The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

IBE NAVY.

Admiralty orders were yesterday received at
Chatham, directing the Barrosa, 21, 1,700 tons,
400 horse power, and the Eclipse, 4, 200 horse
power, to be immediately fitted for commission.
The Barrosa is to have a complement of 275 officers
and men, and the Eclipse a crew of 96 men,
both including Royal Marines and Marine Artil-
lery. Both vessels are attached to the first• class
steam reserve in the Medway, and are in such an
advanced state that they can be made ready for sea
in the course of a few days. They will receive
thei crews from the Coastguard ships at the various
ports.

The line-of-battle steamer Trafalgar, 86, 500-
horse power, having been lightened by the removal
of her large guns, which have been forwarded to
Chatham, and her other heavy stores, has been
placed in No. 3 dock at Sheerness, to have her hull
examined and her defects made good.
Her Majesty's troopship Adventure, Commander
Lethbridge, from North America, was yesterday
docked at Woolwich to be surveyed by the ship-
wright department of the dockyard. On account
of the accumulation of mud and sewage at the
month of the dock the operation was rendered diffi-
cult and somewhat dangerous. By means of a
powerful application of the capstans, however, the
vessel was at length hauled into the dock (which is
in course of being lengthened to receive the Cale-
donia), the head of which was removed for the re-
ception of the Adventure when fitted out for her
present commission. She has been replenished with
50 tons of coal and has received a supply of water
in readiness to proceed to Portsmouth for repairs,
which it is expected will occupy upwards of two
months. On the clearing out of the dock it was
discovered that the angle of her stem had been
knocked away and several of her plates had been
turned and torn out of place, the result of her
striking on the rock in the Bay of Fundy. Her
commission, it appears, has been extremely unfor-
tunate. in addition to the accident in the Bay of
Fundy she met with a double collision on entering
the port of St. John's, Newfoundland, and struck a
ship named the Dauntless, cutting her down to the
water's edge. She also carried away the jibboom
of the brigantine Adeline. A Trinity Board, it is
stated, assembled at Newfoundland, investigated
the case, and forwarded their report to the Admi-
ralty, awarded the expenses to the owners of the
damaged vessels in both instances.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. John R. T. Fullerton, to
the Defence ; Lieut. H. J. Coddington and Lieut.
W. F. Boughey, to the Eclipse ; Lieut. Bernard
Moore, to the Barrosa; Lieut. Francis J. Pitt, to
the Perseus ; V. L. Cameron, midshipman, to the
Defence, as supernumerary ; G. G. Crompton, naval
cadet, to the Barrosa; Anson Schomberg, naval
cadet, to the Galatea, as supernumerary; W. H. Wors-
fold, confirmed as second master in the Victory, as
supernumerary; H. M. Dearsley and H. W. Cam-
pion, masters' assistants, to the Barrosa ; R. W.
Meiklejohn, in the Euryalus, promoted to the rank
of first-class assist.-engineer, and C. Lawrence,
second-class assist-engineer, to the Defence.