The Press. — London, England, 1856-07-19 00:00:00

JULY 19, 1856. Fag molitarg ntelligtna. Lieutenant -General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.8., G.C.M.G., was on Tuesday gazetted to the rank of general in the army and appointed to the command in chief of the army, vice Lord Hardinge resigned. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in- Chief was at the same time pleased to appoint Major- General Sir Charles Yorke, K.C.8., to be his military secretary, and Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, C. 8., to be private secretary. ['he following General Order was also issued the same day : Horse Guards, July 15, 1856. Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge having been compelled by the state of his health to tender to the Queen his resig nation of the command of the army, which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept, desires to record his deep sense of the conduct of the troops, and the obligations be is under to the general and other officers for their uni• form support while he has had the honour and happiness to be at their bead. On assuming the command of the army—succeeding, as he did, the greatest commander which this country has produced—Viscount Hardinge felt the weight of the duty which, by her Majesty's favour, was intrusted to him ; but he confidently relied on the zealous exertions of its officers to maintain it in that high state of discipline and efficiency for which it had ever been distinguished. A period of war ensued, arid it was then seen how full• this confidence we+ justified. After a long peace, a British army took the field, unsurpassed in any of the qualities required of soldiers. Under a leader whose loss has been deplored by the Sovereign, the army, and the country, a series of victories were achieved which shed an additional lustre on the British arms. The instructions for the conduct of the war, and her Majesty's thanks to the troops during its operations, have been, according to invariable custom, conveyed to the army in the field by her Majesty's Secretary of State for War. Her 'Majesty's sentiments have on all these occasions been expressed with great force and truth; but Lord Hardinge cannot on this occasion deny himself the satisfaction of recording his conviction that at no former period of the military history of this country has the devoted conduct of the troops been surpassed. Their soldierlike qualities stood the test of a siege carried on through a rigorous winter, and for eleven months of open trenches. The valour and perseverance of that gallant army, and of its brave allies, were at length rewarded by the capture of the enemy's fortress, and the attainment of an honour- able peace. While the Field-Marshal records his admiration of the conduct of the troops who took part in that great achieve ment, he desires to convey to the army at large his thanks for their zealous cbedience and devotion, and to express the regret with which he separates himself from them. Viscount Hardinge can only add the expression of his sin cere gratification that the command of the army is, by her Majesty's pleasure, about to be assumed by General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., G.C.8., the illustrious Prince whose name is associated with some of the most splendid triun.phs of the war just concluded, and whose devotion to the interests of the service is so well known. By command of the Right Hon. Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge, Commanding in-Chief. G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in assuming the Command-in Chief of the Army, issued the subjoined General Order Horse Guards, July 16, 1556. In obedience to the gracious order of her Majesty, General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge assumes the command of the army, which has been con• fided to him by her Majesty's favour, on the resignation of Field• Marshal Viscount Hardinge. His Royal Highness feels it no easy task to undertake the responsibilities of so honourable anu arduous a post, as the successor of that distinguished general, who has found himself compelled to retire from it by the state of his health, and who again was preceded by that illustrious chief whose name will ever continue to be the glory of the British army and the British nation ; but he has the strongest reliance on the support of the general officers with whom he will be associated, and on the army at large ;—and in this reliance lie enters confidently on the noble trust which now devolves upon him. His Royal Highness has had the advantage, as a general officer in command of a division, under the orders of his lamented and gallant friend the late Field• Marshal Lord Raglan, of becoming to some extent personally acquainted with the heroic deeds of the army in the recent arduous contest, now so fortunately brought to a successful end. lie knows of what excellent materials the troops are com posed both as to officers and men. It will be his anxious endeavour to maintain the army in the high state of efli cency in which it has been left to him by his distinguished predecessor, and he doubts not that the army itself will be mainly instrumental in enabling him to carry out this most anxious wish of his heart. . .... .... By order of his Royal — Highness the General Com manding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHEHALL, Adjutant-General. The Royal Horse and Foot Artillery were re viewed at Woolwich on Saturday by Prince Oscar of Sweden, and on Monday by her Majesty the Queen. A general after-order has since expressed the high sense of the services and efficiency of the corps en tertained by her Majesty. THE PRESS. The Crimean troops in camp at Aldershott were I reviewed by her Majesty on Wednesday. The regi ments inspected were the Enniskillen Dragoons and the Scotch Greys, and part of a light cavalry regi ment, the Royal Sappers and Miners, and the 34th, 41st, 49th, 93rd Highlanders, and the 2nd battalion of the Rifle Brigade. The total number of men under arms was about 14,000. The troops having taken up their position, her Majesty and her royal guests, in open carriages, attended by Prince Albert, the Prince of Prussia, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Rokeby, and General Knollys, who was the commanding officer of the tday, rode down each line of troops, inspecting the men narrowly, and appa rently with much interest. The troops then formed into battalions, and, headed by their bands, marched past at quick time, when the men formed three sides of a square, and her Majesty and the Princesses having alighted, walked along the whole of each line, the Queen, who leant on the arm of the Prince Con sort, stopping and talking to the officers about the services of their respective regiments, and occasion ally singling out a private soldier who bore upon his breast more than the usual number of decorations, for some well-des( rved and well-timed compliment. With the Highlanders, whose ragged colours bore testimony to the hard service the regi ment had gone through, the Queen seemed particularly pleased ; but each regiment came in for its share of praise. The inspection over, her Majesty resumed her carriage, and the troops having fired a royal salute, she drove back with her guests and at tendants to the Royal Pavilion for the night. A few members of both Houses were on the ground, but the jealous arrangements of General Knollys, which kept everyone not connected with the royal party or the troops half a mile off, effectually prevented them seeing anything. The steam-transport Spartan, en route from the East with 706 officers and men of the Land Trans port Corps, has been lost on the south-west end of Cane Rocks, off the coast of Barbary. Crew and passengers saved. Eight hundred thousand rounds of Minie ball. catridges have this week beeen shipped iu H.M.S Geyser for the Cape. The Admiralty are at length building some large steam-frigates to carry a really heavy armament. The Diadem steam-frigate, the first laid down of this new class mon-of-war, , is in a forward state at Pembroke Dockyard. Two more, the Ariadne and Galatea, have just been ordered to be built at Wool wich and Deptford. Although the Diadem is only to carry thirty-two guns, yet these are all to be 68- pounders, and it is thought that she will be able to carry 84's. The Diadem is being pushed forward with all rapidity, a large number of hands being em ployed upon her. This frigate is longer than the Duke of Wellington (131 guns) ship of the line, and will have engines of 1,900 horse power. Her burden will be upwards of 2,500 tons, and she promises to prove a model of strength, beauty, and speed. Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.8., and General Windham, C. 8., have arrived home from the Crimea. _ The Sultan bad ordered a magnificent banquet to be given to the commanders-in-chief of the allied army previous to their departure from Constan tinople. The Russians, in taking possession of the allied position, bad promised faithfully to respect the graves of the dead. _ _ _ _ _ The Italian Legion were leaving Malta for Genoa. About fifteen hundred were about to sail for Buenos Ayres. THE CRIMEAN CAMP.—The Crimea was defini tively evacuated on the oth of July. Marshal Pelis- Bier had arrived at Constantinople, and General Codrington was daily expected from (Hesse, where the gallant general arrived somewhat unexpectedly on the 3rd inst. General Luders had entertained General Codrington during his stay at Odessa. SOY nub Volta. THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOVE for the murder of his wife by strychnine, on the Ist of March last, com menced on Wednesday at York, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr. Overend, Q C., for the prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins for the defence. The pri soner pleaded " Not guilty," and Mr.Overend at once proceeded to open the case, the details of which differed in no way from the evidence given before the coroner in March last, and reported in THE PRESS of the 15th and 22nd March. The learned counsel, remarking upon the general circumstances connected with the unhappy life of Mrs. Dove with the prisoner, entered into a lengthened detail of every occurrence a few weeks previous to her death. Of the threats of the prisoner " to do for her," and "to give her a pill"—of her fear, and expression of a hope that, should she die suddenly, her body might be examined—of the getting possession by the prisoner of ten grains of strychnine on the 10th Feb., on the plea of killing stray cats, and, a few 687 days after, of five grains more, the disposition of which could not be accounted for—of 51rs. Dave's first spasmodic attack on the 25th Feb., her con tinued attacks during the week, and death on the lst March—of the administration of her medicine by Mr. Dove—of her spasmodic attacks after taking her medicine from his hands, and the remarkable fact that she was always better and more composed when taking it from any one else—of his objection to have the body examined—and, lastly, of the dis. covery of strychnia in the blood and stomach, by five chemical tests and several animal trials. The learned counsel dilated upon these points, and at the conclusion of his address called witnesses in support of his statement. Elizabeth Fisher, first examined, swore to the unhappy life led by Mrs.. Dove, to Mr. Dove's drunkenness, and the treatment of his wife, and to the request made by Mrs. Dove that her body might be opened after death ; to Mr. Dove bring ing a paper of poison into the kitchen on the 10th of February, and to having seen him with this paper in his hand in Mrs. Dove's bedroom. She never thought about his being insane. Mrs. Thornhill, Mrs. Fisher, Jane Witham, Sarah Naylor, and Mar garet Young, deposed to Mr. Dove having con sulted a fortune-teller, to Mrs. Dove's series of attacks during the last week of February, and to the administration of the medicine by Mr. Dove on all occasions preceding the attacks, and of his washing out the medicine glass. On the second day Mary Wood deposed to clearing out the house after the funeral. On the floor of the room where the post-mortem examination took place was a clot of blood. A little dog with her ran to it. She drove him away : in ten minutes the dog fell on its back and died. Witness never thought the prisoner right in his mind. Seve ral additional witnesses to those examined at the in quest deposed to the prisoner's drunkenness at the time of Mrs. Dove's desth, and of his apprehension of a coroner's inquest, or of a post-mortem examination. Elizabeth Jenkins, Mrs. Dove's mother, deposed that on the day of the adjourned inquest the prisoner, taking a pinch of salt is his hand, said to her, " There is a poison that will kill by so much ; it can be detected in a man, but not in a woman. The witnesses were closely cross-examined with the view to show that Mrs. Dove was subject to hysterical fits, but nothing material elicited. The possession of fifteen grains of strychnine be tween the 10th and 25th of February was proved, and for the medical evidence for the prosecution Messrs. Morley, Nunneley, Teale, Ward, R. Hey, Dr. Hobson, and Dr. Christison were called, and de clared their belief that the deceased died by strych nine, and not of hysteria, as was suggested for the defence. This closed the case for the prosecution, and the court adjourned. THE BARRAT Fsraur—father, mother, and eldest daughter—were tried at Bedford on Tuesday before Mr. Justice Coleridge, for causing the death of a younger daughter and sister by the most barbarous ill treatment and starvation. The prisoners were found guilty. The ,father sentenced to one year's hard labour, and the women to four years' penal ser vitude. _ _ _ THE THIEVES who committed the late robbery at Lord John RusFell's, Pembroke Lodge, have as yet escaped detection. Among other valuable articles stolen was a workbox belonging to Lady John Russell, and containing her ladyship's private diary. Jons Musnocx, charged with the murder of Wel land, the Hastings gaoler, was tried at Lewes on Wed nesday before the Lord Chief Baron, found guilty, and sentenced, without hope of reprieve, to death. THE WINDSOR POLICEMAN who assaulted the son of Sir James Graham a short time since has been dismissed from the police• force by the corporation. A RESPECTABLE ELDERLY LADY, whose name did not transpire, was committed foe two months with hard labour, on Tuesday, by Mr. a Beckett, in South wark, for " stealing " two books from a bookstall at the South-Eastern Railway Station. The prisoner pleaded hard on her respectability, but the case was clear, and as Mr. a Beckett inexorably offend her the choice of " the sessions," she pleaded " Guilty," and was taken off to gaol. ••• WILLIAM BROWN, a returned - convict, was tried at Leicester, on Monday, before the Chief Justice, for the mur der, on the 18th June last, of the tollgate keeper at Melton Mowbray. The circumstances c f this cruel murder will be readily remembered. The old man and his grandchild, a boy eight years old, were found barbarously murdered. The old man bad been shot through the body, his throat cut, and the body stabbed in ten or eleven different places. TI child's head had nearly been cut from his hod). The evidence against the prisoner depended princk: pally upon the identification of several articles of clothing, and a knife and pistol found in a ditch close by, and which were sworn to by the prisoner's brother and wife as belonging to the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to death, without hope of reprieve. The prisoner, who was quite unmoved during the trial, said be should die cheerfully, for he was as innocent as a child. 1