The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

NON-CONTENTS.

MM.
Richmond
Newcastle
Beaufort

Buckingham
Cleveland
MARQIIISEI.
Downshire
Exeter
Ansa
Winchester
Lute.
Eglintoun
Malmesbury
Cardigan
nanfurly
Egmont
Lucan
Munster

FOR.
Earl of Leicester
Earl Spencer
Earl of Radnor
Earl Duda
Lord Beauvalle
Lord Crewe

BARONS
Somers Kenyon
Ellenborough Bolton
Stradbroke Rodney
Orkney Wyntord
Leven and Melville Colville
Longford Ileyiesbury
Hardwicke Sondes
Sheffield Be Ros
Limerick Ashburton
Lonsdale Stanley
Desert Blayney
liarewood Gray
Romney Templemore
Eldon

EARLS.

VISCOUNTS.
Beregord

Combermere
BARONS.
Redesdale

PAIRS.

Colchester
Saltoun
Tenterden

Faversham
Southampton
Brougham

AGAINST.
Earl of Lauderdale
Earl of Cbarlevillu
Lord Walsiligham
:Marquis of Salisbury
Lord Gardner
Lord Ire Lis!e
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby
Viscount Strangford
Duke of Montrose
Lord Boston.

Lord Langdal•
111 argots of Conyngham
Earl of Fingall
Marqul* of Donegal

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Polasmourn.—The Herefordshire troop-ship arrived here
last night Ivith her Majesty's 89th Regiment of Foot on
board,-from Halifax, Nova Scotia. They disembarked this
day (Tuesday). •

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COAST OF AFRICA.
Advices to the 16th ult. have come to hand by her Ma-
)esty's sloop of war Star, arrived at Portsmouth. She has
brought no invalids. The squadron employed under Com-
modore Horton in looking out for slave's were keeping up a
very strict blockade of the coast, especially at those places
where shipments were most suspected to be practised. The
squadron was healthy. This is the vessel which re-captured
the prize taken by another cruizer (her name we have for-
gotten) whose crew rose upon the prize master, a young mid-
shipman, and his men, nine or ten in number, all of whom
were murdered, and their bodies thrown overboard, for which
the pirates were brought to trial at Exeter, convicted of
murder and piracy, and sentenced to be hung, but who were
afterwards liberated by the humane law of England upon a
writ of error, and set at large to commit further atrocities.

DEATH OF SIR DAVIDGE GOULD.
n G.C.8.,
_ SENIOR
ADMIRAL OF THE RED.
It is with great regret that we have to announce the death
of the senior admiral of the red, Sir a Gould. G.C. 8.,
Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom.
This gallant and venerable officer. who has long been in
a declining state, and for the last six months confined to his
room, sank at last, full of years and of honours, into the long,
quiet, calm sleep.
'of death, without a struggle and without
pain, at his seat in Herts, on the evening of Friday, the 23d
-instant. He was in his 90th year, upwards of ;0 years of
which had been spent in the service of his country.
This distinguished officer served under, and was the friend
and messmste of Nelson, Rodney, Hood, Hotham, Hyde
Parker, &c. His late Majesty William IV., with whom he
had the honour of serving, was ever the most kind and
gracious friend of his old companion and messmate. For
some years past he has been the last surviving captain who
commanded a line-of-battle ship at the glorious battle of
the Nile.
By his decease the pot and place of Senior Admiral of the
Red Flag, the Vice-Admiralship of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and a Grand Cross of the Bath,
are vacant, and also a good service pension of 3001 per
annum. The gallant Admiral was not only " the last of the
Nile," but the last male descendant of the ancient and
honourable knightly Somersetshire family of Gould, of Slim?'
ham Park. Besides enumerating among its members t_sp
'
distinguished judges, and other persons of eminence,
, _t_ie
mother of the celebrated author of " Toni Jones" was kizr`.
d'ilialtel of Sir iiew7 Gould, of Shapua Park, 400 l'Po

author was born, in 1707. She was the w:re ot General
Fielding, nephew of William, third Earl of Denbigh..
Sir David had no steain promotion in his time. Bis com-
mission as a lieutenant is dated 7th May, 1779; Com mender,
June, 1782; Captain, Alarch, 1789, and Rear-Admiral, Oct.,
1807. He became Nice-Admiral, July, 1810, and Admiral,
May, 1825. He became senior Admiral of the Red at the
promotion in November last. As a midshipman he served
in the Phoenix, in the first American war, and as a lieu-
tenant served in the Conqueror in Rodney's action in April,
1782. As captain he commanded the Bedford in Hotham's
action oft Genoa, in March, 1795, and in Frejus Bay in July
of that year. At the Nile he commanded the Audacious,
and also at the blockade of Malta, and subsequently had the
proud satisfaction of commanding the Genereux, which ship,
when a French vessel sneaked away from the Nile, and was
recaptured some time after she and her cowardly consort had
pounced upon the Leander.
The deceased Admiral married Harriet, eldest daughter of
the late Archdeacon Willes, Bun of the Bishop of Bath and
Wells, and nephew of the Lord Chief Justice Sir John
Willes, but by whom he leaves no issue. Her ladyship sur-
vives him.
By the decease of Sir Davidge Goult', the following flag
promotions will take place:—
Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, Bart., G.C.R.
S.C.M.G., Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom, and Gover-
nor of Greenwich Hospital, becomes Vice-Admiral of the
United Kingdom, and senior admiral of the red. Admiral of
the White, Thames Le Merchant Gosselin becomes admiral
of the red ; Admiral of the Blue, John Cachet, becomes ad-
miral of the white.

Vice-Admiral of the Red, Hugh Doownman, becomes ad-
miral of the blue, leaving the Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen
Capel, K.C.8., senior vice-admiral. Vice-Admiral of the
%White Henry Hill becomes vice-admiral of the red ; and
Vice-Admiral of the Blue, John. Dick, will be vice-admiral
of the white. _ _ _

Rear-Admiral of the Red, Charles Bayne- Hodgson Ross,
C. 8., becomes vice-admiral of the blue ; leaving Sir Charles
Malcolm, lint., senior rear-admiral. ear-Admiral of the
White, llanway Christian, will be rear-admiral of the red,
and Rear-Admiral of the Blue, Hyde Parker, C. 8., Superin-
tendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, will become rear-admiral
of the white. _

The flag-officers having been thus reduced to 149, the first
promotions from the captains' list will take place. Captain
Henry Prescott, C.B. (1810), the senior, will be promoted to
the rank of rear-admiral, thereby giving up a captain's good
service pension, also to the patronage of Lord Auckland. Sir
Nesbit.Josiah Willoughby, K.C.8., K.C.H., then becopaestha
senior on the captain's list. •

PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 'd
Mrs. Butler (late Miss Fanny Kernble) made her- first
appearance on the stage since her retirement, at this theatre
last evening. The part chosen for her deblit was that of
Julia, in the Hunchback, a character which she herself had
created originally, and in which the majority of her suc-
cessors have taken 1-er as their model. On her first appear-
ance she was greeted-with most enthusiastic applause—so -
enthusiastic that her reception apparently unnerved her for
the time, and prevented her doing full justice to the
earlier scenes. She warmed, however, as she proceeded, and
the celebrated "Do it," produced the same eiectrical effect
as ever. She was called for at the conclusion, and received
with cheers, which lasted several minutes. She was ad-
mirably supported by Mrs. Stirling, whose Helen was quite
equal to the Julia of Mrs. Butler, and by Mr. Cresswick, who
acted Master Walter, and by humanizing the Hunchback,
made him more interesting than any of his predecessors have
done. Compton's Mahn was exceedingly quaint. The
house was very well attended.