The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-29 00:00:00

APPCINT3IENTS.

WOOLWICH, JULY 27.—Mate William F. Gregory
(1850), to the Thetis, 40, at Devonport.
Assistant Surgeons (Acting) Pnilip William Govett
(1850), and Samuel Denny, M.D., to the Impregnable,
104, flag-ship, at Devouport; Timotheus J. Reran, to
the Vic Lory, 101, flagship at Portsmouth.
Midshipman John Coles, to the Thetis.
Gunner John Marcus, to the Trafalgar, 120 guns, at
Sheerness.

Boatswain Robert Moulton, to the Trafalgar.
Carpenter Edward Andrew, to the Trafalgar.
The last three named have been appointed to the Tra-
falgar, on her being commissioned by Captain the Hon.
Montagu Stoplord. Captain Stopford, according to
O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary, was born on
the 11th of November, 1798, is fourth son of John
George, third Earl of Courtown, K.P., by Mary, eldest
daughter of Henry third Duke of Buecleuch; brother
(with the present Peer) of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
Edward Stopford, who died July 5, 1840; and nephew'
of the late Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford,
G.C.8., G.C.M.G. This officer entered the navy on
the Bth of October, 1810, as first-class volun.
teer, on board the Scipion, 74,' Captain James Johnson,
bearing the flag, at the Cape of Good Hope, of his uncle
the Hon. Hobart . Stopford, under whom in the
ensuing year he assisted as midshipman at the coN quest
of the island of Jima After serving 12 monts at the
Cape with Captain Henderson Bain, in the Lion, 64, he
returned home in the early part of ISI3 in the Presi-
dent, 38, Captain Samuel Warren. On his arrival ho
was placed as a supernumerary, in the Trent, Captain
Jones, lying at Cork; and in the course of the same year
he was sent in the Leonidas, 38, Captain George Francis
Seymour, to the West'lndies, where he remained until
September, 1814. He next, in June and December,
1815, joieel the Tonnant, 80, fitting at Plymouth for
the flag of Sir Benjamin Hallowell, and Alceste, 38,
Captain Murray Maxwell. In the latter ship he accom-
panied Lord Amherst in his embassy to China, and was
wrecked in the Straits of Gaspar, on his passage home
on the 18th of February, 1817. In October, 1819, at
which period he had been serving for six months'on the
Halifax station.in the Newcastle, 60, flagship of Rear-
Admiral Edward Griffith, he was presented with
commission, dated the 17th of July preceding.
Ho was appointed February 24, 1820, to the William
and Mary yacht, Captains Andrew Sproule, John Philli-
more, and William Bowles, employed in attendance on
the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; was promoted Jan. 29,
1822, to the rank of commander, and on the Bth of April,
1825, after having served for about 14 months in that
capacity in the Algerine, 10, in the Mediterranean, was
advanced to post rank. He subsequently, from Aug. 1,
1842, until paid off in 1°46, commanded the Pique, 36,
on the North America and West India station.
Captain Edward St. Leger Cannon (1846), and Com-
mander Herbert G. Austen (1846) have been appointed
to study steam in the factory in Woolwich Dockyard.
The Inflexible steam-frigate, Commander PecLe H.
Dyke, was taken cut of the basin on Friday into the
stream, and is expecied to be ready to leave 'for the West
India station about the 31st inst.

Thcy, Geyser strata-sloop is getting ready for com-
mission agaia with the greatest dispatch;
the riggers are
already on board, making preparations to rig her the
moment bev musts ate put up.
Thi

..AONDON Mn _NORTH- W ESTERN RAILWAY.—. .113
company's line, from Rugby to Stamford, is now open as jar
as Rockingham, twenty-eight miles.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celesta.
THIS EVENING,
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Will be produced a new Domestic Drama, entitled THE EMI-
GRE'S DAUGIIT. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce,
0. Smith, Wright, Cuilenford, ; Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitz-
william.

After which a new Terpaicorlan Burlesque Entitled ESMERALDA.
Characters by Messsrs. 0. Smith, Wright, I'. Bedford ; Madame
Telete, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
. .

To concludo with a new and original Farce, in the
Vulgar Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN ; or, Hints on
Etiquette.