The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-10 00:00:00

EVENING, SEPTEMBER io, 1852.

THE ARREST OF RICIIARD CROSS.
Yesterday Richard Cross,ozo of the passengers by the !
Queen of the South, was brought before the Judge of
Police by one of the Loudon detective police, under a
warrant froia the Commissioners of Bankruptcy in Eng-
land. It' aPpears that Cross had carried on business as
a watchmaker and jr-weller at Southampton, and had
absconded from his place of hilliness on the 12th of Jane
last, taking with him his stock-in-trade, tools, and ef-
fects, consisting of a large quantity of gold watches, jew-
ellery, chains, rings, seals, and other valuables, to the
amount of several thousand pounds. A notice was imme-
diately inserted in the police Hue and Cry, describing the
fugitive and the missing property, offering a reward of
501. and 5 per cent. of the recovered articles for his ap-
prehension, and stating that he had since been declared
a bankrupt. Some information it appears was received
that a person answering to his description had sailed
i❑ the Queen of the South. Mr. John Sedger,
an
officer of the detective force, A division, was accord-
ingly dispatched to the Cape in the Hellespont, which,
although she sailed seven days later, entered Table
Bay a few hours after the Queen of the South.
Oa arriving on Thursday afternoon, Sedger sent inter-
natation ashore to the authorities, and proceeded at once
on board the Queen of the South, where ho found that a
passenger named " Talbot," exactly corresponding in
appearance to the description of the Hue and Cu, had
just landed, and coming ashore he found the delin-
quent already in custody. He had landed, it seems,
with a small dressing case, at the Central Causeway,
whore he was met by Mr. Rowan, the active surveyor
of customs, who had already been apprised of the affair.
Mr. Rowan requested a sight of the contents of the
box, on the ground of its possibly containing smuggled
goods, and after a glance at its contents (consisting of
seven gold watches and a quantity of massive gold chains,
rings, &c.), he further requested that, as the Custom-house
was then closed, he would accompany him to another
place that would do as well, and entering a cab they drove
off to the station• house, where Cross was apprehended.
On being brought up for examination, the prisoner
requested to see the advertisement in the Hue and Cry,
whero he perused, to his no little astonishment, an exact
description of himself, and a minute inventory of the
property in his possession. Ile then admitted that
he was the party, and observed that he had been
informed by tho officer that ho would be committed for
felony ; but he presumed the charge would not be so
strong as that. Mr. Lynar said the charge would be
for his safe custody to London, where it would be deter-
mined what he was guilty of. The prisoner said he
had some linen and other articles in his boxes on board,
which ho thought should be given up to him. Ho be-
lieved it was usual in cases of bankruptcy for a person
to keep possession of any little cash he might have. Mr.
Rowan said he would have what was necessary for com-
mon cleanliness, but all the property in his possession
had been already sealed up, and he would return with it,
in charge of the officer, to England in the Hellespont.—
Cape Town Mail.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE LIEUTENANT'S OUT PENSION OF
GREENWICH.

We stated yesterday that the Admiralty had
bestowed the vacant lieutenants' out-pension of
Greenwich on Lieut. John Pollard (1806). The
eligibility of this much-neglected old war officer for
the pension will be seen by the following sketch of his
career, from O'Byrne's Biography :"-
" John Pollard, born July, 27, 1787, entered the navy,
Nov. 1, 1797, as first-class volunteer on board the
Haviek, 16, Captain Philip Bartholomew • in which sloop,
after having chased a large convoy and three armed ves-
sels under the batteries of St. Malo's, and been there for
some time warmly engaged with the enemy, he was
wrecked, Nov. 9, 1800, in St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey. He
was then received as a supernumerary on board the
Cambridge, 74, Captain Thomas %Volley; and next, in
September, 1801, on board the Hercule, 74, Captain
William Luke, with whom he cruised in the Channel
until paid off in April, 1802. Joining in succession, in
April, 1803, the Culloden, 74, and Canopus, 80, both
commanded by Captain John Conn, he sailed in the lat-
ter ship with the flag of Rear-Admiral George Campbell
for the Mediterranean, where, in March, 1805, he re-
moved on promotion to the Victory, 100, bearing the
flag of Lord Nelson. On the return of the fleet from
its pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West
Indies, Mr. Pollard was afforded an opportunity of parti-
cipating as signal midshipman, in the action off Cape
Trafalgar. On that occasion, while standing on the poop,
he was struck by a splinter on the right arm, and
chanced to be the first officer who was there touched.
A musket-ball next passed through the shell of his
spy-glass, about a foot above the hand that held it;
and a second one shattered the watch in his pocket.
Some time after the Victory had been in action with
the French 74-gun ship Redoubtable, the officers and
men around him beginning to fall fast, the attention
of Mr. Pollard was arrested by a number of soldiers
whom he perceived crouching in the tops of the Re-
doubtable, and directing a destructive fire on the poop
and quarterdeck of the Victory. Re immediately seized
a musket, and, being supplied by the signal quarter-
master King, with hall-cartridges from two barrels kept
on the after-part of the poop for the use of the marines
(who at the time were elsewhere engaged), continued
firing at the soldiers every time they rose breast-high
in the tops, until not one was to be seen. In the act of
handing the last parcel of ball-cartridges, the quarter-
master was shot through the forehead, and fell lifeless
on the spot. When the action terminated, Mr. Pol-
lard was the only officer left alive of those who bad
been originally stationed on the poop; and thus, in
the manner wo have described, originated the
belief that it was he who had shot the man
who killed Lord Nelson. On leaving the Victory in
November, 1805, he joined first the Queen, 98, and then
the Dreadnought of similar force, and Hibernia, 110,
bearing the respective flags of Lords Collingwood,
Northesk, and St. Vincent. He was made lieutenant,
Nov. 14, 1806, into the Decade, 36, Captain John Stuart,
in the Channel; and was subsequently appointed-Dec.
25, 1807, to the Brunswick, 74, Captain Thos. Graves,
stationed in the Baltic, where, prior to the embarkation
from Nyeborg of the Spanish troops under the Marquis
do la Romana, he served in the boats at the attack and
capture of the Danish brig Fama, of 18, and her consort
the Salorman cutter (which he was among the first to
board), of 12 guns; June 14, 1810, after 16 months of
half-pay, to the North Star, 20, Captain Thomas Coe,
with whom he cruised in the Channel until May, 1811;
Jan. 4, 1812, the Mercurius sloop, Captain Thomas Ren-
wick, employed in the North Sea and Baltic; May 9,
1814 (having left the Mercurius in the preceding No-
vember), to the Woodlark, 10, Captain William Cut-
field, on the north coast of Spain, whence he returned
sick in the following September; and April 19, 1828,
for three years to the Ordinary, at Chatham. He has
been in charge since August 2, 1836, of a station in the
coast Guard. Lieut. Pollard married, in August, 1822,
Miss Matilda Trevethan, a lady by whom he has issue
six children."
COURT-MARTIAL-SENTENCE OF DEATH!
A court-martial was held yesterday morning, at
Portsmouth, on board the Victory, flag-sin!), Rear-
Admiral Superintendent Prescott president, and Mr.
Greetham deputy judge advocate, to try William
Alexander Williams, private Royal Marine Artillery-
man, of the Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain
Halsted, for having struck the gunner of that ship.
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to
suffer death, without any. recemmendation. Trans-
portation for life will very: probably be the com-
muted punishment.
APPOINTMENTS.
Mates-W. W. S. Bridges, to the Basilisk, steam-
ship, Newfoundland ; A. D. Norie, to the Excellent,
gunnery-ship, Portsmouth.
Clerk-John Thurston, to the Victory, flag-ship,
Portsmouth; R. H. Lowray, to the Electra, 12,
Portsmouth.
Midshipmen-Hon. W. V. L. H. Anson and W.
F. Lee, to the Excellent ; E. R. S. Eade, to the
Daring, 12, Chatham ; W. H. Eaton, to the Electra ;
J. T. F. Grant, to the Highflyer, 21, screw-frigate,
Portsmouth.
Naval Cadets-A. Jacob, to the Termagant, 23,
screw-frigate, Portsmouth ; A. H. Tyacke, to the
Hogue, 60, screw-ship, Channel squadron.
Gunner-James Murray, to the Hercules, emigrant
ship, Chatham.
By our latest letter from Bombay we find that they
are now building in the dockyard there two fine
steamers like the Terrible, of 1,800 tons, a corvette of
16 guns like the Daring, two schooners of 120 tons
each, and a cutter.
Calcutta, 84, advance-ship, lately out of dock at
Devonport, has had her lower masts and bowsprit
put in.
Fanny tender arrived at Devonport on Wednesday
morning from Portsmouth, and sailed again in the
afternoon.
Rolla, 6, Lieutenant Fenwick, apprentices' tender,
returned to the Brighton roadstead on Saturday last,
and anchored off the pier. This vessel has 75 boys on
board, most of whom, we understand, are sons of the
coast guard. The whole of the boys, some of the
ship's crew, and the officers, came on shore on Sun-
day morning, and attended Divine service at St.
Peter's Church. Their sailor-like appearance, as
they proceeded from the chain pier to the church,
three by three, was a novelty here, and created much
interest. Some of them came ashore on Tuesday,
and we regret to add that one boy, of saving habits,
had the misfortune to drop about 21. into then ea, the
money running through a hole in his pcket.-
Brighton Gazette.
Meander, Commodore Talbot, will be paid advance
at Spithead, this day, and will sail about Saturday,
to relieve the Castor, 36, Commodore Wyvill, in the
command at the Cape.
Simoom, iron screw troop-ship, Captain King-
comhe, sailed from Portsmouth at four o'clock, for
Pembroke. She was very deep, end had the Lively
in tow also, loaded with stores.
MALTA, SEPT. 2.-Official information having
reached the island of the promotion of Rear-Admiral
Harvey to the Red, his white flag was hauled down
on Tuesday last, and the red hoisted in the Ceylon,
under the customary salute.
Since my last the steam fleet has been strengthened
by the arrival of the Fury and Firebrand steamers.
On board the former was Mr. Stafford, who, since his
arrival, has been most assiduous in his duties, and has
expressed much satisfaction at the order existing in
the various departments. He will, it is said-so fond
is he of the " new life -accompany the Admiral to
Smyrna, only shifting his quarters from a steamer to
a sailing-vessel, and, as it Is thought, giving the pre-
ference to the Phaeton.