The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

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The approaching elections for Paris were used yes-
terday by the speculators on the Bourse as a means
for preventing a more considerable rise in the funds
than actually took place. They contended that those
elections will be Anti-Republican, and that the first
I name in the returns will be that of Louis NAPO-
LEON, the second that of FAME DE GIRAEDIN. They
also referred to an article by the latter, published in
La Presse of this day, of a most violent character, to
prove that the Government of General CAVAIGNAC
and deserves to be, unpopular.
The following is the article which appears in large
characters in the Presse. It is signed by M. EMILE
DE GIBARDIN.
"To exist thus is not to exist. . . It is to demand
of the charity of the Government the alms of a petty
liberty. Rather than thus to strain the pen there are
none but cowards who would hesitate to break it. To
beg one's bread is not a disgrace; to beg our liberty
would be ignominious. . . . Resistance becomes
noble in presence of danger, but resistance degrades
itself in presence of that pity which suffers you to live
under the sword ever suspended over Sour head, which
tells you it is ready to strike—which menaces you but
does not strike you. . . Journals which may be sus-
pended are, in fact, suspended. Under such a regime to
be silent is to speak—to speak is to be silent."

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
THE COLONELCY OF THE 83D REGIMENT. Major-
General Sir Frederick Stovin, K.C.8., K.C.M.G., has
been appointed to the Colonelcy of this regiment, vice
Lieutenant• General Fraser, who goes to the 61st, vacant
by the demise of Lieutenant-General L'Estrange.
CHATHAM GARRISON. The Detachment Hospital
being about to undergo some extensive alterations, with
a view to increase the accommodation and comfort of
the sick soldiers in the garrison, the men under treat-
ment have been removed to the Artillery Barracks until
the necessary alterations have been completed. It is
understood that the building will be raised at additional
story.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Slat Tog, M.D., has been relieved from duty ae Chatham,
for the purpose of preparing for embarkation, on service.
to Barbadoes ; and Staff Assistant-Surgeon Manifold
has been appointed to do duty at the Detachment Hos-
pital at Chatham until further orders.
MAJOR-GENERAL BUNBURY.—We have much plea-
sure in announcing the appointment of Major-General
Bunbury to the command at Jamaica (which we lately
stated was vacant by General Macdonald's appointment
to the Irish Staff), to which his length of service and
ability, both in civil and military capacities, fully entitle
him. He obtained his commission in the field so
early as 1804, and has served 45 years, during
26 of which he has been in command of Regiments,
and is the oldest commanding officer on the list.
He has served on the Continent, in the West Indies, and
North and South America. During the whole of this
long and varied period of service he has been on full-pay.
His Majority was won in the field ; he served in the
American war; he more than once received thanks for the
troops re-organization
under
hiscommand of corps,a n
; and a
d t excellent
lsof
disciplineo rhis
of
servicest he
when acting as Governor of St. Lucia and Demerara. He
had not the good fortune to follow the great commander of
the age. It was not possible for officers, however eager
to share in the glory of these memorable campaigns, to
choose where they should serve, nor fur the whole army
to be upon the Peninsula. We are the more pleased with
this appointment as being an instance (in exceptian to the
majority) of the just acknowledgment of long and meri•
torious regimental service ; and we may fairly claim fur
ourselves the merit of being the zealous advocates of such
a system of appointment.
We have this week to record the death of another flag-
officer, Rear-Admiral Mauritius A. N. de Starck. The
deceased entered the navy as a midshipman of the Bar-
fleur, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Barrington, in
1780, which he left to serve the Hon. Captain Conway
(afterwards Lord Hugh Seymour), and with him was
present at the relief of Gibraltar in 1782. After leaving
the Latona in 1783, Mr. De Starck served successively
in the Ganges, Grampus (on the coast of Africa), Irre-
sistible, and Pearl; and during the Spanish armament of
1790, he served in the Canada, 74, from which ship he
was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. In 1797,
during the mutiny at the None, Lieutenant De Starck
volunteered his services to aid in its suppression, and
was appointed to command the gun-brig Eclipse,
armed with Dutch 24-pounders, and manned with
Volunteers, great part being soldiers. The mutiny
having in a manner worn itselt out, the services of the
Lieutenant were not on this occasion called into active
play, and he was next appointed to command the hired
armed lugger, Suwarrow. In this vessel, and in the
Liberty and Millbrook, he served actively in the
Channel until the peace. On the recommencement
of the war he was again appointed to the Millbrook,
and in October, 1803, assisted the Merlin at the de-
struction of a French privateer near Calais. In May,
1804, the de ceased obtained his Commander's rank, and
was shortly afterwards appointed to the 18-gun brig
Avon. In 1806, whila conveying the British Ambassa-
dor to Atnetica, he escaped from the French 74-gun
ship Regulus, under circumstances of peculiar difficulty.
This officers' Captain's commission bore date 25 Sept.,
1806, but wanting interest of the right kind, was never
subsequently able to obtain a command afloat. The
late Admiral was the author of a published monody on
Lord Nelson.
NEW HELMET.—A new helmet for the Gentlemen-at-
Arms, devised by Lord Foley, their Captain, is now in
preparation, and will, we believe, come into use at the
commencement of the ensuing year. As far as we can
judge from an incomplete pattern, it promises to be a
very handsome piece of bead gear. It is of burnished
gold, elegantly ornamented—in shape corresponding
with the Life and Horse Guards, surmounted by a white
plume.
THE MEDAL.—It is a fact that has long since passed
into a proverb, that private individuals are always better
served than the Government by those whom they employ.
Whether it is that Government pays less liberally than
others, or that the chain of official communication, and
the consequent diminution of direct responsibility,
is productive of delay and indifference we do
not profess to know ; but there can be no
doubt, whatever, of the superiority of the
work resulting from private enterprise, and the
greater rapidity of its execution, Take as an example
the fact recently mentioned•in the papers in connexion
with the preparation of a medal in honour of the praise-
worthy exertions of the gentlemen who were near the
Ocean Monarch when she took fire. Within one week a
gold nst dal was voted, ordered, and completed, and the
Times was enabled to bear testimony to the excellence
still of the work. This medal was ordered by private indi-
viduals at Liverpoul.
Onis
ogtohienrghtahnrdoutghhe Peninsular
Medal, the
Medal, intended by Government for the heroes who
fought and bled in honour's cause 35 years ago, has only
struck, t
o a
andcommittee of private gentlemen to pro-
vide the decorations of our veteran warriors.
progress of completion Commentary on these circum-
stances were superfluous. We could only wish that it
beenhlaatdelybe
left e

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MA-

At the meeting o f the Middles eSx. magistratesyester-
day,Mr. Maude, the deputy-clerk of the peace, laid be-
fore the Court the reports from the Visiting Justices of '
the various prisons.
The report from Coldbath-fields Prison stated, that it
contained 955 male and 250 female prisoners, exclusive
of
14 children, making a total of 1,219. The general
state of health in the establishment was reported good.
One death had occurred since the last report.
The report from the Westminster House of Correction
spoke favourably of the general health of the prisoners.
There was a total of 783 inmates (556 males, 217 females,
and 15 children).
The report from the House of Detention stated that
that prison contained 118 prisoners. The total number
of prisoners confined there since its opening in October
last was 7,546.
The Deputy Clerk of the Peace then read the report
of the committee for accounts and general purposes.
The committee recommended the coroner's accounts to
be paid as follows :—Mr. Wakley, for 147 inquests,
4331. ss. ; Mr. Baker, 140 inquests, 4591. 15s. The com-
mittee directs the attention of the Court to an item in
Mr. Bedford's account, connected with an inquest on the
body of Mary Ann Theresa Dore, the infant whose mo-
ther and grandmother ware charged with having
poisoned it. The report stated "that in the vouchers
ior the disbursements in this case there was a charge of
four guineas for sundry analyses of the stomach, in ad.
dition to which there was a charge of two guineas paid
to another medical witness fur making a post-mortem ex-
amination." The latter sum was the usual one allowed,
with or without an analysis, as authorised by the Act 6
and 7 William IV., c. 89. The committee, therefore,
considered they had no power to allow the larger item,
and recommended the court to strike it out of the
account.

This was acceded to by the Court; and Mr. Bed-
ford's account was ordered to be paid thus—for 54 in-
quests, 1661. 3s.
Mr. ROTCH stated that the treadwheel labour had
now for some time been abolished in the Houses of Cor-
rection, as far as female prisoners were concerned, and
the change had been attended with the most beneficial
results; one of which was, that at the present time there
was more productive labour for the female prisoners than
could be got through. To obviate this, more room was
required, and he therefore proposed that the Court do
order
.two of the treadwheels to be removed, the space
occupied by them to be converted into rooms or work-
shops, the coat not to exceed 2001.
This motion was agreed to, and subsequently a similar
one with regard to two treadwheels in the Westminster
House of Correction was alto carried.
Mr. ROTCLI then proposed that the Court should
execute a mortgage on the county rates of 10,000/. for
the additional Pauper Lunatic Asylum now building at
Colney• hatch.
Mr. FRESEIFIELD said he must avail himself of the
present opportunity to make a few observations. The
Courtmitte e wouldo of
w hrecollectthat
as in t 845 it P
chairman, to inquirecounty rental, with the view of making, by a new as-
sessment, a more fair and equitable county rate. The
appointed
ianto cot the
labours of that committee extended over a space of two
years, and they heard a greitt mass of evidence upon the
buttject. The result of their investigation was that the
Court made a new assessment, a smaller rate, upon a
much larger amount of rental than had been assessed
before. It followed that under the now assessment cer-