The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-02 00:00:00

(From the United Service Gazette.)
INFANTRY.
9'll—Capt. Ogle has relieved Capt. Pavis in the command
of the depot at Chatham.
10th—The second division may be daily expected home in
the Arab.
12th—Major O'Neill is about to embark for the Mauritius.
' 24th—The depot stationed at Portsmouth is ordered to era-
' bark for Caneda, to join the service companies.
26th—At the College, Calcutta, 16th September, Lieut.
Johnstone passed a highly creditable examination in Hindoe-
;stance, Persian, and Nagree, and was found fully qualified for
:the duty of interpreter in those languages.
32d—Major Pulk has obtained leave of absence for six
'weeks from Plymouth garrison.
51st—Captain Harrington has obtained leave of absence
from the 30th of December to the 7th of February.
52d—Assistant-Surgeon Bardin has been transferred from
the service to the depot companies; and Assistant-Surgeon
Logan, M. D., is to embark with the draft now under orders
for Corfu.
55th—Capts. Chaproniere and Colman have arrived home
in the Hindostan, from Madras.
58th—Major Ricketts may bo daily expected home from
Ceylon in the Barossa.
60th—The depot will leave Jersey in May next for Ply-
mouth, and be succeeded by the 37th or 43d. Private James
Gardiner last week shot himself in presence of two or three
of his comrades who were in the barrack-room at Jersey. He
was about forty years of age, and much addicted to drinking,
latterly greatly increased, and low-spirited, from being re-
duced from colour and pay sergeant; added to which ho had
a wife of bad temper. He had lately been confined for intem-
perance, and on the day of his release again got tipsy, for
which he was taken before Major Slyfield, who forgave him,
of whom he spoke with much gratitude. Next morning he
was asked to mount guard for a comrade, and he said he would
"if nothing happened." He took down his rifle, as was
thought to clean it, walked to the end of the room, said
" Good by, lads," put the muzzle under his chin, and literally
blew off the top of his head.
70th—About thirty from the depot at Guernsey left last
week for Portsmouth.
78th—Lieut.-Col. Douglas, Captains Twopeny, Vassal,
M'Pherson, and Braham ; Lieutenants Hamilton, Lannert,
Brow ne, and Collins ; Adjutant Bull, Assistant- Surgeon
Young, and Quartermaster Gunn, arc expected home shortly
in the Barossa from Ceylon to Cork.
85th—On the morning of Nov. 20, Lieut.-Col. Maunsell,
three officers, and 00 men, including the band, arrived at St.
John's, from Halifax, in the Gazelle. The second division
was expected in the following week.
88th—Lieut. Woolard has been appointed to the recruiting
service at Nottingham, in succession to Lieut. G. Canning,
of the 71st, who, having completed the regulated period on
that duty, has rejoined his regiment, and is now doing duty
with the detachment at Carlow.
93d—Major Banner died of typhus fever on Sunday night,
Lieutenant Johnston will get the company ; Major-General
L'Estrange will assume the command at Cork on Jan. 2.
94111—Majors Milner and Gascoy ne, Captains Humphreys,
Randolph, Hart, and Cotton, and Ensign Morris, have ob-
tained leave of absence for the holidays. •
Royal Artillery—On the evening of Thursday se'nnight
privates Moore and M'Bridc were absent at the calling of the
roll at Fort George, and a party of three was sent to the
neighbouring village of Campbcltown to search for them.
They were discovered in a state of extreme intoxication in a
public-house, and ordered to the Fort. On their way Moore
and one of the party quarrelled. After some scuffling Moore
fell to the ground with great violence, the other (Brown) fal-
ling above him. On Brown's getting up the other lay quite
motionless, and uttering a snoring noise as if asleep. A cart
eas procured, when the whole were brought to the garrison.
Moore has since died of the injury sustained. An investiga-
tion has taken place before the fiscal, and the result of the
particulars that were elicited, and with which we are unac-
quainted, is, that Brown has been committed to take his trial
for culpable homicide. At the fire at Ballincollig last week,
in the gun-shed, the sappers exhibited extraordinary tact by
battering down a shed, to cut off the communication of the
fire with the magazine, which was well stored with powder,
and would have caused dreadful calamity but for the great ex-
ertions and coolness of the officers and men in removing the
powder.
Royal Engineers.—Captain Jebb is doing duty at Birming-
ham, in the room of Captain Furlong. Captain Budgen has
been, appointed to the command of the Engineer department
at the Bahamas in succession to Captain Walpole.
Royal Marines—Colonel E. C. Hornby, of the Portsmouth
division, has retired on full pay ; Colonel and Second Com-
mandant George Jones, from Woolwich, to be Colonel-Com-
mandant at Portsmouth, vice Hornby ; Lieut. - Colonel G.
Beatty, fsom Chatham, to be Colonel arid Second Command-
ant at Woolwich, vice Jones ; Brevet Major R. Swale, from
Portsmouth, to be Lieutenant-Colonel at Chatham, vice
Beatty; First Lieutenant T. H. Cater to be Captain at
Portsmouth, vice Swale ; Second Lieutenant W. G. Mahon
to be First Lieutenant, sire Cater. Mr. George Brydges
Rodney (son of the Hon. John Rodney), to be Second Lieu-
ter.ant of the Portsmouth division, vice Aslett, promoted ;
Mr. P. C. Penrose to be Second Lieutenant of the Plymouth
division, vice Maxwell, promoted. The Lords of the Ad-
miralty have sanctionc 1 an exchange of divisions between
First Lieutenant Erskine, of the Portsmouth division, and
First Lieutenant Ablett, of the Plymouth divi. ion. Lieut.-
Colonel Wright, K. H., lately in command of the battalion
on board the ships in the Tagus, is detained at Lisbon by
Lord Howard de Walden, as a Commissioner, to assist in set-
tling the claims of British subjects on the Portuguese Govern-
meat. Captain WArthur is ordered to command the party
going nut in the Alligator. A detachment has been embarked
on hoard the Melville to complete the ships and vessels serv-
ing on the coast of Africa and at the Cape of Good Hope.
The detachment on board the Excellent, gunnery-ship, has
been increased from 35 to 36. Capt. H. Smith is ordered to
Oxford on recruiting service, to relieve Brevet-Major J.
Walker, now first for promotions.
Retirements.—The officers under-mentioned have retired
from the army this week :—Major and Lieut.-Colonel \\rode-
house, Ist Life Guards ; Captain Dames, Ist Dragoons Guards;
Lieut.-Col. Ward, 2d Drhgoons ; Lieutenant Wynne, 19th
Foot, on half-pay 45th Foot; Capt. Symons, 28th Foot ;
Ensign Baldock, 35th Foot ; Major Hoper, 38th Foot ;
Quartermaster Morgan, on half-pay, 52d loot; Lieutenant
Clendinning, 64th Foot ; Ensign Butler, 65th Foot ; Captain
Hill and Lieut. Parker, 67th Foot ; Captain Macdonald, 70th
Foot; Surgeon Home, 85th Foot; Ensign Halliday, 2d
\Vest India Regiment; and Lieutenant-Colonel Farquharson,
on half-pay unattached, about to become a settler in Canada.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.—Mr. Colburn, of Great
Marlborough. street, has just published the following now and
interesting works "Diary Illustrative of the Times of
George IV., with Numerous Letters of Queen Caroline, and
other Royal or Distinguished Persons." 2. " The Private
Correspondence of the Duchess of Marlborough, Illustrative
of the Court and Times of Queen Anne," now first publisited
from the Originals. 3. A new novel, by Lady Charlotte
Bury, entitled " Lore." 4. " The Autobiography of Joseph
Holt, the Celebrated Irish Rebel Genera'," edited, from his
original MS., by T. Crofton Crokcr, Esq. h. "Jane Lo-
max ; or, a Mother's Crime," by Mr. Horace Smith, the well-
known author of " Brambletye House." 6. " The Bench
and the Bar," by the author of " Random Recollections of the
Lords and Commons," &e. 7. Mrs. Gore's " Mary Ray-
mond, and Other Tales." 8. A Second Edition, in small
Bvo., of Miss Pardoe's " City of the Sultan," with all the Illus-
trations. And, 9. " Pascal Bruno," edited by ThcoJore
Hook, 'Esq.
inr. Wedgwood, one of the police magistrates of
Union-hall, has resigned h's office, and we hear that he has
been induced to take that step from a conscientious feeling
that it is improper in Lim to be a party to the administering
of oaths. It is said that it is not the intention of Lord John
Russell to fill up the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Mr. Wedgwood, until the COmmittee of the House of Com-
mons on the metropolitan police•offices shall have made its
report.

NELSON'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.--"
the watch on deck," said Prince William Henry (hit late Ma-
jesty), " When Captain Nelson, of the Albemarle, came along-
side in his barge : he appeared to be the merest boy of a
Captain I ever beheld, and his dress was worthy of notice.
He had on a full laced uniform ; his lank unpowdered hair
was tied in a stiff Hessian tail of extraordinary length ; the
old.fashioned flaps of his waistcoat added to thegeneral quaint-
ness of his figure, and produced an appearance which parti-
cularly attracted my notice, for I had never seen anything
like it before, nor could I imagine who he was or what he
came about. My doubts were, however, removed when Lord
Hood introduced me to him. There was something irresis-
tibly pleasing in his address and conversation, and an enthu.
siasm when speaking on professional subjects, which showed
that he was no common being."—Naval Keepsake for 1838.
(.Just published.)
The following instance of remarkable sagacity in a
dog is authenticated to us by a highly respectable correspon-
dent :--On the Sunday following the burial of the late Mr.
Dredge, of St.)ford, in this county (the death of whose
widow was recorded in-our obituary a few weeks since), while
the family were attending divine service at South Newton
Church the deceased's dog, who had been his favourite com-
panion during life, came running in and about the building, and
proceeded thence to the churchyard, where ho seated himself
on his late master's grave, and set up a long-toned melancho'y
howl, which so disturbed the congregation that the sexton was
obliged, by forcible means, to drive the faithful animal from
the spot.—Salisbury Herald.
In consequence of the combination of coalfactors
in London to prevent a free sale of coals, and the consequent
long time that vessels sent from this coast have to wait for
their turn of sale, the shipowners of the ports in Cumber-
land have laid up their vessels for the winter, in preference to
incurring the ruinous expense of this most unjust practice.—
Cumberland Packet.