The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-26 00:00:00

rL7 NoyEmBER 26, 1849.

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THE HON ARTILLERY COMPANY.
The following is a copy of the new warrant of the
Hon. Artillery Company received from her Majesty :
" VICTORIA REGINA.
" Trusty and Well-beloved,—We greet you well.
We being well satisfied of the loyalty and good
affection of our Artillery Company, and being there-
fore willing to promote the welfare and preservation
of it in its ancient good order and discipline, have
thought fit to authorize and empower you frequently
to exerciie our said company in arms, as well in the
ground commonly called the Artillery Ground, near
Moorfields, as in other places where they have for-
merly exercised.
" And we do hereby likewise give you full power
and authority to hold courts, free and public, for the
annual choice of officers, except as hereinafter men-
tioned, and on such other occasions as may be neces-
sary and requisite, for the better government of the
said company, according to the rules and practice
thereof (except in so far as such ancient rules or
practice may be inconsistent with this our Royal
warrant), in such place and places, and at such time
and times as bath been usua' : but we reserve to
ourselves the appointment, from time to time, of the
field officers and the adjutant of our said company,
as heretofore. And, as a mark of our Royal
favour, and of our interest and concern in the welfare
of our said company, we further reserve to our-
selves the appointment from time to time of all other
„commissioned officers • - And we
hereby declare it to be our Royal will and pleasure,
that the appointments of all commissioned officers of
our said company (other than field officers and adju-
tant) shall endure for the period of five years, and no
longer ; and that the persons appointed shall be
selected by us from the members of our said Artillery
Company, provided that, as often as any vacancy or
vacancies shall occur amongst the officers so appointed
and selected, the same shall be supplied by us in the
manner aforesaid. And we do hereby will and direct
that the regimental sergeant- major of our said COM.%
pang shall be appointed from time to time by the
captain-general and colonel of our said company; and
that all other noncommissioned officers of our said
company shall be appointed from time to time by the
lieutenant-colonel, and shall be selected by him from
the members of our said company, provided that as
often as a vacancy or vacancies shall occur amongst
the said non-commissioned officers, the same shall be
supplied by the lieutenant-colonel of our said company.
" And we likewise recommend unto your care that
the commissioned officers of our trained bands of our
city of London may list themselves members of the
said society, that so by the frequent practice of arms,
according to
_their rules, they may he the better
qualified to perform their trust in their respective
commands ; and for your so doing this shall be your
warrant.
" And, for your further encouragement, we do
think fit to confirm and continue our most dearly
beloved Consort, Francis Albert Augustus Charles
Emanuel, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha, Knight of our Most Noble Order of the
Garter, and Field- Marshal in our army, Captain-
General and Colonel of your Company, and shall
testify our go id will towards you on all occasions
proper for us to express it in.
" And we do hereby annul our Royal warrant,
bearing date the 14th day of September, in the year
of our Lord 1843, and all such rules and practice of
our said Artillery Company as may be inconsistent
with this present warrant; and so we bid you heartily
fare well.
" Given at our Court at St. James's, this 10th day
of October, in the 13th year of our reign.
" By her Majesty's command,
" G. GREY.
" Warrant to the Artillery Company, addressed to
our trusty and well• beloved the President, Vice-
President, and Treasurer, and Court of Assistants of
our Artillery Company of London."

STATE OF TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—
The iron trade is decidedly improving : good pigs are
becoming scarce, and are held at an advance of 2s. 63.
per ton on low rates. This fact has had its influence on
the general trade, and the market for manufactured iron
is much firmer. Although the market is in some degree
unsettled, there is no disposition to submit to lower
rates ; on the contrary, a very general confidence is felt
that we shall experience a still further improvement on
the turn of the new year.
THE TElstrit.E.—A further call to the bar of
students of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple has
been made, and they were sworn in this evening (No-
vember 24) in the Hall :—Mr. George Atty, Mr. Michael
Pendergast, Mr. David Bingham Daly, Mr. James John
Bate Rowley, Mr. John Marshall, Mr. John Bradshaw
Godfrey, Mr. Edward Harper, Mr. Frederick Lawrence,
Mr. William Nelson, Mr. James Stewart Thornburne,
Mr. John Wesley Nelson, Mr. Isidore Jollivet, Mr. John
Gilmour, and Mr. John Day.
BURNING OF A LUCIFER FACTORY.—DOVER, SA-
TURDAY.-At twelve o'clock yesterday forenoon the
whole of the military quartered at the Castle and on
the heights, with their engines, were called out to a
serious fire raging in the town. It broke out on the
premises of a lucifer-match manufacturer, the property
of Mr. Thomas Smith, situate in Black Horse lane,
Charlton, which, on account of the inflammable mate-
rials they contained, were quickly in flames, causing the
utmost alarm to the surrounding inhabitants. The
workpeople were absent from the premises, it being
dinner hour, and, from the fact of their having left a
pot of sulphur on the fire to simmer, it is pretty evident
the accident arose from its boiling over. At ono time
of the conflagration it was apprehended it would extend
to the granariesiand stores belonging to Mr. Henry
Castle ; however, by the successful operations of the
engines, and the energies of the townspeople and mili-
tary, the flames were confined to the building where they
originated, which, it is needless to add, was totally con-
sumed. Respecting the amount of loss it is difficult to
say, The factory was not insured.
SMITHFIELD CATTLE SIIOW.—On Saturday the
preparations fur the fortticomin,,4_show commenced at the
13,zaar, Baker-street, Portman-square. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert 11,t.s already wade several
entries. All Mock must be sent In by the B'h
proximo, the committee having determined that the
exhibition shall terminate on the Friday inste...cl of the
Saturday as heretofore. His Grace the Duke of Rich-
mond is expected to preside at the anniversary dinner
on the 14th December

THE ROYAL BR.* SII BANK.
This tank was OPENED fo; WILIC BUSINESS, on
MONDAY, the 19th irAtint.
The rates of interest, &c., to be charga 6-n advances, and al-
lowed on ae::eunta and deposits, must of course vary pith the state
of the market, and the value of money, which so frequently fluc-
tuates; but at opening, the Directors propose that the following
shall be their

THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT,
No. 8, LUDGATE-HILL. THE BEST—THE CHEAPEST.

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The question is often debated, Where is the best market to buy the
necessaries of life? among the more important f which may be
enumerated tea, coffee, and sugar. There exist different opinions, as
is sure to be the case, and ever will be, until people know how to
decide v, hat ,onstitutes cheapness.
Tea is an article of such general consumption that its quality and
price are very essential considerations. There exists great difficulty
In judging its value by appearance, and families, to secure good
qoallties, aro frequently induced to pay extravagant prices. Why
should this be ? The importations for several years have been re-
markably large, comprising unusually fine selections ; the markets
have ruled low; and the public are fairly entitled to the advantages
arising therefrom.
Our invariable custom is to accommodate our prices with the mar-
ket currency. We are enabled at present to sell exceedingly good
'Black Tea at 3s. 4d.; very superior at 3s. Bd.; and very lull and
fine flavoured at 4s. For the Finest Mack Tea imported we are
charging only ss. per pound.
Coffees arc also very reasonable, notwithstanding the recent ad-
vance in prices. We can confidently rz•commend good Coffee at
Is. 2d. ; very good at Is. 4d. ;- and very choice at Is. 6d. ; and Is. Bd.
per pound for the finest.
We invite a comparison of our articles and prices.
East India and Carolina Rice, Sago, Arrowroot, Spices, raw and
refined Sugars at corresponding low prices.
SIDNEY, WELL, and MANDUELL, 8, Ludgate-hill.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PorsTsmouTn, SUNDAY.—The Constance, 50, Capt.
Courtenay, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
Pacific station, with a freight on merchants' account,
which she will land , for conveyance to London to-
morrow, and afterwards sail for Plymouth to be paid
ofF. The Pacific squadron were, all well. The In-
constant, 36, Captain Sheppard, sailed from Valpa-
raiso, on her retorts to San Francisco, on the 20th of
August. The remainder were distributed as notified
sct 7
e 8 deg. S min.
by the last arrival. She spoke or signalkde the fol-
lowing vessels during her passage :
latitudei
On the 9th of September, in latitude' 49 deg.
14 min.
25dee
W., ex. c3hoa nmgmend.
numbers with the English barqua Cleopatra.
On th the S., h
S., longitude 43 deg. 7 min. W., spoke the American
brig Ellen, 13. Felix, from Rio, and signalled with the
Hamburgh barque Maria.
On the 22d of October, in latitude
t longitudeof
October,
obr in
27 deg. 47 min.
S., longitude 28 deg. 52 min. W., exchanged colours
and signalled with an English ship bound to Bombay,
apparently with troops on board (probably the
Devonshire) ; the number (3,628) which she gave is
not placed against any vessel's name in the signal-
book supplied to her Majesty's ship Constance.
On the 24th of October, in lat. 17 deg. 42 min. S.,
lbng. 30 deg. 23 min. W., exchanged colours with a
Hainburgh brig, which showed a white flag with
"No. 60" on it, and spoke the English barque Royal
Saxon, from Patagonia, bound for New York.
On the 26th of October, in lat. 10 deg. 5 min. S.,
long. 29 deg. 33 min. W., spoke the American
whaler Cincinnati, of Stonington, bound for the
north-west coast of America.

On the 21st of November, in the entrance of the
English Channel, exchanged colours with a Bremen
barque, showing a white fl +g with " No. 25" on it,
and exchanged colours with the brig Nunez of
London.

The Constance has been three years and a half in
commission. She was taken out to South America
by Captain B. W. Walker; and since his return,
about two years since, she has been under command
of Captain Courtenay. The following are the prin-
cipal officers who have come home in her :—Captain
Courtenay, Lieutenants lion. Frederick Curzon,
?reedy, Brandreth, Sandford, and Chase ; master,
Henry Paul ; Captain Marines, John Mitchel ; First
Lieutenant Marines, J. T. Haverfield; Chaplain,
Henry W. Steel ; Surgeon, S. W. Webb; Naval
Instructor, J. H. Bond ; Paymaster and Purser, Ed-
ward Thorn ' • Assistant Surgeons, C. Ede and Dr.
Ord. Her former first lieutenant, now Commander

Heathcote, having been promoted in June last, has
come home passenger in the Constance, a 3 have also
the following :—Mr. Shaw, naval instructor of the
Calypso, 20, paid off, who was left behind sick ;
Messrs. Page and Wigley, midshipmen ' • and Mr.
Pike, clerk'a assistant, invalided from the Inconstant,
36 ; and Mr. Corbett, invalided from the Southamp-
ton, 50.

The Constance has been remarkably healthy during
the last twelve months, none of her crew having died
within that time from disease. She bas brought
home for the Earl of Derby two Chilian eagles and
a vacunia, a species of lama peculiar to Chili; also
a large eagle for the L)ological Gardens, Regent's-
park; and a female black bear from Vancouver
Island, belonging to Captain Courtenay.
The Myrtle, steam-tender, Master Commander
Braddon, with a large party of gentlemen on board,
went out to the Constance yesterday.

Captain Robert Incledon, on the retired list o:

1840, died on the 10th instant, at Amery Cottage,
Monkleigh, aged 69. He entered the navy in
1797, and served 17 years afloat, during tl se war.
He was master's mate of the Raven when wrecked
on the coast of Sicily, and, as a lieutenant, was
again wrecked in the Dover, 38, in Madras roads,
in 1811. Previously he served in the operations
against Amboyna, and at the reduction of the impor-
tant island of Ternate. He also served as lieutenant
in the East Indies, in the Piedmontaise and Phamix
frigates, for three years, and on his return to England
in August, 1814, he found that he bad been promoted
to the rank of commander, on the 4th of the preceding
month of May. He was promoted to the retired list
of 1840, in January, 1848.

APPOINTMENTS.

WooLwlcn, Nov. 24.—Lieutenants—David Miller

(1640), Charles A. Lodder (1846), Edwin C. Sy-
mons (February, 1848), and Thomas Macdonnell
(November, 1848), to the Terrible steam-frigate, at
Woolwich.
Master—John Jarvis (1841), to the Terrible.

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Paymaster and Parser—William A. Harries (1833),
to the Terrible.
Acting-Paymaster and Purser—Wilmot B. Main-
prise (1845), to the Ranger, on the West Coast of
Africa.

Mate—Henry J. Raby (1848), to the Terrible.
Second-Master—William F. Lew (1849), to the
Terrible.

Midshipman—William Young, to the Terrible.

Master's-Assistant—C. CI Grady, to the Terrible.

Secretaries' Clerks Edward R. Chamberlain
(1844), to the Victory, flag-ship at Portsmouth ; C.
M. Balfour (1847), to the Crocodile, fl ig-ship at
Queenstown.
Clerks—Charles W. Tuke (1848), and F. F. Evers-
field (1849), to the Terrible.
Clerk's-Assistant—J. B. Moorman, to the Terrible.
Boatswain—George Martin,-to the Terrible.

Carpenter—James Canpaway, to the Terrible.
David Miller (1840), appointed First Lieutenant
of the Terrible, has the naval medal with one clasp,
for distinguished service.
John Jarvis (1841), appointed Master to the
Terrible, was Master of the Driver steam sloop, of
280 horsepower, from 1851 to 1847, and served in
the Yang-tse-Kiang at the conclusion of the peace of
Nankin, and at New Zealand during the operations in
1846. This gallant officer passed for a line-of-battle
ship under the new order, and is now in one of the
finest steam-frigates in the navy.
The Minx, steam-vessel went down the river at 9
o'clock A.M., to-day, under the charge of Lieutenant
Robertson, and having on board Commander Charles
Codrinwon Forsyth, R.N., studying steam at Wool-
wich Factory; Mr. Taplin, second assistant to the
Chief Engineer at Woolwich Dockyard; Mr. Casey,
engineer to Captain Austin's establishment ;
Donkin, civil engineer, and several scientific gentle-
men. On arriving at Long Reach the speed of the
vessel, fitted with a disc engine of 10 horse power,
was tried by two runs up and two runs down the
measured mile, and ascertained to be at the rate of
4.659 knots per hour on the average ; the engines
making a mean number of revolutions of 150 per
minute, with an average pressure of 551 b. to the
square inch. The result was a greater speed by
two-tenths of a mile than was obtained on the last
trial of the vessel, when fitted with engines of ten
horse power by Messrs. Seaward and Co. The Minx
is a vessel of 301 tons, originally built from a design
by Captain Sir Wm. Symonds for engines of 100
horse power, ten times the horse power of the disc
engine of Bishop's patent tried to-day.

A number of shipwrights have commenced laying
the blocks under the new slip at the east side of the
Dockyard Parade-ground, for supporting the keel of
the large steam-ship ordered to be built for a screw•
propeller, and to carry SO guns. On trying the
woodwork laid alternately with flagstones of the
bottom of the slip, it was found, especially in the
further part from the river, to be in such a rotten
state, that a great number of labourers have been
employed to take it up, as it would have been dan-
gerous to lay down a vessel of the intended magnitude
of the Agamemnon upon it, as a large portion of the
lumber, on being touched with the hand, crumbled
into powder. It will take a considerable quantity of
wood to replace the defective pieces, and it would be
advantageous to have it previously prepared with some
solution for the preservation of the material, as the
alternate wetness and dryness of the upper part of
the slip renders the timber particularly liable to rapid
decay.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE QUEEN'S PRISON.—
An accident of a very serious character took place on
Friday at the Queen's Prison, which, from the extent of
the injury received, is likely to terminate fatally. It ap-
pears that a gentleman named John Pollock was engaged
with a party of friends playing a game of racket, and
whilst in the act of running after the ball, at a rapid
pace, he fell to the ground with awful violence. Several
persons ran to his assistance, and raised him up, when
it was discovered that he had sustained a fracture of
the left leg, and such other injuries, that he was carried
without delay to the surgery, where ono of the medical
officers of the prison rendered every aid, and e,ubFe-
quently the Governor (Captain Hudson) had the unfor-
tunate gentleman conveyed in a cab to the accident
ward of Guy's Hospital, where he was placed under the
care of the house surgeon, where he is going on favour-
ably, but as yet he is not out of danger.
A NovEarnEn FOG.—London, which has so long
been famed for November fogs, has passed through this
dreaded month to Saturday without any serious appear-
ance of this. misty visitant. At eight o'clock, however,
this morning, the unwelcome intruder spread its vast
murky veil over the metropoli;; nod for about an hour
the atmosphere became dark as midr ight, to the gret t
annoyance of all persons, whether engaged in business
or discharging the duties of domestic tile. Happily by
nine o'clock the dinu curtain disappeared, and glorious
daylight once again resumed its sway. Yesterday also
a dense fog enveloped the metropolis and the suburbs up
to noon, when it became clear.