The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-22 00:00:00

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

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(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
Orders have been received by Admiral Sir John
Ommanney, K.C.8., to the effect that if the Havannah,
19, Captain Erskine, daily expected from Rio, touches
there she is to be paid off at that port.
THE DEPUTY COMPTROLLERSHIP.—The appointment
of Deputy Comptrollership of the Coast Guard has not
yet been filled up. Commander Sparshott's funeral
took place yesterday. Report still gives the vacant post
to a Captain.
Commander Baldock has been re-appointed Superin-
tendent of the Admiralty packet service at Dover for
another year, within which time, in all probability, this
service, the only one besides that between Marseilles and
Malta which is carried on by Admiralty vessels, will be
performed by contract.
In consequence of the reports as to the disabled condi-
tion of her Majesty's sloop Cormorant, 6, Commander
Chamberlain, the Admiralty have ordered that vessel to
be immediately sent to England from Rio. On her ar-
rival she is to be paid off.
We have before announced that her Majesty's steam-
sloop Geyser, Commander Tatham, also on the Brazil
station, had been ordered home by the Admiralty in
consequence of the injuries she sustained by running
ashore. Her arrival in England may be hourly ex-
pected, for she was to leave Rio on the 18th of Oc-
tober. She has been in commission only since October,
1850.

STAFF APPOINTDIENTS.-.—We understand that it has
been intimated to those officers on the Staff who
have to vacate their appointments in consequence
of the recent Brevet promotion, that it is not
intended to make any change in respect thereof until the
commencement of the financial year, viz., the Ist of
nexi.
ORDNAN CE APPOINTMENTS.—ID adOition to what we
enumerated last week, the following appointments are to
take plase is the Royal Artillery:—Colonel Colquhoun
to the command in Ireland, vice Gordon; Lieutenant-
Colonel Tylden, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster Ge-
neral at Woolwich, to be Assistant Director General.
♦ice Chalmer. Colonel Wynyates, it is rumoured, will
succeed Major-General Lacy as Director General of
Artillery, and that Colonel Palliser will be brought home
from Barbadoes, and put into some snug berth. A great
deal of dissatisfaction exists at Woolwich with respect
to some of the appointments recently made.
MILITARY on' DlT.—The following rumours are
abroad, but we think we may place confidence in the
reporf :—Colonel Eden, C. 8., Assistant Adjutant-
General, Edinburgh, to succeed Major-General Co-
chrane, in Dublin. Colonel Beresford, Assistant
Adjutant-General at Cork, to succeed Colonel Simpson,
Commandant of the Garrison at Chatham.
Colonel Griffiths, Unattached Assistant Commandant
at Maidstone, has been :appointed Commandant of the
Cavalry Depot.

It is that Lord Cathcart will certainly have
the command in Ireland which General Sir E. Blakeney
is about to vacate.

DRAFTS FOR FOREIGN SERVICE.—Tbe Hope, trans-
port, is to convey the detachments under orders to join
their respective regiments at Gibraltar, Malta, and
Corfu, and will be ready about the 6th of December.
Colonel Sir John Wilson, Adjutant of Chelsea Hos-
pital, has declined promotion, having received intimation
that he would only be allowed to continue to receive his
half-pay of major.
STAFF.—Captain Robertson, 71st Highland Light In-
fantry, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General of the
Dublin district, has returned from leave of absence in
England.
LONDON RECRUITING DISTRICT.—We are confirmed
in the opinion we expressed last week that Colonel
Taylor, late on the Stair at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight. is
to succeed Sir Richard Doherty as Inspecting Field
Officer of the London recruiting district.
JERSEY AND GUERNSEY COMMANDS.—The SUCCSSOT
to Major-General Sir James Reynett, at Jersey. and
brit of Major-General Bell, at Guernsey, will take place
from the Ist of April next.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln . 5
MARCH.

Liverpool Spring
Coventry 9 Northampton 24
Doncaster Spring
Warwick Spring