The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

PART624OBTII,--THIJIISDAY. We some short lima_ _
since (during the absence of the Channel squadron) no-
ticed
the great disparity of officers in comparison with
the number of men of the Royal Marine force engaged
in thO Channel squidron, and drew attention at the.
same time to the .captains of the corps, many of whom
have served double the time which ought to have gained
their promotion to the rank of field-officers.

On Sunday last a field-officer and four captains
marched to this garrison chapel with the marines of this .
division, whose united periods of service amounted to
the almost incredible total of 210 years, the junior of
these five officers counting upwards of 40 years' service.
If anything could-demonstrate the unfairness and im-
policy of the present system of brevet promotion, the
above astounding fact would, beyond a doubt, do it.
According to this statement, Captain A, because he has
had the good fortune to get his company quickly, comes
in a general brevet in preference to Captain B, who was
in the service before A was born ; B having INien
demncd to linger on through the greater part and best "•"
years of his life before attaining the rank of captain.
Thus is poor B doubly a victim—first, through too long
deferred, heart-sickening hope, and then through the
working of an unjust rule, which continues to ill;use him
because he has been so long neglected. •
Surely an appeal on such substantial grounds as these
would not be contemned, and the prayer of the serving
captains of her Majesty's land forces, who served in the -
great war ending in 1814 (who have never voluntarily
been on half-pay), to be included in the coming -bre-
vet, will not be heartlessly rejected. The boon is not -
much for such petitioners to ask ; it is a boon easy .to
grant, as it would not involve any great expense-. We
sincerely trust this brief appeal on behalf of the long=
neglected veterans of the Royal Marine corps will be.
in some part the means of obtaining for them that jus-; i= -
Hee at the hands of their country which their lorg,
faithful, and meritorious services so pre-eminently merit. -
The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Sheppard, bearing the...
broad pendant of Commodore Sir Francis Collier, has ""..;;
been expected to come up momentarily all day. Up to
our dispatch leaving (five o'clock), however, she had nct ..esu
made her numLer.
The Crocodile, 8, Commaneer Gomer Lowe, arrived
last night from Hudson's Bay.
The Fairy yacht was undocked this day.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 7.—The storm in, this neighbour-
ly ol has somewhat abated, but we are occasionally vi-
sited by heavy squalls from the southward and west- -Yr
4tl,- x,aptain donit oneppara, WHEI
flag of Commodore Sir F. A. Collier, endeavoured- to • .5.,1•7-.),
work out through the Western Passage, under double-
reefed topsails and foresail, the wind blowing hard from
the westward. When reaching into Cawsand Bay, on
the larboard tack, she put about, and while in stays was
caught in a tremendous squall of wind and rain between
'Redding Point and the western end' of the Breakwater.
Being compelled to go before it, she brailed up her fore-
sail, and under foretopsail and jib returned to her
anchorage in the Sound.
His Imperial Brazilian Majesty's frigate Constitu-
cional, Captain Ignacio, remains in the Sound. It being
found that the Turnchapel, private dock, was not suffi-
ciently capacious to receive the frigate, application has
been made to the authorities at her Majesty's dockyard -
here. In consequence, however, of the activity prevail-
ing in our naval departments doubts exist of the possibi-
lity of repairing the frigate at this arsenal, failing which
she will be sent to her M:ijesty's dockyard at Ports-
mouth, or to the naval arsenal at Brest.
When -last-here the Constitucional, then called the
Isabel, was officered and manned almost entirely by
Europeans; now her officers, with two exceptions (Per-
ttiguese), are, Brazilians, and the duty is carried on
entirely in that language. At present her complement
.(450) includes SO Englishmen, G Americans, 5 Germans,
3 Frenchmen, G Spaniards, 2 Italians, and 8 Manilla.
men. The remainder is made •up by Brazilians, Portu-
guese, and natives of Monte Video,
.Bueros Ayres, and
Valparaiso. The -Englbdi are stationed at the helm,
the mainyard, and the waist. . The duty in the top's is
performed exclusively by these who talk Portuguese.
The Buckinghamshire,- of 1,800 tons, Capt. M'Gregor,
which came in on Monday, has perhaps the largest
cargo of. tea in point of weight ever imported. She left
II ng-Kong the Gth of May, and St. Helena the 20th of
August. Benire making the Capc of Good Hope she
damaged her rudder in the casing, just below the deck.
Cpptaiii APGregor very skilfully fitted a tiller outside
the ship, end-thus brought the vesscl home. She Lai a- -
crew of about'l3o.hands, viz., 20 English, GO Lascaes,.-25
Chinamen, and 20- Maiiillamen.. Her only pag:.engers
are Dr., Lunn and Mr. Batley, who landed h, re yester;lay. •
Among' the casualties during the tale is the loss of the
Ocean, • belonging to this port, the crew of which were
landed Yesterday by Captain Cox, of the brig Margaret,
of Weymouth, from whose log the following is •
traded

" Sunday, October 2, 4 P.m., saw a brig to the leeward,
under close-reefed canvass, and signals of distress. Bore
down upon her ; she proved to be the Ocean, of-Ply--
mouth, from Newport, bound to Plymouth, and fotind
her in a sinking state. The sea was so rough, and it
was blolving so strong, there was no possibility of getting,. -
the crew from the ship. We lay by her during the -
night, and at 7 A.M., on Monday bore away under her
lee, and succeeded in getting the crew on board. Saved
the boat and all their clothes, Scilly bearing S.S.E., 9 or
10 leagues. Half an hour after the crew were on board,
the brig went down."
Mr. Hamilton Hamilton, Into Envoy Extraordinary =
and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Brazil, who
came home passenger in. the Constitucional, has been
staying with his lady, for the benefit of his health, at
Elliott s RoTal Hotel, Plymouth. This gentleman pre-
sented on Tuesday last to Admiral Grenfell an elabo-
, rately-chased coffee-jug, and elegant silver salver, pur-
' chased here from Mr. Cave, on which was engraved the
following inscription :—" From Hamilton Hamilton,
E.E. and M.P. of her Britannic Majesty at the Court of
the Brazil, to John Pascoe Grenfell, Rear Admiral in the
Imperial service, in remembrance of much kindness ex-
perienced during a voyage to England on board the Im-
perial frigate Constitution, bearing his flag, in August
and September, 1846." Admiral Grenfell remains at the
same hotel a few days longer, and previous to com-
mencieg his duties at Liverpool as Brazilian Consul-
General visits his relatives in the neighbourhood of
Exeter.
THREE o'CLocx, r.si.—Wind S.W., blowing strong.
OCT, 7, Tux p.m.—The storm of this morning has
continued increasing through the day. The wind is
blowingvery heavily, and veers from W.N.W. to W.S.W.,
with occasional rain.

Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent split her foretopsail in
he attempt this morning to go to sea.
The barque Forager, Captain Spendlove, of and from
Hull, for St. John's, New Brunswick, in ballast, having
reached lon. 24, came in here this afternoon. On.the
19th tilt: she was dismasted, thrown on her beam-ends,

lost three top-masts, sails, yard, and gear, decks swept,
and ballast shifted. At the same time several vessels
were obierved, one of which, an English brig, is sup-
posed to have foundered. The gale continued several .
days after the 19th. -.
The Buckinghamshire East Indiaman, about two this
afternoon, drifted in the Sound, and was compelled to
drop her second bower anchor.
An Inverness schooner, of 90 tons, the Benoni, Cap-
tain Christie, coal laden, struck on the rocks under
Queen Anne's Battery (having for safety left her moor-
ings in Catwater), broke her rudder and started het
stern-post. With assistance she got into the Pool this
evening.
The brig Simpson, of Scarborough, from Odessa, with
tallow, for this port, when outside the Pool, had her
warp cut by a trawler under sail, and in consequence
fell to leeward athwart the rocks outside the eastern pier.
On the flOod, she was got off without much damage.
Several of the trawling sloopi which went out this
morning were obliged to run back for shelter. The
Union lost her fishing nets altogether. The James and
Mary buoyed and slipped her trawl.
• The pinnace belonging to his Imperial Brazilian Ma-
jesty's trigate Constitucional, which came in this morn-
ing for provisions, has made three unsuccessful attempts
to join the frigate in the Sound. A boat belonging to
the Buckinghamshire is similarly detained.
THURSDAY, 6 o'CLocs, A.m.—The storm continued
until midnight, but, with the exception of a gale at 3
o'clock, there has not been much wind since, and at this
hour it is blowing moderately from the westward. How-
ever, there continues strong indications of heavy weather
in the sky. Providentially, no further damage has oc-
curred in the port.

A stormy meeting of the inhabitants of the par's'e
of St. George's-in-the East was he'd on Thursday night
in the vestry-room of the parish church, for the p. rpose
of considering the establishment of baths and washhouses
according to the recent Act of Parliament. There was
a strong opposition to the measure on the ground of the
incres,c of local taxation, and ultimately a motion for
establishing the baths was by a large majority on a
show of hands. A poll was demanded, which will take
place on Monday and Tuesday next.
CAUTION.—FROM A CORRESPONDENT:The public
would do well to weigh their candles, as u
ht nprincupyd
knfionwdinagg
makers are sending. them out short wheeigm,
dt.iders equally unprincipled in buyinf
that they are so, and thus defrauding t eir customers.
TREATMENT or THE POOR IN ST. 4PANCEAS.
On Thursday there was another vestry meeting in St.
Pancras parish, to consider the conduct of the directors
of guardians in their treatment of the paupers. Mr.
Howarth, church-warden, presided at the meeting, which
was a stormy one. A resolution of censure was pro-
posed on Mr. Lea, the master of the workhouse, for hav-
ing dismissed the man Whitby on account of the evidence
he gave during the investigation into the proceedings of
the workhouse. The resolution was strongly opposed,
but it was ultimately carried by a majority of twenty-
four against nineteen. Mr. Howarth then left the chair
indignantly, and the other churchwarden, Mr. 'Wagstaff,
was elected to fill the vacant seat, and the rest of the
business before the meeting was concluded.

THE INDIAN SALT MONOPOLY.—A. meeting of the
directors of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce was
held at the Guildhall, Worcester, on Wednesday, at
which the Chamber unanimously agreed upon memo-
ralising the Board of Control on the subject of a removal
of the restrictions and bonding regulations under which
the importation of salt from this country into the East
Indies is admitted. A meeting of the Worcester Town
Council was also held on Tuesday, at which a memorial
to the same effect as that adopted by the Chamber of
Commerce was unanimously agreed to.
SUSPECTED Mtutpuit.—Thurs',.7.ay Mr. W. Baker
h&d an inquiry at the London Hospital on the remains
of a child unknown, which was found deposited in a
coffin in Church-lane, Whitechapel, by a labourer who
was excavating a foundation for a brewery. Mr. Annin-
gibay, a surgeon, examined the remains, but could not
discover the sex. The child, he thought, was two
months old when it died. The jury rtt ailed an open
1( rdict of Found dead