The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

vember for the Mediterranean, is ordered to call at
Portsmouth.

The Meteor, steam-vessel, Commander Butler,
will be paid off at Sheerness on the 2d November.
The Royal Marines at Foam Barracks, Gosport,
have been so much in the habit of escaping over the
walls and remaining out all night, that it has been
complained of to the Admiralty, and their Lordships
have in consequences, directed the commandant to
post more sentries around the barrack walls.
The Admiralty have accepted Mr. Roles tender
for supplying and fixing standard posts around the
new steam basin at Portsmouth.
PORTSMOUTH, MoNDA.v.—The Kingfisher, 12,
Commander Harvey, sailed from Spithead at 11 30
this morning for Plymouth, having been 18 days only
in fitting out since the pendant was hoisted.
The Orestes, 18, Commander Hawker, we expect,
will exhibit equal expedition in fitting out. She is
manned, and will be masted to-morrow. Com-
mander Hawker took up his commission to her to-day.
The Echo steam-tug embarked the provisional bat-
talion (formed from depots of regiments on foreign
service), which has been serving as part of this gar-
rison for some time past, this morning, and proceeded
with them to Cowes, on their return to Parkhurst,
Isle of Wight.
The Fairy Royal yacht, Master Commander Walch,
was undocked this afternoon after the repair of her
waste steam pipe, &c.
The Dockyard Revision Committee went on board
the Illustrious, 72, Captain Yates, on Saturday, be-
fore leaving for London, and inspected the working
of the new cooking apparatus, the improvement of
Mr. T. T. Grant, F.R.S., of the Royal Clarence
Victualling Establishment, and approved it very
highly. Two more are ordered, one to cook for 500
men, and the other for 100.

The Hastings, 72, Captain Morgan, arrived at Rio,
en route to the East Indies, on the 29th of August,
and embarked
.the new Minister to the Argentine
Republic (Mr. Sotheron) and suite, who were to be
conveyed to Monte Video in the Alecto steam•sloop,
then at Rio. The Hastings bad been sickly with
smallpox on the passage out, but no fatal cases had
occurred. A letter from her, dated the sth of Sep-
tember, states, " We sail to-morrow for Singapure,
and hope to make a quicker passage thither than we
have made here. All are well at present."
Wind S.W. by S., moderate breezes and cloudy
weather.

THE COAST DEFENCE BRIGADE.
The drilling of the Coast Guard at the great gun
exercise is now closed for the year, and although it
was commenced late this season, 2,600 men, con-
sisting of the Coast Guard from Harwich to Penzance,
and the crews of 37 revenue crusers, have been well
trained, making an increase of 1,500 on the number
drilled last year. The expense attending the in-
struction of this number of men has not exceeded
1,0001. The steady and prudent manner with
which the instructions were conducted under
the respective officers, and especially the ex-
ceeding good temper displayed by the gunners of the
Excellent, rendered the tuition more a matter of en-
tertainment than labour, and so much interest was
displayed by the coast fishermen and neighbouring
inhabitants where the guns were placed, that many
volunteers are ready to enrol themselves in the event
of their services being called for. The general prac-
tice of those drilled was very good, and would have
done credit to any one of her Majesty's ships after a
three years' commission. It is gratifying to be enabled
to state that throughout such extensive instruction no
accident, even of the most trivial kind, has occurred.
The Coast Guard force consists altogether of 6,500
men, of whom 4,000 on an emergency could be col-
lected in 48 hours, which, with the Marines and
disposable men in the various Government ports,
would insure ten sail-of-the-line being at sea " on the
shortest notice." The Coast Guard has very many
deserving old officers in it. The present Comptroller-
General has done much to improve it, and through
his representation the Lords of the Admiralty have
granted " sea time" to those in it who have com-
manded cruisers. There are no men better
acquainted with the pilotage of the British coast
than the commanders of the revenue cruisers,
naval and civilian, and as one of the proofs of this
the loss of a revenue cruiser is never heard of,
although at sea in all weathers. It is hoped, now that
the good character and high spirit of this invalu-
able national force has been developed, that its merits
will be appreciated, and old lieutenants who have
been faithful servants to the country may be allowed
some retiring pension after their long and arduous
course beyond the small pittance of lieutenants' half-
pay (ss. per diem), and some batter provision for the
male part of their families than that of boys and ma-
riners in revenue cutters, which it is to be regretted
is too frequently their best lot.
PLYMOUTH, OCT., 28.—One inspector of ship-
wrights, eight shipwrights, one joinera,veenthlbraeebeeonurreoexpraes;
makers, three sawyers, six leading m
and eight labourers-30 men in all, h
mined by the surgeon of the dockyard preparatory to
superannuation.
We had a very heavy storm of wind and rain all
last night from the southward and westward, it has
decreased considerably to-day.
Wind, W.S.W., blowing strong.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, OCT. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was a decided improvement in
the shat a market. The sales are— Great Western, Quarters,
dis.—Ditto, 171. Shares, 3 dis.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market opened with animation,
and prices advanced rapidly, but subsequently ,declined.
The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion, 311. Shares, B;2—Caledonian, Preference, IA c. dis.—
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming-
ham), Quarters, 7 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 4c. dis.—Ditto, 321.
Shares (late Extension), 10 dis.—Ditto (late West Riding
anion), Fifths, .5',3-8 olis.—London and North• Western, 116
—Ditto, New Quarters, I;i4 c. p.—Ditto, Quarters (C) Fri
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Liscolnahire, Eighths, 7 dis.
—Ditto, 101. Preference, 9N4—Midland Stock, 77 c.—Ditto,
New Halves, 101/. c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 6% Scottish
Central, 23—Shrewsbury and Chester, 10/. Preference, 12'44—
Shropshire Union 3 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
Thirds, 6/. 18s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E.
Purchase), 1% c. dis.

MANCHESTER, Ocr. 30.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are— Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 4% dis.—Ditto, Thirty-seconds,
934 c. dis.—London:and North-Western, New Quarters, 1% p.
—West Riding Union, 51A dis.—North Staffordshire, 5 11-16
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,6% dis.—Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 2 p.—Huddersfield
and Sheffield, 19—Leeds, Preference, p.—Great Northern
(B), 31A dis.

BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 30.
STOCK Excunision.—The market opened stiff, and little
disposition to sell was manifested by holders of railway stock.
London and North-Western were at 116 or 117—Midlands
were at Saturday's quotations—North Staffordshire, 5%, dis.
Shropshire Union, dis—South Staffordshire, Preference,
1-3 p.

YORK, OCT. 28.
STOCK EXCIIANGhe business transacted dar was
as follows : Great Northern, 3 %—North British, Thirds,
3%—Ditto, Quarters, 3—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G.
N. E. Purchase), 434—York and North Midland, Prefer-
ence, 7 %.

(ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Dreadful Enlargement of
the Knee, Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
Abraham Banks, an elderly man living near the Dry
Creek, South Australia, had such a painful affection
and enlargement of the knee, that he dispaired of ever
recovering the use of his limb, the numerous remedies that
he made trial of failing to banish or even to mitigate the
disease. In this suffering condition he was advised to
try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and he commenced
a regular application of them, which in a shOrt time
effected a complete cure. The Adelaide Observer of the
25th March, 1848, publishes this as one among the many
astonishing cures effected, in South Australia, by these
invaluable medicines.—Sold by all Druggists, and at
Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The Havre papers state that there was less busi-
ness in the cotton market and a consequent heaviness in
quotations.

.S
Oa the 27th inst. BIRTH .
, the wife of F. Le Gros Clark Es of
Spring-gardens, of a son. , q.,
On the 27th inst., at ilyde-park-place West, Mrs. John
Wainewright, of a son.
On the 27th inst., at Slicrburn-house, Durnham, the wife
of Major Faber, 49th Regiment, of a son.
On the 28th inst., at China-terrace, Lambeth, Mrs. John
Trueman, of a son.
On the 28th inst., at High-street, Newington. butts, the
wife of Mr. W. 11. Stray, of a son.
On the 29th inst., at Crouch-end, Hornsey, Mrs.• Thomas
Dakin, of a daughter.
On the 29th inst., in llyde-park-square, Mrs. E. Baldwin,
of twins, both sons.

MA RRIED.
On the 19th inst., at Tonbridge-wells William E. Russell,
Esq., of Swanscoinbe, Kent, to Elinor 'Annastasia, niece of
General Daruford, and si cmd clatglitJr cif the late Clement
Kirwan, Esq., of Upper Wimpole-street, London.
On the 25th inst., at St. Mary's, Newington,:W. E. Gil-
christ Wilson, Esq., M.D., of Trinity-square, to Maria Mar-
garet Dixon, ;second daughter of Robert Heslop, Esq., of
West-square.
On the 28th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Charles,
youngest son of Edward Edwards, Esq., of Woburn-square
and Ramsgate, to Mary Elizabeth, only surviving child of
the late W. Tate, Esq., of Frognel-lodge, Hampstead.

DIED.
On the 26th of July last, on board the ship Earl Dal-
housie, on his return from Calcutta to England, Sir Henry
Wilmot Setup, Knight, late one of ber Majesty's Judges of
the Supreme Court of the Presidency of Bengal. -
On the 16th of September last, at Golden-lane Estate,
Totlago, aged 28, David, the only surviving son of James
Macqueen, Esq., of Kensington-square.
On the 14th inst., at Portobello, Miss Mary Louisa Rind,
eldest daughter of the late Dr. T. Rind, Stirling.
On the 23(1 inst., at Alfred-place, North Brixton, Mr. A.
Nicholls, late of the Bank of England, aged 67.
Oa the 26th inst., at.Nottingliam-terrace, Mrs.
On the 27th inst., at North-bank, Regect's-park, Major-
General Thomas Garner.
On the 27th inst., at Sydenham, Kent, Mary, relict of the
late Ralph Gilbert, Esq.
At Twickenham, on the 27th inst., Mr. J. Tapes, aged 70.
On the 27th inst., at New Glocester-street, lioxton, Mr.
John Auther, aged 55.

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