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The report of the officials connected with the Steam Re-
serve who were directed some time since to make an inspec-
tion of the various vessels comprising the Chatham Steam
Reserve, prior to a number of the steamers which are no
longer fit for actual service being either broken up or sold
out of the service, having been under the consideration of the
Admiralty, their Lordships have decided on the immediate
breaking up of a number of the paddlewheel and screw
steamers now encumbering the channel of the Medway be-
tween Chatham harbour and Sheerness. The steamers, the
orders for the breaking up of which have already been re-
ceived, are the paddlewheel steamer Dragon, 6, 1,270 tons,
560 horse power ; the Hermes, 6. 830 tens, 220 horse power
paddlewheel steamer; the Alacrity, 4, 675 tons, 200 horse
power, screw sloop; the Renard, 4, 680 tons, 200 horse
power, screw gunvessel; and the Wrangler, 4, 477 tons, 80
horse power, screw gunvessel. The vessels to be broken up
will be removed round to the Thames, at Charlton, where
extensive docks and premises have been taken by the Ad-
mitalty to be used as a breaking-up yard for ships of war.
The contract to supply the labour for breaking up the
vessels has been taken by the firms of Messrs Castle
and Sons and Mr Beech. The boilers, engines, and ma-
chinery of each of the ships to be taken to pieces will be
retained by the Admiralty, together with the whole et
the copper bolts and metal, which latter will be returned by
the contractors. The Dragon will be towed round from
Chatham to Charlton in the course of a few days, and the
other vessels named will afterwards follow.
The screw corvette Scout, 21, 1,462 tons, 400 horse power,
is being rapidly pushed forward in her internal fitments, as
she is required to be ready for commission by the end of the
present month, the order for her to be completed for the
first division of the Chatham Steam Reserve in the place of
the Clio, 22, 400 horse power, having been altered by the
Admiralty, who have determined in placing her in commis-
sion, her destination, it is understood, being the coast of
Africa. Arrangements had been made for fitting the cor-
vette with eyebolts in the wake of her engines and machi-
nery, to enable her sides to be covered with chain cable
when going into action, but instructions received at the
dockyard direct the work to be stopped.
The Barracouta, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 1,053 tons, 300-
horse power, Commander John D'Arcy, which has been
employed during the last four years on the North Ameri-
can and West Indian station, arrived at Sheerness yester-
day afternoon, and will be inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir
Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheer-
ness, after which she will be paid out of commission, and
placed in the third division of the Steam Reserve.
The Ringdove, 4, screw gunvessel, 674 tons and 200
hortie 'power of engines, Commander Ralph A: 0. Brown,
was paid out of commission yesterday at Portsmouth, after
a foreign service of nearly five years, having been commis-
sioned in October, 1859. During this period she has been
employed off the coasts of China and Japan, and has gone
over upwards of 250.000 miles under steam aul canvas.
George Bettesworth, leading stoker on board, received the
medal and gra'ui.yawarded by the Admiralty for long ser-
vice. Commander Brown's service in the Ringdove completed
a 10 years coutinuous service in Chinese and Japanese waters.
He joined the navy in 1849, and, after having served in the
Penelope and her tender, the Terizer, on the West Coast of
Africa, went out as midshipman in the Hornet, screw
sloop, and served for the first nine months under the c ?re-
mand of Commodore Elliott against the Russians in the
North of China. He was present and in charge of the Hor-
net's pinnace at the capture of the 17 junks at St John's
Deep Bay and in the operation against pirates in Escdpe
Creek, Fetsham. He commanded the Hornet's small arm
company at the assault of Canton and the Bogue forts, and
was promoted to lieut. in May, 1857, and in May, 1859, paid
off the Hornet as her first lieut., under the command of
Capt. Viscount Gifford. In Sept, of the same year he fitted
out the Sphinx, 6, paddle, as first lieut., under Capt. Day,
and again went out to China,where he commanded a rocket
boat at Taku and Tien-tsin. He was several times after-
wards engaged with Chinese rebels and pira es, and after-
wards sent in acting command of the Sphinx to the North
Pacific in search of the shipwrecked crew of the English
ship Norna, whom, after a four months' search, succeeded
in finding and rescuing. He was made Commander in Sept.,
1862, by Admiral Sir Jas. Hope, and appointed afterwards
by that officer to the Ringdove, Since the arrival of the
Ringdove at Portsmouth, Commander Brown, his officers
and crew, have been formally tried by court martial for
having grounded that vessel on the Bombay shoal while on
her passage from Hongkong to Labuan. Commander Brown
was reprimanded, the master admonished, and the remain-
der of the officers and crew were acquitted.
The Prussian screw corvette Vineta, Capt. Struber, an-
chored at Spithead yesterday, last from Kiel. The corvette
exchanged the customary salutes with the King's bastion of
Portsmouth garrison and H.M.S. Victory, the flagship of
the Port Admiral Capt. Struber afterwards landed, and,
accompanied by Vice Consul Vandenbergh, paid his respects
to Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., and Major Gen. Lord
W. Paulet, C. 8., the Naval and Military Commanders in
Chief.
The Racoon, 20, screw corvette, Capt. Count Gleichen,
sailed from Spithead yesterday afternoon for Gibraltar.
The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, at Ports-
mouth, has had some defects discovered in her after crank,
and the result of a survey held on board yesterday indicates
the probability of this efficient troopship being paid out of
commission.
The Fervent, gunboat, 60 horse power, intended as a ten-
der to the Drelalus, training frigate for the Royal Naval
Reserve, arrived at Bristol on Wednesday from Plymouth.
She was armed with an Armstrong 40-pounder and other
guns of heavy calibre, but yesterday she started again for
Plymouth for lighter guns.
Some weeks since attention was called in The Sun to a
new system of coloured night signals, which have been in-
vented by Lieut. Chas. J. Brownrigg. Flag Lieut. to Vice
Admiral Sir C. Talbot, K.C.8., Commander in Chief at the
Nore. This invention having since been thoroughly tested
by actual experiment from ship to ship, the captains un-
der whom the test was conducted have reported most
favourably of the invention to the Admiralty ; but their
lordships have declined to adopt it, on account of Com-
mander Colomb's system of signals being about to be intro-
duced into the service. Lieut. Brownrigg has, however, re-
ceived their lordships' commendation of his system, on ac-
count of the greatingenuity and simplicity which it displays.
The following promotions and appointments in the corps
of Royal Marines Light Infantry were announced in divi-
sional orders at headquarters, Chatham, yesterday :
Cot and Second Commandant William H. March, of the
Chatham division, to be Col.-Commandant at the Ports-
mouth division, vice Col,-Commandant J. G. A. Ayles, re-
tired—Lieut.-Col. H. Marriott, of the Woolwich division,
to be Col. and Second Commandant at the Chatham divi-
sion, vice March— Capt. J. H. Stewart, of the Chatham
division, to be Lieut.-Col. at the Woolwich division, vice
Matriot—First Lieut. Gasper Le Grand, of the Portsmouth
division, to be Capt., and appointed to the Chatham divi-
sion, vice Stewart—Second Lieut.: J. C. Peters, of the
Portsmouth division, to be First Lieut, at the same divi-
sion, vice Le Grand—Col. and Second Commandant G. B
Payne, of the Portsmouth division, to be Col.-Comman-
dant and appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Col,-
Commandant W. F. Hopkins, C. 8., retired—Lieut. Col.
Brevet Col. S. N. Lowder, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, of
the Chatham division, to be Col. and Second Commandant
of the Portsmouth division, vice Payne—Capt D. Blyth,
of the Chatham division, vice Lowder—First Lieut. S. J.
Graham, of the Woolwich division, to be Capt., appointed
to the Chatham division, vice Blyth—Second Lieut. W. G.
Armstrong, of the Plymouth division, to be First Lieut.
and appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Graham.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. G. H. Lawson and Lieut. C. R. Harris,
to the Hibernia—Lieut. E. F. Day, to the Rattlesnake—
Lieut. J. W. Gambier, to the Defence—A. F. Gibbons,
master, to the Fisgard, for the Niger—William Skipwith,
midshipman, to the Victoria—A, M. Cramsie, naval cadet,
to the Victoria—Thomas Silk, assistant-paymaster, to
the Victory—Charles H. Cealy, assist.-paymaster, to the
Cumberland—George W. E. C. Mackay, clerk, to the Vic-
tory, as supernumerary—Charles G. Johnstone, Edward
St. Leger, and G. C. L. B. Townsend, assist.-clerks, to the
Victory—James A. France, engineer, to the Asia, as
supernumerary—and Thomas Marsh, of the Orlando, con-
figned as firatoidaae assist,-engineer.

Last evening Mr. C. C. Lewis, one of the coroners for the
county of Essex, and a jury of the inhabitants, opened an
inquest at the Bell and Anchor Tavern, Plaistow, on the
headless body of a man, supposed to be that of a young
German named John Fuhrhop, and which had been found
in the neighbouring marshes on the afternoon of Tuesday
last, as already reported. The body lay in an outhouse of
the inn, as did also the head, which had been found on
Wednesday, and they were then seen by the jury. The
murder has caused great excitement throughout a very
populous neighbourhood,and the inquest-room 'was crowded
during the proceedings.
As already reported, a man named Karl Kohl, of 4, Hoy.
street, Plaistow, sugarbaker, is now in custody on suspicion
of being concerned in the murder.
Josiah Gaster, of 1, Bromley-street, Poplar, was the first
witness called,and he proved the finding of the body among
the reeds in the Plaistow-marshes on Tuesday,at 20 minutes
past 1 o'clock. This witness repeated the evidence which he
had already given before the magistrate at Stratford.
Wm. Brigley, sergeant of the K division of police, said
that on Tuesday, at a quarter to 2 o'clock, he was on duty
in the North Woolwich-road, when he met the previous
witness, who told him that the headless body of a man had
been found in some reeds on the Thames bank,at the north
aide of the river, Witness went to the spot and saw the
body lying quite straight on its back, the left arm by its
side, and the right arm across the breast. He searched the
trousers pocket, and found in it a-bit of paper containing
German words (it was a small scrap of a note or letter),
and a farthing. There was very little blood. tie searched
in the neighbourhood on Thursday morning, and about 40
or 50 feet from where he saw the body he found a pool of
blood in a ditch. Some 45 feet from that he came upon
the handle of a hammer. The blood in the ditch was large

in quantity, and it seemed to him to be mixed with water,
The heed was found near the river by the Thames police
on Wednesday, and it was identified in his presence as be-
longing to the body.
Henry Zuckh, a German, living at 2, Hoy-street,Pleistovie
was called. He said he knew the deceased, and first saw
him about five weeks ago, when he told witness he had lately
come from Hamburg. Yesterday (Wednesday) week he last
saw him alive. The deceased lett his house in the evening,
about tea-tene, with the prisoner Kohl, and witness did not
again see him alive. The next day Kohl called at his house,
and said he had left the deceased in the Commercial-road,
and had not seen him since. Witness asked him if the man
(meaning the deceased) had got any money. He said he
had £4 10s. Witness remarked to Kohl that if he met a
street-girl he would perhaps spend the money with her.
Kohl and witness were alone when that conversation took
place. Kohl said if he spent the money he would turn him
out of the house, as he would have no money to go to Ger-
many with. Kohl said he had lent Fuhrhop, the deceased,
a copper to go over the iron bridge. He did that, he said, in
order that he might not have to change the £4los. Kohl then
left witness's house to go home. It was then about 1 o'clock
in the day. He came to witness's house again in the even-
ing, but he said nothing about the deceased of any import-
ance. Witness now identified the body of the deceased by
the boots. The deceased had called to ask if he could repair
them, and witness knew them again from one of the boots
being worn on the inside and the other being worn on the
outside. He was certain they were the boots the deceased
had spoken to him about. They were of German make. He
had seen the head of the murdered man, and he was able
to identify it by the appearance of the features.
Thames Police-inspector Goode was called, and deposed
that about half_past six on Wednesday morning he went on
shore on the reed bed at Plaistow in search of the deceased
man's head. He looked about for a considerable time, but
was unable to find it. About half-past 7he saw a man named
Jones, and asked if he knew the exact spot where the body
was found. He said he did not, but he believed it was about
30 yards from the spot where they then were. He went
across a ditch to the reed bed ;and called out to witness, " I
think I have found the head." Witness ran to the spot
where Jones was standing and saw a hole which Jones
pointed out, and which he said was a rat's hole. Blood
was observable in the hole. Witness removed the earth
and found the head of a man about three inches from the
surface. There was a cut extending from the right eye-
brow to the lower lip, as if dono with a chopper, and a scalp
wound on the forehead. He had it taken to the Graving
Dock Tavern, where the body then lay.
Mr E, J. Morris, surgeon, said he saw the body of the
deceased about half_past 11 in the evening of Tuesday last,
There was no head to it. The muscular fibres about the
neck were all eaten away, apparently by rats. The clavicles
and cervicalvertebree were laid bare. The akin and part of
the muscular fibres on the left shoulder were partially
eaten away, and on the right arm the flash was eaten away
in two places, as was also the fhsh of both hands, more
particularly that of the left hand. The fl_sh on the right
cheek was also eaten away by res. He found an e ,ten-
eive fracture on the occipital bone on the left side, pane •
tracing into the brain. There were also two fractures on
the frontal bone. Ile should say the wounds were inflicted
prior to death. The wounds were
ac-
count for death. The one at the back of the head appeared
more ,than sufficient to
to have been inflicted with a chopper, but those on the front
seemed to have been occasioned by hammer. The head
was not cut off until after death.
Elizabeth Warren, wife of James Warren, 3, Nelson-
street, Plaistow-marsh, labourer, said she knew deceased.
He had two handsome front teeth in the upper jaw,
and she identified the body by that circumstance among
others, He was a German, and she only knew him by his
Christian name of John. He came to lodge at her house
between five and six weeks ago. The man Kohl, now in
prison, brought him to her house. He lodged with her 13
days. Ile left her house a month ago last Monday night,
but called next day to take away his clothes, accompanied
by a German named Butcher, whom she had known by
sight about the marsh. While deceased was at her house
Kohl came backwards and forwards to see him, and occa-
ionally took him to London. When deceased left her house
on the Monday night he had four sovereigns and 7s 6d in
silver. Kohl was then present and saw the money. The de-
ceased owed her £2 for 13 days washing and lodging and
board. Both Kohl and deceased disputed the amount,
which they thought was too much. She received 25s from
deceased, and the next day
he called with Butcher, who paid
her the balance, 15s, and he and deceased took the luggage
away. It was a large portmanteau and in it were his clothes,
including a dozen shirts, ten pairs of socks, three flannel
shirts, three pairs of trousers,
suit, a dark overcoat, a tra-
velling of them black and the
other gray, two coats, a gray
yelling rug, twcepairs of boots and two pairs of shoes, one of
the pairs of boots being Wellingtons, and the other spring-
sided. He wore a silver watch with a gold Albert chain, and
ring on his finger. He had a gold ring for
his neck tie, with a P and a gold handker-
chief pin•alsoec two leather hat boxes, in ono of
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turned up at the sides. There were also a few books in his
box, some likenesses, and cards of all descriptions. He told
witness he had come from Germany with Kohl.
Superintendent Howie, of the Y division of metropolitan
police, was called. He seid—On Thursday evening I went
to the house of Ferdinand Edward Karl Kohl, at 4, Hoy-
street, Plaistow-marsh. I there saw Karl Kohl, his wife,
and Joseph Williams, her brother. I inquired if a German
man was missing from their house. Karl Kohl replied that
a young man whom he called John, and whose acquaint.
ante he had made on a recent passage from Ham-
burg to London, had been missing since last Thurs-
day. saidHe also that before coming to lodge
with him John had lodged with a Mrs Warren
at 3, Nelsonestreet, Plaistow-marsh, which lodgings he did
not like; that when John came to lodge with him he was
without money, and he had since been pawning his clothes.
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A youth named Henry Lees, of 2, High-street, Plaistow-
marsh, labourer, said—l work at an oil factory at Plaistow,
and I knew the deceased. My landlord, Henry Zutch, is a
German, and the deceased used to call at his house. I have
seen him about a dozen times, and have occasionally bade
him " Good evening." I saw the head last night, and I
believe it to be that of the German in question. I know it
by the features. I saw him last alive last Thureday morn-
ing about 10 o'clock. I was then working at Plaistow-
wharf, and saw Kohl and the young man together. I had
known Kohl before, but not long. I was only a few yards
from them. They were then going towards the reed-bed
where the body was afterwards found, and about three or
four minutes' walk front the place. They about
three
side
by side. I remarked to a young man with whom I was
working 44 Here are two Gatmans who occasionally call to
see my landlord." I did not see the deceased again. I saw
Kohl in the evening about half-past 4at my lodgings. He
was talking to my landlord about the young man going to
London, and about hie having gone into a sugar baker's
and left the young
them both that morning about 10 o'clock. To that he made
man outside. I replied that I had seen
no answer, He afterwards said that on coming out of the
sugar baker's he found the young man was gone.
Kohl then began
to talk in German, which I don't understand..
By a Juryman—When witness saw them the
i morning
said he found on going home that the young man'sHeleotahlseos
had been taken away. The landlord and
they were both smoking, and Kohl had his hand
n one
pocket.
At this point, there being no more evidence forthcoming,
the inquiet was adjouried for a week.

The Court permitted Mr Binsteed to read the following
statement :
Mr President and gentlemen of this honourable Court, I
respectfully request permission from this honourable Court
to plead guilty to the first charge, and to admit the facts of
the second. 1 cannot deny that I have been absent from
my ship without leave so long as to constitute the
first offence charged ; but I respectfully submit to the
honourable Court that the whole train of circumstances
connected with my offence show that it was not my intention
to desert from her Majesty's service; that, however censur-
able my folly and thoughtlessness may have been, I am in-
nocent of any deliberate intention to desert my duty. I
am aware that I must be answerable for my actions inde-
pendent of my motives, but I trust this honourable Court
will leniently consider the peculiar circumstances of my
case, and give me the benefit of those circumstances which
indubitably show the absence of any criminal intent. I had
gone on leave to the Isle of Wight for two days, leaving all
my effects on board, and taking only a requisite change of
clothing—and on Sept. 5 I had come over to Portsmouth
within the limit of my leave to rejoin my ship, when I
accidentally lost my train. I immediately telegraphed to
one of my measmates, Mr Chamters, but my message was
returned nest day undelivered in consequence of the sang
of the fleet. I produce the letter which I received to that
effect from the clerk at the telegraph office. On the following
Thursday I heard by the papers that the fleet had arrived at
Portland, and I had left my hotel and was preparing to
proceed thither when—with my portmanteau, on my way
to the station—l drove to Messrs Galt and Gieve, outfitters,
Portsmouth, for some clothes they had made for me, and
in their warehouse I heard that a naval officer had stated
that he had heard from Sir Frederick Grey that the fleet

was at Torquay and not Portland. In this uncertainty I
foolishly proceeded to London, in the hope of hearing ace
curately at the Admiralty, and then, on ascertaining, I
again telegraphed to Mr Chambers, and late on Sunday
evening received his reply that the fleet would sail next
morning. I was thus again unable to join. In this di-
lemma I felt uncertain how to act, and the serious, and as it
proved fatal illness of my lamented father deprived me of
his counsel and advice. A subsequent telegram from Mr
Chambers, apprising me that I was marked " run" on the
ship's books, more alarmed me, and I began to realise the
consequences of my misconduct and to dread the anguish it
would occasion to my father in his flickering health if I
should be tried by a court-martial, and I unhappily shrank
from the risk of rejoining my ship. I can now only cast
myself on the mercy of this honourable court, trusting that
my youth and the peculiar circumstances of my father's ill-
ness may be allowed as some mitigation of the offence I have
committed, and that the fact that I did leave all my effects,
including jewellery and other trifles which a pocket would
contain, on board my ship, and that I was in telegraphic
communication with my meesmates, who knew my real ad-
dress, will be deemed satisfactory proof that 1 had no evil
purpose in the onset, but was foolishly led on by circum-
stances which I now deeply lament. To the second charge
I respectfully plead not guilty, but I admitthe facts embodied
in the charge, viz., that I did give my written word of hon-
our as alleged to return on board her Majesty's ship Victory
on the 29th Oct., and that I did not, in fact, return until the
30th. I trust the circumstances which I shall have the
honour of submitting to this honourable court will entitle
me to an acquittal on the charge, providing that my non-
performance of my promise was an accident resulting from
excessive imprudence and not from criminality. I cannot
enter in my defence in this charge without expressing my
sense of the kindness of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty and the captain of my ship in granting me leave
to attend the funeral of my father, while the cloud of my
first charge was hanging over me, and I readily admit that
I should well deserve any punishment that could be in-
flicted on me if I could have intentionally broken my parole
on that occesion. I trust I shall satisfy this honourable
Court that I cl;c1 not. On the evening of Saturday, the 27th
of October, I was staying at my brother's house in Picca.
One of his servants called me a cab, and I drove to
the Waterloo station, and found on my arrival that I had 35
minutes to spare before the departure of the train. I
wanted to mention to my sister something which I had for-
goi ten, and I asked the cabman how long it would take to
drive me to Chester-square. He replied twelve minutes,
and, thinking that would leave me abundant time, I directed
him to go, and I left my luggage in the charge of Henry
Webb, porter No. 55. I did go to Chester-square, and did
return, and I believe I should have been in ample time if
one side of the road in Birdcage-walk, half a mile in length,
had not been broken up, which greatly delayed the return of
the cab, which was unable to leave its rank. We arrived
in Waterloo just as the train went out of the station,
and on my inquiry about a special train, I found at that
hour it would be difficult to obtain, besides being very ex.
pensive, I directed the cabman to drive me to a good tele-
graph station, and he drove me to Charing-cross, and he
saw me at the counter for 12 minutes by the clock. The
clerk told me that being after time he could not ensure the
message going that night, but he would try, and I accord-
ingly paid him for a message to the following effect ad-
dressed to the captain of her Majesty's ship Victory, that
"I had lost my train, and should be down early the next
morning." The cab-driver is a very respectable man, well
known at the Waterloo Station, and he will testify to the
great anxiety I manifested at the untoward loss of my train
and the urgency of my desire, to transmit a message im-
mediately. I have not been able as yet to discover why
this message has not been delivered, My solicitor has in-
quired at the Portsea Station, and finds that it did not
arrive there. The clerk at the railway station replies that
his books are sent back to head-quarters every two days,
and he cannot recollect. The result of my solicitor's in-
quiries in London have not yet transpired. I slept
that night at the Grosvenor Hotel, telling the man to call
me at seven o'clock. He neglected to do so, and I did no
awake till ten, and then I was not in time for the 10 15
train, and being Sunday there was only one other (a
five hour train) till five o'clock, by which I came, and
having obtained some refreshment, 1 went on board her
Majesty's ship Victory, expecting that my telegram, ex-
plaining my misfortune, would have long preceded me. I
ehall call before this honourable Court the railway porter
and the cab-driver, who will corroborate my statement,
the former not sought out by me, but called by the official
application of the Judge Advocate to the secretary of the
railway company, and the other one of the regular attend
dants at the Waterloo Station, by whose people he was
found out for my solicitor, and I believe that these witnesses
will satisfy this hon. Court that in this particular I have
not intentionally, even for an instant, delayed the perform-
ance of my promise, and that I am not deserving of the
censure which should justly fall on any one who, to the
ungrateful disregard of a 'valued favour, could superadd the
violation of his honour. I submit to this hon. Court that
while admitting to the full my extreme indiscretion in
risking the occurrence of any castialty when I was once
safely at the station, and however strongly appearances
may at first have naturally seemed against me, yet that I
am not guilty of the grave and heinous offence contained in
the second charge. And now, on the first charge, of which
I stand guilty, I must once more appeal to the merciful
consideration of this hon. Court. I trust that my youth,
and the peculiar circumstances under which I was placed,
and my father's illness and recent death, will induce this
hon. Court to believe that my misconduct was the result of
thoughtlessness and folly, and the absence of control and
advice, more than the desire to evade the needful discipline
of her Majesty's service, and that in enforcing the needful
discipline, and in maintaining the supremacy of order over
irregularity, this hon. Court may so temper justice with
his father.
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Edward Edwards, cab-driver, said on Saturday evening,
October 29th, he drove prisoner from Piccadilly to the
Waterloo Station. Prisoner found on arrival that he had
35 minutes to spare.
The President—Let the witnesses retire for us to consider
this question.
The court was cleared for more than half an hour.
Captain Scott said, in reply to a question, if the Court
were satisfied as to thef acts admitted he had no desire to
cross-examine the two witnesses, There was one point that
he wished to remark upon, and that was in reference to the
telegram. He received no telegram fro.n prisoner.
Edwards continued—You asked me how long it would
take to drive to Chester-square.
Did yeu say it would take twelve minutes ?—Yes.
But for the state of Birdcage. walk should we have been
in time?--oh, yes.

By Prisoner—l believe it was only a carpet bag and hat
box. I cannot say for certain.
By Count Gliechen—The 8.30 train is the last train from
Waterloo to Portsmouth, _ _

By the President—What,frafnu run on SulidaY
Witness—Trains leave at 9.1r,' 10.15, 5, and 8.30,
The Court then cleared, and remained in deliberation
upwards of one hour, when it re-opened.
The officiating Judge Advocate read the charges and the
determination of the Court. The Court having heard the
circumstances under which the prisoner broke his word of
honour, found the second charge proved, and did for the
offences admitted and proved adjudge prisoner to be dis-
missed from her Majesty's service.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the

Volunteers.

Yesterday being the Eve of St. Martin, the 13th
and 14th companies of the Queen's (Westminster)
Volunteers, comprising the St Martin's Division,
assembled at the Freemasons' Tavern for their an-
nual festival. The Chancellor of the ExchEquer
was present, and presided on the occasion. At the
back of the right hon. gentleman were placed the
colours of the St Martine Division of the old West-
minster Volunteers, which had been for many years
in the custody of Capt. Irving, and were by that
gentleman formally presented to the division about
two years since, and they are now the recognised
colours of the St Martin's Corps. About 150 mem-
bers of the corps and their friends sat down to a
very substantial supper, and after the cloth was re-
moved, and the ordinary toasts had been duly ho-

noured,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said—l
now rise to propose to you a toast which is familiar
to every convivial assembly of Englishmen, but
which is peculiarly significant on the present occa-
sion, inasmuch as this is a meeting fairly sustained
by members of the Volunteer force. The toast
which I shall propose to you is " The Army, Navy,
and Volunteers of England." Now, gentlemen,
with respect to the navy and army of England it is
not requisite that I should say much, becauso the
history of those illustrious services forms an lose.
parable part of the history of our:country, and it is
written, I may say, not only in the pages of our
literature, but upon the hearts of Englishmen.
There has been no period, there has been no combi-
nation of circumstances, in all the vicissitudes of
human affairs, when we had had occasion to call
upon the navy and army of England fur the defence
of our shores and homes, when those services
have not answered the call in a manner
to secure to them the gratitude of the country
and the admiration of the world. (Cheers.) These
things, gentlemen, not only are truths, but they
have become truisms and commonplaces—and
therefore there is no wish that we require to c x.-
pres 9., no hope that we need to form on the part
of the navy and the army of England except this
—that amid all the changes which modern science
may introduce, amid all the exeern-al mutations
which the forms of warfare and the instruments of
warfare may undergo, the spirit by which these
forces are animated may remain one and the same,
and the army and the navy, or the navy and the
army, of England may be in times to come what
they have been in times which are gone by. (Cheers)
But, gentlemen, the toast which is now upon my
lips deals likewise with a younger force—a force
named the Volunteers of England—and that is a
force which is still, in one sense, in its infancy—
but I think I may say with truth that if an infant,
it is an infant Hercules. (Cheers.) It is no small
honour for the Volunteer force of England that,
by a spontaneous process, exciting no jealousy on
the part of the older services, which perfectly well
comprehended the harmonious relations subsisting
between them and the Volunteers, yet, notwithe
standing, with little aid from the funds of the
State, and mainly dependent upon those resources
which individual character affords, the Volunteer
force—the offspring, as it has been of the indivie
dual will of Englishmen, and the spirit of liberty
and patriotism which pervades the nation—has
within the last few years attained not only to such
material magnitude, but to such moral power, that
in -every banquet where we meet together it is
associated with the ancient and glorious army and
navy of our country. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen
this is a fact of no small significance—that a body
which numbers some 160,000 or 170,000 men should
have sprung into existence as rapidly as if it had
been summoned from the ground by the wand of
an enchanter and by the exercise of preternatural
power. But it was not, as we know, by a preter-
natural, but by a spontaneous and legitimate pro-
cess—by the free will and the intelligent convic-
tions of the people of this country. Gentlemen,
there is no doubt that the creation of this Volunteer
force has been a remarkable phenomenon, a great
sign of the times in which we live, I doubt whether
there is any country in the world where any pheno-
menon resembling this could have well occurred.
Nay, more, I doubt whether in this country at any
former period such a phenomenon could have pre-
sented itself to our view. It is quite true that this
is not the first period in our history when a power.
ful Volunteer force strictly answering to that
description has been created. Bat upon the
last occasion when such a force came into being
it was under the influence of immediate and
urgent apprehensions ; when the powers of the
greatest military nation in the world, governed
by the greatest military genius of modern, possibly
of any period of history,, were martially arrayed on
the shore within a few leagues of our own, for the
purpose of invading the sacred and hitherto undis-
turbed homes and hearths of England. Well, gene
tlemen, they were extraordinary circumstances, but
the volunteer force of our time sprung into existence
partly perhaps in connection with a sentiment of
apprehension of some similar event, but undoubt-
edly in connection with such sentiment, it cannot
be said that that sentiment was of the same charac-
ter as the apprehension which prevailed 60 years
ago. Some alarm there may have been within the
last four or five years, and that alarm served a very
useful purpose if it contributed to the formation of
the volunteer force. But I do not believe the alarm
would have sufficed to bring that force into exist-
, and
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ence in any country except our own country, or in
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any period of time except the period of time in
which we live, because I think the characteristic of
Government,ethheavinetaerests
laws, and institutions in which the governing power
thisis identified period
is this—that
with the will,
convictions of those who are governed, in a deg- ee
perhaps unexampled in the history of the world.
It therefore happens that the exigencies of the
country, real or supposed, whatever they may be, do
not require to be proclaimed by the voice of law, or
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individual man is ready to leap intottis Otte, tiii-
be may discharge the duties belonging to a citizen
of his country, without command, without coercion,
from the free spontaneous impulse of his own mind
and heart. (Cheers.) And therefore, gentlemen, the
volunteer force of England is not merely 411 addie
tion to the defensive power of the country. It is
most important as an addition to the defensive power
of the country. There is not a military man who will
not echo that sentiment, or who will undervalue for
a moment the strength, the new strength that it has
contributed to the nation for every purpose of legi-
timate defence, and for no purpose of illegitimate
aggression.Eßut besides all this, it is something,
yet more than this, it is an emphatic expreesion of
the national character—a remarkable result of the
character and working of British institutions.
(Cheers.) Well, bow great the question is, and the
question is one of very great interest—ls this Vo•
luuteer power to be permeeent ? Is it an ephemeral
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been in the breasts of our public cssemblics, to the
institution,; of the country ? When we speak of the
institutions of England, we speck, thank God ! of
something not transitory, but durable; and what we
wish to know is whether this Volunteer power is to
take its place among those durable institutions. Now
I venture humbly to say, in the first place, that it is
desirable it should—and, in the second place, we
may with reasonable confidence trust and reckon
that it will. (Cheers.) It is desirable, I say first,
that the Volunteer power should take its place
among the .durable and permanent institu-
tions of the country, and it is so for many rea-
sons. It is desirable for our defence, for I confess
that that not beicg one of those who have shared in
the alarm which has passed over the public mind,
yet, notwithstanding, 1 cannot fail to recognise, as
every Englishman must do, the absolute necessity
"f maintaining, if need be, with a high and strong
hand, at all times and ander all eiecuutstances, the
independence and the just and legitimate influence
of the country. (Cheers.) The more we are able
to use, in the spirit of that independence, the
means which are essential and necessarily defensive
means, the sounder and more secure our position
will be. But, then, the profession of arms is one of
those professions with regard to which the most
loyal of those who follow it must always hope that
the occasions for its active exercise may be few and
far between. And, therefore, we must try the
Volunteer force likewise by some other test over
and above those of the, uses we should expect
from it in case of the last necessity. Looking to the
Volunteer force as a part of the pacific apparatus
of this country, as belonging to the ordinary course
of peaceful English life, I rejoice in its existence ;
for, in the first place, what attractions does it give
to the minds of the young ? At the time when the
blood is warm and courses rapidly through the
veins, and when the movements and enjoyments,
excitements, in one form or another, all commend
themselves to the man, the Volunteer force presents
to the youthful mind high -objects, high motives,
and disinterested ends, and enables them to asso-
ciate their own recreation with that w hich is useful
to their country and mankind. (Cheers.) Well,
then, gentlemen, we are also a great commercial
country, we are a great money-making country, a
great mechanical country, and I hope we shall
always be. (Cheers.) I certainly am not here to
disparage these gifts of Englishmen which I think
lie at the very root of the English character, and
which I think lie at the foundation,combined with the
spirit of the nation, both of our success in war and of
our prosperity and happiness in times of peace.
But, at the same time, I think it is well that when
we tie ourselves to the pursuits of the desk we
should not forget altogether our corporeal existence,
and that active exercise in every shape should con-
tinue to be among the distinguishing marks of
Englishmen ; and therefore that you—especially
not engaged in the heart of this huge and almost
unmeasured metropolis—should have these manly
exercises presented to you, is, in my opinion, ate
object of tee greatest value, as it is one which you
have shown yourselves worthy to forward and ap-
preciate. feed it is remarkable that in our great
towns and our more populous districts partieulerly
—I say nothing in disparagement of the rest of the
country, for I think the Volunteer movement has
spread over the whole of the country—but nowhere
has it been welcomed with greater warmth end
enthusiasm than in those great towns and cities
where undoubtedly it was mist desirable it should
be so r, calved by way of compensation to what I
may call our sedentary pursuits. (Cheers.) There
ie, however, one of the points connected "4 ith this
movement to which I do not know whether 1 have
before referred in this room 4r nut, but I feel so
strongly upon it that I will venture to mention it
again. It is this—Until the Volunteer force came
into existence there was one special gap and one
special defect in the military institutions of the
country. We had an incomparable army and navy.
I hope in this assembly we may call them incompar-
able without disparagement to the army and navy of
any ether country. We had an admirable army and
navy, composed of officers and men. The officers
were taken, speaking generally, almost uniformly
from the upper classes, and the men from the lower
classes of society. lam not going to set up against
the upper or against the lower class, or any other
class of society; but still I do maintain that be-
tween those two classes of society there is a class
which is of considerable importance termed the
middle classes of society. (Cneers.) That middle
class of society has, like every other class, its merits
and its faults. But it is a class of very great weight
and very great consequence is every well regulated
country. In point of fact, if you go into any ill
ordered country you will generally find it has not
a good sound middle class • and if, on the other
hand, you go into a well ordered country, you will
find there is a strong middle class. In fact, the
middle class is in a very great degree the cement
between the upper and lower classes. (Cheers.)
Until the Volunteer force came into existence an
Englishman of the middle class, possessed of politi-
cal power, and wanting in none of the gifts and
qualities which belonged to the other classes, had,
I may say, speaking generally, no opportunity of
exhibiting his desire for, and contributing
his fair share to, the defences of his country.
(Cheers.) 1 hold it to be a great permanent, na-
tional, and social gain that the creation of the Vo-
lunteer force has united as it has done in perfect
harmony every class from the highest aristocracy of
the land, which you see at the head of some of your
metropolitan regiments, and the honest, laborious,
industrious, ingenious mechanic, who has contributed
so large a share towards making England what it
is. The Volunteer force has brought all these tom
gether into one well-commanded body ; it has sup.
plied the lack and defect which existed. before, and.
has added a new social bond as well as a new milis
tary defence to the institutions of this country.
(Cheers.) Well, now, gentlemen, I believe that your
indulgence is very laudable, but at the same time,
though perhaps you will think I am not in a condi-
tion to say so, there is such a thing as modesty and
decency in determining the length even of an after■
dinner speech. (Laughter.) I have said quite enough
on this matter, but what 1 have said I have spoken
with entire sincerity and undoubted conviction, and
I believe it to be more desirable that the Volunteer
services should become a permanent institution.
I believe also that every reasonable ground justifies
us in the anticipation that that is the position which
the Volunteer force has now in substance already
assumed. There is no sentiment of alarm in the
public mind at the present moment. A peaceful
consciousness of strength pervades the country,
with an in ctoae rertt era aacobostuled
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in arms ; but with that pacific sentiment pervading
the country, with that stable and confident expeca
Cation of continued tranquillity, notwithstanding
we see that the Volunteer force flourishes
still—flourishes by its own merits, flourishes rest-
ing upon your conviction of its utility—and, there-
fore, I think we are justified in saying that, founded
as it is upon the loyalty and patriotism of English-
men, and upon the reasonableness and usefulness of
its own character, we may, along with the ardent
wish, give utterance to the sanguine anticipation
that it is destined both to take and keep its place
among the permanent institutions of our country.
The right hon. gentleman concluded by proposing
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acknowledged the toast on behalf
of the Navy.
Col. WlNlunpo replied on behalf of the Army and
Volunteers.
Several other toasts of a complimentary character
were proposed in the course of the evening, including
" The Health of the Right lion. Chairman," which
was appropriately acknowledged by Mr Gladstone.