The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-18 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.
Commanders—Richard S. Hewlett, of the Excellent,
(pro. tern.), to the Birkenhead steam- frigate, at Ports-
mouth; Sidney Grenfell, of the Blenheim steam-ship,
pro. tem., to the Gorgon steam-frigate at Portsmouth, fur
special service.
Master in Command—George Filmer to the Dee troop-
ship, at Woolwich.
Surgeon—Peter Leonard to the Poictiers flag-ship, at
Chatham.
Second Master—Edmund Swaine to the Dee.
Chief Engineer—William Eames to the Ocean flag-
ship, at Sheerness.
Assistant Surgeon—William Bsike to the Victory
flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Clerk—J. D. Barnes to the Poictiers, at Chatham.
Midshipmen—Charles T. Grant to the Ganges, 84, at
Sheerness ; Arthur Fox to the Prince Regent, 90, at
Portsmouth; J. S. Reynell to the President flag-ship, at
the Cape of Good Hope.
Engineers—Samuel Osborne, second-class assistant, to
the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich ; W. Rowley, C. R.
Drillon, and George Roberts, assistants, to the Ocean, at
Sheerness; John Bell and E. J. B. Bird, third-class as-
sistants, to the Fisgarsl.
Navel Cadets—R. Wells, to tho Powerful, 84, at Ports-
mouth; W. G. Silverlcck, to the St. Vincent flag-ship of
Rear-Admiral Napier.
Gunner—Thomas Howells, to the risgard, at Wool-
wich.
Boatswains—John Snook, to the Enterprise discovery
ship, at Blackmail; Henry Osborne, acting, to the In-
vsstigator discovery ship, at Black all.
Masters Assistants—E. J. Main and John Dyer, to
the Dee, at Woolwich; W. E. Hare and 11. J. Sutton,
to the Ocean flag-ship, at Sheerness.
Clerks Assistants—William Evans, to the Dee; John
Thurston, to the Resistance troop-ship, at Portsmouth;
Thomas Richards, to the Hibernia flag-ship, in the
Mediterranean; David E. Rhind, to the Victory flag-
ship at Portsmouth.

MARINES.
An exchange of divisions ha:, been sanctioned between
First-Lieutenant Richards, of the Portsmouth, and First-
Lieutenant Macarty, of the Plymouth division.
Second-Lieutenant Ireland and forty men of the Ar-
tillery companies, embarked on Thursday morning at
eight o'clock, on board her Majesty's steam-frigate Bir-
kenhead, at Portsmouth, for special service.
Second-Lieutenant DrafTen and forty men of the Ar-
tillery companies, embarked at Portsmouth yesterday
morning, on board her Majesty's steam-frigate Gorgon,
for special service.

MURDER OF A CHILD HT ITS FATTIER.—A young
woman, residing at Inglismaldie, had been the unfortu-
nate dupe of a man named Robertson, a farm servant, to
whom she had borne two children. Tho mother being
unable to support both of them, Robertson undertook
the charge of the youngest, for whom he said he had
procured a decent person as nurse, who resided at Craig-
end of Careston, a small hamlet close by Findowry.
With this assurance the unsuspecting mother consented
to part with her child, and brought it to the house of one
of Robertson's sisters, where he was in waiting. He im-
mediately carried the infant away, under pretence of
going to the nurse. A week or so afterwards the mother
felt anxious to know how her child was doing, and made
a journey on purpose to the person whom Robertson had
named as having charge of it; but the woman neither
knew Robertson nor anything of the child. The mother
then requested of her seducer to know with whom the
child was living, when Robertson, taking the poor
woman aside, made the awful disclosure that he had
murdered the infant, and buried it in a drain near Fin-
dowry. After Robertson's fearful disclosure of his
crime, the mother and her brother hurried home to
Inglismaldie, and set the police to search for the body,
which they, as Robertson had described, found rolled
among a quantity of straw, and stuffed in'o the mouth
of a field drain. Robertson was arrested. He is a
young man from twenty-six to thirty years of ego,
and has rather a prepossessing appearance. —Moil' use
Paper.
DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM MUDFORD.—It is OUT
painful duty to have to announce to our readers and the
pubic the lamented death of William Mudford, Esq.,
which took place at his residence, in Harrington-square,
Hampstead-road, on the morning of the 10th instant, at
halt-past three o'clock, from water on the cheat. In
early life Mr. Mudford was fortunate enough to fill the
confidential post- of assistant secretary to his Royal
highness the late Duke of Kent, by whom he was much
valued. Ile became connected, first as reporter, and
subsequently as editor, with the Courier, which, it is not
too much to say, he conducted with consuminate ability
during a most trying period of our history. His talents,
as a public writer at the time, attracted the notice of
the Right Honourable George Canning, by
.whom ho
was kindly countenanced and suppot ted. During this
period he was a frequent contributor to the periodical
press. For the last fifteen years he conducted the
Kentish Observer and Canterbury J. annul, In addition
to which, he became latterly the editor of the John Bull;
and it was only on the Friday preceding his death (ex-
actly one week) that, although borne down by ante-
cedent sickness and exhaustion, he was at the office until
a late period of the evening, and penned an article,
little dreaming that it was the last time that pen would
be wielded, which had so long and so ably upheld the
principlei to which he was devoted. On the following
d. ay, namely, Saturday, the 11th, his youngest child, an
infant, was seized with convulsions and expired.—Kentis
Observer.
IMPORTANT TO PARENTS.—By the new Registra-
tion Act, " the parents of every child may obtain for it
the advantage of a legal registry of its birth without th
payment of any fee, provided it be registered by the
registrar of the* district in which the child was born
within six weeks after the birth. A birth may bo regis-
tered at any time within six months after the birth, but
after six weeks the expense of registering it will be
7s. 6d., and after six months it cannot be registered at
all." Several parties have recently suffered great in-
convenience in consequence of not being aware that the
time for registering was limited.
Mr. Brockman, M.P., had an interview yesterday
with the Right lion. U. Labouchcre, at the Office of the
Dowd of Trade.