The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-13 00:00:00

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.

The present number contains many pleasing nar-
ratives of stirring adventures by flood and field, and
also some able professional papers. Of the latter,
" Observations on the Amendments in the Naval
Articles of War," by Tristram ; " Remarks on
Kafirland," "The Russian War in the Caucasus,"
"On Military Colonies," by Lieutenant Colonel
Wilkie, and "Captain Johnson and the Mariner's
Compass," are well worthy of attention. The " Cruise
in the est Indies" is concluded. " The Happiest
Hour" is a pleasingly written poetical sketch of a
well-known incident in the life of the celebrated
Lord Exmouth, strongly illustrative of the
character of a British sailor. We have
also the fourth and last number of the
" Recollections of Waterloo." " The Shots from an
Old Six-pounder" will be cordially welcomed. The
same agreeable gossiping style is maintained. The
observations on gambling should be carefully trea-
sured by every officer. How many youths of high
promise, with every prospect of a fortunate career,
have sacrificed everything, and fallen victims to an
indulgence in that fascinating vice. There is great
truth in the following remarks:—
"A word on gambling and the turf, at the risk of
being thought slow. I consider playing even for the
smallest stake a departure from right principle. I do
not moan to say there is any actual harm in playing for
a small stake, or the stakes usually played for in gene-
ral society. I merely speak as to the principle of the
thing. Don't tell me that the risk is equal, or of such
humbug as playing on the square. The risk never is
equal. The value of money to every individual varies.
It depends on this or that individual's position and cir-
cumstances; and as a parity of circumstances and posi-
tions is next to impossible, or, at all events, can but very
rarely occur, it follows that the risk must necessarily, as
a general rule, be unequal. The loss which beggars
Captain B— causes no inconvenience to the Duke of
D--. The latter gives his cheque—the Captain shoots
himself. Besides, when is there a parity in temper,
skill, experience, to say nothing of principle and fair
dealing? Playing upon the square, indeed! Bah!"
" Recollections of a Voyage to India," " A Remi-
niscence" and " Reminiscences of the late War of
Succession in Portugal" will also well repay a
perusal. The number also contains general corre-
spondence and editorial remarks of the usual cha-
racter.

UP-

THE BANKER'S MAGAZINE AND S
PLEMEIVT.
This excellent periodical continues its able articles
on monetary affairs. The number opens -with a
" Review on the Currency Debate," in which the
unsound arguments and specious fallacies put forward
in the course Of the discussion are well exposed.
Amongst others, the assertion that the. crisis had been
produced by the conduct of our merchants and manu-
facturers. In answer to this, no less than fifty-six
large failures are referred to, in which number there
are scarcely half a dozen that can be considered bad
ones, while there are at least double that number who
will pay twenty shillings in the pound, and have a
surplus even after the sacrifice of their property by
forced sales at panic prices, and a still larger number
who, even under present circumstances, will pay more
than fifteen shillings in.
.the pound, and who would
have satisfied every liability, and had a balance left,
if not obliged to throw their stock upon the marker,
to sell for whatever it would bring. The Bank
Charter Act is proved not only to have materially
aggravated, but to have, to a great extent, occasioned
the commercial disasters of the past autumn. There

is also a variety of valuable information respecting
the suspended houses and mercantile affairs gene-
rally, and a good article on the law and practice of
foreign attachment in the city of London. The
" Suppleinent" contains an accurate and copious re-
port of the recent debate on the Bank Charter Act,
and the discussion on the appointment of the Com-
mittqe to inquire into the causes of the recent com-
mercial distress.

THE PATRICIAN.
Under the title of "The Fiends of Pc)etry" WO
have a critical disquisition on Milton'
s ratan,
Shakspere's Ingo, Groothe's Mephistopheles; and
Lord Byron's Lucifer; the writer is of opinion that,
Ingo conies nearer to the beau ideal a perfect fie.nA
than either Satan, Mephistopheles, or Lucitcr.
Tago," he says, " has all the qualifications of
demon; he is,dcep, daring, sarcastic, malignant, and
unmerciful—not alone his acts but his every thought
is Wicked ; he has no human feeling beyond hate and
" The trial of Philip Stansfield, at Edin-
o urgb, in February, 1688, for Paricide," is a curions
illustration- of the dark crimes and darker superstitions
of the period. The fact that the body of the supposed
J
he
eNdr murdered rcachdhes
have
vordaeenfrdbotyari mindet
rputrSing isiol
amusing
gont
the prosecution,
eomwevoe aeussr
nt
itSc teota fnops
nfirhobleeyoludftc,
givenaw career
sel
chi. drii
snionsgwfi
guilt.
ohttivheen
Under the bead of " Frag,ments of Family History"
e
celebrated fighting Fitzgerild,
7,ave some interesting
aentd
apupnedearredthoaft
thoofi,
pa
" The Lands of England,"
legends of Whitby Ahhey—Dugueselin and'Spinola,
are the romantic heroes of history of this one of the
most readable
. numbers that has yet

THE ADVERTISER'S ALMANACK AND
GENERAL CALENDAR FOR 1848.

Mr Charles Mitchell has done well to publish this
brochure, for since advertising has become a very im-
portant part of every enterprising trader's business, it
is highly desirable that he should have accurate in-
formation as to the best modes of expending his
money. That information he will find in this useful
brochure, which is published by the proprietor of that
useful work the "Newspaper Press Directory."

AUGMENTATION OF THE ROYAL

ARTILLERY.

WooLwrcrr, JAN. 12.—An order was issued yes-
terday afternoon for each of the ten battalions of the
Royal Regiment of Artillery to give in to the Ad-
jutant-General's office to-day a list of the names of
the non-commissioned officers eligible for promotion,
that those at foreign stations may be immediately
sent home to join the twenty new companies ordered
to be formed, being two new companies to each of
the ten battalions. The formation of the twenty new
companies will promote 20 Second Captains to be
Captains, and to have the command of companies ;
20 First Lieutenants to be Second Captains ; 20
Second Lieutenants to be First Lieutenants, to fill
up the vacancies by the promotion from the already
formed companies; and 40 Second Lieutenants will
also be promoted to give two Second Lieutenants to
eack of the new companies. The number of pro-
motions amongst the non-commissioned officers will
be 20 sergeants to be colour-sergeants, 80 corporals
to be sergeants, 160 bombardiers to be corporals, 240
acting bombardiers to be full bombardiers, and 240
gunners to be made acting bombardiers, and 40 boys
will be enlisted to serve as drummers.

The following is a list of the officers who will be
promoted by the augmentation :
Second Captains—P. Elk N. E. Harison, C.
Cheetham, G. J. L. Buchanan, W. S. Payne, W. R.
Gilbert, A. F. W. Papillon, H. Aylemer, G. C.
Levinge, A. G. W. Hamilton, W. Fulford, A. Irving,
St. J. T. Browne, C. Bingham, 11. S. Rowan, J. N.
A. Freese, F. D. Cleveland, H. A. Turner, T. B. P.
Marriott, T. Elwyn—to he First Captains and have
the command of companies. Two of the above are
Adjutants, which appointments they will have to
vacate, and two Second Captains will be appointed
Adjutants.

First Lieutenants—J. J. Brandling, A. R. Wragge,
F. W. Haultain, T. W. Lawrence, F. J. Travers,
M. C. Dixon, C. F. Thorndike, H. Rogers, J. Turner,
A. C. L. Fitzroy, E. H. Fisher, R. F. Mountain, S.
Cleveland, A. C. S. Somerset, P. A. Morshead,
S. H. S. Inglefield, E. M. Boxer, C. S. Longden,
W. A. Middleton, R. J. Cannon—to be Second Cap-
tains in the new Companies.
Second Lieutenants—W. 11. Myton, R. P. C.
Jones, H. J. M. Campbell, R. 0. Farmer, C. M.
Govan, C. H. Ingilby, R. P. Gabbett, H. P. Yates,
M. F. Ferrers, H. A. Thrupp, C. E. Mainwaring, A.
Gordon, W. J. Williams; 04% Young, S..Freeling,
Guille,
to fill up the vacancies i7,*be already formed compa-
nies which will be caused tr., the aug,mentation.
The following Second Lie.l.:tenants will be promoted
to be First Lieutenants in the new companies :—N.
0. S. Turner, S. D. Wright, A. Y. Earle, Hon. L.
A. Addington, A. Vandeleur, A. S. Orr, . Rowland
Hill, P. J. Campbell, F. C. Maude, A. W. Twiss, R.
Curtis, A. Sieve: right, F. S. Seale J. Boulton, J. de
L. Saunderson, M. Anketell, P. Dicksnn, 2E. Clarke,
F. Place, E. J. Bruce, W. P. Richards, J. E. Hope,
H. W. J. Dashwood, A. Brendon, J. de Hariland, S.
Carden, G. A. Wilkinson, W. W. A. Lukin, W.
Walker, C. E. Walcott, G. Bartchaell, G. Davis, E.
G. Bredin, W. J. Bolton, G. B. Traherne, S. G. Bat-
chellor, H. T. Middleton, F. Close, J. Sinclair, H. L.
Talbot. _ _

The strength of the Royal Artillery will now con-
sist of Colonel Field-Marshal the Marquis of Angle-
sey, Master-General ; Major-General Sir Hew D.
Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General; 11 Colonels-Com-
mandant ; Lieutenant-General Sir ThomasiDownmaN
of the Royal Horse Artillery, and one for each of the
10 battalions. 22 colonels, 49 lieutenant-colonels,
three holding civil appointments, and the others in
command at home and foreign stations, and of bat-
talions in the Garrison at Woolwich, or in charge of
departments in the Royal Arsenal, &c. ; 109 captains,
7 in command of troops of Royal Horse Artillery ; 1
superintendent of the Riding-house Establishment ; 1
in charge of the gentlemen cadets ; and 100 in com-
mand of 100 companies of Foot Artillery, includ-
ing the field batteries ; 120 second captains, in-
cluding the adjutants of battalions, &c.; 221 first
lieutenants, three to each troop of Royal Horse
Artillery, and two to each of the 100 companies of
Foot Artillery ; 14 second lieutenants, and 11 quar-
termasters. The strength of each company of Foot
Artillery is 99 men, including non-commissioned offi-
cers, making an efficient force of 9,900 men exclusive
of horse artillery.
On Thursday last, the number of recruits who
marched past in the Garrison at Woolwich for the
inspection of the Colonel in charge of drills was up-
wards of 1,500, all fine young men well adapted for
the service.

SEA-BRACH BREEZES.—Amongst other matters our
author (Mr. Hosking, in his new " Guide") points out
the injury done to visitors at watering-places by the
discharge of the town drainage upon the much-fre-
quented sea-beach. "Ladies, with books or with needle-
work, and nurses with their charges, are apt to resort:to
the propped-up and clean-looking round iron pipes for
the convenience they offer as seats; and as they sit, they,
and the children who play about them, inhale the
poisonous gases which the soilage of the town emits, and
many a family returns inland from the sea-side fevered
with the stench at the sea-beach, rather than invigorated
by the sea-breeses." The illness of all his own children,
on one occasion, was thus caused.—Builder.
BATAS AND WASHBOUSES FOR THE LABOURING
CLASSES.—Yestorday a general meeting of the com-
mittee and subscribers to the above establishment was
held at the Institution, in George-street, Euston-square.
Lord Southampton in the chair. The report congratu-
lated the subscribers on the gratifying. results which had
attended the gl progress of the undertaking since
the opening of the establishment on August 3,1846. The
directors of the New River Company, in the most liberal
manner, gratuitously gave the society the land for the
present building, and for the first fourteen months gave
the necessary supply of water, and for the succeeding
twelvemonth have offered to continue it for 1001., and
have, moreover, extended their grant of laud for the en-
largement of the establishment. There are forty-nine
single baths for men, and thirteen for women ; eight
vapour, and two swimming baths. Yet further accom-
modation is requisite, as on an average, in the warm
weather, 800 daily bathe, and 200 or 300 are frequently
refused admission from want of accommodation. Since
the 3d of August, 1846, the bathers were 154,221 males
and 15,206 females. The poor women who have washed,
dried, ironed, and mangled the clothes of themselves and
families were 45,124. The charge to a poor man or
woman for a cold bath is one penny, and for a warm one,
including use of towel, twopence, and for the washing
department one penny per hour for the use of the drying
closet, irons, and mangles, four hours for threepence.
The balance sheet showed the donations and subscrip-
tions to amount to 5,0221. 3s. 6d. ; receipts from bathers,
2,887 I Is. Bd. ; expenses of the building and incidentals
left a balance of 161., which leaves a debt of 8741. I Is.
for loan and liabilities. When the debt is entirely paid
off, and the building completed it will not only be self-
supporting, but also self-extending-
THE LATE ROBBERY BY A MAN OF PROPERTY
AT BATH.—BATH, JAN. 11.--Alfred Buchanan, the
gentleman shoplifter, who was found guilty at the city
sessions on Friday, for stealing a purse and scent bottle
ut the value of 6s. ad., the property of Frederick James
Hamper, was brought up yesterday for judgment. The
Recorder (Mr. Jardine) sentenced him to three months'
g imprisonment with hard laboured

A, letter from the barony of Longford, in the
county of Galway, says :--
i
" • On Monday, the 10th of January, Mr. G. • Fitz-
gerald held his • first court as , licensing officer, at
Lai t rencetown, when about eighty. persons applied for
lice a ses, of whom twenty-three received licenses to
carry • arms for their protection out of their houses.
At p resent all persons are allowed to keep arms,
i n their houses, without any license whatever.
The inantity of arms in the possession of the peasantry
in th a bdrony of Longford is immense, especially in
those townlands along the rivers Shannon and Suck.
On t he 11th inst. the licensing officer will attend at
Eyre court to grant licenses. There is great difficulty
in tl ie collection of poor-rates in parts of the Bali-
naslc .e union. Some cattle -distrained by the poor-rate
collector in Clonfert electoral division were rescued
and ; set at large. Warrants have been issued against
the < iffenders. And on Saturday, the Bth inst., the
. -rate collector for the electoral division of Aley-
ur
kvorn'fickan was assaulted in the execution of his-duty,
rubl the cattle he had under seizure were forcibly
1.4,1„r1 from him at Fox-hall, in this proclaimed barony.
The p;incipal offender has been arrested by the
palicv.!".
• OPENING OF HILARY TERM. .

This clay being the first day of Hilary Term the
courts of law were opened by the Master of the Rolls
and :Judges of the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas,
and .Exchequer.
THE COURT OF CHANCERY.

Xe.sterday, in compliance with the Queen's Letter,
Baront3 Pennefather, Richards, and Lefroy, Judges
Moore and Jackson, Mr. Henn, and Mr. Brooke,
Masters in Chancery, were sworn "in,.cornuaissionerak
" to hear and determine causes in the Court of Chan.
eery during .the illness, or in case of death of the
Lord ChanceZler."
At twelve o'ciock the Master of the Rolls entered
the Court of Chnocery, and sat for the purpose of
adjourning the court to Thursday next, and it stands
adjourned to that day.
The Master of the Rolls sat at one o'clock, and
proceeded to hear motions.
At one o'clock Judge Crampton took his seat on
the bench, and grand juries feor the county and city
of Dublin having been sworn,
His LORDSHIP briefly addressed each, saying, he
would not detain them from the duties they had to
discharge, as there was not any case on the calendar
to which it was necessary for him to direct their
attention.
The Learned Judge was shortly after joined by his
brethren, Judge Perrin and Judge Moore, who, on
the present occasion, for the first time, ascended the
judgment-seat.
The COURT proceeded to hear motions, none of
which possessed material interest for the general
public.
MURDERS AT CASTLETOWNROCHE.
H E
rr

The Cork Examiner gives the following version of
this tragic affair :
" Information has reached the police of this city
confirming the rumours of a horrible murder having
been perpetrated in the village of Castletownroche.
The deed was committed on the night of the 4th inst.,
though it was not discovered until two days later.
It appears that the victims were two women, named
Catherine M'Carthy and Mary Reynolds, aunt and
niece. They kept a small lodging-house, and it was
supposed that the aunt had accumulated a large sum
of money. Some surprise was excited among the
inhabitants to find that the house was shut for two
days, and when no answer was given from the inside
it was determined to break open the door. The in-
habitants were then found to have been both stran-
gled, and had been dead for a considerable time. A
large quantity of property, consisting of blankets,
sheeting, and some pieces of freize, was missed at the
same time, and everything appeared in a state of con-
fusion. Suspicion of the crime fell upon two men
who lodged there on the night of the 4th, and who
it was thought had murdered the women, forming
the whole household, in order to -get possession of
the money the aunt was reputed to have. Active
measure have since been taken for the deteetiou of
the parties."

THE POPE'S LAST LETTER TO
ARCIIBISIIOP APIIALE.

FRATRI REVERENDISSIMO AECIIILP. TVAM. PIVB rt.

IX. SALVTEM ET APOSTOLICAM BENEDICTIONEM.

Ad cures nostras Apostolicas, frater reverenclissirne,
nuper pervenit fama quOd ad virum nobilissimum,
filiurnque in Christ() nostrum dilectissimum, Comitem
de Arundel, literas quasdam, adscripsisti. Thic de
re valde commoti sumus quid utj videtur, mi freer,
et in to lusisti, et in oculos hereticorum
consilia nostrm ecclesix clandestina, absur 1-

oes, svd"l j u_ra. n t lnios tni
juPtiewr ruby' -
magnus atq ue Noscisnesi4trorathe
ad sancta" ecclesine Hiberni integri-
tatem pertineant regula, a nobis et sanctissimo
doctissimoque synodo ad to missa sunt, Anglia
senatutn, p. ilium h. omnino decipere ? Immo
has ratione, afire mi tener! in literis de fide
nostrft scribendis multo magis considerate egisses.
Periimus : extrudisti dextrum oculum nostrum, sed
eodem tempore mi leo ! mi lupe ! pedem tuum in
limo posuisti. Nonn'est ? Vah, maritimi coqui
filius es. Sed nunquam animus, senex conterbunalis,
nos per-et-per faciemus eos. Si vero hene fecisses
pulverem oculis Joannis Bull, armigeri, injecisses, in
corpore pingui atque rotund() quantitatem softsawderis
grate ac leniter infricuisses. Medicamentum hoc
(crede nobis) iratos emollit homines ut in cseco lateri,
sine botheratione ullA instanter et commode ambules.

Scis bene quod homunculus iste qui nunc rem-
publicam dirigit et corpere nanus est, et mente
eunuchus, Bite de causa, ut vulpes it fabulii, omnes
vedit similes sui else, et felis nostri (pauper res).
Incipit ergo rem chirurgicam, et ense crudeli, Eccle-
siam Anglicanam (0 bone !) protinus vulnerat. In-
telligimus omnes, qui in his versantur, quam ad
nostram fidem istius homunculi animus ducat. Bone.
Nihilominus tamen sperat, ut Whiggorum est mos,
res antiquas diruendo, novas instituendo, Judseos
tittillando, populuin fallere clamantem. Vir sane
prudentissimus atque sapientissimus! ingenii magni,
et capacis, corporis veto parvuli, aridique.
Apertum est nobis, venerabile fratir, omnibusque
Catholicis quam necessarium sit hoc tempore bellorum
ecclesice Anglicanw intestinorum, nostros clericos be-
nevolentia, fiduciti, caritate, etenim amore Christiano
erga hereticos, omnibus fungi officiis. Haud ignori
sumus—et hsec vermiculavimus ex Comite de Minto
(potius.tardus currus, per viam) quam parvum incita-
mentum necesse erit posterioribus, id est glutteis max-
imis, vel ossibus applicare coccyglm Anglice hereti-
corum, eos Romam agere, Comes ipso de Minto nobis
in capite capiti (Gal. ate-ci-tete) significavit, se, om-
unreimduqmue familiamsup lusmuuislqluume,
apostolicum, et id instanter. Sed (eorum OCIIII
ra dictum, s u anecnonsuas htfo ruenmc u,
parati fuisse omnes, ad osculandum pollicem nostrum
damnentur) pavidi sunt ne saccum haberent, et mer-
cedem ex onario public* amitterent. Dicunt tamen,
sinsut
pamniaoss q i
bi uira, avdoideinr itme i s
sll);
nd
ta l e:tm s
eedc coesicuart e Anglicanam
facie nte
Id
est scheda mi puercule
Post lame
,ergo, stultus stultorum es, frater rev&
rendissime, epistolas elaborare tam furibundas. Ac-
cipe id otiosum! Si barbari Hibernici homicidii
scelus iniquum committunt, quid hoc ad nos ? Sine
eos ad iDiabolum ire. Alios pisces frigere habemua.
In futuro to cum habeto, senex puer, vel in intestinal
tuas ambulabo, et nullus error.
Datam Rome die Januarii MDCCCXLVIII.
Pontificatus nostri secundo.—Post.

ASTRONOMICAL DISCOTERY.—It is announced that
the astronomers of Pulkova have ascertained the exist-
ence of a third satellite of the planet Uranus. Herschel,
the discoverer of this planet, thought to have perceived
as many as six satellites revolving round the parent lu-
minary ; but astronomers had only succeeded in deter-
mining the orbit of two amongst them, and it may eves
be doubted whether a trace of the others had ever been
discovered. The discovery of a satellite which only oc-
cupies 94 hours in effecting its revolution round Uranus
confirms a remarkable fact—amongst the four planes
nearest the sun, the earth is the only one that yossesse:
a satellite, whilst, the most remote
several.
Sun g
morning
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE..--011 -un .
was found in Mr.
last, a mai, named Frederick Weston in his own
Beard's farm-yard, at Ovingcyan, welteringhimself
planets ail posses
to which we cannot more particularly
blood, having dreadfluilley
allude.
religious fanatic, belonging
He was
Hospital, where he now lies in
comes mutilated
rom Dover, i n
anda is manner
ahout
" to do God justice."—Brighton
caonpyreecyaerdiotuosthstae
tCe.ounty .
Saints," and he says he
committed Guardian. calledof
‘a‘geth.e LlisettelsraDay
MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL.— MUNIFICZNT AM'.
ttOhiart:siect years
Nvisous GIFT.—A lady has lately forwarded to the
the act
I Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester the sum of 501., for
the erection in the Cathedral of any article of furniture
or ornament which might be thought advisable or ne-
cessary. The Dean, after consultation witiakhe church-
wardens, has, we believe; decided upon iffropriating
the money to the erection of a font, instead of the non-
descript marble thing at present used for that purpose.
—.Manchester Courier.
ABD-EL-KADER.—The Government is said to have
decided upon having a medal struck in commemoration
of the surrender of Abd-el-Kader. It is reported that
the pistol of Abd-el-Kader, delivered to his Royal
Highness the Duke d'Aumale, is to be deposited in the
Musee d'Artillerie ; and Madame de Lamoriciere has
intimated, it is said, an intention of placing his sword
in the same place.—Gatignani.