The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

been stripped from her bottom, but no serious in-
juries have been discovered. Her decks are, how.
ever, out of repair. The Liverpool was built with
great despatch—in nine months, it is sa'c'—and the
planking used may not have been sufficiently sea•
soned. After she was put in commilsic n she pro.
ceeded at once to the West Indies, Ni here at first
eke remained in port exposed for some time to the
sun, which opened her deck beams, especially
underneath. She then went to sea, and having
encountered heavy weather, which strained her, a
serious leakage ensued. Gangs of caulkers are now
busily occupied in repairing her decks, and when
her new false keel is ready the shipwrights will set
her up with shores ; the dock-blocks will then be
removed, and she will be restored to a seaworthy
condition.

The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, as Pre.
sident, ex.officio, of the Council of Education, and
Governor of the Royal Military Academy at Wool-
wich, yesterday attended and closed the half-yearly
course of studies of the gentlemen cadets at that es-
tablishment. His Royal Highness was assisted by
by the Vice President, Major General Frederick
William Hamilton, C.B.—Major General Sir Fre-
derick Abbott, C.B.—the Rev. Canon Mosely,F.R.S.
—and Col. Thomas Elwyn, R.A., members of the
Council, who were present. The Field Marshal, on
his arrival at half.past 10 a.m., alighted on the area
fronting, the principal entrance to the Academy
ground, where he was officially received by the Cora.
mandant and Staff of the garrison, the Lieut. Go.
vernor and commanding officers of the Academy, a
number of General officers from the Horse Guards,
and others assembled in fall-dress uniforms. The D aka
wore the uniform of Colonel of the Royal Engineers.
Soon after his arrival he was joined by his Royal
Highness Prince Arthur, who had ridden down from
the Ranger's house, in Green wich- park, accompanied
by Major Elphinstone, R.A., hie governor. The
following officers formed a portion of the staff from
the Horse Guards :—Gen. John Burgoyne, G,C.8.,
Director of Works—Gen. Sir George Pollock,
G.C.B. and K.S.l.—Lieut..Gen. Sir Harry Jones,
G.C,8,, Royal Engineers, Governor of the Royal
Military College at Sandhurst—and Lieut.. Gen. the
Hon. Sir James Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., Adjt.-Gen. to
the Forces. The following officers also formed part
of the escort :—Major Gen. Warde, C. 8., R.A.,
Major. Gen. Sandham, R.E., Col. Gambier, Deputy
Adjt..Gen, R.A.—Brigade Major Hay, Capt. Nan-
gin, Deputy Assist.-Quartermaster-,Gen.—Capt.
Williams, Aide-de.Camp—Col.Payne, Commandant
Royal Marines—Col. Hawkins, Commanding Royal
Engineers—Col. Kennedy, C. 8., Commandant Mili.
tart' Train—Lieut.-Col. Gibbon, C. 8., 4th division
depot brigade Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Col. Field,
governor of the general hospital—Major Shervin-
tort, Brigade Major Military 'Train—])r Litle and
the Medical Staff of the Academy—Col. F. A.
Yorke, R.E., Inspector of Studies and second Com-
mandant—Capt. Bruce, HA., Assist.-Inspector of
Studies—Brevet-Major Thring,R,A.—Capt. Stokes,
RA., and Second Capt. Arbuckle, Captains of Com-
panies of Gentlemen Cadets, together with the pro.
lessors and masters forming the civil branch of the
Academy. The whole of the field batteries of the
Royal Artillery having been drawn out in com.
mind of Colonel Anderson, C. 8., 4th Brigade, HA.,
marched past on the Duke's arrival, and underwent
an inspection. Afterwards his Royal Highness
proceeded to the Academy parade, where the
gentlemen cadets were mustered . under arms,
and were put through a course of manual and
platoon exercises by the senior cadets Nicholson,
Washington, and Curling-; and in which they
acquitted themselves in a moat creditable manner.
After examining the landscape and other drawings
executed during the past half, his Royal Highness
proceeded to one of the class rooms and made a viva
roce examination in the French and German lan.
guages, and privately gave an admonitory address,
in which he referred with much regret to certain pro-
ceedings which had recently been transacted, and
which he hoped would would never be repeated.
The company then adjourned to the School of Arms,
and formed in double file to the number of 178, in
front of the table on which were placed the prizes,
The general visitors were here admitted by tickets
only.

The Cadmus, 21, 400• horse power, Capt. A. C.
Gordon, fitting at Chatham harbour for the North
American and West India station, has had no day
named to take her departure, and it seems pro•
bable that she will be delayed some time in conse-
quence of the slow rate at which the crew is being
completed. Her compliment is fired at 270 men, but
up to the present time only 60 hands have joined,
and these were sent on board a day or two since
from the naval barracks to proceed, with the Royal
Marines, with the ordinary work of fitting out the
ship. Very little now remains to be executed on
board by the shipwright department, and the vessel
is so far advanced that had she the proper number
of men she could proceed to sea next week.

By the Saxon, which arrived yesterday at
Plymouth, we learn that the military commander
at the Cape of Good Hope was at Graham's
Town. The transports:Rosslyn Castle and Mary
Shepheard had arrived in Simon's Bay, with the
Ist battalion of the 10th Regiment. The relief, 858,
commanded by Col. Annesly and Major Henslow,
were under canvass on the parade at Cape Town.
Her Majesty ship Valorous was in Table Bay, but
was expected to leave on Nov. 22 with the 2d bat-
talion for Simon's Bay, where the troops will join
the transports and proceed to Calcutta. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Orontes, from Plymouth, arrived in
Table Bay on Nov, 7, and left for Simon's Bay on
the Bth ; she sailed on the 13th for Ceylon. The
French gunboat Preg left Simon's Bay on Nov. 7
for Bourbon. The Prussian steamer Don Juan, 12,
from the Mozambique, arrived in Simon's Bay on
Nov. 13. Commodore Wilmot, in the Rattlesnake,
had made a long visit to St. Helena. The Jaseur, 5,
arrived at the island on Nov. 19, and left on the 23d
for Ascension. The Diamond Company's steamer
Kaffraria, from England, arrived on the 13th. The
storeship Meander, 10, Capt. J. G. Bickford, the iron
screw steam troopship Dromedary, Master-Coro.
Alexander Brown, and the screw steam gun.vessel
Jaseur, 5, Commander Walter J. H. Grubbe, were at
Ascension on the 3d of December; the screw steam
gun-vessel Espoir, 5, was at Madeira on the 16th
of December.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. R. B. Lambert to the
Royal Adelaide—Lieut. Frederick B. Boardman and
Lieut. Lawrence Ching to the Excellent, for study
—Henry D. King, assist-clerk, for the Secretary's
office—Thomas F. Harrison and George Taylor,
assist.-clerks, additional, to the Princess Royal.
The following appointment has been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve :—John Irwin Browne, to be
Lieut.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The Duke and Prince, accompanied by the officers
above named, took up their position at the back of
the table, and Col. Yorke, addressing the Duke, read
the annexed report

(Front the illustrated _London Nezes.)

Royal Military Academy.
Sir,-1 hava the honour to report to yourßoyal High-
ness that the gentleman cadets of the Ist class who have
been found qualified for commissions at the recent examina-
tion by the Council of Military Education are also qualified
in regard to conduct and drill. In every class throughout
the Academy the emulation in study has been very appa-
rent, and the monthly returns on that head have been highly
satisfactory. The zeal and attention of the professors and
instructors and masters have been unremitting in every
branch of art.

The will of Robert George Cecil Pane, Esq., a
Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy, of 4,
Upper Brook-street, was proved by his relict, Har-
riette Anne Pane, only daughter of Admiral Sir
Henry Blackwood, Bart., the sole executrix nomi-
nated in the will, to whom he has bequeathed the
whole of his property absolutely. The personalty
was sworn under £40,000. The will is dated Aug.
6, 1861, aed is executed on a printed form. The

Every rani,. of cfficcr connected with the discipline and
military exercises has received material assistance from the
responsible and sub-division under officers and from the
greater number of corporals in carrying out the du'ies and
in maintaining discipline, which has been carried out with
firmness and consideration. The bearing of the officers
towards the cadets and of the cadets among themselves has
been very satisfactory. The drills, gymnastics, and riding
have been carried out as fully as time permitted, and the
senior claim have had the advantage of four days' practice
with the heavier guns at 3hoeburyness.

I have the honour to-he, Sce,,
IL SANDIIAM,
Major-Ugneral, Lientenant-Govtrnor.
After reading the report, the Duke proceeded to
address the company, and said that it pleased him
to receive so gratifying an account of the professors
and masters, and that it gave him groat satisfaction
to find that, in pursuance of their studies and the
general duties of the Academy, the gentlemen
cadets had conducted themselves well. He congra-
tulated them on that score heartily, but told them
that they must bear in mind that there were other
duties to be carried out in order to attain that posi-
tion for which they were designed. He should not
enlarge on that topic again, as he had already dis-
cussed the subject in another part of the establish-
ment. They ought never to overlook the fact that to
be able to command they should learn to obey. This
was one of their duties, the importance of which he
wished most to inculcate. Without it they could
never be qualified to figure well in the roll of the
valuable corps to which they might be appointed.
His royal highness concluded by wishing them an
agreeable Christmas. One of the classes then pro-
ceeded to the gymnasium, and went through a most
interesting course of exercises. The following were
the prizes awarded .—Mr Curling, a regulation
sword for exemplary conduct ; Mr Nicholson, five
prizes, viz., for exemplary conduct the Pollock gold
medal ; for Ist artillery, a double telescope ; Ist for-
tification, and " aide memoire ;" lst topography, an
aneroid barometer, and for chymiatry, a microscope;
Mr Broun, for 2d artillery, a small aneroid barome.
ter, and for geology a microscope; Mr Lindoc, 2d
fortification, a prismatic compass; Mr Beresford, for
2d topography, a pocket sextant, Mr Pulford, for
natural philosophy and practical mathematics, a
microscope; Mr Walker, for Ist French and 2d
German; Mr Moore, for 2d French; Mr Arnott,
for
-Ist German, an atlas ; Mr Jacob, for Hindustani,
a gazeteer of India ; Mr Purcell, for Ist mathema,
tics, a case of instruments ; Mr Watson, for 2d ma-
thematics, 3d fortification, and Ist practical geome-
try, a prismatic compass, a pocket compass with
teal° and pen in case, and a pocket sextant ; to Mr
Sekyl, for Ist landscape drawing, the " English
School of Painting in Water Colours ;" and to Mr
Leech, for 2d landscape drawing, a box of colours,
with brushes, &e. After leaving the Academy the
Duke attended the riding-school of the garrison,
where a class of the cadets went through a course
of bar riding. His royal highness left Woolwich
at about three o'clock for London, under a royal
salute from the guns of the Royal Artillery at the
Greenhill Battery. Before taking his departure
he said he must not refrain from complimenting
some of the cadets—namely, Mr Beaver, who is
still an inmate of the hospital from a severe wound
in the face; Mr Biscoe, Mr Curling, and Mr Reid
fur their courageous and humane conduct at the
been() of the late railway accident at Blackheath,
when, although injured and coffering themselves,
they tendered all the assistance in their power to
their fel tow passengers.

The War Department screw steam vessel Balac-
lava, from %l'oolvvich, arrived on Thursday at De.
Tonpurt with store; for the gun-wharf,
The iroreased screw* ateamshiP Caledonia 3,5,
'tting for the first division of the Steatti Reserve,
1735 removed on Wednesday from Ddvonpurt dock-
yard to Keyhatu.
_ _

The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 39, Capt.
Rowley Lllnbert, is now in No, 1 dock at the 1),.
vonport var.] She was commissioned in April last
year, and was obliged to return from her station in
conserinence of lakage and the loss of a portion of
her false keel. Oa arrival at Plymouth it was ru-
allure' that the defects were so great that her officers
expected she would be put of commission. She has
lost a portion of her false keel extending from the
stem to two thirds of its entire length. Since ehe
has been in dock several patches of copper have

learned eonartiisioner died on the 4th of October
at the age of 68.

The will of John Leecb, Esq., artist, was proved
by his relict Anne Leech, the sole executrix, and the
personally sworn under £6,000. He has left the
whole of his property, real aid personal, to his wife,
for her use absolutely. The will bears date March
10, 1854.

The will of Hudson Gurney, ,of Keswick,
Norfolk, and St. James's, Westminister, was proved
in London under £1,100,000 personalty in England.
The executors are John Henry Gurney, Daniel
Gurney, of North Runcton, near Lynn ; and Francis
Hay Gurney, of Thorpe, Norwich. The attesting
witnesses are Fredk. Jansen, solicitor, Basin hall-
street, and George George, land agent, CringleTord
The will is dated 26th June, 1860, and there are six
codicils, the last dated the 26:12 October, 1864, and
the testator died on the 9th November. There are
many legacies. The principal legatee is John Henry
Gurney (the testator's second cousin, and sonsin-law
of testator's late brother, Joseph Henry Gurney). To
him he has devised the mansion and freehold of Kes-
wick, all other his real estates, and has left to him
the plate, library, manuscripts, and family reminis-
cences
as heirlooms, bequeathing £5,000 for the
erection of a room suitable to contain the collection ;
and further bequeaths in trust for him the sum of
£16t,000 to be invested and settled in the same man"
ner with the inheritance of the freeholds, appointing
him also residuary legatee of the personal estate.
And the testator further directs that the sum of
£120,000 shall also be invested in the purchase of
real property, to be held in trust for the sons (ac-
cording to seniority) of the late John Gurney of
Earlham (who was the son of testator's late cousin,
Samuel Gurney, of Upton-street). To his said cousin
and executor, Daniel Gurney, he leaves £120,000 ;
to his said executor, Francis Hay Gurney (eldest
son of the said Daniel Gurney), £20,000. Amongst
the legatees is W. H. Covington, of Barclay and
Bevan's Bank, 100 guineas, and a like sum to gen.
tlemen in Gurney's Norwich Bank; and legacies to
others in the brewery of which the testator was
principal partner. Annuities and legacies to his
domestics, and £lO for each year they have been in
his service. The charitable bequests are :—To the
Old People's Hospital, St Helen's, Norwich, £1,000;
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, £1,000; Quakers,
Monthly Meeting in Norwich (to which his family
had belonged), £1,000; Norwich Public Literary

Institution, £lOO. He also leaves £2,000 to be
placed at the entire discretion of his executors in
providing for such minor allowances as he had been
in the habit of making; and as they fall in the prin-
cipal to be given to charities in and about Norwich
and elsewhere where he had property. All chari.
table bequests, legacies, and annuities not exceeding
£20,000 are to be paid free of legacy duty.
The will of the Hon. Hannah Meyer Fitzßoy, of
Upper Grosvenor-street, the widow or the Right
Hon. Henry Fitzßoy, and daughter of the late
Baron Nathan Meyer Rothschild, has been proved
in the Principal Court of Probate. It was made on
the 21st of November last ; and after making various
bequests to Lady Southampton and other relatives
and friends, the will directs £4OO to be applied
by the executors, through the National Lifeboat
Society, in the purchase of a lifeboat, to be called
the Arthur Frederick, after her late son; also £4OO
to bs given to the poor of the parishes of St George,
Hanover-square; St Marylebone, St George•in.
the-East, and St Margaret, Westminster. There
are a!so legacies and other bequests to all her ser-
vants; and the residue is bequeathed to her only
daughter, Caroline Blanche Elizabeth, the wife of
Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart., who iuherits the whole
of the large fortune of the deceased, The executors
aro Sir Coutts Undsay end Mr Edmund Barlow, by
whom the will was proved.
The will of Charles Lewis, Esq., of the Mansion,
Albany, has been proved in London by Lieuts.
Frederick Lewis and Alfred Lewis, and Mr Tyrrell
Lewis, solicitor, three of the executors. The will
hears date October 5, 1862, and after making ten
specific legacies of £lOO for the immediate use of
ins Widow and nice children, and specific provisions
for his eldest and two youngest eons, the testator
gives a further legacy of £2,000 to each of his five
gone, Lieuts. Frederick, Alfred, Ernest, and Somers,
and Mr Tyrrell Lewis; his freeholds to his widow
and daughter for life ; and empowers his executors
to sell his pictures and personalty, and gives the
residue of his estate to his said five sons. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £25,000,

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1864.

lasted 10 minutes, at the end of whioh time the keepers
succeeded in apprehending the prisoners.
It was contended on behalf of the prisoners that the
keepers attacked them, and that they, on their part, offered
no resistance whatever beyond what was absolutely neces-
sary to protect themselves.
His lordship said that if the jury believed the witnesses
there was no doubt the offince had been committed.
The jury acquitted the prisoners.
Thus ended the busines3 of the Midland Circuit.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—READING, Dec. 23.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr Justice Byles.)

Jesse Oakly was indicted for wounding Isaac Oakly on
the throat, at Chieveley, on the 12th Dec. last, with intent
to murder him, or do him grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner, upon being arraigned, pleaded Guilty; but
the learned judge caused the indictment to be ex-
plained to him and a plea of Not Guilty to be entered for
him.

The prisoner was out in service as a farm labourer,but on
Sunday, the 11th inst., unexpectedly returned home to his
father, who is a labourer, and lives in a cottage on the Hill-
green in Chieveley. Isaac Oakly is his younger brother
and with the prisoner and a brother and a sister Charlotte
made up the family. The prisoner is 21 years old, and his
brother Issac 10 years old. After he came home on the
Sunday the prisoner ate his meals as usual and went to
chapel in the evening. He was observed by his father and
sister to be whetting one of the table knives on a brick
before the house, and he told them that he was doing it to
cut off some dead skin which he had on his hand, and his
father saw him afterwards cutting at his hand, On the
Monday morning Charlotte gave Isaac his usual dinner to
take with him to school, and between 8 and 9 o'clock Isaac
started. Jesse was then on the green, and he asked Isaac
to go along with him. Isaac refused to go, but Jesse took
him by both hands and pulled him over a stile close by the
cottage. The stile led into a field in which was a path and
also a chalk pit. Jesse took Isaac up this path and to the
chalk pit, which he asked Isaao to go in to seek a rabbit.
They both went down into the pit. Jesse put Isaac to sit
and lie down, and sat himself down alongside, Isaac had a
handkerchief round his neck, and this handkerchief Jesse
fastened round his eyes. Isaac immediately felt something
sharp against his throat, and blood trickled down between
his skin and his clothes. Mrs Oakly, the mother, who had
been at work on this morning in a field near, and was re.
turning home when she met Jesse some short distance from
the chalk pit, who told that Isaac was up against the chalk
pit and would not go to school. She went to the chalk pit
and found Isaac with a little blood on his frock, but so little
had fal.en on the outside of his frock that she thought that
his nose only was bleeding. He was sensible. and she took
him home, and there she discovered that his throat had been
cut, The wound was described as an incised wound of three
inches in length, and half an inch in depth in the centre,
and made an opening in the windpipe sufficiently large to ad-
mit the point of a little finger. Jacob Oakly, the father, came
home soon afterwards, found what had been done, and went
after Jesse, whom he found in a lane near, When he was
asked whether he was guilty or not, Jesse made no answer.
In the chalk pit was found the handle of one of the table
knives belonging to the cottage. No motive for the act could
be assigned by the prosecution. Jesse was described as al-
ways very good to Isaac, and it was said there never had
been any quarrel between them. He, however, had not kept
his places where he had been at work, and generally left of
his own mind. The policeman who took hire into custody
found upon him a card which had been given him at a re-
ligious camp meeting, and which purported to appoint him
a collector for the Primitive Methodist connection, on be.
half of the Pea.semore chapel, in the Newbury circuit. His
father, too, had once known him praying in the open air on
the green, with others of the same persuasion, and stated
that when a child he had had fits. But it appeared that on
Sunday, the 11th inst., he ate as usual, and nothing strange
was observed about him.

His Lordship, in summing np, commented on the impos-
sibility of assigning any motive for the act done by the pri-
soner, and told the jury they must consider whether the
prisoner was or was not of sound mind when he did the deed,
and that he was of sound mind if he knew at the time he
was doing wrong. It appeared that he had the means of
such knowledge, but, his lordship added, those who know
best are subject to strange aberrations of mind. His lord-
ship alluded also to the religious tendencies of the prisoner,
saying, however, that no inference could be drawn from the
form of religion adopted by the prisoner, for that, whatever
form the Christian religion assumed, it was the best security
for the virtue of mankind,

The jury returned a verdict on the ground of insanity.
His Lordship said that though the evidence was very
scant on the subject, he thought the jury were right.
The prisoner was then remanded to custody, to be de-
tained during her Majesty's pleasure.
The conviction cf a man for robbery with violence, who
was sentenced to five years penal servitude brought the as-
sizes for this circuit to a close early this afternoon.