The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

SINCE LAST MAIL.

Patrick Digan, acting surgeon of the Colum-
bine, and Henry Baker, M.D., surgeon of the Amazon,
have exchanged ships.
Lieutenant F. Probyn, recently promoted, has been
appointed (additional) to the Hastings.
Mr. Glyn, midshipman, has been transferred from
the Hastings to the Cambrian.
Mr. Carneiro Leao, en officer of the Brazilian
navy, who came out in the Ilastingc, and has been
serving in the Cambrian for the last nine months, has
been appointed to the Fury for the purpose of study-
ing steam as applied to the purposes of naviption.
Mr. Le lo is an officer of singular zeal and merit,
and is much respected in the squadron.
The Admiral is much better in health than he has
been for some time. The squadron is also healthy.
PORTSMOU r if, SEPT. 27.—Captain• Superintendent
Sir Edward Parry is on leave of absence, attending
the family of his late brother-in-law, the Bishop of
Norwich.
Captain Henry, of the Royal Marine Artillery,
proctetled this morning to Bath, on two months'
leave, to recruit his health.
Captain Purcell, of the Superb, 80, at Spithead,
is not expected to rejoin before the end of the next
week, being on leave with his family in Ireland.
Captain Gordon has taken up his appointment to
the Encounter, and that-ship is now nearly ready to
leave the harbour. She looks very handsome.
Commander Hewlett, of the Excellent, is progress-
ing favourably towards convalescence after his late
acci lent at the stockade.
The Persian, 16, Commander Wodehouse, arrived
at Halifax on the 13th ult., after a boisterous pas-
sage of 28 days from Plymouth. She encountered al
gale off the Western Islands, and met with a large
ship water logged, which they boarded, but found
her quite deserted. The Persian would sail for Ja-
maica in about ten days. The Wellesley, 72, Vice-
Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, was at Halifax.
The Sappho, 12, Commander Alichell, at Vera Cruz.
She has been very sickly, and has lost one of her
lieutenants (Mr. Dashwood). The Trincomalee, 25,
Captain Warren, would be at Halifax in about three
weeks, from Newfoundland. The Wellesley was
the only man•of- war at Halifax at the date of our

letter. -
Woormica, SEPT. 27.—The Archer steam-sloop
went down the river this morning at an early
hour to try her screw-propeller, after its being
reduced to 10 feet in diameter, and the average of
four runs up and down the measured mile gave a
speed of fully seven knots per hour, a considerable
advance over her previous trials.
The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsey, was
paid off to-day, and many of the men have left the
vessel with regret, as they have been remarkably
comfortable under their gallant commander, of whom
they speak in the highest terms for his uniform kind-
ness to them. They are &so proud of having served
in a vessel which has obtained so high a character
from Admiral Parker, on the Mediterranean station.
Many of the crew are most anxious to serve again in
her, which they would do with pleasure if Captain
Ramsey was reappointed, but they will not decide
until they know who is to command her. The
general impression is that the Terrible will be im-
mediately recommissioned, and take out trJeps to the
East Indies, to test her further capabilities, as she has
been found to answer well in other respects.
A fatal accident occurred yesterday evening', be•
twixt eight and nine o'clock, to one of the crew, a
caulker oti board the Inflexible. The deceased had
been visited on board by his sister, and proceeded in
the boat with her to see her safe on shore. On his
return to the vessel, and when ascending the ladder,
he slipped his foot, and was precipitated into the
river, and it was so long before his body was re-
covered that life was extinct and surgical assistance
was of no avail.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2r.—The Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Montrose, Captain John Bower, railed this afternoon, at
two o'clock, with the usual Spanish and Portuguese
mails. She has thirty passengers, amongst NI, horn are
his Exeollency John B. Clay, the new American Char
d'Affaires to Portugal, and family. The freight com-
prises specie value 3,0001. and 76 tons measurement of
general cargo. The next homeward mails from Vigo,
Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will ho brought by
the Iberia, Cap.uin C. F. Burney, due on the 4th of Oc-
tober. The Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, l‘ith the East
India, China, and Mediterranean mails, may he ex•
pected about Monday next. The Sultan, Captain George
Brooks, leaves on Saturday for Gibraltar, Malts, and
Constantinople.

LLOYD'S. —A. half-yearly general meeting of the
mcinbers of Lloyd's was held on Wcdnesda,y ; Mr. Wm.
Chapman Ila,rnett in the chair, iu place of Mr. G. 11.
Robinson, M.P., who was prevented atten.ling in con-
sequence of illness, but who is shortly expected to he
able to again preside over the committee of manage-
ment. The report of the committee, which related
solely to internal affairs, was real by Captain Halstead,
R.N., and carried unanimously, after which the
honorary silver medal of the establishment was voted
to Robert B. Forbes, Esq., of Boston, United Statue, a
passenger on board the Europa steamer, to mark the
reuse entertained of his gallant and disinterested conduct
in leaping overboard at great personal risk, and assisting
in saving a part of the passengers of the Charles Bart-
lot, when that vessel was unhappily run down by the
Europa steamer on the 27th June las'.
WHAT IT COSTS TO PLAY AT SOLDIERS.—France
has spent upon its war establishment, from 1831 to
1849, no less than 289,000,0001.! This enormous sum
may bo said to have been spent upon reviews, for not
one war (the razzias in Algeria are even too contemp-
tible for the contemptible name of war), broke out during
the above period. Therefore it cost France 10.000,0001.
a year for reviews: really there is no game so expensive
as playing at soldiers. Louis Philippe's motto was "La
I'aix d tout prix," and ho certainly paid dearly enough
for it. According to the late King's tariff, peace was
nearly as expensive as war. But then it was "an armed
peace." It required 500,000 men to prevent France from
fighting ; that is to say, uearly as many as Napoleon
required to fight all Europe with. We must say we
doubt the peaceful intentions of such a warlike nation.
A peaceful man does not walk about with duelling pistols
in his pocket. And it is probable that France will have
to pay for its eighteen years of childish reviews with a
perpetual income tax. We only hope it will be a timely
warning to other peace-preaching cud war-practising
nations.—Punch.
LANspowNa.vovsn.—The Marquis of Lansdowne
has, to a considerable degrte, thrown his splendid town
mansion and grounds, in Berkeley-square, open to the
view of the pubic, by the erection of an iron gate in
Berkeley-street, directly opposite hay-hill.