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WEST COAST OF AFRICACommander-in-chief\—Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, appointed May 13, 1846, arrived at Ascension in the Devastation, steam-sloop, Oct. 29th.— Tortoise, 2, store and guard ship, at Ascension, Capt. Hutton to succeed Com. Morrell, as Governor of the island.— Act«eon, 26, Captain George Mansel, had sailed from Ascension, for St. Helena, being senior officer of that division.Nimrod, 20, Commander Dacres, at Sierra Leone, ordered to the Cape, leffci8iberia, Sept 23rd,— Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, Congo, ordered to Spithead, left St. Helena, on her way home, Oct. 29th.— Favourite, 14, Cora. Murray, left Ascension, Oct. 7, for the Bights, to relieve the Hydra.— Lily, 16, Cora. Newton, at Ascension, ordered to Spithead.— Bittern, 16, sloop Commander Hope, at Congo.— Syren, 16, Commander Chaloner, is ordered from the Mediterranean to Ascension, to be under the orders of Sir C. Hotham.— Wanderer, 12, Commander Someiville, ordered to the Pongas, was off there Oct. 12, and expected to be at Sierra Leone in about a month.— Flying Fish, 12, Commander Dyke, Ascension.— Kingfisher, 12, Com. Horton, to supersedet Brown, arrived at St. Helena, July 12, for water, at Congo. Captain Horton within a fortnight of joining captured two slavers.— Contest, 12, comp. 110, Com. M'Murdo, was at Sierra Leone, Oct, 17th,— Waterwitch, 10, Commander Birch, at St. Helena, arrived Sept. 18, but had left again for her cruising ground.— Pantaloon, 10, Com. H. J. Douglas, in the Bight of Benin ordered to proceed to Bermuda.— Espoir, 8, Com. Hand, Ascension, at Benguela, is to be relieved by the Hound, and then to proceed to Devonport to be paid off.— Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at 8t. Helena from Congo, Nov. 2.— .sealark, 8, Commander Gooch, was at St. Helena, Oct. 6th with a prize named the Tarracona, but left again on the 14th.— Holla, 8, Commander Simpson, Cape de Verde.— Rapid, 8, Commander Gallwey, arrived at St. Helena, from Benguela, Nov. 13th.— Ferret, 8, Commander Sprigg, off Shebar, end of Sept,.—(See Admiralty— Hound, 8, comp. 80, Commander Granville Wood, left Plymouth Sound, Sept. 24, for Ascension, to relieve the Espoir, arrived at Ascension, and left Nov. 8th for St. Helena.— Star, 6, Sierra Leone, ordered to Spithead.—- Alert, 6, sloop, Commander W. Ellis, ditto, ordered to Spithead— Ranger, 6, Commander Anderson, at Benin, end of Sept.— Cygnet, 6, Commander Montressor, at Galinas from Ascension , Sept.I — Snap, steam tender on the coast, is ordered to be employed in future as a cruizer. At Ascension, Oct. 29th. j — Prompt, schooner, tank vessel, at Ascension, Is ordered to be ’ | sold out of the service,
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