The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-16 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander Edward Herrick (1849) has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the packet service at Dover,
vice Baldock, whose term of service has expired. This
officer entered the navy Juno 18, 1805, as first-class vo-
lunteer, on board the Revenge, 74, Captains Robert
Moorsom, Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, John
Gore, lion. Charles Paget, and John Nash. After
participating as midshipman, i❑ the action off Trafal-
gar, witnessing also Lord Cochrane's destruction of the
French shipping in the Basque Roads, and serving in
the batteries during the operations against Flushing, he
sailed in 1811 for the East Indies on board the Dro-
medary, store ship, Master-Commander Pritchard. On
his arrival on that station he joined the Illustrious, 74,
bearing the broad pendant, first, of Commodore William
R9lat. Broughton, and the flag afterwards of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir Samuel Hood. He returned to Eng-
land in March, 1813, in the Modesto, 38,
Captain James Coutts Crawford, and between
May, 1814, and June, 1815, was next employed, lat-
terly as Master's mate, in the President frigate, Captain
Archibald Duff, on the Cork station. He then took up
a commission bearing date Feb. 3, 1815, but did not
again go afloat until appointed, August 6,1830, to the
Prince Regent, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
William Parker in the river Tagus. The latter ship
being paid off Feb. 21.1832, he subsequently joined,
June 29, 1832, as first lieutenant, the Champion, 18,
Captain lion. Arthur Duncombe, with whom he served
in the Mediterranean until Dec. 16, 1834; March 18,
1836, in a similar capacity, the Minden, 74, Captain
Alexander Renton Sharpe, from which ship, fitting at
Plymouth, he was immediately superseded; July 13,
1838, the Astraaa, 6, Captain James Hanway Plum-
ridge, employed as a packet on the Falmouth station;
and Jan. 4, 1840, the Express, another Falmouth packet,
which ho himself commanded, with the exception, we
believe, of some months in 1843.44, until June, 1846.
Ho was promoted first lieutenant of the flag-ship at
Portsmouth in 1849.

Lieutenant—Frederick Dew (1846), to the Encounter
screw•corvette, Portsmouth.

Surgeon—John T. Jenkins (1846), to the Encounter.
Assistant-Surgeon—.Elqnry T. Horssell (1843), to the
Encounter.

Second-Master—William F. Lew (1849), to the Dee
steam-transport, Woolwich.

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Clerk—Frederick T. Robins (1851), to the Encounter.
Midshipman—Michael W. Woods, to the Daring, 12,
Chatham.

Masters'-Assistant—E. P. Cox, to the Dee.
Clerks'-Assistant—Silas W. Parker, to the Encounter,

NORTH AMERICA AND WEST INDIES.

Vice-Admiral Sir George F. Seymour, C. 8., G.C.H.,
the Commander-in-Chief of the North American and
West Indian station, it is reported, will proceed from
Halifax to Jamaica. His flag-ship, the Cumberland,
70, Captain Seymour, was at Halifax, with the Ber-
muda schooner, Lieutenant-Commander Jolly, Sept. 2.
The Devastation, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Colin Y.
Campbell, and the Basilisk, 6, steam-sloop, Commander
Hon. F. Egerton, were stationed in the Gulf of St. Law-
rence. The Sappho, 12, Commander Hon. A. L. Coch-
rane, is ordered home. The Buzzard, 6, steam-sloop,
Commander Dobbie, is at Quebec. The Netley tender
is stationed in the Bay of Fundy.
Persian, 12, Commander Mitchell, eight days from
Belize, Honduras, having been three years and two
months on her out cruise from Romport, coast of
South-America, and the islands, arrived at Havannab,
August 26.

THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.
Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron, Prince Regent, 90,
flag-ship, Captain Hutton; Rodney, 92, Captain Gra-
ham, C. 8.; and Leander, 50, Captain St. V. King, left
Lisbon for Cape Clear on the 6th. The Arethuse, 50,
Captain Symonds, has been detached from this squadron,
and left Lisbon for Malta on the 2d inst., to relieve the
Indefatigable, 50, Captain Smart, ECU., which ship comes
to Lisbon.

Archer, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Strange, was the
only man•of-war left at Lisbon.

THE BRAZIL SQUADRON.
Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., the Commander-in-
Chief of the Brazil squadron, in his flag steam-frigate
Centaur, 6, Captain bt. L-.ger Cannon, was in the River
Plate, on the 13th of August, with the Vixen, 6, steam-
sloop, Commander Barnard,
Rifleman, 8, screw-schooner, Lieutenant-Commander
Dalton, and Bonetta, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Wake, arrived at Rio on the 16th and 18th of
July, from a cruise. The former is stationed off Victoria
and the latter off Rio.
Plumper, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Nollotb, was
cruising off Rio Grande,
and HightiYder, ladies, Express, 6, Commander Fead, and Locust steam-vessel,
Lieutenant-Commander G. F. Day, wore stationed tif
Bahia.
The destination of the [crew steam-2frigates
ptDaiahunatl.esjs,
but not to be per..
there. The route
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munently stationed .
is more for the
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the w l
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purposes of a trial cruise than for reinforcement of tile
squadron on the station.
The screw 58-gun ship Ajax, Captain M. Quin, now
the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Purvis, the Commander-
in-Chief at Queenstown, has been ordered to Spithead,
where her crew will be paid wages, end the ship will
have her defects made good.
The :crew 60-gun ship Hogue, Captain Ramsay, at
DeVOITOIt, has been ordered to have her defects made
good.
Barracouta, 6, steam-sloop, Captain the Hon. S. T.
Carnegie, may shortly be expected home from Madeira.
Cornwallis, old 72, store-ship for Hong-Kong, has
had her lower masts and b' bowsprit put on board at De.
vonport.

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