The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-11 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, APRIL 10.

ROBBERY FROM THE TRAVELLER'S CLUB.
Thomas Samuel White and Samuel Solomon were
capitally indicted for stealing seven silver candlesticks, the
property of the Traveller's Club; in another count the pro-
perty was laid in the Marquis of Lansdowne, one of the
Trustees of the Club. White was indicted as a principal,
and Solomon only as an accessary.

The Jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a
♦erdict of Guilty against both the prisoners.

After the trial concluded, the CHIEF JUSTICE said he
would allow their expences to all the witnesses except Mr.
Sillen and his foreman; but if refiners chose to purchase
plate under those circumstances, and sell it two hours after-
wards at an advance of 61 an ounce, it must be at their
°will peril. _ _

Benjamin Black was indicted for stealing a bottle of
port wine, the property of George Holt, his employer.
The prisoner was a cellarman to the prosecutor, and was
detected in taking the property from the premises. He
put in a written defence, in which he stated that at
the time of the theft his wife was confined with
her twelfth child, and was in a state of the most wretched
indigence. He had not stolen the wine with the intention
of. . making a property of it, but intending to alleviate the
distresses of his sick wife, who was nearly at death's door.
The prosecutor recommended him to mercy on account
of his large family
(eight children), and his previous
honesty.— Guilty.

On the trial of the Duke of Devonshire v.
Hodnett, a man named Denis Crowley,
w was in waiting to
be examined for the defendant, o was in his 108th year.
He was in the full exercise of hiseac faculties, and spoke and
ease walked about with as much a man of sixty.— Cork
Paper.
On the night of Wednesday last, the coasts of
this Island were visited by a very
severe storm,
o and
Castle-
town, early
on Thursday morning, accounts werereceived
town, that a brig in distress had been seen to the :tthe-
ward of Derbyhaven, drifting towards. Kirk , St. Ann'sn,,
Head. The Castletown Life-boat vasinnalediately con-
veyed on her carriage by horses, accompanied by her crew
and some gentlemen of that Committee to Derbyhaven,
aid immediately proceeded to sea;
where she was launched,
and in about an hour, having reached St. Ann's Head,
they there foend the upper parts of the masts of the vessel
above water, about 150 yards from that steep and inacces-
sible point surrounded with a dangerous surf; but, unfor-
tunately, all search to discover any of the crew proved
in vain. Thus disappointed in their object, and unable
from the set of the tide and the violence of the storm
t_ return to their own port, they took two sails from
thewreckv, (marked " Dodson, sail-maker, Whiteha-
en,)urand at eight o'clock at night reached Douglas
harbour, after having been ten hours at sea, where, by or-
der of the Douglas Committee, they received every accom-
modation they could require, and on Saturday returned to
Castletown. Early on Thursday morning, a boat without
any person on board, drifted across Douglas Bay about a
mile from the land, on
returnedw
hthe coast, who ich a messenger was sent along
I itth intelligence of the wreck,
and that the Castletown b
was on the spot. The only
hope which now remains for the safety of the vessel's crew
il, that at the time she struck they may have got, by
means of their other boat, on
.board of some vessel, there
being two or three at no very great _distance: The vessel
is supposed to have been a loaded collier froin *MlNlaven.
This is the third time this winter that the Castletown
life-boat has thus been promptly launched, and seat.ot6.
iid'Of vessels in distrax...2frinnx 6`un;

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

War-Office, April 9.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain John Potter
Macqueen, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Thomas
Nutcombe Quicke, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
3d Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet William
Walter Congreve, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rat-
cliffe, promoted to the 6th Dragoons.
11th Ditto—Lieutenant Edward Arnold, from half-pay
Ist Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Maxwell, deceased.
16th Ditto—Cornet Corbet Cotten, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice J. Douglass, promoted 1 Lieutenant
John Vincent, to be Adjutant, vice Hilton, who resigns the
Adjutantcy only.
17th Ditto--Cornet Samuel William Need, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice St. Quintin, promoted ; Archi-
bald Hepburn Mitchelson, gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Shawe, promoted.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Liextenant Norman Maclean, to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Wetherell, promoted.
12th Ditto—Captain Richard Alexander Butler, from
the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Southwell, promoted.
23d Ditto—Lieutenant Malcolm Ross, from the half-
pay, to be First Lieutenant, vice Forster, appointed to the
24th Foot ; Arthur Johnstone Lawrence, gent. to be Se-
cond Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ross, promoted.
35th Ditto—Quartermaster-Sergeant Wm. Howe, to be
Quarter-master, vice Price, deceased.
36th Ditto—Ensign William Townsend Gun, from the
half-pay, to be Ensign, vice John Pierrepoint Taylor, who
exchanges, receiving the' difference.
40th Ditto—Captain Evelyn Spencer Boscawen, from
the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Elliot, promoted.
42d Ditto—Gentlemen Cadet Wm. Oliver Grant, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Grant, appointed to the 92d Foot.
45th Ditto—Captain John Cole, to be Major, vice Stac-
poole, deceased.
To be Captains—Lieutenant James Reid, by purchase,
rice Cole; Captain Edward Caulfield Archer, from the
half-pay, vice John Grant, who exchanges.
To be Lieutenant—Ensign Edmond Wilson Lascelles,
without purchase, vice Forbes, deceased.
To be Ensign, by purchase—James Patrick Meik, gent.
vice Armstrong, who retires.
54th Ditto—Assistant-surgeon Robert Russel, from the
Ist Foot, to be Assistant-surgeon, vice Macdonald, who
resigns.
56th Ditto—Major John Peddie, from the half-pay, to
be Major, paying the difference to the Half-pay Fund, vice
Cairns, promoted ; Lieutenant Forrester Owen Leighton,
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Thorne, who retires; En-
sign Boyle Travers Finniss, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Leighton ; Amos Thorne, gent., to be Adjutant, with
the rank of Ensign, vice Woulds, deceased.
59th Ditto—Ensign Wm. Jesse, to be Lieutenant, vice
M. C. Pitman, dead of his wounds.

60th Ditto—James St. John Munro, gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cromie, promoted.
63d Ditto—Captain Lord William Paulet, from the half-
pay, to be Captain, vice Jacob Jordan, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference.
_ _ _ _

70th Ditto—Lieutenant Benoit Bender, from half-pay
40th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice James Fleeson, who ex-
changes; Edward Kelsall, gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Harvey, promoted.
78th Ditto—HospikaLAksistant Arthur Wood, M.D., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Duncan, deceased.
79th Ditto—Lieutenant James Macdonald, from the
half-pay, to be Lieutenant, vice Alexander Cameron, who.
exchanges, receiving the difference.
86th Ditto—Captain Lewis Robert James Versturme,
from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Abraham William
Wynne, who exchanges.
87th Ditto—Lieutenant James Kennelly, to be Captain,
without purchase, vice C. L. Bell, promoted in 41st Foot;
Ensign Thomas Miller Creagh, to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, rice Masterson, promoted ; Ensign Charles.
Frederick 11TMahon, from the 2d Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Creagh.

Riffle Brigade—Richard Eaton, gent., to be Second Lieu-
tenant, by purchase. vice Williams, promoted.
Ceylon Regiment—Lieutenant George Adolphus Trau-
chell, to be Captain vice Driberg, deceased.
To be First Lieutenants—Second Lieutenant Richard
Jefferson, vice Woodford, deceased; Lieutenant Oliver De-
lancey, from the half-pay, vice Nason, whose appointment
has not taken place.
To be Second Lieutenant—Ensign William Justin
M'Carthy, from half-pay 40th Foot, vice Edward Archer
Tumour, who exchanges.
Cape Corps (Cavalry)L-Cornet Peter Tooke Robinson,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong, promoted.

UNATTACHED.-Major John Elliot Cairnes, from the
.56th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, by pur-
chase, vice Hon. John Finch, whose promotion, by pur-
chase, has not taken place.
To be Lieutenants of Infantry, by purchase—Ensign
Gerard Lake Harvey, from the 70th Foot; Ensign George
Benjamin Tathwell, from the 12th Foot.

Hosrrrai. STAFF—Thomas Coke Gaulter, M.D. to be
Hospital-Assistant to the Force, vice Murray, appointed to
the 96th Foot.

AIEMORANDA.-The undermentioned officers have been
allowed to dispose of their half-pay :
Lieutenant John Mackintosh, half-pay sth Foot; Lieut.
John Preston Walker, half-pay 85th Foot.
Royal East India Volunteers—Sidney John Smith, gent.
to be Ensign.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
R. G. Steel], Tokenhouse-yard, merchant.
BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.

G. W. Brearley, Manchester, draper, from April 13, to
April ?4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
M. Folks, Goodman's-fields, smith, from March 2, to
April 20, at ten, at the Court of Commiesioners.
T. Stanley, Stockport, hat-manufacturer (trading under
the firm of T. and J. Stanley), from April 17, to May b,
at twelve, at the Red Lion, Heaton Norris, Lancashire.