The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-11 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

Mates—M. H. M. Bluntly (1843), C. G. Macgregor (1840),
C. T. W. G. Ceijat (1840), P. W. Darrell (1843), and S.
Osborn (1843), to the rank t•f Lieutenant.

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain—G. Elliott, to the Eurydice.
Lieutenants—F. Egerton, to the Raleigh ; J. E. Parish and
C. Coles, to the St. Vincent.
Surgeons—G. Mackey, M.D., to the Avenger ; A. Arm-
strong, M.D. (assistant), to Hasler Hospital ; J. Robinson,
M.D. (assistant), to the Avenger ; R. Wallis, M.D. (assis-
tant), to the Retribution ; J. W. Slight (assistant), to the
Victory.
Mate—C. Dickson, to the Terrible.
Clerk—J. C. Mattley, to the Queen.
Midshipmen—P. E. Luard and J. T. Seymour, to the Con-
stance ; S. P. Brett, to the Retribution.

Master's Assistant—F. Inglis, to the Belleisle.
Naval Cadets—T. M. Riddell, to the Canopus ; H. B.
Phillamore, to the Devastation ; A. F. Masescau.x, to the
St. Vincent.

ROYAL MARINES.
Major Spry, of the Woolwich division, to the recruiting
service at Bath.

COAST GUAM
Lieutenant R. Ellis, appointed to command Fairlight sta•
iun, vice Ranier, previously removed.

THE HERO of ALINVAL.

Major-General Sir H. G. W. Smith, Bart., G.C.8., entered
the 95th, now Riffle Brigade, in 1805; was adjutant at the
siege, storm, and capture of Wnte Video, and was thanked
)3,
the
Commander-in-Chief, Sir Samuel Auchmuty, for his
intrepidity; was in the affair of Colonio del Sacramento,
under Sir Dennis (then Colonel) Pack; was taken prisoner
at Buenos Ayres, in the church of St. Domingo, with General
Crawford; proceeded with the army to Sweden, under Sir J.
Moore, and with that army to Portugal; was distinguished
in the affair of Calcavellos, in the retreat to Corunna. In
1809 he again embarked for Portugal, with the Light Bri-
gade, under General Crawford, and reached Talavera the
morning the enemy retreated behind the Alverea, and was
sharply engaged skirmishing; was particularly employed by
General Crawford in the Light Division, during the French
siege of Cuidad Rodrigo, and in the various skirmishes of
that period. At the affair of the Coa he was severely
wounded, and much commended for his conduct at the mo-
ment; he was present at Massena's retreat; was in every
affair of posts, Pombala, Redhina-' Casalhova, Condeixa, Foy
d'Aruz (where he was appointeciMajor of Brigade to the 2d
Light Brigade), and served in that capacity until the end of
the war, in the Light division; Sabrigal ; battles of Fuentos
d'Onoro ; siege, storm, and capture of Badajos •' battle of Sa-
lamanca; retreat from Madrid; affairs at San Milan; battle
of Vittoria ; pursuit of the enemy after the battle of Pam-
plono; distinguished in storming the heights of Vera, also in
the storm of the entrenched camp of Irun •, crossing the Bi
dassoa ; battle of Nivelle Nile; affairs near Bayonne; Tarbes;
battles of Uri hes and Tolouse. In 1814 embarked in the Ga-
ronne with the tr“ops under Major-General Ross; appointed de-
puty Adjutant-General; battle of Bladensberg, anti capture of
Washington ; was the bearer of dispatches to Government,
and highly commended by Major-General Rosy; was pro-
moted to the rank of Major; returned to America with
Major-General the Hon Sir Edward Pakenham ; as As-
sistant Adjutant-General was most actively employed during
the various affairs of New Orleans, and appointed Military
Secretary to Sir J. Lambert, in whose dispatches his conduct
was particularly brought to notice; was at the siege and
capture of Fort Boyer. On the conclusion of peace with
America, he returned to Europe ; was Assistant Quarter •
master-General of the 6th Division at the battle of Waterloo,
and, for his conduct, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-
ColoneL Served in America and the West Indies; had an
important command on the frontier of the Cape of Good
Hope, during the Kaffir irruption into the colony, 1835-36;
highly commended for his conduct by the Governor, Sir B.
D'Urbau, and thanked by the inhabitants of the colony at
large, and subsequently by the Minister for the Colonies,
Lord Glenelg, as deserving " the grateful acknowledgments
of her Majesty's Government, not only for his military.ser-
vices, but for his zealous, humane, and enlightened adminis-
tration of the civil government of the province under his
charge." When ordered to take the command of the fron-
tiers of the Cape of Good Hope, he rode from Cape Town to
Graham's Town, a distance of 600 miles, in six days, per
forming each day's journey at the rate of fourteen miles an
hour. In 1840 he was appointed Adjutant-General to her
Majesty's forces in.lndia, and was in the battles of Gwalior
and Marajahpore, in 1843. During these eventful services he
was on the star of Major-General Sir Sidney Beckwith,
Major-General Drummond, Major-General Robert Crawford,
Major-General Skerritt, Sir J. Vandeleur. Lord Seaton, Sir
A. Barnard, Major-General Ross, Major-General the lion.
Sir E. Pakenbam, Sir J. Lambert, the Right Hon. Sir James
bKanem, pant,a Sir Hugh IKegahneue,otuhet,.—HonjohSnirßLuol.wlry Cole, Sir B. D'Ur -

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ERRATUM.—In our account of the meeting of the
London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company, on Saturday,
we stated that " Mr. Megson said a gentleman in Leeds had ascer-
tained from the secretary that the expenses hart been IbL, with other
ilabilities"—it should have been lb,ooo/., with other liabilities.
SUICIDE FROM I,CSSES BY FIRE.—On Saturday even.
ing Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Red Lion, Red Lion-court,
Fleet-street, on the body of Mrs. Sarah Brown, aged 35, a grocer,
Fireshop, No. 6, Great New-street, Fetter-lane, was destroyed by
Fire on Thursday night. Julia Macdonald said that the deceased
11.. d carried on her business until a tire broke out there on Thursday
night last, when she and witness were got out of the parlour window
and removed to the lied Lion. She lost a great deal of property by
the fire, and was very melancholy all the next day. That morning
(Saturday) witness awoke and found her suspended by a handker-
chief to a rail of the bedstead. The landlord of the Red Lien said
deceased told him that cite was insured for 2501. iu the Law Fire
Insurance Office. Several witnesses said that deceased's behaviour
was recently very different from what it had formerly been—that her
business did not answer, and that she had much trouble in family
matters. Verdict, "Temporary insanity." .
DRAGONETTI.—Hurnours are abroad that the property
of this eminent musician is not nearly so large as was anticipated—
eve thousand pounds being much nearer the mark than five•agtel-
sqb
twenty thousand. The bulk of what properly there is left to
oof ithusetruacmce omntani, &O,
afion It
seems
curious e.uamin.tai the
ruices
sister—it she can be toured ; and the legacies to friends and ILO.
oldbfta man
ri:chiefis3'4l. i
squandered
dshahpies
means music,
hi
to which no sort of mouuy value can be attached by
his executors. _ _ _

The i&glish bar is composed of above 3,080 bar-
risters. exclusive of 24 sergeants-at-law. There are 74 Queen's
co►wsel, including the Attorney and Solicitor-General.