WILLIAM NICOL.- -Sunday afternoon a large Bast Indiaman, called the William Nicol, was towed into the St. Katharine docks, shortly after which four of the crew, apparently in a dying state, were placed in a hackney coach, and conveyed to the house of Mrs. Reay, Queen's Head-alley, Wapping, where they were put to bed. About an hour afterwards one of the men, named John Musgrave, a sailmaker, sixtyone years of age, breathed his last. In the course of the next half hour another of the men. named Frederick West, the boatswain of the William Nicol, aged forty-two, expired. Mr. Betson, a surgeon, was promptly sent for, and administered some medicine to the other two men, who are now considered out of danger. There are, at the present time, two men on board the ship in too dangerous a condition to be rcmoved, their death being hourly expected. Another of the seaman who was removed from the ship expired at a house in East Smithfield, on Monday morning. The William Nicol is a large ship of about five hundred tons' burden. She sailed from Calcutta about five months ago, having sixteen hands on board, but such was the mortality during the voyage, that when the ship touched at Deal there were only three persons on board capable of working, all the rest being either dead or disabled through illness. Accordingly fresh hands were obliged to be shipped at Deal to bring the vessel into the river. It was said the men died of cholera, but the real cause of death is stated to be scurvy, which the survivors attribute to the extreme saltness of the provisions on which they were fed during the homeward voyage. The affair has created a great sensation at the east end of the metropolis. The St. Katharine docks' authorities have been greatly censured for allowing the William Nichol to enter the dock, as it was generally supposed she was infected with the cholera, as it was known that that dreadful scourge was raging in the Fast Indies when the vessel left Calcutta. It is expected that a coroner's inquest will be held on the bodies of the decea-ed. Comparative amount of custom duties received at the principal ports in the United Kingdom, during the years 1836-7-8: The above statement is compiled from the latest official sources that have been published. The DUNGENESS LIGHT.-The directors of the Trinity House intend to place another row of lamps in the lighthouse as an addition to the present ones, which will increase the brilliancy of the light, and assist the mariners in avoiding the dangers of the coast in stormy nights. lighthouse has been much improved by the present proprietors.-Globe. Mehemet Ali, in compliance with the desire of the Royal Society of London, had ordered the construction of an observatory, for the meteorological and magnetical experiments intended to complete the series of observations about to be made under the auspices of that learned body in different parts of the globe. Mr. Lambert, Director of the School of Civil Engineering at Cairo, was to be charged with those observations. The Pasha had ordered the necessary instruments and materials from London, and the observatory was to be erected in the Island of Boulac, which is contiguous to the school. SHOAL TRIRIDAD.---Nov. 6. Captain Ross, of the brigantine Delaware, from Charleston, arrived here on the 23d September, reports that on the 16th September, in the observed latitude 10 deg. 48 min. N., at noon, struck soundings in 37 fathoms, with shells and sandy bottom, steering south at 3 p.m., passed over a rocky bank, having 5, 7, and 10 fathoms, and that he saw the bottom quite plain; from the distance run should suppose the true latitude of the shallow part of the bank 10 deg. 37 min., and longitude by chronometer 60 deg. 3 min. W.; past 3 p. m. had 70 fathoms water.---Ship. Gaz., No. 252. at PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. APPOINTMENTS. BEACON, Surveying vessel;—Assistant Surgeon, D. J. R. Robinson. BELLERO PHON, 80,-Lieutenant, F. S. M'Gregor. BENBOW, 72, Midshipmen,—C. Wake, F. A. B. Crawford. BLONDE, 42,-Lieutenant, G. H. Coulson, A. H. Ingram ; Master, H. N. Thomas; Surgeon, G. H. Brown; Mate, J. F. C. Hamilton, J. B. Christopher, G. Walker, A. Anderson, W. R. Rolland; Master's Assistrnt, C. Fox; Assistant Surgeon, J. S. Stanley; Midshipman, C. F. Coventry; Midshipmen, Hon. O. Lambert, C. F. Coventry; Clerk, Mr. T. Sidney; Volunteer, 1st Class, R. Purvis. BRITANNIA, 120,─Åssistant Surgeons, A. Mitchell, M.D., J. Dunbar; Captain, J. W. Montague; Mate, W. F. Bate. BRISK, 3,-Lientenant Commander, W. Armitage. COAST GUARD,-Commander, T. V. Watkins at Pembroke, E. B. Westbrook at Bridlington; Mates, H. B. Gray, R. J. Bevians, J. S. W. Grandy, J. A. Pritchard. CRESCENT, Receiving Ship at Rio Janeiro,-Lieut.-Commander, M. Donellan., CYCLOPS, Steam vessel,-Captain, H. T. Austen; Lieutenant, J. Greenfell; Purser, J. Pinhorn. EXCELLENT,Mates, A. Wilmshurst, G. Briggs. FANTOME, 16,—Lieutenants, W. T. Cooper, W. Clayton; Master, T. R. Lord; Clerk, G. S. Singer. GANGE, 84,-Lieutenant, C. H. Hamilton. GORGON, Steam vessel,-Mate, J. Maling. HARLEQUIN, 16,-Purser (assistant), Smedman. HASLAR HOSPITAL,-Assistant Surgeoas, T. Denvir, T. Hart, A. Mitchell, M.D.; Second Surgeon and Lecturer, J. Liddell; Junior Surgeon, J. Allen. HYDRA, Steam vessel,-Lieuteuants, J. Fitz James, N. Morway. MALTA Hospital,—Surgeon, W. Martin (b) MELVILLE, 72,-Assistant Surgeon, W. T. Rgers NIMROD, 20,—Commander, C. A. Barlow; Lieutenant, J. Fox; Master, J. Cater; Surgeon, W. Hamilton; Purser, F. Siddall; Assistant Surgeon, J. S. Davidson; Clerk, H. H. Gilbert. PEXBrobe, 74,—Lieutenant, C. B. Warren. Pique, 36,—Lieutenants, H. P. Galw: y, J. Fellowes; Master, J. C. Barlow; Assistant Surgeon, A. D. Milne. PORTSMOUTH DOCKS,-Surgeon, J. Mason. PYLADES, 18,- Commander, T. V. Anson. PRESIDENT, 50,—Lieutenants, N. S. Knott; N. H. Pipon. PROMETHEUS, Steam vessel,-Surgeon, F. Le Grande; Clerk in Chief, H. L. Sutherland. REVENGE, 76,-Lieutenant, H. D. Rogers; Master's Assistant, J. Thomas; Purser, B. Jennings; Midshipman, G. A. Seale; Clerk, R. Simmonds. RODNEY, 72,Assistant Surgeon, J. Forbes. SEA-FLOWER, 4,-Mate, E. E. Turnour. SPITFIRE, Steam vessel,-Lieutenant Com., R. Currie. SAN JOSEF, 110,-Lieut., J. P. Wells. TYNE, 26,-Purser (assistant), J. Lyall. WANDERER, 16,—Commander, Hon. J. Denman; Lieutenant, T. Chaloner; Surgeon, J. W. Elliott; Purser J. M.Jeffrey; Mate, T. E. Symonds. WEAZLE,—Assistant Surgeon, D. Ritchie ; Secretary, Benjamin Chimmo, Esq., Purser, R.N., to be Secretary to Admiral Sir Edward Codrington; Lieutenant, Charles Foreman Brown, (son of the late Admiral Brown, who died in command on the Jamaica station) to be FlagLieutenant to Admiral Sir E. Codrington. WILLIAM AND MARY,-Purser, !. Luther. MIDSHIPMEN PASSED FOR LIEUTENANTS,-R. M. E. M'Leod, Colt.; W. R. G. Johnson, Coll.; A. W. J. Heath, Coll.; A. R. Ryder, Coll.; E. A. Inglefield, Coll. NAVAL INSTRUCTORS,-A. A. Bridgman, R. Oram. MOVEMENTS OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN COMMISSION AT HOME. Etna, 6, Lt. Com. J. Wilson, 20th Dec. arrived at Woolwich. Andromache, 26, Captain R. J. Baynes, 14th Dec. arrived at Portsmouth. Blenheim, 72, Captain Sir H. Stenhouse, K.C.H., 12th Dec. arrived at Portsmouth; 14th int. harbour. Boxer, St, V. Dec. arrived at Sheerness. Fairy, Sur V., Captain W.' Hewett, 11th Dec., arrived at Woolwich from North Sea survey. Mastiff, SurV,, Mr. G. Thomas, Dec., arrived at Woolwich, from survey of Orkneys. Raren, 4, Lieut. D. Mapleton, Falmouth. Talavera, 74, 10th Dec. arrived at Ply mouth. AT PORTSMOUTH,-Britannia, Excellent, Pique, Victory, Royal George Blenheim, Rover, Messenger. AT PLYMOUTH,-Nimrod. Pylades, Talavera Impregnable, San Josef, Carron. AT SHEERNESS-Howe, Ocean, Cyclops AT WOOLWICH.-William and Mary, Fairy, Mastiff, Etna. Lightning, Firebrand, Meteor, |