The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 19.—Captain Thomas M. C.
Symonds (1s41), to command the Arethusa, 50 gun
frigate, commissioned this day at Devonport.
Lieutenant Oetavius Cumberland (1841), to the
Arethusa.

Lieutenant Edward P. Rice (1844), to ditto.
Lieutenant Richard W. Courtenay (1844), to ditto.
Lieutenant Arthur W. A. Hood (1846), to ditto.

Lieutenant William Bowden (1847), to ditto.
Master David Craigie (1838), to ditto.
PAymaste-r and Purser John H. Greaves (1835), to
ditto

Second Master John P. Dil:on (1048), from the
ngard, flag- Alp at Woolwich, to ditto.
idshipmen—Cbarles J. Fitton, E. H. Murray,
P. G. Luard, E. P. Pocock, and W. M. Cornwall, to
the Aretbusa ; Arthur Trahere, to the Terrible steam-
frigate, at Portsmouth ' • and F. A. C. Dumaresq, to
the Cambrian, 40, East Indies.

Miter's Assistants—Alfred Perry and D. 0. Burd-
wood, to the Arethus3.

Clerks—Henry W. Arlidge (1847), Francis
Wheeler, and W. H. Oggard, to the Arethusa.
Naval Cadets—Thomas S. Dickenson and J. M.
Croke, to the Arethusa ; and D. K. W. Perry, to the
Arrogant steam-frigate at Lisbon.
Rear-Admiral Charles John Austen, C.B.' accom-
panied by his Flag-Lieutenant, George T. Al. Pur-
vis (1849), and,his Secretary, Paymaster, and Panel.,
George P. Martin (1849), arrived at Woolwich to-
day, and immediately after, accompanied by Captain
Austin, C.B , acting superintendent of the dockyard,
went on hoard the Fisgard flag-ship, and hoisted his
flag as Rear-Admiral of the White on board, where
it remained flying during the afternoon. The gal-
lant officer, with his Flag-Captain, Francis W.
Austen (1846), his Flag-Lieutenant and his Sec•
retary, will proceed overland to assume the com-
mand of the vessels of the Royal navy serving on the
East Indian and China station, and will hoist his flag
on boarl the Hastings, 72, formerly the flag-ship of
the late Bear-Admiral Sir Francis A. Collier, C 8.,
K C.II.

The following notice has been put up for the guid-
ance of the workmen of this dockyard :
" The fay in euti will, f)r the future, take place on the
workmen quitting the yard, and each man is to sign the
ticks t, on which the amount cf wages is shown, and pre-
sent it when he claims payment. Those wages not taken
in regular rotation will be withLeld till the following
wet k, unless the party is detained on duty."

A NEW NAVAL NOVELIST.—A successor to Capt.
Marryat, as a writer of narratives t f naval aiventure. is,
we underbtand, about to *pi ear, in the person of a naval
officer of high rank, well known as having command( d
at the blockade of A!esandria in 1840. This dis-

tinguished officer intends, it is ►a'd, to embody in a
s, r;e► of naval storied the tenths cf his career of active
service in various parts of the world. his first literary
enterprise is announced under the title of " The Putrek"
and its appearance will no doubt be hailed with welenaLe
by the reading public in general, as well as by the
author's professional brethren.

COUhTRY QUARTERS, A NoyEL, By THE COUATESS
OF 131.EssiNGTON.—" This novel it one of the liveliest
and most natural of all Lady Blessington's productions.
There is a rapid, quick, light, and easy style; a e-
dom of narrative, a niceness t f obssrvation, and a mi-
nuteness e f description, with an agreeable satire, which
please as, while they excite our admiration. It is a
quiet narrative, flowing principally through ball-rooms,
drawing-roams, mess-rooms, and the other resorts of
the gay and fashionable world. Numbers of gentle-
freely officers, with numerous light-laughing maidens,
and staid demure young damsel?, enter and
play th, it parts in this simple lifelike drama,
which is full of natural scenes, painted in every detail
from nature, and evincing that great power of observa-
tion for which Lady Blessington was eelebreted among
writers of fiction."—Sunday Times.
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EXHUMATION OF HUMAN RRMAINS.—OH Wed-
nesday John Orwell, of Redcliff-street, railway labourer,
while employed in digging out the ground for the new
terminus of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and at about
a few yards from the Bath-road at Totterdown, at the
depth a about a foot from the surface, discovered first a
skull, and afterwards the rea cinder of the bones of a
human body, and then of another beneath tl e first, He
afterwards discovered, about a y and from the former, the
bones of another body. The two first found appeared
to be doubled up, and the c ther lying straight. He
found no clothes or buttons, or anything but bones; one
skeleton appeared to be full grown, the others not so;
the bones were but very little broken. The earth in
which they lay was dark, but about the bodies yellowish.
He carried all the bones carefully to the other aide of
the line, where they remain. The earth had not been
sunk deeper in the place. About a month ago he found
two skulls in the earth about six feet from the same
spot. The skeleton of a horse lay close by. An inquest
has been held by Mr. Grindon on these remains, and
Orwell having given evidence to the above effect, the
jury returned a verdict of "Found dead." The expla-
nation ef these seeming marvels may probably be found
in the fact that a gallows formerly stood at this place,
under which criminals after their execution were some-
times interred.—Bristol Mirror.

ADVENTURES OF A 51.M0TE.--A short time since,
a lady residing at East Ham called upon the Rev. W.
Streatfich4, the vicar of that pariah, and in the course of
conversation asked the Reverend Gentleman the amount
of money collected at the church on the General Thanks.
giving Day. The sum was mentioned, which the lady
observed was rather less than she expected, as her hus-
band had put a 5/. note into the plate. Upon this the
vicar remarked there must be some mistake, al no such
thing had been returned in the collection, and he there-
upon communicated the circumstance to Mr. T. Mat-
thews, by whom the plate was carried round. Mr.
Mattheae, a highly respectable farmer, had not seen
anything of the kind, and waited upon the gentleman re-
ferred to us the donor, who explained that he had the
note in his hand some little time previously to dropping
it into the plate, and had rolled it up in a very small
compass. It at once occurred to Mr. Matthews that the
note might have fallen out of the plate, and, upon
making iuquiry cf tho sexton where he was in the habit
of throwing the dirt, the place was pointed out, and,
after a minute starch by Mr. Matthews and the vicar,
the missing note was found in the long grass of the
churchyard. It had been almost destroyed by the wet,
but sufficient was recovered (when pasted on a piece of
paper) to satisfy, the bank authorities, who have since
paid the amount. The affair has thus ended to the
satisfaction of all parties.—Essex Standard.
THE BIRMINGHAM MAGISTRATES.—BIRMINGHAM,
SATURDAY.—The deputation appointed to wait upon
Government with respect to the recent appointment of
magistrates on the nomination cf Messrs. (3each__ and
Thornton had an interview with Lord John Russell and
Sir George Grey in Downing-street, one Friday last.
The Premier and Home Secretary declined to interfere,
and questioned the power of town councils to nominate
borough magi• .stritap. They referred the deputation to
theL ,rd Chancellor. After an interview of some length
with the Noble Lord the deputation was induced to hope,
if not believe, that the recent commission will be super-
seded.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, JAN. 20.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Intim, Captain J. Soy, took her departure this morning,
with the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails, in
charge of Lieutenant Tancock, R.N. She had about 120
passengers, and a large general cargo. The Ripon, with
the heavy portion of the homeward East India mail, is
txpected here on Thursday next.
RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE IN SEARCHING FOR SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.—II having been suggested (by the late com-
mittee of Arctic officers) that a memorandum, stating
what had been done, and what is now being done, to re-
lease Franklin, should •be translated into the Russian
language, and plentifully circulated along the northern
coats ,it ziineria and throughout his Imperial Majesty's
American dominions, 200 or 300 copies printed, and at-
tached to each copy should be an order from the Russian
Minister in London, enjoining all Russian subjects, in
the Emperor's name, to carry out the objects therein
niaded. His Excellency Baron Brunow, on Monday last,
assured the British Government " that every step will be
!aken to second the measures taken by the Admiralty for
the discovery of the expedition under Sir John Frank-
,lin."— United ervice ..Gazette
PARLIAMENTARY BANQUET.—Lord Stanley has
issued cards of invitation for a grand dinner on the 30th
inst., at his mansion in St. James's-square, to an influen-
tial circle of his political friends in the House of Peers.
The Noble Lord is expected to arrive in town on the
29th inst. from the Earl of Derby's seat, in Lancashire,
preparatory to the meeting of Parliament.