The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

THE ARMY.
We are evrry to hear that the use of the be es-skin cap,
itherto worn by Fusileer regiments, is to be liscontinued
so soon as the cape now in posse::sion of those cot pc are were
out.
The old colours of tlle 36th Regiment have be en received
at Chelsea College, to which establishment they were trans-
mitted by Lieut.-Col. Ashmore, the commands ig officer of
that excellent corps, with a request that they m sy be depo-
sited there, and guarded by the old veterans of the army with
the same jealous care and zeal as prot..leta and del Wed them
when unfurled before the enemy.
A report prevails that Major-General
• she lion. Charles
lass
Gore, who was promoted in the last Bre Ittst' been ap-
pointed to the command of the eastern dis trict of Canada,
in succession to Major-General Sir James I. \e'shibaldi
K.C.B.
We learn from a friend in India that the g Want -veteran,
Lord Gough, is in the enjoyment of excelle, st health and
spirits. He never fails to take his daily walk ( if seven miles,
and hence his continuance in,such robust stren gtb, for exer-
cise in India has always proved the best preventive to sick-
ness. Hie Lordship will not return to this cow itry until the
expiration of his full term of service as Commas ader-in-Chief
of the Forces stationed in the East Indies.
The Bill relative to limited enlistment, intent led to be laid
before the House of Commons, will probably pro ride that for
the future those enlistments shall be confined,, for • Infantry to
ten years, for the Cavalry to twelve, and for tl ie Royal Ar-
tillery to fourteen, with the option, if fit for OA} ter service,
of enlisting for a renewed period, at the expiratilem i of the first,
or of becoming enrolled for occasional duty, ti pon the same
plan as the present embodied out-pensioner: %, r aceiving
pension two years for one of such enrolment, : ed to their
service as soldiers. The men already enlisted ! &re, we be-
lieve, to a certain extent to be allowed their di:. charge under
the same regulation.— United Service Gazette.
SENTENCE OF THE COURT-MARTIAL ON 7 'CAPTAIN
BULL, 57TH REGIMENT.
(EXTRACT FROM GARRISON ORDERS, FIB. 1 2, 1847)
Field Marshal the Commander-in-Chief hay int ; had the
honour to lay before her Majesty the Queen the proceedings
of a general court-martial, held at Chatham, eat the 10th
December, 1846, and continued by adjournment,. to the 21st
of the same month, for the trial of Captain Johi s James Bull,
of the 57th Regiment, who was arraigned opt in. the under-
mentioned charge, viz. :
For conduct prejudicial to good order and m; discice
line in the following instances :-
Ist Instance—ln having; on the 9th of Ji tly, 1846, on
board the barque Mary Anne, then at anchor at ; Simon's Bay,
Cipe of Good Hope, ordered Maj,;r Shadforth, rah Regiment,
then being' his commanding officer, into arrest.
2d Instance—ln having, at the same tin, ia and place,
without authority, assumed the command of t Jai head-quar-
ters of the 57th Regiment, by ordering Lieut ea ant Sweeten
Grant, the acting adjutant to the corps, to place Capt. Stan-
ley in arrest.
3d Instance—ln having, on the 10th July, on board the
barque Mary Anne, without authority, aesumedL ;the command
of the head-quarters of the 57th Regiment, b,' issuing regi-
mental orders, and relieving himself from eluty As captain of
the day for which he had been detailed.
4th Instance—ln having, on the said 1(1th of 'July, and at
the same place, refused to sign a pass-0,-der for calling a
meeting of the officers which had been iesueti by Major Shad-
forth, then being his commanding officer.
sth Instance— In having, on the said 10t h e f July, after
he had been detailed in regimental orders art captain of the
day, left the said barque Mary Anne, althoug ii express orders
had been given by Major Shadforth, then being his com-
manding officer, to him, Captain Bull, that no officer was to
leave the said barque without his, Major S iiedlorth's, per-
mission.
Upon which charge the Court came to tills following de.
cision :
The Court having maturely weighed and Considered the
evidence in support of the prosecution, together with what
the prisoner has urged in hio defence, is of opinion that he,
Captain John James Bull, of the 57th Regiment, is guilty of
the charge upon which he is arraigned in each of the five
instances.
The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge
preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles
of War, do sentence him, Captain Jo his James Bull, of the
57th Regiment to be cashiered.
The Court having, by its finding and sentence, pro-
nounced the strongest condemnation of the conduct of
the prisoner, Captain John James Bull, crtnnot but remark
upon the total want of judgment and energy evinced
by the prosecutor, Major Shadforth, under grave and
trying circumstances that called for that degree of firm-
ness and decision which alone could check and suppress
such an outrageous violation of military discipline as oc-
curred on board the Mary Anne on the night of the 9th
July, 1846.
The Court having passed sentence upon Captain Bull,
the prisoner, commensurate with the serious offences of
which he has been found guilty, begs to recommend hie
case to the favourable consideration of her Most Gracious
Majesty, on account of the high character he has re-
ceived from his colonel and the officers with whom he has
served.
Her Majesty was pleased to approve and isonfirm the find-
ing and sentence of the Court ; in consideration, however, of
the recommendation of the Court, and the ground of that
recommendation, her Majesty was further pleased to extend
her most gracious clemency to the prisioner, and to command
that he be restored to the functions of his commission,. and
removed to another regiment of the line, and seriously aara°-
nished as to his future conduct.
(Signed) gned ) J. MACDONALD, Adj.. General.

Lieutenants the Hon. Percy Fielding and Plunkett Burton
were presented on Friday, at the levee, on their appointment
to the Coldstream Guards, by his Ro3 al Highness the Duke
of Cambridge.

VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIREF.—ViSC°I::
and Viscountess Palmerston received the Countess of
kerville, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady
Ashley,
Dudley Stuart, the Right Hon. I'. B. Islacan t.leY, the lion.
Hon. h. J. and Mrs. Stanley, the Hon. W. Cooper.
Miss Edea, Mr. B. Sheridan, and a select party o sinus[ on
Saturday last, at their mansion in Carlton•garden.s.
lier
Ladyship at a more advanced period of the evening .hea
assembly. Among the guests were his Excellency COUnt 00
St. Aulaire, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Dietrichstein, his Excellency Count Kielmaueel segge, his Excellency Baron de Beust, his Excellency th
t
Brazilian Minister and the Marchioness di Lisboa, his Excel-
lency Mr. Bancroft, his Excellency Count Schimmelpeninck,
his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen,
his Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Re-
ventlow, and the Countess Ililda Reventlow, Count Potocki,
Baron Koller, Baron Brenner, Baron and Baroness de Lin-
den, Baron Nicholay, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Count de
Noailles, Prince Lowenstein, Baron and Baroness L. Roths-
child, Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Princess Callinsaki,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Villafrances
the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess
of Listowel, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Auckland
and Hon. Miss F. Eden, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon,
Viscount Anson, Viscount and Viscountess Melgund, Viscount
Folkestone, and Lady Jane Bouverie, Viscount and Viscountess
Falkland, the Earl of Clare, the Lord Chancellor and the
Hon. Misses Pepys, Lord Monteagle, Lord Foley and the
Hon. Miss Foley; Viscount Goderich, Lord Campbell and
the Hon. Miss Campbell ' • Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lady
Brougham, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Beaumont,
Lord Seymour, the Lord Advocate, Baron and Lady Par"
and Miss Parke, Lord Brooke, the Lord Chief Justice and
Lady Wilde, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Seaford and the Misses
Hardy, Lady William Poulett, Sir Stratford and Lady Can'
ning and Miss Canning, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, Sir
John and Lady Charlotte Guest, Sir A. and Lady Du..
Gordon, Sir R. J. Murchison, the llon. Mrs. Norton, ~.t
Benjamin Hall, the Hon. W. Ashley, the Hon. J. Howard,
Sir D. J. Norreys, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Mr. Panizzi, the
Misses Drummond, Mr. and Miss Clifford, Hon. Col. Kepoe's
Mr. H. Vyner, Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, Mr. Grenfell and
Miss Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs. John Townley, Hon. Captain .
and Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Addington, BO-
R. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, Hon. Mr. Duncan, Mr.
Harcourt, Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse, Mr. S. O'Brien,
Mr. It. M. Milnes, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. E•
Denison, Hon. Charles Howard, Captain F. Seymour, Dlr.
Matheson, lion. Mr. Grey, Mr. 11. Sullivan, &c.
THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons entertained at his Par-
liamentary dinner on Saturday last—Lord Seymour, Lord
Harry Vane, the Hon. Charles Howard, the Right Hon. Ed-
ward Ellice. the Right Hon. Francis T. Baring, the Hon.
Colonel Anson, the Right Hon. Edward Struts, Sir T. E•
Colebrooke, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Sir Benjamin Hal r, Sir
Denis Le Merchant, Sir William Clay, Sir Andrew Leith
Ilay, Major• General Fox, Mr. John Romilly, Mr. Wise, Mr.
E. Rice, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr.
Hume, Mr. Rosa, Mr. Tuite, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Tancred,
Mr. E. Denison, Mr. Loch, and Mr. Hastie.
HEALTH OF TIIE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA --We are
happy to see by the last bulletin of the health of her Ma-
jesty the Queen of I'russia, published at Berlin on the Bth
of this month, that she continues to improve. The cough
has become less irritating, and the fever is moderated.
STOCKINGS FOR THE ROYAL INFANTS.—The
Clare Journal says—" We feel great pleasure in recording
an instance of her Majesty's wish to encourage by her pir
tronage the native manufactures of Ireland. Two girls, sis-
ters, of the name of Davies, living in Corofin, in this county,
having long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for the taste
and skill evinced by them in the knitting of stockings, were
advised to present a pair of them to her Majesty, who was
so pleased with the beauty of design and execution dis-
played in them, as to order four and twenty pair for the
royal infants."
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Constituticrnnel publishes
the following letter, dated Berlin, 31st ult. :—"A few days
since M. Braconier, a stock-broker, was condemned to hard
labour for nine years for having gambled with the property
of his clients and having ruined himself. N. Braconier 13
a member of one of the most wealthy families in the capital,
and every effort was made by offering to pay his debts to
save him from disgrace, but it was too late. It is hoped that
his fate will have the effect of preventing other speculators
from risking property confided to their care."
NOVEL SPECIES OF BALLOON.—A balloon con-
structed on a principle by which the longest aeriel voyages
can be performed, and by which all danger is avoided by the
expansion of gas, and all waste of gas prevented, may now
be seen in the Montpellier-gardens, at Camberwell, by per-
sons connected with scientific inventions and pursuits. 'The
invention is that of a Mr. Gale, a gentleman of some repu-
tation in science, and well known on the continent as an
aeronaut, and as a pupil of the celebrated Arnaud Robert.
The improvements on the old lumbering machines, which
have hitherto done little beyond collecting an idle, gaping
mob at tea-gardens, and by the ascent of which science has
received no information whatever, consist in elastic tubes,
pipes, or what is called hose, by which all the gas which
escapes from the lower part of the machine is received and
conveyed into large bags or receivers attached to the
middle of the balloon, so that let the expansion of the
gas be what it will from heat, or other causes, the gas CAR
be let off and preserved, and no danger of bursting incurred.
The car is also differently constructed from the old method
and the aeronaut can without trouble lower beneath the car
another car, to any distance he may please, in which scientific
experiments can be carried on, or fire made use of, without
danger to the balloon. The cars are very lien, being made
of prepared cork and Indian rubber. This balloon is nearly
as large as the great Nassau balloon, and is made of silk ma-
nufactured by Messrs. Merciers and Vanner, of Spitalfields.
The designs for the external painting are very good: they
are by Mr. D. Roberts. The whole apparatus, grapnells, &C., are
improvements on the heavy and clumsy things hitherto used
for aerial voyages.
TIIUNDER STORM AT LINDAL.—On Tuesday
night last this neighbourhood was visited by a tremendous
storm of thunder and lightning, which continued without
intermission the greater part the night. About nine o'clock
the storm broke over this neighbourhood with extreme
violence, vivid flashes of lightning succeeding each other in
quick succession, and illuminating the sky in all directions,_
were succeeded by heavy peals of thunder. A slight fall of
snow accompanied this extraordinary and unseasonable tem-
pest. The roaring of the wind during the storm was almost
equal to the thunder it, elf, whieh aroused the peaceable
denizens of Lindal from their quiet slumbers, in no small tro-
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