The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-15 00:00:00

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Cnnii:rikNA, JULY 21.—For some time past
we have experienced an incessant drought and
heat, between 20 and 30 degrees, in Reatimur's
scale. The meadows and fields Dave suf-
fered extremely ; and should we not be spee.-
dily refreshed with •rains, the harvest must
inevitibly prove a failing one. For the first
time for many years a French ship has visited us.
She is of large tonnage, and was built, it is said,
On 'account of the President BOYER, of Hayti, as
a ship-of-War. She is to be laden with timber.

" We sounded this southern outlet or channel carefully, and
I so soon as the intended Navigation shall be in progress,' I re-
commend that application be made to the Trinity-house, to
have this channel properly buoyed ; and there can he no doubt
but that Corporation will promptly attend to such applica-
tion, connected as its object assuredly is, with the security of
our coasting trade."
The Captain thus concluded this branch of his subject.
"On the whole, I am of opinion that a safe and convenient
communication may be formed, as proposed, for vessels of 100
or 150 tons burthen; between Lake Lothing and the sea at
Lowestoft; and I do not find any reason to apprehend that such
communication will hereafter be blocked up or impeded, or that
any Injurious effects will ensue from it, either to the navigation
along the coast, or to the flat country within it."
But the latter division of the report is still more favourable.
" Whilst proceeding along • rivers Yare and Waveney,
and through the Oulton Dyke into Lake Lothing, I was par-
ticularly struck with the difference which existed between these
rivers and all others which I had ever before examined, and
with their near resemblance to our most improved Canal Novi-
gations. Their hanks are steep. They are of a very sufficient
width. They are always bankfull. Their depth of water is
generally sufficient throughout their entire course, even at pre-
sent; and the stream moves so slowly as to impose little ci no im-
pediment to vessels ascending them. These rivers are in fact al-
most perfect inland canals, being without the interruption oflocks ;
and nature has here done so much that but little is left for the
hand of art to accomplish ; and even that little is so easy, so
obvious, and to be effected at so trifling an expence, when com-
pared with the object to be :achieved, that it excites more than
an ordinary degree of wonder at its not having been done long
ago. _

The deepening of the river Yare for a short distance below
Norwich—the formation of the proposed new cut between the
Yare and the Waveney—and the enlarging of Oulton Dyke,
seems all that is requisite for perfecting the navigation from
Norwich, on to the projected opening into the sea at Lowestoft.
" There are no bridges across these rivers to impede the free
passage of vessels, neither are there any public road to be turned,
nor aqueducts or culverts to be constructed, and but few bridges
to be provided; and as it is not proposed to form any towing
paths, but to employ steam tugs when necessary for the trans-
porting of vessels, no private property will be interfered with
on the banks of these rivers, nor will it be possible for the pro-
prietors of lands adjoining them to show that they will be in
the slightest degree injured by the projected navigation, which
will merely go to the partial substitution of one description of
vessels for another, along a channel of communication already
open to public use.
" On referring to the prospectus with which I have been fur-
nished, it appears that there will be amample income to cover
the estimated expenditure. The calculations on which this es-
timated revenue is founded, appear to be moderate and every
way unexceptionable, and to partake as much of certainty, as
any thing so purely prospective can be said to attain to,. But
had it been otherwise—if the estimated cost had been more,
and the estimated income less, I still would have.recommended
your Committee to make your projected navigation as, perfect
as possible ; for when completed, it will assuredly give rise to
other undertakings of a similar nature, arid lead to the exten-
sion of other lines of communication, as one improvent always
calls forth another.

" When Norwich shall have become a Port, open for the
access of vessels of burthen from the sea; important branches
and ramifications not now thought of will spread out from it in
various directions, situated as it happily is in a wealty and pc.
pulous country, and having within itself a large mass of dis-
posable capital ready to embark in an extension of its trade,
and to support the commercial enterprize of its citizens..
" Permit me then here, very urgently, to reconinnenii to your
Committee not to confine your intended operations within too,
narrow limits, nor to restrict your views to the merely supplying
the present wants of the trade of Norwich, but rather to look
fbrward to what will be itswants in five or ten years after the
opening of your intended navigation.,
" It is partly fioni this last consideration, but principally
from my conviction of the great facility whictriressels of even
100 tons burthen will derive • from it in their passing up and
down, that I now advise the completion of the whole line to a
depth of full twelve feet of water' as well at•the Norwich end
as at the New Cut, and the works at Mu ford Bridge, and at
the opening to the sea at Lowestoft. A vessel of 150 tons bur_
then will then be enabled to use the navigation, and vessels
of one hundred tons will at an times pass along it with per-
fect facility. •

.. . . . • .
" If any objection to the proposed undertaking shall be ad-
vanced on the score ofa supposed interruption to the passage of
vessels by frost in winter, it may be sufficient to state that the
free transit of vessels along the Ellesmere Canal has only been
impeded at the rate of seven days per annum, on, an average
'of the last ten years, and that its level is three hundred
feet `above: that. of the intended Norwich and Lowestoft..Na-
vigation."
.The Committee has. thus obtained a. most able nautical opi.
.nion in confirmation of those of Messrs. Telford and Cubitt.
The funds dre raised for the prosecution of the work, and we
trust that but a few years will now elapse before the city will
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53d Ditto—Lieutenant James Gardner, from the 13th Regi-
ment, to be Lieutenant, vice Krefton, who exchanges.
61st Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Arthur O'Neill, from the 41st
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Edgar Grieve, who retires
upon the half-pay of the Royal African Corps.
68th Ditto-:-Ensign Henry Smyth to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Stretton, promoted.
70th Ditto—Ensisn Mark Kerr Atherley to be Lieutenant,
by purchase' vice Thorp, promoted ; Charles du Pre Egerton,
Gen . to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Atherley.
75th Ditto—Lieutenant Archibald Macbean, from the Royal
Artillery, to be Lieutenant, vice Walsh, appointed to the Royal
Staff Corps.
80th Ditto—Captain John Routledge Majendie, from the
half-pay, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Charles Addison,
teceiving the difference.
86th Ditto—Ensign William Osborne to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Alexander, promoted ; John Smeaton Brooke,
Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Osborne promoted.
95th Ditto—Christopher Main (late Serjeant-Major of the
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards), to be Adjutant,
with the rank of Ensign, vice Dickens, promoted,
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Nathaniel Cameron,
from the half-pay, to be Lieuienant, vice Samuel Smith Lynch,
who exchanges. " •
The undermentioned Officers have been allowed to`dt.pose
of their half-pay commissions :—Lieut.-Colonel Evan AliPlierA
'son, half-pay 6th Royal Veteran Battalion ; Major Edward
Michael Bird, .half-pay Ist Foot; Captain - Donald Mackay,
half-pay 21st Foot; Captain Evelyn Pierepoint Lord Dormer,
half-pay 14th Dragoons; Captain Anthony Hellermann, half-
pay 95th Foot; Captain John Houston Akers, half-pay 82t1
Foot; Captain William Richardson (Brevet Major), half-pay
sth Garrison Battalion ; Captain William Dundee, half-pay
62d Foot ; Lieutenant George Robert Gleig, half-pay 78th
Foot; Ensign Philip Buckley Edwards, halt-pay 15th Foot;
Ensign Philip Aubin, half-pay 96th Foot; Ensign George
Surtees, half-pay Bth Foot; Ensign James Matthew Hamil-
ton, 7th Dragoon Guards.
UNATTACHED.—Captain Charles Hall, from the 3d Regi-
ment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant Colonel by purchase;
Captain Richard Beauchamp, from the 7th Foot, to be Major,
by purchase.
To be Captains, by purchase—Lieutenant Frederick Ham-
mond from 15th Foot, vice Major General the Honourable C.
Stapylton, who retires; Lieutenant Stevens William Lynham
Stretton, from 68th Foot; Lieutenant. Henry Duggan Cour-
tayne, from 44th foot; Lieutenant Henry Alexander, from
86th Regiment ; Lieutenant Edward Thorp, from 70th Regia
ment ; Lieutenant Archibald Wyndham Bishop, from 11th
Light Dragoons ; Lieutenant Charles H. Fraser, from 3d
Foot Guards.

To be Lieutenant by purchase—Cornet William Osborne,
from 16th Light Dragoons.
To be Ensigns, by purchase—Hon. Wm. Henry Drum-
mond; John Peter Nelly, Gent. ; Andrew Mackasan Wool-
house, Gent. ; William Townsend Gunn, Gent.
BREVET.—Major Daniel Falla (Town Major of Gibraltar),
to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Staff-Surgeon Joseph Thomas to be
Deputy Inspector of Hospitals.
COMMISSARIAT.—Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General
Robert Grindlay to be Assistant-Commissary-General.
Royal Malta Fencible Regiment.—Captain Marquis Gui-
seppe de Piro to be Major, with local and temporary rank.
To be Captains, with local and temporary rank.—Lieut.
Claudio Bonello; Lieut. Giovanni (loader; Lieut. Giovanni.
B. Virtu, vice de Piro. '
To be Lieutenants, with local and temporary rank—Ensign
James Galland, vice Cavarra, deceased ; Ensign Carlo Cutajar,
vice Bonello; Ensign Paolo Camilleri, vice Louder ; Ensign
Vincenzo Bonavita ; Ensign Salvatori Calleja, vice Virtu.
To be Ensigns, with local and temporary rank—Salvatori
Calleja, Gent. vice Galland ; Mederico de Marchese Alessi,
Gent. vice Cutajar; Antonio Maltei, Gent. vice Camilleri;
Englielmo Pettil, Gent. vice Bonavita ; Javerio Gatt, Gent.;
Vincenzo Vella, Gent. ; Antonio Camilleri, Gent. vice Calleja.
To be Adjutant, with the rank of Lieutenant—Ensign John
Levick, from the half-pay of the lut Garrison llattallon, vice
Goulder.

To be Quarter-master, with Local and temporary rank—Ser-
ieant-Illajg, Salvatore Piott.

A detachment belonging to the 77th Regiment of Infantry
embarked, on the 11th inst., on board a vessel in the River, for
Glasgow.
A detachment belonging to the 17th Regiment of Foot ern-
barked, on the 11Ih instant, on board a vessel in the River, for
Edinburgh Castle.
The Ist, 2d, and 3d divisions of the 72d Regiment of Infantry,
have arrived at Portpatrick, from EdinbUrgh Castle. on route to
Ireland.

The Ist and 2d divisions of the 17th 'Regiment of Foot have
arrives at Edinburgh Castle, from Glasgow.

Naw R OADS.—Contitmeti exertions in various
parts of the county of Hants are making for the improvement in
old roads, and the formation of new ones, to facilitate the com-
munication so long wished for between the West of England
and Sussex ;, and on no previous occasion has so much been ac-
complished in so short, a time. Already is the new road from
Winchester to Petersfield in considerable progreis ; the road
from Basingstoke .to Alresford, through Preston Candover, is
repaired ; and from Alresford to Petersfield nearly completed.
The hills at Hindhead and Portsdown are much lowered, and
the Pteep and dangerous ascent at Stonar Hill, between Pettrs-
field and Alton; is removed or avoided by a new cut round the
other side of the hill. New Roads are likewise in contempla-
tion from. London to Portsmouth, by way of Farnhans, .also
Chichester to Petersfield, hlidhurst to Petersfield, and Al:on to
Liphook, the latter. uniting the Portsmouth and Gosport roads
within a distance of nine miles. We may congratulate the pro-
moters of the various undertakings on the system adopted, at
once advantageous and convenient to the public, beneficial
. to
the poor by producing employment, and to the landed pro-
prietor increase of the value of property in the various districts.
—Want: Telegraph.)