The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-20 00:00:00

An order has this day been received here by tele-
graph to send off a draught of able seamen to join the
Lightning, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Master Com-
mander Edward K. Calver, now on the coast of Scot-
land. They will leave by rail to-morrow morning.

Vie men were awakened shortly after five o'clock
a.m., and told that they had to get up and embark im-
mediately. The intelligence surprised them ; but on
such occasions soldiers under the eye of their superiors
only know the term "duty," and by a quarter past six
they were all mounted in route order. The troops left
the garrison at a quarter before seven o'clock. The
band did not play, and the troops marched so quietly
that few of the inhabitants of Woolwich were aware of
their departure. On entering the dockyard at seven
o'clock the horses were unharnessed on the dockyard
parade ground, and the harness packed into casks for
each gun detachment. The embarkation of the horses
then commenced, and the whole of the guns and ammu-
nition waggons were put on hoard, and the six ships
taken out of the basin and towed to moorings at the
Royal Arsenal by half-past three o'clock p.m., without
the least inconvenience or accident whatever. One of
the horses slipped and fell into the basin between the
Pyrenees and her Majesty's horse transport-ships, but
was not injured.
Colonel E. C. Whinyates, C. 8., K.C.H., Commandant
of the garrison, Brigadier-General Cator, Lieutenant-
Colonel Fox Strangways, Lieutenant-Colonel Bloomfield,
Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, Brigade-Major Bingham,
Capt. Riddell, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-General
of Artillery, and Brigade-Major Adye, with a number
of officers of the Royal Artillery, were present to witness
the embarkation. The wives of the men were admitted
into the dockyard at 2 p.m. to bid their husbands adieu,
and seven women, but no children, are allowed to em-
bark with each troop or company.

LIERPOOL, ARCH .
The new Mediterranean screw steamer M
TauruslB took
her departure from the Mersey this morning at 10 oclock
for Malta, having on board a detachment of 412 soldiers
and 16 officers belonging to the 41st and 47th Regi-
ments. The troops arrived yesterday from Dublin by
the City of Dublin steam-ship Royal William, whence
they were immediately trans-shipped to the Taurus,
which lay at anchor in the Sloyne.
The Cunard steam-ship Cambria, Miller commander,
arrived at this port at a late hoar last night from Malta,
whither she had conveyed the 50th Regiment from
kingstown. It is believed that she will be again de-
spatched in a short time, with other troops, for the same
destination.

The Cunard steamer Niagara, Leitch commander,
which arrived here on Wednesday, will again proceed to
Malta on Wednesday next, when she will, in all proba-
bility, take out the 88th Regiment (Connaught Rangers),
at present lying at Preston.
No less than 10 Liverpool Teasels are now being fitted
by Messrs. Major and Co. for the conveyance of troops
to the East. They include the Star of the South (James
Alexander), Euchunga (James Johnson and Co.), Ti-
mandra (Edward Oliver), Mary Ann (Edward Oliver),
the Paramatta (Edward Oliver), and the Wilson Ken-
nedy (Edward Oliver). Commander Boys and other
officers from Deptford are superintending the alterations,
which are on an extensive scale, and will be in every
way calculated to promote the convenience and comfort
of the troops. The Wild Wave has been taken up by
Government for the conveyance of stores and provisions.
She proceeded hence this morning for Devonport, where
she will be fitted for her new service.
This morning a notice was posted in the Underwriters'
rooms to the effect that tenders were required at So-
merset-house for the supply of transport ships, to be
chartered for four months certain, with power on the
part of the Government to discharge the ships in Eng-
land or at the Mediterranean.

DUBLIN, MARCIE 18.
Captain Cleaveland's battery of Royal Artillery re-
ceived on Friday the route from Athlone, and almost
immediately proceeded to Dublin for Woolwich. The
fortifications at Athlone, the great central garrison of
Ireland, have been left in charge of a single gunner. A
detachment of 240 rank and file from the 55th depot
will leave Athlone on Tuesday next, to join the head-
quarters at Gibraltar. Thirty volunteers from the
2d, or Queen's, have left Athlone for Ports-
mouth to join the 42d Highlanders ; 30 from the
same regiment have joined the 21st North British
Fusiliers—they were escorted to the railway station by
the drums of the depot ; 33 have also joined the 33d,
being 93 volunteers for the seat of war in one month.
The Lieutenant-General has expressed himself highly
pleased with the gallant manner in which the men of
the Queen's have offered their services to the country.
50 rank and file from the 41st depot left Mullingar on
Thursday by special train for Dublin, en route to Malta,
to join the head-quarters of the regiment.
The head-quarters division of the 3d Dragoon Guards
marches from Longford on the 20th, and will arrive in
the Royal Barracks on the 24th inst., to replace the 2d
Dragoon Guards. The sick and dismounted then will
arrive on the 23d ; and the squadron at Athlone marches
on the 20th, and will arrive in the Royal Barracks on
the 24th.
A. party of the 2d Dragoon Guards, with the young
horses, marched from the Royal Barracks yesterday
morning, and will arrive in Dundalk on the 21st inst.
One troop and head-quarters march on tho 20th, with
staff and band, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel W. Campbell, and will arrive in Dundalk on
the 22d inst.

One troop and head-quarters of the 4th Dragoon
Guards march from Dundalk on the 21st, and will
arrive in New-bridge on the 25th instant, there to be
stationed.

380 horses from the artillery batteries in Ireland will,
it is stated, be transferred to Woolwich forthwith, for
war service,

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.
Captain Frederick William Grey, C.B. (1828), aide-
de-camp to the Queen, to command the Hannibal, 91,
screw steam-ship, commissioned on Saturday, at Wool-
wich. Captain Hon. F. W. Grey is third son of the late
Earl Grey, and while serving as midshipman of the
Naiad, 46, contributed, in the boats under Lieut. Michael
Quin, to the brilliant destruction, on the night of March
23, 1824, of a 16• gun brig, moored in a position of ex.
traordinary strength alongside the walls of the fortress
of Bona, in which was a garrison of 400 soldiers, who
from cannon and musket kept up a tremendous fire
almost perpendicularly on deck. For his services as
captain of the Endymion, 44, in China, where in the
attack upon Chin-Kiang-Foo on July 21, 1342, he
elicited the best thanks of Major-General Schcedde for
the manner in which he superintended the debarkation of
the troops under the orders of that officer, whom he ac-
companied as a volunteer throughout the day, and when
he paid off that vessel, towards the close of 1843, he was
nominated a C.B.

Master—George Moore (1843), recently serving in
the Thetis, 28, on the Pacific station, to tke Hannibal,
91, screw steam-ship, at Woolwich.
Masters' Assistants--Henry Hawn, to the Belleisle
hospital ship, for the Baltic fleet ; John Johnston, to
the Victoria and Albert, Royal steam-yacht at Ports-
mouth.

Clerks—J. M. Jenkins (1854), to the Archer, 14,
screw steam•oorvette, at Woolwich ; W. H. Cyma, to
the Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Clerks' Assistants--James E. Ray, to the St. George,
121, lat Devonport ; Charles G. Nash, to the Royal
William, 120, at Devonport.

THE RIVER MIIREAL—Mr. Peel has laid on the
table of the House of Commons copies of despatches
received from the Governor of South Australia on
the subject of the navigation of the Murray, re-
portiag the successful prosecution of the steam navi-
gation of that river to a distance of 1,500 miles
from the sea, and giving an account of the mea-
sures preposed for promoting the colonization of the vast
basin of the river, and for the reservation of land on
its banks, with a view of preventing the issue of squat•
ting licenses. Sir H. Young had the pleasure of re-
Porting to the Legislative Council in: October the
arrival of the first cargo of river-borne wool, and the
Council awarded to him, and also to Captain Cadell, a
medal in commemoration of the opening up of the
navigation. The expedition proceeded up the river
150 miles beyond Swan-hill, and found the depth of
water at this point three fathoms, and the breadth
about 200 yards, and this was the average during its
course. The descent of the river was commenced at this
point, because as much wool was awaiting transport
that Captain Cadell had no commercial object in pro-
onging the voyage on this occasion, although it was
believed that the navigation could 'be extended with
equal safety to Albury, within 400 miles of Sydney.

third-class assistant engineer, is appointed to be borne
on the books of this ship for general service here.
We have recently had a number of fine lads from the
different unions in Mid Kent, brought here for entry in
the navy, all of whom have volunteered, and obtained
the consent of the respective Boards of Guardians to
enter the navy, some of whom, growing boys, have
been much disappointed at not reaching the standard
height by from half an inch to an inch.
The Majestic, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, Capt.
James Hope, is advancing very fast in the entry of her
blue jackets ; her topmast rigging is being ratlined
down. A trial of her machinery has taken place during
the past week, which has terminated very satisfactorily ;
she will shortly be out of the hands of the dockyard
authorities, and will be ready for sea in seven days
afterwards.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 18.
An officer of the Royal Navy, who arrived this even-
ing at Woolwich, from Aberdeen, states that, when off
Aldborough at 9.30 this morning, the Aberdeen steam-
packet passed the Neptune, 120, flag-ship of Rear-
Admiral Corry, and the Monarch, 84, each towed by a
steamer, and steering N.E. with a fair wind, on their
way to the Baltic fleet.
The Archer, 14, screw steam-corvette, Capt. Heath-
cote, has completed all her hands, with the exception
of two petty officers, and, after she has been tried down
the river, will leave to join the Baltic fleet.
The Rhadamanthus paddle-wheel steam store-ship, at
preseat at Deptford, Master John Belam Commander, is
under orders to proceed to Portsmouth with 10,000 ham-
mocks for the use of the troops about to be embarked at
that port. She will at the same time take back the jury-
masts brought round to Deptford in the Talbot.
The embarkation of Captain Levinge's troop of Royal
Horse Artillery, and the half of the men and horses of
Captain Anderson's company, was effected to-day most
successfully. The period of embarkation was kept a
secret until the last moment, the first intimation of the
intended movement being made by the arrival of Capt.
Riddell, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General of
Artillery, at a quarter past 12 at night, at the dockyard,
to communicate to Commodore Superintendent John
Shepherd that the troops would embark in the horse
transport ships shortly after six a.m., and that several
waggons with stores would arrive at an earlier hour.