The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-05 00:00:00

THAMES-OFFICE.

Yesterday Richard Cuthbert, the master of the Harriet,
South Sea whaler, appeared before Mr. Ballantine to an-
swer the demand of Henry James, a seaman, who claimed
the sum of 91. Bs. 2d., the balance of wages due to him for
his services on a voyage to the South Seas and back.
After much statement in detail by the seaman and his
solicitor,
Mr. BALLANTINE said the case was a novel one. He
understood that a case had been laid before Lord Tenter-
den, wherein that Learned Judge had held that money
due on a whaling voyage could be sued for as wages.
The solicitor said that was so. He had maintained
actions of the kind.
Mr. BALLANTINE said that was the course for the sailor
to adopt. He could not try the case.
The parties then retired.

On the night between Sunday and Monday some
thieves broke into the shop of Mr. Baxter, pawnbroker,
Norfolk-street, Tottenham-court-road, and succeeded in
carrying off several articles of plate. They had effected
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an entrance, it s supposed, through a window at the back
of the premises, and it is thought they must have been dis-
turbed, as there was a great deal of other valuable property
within their reach.

A letter from Rome mentions that the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Russia was expected there towards the
end of last month,

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

{This Gazette contains an Order in Council, dated Nov. 29, ap-
pointing the town of Burslem to be a polling place for the Northern
Division of Staffordshire.]

IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEER.
[This " Gazette" contains a notice from the llanaper Office,
bearing teste the 27th ult., for the election of a Representative Peer
in the room of the late Baron Farnham.

NEW WRIT FOR KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-
fourth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, en-
tituled " An Act to repeal so much of two Acts, made in the tenth
and fifteenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, as authorises
the Sneaker of the House of Commons. to issue his warrant to the
Clerk of the Crown for making out writs for the election of Mem-
bers to serve in Parliament, in the manner therein mentioned, and
for substituting other provisions for the like purposes,"
I do hereby give notice, that the death of the Right Honourable
Robert Cutlar Fergusson, late Member serving in the present Par-
liament for the county of Kirkcudbright, bath been certified to me
in writing, under the hands of tw• Members serving in the present
Parliament ; and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the
Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to
serve in this present Parliament for the said county, at the end of
fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette.
Given under my hand the 30th of November, 1838.
J. ABERCROMBY, Speaker.

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 4, 1838.
l~IEJsoaANnUMf.—The half-pay of the under-mentioned Officers
has been cancelled from the 4th instant, inclusive, they having been
allowed a commutation for their half-pay : Ensign C. H. L. W.
Behne, half-pay Ist Light Infantry Battalion King's German Le-
gion; Quartermaster H. Cornwall, half-pay Ist West India Regiment.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 3, 1838.

ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.—MEMORANDUM.—The
dates of the following commissions are amended, in consequence
of the death of Colonel Clement, on 10th June, 1838, viz. :—Col.
F. Campbell ; Lieut. -Col. E. T. Michell ; Captain M. Evans ;
Second Captain J. S. Farrell ; First Lieut. H. P. Christie,
June 11. .

-....—
Col. G. Turner; Lieut.-Col. Courtenay Cruttenden; Captain
J. Pascoe; Second Captain C. P. Brewer; First Lieutenant J.
B. Dennis, June 28.
Captain G. T. Rowland ; Second Captain J. Knowles ; First
Lieutenant D. W. Pack, Aug. 6.
First Lieutenant J. Travers, Oct. 6.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the
County of York, and of the City and County of the City of York.
2d Regiment of West York Militia—J. M. Barstow, Gent., to
be Lieutenant, Nov. 22.

3d Regiment of West York Militia—J. Homfray, Gent., to to
Lieutenant, Nov. 22.
Southern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry—R. G.
Lumley, Esq., to be Captain, April 27.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
JOHN MARSH, timber-merchant, Liverpool.
EDWARD. WEAVER, grocer, Francis-place, Westminster-
road.