The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-25 00:00:00

ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.

The public will be gratified to learn, by the sub-
joined letter, to the Secretary of the Royal Ortho•
pxdic Hospital, that her Majesty has been pleased to
select it as one of the recipients of royal bounty
through his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales:—
" Buckingham Palace, Feb. 18, 1850.
" Sir,—lt has been the object of her Majesty to pur-
chase for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by a
donation in one sum, the perpetual right of immediate
admission for a patient into some of the leading charit-
able institutions of London, and, in pursuance of this
object, I have received her Majesty's commands to re-
quest you to obtain from the committee of management
of the Royal Orthopedic Hospital, a statement of the
terms upon which the privilege may be purchased in the
establishment under their charge. It would be expected
that his Royal Highness would have the pow er at all
times to have one in-patient resident in, and under the
treatment of the hobpital.
"I have th• honour to be, Sir, &c.,
(Signed) "C. B. Pours.

" Mr. B. Maskell."
We are informed that the sum proposed by the
committee was 250 guineas, to which her Majesty
was most graciously pleased to accede.

ROYAL MARINES.—WOOLWICII, FEB. 24.—Eight
out of ten senior captains who have obtained the option
of retiring on full pay, in consequence of a reduction of
10 companies taking place, have' accepted the offer, and
their names were promulgated yesterday in the order-
books of the four grand divisionF, and are as follows:—
Captain Richard William Pasco, of the Plymouth divi-
sion Omit tin of 1837). 39 years' service on full pay, and
three years and nine months' on half-pay; Captain
George Griffin (1837). Chatham division, 40 }ears full
and six months' half-pay ; Captain Edmund Nepean
(1838), Portsmouth division, 37 years full and 2 years on
half-pay ; Major Francis Smith Hamilton (1838),
Woolwich division. 37 years' full and 2 years' half-pay;
Captain Joshua Edleston (1840), Woolwich division, 38
years' full and 6 months' half-pay; Captain Robert
Wright (1) (1840), Woolwich eivision, 38 years' full
pay; Captain Edward Appleten (1841), Chatham divi-
sion, 30 years' lull and 7 years' half pay; and Captain
Peter Martin M'Kellar (1841), Plymouth division, 26
years' full and 10 years' and 3 months' half-pay. There
have hem several officers named as likely to accept the
two vacancies still °yen, but they have not given in their
names to the Admiralty, and therefore they cannel be
given with entainty. The retirement of Lieutenant-
Colonel Stevens, a the Marine Artillery at Portsmouth,
has no reference to the reduction list, being merely
allowed on the decease of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson.
SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING. The gambling-
Louses in the vicinity of Jei mytt• street, Regent, street,
and Leicester,iquare, have Leen placid under a close
surveillance, by order of the Commissioners of Police.
Two constables are stationed at the entrance to each
house, to rote down and describe the persons entering
therein. They will be relieved at stated intervals, the
surveillance to continue without intermission night and
day. It is anticipated that this step all have the effect
of considerably diminishing the numbers e f the fre-
quenters of these social pesthouses, and that the chances
of successful plunder enjoyed by their ostlers being
correspondingly lessened, it will ultimately lead to their
total discomfiture.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons gave his third grand Parliamentary entertain-
meet to a large party of Proteetioeist Members on
Saturday last, at the Right Lion, cientleman's residence
in Eaton-square.