The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. 28.—This market
remains in the same quiescent state as during the last few
weeks, and without any material variation, either as regards
sales or prices.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, Nov. 28.—We have not
any alteration to notice in this branch of trade during the
present week.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. 28.—There is no dif-
ferent feature in this department of trade this week from
last, and no relief to the dulness then noted; the remarks
made then will equally apply now.
LEEDS.—Business has been very dull at the cloth-halls this
week. There continues to be nothing doing in the way of
purchases except to express orders. Prices continue steady,
and from the cautions proceedings of the manufacturers there
is no great accumulation of stock. Business in the ware-
houses has been almost as dull as usual at this season.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The dulness that has
now so long pervaded the wool market is not in the slightest
degree dispelled. The demand for all kinds of combing wools
is narrowed down to the lowest possible point, yet notwith-
standing this extreme falling off in the consumption, there is
no disposition to press wools on the market. The country
dealers are not generally large holders, and as the farmers
who hold their clips are disinclined to give way in price, the
quantity coming to market is not considerable, which gives
the staplers confidence to hold forward, rather than sacrifice
without being able to replace. The business in yarns, now
that the export houses are nearly out of the market, is
limited, for the manufacturers are generally acting with
great caution, and buy only for present wants ; yet the great
diminution in the production must tell ere long, for every
day adds further additions to the already unemployed. The •
position of the spinners is truly harassing, for evidently no
material relief is likely to be had for the raw material, and
until a considerable improvement in the present price of yarns
can be obtained, it is quite clear this branch of the trade will
not be extended, or the sufferings of the operatives in any
way alleviated. The determination to prevent any increase
of stock in pieces is closely practised by the manufacturers,
in confirmation of which, immense numbers of both male and
female weavers may be found without any work whatever,
and those who are employed only partially so. Still the
position of the manufacturer has for some time past been
infinitely better than that of the spinner, for the sacrifices
that have been made on yarns by many needy spinners has
enabled them to offer goods at prices far below what the price
of wool will warrant. With the precautionary measures now
adopted, it will tend to bring about a more natural state of
things, and place the trade on a more healthy basis. The
business done to-day has only been limited, as the home
trade houses only buy to assort their stocks, and the shippers
doing a little for the German. fairs in January. In prices
there is no change worthy of notice.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have bad an-
other dull and declining week is our cloth market, and prices
are now rapidly approaching the lowest point known in
1841-42, particularly for shirting's. When the advance paid
to the operatives in every department of manufacture is con-
sidered, the position of the manufacturer is not better, if so
good, as in the most distressing period referred to. The
printers are alarmingly dull—so are the dyers. Short hours
are now again generally spoken of, thus showing that dear
food and higher wages have no necessary affinity with each
other. The silk trade was never known to be in so depressed
a state. The fustian cutters are now working for 30 or 40
per cent. less wages than they did six months ago; at that
time certainly their wages were very high. Spinners submit
to a slight reduction from the highest point some four months
ago. Twist may be said to have receded in value some 15
per cent.

THE RESISTRATION IN LANCASHIRE.—The public
in Manchester and its vicinity, or rather the free-traders in
these localities, are responding to the call of the League to
qualify for the counties in good earnest : within a week more
than 100 applications have been made. That the members
will increase in something like arithmetical progression up
to the 31st January, 1846, there is every reason to expect,
judging from present appearances. The higher class of Re-
formers, now that the plan is likely to succeed, are qualifying
themselves, and for such counties as apparently stand most
in needof such assistance. A regular canvass in districts will
be resorted to, in order that no stray free-trader may escape.
The feeling on this great question is evidently most intense,
and the prospect of an early repeal of the corn-laws is giving
such an impulse in the right direction, that the monopolists
must, it is pretty clear, strike their colours. The League is
at work late and early.—Leeds Afercury.

THE THREATENED SCARCITY OF
FOOD IN IRELAND.
(Abridged from the T,irerpool Journal of Saturday.)
The Mayor of Liverpool having declined to call a town
meeting for the purpose of memorialising Government on the
threatened scarcity in Ireland, a public meeting of the in-
habitants was held last night at the Royal Amphitheatre.
The doors were opened shortly after six o'clock, but long
before that hour a vast crowd filled Queen-square and Great
Charlotte-street. The nigh on the opening of the doors was
tremendous, and in about ten minutes the house was literally
overflowed, thousands outside pressing eagerly but uselessly
for admission.
W. BROWN, Esq., took the chair, and when silence was
restored, he proceeded as follows :—Gentlemen, you have
done me the honour to request that I would preside over
your deliberations this evening. I have no doubt that you
will give me all the support you can, in order that every
gentleman who may be pleased to state his views to this
assembly on the present unpleasant position in which you
are placed from the failure of the potato crop and
the deterioration of the wheat crop, may do so
with satisfaction to himself.—(Hear, hear.) I do
not suppose, gentlemen, that it will be necessary
for me to exercise the privilege of a chairman to
call any gentleman to order, but in such an event
taking place, I have no doubt I shall have your cordial sup-
port to maintain the authority of the chair.—(Hear.) Gen-
tlemen, the friend who was pleased to nominate me as your
chairman this evening, has already informed you that a re-
quisition was sent to our chief magistrate, signed by 5,800 of
his fellow-townsmen—gentlemen of different religious per-
suasions, and of all political parties.—(Hear, and cheers.)
That requisition requested that his worship would call us to-
gether to deliberate and to consider what measures we should
adopt to alleviate the distresses which are likely to overtake
a largeand humble class of our fellow-subjects. To that re.
quisition, Gentlemen, he was pleased to answer that he did
not think the time was come for calling us together under
his auspices.—(Laughter and hisses.) But, Gentlemen, to
put you in full possession of the respectful requisition that
was sent to him, and the very letter of his answer, I think it
will be best to read both for your consideration ; and as my
voice is none of the best, my excellent friend, Mr. Cooke, has
promised to relieve me of that part of my duty. He will also
be good enough io read the requisition of a number of your
fellow-townsmen—the mayor having declined to call us to-
gether—requesting that we should assemble under the pro-
tection of the Constitution to express our own opinions fully
and fairly to her Majesty's Government.—(Hear and cheers.)
Mr. J. B. COOKE here read the requisition to the Mayor,
together with the Mayor's reply.
The CHAIRMAN then continued as follows :—Gentlemen,
that the first requisition to the Mayor, and the second re-
quisition to you, was signed on no light grounds, I think we
have very ample materials to show.—(Hear.) The first that
I shall bring under your consideration is correspondence that
took place between Lord Cloncurry and the Prime Minister.
The Government were so sensible of the danger that threat-
ened the country from famine that they assured his Lordship
that it occupied the most serious consideration of Ministers.
The-next that I shall call your attention to is the Mark Lane
.express—a paper that is the avowed organ of the agricultural
interests of the country. The Express tells us, and reiterates
the statement from week to week, that many cargoes of po-
tatoes have arrived in the Thames so very decayed and rotten
that they were thrown overboard.—(Hear, hear). It also leads
us to believe that the accounts from all parts of the kingdom
are by no means favourable to the preservation of the potato
crop throughout the winter, for the sustenance of those who
live, most unfortunately, on that description of food. Every
newspaper throughout the kingdom has from time to time
reiterated the same facts ; and that we are not now in a state
of distress, when we are paylne.. 400,0001. a week more for
provisions than we were paying this time twelve months, is
what you will not readily believe.—(Hear, and applause). I
will also call your attention to resolutions passed in Dublin, at
a meeting at the Mansion-house, where Lord Cloncurry pre-
sided, and the Lord Mayor was present ; and perhaps my ex-
cellent friend, Mr. Cooke, will again do me the favour of
reading those resolutions, for they are satisfactory to my
mind, and I think they will be perfectly satisfactory to your
minds also, that the grounds upon which we have assembled
to-night are no light grounds, taking into consideration the
evils likely to arise from the disease of the potato crops during
the winter and the coming spring.
THOMAS THORNELY, 'Esq., M.P., then rose and said—Gen-
tlemen, there are many of us here present who have all our
lives been free traders. There are many of you, gentlemen,
I trust, who have long entertained free trade opinions; and
as to the rest of you, gentlemen, if you have not already
adopted them, I beg that you will direct your attention to
the present crisis of distress, and I think that you will then
agree with those of us who have long entertained those
opinions which I have expressed, that there ought to be
an immediate end put to those laws which prohibit the free
importation of food into the United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) Gentlemen, I have lately made some inquiries
in our corn markets as to the prices of grain—particularly
in the month of May last and in the present month of
November—l found that the wheat of the old crop of Ireland
in May last was at Gs. 3d. per 70 lbs.; that the same article
of wheat of the old Irish crop is now at 9s. 3d.—that is an
advance of nearly 50 per cent.—(Hear, hear.) I found
that oats in the month of May were at 3s. per 45 lbs.,
and that they are now at 3s. 2d. for the same
quantity; that meal was at 225. 6d. per 40 lbs., and that
it is now at 348.(L0ud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, it pleased
the Legislature, as you all recollect, some time ago, to im-
pose an income-tax upon all persons whose incomes ex-
ceeded 1501. per year, to an amount of something like 3
per cent. ; and, gentlemen, great was the outcry throughout
the country, and numerous were the petitions most properly
presented to Parliament against this tax ; but here is a tax
—an advance in the prices of food between the months of
May and November, which has abstracted from the pockets
of the poor man, net a 3 per cent., but an enormous tax,
which renders it a difficult thing for that excellent class of
the people—the labouring class of this country, of which
I shall never speak without respect—(Loud cheers)—to avoid
great misery and great suffering in the crisis which is so
likely to increase.—(Hear.) Well, now, gentlemen, several
of the great towns of this country, seeing what is before
us, have come forward and addressed the Prime Minister,
to express their sense of the approaching famine. The
people of Manchester were called together by the Man-
chester men ; the people of Salford also ; the people
of Birmingham have expressed their opinions ; the people of
Sheffield have done the same ; the men of Leeds have called
together the people of that great manufacturing town; and
all these have unanimously adopted the measure of addressing
the Prime Minister on our present prospects.—(Cheers.) And
I have also heard that the inhabitants of the City of London
will be convened, in a short time, to express their opinions.
—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, our respected Chairman has in-
formed you of our proceedings—of having addressed the
Mayor ; and I must say we should have shown ourselves a
cowardly set of people if we had been prevented by any cir-
cumstances from meeting in this place, and expressing our
opinions.—(Cheers.) My friend, Mr. Thomas Baines will
read to you some further reports, of a most extraordinary
character, of the loss of the potato crop. In the meantime,
from what the Chairman has stated, from the public proceed-
ings in Ireland, and from what you have seen here at home
in Lancashire, you cannot for a moment doubt that serious
damage has been inflicted, generally, on the potato crop. I was
in London but a few days since, and I was there informed
that at one cf the wharfs of the Thames vessels had arrived
laden with a thousand tons of potatoes from Yorkshire; that
those potatoes were so completely destroyed that the vessels
were ordered to be taken into the middle of the Thames, and
that the potatoes had been then thrown overboard.—(Hear.)
But a couple of days ago I read a letter from a clergyman
residing in a remote part of Ireland, ordering from Liverpool
a quantity of rice, to avert, as he said, the approaching fa-
mine under which the people will suffer. Well, now, Gen-
tlemen, what is to be done? I say that, as it is apparent to
the people that these deficiencies in the potato crop are so seri-
ous, and the injury done to the wheat crop have deprived them
of their resources, it is incumbent upon the Prime Minister to
call Parliament together; to say then what his convictions
are—if they can be calledconvictions ;—and he would come to
the conclusion, which I think be ought already to have come
to, if he could have divested himself of ancient prejudices
in favour of the sliding scale—that those laws prohibiting the
entrance of food into the kingdom ought to be repealed.—
(Cheers.) It is known that her Majesty the Queen, by the
advice of the Privy Council, might admit provisions free of
duty until the time of the meeting of Parliament, and I think,
gentlemen, that if her Majesty were to do- so, such an order
in Council would be the strongest evidence in our favour; be-
cause, by so doing, it would be admitting that the present
laws are defective, and ought to be abolished.—(Cheers.) It
is extraordinary that in this great town of Liverpool, where
you receive from every corner of the world, every day of your
life, articles of foreign production, where you see all such ar-
ticles bonded at the Custom-house, that you never see such a
thing as an importation of food.—(Hear, hear.) It is extra-
ordinary, gentlemen, that,lin this town of Liverpool, if you go
into the ship-building yards, you see the ingenuity of
your ship-builders displayed in considering in which way
they shall construct a ship to carry the greatest quantity
of merchandise, and to sail with the greatest facility ; it is ex-
traordinary that you in Liverpool were the first people of
the world who constructed a railway—that between Liver-
pool and Manchester—and that the principle of which has
been since, and is now being imitated throughout Europe
and America—that you constructed that railway, and con-
struct others to save time and give speed to your under-
takings ; it is extraordinary, I say, doing this, that you
should submit to those laws, whereas the importation of
wheat, flour, grain, and meal, are essential to the happiness
and welfare of mankind ;—that, I say, you should submit to
laws which, instead of allowing the distribution of these,
stop them at the very threshold, place them in bond, and
render them as lost —(Loud cheers.) I say you are the most
inconsistent people in the world, if you build a ship to sail
with speed, construct a railroad to gain speed and save time,
and yet allow wheat, and flour, and provisions of all kinds,
to be taken from you and placed in bonded warehouses, in-
stead of circulating and giving cheap food and comfort to
the people. Gentlemen, there are at this time no less than
from 700,000 to 800,000 quarters of wheat and flour lying in
bonded warehouses in this kingdom; this is wanted to grind
with the new and soft wheat, the produce of this last harvest ;
but you allow it to be bonded, and this misirable wheat of our
own production is prevented yielding such good flour as it would
have done if it had been properly mixed. There has been a
suggestion made, and the time may come when, if no other
plan is resorted to, we may propose that it be followed—that
by subscriptions we shall seek to relieve the sufferings of our
fellow-subjects ; but I will tell you this, that if each man
subscribes to the full extent of his means, it would not add
one ounce of food for the consumption of the people.—(Hear,
hear.) It would only bring more competitors into the market
and raise the prices of provisions. The only way of reducing
the prices of food, and so lessen the distress is—instead of
increasing prices by subscriptions, to open the ports—(Loud
cheers)—and thus to compel the Ministers and Parliament to
supply us as we would ourselves do, if left to ourselves.—
(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, before the close of these proceed-
ings you will be called upon, 1 understand, to concur in a me-
morial to Sir Robert Peel, as First Lord of the Treasury,ueox-
pressing your opinions on the present state of affairs: You
will state, in your memorial, your serious apprehensions Ithink of
tk of
famine—of universal famine ; and really, he
the state of our fellow subjects in Ireland, myw heart bows
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within me to think of the misery that
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a of subsistence
has altogether
occasioned to that people, whose only
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is the potato crop, which, as we an n
failed.—(Hear, hear.) I am indeed happy that that most
industrious people have found so much and such liberal em-
ployment in the commercial and manufacturing towns of
England, at a higher rate of wages than that given them at
home. I rejoice that they are useful in our docks and in
r am glad that, in this respect, the com-
mercial and manufacturing towns of England afford so much
employment to the people of Ireland ; but still the distress
and misery impending in that country are such as to demand

the attention and the care of Ministers— (Hear, hear)—
and to induce them to adopt measures which may remedy
the evil so far as it is possible to be done..—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) We have, Gentlemen, within forty-eight
hours, been surprised and delighted with the declara-
tions of two of the most distinguished statesmen of
this country in favour of those views which most
of us here present have entertained for so long a
time, and which your presence here shows you also generally
entertain—l speak, Gentlemen, of the admirable address
written by Lord John Russell, at Edinburgh—(Cheers)—to
his constituents, the electors of thecity of London.—(Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I honour—l respect Lord John Russell
for that clear and that definite declaration'at such a moment.
Lord John Russell is a statesman of high character and of
great intellect, to whom no one, let him be a political oppo-
nent entertaining political opinions hoWever strongly ad-
verse, will deny the possession of abilities of a high order—
(Hear, hear)—that he is a man of the greatest integrity,
energy of mind, and benevolence of purpose.—(Loud and
long-continued cheers.) That declaration of Lord John Rus-
sell goes to this effect :—That the time has gone by for pro-
posing a fixed duty; that the approach of the close of har-
vest should no longer be attended by those anticipations, so
often realised, of failure and of consequent distress—(heer)
—but that every impediment to the importation and to the
free and unqualified circulation of food should be swept away.
—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, there is another statesman—l mean
Lord Morpeth—(Loud cheers)—whose characterland talents
are, like those of Lord John Russell, of the very highest order
—whose character is equally unblemished; and he has,
within the last two or three days, written a letter, which Was
read at a public meeting. held the other day at Sheffield, ex-
pressing his individual opinion—an opinion come to witlibut
consultation with any other and without concert—that the
corn-laws ought to be entirely abolished.—(Loud cheers).
To those gentlemen who have been working through a long
series of years, for the obtaining of the abolition of these
laws, such declarations coming from these quarters could not
but prove satisfactory, and might further, be received as
very convincing testimonials that the doctrines they held
and maintained were right and sound.—(Loud cheers.) And
now it is in our power. I believe and am convinced, by s
firm; and unqualified, and conscientious expression of our
sentiments—sentiments embodied in the resolution .I am
about to read, and in'others which will be read too, and which
will he carried by you—to put an end, at once and for ever,
to the abominable and detestable existing corn-laws.—(Tre-
mendous cheers.) Mr. Thornely concluded by proposing and
moving the following resolution :—" That the alarming
failure in the potato crop throughout the United Kingdom,
confirmed in the case of Ireland by several reports from the
Commissioners specially appointed by her Majesty's Govern-
ment to investigate the subject, and by other persons of un-
questionable veracity, together with the injury done to the
wheat crop, aro calculated to excite the most serious appre-
hensions of impending famine."
LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq., seconded the resolution.
Mr. BAINES read a long report stating the condition of the
potato crop.
W. RATHBONE, Esq., proposed the next resolution—" That
we have now assembled for the purpose of expressing our
strong convictions of the responsibility which rests upon her
Majesty's confidential advisers, if they do not take imme-
diate steps to avert, as far as possible, the awful consequences
of a deficient supply of the necessaries of life."
A. H. WYLIE, Esq., seconded the resolution.
Dr. BLACKBURN read the following resolution :—" That we
find, from daily experience, that in all the articles we obtain
from foreign nations, and which are left to the natural opera-
tions of commerce, there is always procurable an abundant
supply for the •wants of the community ; that we therefore
believe that it is owing to the restrictions imposed by the
corn and provision laws that there is not every year a store
of foreign grain ample enough to dispel the well-founded
alarm which is now inseparable from a failure in our own
harvests; that the operation of these laws is generally to
impoverish the labouring classes, and to reduce them to the
coarsest description of food on which existence can be
supported; that we are firmly convinced that the failure
of their only principal means of subsistence among
that large and helpless portion of our fellow-subjects, un-
less in some degree remedied by the instant admission of
all kinds of provisions duty free, wiM be productive of con=
sequences too fearful to contemplate ; that we, therefore,
consider it the bounden duty of the Queen's responsible
advisers to advise her Majesty immediately to summon
the Parliament, for the purpose of recommeeding the total
and immediate abolition of a system which has' been justly
said to be ' the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture,
the source of bitter divisions among classes, and the cause
of penury, andlever, and crime, among the people.'' He
then said,- This resolution contains a very important sen-
timent—one which we would do well to understand
its .necessary
thoroughly in all its bearings and with all as _necessary
limitations. It does not assert that our corn-laws are the
cause of deficiency in the harvest, or that any possible
arrangement' of law could prevent those casualties to
which the crops of all countries are in the very' nature of-
things, and, by the ordination of Providence, always ex-
posed. Nor does it at all imply that a conaiderahle failure
in the produce of the ground is not a serious calamity in
itself, calculated to entail great suffering on the bumbler
classes in whatever part of the world it may occur.—(Hear.)
The great national evil which the corn-laws are intended to
protect us from is, in plain terms—a cheap and abundant
supply of food—certainly the oddest kind of national evil
that ever was heard of.—(Cheers and laughter.) And we are
not left to conjecture upon this subject, but are plainly told
so by the monopolists themselves. 'When the Duke of Rich-
mond said, We don't grow glass, but we do grew timber"—
when Sir Edward Knatchbull waxed lachrymose about mar-
riage settlements and daughters' portions—and when Mr.
Miles, the acknowledged leader of the landowners' party,
stood up in his place in the House of Commons, and rated
the Premier in good set terms, because divers articles, such
as butter, cheese, and bacon, had been too cheap, imputing it
to Sir Robertl as a crime and a violation of an implied com-
pact—that lie had not kept up prices as was expected by his
supporters—the real purpose of the corn-laws comes out.
The more knowing ones of the party talk in a different style,
and wrap up their statements in a sort of misty verbiage in-
tended to deceive and delude; but these simpletons blab—
(Cheers)—the secret; and as Mr. Escott said the other day,
they damage their own cause most effectually. And is it
indeed to come to this? Are the people of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, to bow down their necks any longer
beneath this yoke? Let them now speak out—promptly
—clearly—loudly—in a voice that cannot be mistaken.
Let them, in tones that shall reverberate through the
halls of legislation, and ascend up to the palace of the em-
pire, tell those haughty oligarchs—who by their corn-laws
and their game-laws now trample down the people like mire
in the streets—that we will be their slaves no longer.—
(Great cheering). In this way, and in this way only, will
the victory of truth, and righteousness, and benevolence, be
secured. In this way, and in this way only, will the grim
and gory dragon of monopoly be hurled from his throne, amid
the joyous hallelujahs of emancipated millions. Dr. Black-
burn resumed his seat amid thunders of applause.
Mr. J. BRANCKER was introduced. He said :—Fellow
townsmen, after the very excellent speech of our respected
friend, Dr. Blackburn, you will, I am sure, quite agree with
me, that the less I say the better.—(Laughter and cheers).
I shall, therefore, confine myself to heartily recommending to
you the motion which he has proposed, and in seconding it
myself.—(Cheers.)
R. SHEIL, Esq., having addressed the meeting at consider-
able length,
Mr. Cztooxia read the memorial, embodying the previous
resolutions.

The memorial was adopted, and the meeting separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. :30.—The Athol troop-ship, on her
way to Jamaica, with royal artillery, is at Spithead, to have
a few defects made good, and some additional scuttles cut, to
give more air and light on the lower deck. She will be finished
to- morrow, and sail on Tuesday.
The Trincomalee, a teak 42-gun frigate, cut down and
altered to a 26-gun ship, was floated out of dock yesterday,
and will be fitted for commission without delay. She is to
be armed with four 68-pounders on the main deck ; two 82
pounders on the upper-deck, and the other 20 guns will be
32-pounders. The alterations made in her construction have
been the suggestion of Mr. Corry, the secretary to the Ad-
miralty. She retains the bew of the Leda and Juno class,
and appears a fine vessel.
The Wanderer, 16, and the Childers, 16, have put into
I dock to repair, and be got ready for commission.
The Rader, screw -steamer, is in dock to have a great hole
cut through the after part of her frame, to admit of her screw
propeller being unshipped when necessary, and hoisted upon
deck. The place will resemble the well of a fishing yawl,
and is to be lined with copper. Much trouble and delay
will be saved by this method of getting at the propeller,
when it requires inspection, or repair, as now it must be re-
moved from the outside, and got up over the vessel's quarter.
By simply having a rope made fast to the main boom, it can
be hoisted on deck with ease. The Rattler is, if possible, to
be got ready for sea by Saturday next, but to what part of
the globe she is to be sent is at present all rumour and con-
I cture.

The Scourge, mortar steamer, has entered a few men, and
her officers being appointed, she will commence rigging and
fitting next week. It is expected that the 56-pounder gun,
which she has in at present, will be exchanged for a 10 inch
84-pounder, and two carronades added.
The Fairy yacht continues daily trips to Cowes to receive
the commands of her Majesty. The Commander-in-Chief had
the honour of dining at Osborne House on Friday. He was
the only guest, except the usual dinner party. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert has expressed his intention to come
to the dockyard some day this week to inspect the royal
apartments in the Admiralty-house.
NAVAL RETmEmENT.—The extended time for the captains
of the navy to send in their names for acceptance of the
offer of the Admiralty to retire upon the increased allowance
of ss. 6d. per diem, with other advantages, expires this day.
It is confidently reported among naval people that 280 cap-
tains have accepted it. If so, there is little doubt but the
measure will be carried out. A few days must determine the
s
business, as those officers who have signified their wishes
to the Admiralty must receive official notice, eitiriart that
et
their names have been placed on a retired list, r_
°betr of offi-
contemplated plan cannot be effected. Th
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three admirals.

DROMOTIONS.
Retired Commander of 1830—Glotworthy Gillmore, to be
Retired Commander of 1816.
Surgeon—J. W. Reid, from the Agincourt, to be acting
Deputy Inspector of tile Hospital on board the Minden, vice
Dr. Wilson.
Assistant-Surgeon—D. P Whipple, to the rank of Surgeon
and a ,pointed to the Agincourt.
Clerk—Win. G. Parminter, to be Paymaster and Purser.
APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—James Crawford Caffin, to Scourge; Jas.
Richard Dacres, to Nimrod.
Lieutenants—E. R. H. Proctor, to command Harpy; A. C
➢iay, to Alarm ; Augustus F. Webster, and A. S. Boot, to
Endymion ; William Thomas, to be Agent on board the Pa-
linurus transport; A. Wordon, and E. H. H. D'Aeth, to
Scourge ; M. Nollotb, to Bittern ; W. P. Priest, and W. H.
Stewart, to Grampus Frederick A. Boyce, and Edward Hill,
to Nimrod ; Peter A. Halkett, to Stromboli ; and W. T.
Turner, to Crocodile ; H. T. Lave, to Endymion ; N. N.
L. Lockyer, to Bittern.
Masters—George Collier to Scourge, John Dillon to
Alecto.

Pursers—J. F. Russell to Grampus, V. A. Haile to
Scourge.
Surgeons—Richard Butler and W. T. Rogers to Star, Dr.
R. Browning to Grampus, J. J. Crawford to Bittern, George
D. Maclaren to Joseph Somes convict ship, James Osborne
(a) to Barretto Junior convict ship.
Clerks in Charge—W. F. Maturin to Sparrow, Charles
Barnes to Lizard.