The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-07 00:00:00

PROMOTION.

Lieutenant—Richard Murdoch Robertson, first of the
St. Vincent, to the rank of Commander. Commander
Robertson was a lieutenant of 1838, and he has been
actively employed on the coast of Africa, Portugal, ex-
perimental squadrons, and other important services
during the last twenty-three years. As a z9alous and
indefatigable service man, Commander Robertson will
always be an acquisition to a ship or squadron. The
refitment of the St. Vincent alone, in which perfect
work he of course took a prominent part, being her first
lieutenant, entitled him to a large quota of praise and
credit, which we are very glad to see further acknow-
ledeed by his promotion. He was most unjustly
passed over in the late brevet, as were the other lieu-
tenants of the St. Vincent, much to the suprise of the
service.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—H. Schoenberg, and W. C. Aldham, to
study at the steam-factory, Woolwich.
Lieutenants—W. Amphlett and H. Caldwell, to the
Excellent; R. Hopkins, to the Odin; J. R. Black, re-
appointed to the transport service; T. A. Butler, to the
coast guard service; H. Phelps, to be Flag Lieutenant
to Rear-Admiral Sir C. Napier.
Master—T. Edwards, to the Vixen.
Surgeons—Dr. H. W. Mahon, to be surgeon-superin-
tendent of the Minerva convict-ship; Mr. Thompson to
the Odin.
Clerks—H. S. Collins, to be acting paymaster and
purser of the Vixen; J. G. Barnes, to the Odin.
Assistant-Surgeons—A. R. R. Preston, to the Bull-
dog; J. W. Bradshaw, to the Victory.
Second Master—H. M'Causland, to be acting master
of the Growler; C. Albert, to the Penelope.
Masters' Assistants—G. B. Jackson, to the Growler;
G. H. Dominy, to the Queen; C. J. Slaughter, to the
Dart; Digby de la Motte, to the Odin.

Naval eades—H. P. linevirt, to the Odin; L. H.
P. Strachey, to the Hibernia; E. White, to the Howe;
E. J. Pollard, to the Canopus; H. Dunlop, to the Ven-
geance.
Royal Marines—Lieutenant Buck and a detachment
of Marine Artillery embarked on board the Odin on Sa-
turday.
Coast Guard.--Appointments—Lieutenant T. A. But-
ler, to command a station, and appointed to Bourn-
mouth; Commander H. C. Harston, to be an inspecting
commander. Removals—Lieutenant E. Digby, from
North Yarmouth to St. Alban's Head; Lieutenant W.
Lyons, from Glenarm to Billibegs Station, as inspecting
lieutenant.

CHATHAM, JUNE 4.—The Garland steam-vessel,
Captain L. Smithett, left this port on the Ist inst., to re-
sume her station as a packet-boat, to run between Dover
and Calais. She is of 120-horse power, and her speed is
about 16 miles per hour.
....

The Arab, 18 guns, fitting for sea, is nearly ready,
and abe is expected in a few days to be placed in com-
mission.

The Terpsichore, IS guns, also fitting for sea, is so far
advanced that she will be ready for the pendant about
the 24th inst.

The Antelope steam-packet, in dock, is ordered to be
brought forward for commissioning ; consequently, the
artificers now employed on her are working at their
dinner-hours, and until eight o'clock at night.
Two pensioners from the Royal Marines are to be en-
gaged as sergeant-majors, for the service of the Dock-
yard battalion. The guns for the practice-battery,
erected at the east end of the Dockyard, for the exercise
of the Dockyard company of Artillery, consisting of
four 8-inch, were received this day from the gun-wharf,
and also four guns for gun- boat practice.
The Goodwill, Pledge master, is loading with stores
for Woolwich and Deptford yards; and the Rochester,
Sedgwick master, is loading for Sheerness.
WOOLWICH, JUNE s.—The Monkey steam-vessel left
Woolwich this morning, with a detachment of Royal
Sappers and Miners (volunteers), who have offered their
services to proceed to the Arctic regions in the spring of
next year, in the event of no intelligence being received
from the latter by that time. The detachment of Royal.
Sappers and Miners consists of one non-commissioned
officer and 15 privates, and they will embark in the Prince
Rupert, one of the Hudson's Bay Company's vessels, at
Gravesend, and leave immediately after for their destina-
tion, to pass the winter in the Company's territory. Sir
John Richardson, who is to have charge of the search.
ing expedition, will join the Prince Rupert at Gravesend,
The stores were brought round from Portsmouth, in the
Hecate, and put on board the Company's vessels Prince
Rupert and Westminster.

The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander
S. B. Cook, went down the river to-day with the Hon.
H. G. Ward, Secretary to the Admiralty, and a few of
his friends.

FASHIONS.
(From the Lady's Newspaper.)
The fancy of tho Parisian conturieres is at work on
the invention of a new form of sleeve. We regret to
observe symptoms of a return to full sleeves—that is to
say, sleeves full at the shoulders. Nothing, certainly,
can be more unbecoming, or more calculated to disfigure
the finest female form. The skirts of dresses continue
very wide and very long; indeed, much too long for
walking. To remedy the inconvenience of these long
dresses, when worn out of doors, a sort of brooch has
been introduced in Paris, for the purpose of gathering
up the skirt of the dress on one or both sides.
The collars worn with high dresses are exceedingly
small, and are shaped so as to fit closely round the
throat. The needlework which adorns them is exquisite,
both as to design and execution. Very small cuffs of
worked muslin are sometimes seen turned up on the
sleeve ; but the cuff most generally worn consists of
narrow edging of worked muslin, or a piece of lace set
on full, and haling over the hand. For home neglig‘
canezous of worked muslin are very generally worn.
Ma ntelets of worked muslin, trimmed with white lace,
are in preparation, but their appearance will, of course,
be deferred till the warm days of summer.
For those of our fair readers, who are unfortunately
under the necessity of wearing mourning, we subjoin the
following remarks :
Though mourning admits of comparatively little
variety, being subject to certain laws of convention and
usage, yet it nevertheless has its little changes, a few of
which we will endeavour to point out. For deep mourn-
ing and negligi, high dresses of merino-cashmere tyre
alone worn. They may be trimmed with crape, or with
a sort of black passementerie, now made expressly for
mourning. A material somewhat more elegant, and
lke-
wise worn in deep mourning, is called barpour. It itas:
t ight throat,to
twilled tissue, composed of a mixture of wool
and
silk.
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the arms. For full dress, the skirts may be flounced,
each flounce being edged with crape ; the corsages
half-high, and the sleeves demi-long, with under sleeves
of crape. Shawls for trglig6 are of merino-cashmere,
edged with crape or fringe; or, for a superior style of
costume, a mantelet of crape, with two deep vol
The mantelet may be either lined with thin silk, or worn.
unlined.trimmed
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or jet. For very deep mourning, crape bonnets, trjm-
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ARTESIAN WELLS AT VENICE.—As the first veil
of the kind bored on Campo St. Paolo has yielded satisfactory
results, another has been made, of late, on the same locality.
At a depth of 60 metres strata of grit were attained, which
being perforated, yielded an abundant stream of water. The
column rises eight feet above the ground, and yields
every minute 160 litres of water. It created a. therough
astonishment with the assembled multitude, that the stream
of water, being brought in contact with a flame, burnt in
most vivid manner, which is produced by the carburettod
hydrogen gas it contains. This gas, which is often a cony
tent of artesian springs, has been used for ages past as a
means of lighting coal-mines in China, where it astonished
some of the French missionaries, even before the introduction
of gas-lighting in Europe. It is, however, an um' portant
Vuestion, whether such hydrogenized water as that of
enice will tura oat potable.—The