The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

We have heard that Major General Bourchier will
succeed the late Sir George Anson as Colonel of the
4th Dragoon Guards. This officer was employed
under Sir Ralph Abercromby in the expedition
against Cadiz, in 1800, and in the campaign in
Egypt in 1801. Ile served afterwards in the cam-
paign of 1811, 1812, and 1815, and was present at
the siege of Badajoz, battle of Salamanca, Quartre
Bras, and Waterloo, and the capture of Paris.
A report was current yesterday at the Clubs, that
General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.8., is to be
appointed to Chelsea Hospital, and as that officer is
senior to Sir Colin Ilalkett, should this prove correct,
we must expect to find him gazetted to the situation
of Governor of that establishment direct.

URT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning
in the Slopes and Windsor Park.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
their Royal Hignesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
,ad:Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and the Princess
Mary of Cambridge, attended by Lady A. Cadogan
And Major Stephens, took their departure from the
Castle this morning.
The Earl of Westmoreland also left the Castle.
The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer
ire expected to arrive at the Castle this day.
His Royal Highness the Prince Albert inspected
the working models of a new steam-engine invented
V Captain Fitzmaurice, at Windsor Castle, on Tues-
day last. His Royal Highness afterwards proceeded
to Datchet-bridge to witness the working of the en-
gine in the boat fitted for the purpose.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
returned to Kew yesterday.
Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday evening, from
the residence of Sir Charles Wood, Mickleton
near Doncaster.

HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular.)
Tie following favourable bulletin of her Majesty's
health was issued yesterday :
" The Priory, Nov. 8, 1849.
" The Queen Dowager has passed a most com-
fortable night, and her Majesty is refreshed this
morning.

" DAVID DAVIES, M.D.
"RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D."

THE LAST BATTLES AND DEATH OF
KING CHARLES ALBERT.
(From the Illustrated London News.)
Piedmont, Piedmont, is filled with sighs,
Charles Albert's last bed
In ►he church is spread,
And the old and the young bend wistful eyes,
Where silent and cot quer'd a brave king lies.
Brief time is pass'd since, the sword by his side,
Aspiring to see
Fair Ansonia free,
With his troops behind him in martial pride,
We beheld him to battle gaily ride.
And Lis banners all bright were flung on high—
The war music was sounding,
The war horses were bounding,
And courage and joy were in every eye,
And none suspected the doom that was nigh.
But they thought of brave times quite pass'd away,
Times dead as the clay
Of the King they'll lay
So spin in the chambers that know no ray—
The desolate vaults of the cloisters grey.
They thought of the ancient victorious times
Related in story
So replete with glory,
Of deeds once achiev'd in these very climes,
Still from sire to son sung in nursery rhymes.
Ah! vain were these hopes, though buldly avow'd,
And sudden and strange
Was the destined change,
Which turn'd all their light into gloom and cloud,
And their King's bright arms to his winding shroud!
It was not the sabre which laid him low—
The careering rattle
Of the fire in battle
Still grudged what he sought, a dispatching blow—
The King was reserved for less cemmon woe.
The light of success and hope had departed—
'Twas the thickening gloom
Of his country's doom,
That into his soul like the iron darted,
And pierced him and left him—quite broken-hearted.
MILES GERALD LEON.

INSTALLATION OF THE LORD MAYOR ELECT.—
Yesterday,'Alderman Thomas Farncomb, the Lord Mayor
Elect, was duly sworn in and installed as Lord Mayor
and Chief Magistrate of the city of London. The sere•
mony took place in the Guildhall, which was crowded
principally by lathes. The necessary oaths having been
administered, and the prescribed ceremonial completed,
Alderman Farncomb was inducted as Lord Mayor by
Sir J. Duke; and he subsequently received the congra-
tulations of the Aldermen present, and various other
members of the Corporation.

Charles Gilpin, Lg., attended at the Home-office,
on Thursday, to present petitions for a commutation of
the sentence of death upon Charlotte Harris, from the
following places :—Devonport, Edinburgh, Devizes, Not-
tingham, Bristol, Exeter, Sticklepath, Gloucester, Street,
Melksham, York, Carlisle, Buckingham, Colinton, Hud•
derstield, Cupar, Tewkesbury, Plymouth, Bath, &c., &o.
The total signatures amounted to 15,000.
THE IRON TRADE,—BIRMINGHAM, Nov. B.—The
iron trade of South Staffordshire and the districts con-
tiguous is reported to be improving, the prices fixed
upon at the last quarter-day being firmly maintained.
The pitmen who turned out a few weeks ago are now
generally employed, and as far as present appearances
can bo depended upon, the differences which existed be-
tween master and men have been &atisfacturil) adjusted.
The price of coals remains high, and now winter has set
in, for the pried severely, there is little probability of
a reduction.

TERRORIfaI IN TUB COUNTY OF LIMERICK.—On
Saturday night about three hundred men, many well-
armed, proceeded to the lands of Graigalug, the property
of William Garrett, Esq., and having placed sentries on
the people residing on the townland, warning them on
the pain of death to keep within doors, they assembled
at the houses of two of that gentleman's tenants, named
Fenton, and swept away the corn on about 100 cars,
with all the property. They fired shots, and marched
through the country, cheering along the road, a circum-
stance which created much alarm throughout their route.
The Fenlons owed a larged amount of rent.