The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-23 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the United Service Gazette.)
The Ist Dragoon Guards will move to Birmingham from
Dorchester next month, to be relieved, it is expected, by the
12th Lancers now at Birmingham.
The sth Dragoons, stationed at Manchester, under com-
mand of Major Scarlett, proceed to Piershill Barracks, Edin-
burgh, next month, to relieve the Scots Greys, which march
to Leeds.

Two companies of the 2d battalion of the Grenadier Guards
arrived at the Infantry Barracks, Brighton, on Monday, to re-
Hove the squadron of Foot Guards which had been left to do
palace duty.
Lieut. Close, of the 28th, has died at Berhampore of the
wound he received in a duel some time ago.
The service companies of the 37th, at Jamaica, have ex-
changed quarters with those of the 84th at the same place.
Lieut.-Colonel Brock, of the 55th, and Lady have arrived
in England from India.

Major Young of the 79th, has obtained leave of absence
from Canada for England.
Captain Richard Hort, of the 81st, extra Aide-de-Camp to
Lieut.-General Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., has declined the
offer made to him of an appointment on the staff of Sir Henry
Pane, G. C. B.

Leiters received from the 83d Regiment at Halifax, N. S.,
to the 20th of February, state the officers and men to be in
good health.

- Captain Clarke, of the 84th, has been presented with a very
complimentary address for his services in promoting order and
industry during his Magistracy at Jamaica. Major Nicholl is
is the next senior Officer in command to the lamented Lieute-
nant-Colonel Keyt, C. 8., who died at Maroon-town, Jamaica,
on the 16th of January. As many years were passed by this
distinguished Officer in the duties of the high rank he held in
his regiment as would have sufficed to carry up a person through
all the subordinate grades of the service. It is said that he
had been twenty years a Lieutenant-Colonel. The merit
which had earned for him the distinction of a C. B. was sus-
tained without ostentation. His kind and affable conduct in
society, his polished yet unassuming manners, rendered him
not merely respected but endeared wherever he was known.
The removal of his regiment from the district only twenty-four
hours before his death, %bile he lay without the hope of life,
gave a melancholy interest to the separation of his Officers
from their respected commander. The last attentions and the
last honours were paid to him by those who had been strangers
to his merit in private life, though not unacquainted with his
meritorious public services—the Officers of the 37th.
Though the depot of the 98th are mentioned as being under
orders for Ireland no official notification has yet been received
on the subject. The service companies are at the Cape, and
their term of duty nearly expired.
The following Officers have retired from the army this week ;
Cornet Lindsay, 16th Light Dragoons ; Captain Davis, 35th
Foot ; Lieutenant Longmead, 18th Foet ; Lieutenant Baxter,
57th Foot; and Surgeon E. Bush, 93d Foot, on half-pay.

The packet-ship Europe got on shore on Wednes-
day afternoon, near the Clarence-dock, Liverpool, in conse-
quence of the breaking of the rope of the steamer in which
she was in tow. The Andromeda also got on shore near
Spence's Gut, and an American ship in the New Channel.
The weather was quite moderate.

It is rather extraordinary that so little notice has
been taken of the ruinous extent of the penalties upon the
newspaper proprietors which it is the object of the Solicitor-
General's Bill to rescue from the grasp of the informers. Pu-
nishments and penalties should be proportioned to the offences
or the omissions which they are intended to correct ; but what
must be thought of the justice of a law which inflicts upon one
printer, and that under colour of a mere quibble, a greater
amount of pecuniary forfeiture than the accumulated fines in-
flicted in one Term by the highest Criminal Court of Judica-
ture in the kingdom for all the offences brought before it from
all parts of the kingdom ?

( From the Hampshire Teleg a
raA)
The Rattlesnake, 28,- Car-Stain 1-lObsoni Salted on Monday
for the East Indies, but having sprung
Mw bowsprit off Cowes,
-eturned to. Spithead, and after shifting it, /Proceeded to-day
o her destination.
The Victor, 18, Commander Crozier;--fer the East Indies,
Scylla, 18, Commander Carpenter, for Halifax, and Pelican;
18, Commander Popham, for the Coast of Africa, sailed on
Monday. The Camelion, 10, sailed on Thursday, to cruise off
Brighton.
The Speedy, cutter, arrived on Tuesday, and sailed on the
following day on a cruise. The Maitland transport, Lieu-
tenant Binstead, agent, sailed on Wednesday, for the Medi-
terranean. The Meteor, steam-vessel, arrived on Thursday,
with invalids, from Plymouth, and proceeded to the eastward
the same day.
The Russell, 74, is to be commissioned for the flag of Vice..
Admiral Sir P. Halkett. She is not to carry her lower deck
guns ; and her complement of men will be 420.
Letters from Lisbon, dated 10th March, state—" All quiet
here, and the squadron is healthy. Nimrod sailed for San-
tar.tler, with despatches for Castor and Pique, who are on an
e-s,-perimental cruise. It is rumoured the latter has lost two
anchors on the coast. Leveret has been despatched to Ma-
deira. The 27 Spanish officers captured in the Isabella. Anna
English schooner, have been sent to Ferrol, previous to their
being removed to the colonies."
The Rapid, 10, Lieut. Patten, was at Rio de Janeiro on the
19th January, and about to proceed to the Falkland Islands to
relieve the Snake, sloop of war. The whole of the Brazils
was politically quiet, and the slave-trade was incraasing in ex-
tent every day. The Spartiate, 78 guns, will leave for Eng-
land early in May next.
SHIPS ON FOREIGN STATIONS.—The Tbalia frigate, with
the flag of Rear-Admiral Campbell, arri•ed at the Cape of
Good Hope, from Ascension, on the 18th of November; the
Racehorse and Thunderer arrived at Jamaica on the Bth of Ja-
nuary ; the Wasp on the 12th frem Martinique ; the Larne
on the 25th from Barbadoes; the Pincher from Bermuda on
the 26th ; the Pickle schooner on the 28th from Barbadoes;
and the Opossum packet or the 29th from Falmouth. The
Pandora arrived at Bahia on the 14th of January, from Fal-
mouth.
Commander Syrionds of the Serpent, recently invalided in
the West Indies, came home in the last Jamaica packet, as
well as Lieut. Bolton, of the late Nimble schooner, which
vessel was wrecked while in chase of a slaver.
The wind having veered round to the northward on Satur-
day, the following East Indiamen, with a part of the outward..
hound, sailed :—The Abercrombie, Robinson,.°or Bengal and
China ; and the Lord Lowther, Thomas Ce,utts, and Sophia.
for Bombay and China. The remainder lorthe -ouivraxdlbound
sailed from the Motherbank on Wedv,scley,
In Harbour—Victory, Royal, George Excellent, Magi-
cienne, and Waterwitch.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOPATMENTS.—Captain Belcher to the
Pluto steam-vessel, for surveying; Lieuts. A. Edwards and
Daniel Woodriffe fr., the Coast Guard; Lieut. John Kiddie,
or the
aster, M Foxrthcote,
Clerk
Mr. R. Godden, Second Master, and Mr. Brown,
, io the Jupiter ; Mr. A. P. Brickwood, Second Master
of the San Josef, to the Tartarus; Mr. J. Burtwood, to be
Acting Master of the Lyra packet.
ROYAL MARINES.—First Lieut. Alexander Anderson to the
Rainbow.
The following Mates passed for Lieutenants, at the Naval
Collegefford,
Pantaloon Robert Tench Bedford, Magicienne ; Bulkeley
George Le Mesurier, Rover; Wellesley Pole Chapman, late
Talavera ; Henry Lloyd, late Carron.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
DEVONPORT, MARCH 21.—Letters from the British squa-
dron on the coast of Spain state that the Pique, new frigate,
had met with very severe weather off Santander, but had sus-
tained no material damage. She has proved fully equal to ex-
pectation, and was to sail on an experimental cruise off Cape
Finisterre, with the Castor and Ringdove, to tty their respec-
tive qualities together. The second master of the Pique
had been placed under arrest, in consequence of some com-
plaint relative to his station on the lower deck, which was re-
ported to the Captain, and it was expected that he would
leave the ship. Lord John Hay was in great favour with the
Spaniards, and was indefatigably attentive to British interests.
A stir had been made by the Spanish authorities on account of
the extent to which gambling had been carried on between
some of the officers of the squadron and the inhabitants. They
complained to the Consul, who applied to Lord John Hay,
and begged his interference. Lord John accordingly issued
written orders, forbidding gambling on board or on shore,
much to the annoyance of those who were innocent.
The Athol troop-ship is reported to be lost off Nassau, with
invalids from the squadron and army, of whom 45 only were
said, at Jamaica, to have been saved.
Captain P. L. Douglas will be flag Captain to Sir P.
Halket, and Commander Trotter, with Lieut. T. R. Sullivan,
will go with him.
Lieutenant W. Carr is appointed to the Excellent, vice
Grenfell ; Mr. Bateman, second master, to the Rattlesnake ;
Mr. C. M. Christie, college-volunteer, to the Dublin ; Mr.
H. L. Griffiths, extra college mate, to the Cruiser, and Mr.
Samuel H. Bateman, second master, to the Racehorse.
The Rover, 18, Captain Eden, sailed on Sunday, for South
America ; and same day the Royalist, Lieutenant Barlow, for
the North coast of Spain, having on board six Spanish officers
of distinction who had been sent to this country on a diplo-
matic mission.
His Majesty's ship Acteon, 28, Captain Lord Edward Rus-
sell, arrived on Thursday from Portsmouth, bound to South
America, for which destination she will proceed this evening.
The Meteor steamer, Lieutenant Duffield, started for Wool-
wich on Wednesday, to have her boilers inspected. His Ma-
jesty's ship Talavera, 74, which was taken into dock on Mon-
day, has been found in excellent order, and will be immediately
brought forward as a " demonstration" ship. 'the Viper
schooner, 6, Lieut. A. Robinson, has had her copper cleaned
and repaired, and will proceed to Falmouth as soon as ready-
The Skylark packet, Lieutenant Ladd, will sail for Falmouth
this day.
Remaining in Hamoaze—San Josef, Dublin, Skylark, Vi-
per, Diligence (naval transport), Surly (lighter).
Mr. Thomas Chaloner, late Midshipman of the Madagascar,
to the rank of Lieutenant; Lieutenants Harris and Washing-
ton Carr, to the Excellent; Lieutenant Robert Gore, of the
Melville, to the Andromache ; Lieutenant W. Hill, of the
Andromache, to the Melville; Lieutenant G. D. O'Callaghan,
to the Andromache, vice Tennant, invalided ; Mr. E. S.
Cozens, Second Master of the Melville, to be Acting Master
of the Alligator, vice Vanzetti, Acting Master of Magicienne ;
Mr. Cole, Mate to the Alban ; Mr. William Cashman, Mate,
to the Gannet ; Mr. J. J. Winsom, Clerk, to the Scylla ;
Mr. A. Hooper, Clerk, to the Thunderer : Mr. J. C. Ben-
nett, Mate, to the Rattlesnake ; Mr. A. P. Brickwood, Su-
pernumerary Second Master San Josef, formerly Master of the
Colonial schooner Royal Adelaide, is appointed Second Mas-
ter in charge of stores and the steam-vessel Tartarus ; Mr. J.
Burdwood, late in charge of stores of his Majesty's troopship
Jupiter, is appointed Acting Master of the Lyra packet;
Lieutenant Tiddle, Commander of the Fox, Revenue cutter,
to the Adelaide, British cruizer, Hastings.
(From the Devonport Independant.)
H.M.S. Vestal, Captain Jones, has been employed in con-
veying troops. On the 14th Dec., she embarked at Port
Royal 200 soldiers of the 37th Regt. with 39 women and 56
children, for Montego Bay ; they were disembarked on the
16th, and she brought back to Port Royal 270 men and offi-
cers of the 48th Regt., with 80 women and children.
A Court Martial took place at Jamaica on the 21st of Jan.,
and lasted only four hours, for the trial of Lieut. Bolton, for
the loss of the Nimble schooner. She got on shore on the
coast of Cuba, having 200 slaves on board; she was running
through a passage not well surveyed, when she got on shore,
and very shortly after she went to pieces, and about 60 slaves
were drowned. Lieut. Bolton was acquitted. It is expected
this gallant and persevering officer will soon get his promo-
tion for his successful efforts in suppressing the iniquitous
slave-trade.
Extract of a Letter dated Rio, 20th January, 1835.
You will be astonished to hear that the Spartiaie is so quickly
returned. She got as far south as 40 degrees, but found it
impossible to go on. One of our finest 74's, old certainly, but
at good as new. Of course the Admiral was on board, ers
they dared not come back ; but, as it is, they manage to show
cause why. lam sorry to inform you of the death of Mr.
George Guy, purser of the North Star. The death vacancy
filled by Mr. Thomas Hains, late clerk in charge of the Rapid,
but he is appointed to the Sparrowhawk, vice. King, of the
Sparrowhawk to the North Star. Mr. W. Gibson, late clerk
of the North Star to be clerk in the charge of the Rapid. The
North Star sailed on the 18th for Bahia. The Sparrowhawk
is in the River Plata ; Rapid here fitting for the Falkland
Islands, to relieve the Snake.
ROYAL MARINE9.--SCCOIId Lieutenant G. A. F. Lanverl,
of the Magicienne, to the Andromache, vice R. T. B. Shep.
pard, deceased.
Our gallant Port-Admiral Sir William Hargood, is ex-
pected to return from a short leave this day, and re-hoist his
flag on board the San Josef.
Detachments from the depots of the 58th, 66th, 75th, and
98th regiments, are under orders to hold themselves in readi-
ness to join the Service Companies of their respective regi-
ments. The 66th in Canada, the 75th and 98th at the Cape
of Good Hope, and the 58th in Ceylon.

After Lestocq, The Forest (if Bondy was on Satur-
day night re-produced at Covent-garden Theatre. Soon after
the commencement of the second act, a dog was introduced,
whose sagacity excited the wonder of the audience ; but in
the midst of his part of the performance, a circumstance oc-
curred offensive to the delicacy of all present, and the curtain
not being lowered, owing to the circumstance being known
but to few of the performers at the time, a tre.
extended to
makdon% up-
roar immediately commenced in the gallery, 11;4
almost all parts of the house. The hissing, and groaning, and
cries of " Off, off," completel-1 drowned the voices of the
actors, and continued with nit intermission for about twenty
minutes. At length Mr. G. Bennett, ignorant of the cause
of so decided a manifestation of displeasure, came forward
and said—" Ladies and Gentlemen, may I claim your atten-
tion for one moment. May I beg of you to give expression
to your wishes ? " The cries of " Off, off," and " Drop the
curtain," were reiterated with redoubled vehemence. Mr. G.
Bennett--" Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now performing
the piece exactly as it was originally produced ;" Mr. Ben-
nett evidently thought the dissatisfaction was with the per-
formance. The cries off " Off, off," and " Drop the curtain,"
were again uttered in the loudest strains, and from all parts of
the house. A gentleman in one of the stage boxes 'whispered
to Mr. Bennett the cause of the displeasure of the audience,
on which the curtain was immediately dropped, and the cause
of offence being removed from the stage, the curtain VMS
raised : the performance concluded amidst groat applause.
The house was well filled.—Observer.