The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

1819

THE ARMY.

We have reson to believe that General Sir Colin
G.O 8., will be appointed Governor of the
Royal Hospital, at Chelsea, and Lieutenant-General
Sir Andrew Barnard, G.O 8., Will succeed to the

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situation of Lieutenant Governor of that establish-
ment.

No officer has more claim to this -mark of favour

than Sir Andrew Barnard. He served in the West
Indies under Sir Ralph Abercromby, and in the Helder
Expedition, in 1799. In 1806 he embark( d for Sicily,
and in 1808 he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in the army, and was appointed an inspecting
field officer of Militia in North America. In Decem-
ber, 1808, he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Royals, and in March, 1810, he was removed to the
Psth Regiment, now Rifle Brigade. He served m
Spain and Portugal in command of a battalion of the
95th, and at one period of a division. He was pre-
sent at the battles of Baross 1, Ciudad Rodrigo,
Badajoz, Salanrmca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes, and
Toulouse, and subsequently at the battle of Waterloo.
Ha is at present Clerk Marshal to her Majesty the
Queen Dowager.
IVe do not hear that it is decided who is to succeed
to the Colonelcy of the 4th Dragoon Guards ; but it
is probable that the choice will fall upon Lieutenant-
General Pigot, Maj ar• General Bouchier, or Major-
General Taylor, C. 13.— horning Paper.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUAERON.

The following highly interesting detail of the late
disasters in the above *quidron has been sent to a
Portsmouth correspondent from a highly authentic
source:—

"The squadron, eon3isting of the
Queen, 116, Captain Wise, flag ship;

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Caledonia, 120, Captain Carter;
Howe, 120, Captain Sir J. Stirling ;
Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin;
Powerful, 84, Captain Hon. R. S. Dundas, C.B. ;
Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Hardwicke ;
Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, C.B. ;
Odin, 12, steam. frigate, Captain the Hon. F. Pelham;
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Hall ;
Bulldog, 6, steam-sloop, Commander A. C. Key ;
Rosamond, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Foote ; and
Ardent, 3, steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander

Nowell;
left Zante on the evening cf the 18th of September.
The Queen was the last away, and the wind falling
light, she was taken in tow by the Dragon, but before
her head could be got round to seaward she ran foul
of the Rosamond steam-sloop, carrying away that
vessel's stern boat, davits, bulwarks, quarter galleries,
and some more of her framework, leaving her head-
shoets and their contents on the Hosamond's quarter-
deck, as also losing the towing hswser, by reason of
the ' casting off ' from both ships at the same time.
The Queen got into something less than 4i fathoms.
" On the afternoon of the '2lst of October, whilst
working to windward between Zea and Macronisi,
wind light and water smooth, the Caledonia being on
the port tack, ran foul of the Powerful, but got clear
with some trifling loss to both ships.
" In anchoring in Bauca-bay, on the 28th of Oct ,
the Vengeance (Captain Earl of llardwicke) ran
foul of the Caledonia and Dragon, owing to the latter
attempting to cross the bows of the former, in other
words steaming ahead when she ought to have gone
astern. The damage sustained by the Caledonia was
the loss of two boats stove, boats' davits doubled up
like an iron hoop, iron stancheons to the stern gal-
leries bent double, quarter galleries stove in, and
considerable quantity of framework damaged. The
Vengeance sustained the loss of cathead bumpkins,
spritsail-gaff, jib and flying jibbooms, bobstay, and
shroud collars. The damage sustained by the
Dragon could not have been much, as she was sent
off very soon afterwards to Constantinople with the
mould for a new cathead for the Vengeance. Those
who saw the catastrophe say that had the Vengeance
not struck the Caledonia, she must have cut the
Dragon down to the water's edge, if not have sunk
her. The Dragon's flying jibboom went into the
Caledonia's stern.

" On the Ist of November, when the squadron was
getting under weigh, with a double-reefed topsail,
breeze from the southward, the Prince Regent, Capt.
Martin, after she was a weigh, but before her topsails
were hoisted (they were sheeted home, and jib and
staysail set), ran into the Howe, 120, Captain Sir
James Stirling (the latter being at anchor), taking
her amidships. The Prince Regent lost her cathead,
her bumpkins, spritsail gaff, dolphinstriker, jibboom,
and twisted the bowsprit cap. The Howe escaped
with the loss of the laniard3 of her main rigging,
which were cut away in order to let the Prince
Regent's bowsprit clear her mainmast, which shook
not a little from the shock. No lives were lost on
either occasion.

" The Powerful, on coming to an anchor, parted her
cable, but got it again next day. The Odin steam-
frigate, on hoisting in a piece of timber for the cat-
head of the Vengeance, let it slip out of its slings, so
it sunk to rise no more.'

" The squadron at anchor in the Dardanelles con-
sists of the Queen, Howe, Ca:edonia, Prince Regent,
Powerful, Vengeance, Bellerophon, Thetis, Odin,
Bulldog, Rosamond, Ardent, and the Dragon, and
Tartarus at Constantinople ; the five latter are
steatners.

" A messenger from Constantinople arrived on the
sth of November, with the intelligence that affairs
were amicably settled between Russia and the Porte.
The French fleet bad arrived at Bnshika Bay.
" Sir William Parker, with the captains of his
fleet, called upon the Pasha of the Dardanelles yes-
terday, and Sir William (whose repugnance to
tobacco smoking, and to allow any one in his ship or
squadron to do so either, is so well known, and so
rigidly enforced in the former case) actually took
three whifs of the Pasha's pipe, and then requested
the Consul to explain to his Highness that if he took
another he would drop down dead.
"The Admiral proceeds in a day or two to Con-
stantinople, and on his return the squadron will leave
the Dardanelles for (it is reported) Salamis Bay.
"On Sunday an order arrived from Constanti-
nople to allow the officers of the squadron to visit the
castles, which was very soon taken advantage of.
The huge cannon still remain, but instead of being
fixtures, they are on slides, and can be trained a few
inches, one way or the other. The marble shot
weighs 9601 b., and the charge of powder required is
681 b. Two or three young midshipmen got in at
the muzzle with ease, and stowed themselves away up
to the breach The castles appear to have no de-
fence on the land side. The gun is shown you
which disabled the Windsor Castle in 1807. The
gaping embrazures would be much exposed to grape
and musketry.
" A Turkish steamer, having 3,000 troops on board,
and with an admiral's flag at her main, passed on her
way to the island of Sew. Salutes were given and
returned by the figs.
" If all remains quiet in the east, the squadron is
expected to be at Malta by the end of the year.
They were in splendid order, and especially so the
Prince Regent and Caledonia."

BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—The enlargement of Buck-
ingham Palace is now completed, and the ornamental
decorations of the wing fronting St. James's-park are
entirely finished. On the extreme centre is a triumphal
arch, the buttresses supported by emblematic represen-
tations of Learning and Wisdom, Sulked by Britannia
and St. George and the Dragon; on the crown of the
arch is placed a shield, inscribed " V. R., 1847," en-
closed within the rose, shamrock, and thistle, and sur-
mounted by a wreath of laurel; on the front of the
north turret is placed a copy of the celebrated group
from the Palace of the Alambra, and on the south a
copy of the Apollo Belvidere, either extremity being
fined up with military;trophies. There are three entrances
to the quadrangle, which now comprises 4,000 square
yards, the central being for the exclusive use of her
Majesty. The internal decorations of the new wing, on
which 14,0004 will be expended, are rapidly proceeding,
and already a portion is occupied.
WESTERN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.
—Mr. Ellis Roberts delivered an exceedingly interest-
ing lecture on the music of Wales, in the theatre of the
above institution last night, to a most respectable, nu-
merous, and attentive audience. Mr. Roberts's per-
formance on the Welch harp was received with great and
well. merited applause. He was ably supported by Miss
Vaughan, who sang some Welch melodies in illustration
of parts of the lecture, in a very artistic manner. In the
course of the evening his prize harps were exhibited,
and excited a good deal of interest, We heartily re-
commend all who wish to spend a pleasant evening, to
go to Mr. Roberts's next lecture, and they cannot fail
being much gratified.
[ADVERTISEMENT.)—TILE ESYPTIAN CHALLENGE
AND THE JOCKEY CLUB.— Bell's Life in London, of
Sunday next, will contain the Correspondence on the
subject of the Challenge of the Paella of Egypt to the
Jockey Club, between C. C. Greville. Evq., and Charles
Murray, Lq., Consul- General of Egypt, including the
reply of the latter gentleman, received by the last over-
land mail. Bell's Life in London will also contain the
Liverpool Steeple Chases and Flat Races, conclusion of
Pegasus' Review of the Turf, Chronology of Cricket for
1849, and other interesting sporting intelligence.
LEGAL TIME TABLES.--There is much want felt,
alike by suitors and professional men, of a Westminster
Hall Time-table," or " Legal Ilradshaw." It should
give the starting time of the several Courts, and a table
of definitions into the bargain. As an example—The
Courts adjourn (in bane) till 10 o'clock, which means, in
Queen's Bench. I I Exchequer Common Pleas.
10 minutes past 10. I 71- past 10. 11.
Again, the definition taldu would enable the public to
correct legal by lay time. Thus, " Stands for argument
on 10th November, 1849," would be at once understood
as equivalent to " may come on about May Bth, 1850,
unless counsel choose to have it stand over till after the
long vacation." A want of understanding the true im-
port of tho Legal Time Vecabelary makes litigants un-
necessarily impatient; for nobody now " knows the time
of day" in Westminster Hall, except the lawyers.—
L'unek.

Coriolanus pal-cloning his ungrateful country is
greater than Regulus suffering martyrdom for his grate•
tut country.—Eliza Cook's Journal.