The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-19 00:00:00

PLYMOUTII, OCT. 17.—His Majesty's shi? An-
dromeda, 46, a new teak frigate, built at Bombay,
Capt. Furneaux (late Commander of the Hind, 20),
arrived yesterday from the East India station. She
left Bombay on the 23d of May, Trincomalee on
the 7th of June, the Cape on the 4th of August,
St. Helena on the 24th of the same month; the
H. C. ships Herefordshire and Buckinghamshire
had arrived before she left Bombay. The Java,
bearing the flag of Admiral Gage, the Commander-
in-Chief in India, was lying at Trincomalee, where
she had been since January last; the Crocodile and
Cruiser were also there, the latter had only arrived
a few days from England. The squadron was
healthy. The success sailed for New South Wales
in March; the Pandora was in the Straits of Ma-
lacca, and shortly expected to join the Admiral,
after which she will sail for England, her period of
service having expired and being relieved by the
Cruiser.- The Andromeda experienced severe
weather between Trincomalee and the Cape. The
Tweed was lying in Simon's Bay, and the Chanti.
deer in Table Bay. A few days before the arrival
of the Andromeda, the Phoenix from Ceylon, bound
for London, got on shore in removing into Simon's
Bay, and was wrecked. His Majesty's ship South-
ampton, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir E. Owen,
had touched there on her way to the East India
station, and stopped six days ; she sailed for Trine°.
melee on the 26th June; the Comet had also
touched, there on her way to the same station, in-
tending to call at the Isle of France. The Maid-
stone had left Simon's Bay with Commodore Schom-
berg about the beginning of June for the Mauritius.
When off St. Helena, she fell in with the Eden
from the Coast of Africa, and the Espoir from the
Cape station, which had been cruizing in search of
Pirates : in lat. 14.. orth, she fell in with the Lady
Rowena, of London, from New South Wales and
Rio Janeiro, with Dr. James Anderson, R. N. on
board, who ivas returning from the Colony, where
he had been in the mediCal charge of convicts. The
Andromeda is brought to England by the ofzicels
and ercwof the Hind, 20, which was sold at Bombay.

The Antelope cutter, Lieutenant Loveless, tender
to the Ramilies, arrived on Thursday night last
from the Downs.

In Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Orestes, Py-
lades, Calypso, Les Bret, Royalist, and Meteor
steamer.

In Barnpool—Xndaunted.
Island—Britomart, Vigilant.
Sound—Andromeda, Pearl, and Antelope tender.

APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Hon. G. Caven-
dish ; Lieutenants J. J. M'Donald, E. W. Pi!king-
ton, W. H. Jervis; Mr. John Campbell (b), Sur-
geon;' Messrs. Benjamin M'Avoy and C. Dickson,
Assistant-Surgeons to the Winchester; Captain
Lord Colchester, Lieutenant Clare, and Mr. Joshua
Taylor, Master to the Volage.
Mr. Patrick Brenan is appointed Assistant-Sur-
geon of the Hyacinth.
.Messrs. Henry Wells Giffard, Edward Herbert
Kennaway, Henry Stoyle, Alfred Leathart, and
Hastings Reginald Henry, passed their examinations
for Lieutenants, at the Royal Naval College, at
Portsmouth, on Tuesday last.
Mr. Enner, Clerk of the Works in the Engi-
neers' Department at this place, is appointed Clerk
of the Works at St. Vincent', vice Mr. Henry
Baynham, appointed to the Bermuda station. Mr.
Robert Sands, from the Glasgow district, succeeds
Mr. Enner.

Circulars have been addressed by the Solicitor of
the Admiralty, to the witnesses in the late Coust
Martial held on Captain Dickenson, C.B. at Ports-
mouth, calling for an account of their travelling ex-
pences, exclusive of their subsistence, by which it
is inferred that so much of Captain Dickenson's
costs is to be defrayed by the Treasurer of the
Navy.—DevonpOrt Telegraph.

COWES, OCT. 17.—Arrived the ship Maria,
Francis R. Cobb, commander, from Semarang and
Batavia. Left the former place on the 22d of June,
and the latter on the 30th. Cargo—coffee, sugar,
indigo, &c., solely for the account of his owners,
Messrs. R. Thornton and West, of London and
Antwerp. At Samarung Captain Cebb received on
board the Maria the second officer and one seaman
belonging formerly to the British brig Comet, Cap-
tain Fresher, which had been wrecked on a reef at
the -eatrance of Tory's Strait, The second officer
stated that the Comet sailed from Sydney for Ba-
tavia on the 12th of April, made Tory's Strait on
the sth of May. On the fith, at 4 a.m., thick
weather; struck on a reef; when the lead was hove
overboard, found the surf bad hove the brig up into
six feet water, a current running to the north-west at
the rate of five knots per hour; in a quarter of an
hour the brig tilled, and was a complete wreck, the
surf running so h►gh that no boat could be put out,
obliged the crew to remain three days exposed on
the quarter-deck, subsisting on raw beef; at the ex-
piration of that time they succeeded in getting the
pinnace through the surf, and by the assistance of
that boat laid out a buoy for bawling the long boat
through ►with the rest of the crew, to the outer edge
of the breakers; then steered north for Murray's
Island; at 4 p.m. saw it, and a brig at anchor; at
six got on board; she proved.to be the Fairfield, of
Aberdeen, Captain Both, who received us politely,
and attended to our immediate wants; on the 14th
of May the Fai►field. spoke the ship Jupiter, of
London, from Port Jackson to Batavia, which had
struck on Boot reef, and was then making nine
inches water per hour; she was proceeding to Cal-
cutta for repairs. Pier to. the Maria's leaving Ba-.
tavia, Captain Young, formerly of the ship Govyr-
nor Reading, of London, had arrived there with part
of his crew, that ship having been unfortunately
wrecked on a shoal in the vicinity of Murray's