The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, MARCH 11.

STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are - Caledonian, New, 465. 6d.—
Direct Northern (scrip), 51s. 6d.— Dundee and Arbroath, New, No.
3,4% —East Lothian Central, 51s.—Edinburgh and Bathgate, 57i
Edinburgh and Northern, Newport, 71. 14s.—Ditto, ditto, New,
52s.—Edinburgh and Perth (New), 565. ex div.—Ditto, Halves, all.
—North British, 33% Ditto, Halves, 16 - Ditto, Quarters, 80s.—
Ditto, New Qu irters (scrip), 235. Ditto, Thirds, 695. —Scottish Cen-
tral, 231.—Scottish Grand Junction 21s. - Scottish Midland, 221.
GLASGOW, MAACH 13

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Direct Bombay and Madras,
31.—Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 56s —Glasgow, lihniarnock,
and Ayr, Halves, No. 2, 8/.—Glasgow and Greenock, Preference,
32s.—Manchester and Southampton, I Gs. - Paisley,- Barrhead, and
Hurlet, 55s.—Scottish Central, 231.—Stirlingshire and Midland Junc-
tion, 475.

LIMITATION OF SERVICE IN

THE ARMY.

The following is an abstract of the Bill for limiting the
time of service in the army, and for amending the Acts for
rendering effective the services of the Chelsea and Green-
wich out-pensioners
. _

Ist clause. That after the passing of this Act, no person
shall be enlisted to serve her Majesty as a soldier for a longer
term than ten years in the infantry, or twelve years in the
cavalry, artillery, or other ordnance corps, to be reckoned
from tie day on which the recruit shall have been attested,
if he shall have stated himself to be then of the age of
eighteen years, or if not, then from the day on which he will
complete the age of eighteen years.

2d. That any soldier, after Completing the term of limited
service, for which he shall have first engaged, may at any
time he re-engaged for any term not exceeding eleven
years in the infantry, and twelve years in the cavalry or
artillery.
3d. That both the first and second term of limited service
for which any soldier shill have so engaged, may be
prolonged for such further time, not exceeding one year in
time of peace or two in time of war ; and that any soldier
who shall give notice to his commanding officer, alter com-
pleting his second term of limited service, may be continued
in the service so long as he shall desire to be so continued,
and until the expiration of three calendar n oaths after he
shall .havegiven notice to his commanding officer of his wish
to be discharged.
4th. That soldiers who may not have served a sufficient
time to entitle them to a permanent.pension, under any
royal warrants or regulations now in MI, -ce, shall be entitled
to have their names registered for prospective or deterred per.-
sinus in such manner as her NI aje3ity may direct.
sth. That all persons whose claims for any such prospec-
tive or defeliNgiension shall have been so registered, shall he
liable to be forolled•with and as part of the local force for
the preservillon of the peace, under the Act 6 and 7 Vic.
_

6th. That as the Act passed in the sixth year of the reign
of her Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws re
latiug to the Payment of Out-Pensioners of CI-elsea." has
been found beneficial, it is now provided that this Act
shall txtend to ad her Majesty's colonies and pos-
sessions beyond the seas, and that it shall apply to all out-
pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, and to such of the out-
pensioners of Greenwich Hospital as may have served in the
Royal Marines, and to all discharged soldiers whose claims to
a deferred pension have been registered as aforesaid ; and
that it shall be lawful for her Majesty to fix the number of
men to be enrolled in every such colony and possession as a
local force for the preservation of the peace in such colony or
possession, and to cause them to be armed and equipped, and
called out for inspection or exercise on any number of days
not exceeding twelve in each year, as the governor or person
administering the government of such colony or possession
for the time being shall direct.
7th. That it shall be lawful for ons of her Majesty's prin •
cipal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland, for the Lord Lieu-
tenant, and in her Majesty's colonies and possessions, for the
Governor of such colonyor possessson, to issue his warrant to
the Lord Lieutenant of any county, or the Mayor or other
thief magistrate of any town or district wherein such pen-
sioners and persons having claims to prospective or deferred
pensions are enrolled, authorising him, in case of emer-
gency whereby the public peace may be endangered, or
on the requisition of any officer commanding her Ma-
jesty's forces within such town or district, to call out the
whole or such part of the persons so enrolled as he may con-
sider necessary for any term not exceeding twelve days,
during which time they shall be liable to the provisions of
he Mutiny Act an.t Articles of War.
8. That in case of actual or apprehended invasion, it shall
be lawful for her Majesty to direct that the said enrolled
pensioners, or such of them as her Majesty shall think fit,
may be sent in aid of the defence of the realm, to any part
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland where
their services may be required.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 15. —The Cleopatra, 26, Captain
Wyvill. arrived this afternoon from the Cape of Good Hope
station. her dates are Simon's Bay, January 2; St. He-
lena, January 26; Ascension, February 2. She has been
employed out nearly five years, and has lost several officers
and many men by sickness. She is ordered off forthwith to
Chatham to be. paid off. She delivered her mails over to the
Seringapatam Indiaman at the Cape, which vessel has deli-
vered them some days since.
When the Cleopatra arrived at St. Helena, the Kingfisher,
12, Commander Horton, was the only man-of-war there, but
left on the 21st of January fur the coast of Attica.
The Island of Ascension was healthy, and turtle and water
plentiful. The Tortoise store and guard-ship, Captain Hut-
ton, and the Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Morrell, were
the only vessels at the island. Tne Penelope steam-frigate
was daily looked fbr from England.
On the I.4th inst. the Cleopatra passed, in lat. 45.44, long.
13.2, a timber-laden vessel water-logged and abandoned,
with bow,prit standing, and stern stove in. She had been
apparently some time in that state.
Commander Gooch, of the Sealark, has come home from
the west coast of Africa stati in, in the Cleopatra, and is so
ill as to preclude all hope of his recovery. Lieutenant W.
C. Marshall, of the Dido, and Captain Armstrong, of the
47th Regiment, have come home in the Cleopatra ; and
.11rof that ship, is very ill on board. The invalids
have Bayley,bee n sent to Hasler, and the supernumeraries to the
flag-sb ip.

SUCCESSFUL ROD FISHING.— The success in salmon
fishing, by net and coble, has hitherto been small, for this
season, in the Tay and its tributaries; but it has been rather
different with some of our experienced anglers. On Monde)'
Tuesday, and Wednesday last week, Lord Charles Kerr and.
Sir Thomas lloncrieffe, Bart., plied the Stobhall waters in
the Tay, near the Linn of Campsie, the property of Lord
symmetry,
msodfmaSyei
rayTlvrdeanere3sf:dil
jaegyfishesfraolml
Willoughby d'Eresby. We have not learnt his Lordship's
nuenuew on ni was
5 Wednesday, el cleanoin6, Mon-
day,sait do3o :f C
admirable de s smo ebr
auobtni et Tuesday,
281bs.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
THE DAGENHAM MURDER.— It has been pre-
viously stated to be the intention of the Government to
prosecute the men who committed perjury before Mr.
Lewis, the Coroner, at the inquest on George Clark in June
last. On Wednesday last the whole of the witnesses,
seventeen in number, went before the grand jury, at
Chelmsford, and a true bill was found, not against all
the men who gave evidence, but against three only—
namely, Parsons (the sergeant), Kimpton, who after-
wards admitted that he did the sergeant's duty during
a portion of the night on which the unfortunate man
was murdered, and Hickton the other men,
Barns, Butfoy, and Stevens, being admitted as wit-
nesses ou the part of the Crown. The indictment against
the parties is fur conspiring together for the purpose of com-
mitting wilful and corrupt perjury, and not with the actual
commission of it, as that would not have enabled the Crown
to prosecute Parsons, who did not commit perjury, he hav-
ing "stuck to his tale" from first to last, declaring most
vehemently that he had spoken the truth. The trial will
not take place until the summer assizes. In the neighbour.
hood of Degenham the determination of the Government is
prosecute in this case has given great satisfaction.
FEMALE CONVICTS FOR HOBART TOWN.—The
Waterman steam-vessel brought from Milbank Penitentiary
on Friday 150 female convicts, and put them on board the
hired convict ship Asia, at Woolwich, for conveyance to
Hobart Town, New South Wales; and 150 additional were
brought down on Saturday for the same destination.
ROBBERY BY A POLICB-CONSTABLE.—On Thurs-
day, Police-constable William Dixon, No. 615, was brought
up before Mr. Rushton, and committed for trial on the charge
of having robbed a man named Smeatham, whilst in a stab-
of intoxication. It appeared that the prosecutor and pri-
soner had been drinking together at Wavertree, whilst the
latter was on duty, and the prisoner, instead of protecting,
robbed the prosecutor. The evidence being deemed conclu-
sive, the prisoner was committed for trial.—Liverpool
'We hear that difficulties have arisen at Rome re-
pecting tare of
of the Rev. J. H. Newman, anti
hat they are of such a nature as are not likely to be over-
come.—Church and State Gazette.
NEW COLONIAL BISHOPS.—We hear that the Rev
tugustus Short, late student and censor of Christ Church.
Oxford, and Hampton University lecturer, is likely to obtani
the new Bishopric of Adelaide; and the Rev. B. Alwood,
the
to the Bishop of Australia, that of blorpetb, Aus-
tralasia.—Churelt and State Gazette.