PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

The work is illustrated with the finest specimens of lithography we have ever seen, from drawings by Commander Smith, the late senior lieutenant of the Terror.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS.

SURGEONS, J. W. Elliott, J. Naulty, J. Steven, J. Park, J. Rodgers, J. Maconechy, W. Roy, A. Cross, R. Fairservis, A. Muirhead, M.D., G. A. Munro, G. Williams, W. Kent, A. R. Bradford, J. A. Mould, A. C. Macleroy, J. Sloan, T. Fraser, J. Steel, T. Brenan, J. Moody, G. Jones, J. Booth.

MASTERS, G. Filmer, R. Currie.

APPOINTMENTS.

ACTEON, 26,—Captain, R. Russell; Lieutenants, J. A. Mends, R. Curtis; Master, E. Cousens, Surgeons, J. Dunlop; Assistant-Surgeon, G. M'Leod; Purser, J. B. Hutchings. APOLLO, 46,-Assistant-Surgeon, R. Jack; Second-Master, N. Scott. ASTREA, Lieutenant, E. Herrick. BUZZARD,-Lieut., C. Fitzgerald; Assistant-Surg. J. Peter; Second-Master, P. Roberts; Clerk in charge, W. Scott. BELLEROPHON, 74,-Clerk, P. Mundell. BERMUDA,-Hospital Mates, W. Scotland; Midshipman, W. Minchin. BONNETTA, 3,—Assistant-Surgeon, W. Hobbs. BRITANNIA, 120,-, Lieutenant, W. Brown. COAST-GUARD,-Commmanders, G. Bissett, G. Dobson, F. Patten, T. P. Le Hardy, C. C. Dent, J. Hudson, J. King, S. H. Usher; Lieutenants, J. Dalyell, J. Liddon, J. Markett, E. Hill, J. Waller, J. Creser, T. Tribe, H. Johnstone. COLUMBINE, 16,-Mate, W. Hannant. CORNWALLIS, 74,-Assistant-Surg. W. R. Dalton; Clerk, C. H. Breay. DOLPHIN, 3,-Lieutenant-Commander, C. Blissett. DONEGAL, 74,-Commander, G. W. Lydiard. EDINBURGH, 74,-W. Webster, J. Sibbald; Mate, W. Cashman. ELECTRA, 18,-Mate, G. H. Wood. ESPOIR, 10, -Assistant-Surgeon, G. W. Pritchard. EXCELLENT,-Lieutenant, W. Wiseman; Assistant-Surgeon, R. Hopby; Midshipman, W. Cudworth. FAVOURITE, 18,-Surg. J. Jones. HARLEQUIN, 16,-Commander, Lord F. Russell. HASTINGS, 74,-Lieut., J. Morshead; Mates, J. Fisher, C. F. Chimmo, E. Davison, M. Lowther; Midshipman, M. Duncan; Second Master, W. Woodyer; Mid., N. Heath, HERALD, 28,— Lieutenant, W. Johnstone. HERMES, St. V.,-Mate, A. La Toucha. HERCULES, 74,-Commander, B. Fox; Assistant-Surgeon, E. Derriman; Mates, G. Johnson, R. G. Risk, R. R. Easto. JASEUR, 16,-Col,. Mid., Hon. P. Packenham. MELVILLE, 74,-Assistant-Surgeons, J. M. Mustard, B. Horsburgh, L. Campbell. MODESTE, 18, -Lieutenant, J. Ě. Bingham. NIGHTINGALE, 6,-Assistant-Surgeon, J. Yeoman. ORESTES, Commander, P. S. Hambly; Purser, F. May; Master, W. Parsons; Surg., G. Jones, M.D.; Assistant-Surgeon, J. Reid. PEMBROKE, 74,-Lieutenant, T. Stuart. PHENIX, St. V. 4,-Commander, A. M. Milward. PLUTO, St. V.,-Lieutenant, J. Lunn. PIGEON, 6,-Lieutenant, T. James. PENGUIN, 6,-Lieutenant, W. Luce; Assistant-Surgeon, J. M'Ilroy, M.D.; Master, J. B. Manley. PIQUE, 36,-Lieut. J. M'Dougal. PRESIDENT, 52,-Commander, F. Liardet; Assistant-Surgeon, P. Bernard. PILOT, 16,-Commander, G. Ramsay; Lieutenant, C. J. Postle; Master, W. Langdon; Surgeon, A. Lyon; Assistant-Surgeon, H. Turnbull; Purser, F. Hellyer. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, 104,-Commander, L. T. Jones; Assistant-Surgeon, R. Anderson. REDWING, St. V., Second-Master, J. Hawkins. ROYAL GEORGE, yacht, Assistant-Surgeon, C. Brien; Second-Master, H. B. Harris. RHADAMANTHUS, St.V., Lieutenant, St. L. Aldworth. RODNEY, 92,-Assistant-Surgeon. J. Ritchie. ADELAIDE, 120,-Mates, C. Glynn, C. Norman. Rose, 18,-Commander, P. Christie ; Purser, J. Colwell; Assistant-Surgeon, E. Johnson. SAVAGE, 10,-Lieutenant-Commander, Hon. E. Plunkett. SERINGAPATAM, 46,—Assistant-Surgeon, W. Roberts. SERPENT, Com., T. M. Symonds. SPEEDY, Lieutenant, J. A. Wright; Assist.-Surg., C. Wood, M.D. TERMAGANT, 10,-Lieutenant, H. Seagram. VERNON, 50,-Captain, Lord J. Churchill. VICTORY, 104,—Lieutenant, J. B. Cragg; Clerk, D. N. FrampVOLCANO, St. V.,-Assistant-Surgeon, W. Barnes. WELLESLEY, 74,-Lieut., P. W. Hamilton; Commander, J. V. Fletcher.

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MOVEMENTS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS IN COMMISSION.
AT HOME.

ACTEON, 26, commissioned at Portsmouth, by Captain Robert Russell. 46, 12th August, sailed from Portsmouth for Cork.

ROYAL

APOLLO,

ATHOL, 28, Mr. Bellam;

23rd July, left Portsmouth for Spain; 18th August, arrived at Portsmouth from St. Sebastian. BUZZARD, 3, commissioned at Plymouth; August 15, fitting. COLUMBINE, 16, Com. Henderson, 8th August, arrived at Sheerness from Chatham; 14th, arrived at Portsmouth. HERALD, 18, Captain Nias, 18th August, sailed from Portsmouth for East Indies. HERCULES, 74, Captain I. T. Nicholas, C.B., 27th, July, arrived at Plymouth from Quebec. HERMES, St. V., Lieutenant W. Blount, 7th August, sailed from Plymouth for coast of Spain. JASEUR, 16, Commander F. M. Boulbee, 23rd July, sailed from Plymouth for Gibraltar. ORESTES, 18, 10th August, commissioned at Portsmouth by Commander R. J. Hambley, PILOT, 16, Commander G. Bamsay, sitting at Plymouth. ROSE, 18, P. Christie, fitting at Sheerness. ROYALIST, 10, 18th August, arrived at Plymouth from N. coast of Spain. SAPPHIRE, 28, Captain Rowley, 4th August, arrived at Portsmouth from Malta; 14th, paid off. SAVAGE, 10, Lieut. H. J. Lacon, sailed for N. coast of Spain. TRIBUNE, 24, Captain Tomkinson, 8th August, arrived at Sheerness from Chatham. VERNON, 50, Lord John Churchill, fitting at Sheerness. WATERWITCH, 10, Lieutenant Dickey, 31st July, paid off at Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH.-In Harbour.-Britannia, Victory, Hastings, Excellent, Royal George, Actæon, Orestes, Pantaloon, Firebrand, Messenger. At Spithead, Edinburgh, Pique, Tribune, Columbine, Athol.

PLYMOUTH.-In Harbour.-Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Hercules, Jupiter, Pilot, Nightingale, Skylark, Penguin, Buzzard.

COMMISSIONED SINCE OUR LAST.-At Portsmouth, Actæon, Orestes. At Plymouth, Pilot. At Sheerness, Rose, Vernon. PAID OFF.-At Portsmouth, Sapphire, Waterwitch.

ABROAD.

ALBAN, St. V., Lieutenant Tinling, 21st June, sailed from Barbados for Jamaica. ALLIGATOR, 28, Sir P. Bremer, 25th May, arrived in Simon's Bay; 2nd June sailed for Sydney. ANDROMACHE, 28, Captain L. Baynes, 30th June, at Quebec ; 4th July, sailed for Miramichi. BARHAM, 50, Captain A. L. Corry; 23rd July, arrived at Malta from Mahon, BASILISK, 6, Lieutenant G. G. Mac Donnell, 15th March, arrived at Callao. BLAZER, St. V., 1st August, arrived at Gibraltar from Malta. BONETTA, 3, Lieutenant H. P. Dischamps, 22nd May, Simon's Bay from Algoa Bay. BRISK, 3, 2nd June, sailed from Cape for Sierra Leone; 6th, left Sierra Leone; 2nd July, at Ascension. BRITOMART, 10, 26th May, arrived at Simon's Bay; 2nd June, sailed for New Holland. BUFFALO, J. Wood, Master, 7th April, arrived at Sydney, from New Zealand. CASTOR, 36, Captain E. Collier, 23rd July, arrived at Malta from Barcelona. CHAMPION, 18, Commander G. S. F. King, 30th June, left Jamaica for Chagres. CHARYBDIS, 3, Hon. Lieut. Gore, 7th July, sailed from Quebec; 15th, at Picton. CLIO, Commander W. Richardson, 17th May, sailed from Gibraltar for the Eastward. COLUMBIA, 2, 30th June, arrived at Barbados from England. CORNUS, 18, Commander Hon. P. P. Carey, 2nd July, Jamaica. CONWAY, 28, Captain C. R. Drinkwater, 8th April, sailed from Sydney for Hobart Town. CORNWALLIS, 74, Captain Sir R. Grant, 30th June, at Quebec, CROCODILE 28, Captain J. Polkinghorne, 9th June, St. John's. DEE, St. V., Com. Sherier, 27th, sailed from Quebec for West Indies. DONEGAL, 78, Captain J. Drake, 7th August, Lisbon. ELECTRA, 18, 19th May, at Buenos Ayres. ESPOIR, 10, 7th August, Lisbon; 12th, sailed. FLAMER, St. V., 3rd July, sailed from Port Royal for St. Thomas. GRIFFIN, 3, 6th July, at Barbados. HARLEQUIN, 16, Com. J. E. Erskine, 3rd August, Gibraltar. HERCULES, 74, 30th June, sailed from Quebec for England, HORNET, 6, Lieutenant Baillie, 5th July, arrived at Jamaica from Chagres. INCONSTANT, 36, Captain D. Pring, 30th June, at Quebec. Jaseur, 16, Commander F. M. Boultbee, 30th July, arrived at Gibraltar; 31st, sailed for the Eastward. LYNX, 3, 11th June, Bight of Benin. MAGIRIENNE, 24, Captain Mildmay, 24th July, Lisbon; 12th August sailed. MALABAR, 74, Captain Sir W. A. Montague, C.B., 13th July, arrived at Halifax, from Quebec. MIDEN, 4, St. V., 7th July, at Montreal. MINDEN, 74, Captain A. B. Sharpe, C.B., 24th July, sailed from Lisbon and arrived same day at Gibraltar; 4th August, sailed for the eastward. NIMROD, 20, Commander J. Fraser, 9th June, sailed from Jamaica for Vera Cruz. PELICAN, 16, 22nd July at Ascension. PEMBROKE, 74, Captain F. Moresby, 20th July, at Malta, from Genoa. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, 104, Flag-Admiral Hon. Sir R. Stopford, 20th July, arrived at Malta from Naples. RACEHORSE, 18, Com. W. H. Crawford, 5th July, off Picton. RAVEN, 4, Lieutenont G. Bedford, 22nd July at Ascension. RHADAMANTHUS St. V., Commander A. Wakefield, 20th July, at Malta. RING DOVE, 16, Commander S. Nixon, 15th June, sailed from Jamaica

on a cruise. RODNEY, 92, Captain H. Parker, 23rd July, arrived at Malta from Barcelona. RUSSELL, 74, Captain Sir W. H. Dillon, K.C.H., 7th August, at Lisbon. SAMARANG, 28, Capt. W. Boughton, 15th May, sailed from Monte Video for Buenos Ayres; 19th, at Buenos Ayres. SAPPHIRE, 28, Captain R. Rowley, 19th June, arrived at Gibraltar. SAPPHO, 16, Commander, T. Frazer, 24th July, at Jamaica from a cruise. SARACEN, 10, 15th April, Cape Coast, 3rd May, Cape of Good Hope, from Prince's Island; 3rd June, at Simon's Bay. SATELLIITE, 18, Commander J. Robb, 2nd July, sailed for Jamaica. SCYLLA, 16, Com. Hon. J. Denman, 27th July, arrived at Lisbon from Cadiz. SERINGAPATAM, 46, Captain J. Leith, 6th July, at Barbados. SKIPJACK, 5, Lieutenant J. Robinson, 5th July, arrived at Quebec from Halifax. SNAKE, 16, Commander A. Milne, 22nd July, Halifax. SPARROWHAWK, 16, Commander J. Sheppard, 13th June, at Bahia. TALAVERA, 74, Captain W. B. Mends, 17th July, sailed from Gibraltar for Malta. TARTARUS, St. V., 24th June, arrived at Barbados; 5th July at Jamaica. TRINCULO, 16, Commander H. E. Coffin, 20th July, at Cadiz. VANGUARD, 80, Captain Sir T. Fellowes, 23rd July, at Malta from off Tunis. VESTAL, 26, 4th July, sailed from Quebec for Bermuda. VoLCANO, St. V,, 20th July, arrived at Gibraltar from Plymouth; 25th sailed for Malta. WANDERER, 16, Commander T. Bushby, 2nd July, sailed for St. Jago de Cuba. WEAZLE, 10, Commander John Simpson, 2nd August, arrived at Gibraltar from Plymouth, and sailed for Malta. WOLVERINE, Commander Hon. E. Howard, 20th July, Cadiz.

Births.

At Falmouth, on the 28th July, the lady of Captain J. H. Plumridge, superintendent of the Packet Service at that port, of a daughter.

At Southsea, on the 14th August, the lady of Commander F. Wood, R. N., of a

son.

At the Ryalls, Seaton, Devon, the lady of Commander W. H. B. Proby, R.N. of a daughter.

At Southsea, on the 28th July, the lady of Mr. T. Yule, Master, R.N., of a daughter.

Lately, at Maidenhead, the lady of Commander Huntley of a son.

At Longfleet, on the 30th July, the lady of Lieutenant George Davies, R.N., commander of her Majesty's revenue cruizer Tartar, of a son and heir.

Marriages.

At Holy Rhood Church, Southampton, on Wednesday, the 22nd of August, by the Rev. Sempster G. Dryden, the Rev. Charles Gulliver Fryer, to Helen Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner, Bart., and niece of Captain H. W. Bayfield, R.N.

At Kennington, the Rev. Edward Pettman, Chaplain, R. N., to Sophia, daughter of the late Captain Henry Roberts, R.N., one of the companions of Captain Cook.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, Captain the Honourable George Cavendish, R. N., brother to Lord Waterpark, to Caroline, sister to Charles Prideaux Brune, Esq., of Prideaux Place, Cornwall.

At Alverstoke, George Wallis, Esq. R.N., to Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Deering, of Hardway.

At Calcutta, Lieutenant James A. Macdonald, R.N., to Martha, daughter of the late S. H. Greig, Esq.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, on the 16th Aug. by the Rev. H. A. Beamish, Captain Hope, R.N., of Carridon, N.B., to the Hon. Frederica Kinnaird.

At Gretna Green, on the 29th July, Lieutenant William Boys, R.N., late of Her Majesty's ship Harlequin, to Charlotte Sophia, a ward in Chancery, and youngest daughter of Dr. Greenall, M.D., of Biddenden, Kent.

At Dublin, on the 17th July, the Rev. James Annesly Beers, A.M., to Alice Elizabeth, second daughter of Capt. John Banks, R.N.

At Weston, on the 10th August, A. Bendall Littlehales, Esq., eldest son of Rear-Admiral Littlehales, of Bath, to Nancy Kegan, relict of the late Daniel Tugwell, Esq., and youngest daughter of the late John Horne, Esq., of the island of St. Vincent.

At Margate, Lieutenant Henry Harvey, R.N., son of Vice-Admiral Sir T. Harvey, to Jane, daughter of Dr. Denison, late of London.

At Great Malvern, Captain James Brasier, R.N., to Catherine, only surviving daughter of the late John Marshall, Esq., of Bradney, Shropshire.

At St. Peter's Church, Thanet, on the 28th July, Lieutenant Alexander Brown, R.N., to Honor, youngest daughter of Sir Richard Burton, of Sackett's Hill House.

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,

Kept at Croom's Hill, Greenwich, by Mr. W. ROGERSON, of the Royal Observatory.

JULY-Mean height of the Barometer = 30'011 inches; Mean temperature

Depth of Rain fallen = 1.85 inches.

LONDON: T. STANLEY, PRINTER, 17, BARTLETT'S BUILDINGS, HOLBORN.

ORIGINAL PAPERS.

OCTOBER, 1838.

NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT VALPARAISO.-Directions for entering the

Port.

THE point selected and approved of by His Excellency, the Commandant-General of Marine, where the light-house is actually building, 1,200 yards W. by S. S. from the outer and northernmost rock out of water, called the Baja, is in the latitude of 33° 1′ 00′′ S., and N. by W. W., one mile and a quarter distant from the Custom House of Valparaiso.

The lighthouse is constructed with wood, of a rectangular form, twenty-one feet square at the base, and fifty-five feet high to the foot of the lanthorn, where it is eleven feet square at the cornice. The lanthorn is twelve feet high and six feet in diameter; it is round and composed of iron, intended to burn oil, and to give a steady light of the natural colour, being of a magnitude sufficient to be seen ten leagues in fine weather. The building will be painted white.

When approaching Valparaiso from the southward, this lighthouse appears situated behind a round bluff point, from which it bears about S.E. distant about one mile and a quarter; on which bearing, vessels may run for it, and clear the point of Coromilla and its dangers, and continue that course till they open the port of Valparaiso.

In rounding the west side of the entrance of the bay, where the lighthouse stands, give it a berth of a mile till you have brought it south of you, and you will be clear of all dangers.

There is a small cluster of rocks called the Baja, that are always above water, and which do not occupy a space of more than sixty yards north and south, and about half that distance east and west. This Baja bears E. by N. N. from the lighthouse 1,200 yards distance. After passing the Baja you may haul into the bay and choose your situation from twelve to thirty fathoms, sand and oozy bottom.

Vessels bound for Valparaiso ought to make the land about the lat. 33° 20' south: ten months of the year it will be to windward, as the winds prevail from that quarter generally in that proportion. If the weather be fine, you will generally make the back land a considerable time before you can distinguish anything on the coast by which you can ascertain your situation. The bell mountain of Aconcagua, which is situated about forty leagues from the coast, is remarkable, it being the highest among many, and is generally covered ENLARGED SERIES.-NO. 10.-VOL. FOR 1838.

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