The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

APPOINT MENTS.

Lieutenants—A. N. Fairman, to the Queen; S. S. L.
Crofton, to the Phoenix; F. W. Ellis, to be Receiver of the
Admiralty Droits at Southwold; T. 11. Christopher, tc the
Acorn ; J. B. Massie, to the Grampus; W. G. Herbert, to
the Excellent; J. Simpson, to the Superb; J. Loch, to the
Nimrod.

Chaplain—The Rev. R. W. Payne, from the Caledonia to
the Royal Naval Hospital at Stonehouse, vice Burdwood,
deceased.

➢sates—E. Algar, to the Queen ;J. A. Sandford, to the
Calypso; E. Scott, to the Carysfort.
ifidshipmen—E. J. Palmer, late of the Scylla, to the
Snake; F. A. Bullock, to the Excellent; A M. Cochrane, to
the Ringdove ; H. M. Bingham, to the Acorn.
Naval Cadets—W. 11. Nourse, to the Tartarus; Lord G.
Grosvenor to the Grampus ; J. Le ➢I. Thomas and S. P.
Townsend, to the Electra; N. B. Lock, to the Calypso.
Clerks—John Tweedie (in charge) to the Sparrow; 11.
Callaway, to the Scourge.
Engineers—J. Dunn, to the Porcupine ; R. Forster, G.
K. Macaulay, and J. Summer, to the Phoenix.
COAST GUARD.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—ll. IC-Bingham, to be Inspecting-Com-
mander of Wells district, vice Welch, previously removed.
Lieutenants—G. Howes, Commander of the Mermail
cutter, to command the Ranger, vice Stuart, promoted; G.
S. Brittain, commander of Whitby station, to command the
Mermaid, vice Howes. • - '

REMOVALS.
Lieutenants—R. Brunton, from the command of Mun-
chars-ststiou to the Burghead district as Inspecting-Com-
mander, vice Shaw, previously removed; F. Harris, Corn.
wander of Palling-station, to the command of Wells-station,
vice Walker, previously removed.

His Excellency the French Ambassador since his
arrival in town has paid several visits to the Earl of Aber-
been. The Noble Count has also visited most of the members
of the corps diplomatique. The Countess is not expected at
Manchester House from Paris until the close of February.
EAST INDIA MAILS —SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 25.—The
Oriental steam-ship. Captain Soy, commareier, arrived in the
docks this morning, and landed the Dee'. India and China
mails, which were dispatched by the ten o'clock train to
London. She left Alexandria Jan. 8; Malta, 13; and Gib-
raltar, 19. The Oriental has a very full cargo, but only 15
passengers.
fig ACCIDENT AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday night, about
nine o'clock, a man named William Andrews, porter at the
Watermen's Adelphi Pier, who had been retained in the
course of the day to assist in unloading a barge laden with
the luggage of the Duke of Buccleuch, was about to step eer
the &trilby, or outer barge of the pitr, into the lighter'
moored alongside, when he stepped short and fell into the
water, between the craft. A lighterman, named Sard, in
the employ of Mr. F. Fallow, the Secretary of the Adelphi
Pier Company, who was in the barge containing the Duke of
Buccleuch's property, did all in his power to save the man.
The search fur the body was continued for half an hour by*
Mr. Farlow's men, when they heard a splash in the water
close to the Hengerford Suspension Bridge, followed by the
screams of a female, who was in the water, and the noise of
a policeman's rattle on the bridge. On rowing towards the
bridge several persons called out that a woman had thrown
herself into the river, and pointed out the spot where she bad
disappeared. The policeman, 189 L, who was stationed on
the b idge, saw a woman getting over the parapet on the
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off ; and the woman, who was outside the parapet, eluded
his grasp, plunged into the river, and was drowned. The
policeman only saw her for a few seconds, and believes she is
a young Woman. Neither, of the bodies have been yet re-
CoTered.

THFI inOTTNTV I.VTAGTT-R ACV.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Leicester, 22d Jau., 1846.
SlR,—The remarks which appeared in your paper of
Tuesday evening, upon the magistracy of Nottingham-
shire, are so pertinent to the purpose as to insure imme-
diate attention, and, doubtless, a very early correction of
the evils complained of. Our Nottinghamshire neigh-
bours are much indebted to you for the light thrown
upon their magisterial mismanagement. A ray from you
would also greatly promote the convenience of the
Leice,ter public. Pray advocate the appointment of a
stipendiary magistrate for the county, to reside within
or near to the town. With the large population of a
third-class manufacturing metropolis, many offeoces aue
continually occurring in the immediate vicinity, but be-
yond the jurisdiction of the borough authorities. Not
one of the town magistrates are in the commission for
the county, and we nave no resident county magistrate
within the borough (an exception I believe to every otterr
large county town). Justice has to be sought 'by an
excursion from Leicester to villages some miles away;
the parties on either side frequently being inhabitants of
the town, and the offence committed within a stone's
throw of the borough boundary.
By your notice of this public grievance in any way you
may approve, you will oblige all my fellow townsmen and
Your very obedient servant,
RATER.