The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-28 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTlONS.—Commander—John Waihington, of
the Shearwater, to the rank of Captain.
Mate—Benjamin P. Priest, of the Dublin, to the
rank of Lieutenant.

APPOINTMEXTS.— Commanders—W. L. Shering-
ham, to the Sylvia cutter; C. M. M. Wright, to the
Alfred, vice Wopdthorpe, promoted.
Lieutenants—Peter Cracroft (Flag), to the Victory,
vice Bouverie, promoted; John Lodwiek, to the
Growler ; E. J. L. Cooper (additional) ; And J. R.
Thompson, vice Elliot, to the Ringdovc ; D. P. Du-
meresq, to the Isis ; R. J. Smith, to the Alfred ;
F. G. Leigh (acting), to the Driver ;' Jacob J.
Young. to the Resistance ; Chas. Seaver, to the Ja-
seur ; Geo. Cleaveland (additional) to the Styx.
Purser—Thomas M'Knight, to be Naval Store-
keeper and Agent Victualler, at Hong-Kong.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. A. Armstrong (addi-
tional, for service at Haslar Hospital, to the St. Vin-
cent, vice Costello ; J. Brown, to the Alfred ; S. R.
Risk, to the William and Mary, for special service in
Woolwich Dockyard.
Mate—H. R. Foote, to the Kite.

Midshipman—H. D. Graham, to the Formidable.
Volunteers First Class—W. Fenwick, to the Cam-
bridge ; George Parker, to the Cerysfort.
Royal Marines—Captain Isaac Toby, to be Bar-
rack-Master at Plymouth ; First Lieutenant Edward
Rea, to be Captain ; and Second Lieutenant W. Jol-
liffee to be First Lieutenant.

THE PREMIER IN A DILEMMA.

The position of Sir Robert Peel, in reference to
the income tax, and his intended reduction of the
import duties, is far from being an enviable one;
nor is it much to be wondered at that he should now
and then, under the baiting of his opponents, exhibit
a degree of ill temper rather unbecoming in a
Prime Minister at a crisis like :the present. On
the one hand, he is anxious to allay opposition to
the income tax, by expatiating on the probable
cheapness of provisions, in consequence of his pro-
posed alteration of the duties on certain articles
of food, and the removal of all prohibition on the
importation of other articles. But, unfortunately,
in his attempts to show that the cost of living will be
considerably reduced by his' alteration of the tariff,
he finds that he is awakening the fears of the mono-
polists, on whom he mainly relies for support ; and
therefore he is obliged to contradict on the one even-
ing, what he has been most vehemently asserting on
the other. Thus, for example, on Friday last, in the
course of his speech, he is reported to have spoken as
follows :—" If my whole plan be adopted, there will be
a diminution of the cost of living, which will repay
to the contributors to the income tax a large propor-
tion of the money they are called upon to advance."
But, unhappily for the Premier's consistency, he
does not agree with himself. In his reply to a ques-
tion put to him on Monday evening, as to what
would be the probable amount of revenue derived
from the importation of foreign cattle, Sir Ro-
bert Peel said, " He had no fear that the importa-
tion of cattle, fat or lean, would materially, if at
all, injure the home grazier." But, if this is to be
the case, what becomes of the much-vaunted reduc-
tion in the cost of living, which, according
.to his
own statement in the house, a few nights previously,
was to be nearly equal to the whole sum each person
would have to pay itt the shape of an income tax ?
Who can wonder at the disinclination of the Right
Lion. Baronet to answer every question respecting his
financial scheme, which his indefatigable opponents
may propose, when his complaisance is continually
liable to place him on the horns of a dilemna, such
,as the one we have pointed out ?—Manchester
I Guardian.