The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following 'drafts have been ordered to be selecteJ,
from the depot companies of their respective regiments
serving in this country, and held in readiness for em-
barkation to join the service companies abroad, viz. :
CANADA.-14th Foot-3 Captains, 1 Lieutenant, 3
Ensigns, 1 Staff, 4 Sergeants, 150 Rank and File. 43d
Foot-6 Ensigns, 6 Rank and File, 56th Foot-1
Ensign. 70th Foot-1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 2 En-
signs, 3 Sergeants, 120 Rank and File. 74th Foot-
-2 Captains, 4 Lieutenants, 2 Ensigns, 4 Sergeants, 170
Rank and File. 83d Foot-3 Ensigns, 1 Sergeant,
20 Rank and
.File. 89th Foot-2 Captains, 2 En-
sign., 1 Staff, 3 Sergeants, 100 Rank and File.
NOVA SCOTIA.-36th Foot-1 Captain, 1 Sergeant,
60 Rank and File. 37th Foot-1 Lieutenant, L En-
sign, 1 Sergeant, 60 Rank and File. 64th Foot--1
Field Officer, 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 2 Ensigns,
Staff, 3 Sergeants, 100 Rank and File. 69th Font-1
Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 2 Sergeants, 80 Rank
and File.

CEYLON.-90th Foot-2 Ensigns, 2 Sergeants, 60
Rank and File.

CAPE or GOOD HOPE.-27th Foot-1 Captain, 1
Ensign, 1 Sergeant, 50 Rank and File. 91st Foot-2
Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 2 Sergeants, 100 Rank and File.
The 20th Regiment, being second on the list for fo-
reign service, received the route on the 24th instant,
and marched for Limerick on the 26th instant, and
have been relieved at Athlone by the reserve companies
of the 85th Fusilier Regiment and 52d Light InfaLtry.
—Dublin Paper.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3.—The Horatio, transport,
Lieut. Chapman, agent, sailed from Jamaica on the
3d of March, with invalids for Woolwich, and may
therefore be daily expected. The following come home
passengers in her, Captains Bingham and Caddy,
Lieutenants Shakspeare, Harvey, Graham, Wilson ;
and Assistant Surgeon Hassard, R N., and Mr. A.
S. Lawson, Ordnance Department.
The Asia, 84, Capt. W. Fisher, will be paid off
on Wednesday next, at Sheerness.
The Cockatrice, 6, Lieut. Oxenham, fitting at
Chatham, is destined for the South American station.
The Pelican, 16, is ordered into harbour : it is said
that some of her planks are unsound, and that her
sternpost is defective. If this prove to be the case,
the officers and men will be transferred to the Bittern,
lately launched and ready for commission.
The Numa transport, Lieut. Ward, agent, is daily
expected at this port, with Major Palmer's and Capt.
Palmer's Companies of Royal Artillery on board, with
which she will proceed to the West Indies.

The discovery ships, Erebus, Captain Ross, and
Terror, Captain Crozier, left Hobart Towa, in prose-
cution of their exploratory voyage in the high southern
latitudes, on the 12th November last.

The Jaseur arrived at Gibraltar from Tangiers, on
the 15th March, and the Espoir, at Cadiz, on the 16th.
The Athol!, troop-ship, with the 2d division of the
59th Regiment, arrived at Gibraltar on Sunday, the
14th March, after a passage of twelve days, and sailed
again for Barbadoes on the 15th.
The Soudan, steam-vessel, Comma9der Bird Allen,
for the Niger Expedition, sailed yesterday to Plymouth,
whence she will proceed to her destination, accompanied
by a store ship.
The Asia, male convict ship, may be daily expected
to arrive, to receive a proportion of convicts, for Van
Diemen's Land, under the superintendence of Dr.
Sinclair.

By some accidental mistake a paragraph has gone
the round of the papers, stating that Mr. Bowler, Sur-
geon of the Victor sloop of war, had been recently dis-
missed his ship for drunkenness in the West Indies.
How such a.mischievous error could have arisen we
know not, but Mr. Bowler has been in England for the
last six months, and Mr. Browne was appointed to that
ship in November last.

In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, and Echo steam-tug.
At Spithead—lndus, Vernon, Pelican, Nautilus, and
Wellington, American packet.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenants—Edward Barnaby Tin-
ling, of the Magnificent, to the rank of Commander.
Assistant Surgeons—Robert M‘Crae, late of the
Wir.chester, to Pilot (vice A. Lyon, deceased), and to
the rank of Surgeon ; George Doak, of the Magnificent,
to be Acting Surgeon of the Sappho ; W. Corry, of
the Victory, to the rank of Surgeon.
Second Masters—W. Jeffery (late Serpent) to the
Pilot (vice W. Langdon, deceased) and to the rank of
Master ; Raines (late Winchester) to Cleopatra
(vice James Fowler to Winchester) and to the rank of
Master.

Clerk— Lewis (late Winchester) to be Clerk-in-
Charge of Glcaner.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captains—C. Wyv►ll, to Cleo-
patra ; A. Milne, to Crocodile (late Cleopatra).
Commanders—William W. P. Johnson (late Croco-
dile), to Winchester, vice Milne, to Crocodile ; J. C.
Fitzgerald, (late Magnificent), to Racehorse, vice Har-
ris, invalided.

Lieutenants—John Lodwick, to Winchester (la'e
Dee), vice Glynn, invaaled ; Michael De Courcy, to
Charybdis (late Racer), vice Tinling, to Magnificent ;
Henry Wright, to Dee (late Skipjack), vice Lodwick,
to Winchester ; Augustus C. May, .to Skipjack (late
Pilot), vice Wright, to Dee ; James Jitzjames, to the
Excellent ; E. B. Tinling, acting, to Magnificent (late
Charybdis), vice Fitzgerald, to Racehorse ; Thomas
Densten, to be Agent to the Belle Alliance, with pro-
visions for the China squadron.

Masters—B. W. Robinson (late 'Winchester), to
Columbia, vice Thompson, deceased ; James Fowler,
to Winchester, (late Cleopatra), vice Robinson, to Co-
lumbia.

Second Masters—Mr. F. Kent, to command the
Echo, steam tug ; and Mr. R. Read, to command the
Portsmouth, yacht.
Purser—Henry H. Chimmo, to the Thunderer.
Assistant-Surgeons—J. Campbell, to the Victory,
vice Corry, promoted ; W. C. Sproule, to the Flamer,
vice Pascoe, invalided.

Acting Assistant-Surgeon—Dr. A. Sibbard, of the
Queen, to Plymouth Hospital.

Mate—A.D. Gordon, to the Excellent.

The officers of the Soudan, steam-vessel, for the
Niger expedition, consist of the following : Com-
mander, Bird Allen ; Lieut. William Ellis ; Acting
Master, John Belam ; Assistant Surgeons, W. B.
Marshall and Horatio Collman ; Clerk-in Charge, Ni-
cholas Waters ; Mates, W. H. Webb and F. W. Sid-
ney ; Engineer Ist class, G. V. Gustafsson, and Engi-
neer 2d class, William Johnson.
COAST- GUARD.—Commanden—Alexander Taubman
Goldie (1839) to be Inspecting Commander. Mates—
J. G. S. M. Moore, and Christopher Ludlow to be
Chief Officers.

(From the Hampshire Independent.)
PonTsmotmt, APRIL 3.—The Syren, 16 guns, will
be launched at Chatham the latter end of the present
month, and be immediately commissioned for the Medi-
terranean station, by Commander Lord F. Beaucleris.
The Northumberland Indiaman, Captain Guthrie,
passed by on Sunday last from Bengal, on her way to
London, sailed on the Ist of December, and St. Helena
on the 7th of February.
The Seharles Quiat,• Meclenarg, arrived yesterday
from Antwerp, bound to the Havannah.

The Hon. Admiral Elliot is expected to arrive
7rom India by the next overland mail.

Although the postponement by Mr. Hume of
his motion respecting the Caroline must nece,;sardy lead
t the Lelief that sufficient of official intelligence on the
,utiect had net yet reached t, is country, we are enabled,
through our New Y0...1 Correspondent, to state most posi-
tiv,ly that assurances had been given to our Minister of
the determination of the Federal Government nut to
suffer the case of Mr. M'Leod to become a cause of war.
The strorg good sense of the American people had
awakened to a proper estimate of the whole circum-
stances, and although we 'cannot announce the precise
mode by which the Federal Government will do justice in
this case, our reliance upon our New York Correspondent
enables us to state moat positively, that General Harrison
will have the manliness and ability to tear asunder the
meshes with which Van Buren had laboured to entangle
him, and that we may hope for a long continuance of ami-
cab!e alliance with the United States.—Observer.

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—A gentleman walking
on the Noith Terrace at Windsor, a day or two since, wasr
suddenly stopped, before he had proceeded more than
a few yards, by the sentinel on duty (a private in the
60th Rifles), who told him he had order 4 to suffer no
one to proceed further. The geotlemen remonstrated,
of course, with the guard (knowing that the whole
of the North Terrace was always open to the pub-
lic), and asked him under whose authority he acted ?
"My orders," replied the sentinel, " are upon that board
(pointing to the usual written instructions) inside the sentry
box; and not one step further must you proc‘ed." The
party, having had permission to exaine the board, disco-
vered that the instructions upon which the man was acting,
referred:to the sentinels stationed on the eastern private
terrace (just in front of the Queen's private apartments). It
appeared that some wag hat exchanged the boards; and had
not the mistake been discovered, not one of the public
during that day at least would have been permitted to have
walled much more than a fewyards on the North Terrace.
It is already known that Mehemet Alt pro-
tested against those parts of the firman from the Sultan
which declared that the Porte should have the selection (,f
his successors (from his family) to th? Government of
Egypt. There was also an objection raised to the right
which the Poi te reserve] to itself of appointing all the
Egyptian military officers above a certain rank, The Four
Great Powers have already expressed their desire that the
Porte should not insist upon those parts of the firman
which were inconsistent with their previous advice to the
chrieti:
had
Sultan. But we understand that Mehemet Ali has since
gone further, and that he has addressedalett
Vizier, protesting against some arrangements vi
obtained the deliberate sanction of the Fuur Great Powers.
Of course no man of common sense can suppose that any
lasting or serious difficulty can result from this proceeding,
but, doubtless, some of our sagacious Contemporaries
would have forged a grave article on the subject, if we hai
not thus told that all their conjectures would go for
nought,—Observer.