The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

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(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
Captain Kirkland, 20th Foot, has been appointed an
Extra Aide-de-Camp to Lientenant-General Rowan,
C. 8., Brevet-Major Talbot, of the 43d, having suc-
ceeded him as Military Secretary.
Lieutenant Pennycuick, of the Royal Artillery, has
succeeded Captain Caulfield, 66th Regiment, as Fort
Adjutant of Tobago.
Lieutenant Barstow, of the Royal Artillery, has va-
cated the Fort Adjutancy of Dominica, being succeeded
by Lieutenant Orme, of the same corps.
Lieutenant Holahan, 3d West India Regiment, has
replaced Lieutenant Philan, Ist West India Regiment,
las Garrison Adjutant of Sierra Leone.
Captain A. U. L. Fitzroy, Royal Artillery, is Aide-
de-Camp to Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of
Sidney.
Ensign Bayley has succeeded Lieutenant Gloster as
Acing Adjutant of the Depot of the 38th Foot.
Lieutenant Annesley, 63d Foot, is Superintendent
Officer of the Leeds Recruiting District, vice Captain
Skiffner. _ _ _

Lieutenant Villiers, 47th Foot, has succeeded Lieute
nant Lightfoot, 34th Foot, as Superintending Officer o
Recruiting at Exeter ; and Lieutenants Molesworth
27th, and Shervinton, 46, are appointed to the Recruit.
ing Service in Aberdeen and Inverness.
Mr. Deputy Assistant Commisary General W. G-,
Lindley has quitted the Van Diemen's Land Station.

INEQUITABLE REDUCTIONS.—In consequence of the
reduction of the establishment of certain infantry regi-
ments from 800 to 750 rank and file, the contingent al-
lowance to captains of companies has been, by an order
from the War office, reduced from 2s. to ls. 6d. per
diem since the Ist of February, 1849, inclusive; a most
unfair and disproportionate reduction, when it is con-
sidered that the strength of each company is only re-
duced by one-sixteenth, whereas the reduction in the
contingent allowance is one-fourth, and the expenses of
the captain of a company are besides in no way reduced
by the decrease of five rank and file.
GRAND MILITARY OPERATIONS AT PORTSMOUTH.—

We are enabled to state exclusively that, with a view to
another grand military display on the works of Ports•
mouth, the Noble and Gallant Lieut.-Governor of that
fortress has ordered a reserve of ammunition of ten
rounds per gun to be made until a given period. We
hope the Board of Ordnance will be more liberal on the
future than on the late occasion, and grant a proper
supply of ammunition, which cannot be expended in a
better, or, indeed, so good a manner, than in giving
practical instruction to the officers and men in his
command.
ENGLISH STEAMERS FOR FRENCH SERVICE .—We
understand that the French Government have purchased
the two very fast and beautiful steam boats that were
built for the defunct Brighton and Continental Steam
Packet Company, to run between Newhaven and llavre
and Dieppe, and were only employed fur a few months.
They cost about 15,0001. each, and we understand that
the French have bought them both for that sum. They
are destined to run between Marseilles and Genoa.
THE LITIGATED PRIZE MONEY FOR THE SCOUT.—
Some impatience having been expressed on account of
the delay in distributing the prize money granted by the
Admiralty Court, and confirmed by the Privy Council,
for the capture and destruction of the Chinese pirates by
her Majesty's ship Scout, we are enabled to state that
the highly respectable agents, Messrs. Ommaney, to
whose indefatigable perseverance in prosecuting the
claim the concession of the grant is in a great measure
attributable, have only this week received the money,
and it will be forthwith advertised for distribution.
THE LATE STABBING CASE AT MALTA.—Mr. Kiddle,
Second Master of the Medusa steam-packet, and not an
Officer of H. M. S. Howe, as related by a Malta paper,
captured the Maltese scoundrel who stabbed the soldier
at Sliema. Mr. Kiddle, it will be remembered, distin-
guished himself a short time since, and received the
commendation of the French authorities, in extinguishing
a fire at Marseilles.
ON DIT.-Lieutenant Mason, of her Majesty's ship
Powerful, 84, in the Mediterranean, is about to form a
matrimonial alliance with Miss Fine, only daughter of
Mr. Fine, the eminen, and wealthy surgeon-dentist of
Malta.
PAYMENT OF DOCKYARD WAGES.—The Admiralty
have ordered the new system of individual payment of
dockyard wages by the storekeepers to be put in opera•
tion on the Ist of October next. In the meantime,
clerks are ordered to Woolwich Dockyard from the
other establishments to make themselves acquainted with
the system.
Captain Hervey,
of the 34th Regiment, has been ap-
pointed Staff Officer of Pensioners at Waterford, vacant
by the decease of Captain De Rinzy. Captain Hervey
entered the Army in November, 1832.
LIBERALITY.—We have great pleasure in recording
an instance of liberality on the part of the Government
to Master Gunner Robert Purcell, of Scarborough-castle,
who has been discharged from the Ordnance Depart-
ment, after serving upwards of 64 years, and has been
awarded a pension of 33. 'lid. per day. His character
had been exemplary, and his name did not appear in
any defaulters'-book. So high a pension to a person
.• I his rank has rarely, if ever, been awarded.
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MR. PIPS HIS DIARY,
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22, 1849.--This Day to
Richmond, to go a Fishing on the River, which Lar-
kens do tell me is rare Sport, and with me Mr.
Itchenbrooke, out of Hampshire, a cunning Angler,
who did mightily desire to see what this Sport
should be. So first we out in a Boat below Richmond
Bridge, where a Dozen or more of Punts full of
People a Fishing, and rode among them to observe the
Manner of doing it, which is sinking with a Gentle,
sitting upon Chairs, and snicking Cigars and Pipes
of Tobacco, and drinking cold Brandy and Water,
and did move Mr. Itchenbrooke to Laughter. We
did note ono young Spark lying at full Length, in a
Punt's End asleep, and did conclude he had had enough
of the Fishing, or else of the Brandy and Water. Some
very silent, and bent on their Sport, but others ban-
dying Fun and Jokes, and shouting for Joy and
Merriment whenever they caught a Fish, which Mr.
Itchenbrooke do say is not the Wont of a Sportsman.
Among the Fishers I did note with Wonder one or
two Damsels; but Mr. Wagstaffe do say it is a com-
mon Thing for Ladies to fish for Gudgeons. Several
of them also quite old Men; but seeming as much
taken up with their Fishing as Schoolboys, though
• etching Nothing bat little Fish not a Span long. So,