The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

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• NOTICE.—THE NEW MILITARY NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, with I'ortrait and Memoir, in 3 vols.
0 OUNTRY QUARTERS.
fly the COUNTESS of BLESiINSITON.
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perusal."--John Roll.
" A simple and life-like drama."—Sunday Times.
" We congratulate the novel-loving public on the appearance of a
work which will altogether so charm and interest."—Morning Ad-
vertiser.
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INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN FRANCE.
Just ready, In 2 vols. post Svo., with Eight Portraits of remarkable
French Women, price 545., elegantly bound in embossed cloth,
J OMEN IN FRANCE during the Eighteenth
Century. By JULIA KAVANAGH.
London : Smith, Elder, awl Co., 65, Cornhill.

YEARSLEY'S NEW MODE OF
TREATING DEAFNE;IA.
Reprinted from the Lancet.
Price I or by Post Is. 4d.
" We have ourselves seen the remedy applied by Mr. Yearsley In
several cases of apparently,incurable deafness, and in some of those
cases the effect produced appeared to be almost miraculous. This
haapy discOvery establishes for our profession another claim to
public grathude and respect."—Leading A rtiele of the Lancet.
Churchill, Princes-street, Soho. and all Booksellers.

NAVAL INTELLI GENCE.

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PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAT.—Thef. ;flowing acting-lieu-
n•int and midshipmen passed tl nt it examination for
lieutenants last week, at the Ito 3 Naval College--
Mr. Charles A. Wise, Mr. R. E Pearse, and Mr.
Frederick Parke.

Vice-Admiral Sir John Louis struck his flag on
board the Agincourt in liatnoaz it, on Friday, and
closed his duties as Admiral-So p erintendent of De-
vonport ordinary and dockyard, g Tying place to Cap-
tain Lord John Hay, w hc' hoisted a broad
pendant as commodore of the firFt class (I) and com-
menced his control of the do sc kyard, offices, &e.
(What a farce and a huMbug hM. this appointment
been after all ! The public, gall ed. by the appear-
ance of a captain to succeed an '....admiral under the
guise of economy, are ignorant of the fact that a first-
class commodore's pay, staff, and Allowances are the
same to the uttermost farthing as. an admiral-super-
intendent's.l Times.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Com' nander Grey Skip-
with, was paid off at Sheerness in Friday in a most
orderly manner, all her business b ping over in an hour.
The new regulation for the ea amination of candi-
dates for the appointment of m Liter in the Royal
Navy came into operation this month.. The follow-

ing were examined at the Royal /Naval College last
week and passed :—Mr. Willi tra Stanton, Mr.
James Pyper, and Mr. 41- e orge R'echard Barnes:: Mr.
Stanton had full numbers, and vras deservedly com-
plimented thereon by the Preside Sit.

ROYAL MARINE Ir.

Her Majesty has, by order in Council dated sth
instant, been pleased to direct that the corps of Royal
Marines shall consist of 102 diviAional and,, 10 artik
FlOry camvanies Ao4-110 MajeSt is also graciously
pleased to allow 10 from, the senior captains of the
corps to retire upon the full pay of their rank in con-
sequence of their long and meritorious services.

The establishment Of the several divisions will,
therefore, be in accordance with the annexed
schedule :

Eich divisional company to consist of 1 captain, 2
subalterns, 5 sergeants, 5 corporals, 3 drummers, 76
privates ; total, 92.
Each artillery company to consist of l captain, 4
subalterns, 7 sergeants, 7 corporals, 3 bombadiera, 3
drummers, 125 gunners; total, 1..50. Making the
whole establishment—

Divisional companies

Artillery companies
Staff

10,954

To effect this reduction and re-distribution, 10
companies—from 103 to 112, are to be broken
up, and the remaining companies to be com-
plete to their numerically established strength
therefrom, leaving the excess of non-com-
missioned officers, drummers, and privates as super-
numeraries, until cleared off by casualties.
The 102 divisional companies are to be distributed
at the several divisions as follows :—Chatham, 25
companies; Portsmouth, 27 companies; Artillery,
10 companies ; Plymouth, 25 companies ; Wool-
wich, 25 companies.
This re• distribution and new arrangement of divi-
sional companies is in no way to effect either non-
commissioned officer, drummer, or private as regards
their transfer from one division to another : the whole
are to continue attached as at present, but, removed
to new companies as cases arise out of the altered
numbers.

The names of the captains to be retired are not yet
known.

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Vice-Admiral Sir John
Louis, Bart., Lady and the Misses Louis, have left
the official residence in the Dockyard, and we under-
stand will remain for a short time at Moorshead's
Royal Hotel, preparatory to their leaving for the
Baronet's seat in this county. An assault of a dis-
graceful and serious nature was committed on the
Gallant Admiral on Tuesday evening last, from the
effects of which his frame was so much shaken that he
was obliged to call in medical assistance, and has since
been confined to his room. It appears that the Ad-
miral was walking towards Devonport, and was on
the causeway on the hill between that town and Stone-
house, when he was run violently against by three
men, in the uniform of marines, and knoeked into
the roadway. From the very wet weather that we
have lately experienced in this part of the world, the
mud on the road was several inches deep, and the
miscreants, catching hold of the fallen Admiral, rolled
him therein, and then decamped. As soon as he had
sufficiently recovered to be able to walk, he proceed
to the mainguard, and a file of men were immediately
sent out, to trace, if possible, the whereabouts of the
parties who committed the offence. In the search,
however, they were unsuccessful; and though an in-
vestigation has since taken place, the men bare not
been detected.

An accident, which it is feared will prove fatal,
occurred yesterday on board her Majesty's ship
Arethusa. A party of marines were engaged in
hoisting on board one of her masts, which was just
brought on a level w ith the deck, when one of the
marines turned with a handspike the direction of the
crane. By some accident he let go his hold, when
the crane burst back to its former place, and caught
the men who were at the windlass, the handle of
which, it is said, penetrated the bowels of one of the
unfortunate men. Two others were severely injured,
and were immediately carried to the hospital, were
they are now doing well. It is not expected, how-
ever, that the other man will survive.
The Stromboli, Commander Lord Amelius Beau-
clerk, having had defects made good, left Hamoaze for
the Sound on Tuesday, and sailed on Thursday for a
cruise in the Channel, to assist the homeward-bound.
The steam-frigate Gladiator, Capt. Adams, having
been repaired, dropped down harbour into the Sound
on Tuesday. Her tender, the Jackal steam-vessel,
was warped alongside the jetty on Tuesday for repair.
The Gladiator continues in the Sound.

The Philomel, 6, was commissioned on Monday by
Commander F. G. Forbes. She is destined to take
the March mails to the coast of Africa.

All the copper has been taken off the brig Brito-
mart, to be replaced with new. She is to be lifted
for the purpose of fixing a new false keel.
Fifty riggers and seamen riggers are employed on
her Majesty's ship Albion.
Ten boys were on Monday entered as shipwrights'
apprentices, and two to ropemakers.
TUE REAMAI4'S COMMITTEB.—The Seaman' Com-
mittee, of which the Admiral of the Fleet is chair-
man, concluded the collection of evidence on Thurs-
day, and adjourned for ten days, when they will
meet for the purpose of agreeing on the report. The
officer who has stepped forward with a view of making
a salutary alteration is the senior naval lord, Rear-
Admiral Deans DundaF, who, in a written minute
to the other members of the board, submits the fol-
lowing proposition to them officially :—He proposes,
we believe, in 1851, to decrease the issue of spirits
one half, and to allow none whatever to persons
under eighteen years of age ; but in lieu thereof, to
give an increased pay of 3,. per month. The fol-
lowing is a list of punishments In the navy for three
years, and the reasons thereof :
_

For drunken- For other
mess only. •ffences. Total.
517 560 1,377
405 428 833
527 526 1,353

1846
1847
1848
'Hants Advertiser.

APPOINTMENT.

WooLwicn, FEB. 17.—Mate Robert A. Stupart,
from the Excellent gunnery ship to the Sphynx steam-
sloop, at Portsmouth.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The Eider steam- vessel, in charge of Lieutenant
Sherard and (Morn, with Mr. Trickett, assistant to
the chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard, arrived
here this afternoon from Southampton, and was
brought up at moorings opposite the East dock, ad-
joining the saw-mills. The Eider is to be takeninto
the East dock, to be got ready for sea with the least
possible delay, Captain Austin, C. 8., having expressed
to the heads of the working departments here his most
anxious wish that all the vessels of the expedition
should be completed by the first week in April.
The Eider made a most excellent passage round to
Woolwich, having left Southampton at 1 30 r.w. yes
terday and arrived here at three P.M. to-day. She is
represented as being a good sailer as well as steamer,
and must be very familiar to many on the river, as
she has the same kind of figurehead as her sister
vessel, the Free-Trader, both being " Bull-heads."

THE GOLD FINDER.—A work of a very remark-
able character has just issued from the press, called
" The Adventures of a Gold Finder." It assumes to he
the personal narrative of an Englishman who, whilst
exploring unfrequented portions of the new El Dorado,
undergone various extraordlnary adventures amongst the
aborigines, and in the society of the motly assemblage
from all rations that forms the population of " the dig-
gins." Encounters with wild beasts, elk shooting, and
the other sports of this singular country, are interspersed
with so many characteristic anecdotes of yankee specu-
lators and Indian chiefs, as to afford one of the most
animated pictures of California that has hitherto been
published, whilst equal entertainment may be drawn
from the author's vivid descriptions of the vicissitudes
in the life of a goldhunter.
It gives us much pleasure to learn, on good autho-
rity, that by a new system of medical treatment the
Duke of Sutherland has been relieved from the deafness
under which his Grace 59 long suffered.

DEATH OF LORD GODOLPHIN.
We regret to announce ' the death of the Right
Hon. Francis Godolphin Osborne, Baron Godolphin,
of Farnham-Royal, in the county of Buck., and Gog-
ni sgog, in the county of Cambridge'. The deceased
peer was second son of Francis Godolphin, fifth Duke
of Leeds, and was born on the 18th of October, 1777.
He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and
was admitted honorary M.A., 1811. He espoused
oil March 31, 1800, the Hon. Elizibeth Charlotte
Eden (deceased), daughter of William, first B iron
Auckland, by whom his Lordship had issue five sons
and one daughter ; of these, three sons only survive.
His Lordship is succeeded by his second, but eldest
,itirviving son, the Hon. George Godolphin Osborne,
now L-)rd Godolphin, an I cousin and heir presump-
tive to the Duke of Leeds, and who' was married on
the 21st of 0 .tober, 1824, to Miss Stward. The
Honourable Willidm Godolphin Osborne, third son
of the deceased, ' was aide de-camp to his" uncle,
Lord Auckland, when Governor-General of India ;
the fourth son, the Hoa. and Reverend Sydney
Godolphin --Osborne, is rector of Durweston with
Bryanston,. Dersetshire.. . The youngest, the Hon.
D'Arcy Godolphin.,Osborne is deceased. The late
Lord Godolphin was returned to the House of Com-
mons, for the borough of Heistone, in Cornwall, in
1798, and sat-as Member therefor until tbe general
election-in 1802, when he- was returned for Lewes,
the numbers being—Osborne, 114, Shelley, 179,
Kemp, 173. At the' 'dissolution ip 1806, Lord Osborne
retired from Parliament.), 'til in the month of
March, 1810, he xae-reNrued' x thecounty of Cam-
bridge in the room of tbit:Ai , ;lion. Philip Yorke,
WO bad accepted,the eitt:Teliti- of- the-Excise-
z
quer, and who rather abruptly retired from the con-
test with his Lordship. In 1826, his Lordship ssas
again returned as the colleague of Lord Charles
Somerset Manners, the late Mr. Adeane having been
nominated against his expressed wish. In 1830,
Lord Osborne and Mr. Adeane were returned,
Lord C. S. Manners, the third candidate, being at
the bottom of the poll ; the numbrs then were—Os-
borne, 2,339 ; Adeane, 2,086 ; Manners,.l,7s7. Lord
Osborne Was again elected for the county without
opposition in 1831, and vacated his seat shortly after-
wards on his elevation to the Peerage, to which he
was called on the 13th of May, 1832, by the title of
Baron Godolphin. On the Ist of January, 1836, he
was appointed High Steward of the town of Cam-
bridge, which office he held up to his decease. His
Lordship's health had been breaking for some time
past, but it was not till lately that serious appre-
hensions were entertained. The deceased, however,
sunk under what perhaps may most properly be called
a gradual decay of nature, and expired at half-past
twelve on Friday night last, at his seat at Gogmagog,
Cambridgeshire. In politics the deceased Lord was
a Whig, and up to within a short period of his death
he took an active part in the discharge of the duties
appertaining to a county magistrate. It is already
rumoured that the High Stewardship of the borough
of Cambridge will be offered to Lord Campbell,
whose son is already its representative in the House
of Commons.

SIR JOHN ROSS AND SLEDGING

BY DOGS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,— One at least of the peculiar advantages claimed
by Sir John Ross over other Arctic navigators is of
so extraordinary a nature, that I cannot refrain from
sending you a few lines on the subject.
Advantage No. 5.—" From having been six years
Consul in Sweden I am well acquainted with sledging
by dogs, which can be procured in Greenland."
Now this paragraph, though rather awkwardly
worded, would, of course, imply that the Swedes
are in the habit of driving dogs in sledges, and that
the gallant ex-Consul had derived his knowledge of
that mode of travelling from what he saw going on
around him every day of the six winters during
which he filled the duties of that important post.
The imaginative part of your readers have doubtless
already conjured up before their minds' eye the form
of the gallant veteran dashing at full speed through
the „streets of Stockholm at the heels of a dozen
thorough-bred bull-dogs, and like a born Karns-
chatkadale, alternately cheering them on with his
voice, or reminding the unruly of his authority by
hurling a short stick at them with unerring aim.
Alas for the gullibility of the public and the capa-
city of its swallow I Is it not plain that the true
Greenland is England ? It does not require six
winter', or half a winter's, residence in Sweden to
ascertain that "sledging by dogs" is utterly unknown
in any part of that country ; and, after some years'
experience, I do not scruple to affirm that such a
mode of conveyance would create even more excite-
ment in Scandinavia than in England. Out of Lon-
don our English dogs are used to the yoke, and if we
had hard winters, no doubt our tinkers and dog's-
meat-men 'mild soon become initiated into the mys-
teries of " sledging by dogs ;" but in Sweden, where
the breed of dogs is poor and currish, the tinkers are
content to carry their own pots and pans;
nor do I
remember ever to have seen a dog drawing any
,Te-
hicle whatsoever. In short, this " sledging by dogs is
all humbug, and for a very good reason. Your
Suedes having excellent horses aro not driven to
" sledge by dogs ;" and when you get towards the
Arctic circle, the benighted Laplanders, most pro-
vokingly for the assertion of Sir John Ross, obsti-
their, dogs, of which they have a fine 'breed, in the
nately continue to " sledge by eer
more honourable occupation of looking after their
reind " employing
herds and in protecting them from the wolves.
If Sir John Henry Pelly and his friends are of
w
what is called on the turf a speculative turn, and
ish to back Sir John Ross's assertion, and at the
same time to raise money for this expedition, let them
stake their 3,0001. on the fact that "sledging by dogs '
is usual in Sweden, and I will give them 6,000/. if
they can produce two credible witnesses who will
declare that this kind of conveyance is commonly
practised in Stockholm. My own belief is, that there
is not a single team of dogs so employed between the
North Cape and Elsinore ; and I can affirm on oath
that during four out of the six winters in which Sir
John Ross was acquiring his experience I have seen
him hundreds of times driving, not a dozen dogs, but
one substantial horse, in an ordinary Swedish sledge.
lam not one of those who think that all efforts to
rescue Sir John Franklin's expedition should be re-
linquished. On the contrary, I conceive it to be our
bounden duty in a case like this to hope even against
hope, and to leave no stone unturned for the deliver-
ance of those devoted men. Bat as the emergency
is great so is it absolutely necessary that neither
public nor private money should be wasted in ill-
directed efforts ; and, after this exposition of Sir
John Ross's fifth advantage, who can say whether all
the others may not be equally illusory ? Of one
qualification of the gallant veteran I do not doubt—l
mean his courage—tor the man'who can gravely state
that from six years' resi lence in Sweden he left that
country well acquainted with sledging by dogs, will
stick at nothing in the way of assertion, and were an
expedition announced to explore the Moon and colo-
nize Saturn, he would not scruple to become a candi-
date for the command.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
PIMLICOLA.
P.S. As the buckhounds are about to be put down,
would it not be as well if Sir John Henry Pelly and
his friends were to make a handsome offer for the
whole pack, and send them out with their new expe-
dition ? As soon as they took to the ice the pace
would be killing, and there would be no stopping
them till they reached the North Pole.

EXIIIIIITION OF INTORILSOFIND USTRY IN 1851.
On Saturday last (February 16) a public meeting was
held in the Tolsey in Gloucester (the Mayor in the
chair), to determine what steps shall be taken to co-
operate with the Royal Commissioners in promoing the
objects of the proposed Exhibition of the Works of In-
dustry of all Nations next year. A number of gentle-
men attended and supported resolutions in favour of the
above object, and a pretty liberal sum was collected for
transmission to the treasurer of the Royal Cummision.
One of the speakers, Mr. T. M. Sturge, a member of
the Society of Friends, spoke most sanguinely cf the
great objects to be realised by the exhibition. He anti-
cipated that the example thus set by England would, in
after years, be followed by most of the European and
civilized nations, and that it would afford the means of
more frequent international intercourse and of contri-
buting largely to the happiness and comfort of civi-
lized society. Above all, he thought it would create
such unity of sentiment among peoples and nations as to
render European wars utterly impossible. A committee
was appointed to co-operate with the Royal Commission
Gloucester city is celebrated for its pin manufactures,
and the county for its cloth manulanu: es and dairy and
other agricultural produce.
THE CHARTIST Spy.—We have this week to an-
nounce the arrival of the ship Caroline., from London
(15th April), with 179 passengers; and the ship Louisa
Baillie, from London and Plymouth (29th April and 9th
iy), with 161 passengers. Amongst the passengers
by the Caroline is a person whose proper name is
Thomas Powell, but who shipped himself in the name of
Thomas Richards. It seems that having been one of
the principal witnesses against the English Chartists,
the English Government have secretly provided him with
the necessary funds for removing himself and his family
to this colony. Another passenger, named John Morley,
from Ashford, Kent, jumped overboard on the 22d of
May. It was said that be bad parted from his friends
in anger, and having been subject to bitter compunctious,
his remorse became insupportable.--ildcluide Observer
of Sept. 8.