The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE PAYXASTEREI AND PURSERS (11THENAVY.—We
are enabled to state that the Admiralty have appointed
a committee to inquire into the operation of the new pay
and provision system, so judiciously introduced into the
navy, as it affects the losses sustained by the paymasters
and pursers; and the amount of compensation, and the
mode in which it shall be granted, to this class of officers.
The chairman of the committee is Vice-Admiral Sir
Thomas Cochrane, K.C.8., and among the members are
Rear-Admiral Collier, C. 8., Captain Sir R. Grant, Cap-
tain Plumridge, Captain the Hon. F. Pelham, &e. We
understand that the principal questions for the commit-
tee will be whether the paymasters and pursers shall be
paid as at present or by a fixed salary? It is a difficult
matter to decide, and we trust no hasty decision will be
arrived at. The accumulation of the difference of the
savings between eighths and tenths will of course be as-
certained, and we trust that the surplus, as we believe
a large one will be found to exist, will be applied to-
wards giving the passed clerks of the navy half-pay
during the time they are waiting for new appointments.
Captain Sir Thomas Carmichael has resigned the com-
mand of the Spiteful steam-sloop, in the Mediterranean,
having succeeded to a baronetcy and a large fortune. It
is reported that he intends resigning his position in the
navy; for, not intending to follow up the profession., he
is desirous of neither barring the way of less fortunate
offieer, nor clogginr: the Navy List with any more
" dead weigh:."—Herald.
Sir Francis Baring, Bart., Admiral Dundas, the Hon.
W. Cowper, and the secretary, Mr. Parker, have left
the Admiralty for the Whitsun holidays.
Lieut. Harry T. Veetch (1543) has been appointed an
Admiralty agent of a msil contract steam-vessel.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's ship
Singapore, which left Southampton March 16, had ar-
rived at the Cape; but her Majesty's screw-ship Vulcan,
Master-Commander Penn, which left Cork with troops
on the 17th March, had not arrived. She is a heavy
ship, and could not be expected to arrive until a week
after the Singapore.
Megwra screw-frigate,' Master-Commander Hoff-
moister, is en route from Sheerness to. Cork; and the
Hecate, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hands, is ordered
from Portsmouth to meet her, to assist her on the pas-
sage, as the screw machinery of the Megasra is stiff in
working.

DEVONPORT, JUNE B.—The Turkish steam-frigate
Feizi Baari, with the flag of Admiral Mustapha Pacha,
sailed this morning for Constantinople. During their
stay at this port the officers have supplied themselves
with a quantity of nautical instruments from the Go-
vernment agents, Messrs. Cox and Sons, opticians.
PORTSMOUTg, MONDAY.—The Devastation steam-
sloop, Commander C. Y. Campbell, sailed this morning,
at five o'clock, for Bermuda.
The Hogue, 60, Captain M'Dougall, and the Ajax,
58, Captain Quin, were paid down to-day, and will sail
to-morrow for Cork. _

The royal yachts Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and
Elfin, have been removed to their winter moorings to-
day out of the fair-way of the harbour.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, sailed
from Spithead this evening for the eastward.
The American Congress, New York line of packet-
ship, arrived at Spithead to-day, and proceeded for
London after landing passengers.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 9.—Lieutenant.—John Richard
Ilarward (1846), to the Recate steam-sloop, at Ports-
mouth.
Mates—St. George Rathbone (1849), from the Ajax
steam guard-ship; Thomas Martin Baker Sulivan
(1849), from the Bellerophon, 78; and Alexander Francis
Osborne Young (1850), to the Royal Victoria and Al-
bert steam-yacht.
Second Masters—William Brodie (1843), at present
serving in the Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich, and Robert
D. Speer (1849), to the Birkenhead steam troop-ship at
Portsmouth.

Master's Assistant—W. C. Bicknell, to the Impregna-
ble flag-ship at Devonport.
The Brisk steam-sloop, recently launched at this dock-
yard, was taken out of the dock on Saturday, and is ex-
pected to proceed to Scotland to have her engines put in
on the 12th inst.

The Birkenhead steam troop-ship is getting ready
with all dispatch at Portsmouth, and it is said the 12th
Lancers will embark in her in the course of next week
for a passage to the Cape of Good Hope.

DEAFNESS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED
by VIBRATORY or MUSICAL SOUNDS.
(From the Medical Gazette, June 6.)
Sir,—No disease to which the human frame is subject
has remained in grantor mystery than that connected
with the organ of bearing. This may be one cf the
reasons why medical men have deserted this branch of
the profession, and almost left it in the hands of the
empiric.
It is not my intention at present to enter into the
general treatment of hardness of hearing and its various
causes, but to illustrate the very beneficial effects arising
to the ear from properly directed vibrations directed to-
wards the middle car from without.
The greater number of diseases to which the ear is
subject arise from exposure to cold, obstructing or al-
tering the quality of the secretion of the
thereby exposing the tympanum to the atmosphere,
pro-
ducing '
torpor of the auditory nerves, more especiallyty,mpaniin,
the nerves connected with the membrane
which may be compared to a musical instrument of
thef the
first order, capable, when in health, of receiving
highest or lowest notes produced by the undulations of
the air.
I have found no difficulty in reproducingessre a h
y moanshealthy
ceruminous secretion, by taking
offpru
of which has
of a pneumatic extractor, an account
al-
ready been published. When the
greatly mitigated
is reproduced,
reatly maigated ; but still
the hardness of hearing is
there frequently remai
ns
the
eg sounds. This led me to
nts musensibleffling, imperfection
companied by most d
institute various trials to remove this morbid condition,
and I
am now enabled to state that. the hearing may
perfectly restored by introducing into one ear an olian
pitch-pipe,
or other properly adapted musical instru-
Dont, and continuing the vibrations within the
oar' for the space of five or ten minutes daily.
At the same time, and during this process, the oppo-
site ear must be well closed. It will then be necessary
to proceed in a similar manner with the other ear.
This plan of treatment ought to be continued for a week
or two after the patient's recovery, and ought to be left
off with the lowest note. It may be well to state that
no good effects can be derived from this method unless
the vibrations be confined chiefly within the ear, so as to
localise their effects.
It is right also to presume that the vibratory mode of
treatment will fail to be permanent in its effects unless
the healthy secretions be first restored. The cases in
which success is greatest are those in which the ticking
of a watch can be heard when pressed upon the temple
bones, and those in which hearing is temporarily in-
creased during the bustle and noise that prevail more or
less in the open air, or in carriages, or railway travelling
as long as the vibration is kept up. This plan of treat-
went went generally removes disagreeable noises in the ea
and head in chronic and nervous deafness.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
m
AT
16, Manchester-square,' London, Maytrll2N4B.l7LL, M.D.

GLASGOW, JUNE 7. Cotton—The market has
been exceedingly quiet during the week. It has been rather
firmer towards the close, but not so much as to effect
prices. There is no particular change to notice in the de-
mand for yarn or goods. Manufacturers continue to pur-
chase sparingly of the former, but are evidently without
stock. Printers and other buyers of cloths keep only sup-
plying their immediate wants. Prices of both are much
the same as on this day week. Pig Iron—Our Pig-iron
I market during the week has been one unvarying scene of
dullness and absence of business. Prices are without the
slightest change, and are merely a repetition of those of this
day week—No.l G.M.B. 408., x 9, 3 39c Gd.,
No. 1 Gart-
sherrie but quite nominal,

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and remained to
luncheon with her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and their Royal highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, and Duke Ernest
of Wurtemburg.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha,
and the Duke Ernest of \Vurtcmburg, attended .by
Lieut.-Colonel F. Seymour and Colonel Bouverie,
honoured the British Institution with a visit yesterday
morning, to inspect the Ciillection of the Works of
Ancient Masters now exhibiting. The Royal party also
visited the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in
Water Colours, in Pall-mall.
The Countess do Neuilly, and the Duke and Duchess
de Nemours, visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Ernest of Wartemberg,
attended by Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, visited the
Royal Academy in Tratalgqr-square yesterday forenoon.
Their Royal highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cesses Alice and Louisa took a drive in an open car-
riage and four yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger
members of the Royal Family, took their usual exercise
yesterday in the garden of the Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Co-
burg Gotha, and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, honoured
the performance of the French plays with their presence
last evening. The Queen and Prince, and their Royal
visitors were attended by the Countess of Charlemont,
the Hon. Matilda Paget, the Baroness de Wangenheim,
Lord Dufferin, General Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, and
M. B. de Treskow.

The Countess de Nerdlly and the Duke and Duchess
de Nemours visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visited
the Princess's Theatre last evening.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon;
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and the Governor of Malta; from the Governor
of the Canadas, and the Governors of the other North
American Colonies, and from the Governors of the
Gambia and the Falkland Islands.

GREENWICH FAIR.
It bas recently been asserted, we know not on what
authority, that the great attraction in Hyde- park is ruin-
ingL all minor exhibitions, and that now-a-days every-
body who has a spare half hour spends it in the Palace
of Indtistry. This fiction, which we have now found to
be glaringly opposed to the fact, was yet based on so
good a foundation of probability that we gave it credit,
and, actuated at once by our belief in its truth, and by
a saddening prospect of
day for Greenwich, in aa rainy day, we started yester-
most melancholy mood, rather
as we should have gone on a visit of condolence, or to
attend a funeral, than as of old w e left to witness a
striking spectacle, and to rejoice over a happy popula-
tion. We recovered our spirits at the Temple-stairs.
Never, in the palmiest days of Greenwich, was steamer
better filled with people determined to be happy, to ex-
ercise Mark Tapleyism in its full extent, and be decidedly
jolly under the most depressing circumstances," than
was our boat on this occasion. It was, indeed, crammed to
an almost dangerous excess, and with exactly the old set.
There were fathers of families, who kept the day as a duty,
which had grown into a habit; mothers, who went, at
least ostensibly, for the benefit of the children; and chil-
dren, who obviously had no motive whatever for their
anxiety to go, save that embodied in Carlyle's résumé of
"
"goodies."
There philosophy, "unlimited attainability of
There were, moreover, immense numbers of young men
with cigars in their mouths, whose occupations evidently
did not agree with them, escorting young ladies who
wore thread gloves wonderfully like kid, and who, in
their turn, supported parasols as they might have done
dumb-bells, more from a view to ultimate advantage
than from any present enjoyment of the situation in
which, constrained by fashion, they found their arms
uneasily extended. Tne babies which could not be left
at home, and the baskets of sandwiches which economy
had suggested to their mammas, were also in full force,
SO thct, altogether, the vessel gave ono the idea of a
modern Noah's Ark, save in the important particular
that it bore with it no comforting assurance that it
was only our neighbours, not we, who were going to
be drowned. But to Greenwich everybody got, and
there, after a " snack," and a shake or two of his or
her umbrella, set out in search of romance, adventure,
or the picturesque. But it was only the moustached
of the passengers whose eyes were greeted with
much novelty on landing. The same beggars, whose
sufferings have been movingly portrayed on canvass,
whilst their lege have been tenderly bound up in cotton,
after " the late shocking accident," for ten years at
least, were looking mutely pathetic, in the road, as ever;
the gilt gingerbread, time-honoured, though slightly
tarnished—like the Lord Mayor's State carriage—occu-
pied its wonted proud position; the donkeys, which
ought to have expired under their fatigues ages ago,
were still racing before the warwhoops of their oppres-
sors, and refusing to give any colour to Sterne's delusion
about the existence—if we may use the term—of a dead
ass. The " ladies' tormentors," or " whole fun of the
fair," as the rattling instruments which appear to be de-
stroying coats, and thereby do shako nerves, are termed
by their respective proprietors, were selling briskly, and
though rolling down the hill was injurious to garments
susceptible of mud impressions, the youth of the vicinity
to some extent enjoyed the sport, and so gave their un-
happy guardians the Sisyphian employment of pushing
them np again. Even the rain, though inconvenient in
some respects, was uncommonly useful in others. Every
unsuccessful thrower at " three sticks a penny" con-
soled himself for his remoteness from the mark by the
refection that all three of his missiles were damp, and
therefore out of condition; every fallen equestrian
averred that his steed slipped; and, alas! not every, but
many a husband apologised for brandy and water as an
admirable preventive of cold. Spite, however, of the
humidity of the atmosphere, the wetness of the grass,
and the frequent showers, it was late before the booths
with their works of art and sports of nature, their wax
monarchs, and five-legged cows, entirely superseded the
out-of-door amusements. The Knights Templars, in
chain armour and Berlin gauntlets, who wandered to and
fro before Itichardson'e, had smoked out several cigars ,
and repeatedly kicked the clown in a comic manner, be-
fore the threatening " Ail in" of the manager could col-
lect an adequate audience. Alger's had lamps suffici-
ently varied in colour to have puzzled Aladdin, or added
another hue to the rainbow, before dancers could be
found to fill the tent satisfactorily. Nobody would have
his likeness taken, nobody would visit the monstrocities,
till it was nearly dark; and the constant relays of pas-
sengers from town, who had the whole thing to go
through, encouraged those who preceded them in this
postponement. But at length the unpaying and outside
mob did give way to those with money to spend and
spirits to exhaust; and every horror was inspected.
every step gone through, which the human mind could
devise, or the fantastic too achieve. Order, indeed, was
preserved, but it was by the controlling influence of good
humour—not by lar.v. Nay, we raw an unconscious
German dash a "ladies tormentor" down the whole
of a policeman's back, and, will it be believed, the func-
tionary was content to punish with one admonitory
smile? Till twelve, perhaps after, the fun was "kept
tip;" then the lest train departed, :and probably even
then scene few were left behind. Oa the whole, how-
ever, the day had been agreeable beyond all expecta-
tions.

ASSAULT OF ARMS.
On Saturday ono of those exhibitions, which appear
under the immediate patronage of
to be increasing in popularity, took place at Willis's
a gentlemansr.
v asseu
rw
jnaombelesm's'en and gentlemen, for the benefit a
, andeli Tkuohoynf;
lßoonogmliss,tSoti
and much respected. The amusements commenced with
Arnold, of Bond-street,
a bout with the foils between Mes
then followed the cutting the orange b
some excellent single-stick playing between 11r.
Arnold;
leryinon; a set-to with the foils between vecn two artil-
tin and Mr. Arnold, in which the latter' Mons. Constan-
much more than a match for his adversary, proved himself
by two artillerymen elicited general Sahrl3-play
nothing excited more interest applause. Perhaps
bayonet assault. The sergeant than the sword and
the latter weapon made several of artillery who handled
adversary; but at the last successful thrusts at his
gave his adversary a encounter the sabre-player
which made the le d' tremendous hit on the head,
nern helmet ring. Mr. Rods-
leyn Gordon Curninin
power in his .. g showed wonderful muscular
Indianand club exercise." He handled
two enormous
shape the p,vio".",. heavy clubs, much resembling in
11, ' rammer," with singular ease—
not M the stele
which we are too apt to asiociate with
ns elo- dram 3. t.ln performances, but by raising the un-
wieldy legs, one in each hand, and throwing them im-
mediately behind the top of each shoulder, and then
continuing to keep the wrist turning round, and making
each leg revolve as it were longitudinally. The wrists
and blade-bones were brought into excessive play, and
the wonder was with some of the spectators how each
shoulder continued in its proper position and escaped
dislocation. The amusements closed with a set-to with
the gloves between Mr. Arnold and Mr. Adams, in
which much good sparring was exhibited. Mr. Arnold's
quickness of eye and judgment were baffled in most in-
stances by the splendid play cf Mr. Adams • and
the
" combatants" left the room with much applause, The
'
Saladin feat, and the cutting of a bar of
lead_were both
achieved ; and though there cannot bo much
novelty in
these matters, the entertainment went ar
but the room was not particularly well filled. very
well
;

ARTHUR CONWAY.—A new work which is likely
to be well received by the public on account of the novelty of
its scenes and incidents, no less than the ability with which
it is written, has just appeaaerred,,uinaideesrtv's 33d Regimentthe title of `° Arthur
Conway; or, Scenes in the Tropics." It is from the pen of
e of Regiment Captain Milman, late of et
..reer by the production" who
The
Cross,"Way-side in Murray's Colonial Library. In " Arthur
e
commenced his literary c
Conway" (it is stated in the Preface) the author has embo-
died his recollections of scenery and character in our tropi-
cal colonies, laid up by en accurate memory, during a resi-
dence with hie regiment in Dominica, and other of the West
Indian Islands. As his firmer work was esteemed by the
best judges a faithful and lively portraiture of Andalusia and
Spanish life, it is thought that the present book will give an
equally exact and vivid picture of life in the Tropics, so
much less known and so little understood in Europe.
TUE GEOSVENoR-PLACE DISTRICT.—The annual
election of trustees for this district took place yesterday. at
the office of the trustees. Lower Belgrave-place, Pimlico.
After some be
discussion the show of hands was
declared to in favour of the " White," or " Chesham.
place List," by a large majority. A poll was then demanded
by the supporters of the " Pink," cr " Opposition List,"
which was fixed to take place to-day and to-morrow. Those
of the inhabitants who wish to infuse fresh blood into th
board of trustees, and thus to secure a more efficient manage-
ment of the affairs of the district, should remember that thei
presence at the poll is absolutely necessary for effecting th
dersirable object.