The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-22 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS.—To be Commander—Lieutenant Ar.
thur Jerni ngham, First of the Wellesley, and Lieut
Henry Wortley Hill, of the Saracen, to the rank o
Commander.

To be Lieutenants—Mr. G. L. Norcock (1836), of
the Wolverine, appointed to command the Forester ;
Mr. J. P. Thurburn (1837), to be Lieutenant of the
Persian ; Thomas E. Symonds, Philip Somerville,
Robert Ellis, Robert James Rouse, Charles Moore,
Henry Probyn,James Dirom, and Edward M.Matthews,
to the rank of Lieutenant.

APPOlNTMENTS.—Captains—Henry J. Codrington,
to the Queen ; Robert F. Stopford, to the Talbot.
Commanders—Keele, to the Rover ; Washington,
to the Shearwater surveying steamer ; J. C. Fitzgerald,
to Racehorse, vice Hon. E. A. I. Harris, invalided.
Mates—W. A. R. Lee, to the Tweed ; Nicholas
Vansittart, from Queen to Tweed ; J. P. Thompson,
to the Excellent ; Henry Wall, to the Vernon.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. A. Elliott, to the Queen ;
J. P. Burke and Phillip Porter, to the Winchester.
Carpenter—Henry Visick, to the Royal Oak.
A List of Officers returned in the Asia and Pique, as
I passengers from the Mediterranean :—T. S. Brown,
Commander, promoted ; Lieutenant C. P. Postle, in-
valided ; Lieut. Edward N. Troubridge, to join South-
ampton ; Mr. Wm. G. Herbert, Mute ; Mr. James
Dordge, Master, promoted ; Rev. J. Marshall, Chap-
lain, to join Victory ; Francis Edington, Second Mas-
ter ; Joseph Whiting, Acting Second Master, to join
Sim Josef ; W'm. Bateman, Assistant-Surgeon, inva-
lided ; Mr. Chas. Hoblyn, Mate ; R. B. Easto, Mate ;
Thos. D. Penrose, additional Clerk, invalided ; Fred.
Des Voeux, Midshipman, to join Endymion ; Fred.
Spry, Captain R.M., invalided.
The following young gentlemm have this week been
appointed Second Lieutenants of the Royal Marines :
—Messrs. George Augustus Schoenberg and George
Drury, to the Portsmouth Division ; Messrs. John Ri-
chards and Arthur Butcher, to the Plymouth Division ;
Messrs. Hugh Hamilton Goold and William Hutchin-
son, to the Woolwich Division ; and Julian Roberts to
the Chatham Division.—Commissions dated March 16.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT.—The
Bill just brought into the House of Commons by SirW.,
Rae and Mr. Fox Manic, for the erection of a monument to

the late Sir Walter Scott at Edinburgh, propose': to enact
as follows :-1. That so much of the Acts of 3d Geo. IV.
c. 91 ; the Ist and 2d Vic., c. 55; the 7th and Bth Geo. IV.
c. 76 ; and the Ist an 4 2d William IV., c, 45, as enacts
that it should not be lawfui to erect buildings of any kind
upon the area opposite Prince's-stre,lt, eastward of the mound
in Edinburgh, and that the whale of tl e said area should be
used for ornamental purposes, &c., shall be repealed, and
that it shall be lawful to erect the:con a monument to Sir
W. Scott, &c.,which the persons subscribing to the xpenses
thereof are by tbis Act authorized to d 3. 2. That so much of
the tNo last recited Acts as exempts a theatre, &c.,

from the prohibition against erectinc, buildings on the
s.-id area shall be repealed. 3. That the Migistrates
of Edinburgh be authorized to grant the grou'nd
required for the erection of said monument gratui-
tously, provided that the space so to be granted for the
site thereof shall not exceed 120 feet square, and
50 feet by 30 for the keeper's bons:, &e. 4. That the mc-
nuruent, &c. when declared by the subscribers to be c im-
pleted, shall be vested in trustees, consisting, amongst ot.:ers
of the Lord Provost and Treasurer of Edinburgh, the.
Dean of Guild, and the nearest surviving male relation of
the late Sir W. Scott. This Biil will, of course, receive the
almost unanimous approval of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, and the erection of a monument in Edinburgh to the
memory of the great Scotch author will, we doubt not,
prove highly satisfactory to the public generally, in Erg.
land as well as in Scotland.

IMPROVEMENT IN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT-

aNc.—The Bavarian Government has just granted a pa-
tent fJr a new lithographic process, to which its
ventor has given the name of Lithosterotypie.
The process consists in tracing the subject on
tt'e stone, with a new black or coloured ink, and then
pouring on the spaces a combination of acids, which
cats away the stone, so es to leave the lines of the ink
tracing in relief, greater than that of printing types.
From the stone thus prepared any number of im-
pressions, it is said, may he taken by the common
press, much clearer than those which arc obtained
by the ordinary lithographic process; a result arising not
only from the higher relief of th•t lines or characters, but
likewise from the fact that the acti ma of the printing-press
causes less friction that that of the lithographic.---inven-
tor's Advocate.

THE MEETING ON THE CORN-LAWS.—We have
not much time or space to devote to the proceedings of
the meeting hell yesterday at the Town Hall, to con-
sider the propriety of petitioning alainst the Corn-
laws. It will bo seen, that, although the Chartists
could not prevent the carrying of the resolutions pre-
pare] by the promoters of the meeting, they were
sufficiently numerous, and sufficiently noisy, to dis-
turb the whole proceedings, and to render the
meeting a perfect bear-garden ; and, at the same
time, sufficiently impudent to claim a victory, in defi•
mice, of the clearest evidence to the contrary. We
hope the occurrences of the meeting will show tho par-
ties who convened it, that, under existing circumstan-
ces at all events, the holding of large public meetings in
this town is by no means expedient. Respectable and
decent people will not wl'ingly waste their time in lis-
tening to braalirg and blackguardism, such as disgraced
the meeting of yesterday; and no good purpose can
possibly result from such assemblages.—lllanchcatcr
Guardian.

THE WILL OF THE LATE SIR ASTLEY
COOPER, BART.TiIe will of the late Sir Astley Poston
Cooper, Bart., la'e of Conduit-street, in the Parish of
St. George, flariovcr-square, is the County of Middle
sex, has just hen proved in Doctors' Commons, by Ws
nephew, Sir Astley Coop! r, Part. Charles Aston Ko
and Frederick Tyrrell, Esqi the executors—the per-
sonal property of the deceased has bean sworn unc'er the
value of 80,000/. Amongst the many bequests men-
tioned in the will appear the follossi3g:—To his nephew
Sir Ast'ey Paton Cooper, he bequea-lis the silver-git
epergne presented to Sir Astley by his Majesty King
George the Fourth, and the silver bread-basket, also
presented to him by his late Majesty William the Fourth,
also his picture by Sir Thomas Lawrence, together wick
his su'gical and anatomical preparations, which ho values.
Sit 5 0001. Ho requests that his picture may, on the death
of his nephew, be bequeathed either to the anatomical
museum of Gus'. Hospital, er to the Roysl College o'
Surge)ns. He hal left six prizes to be competed for
nearly by medical men, on different subjccls. The bulk
of his property is principally bequeathed to his Lephew.i
The will is dated in 183. c.