The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
THE COMMAND-IN-CHIEF AT MADRAS.—The ill-
health of Lieutenant-General Sir George Berkeley
i having compelled him to resign his command, the office
has been bestowed on Lieutenant-General Sir Richard
Armstrong. This officer was Lieutenant-Colonel of the
26th Cameronians some twenty years ago, and for some
time commanded at Bangalore. He was also through-
out the campaign in Burmab. On his return home, he
was appointed to command a district in North America,
where he rendered good service, and upon relinquishing
the command received a warns expression of thanks from
the municipal authorities of Kingston. Previous to his
proceeding to India, he had seen a considerable amount of
' service in Europe. He was in the Peninsula from
August, 1808, to the end of the war in 1814, serving at
Oporto, Busaco, the actions of Pombal and Redinho, the
defence of Alba de Tormes, battles of Vittoria, the
Pyrenees and Toulouse. Sir Richard's India experience
will be of value to himself and the Madras army, but the
infirmities of age have crept upon him, and may inter-
fere with the active discharge of his new duties. The
Duke of Wellington must sadly feel the necessity of a
new Brevet, when called upou to name officers for com-
mands in which rank, as well as physical capability, are
indispensable.
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AT SHEERNESS.—We be-
lieve that the successor to Vice-Admiral the Hon. G.
Elliot, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, will not
be appointed until after the:House of Commons' discus-
sion on the new scheme of naval retirement. Vice-
Admiral the Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., we hear is still
the favourite.
GOOD SERVIGE PENSIONS.—It is well known that
there are at present in the gift of the First Lord of the
Admiralty two Good Service Pensions—one for an Ad-
miral and another for a Captain. It is believed, however,
that they will not be given away until after the retire-
ment has been considered. It is not,at all unlikely that
they will be absorbed in a new general pension fund, in
which the Royal Marines will most deservedly have
some better share than they hold at present.
SUSPICIOUS CRAFT.—WO stated last week that her
Majesty's steam-vessel Lucifer, Lieutenant Commander
Jackson, had been ordered to the coast of Donegal, from
Cork. iVe understand that this movement is in conse-
quence of the appearance of a very suspicious-looking
craft in that quarter, with long black hull and rigged
like a lugger. After a short time the Lucifer proceeds
to the Isle of Man to protect the fisheries.
FLAGS AT THE MAlN.—There are no less than four
full Admirals in active employment at the present mo-
ment; and in the course of a few days, when the intelli-
gence of the promotions shall have reached the Mediter-
ranean and West Indies, there will be four Admirals'
flags flying at the mainmasts of the respective flag ships.
TROOPS FOR THE CAPE.—It was rumoured at the
Horse Guards yesterday, that the 2d, Queen's Royal
Regiment, is to embark for the Capo of Good Hope.
SECURING HEAVY GuNs.—ln consequence of the
heavy armaments now becoming general in the service,
the Admiralty have ordered that in future all men-of-
war are to be fitted with an eye-bolt between each ring-
bolt on the lower and main decks.
LAVA FOR TRAMWAYS.—A foreign firm, Messrs. Orsi
and Armani, have proposed to the Government a
metallic lava as a substitute for granite on tramways;
and the Admiralty have ordered its properties to be
tested at Woolwich, and to be reported upon by the
dockyard officers.
STAFF OF IRELAND.—Major-General His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., has returned to
Dublin from leave of absence in England, and resumed
the command of the district. Major-General Thomas E.
Napier, C. 8., has returned to Limerick from leave of
absence in Dublin, and resumed the command of the
district.

OFFICERS UNDER ORDERS FOR INDIA.
For Bengal-10th Regiment, Captain M`Gregor,
Lieutenant Medhurst, Surgeon Meekler ; 18th, Royal
,% Irish. Captain Borrow, Lieutenants Martin, Lillie,
Graves, and Piercy, and Ensign Stacpoole ; 22d Regi-
,34 ment, Captain Bamfylde, Lieutenant Hughes, and
Ensign Moore ; 24th Regiment, Captain Macpher-
Ai son ; 29th Regiment, Captain Westropp, Ensigns
34 Browne and Langford ; 32d Regiment, Ensigns
% Ricketts and Foster; 53d Regiment, Captain Ross, Lieu-
-34 tenants Steward and Grabble, and Assistant-Surgeon
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Hardie, M.D.; 60th Rifles, Ist Battalion, Captain Butler,
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First Lieutenant Holloway, and Second Lieutenant Fox;
;34 61st Regiment, Captain Gordon, Lieutenants Croasdaile,
Brackenbury, Berry, and Twynam, Ensigns Pattoun
and Daly; 70th Regiment, Captain Ryan; 75th Regi-
ment, Captain Hotham; 80th Regiment, Capt. Ormsby,
Lieutenants Duperier and Gray; 87th Fusiliers, Captain
Herring, First Lieutenant King, and Second Lieutenant
Butler; 96th Regiment, Ensign Menzies; 98th Regi-
ment, Lieutenant Browne, Ensigns Meares and Twy-
LC, ford; Bth Regiment, Lieutenant Craster for Bombay.
For Madras-25th Regiment, Captain Hamilton,
Lieutenant Manners, and Ensign Holmes; 51st Light
Infantry, Ensigns Morley, Agg, and Mitford; 84th Re-
giment, Captains Cassan and Mitchell; 94th Regiment,
Captain Sykes.
For Bombay-64th Regiment, Ensign Willcocks;
78th Highlanders, Captain Mac Andrew, Lieutenant
Purvis, Ensigns Martin and Burrowes; 83d Regiment,
Captain Austen, Lieutenant Crawford, and Assistant-
Surgeon Innes.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY DINNER.
- On Saturday last the members of the Royal Academy
of Arts gave their snnirer,rtry dinner at their apart-
ments in Trafalgar-square. It was attended by a
numerous assemb:age of guests, among whom were—
N His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord Chancellor,
;as the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State
. for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the
Secretary-at-War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chains
berlain, the Speaker, the President of the Board of
Trade, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Com-
missioner of the Land Revenue, the Belgian, Danish,
Portuguese, Sicilian, and Prussian Ministers, the Lord
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Master of the
Rolls, the Lord Chief Baron, the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, the Governor of the Bank, the Chair-
man of the East India Company, the Chairman of the
Board of Customs, the Master and Warden of Dulwich
College. the President of the Society of Antiquaries, the
President of the College of Physicians, the President of
the College of Surgeons, the Field Officer-in-Waiting.
Dukes,Wellington,Northumberland,Newcastle,Leinster;
Marquises Anglesey, Clanricarde, Northampton,Douglas,
Hertford; Earls Carlisle, Granville, De Grey, Aberdeen,
Cawdor, Lovelace, Harrowby, Morley; Viscounts Her-
dinge, Canning, Gough; Bishops of London and Ox-
ford; Lords Brougham, Charles Townsend, Ashburton,
Stanley, Sudeley, Northwick, Colborne, Monteagle,
Overstone, Ward, Londesborough; Mr. Justice Talfourd,
.„ Mr. Baron Alderson, Right lions. W. S. Gladstone,
Sidney Herbert, T. B. Macauley, Hon. Douglas Pennent,
Francis Charteris, Colonel C. B. Phipps; Sirs G. Clerk,
H. Ellis, E. Lytton Bulwer, R. H. Inglis, G.:Staunton,
the Dean of St. Paul's, Colonel Rawdon; Messrs. H.
Munro, B. Hawes, J. P. Arden, G. Young, D. Salomons,
T. Baring, C. Hamden Turner, W. Russell, B. Disraeli,
S. Rueber, S. M. Peto, E. Bicknell, S. Cartwright, C. 11.
Newdegate, E. L. Betts, C. Macready, C. Dickens, J. G.
Lockhart, F. Howard, W. Ewart, R. S. Holford, T. Jack-
son, J. Davis, J. Bell, H. Colborne, J. Forster, J. H.
134 Green, &c.
;% The chair was of course occupied by tho new Presi-
- dent of the Royal Academy, Sir CHARLES LOCK EAST-
LAKE, who, after the Queen's health had been drunk
with all loyal enthusiasm, proposed the health of the
ce. Prince Consort as follows :—I have now, gentlemen, the
honour to propose to you " The health of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Fa-
t roily." His Royal Highness's liberal and habitual
1% encouragement of art is universally known. If that
• disposition on the part of his Royal llighnesa be greatly
attributable to a genuine love for the fine arts, it also
• arises, I venture to say, from a conviction of their utility
as auxiliaries in the national work of education. The
same enlarged view looks to the benefits to be derived
from the application of art and of science to manufac-
• tures, and sees in that application the elements of social
14 improvement as well as commercial advantages. The
• great scheme for bringing together the productions
of the world's industry, the interesting results of
which most of those whom I have the honour to
address have already had the gratification of inspecting,
owes its success hitherto to the support which it has
received from his Royal Highness—a support, gentle-
men, which has been manifested not in a mere nomi-
nal patronage, not alone in good wishes, but also in
an active participation in the labour of superintend-
ence. And, with reference to such labours, let me be per-
mitted to add that, in the performance of official duties
undertaken by him, his Royal Highness brings to the
subjects requiring his attention not only knowledge and
intelligenes, but equanimity and benevolence—qualities
calculated at all times to promote the satisfactory dis-
patch of business and to effect the solution of difficulties,
but which, in one of his Royal Highness's exalted sta-
tion, acquire a much higher value from the admirable
influence of such an example.
The PRINCE replied to the toast in a speech which was
received with much enthusiasm. Ihreaid—Mr. President,
my Lords, and Gentlemen, you have been very kind in
responding with so much warmth to the toast which your
President has just proposed to you, and he will allow me
to thank him very cordially for the flattering expressions
which he used towards myself in introducing to you that
toast. I shall feel very happy if the future should prove
that the Great Exhibition, to which all nations have so
generously contributed, should, among other advantages
which I firmly hope will result from it, likewise tend to
assist in the promotion of the fine arts in this country,
of which you are the representatives; and I feel proud
that we can show to the many foreigners who aro
now visiting our shores specimens cf British art
such as these walls display. Although I have,
since my first arrival in this country, never once missed
visiting the exhibition of the Royal Academy, and have
always derived the greatest pleasure and instruction
from those visits, it is but seldom thAt my engagements
will allow me to join in your festive dinner. I have,
however, upon this occasion, made it a point to do so, in
order to assist in what may be considered the inaugura-
finis festival of your aewly-elected president, at
whose election I have heartily rt joiced, not only on
account of my high estimate of his qualities, but
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you of his talent as an artist, for that is well known to
sun, and of it you are the best judges; or of his merits
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know what you can know less, and what is of the greatest
value in a President of the Royal Academy —I mean that
kindness of heart and refinement of feeling which guided
him in all his communications, often most difficult and
delicate, with the different artists whom we had to in-
vite to competition, whose works we had, to criticise,