The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
5 (From the United Service Gazette.)
STAFF OFFICERS OF PENSIONERS.—We under-
; stand that it is in contemplation to offer to Bor 10
Subalterns of this force, who shall have attained the
age of 50 years, unattached companies, the appoint-
ments they may vacate being offered to captains of
Reserve Battalions, who have, by the recent reduction,
become seconded. It is also stated that no officer
below the rank of captain is in future to be appointed
a staff officer of pensioners. Those officers for the
companies to be enrolled in Canada will shortly re-
ceive their nominations.
ROYAL MARINE RETIREMENTS._Captain Caleb
Barnes and Thomas Stephens, of the Plymouth Divi-
sion of Royal Marines, have accepted the two full pay
vacancies. The vacancies have been kept open for a
considerable time, to give senior officers serving in
ships on foreign stations an opportunity of availing
themselves of such retirement, and from whom replies
could not be received at an earlier. moment.
STAFF.—Major-General his Royal Highness Prince
George of Cambridge, commanding the Dublin Dis-
trict, left the Royal Barracks on the 27th of May for
London, on leave of absence for one month.
Captain Robertson, of the 71st Highland Light
Infantry, has been appointed Assistant Deputy
Quartermaster-General to the Forces in Ireland,
vice Captain Seton, 74th Highlanders, resigned.
WINDWARD AND LEEWARD ISLANDS COMMAND.—
Major O'Brien, late of the 70th Regiment, it is ru-
moured, is likely to be appointed Military Secretary
to Lieutenant-General Sir J. F. Fitzgerald, com-
manding the Troops; and Lieutenant Arthur Mur-
ray, of the 62cl Regiment, has been appointed
Aid-de-Camp.
Captain Carden, 21 battalion, 60th Foot, Captain
Bsyle, 72d, and Lieutenant Bancroft, 76th, vacate
their several appointments as military secretary and
aides-de-camp to General Sackville Berkeley, late
commanding the troops in the Windward and Lee-
ward Islands.
Captain C. H. Somerset, of the Cape Corps, has
vacated the office of Major of Brigade at the Cape of
Good Hope.
First Lieutenant Andrew Clarke, Royal Engi-
neers, has been appointed Aide•de-Camp to Sir W.
T. Denison, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's
Land.

Lieutenant Swinny, 15th Hussars, has succeeded
Lieutenant Cureton, 3d Light Dragoons, as Adj utent
to the Cavalry depot, Maidstone.
Lieutenant Mosse, 6th Foot, has been appointed
Acting Paymaster, and Lieutenant Webb, Acting
Adjutant of the depot.
Lieutenant Campbell, 72d Regiment, has suc-
ceeded Lieutenant M'Kenzie as Acting Adjutant of
the depot.
Major Gray has ceased to command the Corps of
Enrolled Pensioners at New Zealand.
Major-General Sir James Law Lushington, the
East India director, has placed a cadetship at the dis-
posal of the Cheltenham College, to be competed for
by the pupils in November.
THE FEVER ON THE SOUTH-EAST COAST OF AME-
RICA STATION.—Our private correspondent from Rio,
April 4, states that the fatality and virulence of the
fever had created some degree of excitement. Her
Majesty's ship Tweed had lost three midshipmen and
her boatswain ; her Majesty's steam-sloop Cormo-
rant had lost one midshipman ; the flag-ship South-
ampton was about to proceed to sea for a few weeks,
to avoid contagion. Of the French expedition to
the River Plate, one steamer and two brigs had ar-
rived at Rio.
TUB LISBON SQUADRON.—Commodore Martin re-
ceived positive orders by the Peninsular packet not to
leave Lisbon for his Madeira cruise, but to remain in
the Tagus, within two days' call of the Admiralty,
ready to proceed to any destination at an hour's notice.
The finest feeling prevailed throughout this fine squa-
dron, and nothing could be more acceptable than
rough cruising and hard knocks.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX
MAGISTRATES.
On Thursday a special meeting of the magistracy
of the county of Middlesex was held at the Sessions
House, Clerkenwell, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the report of a committee appointed in
May, 1849, to investigate the general expenditure of
the county. Mr. Pownall presided, and there were
nearly fifty magistrates present.
The recommendations of the report were embodied
in a series of resolutions, twenty-six in number, which
were to be submitted to the meeting seriatim by Mr.
Armstrong, the chairman of the committee.
Mr. ARMSTRONG, in bringing forward the first
resolution, said that at a time when the subject of
the expenditure of county rates was attracting the
attention of the Legislature, when a rigid system
of economy and retrenchment was being introduced
into almost every department of the public service,
and when the public voice was calling for a decrease in
the various branches of public expenditure, he might
congratulate the magistrates of Middlesex upon being
the first body of the kind to, institute a thorough
investigation into the county expenditure. After

alluding to the public attention thireport of the corn

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mittee had excited, and given a detailed account of
the proceedings of the committee, the Hon. Magis-
trate said he had great satisfaction in stating that
throughout the whole of their searching inquiries the
committee had not met with any single circum-
stance which could possibly tend to impute defalca-
tion or peculation to any one in the service of the
county; the utmost the committee could say being
that, in making appointments and arrangements,
there had been an amount of extravagance which
needed immediate attention and retrenchment. He
could not see any reason in the argument that be-
cause on officer was appointed to a certain situation
at a certain salary,
circumstancest hat salary
ht
to
arise remain
to
unalterable, whatever o
warrant an alteration. He hoped to see the reductions
by the committee, in the salaries of officers carried into effect as proposed
dttueoe,ti but at the same time he con4dered
to secure to the on below an amount calculated
talent and late
that any
integrity the services of men of
instead of a useful would be a dangerous parsimony
economy.as
trate then went into of statistics to show
The Hon. Magis-
trate
the principal officersam
Middlesex prisons were and subordinates of the
those of any other countypaolde a higher rate than
and, in reference to theproposed Government prisons;
wages of the warders, he said that
trheductions in the
recommenda-
tion of the committee for those reductioen
by the circumstance that at the time the reductions
present was justified
wages was adopted the Court had not
the scale of
power
which was subsequently given to it by the sth and 6th
Victoria, c. 98, of granting retiring pensions to the
officers, and naturally that scale was framed on a more
liberal principle than would have been observed if the
Court had then possessed the power he alluded to. He
then moved—" That the Court do consider if any and
what measures should be taken for obtaining the re-
peal or amending all or any of the Acts of Parlia-
ment, or of obtaining a new Act in respect of the office
of coroner, and the improvement and more eco-
nomical administration of the coroner's court; the
substitution of a fixed salary in lieu of fees to the
coroner, and the amount; the appointment of a me-
dical officer to the coroner's court, at a fixed salary,
to obviate the present heavy expense of medical wit-
nesses; and generally on any other improvements in
respect of the duties of the office."
Mr. ROTCR seconded the motion.
Mr. LAUB'S moved, as an amendment, " That the
conikleratiou of all motions relating to matter§ which

is. 2d,-.To costs and merchants' bills, 1,0861. 6s. 91—T,
leaving balance, 3171. 18s. sd.
At the West Trethellan meeting, held on Tuesday
last, the accounts were presented, showing—Balaace last
account, 1661. 7s. 11d.; ores sold (less dues), 2771.
4s. 7d.-_—_-4431. 123. 6d.—To costs and merchants' bills for
Jan., Feb., March, and April, 1941. Bs. 9d.;—leaving
balance in favour of mine, 2491. 33. 9d.
At the meeting of Keswick adventurers, a proposition
was made that, in consequence of greater power being
requisite to keep the water, the directors were em-
powered to adopt such measures as they-deemed prudent,
after an inspection by a competent person. By the
agent's report, we find that the bunches of ore in the
shallow levels appear to hold, down, and fully warrant
the carrying out of the above resolution to effectually de-
velope this important sett.
At the meeting of Exmoor Wheal Eliza, a call cf 30s.
per share was made.
At the Craig Diu Slate Quarry meeting, it appeared
that large sums had been expended during the past year
in extending the quarry. A tramway, 543 feet long, had
been constructed, and another excavated 650 feet up the
mountain, and there was every reason to hope that the
capabilities of the quarry would be fully developed.
At the Camborne Consols meeting, resolutions were
passed, confirming the payments made by, and allow-
ances to, the directors. Reports from Captain Matthew
Francis and Mr. Daniell were read, which were highly
satisfactory, as to the state and prospects of the mine.
At the Limheroce meeting, the accounts showed a
balance against the mine of 451. 13s. 6d., but consider-
able improvement had taken place in the lodes, and the
shareholders were highly gratified at their improved
prospects. A second instalment of 10s. on the call of 21.
was made.

We understand that the sampling at Wheal Treasury
in the course of the present week will be abuve 190
tons.

Shares in the following mines have changed hands
during the week:—Devon Great Consols, Treviskey and
Barrier, South Tolgus, South Frances, Tincroft,
West Buller, Mary Ann. Trelawny, Condurrow, Wheal
Franco, South Plain Wood, Moditonhain, Penzance
Consols, Tremayne, Stray Park, Tregear Con-
sols, Pendarves Consols, Roche Rock, North Buller,
West Tolgus, Heignston Down, Wheal Langmaid,
Wheal Virgin, Treleigh Consols, Trethevy, Treville,
Kiogsett and Bedford, Cook's Kitchen, Grambler and
St. Aubyn, Rocks, Providence Mines, Trehane, West
Treasury, Alfred Consols, and Drake Walls.
In Foreign Mines we find that the business done has
been chiefly in Imperial Brazilian, Linares, Santilgo,
Cobre, and National Brazilian, and some transactions
have taken place in Copiapo, St. John del Roy, and
Worthing.