The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-11 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenant W. H. Symons (1805), to
he rank of Commander. _ _

Master's Assistant—Mr. W. Mills, to the rank of
Master, continuing in the Mastiff.
Mates—W. Moorsom (1835), of Endymion ; F. P.
Porteous (1834), of Malabar ; T. Tickell (1836), of An-
dromache ; L. B. Place (1836), of Queen, to the rank of
Lieutenant.

Assistant Surgeon—Francis Sharpe (1839), of Con-
way, to the rank of Surgeon.
APPOINTMENTS.—Captnin—John Simpson (1809), to
Greenwich Hospital, vice Woodriffe, deceased.
Commander—Bartholomew James Sulivan, to the
Phitome'.

Lieutenants—James C. Robinson, to the Scylla ; J.
P. Palmer, to the Thunderer ; K J. L. Cooper, to the
Ringdove, vice Wilkinson, invalided ; Wood, to the
Sylsia, surveying cutter ; Winthrop,- tor the Spitfire,
vice Tringham, invalided ; 11. Baugh, to the Sapho ;
Glynn, to the Village.
Master—Mr. Taylor, to the Sylvia, surveying cutter.
Second Master—J. Soper (actin,*) to the Fly.
Assistant-Suigeons—Dr. Archibald Sibbald, to the
Fly ; D. N. Tucker, to the Caledonia ; IL-Sloggett,,, to -
Hasler Hospital ; Dr. Dickson, .to the Winchester ;: Dr.:
Alex. Borthwick, to the Mastiff, vice M`Bain.
Midshipmen—lt. G. Tuffnell and E. Leeds, to :the
Winchester; W. F. G. Fead, to the St. Vincent. •
Clerks—E. Cheeseman, from Fair-Rosamond, to:.the
Cleopatra; B. Scott, clerk in-charge, to the. Sylvia cutter
Volunteer, Ist class—A. M. Brock, to the Magpie.
Royal Marines—Lieut. Sliewin, to the EXcellent,•
vice Sayer. - •
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7. On Thursday last, the Philomcl,
10, lately launched at this Dockyard, was taken into
dock to be coppered ; she has been commissioned bp'
Commander B. J. Sulivan, and is -to bellitted for a sur=
veying vessel, with a complement of 80 men. The crew
of the Growler, steam vessel, Commander C. ll.„Buckle,
were paid wages in advance, and sailed the next day fee
South America ; between 30 and 40 supernumeraries
have taken a passage in her for the vessels on that
station. The Alert, packet 6, Lieutenant E. Jennings,
and Snipe cutter, Lieuienant Raymond, were paid off.
The Alfred, 50, Commodore J. P. Purvis, on her way
down Channel, was forced into Torbay, by stress
of weather, where she lost two anchors and "Cablcs
by the parting of her chain cables, she, however, ,reco-
vered one of them, and on her arrival here on Sunday,
another was supplied to her ' • she proceeded for ltio the
following day, Nvith a fine breeze from the northward.
On Sunday, sailed the Fly, 18, Capt. F. P.. Blackwood,
and the Bramble, 10, for Torres Straits.—On Monday
the Spy, Lieut. J. M. Pothbury, arrived from Bristol,
with newly raised men.—On Tuesday arrived the Raven
cutter, 4, Lieut. J. W. Shiels, from Portsmouth.—A re-
giment will shortly arrive here to embark on board the
troop-ships Resistance and Crocodile, for the East Indies.
—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, it is said,
have in contemplation the launching or.the Albion, 90,
in August next ; the shipwrights are to work task and
job on her, to get her rem-Ty by that time if possible.—ln
Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Agincoart, Resistance,
Crocodile, Scylla, Lyra. Philomel, Kite, and Raven. In
the Sound—Spy.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAU.WAIr._Lei.
of line 46 miles. Return of traffic for week ending Saturday,
April 2, 1842 :—Number of passengers, 9,388 ; reeelpte,
1,304/. 159. 6d. ; horses and carriages, 25/. 4s. 6d. ; parceiSs
goods, cattle, &c., 307/. 17s. 7d. ; total, 1,637/. 17s. ld.
THE LATE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—The execti-
miters, Lord Lowther, (Postmaster-General), Mr. Cxiker,
Captain Meynell, and Mr. Hopkinson, the banker, have held
several meetings on the subject of the alleged abstraction or em-
bezzlement of large sums of money belonging to his late Lord-
ship, which had been drawn from Messrs. Coutts', arid which it
appeared had not been accounted for. The result of the in-
quiry was an application to the Commissioners of Police, and
an intelligent inspector of the A division (Partridge) was ap-
pointed to assist in the investigation ; and on Wednesday even-
ing, inconsequence of circumstances whieh transpired, he ap-
prehended the suspected party, a foreign servant, who had
been 20 years hi the service of the deceased Nobleman, and
lodged him in Tothill-fields Prison' where he awaits an exami-
nation before the Magistrates.
DEATH OF CONOLLY, THE JOCKEY. We regret
to announce the death of this celebrated jockey. Ever since •
his fall at Oxford, in August 1840, his existence was marked by
sufferings of a most painful and distressing nature ; and a:though
he occasionally appeared to rally, yet it was only to experience
relapses of increased severity. He expired on Saturday morn-
ing at four o'clock, aged 35. It appears that, at the age of 13,
being in the service of Mr. Prendergast, and under the care of
the well-known William Cleary, that gentleman's trailer, he
made his debugs a jockey on the Curragh of Kildare, his first.
race being on Jemmy Gray for a Handicap, Peel course, on
which occasion he weighed 3st 9Pb ! In the following year,
1821, he came over to England with Mr. Prendergast, and
went with his stud to Newmarket, but soon after his arrival.
there Mr. Prendergast wrote to Mr. Cleary "to bring the
hones up to London," which he did, and Conolly
accom-
paaied him. - The horses were afterwards disposed of is,
various -ways The question being put as to what should.
be done with the "little jockey," it was proposed by
Mr. Prendergast that he should be taken into. the bowie too
fill a menial situation then vacant. At this the warm-hearted-
Cleary, to use his own expression, " burst into a blase," and:
he repelled the offer with a_ generous indignation. 'ne next
morning he returned to Newmarket, and on his arrival her
" made a present of Conolly," as he himself described the aut.
to Mr. H. Neale for two years andialf. In 182.3, Neale prat
him en Lord Verulam's Vaurie or the Chelmsford Cup,.
which he had the good fortune to win; and, from that time tin
theshour of his death, Conolly round a most' kind and liberal
patron in his Lordship. It wilt be recollected that Conollr
was rid.ng Lord Verulam's Albert, by Waterloo or Moses, out
Vroennes, in a trial at Newmarket, when life became so in—
staneously extinct, that, as Coney said, " Albert was dead
whilst yet he was in his stride !" In the midway of his career,.
Conolly was " put on" the moat celebrated horses, and such was
his success, that he appeared to farm"-all the great st altos for
the use and behoof of his employers. He won, Derby, (Oaks,
and Leger—the first Eclipse Foot at Aseet, on Priam, and tb.
Goodwood Cup, two years following, on the same horst.. la
weheincdhuchte, on that occasion,
Shillelah being second, Glencoe
1884, he was selected by Mr. Bitson to ride Plenipotentiary kr
tthhierdD.erblli,s
and the " troatmont"
which he subsequently received on the " 'Leger account,"
placed his character in a more honourable light than ever. gib
years ago he married Elizabeth, the eldest danghter of Mr.
Bolce, of Newmarket, and has left a widow and three claims..
REPORT OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE FOR Autos
1842.—April 5, 1842.—When we wrote our last Report of thee
Woollen Trade, we, expressed our opinion that the amount oat
the Spring Trade might be considered as nearly determined by
the transactions of the two first months of the year. A nc,thext
month's experience has served but to eonfirmshat opinion ; and!
we think it may now safely be predicted that the whole trade up
to June next, when the spring season will have gone by, will
exhibit a result more unsatisfactory and disheartening than ha
any one year since 1820. The rule is universal--and the rule
I •
,is complaint. anxiety, and despondency. Purchases are madi
with no spirit, and sales aro effected without adequate profit,.
and but too often with misgivings as to final payment. Small
capitalists are greatly straitened, and are anxiously looking
around for the means of escaping further impoverishment and
ultimate ruin, whilst the more wealthy are lying by from shrew
inability to discover channels of profitable and safe investmerets
or speculation. As to the enlargement of the means of produe..
.tion, that is out of the question—the existing means are n
half employed, and the market value of them is seriously de.
preciated. Floating capital is slipping through the fingered
the owners by a slow but sure process, whilst the heavy rink:
voidable charges on fixed capital are rapidly exhausting aa4
ruining the owners. To crown the last of miseries, employ.
ment is diminishing, and privation and suffering are becoming
more severe and intense amongst our operative population. We
draw no mere imaginary picture—we pourtray a sad and serio4
• reality.— Leeds Mercury.