The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-13 00:00:00

THE COMPLEMENTS OF MEN-OP-WAR.—The
Admiralty have issued (dated Nov. 1) a new scale of
the " Table of complements of her Majesty's sea-going
ships, sloops, steam-vessels, &c." It is not to apply to
those at present in commission, but only to such as may
in future be brought forward. Both officers and men are

to be reduced in—number; a lieutenant less in every
vessel, except steamers; and in three-decked ships a
reduction of about fifty men. All steamers are to have
fewer seamen, but more stokers and coal-trimmers; the
boys, both first and second class. to continue as before;
as also the marines. The number of lieutenants to be

as follows; viz.:—First-rates to have 7 instead of 8;
second-rates to have 5 instead of 7, but if on three decks

to bear 7 lieutenants, 22 mates and midshipmen, and 6
naval cadets; third-rates to have 5 instead of 6; fourth-
rates to have 5, as before; fifth-rates to have 4 instead of

5; sixth-rates to have 3 instead of 4. Steam-vessels of
four rates—viz., 360, 260, 240, and 195 men, to have 3
lieutenants; those of 160 and 140 men, to have but 2.
Sloops of five rates—viz., 145, 130, 125, 120, and 80
men each, to bear but 2 lieutenants instead of 3. We
are sorry that the Admiralty have lessened the comple-
ment of men in our ships of war; also of one lieutenant
in each ship. The best appointment of late years was
the third lieutenant to sloops of war, which by this order
is revoked. We hear that the difficulty of obtaining lieu-
tenants is the cause of the latter, and exceeding the vote,
I of the former.— 1-1 ampshir e Telegraph.

RIGHTS OF ARTISTS.—III di-SCUSSin the Hyde
Park-corner absurdity, too much stress cannot be laid
on the moral wrong done to Mr. Burton. No sooner is
a line of railroad projected than we are deafened with
the shrieks of landed proprietors, the alarm-whistle of
vested interests. The rights of private individuals are
jealously guarded, and compensation granted for what
often turns out to be a benefit instead of an injury. No
such consideration is evinced to the artist ; his designs
are seized upon, added to, curtailed, altered in any way
that suits the caprice of a Committee, without the
slightest apparent consciousness, on the part of the per-
petrators of the act, or the public who witness it, that
there is any right or wrong in the matter. With the
merits of the statue we have nothing to do, it is with its
position that we quarrel ; so long as it is allowed to de-
grade Mr. Burton's arch into a mere pedestal, the feel-
ing of outraged justice will, in every well-constituted
mind, outweigh even that of offended taste. Let us
labour to impress on the nation that the works of the
poet, the painter, the architect, offsprings of man's
head and heart, produced at the cost of thought, study,
and self-denial, such as the world can never know, are
property at least as sacred, and no more wantonly to be
tampered with than houses, lands, or the Three per
Cents.—Correspondent of the Builder.
GRANDEUR OF TUE DUKE'S STATUE.—Whatever
the arch in itself may be, and whatever may be the
grandeur of the idea of placing the statue on that proud
seat, the arch is not a good pedestal for that statue, since
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Sr. PA'S ANTWERP.—The church of St. Paul
repay the stranger for a lengthened visit ; it
cwoinlitaivfll nestw6 fine rows of confessionals, each one sur-
mounted by a good picture. In the inclosure around
this
church is what is called a representation of Calvary;
it is reared against the walls of the church. There are
more than sixty figures, of the size of life, representing
patriarchs, prophets, and apostles , some of the groups
have a bold and graceful outline. The entire area is
converted into a tort of Pantheon of saints, statues of
half the calender being stuck about in all directions.—
The Builder.
A slate quarry is announced in our columns for
sale by George Robins, which he states will prove a
mine of wealth. The quality and size of the blocks
produced from this quarry far surpass any of its contem-
poraries of the district, and the general employment of
slate has increased the demand to an enormous extent,
which must render the employment of capital in its pro-
duction for the market highly lucrative.
ROBBERY IN AN OMNIBUS.—On Thursday, about
noon, Mrs. Matthews, residing in Alexander-square,
Bromptou, was proceeding to town, and in Piccadilly
made way for a " gentleman," who seated himself by her
side. On arriving at her destination, her purse, contain-
ing 121. in gold, and some silver, was found to have been
abstracted from her pocket. The suspected party having
a short time previously alighted from the omnibus, there
was, of course, no clue to the lady's property.
ILLNESS 01 THE POET MOORE.—A private letter
says—" I lament to have to tell you of the rapidly declin-
ing health of Ireland's most honoured poet. The sun of
life is fast setting, and it is feared that his dissolution
is near at band."—Ballinasloe Star.