The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

ArrOINTMENT3.

WOOLWICff, DEC. 12.—Commander--John
Gennys (1845), to command the Fantome, 12 sloop,
at Portswoutn, for service on the New Zealand
station.

Lieutenants—Charles Talbot Compton (1844), to
the Fantome; George T. S. Winthrop (1846), to the
Victory flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Master—Charles J. Polkinghorne (1849), to the
Fantome.
Paymaster and Purser—Robert E. Malone (1847),
to the Fantome.
Mate-711. P. Da Kantzow, to the Volcano steam-
vessel, at Woolwich, for the coast of Africa.
Master's Assistant—F. L. B. Williams to the
Fantome.

Clerk—William L. G. Drew (1847), to the
Fantome.
Beats wain—W. Neale, to the Fantome.

Carpenter—Timothy Runyard, to the Fantome.

Commodore henry Eden left Woolwich this
morning for Ireland,lhaving obtained six weeks' lee
of absence.

The Jasper and the Monkey steam-vessels left
Woolwich this afternoon for the Yore, to tow the
Hercules store-ship, Master- Commander Robert
Fulton, to Greenhithe, where she will unload her
stores from the Mediterranean.

The Advice steam-vessel left for Cork yesterday
in change of Air. Petley, master of the Lighting,
The Advice is to be made a tender to the Ajax steam-
guardsbip, at Cork.
The Vulcan, 14, steam-frigate, at Sheerness, is ex-
pected to be made ready for commission immediately.

SPORTING IN TEL LIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASE.
5 to 2 apt Mr. Cunningham's Peter Simple—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. W. Vevers's Vain Hope—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Morgan's Catherine—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. W. S. Cartwright's Maurice Daley
—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. Storey na Victim—taken
HURDLE RACE.
5 to 2 agst Mr. Stattirci's St. Helier—taken
7 to 2 agst Mr. B. Land's The General
6 to 1 agst Mr. Drewe's Vesta
DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian—taken to 2001.
7 to 1 apt Mr. Halford's Prime Minister—taken
and acerwards offered
13 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster—taken
45 to 1 agsc Mr. Meiklam's Constellation—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Sir J. Hawley's Buleamo—taken to 2001.
The room thinly attended, and business very dull.
We understand that there is every prospect of a match
being concluded between The Flying Dutchman and
Voltigeur.
The Epsom Spricg Meeting will hold forth unparal-
leled attractions for Friday, 4th April, 1851, with seven
fixtures and 650 soy's. of public money, including the
Great Metropolitan Stakes and its 350 soya., and the
new and excellent idea of devoting the other 150 sous.
raisad by Messrs. Beam), Dorling, and other gentlemen
in committee, principally from the liberal licensed vic-
tuallers of the metropolis and its adjacencies, to a new
race of 15 soya, each, 10 and 5 ft, to be run on the last
mile and a quarter of the New Derby Course, called the
City and Suburban Handicap. As Mr. E. W. Topham,
of Chester, has been selected by unanimous consent to
affix the weights for the Groat Metropolitan, the entrits
for which are to be made to the Messrs. Weatherby, on
or before Monday next, the subscribers to the bonus
have not only every right to place unbounded confidence
in the construction of the handicap, but have given sub-
[.,4,antial proof of it already, by pouring in their contri-
butions with unprecedented alacrity.

COLOURING the INTERIOR of he GREAT

GLASS CASE.

I would (says a correspondent of the Builder) hero
humbly suggest to.the attention of the Commissioners a
mode of colouring the interior of the great building, and
which would at least have the claim of novelty and ease
of execation. The system I propose is shortly this. To
paint the whole of the iron-supporting columns in pure
white throughout tho building; and then each aisle
throughout its whole length one uniform colour, com-
mencing in the centre avenue with yellow (yellow being
the central and brightest colour of the spectrum); the
aisles or avenues on the one side being then in orange,
red, and purple, and those on the other side green, blue,
and violet; thus seven of the aisles, including the central
avenue, would make up together the colours of the solar
spectrum, and Le arranged in the same order—this sys-
tem being of course continued throughout the building
to the lateral walls. The next thing would be to blend
them together us in the spectrum. . . This would, in
the long perspective, and consequent distance and air,
produce, I cannot but think, an almost magical effect;
and all the colours being in the distance seen together,
the harmony, at least, would be perfect,—this arrange-
ment being the same as in nature. It could, too, be ex-
ecuted by ordinary workmen, and as rapidly:as if painted
one uniform tint; but its complete success—and it could
not be otherwise then successful—would much depend
upon the artist's choice of colours, as the colours should
not be crude. The effect of this mode of colouring the
great building would be to a spectator, near and imme-
diately around him, that of a room or hall whose general
hue is yellow, or green, or purple, with spaces or halls
immediately round, orange, or%blue, or red, but it would
be in the far distance that the wonder of the thing would
be found, as the air and distance would blend all the
colours into one perfect and harmonious whole, and the
vast numbers of spectators, and the piles of wealth would
appear as if covered with a rainbow. This, upon re-
it2ction, will be found to be (if any decorative colour at
all is used) the cheapest and most expeditious mode con-
ceivable of accomplishing it.

PArliament will meet for toe dispatch of business
on Tuesday, the 4th of February, 1851.

ANOTHER CONVERT TO THE CHURCII OF ROME.—
It is with feelings of the deepest regret we announce that
E. R. I'. Bastard, Esq., of Kaley, was received into the
Church of Rome ou Saturday week.—Exeter Paper.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— A_ most lamentable occur-
rence took place at Bristol onWednesday afternoon last, by
which three men unfortunately lost their lives. It appears
that a number of men were crossing Marydyke Forry, in that
harbour in a boat, after their dinner, to resume their work,
when about half-way across one of the deceased (Robert)
suddenly rose from his seat, and in doing so caused the boat
to lurch so much that she filled, and the whole were preci-
pitated into the water. goats put, off. to their rescue, but
three poor fellows were drowned. rhea. names were John
Probert, William Roberts, and Robert Mills ; they have all
left wives and large families. a

ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS.—Aa a meeting of
the council of this institution yesterday afternoon, the fol-
lowing members of the college were admitted fellows, having
undergone the necessary examinations on the 3d and sth
inst. : Messrs. William Rutherford Aucram, Talparaiso,
South America, diploma dated October 11, 1839; John Ors-
born, Bitterne, near Southampton, January 10, 1840; and
James Robert Lane, Grosvenor-place, May 2.3, 1847.
MID-LOTHIAN PROTECTIONIST SOCIETY..—We un-
derstand that at the meeting of the Mid-Lothian Protectionist
Society held at Dalkeith last Thursday, it was agreed to defer
proceedings till some future period, and that, in the mean-
time, a canvass should be carried on for the return of a cer-
tain baronet near Dalkeith, as member fur the county. This
baronet, it is understood, is to advocate a fixed duty on corn
" as a source of revenue" in place of the present income-tax
and "other burdens affecting land."—Scotsman.
THE IMPERIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.—Yesterday
another inquiry, which occupied from ten o'clock till four,
took place before his Honour Master Farrer, upon the liabi-
lity of the third class of contributories in this company, con-
sisting of those who, on shares being allotted, paid Is. per
share, and took up their scrip. Mr. Pryor conducted the
case for Mr. Soulby, the official manager; and Mr. Glasse,
Mr. Little, Mr. Hare, and others appeared as counsel for the
various persons summoned to appear. The day was occupied
in the discussion of the general question as to whether,
owing to the variations that had taken place in the form and
constitution of the company, a large number of the share-
holders could be made liable, they having, it was contended,
joined the original undertaking under a totally different state
of things to that which existed under the deed of settlement
executed under a subsequent constitution of the company,
and which constitution was the only one had in view by the
Court of Chancery in decreeing that the company should be
wound up. His Honour said that he would read over all the
evidence and weigh all the arguments that had been adduced
before him, but his present impression Ivas that he could
hardly place these persons on the list as liable as contracting
parties us respect of the particular company the Court had
referred to him to wind up. .

Pals.—About six weeks ago great sensation was
caused in the English circles of this city by the melancholy
suicide of a young lady of highly respectable family, who
had recently arrived with a married sister and her sister's
husband from Dieppe. She had, it seems, gone to the house
of an English physician, with whom, though much her
senior, she had been on terms of intimacy. In consequence
of something which took place between them, she swallowed
a dose of opium which she had brought with her in a phial.
She, however, was able to walk home, and the poison, it
seemed, was not likely to have any dangerous effect ; but the
next morning she sent out for another larger dose, and this
c,:used her death iu a few hours.—Bi ighton Gazette.
SCHOOL FOR. THE INDIGENT BLIND.—A general
meeting of the subscribers and patrons of this charity took
place yesterday at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, the
Right Hon. Lord Itadstock in the chair. It appeared from
the statements laid before the meeting that this institution
had answered the most
..sangitine expectations of its fends
both in the tifeourageuient whi.Ch it had . received from the
publiC and m the results which had been produced.
On Saturday, an old noman named Elizabeth
Proper, age~f 2, resident *rigton Lincolnshire, who
was an habitual opittreeaiir„ --.1:9h0 42;exaqic.with 411 acei-
-4%144 atrerdnze. u