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THE CHACE CORETRUCTOR'S PioDtcrioffs. —The
Lords of the Admiralty are now going through the farce of
inspecting the dockyards—in other words of ening every.
thiug with the smooth side opyermost. They have "done"
Chatham and ;Shearson', Pembroke, Devoepert, aod Ports-
mouth, bat not Woolwich, we believe, se perhaps they will
" do" that port next, and make a few inquiries into the
probable cost of re • some of their proripi, the Chief
Coestructoes binederL It will be pleasant for hi, Grace
who appointed, and for the Controller who palmed off, Mr.
Reed open his Gran as a preemie& miraele, to go on
board the Favorite, and secortaim if he can, the coat of
pulling that ship to pieces In order to get the engines into
her. Lookers-on calculate the east 'roughly at some thou-
rods : for solid strong work done at Deptford has had to
he cut, hacked, and pulled to pianos, in order to allow the
engineers to get the userhisery into her. The simple
mistake of placing the funnel end steering wheel isidde the
Wittig boxes of the Research and Enterprise snag with
the guns and crew was sufficient, one would have suppreed,
to convince the Controller and the Admiralty that some-
body
did not naderstand matters very well ; but we calm-
late that memo hundreds of thounode mere will have to he
thrown away before the noble head of the Admiralty will
own to his coevietioa of the fact that ow ships raider
Admiral Robinson, sod his intuitive Constructor, are being
Cri=aad destroyed. —United Service Gazette.
MURDER IX BEIIIIINONAK.—An adjourned
inquiry wee held before Dr. B. Davies, coroner for the
borough of Birmingham, on Monday, tomato; the death of
• child five months old, named Edward John Thompoo,
the illegitimate offspring of Lucy Thonapsou, • girl of 20,
by whom, ralleged, the deceased bad been poisoned by a
compound known as "Hunters \retrain Killer." The
mother of the child, a wretched looking object, was pre-
sent, in the custody of Inspector Percy. Some evidence
taken on the tint inquiry having bees read, Dr. Altred
Hill, public &mays' for the borough of Birmingham, was
called, and deposed to having made an analysis of the
contents of the stomach and portion of intestine of the
deceased, which were banded to him in two sealed jets
by the coroner's officer. He tested the contents of the
jars for mineral poisons, bat failed to detect any traces of
their propene*. He then searched for organic poisons, and
di/covered strychnia in cousiderable quaotities. He then
procured a reaction by the usual prom, which also showed
the presence of the same poison. Winne stated that be
had analytically tested a packet of the poison called
"Vermin Killer," and found it composed of anrchnia,
the extent of cos-half of the balk of the powder, mixed
with starch. and ultramarine as a colouring matter. The
powder in the packet be examined was one ordinarily sold
for threepence, and weighed eleven grains; and
the fraction of • grain of this powder would
be fatal if administered to a child of five mouths old.
The arieused, after being cautioned by the coneer,
made a statement on oath, to the effect that she had suf-
fered great privation from want of employment, having
been tensed out of her lodgings with her child because abe
had no money, and the father of the child had refused to
assist her, although she had acquainted him with her desti-
tute state. She added, "I sprat the whole of that night
in St. Paul's churchyard, and at firs o'clock in the moronic
I wandered down the Bull Rice. Here a feeling came over
me, and my senses left me, and I recollect nothing morn
until the evening, when I came to myself and found I was in
Moot street iodine." The jury, after some deliberation,
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder," swan Lacy
Thompson ; and the wretched woman, who fainted several
times daring the inquiry, was committed for trial at the
sett Warwick Assizes.

DISOILACEPCL AFFRAY' smoNn Yowler/am—On
Friday the Moutgoineryshirs and Cardiganshire Volunteers
assembled at Aberystwith for battalion drill. A spirit of
rivalry has for some time existed between the 2nd and 3rd
(Welahpool) companies, and as the Montgomeryshire men
were mambing to the railway station on their return home,
certain members of those companies threw down their Mlles
and commenced a fight. With soros difficulty they wen
separated, and Captain JOIII2S, of the 3rd amipany, suc-
ceeded in getting his moo into line. Having does so, wit►
a sword in his hand he approached ths *Seeders and ad-
miaistered s sharp rebuke, which was very badly received,
• number of pawns from both companies rushing out of
the ranks and beginning arscalier struggle, in the mum of
which Cats Min Johns was struck ore. the eye, drawing
blood. Major Drew interposed, and cootrived to quell the
disturbance. The utmost exeitement prevailed in the lowa,
and it was with • feeling of relief that the ishaidnuals saw
the volnateers take their departure.