The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander—H. C. Otter, to the Sparrow.
Lieutenants—P. F. Shortland, to command the Co-
lumbia, -rice Harding ' • J. Giles, to the Tartarus, vice
Stokes, dismissed ; R. Maguire, additional to the Agin-
court ; Hon. W. B. De Blacquiere, to the Eagle ; A. G.
Edye, to the Caledonia.
Chaplain and Naval Instructor—J• Burrough, to the
Amazon.

Mate—F. F. Hawkins, to the Eagle.
Surgeon—H. D. B. Kenning, to be surgeon and me-
dical storekeeper at Malta Hospital, vice Whitmarsh.
Assistant-Surgeon—J. Whitmarsh, from Malta Hos-
pital, to be Dispenser at Greenwich, vice Drayton, super-
annuated.
Midshipman—D'Arcy Preston, to the Eagle.
CHATHAM, DEC. 7.—Die Hornet, 6 gun brigantine,
was paid off at Chatham this day. She arrived here from
the West Indies on the 3d instant, after a passage of
fifty-nine days. She experienced during her homeward
voyage several calms and variable winds, which ac-
counted for her being behind the Griffon (which was
paid off last week at Sheerness), that left Jamaica before
her for nearly a week. Lieutenant C. Seaver, from the
Imaum, receiving-ship at Jamaica, was in command of
this vessel. One corporal and eight privates of the Royal
Marines disembarked and joined their head-quarters at
this division. The Hornet is to be taken into dock, and
refitted for commission. She has been absent seven
years on the West India station, and during part of that
time she was employed in the mail-packet service.
The engines of the Janus, steam-vessel, having arrived
from the contractors, were put on board on the 30th ult.,
and she has been since taken into dock again to complete
her fittings.

FIRE AT ST. PETER'S CHURCH, HACKNEY.—Yes-
terday morning (Sunday), about half-past five o'clock,
much alarm was created in the Hackney-road, on the
discovery of a fire in St. Peter's Church. Some persons
were engaged in lighting the stoves for warming the
building, and a portion of the pipe under the organ-loft
having got red hot, the fire communicated to the wood
of the gallery. A party of the N division of police in-
stantly procured the parish engine, and, within half an
hour afterwards, several brigade and West of England
engines had arrived. The water-mains were well charged
from the East London works, and the engines having
been set to work, the fire was very soon got under ; not,
however, until considerable damage had been done.
NEW NAUTICAL INVENTION.—A useful invention

is now in the act of being applied to one of our men o
war. It is called a " manceuvrer ;"iit:is the proposition
of R. Foulerton, Esq., is an Archimedean screw fitted
through the deadwood of the ship at right angles with
the keel, and set in motion by the capstan, for the pur-
pose of turning the ship round when, from calm weather,
the helm has no effect on the vessel. It does not project
in any degree, so as to impede the ship's way through
the water, and must be highly useful in the case of
.a
ship being attacked by steamers or gun-boats, in bringing
the broadside to bear on them ; or it may even assist a
ship in the act of staving.
DARING ROBBERT.—A respectable corn-dealer,
from the neighbourhood of Howden was cruelly robbed
in this town on Tuesday last of 2151., with which he
was proceeding to the corn-market. The villanous per-
petrator must have been well acquainted with the habits
of his victim, and the manner in which he carried his
money—in a waistcoat breast-pocket—or he could not,
even in the crowd by which the parties were in all pro-
bability surrounded, at or near the entrance of the
market, have so adroitly effected his nefarious purpose
as unfortunately proves to have been the case in this in-
stance. The pocket, it seems, was completely cut from
the waistcoat, together with the contents—a red pocket-
book, inclosing 20 notes of the Doncaster Bank, 22 of
the Howden Bank, and one of the bank of Beckett and
Co., Leeds, for 51. each-215/. The numbers of the
notes are unknown, neither has the individual who sus-
tained this merciless pillage any suspicion of the thief ;
yet unwilling to return home, he lingers in Hull with the
fond hope of his property being traced. The office has
been given to some of the elite of the police, but we fear
it is a forlorn hope, which even their vigilance may not
achieve.—Hull Packet.
TRES ROYAL STAG-nowiros.--In consequence of
the extremely severe nature of the frost which has pre-
vailed for some days past the Royal Stag-hounds have
not been hunted since Wednesday. The meet this day
has been appointed to take place at Thorpe Green, in
Surrey ; but, from the appearance of the weather up to
a late hour last evening, with the wind in the north-east,
there is not the least probability of there being any
hunting for some days.
THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty has trans-
mitted 201. towards the fund for the erection of the new
church now in progress at Broseley, Staffordshire; a
donation of 201. in aid of the rebuilding of the old
church, which has fallen into comparative ruin in the re-
tired village of Kingsweare, Devon; and 201. to the fund
for erecting the proposed new church at Skirbeck, Lin-
colnshire, to which laudable object the Earl of Brownlow
has contributed the munificent sum of 100/.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—The examination of
candidates for the King's scholarship, which was founded
by his late Majesty, with a portion of the surplus de-
rived from the festival in Westminster Abbey, 1834, will
take place at the institution on the 20th of December,
when one male and one female will be selected, who will
received a musical education for two years gratuitously.
Musical World.