The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Bergamo, which commands the road to Lecco, that to
Tonale, and the city of Brescia, is to be re-inforced. A no-
tification announces that the operation of the recruitment
is to be advanced. Whilst Austria is preparing for every
contingency, France is in the position of a woman about
to be confined. Shall it be a republic or an empire? At
present it is neither one nor the other, but it carries in
its womb the germ of either. Our foreign policy is
subordinate to the events of the interior. We invite the
Piedmontese Ministry to re-organize as speedily as pos-
sible the army, the administration, and the finances."
The Piedmontese Gazette announces that the Par-
liament was prorogued to the 10th of December.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.) -
It is reported that Captain George Elliott, now
Flag Captain of the Ocean at Sheerness, will comission
Mr. White's 50 gun frigate Phaeton at that port, the
first week in December. The Admiralty hare ordered
the rigging to be fitted with thimbles and shackles,
to connect the lanyard plates, as proposed by the
Gallant Officer. The frigate will be complete by the
Ist proximo.
TRIAL SAILINGS IN THE MEDITERRANEIN.—The
Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, had some trial sail-
ings last month with the Powerful, 84, and Ven-
geance, 84, when the Thetis showed incontestable
superiority. In a trial one day she beat the line-of-
battle ships nearly eight miles. The stowage of this
frigate is immense. During her late visit to Malta
for provisions for the fleet, the captain was deter-
mined to take four months for each vessel, and, to
carry out his determination, both himself and his
first lieutenant were seen with their coats off and
their shirt sleeves tucked up, tugging away at the
stowage themselves.
THE NEW NAVY ESTIMATES.—The Admiralty
are again urging on the dockyard departments to
complete the contracts for the ensuing financial year.
Their Lordships have ordered the estimates for the
steam factories to be made out immediately and trans-
mitted. Special attention is being directed to the
estimates for new works, improvements, Scc. ; and, in
one instance, those which have been forwarded have
been sent back for revision.

THE LATE BREVET PROMOTION.—We have rea-
son to believe that when the Admiralty recom-
mended the promotion of Major Johns, of the Royal
Marines, to be included in the late Brevet, they
also intimated their desire that the date of this com-
mission should be the same as that of the other officers
promoted.
CAPTAIN H. M. DENMAN'S SgurriTurE.—The
Admiralty have ordered the plan projected by Captain
H. M. Denman, R.N., for steering a ship when the
usual helm becomes disabled, to be fitted to her
Majesty's steara-frigate Terrible, at Woolwich.
HER MAJESTY'S STEAM•SLOOP MEDEA.—This
steamer is ordered from China to Bombay, to be
placed at the disposal of the Governor. General of
India. It is said she will bring to England a portion
of his Excellency's suite and luggage.
PRESERVATION Or IRON SHIPS.--The Admiralty
have determined to give Mr. Pea Cock's composition,
for preserving the bottoms of iron ships, another trial,
and have ordered that gentleman to send a sufficient
quantity to Portsmouth Dockyard to cover the bottom
of the Vulcan, steam-frigate. We have heard that
several applications of Mr. Peacock's composition to
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ships have
proved very successful.
THE ADMIRALTY.—The First Lord is still staying
at Stratton Park, Andover; Rear-Admiral Dundas
has proceeded to Hungerford until Wednesday next ;
Rear-Admiral Berkeley is also absent at the Park,
Fairford ; the Hon. W. Cowper is one a visit to Lord
Palmerston at Broadlands ; and Captain W. A. B.
Hamilton is at Brighton. Lord John Hav, Captain
Milne, and Mr. Parker, are the only members of the
Board at the Admiralty.
SMOKE CONSUMING ArrAßATus.—The Admiralty
have ordered the furnaces of the rope machinery at
Devonport to be constructed with bricks, with the
view of consuming all the smoke arising from the
fires. Mr. Hall, the projector, has been desired by
the Admiralty to superintend the fitting of his
recently-patented improvement to these furnaces.
GHUZNEE PRIZE MONEY.—The rolls of the un -
claimed shares of the 4th Light Dragoons, 2d, Queen's
Royal Regiment, and 17th Foot and general Staff,
have now been received from India, and the payment
to the several claimants will be made in the course of
next month. _

CANDIDATES ron COMMISSIONS.—An examination
of candidates for Military Commissions took place at
Sandhurst College on Tuesday last. There were
between forty and fifty young gentlemen examined,
some of whom acquitted themselves with great dis-
tinctien and will be immediately nominated to corn-
missions. .

We are requested to state that there is not the
slightest ground for the report that Lieutenant-
Colonel Crombie, Coldstream Guards, is about to
exchange into the 3d Foot.
PORTSMOUTH STIFF.—Major Parvey, on the Un-
attached Half-pay, has been re-appointed Aide-de-
Camp to Major-General Lord Frederick Fitz-
Clarence, G.C.H., Commanding the South-West
District.
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.—The Barrackmaster of
Cahir, Clogheen, and Newton, has obtained one
month's leave of absence. Mr. Thomas Freeman, a
Clerk of Works of the Royal Engineer Department,
will conduct the duties. Lieutenant Rutherford,
Barrackmaster of Kinsale and Charles Fort, has ob-
tained three months' sick leave of absence on the re-
commendation of a Medical Board, to proceed to
Scotland.