late Bth Royal Veteran Battalion ;
Captain James Hardy Eustace, half-pay Bth Foot ; Lieutenant-
Colonel John Redd, late Inspecting Field-Officer of a Re-
cruiting district; Major James Browne, half-pay 103 d Foot,;
Captain Thomas Amory (Major) half-pay sth Garrison Batta-
lion ; Captain Francis Huddleston, half-pay. 46th Foot ; Cap-
tain Richard Sutton Clonard, half-pay 4th Irish Brigade; Cap-
tain Benjamin Bromheati, half-pay 28th Light Dragoons ;
Ensign James Galloway Smith, half-pay 43d Foot ; Ensign
Giles Rae, half-pay 4th Irish Rrigade ; Cornet Thomas Brett
(Lieutenant), half-pay 24th Light Dragoons.
Office of Ordnance, Oct. 18,1825.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander
Macdonald to be Colonel, vice Thornhill, deceased ; Major and
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Harcourt Fort Holcombe to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Macdonald; Captain and Brevet
Major James Addams to be Major, vice Holcombe;. Second
Captain and Brevet Major Edward Thomas Mirbell to be Cap-
tain, vice Addams; Second Captain Robert Andrews, from
half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Michell ; First Lieute-
nant Gabriel Mathis to be Second Captain,. Second Lieu-
tenant Richard James nacres to be First Lieutenant, vice
Mathias.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of

Worcester.
Sir Christopher Sidney Smith, Bart. to be Deputy Lieute-
nant; Offley Penbury Wakeman, Esq. to be ditto; James
Wakeman, Esq. to be ditto ; John Frances, Esq. to be ditto;
Mathew Pierpoint, Esq. to be ditto.
Commission in the Salisbury Troop of Wiltshire Yeomany
Cavalry—John Peniston, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Wyndham,
promoted.

The "Depot of the 43d Regiment of Infantry marched through
town on Saturday, on route from Plymouth to Colchester, '
where it is to be stationed.
Detachments belonging to the 10th, 24th, 62d, and 63d Re-
giments of Foot marched on Saturday, from Westminster for
Bristol, on route to Ireland.
Detachments belonging to the 53d and 99th Regiments of
Infantry marched on Saturday, from Westminster for Ports-
mouth.
Detachments belonging to the 70th, 76th, and 96th Regi-
ments of Foot marched on Saturday, from Westminster for
Winchester.
Detachments belonging to the 17th, 23d, and 74th Regi-
menti of Foot received orders to embark yesterday, on board a
vessel in the River, for EdinbUrgh.

DREADFUL AND' FATAL ACCIDENT.

GLASGOW, OCT._ 22.—1 t is with feelings of
deep regret and sorrow that we have to communicate to our
readers the account of an atcident of the Moat melancholy kind.
The details are as yet few—►the result most fatal. During the

whole of yesterday the anmiety and sensation created in this city

by the intelligence was very great. The alarm was greatly

heightened by the knowledge of the fact, that another Stead'
Boat was to leave the same quarter about the same time, and
many individuals remained.ignorant in which of the boats the

friends whom they expected might have taken their passage.

Yesterday morning, the steam-boat Comet, with passengers
from Inverness and Fort 'William, was run down off Kempock
-Point, between Gourock and the Clough Light-house, by the

steam-boat Ayr, outward bound. In rounding the point
the vessels came in contact with such force and violence, that
the Comet went down almost instantaneously, when above

SEVENTY PEILSONs were, in a moment, precipitated into the

deep—into ETERNIT ! Ten only are saved, out of above
eighty, which were believed to be on board. Amongst those
escaped is the Master, who was got on shore, but in such an

exhausted state, that at the date of our latest accounts, he was
unable to give any account of what had taken place, or of the
passengers on board. There is too much reason to dread that
the greater number of those who have perished are persons in
the superior ranks of life. _ .

The Ayr, we learn, had a light out upon her bow, but the
Comet had none. As the night, however, was clear it is ob-
vious that a bad look out had been kept up, and most repre-
hensible neglect shorn on both sides. The Ayr received such a
shock and was so mach damaged that she reached Greenock
with much difficulty, in a sinking state. It was blowing fresh,
with a heavy sea. It was also exceedingly cold, and at the
moment the accident took place, those on the deck of the Comet
were, it is said; engaged in dancing, to which amusement they
were probably induced to resort in order to keep themselves
warm, there not being sufficient accommodation below for the
number of passengers on board.
Much valuable property had floated ashore yesterday morn-
ing. Every exertion was making to save and lodge it in a
place of security. Our respected townsman, Mr. Andrew Ran-
kine, was particularly active on the occasion, and, at an early
hour in the morning, Mr. Marshall, Sheriff, from Greenock,
had reached the spot, to give his advice and assistance on this
distressing occasion. Twelve dead bodies had been washed
ashore by an early hour yesterday morning ; amongst these
were two genteely dressed females, two black servants, -and
Mrs. 'Wright, the widow of the late Archibald Wright, drug-
gist, of this city. In the pockets of the body ofa gentleman
washed ashore 701. was found. Amongst those who perished,
and whose names we can state from good authority, is Mr.
Graham of Corpach, Mr. Macallister, W.S., Edinburgh, and
Capt. Sutherland, of the 33d Regiment, and his lady, who were
only five days married. The body of Captain Sutherland and
another passenger were found in the yawl this Morning. It is
supposed she upset after they had got into her. Mrs. Suther-
land caught hold of Mr. Colin Alex. Anderson, from Appin
(the only cabin passenger who is saved), and for some time clung
round him, but in the struggle with the waves she lost her hold
and perished. While swimming, much exhausted, and not
knowing well in which direction the shore lay, Mr. Anderson
was seized closely by the engine-man, from whom he found it
impossible to 'disengage himself, and just as they were upon
the point of sinking, they fortunately came in contact with
the boat's yairl, which they immediately caught hold
of, and; in doing so, she fortunately righted, when they
both clung to her, and reached the shore in safety, but much
exhausted. It is reported that amongst the sufferers is the
Lady of a Colonel of the army, with a family of seven children,
from Inverness; a Mr. Campbell of this city ; with a young
gentleman, the only son of Mr. M'Braine, also of this city.—
' We forbear to state further the reports which we have heard of
the names of the sufferers, least we make mistakes, and wound,
without reason, the feelings of friends at a distance.
Besides Mr. Anderson and the engine-man, already men-
tioned, there were saved, viz. Capt. M'lnnes, the Pilot, the car-
penter, a man a steerage passenger, from Fort George, a young
girl, and a woman who was floated ashore safely betwixt two
tables, but who unfortunately lost her child by the way. The
poor man from Fort George, and who is arrived in Glasgow, is
in a state bordering on delirium. To him Mr. Campbell of
Corpach clung for ti; considerable time, when a wave threw the
great coat of the latter over the head of the former, which com-
pelled him to throw Mr. Campbell off, just as both were upon
the point of sinking.
'At the moment the fatal accident took place, we are in-
formed, upon the authority of Mr. Anderson, just arrived in
Glasgow. that the passengers who were below were in high
spirits, amusing themselves, telling and listening to diverting
tales. The first stroke hit about the paddle of the Comet. The
Captain and passengers immediately run upon deck to see
what was wrong, when the next fatal stroke took place with
such force, that the Comet filled, and in two minutes went
down head foremost Mr. Anderson, we regret to add, states,
that the moment this took place the Ayr, instead of lending
them any assistance, gave her paddles a back stroke, turned
round anti went off to Greenock, leaving them to their fate. If
assistance had been rendered, he thinks many of the sufferers
might have been saved ; but in the state of alarm in which
he was, he may have been mistaken.—( Glasgow Courier.)