The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-05 00:00:00

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

On the motion of Mr. HUME, the following mo-
tion was also agreed to :—That the orders of the day
be disposed of in th• order in which they stand upon
the paper, the right being still reserved to her Ma-
jesty's Ministers of placing Government Bills at the
head of the list, by previous notice, in the
rotation in which they are to be taken
on the days on which Government Bills
have precedence. That, at the time fixed for the
commencement of public business, on days on which'
orders have precedence of notices of motions, and
after the notices of motions have been disposed of on
all other days, Mr. Speaker direct the Clerk at the
Table to read the Orders of the Day without the
question being put.
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THE NAVY.
Mr. HLTME moved for the following returns :
Return of all admirals, vice, rear, and retired ad-
mirals, retired captains, captains, commanders, and
lieutenants in the Royal Navy, promoted on and
since the 18th of July, 1843; distinguishing those
promoted on full pay from those on half-pay at the
time of their promotion, stating the date of entry
of each officer into the navy, and the dates of the se-
veral commissions successively attained ; also the
period I which each officer had served in each
commission, and the period on half-pay in
each commission, :and the aggregate time of
full pay and of half-pay of each officer to the
first day of January, 1848. Abstract return of the
total number of promotions in the royal navy since
the 15th day of May 1843, from the rank of mid-
shipmen to that of admiral inclusive; stating the
number of each rank promoted in each year, and
distinguishing the number of each rank promoted,
when employed and afloat, from those on half-
pay, and also from those on the coast guard ser-
vice in each year; returns of the number of sea
officers on the Ist day of January in each of
the years 1845 and 1848 ; and also the total amount
per annum for the sea-pay of those employed, and the
half-pay of those unemployed, at each of these
periods ; stating also the number of each rank em-
ployed and unemployed at each of those periods, and
the total number o each class ; and showing the total
number of officers in the royal navy on the Ist day of
January in each of the years 1844 to January 1848,
both inclusive; distinguishing the number of each
rank, from admiral to lieutenant, inclusive, on half pay
and in commission ; also, distinguishing the number
of officers and their ranks, in the Coast Guard Service
in each of those years (all in continuation of Parlia-
mentary Paper, No. 449, of Session 1843.)
ORDNANCE SURVEYS.
The following return was also agreed to, on the
motion of the same HON. MEMBER :—Returns of the
towns of the United Kingdem surveyed by the Ord-
nance Department on the 60 inch scale ; the
dates of the commencement and completion
of each survey, the area included in each
survey, and the total expense of each ; also, in de-
tail, the time occupied, the number of hands em-
ployed, and the cost, upon the following separate
branches of the work, viz., the triangulation, the survey
of block plan, the filling in of detail, the levelling, the
plotting and engraving; of the state of advance-
ment of the other surveys of towns now in progress,
and the above particulars with respect to the sepa•
rate branches of the work already completed, and dis-
tinguishing those towns, the surveys of which have
been undertaken specially for sanitary purposes.
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND).
Sir W. SOMERVILLE brought in a Bill to
amend the Act of the present session, to facilitate
the completion of these works, which was read a first
time.
The House then adjourned.

NATIONAL CONVENTION.
(THIS DAY.)
After the re-assembling of the Convention, the reports
of the delegates were continued.

More importance was attached to the afternoon sit-
ting, in conf•equence of two reporters from the establish-
ment of Messrs. Gurney being present, they having been
ordered by the authorities of the Home-office to attend,
and to take a close note of the proceedings.
The district reports having been brought to a close,
Mr. CLARKE gave an outline of the plan proposed to
be adopted by the executive council of the Chartist
Association. The plan was simply to effect the pro-
posed reforms in the legislative councils of the country
by simultaneous meetings held throughout the empire.
After some frivolous discussions on points of no inter-
est, which had nearly, as one of the delegates expressed
it," put an end to this great movement," the Convention
adjourned till to-morrow at nine o'clock.

BUENOS AYRES.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY EVENlNG.—Advices reached
Liverpool this morning from Buenos Ayres to the 9th
January. They do not, however, contain any intelli-
gence worthy of notice.
The 25th Legislature of the Province had been
formally opened on the Ist January. The speeches deli-
vered by the delegate on opening Congress, as well as of
the Government of Buenos Ayres to the Legislature, do
not call for or merit any remark. The blockade on the
part of the French squadron had been strictly observed,
but several small craft had made successful attempts in
eluding the vigilance of their pursuers.

- The 54TH RiGIMENT.—The first division of the
depot of this regiment, consisting of 280 men, arrived
in Plymouth citadel, from Exeter, yesterday morning,
headed by the band of the 81st Regiment.--Piymf ulh
Journal.

YARMOUTIL—FinaI arrangements have been made
in London for the establishment of a forrign cattle and
provision company, and Yarmouth, from its proximity to
Holland, has been selected as the place at which the
=piny will COMMOTICe operations.