The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-28 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.
Captain William H. A. Morshead, C.B. (1842),
has been appointed to command the Dido, 18, at
Chatham.
ommander Lord William Compton (1842) has
ben appointed to command the Modeste, 14, at
Sheerness. _ _

Commander Arthur MeHersh (1849), who has
been serving as Admiralty agent on board one of
the Cape service contract steamers, has been ap-
pointed to re-commission the Rattler screw-sloop at
Woolwich.

Clerk-William F. Dixon to the Vengeance, 84,
Spithead.
Capenter-John Edwards has been advanced to
the second class.
DEATH OF LORD JOHN HAY.
PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.-We have the painful
duty to record the loss of one of the most active and
skilful officers in her Majesty's naval service. Last
night, at half-past 9 o'clock, Rear-Admiral Lord
John Hay was relieved from his sufferings, at St.
Michael's-terrace, Stoke; his Lordship had been gra-
dually declining for the last ten days. According to
O'Byrne, the Right Hon. Lord John Hay was born
on the Ist of April, 1793, and was the third son of the
seventh Marquis of Tweeddale. He entered the navy
as o first-class volunteer on the 4th of December,
1804, on board the Monarch, 74, Captain Searle, and
continued with the Mediterranean force until June,
18;.1, daring which time he lost his left arm at the
cu ting out of some vessels in Hyeres Bay, and on
the night of the 15th of July, 1808, contributed to the
capture, after a memorably furious engagement, of
th 9 Turkish man-of-war Badere Zaffer, mounting 52
guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170
were slain, and 200 wounded; and the Alis Fegan,
26; was at the same time put to flight. Lord John's
commission was dated May 1, 1812; his appointment
to he Pique, 36, June, 1, 1812 ; and to the Venerable,
74, 31 May, 1814 ; he was advanced to the rank of
Commander on the 15th of June; and on the 15th
of iNovember joined the Bustard, 10, off Lisbon.
In 1815 his Lordship obtained the command of
the Opossum, 10, in which sloop he served in the
Channel and North American stations until paid off
on, the sth of August, 1818. He attained post rank
on,the 7th of December following, and was snbse-
quently appointed December 24, 1832, November 19,
1836, and March 8, 1837, to the Castor, 36, Phoenix
steamer, and North Star, 28, which vessels he com-
manded till 1840. He had charge of a battalion of
marines during this period, and acted as Commodore
of a small squadron on the north coast of Spain, where
the importance of his services as connected with the
civil war, especially at the siege of Bilboa, procured
hiM in 1837 the Grand Cross of the order of Charles
111., and the Companionship of the Bath. Lord
John Hay, who next, from the 17th of August, 1841,
until October, 1845, commanded the Warspite, 50,
on "the coast of North America (whither he conveyed
Lord Ashburton) and in the West Indies, was suc-
cessively appointed in 1846 Acting Superintendent of
Woolwich Dockyard, Chairman of the Board of
Naval Construction, and a Lord of the Admiralty ;
which latter office be retained until his appointment,
on .the 9th of February, 1850, Captain Superintendent
of the Devonport Dockyard. His Lordship was a
Deputy:Lieutenant for the county of Haddington,
and sat in Parliament for that shire in 1826 and 1830.
In 1833 he received a large silver medal from the
Society for the Encouragement of Arts for the inven-
ale, salutedlothe4. a
don of a telescope-holder for the use of a person with
only one hand.
Lord John Hay was brother-in-law of Mr. John
Henry Ley, clerk to the House of Commons, and
of Lord Broughton, President of the Board of
Control.
O as
n Sundayßear.
A thedmfliraagl of Lord Ltohred
Blue, was
was hoisted on
Hay, on promo-
tion
board the St. George, 120,
te h
of Port-Admiral Ommaney, which compliment was h
duly acknowledged by when
nreeghne
Impregnable,
broke, put in, owing to contrary winds.
flag
The
same day the frigate Pique, on passage from Pon-
DEATH OF CAPTAIN GEINT.-Captain William
Grint (1818), lately promoted to the captains' re-
served half-pay list, died on the 24th inst., at Wsl-
worth, aged 66. He entered the navy in 1800, and
served afloat during the war for 14 years.' lie was
at the battle of Copenhagen in the• Amazon, 38, Cap-
tain Rion; in the Courageux, 74, be witnessed the
surrender of St. Lucia ; in the Britannia, 100, he
was at the battle of Trafalgar, and was acting lieute-
nant at the celebrated capture of Curacao. He was
confirmed a lieutenant July, 1807, and served in
Anson, 44, Vulture and Hope sloops, Pompey, 74,
Zenobia sloop, and for a few weeks commanded a
gun-boat. In the course of his services he received
a gratuity from the Patriotic Fund. He was made a
commander in 1818.
in honour of Prince Albert's
Yesterday (Tuesday),
birthday, royal salutes were fired from the citadel and
from all the ships in commission, which were deco-
rated with colours. The royal standard was hoisted
at the Government establishments end at the Guild-
hall, Plymouth, of which borough the Prince is Lor d
High Steward.
The Plymouth regatta was, in consequence of bad
weather, postponed from yesterday to this day. There
are not many yachts in harbour, and the prowess of
the America at Cowes seems to withdraw attention
from all other such subjects.
Wooawicn, AUG. 27.-The Rattler steam-vessel
had her steam up in the basin to- day to try her en-