The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The following circular memorandum, addressed
to the army at home and recruiting districts, has
been promulgated :
" With a view to meet the possible loss to the
service of a certain number of men who are about to
complete their first period of limited enlistment, and
in order generally to encourage the recruiting of the
army, his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief desires the special attention of
the field officers of recruiting districts to the orders
and memoranda which have from time to time been
issued, and calls on them, and all under their super.
intendence, for increased exertion to maintain the
establishment. It will be their duty to give their
constant attention to the numbers raised weekly by
each party under their orders, and when the result in
any case may be inadequate, to propose such changes
in their distribution as may increase their chances of
success; and in any instance in which after sach
change the party may still fail to send in recruits, it
should be returned to its regiment and replaced by
another. If' after all exertion has been made the sta-
tion continue unproductive, it should be altogether
abandoned, and the party sent to a different locality.
Officers of subdivisions should see that the parties
are active and energetic, not remaining shut up in
their billets, bat constantly on the alert, attending
all markets, fairs, and wakes in the places where
they are quartered. Superintending officers are
permitted by the last paragraph of the general
order of December 1, 1847, to give special authority
for detaching parties for the above purposes to ad-
joining towns and villages within moderate dis-
tances, and should it in any case be deemed desir-
able to send men for similar reasons to such dis-
tances as would entail the necessity of issuing
marching money to them, his Royal Highness, on
the application of inspecting field-officers, made in
sufficient time beforehand, would be prepared to
recommend the sums to the War-office. Inspecting
field-officers should obtain and furnish to recruiting
parties lists of the days on which markets and faire,
especially statute fairs for the hiring of farm ser-
vants, are held within their districts; and subdivi-
Sion officers should take care that parties are
constantly on the look-out in the neighbourhood of
railway stations, works of local improvement, or
manufactories, where they are likely to meet with
persons:in search of employment ; or when stationed
near the camps of instruction or in garrison towns,
recruiting parties should be present at all reviews
of the regular troops, and elsewhere should attend
all assemblages of Volunteers for inspection, or for
competition at the various county rifle associations,
which are sure to draw together numerous idlers,
from among whom good recruits are often to be
obtained. It is impossible in a memorandum of this
sort to allude to all the detailed duties of a recruiter
—they must be welt known to those who have
charge of districts ; but the above are some of the
most important; and it is incumbent upon officers of
subdivisions by their own personal energy and super-
vision to ascertain that none of them are neglected by
those specially selected and withdrawn from regi-
mental duty in order to be placed on the recruit-
ing service, and who should be made to under-
stand that their continuance in an employment
which is always popular, and for which useful men
can always be found, will depend solely on their
own zeal and industry, as manifested in the num-
ber of good recruits whom they send in for exami-
nation. But it is not alone to the recruiting dis-
tricts that the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief
looks for the means of maintaining the numerical
efficiency of the army; he relies solely on the zeal,
the esprit de corps, and the active exertions of com-
manding officers of regiments in concerting mea-
sures for raising recruits at their own headquarters.
He is under the impression, however, that at the
present moment there may be a disposition in some
instances to reject men sft. sin. who offer to enlist
at the headquarters of regiments; but he trusts
that after this notice commanding officers will not
suffer a single recruit otherwise eligible to be turned
away merely because he does not come up to a
preconceived notion of what looks most imposing
in the ranks, thus sacrificing numbers to appear-
ance, when it is well known that it is not the
biggest man whose endurance of bodily fatigue
under the knapsack on the march or:at work in the
trenches is the greatest.
" Recruits may frequently be raised at the head-
quarters of a regiment by sending the band or
drums and fifes to parade the town on market days
and fair days. There is another mode of raising
recruits which in former days was attended with
much success, and which his Royal Highness would
like to see reverted to, and that is that officers on
leave of absence at their home should exert them-
selves to obtain recruits for their own regiments.
Should an officer by means of personal local inte-
rest succeed in raising a batch of recruits, his Royal
Highness would approve of their being posted to
his own company should he desire. The Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief is fully sensible of
the zeal with which the recruiting department of
the army has always been actuated, end is satisfied
that as soon as the present state of things shall
have become generally known, the vacancies now
existing in the ranks will speedily be filled. A
copy of this order is to be in possession of all super-
i n t;inadj ionr
to
effin el
ye r,
es . "
battery of the B brigade Royal
Horne Artillery yesterday left head. quarters, Wool-
wich, and commenced their march for Aldershott,
passing the night at Richmond and resuming their
march this morning. They Were to quarter for the
night at Chertsey, and arrive at their destination
to-morrow evening. The battery consists of Major
Reilly, C.B. (recently
Aide-de-Camp to General
Dacres), in command ;
Mur-
dock and Gorges, Capt. Newbolt, 1 ieuts. Mur-
to remain and
Col. Michell's batte
6 non-commissioned officers
and privates, With their guns and equipment com-
plete,attrhyeocf atmh
ep
samefor th
be r
ge a sa
doen .
will LieLie
fuot
--
low, also for Aldershott, this morning by the same
Lroute.jeut .c
Tohl e officers commanding the battery are
. Michell, Capt. Ravenhill, Lieuts. Le
Grice, Stirling, and Jackson ; Assist.. Surg. Symons,
and a similar number of men. The head-quarters,
consisting of Col. Sir David Wood, Capt. Whiny-
ates, Quartermaster Hendford, and Sarg. Combe,
M.D., will leave Woolwich at the same time this
morning for Aldershott, and take up their station
there for the summer.
The Aurora, 35, screw steam frigate, 2,558 tons,
where
400 horse power, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintoek,twhe sailed
she
from Sheerness yesterday for Plymouth,
will embark a detachment of the 60th Rifles for
Ireland,
The Locust, paddlewheel steam tender, Master in
command Reuben Harvey, was taken on the grid-
iron, Sheerness dockyard, yesterday, to repair the
copper on the bottom of the vessel, and to examine
the condition of Lumley's patent rudder. The rudder
is found to be in admirable working condition, equal
to what it was when fitted 18 months ago.
The Scout, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,462 tons,
400 horse power, is in:he
large basin,
dockyard, undergoing thorough repair of boilers,

At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive
Committee, held on Tuesday, Mey 31st, a letter was
read accompanying samples of cotton forwarded by
her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Yucatan. This year's
crop amounts to 4,000 bales, which has been chiefly
exported to New York and Havana. A letter was
received from St. Croix, West Indies, reporting that
the cultivation of cotton there is extending, and
that next year a much li.rger quantity and of a
superior quality will be received. A letter was read
from Kingston, Jamaica, advising the consignment
of eight bales of cotton to the association for sale,
part of which has been grown at the Reformatory.
A letter from Philipeville, Aigeria,.tstatcs that since
1854 cotton cultivation has so much extended that
increased facilities for cleaning the crop are required,
and requests information and assistance in procuring
the necessary supply of gins. A sample of East
Indian cotton was received from Kurrachee which
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ed and was
valued
e been
2c cleaned
per
y
management of cotton mills and in cleaning and pre.
bl
, t h
Teh e l%i
senderacay
paring the raw material in India. A letter was read
from the Colonial Office acknowledging the receipt
of thelmemorial forwarded by the association on the
interruption to the transport of cotton and other mer-
chandise from Abbeokuta to Lagos, in consequence
of the wars now raging in those parts, and stating
that her Majesty's Government are fully alive to
the importance of the subject brought under notice.
Consular despatches, forwarded by the Foreign-
office, were received from her Majesty's Consul.
General at Constantinople, enclosing a report from
Mr. Vice-Consul Blunt, dated Adrianople, April 18,
on the cultivation of cotton in the districts of Eski
Z3gra and Sophia in Bulgaria. In the former the
planting last year was too late, and the severe
drought rendered; the crop to a great extent a
failure. Double the quantity of seed has been sown
this year under more favourable circumstances. The
district appears suitable to the growth of cotton.
The experiments in Sophia have proved ho success-
ful that confident hopes are entertained that cotton
will be grown there to advantage. The Governor
is energetic, has made good turnpike roads, and
labours earnestly for the benefit of the people. The
Governor-General of the province of Adrianople
states that the reports which he has received from
various districts afford decisive evidence that the
experiments with American seed have given very
good results, and that a largely extended area will
be placed under cultivation this year. Mr. Blunt's
French colleague, M. Guys, has taken great interest
in the cotton culture, and a copy of the report
addresed to his Government aas been forwarded.
A further despatch from Mr. Blunt, dated Adria.
nople, May 6th, states that his agent at Phillip•
popolis informs him that this year the farmers and
peasantry of that province have been most eager to
obtain seed for sowing; that about 30,000 okes
have been sown, and that much more would have
been disposed of had it been attainable. The re•
sults last year, though there was a comparative
failure,"were such as to induce the peasantry to cone
tinue their efforts this year on a much larger scale.
A report, enclosed from Mr. Vice-Consul Rossy
Enas, states that experiments in cotton cultivation
in his district are zealously prosecuted, and that
good results are anticipated. A despatch from
H.M.'s Consul at Jaffa, dated April 15th, reports
the sowing season as just terminated most favour.
ably, and that the seasonable showers, called " the
latter rain"in Scripture, have done great good. The
plants look most promising, and the excitement and
eagerness to grow cotton still continue to prevail.
Theßedouins, near Gaza, have begun to sow cotton.
If this year's yield should prove like the last, the
increased production will be immense, and the exs
port from Jaffa will be largely augmented. Pre-
sent prices, or 20 per cent. reduction, will greatly
enrich the growers. A letter was read from the
president of the associations now in Italy,

The Extraordinary Charge of Attempted
Poisoning at Clapham.

Harriett Ashkettle, who stands charged with attempting
to poison her fellow servant, Louisa Caroline Gurr, by
mixing tincture of iodine with her dinner, underwent another
examination before Mr. Ingham, at the Wandsworth Police-
court yesterday. Mr. Wilson, as before, defended her.
It will he recollected that the prosecutrix stated that she
received her dinner on the Sunday in question from the pri-
soner in the kitchen, after the joint had been removed from
the dining-room, and that she discovered the iodine mixed
with the meat and potatoes on sitting down in the nursery.
Mrs. Olivia Lowenthall, of No. 6, Thurlow-terrace, Lark-
hall-lane, now attended, and stated that the prisoner had
been in her service as cook for nearly three weeks, and the
prosecutrix for nine months as housemaid and to assist in
the nursery. She then said that she remembered the Sun-
day in question. The prosecutrix usually dined with the
prisoner in the kitchen, but on that occasion, in conse-
quence of her having complained that the cook had threat-
ened her, she was desired to bring her plate to the slab in
the hall, and to help herself with meat, which had been cut
off the joint and left on the dish by Mr. Lowenthall. Wit-
ness could not state whether the prosecutrix took the dinner
from the slab, as she remained in the dining-room. While
they were eating their pastry the governess came into the
room with the prosecutrix's plate, and said, " Look here at
Mary's dinner." The prosecutrix was called Mary in the
house. They looked at the dinner, and sent the governess
to the police-station.

In reply to questions, the witness said she missed her
watch on the Saturday before the prisoner was taken into
custody. She had lately been singularly unfortunate with
her servants. Since the prosecutrix had been with her she
had had three cooks and two charwomen. They did not
leave through any complaint of the prosecutrix. Witness
had missed property both before and since the prosecutrix
had been in her service.

Mrs Lowenthall handed to his worship a letter, which
was sealed and addressed to the prisoner, and said it was
put over into her garden by a boy last Tuesday,
Mr Ingham opened it, and upon reading the contents ap-
peared to think they were of some importance. ,He called
piece of paper the following words :—"For God's sake
the prosecutrix into court, and desired her to write on a
let
me know what you are doing."
After the prosecutrix had written those words, and several
others, Mr Ingham looked at the handwriting, and said it
was clear that she had not written the letter.
Mr Wilson said some accomplices of the prosecutriz
might have written it. He hoped his worship would dis-
charge the prisoner, as he believed the story was a concocted
one on the part of a designing woman.
Harriet Bunce, the governess, was examined with respect
to the prosecutrix:taking her dinner into the nursery. She
said she did not see Mary spit any of her dinner out of her
mouth, as her back was turned, The prosecutrix
" Oh, dear Miss Bunce, whatever is it in my plate.' lv,„!
news looked at it and took it down to the dining room.n'ineg
r
prosecutrix did not complain at the time that her dinner
had burnt her mouth.
was that in
a very clear case. The weak part of lc: case
herhe
dinner front
which the prosecutrix was bound to tati
Mr Ingham said that if the evidence was true, there was
evidentdiffi cul t the
indeedc3:
the slab. If she did so, it was
with it. If, on the
If.. It was a very dd.
other hand, she did not, it would
did not put any of the poisonoasper
be
est have been
establish a case, for the mixture must done un-
dertake a little time to consider what
ficult case, and he must
the eyes of the complainant .
court ehe should take. mixturee
veryc Y
which he placed in the hands of Sergeant Coltman,
Mr Ingham re
Mr Wilson hoped
refused
isolcilitehnits woocucladsihoenaodnmai tetceodunto bail. t
ofthe
letter,
its contents. His worship also remarked that he
with instructions not to show it to any person, but to in.
'lnca send her for trial until every effort had been
made to find the shawl alleged to have been lost by the pro.
secntrix, for, as he said, if that could be found, the whole
matter would then be cleared up.
wouldvest ig
The prisoner was then remanded for another week.

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