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

APPOINTMENT.

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

PROMOTION.

Assistant-Surgeon John 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 E.M., the court-martial on M. Samuel Parry,
chief engineer of the Pluto steam-vessel, having con-
cluded on 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
Plato, 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 ba paid off at Woolwich
on Tuesday next, the 19th inst.

SHIP NEWS.
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•
fecfion, will hereafter be allowed to enter the river
Douro, without previously performing quarantine at
Lisbon, Vigo, or some other accredited lazaretto.
T. C. WIOHAM, Agent to Lloyd's.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.

LITERP3OLO Nov. 16.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—
The Jane Cook, from Wells for this port, has 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.—
Arrd. 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; Elenor, from
Rotterdam; John Myers, from Bordeaux; Clemente,
from Rouen; Antaa4. Off port, Amathea and Morton. Sid.
Helen, from Buenos Ayres. Put back, Flirt, for
Constantinople, leaky, having been aground Arklow on
Bank.

TIIISTED, Nov. 4.—The Orion, from London for
Christinestead, was stranded and wrecked near Stette in
the night of the 2d of November; crew saved.
CuxuAvEN, Nov. 13.—A British barque, supposed to
be the Mohawk, is on shore near Frthburg.
BANGOR, Nov. 14.—The Sarah Ann, for Newry, and
the Coromandel, for Dublin, in working out of the river
got aground on the Sands.

LE-RIVICR, Nov. 12.—The Brothers, of this port, drove
on shore at Uycasund Unst on November 7, and has re-
ceived considerable damage.
GRIMSBY, Nov. 15.—The Olivia, from Dantzic, which
came into the roads yesterday leaky, has been surveyed,
and must discharge to rerair.
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 diamasted 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 crew, 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.
Melo; Leone Victoire, from Havre; Jane Goodyear,
Tonnere, and Spy, from Patras; Fantome, from Genoa;
Thames, from Hamburgh; Stadt Dodrecht, from Dort;
Giraffe, Attwood, Apollo, and Rainbow, from
Rotterdam; Diana and Roscommon, from Harlingen;
Sir R. Peel, from Dunkirk; Frederike, from Rostock;
Spy, from Patras; Alfred, from Callao; Speed, from
Randers; Robert, from Boston; Ocean Queen, from Co-
penhagen; Naiad, from Guernsey; Seine, from Bou-
logne; Duke of Cornwall and Wilton, from St. Peters.
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 Algos 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
Tonniugen; William Inglis, for Ascension; Batavier,
Ocean, and Earl of Auckland, for Rotterdam; Fame, for
Calais; Albion, for BJulogne; Princess Victoria, for
Antwerp; Northumberland, for New York; Columbine,
for Sierra Leone; John Bull, for Hamburgh; William
Jolliffe, for Havre; Sir Edward Banks, for Ostend;
Caesarea, for Jersey; City of Rotterdam, for Dunkirk;
Thomas Arbuthnot, fur Sydney ; Queen, for Ton-
ningen ; White Mouse, for St. Michael's; Saggitarus, for
Trieste.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
British Queen, from Newport, for Barcelona, Nov. 12,
eight leagues S.W. of Scilly.
Cumberland brig, from Middlesborough for Almoira,
out 21 days, Oct. 19, Ist. 37.43 N., long. 10.40 W., all
well.
George and Richard, Oct. 22, lat. 43.38 N., long. 13 10W.
Macleod, from Odessa for Falmouth, Nov. 10. let. 49,
long. 10.
Ocean Queen barque, of and from Liverpool for
California, out 29 days, Oct. 4, lat. 11.15 N., long.
27 W.
Richard and Ann, of Pl 3 mouth, Nov. 7, lat. 46 N., long.
14 W.
Reward, from London for Jamaica, Nor. 11, off the
Start.
Sir Edward Paget, Sept. 30, let. 5 S., long. 17 W.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—The plan of the direc-
tors of this company for bringing about an amicable
arrangement between the original and preferential
shareholders having been carried on Tuesday, by the
overwhelming majority of 10 to 1, we can confidently
state that a dividend will be forthwith paid to both
classes of shareholders. We can also state that the
dividend to the original shareholders, in 1851, is ex-
pected to be 2, if not 2 per cent.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The proposals
of the directors for raising new capital, by the crea-
tion of new preferential shares, were unanimously
agreed to at the meeting at Bristol, on Thursday.
THE BARBADOES RAILWAY.---011 Friday at eleven
o'clock, a meeting was held before his Honour
the Master in Chancery Blunt, to appoint an official
manager to investigate and wind up the affairs
of this company, on the petition of the shareholders,
who state that it was started in 1845, with a pro-
posed capital of 300,0001., in 12,000 shares of 21.
each, deposit 1/. Ali the shares were allotted with
the exception of 1,000, which were reserved for the
island of Barbadoes. An Act of the Colonial Legis-
lature was obtained. The deposits paid on shares
amounted to 11,0001., which the directors drew from
the bankers, and disposed of, with the exception of a
balance of 201., now in the hands of the bankers. The
liabilities have to be ascertained. Five gentlemen
were proposed to fill the office of official manager,
Messrs. Sandeman, Ainger, Cooper, Symonds, and
Goodchap. His Honour appointed Mr. Ainger,
whose nomination was supported by 425 shares.
DIRECT %VEST-END AND CROYDON...—On Friday his
Honour Master Tinney revised the list of provi-
sional committeemen whom he had made liable in
connexion with this company, and struck off up-
wards of sixty from the list, in conformity with the
law as laid down by the House of Lords, on the
ground that they had neither acted nor taken shares,
though they had paid money in respect of creditors'
claims. This will leave about thirty provisional men
on the list liable for the payment of any call that may
be made, or contribution that may be required, which
it is expected will not exceed 60/. each.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN FRANCE.—The Minister
of the Interior has given orders that engineers shall
be admitted to the railways from Metz to Nancy,
Paris to Rennes, Nantes to Augers, Creil to Saint
Quentin, Avignon to Marseilles, Bordeaux to La
Teste, Tours to Poitiers, Montereau to Troyes, and
the railways of the Gard, in order to make arrange--
meats for laying down electric telegraph lines with-
out delay. •
GREAT WESTERN.—The increase of traffic during
the present half-year, and the reduction of the per-
manent-way expenses, will enable the Great Western
Railway Company to pay a dividend at the rate of
four per cent. per annum, end carry a large balance
—say, considerably beyond 30,000/.—over to the as-
sistance of the June six months. This calculation
supposes all probable charges against revenue being
paid out of it.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.—The first anni-
versary of the opening of the line from this town to