The Sun. — 1838-08-20 (London, England)

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.  Assistant- Surgeons.—Mr. Booth, of the Hastings, and Mr. George Jones, late of the Forte, to the rank of Surgeon. Captains.—Lord John Churchill, to the Vernon ; Robert Russell, to the Actaeon.  Commanders.—Peter Christie, to the Rose ; Sidney H. Usher, to the Coast Guard ; Lewis T. Jones, confirmed to the Princess Charlotte.  Lieutenants.—Benjamin Fox, to the Hercules ; J. A. Mends, Roger Curtis, to the Actaeon ; Jocelyn Wailer, Thomas Creser, Thomas Tribe, and Henry Johnstone, to the Coast Guard ; John Lunn, to the Pluto. Masters.—E. Couzens, to the Actaeon ; Lawson, Master's Assistant of the Seaflower, to be Second Master of the Pluto ; Edward Maunder, to the Penguin. Surgeons.—John Dunlop, to the Actmon ; George Jones, to the Favourite.  Assistant- Surgeons. —J. Macleod, to the Actaeon; Messrs. J. M. Mustard, B. Horsburgh, and L. Campbell, of Britannia, to Melville ; Mr. Patterson, of Britannia, to the Salamander; L. S. Cunningham, to the Espoir ; J. G. Risk, and Alex. Brown (additional) to Royal Adelaide ; James Peters, to Skylark, vice Crichton, to the Buzzard; W. Hobbs, to the Bonetta ; Wm. W. Baynes, to Volcano. Pursers.—J. B. Hutchings (late Secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir P. Campbell, on the coast of Africa) to the Actaeon. Mates.—Messrs. E. Davison and M. Lowther, to the Hastings ; R. R. Easto, to Hercules ; C. Norman, to Royal Adelaide.  Midshipmen.—Messrs. N. Heath, Lyons, Borland, and Cerjat, to the Hastings ; W. Cudworth, to Excellent. Clerks.—Mr. Barnes, to Victory; Mundell (additional), to the Bellerophon ; Mr. H. Hunt, schoolmaster of Victory, to be Clerk of the Orestes.  Warrant Officers.—..l4lr; Cudlipp, boatswain, and Jonathan May, Carpenter, to the Actaeon; W. Kelly, Supernumerary Gunner of Victory, to be Gunner of Herald.  (Froiti the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, Aua. 18 —Her Majesty's brig, Royalist,lo, Lieut. Hensley, Commander, arrived here last evening from San Sebastian, which port she left on Sunday evening last—all was quiet—left there her Majesty's ship North Star, Commodore Lord John Hay ; Phoenix and Comet steamers. Lieutenant Randolph, promoted from the North Star, came passenger in the Royalist. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are expected to pay an official visit to this port on Monday next. Her Majesty's brig Columbine, 16, Com. Elliott, will call in here on her way to the Coast of Africa, Her Majesty's packet brig Nightingale having been found unfit for sea, is ordered to be paid off. Her Majesty's brigantine Buzzard, 6, was commissioned on Wednesday, by Lieut. Fitzgerald, for the, Coast of Africa. Her Majesty's brig Rose, 16, has been commissioned at Sheerness.  Her Majesty's packet Peterel was warped alongside the Sheer-hulk on Tuesday. to have her masts put on board, previous to being commissioned. The Goodwill lighter arrived on Wednesday from Chatham, with stores, :The Duck lighter sailed .on .Wednesday, with stores, for Woolwich. Orders have been received at this Dock-yard, to bring forward, with all possible dispatch, the Rover, 16, lately paid off, for re-commission.  In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Hercules, Jupiter, Pilot, Buzzard, Penguin, Skylark, Nightingale.  On Friday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a quantity of gunpowder exploded on the premises of Mr. Lawford, gunmaker, of Cleveland.sticet, Fitzroy-squve, which tore away part of the roof,- and seriously injured Mr. Lawford and his sun, a fine youth, about 14 years of age.  A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night on the London and Birmingham Railway to a dairy man named Pritchard, who resided near Chalk Farm. He was returning by the last train, with a quantity of hay he had purchased, and when near to Kilburn, he by some means slipped off the carriage, when the wheels passed over him and killed him on the spot. An inquest was held on Friday at the Constitution, Great James-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of a woman named Bolton, the Wife of a journeyman plasterer, residing in the above neighbourhood. The inquiry excited some interest owing to a report that the deceased had experienced treatment of a brutal nature from her husband, but as the evidence of many witnesses went to show that so far from such being the case she had been well used, and properly attended to, the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." An inquest was held on Friday night in Whitecross.s St. tree, Luke's, on the body of a woman who, it was , supposed, , had committed suicide from the fact that a bpttle was found inher pocket after death which appeared to have contained laudanum, and because a quarrel had taken place between her and her husband in consequence of certain alleged misconduct on her part. A medical man who had examined the body of the deceased both externally and internally deposed that he could not discover the slightest appearances to account for death. There was not the least trace of laudanum in the stomach or intestines, and it was his opinion she died from natural causes. The jury returned a verdict of " Na. tural death." A