The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

APPOINTII E NTS.

CommandLr—Thomas Rodney Eden, to the Pcrsian,
vice Quin, deceased.

Lieutenants—Robert Tucker, to the Ocean ; James
Banks West, to the Powerful, from B2acon.
Cheplain—M. Becbc.,e, to the living of Simonburn.
Naval Instructor and Schoolmaster—Wm. Johnson,
to Monarch.

Additi:)cal Acting Assistant•Surgeons—Mr. W. R.
E. Smart, Mr. Henry Willan, Mr. T. C. Miller, Dr.
W. Scott, to the Melvin:, ; Mr. P. Porter, to the
Queen.

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Mate—Mr. F. D. Riche, to the Queen, >: • -
Clerk—Mr. James M. Laweay, to th'e Rrltannia,
vice Miller; appointed Admiralty Clerk of tl4Sanie ship.
Volunteer First Class—Mr. J. 11-Kenzie Fraser, to
the Itod.ley.
Gunncr—Jcseph Connor, to India, via Stow, unfit.
Coast Guard—Commander George Bissett, front
Dundalk to Fowey ; Lieutenant Henry A. Finucane,
to be Chief Officer ; Mr. W. C. Forsyth, Chief Officer
of Selsoy Station, to Kingston, near Littlehampton,
vice Lieutenant Parry, removed to South Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight.

Tile following gentlemen passcd for Lieutenants on
the 9th instant, at the Royal Naval College :--'Tama;
Anson, W. P. S. Morton, Alexander Duff Gordon,
H. N. Bo:rough., and P. D. Mae.

Mr. \V. Joht psted his examination en the 9:..11
instant, at the Royal Naval College, for N:Lval Instruc-
tor and ScLeolmaster.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 11.—The Lizard steam• vessel ar-
rived from Woolwich and Portstnouth on Saturday, on
her way to the Mediterannean. She is nox having
some defects repaired, and when finished will proceed
on her voyage.—The Impreguatle, 104, in the gale of.
last Saturday, parted one of her chain cables and drifted.
some distance. Other anchors were let go whict
brought her up. The Diligence, transport, sailed with
stores for Pembroke on Wednesday. . The It:.yal Wil-
liam, 120, was taken into the North ne4 Dock on Mon-
day, to have her bottom cleaned. The Comet, steara
vessel, sailed on Tuesday.
Iu the Sound—lmpreguable, B Iris.
In Ramo .ze—Caledonia, Sari Josef, Sylph and Net-
ley tenders, Lizard, Pluto, and Carron, steam vessels ;
Duck and Tortoise lighters.

(From the Hampshire Independent.)
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 12.--Th.t Asia is on her way to
this port from the Mediterranean, and Pique will lam
almost immediately.
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The Pelican, Captain Napier, still remains at Sp.t-
head, being urable to proceed to her station from want
of petty t s and able seamen.
The Don Quixote, Captain Sablote, arrived on Mon-
day last from Cape Hayti, last from Falmouth, bound
to Bremen.

The Formic, Ingkraen, arrived on Tuesday last from
Itunburgh and earn,: into harbour from the Mother-
bank, with loss of anchor and about ten fathom of hemp
cable.

The Frederick, Mitchell, arrived on Friday last from
Rouen, with windlass broke and other damages.
The, Lzard steamer, Lieut. listeourt, sailed on
Saturday last for Plymouth, Falmouth, Gibraltar, and
Malta, teking despatches for the Admiral and supernu-
tucr..ries for the squadron. Commander St. Leger Can-
non, appointed to the Calcutta, took passage in her.
We are glad to find that the subscriptions for the
widows and children of the crew of the Fairy, exceod.
LOGO/ , and that further sums are daily being rceeirod.
The Monarch, 84, Capt. S. Chambers, has been re-
ported ready for sea, and niey be expected at Spitheld
about the latter end of next week. It is uncertain.
whether or not she proceeds direct to Clic Mediterec-
nran or will be one of the reserve squadren, Which con-
sists at present of the Camperduwn, 110 ; Impregnable,
110 ; Indus, 84 ; Belleisle, 72 ; and Vernon, 50.
The Indus, 84, and Tweed, 20, remain in the liar•
bour, the latter awaiting Admiralty orders.

LOTE AND MURDER IN THE

EAST.

The sulj ioeci account is given by the Oriental Ob.

SCI VC!' :-

No individual was better known in Pera than Louis
Soulier, the director of the Circus. When he passed
on his beautiful horse Superbe,' people pointed at
him, and whispered c'est lui metric.' Franconi was not
more renowned in Paris, nor could the tame of Du-
crow in London exceed that of Saulier here. He was a
handsome and remarkably powerful man, though rather
too material for great agility. Finding that people here
got tired of looking at horses run round a ring, with
men, women, and children standing on their backs, and
that his circus was consequently but a beggarly ac.
count of empty boxes,' he some two or three months
ago, sent off his family, horses, black slaves, and
splendid dresses to Bucharest, where they were to
await his arrival, and in due time he intended to make
a triumphal entry into Vienna, in the character of a
conqueror returning from the East. But alas! l'homme
propose, etc. His wife's eldest daughter, Madelena
de Bacla, had just bloomed into womanhood, and,
being a good looking girl of sixteen, it was very natural
that some youth or other should fall desperately in love
with her, and that she should return his passion. One
of the horsemen, and the best looking of the troop,
young Tardini, was the favoured swain, but he and
Soulier not agreeing, he left the company some time
back, and turned horsedeuler here. When Madelena went
off for Bucharest, however, he sold his nags, shut up
his stables, and galloped off himself in the same direc-
tion. He no sooner arrived at Bucharest than she
eloped with him, and, not to be suffering for want of
ways and metres, it is said she took with her jewels 13z7-
longing to her mother to the extent of about 40,000
piastres. To lose daughter and diamonds was rather
too bad ; still there was no remedy till Soulier himself
arrived, so she remained quiet in the meanwhile.
A month afterwards he reachA Bucharest, and lost ne
time in seeking and finding Tardini, who, aware of his
approach, had armed himself with a brace of pistols.
Soulier held in his hand a whip, with which he com-
menced belabouring Tardini after having discharged at
him a volley of abuse. Tardini lost no time, produced
his pistols, and warned the enraged father-in-aw
to keep his distance. The latter was a man of in-..
petuous courage. Instead of withdrawing, therefore, est
a more prudent antagonist would have done, he spran;
forward to seize and disarm Tardini, but, before he
could reach him, fell dead on the spat. Tardini heal
fired, and his ball had passed through Soulier's heaclt
We have not seen an authentic account of the
and have heard many versions of it, but the above is the
one most generally credited. The deceased was exceed..,
inely violent and quarrelsome ; and had, it is reported,
ELIA several persons in duels, so that he was a vely
likely man to end in this way."

ir oi gh Lord Jocelyn, who is IT
be
d. A.A
, F a tc h let sl 1 °f
rue m China, and who arrived 1.1 thee
Orientaleai steam ship, is still undergoing quarantine at
Liverpool, we believe that sufficient of the intellteecee
which he brings has transpired to enable us to account for
that protracted stay of Admiral Elliot at Chusan, whole
has been the subject of so much discussion- in misinformed(
Indian and B, itish journals. The fact we believe tut
be, that Admiral Elliot, on his return to Chuaant
from the Peiho River, after an absence of about
two months, found that it was necessary to make
certain military and other arrangements at Chusan before
he proceeded to Canton. The death of that gallant vat.
able officer, Colonel Ogiarler, threw the command of tho
military force into the hands of Colonel Burrell. His ire.
:lees, no doubt, bad prevented him from taking those mea...
sures which Adinirle Elliot, on his return, found to be 1"..`7,
ccssary, and which he had remained to complete. Wett
hear that the gallant and distinguished officer, Sir Have
Gough, who was to be dispatched from India to aesumm
the command of our military farces in China, would pro..
coed with all haste t 3 Chusan.—Observer.
ItuFEcTI NO TELESCOPES.-Unfortunately
William Herschel never made public the means by whie're
be succeeded in
construction of a large reflector ist
,his telescope, and the
giving such gigantic development tee
still a perilous adventure. Accoruing, however, to a re,
port by Dr. Robinson to the Irish Academy, Lord Ox.
mantussn has overcome the diffiulties, and carried to are.
('itent which
the even Herschel himself did not venture to
contemplate,
illuminating power of this telescope,
along with t
a sharpness of definition little inferior to that:
of the achromatic : and it is scarcely possible, be observes,
to pre
serve the necessary sobriety of language in speaking.
f the moan's appearance with this instrument, which Dr.
lit.binion believes to be the most powerful ever constructed.
However, any question, about this optical pre-eminence ist
likely soon to be decided, for Lord Oxmantown is about to
construct a telescope of six feat aperture, and fifty feet
focus, =wilted in the meridian, but with a range of abet 4
ha 4 an hour on each side of it I—Atheneunt.