The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS.—Mate—Mr. \Varre, of the Princess
Mir;etre, to the rank of Lieutenant, vice Charles
Weinyss, deceased ; Edward M. Matthews, of the
Mciviile, vice Conway, deceased.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captain—Peter Richards, to the
Cornwallis.

C nunander—Charles Richards, to the Cornwallis.

Licuterant—H. Helpman (from Wellesley), to com-
mand the hired armed ship Mohammed Shaw, attached
to ti:c China squadron ; Ed;vard M. Matthews, to the
Blenheim.

Assistant-Surgeon—George F. Rowe, to Melville
Hospital ; W. T. Alexander, to the Caledonia.

Mates—F. Porteus, t. Vac Caledonia ;A. J., Lind-
say„tothe his.

Ozzard, from the ‘Vasp to the Power-
ful ; Mr. E &les, to the Wasp, vice Ozzard ; Air. W.
li. Pearce, late of the Benbow, to be Clerk-in-Charge
of the Locust steam frigate. _

Second Masters—James Geis, to the Impregnable ;
Wm. Balliston, to the San Josef, for the buoy-boat,
vice Rundle, to the Polyphemus.

COAST GuAr.D.—Leut. It. E. 13ulien (1 30), to be
Chief Officer.

ROYAL MAhlNES.—Captain R tlph Carr, of the
Royal Marines, havirg gone on half-pay, at his own re-
quest, First Licu:cnant E. Appleton has been promoted
to the rank of Captain in hit; vacancy.
Mess; s. George Augustus Schou,berg, Julius Roberts,
Fleetwood John Richards, Hugh Haniilton Gould, Ar-
thur Butcher, George Drury, and William Hutchinson,
were examined at the Naval Coilcge,- and found qua•
lifted for commissions in the Marine Corps.
(From the Hampshire Indeperalent.)
PORTSMOUTH, MAncit 13.—There is not a man-of.
war of any description fitting in Portsmouth harbour at
the present moment. The following ships, however,
are in a forward state, and may be commissioned in a
%cry short time :—Vengeance, 84 ; War spite, 50 ;
50 ; Dublin, 50 ; Madagascar, 4 ; Bittern,
16 ; and Fair Rosamond, 3. The Indus, 84, Tweed,
20, Pelican, 16, and Nautilus, remain at Spithead
waiting for seamen and Admiralty orders.

The Indus, 80, Captain Sir James Stirling, and
I%%eed, 20, Captain Douglas, went out of harbour on
Saturday last. T►re former was towed out by two
steamers, notwithstaudirg the wind was fair, in con-
sequence of not having seamen enough on board to
loose and furl her sails. She has been three months
in commission, and has only thirty able seamen on her
books, and to keep them from deserting, she was ordered
to Spithead. The Tweed is nearly as badly off, being
obliged to set only one topsail at a time, end that wa
done in the most unseamanlike and slovenly style. Ins
pass,ing, the platform, neither her main nor mizA.l-top-
saili were half twisted, and her appearance altogether
was that of a Sunderland collier.

PLYmouTH.—TLe Adventure, transport, sailed last
Thurddy, with stores. The Mercury, tender, arrived
from Portsmouth on Monday. She brought Lieut.
Caffin, of the Excellent, who is ordered to superin-
tend the alteration of the gun•carriages et this port.
In Hamoaze—Caledonia, San Josef, Snipe, and
and Carron. steame-.

In the Sound—lmpregnable, Beleible, and Iris.

MYSTERIOUS EVENT.

The Journal de l' Herault contains the following
account of a mysterious circumstance at Montpelier.
A few days ago, M. Achille Durand, a resident of that
pace, received a letter, having at the head of it a
lithographic engraving of a palm-branch and a sword
put crosswise, and on the margin the following words
also in lithography :—" CongreAa Centrele della Gran
Societe de' Vendicatori del Popolo."—(Central As-
sembly of the Great Society of the Avengers of the
People.) The letter which was in manuscript', informed
M. Durand that the popular societies, finding their
energies relax for want of funds, had ordered that agents
should be sent to Avignon, Marseilles, Lyons, Nisrnes,
Montpelier, and Toulouse, to call upon certain indivi-
duals to contribute such sums as should be fixed, on
pain of death, and that the sum required from M Du-
rand was fifty thousand francs,
which no bethewas called
following
upon to pay in bank notes, at twoo'eloc
day,to a person on the esplanade whom
d his handkerchief
his having his hat in his left. hand,to M.
_.
m Durand when
he would know by
in the right, and who would
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tdteedr btyo saying,
at
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near consider himself a
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specified, and
M. Durand
upon it as a carnival trick,
e twhoinvited M. Durand to obey the sum-
but ntv •tt.,eesesa
him if he was the
, gents were ordered to be on the watch.
mons, and poidte The
fail
a lettertohoke ctsmohaneyi
'cacti), as the letter had announced. M.
hou!d il
taoskaeedt otherws e than he
dby hint heard the Amen. M. Durand,
as he passe
L bad eJneealed some arms about his person, in-
...,0
Durand found :he man whiting in the way
and
author of the letter which had been sent ; the man re-
plieddid, for his own life was at state,
that dlireeses•eads thenot atm.a libertyn ,
and that be was the
agent for receiving the contributions of Montpelier,
which had been fixed at 500,000 franc., to be .
the most wealthy iesideats, amongst wh paid by
stantyh au
whose names was
that of M. Zoe Granier. At •
this moment the
police came up and took the man into custody.
He turns out to be a ruined •
confectioner of Mar-
seilles, named Numa Raimond, and appeared to be
destitute of resources. On searching his trunk, at the
house where Le resided, several political pamphlets of
a republican character were found, and the backs of
several letters addressed to him in the same hand•
%et iting as that received by M. Durand, but the letters
themselves had been torn off. He persisted in declar-
ing to the police that he had no other object in accost-
ing M. Durand than to solicit charity for himself; and
that he had not sent him any letter. M: Durand's
porter, on the prisoner being brought into his presence,
declared that he was not the man who had left the
letter, and gave FO accurate a description of the person
able arrest him the same night.
that the police were to .
R.
He is an Italian, named .
Joachim avant, and has been
proved to have been in constant intercourse with R,ai-
mond. He denied being concerned in the affair of the
threatening later.

At Armley, on Tuesday last, a poor weaver
having occasion to stop his loom for a few minutes, on be-
gianing work again, fJund some obstruction. On looking
into its came, he discovered it to be a poor mouse, which
had teen so pined as to get before his shuttle to lick the
oii, by which it was driven into the warp and strangled ti?
deutih—Leeds

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