The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-11 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Paymaster Charles E. Cotterell (1312), has been
formally appointed secretary to Commothre W. F. Mar-
tin, Commander-in-Chief of the western squadron. This
officer was formerly paymaster of the Prince Regent,
and latterly held both offices of paymaster of the ship
and acting secretary. A new paymaster (Mr. Sugden)
has been appointed to the Prince Regent, and now Mr.
Cotterell is the new secretary.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—By the death of Vice-
Admiral Browne, Captain John Carter, 'ate Superinten-
dent of the Royal Naval Hospital at Easier and the
Clarence Victualling-yard, attains his fig.
We are happy to announce that Captain St. Leger is
snfficiently convalescent to leave Hasler.
The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Lyster, swung
her compasses to-day. She received htr c;:c.,w from the
hulk yesterday.
The Ajax, 56, screw guard-ship, his left Queens-
town for the Channel, to relieve the vdnd•bound mer-
chantmen.

The Charles Carter is loading with stares and provi-
sions at the Clarence-yard for the Wallis of St. Helena
and Ascension.

Several yachts are exhibiting signs of fitting out at
Gosport. It is expected the forthcoming will be a most
brilliant yachting season.

MONEY MARKET—The quotation cf gold at Paris
is about 3 per mille discount, axording to the
new tariff, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.10 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at
short being 25.021, it follows that gold is 0.30 per cent.
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dearer in Paris than London. By avices from Ham-
burgh the price of gold is 4251 per mark, which, at the Eng-
lish Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13.51; and the exchange at Ham-
burgh on London at short being 13.5:„ b follows that gold
is 0.12 per cent. dearer in London titan in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1101 per cent., and tie par of exchange
between England and America being IC9 23-40 per cent.,
it follows that the exchange is nominal y 0.92 per cent. in
favour of England; and after making allowance for differ-
ence of interest and charges of transpo7t, the present rate
leaves a profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

ALTERATION OF THE PATENT-LAWiLA meeting
was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the Town-hall, Manches-
ter, of the members of an association recenCy.formed in that
town for the purpose of procuring an alteration of the law
regulating the granting of patents; Mr. Win. Fairbairn, the
eminent engineer, presided. The proceedings were confined
to the passing of a petition.(asking Parliament for a sufficient
alteration of the patent-laws), which is to be placed in the
hands of Lord Brougham for presentation in the Lords, and
of Mr. M. Gibson for presentation in the Commons; the
local ;Members being requested to support its prayer. The
chairman objected to the sum. of 1401., named in Lord
Brougham's Bill, as being so large that it would prevent
many inventors among the artisan class from bringing out
valuable improvements, and the decided feeling of the meet-
ing was that 101. would be quite sufficient as a first payment.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A dangerous Case of Erysi-
pelas, attended with Swelling and Inflammation, cured by Hol-
loway's Pills and Ointment.—Extract of a letter, dated East
Kiel, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, October 8, 1845 :—" I beg to an-
nounce to you a most wonderful care wrought upon myself by
your pills and ointment. I had a very severe attack of erysi-
pelas in my right foot and ankle, with swelling and inflamma-
tion to an alarming extent. I was unable to move without the
assistance of crutches. I consulted an eminent physician to
no purpose. However, in less than two weeks, by the use of
your ointment and pills, I was cured, to the surprise of all who
knew me. Signed, Joseph Gildon, a farmer.' —Sold by all
Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, -1.144,
Strand, London.

MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL, "SECOND LOVE;
on, BEAUTY AND INTELLECT."--The talented authoress of
these volumes (says the John Bull) need not to have placed
her name on the title page. Without it every reader would
at once have recognised the clever caricaturist of social life,
whose pen pursues with relentless severity the foibles of
that mingled crowd which constitutes what is technically
termed society. In the midst of all the false sentiment
which she so unmercifully puts into the pillory, she has, how-
ever, drawn one character of surpassing excellence—that of
Fredrika. But if the lofty style of Fredrika's moral and in-
tellectual being casts all the other women of the story into
the shade, we can scarcely say less for the hero. lie has,
indeed, his faults, but they are the faults of an ardent and
affectionate heart; and the resolute self-denial to which he
dooms himself whenever a conflict between duty and inclina-
tion arises—one moment of weakness excepted—narks the
true nobility of his soul. We do not question the exceeding
cleverness of the portraiture which Mrs. Trollope has
sketched forth under the name of the Rev. Mr. Selcroft, but
we are bound to say that we doubt the existence of an ori-
ginal of which this could be considered a likeness.

Mr. 'Pegg-Prosser, the Member for the county of
llereford, assures us that there is no foundation for the re-
port which has been current for some days, that he has
,joigea the church of gome.