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London, England, 1855-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23,

law that a man cannot criminate himself. At the trial
it was contended that it would be time enough to set up
that objection after the Cardinal had been sworn, and an
improper question put to him ; but the Chief Baron
continued resolute in his determination not to let the
Cardinal be swore. ; and there being consequently no
sufficient evidence of the authorship or contents of the
letter, the plaintiff was non-suited.
This being the state of matters last term, Mr. James,
Q.C., moved for and obtained a rule, calling upon
the defendant to 'show cause why a new trial
should not be had, on the ground that the Lord Chief
Baron was wrong in rejecting the secondary evidence
and not allowing the Cardinal to be sworn. The rule
came on for argument before the full Court to-day, and
Mr. Serjeant Shee, Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., and Mr. Bad-
derly were heard at some length against it, while Mr.
James, Q.C., and Mr. Lush argued in support of the
rule. Before, however, the latter learned gentleman's
argument had bees brought to a close he was stopped
by the Court, the Lord. Chief Baron intimating that, if
it should be thought necessary, the Court would hear
him again on Friday next.
It may almost be inferred, from this interruption,
that the rule for a new trial will be made absolute.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, JAN. 23.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Thurs-
day next, the 25th inst., for her late Majesty the Dowager
Queen of Sardinia, and for her late Majesty the Queen of
Sardinia, Consort of the reigning King, viz. :
The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen,
white gloves, necklaces, and ear-rings, black or whit•
shoes, fans, and tippets.
The gentlemen to wear black full-trimmed, fringed or
plain linen, black swords and buckles.
The Court to change the mourning on Thursday the Bth
February next—viz. :
The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons,
fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or
white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons.
The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist-
coats, full-trimmed, coloured swords and buckles.
And on Thursday, the 15th February next, the Court to
go out of mourning.
WINDSOR-CASTLE, JAN. 19.

This day had audience of her Majesty the Count Charles
Vitzthum d'Eckstasdt, Minister Resident from the King
of Saxony, to deliver his new credentials ; to which he
was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Ma-
jesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 19.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Dhanis as Consul at Sydney for the King of Hanover.

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 23.
GENERAL ORDER.

Horse Guards, 19th Jan., 1855.

The Queen having signified her intention to confer a
Medal for service in the Crimea upon the surviving officers
and men, with Clasps for those who were present in the
battles of the Alma and Inkerman, is further pleased to
command that a Medal and Clasps shall, in like manner,
be conferred upon the nearest relative or representative of
such as may have there fallen, the General Commanding-
in-Chief desires that her Majesty's gracious intentions shall
be made known to the Army by General Order.
Field-Marshal Lord Raglan has been requested to for-
ward lists of the individuals who may have baen killed in
action, or•who may have died whilst on service in the
Crimea, or in consequence of wounds.
By command of the Right Honourable
GENERAL VISCOUNT HARDINGE,
Commanding-in• Chief,
G. A. WETHERALL,
Adjutant-General.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 23.
GENERAL ORDER.

Horse-Guards, Jan. 20.

_ .
The General Commanding-in-Chief has much gratifica-
tion in publishing to the army the commands of the Queen
for the promotion of the under-mentioned officer, who,
while holding the rank of Brigadier-General in Turkey,
has conducted himself to her Majesty's satisfaction, and
rendered distinguished service in the great and brilliant
victories in the Crime :

to be Second Lieutenant, vice Roberts, who retires,
Jan. 13.

Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Thomas
Henry Sherwood, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 19.
Royal Cardigan Militia—Walter Lloyd, Esq., to be Cap-
tain, vice Powell, resigned, Jan. 20.
Cambridgeshire Militia—Reginald Calvert, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Allnutt ; Wm. gustus Joberns, Gent., to
be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ross, resigned, Jan. 17.
Dumfries, Roxburgh, and SelkirksHre
George Farquhar Johnston, Esq., to be Captain, vice
James Rutherford, resigned ; Thomas Scott Chisholme,
Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Richard Rimmer, resigned,
Jan. 16.

East York Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Henry Jan-
son to be Captain, vice Boynton, appointed to 17th Light
Dragoons ; Francis Garden Fraser, Gent, to be Lieutenant,
vice Janson, promoted, Jan. 18.

Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia—Second Lieu-
tenant Henry Firth to be First Lieutenant ; Second Lieu-
tenant William Brame Abbot to be First Lieutenant ;
Second Lieutenant George Rashleigh Gompertz to be First
Lieutenant ; William Osborne Smith, Gent., to be Ensign;
Alfred Adams, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 10; First Lieu-
tenant Wallop Brabazon to be Captain, vice Wheatley,
promoted ; First Lieutenant Edward Priest Richards to
be Cztptain, vice Harris resigned, Jan. 19.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—William Henry
Weston, Gent., to be Lieutenant, viceWaters' superseded;
Edward Mathews, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 15.
Artillery Corps of the Royal Lancashire Militia—Fitzroy
Stephen, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, Jan. 17.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Edward
Fleetwood flesketh, Gent., to be Lieuten Int, Jan. 17.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia—
James John West, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 16.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia—Johnffilliam Preston, Gent., on half-pay
in her Majesty's 76th Regiment, to be Lieutenant ; Thos.
Davies, Gent., to be Lieutenant.

Royal Wiltshire Militia—Edmund George Benson,
Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 12.
Queen's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Ham-
lets Militia—Francis Jennings, Esq., to be Lieutenant ;
Francis Valentine Leo, Esq., to be Lieutenant.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia.—
Ensign George Fuller Howes to be Lieutenant, vice Red-
man, retired. •
let or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia.—Herbert
Wodehouso, Esq., to be Captain ; Frank Astley Cubitt,
Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 17.
2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia.—Henry
Coldham Mathew, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Jan. 17.
lit or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia--
Lieutenant Edwin Dinning Cole to be Captain, vice Dy.
son, appointed Paymaster, Jan. 8 ; Ensign George Hamil-
ton Kittoe to be Lieut, April 18, 1853 ; Ensign Jas. Ross
to be Lieutenant, vice Carnaby, promoted, Jan. 8; Rivers-
dale Elliot, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Ross, promoted,
Jan. 8.
4th or Royal §onth Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Ensign Win. Piers Brisley to be Lieutenant, vice Boulton,
promoted, Jan. 15.
sth or Royal Elthorno Light Infantry Regiment of
Middlesex Militia—Charles Jaquet, Gent., to be Ensign,
Jan. 15.
lit Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—William Fer-
guson Currie, Esq., late of the 81st Regiment, to be Cap-
tain, vice Lord Langford, deceased, Jan. lb.
2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Henry Fran-
cis George Webster, Gent., to be Ensign, Jan. 12 ; Ensign
Edward Reddish to be Lieutenant ; Charles Montresor
Rodney Reyne, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Reddish, pro-
moted, Jan. 15.
[Erratum in the Gazette of 12th January, 1855.]
2d Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—For John
Jestyn Williams Fredelias, Esq., late Lieutenant in the
46th Regiment, to be Captain, Jan. 5,
Read, Jestyn Williams Fredricks, &c.
Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas
Bowyer Bower, the younger, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Yeatman, promoted, Jan. 17.
[This article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1855.]
Hampshire Regiment of Militia Infantry William
Samuel Greatheed, late Lieutenant, 41st Regiment, to be
Captain, Dec. 30.
Hampshire Regiment of Militia Artillery—James Harry
Bartlett Raynolds, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,
Dec. 30.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The James Watt, 01, screw, Captain Elliott, hauled out
of the steam-basin, at Portsmouth, yesterday, and will go
under the shears to-day, to have her foremast taken out.
The screw steam-ship Cressy will be put out of Sheerness
Basin to-day, if the weather and tide permit.
Blenheim, 60, screw, Captain (Nemesis) Hall, is ex-
pected to have completed coppering to-day, and to haul
into the steam-basin at Portsmouth ; and the Hogue, 60,
ditto, Captain Ramsay, will haul into the vacant dock,
to have her copper, ttc., examined.
The Russell, 60 guns, screw steam-ship, is ordered to
be put out of dry dock at Sheerness on the 25th inst.
The Amphion, 34 guns, screw steam-ship, has all four of
her new boilers put on board. These boilers will generate
twice as much steam as her old ones, and, in order to ac-
commodate stowage room, the portion of her lower deck
over the boilers will be oiworked plate iron. With these
and other improvements in her machinery now going on,
her speed will be considerably increased.
The new screw steam-corvette Pyla.des has been put into
No. 1 dry dock, at Sheerness. She is progressing in her
fitment and being coppered. Midshipman A. M. Norman,
late of the Royal George, has joined this corvette. M.d-
shipma.n D. Stewart, late of the Royal George, is
ordered to join the paddle-wheel steam-sloop Geyser, at
Portsmouth.

The Sampson paddle-wheel frigate, lately returned to
Portsmouth from the Black Sea, in a most distressed con-
dition. It is reported that the officers and ship's com-
pany will be turned over to the newly refitted paddle-
frigate Centaur, now ready fur re-commission at the game
port.
The Janus, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, arrived at Sheer-
ness on Sunday from Plymouth with HO supernumeraries.
She has experienced very bad weather on her passage
round, and, when off the Start Point, shipped a sea, which
put out the fires in the engine-room, and did considerable
damage. She was under the necessity of putting into
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to repair her machinery. An
inquiry will take place at Sheerness as to her efficiency to
proceed to sea again with her present armament :—viz.,
two long 32's and two carronades on deck.
The Pioneer, screw-steamer, which left Irongate-wharf,
Tower, on Saturday, with stores for the troops in the
Crimea, sent out by the Crimean Army Fund, in proceed-
ing down the river, when off Cuckold's Point, was run
into by a large barque. Such was the force of the colli-
sion that the Pioneer's foremast went by the board ; her
bowsprit and jibboom were also carried away, and yester-
day she was taken into the East India Dock for repairs.
This unfortunate accident will have the effect of delaying
the vessel's departure a few days.
Mr. Wm. H. Turner, paymaster, late serving in the
screw steam-ship Nile, as clerk, yesterday took up his
commission, and joined the Melampus (late 42) store-ship,
at Sheerness. Great activity prevails in getting her for-
warded.