The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER,

his Lordship, the Mas,ei. Irv; been pleased
o make the tuilovving appointmAn, consequent upon
the promotion announced in the Gazette of the 9th
instant :

Colonel Turner, C. 8., to command the Royal Artillery
n Ireland.

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Colonel Rudyard, Superintendent of the Royal Mili-
tary Repository.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, Inspector of Royal Car-
riage Department.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harding°, Director of Royal Labo-
ratory.
The two latter appointments to take effect on January
1, 1847.

Brevet Major Pester, Fire Master.
Captain C. J. Wright, to Royal Military Repository.
The outh-rtnentioned officers are pasted to the Royal
lorse Artillery.
Lieutenant-Col,nl Bell, vice Dyneley.

Lieutenant-Col:mei Louis, vice C,lator-.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, vice Macdonald,. on
Lieutenant Colonel's pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Strangways, vice Hardinge, on
Major's pay.
Captain Dupins. vice Pester.
2d Captain Phillpotts, vice Wood.
Ist Lieutenant Willett, vice Goodenough.

Ist Lieutenant Neill, vice Gardiner.
Ist Lieutenant D. M. C. D. Fraser, vice Radcliff.
In conseque ce of the promotions and foregoing ap•
pointmeots the undermentioned are posted as follows :
Lieut.-Colonel Rawnsley to the 7th battalion, vice
Bastard.
Lieut.-Colonel Hardinge to the 2d battalion, vice
Brown.
Lieut.-Colonel Andrews to the Bth battalion, vice
Grant.
Lieut.-Colonel Locke to the Bth battalion, vice Scott.
lieut.. Colonel Wells to the 6th battalion, vice Bell.
Lieut.-Colonel Arbuckle to the Ist battalion, vice
Russell.

Lieut.-Colonel Higgins to the 4th battalion, vice Rud-
yard.
Lieut.-Colonel Freer to the 3d battalion, vice Louis.
Lieut.-Colonel Hope to the Nth battalion, vice
Brereton.

Lieut.-Colonel Eyre to the Bth battalion, vice Dansey.

ON LIEUTENANT-COLONELS' PAY.

Lieut.-Colonel Otway to the Bth battalion, vice
Rawnsley.
Lieut.-Colonel Anderson to the 10th battalion, vice
Strangways.
Lieut.-Colonel Palmer to the 4th battalion, vice An-
drews. _ _

Lieut.-Colonel Hornsby to the 3d battalion, vice Locke.
Lieut.-Colonel Armstrong to the sth battalion, vice
Willis.

Lieut.-Colonel Evans to the 9th battalion, vice Ar-
buckle.

Lieut.-Colonel Rowland to the 2d battalion, vice
Higgins.
Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun to the Ist battalion, vice

Freer.

Lieut.-Colonel Harrison to the 7th battalion, vice
Hope.
Lieut.-Colonel Wright to the 6th battalion, vice Eyre.

LIEUTENANT-COLONELS ON MAJORS' PAY.

Brevet-Major Pester to the Bth battalion, vice Dupuis.
2d Captain Crofton to the 6th battalion, vice Phillpotts.
Ist Lieutenant D. S. Green to the sth battalion, vice
Willett.

Ist Lieutenant G. W. D. Hay to the Bth battalion, vice
Neill.

Ist Lieutenant M. Stewart to the 3d battalion, vice
Fraser.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

WooLwicH, Nov. 18.—Her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Caroline of Hesse is expected to embark at Dover
for Ostend on the 23d instant, and their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
will also embark at Dover for Calais about the 25th of
the present month.
Her Majesty's steam-packet Garland, Commander
Smithett, is ordered to be placed at the disposal of the
royal visitors to convey them to the Continent.
His Excellency Baron de Beust and suite landed
at Dover yesterday afternoon, at one o'clock, from
Ostend, having arrived in the Garland, Commander
Smithett, and left immediately, under a salute from the
heights.
The Nymph, 46 guns, receiving ship, was towed up
the river yesterday from Sheerness to Woolwich, to be
used as a receiving ship, instead of the Seringapatam.
The Belvidere store ship was towed down the river
yesterday from Deptford to the Nore, by the Lightning
steam-vessel.
The Woodlark, tender to the Mastiff, Master Com-
mander Thomas, has arrived at Woolwich from the Ork-
neys, and the Mastiff is hourly expected.
The Amphion steam frigate, 36 guns, Captain Wil-
liams, was taken in the east dock to-day to be examined
before proceeding to sea.
The Avon steam vessel, Captain Denham, is expected
to arrive at Woolwich this afternoon from the coast of
Africa and Portsmouth.

The Gorgon steam-vessel and Terrible steam-frigate
are daily expected at Woolwich, the former to be paid
off at that port.
The Niger steam-vessel, built at Woolwich dockyard
from a design by Mr. 0. Lang, and to be fitted with
one of Mr. Smith's screw propellers, 13 f2et in diameter,
was launched to-day at 25 minutes past one o'clock, P.M.
The vessel was named by Mrs. Dwyer, wife of Captain
Dwyer, R.N. Amongst the officers present were Captain
Henderson, C.B. of the Sidon steam-frigate ; Comman-
der Smith, of the William and Mary yacht ; Commander
Hamond, of the Medea steam-vessel; Captain Wel-
lesley and Captain Knox, studying steam at the factory,
and a number of officers of the Royal Artillery and
Royal Marines. The vessel is very strongly put to-
gether, and her decks have been coated with marine glue,
and the heads of the whole of the copper nails and bolts
sunk an inch each into. the wood, and then covered with
a coating of the marine glue, and covered with a circular
piece of wood about an inch thick, joined with the same
material, forming an apparently solid deck easily cleaned
and kept in the best order.
The Niger went off the stocks in fine style amidst the
cheers of the assembled spectators, and she looks re-
markably well in her future element. The following
are her dimensions :

ft. in.
Length between the perpendiculars ... 185 0
Keel for tonnage ••• 167 7i
Breadth extreme ..• 34 8
Do. for tonnage ..• 34 4
Do. moulded ... 33 8
Depth in engine room ... 21 6
Burthen in tons 1,013 51-04 old measurement.
Do. do. 923 1,505.3,500 new do.

Engines 400 horse power.
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Racer ; Abraham Martin, clerk, to the Birkenhead ;
John C. Wilson, naval cadet, to the President ; V. A.
Massingberd, commander, to the Alecto ; E. C. T.
D'Eyncourt, commander, to the Comus ; Richard Moor-
man, commander, to the Rattler ; H. M. Ellicombe,
commander, to the Rolla.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 18.—The Fairy steam yacht,
under the command of Captain Lord A. Fitsclarence,
having conveyed the Court to Cowes this afternoon, re-
turned to harbour about half past two. She came up to
Spithead under sail and steam, and appeared to cut
through the water with unsurpassable velocity.
The Scourge steam. sloop, C immander Caffin, returned
to Spithead during the night, the wind having changed,
and her services in the way of supplying water and pro-
visions to the wind-bound ships in the Channel became
thereby unnecessary.
PonTsmouTrt,Nov. 18.—The recorded services of the
Captains of her Majesty's Navy, who have been appointed
naval Aides-de-Camp to the Queen, in the vacancies
of Rear-Admirals Sir C. Napier, the Hon. Sir F. B. R.
Pellew, Henry Hope, Sir .John B. Pechell, Bart., P.
Hornby, and Sir F. Collier, are as follows:
Captain M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., a Lord of the Admi-
ralty, was a midshipman of the Blanche, and served in
her boats, cutting out an armed vessel from under the
batteries of Monte Christi; at the capture of a French
squadron at Cape Francois, 1803 ; and the siege of
Curacoa in 1804. Was a Lieutenant of the Hydra, at
the destruction of a French convoy in Rosas Bay, in
1809; and, in command of the barge, captured an armed
felucca off Toulon, and frequently engaged with the
enemy off Barcelona, &c. Was a Lieutenant of the
Barfleur, in command of the armed boats, co-operating
With the Duke of Wellington's army in the Tagus, and
officially reported, and thanked in general orders, at the
attack on Villa Franca in 1810. Commanded the Vestal,
at the defence of Cadiz in 1811; and her Majesty's ship
Thunderer, 84, in the operations on the coast of Syria,
including the stormings of Sidon and St. Jean D'Acre,
in 1840.
Captain the Hon. G. A. Crofton was a midshipman of
the Medusa in Lord Nelson's attack on the Boulogne
flotilla in 1804 ; a lieutenant of the Cambnan, and com-
manded her barge, at the capture of a French privateer
schooner, Matilda, of 10 gnus and 95 men, in 1805 :
lieutenant in the Mul,grave, 74, at the reduction of 'St.
Croix and St. Thomas in 1807 ; commander of the
Fawn, at Martinique and Mariegalante, in 1809 ; and
captain of the Dictator, troop-ship, serving on shore in
the operations against Baltimore, New Orleans, &c.
Captain Sir G. R. Sartorius, was a midshipman in the
Tonnant at the Battle of Trafalgar ; and of the Daphne
in the operations in the River Plate and attack of Monte
Video ; was a lieutenant of the Success frigate, and
commanded her boats at the destruction of two vessels
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Captain Arthur Fanslsawe, C. 8., was a midshipman in
the Prince of Wales, at Copenhagen, in 1807 ; of the
Inflexible, at the destruction of a 1 ust4an 74-guns ship,
the Sewolod. in 1808 ; was in the Seipion at the reduction
of the Isle of Java, in 1811; a lieutenant of the Endymion
and served in her boats at the capture of an American