The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

APPOINTMENT.

Woommu, Nov. 16.—Captain Michael Seymour
(1826) to be Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard,
vice David Price, promoted to be Rear-Admiral.

PROMOTION.

Assistant-Surgeon Jchn Joliffe (1845) to be Surgeon.
The promotion of Assistant-Surgeon Ernest Elliott
(1841) to be Surgeon is cancelled by his own request, as
he prefers to remain Assistan-Surgeon to the Woolwich
division of Royal Marines, at present held by him.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Petley, returned to Woolwich from Sheerness to-day at
3 o'clock a.m., the court-martial on M. Samuel Parry,
chief engineer of the Pluto steam-vessel, having con-
cluded o❑ the previous day.
The charges against Mr. Parry were under three
heads—first, disobedience of orders; secondly, contemp-
tuous conduct, and thirdly, neglect of duty, contained in
six letters from Lieutenant• Commander Joliffe, of the
Pinto, to the Admiralty.
The prisoner was found guilty on all the charges se-
parately, and sentenced to be dismissed the service.
The Pluto is now ordered to be paid off at Woolwich
on Tuesday next, the 19th inst.

SHIP NE WS.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
_ Oporto, Nov. 8.

Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that the Board
of Health in this city have given notice that no vessel
arriving from any infected port, or port suspected of in-
fection, will hereafter be allowed to enter the river
Douro, without previously performing quarantine at
Lisbon, Vigo, or some other accredited lazaretto.
T. C. WronAst, Agent to Lloyd's.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 16.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—
The Jaue Cook, from Wells for this port, bas arrived at
Weymouth with loss of foremast, &c., having been in
contact with the Iberia, steamer, from Gibraltar for
Southampton. The Coquette, hence for Africa, has ar-
rived at Holyhead with damage to main rigging on
starboard side, and some channel plates carried away,
having been in contact with a black bark, outward
bound, off Point Lynas. 17th, Wind W., moderate.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 15.—Wind S E., moderate
A rrd. Grace, from Calais; Carl Richard; Mary Gillespie,
from Prince Edward's Island. The screw steam-ship
City of Glasgow, which left New York on the 2d inst.,
arrived at Greenock at one o'clock this morning. Arrd.
Astoria, from New Orleans;' New Commercial, from
Palermo; Sultan, from St. Andrew's; Helen Champion
and Hargreaves, from St. Petersburgh; Eienor, from
Rotterdam; John Myers, from Bordeaux; Clemence,
from Rouen; Antrei. Off port, Amathea and Morton. Sid.
Helen, from Buenos Ayres. Put back, Flirt, for
Constantinople, leaky, having been aground Arklow on
Bank.

MISTED, Nov. 4.—The Orion, from London for
Christinestead, was stranded and wrecked near Stette in
the night of the 2d of November; crew saved.
CUXHAVEN, Nov. 13.—A British barque, supposed to
be the Mohawk, is on shore near Freiburg.
BANGOR, Nov. 14.—The Sarah Ann, tor Newry, and
the Coromandel, for Dublin, in working out of the river
got aground on the Sands.
LERWICK, Nov. 12.—The Brothers, of this port, drove
on shore at Uycasund Host on November 7, and has re-
ceived considerable damage.
GRIMSBY, Nor. 15.—The Olivia, from Dantzic, which
came into the roads yesterday leaky, has been surveyed,
and must discharge to repair.
DUBLIN, Nov. 15.—The steamer City of Limerick, in
proceeding down the river last night, took the ground on
the North Bull, and remained till five o'clock this morn-
ing, when she floated, and proceeded on her passage, not
having sustained any damage.
The George W. Snow, of New York, was fallen in
with dismasted on October 3, in lat. 32 N., long, 78 W.,
about 75 miles from Charleston, by the Catherine, ar-
rived in the river, which had encountered a gale on Sep-
tember 30; three of her men got on board the Catherine,
but the master and rest of the erew, consisting of the
mate and a boy, remained by the vessel, which could not
be seen the following morning.
• GRAVESEND, Nov. 17.—Wind W., light, cloudy.
Arrd. Jenny Lind, from Calcutta; Sarah, Metcalfe,
from Madras; Peter Senn, from Rio de Janiero; Anna
Letitia, from Marseilles; Menai, from Calais; Eole and
the Lionne, from Gravlines; Alliance, from Lisbon;
Comet and Eclipse, from Madeira; Leda, from St.
Malo; Leone Victoire, from Havre; Jane Goodyear,
Tonnere, and Spy, from Patras; Fantome, from Genoa;
Thames, from Hernburgh; Stadt Dodrecht, from Dort;
Giraffe, Rhine, Attwood, Apollo, and Rainbow, from
Rotterdam; Diana and Roscommon, from Harlingen;
Sir R. Peel, from Dunkirk; Frederik°, from Rostock;
Spy, from Patras; Alfred, from Callao; Speed, from
Renders; Robert, from Boston ; Ocean Queen, fi orn Co-
penhagen; Naiad, from Guernsey; Seine, from Bou-
logne; Duke of Cornwall and Wilton, from St. Paters-
burgh; Tweed, from Memel; Providence, from Oporto;
City of London, from Dunkirk; Dorothea, from Naples;
Briton, from Havannah; Triton, from Ostend; Mar-
chioness of Bute, from Cadiz; Onward, from Patras;
Cassiopea, from Algoa Bay; Active, from Naskoe.
Sailed—Northam, for Mogadore; Mooltan, for Hong-
Kong; Point, for Jamaica; Seringapatam, for Port
Adelaide; Joven Rosita, for Cadiz; Lalla Rookh, for
California; Magnet, for Amsterdam; Lord John Russell,
for Harlingen; Arrow, for Leghorn; Wilberforce, for
Tonningen; William Inglis, for Ascension; Batavier,
Ocean, and Earl of Auckland, for Rotterdam; Fame, for
Calais; Albion, for Boulogne; Princess Victoria, for
Antwerp; Northumberland, for New York; Columbine,
for Sierra Leone; John Bull, for Hansburgh; William
Jolliffe, for Havre; Sir Edward Banks, for Ostend;
Cseaarea, for Jersey; City of Rotterdam, for Dunkirk;
Thomas Arbuthnot, for Sydney ; Queen, for Ton-
ningen; White Mouse, for St. Michael's; Saggitarus, for
Trieste.