The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-18 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The half-yearly inspection of the Dorset Regiment of
Militia took place a few days since by Major-General
Breton, Commander of the south-western district. The
meo were assembled at Poundbury, near Dorchester,
and went through their evolutions with great precision.
Major-General Arbuthnot, commanding north-eastern
district, attended by Captain Welby, aide-de-camp,
made his half-yearly inspection of the 4th West York
Militia on Monday. The regiment, after marching past
in slow and quick time, went through a regular field-
day. The Major-General then inspected the men's bar-
rack-rooms and kits, the hospital, schools, Quartermas-
ter's stores, regimental and companies' books, and ex-
pressed himself in the highest terms of praise at every-
thing he had seen, and complimented the officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men on the appearance of
the regiment and the high state of discipline it bad at-
tained. He was also pleased to say to Major Cairnes,
commanding, and Captain Pollard, the Adjutant, that
great credit was due to them for the exertions they had
made to bring the regiment to such a state of efficiency.
As we stated yesterday, the regiment is going to Dublin.

FATAL COLLISION IN THE FOREIGN
LEGION AT GOSPORT.

PORTSMOUTH, Oat. 17.—A lamentable collision oc-
curred at Haslar, Gosport, yesterday afternoon, between
some men of the German Legion, recently arrived in
this country from North America, resulting in the in-
stantaneous death of one of them, a private, tamed
Joseph Goltswaltz, aged 31, a Frenchman by birth. It
appears that it is a standing order of the regiment that
no men are allowed to leave the barracks until 5 o'clock
in the afternoon, and that this order has been strictly
enforced. A division of the corps has been on duty for
some time at Fort Monkton, a short distance from head-
quarters at Hasler barracks, and yesterday afternoon,
about 3 o'clock, a number of the men attempted to leave
their quarters ; they were, however, sent back by the
guard, and were confined to quarters by the sergeant-
major. At about a quarter past 4, however, they ap-
peared at the gates of the barracks again, most of
them being armed with sticks, &c. The guard was
immediately ordered out and advanced on the men, and
endeavoured to induce them to leave, but without effect.
At that moment the captain of the day, Captain Von
Jess, seeing what was going on, ordered the guard to fix
bayonets. This was done, and the guard advanced a
few steps towards the men, who were told that if they
did not disperse the articles of war would be carried to
their full extent. Sevtral of the men now retired, but
others remained, amongst whom was deceased, who ap•
pears to have been a sort of ringleader iu the matter ;
and these became very violent in their conduct, threat-
ening to attack the guard, make them prisoners, Ste.
At this stage deceased, it is affirmed, raised his stick, as
did others, in a. most exciteable manner, to strike one
of the advanced men of the guard. This man, the pri-
soner, one of the privates of the guard, named Nicholas
Nusbaum, a German, aged 27 years, and belonging to
the first company of the regiment., endeavoured to
parry the blow with his rifle. Deceased still advanced
upon him, and prisoner—so it in asserted by those who
witnessed the affair having his bayonet pointed to
defend himself, the other in the confusion ran upon it.
The result was, a wound of an inch and a-half in length
on the side was inflicted, and death almost instantane-
ously ensued. The physicians of the regiment, Drs.
Aschenfeldt and Biel, declare it to be incomprehensible
that death should have ensued from such a wound, and
are inclined, to attribute it to internal effusion of blood
from the breaking a blood-vessel. A post mortent exa-
mination is to be held, and this will probably decide the
point. It is reported by one of the officers of the regi-
ment that he had seen the deceased in a fitate of intoxi-
cation just prior to the affray: .

The prisoner was taken into custody last night at 11
o'clock, by police-constatle Andrews, of the Hants Con-
stabulary. He offered no resistance. He remarked that
he had dope no more than his duty. This afternoon he
was taken before the county bench, at which Captain
Samuel presided, and he was formally remanded, pend-
ing the inquest on the bodg of deceased.

_
- —Last night a board of officers of the regiment assem-
bled, and held their first examination of the prisoner.
The board consisted of Captain Franeis Weiss (presi-
dent), Captain Jessen, Lieut. Suanson, Lieut. Ritter,
and Lieut. Pilandsky. On being interrogated
,the pri-
soner made thefollowing statement in reply :--
"'Yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, a number of men,
amounting to aboOt 30, came to the barrack gate for the
purpose of getting out of barracks. I would not let
them out, and they were confined to barracks till after
tea time. Afterwards about half that number returned
and said that as they were not on duty it was allowable
for them to go out. The corporal of the guard, Charles
Niebuhr, ordered two men of the guard to send the men
from the gate to their barracks, which was done, but
they made taraiddluosfe., of language against the guard, saying,
rtiere were but few men in the guard they could not
men
name
to
theAgtatfeo,uarnod'ctlohe ckgauagrrdeawtansutrunrbneed rmoourte,
and the men attacked us with sticks. Corporal Niebuhr
gipagnave the order to fix bayonets, and, by order, my
He
lim
eeltnii as
stilln de private,tpaalpivnda strucknc ed oan
map mlfeed,
orattemptingtwocharged Neumann,
nd
tadvanced,
raised
strike
m their
e, and
satni
odtkhaves:
bayonet fixed he
he
I stood still with mny
So much ill-feeling and I bayonets at him
Mans and French in thus been excited between the Ger-
to-day, to the number of hterrouiglahy.:
about 50, been removed to
awtastl:eunlatt
other quarters.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]-lAollowav -a
and Weak Ponstitn-
peressuch strengthening
een:eoif low or nerv-
tßioennuse._dyTthoerseDaissotrodneirsehdingStpoimil,isasv' Mg, an inestimable
and invigorating pro;•erties that
ons habits, or whose digestive or
paired should have recourse to thewsm
Vendors
, as the moot way
im.
debi-
litated have been restored to the" blessings irnost
health by their use, after, every variety ofonif perfectdi
have proved useless ; consequently the facultye—clues
mend all persons going abroad, subject to biliourseacff°, -
otifonns
oolrlowcaoym,splapiitiitss. similar tboythaiei amboevdeicitnoe make c.
throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's estab-
lishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-la lane,
Newyork ; by A. Stampa, ponstantiaople; A. Guidiony,
Samna and H. Hoods, Malta. - '