The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

Mate—John Packwood (Marsh, l8718),io the rank
of ii9utenant, and appointed to the Excellent gunnery
ship.

Lieutenants—W. Morris, to command the coast-
guard station at Scattery, vice Mr. Ellis, master,
superseded ; W. F. G. Fead, to be in command of a
station. M. Jonathan E. Webb, from Newtown to
the Richmond station, vice Lieut. J. B. Koozstoe,
superseded.

Master—W. L. Scannell, to the Columbine, 16.
S Tond Mister—T. Yeatrnan, to the Gladiator,
steam-frigate, at Devonport.
Clerk—C. G. Norman, to the Gladiator.
Commander Charles Patriarche (retired) died at
Gloucester a few days since. This gallant officer
entered the navy in August, 1793, as A.B. on board
the Concorde, 36, and whilst in the Melampus, 36,
the lbllowing year, assisted, when in company of a
squadron under Sir J. B. Warren, at the capture of the
French frigates Pornone, 44, Babet, 22, and Eiga-
geante, 38. In the latter pert of 1794 he was appointed
midshipman of the Defence, 74, and continued in her
until promoted to the rank of lieutenant, 1799, having
been acting a year previously. He was, consequently,
present in Hotham's second partial action, 1795 ; at
the blockade of the Texel, and at the battle of the
Nile, 1798 (then master's mate). Appointed to the
Pylades, 18, he served in her until he joined the
Superb, 74, in which ship he was present in Sir Jas.
Saumarez's gallant action in the Gut of Gibraltar, in
1801 ; accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies,
in pursuit of the combined fleets, 1805, and was so
severely wounded in the battle off St. Domingo, 6th
February, 1806, as to be induced the following
June to invalid. In 1812 he joined the Vulture sloop
in the Channel, but in June, 1813, he was again com-
pelled to invalid, from the effects of his wound. Lieu-
tenant Patriarche became a retired commander on the
junior list in 1830, and on the senior list in 1844.
Besides receiving a grant from the Patriotic Society,
Commander Patriarchs was allotted, in 1805, a
pension for wounds of 911. ss.
Commander Le Vesconte, whose death we recorded
last week, was the father of Lieutenant Le Vesconte,
of Sir Bohn Franklin's ship, the Erebus.
Assistant-Surgeon R. Butler (1847), of the Arab,
12, Commander Morris (b), died on the 28th Oc-
tober last, at Chusan, China.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Raleigh, 50, Com-
modore> Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., arrived yester-
day from the Brazils, to he paid off, having been
relieved in the River Plate by the Southampton, 50,
Rear-Admiral Reynolds, C.B. The Raleigh has
brought no news, having been 55 days from Bahia.
The Linnet packet, arrived at Falmouth on Friday
brought news from Rio to the 17th of December, a
month later than the Raleigh. By the Linnet we
have a letter from Rio of the 17th ult., at which time
the Southampton, 50, was at Monte Video ; the
Tweed, 18, Commander Lord Fradels Russell, the
Crescent receiving-ship, and the Kestkel packet were
at Rio ; the Cormorant steam-sloop, Commander
Schomberg, arrived from a cruise on the 14th, and
sailed on the 16th. The Rifleman, 8, Lieutenant
Crofton, arrived at Rio from Santos on the 6th, and
left on the 10th on another cruise. The Cormorant
and Rifleman, in company, on their last cruise,
seized a slave barque, which they burnt, considering
it unseaworthy. The Hydra steam-sloop, Com-
mander G. Skipwith, left Rio on the 15th ult. for
Spithead, with a draft of the treaty between England
and the Argentine Republic. On the 6th ult. the
Raleigh passed, in lat. 15 17 S., long. 35 5 W., the
Chilmark ; on the 9th of Dec., in lat. 12 S., long. 54
40 W., passed the Geace ; on the 14th in lat. 9 S., lorg
39 W., passed the Parton; on the 15tb, in lat. 6 30 S.,
long. 28 30, boarded the Statesman, from Plymouth
for Port Philip, 25 days out, all well; on the Ist of
Jan., in lat. 18 N., long. 40 W., passed the Olive,
from Callao, 65 days out ; on the 4th, in lat. 18 40,
long. 42 50, spoke the Riga, from Glasgow for Trini-
dad, 15 days nut; on the 9th, in lat. 21 50, long. 44,
boarded the Boadicea, Lavitt, from Liverpool for
New Orleans, 18 days out ; on the 22d, in lat. 46 15,
long. 15, passed the Mermaid, from Mauritius for
London; on the 24th, in lat. 48 45, long. 7 30, spoke
her Majesty's ship Indefatigable, 50 guns, from Ply-
mouth for Lisbon, her Majesty's ship Terrible not in
company. The Raleigh anchored at St. Helen's yes-
terday, and came up to Spithead to-day. She is or-
dered into this harbour to be paid off all standing.
The Malabar Indianian, for Madras and Calcutta,
arrived at Spithead this afternoon, to embark pas-
sengers and stock to-morrow.
The Switzerland American line of packet ship,
Captain Hubbard, sailed to-day for New York.
Wind—E., fresh breeze and cloudy.
Wooravicir, Jas. 26.—Commodore Henry Eden
hoisted his broad pendant this morning on the Fis-
guard, flag-ship at this port, on returning to resume
his duties as superintendent ; and in the course of the
(1.7 paid a lengthened visit to the various depart-
ments.
The Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Fishhourne,
vas taken out of the basin to-day into the stream.
Her Majesty's frigate Cambrian, 50, Commodore
Plumridge, arrived at Moulmein in the middle of
November last with the crew and stores for the war

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—Cambridge Union.

who, having attained mathematical honours, have passed
LIST OF QUESTIONISTS
with credit the examinations in the Greek Testament,
Ecclesiastical History, and Palay's Moral Philosophy:—
Boden, Joh Cheatham, Christ's
Bresher, Joh Cort, Joh
Cht ales, Christ's Hodgson, T. E., Trin
SMITH'S PRIZES.
The examination for these pulses will take place on
Monday, the 28th, Tuesday, the 29th, and Wednesday,
the 30th of January.
LECTURES OF THE MARGARET PROFESSOR.
The Margaret Professor will begin his lectures on the
duties of the parish pries', on Wednesday, the 30th of
January, at one o'clock, in the Arts School, and will
continue them on subsequent Wednesdays and Fridays,
till the course is ended; he will then add oile lecture on
the epistles of Clemens Romanus, the subject for the
voluntary theological examination of the present year.
Fresh men are requested to defer their attendance to a
future occasion.

COURT or ALDERMEN.—On Saturday a court was
held for the purpose cf receiving a report from the Pri-
vileges Committee upon a memorial from the Court of
Assistants of the Honourable Artillery Company. A
diLcussion, we understand, took place in the court, of
which the doors were dead, upon the motion to ap-
point a deputation to confer vk ith Sir George Grey upon
the subject of the memorial, which relates to the existing
differences of opinion in the company. The report,
which recommended a conference, was ultimately
agreed t 9,

COFFEE MARKETS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln your Money Article of the 25th inst. is
an extract from " Franks and Alillard's Commercial
Traveller" upon the present and prospective position
of the coffee markets, and which has also appeared in
a prominent position in the columns of the " Com-
mercial Daily List."
I am not personally interested in " coffee," but I
have, nevertheleso, closely watched its movements
during the whole of the past year, and having ven-
tured an opinion in the month of May last, that prices
would, in the spring of 1850, most probably reach
their present point, and being satisfied that under the
present prospect of supply and demand, there is more
reason to fear a further advance than decline, am
led to suppose that the writers of the article alluded
to must have been deceived in the information upon
the faith of which they have ventured to express
themselves so warmly, so strongly, and so contrary
to the actual position of the article which they profess
to understand much better than those whose opinions
being practical are entitled to some consideration at
least.

Without entering upon the intrinsic quality of
native Ceylon coffee, as compared with other de-
scriptions, the cause of which any one personally
acquainted with the island is fu)ly alive to, and deny-
ing that Messrs. Franks and Millards' means of in-
formation as to the extent of deficiency of the Java
crop are as good as my own, I must say that their
observations on the movements of the Brazil coffee
crop show little knowledge and less judgment, as it
would appear from advices received yesterday, via
Pernambuco, that the Americans, instead of being
prepared to re-export coffee from New Orleans, New
York, &c., to Europe, could not buy sufficient at Rio
to load their vessels then at that port, and that many
of them were in consequence leaving in ballast. Ship-
ments ef coffee from Rio in the month of November
last to the whole of Europe were only about 40,000
bags, the bulk of which went direct to France and
the Mediterranean ; whilst to the United States the
exports were some 107,000 bags, in the face of which,
so great was the demand caused by the actual
ab-
sence of stock in the interior, and by the vastly in-
creased consumption, that prices were advancing until
they had reached within cent per lb. of the highest
point which Rio coffee has yet attitined in Europe,
notwithstanding the effect of the speculative purchases
complained of.

It may further be useful to know, that the total
export of coffee from Rio to the United States for
the year 1849, was proving some 660,000 bags against
808,000 bags in 1848, which latter quantity had been
found far below their increasing requirements, their
consumption having shown no symptom of decline
under the enormous advance in prices.
It is currently reported that the coffee market is
suffering from the attacks of certain Bears, whose
object i ;to reduce the price at present, and thus enable
them to come out strong at the ensuing sales in Hol-
land ; be this as it may, the late accounts from Cey-
lon, from Java, from Brazil, and from St. Domingo,
are not in my humble judgment such as to cause any
permanent declne in the value of coffee ; but further,
that our continental friends may, ere many months
be over, be forced to take to the much-abused native
Ceylon, by reason cf actual scarcity of other descrip-
tions, which the more provident Yankee has fore-
stalled, and which he is wealthy enough to consume,
without grumbling.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

London, Jan. 2G, 1850

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlP,—About a month ago I le Id in your Money
Article a circular from Messrs. Franks and Millard

-- (inserted at their request), as to the future prices of
coffee.

I observe in your paper of yesterday, the 25th
inst., another epistle from the same source, and which
you shrewdly preface with these remarks—" The
following, if it be really an impartial statement, is
important to trade generally."
Now, Sir, you and the public shall judge its im-
partiality and disinterestedness, or otherwise.
About four or five weeks ago the firm of Messrs.
Franks and Millard soli to one of our most extensive
coffee dealers 5,000 bags Native Ceylon Coffee—viz.,
1,000 bags at 535., 500 at 52.=. 61., 500 at 525., and
3,000 at 51s. 61 , all to be delivered in 14350. I was
present when this contract was made.

Probably had the party been the buyers instead of
the F ell ers in this transaction, your columns and the
"Daily List." would have enlightened the public
with en opposite opinion, from the same impartial and
disinterested party.
You will oblige me, and the coffee trade generally,
by inserting the foregoing in your Monday's im-
pression.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
JANES GOODISON.

Liverpool, ;Inn. 26.

THE OPENING or THE SessioN.--The dinner at
Lansdowne-house, on Wednesday next, preparatory to
the opening of tithe session, at which the Royal Speech
will bo read to the Members of the Upper House con-
nected with the Government, will include Lord Essex
(the mover of the address), Lord Methuen (the seconder),
the Lord Cbancellor, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis
if Breadalbane, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marquis
of Clanricarde, the Marquis ef Donegal, Earl Grey, Earl
Mint, Earl of Carlisle, Earl Granville, Lord Eddisbury,
and Lord Campbell. The full-dress dinner ( f Lord J.
Russell to the mover and seconder of the address in the
[louse of Commons, and the Members of the Lower
House connected with the Government, pre Tious to the
opening of the session, will tatie place in Downing-street,
at the official residence of the Prime Minister, on Wed-
nesday next, when her Majesty's Speech will be read to
the ac -enabled guests. The following Members have
accepted Lord J. Russell's invitation, and signified their
intention to be present:—The Sleeker, Attorney-Gene-
ral, Solicitor-General, Lord-Advocate, Solicitor-General
(Scotland), Mr. C. P. Villiers (mover), Sir Jamei Duke,
Bart. (seconder), Lord Palmerston, Sir G. Grey, Bart.,
Mr. G. C. Lewis, Mr. Haw Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. R.
M. Bellew, Mr. H. Rich, Mr. G. Hayter, Mr. H. Tuf-
nell, Sir C. Wood, Bart., Right Hon. Fox Maule, Sir J.
Hobhouse, Bart., Hon. J. Elliott, Mr. J. Wilson, Right
Hoe. 11. Labouchere, Sir F. Baring, Bart., Mr. J.
Parker, Admiral Dundee, Lord John Hay, Hor. W.
Cowper, Admiral Berkeley, Lord Clarence Paget, Colo-
nel Anson, Right Hon. B. L. Sheil, Mr. M. T. Baines,
Lord Ebrington, Hon. W. Lescelles, Lord Alfred Paget,
Lord E. F. G. Howard, Lord Marcus Hill, Lieutenant-
Colonel P. Boyle, Sir William Somerville, Bart., Sir
David Dundaq, Mr. R. Bernal, Mr. R. W. Grey.
VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIREE. Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston entertained a select party
at dinner on Saturday evening at their mansion in
Carlton-gardens. The guests included the Marchioness
of Normanby, the Marquis r f Lansdowne, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily de
Burgh, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Hon. C. P.
Villiers, M.P., the Hon. F. Levesen, the lion. F. Byng,
the lion. W. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, and Mr.
Charles Greville. Later in the evening the Noble Vis-
countess hold a soirée, at which nearly all the leading
members of the political and fashionable world at pre-
sent in town assembled. Among the company we re-
marked his Excellency the Turkish Amba;sador, his
Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excellency the
Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Ex-
cellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Revent-
low, his Excellency the Bavarian Minister, his Excel-
lency the Minister for Costa Rica, his Excellency the
Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rebausen, the French
Charge d'Affaires and Madame de Montherot, the
Countess Flabault and Mademoiselle de Flabault the
Countess Dowager Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P.,
the Earl of Mulgrase, Viscount and Viscountess
Ebrington, Lord and Lady Milford, Lady Cottenham
and the Hon. Miss Pepys, Lord and Lady Eddisbury, and
the HOD. Miss Stanley, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss
Vernon, Lord R. P. Clinton, Lord C ampbell, the Baroness
Stratheden, aid the Hon. Miss Campbell, Lady Elizabeth
Bulteel, Lady Dufferin and Lord I)ufferin, Baron Roths-
child, M.P., Baron Isola, Count de Bark, Baron Wieder-
bruck, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Lady Hislop and Miss
Elliot, Lady Seaford and Miss nerdy, Mr. Tufnell,
M.P., and Lady Anne Tel ell, Captain the Hon. S.
Jocelyn, Sir George and Lady Grey, Hon. W. Ashley,
Hon. J. Talbot, M.P., and Mrs. Talbot, Hon. H. Elliot,
Hon. E. Stuart Wortley, Mr. W. Grey, M.P., Mr. Gibson
Craig, M.P., and Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mr. J. A. Smith,
M.P., and Mrs. Smith, Mr. W. Blackburre, Mr. Craven,
Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. Partridge, Mr.Colcraft,ranillr.
Mr. Cornewall, Mr. Colcraft and Miss
..
C. Barrington
have a second
assembly on
terrible
ICE I TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST ON THE N HOL-
LAND.—TheErskine, Mrs.
etchgi journalsving w,aryeloaftetthheeicfeliir Ilinogllaad
Saturday
t r. Henrydaad
yy next.l'al Brandt,e
Palmerston t I.
accident
frompthu
Some days since some of the inhabitants of Haaren, in
the eastern part c f Hanoverian Friesland, amounting to
25, went on the river l'Ems with a view to divert them-
selves by skating. The river at this part is rather bread.
They had scarceiy commenced their diversion when a
part of the ice have way, and five of them disappeared ;
the others bast •ned to their assistance, when they unfor-
tunately met with the same fate. The whole of the
bodies were afterwards recovered, quite dead. Nearly
all the sufferers were married men.
Mr. it. Wade, tide-surveyor of Customr, port of
Rye, has been directel to proceed to Dublin to fill the
situation of additional tide-surveyor at that port, which
has been rendered necessary by the new arrangements
of the waterside department at Dublin. The situation
of tide-surveyor at Rye has been abolished, and the du-
ties cf the office annexed to that t f Controller of Cus-
toms there, and the salary of the tida.surveyor thereby
saved to the public. The Queen has presented the Rev,
Edmund Luby to the perpetual curacy of Gla.sson-juxta-
Lancaster. The Lord Chancellor has presented the vi-
carage of Ileddon-oe-the-Wall, Northumberland, to the
Rev. M. Heroa Maxwell, who resigns the vicarage of
Frampton, Dorset, now held by hits', Thomas F. John-
ston is appointed Colonial Secretary and Auditor of
Public Accounts fir the Island if Trieidad.

ROYAL ENGlNEERS.—Lieutenant-Colonel Jebb,
Inspector-general of Prisons, who has been seconded
on the corps fur the last ten years (the utmost time
allowed by the regulations cf the Of dnance for him to
remain away f.um the effective strength). has, pursuant
to recent orders from the Lords of the flea:mu, been
allowed to retire with his ra❑k, and full pay as Lieut..-
nant-Colonel, to enjoy all the advantages ar►s►ng from
future rank appertaining to officers in that situation.—
British Army Despatch,