The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-04 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The attendance of visitors at the building yesterday
was greater than it has been for some days, the police
returns giving 55,638 as the total, and the receipts at the
doors amounting to 2,662/. 9s. So much for cool agree-
able weatli,,r which pt milts people to move about with•
out discomfort, and for the increased ventilation of the
interior, which is being carried out very successfully
Among the gathering of spvctators yesterday there was
an extraordinary number of children; no less than nine
schools in and around the metropolis contributing their
quota of boys and girls.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE:

PROMOTIONS.

Mates—,Tatnes Henry Bushnell; Mountford S. Lovicle
Peile, John George Boileau, Thomas Nourse Under•
wood, Thomas lisrpur Greer, Richard Bulkeley Peeve,
John Carnegie, and Edward Madden, all the seniors in
succession, trom Jan. 1 to March 20, 1849, have been
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.

Clerk--James Glassford Gooding Simmonds (Sept. It
1846), the 106th in seniority on the list, late of the Cale'
donut, 120, has been promoted to the rank of Paymaster
for the correct and expeditious manner in which the
ship's books were made up for paying off.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander Nicholas Lefebvre, Lieutenant Archibald,
D. W. Fit.tcher, Second Master Charles Burney, Clerk
in Charge, H. J. Kelly, and Masters Assistants W. S.
Harrison, R. C. Hutchinson, and W. H. Moore, have
been re-apoointed from the Cuckoo steam-vessel (to be
paid off at Sheerness), to the Dasher steamer, which
vessel, with her tender the Seaflower cutter, will be en'
ployed as t Cuckoo at the Channel Islands, protect-
ing the fish eriee, kc.; and Second Master Frederick
Kirkham (1:851) has been appointed to the Dasher, vice
Richards, : ypoiuted Acting blaster of the Waterwitch.
Surgeon s--Edward Heath (1842), to the Firebrand
steam trig Ste, Mediterranean; Joseph Henderson, to the
Watervvittth, 8, Chatham; Jaime Niven, to the Express,
6, Devonp art.

Mate-.R. T. G. Legge, to the Waterwitch.
Assistant .Surgeon—Robert Mungle, to the Myrmi.
don steam-Y easel, Woolwich.
Clerk—W. M. Shanks, to the Impregnable, 8, flag-ship
at Devouport.
Assists:alt, Engineers—Samuel Madden, to the Asp, old
packet at Portsmouth; Frederick J. Pope, John Smiths
and H. J. Layland, to the Myrmidon.
Gut:mem—Richard Jeouever, to Express; Henry Da-
vidson, toting. to the Waterwitch.
Commander William Frederick Feed, who has been
appointed to command the Express, 8, at Devonport, is
th, officer who timely brought home and paid off her Ma.
jest:i's ship Princa Regent. This ship has been noticed
through on' service for her strict order and man-co-war.
like condiiion, nod as one of the best regulated in her
Nlajesty's 'navy. Commander Fead has served in all
p trts of th 7 world, and hazy been more than once selected
for importitne service, having b-en sent, during the dis-
turbance, aver land with dispatches iu Canada; and also
chosen as commander of the llowe, when conveying her
late lamented Majesty the Queen Dowager to Madeira;
he was nceiirly two yea:a on the west coast of Africa and
Mozambique ehs.nnel, during which time he assisted st
the cspture of ten slavers. In the last eight years he
ha, 6.ted out five, and paid off taree line-ot-battle ships.
As first liet.renunt and ci,carallider he has served in nine
experimon,:al squadrons, from brigs to line- ot-battle ships.
In fact Commander Fead has been serving continually
from the year 1824 to the present, 1851, for whica ser-
vices he was made lieutenant, after being fourteen yearti
continually employed as midshipman and mate, and com-
mander from her Majesty's visit to the Trafalgar, 120,
when at :ipithead, from having the longest sea service
in the relative ranks on board. This appointment will,
no doubt, shortly procure for him his already hard•
earned promotion to the rank of captain.
Sprightly tender, Master Commander Allen, arrived
at Devonport on ednesday, with supernumeraries frost
Portsmouth.

Express, 6, was commissioned at Devonport on Wed-
nesday afternoon by Lieutenant A. Butler. The com-
mander was expected to join yesterday.
Waterwit,ch, 8, was commissioned on Thursday after-
noon by Commander Gardner. She is to have a cow.
plement of eighty men. The vessel is being rigged by
the dockyard riggers.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The freight-ships Char-
lotte and Berkshire arrived at Spithead this morning,
and were afterwards towed into harbour by the tug
steamers. These two vessels are to take the 13th
Lancers, now at Winchester, to the Cape; it is expected
the regiment wilt embark to-morrow or Saturday, but
there are no orders down yet.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 2.—The masts and yards of her
Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120, are to be examined, pre-
paratory to her being fitted for commission.
Her Majesty's brig Express, formerly in the packet
service, is to be commissioned here for the coast of Africa.
The Royal William, having been repaired, was taken
out of dock on Monday.
The Camel lighter is ordered to Pemb.roke with stores
for the Mosquito, which is to come to this port.
WeoLwICII, JULY 3.—The Myrmidon steam-vessel,
commissioned by Lieutenant Commander Joliffe, was
brought down from Deptford to Woolwich yesterday,
and the officers who have beep appointed to her, and have
not joined at Deptford, will now join at this port.
Tne Barracouta steam-sloop was taken up theriver to-
day to the East India Docks at Blackwall, to have her
engines put on board.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—My letter to- you of the 11th of March, relative
to the sword presented to Sir Charles Napier by the
Sirdars of Sinde, has brought down a wonderful storm
of vituperation, and some tolerably bold ti,sertions from
the editors of the Indian journals, the Bombay Times
being, as usual, foremost in both.
11.. y declare that the whole story is a lie—that there
is no sword, no gift, no feeling amongst the Sirdars—
•‘ no nothing," as the country girls say when they are
disappointed. Nevertheless, the sword, a vwry beautiful
one, is now being fashioned by the skilful artiste of
Messrs. Hunt and Ruskell's establishment.
Were it not fur your right to the assurance that no
take tale was palmed on you, I should have silently en-
joyed this "fluttering in the dove-cotes of Cori,ili."
July 2. W. NAPIER, Nljui.GeLleral.

COURT OF CHANCERY.—Yesterday a return to the
House of Commons was printed, showing that since the pass-
tug of the Act 5 and 6 Victoria, caps 103 11842), the total
sum due or paid for salaries, office expenses, and compensa-
tions amounted on the 25th of November last to 519,0541.
17s. 4d. The four late sworn clerks who were appointed
taxidg masters have received in the same period for salaries
and compensations, the large amount of 211,0661. 13s. 1!d.
THE LAW OF EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL,
Yesterday Lord Brougham's Bill, which has passed the House
of Lords, to amend the law of evidence, was printed by
order of the Commons, where it stands for the second read-
ing. The object of this Bill is to a(mit patties in a suit to
be examined as witnesses. By a provision a party who in-
tends to be examined is to give notics to the other side, and
if he requires the adverse party is to give notice to the other
party.

REPRESENTATION OF
turned
of Messrs. Rufinrd's bank immediatelyWoncEsTEß.--The stoppage
attention in
orcester towards the representation. It is not probable,
we imagine, that any immediate opening is likely to take
place. A Member may retain his seat in the House of
Commons, though be cannot sit or vote for twelve months
after he has be, n declared bankrupt. Mr. Hawkes, the late
Member for Dudley, retained his seat long after he was in a
position ot hopeless insolvency, and Mr. Donald M'Lean, one
of the representatives of Oxford, held on, spite of similar cir-
cumstances, and a bankruptcy to boot, in July, 1816, until
the close of the last Parliament, in June, 1847. It is pro-
bable that the influence of Mr. Rufford's partisans will be
employed to induce him to keep his seat, as, in the event of
hi„eignation, they would have to contest it under great
disadvantages, or allow a Liberal to walk over the course.—
Worcestershire Chronicle.
EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.—In order to accom-
modate the graziers of Norfolk and Suffolk, this company
are constructing a branch from the'r Norwich line, near
Newton, to Trowse, where it is proposed to erect large
slaughter-houses, in the event of Smithfield-market being
abolished, and kill the cattle on the spot, in order that it may
be sent dead to London.
The hearing of the appeal of the Count de Bo-
carrue,, against the sentence of death passed on him by the
Court ot Assizes of the Hainaut, is to come on for hearing
before the Court of Cassation of Belgium on the 14th.
A paper-mill at Manchester, belonging to Messrs.
Dickson and Co., was destroyed by fire cn Tuesday. The
accident is supposed to have arisen from spontaneous com-
bustion.

BIRTHS.
OF A 30N.
On the Ist inst., Mrs. Oetavius Freire Owen, wife of the
Rev, the Rector of Barstow, Surrey.
Oa the 30th ul ~ at Hyde-park gate South, Kensington-
gore, Mrs. Baliol Ikea, of an heir.
OF A DAUGHTER
On the 30th ult., the wife of Cregoe Coltnon, Esq., of
Moor-end, near Cheltenham.
On the 30th Wt., the wife of Mr. W. Strickland, of New
Bona-street.

MARRIED.
On the Ist inst., at Sc. Peter's, Pimlico, Hugh Montolien
Hammersley, only sou of the late Hugh Hianrnersley, of
Pall mall, to Henrietta,, only daughter of Lieutenant-General
Sir Henry Bouyerie, of Elton-place.

DIED.
On the Ist inst., at Sutton Court-lodge, Chiswick, Mid-
dlesex, William Churton, Esq, aged 82.
On the 30to ult., Mr. James Unstuck, of the Blackwall
Railway Hotel, London-street, Fenchurch- street, aged 45.
On the 30th u:t., at John-street, Bedford-row, Susannah,
the widow of the late J. M. Thomson, Esq., aged 91.
On the Ist inst., at S!roud-green, near Croydon, Mrs.
Bowden, widow of the late R,V. R. Bowden, of Islington.
On the 29th ult., Robert A. Bannerman, Esq., of Standen-
house, Wilts, late of the Madras Civil Service.
On the 28th ult., at Church-bill, Woolwich, Kent, Ben-
jamin Piddock, Esq., I, te of her Majesty's Dockyard, aged 69.

London; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Sayvy, ill the ewe" Of
Friday, My 4, 1851.