The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

'An Admiralty order has been received by the authorities
of Woolwich dockyard requiring an estimate of the number
of shipwrights necessary to complete Mr. Reed's 8-gun ship
Pallas, now building in that yard before the close of the
present financial year—May, 1865. The number of hands
employed on it will consequently be increased. Lord Cla-
rence Paget, M.P., First Secretary to the Admiralty Board,
accompanied by Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy,
yesterday visited Woolwich dockyard, and spent a consider-
able time in the inspection of the Pallas. He and the Chief
Constructor also inspected the iron-cased ship Enterprise,
to be launched this morning from her building slip at
Deptford.
The Orontes screw troopship, Capt. H. W. Hire, sailed
from Spithead yesterday at 4 p.m. for the Mediterranean,
with the following troops onboard :—For Gibraltar: Com-
missariat staff, 11 men-2d battalion, 23d Foot, one man
and one woman-2d battalion, 2d Foot, one man and
one woman—Royal Engineers, two men—Rifle Brigade,
two women and two children-2d battalion, 3d Foot, Capt.
Parsons and wife. For Malta : 2d battalion, 7th Foot, En-
sign Wilson-Ist battalion, 25th Foot, one man, one woman,
and one child-Ist battalion, 22d Foot, Ensign Blane and
three men-2d battalion, 22d Foot, Ensign Jones, one
woman, and two children-100th Foot, Lieut. Ashford,
one man, one woman, and one child—Army Hospital Corps,
two men, one woman, and three children—Staff Purveyor's
Clerk Dungey. For Corfu : Royal Engineers, Lieutenants
Knowles, Savi, Bowley, English, Giffatd, Rowe, Beau-
champ, Jones, and four men. 2d Battalion Gth Foot, Capt.
Black, Lieut. Blair, one man, and one woman,
A private letter received at Portsmouth from Honolulu,
dated Oct. 8, 1863, announces the arrival there on that day
of her Majesty's ship Tribune, from Tahiti, where she had
been lying 14 days refitting, having lost her main and
mizen topmasts, and split all her sails in a sudden squall
300 miles to the southward of Tahiti. The Tribune was
expected to sail again from Honolulu about the 15th Oct.
for Valparaiso and Panama.

The Death of the Actuary of the Camden
Town Savings Bank,

Yesterday afternoon Dr. Lankester, coroner for Central.
Middlesex, held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle,
King's-road, Camden Town, on the body of Mr. Phillip
Nuthall King, aged 49, late actuary to the Camden Town
Savings Bank.
It appears that in consequence of the deceased's recent
habits the suspicions of the committee conducting the Cam-
den Town Savings Bank had been aroused, and on Tuesday
evening last they held a meeting, when they discovered that
the actuary had been guilty of forgery and embezzlement to
the amount of about £BOO. So satisfied were they of the
fact, that they at once resolved to give deceased into
custody. On Cook, a detective constable, going to his
house in Ilamilton-street he found both the deceased and
his wife intoxication, the latter lying on the
sofa. i
deceased
dwith what he was charged, and
took him to Platt-street station-house, where his manner
Ie in
tolda state
the of
was so strange that Mr. Webb, assistant to Dr. Sutherin,
the divisional surgeon, was sent for, and, as described in his
evidence, he found him uproariously drunk, but discovered
he had got paralysis of the right side, The police, by his
directions, made him up a Led in front of the fire, and gave
him some hot coffee. He sew him again at five the next
morning, when, although sensible, he appeared very ill,
and, instead of being taken before the magistrate, was sent
to the infirmary, where ho died on Thursday.
The widow of the deceased, who behaved very strangely
while before the coroner, and kept flourishing her hands
(which were covered with massive rings) about, attributed
his death to what she called " the illegal conduct of the
police in taking her husband into custody.,,
Mr. Saul, the infirmary surgeon, said when deceased
was brought there he was in a comatose state, suffering
from apoplectic symptoms. Every possible remedy was ap-
plied, but he died the following day,
Death had, in his
opinion, resulted from apoplexy induced by excessive drink-
ing. Ho being taken into custody might have had some
effect in accelerating it.
Mr. Edward Ingpen, a director of the savings bank, said
in answer to a question, that the committee were induced to
give deceased into custody,
.as they had a clear case of for-
gery and embezzlement against him to about £BOO. It was
wished to be stated that the depositors would not suffer a
penny loss, as the bond for deceased would be paid, and the
committee make up the balance.
The jury returned a verdict of "Died from apoplexy in-
duced by intoxication, and they wished to add, that in their
opinion no blame attached to those who had given or taken
deceased into custody on the charges preferred against.him

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