The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-12 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

Commander 'William Peel (seniority 27th of June,
1846) is promoted to the rank of captain, in accordance
with a minute, in acknowledgment of his talents and
merits, left by the late First Lord of the Admiralty.
Captain Peel earned, by study and practice, his first
step in the navy, having passed the best examination on
record for the rank of lieutenant. There is but one
promotion at the disposal of the Royal Naval College
for the officer who passes the best examination, and
Mr. Peel obtained that prize. Captain Peel served as
lieutenant in her Majesty's ship America, 50 guns.
under the Honourable Captain Gordon, on the South
Pacific station ; also in her Majesty's ship Thalia
42 guns, Captain Hope; and in the C4'rmorant, steam-
sloop, Commander Gordon, both on the Pacific station.

Captain Peel brought home (overland) some important
dispatches relative to the then existing state of feeling
upon the subject of Oregon, for which he received the
thanks of the Admiralty; he subsequently assisted in
fitting cut her Majesty's steam-sloop Devastation for the
pendant of the Commander-in-Chief upon the west coast
o F Africa station; and the Constance, 50-gun frigate,
aptain Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.B. (the present surveyor
0 f the nary), for service in the South Pacific; and was
romoted to the rank of commander on the 27th of June
1 846; and on the 11th of February following was ap-
pointed to command her Majesty's 12-gun sloop Daring,
on the North American and West India station, which
vessel he brought home and paid off in the autumn of
a st year.
Commander Adolphus Slade (1841) is promoted to
the rank of Captain. This officer went to sea in 1817
with Captain (now Rear-Admiral) Falcon, and served
in his and other ships in South America, in the West
Indies, and Mediterranean till 1827, when he was made
Lieutenant in the Ariadne. Not obtaining another ap-
pointment, on that ship being paid off on the following
year, he went to Constantinople, and served as a volun-
teer in the Turkish fleet during the last war between
Turkey and Russia, interesting details of which he
published alter his return to England. This service
gave him a practical acquaintance with the Euxine,
and he improved it afterwards when sent by the Com-
mander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean to visit Sebasto-
pol and the mouths of the Danube, and to report on the
Russian navy in that sea. While a lieutenant of the
Caledonia in the Mediterranean in 1834-5-6, he was em-
ployed by the late Admiral Sir Josias Rowley on politi-
cal missions of an important character at Constantinople
and elsewhere in the Ottoman dominions. The Admiral
repeatedly thanked him for such service, and in 1835
recommended him officially to the Admiralty for promo-
tion, repeating his recommendation more impressively
when he struck his flag in 1837. Four years later
Captain Slade was promoted to the rank of Commander,
in which grade he passed two years at the Royal Naval
College, and at Woolwich, studying steam and other
subjects of national interest and import. In
1846 he commanded the Recruit iron experi-
mental brig, and carried out in her a series of inte-
resting trials concerning the effect of induced magne-
tism on the compass, whereby the theory propounded
by Mr. Walker, the Queen's Harbour-master, at Ply-
mouth, of the existence of local deviation of the magnetic
needle in a vessel, due to the inclination of the vessel to
port or to starboard, varrying as the angle of,inclination,
was fully confirmed. having elicited this startling fact,
the Recruit was sent to join Sir William Parker's
squadron at Lisbon, and was actively employed on that
station during the intervention in 1847 in favour of
Donna Maria, and the judicious conduct of her com-
mander at the Azores, when stationed at those islands
for the protection of British interests, obtained the ap-
probatio❑ of the Foreign-office and of the Admiralty.
The Recruit was paid off as a failure in November, 1847,
under the impression of the unfitness of iron vessels for
the navy.
Acting-Commander Von Donop, of the President, 50,
flagship of Vice-Admiral Dacres, is confirmed to the
rank of commander.
Lieutenant T. H. Lysaght, in command of the Grap-
pler steamer on the coast of Africa, son of Rear-Admiral
Lysaght, is promoted to the rank of commander.
Navel Cadets—N. Osborn to the Fisgard pendant
ship at Woolwich ; E. A. Luckraft and W. Whit-
combe to the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth ; the
Honourable F. Boyle to the Vengeance, 84- gun-ship, at
Malta.

Her Majesty's ship Pembroke, 72 guns, has had a com-
plete refit in duck at Portsmouth, and was removed to
moorings in the ordinary, on Tuesday.
THE ADMIRAL OF THE FLERT.—Sir James Hawkins
Whitshed is still in a most precarious state, sometimes
rallying, and sometimes sinking. The office of Admiral
of the Fleet will not be revived when yielded up with life
by the present holder, except hostilities afloat call for
such an officer in actual service.
The Penelope steam-frigate, Commodore Sir Charles
Hotham, left St. Helena for Ascension homewards on
the 25th of November.
A brig, looking remarkably like the Espiegle, 12,
was in sight from half-past twelve o'clock to-day for
upwards of an hour. She has most likely taken shelter
in Sandown-bay, Isle of Wieht, the wind being too
N.N.W.h exposed.
strong for her to work into Spithead, or even to St.
Helen's, the latter being, molrveover,to
A tremendous gale from N has been
ht.
blowing all day and part of Ilast and
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Wind, N.N.W.; strong gales an cloudy.
ROYAL MARINES.
The recruiting parties at Hull, Stafford, and Bir-
mingham, under the command of Captains Heriot,
Hailes, and Curry respectively, are called in to head-
quarters, notwithstanding that the corps have 800 men
short of? Complement. It is reported that the Royal
Marine force is about to be reduced 1,500 men, by taking
nine men away from each company. We sincerely hope
such an insane measure is not sincerely contemplated.
Those who do contemplate it will do well to consider the
value of the commodity they would throw away. A
Marine is not like a land soldier ; he cannot be trained
in a week or a month ; time alone will make a good and
serviceable Marine, whose duties are very foreign to
those of shore-serving troops. The economists had bet-
ter reduce any amount of the shore-serving forces than
one company of Marines. This is only a common sense
view of the matter, and we trust, for the welfare of the
national defence, it will be seen in that light only.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Her Majesty's frigate Calliope,
26, Captain Edward Stanley, atter some detention, Was
paid off yesterday.
The Crane packet, from Falmouth, is gone up harbour
to-day to refit.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Driver arrived from Ports-
mouth on the 7th, and left for that port the next day,
the Bth.
Moorings for eight steamers are ordered to be laid' in
flamoaze. This order is said to be in anticipation of the
establishment of a steam reserve at this port.
Admiral Sir John West, K C. 8., late commander-in-
chief at this port, and Vice-Admiral M'liinley, have
been reported as suffering from severe indisposition.
Vice-Admiral M'Kinley, now in his 83d year, although
confined to his bed and suffering great pain from a se-
vere attack of gout, is recovering.
The Admiralty have given directions for the reduction
of the staff of the Royal Dockyard Battalions one-half,
on the Ist of April next.
Wind, westerly, stiff breeze, with rain.

The Christmas pantomime of Harlequin Aladdin
is being played, with great success, at the Theatre
Royal, Edinburgh.

Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo.,
A NECDOTEs of the ARISTOCRACY,
AND
EPISODES IN ANCESTRAL STORY.
By J. BERNARD BURKE, Esq.
Author of " The Peerage," " The Landed Gentry," &c.
" These stories, with all the reality of established fact, read with
as much spirit as the tales of Boccacio, and are as full of strange
matter for reflection and amazement. Mr. Burke has here given us
the most curious incidents, the most stirring tales, and the most re-
markable circumstances connected with the histories, public and pri-
vate, of our noble houses and aristocratic families, and has put them
into a shape which will preserve them in the library, and render
them the favourite study of those who are interested in the romance
of real life."—Britannia.

Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW ROMANCE.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,

THE LAN'CASHIRE'WIYCHES.
A ROMANCE OF PENDLE FOREST.

By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq.

" The Lancashire Witches is a story of great inteiest ; the per-
sonages who figure In it are true to their position, and to our pre-
conceived notion of them ; and much skill and versatility are exhi-
bited in their delineation. Let us add that the local descriptions,
which are numerous and various, are all most admirable. In fact,
Mr. Ainsworth in this romance has made an excellent use of much
profound and curious knowledge both of the time and of the scene in
which the action is laid."—Examiner.
" Mr. Ainsworth may be styled the Salvator Rosa of novelists.
He delights in the thrilling—the terrible—the wildly romantic. In
gorgeous depth of colouring, in vivid reality of portraiture, in en-
thralling interest, Mr. Ainsworth's romances are almost unrivalled.
The Lancashire Witches excites a powerful and undiminished interest
throughout."—Sun.
Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Season 1849.

FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE.

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Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that the performance of
French Plays will be resumed at this Theatre on Monday Evening
next, Jan. 15, by the production of LE MAITRE DE CHAPELLE,
music by Paer, compressed into one act, as represented at the Opera
Comique, Paris; Barnabe, M. Beauce ; Gertrude, Maine. Guichard
(their first appearances at this Theatre) : and Auber's popular Opera
Comique, in three acts, LE DOMINO NOIR ; Horace, M. Couderc,
as originally performed by him at the Opera Comique, Paris ;
Angeline, Maddle. Charton (their first appearances at this Theatre).
The performances before Easter will be selected from the following
repertoire:—Le Maitre de Chapelle, by Paer; Le Neauveau
Seigneur, by Boieldien ; Le Tablean Parlant, by Gretry ; Le Valet
de Chambre, by Carafe ; L'Eau Merveillieuse, by Grisar ; La Double
Echelle, by Thomas ; Le Bouffe et le Tailleur, by Gaveux ;
Adolphe et Clara, by Dalayrac ; Richard Cceur de Lien, by Gretry;
Le Domino Noir, by Auber ; La Dame Blanche, by Roieldieu ; Le
Fidele Berger, by Adam ; Fra Diavolo, by Auber.—Engagements
Madlle. Charton (from the Opera Comique, Paris, Madlle Guichard
(Premiere Dugazon, from Brussels), Madlle. Morel (from the Opera
Comique, Paris), Madlle. Martial (from the Theatre ofMons), Mdlle.
Mancini (from the Theatre of Rouen), Madlle. Garique (from the
Theatre Royal, Berlin), Mons. Couderc (from the Opera Comique,
Paris), Mons. Bonnamy (from the Theatre of Lyons), M. Royer,
M. Buguet (from the Theatre of Brussels), M. Beauce (from the
Theatre of Lille), M. Chateaufort (from the Theatre of Bordeaux),
M. Martial (from the Theatre of Mons), and M. Julien Deschamps
(from the Theatre du Gymnase, Paris),—For the effective perform-
ance of the music of the above works, Mr. Mitchell has the honour
to announce the engagement of the following eminent professors :
Chef d'Orchestre, Mr. Charles Hrmssens ; Messieurs Tolbecque,
Barret, Baumann, Lazarus, Remusat, Bourotte, Deloffre, Newsham,
Peyton, Shepherd, Morris Alsept, Campanile, King, Besse, Larkins,
Vaudreland, Nicholson, Winterbottom, &c.
Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in-
creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis-
sion are determined as follows :

Orchestra Stalls 10s. 6d.
Boxes .. • • Os. Od.
Pit • • • • • • •. • • 3s. Od.
Amphitheatre .. • • 2s. Od.
Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ;
Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street! and at the Box-office of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, SeleLessee and Manager, Old Brompton.

The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during
the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the
whole re-decorated.

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Shylock,
Mr. Charles Kean ; Portia, Mrs. Charles Kean.
After which, an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled
CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved
the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Mice
Horton, and Miss Reynolds.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIIL

utder the direction cl Madame Celeste

During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the
original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A
new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys-
tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
added to the Seat; and Stalls rendered more comfortable.

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