The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-31 00:00:00

The following is a list of the officers, with the
number of each company, and the battalion to which 1
is attached:—
Captain N. E. Harison, Second Captain W. A.
(Beton, First Lieutenants P. Dickson and E. G. Bred-'
9th company, Ist battalion.
Captain C. Cheetham, Second Captain A. C. L. ritr
roy, vice Cannon (appointed Adjutant of the sth bsJ
talion), First Lieutenants 0. E. Clarke and IC
Bolton, 9th company, 2d battalion.
Captain G. J. L. Buchanan, Second Captain • ,
Gibbon, First Lieutenants F. Place and G. B. TrebelP.'
9th company, 3d battalion.
Captain W. S. Payne, Second Captain J. B. Aker:
son, First Lieutenants E. J. Bruce and S.ll, Batche"'
9th company, 4th battalion.
Captain W. B. Gilbert, Second Captains F. 0. Sc 4
First Lieutenants W. P. Richards and R.T.- Middlatelb
9th company, sth battalion.
Captain A. F. W. Papillon, Second Captain S•Yil;
Calder, First Lieutenants J. E. Hope and F. Close,
company, 6th battalion.
Captain H. Aylmer, Second Captain W. p. FoUock'
First Lieutenants H. Dashwood and J. Sinclair, 9'
company, 7th battalion.

Ciptain C. R.Levinge, Second Captain H. F. Seal;
First Lieutenants A. Brandon and H. L. Talbot, w,
company, Bth battalion. '.
Captain A. G. Hamilton, Second Captain J. S.
lett, First Lieutenants J. de Havilland and W. J.
9th company, 9th battalion.
Captain W. Fulford, Second Captain J. C. WFes'
tescue, First Lieutenants S, Carden and W. H. R. DIP'I
son, 9th company, 10th battalion.
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Captain A. Irving, Second Captain W. H. Cox,
Lieutenants G. A. Wilkinson and L. W. Fenn, lvib
company, let battalion.
Captain St. J. T. Browne, Second Captain
nell, First Lieutenants W. W. A. Lukin and
Saunders, 10th company, 2d battalion.
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Captain C. Bingham, Second Captain W. Smith I,Te
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First Lieutenants, W. Walker and E. G. Snow, I"""
company, 3d battalion.
Captain H. S. Rowan (Brevet-Major), Second CI:
taro M. Clifford, First Lieutenant C. E. Walcott and
D. Ramsey, 10th company, 4th battalion.
Captain J. N. A. Freese, Second Captain R. Brettil
ham, First Lieutenants G. Burtchaell and W. M°llll
10th company, sth battalion.
Captain F. D. Cleaveland, Second Captain C. T.
„APIs
Plat, First Lieutenants G. Davis and H. Penny,
company, 6th battalion.

WINDSOR CASTLE, AUG. 30.—1 t is expected tiil
ll
the session of Parliament will close on Tuesday nel
Arrangements are making for the Queen and the Colir
to leave Osborne on Monday; and on Tuesday her giro
jesty will prorogue Parliament in person, and the also
day embark at Woolwich with his Royal Highness I',
Prince Consort for Scotland.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave an elegant ent°n.
tainment to the chairman and directors, and Wer,.
influential gentlemen connected with • the Licensed AT!,:
tuallers' and General Fire and Life Assurance ConiPeTl
of which his Lordship is a director. Covers were IW'
for forty-five.
The Deanery of Carlisle has become vacant by the
death of the Very Rev. Dr. Cramer, who was appoint
to the office by the Crown in 1844, on the death of tb
Very Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Rector of St. George's, Err,
mover-square. The appointment is worth nearly 2,000h'
per annum.
On Monday morning last an explosion of firr
damp took place at Messrs. Wood and Co.'s collie*
Hindley green, about two miles from Leigh, by 'whiqb
several workmen have been dreadfully burned, and fir
persons have already lost their lives. ManchosV
Guardian.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRS.--The city of Zell, on 41.
Moselle, has been visited by a fearful conflagration. °
fire broke out at seven o'clock on the 22d, in the soutlide
part of the town, and spread so rapidly through by I.
south-west wind, that there was not the slightest chante
of extinguishing it until 200 houses were destroye4s
and, with the exception of the street running along tib:
Moselle, and a portion of the northern end, the whole
place is lying in ruins. Nearly 2,000 inhabitants ate
houseless, and have not only lost their shelter, but their
stores, provisions, and wine, as also their furniture &T
clothing. Those whose houses have escaped have, r,
the most part, lost their press-houses, wine, &c.,
*were mainly situated in that part of the town which hill
been burnt down.

ACCIDENT TO THE HOLYHEAD STEAM•PAcI°
CAMBRIA..—An accident happened to this fine steame-t'
which ran from Holyhead on Monday evening.
' left the Head at her usual time, and when at sea a par
I of her larboard paddle-wheel gave way from some 11.,„
her °1
foreseen cause, which detained her beyond the ton
time of arrival. The injury will be repaired
few days, in the meantime the Anglia and Scotia ren"'"
on the line.
THE ORLEANS FAMILY.—The Count de Netifilnri
paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager on 1%1%;
day, at Bushy House, Bushy Park.
The ex-King
unaccompanied by any member of his family. He ;1,-4
rived from Claremont in an open landau,
and on pabs—'-'1
through Hampton Court was saluted with every marls
respect by the numerous visitors and residents of VII.
place. His ex-Majesty appeared in the enjoyment 0
good health, and pleased at the attention he received- DETENTION OF THE MAIL FOR NEW S°1;1.0
WALES.—MaiI far south-west coast of Africa---L,5
Alert, with the mails of this evening, the 31st inst.,
Sydney, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Lend, Sec,titji
Australia, and New Zealand, is detained. Letters, c'',.7;
in time on the-evening of tie 2d of September. T;
evening, the 31st inst., mails will be made up and.. 1,,,
;
patched by her Majesty's ship Spy for Madeira, Sieri
Leone, the Gambia, Ascension, Cape de Verdes, and 54'
Helena. Newspapers are free to all the above, t WI,
Madeira,o which placelthey are charged twopence OW
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION.—Yesterday after
noon a quarterly general meeting of the governors s°
directors of this charity was held at the board-rooni.!
Edward Speer, Esq., in the chair. The report for the
last quarter, from which it a[paared that the buiding
committee were again called into requisition, to take th.
necessary preliminary steps towards the extension. (o'4
the hospital was read, and hope expressed that effete
means would be accorded by the benevolent fur the
pletioc of the building by the erection of the eloteor
wing. Very warm allusion was made to the genere . 0
exertions of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to ,
clergy generally, and also to those of Madlle. Jenv2
Lind; and after the disposal of the routine business, the
usual compliment was paid to the chairman, previous
the breaking up of the meeting.

At St. Petersburgh, on the 19th inst., the lady of AndrThelie
Buchanan, Esq., her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at "
Court of Russia, of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Woodhouse Parsonage, near Hudder°‘
field, the wife of the Rev. J. W. Grane, of a son.
On the 26th inst , at Lady Bateman's, Portman-square' tile
Hon. Mrs. Whyte Melville, of a daughter.
On the 27th inst., at Bitteswell-hall, Mrs. R. FelloweS'
a son.

•On the 27th inst , at Egharn-park, the lady of Colon Salwey, M.P., of a son.
On the 28th inst., at the Fort, Bristol, the wife of T.
Tyndall, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 28th inst., at the Rectory, Harlington, the lady' °f
the Rev. W. C. Berkeley, of a son. On the 28th inst., at Conduit-street West, Hyde-park, Mrs,
W. TLompson, of a son.

SLIARJE.
On the 29th inst., at St.PancrasD
Church. B. J. Littlehall:
Esq., second son of the Rev. Joseph G. Littlebales, of (10
stow Rectory, Bucks, to Catherine, sixth daughter of Jo
Risdon, Esq., of Lansdowne-place, Brunswick-square.
ite,
On the 29th inst., at St. John's, Margate, w argate, George Pro,
El., son of F. B. White, Esq., M.D.
of Tetbury, to f•
only daughter of the late J. Mint, Esq:, of Brighton. Joh,
On the 29th inst., at Summer-town, near Oxford,
Fruderick, eldest son of John Elliston, Esq.,.of am'' t 0
Harriette, only child of the late Mr. S. Delt, of Brighton.

At Point de Galle, Ceylon, on his return from India,
DIED. after
85 years' service in the British army, Colonel CourtemaY
Chambers, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 25th Regiment (or
King's Own Borderers), and formerly of the Grenadier Guards'
On the 24th inst, at the Royal Barracks, Ditblin, Limit,'"
nant W. H. Stirling, of the 60th Royal Rifles, aged 21. Si
On the 29th inst., in Porchester-terrace, Bayswater, 7.
J. Osborn, Bart., of Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, Agecl.7
On the 26th inst., at Alderton, Wilt% the Rev. A. Austin'
'On the 26th inst., at Chichester, G. Fraser, Esq. 'Jolty:.
nant R.N., youngest son of the late Major-General John II
Fraser, of Ashling-hou,e, Sussex.
On the 27th inst.. W. Stokes, Esq., of Newington .crescent,
Surrey. of
On the 27th inst., at Godalming, G. Soper,
Esq., late
Guildford, Surrey. 65,
On the 25th inst., at Wandle-grove, Mitcham, agel
Bonuett Pell, Esq., late of Finsbury-place. R 4.
On the 25th inst., at Kilburn, Mr. B. Mitchell, etagar_.-:

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Middlesex, Thursday, August $l, 1848.

THE ARMY.
CHATELAN, AUGUST 30.—This morning the following
tletaohmentregiamant,4.66gAtialif-i .o.,lastioasiarejoilawal
this garrison for Gravesend, and there embarked °D
board the ship Prince of Wales, 1,350 cons, Co.m°24lllder
W. F. Hopkins, for the presidency of Bengal, viz.:--rioLih
t
Foot, twenty men; 24th (Warwickshire), twenty-4!
wen; 29th, one man; 32d (Cornwall), three. me 4; 01°1
one wan; 96th, ninety-tour men, with one woutath SD"
one child of the 53d; with the following officers:-.41F
sign Denny, of the 10th lo,t; Lieutenant Francis
Spring, Ensign Robert G. A. De
.montmoreuey,
Charles William Kippen, and Assistant-Surgeon
,'"'
Grant, M.D., of the 24th Regiment; EnsignJateer".
Bustock, 29th; Ensign R. D. D. Lecky, 80th; andloieD.
tenant Octavius Lowry, 96th Regiment; Colonel Thonlss
Weare, K.H., Commandant of the Provi2ional:l3stmtion,
with Staff Captain Jackson, inspected the ship previPus
to the troops embarking.
The following detachments arrived yesteriloil skt 'be

Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt, viz.:—One sergesa:l4thiliteue
privates, with four children, of the 19th liegiine.ntrit
private of the 20th, and one private 71st Highltindllt
Infantry, in charge of Lieutenant E. hunter /311friri
93d Highlanders. Upon medical inspection: sirr
were taken into the hospital. These troops afe.-:-
Quebec, and came home in the Resistance troop frig
Also arrived the same day the following invalids !Om
Malta, brought home in the troop-ship Belleisle,
one sergeant, three privates, one woman, and four cbl!
dren, of the 34th Regiment; four privates 56th, fw°Pri.
vates 66th, one private 67th, seven privates 69th, and
one corporal and twenty-two privates, four women 10" A
four children, 97th Regiment; out of the above Oleen
men were taken into hospital; two men of the 69th'
in consequence of their being too bad to proceed, were
left at the hospital at Portsmouth. Lieutenant
APCria, of the 97th Regiment, was in ehisrge of thede.
tuchments.

WOOLWICH, AUG.
ed
ROYAL ARTILLERY. The sixteen newly-form
companies are to be mustered to-morrow for the ur"
time.