The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-17 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 17,- 1849.

custody last night at Barlow-mews. He asked the male
prisoner if he knew anything about the spoons. Be said
he did not, but that he had emptied some rubbish out of
a packing case on to the dust heap, and the spoons might
have been amongst the rubbish. The woman on being
questioned said she found them on the dust heap, and
did not know the value till she took them to the pawn-
broker's. Witness then conveyed them to the station.
The prisoners, who protested their innocence, were
remanded till Wednesday next.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S SQUADRON.—We have rea-
son to believe that the cruize of Rear-Admiral Sir C.
Napier has been very much: curtailed, and that he will
return to Spithead immediately with the ships and ves-
sels under his command, and haul down his flag. The
St. Vincent, 120, will be paid off, and the other ships
of the Squadron will be distributed to foreign stations
to relieve those vessels ordered home. Mr. Hay, it was
understood, had gone to Fez. It was reported in the
Squadron from Tangier, that if the force made their
appearance there, the inbabitaits would insist upon the
authorities going down to the beack and offering the
keys of the town to the Admiral, assuring him that they
repudiated the acts of their pirate countrymen, over
whom they had no control; begging the Admiral to do
what he pleased with the town, but to be merciful, &c.
REMOTAL OF REGIMENTS.—We are enabled to state
that there is no foundation for reports which have been
going the rounds of tho daily and other papers, to the
effect that the 23d Fusiliers move from Winchester to
Dover, the 50th from Dover to Portsmouth, or that the
91st will leave Portsmouth for Winchester.

We are enabled to state with perfect confidence that
no change will take place with respect to the Com-
mandants, Quartermasters and Adjutants, and Officers
who are permitted to reside out of barracks; the report
is totally void of foundatien, and has only originated in
the brain of the imaginator.
THE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.—This gallant veteran
daily improves in health and strength, and bids fair nut
only to receive but to wear, with his other decorations,
the war medals which his gallantry had won. Sir James
Hawkins Whitshed is now in his 71st year as a commis-
sioned officer, and, on Valentine's day, completed his
half century as a flag-officer.
UNSERVIEBARLE AND WORN-OITT SHIPS.---We are
glad to find that the Admiralty are alive to the value of
their old ships even when theyno longer become service-
able. The old San Josef, instead of being sold for a paltry
sum to a contractor, is to be broken up by the men of
the dockyard establishment at Devonport, and what of
her timbers and stores that are found to be convertible
is to be retained for the service, and what is inconvertible
will be sold. The old yacht William and Mary, and
Camelion cutter, are to be broken up at Deptford, and
what portion of these vessels that is applicable is to be
transferred to the Clerk of the Works' Department for
the repairs of ships, building, &c.
We have already stated that the Admiralty have com-
missioned the Adventure as a store-ship, for the purpose -
of dispatching her, under the command of an able
officer, Mr. Wellington, Master N.N., with stores of all
kinds for ships on the South American station. Their
Lordships' object in sending this chip out is to test an
experiment, which, if successful, will be of importance in
an economical point of view. The cost of conveying stores
to the distant naval stations is immense, and we trust
their Lordships will reap an economical advantage in
employing their own ships and officer and men on
this service. Dr. Chambers, Surgeon; Mr. Reynolds,
Assistant-Surgeon; Mr. Anderson, Midshipman; and
Mr. Dayrell, Naval Cadet, go out in the Adventure
to Monte Video to join the Raleigh; and an Assistant-
Surgeon appointed to the Asia, and a Clerk appointed to
the Nereus, also take passage in the Adventure, to join
their respective ships in the Pacific.
UNATTACHED PAY.—Major-Generals Henry Thomas
and William Rowan have succeeded to the unattached
pay of 255. per diem. These officers are each distin-
guished by their services in the Peninsula and the con-
tinent of Europe. Major-General Thomas was in Sicily
from 1805 to 1812. He afterwards joined the 2d bat-
talion of the 27th, and was present with it at Vittoria and
the Pyrenees. Subsequently be commanded the light
companies of the right brigade of the 4th division, and was
at the battles of Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse. Major-
General Rowan was with the 52d in Sicily ; after-
wards in Sweden in 1808 ; with Sir John Moore in
1808-9; at Walcheren in 1809, including the bombard-
ment of Flushing ; and again in Portugal in 1811. From
January, 1818, to the end of the Peninsular war in 1814,
ho was in the Peninsula and South of France, and was
present at the battles of Vittoria, the passage of the
Bidassoa, the battles of Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Tou-
louse. Ho closed an active war career at Waterloo.
NEW LIFE-BOAT. Another new life-boat, called
Light's patent life-boat, has been started during the last
few weeks, and the inventor, having succeeded in getting
the Admiralty to hear a description of it, their Lord-
ships have referred it to Woolwich, and have ordered
the authorities there to inspect the principle and applica-
tion of the invention, and to report upon the same.