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

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander Edward -11Crrick (1849) has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the packet service at Dover,
♦ice Baldock, whose term of service has expired. This
officer entered the navy June 18, 1805, as first-class vo-
lunteer, on board the Revenge, 74, Captains Robert
Moorsom, Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming, John
Gore, Hon. Charles Paget, and John Nash. After
participating as midshipman, in 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 fur 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
Robt. 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 Prosident frigate, Captain
Archibald Duff, on the Cork station. Ho 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 Hon. 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Plymouth, he was immediately superseded; July 13,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 Astra3a, 6, Captain James Hanway Plum-
ridge, employed as a packet on the Falmouth station;
and Jan. 4,1840, the Express, another Falmouth packet,
which he 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 Dow (1846), to the Encounter
screw•corvette, Portsmouth.
Surgeon—Joh❑ T. Jenkins (1846), to the Encounter.
Assistant-Surgeon—Henry T. tiorssell (1843), to the
Encounter.

Second-Master—William F. Lew (1849), to the Dec
steam-transport, Woolwich.
Clerk—Frederick T. Robins (1851), to the Encounter.
Midshipman—Michael W. Woods, to the Dating, 12,
Chatham.

Masters'-Agsistant—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 Dabble, 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 Havannah,
August 26.