The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-23 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE

SOCIETY.

We are authorised to state that Mr Hume has requested
the Secretary to withdraw his nime from the Committee,
as it vas placed there without his sanction, and he con-
side's it highly improper for any body of men to im-
pose candidates upon the electors of England.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Lieut. Samuel Spencer
has been appointed resident agent for transports at this
port, vice Bailey, removed to Deptford, as stated in a former
Paper.

We understand that the Irish station will not be in
future under the command of a flag officer, and that Rear-
Admiral the Hon. Sir C. Paget, R.C.H., will, at the
expiration of his command, be succeeded by Commodore
Sir E. T. Troubridge, Bart., who, it is reported, will have
the Stag, 46.
We heir by a letter from South Araerica, that COM.
T. Dickenson (b) of his Majesty's ship Lightning, has
been promoted to the rauk of (Acting) Captain, and that
Lieut. F. Wood, his Majesty's ship Tribune, has been pro-
muted to the rank of (Acting) Commander.

Vice-Admiral Sir H. Digby has been invested by his
Majesty with the insignia of a Knight Commander of the
Bath.

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Commodore C.
Graham, of hin Majesty's ship Philomel, is promoted to
the rank of Captain, and appointed to his Majesty'. ship
Rattlesnake. Commander A. A. Vincent, of his Ma-
jesty's yacht William and Mary, and the Rev. C. B.
Romberg, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Talavera.
Lieutenants F. Warden, W. H. Henderson, J. Stuart (a)
supernumerary Lieutenant of the Talavera, and W.
Maitland, are appointed to his Majesty's ;hip Barham, and
Mr. J. Aladdneks is appointed Purser of the same ship.
Lieutenants E. H. Butterfield, G. E. Patey, and G. B.
Trevanion, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Pallas.
Captain Manley H. Dixon, and Lieutenant W. C. Nowell,
are re-appointed to the Pallas. Lieutenants B. Sproule,
and W. Parker, are promoted to the rank of retired Com-
mander at seven shillings a day. The Hon. G. It. A.
Clements, of his Majesty's ship Seringapatatn, and Mr. P.
De Saurnarez, of his Majesty's ship Blonde, are pro-
moted to the rink of Lieutenant. Lieut. C. M•Kenzie
is appointed to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital,
vice Napier, deceased. Mr. W. Durie, Super.-Assistant-
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Asia, is appointed Assistant-
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Barham. Mr. G. D.
M‘Laren, Assistant-Surgeon of him Majesty's Britomart, is
appointed Assistant-Surgeon of the Asia, vice Durie.
J. Hately, of his Majesty's late ship Thetis, is appointed
Surgeon of the Pall is; and Mr. H. Holmes is appointed
Assistant-Surgeon of the same ship. Mr. J. Dallas is ap-
pointed Master of his Majesty's ship Dispatch. Second-
Lieutenants J. Collier and E. Hocket, of the Royal Ma-
rines, are appointed to the Pallas. Second Lieutenant I.
G. A. Ayles, R.M. is appointed to the Asia, vice Welsh-
man, promoted. Second Lieutenant Congdon, R.M. is
appointed to his Majesty's ship St. Vincent, vice Deacon,
late of the R.M. Artillery, in consequence of an order from
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to disembark all
the Royal Marine Artillery, serving afloat.

PROMOTIONS, lEFOINTKENTS, &C., IN THE CORPS OF
ROYAL MARINES, AND ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY.—
The Royal Marines having been augmented from nine thou-
sand to ton thousand men, four new companies, in addi-
tion to the four companies which have been transferred
from the Royal Marine Artillery into that corps, have been
added to the strength of the four divisicns, viz., Chadian!,
Portsmouth, Ply mouth, and Woolwich, in equal propor-
tions; and the strength of the Companies have been in-
creased from seventy-two to seventy-nine privates in each.
In consequence of this arrangement, and the retirement
from the service of Major-General Sir James Campbell,
K.C.H., late Deputy Adjutant-General of that corps,
the following promotions have taken place :—Colonel John
lloscatven Savage, Commandant of the Chatham division,

is appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in London, vice
Campbell, retired. Colonel Walter Tremenhere, of the
Chatham division. (one of his Majesty's aides-de-camp) is
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the corps,
and appiiinted Commandant of that division, vice Savage.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Richard Bunce,
of this division, is promoted to the rank of Lieute
nant-Colonel in the corps, and appointed to the
Chatham division, vice Tremenhere. Captain and
Brevet Major George Marshall (Pay Captain), of
the Chatham Division, is promoted to the rank of
Major in the corps, and appointed to this Division, vice
Bunco.—Brevet Major Marshall has since exchanged
Divisions with Major Snowr, of the Chatham Division.
Captain and Brevet Major Edward Smith Mercer, of this
Division, is appointed Pay Captain of the Chatham Divi-
sion, vice Marshall. First Lieutenant George Thomas
Wulshman, of this Division, is promoted to the rank of
Captain, aild re-appointed to the same Division, vice
31ercer. First Lieutenants John Husband, Charles Mor-
gan, John Norris, all of the Plymouth Division, and John
George Richardson, of the Woolwich Division, are pro-
moted to the rank of Captain, and appointed to the four
new Companies. Second Lieutenants Ralph Carr, of the
Chatham Division, and Thomas Barrett Reed, of this
Division, are promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant,
and appointed, the former to Plymouth, and the I,tter to
Woolwich Divisions.—Captain Herbert Bowen Men&,
and First Lieutenant Edward Mickley have been removed
from this Division to Plymouth. Captain John Norris
(whose promotion from the rank of First Lieutenant we
have given above) is appointed to this Division, vice
Mends, who goes to Plymouth.
The detachment of Royal Marines, under the command
of Lieut. E. W. Churchill, of the Ply-ninth division, an
hoard his Majesty's ship Pella*, disembarked
yesterday,
having been relieved by a similar detachment from head
quarters,