The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-31 00:00:00

the talented and most able advocate of their class and
cause, with a piece of plate, as some token of estimation
and appreciation of his good services in their behalf.
Dr. Brown was an assistant-surgeon of her Mejesty's
ship Howe, where he was most highiy respected by every
one; but finding himself, as a doctor of medicine, in a
false and degrading position, without hope cf immediate
relief, threw up his appointment, sacrificed his prospects
in the navy, and devoted himself to the task of working
out the emancipation of his late brother officers.
THE COMMANDS OF THE NANKIN, 50, AND TERMA-
GANT SCREW FILIGATE.—It is reported that Captain
Loch, C. 8., who paid off the Alarm, 26, some months
since, from the West Indies, w.ll commission the new
50-gun frigate, at Chatham; and Captain Rider, who was
promoted from the command of the Vixen steam-sloop,
fur the affAir at St. Juan Nicaragua, is named in naval
circles as likely to have the command of the Termagant,
24, screw-frigate, at Portsmouth. These are rumours.
Let the seniors look out.
CEYLON.—Lieutenant-Colonel Grantham, late in com-
mand of the artillery at this station, has arrived in Eng-
land, where Captain Bingham was left in charge of the
detachment, Lieutenant-Colonel Evans still continuing
in a very dangeroue state of health.
GOOD CONDUCT PAY FOR SERGEANTS.—The propo-
sition of rewarding these highly-deserving non-commis-
sioned officers, adverted to in our last Gazette, will be
termed for " meritorious conduct."

We understand that Major-General Sir Robert Gar-
diner, K.C.B. and K.C.H., Governor of Gibraltar, is in
London on leave of absence.
TROOPS IN THE COLONIES.—We have reason to be-
lieve that a circular will shortly be issued by the Colonial
Secretary to the several Colonial Governments, to the
effect that in future each colony must support its own
military establishment, or the authorities at home will
deem it expedient to withdraw their protective force.
VISITORS TO NELSON'S FLAG SHIP.—By the entries
in the Visitors' Book, time and circumstance honoured,
on board the old Victory flag-,hip at Portsmouth, more
than 39,000 persons have visited her during the past year

CONTRACT FOR THE MAILS TO THE CAPE OF GOOD•
HOPE.—The Lords of the Treasury have a.:cepted the
offer of James Laming, Esq., to convey the mails to the
Cape of Good Hope for 30,000/. per annum in screw-
propelled steam vessels, that gentleman's tender having
been lower by 20,0001. per annum than a tender from
a Glasgow firm. Mr. Laming, it is said, will not limit
his horse-power to 200, but intends to have vessels of
2,000 tons, with machinery of about one .sixth steam-
power of the tonnage. It is reported that the Admiralty
have offered to 'Mr. Laming the useless iron steam-fri-
gates Simoom, Megmre, Greenock, and Vulcan, at a
very low price, for the performance of the contract, the
contractor to work the cost out at so !Duch her annual.

THE NELSON CoLumN.—The last casting of the Co-
penhagen entablature took place on Thursday, at the
foundry of Messrs. Moore and Co., Gray's Inn lane.
The work will probably be in its place on the column,
facing towards the Strand, in about six weeks. I; is a
very spirited composition, and reflects high credit on the
late Mr. Ternouth and his son, who is now completing
the work. The artist happily chose the remarkable in-
cident of Lord Nelson fixing a seal instead of a wafer to
his correspondence with the Crown Prince, to illustrate
the great event. It may not be generally known that the
late Mr, Ternouth was many y ears a principal assistant
of Chantrey.
Major Jacobs, of the Bombay Artillery, has been ap-
pointed by her Majesty a Companion of the Order of
the Bath.

BARRAGE. DEPARTXENT.—Lieutenant Phillips, Bar-
rack-master of Dundalk, has received a month's leave
of absence, from 6th September next. Quarter Mast?.r
J. Marshall, of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, wil
perform the duties during his absence in Dublin.
There is no truth whatever in the report that Com.
mender Vansittart, of the Frolic, 6, now in the Mediter•
ranean, has been promoted t 9 the rank of Captain.
THE L

AST IVIOMENI'S OF LOUIS

PHILIPPE.

The Diebats gives the following aldilional account of
the last moments of King Louis PhilippF, which it has
derived from private sources :—" On Saturday, the
24th, the Kicg telt a presentiment of the gravity of the
disease, which, without having attacked any of the es-
sential organs of life, as we have already mentioned, in-
sensibly undermined it; for his complaint has never been
anything more thin a gradual decline of strength,
a sort of consumption rather moral than physical, or,
as it has been called, an impossibility of living.
Daring the day the august invalid WAS' at his own
request, carried out under the portico of the chateau
at the time- when the , sun was shining bril-
liantly on it. The King, whose weakness had
muchincreased since the previous evening, felt a
benefit from this movement, and was able, but with-
out partaking of it, 'to be, present at dinner with
his. family.. The night was passed in a very
agitated manner, and it was considered necessary to
make the King acquainted with the real state of his
case, and to remove from his mind the little hope
which might have remained to him. it was the
Queen herself who undertook this distressing mis-
sion, worthy of her piety, and also, however
painful it might be, of her tenderness. The
King received the warning of his approach-
ing end with the firmness of a philosopher, but
he wished to have a confirmation of his danger from
the mouth of his physician himself. M. Gueneau
de Mussy was introduced, and the King asked his
opinion. The Doctor gave a hesitating and
troubled reply. I uaderstand, my dear Doctor,'
said his 2l4jesty, you bring me my no-
tice to quit.' Same minutes after General Dumas

came into tha room, and the King dictated to him,
with a remarkable lucidity of mind, a last page to
his memoirs, which terminated a recital which
had been interrupted for the last four months. The
King then sent for his chaplain, the Abbe
Cruelle. On the Abbe approaching him, am
calm,' said the King, 'I am in the full enjoyment of
my faculties, and consequently I am perfectly-dis-
posed to converse with you.' The, interview lasted
some time. His Majesty replied from memory to
the prayers of the Abbe. When the interview
was finished, and after the King had fulfilled with a
noble and simple firmness all the duties of a
Christian, Amelie,' he said, 'are you satisfied ?' di-
recting at the same time towards the Queen a look in
which was blended the satisfitation of having accom-
plished a duty and a feeling of confiding and of delicate
affection. During the succeeding night the King had
scarcely any rest, but his calmness never forsook him,
and, when in the morning death appeared, it found
the dying man ready. The King had seen death ap-
proach him more than once; it bad appeared to him
frequently in the course of his stormy career, less
mild to see and more terrible to undergo. On this
occasion, and in spite of the bitterness caused by an
ungrateful and absent country, this magnanimous
King, on whom the rage of factions and the fire of
regicide carbines had exhausted themselves, died
full of years, surrounded by his family, his
heart filled with tender feelings, his conscience
satisfied, and his mind tranquil. Why will those
who had disturbed his reign by so many outrages,
revolts, and violences, still dispute to him that fine and
admirable death which has so worthily crowned a
noble life r —We read in the Ordre :—" The King,
to the last moment, retained a calmness, a presence
of mind, and a strength of soul which inspired
all present with tender and respectful admira-
tion. At half-past seven his breathing became'
more oppressed, and, in half an hour after-
wards, be expired. The clseen in a transport of
grief, strained within her arms the lifeless body of
her husband, she then took a .lat embrace, and
rising with sublime resignation and turning to-
wards her children, who were all assembled round
his death-bed, and who all, by a simultaneous
movement, drew round her, she said to them—
' Promise me to remain al ways united in remembrance
of your father, as you have been during his life-
time." Wa will be for you, as we have always
been for him,' was their reply, and this affecting
scene was closed by embraces and by tears. The
Duchess of Orleans, her sisters-in-law, and the
Princes were present at the last moments of the old
King; they all witnessed the simplicity of his death ;
they all derived an impressive lesson from his dying
words, and those which are left on the mind by the
great spectacle of the human soul contending with
the body whose bonds it was about to break."

HACKNEY CARR' 4Gli STANDS
IN THE METROPOLIS.
By virtue of the authority conferred upon the Corn-
missioners of the Metropolitan Police by an Act of last
session, they have proceeded to make various alt-rations
with respect to the old stands for hackney carriages, and
to appciet others in different localities where the neigh-
bourhood appeared to require such accommodation.
Ths Commissioners, in transmitting to us an account of
this proceeding, say that standings fa. hackney car-
riages have been appointed, which provide room for
1,815 carriagee. The chief objects kept in view have
been to place them in the immediate neighbourhood
where they are wanted, without causing obstruction by
their being in the great leading thoroughfares. Fur this
purpose several standings have been removed from Ox-
ford-street into streets adjoining—as Berners• strei
John-street, Woodstock-street, Old Cavendish-street,
Marylebonn-lane, &c.; from the S.rand into Welling-
ton-street, Agar-street, Duncannon-street, &c. It is not
possible to avoid some annoyance to residents in the
streets where standings are placed, hut the public at
large are deeply interested in having the print-pal
thoroughfares for the enormous traffic of the town kept
char
clear of obstructions, and a d passage left for all. To
such considerations private interests must yield. Re-
gulations are made to prevent the drivers and others
standing together on the footways, smoking, thinking,
or by any improper behaviour causing obstruction or
annoyance there.
It will depend on the police who notice the parties,
and the decisions of the magistrates on cases brought be-
fore them, how far the inhabitants of each neighbour-
hood are relieved from the annoyances, to some extent
unavoidable, of a cab stand.
The various stAnds, as they will be under this new re•
gulaion, are as follow:
. WHITEHALL DlVlSlON.—Trafalgar-Equare, one on
the east side and another on the west side; Whitehall.
WESTMINSTER DlVlSlON.—Buckingham-gate; CaClO-
gau-place ; Carey-street, Westminster; Commtrcial-
road, Pimlico; Franklin's-row, Chelsea College; Fut;
ham-road ; Grosvenor-street ; Knightsbridge-green;
Knightsbrdge-road; Milbank ; Milton-row; Vauxhall-
bridge-road; Pap!ace-yard ; Shaftesbury-terrace, Vuus-
hall-bridge-road; Sloue-square.