The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-31 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

The Locust—Mr. G. Mends and Mr. J. Mee to be
Mates, and Mr. Carruthers, from the Rhaditmanthus,
Assistant• Surgeon.

Mr. Harston, Mate of the Niger expedition, has been
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
The Adventure naval transport—Mr. John Roskelly,
to be Master, vice Waller, superseded.
Lucifer steam-vessel—Mr. T. Ponsonby has been
appointed Lieutenant, vice Jeffrey to the Coast-guard
service.

The Albert steam-vessel, for the Niger expedition—
Mr. Fairhold has been appointed mate.

The Sir James Kcmpt ordnance sloop is now load-
ing at the Royal Arsenal. Amongst the stores already
on board are 17 32-pounder ship guns, and 400 empty
powder-cases.

CONVICT-SHIP.—The Lady RALE, commanded by
T. B. Oldfield, has been engaged to convey convicts to
Hobart-town. She sailed yesterday from Woolwich for
Portsmouth.

The celebrated organ of the Church of St. Giles',
Without Cripplegate, which was built in 1704 by Rein-
tus Harris, who built the great organ of St Paul's, is to be
re-opened on Sunday next, to the great delight of the in-
habitants, with great additions and improvements. This
instrument is said to bo one of the very finest in the City of
London.

THE YEAR'S HARVEST.—We are ,now tho-
roughly convinced that we have ourselves under-estimated
the probable supply of corn from this harvest ; and that
all kinds of white corn will fall more than fifteen per
cent. from the average quatatirms of the previous six
months. Under such circums anees, there can be no
drain of gold or silver for the purehas,_. of foreign
corn, aUcr the present h,fl.)4ing tide has spent its
force. The speculation is no doubt embirrassing to
the B nk, as well as being injurious to those engaged
in it. We must briefly refer to s ime of the circum
stances v‘hichltave induced us to raise our estimate of
supply from this year's harvest, because anything calcu-
lated to dissipate apprehension concerning the corn
trade is of grea importance—seeing its bearing on the
foreign exchanges. We have received letters this
morning from Scotland and the north of England, which
say that more than one half of the corn throughout that
part of the kingdom has been secured in pretty fair con-
dition ; that very little injury has been done by the wet
weather; that the crops on the whole will be equal to a
full average supply, one letter from a well-informed qteir-
ter says above an average, and that prices must conse-
quently be low. We have also assumed the supply from
the extreme western counties of England—all lying.
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be-
yond Wiltshire—much lower than the yield, now
becoming better ascertained, would justify. Those coun-
ties will furnish more than an average quantity;t and
taking the three kinds of white corn into account,
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