The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-03 00:00:00

MILITARY MONTHLY OBITUARY.

Generals—Cockburn, G.C.H. ; Sir J. D. Broughton,
Bart., Kingston, Surrey.
Major-General—Willis, East India Company's Ser-
vice, hamsgate.
Colonels— Sir A. Christie, K.C.11., Colonel of the late
Ist Veteran Battalion, Deputy Governor of Stirling
Castle, at Stirling Castle; N. Wilson, K.H., late of the
4th Dragoons, Boulogne Sir J. Macra, K.C.H., Un-
attached ; Sir H. G. Macleod, K. 11., Unattached, Windsor.
Lieutenant Colonels—M'Kay, 82d Foot, Canada ;
Blood, half-pay Waggon Train, Bath.
Majors—Wetenhall, Unattached, Cape of Good Hope;
Nokes, late of the 65th Foot.
Captains—G. Maclean, Cape Coast Castle; Heitland,
Royal Artillery, on his passage to Canada ; Priest,
Royal Marines; R. Mackay, late 7th Veteran Battalion;
Steward, half-pay Scotch Fusilier Guards ; Pococke,
15th Foot; Campbell, 35th Foot; Long, 52d Foot; Gre-
gory, 56th Foot; Darling, 63d Foot, at sea; Nunn, 80ili
Foot, Omeath, Newry; Phillimore, 81st Foot; Hotbed:,
91st Foot; Sleigh, 99th Foot; Bell, Unattached; Weig-
burg, Unattached, London; Alexander M'Kenzie, late uf
the Royal Marines.
Lieutenants—Charlton, 7th Foot, Southampton; Arm-
strong, Ist Battalion 60th Foot, Kurrachee; Crewe, late
2d Veteran Battalion; Williams, late 3d Veteran Bat-
talion; Sutherland, half-pay 9th Foot; Young, half-pay
30th Foot; Keene, half-pay 35th Foot; Palmer, half pay
47th Foot; Lynch, half-pay 56th Foot; Bloomfield, halt-
pay, 68th Foot; Adey, half-pay 72d Foot; Bassett, half-
pay 75th Foot; Watson, half-pay 79th Foot; Hawkins,
half-pay 86th Foot; Boyd, Unattached, Kilkenny.
Second Lieutenants and Ensign—Deare, 21st Foot,
Cawnpore ; Swinburne, 54th Foot, Kinsale ; Walker,
half-pay Royal Marines, Dublin.
Paymaster—Este, half-pay 57th Foot.
Quartermasters—Flattery, half-pay Rifle Brigade ;
Maclaine, 7th West India Regiment.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—JObiI Paty, Assistant
Commissary-General, Quebec ; Hugh Macdonell, half-
pay, ditto.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Dr. Rearsley, half-pay
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Ordnance De-
partment, Bath ; Sir A. B. Faulkner, M.D., half-pay
Physician ; Dr. Thompson, half-pay Deputy Inspector-
General, Sydney, New South Wales ; Amiel, Surgeon
late Ist Veteran Battalion ; Dr. Tedlie, half-pay Sur-
geon 25th Foot.
Chaplains—Trail, half-pay 33d Dragoons ; Edwards,
half-pay 12th Foot.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—Viscount Palmerston
left town yesterday for Loch Laggan, to succeed Earl
Grey in attendance on her Majesty. Her Ladyship
leaves on Saturday to visit Lord an'4 Lady Ashley and
family. at Ryde, Isle of Wight. Lord John Russell is
still residing with her Ladyship and family at Richmoud,
and intends to remain there two months longer. Public
business will pre vent the Noble Lord from going to Scot-
land this autumn. The Earl of Minto, io consequence
of indifferent health, is on the eve of leaving for Italy.
He will winter at Rome. His Lordship will be accom-
panied by Lady Elizabeth Elliot. The Countess and
other members of the family will reside at Minto House,
Roxburghshire, during the absence of the Noble Earl.
The Marquis of Clanricarde has returned to town from
visiting his estates in the county Galway. On his route
to London the Noble Marquis visited the Lord Lieutenant
and the Countess of Clarendon at Dublin. The Lord
President of the Council and the Marchioness of Lans-
downe are expected home from Germany in about a
fortnight. His Lordship has greatly improved in health.
The Earl Grey, on leaving Laggan, intends to go to
Howick Hall, Northumberland, to meet the Countess,
and it is his intention to make a short stay there pre-
vious to his coming to London to resume the duties of
his department. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey
arrived in town yesteplay morning from his seat near
Alnwick, Northumberland. The Lord Chancellor and
the Hon. Miss Pepys are making a tour in Wales. The
Earl of Auckland returns to Eden Lodge early in the
ensuing week, from Devonshire. The Right Ron.
Richard L. and Mrs. Shell are sojourning at St. Leo-
nards-on-Sea. Lord Campbell intends to remain several
weeks at his seat in Scotland. We have ret.son to be-
lieve there is no foundation for the rumour generally
circulated, that Sir John Cam Hobhouse is to be elel ated
to the peerage.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN TUE STRAND UNION
WORKUOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley,
held an
inquest in the Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland-
street, Fitzroy-square, on the body of Richard Stewart,m,t
aged 84, an inmate, and formerly a wholesale t stahlees
in Covent-garden Market. It
ceased had been for twenty yearsa
that he had obtained
pipnetahreedwotrkhouse.
Monday evening he told the nurse
ward. He left at five
permission to sleep in anothheer
o'clock, and about midnight
e_
ediuvpasinbrotrehyt
dying state, having been
.pi
.k yard with a
broken thigh and other injuries, caeuseefdtheeitlsitearirbeyashea:
thrown hims five
highfalle from on
dows, thirty-feet g. The daughter of deceased
said that many years. upon the death of her mother,
he had attempteol suicid recipitation from a wia•
The jury, from marks
dow, but was saved by his ion.
on the wall beneath the window, were inclined to thii
that
deceased had struggled to save himself, and thought
that he might have got through the window in his sleep.
They recorded a verdict " That deceased died of cero—n
mortal injuries, caused by a fall, whether accidental or
not there was no evidence to show, from a window of
the workhouse."
DISCOVERY OF AN IRON MINE IN TUE PAPAL
STATES.—M. Gauthier, a French engineer, who manages
the ironworks of Terni in the Papal States, has just
discovered, after long researches, an iron mine of great
richness, extending from Monte Nero to the town of
Gualdo Tadiui. The ore is said to yield 60 per cent. of
pure iron of excellent quality. There aro numerous
water-sources in the vicinity, which will serve to work
the machines necessary for working the ore. This new
mine and that of Tolfa will, it is said, supply all the
iron which the Roman States can require, including
what will be necessary for the projected iron bridges
and railwa,) s.—Galignaiti.
SIMLA, JULY s.—Lord Hardinge will leave Cal-
cutta for England in January next. The noble Viscount
is in excellent health and spirits. Captain Stuart, of
()f
the 14th Dragoons, and Mr. Wodehouse Currie (sono
has
Raikes Currie, M.P. for Northampton), wh
N,,Aa travelling in India for the last twel7l months, pro-
pose starting from Simla on the Kashmir, J
i, from'h 3
whence
. on a tour
over the snowy mountains into ash
they intend to visit Gholab Singh at Jammoo, and to
reach Lahore early in October.