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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1855,

finding that she was determined to give him into custody,
he threw a cup at her, and cut her .11,r very seversly.
Defendant allege" that both he aild his wife were
under the influence of liquor, and that she first scratched
his face, the masks of which he bore.

train stopped at Ferryhill. It was that of one of the
carriages that was overhetted at 1/1114p/trill. This lead:
me to suppose the t the mail baf actually, opened thi- lox.
His getting out was contrary to the it-tractions If he
had observed any inilleations of heating he should have
signalled to the guard to stop the train. The axlebox
was quite cool at Ferryhill. I do not think my grease
had been put in after,the train left Darlington. I ex-
amined the viaduct where the man was found yesterday.
I saw marks on the third post from the south end of the
viaduct, which led me to believe his head was struck
against that post, and had rebounded against the carriage,
and then struck a second time against the head of
another post, and the carriage carried him over the via-
duct where he was found. The man's proper place was
in the van, but he hal got out of a carriage which he
must have got into at Darlington. The axles were also
overheated at York. I can speak to the Queen's car,
riages. He might see if the carriage was heated without
getting out. lam eatified he must have apprehended
it, or be would not have got out. If he was in a car-
riage he would have no means to signal the guard. I
gave him no further directions at Darlington. The via-
'duct has been in the same state for 11 years, and no acci-
dent has occurred.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH.

( From a Supplement to Friday's (lazette. )

Mr. Arnold said that he would suppose there might
have been provocation for the first assault, as the com-
plainant was under the influence of liquor, but there could
be none for the second, which was of a brutal description,
and he therefore committed defendant for two months to
hard labour in the House of Correction.

WAR DEPARTMENT, SEPT. 10,

Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and
its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad-
dressed to his lordship by General Simpson.
BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, AUG. 28.
My Lord,—Since the attempt of the enemy to force
the passage of the Tchernaya, on the 16th instant, no
movement of aggression has taken place ; but all the ac-
counts I have received tend to show a dispositlon on
(heir part to renew the attack. I have considered it
necessary to send the Highland Division, composed of
;he 42d, 71st, 79th, and 931 Regime., ts, under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-General Sir C. Campbell, to rein-
force our extreme right, and they are now encamped on
the slopes of the heights overhanging the village of
Kamara.

LAMBETH. —Mr. Jenkins, the landlord of the
Queen Ann public-house on Watworth-common, waited
on Mr. Elliott yester lay to contradict some of the state-
ments made 137 a person named Parrott. Mr. Jenkins
said he was from home when the death of George Fresh-
water, his late potman, took place, and therefore the
statement of Parrott, that he had offered to pay half the
funeral expenses, was destitute of truth. He (Mr. Jen-
kins) had further to complain of the disgusting conduct
of Parrott at his house during his absence, in exhibiting
the heart of the deceased in so open and indelicate a
manner in his hands that the blood streamed through
his fingers, and the exhibition had such an effect upon
his daughter that she became seriously ill, and he bad
been obliged to call in a medical gentleman to attend her.
Mr. Elliott—Did this man Parrott collect any money
at your house ?

I have likewise placed 50 guns and the cavalry in re.
serve, to act on the first appearance of the enemy.
The 56th Regiment has arrived, and I have attadhed
to the list Division.

James Johnson, of Doncaster, deposed—l am super-
intendent of the locomotive department of the Great
Northern Railway. I have seen the body, and identify
it as that of William Haigh, who was the examiner of
carriages upon the trains. He was employed by me first
in 1853. I produce his character from the Nerth-
Eastern Railway, where he had been employed for three
years. I sent him from Doncaster to go with the Royal
train in consequence of his steady habits and character.
He has left a widow and three children.

The siege operations are progressing favourably ; but,
owing to the brightness of the nights, a large amount of
work cannot be executed.

Mr. Jenkins—When he came to my house and exhi-
bited the heart of the deceased, he said it was his inten-
tion to bury the remains of Freshwater, and required
12s. to purchase the ground ; and my sister-in-law, who
was in charge of my business, gave him half-a-crown,
expressing a hope at the time that she should never see
him again. I understood him to say that he had got is.
6d. out of the 12s. to purchase the ground, and all this
no doubt he has obtained by false pretences. This Par-
rott's improper conduct, and the statement in the news-
papers, has been the cause of much annoyance to me
and my family.
Mr. Elliott—ls this person P4rrott forthcoming ?
Foster, the officer—No, sir, I have not been able to
find him.

The raft bridge from the north side to the south shore
has been completed, and is actually in use by the enemy.
and a considerable increase of troops, with a good deal
of movement, is observable in the town.

The installation of the Knights of the Bath took place
yesterday at my head-quarters, and was conducted with
great dignity and solemnity by Viscount Stratford de
Redcliffe.

George Pigott, of King's-cross, London, deposed,—l
am porter to the Great Northern Railway. I came
down with the Royal train on Thursday to grease the
carriages. I was in the front van from Darlington. I
saw the decease'l get into a first-case carriage at Dar-
lington. A man pained Howard was in the van with
me. He said, " Bill is out, greasing the hot-box." I
did not hear anything more until the train stopped, and
I was informed he had fallen out. The deceased was
with me in the Royal trait' last year.
Thomas Howard, of Doncaster, deposed,—l am em-
ployed on the Great Northern Railway. I was sent to
London to go es one of the " greasers " to the Royal
train on Thursday. The carriage was warm at Darling-
ton. We had to take the Queen's carriage off at Dar-
lirgton. The deceased got into a first-class carriage al
Darlington, next to the break ;he was alone. A few
minutes after we left Darlington I saw deceased gef
upon the footboard. He had agi easing-box with him,
and I saw him filling the box. When the train stepped
at Ferryhill I was informed Haigh had fallen off. The
decead had got out of the carriage teaie or twice after
we left London to grease, the wheels. We ha,l no ceder,
but what were printed and in the van. Ido not think
the deceased had ar.y other orders. I saw the deceased
put the greasing-box into the carriage before he got in
at Darlington.
William Blakey, of King's-cross, London, deposed,—
I was sent as a greaser to the Royal train on Thursday.
I saw the eeceased get into the carriage at Darliogtoi,
which had been hot?; he took a greasing-box with him.
He had no orders to do so. I saw him out of the car-
riage soon after, but did not see him fall. I had been
out upon the Great Northern Railway, but had no orders
except what were in the van. I did not hear any orders
given to the decayed. The passengers had been shifted
oat of this mileage at Darlington.
John Cefrin, of Doncaster. deposed—l am superin-
tendent of the carriages on the Great Nerthern :Rail-
way. I selected Wm. Ilaigh as one of -the men to go
with the Royal train on Thursday. The men were
under my orders. At Darlington we took the Queen'f.
carriage off. I was engaged with it, and did not see the
deceased get into the carriage. I bad got the passenger:,
out of this carriage to Fghten it. I stopped at Darling-
ton until the next train. I had not seen any of the men
upon the footboard when the train was in motion, and
gave no orders to them to go there. There was no acca
sion to g' t out to grease the carriages. I believe they
were cooler when we got to Newcastle.

The effect was most iniposing, attended as the cere-
mony was by the Naval and Military Commanders-in-
Chief of the Allied Forces ; and after the delivery by her
Majesty's Ambassador of a peculiarly elriquent discourse
upon the character and history of the Most Honourable
Order, the several Knights were respectively invested
with the insignia of their Cass.

Mr. Elliott—You shall have a warrant for his appre.
hension.

I transmit the weekly report of the principal Medical
Officer, which shows a decided improvement in the
health of the army, and the lists of casualties to the
26th inst.—l have, &e.,

SOUTH WATIK.—J ane Gibson, a Scotch woman, aged
43, until recently a nurse in St. Thomas's Hospital, was
;barged with having in her possession an immense quan-
tity of property belonging to the Crimean Hospital and
the Patriotic Fund.
James Smith, police constable, said—On Sat irday
night, from information I received I went with Inspector
Moor, to the prisoner's lodgings, N.). 45, Redcross-.street,
She was in the room, and I told her that I suspected she
in her possession considerable property belonging to
Goverommit. She asked me what I meant ? I told her
I believed she had stores belonging to the Hospitals in
thi, Crimea. She replied, " Whatever I have got were
given to me by Miss Nightingale, at, Scutari." I saw
four large boxes in her room, anit I asked her to open
+hem. While she was doing so I perceived a large wa-
terproof sheet, swill as those used in the military hospi-
tals at the seat of war. I asked her how she became
possessed of that ? She replied that a soldier of the Scots
Fusilier Guards gave it to her. She said she was chosen
by Mrs. Sidney Herbert to proceed with several other
nurses to the east. ; that in December last she accom-

JAMES SIMPSON,
Goneral Commanding,
Th© Lord Panmure, &c. &c. &c.

Enclosure 1.

NUMERICAL RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM
THE 24TH TO THE 26TH AUG., INCLUSIVE.
3d Battalion Grenadier Guards-2 rank and file,
killed ; 1 rank and file wounded.
Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards-1 offic3r, 2 rank and
ale wounded.
let Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards-1 officer, 7 rank
and file, wounded ; 2 rank and file, missing.
Ist Battalion Ist Regiment of Foot-3 rank and file
wounded.
2d Battalion Ist Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file
wounded.
3d Foot-11 rank and file wounded.
7th Foot-3 rank and file wounded.
14th Foot-1 rank and file killed; 1 serjeant, 2 rank and
file, wounded.
17th Foot-1 rank and file wounded
18th Foot-4 rank and file killed ; 8 rank and file,
wounded.
19th Foot-2 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, 9 rank and
file wounded.
20th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 2 rank and file
wounded.
23d Foot-4 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, 5 rank and
Ale wounded.
30th Foot-4 rank and file wounded.
31st Foot-2 rank and file wounded.
33d Foot-1 rank and filo killed.
34th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 1 officer, 3 rank and
fle, wounded.
38th Foot-4 rank and file wounded.
39th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
41st Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 6 rank and file
wounded.
46th Foot-1 serjeant, 2 rank and file wounded.
47th Foot-1 rank and file killed; 1 rank and file
wounded.
48th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
49th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 5 rank and file
wounded.
50th Foot-3 rank and file wounded.
57th Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 2 rank and file
wounded.
63d Foot-1 officer wounded.
68th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
77th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
88th Foot-2 rank and file killed ;10 rank and file
wounded.
89th Foot-1 sergeant wounded.
90th Foot-1 officer, 19 rank and file, wounded.
95th Foot-1 rank and file wounded.
97th Foot-3 rank and file killed ; 5 rank and file
wounded.
2tl Battalion Rifle Brigade-2 sergeants, 3 rank and
file wounded.
Royal Artillery-1 officer, 4 rank and file wounded.
Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners-1
officer, 1 sergeant, 3 rank and file wounded.
Total-24 rank and file killed ; 9 officers, 6 serjeants,
137 rank and file, wounded ; 2 rank and file missing.
W. L. PAKENHAM.
Adjutant. General.

panied Miss Stanley to Constantinople, and from thence
to Scutari and 13alaklava, and that she remained
At the latter place until June last, when she was
sent home. I understand she was discharged for
drunkenness, and sent home in disgrace. Soon after
her arrival in London she obtained a situation in St.
Thomas's Hospital, but she had returned to her drunken
habits, and a short time•Pince sh• was dismissed.
Mr. Seeker—What other property did you find in her
room ?

Constable—When she opened the boxes she first pulled
out two very fine linen shirts, marked "J. S." 49-6,
and another one marked "J. S." 41-12. I asked her
where she got them, as they evidently belonged to some
military officer ? She replied, " Oh, Miss Nightingale
gave them to me." After that she corrected herself, and
said they were her husband's, who went with her to the
Crimea. I believe she has no husband. She next took
from the box three fine new linen shirts, two marked
" W. 5.," and one marked "Burbidge." Those she
said belonged to herself, but I have strong reason to be-
lieve they belong to the camp hospitals. I next found a
hook entitled " Memoirs of Father Ripa's Travels in
China." It is marked officially on the title-page, "Aus-
tralian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company," and un-
derneath that "Presented to the Royal Patriotic Fund
for the use of the sick." She said a soldier gave it to her.
Prisoner—Yes, sir ; I got it at Balaklava to read on
my voyage home.
Constable—l have an immense quantity of others of
a similar nature, and others published by the Society for
the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge, which have been
sent over to the army in the Crimea, but I have not got
them in court. I fuither searched her boxes and found
two large linen table cloths, one marked "S. 0. 8.,"
No. 9, 1843, and the other marked " B." One chemise
marked " 7 8.," 12 ; one "E. S. E.," 9; one " E. S. 5.,"
and one "E. S. E.," 8. I asked her where she got
these things from ? and she said that Miss Nightingale,
Miss Bracebridge, and Miss Stanley had given them to
her. I also found a large thick flannel shirt marked
" A. W.," No. 2 ; three napkins marked " F. A.. S. I.
Z., 36, E. 24, 1842." Two pair of army hospital shoes
-narked on the soles with the broad arrow, quite new.
In another part cf her room I found a feather pillow
marked "Scutari Hospital, from Finsbury-sqnare."
Prisoner—l got that given to me at Balaklava,, when
I went to attend the wick and woun:led there. AS to
the shoes, they were delivered out to me by the pur-
% eyor, at Bals.klava, for my own use, as well as a pair
of thick Russian boots, to stand the inclemency of the
climate. In fact all the things were given to me. Miss
Bracebridge was very kind to the nurses, and when I
,N-as cornier!, home she told me to hike anything I wanted.
I accordingly took them. Miss Bracebridge eridered her
housekeeper to give we a good supply, and she gave me
the flannel, sheets, and table-cloths. Miss Stanley gave
me the others, and saw me pack up my boxes and go
on board ship.
Inspector Moore—The prisoner told me that if the
goods were wrong Miss Nightingale gave them to her.
We have nearly a cart load of property in the station
sonee of a similar description to those produced, and I
ask ter a remand to enable me to coinniunicate with the
Government and Mrs. Sidney Herbert.
Mr. Seeker—. Then I sl;a1 remand her for a week.
David iiiscroll, a thick-,et powerfu!-looking felis w. of
a very determined asp,ct, was brought before Mr.
Seeker, charged \Nall violently assaulting Joh., TAurtell,
the master of a trading vessel, lamb of Pickle Herring
stairs, and rubbing him of his watch.
Tire pi. ecut-..r stated, that on Sunday evening, about
halt-past eight, he was proceeding to his vessel, and when
he arrived at the wharf he found her lying high and dry.
He stood for a moment looking at the vessel, when the
prisoner came up to him, and asked him a question,
which he answered ; but as witness was looking at the
men on board, he suddenly pounced upon him and threw
him down, and while on the ground he snatched his
watch, breaking it from the chain, and before witness
could get up prisoner ran away.
Frederick Hough, 112 M, said he received informa-
tion of the robbery, and at two o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing be went to No. 5, Vineyard, and knocked at the
door, hut was refused admission. Ho then burst open
the door, and found the prisoner in bed. He woke him
up, and told him he wanted him for a robbery, telling
him at the same time the nature of the charge, but he
denied all knowledge of it. Witness took him into cus-
tody, and when at the station-house the prosecutor and
Benjamin Bristow, the mate cf the vessel, who witnessed
the affair, identified him as the thief.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said he went
home drunk on Saturday night last, and he knew nothing
of the robbery.
The magistrate remanded him for a few days for fur-
ther evidence.

Tito coroner having slimmed up the evidence, the jury
found a verdict of "Accidental Death."

EHE LATE MYSTORIOUS MURDER AT

THE BRISTOL H(►TWELLS

BRISTOL, Sept. 9.—The detective officers devoted a
great part of yesterday to another searching examina-
tion of the two paths and the wood, but with no satisfac.
tory result ; but a circumstance has been brought to the
knowledge of .the authorities, which, should it turn ont
as represented, will very much tend to confirm the im-
pression entertained in many quarte.s that the murder
was the work of a lunatic. A gentleman of very great
intelligence, and of the highest respectability, has stated
that he has met with a woman, who reside* in the coun-
try, at a few miles on the Gloucestershire side of Bristol,
and who, as she does washing for some families at Clif-
ton, has occasiotally to make visits to that place. Her
nearest course from her residence to Clifton lies across
the Down ; and she states that on the Saturday evening
in queslim, at about dusk, as she was ,crossing the
Down, a man in a state of great excitement ran up to
her and said, "Which is hell's gate ?"jNot c mnprehend-
itig what he wanted, she was in the act of asking
when he said, "Where is the mouth of hell ?" Havirg
asked which he darted off, The woman, as may be sup-
posA, was greatly terrified, but she states that she di,-
titietly saw blood on• the cuff of his coat, and that he
looked very wild. The description which the woman is
said to give of the man so closely corresponds with some
other circum,tances which it is undesirable at present to
mention specifically, that the matter has been brought
under the wice of the authorities, by whom, no doubt,
a searching inquiry will be made.

Enclosure 2.
NOMINAT., RETURN OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE
BEEN WOUNDED, FROM THE 2ITH TO THE
26TH AUGUST, INCLUSIVE.

WOUNDED.
AUG. 24.
19th Foot—Brevet-Major R. Warden, slightly.
231 Foot— Lienitenn.nt T. S. Bigge, slightly.
63d Foot— Major C. Higginbotham, severely.
Royal Engineera—Capt. J. F. M. Browne, severely.
AUG. 25.

Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards—Capt. Hon. R. Drum
mond, dangerously.

Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieut.-Colonel F,
Seymour, severely.
3ith Foot—Lieutenant J. D. Laurie, slightly.
AUG- 2G.
90th Foot—Lieutenant W. J. Runs, severely.
Royal Artillery—Captain C. C. Arbuthnot, severely.
W. L. PAKENFIAM, Adjutant• General.

SHARE MARKEY'S.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 9.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tone of the inarkel7. hag b3er,
quiet tolay, and prices at a slight advance. Cal4lonian,
31 —East Lancashire, Hi—Lancashire: and York hire, 81
—London and North Western, 94+ 4—Midland, t 1
South Eastern, 18 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-.
shire, 2.;--Groat Western of Canada, new shares, lA—.
Dutch Rhenish, 13 p.—Luxembourg constit., pa d.

Enclosnre 3,

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON•COMIMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED FROM
THE 24TH TO THE `26Ta AuGus r, 1855, IN-
CLUSIVE.

• KILLED.
AUG,
19th Foot—Corporal James Roe.
20th Foot—Private John Latbam.
23d Foot—Privates Henry Elms, Henry Edger, George
E 1 wards.
97th Foot—Private Thomas Kiely.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT WITH THE
ROYAL TRAIN.

The inquest upon the body of William Haigh, who
accompanied the Royal train on the 6th inst., and was
killed between Darlington and Ferryhill, on the North-
Eastern Railway, was held at the Swan Inn, Ferryhill
station, on the Bth inst., before Mr. W. Trotter, coroner,
of Darlington-ward. The inquest was appointed for 10
o'clock a.m., but was adjourned until 2 p.m., on account
of the non-attendance of witnesses. The following' evi-
dence was adduced :

Robert Buckton, of Ricknall, deposed—l am a plate-
iayer on the North-Eastern Rail way. I wa t standing
ou the north side of Ricknall-bridge on Thursday last,
the Gth inst. ; I was looking out for the Royal train, in
which the Queen was travelling from London to Edin-
burgh. The train came up about 34 minutes past 2
o'clock in the afternoon. When the train had got about
400 yards past ins I saw a man open the door of a car-
riage about a third from the van behind ; he stepped
'out upon the foot-board with his face to the south.
When he got to the end of the carriage he turned his
face to the north, and then stooped down and looked at
the axle-box. Al soon as the carriages passed over the
viaduct which crosses the river Skerne I saw something
white fly up, which I thought was a newspaper. I
went on to look, and found a man lying about 10 yards
over the viaduct, b. t meen the two lines of rails. He
was lying on his side, and quite dead. He bad a large
out and fracture upon the top and, front part of his bead.
His :Ain't was fractured. There are some rails on the
viaduct between the two lines of rails; and I think the
loan might have hit his head against the rails. There
was a little blood upon the north end of the rails. There
are nearly 30 inches between the iron rails and the wood
an I was
raeilts.o heir the viaduct. The wood rails are about three
fe
hour, mht. Tile train w
about I,2ooaysards off where the man
running about 48 miles
footboard when the train passed was found. I had' not my eye utphoenvitandeucmt.an
lona
think
the body to this house the same he would be oilinn, the shea I assisted in removing
aftevooon. The man
didw as dressednot s
eeolikeapersons s
grease
employedui
ewheels when the train
u a
oil railway.upon
was passing along. I found a vessela with thel
middle of the viaduct, which led me to believe the
had been
now the man.
I think his left, arm was broken.
Alexander Christison, of Neweastle-on-Tyne deposed
—I am superintendent of the passenger traffic on the
North-Ea4tern Railway. I joined the Royal train at
York on Thursday. When the train arriverl at Darling-
ton it was found necessary to detach the Queen's car-
riage' in consequence of one of the axles being very hot,
and also to cool the axles of two other carriages. The
Queen got into another carriage in the train. We left
Darlington at 2.25. I was not aware of anything being
mow until we got to Ferryhill, when the train stopped
in consequence of a signal from the guard in the last van.
I produce the printed instructions for the yRo al train. •
I saw the =Tar of oaa of the azla•boxes cpu shag the