The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-28 00:00:00

PROPOSED MOVEMENTS OF CORPS

TO THE MEDITERRANEAN.
19th regiment to Malta, and 30th to Corfu, to replace the
two regiments which were withdrawn from the Mediterra-
nean to augment the troops in Canada.
42d regiment to relieve the 59th, at Corfu

33d, at Gibraltar
47th, at Malta.

2d bat. 60th, at Corfu

Ist bat. rifle brigade

92d, at Malta,

TO THE WEST INDIES.
33d regiment, from Gibraltar, to relieve 70th foot.
47th .. .. Malta, .. 74th do.
59th .. .. Corfu, .. 89th do.
92d .. .. Malta, .. 14th do.

TO JAMAICA.
2d bat. 60th rifles, from Corfu, to relieve 68th foot
TO NORTH AMERICA.
14th regiment, from West Indies, to relieve 24th foot
70th .. .. do. .. 32d do.
74th .. .. do. .. 34th do.
89th .. .. do. .. 65th do.
64th .. .. Jamaica, .. 66th do.
68th .. .. do. .. 73d do.

TO ENGLAND FROM NORTH AMERICA.
24th, 32d, 34th, 65th, 66th, and 73(1.
64th to relieve 23d at Nova Scotia, which relieves 66th in

Canada

BRITISH NAVAL RESOURCES AT TIIE PRESENT

MOMENT.

The United Service Gazette, after denying the correctness
of the account of the naval resources of England given in the
Globe, pledges itself for the correctness of the following
statement:—

We have 76 sail of the line available for service afloat, of
which '22 are in commission. Of the remaining 54, one-third
at least require extensive repairs before they can be equipped
for service, leaving about 36 for future• supply, a force, sup-
posing it to be fully equipped, little stronger than the Rus-
sian fleet in the Baltic.

Of the 22 sail of the line, building and ordered to be built,
there aro not above six so far advanced to completion as to
be available within six months after a war might break out ;
because the artificers of the dockyards would be first employed
upon-the ships afloat, which would fully occupy their time
and exerticnis for three months at least.

The account would, therefore, stand thus :
Guns. Afloat. Building.
120
110 ..... 1 2
104
92
90
84
2 or 3 half built,
SO 1

78
72 -

T0ta1.... 76

THE PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF SIR CHARLES
ADAM TO THE COMMAND OF THE MEDITER-
RANEAN FLEET.

(From the United Service Gazette.)

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in-law, Sir Charles Adam, should succeed Sir Robert Stopford
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in the command of the Mediterranean fleet, and the appoint-
ment was accordingly gazetted in the Admiralty organ at
Portsmouth. The queen was destined to be his flag-ship,
and Lord Edward Russell named as his flag-captain. All
the preliminaries were adjusted as pleasantly and as snugly
as family arrangements usually are ; when, 10, forth comes a
broadside from the Standard, that knocks the family com-
pact all to smithereens, and compels the First Lord to send a
paragraph to the Globe, to intimate that the thing is "no
go." The notion of hoisting a junior vice-admiral (no
chicken, nevertheless), over the whole list of admirals,
40 vice-admirals, his seniors in that rank, was one which our
uncompromising contemporary could not swallow, and it
accordingly upset the job without compunction; arguing,
that as, the selection had not fallen upon Sir Charles, on ac-
count of any past services he had ever been known to achieve,
and as the usual apology of Lord Minto, that the infusion of
young blood into the service was desirable, would not avail
him as an excuse for the appointnient of Sir Charles Adam,
who must be upwards of 60 years of age, he ought to give up
the matter as a bad job, advice which he appears to have
received in good part. With the Standard, we have no wish
to disparage the professional character of Sir Charles Adam,
who is, we believe, an excellent officer, and a worthy man.
But the question which such an appointment would involve,
would be one of comparative merit and rank in the service :
a test which, without meaning any disrespect to him, Sir
Charles Adam could not stand a moment.

GRATITU DE.—A few days past some children were playing
at the bottom of an old dried-up well, at a small village in the
department of the Rhone. They amused themselves by
stirring up the rubbish at the bottom, and discovered a large
iron chest, completely eaten up with rust. One of them was
immediately despatched in search of a strong cord, and the
chest was borne in triumph to the owner of the well. On
being forced open it was found to contain an immense heap
of gold coins of the three reigns which preceded the revolu-
tion of 1789, and also several bundles of family papers. The
proprietor thanked the children for their discovery, but ad-
ded that he should apply to their parents for some indemnity
for the cord, which they had materially damaged in their
efforts to draw up the iron chest.