The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-17 00:00:00

♦PPOINTMENTS.

Captains—George Robert Lambert (1825), wlio was
midshipman of the Eagle from 1809 to 1814, and under
the late Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., shared in
all the services of that ship in the Adriatic, including the
taking of Trieste and Fume, where he served ashore, to
the Endymion, 44, at Devonport ; Thomas Henderson
(1840), who commissioned and fitted out the Endymion,
to the Sampson steam-frigate at Sheerness.
Lieutenants—Henry Need (1841), who was mato of
the Druid, and promoted for his servicts at the taking
of Canton, and when lieutenant of the Harlequin served
in her boats in a severe encounter with pirates on the
coast of Sumatra in 1844, to the Terrible steam-frigate,
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ness ; J. C. Clarke and C. 0. Wood (additional), to the
Vernon ; W. E. Fisher (additional), to the Penelope ; P.
W. May, to the Alarm ; W. G. Herbert, to the Bittern;
J. Rawstorne, to the Trafalgar ; J. W. Tarleton, to the
Endymion ; R. M. Floud, to the Nimrod ; C. M. Ayns-
ley, to the Terrible ; W. Crawford and th Hon. H. D.
Keane, to the Scourge ; J. Simpson, to the Vernon ;
W. C. Forsyth and H. Bayley (additional), to the Hi-
bernia ; W. Cashman (additional), to the Vindictive •
E. Hempstead (additional), to the Collingwood ; C.
Young (additional), to the Agincourt ; 0. Borland, to
the Nimrod ; A. F. Webster, A. F. Austin, and H. S.
Haysker, to the Samson ; W. R. Rolland, to the Alarm;
R. T. Bedford, to tha Superb.
Masters—R. C. Allen, to the Teriible ;P. Welling.
ton, to the Alligator; G. Wilson (acting), to the Samson.
Surgeons—C. H. Fuller, to the Grauipna ; C. Carter.
to the Terrible.
Paymasters and Pursers—G. H. Moubray, to the
Terrible ; IV. G. Parmeter, to the Daring ; W. Drury,
to the Samson.

Chaplains—Rev. J. H. Laing to the Grampus ; Rev.
J. Thompson, to the Alligator.
Naval Instructors—J. Laing, to the Grampus ; T.
Eastman, to the Excellent ; M. P. Sambell, to the St.
Vincent.

Mates—P. Hudson and E. Scott, to the St. Vincent ;
N. De C. Blennerhasset, to the Alecto.
Assistant-Surgeons•—A. Elliott, M.D., to the Terri-
ble ; W. T. Alexander, D. Davidson, and R. D. Prit-
chard, to the Alligator ; C. S. Lester (acting), to Hasler
Hospital ; and R. Sparrow (acting), to Plymouth hos-
pital.
Second Masters—E. L, Buist, to the Terrible ; J. Cut-
tij ar, to the Samson.

°Clerk in Charre—W. H. Turner, to the Viper.
Midshipmen—H. H. Sainsbury, to the Rooney; F. G.
Meekham, to the St. Vincent ; J. W. H. Thompson, to
tho Amazon ; H. Christian, to the Sydenham.
Naval Cadets—ll. M. Knox, to the Endymion; A. P.
Willis, to the Trafalgar.
Clerk's Assistant—J. F. Harris, to the Alarm.

WOOLWICH, DEC. 15.—The Gladiator steam-frigate
is commissioned at Woolwich by Captain John Robb
(1841).
The Grampus, 50 gun frigate, Captain Martin, C. 8.,
is to be taken out of the basin into the river to-day.
The following change has taken place—R. Taylor, gun-
ner, vice Wicks, cancelled.
The Terrible steam-vessel, commissioned on Tuesday
last by Captain Ramsey, has had the following officers"-
appointed to her :—C. M. Aynsley, lieutenant; Dr. Car-
ter, surgeon; Dr. A. Elliott, assistant surgeon; G. H.
Moubray, paymaster and purser, vice Brickwood, ap-
pointment cancelled; R. C. Allen, master, vice Cbegwyn,
appointment cancelled ; R. Beatson, carpenter, vice
Tucker, appointment cancelled.
The Monkey steam-vessel, Master Commander William
Bryant, left Woolwich on Friday for Sheerness.
The Joseph Soames, hired convict ship, still remains
off the Royal Arsenal, and the Nymph Woolwich steam-
packet brought down 150 convicts on Friday to complbto
the number (286) she is intended to convey to Norfolk
Island.

RECRUITS YOU THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.—TWeIIty•
eight fine young men arrived at head-quarters at Woolwich.
on Friday evening last, from Lisburn, Ireland, where they
were enlisted by the recruiting party under the charge of
Lieutenant Clark, at that station. The recruits were in-
spected yesterday at the Ordnance Hospital, and all passed
as eligible to join the Royal Regiment of Artillery. A re-
cruiting sergeant left Woolwich for Carlisle, and a party for
Taunton last week. The accounts from Elgin, Scotland, do
not afford much prospect of success in that quarter, none
having been obtained as yet. A report has stated that the
bounty has been raised, but such is not the fact.
REPRESENTATION OP WINDSOR.—Some doubts
having prevailed amongst a large portion of the electors of
Windsor as to the: certainty of Mr. Neville again offering
himself at the next election, and a general election being
considered by many, under recent circumstances, to be on
the eve of taking place, it was deemed advisable on the part
of those who introduced Mr. Neville to the constituency in
1841, to communicate with him on the subject. A letter was
received yesterday morning from that gentleman, which set at
rest all doubts and speculations; Mr. Neville explicitly stating
that it is his intention to offer himself at the next. election
for the borough whenever it might take place.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH. or AN INPANT.—On Monday
evening, Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew.
Hospital, on the body of John Cockin, a child three months
old. The friends of deceased live at No. 15, Plough-court.
Fetter-lane. The deceased's mother was very much addicted
to drink, and on Saturday night she returned home in a state
of intoxication, refiring to rest about midnight. Next morn-
ing, about six o'clock, she called some of the lodgers and said
her child was dead, and she believed death had resulted from
inflammation, produced by a cold under which deceased had
been labouring for the last fortnight. Soon after she brought
the dead child into the street, when City police-sergeant,
909, noticing her standing without shoes or stockings, with
the child in her arms, quite dead, at once removed her to
the station-house, and the deceased to the hospital, where it
was pronounced to have been dead for some hours. The
house-surgeon opened the body, and considered that death
had occurred in the course of nature, probably accelerated by
exsure to the cold. Verdict, "Natural causes."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILIL•
WAY.—On Monday morning a labouring man was killed by a
train running over him near the West Drayton station. A
special train, containing some scientific gentlemen, left the
Paddington terminus at seven o'clock for Exeter, to test the
speed on the broad gauge, and immediately after passing the
station at West Drayton, a labouring man named Green, who
happened to be on the down line, was knocked down and
literally cut in two. The accident occurred nearly on the
same spot where two *persons met their death in a similar
were for
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manner about thirteen months since. The unfortunate man
was rather late, and not being aware that a special train was
expected, kept on the down line, as there was
noof t. regular
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train to pass before eight o'clock. The remains
ntiuslae,tedbuwt
conveyed to the luggage .
a coroner's inquest. The
the evening to the village, to await
ceased, which are shockingly_,mu
deceased was forty-seven years of age, and married, but has
not left any family.
A Sussex farmer, on his return from a- loots grist
agricultural dinner in that county, dignified bY'the presence
of grandees of the highest rank in the Peerage, was asked
by a neighbour, how he liked the entertainment? The
honest yeoman, referring, perhaps, to the redundancy of
poultry on the table, replied, in his provincial dialect, "that
he was sick of the dewkea and fules that he &rad there."---.
From an Old Suieeriber.

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