The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN iNG, NOVEMBER 10, 1849,

most likely be the officer selected to fill the dis-
tinguished but very onerous post. It is confidently
reported that whoever may he th 3 ufli3cr appointed
he will not be required to become an M P.
THE COAST GUARD.—It has been suggested that
in the event of Captain Houston Stewart being ap-
pointed a member of the Board of Admiralty, the
appointment of Comptroller-General should -be
abolished, and the gallant officer should still continue
his relations with the Coast Guard as a Lord of the
Adinir.lty—the Coast Guard Service, in which about
4,000 men only are employed, and all of them seamen,
being re-transferred to its legitimate department of
the public service—that of the Navy, from which it
ought never to have been detached. The Coast
Guard Service might, under such an arrangement, be
attended to by a senior officer, with the title of
Captain- Superintendent.
CAPTAINS' GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—A Captains'
Good Service Pension is vacant by the promotion of
Sir David Dunn. Among the names mentioned as
candidates for the distinction we have heard those of
Captains D. Price, Mingaye, Rich, Lambert, H. B.
Martin, C B. H. Smith, C. 8., J. W. Watling, Hind-
marsh, and S. C. Ross. In this list there are, doubt-
less, many other deserving officers, but there are
others between them on the list of equal claims and
merit.

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is named for the 4th Dragoon Guards, and poor Sir
Joseph Thack well is, of course, thrust forward by
some most injudicious " d—d good-natured friend,"
as the probable successor to the 16th Lancers. Sir
Peregrine Maitland is talked of "at the clubs"—the
grand source of absurd gossip—as the new Governor
of Chelsea Hospital. Sir Peregrine is in Germany,
and probably knows nothing of the new dignity the
quidnuncs are providing for him.
THE VICE-ADMIRAL OF TIIE UNITED KINGDOM.
—Notwithstanding that Sir T. Byam Martin, G.C.8.,
has been appointed Admiral of the Fleet, he con-
tinues to hold the appointment of Vice-Admiral of
the United Kingdom. We again most earnestly
enter our protest against officers of the navy monop-
lising the superior appointments ! Surely " Admiral
of the Fleet" is a title high and lucrative enough
for Sir Thomas Byam Martin's personal ambition or
professional servitude, highly distinguished as
all must acknowledge it to be, and Sir
Byam might well spare the Vice Admiralship,
to be conferred upon another equally distin-
guished, but neither so rich nor so fortunate a flag
officer as himself, seeing that he cannot receive the
emoluments of the post, inasmuch as his pay as
Admiral of the Fleet, and superannuation as Comp-
troller of the Navy, already exceed the amount limited
to any officer to receive, by Act of Parliament. We
trust, then, that the Gallant Admiral of the Fleet
does not intend to lay himself open to the charge of
being a selfish pluralist, but that he will gracefully
yield to a brother officer that appointment which,
being relinquished by him, will not detract from the
high and honourable distinction with which he is at
present vested as the professional head of the naval
service.

THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT (NAVY).-.-It has
been suggested, more as an economical arrangement
than anything else, that as Bear-Admiral Berkeley
has the entire charge of the Orenance of the Navy,
the extensive and expensive staff at Pall-mall and
rower hill, so far as the Navy is concerned, is
superfluous, and that it might, with very little in-
conveni,nce, be transferred to Somerset House,
and, like the Steam Department, become a
branch of the department of the Surveyor of the
Navy, a captain or commander, or even a lieutenant of
the navy, or a civil officer of the Ordnance, being
associated with Sir Baldwin Walker as an assistant,
bearing the same relative position to the surveyor as
Messrs. Lloyd (of the engineering and steam branch)
and Messrs. Watts and Edye (of the naval architec-
tural branch). There is little doubt that such an
arrangement would be a most economical one, and
we are not prepared to deny that it would materially
increase the efficiency of the public service.
THE ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL AND THE CITY OF
LONDON.—The President,Vice- President, and Council
of the Royal Naval School, have petitioned the cor-
poration of the city of London for a grant of money
from the rich corporate funds in support of this esta-
blishment, and the petition has been referred to the
Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee.
Staff-Surgeon Pool arrived last Saturday from
Jamaica, and Staff Surgeon Hawkey from Barbadoes.
The Secretaryship to the Board of Ordnance is, it
is now said, to remain in abeyance until the meeting
of Parliament, when the question of the necessity for
the office, under any circumstances, will be enter-
tained. By the recent introduction of a rule, at the
instance of Lord Grey, a reference to the Lords of the
Treasury, or a Secretary of State, is an indispensable
preliminary to the filling up any vacant office.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Nov. 9.

Tom: EXCHANGE.—The share market was more firm and
active to-day as regards prices. The transactions were as fol.
low:—Great Western, Old Shares, 62—Ditto, Halves, 29
Ditto, Quarters, 113 dis.—Ditto, New 17/. shares, 7z% dis.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.

SrocK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day
at the quotations. The transactions were es follow :
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1614 dis. Ditto,
(late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till ISSO, 22/, Shares, 934 dis.—
Caledonian, Preference, 8/. 3s. 9d.—Lancashire and York
shire, Consol. Fifths, 61. Bs. 9d. dis. —London and North-
Western, 1141/2 c. Ditto, New Quarters, I Is. 3d. p.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 104
Midland, 48 Ditto, Halves, 21% dis. Shrewsbury and
Chester (N. W. M.), New 131. 6s. Bd. Shares, 24 dis—
Dutch Rhenish, 63% dis.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 9.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were a--
follow :—Manchester and Birmingham (C ), Quarters, 1%
p.—East Anglian, 6 per cent, 1 1-16—Ditto, Scrip (341.),
7 per cent., I—Old Sheffield,l9l,4 Sheffield, Preference,lo—
(No. 4), Scrip, 614 e. bat() (Registered), c.—
Caledonian, Preference, 81/4 --London and North-Western, 114
—Eastern Counties, 7 Grimsby, Quarters, 10 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 9.

STOCK EXCRANGE.—The share market was weak to-day,
and prices lower.

YORK, Nov. 8.
&root( EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were a?
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Perwick, 171/2—Ditto (New-
castle Extension). 111,2 :Eastern Counties, 7—Great North-
ern, 71. 3s. 9d.—North British, 11—York and North Mid-
land, Preference, 53/a.
GLASGOW, Nov. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow:—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 61 :y4 —Scottish Midland
Junction, 814.

A FATAL BAPTISM.—On Saturday night last, a
person of the name of Ann Griffiths, of Castle Forogate,
was about to be initiated into the society of Morrnonites,
for which purpose she was taken down to the river near
the Horse Boat, Underdale, to bo baptised. There were
only four or five persons present. One of the " elders,"
named Thomas Lloyd, took the female into the river to
immerse her, and nfter he had completed the ceremony,
and was about returning with her to the shore, his foot
slipped, and they wore both plunged into about six feet
water. One of the persons on the bank, named James
Bishop, succeeded in rescuing the female, but the man
was drowned, and the bAy has not yet boon found.—
Shrewsbury Journal.

SIIIPIRTILDING IN THE PORT OF SUNDERLAND.—
The number of ships on the stocks roady for launching
and in the course of being built 87. Many of those
are of the burthon of 400, 500, 600, and 700 tons, and
claseed.A. 1 8 years, 10 years, 12 years, and 13 years.
And this in spite of the prophesied impending ruin of
navigation law repeal!—Sunderland Ile:uld.

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FOREIGN SUPPLIEi.—The arrivals from foreign
ports at the port of London, on Tuesday la t, were the
most limited which have occurred fur a great length of
time. The only vessels which reported at the Custom-
house on that day were the Johanna Cornelia, from
Ghent, with en entire csrgo, comprising 86 tons' weight
of potatoes; the Neptune, from Nieuport, with 236 cases
and 20 casks of apples ; and the Helen Cook, from
Abbeville, with 40 bushels of apples and 98 tons' weight
of potatoes on board.
DISCOVERY OF A ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE AT RICII-
BOROUGIL—Mr. Rolfe, of Sandwich, well known for his
antiquarian pursuits, in conjunction with Mr. Roach
Smithconjec dtaeunprdred Mr. Fairholt, have discovered the site and
part of the walls of a Roman amphitheatre. The cir-
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hill on the left of the road from Sandwich to the Roman
castrate. Mr. Rolfe, by the leave of Mr. Solly, the
tenant, has tested the truth of preceding opinions by
excavating the ground, and the result proves that the
hollow was correctly called an amphitheatre, The work
is still in active progress, and further discoveries
are daily expected. Mr. Roach Smith described parti-
culars relative to the discovery of nearly twenty early
Saxon graves, in a field called Goss field, at Cop-street,
near Goldstone, Kent, the property of Mr. Becker. The
two hundred
by atui
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graves, which were found by workmen employed in land
draining, were covered with flag-stones, and contained
skeletons more or less perfect, with which were the
remains of weapons, urns, Roman coins, glass vessels,
beads, and other objects very similar to the contents of
the graves at Osongal, which is about seven miles distant
from the Cop-street cemetery.—Kent !Jerald.
WAREFIELD.—Tho following are the results, con-
sequent upon the Guy Faux celebration in the town,
and the collisions between the people and the police,
already noticed in this paper:—William Dawson, for
assaulting Constable Burton, was fined 215., or one
cslendar month; Philemon Johnson, for aiding and
abetting the above, was mulcted in the same penalty;
John Murray, for assisting in the bonfire, was fined 165.,
or fourteen days, and James Roebuck, for a similar
off, nee, 2 Iv., or one calendar month.
A WHALE IN Tra CHANNEL.—One morning last
week a whale was observed off Dover, travelling from
the westward in the Channel. After playing some
antics, spouting vast jots of water, and taking a view,
no doubt, of our far:famed castle, having reached oppo-
site East Cliff, the monster turned round without bidding
farewell to the few spectators who had arrived on the
beach to witness its majestic actions, and retired towards
the Atlantic.--Kent Herald.