The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-25 00:00:00

ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.

The public will be gratified to learn, by the sub-
joined letter, to the Secretary of the Royal Ortho-
mdic Hospital, that her Majesty has been pleased to
select it as one of the recipients of royal bounty
through his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales:—
" Buckingham Palace, Feb. 18, 1850.
" Sir,—lt has been the object of ber Majesty to pur-
chase for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, by a
dor.a.ion in one sum, the perpetual right of immediate
admission for a patient into some of the leading charit-
able institutions of London, and, in pursuance of this
object, I have received her Majesty's commands to re-
quest you to obtain from the committee of management
of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, a statement of the
terms upon which the privilege may be purchased in the
establishment under their charge. It would be expected
that his Royal Highness would have the poser at all
times to hale one in-patient resident in, and under the
treatment of the hoepital.
"I have this honour to be, Sir, &c.,
(Signed) "C. B. Pimps.

" Mr. B. Maskell." -
We are informed that the sum proposed by the
committee was 250 guineas, to which her Majesty
was most graciously pleased to accede.

ROYAL MARINES.—WOOLIVICR, FEB. 24.—Eight
out of ten senior captains who have obtained the option
of retiring on full pay, in cons( quence of a reduction of
10'companies taking place, have accepted the offer, and
their names were promulgated yesterday in the order-
books of the four grand divisions, and are as follows:—
Captain Richard William Paseo, of the Plymouth divi-
sion (captain of 1837), 39 years' service on full pay, and
three- years and lane months' on half-pay; Captain
George Griffin (1837). Chatham division, 40 Sears full
and six months' half-pay ; Captain. Edmund Nepean
(1838), Portsmouth division, 37 years full and 2 soars on
half-pay ; Major - Francis Smith Hamilton (1838),
Woolwich division, 37 years' lull and 2 years' half-pay;
Captain Joshua Edleston (1840), Woolwich division, 38
fears' full and 6 months' half-pay; Captain Robert
Wright (1) (1840), Woolwich dvision, 38 years' full
pay; Captain Edward Apph tat (1841). Chatham divi-
sion, 30 years' full and 7 years' half pay; and Captain
Peter Martin M'Kellar (1841), Plymouth division, 26
years' full and 10 years' and 3 months' half-pay. There
have been several officers named as likely to accept the
two vacancies still open, but they have not given in their
names to the Admiralty, and therefore they cannot be
given with certainty. Tho retirement of Lieutenant-
Colonel Stevens, of the Marine Artillery at Portsmouth,
has no reference to the reduction list, being merely
allowed on the decease of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson.
SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING. The gambling-
houses in the vicinity of Jermyn-street, Regent•street,
and Leicester-square, have been placed under a close
surveillance, by order of the Commissioners of Police.
Two constables are stationed at the .eatrance to each
house, to note down and describe the persons entering
therein. They will be relieved at stated intervals, the
surveillance to continue without intermission night and
day. It is anticipated that this step will have the effect
of considerably diminishing the numbers of the fre-
quenters of these social pesthouses, and that the chances
of successful plunder enjoyed by their owners being
correspondingly lessened, it will ultimately lead to their
total discomfiture.
The Right lion. the Speaker of the House of
Commons gave his third grand Pertamentary entertain..
meet to a Inge ptirty of Protrutioxist MerriLees II
Saturday last, at the Right Lion. Gentleman's residence
ill Eaton-square.