The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-20 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS.

Lieutenant—Hyde Parker (1844), to the rank of
Commander.
Mate—Lord John Hay (1846), to the rank of
Lieutenant.

APPOINTMENTS.

Commanders—Richard Aloorrnan, to the Hecate ;
Reynell C. Mitchell, to the Devastation, vice Crouch,
invalided, since deceased.

Lieutenants—Hon. R. E. Boyle, to command the
Dolphin ; Samuel Morrish, to the Asia; E. G. B.
Clarke, and Spencer Sterling, to the Coast Guard ; N.
B. Bedingfield, to the Hecate ; Richard Lloyd, to be
a Contract Mail Agent.
Masters—Henry Webber, to the Coast Guard
Service ; John F. Loney, to the Trincomalee.
Paymaster and Purser—E. B. Robins, to the
Hecate.

Surgeon—William Roberts, to the Hecate.
Second Masters—William H. Mallard, to be
Acting Master of the Hecate , Cornelius Fox, to the
Victory ; Charles Burney, to the Kite ; W. J. Tre-
digo, to the Dolphin ; W. H. Osmond, to the Trin-
comalee.

Naval Instructor—Richard C. Saunders, to the
Asia.

Assistant- Surgeons—Robert P. R. Sparrow, to
the Dolphin ; James Davidson, to the Kite ; T. J.
Green, to the Hecate.

Clerks—John Williams, in charge, to the Griffon ;
S. E. L. Wright, to the Hecate ; J. H. Towell and
W. P. Lapidge, secretary's clerks, James M. Lowcay,
H. S. C. Mitchell, to Asia.

Midshipman—J. H. Bushnell, to the Hibernia.
Masters' Assistants—John Butler, to the Asia; W.
S. Furze, to the Hecate ; Thomas S. Hayward and
Charles F. Puckett, to the Kite ; Davis, to the
Spider; J. R. Corke, to the Oberon.
Naval Cadets—Henry E. Stephens, to the Cam-
brian ; E. G. Horne, to the Asia; Percy Augustine
Mack esey, to the Trafalgar.
Coast Guard Appointments—Lieutenant Andrew
Barely, to the Patrington District; Lieutenant R. L.
Stephens, to the Barton District; Lieutenant Jona-
than Butcher, to the Wrangle District; Lieutenant
Henry Butt, to the Holbeach District; Lieutenant
J. R. Benson, to the Lynn District; Lieutenant
J. S. Grandy, from the Active, to command the
Wellington revenue cutter ; Lieutenant Robert Poole,
to command the Active ; Lieutenant W. E. Amiel, to
the South Jurmo Station ; Lieutenant E. H. Kennet
and Mr. Henry Webb (Master R.N.), to be in com-
mand of stations.

Removal—Lieutenant Robert Amyett, from 24
Tower to Shorne-cliff.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 17.—Nothing further has trans-
pired at this port regarding the fate of the brig which
came in contact on Wednesday night with her Ma-
jesty's steam-frigate Birkenhead. There is a possi-
bility that she may have borne up for Falmouth.
It appears that the frigate between Scilly and the
Land's-end, was on her passage surrounded by a great
number of lights exhibited by the Mount's Bay fishing
boats, which were so numerous that it was with diffi-
culty the frigate could clear them. Three leagues off
the Lizard they saw another light, which they first
took for a fishing-boat, but which proved to be the
brig. The weather had been very thick, but it
cleared up just as they approached each other. The
frigate was at two-thirds speed. The brig was on the
larboard tack, with the wind blowinr, strong from the
south-west, reaching towards the land, and not as
stated in the first account, reaching off the land.
Some one on board the brig, supposed to be the
master, cried out for the frigate's helm to be put hard
a starboard, and the brig's helm was at the same time
put hard a-port, or the steamer would have gone
right over her. The brig struck the frigate on the
starboard bow, carrying away three of the after
shrouds of the forerigging, glanced to the sponson
and paddle-box, breaking the paddle wheel and iron-
work, and then, with loss of jib-boom, sheered off.
The frigate saw her from half-past nine o'clock, when
the collision occurred, until one o'clock in the morning
at which hour she was last seen to windward. She
lay to until daylight, when the brig had disappeared.
The frigate is uninjured on the foreside of the fore-
rigging, but her starboard paddle-wheel was so
much damaged that it was disconnected, and she
worked to Plymouth with the larboard paddle-
wheel only.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Saturday evening Air.
Higgs held an inquest at the Essex Head.,.Ess_ex_ -street,
Strand, on Wilson Emery, aged 42. one of her Majesty's
watermen, and waterman to the officers of the Guards.
Charles Hill, waterman at the Temple-stairs, found
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body floating close to the pier, early in the morning. .
had it brought ashore, when he identified it, deceased
having been his fellow apprentice. J. Emery, brother
of the deceased, deposed that he and his brother rowed
up the river two parties, in different boats, that day week.
Witness rowed up a four-oared cutter which belonged to 1
the Fusilier Guards. At Battersea they exchanged
boats, about eight o'clock, P.M., his brother taking the
cutter, which he steered, and in which were Sergeant
Paton and Corporals Smith, Hopkins, and Blythe, who
rowed. For landsmen they rowed well. They left the
Red House, Battersea, about eight o'clock, witness and
the other party remaining behind. In about seven
minutes afterwrtrds the accident, by which his brother
and Sergeant Paton lost their lives, occurred. He did
not see it, but understood that it took place from the
boat coming in collision with a steamer. The bow, rud-
der, linings, first planks, knees, and shoulders, the
starboard side of the cutter,
werel s
forced in. His' on
brother
was a steady and practical Waterman, but he could not
swim. Mr. Baker, the constable, here stated that the
melancholy occurrence was the result of a collision be-
tween a steamer and the cutter, but that he could not
adduce further evidence that evening. He therefore
prayed for an adjournment of the inquest. The inquest
was accordingly adjourned.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ST. PANCRA.S.—Yesterday
morning, shortly after two o'clock, the inhabitants of
King's road, St. Pancras, were aroused from their slum-
bers by the springing of policemen's rattles and a ge-
neral cry of" Fire :" In the course of a few minutes
smoke in dense bodies was perceived issuing from the
windows of the house numbered 5, in the beforemen-
tioned thoroughfare. The engines of the parish, Lon-
don Brigade, and West of England Company were
speedily at the scene; but such had been the ravages of
the fire, that the building, from the bottom to the top,
was by that period blazing away with such vehemence
as to threaten with destruction the adjoining buildings.
The supply of water was fortunately most abundant,
and no time being lost in setting the engines to work, a
powerful stream was thrown into the midst of the
flames, notwithstanding which they continued to travel,
seizing upon floor after floor until the place was com-
pletely guttqd .. The damage done, it is understood, will
% t.: WWI tb ' rtisi•ty 5001.; and, unfortunately, Mr. Want,
thertoirneEnf tiN house, was not insured. How the fire
• oriiimt"sca wigeped ill mystery; but from the fact of
the house-being/ occupied, strong suspicions aro enter-
tained that thia, utbreak was occasioned by an in-
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