The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

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. commando T h The Cotnt
om and e
notify'r- .
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for her late Majesty the Queen DoWstger will 'change : ..--j,„_,4
n.toehthieef ahrasmyreCtbe4vetdotnoe-ClPuzneeinng's :I: )
on the 6th of the next month, when the full mckurning ~-::."'"
_prescribed in the General Order of 'the dthjnillAat->
will be discontinued. ' %".7./cr 1.7*
The officers of the army will, from the o
January; wear with their uniforms a black craper reand
the left arm till the 20th jandary, when themOurning
will cease.
By command of Field,Manhai the.Dirke tirlyel-
lington, Commander4n-Chief. . '
GMeAocrgn,:x.Bs:,A,sdTjuhtpat:tasGßen4enrabukry,
li...l‘lll.6,_joarn-dG46j:joh:l7na.igiVirsi Aldred, ,have been added to the
list .of General. officers, not Colonels .of regitnnts,
who are in the receipt of the Unattached pay of 255.
a day and upwards. Captain. Lord Burgbe,rsh, of the
Scots Fusilier Guards, has been appointed an extra
Aide *de-camp on the personal staff of Lieutenant-
General Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.8., commanding
the forces in Ireland, during the Absence, with lease,.
of Brevet-Mujtir Lord' Combo Russell, of the 93d
Highlanders.
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[PRICE SD.

RearN-Admiral
- "Prescott,
of
Portsmouth Dockyard, is SO much reccriered as .to be
able to attend to his duties. -
APPOINTMENTS.
atur v00(11w3t):
;c, Ccoommmmaanaddetrhe Edmund
HermesGasrtdeiatnn4 F .
sloios,ne
for service at. the Cape of Goal Hope; to'rtliefve the
Geyser ateam.sleopy Commander Brown, ordered
home. Commander Fishbourne entered .the service
in 1823, passed his examination in 183 Q, wasProrooted
in April, 1834. As a lieutenant her-served. in4be
Thalia, 46; coast of Africa, Pyladeti„ le ; Ainior -in
the Scout, 18; and lastly, in the Albert.. 'tinnier,
Captain 11. D. Trotter, in which be attended,. the
unfortunate expedition to the Niger. For this
service he was promoted to the rank of commander,
and was appointed in the meantime to the Soudan,
another steamer of the Niger expedition. Captain
Fishbourne is a highly 'talented officer; has written
some admirable strictures on naval architecture, and
he is the author of some very entertainin and.-
asr_ shipo
in-
structive lectures delivered at the United g
Service In-
stitution on the same subject.
Lieutenants—ll. West (1846), from the Excellent,
gunnery
mata,H .F Portsmouthraser (;18a4n9d)
toR
t.
hWe
H. Burton.
sB4rg)n
(1842), to the Gladiator,
steam-frigate, fitting at Devonport for the coast of
Africa.

Paymaster and Purser—F. J. Fegen (1149), to the
Hermes.

Mate—Murray T. Parkes (1832), from the Victory,
flag-ship, at Portsmouth, to the Enterprise, Arctic
ship. fitting at Woolwich
Second Master—J. P. M'Clune (1849), to the.
Dart, 3, brigantine, to be commissioned at Sheernese,
for service at the Cape of Good Hope, as a tender to
the Castor, 36, flag ship, to be employed in that
station. The Dart will be navigated to the Cape,
under the convoy of the Hermes.

Assistant-Surgeon—John Rowe (acting), to the
Gladiator.

Clerks—Thomas J. Ley (1849), to the Hermes;
W. Wiltshire, to the Excellent ; A. B. Ussber,
additional to the Castor, for service in the Dart.
Midshipman—G. W. Strong, to the Hermes. -
Boatswain—Frederick Robertson and Carpenter
W. Thomlinson (late of Sir James Ross's expedition)
to the Hermes.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 6.—D➢ToNPOET DOC/LIAZD.--.
Mr. F. Lobb has been promoted to first draughtsman ;
Mr. Goss, third, to be second ; and Mr. James
Augean, shipwright, to be third draughtsman, Tice
Goss. Mr. Davis is to be superintending leading man
of painters, and Mr. Ross is to be leading man rice
Davis, promoted.
Captain Goldsmith, gag captain to Admiral 'the
Earl of Dundonald, in the West Indies, has kindly
forwarded a, donation of 51. to the funds of the Royal
Naval and Military Free Schools, with an intimation
that the ship's company of the Wellesley would present-
the school with the full amount of the stopped grog
money, on the return of the ship to England.
The Express packet was paid wages in advance on
Friday.

WooLwtcn, JAIL 7.—The Hermes, commissioned
by Commander Fishbourne, is in an advanced state, and
her armament is to be increased from 6to 9 guns. The
following guns have, been received from the Royal
Arsenal, and are now ready to be put on board :
One 8-inch gun of 53 cwt., four 32 pounders of 26 cwt.
each (iron), two 24-pounder brass guns of 12 cwt.
each, one 9-pounder of 6 cwt., and one long brass gun
of smaller calibre.

The Niger steam-sloop had a great number of men
working upon her until ten o'clock on Saturday
night last, and a number of riggers and workmen are
employed upon her to-eay. The whole of her
armament has been rectiv(d from the Royal Arsenal.
Iler former guns consi.ted of one 68 -pounder, of 95
cwt.; one 10 inch, of 85 cwt.; and six 8-inch, of 65
cwt. each. But these have been replaced by one
68-pounder, of 95 cwt. and 10 feet long, on pivot
slides and carriages; one 8 inch gun, 9 feet 4 inches
in length; and twelve 32-pounders, of 32 cwt. each
and 6 feet long. She has also taken on board 130
10-inch, 130 S-inch, and 900 32 pounder &hot. The
Niger only carries about 220 tons of coals, and
during some of her recent trials was said to have
consumed fifty tons per day ; and, therefore, it is
not expected, as some imagine, that she will accom-
pany the Enterprise and Investigator as far as Ma-
deira. Her present orders are only to accompapy
them to Devonport, where she is to be kept as an
advanced war steamer.

The Enterpriie, Captain Collinson, C. 8., and the
Investigator, Commander M'Clure, were visited to-day
by the Prussian Minister, Chevalier Bunsen, and
party. The 1- arl of Mulgrave also went on board
these vessels lying in the stream. They were also
visited by Captain Sir George Back, R.N., and a
number of naval officers and others.

THE WEATHER AND THE PARKB.—The ther-
mometer of the Royal Humane Society's receiving•
house, Hyde. park, was during Sunday night as low as
26 degrees, six belief freezing point, and early yester-
day morning it was as low as 2.5 degrees. The sharp-
ness of the frost during the night had the effect of giving
to the ice a greater degree of solidity then it had pre-
viously attained during the present winter. Thousands
therefore ventured upon the frozni waters in the various
parks. Owing to the admirable arrangements of Mr.
Superintet dent Williams in distributing the icemen'
and apparatus over the Serpentine, not a single accident
of any importance occurred there during the day. The
barometer at lip:h.-park stood last evening at /9.94,
and the wind, which had been during the early part'of
the day in the north, veered to the northeast, a sign
of the continuation of the frost. The body of the un-
fortunate man who perished on Sunday, in the Serpen-
tine, has since been identified as that of Thomas Dray-
ton, who was in the employ of Messrs. Chalton 41.4
Easton, tea dealers, Charing-cross.
GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On the afternoon of Satur•
day, the sth inst.. about four o'clock, a labourer in the
employ of Mr. Heath, farmer, was passing along the
tram-road, leading from the coal pits belonging to Mr.
Chambers, of Tib,helf, in the county of Derby, when, on
reaching a field adjoining Newton-wood he observed a
man lying on the ground; he wont up to the spot
for the purpose of scertaining who it was, when he dis-
covered that the man was in the midst of a large pool
of blood and quite dead. The labourer immediately
procured assistance and removed the body, which turned
out to be that of William Thorpe, gamekeeper to the
Rev. F. Sharpe, of Tilashelf, to his house, where, on
examination, it was found that he had been shot just
above the right knee, the shot having torn the artery
open and caused his death from loss of blood. It
was soon afterwards ascertained that six men.
who had the appearance of poachers, had been seen
in the vicinity only a short time previous to
Thorpo's body being found, and he also having
been seen thereabouts after three o'clock the same
af-
ternoon, it was suspected that they were the parties who
had been the cause of the poor fellow's death.
at
Informa-
tion was immediately forwarded to the policen
known,
Mars-
field, Notts, and several of the p
and
and Page went in search oft
Superintendent Picker and
hpimoeotiltstn:irucnes-tpiacnaes::::nioynisgdtaeTpethhlhoeiersfsgw:Rhhsormldefoseripdx.
after great exertions succeeded
The names of
are u.ntneodwaslin the Mansfield lock-up,
the before
prisoners,sv l four
lum
o'clockew !E% flenry G•or • Marshall,
are
Marshall,James -Ward, and John Moaks, all of
Thomas
Hucknall-under Ruthwai ,
pear to feel the nature of the crime they are charged
with and the awful position in which they are placed.
Great praise is due to Superintendent Pielteit and the
other two police constables who accompanied him
aocducissu.psleaAruldmirnbtqlyeuse,sttha
sbiyne
htforaardcitnitrighTeaenre'Sineeadrpgipn)r.esheavlti'elldrdaailnegdtiivtrhietceyti
will
held early in the week.
THE DEFALCATION AT ATLESEURT.—The
follow-
ing letter was found in the drawer of S ratton, tire oleik,
who has abscond.- d;—‘• When this is opened it will be
iound out that I haft' done ereng. I leave property t)
double the amount of icy defalcation. I request that
the balance be given to my inlets, Turner. of Tewkesbury,
fir himself and uncle Ela;;,rds, whose money I sin
o'aigad to use 'o get nw,y, I have ink-ti no more tl
n eessary t,e t,k,, toe to my fir dittant destinati,n, and
k ,pc my self-11,11 etc d punishment will ,satisfy all. Igo
to labour for my bread; am determined not to be taken
alive; if attempted to be arrested, the act will make my
wife a widow. I have only to ask forgiveness now, and
hope in a foreign land to learn lessons by the past." It
expee'el O•at the -defaleatiens will be aw.p!y covered.
'f hr: Right 'Hon: Charles' Shiw ' Lefg.vra, . the
`s•irelr of rlciase of nnanirinual.y
-',,• CLairman. of the Haute Qiiertor Se=ssions last
.eek, is the room of Sir William Heathcott,' Burt., who
from bad health. ,The Marquis of Winchei,ster
I Jcbu Pollen, B.trt., propsed and eeaonded tie
Right Lion. Oentleman. • - -