The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
VALETTA, March 27.—Her Majesty's screw etoreship
Fox, 2, Staff Commander T. C. Pullen, arrived yesterday
from Corfu, heavily laden with War-office stores, and on
discharging will return for a fresh cargo. She brings no

particular news of interest. The demolition of the
forts was actively going on up to the time of her

departure (the 2lth instant), and no accident of any
kind had occurred. The Liffey, 35, Captain G. Parker,
had arrived there from the coast of Syria, and was loading
ordnance stores for Malta. The other ships there were the
Orlando, 46, Capt. G. G. Randolph (senior officer) ; the Pell-
can,l7, Commander Gomber (arrived there from Alexandria),
and the Growler tender. The Liffey may be expected here
to-morrow or next day. The Cossack, 20, Capt. W. R.
Rolland, was at Zante, loading the hired transport Thorn-

hill with stores, The Foxhound, 4, Commander W. A.
Anderson, has been ordered to Malta, having been relieved
at Patras by the Trident, 3, Commander C. J, Balfour, and
was to call at Corfu for War-office stores, and at Benghazi
to embark Vice- Consul Reade, who has been appointed to
Scutari. The only ships at the Piraius are the Revenge, 73,
bearing the fi.ag of Rear Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.,
Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley ; the Resistance, IS, iron-cased
ship, Capt. W. C. Chamberland ; and the Wanderer, 4,
Commander M. C. Seymour. There have been some dis-

turbances at Patras, owing to the 9th Greek Regiment
having mutinied, and the Magicienne, 16, Capr, W. Army-
tage, has in consequence been sent there from Malta. She
left this on the 23d inst, The Flambe, 35, Capt. T. D. A.
Fortescue, and the Chanticleer, 17, Commander E. F. Risk,
were at Alexandretta on the 21st of March. The ships in
Malta harbour are the Marlborough, 121, fl ag of Vice- Ad mi-
ral Smart, K.H., Capt.C. Fellowes; the Royal Oak, 35, iron•
cased ship, Capt. F. C. Campbell; the Gibraltar, 81, Capt.
J. C. Prevost (refitting) ; the Surprise, 4, Commander W.
IL Whyte (refitting) ; the Caradoc, 2, Lieut.-Commander
E. Wilkinson (repairing) ; the Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander
R. Sterne; and the surveying vessels Hydra, Commander
A. Mansell, and the Firefly, Lieut.-Commander G. R,
Wilkinson. The latter two vessels will proceed to sea
in the first week of April to resume surveying service, the
former in the lonian sea, and the latter in the Malta
Channel, between Sicily and Tunis. There are also in port
a Dutch frigate, the Prince Mauritz of the Netherlands, 18,
and the Egyptian Government steamer J.ffaria, which
arrived on Thursday from Alexandria, on her way to
- land, to be lengthened. The Racoon, 22, Capt.
leoo '^hen, has been taken on the strength of
Count Ga., °eat, and was at Gibraltar by the last
the Mediterranean.._ "a. F, Smiley, Assist.-Engineer
accounts. On the 22d inst. aa. .
vY eourt-martial on
second class, of the Psyche, was I,the--
-bell, of the Royal
board the Hibernia, President, Capt. Cara-
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Advocate
Mr. T. b
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ol followingt icnhga charges:-1. —i Of conduct
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character of an officer in striking W. Barrington, ordinary
seaman of the Marlborough, and threatening to strike Joseph
Bromidge, Master-at-arms of the same ship, when on shore
at Valetta ; and 2. Of drunkenness on shore. He was sen-
tenced to be dismissed the service, but in consideration of
his previous good conduct and the good testimonials produced
by him he was recommended to the tavourable consideration
of the Lords Commissioners of the Aomiralty. On the 26th
inst. another court•martial was held on board the Hibernia,
to try Mr. D. Langlands, engineer of the Caradoc, for strik-
ing his senior engineer andanother engineer, and for drunk-
enness—President of the Court, Capt. Campbell, of the
Royal Oak, and officiating Judge Advocate Mr. T. Royle,
Royal Navy. Ho was sentenced to be dismissad the ser-
vice, Her Majesty's ship Meanee, 60, Capt. U. Wodehouse,
is entering port from Corfu.
The line-of-battle screw steamer Bombay, 400 horse power,
Capt. C.A. Campbell, fitting in No. 3 dry dock at Chatham,
will be out of the hands of the shipwrights to-day, the
operation of planing the decks having been completed yes-
terday evening. During the time she has been in dock her
poop has been lengthened forward, and additional cabins
and offices erected for the Admiral and his suite. She has
also been strengthened throughout. The Bombay is a teak-
built ship, and was constructed in the East Indies for an
80-gun sailing vessel. She was subsequently sent to this
country and p:aced in dock at Chatham, where she was cut
asunder, lengthened, and converted into a screw steamer,
since which she has been lying idle in Chatham harbour.
According to existing arraangements she will leave dock on
the 7th inst., and will aftertvards proceed to the s math-
east coast of America to relieve the Forte, 39, 400-
horse power, bearing the flag of Rear- Aal spiral R. L Warren.
Most of the officers who have been appointed have joined
and taken up their cemmissiona. There appears, however,
to be a difficulty in manning this vessel, as she has only
received a portion of her crew. Within the last few days
the once common, but latterly unusual, course has Leen
resorted to by the Admiralty--of issuing large placards,
announcing that petty officers and able seamen are required
for the Bombay. A rendezvous for raising men has also
been opened at Chatham, but up to the present time the
hands come in more slowly than is wished, and unless she
is detained at Chatham some time she will leave the Med.
way short of her complement of seamen.
A letter received by our Chatham correspondent from on
board her Majesty's ship Conqueror, 78, 500 horse-power,
Capt. W. Luerd, reports the arrival of that vessel at St.
Simon's Bay on the 12th of February with the battalion of
Royal Marines on board, for service in Japan. The Con-
queror was expected to sail on the following morning. The
whole of the Royal Marines, as well as the crew of the
vessel, were in good health, with the exception of First-
Len'. A. Donellan and Second-Lieut. E. T. Richards,
Royal Marines, both of whom had been invalided. Her
Majesty's vessels in Simon's Bay at the departure of the
mail ware—the Narcissus, 39, 400 horse-power, Capt. J. G.
Bickford. bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin W.
Walker, K.C.B. ; the Rapid, 11, 159 horse-power, Com-
mander C. T. Tago ; and the Wasp, 13, 100 horse-power,
Capt. W. Bowden, which latter vessel arrived on the 12th
of Fehrua-y from Madeira; there was also a French gun-
vessel lying at anchor in the bay.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—James H. Kers, master, to the Duncan, for
surveying service—Richard L. Cawley, chief enginner, to
the Himalaya—Thomas li. Symons, chief engineer, to the
Indus, for the Forth—James K. Keay, first class assist
engineer, to the Indus—Job Annable, first class assist
engineer, to the Hitnalaya—lvie A. Couper, second class
assist engineer, to the Himalaya—J. Freebie, second class
assist enzsineer, to the Hector—Henry Trafford, nominated
to a naval cadetship.
The following appointments have been made in the Royal
Naval Reserve—To be Lieut., Williams Richards—and to
be Hon. Lieut., George Wm. Pierrepoint Bentinck, M,P.

THE ARMY.
Col. J. B. Riddell, C. 8., has succeeded Col. W. R.
Nedham in command of the Royal Artillery stationed in
the Chatham district.
The Rev. W. M. Wright, chaplain to the Ist Division of
the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, has been ordered from
Chatham to Birr, and will be succeeded by the Rev. G.
Lawless.
On Friday four officers and 150 men of the let and 2d
battalion cf the Coldstream Guards left Eastbourne for Wel-
lington Barracks, having con pleted their course of firing.
On the same day six officers and 130 men of the same batta-
lions arrived at Eastbourne, to go through a course of rnus •
ketry instruction at the Government range, which has been
very much improved since last year, a good road having been
made from the redoubt to the butts. Tho men are now all
quartered in the redoubt and martello towers, instead of a
portion
cohfatrhleems
Bhianvgihnagra, to,
cgoßu.n,
Deputy Adji. of the Royal under canvas, as formerly.
Col.
Artillery, is suffering from severe illness. The gallant officer
is in consequence obliged to absent himself from his office
at the Horse Guards.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.--About a quarter to 9
o'clock on Saturday night last Joseph Broadhead,
of Barnsley, a youth 17 years of age, under sentence of de-
tention at the Calder Vale Reformatory, Mirfield, near
Dew,bury, made an attempt to murder two women, and
succeed din wounding one very dangerously. Broadhead for
some time past has been acting as kitchen boy at the insti-
tution, and on Saturday night, after finishing his duties in
the bread-room—an apartment where he had been employed
—he fastened a door leading into the schoolhouse, and, tak-
ing up a large carving- knife, he went into the schoolmaster's
sitting-room adjoining. la this place Mrs. Johnson, the
schoolmaster's wife, and Miss Louisa Janson, his sister,
were seated at the time, and Broadhead rushed up to the
former, and tried to stab her. She luckily evaded him, and
ran upstairs with the intention of raising an alarm, but
failed in doing so, for she fainted. Miss Johnson, now left
alone with Broadhead, tried to escape through the bed-
room, but he rushed upon her, stabbed her in the side and
shoulder,kthneinfeiinatthheefirstease glancing off one of her ribs and so say -
causing two very serious wounds, the
ing her life, at least for a time. She fell in the room covered
with blood, and Broadhead, evidently thinking his work
completed, tried to escape through the window of the sitting
room, but was seized by Mr. Heppin, the governor of the
reformatory, and held till assistance arrived. Miss Johnson
had medical aid as soon as it could be procured, and, though
she lies in a precarious state, she was reported yesterday as
likely to recover, The prisoner first said that two men had
committed the deed, and that they had attacked him and
destroyed part of his clothes—when taken his clothes were
found to ba much cram2ged, and there was blood on his per-
son—but afterwards he changed his story, aaid he had
burnt the sleeves of his coat and other portions of his ap-
parel, and had tried to inurdet the two ladies. He said that
he had entertained the design ever since the previous Wed-
nesday, but could not tell why, for the Johnsons had been
very kind to hnn. He was taken to the Dewsbury lockup,
where he now lies.--. Manchester Examiner.
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THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.--Mr, Stansfeld has taken the only wise
and non3urahie course that was open to him. He has
resigned the office which he held in the Adminis-
tration, and last evening his denial of the ctiarges

against him was made iu the capacity of a private

member of Parliament. We feel sure that Mr.

Stansfeld will never have cause to regret this de-
termination. Standing again as an independent

man, responsible to no colleagues, and no longer
making his colleagues responsible for him, he was
able to speak with energy and freedom, and to re-
pudiate the construction which had been placed
on 'his acts by the French lawyers. Of Mr.
Stansfeld's intimacy with Mszzini, and the cir-
cumstances which brought his name into the late
trial, enough has now been said. We thick that

he was guilty of a grave indiscretion in aiding the
Italian refugee's correspondence, and of a greater
indiscretion in eulogising him at such a time and
in such a place. But at last we have his clear and
positive denial, not only of all plots against the
French Emperor, but even any knowledge of the
plotters themselves. In the most formal manner Mr

Stansfeld declares, not only that ho is free from all
participation in the crime of Greco and the others

—a declaration which was scarcely needed—but
also that he wv.s a stranger to them, and was not
concerned with them in any political schemes what-
ever. From this time, therefore, we may consider

the matter as settled. Mr. Sta'nsfeld has cleared

himself in public opinion from any culpable partici-
pation in the acts of these men, and all that can be

objected against him is that, like many of his coun-
trymen, he has allowed his enthusiasm in a good

cause and his admiration of an enthusiastic revolu•

tionist to carry him beyond the limits of prudence.
But however favourable may be the verdict of the
public in respect to the graver charges brought
against him, the retirement of Mr. Stansfeld from

the Government was a necessity. It is no secret
that the Opposition was preparing to attack the Go-
vernment through him, and with great chances of
success. The spirit which animates the Conserva-
tives was manifest last evening, when the 0 pposition
benches were left empty at the time of Mr. Scans-
feld's explanation. Having, through their leader,

denounced him with a fierceness seldom witnessed

in the House of Commons, the Conservatives
thought proper to absent themselves almost entirely

when it was known that he was about to offer his

defence to the House. That the attack on Mr.
Stansfeld and on the Government would have been

made with all the energy and bitterness of which
the Tory chiefs are capable there can be no doubt.
Why, then, should Mr. Stansfeld draw upon him-

:411 and others such a conflict ? He well knew
that the sally reason why the Opposition made so
much of the matter was that they might damage
het colleaguesland, as he observed last night, he was
likely to become a cause of embarrassment to them.
By resigning he at once frees himself and the Go-
vernment frosn the ettseks of a pertinacious Oppo-
sition. As an independent member whom it will ad-
vance no political interest to attack, Mr. Stansfeld
is likely to have a fairer judgment, and to find his
conduct more leniently viewed. Now that he is again
a private person, he will only be thought of with
regard to Mazzini as a single-minded enthusiast
whose confide= was too unguardedly given, In a
short time the affair will probably be forgotten, and
Mr. Stansfeld may be again able to serve the State
in arty napeeil for which his talents fit him.
Mr. Stansfeld now has the advantage that every-
thient is known respecting his connection with
Mazzini, and that everything that can he said
against him has been said already. If, then, at any
future time he ie offered a political post, it will be
with a full knowledge of his previous history. This
will be a far better position than be receatly held,
for it must be acknowledged that neither Lord
Palmerston nor any member of his Government bad
any idea, when Mr. Stansfeld was admitted as a
colleague, that he was making his private address a
cover for Mszzini'a correspondence, Any Premier
who now offers Mr. Stansfeld office will take him
with his former revolutionary sympathies a well-
known fact, and will only have to demand of him
that they shall not lead him into further impru-
dence.
POST.—The fifth and last instalment of the Danish
correspondence has now been published, and the
story of the many and various negotiations to
which the Deno German dispute gave rise may
now be considered complete. The correspondence
is brought down to the last days of March, and
the assent of the belligerents as well as of the
chief neutral Powers to a Conference, with the view
to the re-establishment of peace, is the last event of
importance which is recorded. Those who are de-
sirous of canvassing or criticising the foreign policy
of her Majesty's Government in respect to the
Danish war are now furnished with the materials
which they have so anxiously sought for, and can
no longer excuse themselves under the plea of igno-
rance from pronouncing a deliberate judgment.
the instalments in which the correspondence has
been published have not inaptly marked the several
stages through which theDano-German dispute has
successfully passed. First came the stage of nego-
tiations between the German Powers and Denmark,
in which Federal execution in Holstein was the
gravest contingency which either of the disputants
appeared to contemplate. Then followed the stage
of feverish excitement into which Germany was
thrown by the death of the Danish King, and the
vexed question of succession in the Duchies to
which it gave rise. Then came the phase in which
diplomacy gave way to force, and the administra
tun of the Duchy of Holstein was seized by the
representatives of the German Confederation, In
the fourth stage Germany ceased to be united, the
leading States practically seceded from the Confe-
deration, and in their capacity of European Powers
threatened war under the flimsy disguise of seizing
a material guarantee. Lastly came the period of
actual war, of sieges, of battles, of occupation of
captured territory, and of retreats; and beyond
this point we have not ye', passed. The next stage
should be one of treaty-making and of peace, bat
it is one which is as yetbut dimly shadowed forth.
What has been the policy of the English Cabinet
under these coqatantly shifting circumstances, and
how that policy has been met by the Governments
of the belligerent States, is set forth in the papers
now before Parliament with a particularity and an
amplitude of detail which leaves nothing to be
desired save possibly the coudensetion of their
matter. What has taken place in the North of
Miser, and what Great Britain did in order to
avert those occurrences, are now matters of history.
It only remains for the dispassionate inquirer to
say whether the policy which she pursued was the
best calculated to attain the ends she had in view.
The first letters in the series of papers just published
bear date in the last week in January. At that
time Holstein was administered by Federal cum
mitaiceiers, every Danish official lied been dismissed,
the chief towns in the Duchy were occupied by
Saxon and Hanoverian troops, and an Austro-Prus-
sian army was massed upon the left bank of the
Eider. Federal execution in Holstein had been
carried out, and the invasion of Schleswig by the
allied armies was momentatily threatened. The
mission of Lord Wodehouse to Copenhagen had
then ended iu failure. The constitution of Novem-
ber still remained unrevoked, and the Governments
of Austria and Prussia formally declared that the
non-revocation of that constitution would be made
a casus belli. Such was the position of affairs
at the close of January; and accordingly we find
that at that time commenced those negotiations,
unfortunately unsuccessful, in which the English
Cabinet, in conjunction with those of Paris and St.
Petersburg, urged upon the German Powers the
expediency of postponing hostilities until the
Danish Parliament should have had an opportu-
nity of revoking the obnoxious constitution. These
negotiations virtually came to an end on the
29th of January, when our Minister at Berlin
transmit ted to Earl Russell the refusal of the Prus-
sian Government to suspend hostilities, even
though an engagement were entered into by the
chief neutral Powers binding Denmark to rescind
the November constitution. On the Ist day of
February the allied armies entered Schleswig, on
the 4th the Prussians made their unsuccessful
attack upon Missunde, and on the 6th the Dane-
wirke was abandoned, and the Danish army retired
upon Dappel and Fredericia. From this point
there is little deserving of notice in the mass of cor-
respondence until the 11th of February, when the
Danish Minister in London made a formal demand
upon the British Government to assist Denmark,
basing this demand upon the engagements entered
into by Great Britain in 1720, and on the expe-
diency of maintaining the Treaty of London.
Almost at the same time commenced the negotia-
tions set on foot by the British Government, and
supported by France and Russia, with the object
of obtaining a suspension of hostilities as a preli-
minary to a Conference—negotiations which were
Immediately cut short by the abrupt refusal of the
German Powers to consent to an armistice. The
most important, and at the same time most interest-
ing, despatches will, however;ba found at the close
of the series. Foiled in their endeavours to secure
an 'armistice, the English Cabinet next sought to
induce the belligerents to assent to a Conference
without a cessation of hostilities. To this proposal
the German Powers almost immediately assented;
but, in the then state of public feeling at Copen-
hagen, the Danish Cabinet found itself under the
necessity of asking time for consideration. At a
later period (March 7), and pending the decision of
the Danish Government, the German rowerg is-
sued their proposals for 4n armistice upon the basis
of the preservation of the military status quo, or the
simultaneous evacuation of Jutland and Schleswig
by the Germans and the Danes. These proposals
were pressed upon the acceptance of the Daniell