The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-14 00:00:00

♦PPOINTMENTB.

Commander—J. B. West (1846) to the Southampton.
Acting Master—Alfred Balliston, late of the Kite and
Gleaner, to command the Myrtle steam tender.
Assistant-Surgeons—E. D'Anvergno to the Hibernia;
J. E. Johnson (acting) to Hasler Hospital; Joseph Slop
(acting) to the Bramble.
Clerks—J. W. English and T. Bradbridge to the
Southampton.
Naval Cadets—Gerald B. Vivian and Fuller G. Craven
to the Southampton.
ROYAL MARINES.

Andrew Millar, surgeon, to the Plymouth division.
The following acting lieutenants, mates, and midship•
men passed the College last week for the rank of Lieu.
tenant :—Messrs. G. M. F. Molesworth, A. B. Hodg.
kinson, P. Johnson, G. A. Pidcock, George Gray, Row.
ley Lambert, Maxwell Fox, W. L. Staniforth, and H.
W. Dawson.

Mr. T. Baker, ohief engineer of the Victoria and Al-
bert Royal yacht, is promoted to the rank of Inspector
of Steam Machinery in the Navy.
The Cyclops steam frigate, Captain the Hon. G. F.
Hastings, arrived last evening from Dublin.
The Sharpshooter iron steam schooner (screw), Lieu-
tenant-Commander Bailey, after undergoing a refit,
consequent upon the damage she sustained by being run
into on the sailing of the Squadron of Exercise, was
undocked yesterday, and the Pheenix screw steam sloop
taken in to be overhauled.

Wind S. W. Moderate breezes and thick hazy
weather, with small rain.

A serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon,
about four o'clock, on the London and North-Western
Railway, to James Littlemoro, one of the stokers em-
ployed for some time on the line. It appears that as the
train, which leaves Birmingham at 12 A.M., arrived near
Watford station, the attention of the engine•driver was
suddenly called by the cries of the stoker, who, as he
was standing on the side of the engine attending to some
part of the machinery, accidentally got his foot entangled
in a hole in the splash-board (the train being in motion),
which came in contact with the fly-wheel of the engine.
By this means he sustained a severe compound commi-
nuted fracture of the bones of the leg and foot. As soon
as the engine was stopped he was extricated from this
perilous situation by the driver, and conveyed to London
by the same train, when he was taken to University Col-
lege Hospital, where the limb was amputated by Mr.
Morton, under the influence of chloroform.

MURDER AT TUE BRITANNIA. RAILWAY-BRIDGE.
—BANGOR, AuG. 11.—John Pritchard, the watchman,
who deposed on the inquest that he witnessed the
murder, has been arrested on the charge of murder,
owing to the discovery of several suspicious facts.
After a short examination the prisoner was remanded
until to-morrow (Saturday), when he will undergo a
more lengthened examination. The railway authori-
ties are adopting every possible means to bring to light
the perpetrator of the atrocious met.
RELEASE OF LIEUTENANT MONEO.—The period
for whieh Lieutenant Monro, late of the Royal horse
Guards (Blue) wss sentenced for causing the death of
Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, in the fatal duel with that
gallant officer, will expire to-morrow (this day), when ho
will quit Newgate, carrying with him the highest
opinions of the authorities who have come in contact
with him during his imprisonment. It is believed he
will at once proceed to join his family at Baden.—
Observer.
CommrssioN OF LUNACY.— On Saturday a com-
mission de lunatic° inquirendo was opened at the Guild-
hall, High Wycombe, Bucks, before Mr. Commissioner
Winslow and sixteen special jurors, relative to the state
of mind of John Brand, Esq., a resident of that town.
The commission was taken out by a sister of Mr. Brand.
In its support appeared Mr. A. W. Hogging as counsel,
and Mr. J. S. Hubbard, of Queen-street-place, as so-
licitor; and from the evidence adduced, it appeared that
the unfortunate gentleman bad, for several years, been
affected in his mind, but over since the period of Mr. B.
Disraeli's unsuccessful contest for the representation of
High Wycombe, had become ewbued with peculiar de-
lusions relatiivo to that gentleman, from whom he
imagined all good and evil was to come, and also that he
lived in that gentleman's house, and was supported by
him. He also believed that his attendant was Mr.
Disraeli; in fact, the name of Mr. Disraeli was con-
stantly in his mouth, while from the timo of the election
alluded to, he had occasionally indulged in a propensity
for smashing his own windows, as well as those of
several tradesmen in the town. The unfortunate
qpuegen-
tleman, at the conclusion of the evidence, was introduced
and examined. lie appeared remarkably cheerful, fre
colire nati
din tyliin gulyyr ebtourren oedulging in immoderate laughter, but his re-
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October 1, 1842.
ADMIRALTY HOLYHEAD STEAM-PACKETS.—The
Admiralty • issued orders on the 11th instant that the
new packets Banshee, Llewellyn, St. Columba, and Ca-
radoc shall in future leave Kingston, Dublin, for Holy-
head, at eleven o'clock each morning.