The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-06 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

Deputy Adjutant-General's•ofiice,
Woolwich, March 2.
His Lordship, the Master-General, has appointed the
following officers to be adjutants, provisionally, under
the regulations contained in the General Order of Feb-
ruary 5, 1826

Second Captain E. B. Hamley to the sth battalion,
vice Cannon, promoted.
Second Captain E. E. R. Dyneley to the 12th battalion,
vice Rogers, promoted.
In consequence of the above the undermentioned offi-
cers are posted as follows :
Second Captain P. F. Miller to the 2d battalion, vice
Hawley.
Second Captain H. T. Fitzhugh to the 12th battalion,
vice Dyneley.
HENRY PALLISER, Lieut.-Colonel,
Assistant-Adjutant-General.

The horses of two batteries are to be sent over from
Ireland for service in Captain Swinton's 3d company,
11th battalion, and Captain J. Turner's 4th company,
11th battalion.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

SHEERNESS, MARCH 4.

The Driver, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
mander the Hon. A. Cochrane, has this day been taken
into No. 3 dry dock, to be examined, and for the pur-
pose of cleaning her bottom, clearing feed pipes, &c.
This being done she will be ready for sea in a few days.
Orders have been received here for the Monarch, 84
guns, Captain John E. Erskine, to leave on Thursday
next for the Downs. All hands employed upon her are
working long extra hours to insure her departure on that
day. Lieutenant H. St. John Mildmay has taken up
his commission and joined this ship.
The Majestic, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, Capt.
James Hope, C. 8., is ordered to be out of the dockyard
on the 25th instant, and will be ready to sail within
seven days afterwards. Lieutenant Edwin A. Percher,
9th of November, 1846, has taken up his commission
and joined this ship. A number of very smart A.B.'s
have volunteered for her, and ordinary seamen and lands-
men are coming forward freely for entry. This ship has
what wardroom officers call a popular commander, and
what the blue-jackets call a first-rate sailor. The conse-
quence is, a great number of blue-jackets, who formerly
served under him, are again entering the same ship. She
was masted yesterday, tops sent over the mastheads, and
the standing rigging is being fitted. The greatest activity
prevails among the blue-jackets, the marine artillery,
and Royal Marines, the last being engaged conveying
the standing rigging, &c., from the stores ready, for the
use of the former. Her screw propeller was lowered into
its bearings yesterday, and on Thursday next a trial
will take place to prove the strength of her boilers, &c.
Lieutenant Charles G. G. Perceval, promoted from
the Fury paddle-wheel steam-sloop, serving in the Medi-
terranean, and Lieutenant Thomas H. Downs, of the
2d of March, 1838, from the Coast-guard station at Aln-
mouth (Alnwick) have taken up their commissions and
joined the Cressy, 80 guns, Captain Richard L. 'Warren.
Her compasses will be adjusted by Mr. John C. Barlow,
Master of the Waterloo, immediately after which she
will ho inspected by the port officers and leave for the
Downs.

The late 120 gun-ship Howe, which was taken into
dry dock here in October, 1850, was being taken to
pieces (by Admiralty order) last week, by which another
spacious dry dock, capable of receiving a first-rate man-
of-war, armed, manned, and victualled, with six months'
stores of every description on board, is available for any
emergency.
A number of schooners, varying from 100 to 150 tons
loading burden, have been hired as transports, for the
conveyance of provisions, stores, ammunition, &c., for
the use of the Baltic fleet, part of which are now engaged
bringing provisions from Deptford to the victualling
stores at this yard. The Reform, of London, Robert ,
Rex, master, and the Wharfinger, of London, J. Harris,
master, have arrived here, completed their discharge,
and sailed again for Deptford. Each vessel has been
supplied by the dockyard authorities with sufficient pig
iron ballast to enable them to discharge their cargoes of
provisions, &c., and return from the fleet in fair ballast
trim, when occasion may require them to proceed after
the fleet, on their departure from the Downs.
The schooner Boyne, of London, William Stone, mas-
ter, is now discharging victualling stores here for the
same purpose.
The Hart, sailing tender to the Waterloo, under charge
of Eugene C. Batty, returned from Dover this day with
volunteers from general service, among whom are several
mechanics for armourers and carpenters' crews. All the
volunteers are drilled daily on board the "Waterloo, in
bending, reefing, furling, and unbending sails ; also at
the gun, small arm, and cutlass exercise, while the boys
are engaged knotting, splicing, &c.
Arrangements have been entered into with the Ad-
miralty for the electric telegraph being laid down from
this yard to Deptford and Woolwich, by which, on the
shortest notice, ammunition from the latter, and provi-
sions from the former, can be immediately shipped, and
proceed, wherever directed by telegraph, from the
Thames. In addition to this, it will be rendered available
for communications from the Admiralty, fore Guards,