The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-04 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

At our City Sessions, on Monday last, the Rev.
George Thomas Roberson, B.A. of Lincoln College,
was appointed Chaplain to the City Gaol.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
been pleased to appoint the Rev. Edward Curtis
Kemp, M. A. of East Dereham, Rector of Whis-
sonsett, Norfolk, to be one of his domestic
_Chap-
lains.

The Lord Bishop of Ely has collated the Rev.
Edward Bowyer Sparke, M. A. to a Prebendal
Stall in the Cathedral Church of Ely, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Benjamin Parke, M.A.
The Rev. Edmund Trowbridge Halliday has been
licensed to the perpetual Curacy of Broomfield, va-
cant by the cession of the Rev. Henry Erskine Head,
on the nomination of Col. Hamilton, of the Cold-
stream Guards.

The Rev. R. A. Musgrave was on Sunday in-
stalled to the Canonry in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor, vacant by the death of the Rev. G.
Champagne.
The Rev. J. B. Whittenoom, Head Master of
the Grammar School, to be principal Chaplain of the
Swan River Settlement, on the Western Coast of
Australia.

CAMBRIDGE, MAY I.—Yesterday John Tinkler,
George King, and James Goodwin, Bachelors of
Arts, of Corpus Christi College, were elected
Fellows of that Society.
On Saturday last the Rev. Edward Swanton
Bunting, M.A. Fellow of Clare Hall, was presented
by the Master and Fellows of that Society to the
rectory of Datchworth, Herts, vacant by the death
of the Rev. C. W. Johnson, M.A.
The following gentlemen of Trinity College were
yesterday elected Scholars of that Society :
Carey Taylor Ponsonby Meller Kennedy
Tate Quayle Burchani Dashwood Dyott
Myers Chatfield Walker Spedding Allen.
Mann Worlledge Wilkinson Tennant

The Rev. Lewis Marcus, B.A. is appointed
Surrogate for the peculiar of Biggleswade.
Meetings of the Cambridge Philosophical So-
ciety for the present term :—Monday, May 4;
Monday, May 18; Tuesday, May 19, (anniversary
meeting.)
The select preacher at St. Mary's church, for the
present month, is the Rev. J. J. Blunt, B.D. of
St. John's college.
The following gentlemen of this university were
ordained, on Monday last, by the Lord Bishop of
Rochester, in the chapel of Bromley Palace :
Patzsx:—Henry Montague Grover, S. C. L. St. Pe-
ter's college.
DEACONS:-John Drake Becker, B.A. St. John's
coll. ; Joseph Ashley Morris, B. A. Queen's coll. ; Joseph
Henry Stevenson, B.A. Jesus coll. ; Charles Rose, B.A.
Cath. hall ; William Green, B.A. Corpus Christi coll.
At an ordination holden by the Lord Bishop
of Bath and Wells, on Sunday the 19th ult. the
following gentlemen of this university were or-
dained :
DEACONS :-Williatn Grendon Heathman, B.A. Cath.
hall; George Robert Lawson, B.A. Trin. coll. ; Hamilton
John Williams, S. C. L. St. John's coll. ; John Woodhouse,
B.A. Sidney cull.
PRIESTS i--Elward Nicholas Braddon, B. A. St.
John's coll. ; Richard Cooper Christie, LL.B. Trin. hall;
Ralph Lembton Hopper, M.A. St. John's coll. ; Henry
Moseley, 8.A., St. John's coll.; George Philip Simpson,
B.A. Corpus Christi coll.

PorersstouTti, MAY 2.—The Neva transport,
Lieut. Adamson, arrived from the Mediterranean on
Wednesday, with invalids arid returned stores.
Viee-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm was at Malta
when she sailed, with the Asia, Windsor Cisec,
Revenge, Spartiate, Wellesley, Madagascar, Blonde,
Rattlesnake, Hind, Meteor, Infernal, and Mastiff;
the Samarang was at Navarin; Pelican, at Zante ;
Ocean and Isis, at Smyrna ; Pelorus, at Algiers ;
Rifleman, at Candia ; Dartmouth, at Gibraltar.
The Britomart had gone to Lisbon ; ,the Orestes
transport was fitted as an hospital ship; the Ann
and Amelia and Egginton transports were fitting
for England, as %veil as the_Calypso yacht. Part of
the Russian squadron was at Malta, and the re-
mainder was off the Dardanelles and at (lindia, and
had destroyed several Egyptain men of war, on a
pretence that they were assisting the Turks. Three
Dutch ships of war, and several French transports
'were also there. Three Austrian men of war were
lying off Tangiers, when the Neva came through the
Gut, demanding satisfaction of the Emperor of
Morocco, for detaining some vessels of that nation.
The Challenger, 28, Captain Fremantle, has ar-
rived at the Cape of Good Hope, on her route to
the Swan River,. at which spot the apprehensions
of interruption once entertained from a superior
settlement from France are now removed, by the
fact of that nation having fixed on a point to col°•
nize, in lat. 25 S. (which is distant north of the
Swan River 420 miles), called Shark's Bay, within
which it is understood there is an inlet called Frey-
ceynet's Harbour. The country in its neighhour-
hood partakes of the same nature as that of the
whole west coast, namely, light soil, thinly covered
with beach sand, for ten miles froM the coast, a cir-
cumstance accounted for in the continual westerly
winds. It possesses, howyettxod herb'age, and
is well adapted to the production Ortarleh, and to
gardens. It is, moderately ..wooded, never exceed-
ing forty trees to the acre, and sometimes' in the
same space are to be found oaly.two or three trees.
Water, in all places, is in abundance; it springs
from the range of hills that appears to run'the full
distance of the coast, and parallel to it; at the foot
of the hills the sand disappears, and there the mould
is deep and rich. The same description of soil
exists in the valleys among the hills, as on the east
side of the range. With respect to Swan River, a
contiguous harbour is greatly needed. Gage's Roads,
which lie off its mouth, is not secure; and Cock-
burn's Sound, though an excellent harbour for ships,
is nearly 100 miles from it. Vessels to reach it
must make detour seaward, round all the reefs;
small vessels, however, can make a shorter cut.
The Dryad frigate, Hon. Captain Crofton, left
Genoa for England on the 9th April; she was to
call at Gibraltar, and would remain there some
days.
The Warspi!e, 74, Captain Sheriff, with Rear-
Admiral Baker's flag, will sail on Tuesday next,
for Plymouth, for Rio de Janeiro. She carries out
some supernumerary seamen for the squadron, which
the Conliance steamer conveyed to her on Monday
last from the River. Lieutenant Wood and a party
of the Royal Marine Artillery is also embarked in her,
The Briton, 46, Captain Hon. W. Gordon, M.P.
returued to this port yesterday from Plymouth, hav-
ing conveyed thither seamen for his Majesty's ship
Warspite. The Onyx, Lieutenant Bottler, arrived
this morning from Plymouth.
Woolwich, The
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18, is e-
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West
Indiastation.missi.oned

His Majesty's sloop Cordelia, 10, Commande►'
Boyle, sailed, on Thursday se'nnight from Ply-
mouth, for Cadiz and Malta, to look ►n at Gibraltar
on her way through the Gut. His Majesty's ship
Clio, Commander R. Deans, was paid off at Ply
mouth on Thursday se'nnight.
The Athol, 28 gunS, has been commissioned this
week by Captain Alexander Gordon. The follow-
ing officers are appointed to her :—Lieutenants
James Inman, R. E. Martin, Mr. J. H. Burgess,
Purser, Mr. A. Fisher, Surgeon, Mr. J. K. Ballard,
Assistant-Surgeon. The Athol is intended for the
African station.

Mr. Dickman, of the Sybille, is pi omoted to be
Lientenant of the North Star.

The Honourable Company's ship William Fair-
lie, from China, pessed by for the River on Wed-
nesday, landing her passengers here. She sailed
from Canton on Christmas-day, and called at the
Cape and St. Helena; at the latter island she left
free traders Medina and Bussorah Merchant, home-
ward bound, and the North Star, Captain Arabin,
bound to Rio Janeiro, from the Coast of Africa.—
The Helican sloop of war had left that island for
England, but was to touch at Ascension.
The brig Guardian, from Cadiz, with wine, came
into harbour on Monday, having sustained damage
in a gale of wind ; the barque Harriet, from Sierra
Leone, with timber, arrived on Tuesday, with the
loss of her mate and five men on the passage from
fever.

In addition to the piece of plate presented to Mr.
Hammick, late Surgeon to the Plymouth Hospital
by the Assistant-Surgeons of that establishment,
the officers and families of the officers of the same
department, in token of their estimation of his hu-
manity and professional skill, have, presented him
with an elegant Silver Soup Tureen, with his arms
engraved thereon, and also the following inscrip-
tion :—" Presented by the Officers of the Royal
Naval Hospital at Plymouth and Families recently
belonging to it, to Stephen Love Hammick, Esq.,
First Surgeon, as a token of their esteem and regard
on his retirement from the public service."
A Correspondent, in allusion to a paragraph
which appeared in the London Papers, and was
copied into this Papet last week, referring to the
effect produced on his Majesty's ship Gloucester,
by firing guns from her stern, remarks—
" The Gloucester, without receiving any previous
notice, was cleared for action, and the firing com-
menced from thirteen guns—four from the lower
deck, four from the upper deck, four from the quar-
ter deck, and from one carronade on the poop.
Twenty-five rounds of shot were fired from all these
guns in forty-five minutes; frequently two and some-
times three pieces of ordnance were discharged simul-
taneously. After this tremendous firing of 325
charges had ceased (and it is to be recollected that
these guns were discharged from a much less space
than the same number would have been from the
broadside), the ship was minutely examined, to
ascertain the effects from concussion, when it was
found that her fabric and all the solid stools, the
housing to the quarter galleries, the steward room,
and water-closets, were in as perfect a condition as
they were prior to the cannonading ; and that the
only parts which were in any way disturbed, were
the lining to the stools, lining to the port holes, and
some of the ornamental mouldings,—thus proving
the strength and solidity of the fabric, and the ad-
vantages arising from circular sterns, advantages
which were found in battle, and highly spoken of in
his Majesty's ships Revenge and Asia."

Robberies by female servants were never more
frequent than they are at present. This, in many in-
star.ces, is occasioned by their fondness fsr dress, or their
becoming acquainted with thieves, who in the first in-
stance ingratiate themselves into their favour, as pretended
lovers, and then prevail on them to rob their masters and
mistresses. The receivers of stolen goods are now be-
coming so numerous in every parish, that the facility with
which plunder can be disposed of, is a great excitement to
theft, and is one cause of the alarming increase of robberies.
MILITARY Music.—This was the first time
I ever heard the whistling of balls. The reader will per-
haps expect that I should exultingly exclaim with
CHARLI:s XII., " Henceforth this shall he my music!"
But candour obliges me to confess that such a noble idea
did not enter my thoughts ; for, however harmonious the
bulls may have sounded in the ears of the Swedish hero,
to me they certainly did not convey the same degree of
pleasure that I have since experienced from the voice of a
CATALANI, or from the bow of a LINLEY ; on the con-
trary, the noise which tlt,), made, as they glanced past my
head, raised about the pret'incts of my heart a kind of
awkward sensation, not at all allied to pleasure, and par-
taking more of what is vulgarly called fear, but which, as
a military man, I dare nut dedgnase by that name.—,
Twelve Years' Military .4.eiretteftre, vol. I, p. ISO,