The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

this port shortly for Commander Henry Phelps, and is
to have a complement of 80 Qfficers and men.
Letters were received here on Wednesday from her
Majesty's ship Resolute, 2, Captain H. Kellett, dated at
sea, April 30; officers and crew all well.
CHATHAM, MAY 21,—Meander, 44, was this day
taken into dock to have her defects made good and to
be fitted for service. She is intended to relieve the
Castor, at the Cape of Good Hope.
Royal George, 120, in dock, is ordered to be fitted as
an advanced ship for Sheerness.
Hercules, store-ship, has arrived from Greenhithe,
and is dismantling in ordzr to be laid up in ordin iry at
this port.
James Sparshott, caulker, is superannuated on a pen-
sion of 201. per annum.

LAUNCH OF THE AGAMEMNON.
WOOLWICH, MAY 22.—This fine screw steam-ship, of
90 guns and 600-horse power, having been announced
as ready to be launched shortly before high water here
this day, carriages began to arrive as early as 12 o'clock.
The 11 o'clock train of the North Kent Railway brought
down a considerable number of visitors, the steam-boats
to Woolwich were well filled, and soon after great
numbers of persons arrived by the North Woolwich
Railway and took up their position on the Essex side
of the Thames, opposite the dockyard, where they would
have an excellent view of the vessel as she entered the
water. The crowds who rushed to the London-bridge
terminus of the North Kent Railway after 12 o'clock
rendered it ne-essary to pat on long special trains at
very abort intervals; and it is gratifying to state
that although the number of passengers was far
beyond what might have been anticipated, not the
slightest accident occurred at the railways nor in any
other quarter to mar the general satis)action of the
spectators, of whom there could not have been less than
from 90,000 to 100,000 present. There were upwards
of 1,000 persons on board the Agamemnon when
launched, including the band of the Royal Dockyard
Battalion, the pensioners who had served in the old Aga-
memnon, and more than 500 admitted by cards, tesides
the riggers and others under Mr. M`Donald, Master-
Attendant, who had the charge of bringing the vessel
to her moorings when afloat.
At half past 2 the Disko of Northumberland, First
Lord of the Admiralty, with the Duchoss of Northum-
berland, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Wilton,
Lord Grosvenor, Lord Ellesmere, and a number of the
nobility arrived. Mr. Augustus Stafford, Secretary at
the Admiralty; Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, Second-
Secretary; and Captain Pelham, Private Secretary to
the First Lord, left the residence of Commodore Henry
Eden, with Mrs. Eden, and proceeded to the bow of the
Agamemnon, where a bottle of 'wine was uncorked, and
Mrs. Eden drank success to the Agamemnon. The
bottle with the remainder of the wine was
then suspended and broken on the bow of the
vessel in the usual manner by Mrs. Eden, who
named her the Agamemnon. The shipwrights, under
Mr. Lang's direction, immediately after commenced
driving out the blocks from under the vessel, and at 7
minutes past 3 o'clock the Agamemnon began to move
slowly, and as she progressed gradually quickened her
pace, and entered her future element amidst the cheers
of the assembled thousands in the dockyard, on the
river, and on the opposite bank of the Thames, the band
of the Royal Marines on the platform and the band of
the Dockyard battalion on board playing " Rule Bri-
tannia" and "God save the Queen."
The Agamemnon was built very rapidly, her keel
having only been laid down in December, 1849. Her
engines, of 600-horse power, are to be fitted by John
Penn and Son, on their patent trunk-engine principle,
and are of the same description, but double the number
of horse power, as those fitted by the same firm in her
Majesty's steam-frigates Arrogant and Encounter. Al-
though the order for the machinery of the Agamemnon
was given only in September last, the works are already
sufficiently forward to begin to fix them on board, and a
boiler will be alongside by the time the ship is taken
into the basin. The whole of the machinery and boilers
will be considerably under the water-line, the depth in
the engine-room being 24 feet 6 inches.

COURT-MARTIAL' ON CAPTAIN HA WEE Y.
WOOLWICH, MAY 22.—The court-martial held on
Captain Charles Moorehead Hawkey, of the Woolwich
division of Royal Marines, having concluded its sittings,
and the finding and sentence of the court having been
confirmed by the Lords of the Admiralty, we are now
permitted to promulgate them.
The following is the charge on which Captain Henry
Charles Moorehead Hawkey was tried by a court-mar-
tial, of which Colonel George Batt Bury, Royal Ma-
rines, was president :
" For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer
and a gentleman, in having, on the 26th day of April,
1852, in the public road between Woolwich and Charl-
ton, i❑ the county of Kent, violently assaulted and
struck First Lieutenant Henry Thomas Swain, of the
Woolwich division of Royal Marines, such conduct being
in breach of the Articles of War."
The evidence for the prosecution occupied the court
one day, and for the defence two days, and extended to
a great length, and is of such a nature that it would not
be justice to either party to give an abstract only of it.
The following is the finding and sentence of the court:—
" FINDING,
" The Court having maturely weighed and consi-
dered the evidence in support of the prosecution, toge-
ther with what the prisoner has urged in his defence,
and the evidence in support of it; taking also into con-
sideration the great and lung continued provocation he
has received, and the very peculiar nature of that pro-
vocation; is of opinion that he, the prisoner, Captain
Henry Charles Moorehead Hawkey, of the Woolwich
division of Royal Marines, is guilty of having violently
assaulted First Lieutenant Swain, of the Woolwich divi-
sion of Royal Marines at the, time, and place stated in
the charge, but that he is not guilty of conduct unbe-
coming the character of an officer and a gentleman,
and the Court therefore most fully and honourably ac-
quit him of that part of the charge,"
" SENTENCE.
" The Court having found the prisoner Guilty of
part of the charge preferred against him, which being
in breach of the Articles of War, and taking into con•
sideration the very high character given of the prisoner,
do now sentence him, the prisoner, Captain Henry
Charles Moorehead Hawkey, of the Woolwich division,
to be reprimanded.
" Royal Marine Barracks, Woolwich, May 17, 1852."

GAROTTE MURDER AND ROBBERY.
HULL,
.MAY 22.—This morning, at an eary hour,
great excitement was created in the town by the report
that a young man, well known among the commercial
firms here as engaged in the house of Thomas and Co.,
merchants, as a clerk in the cashier's department, had
been robbed and murdered last night. The report
turned out, unhappily, to be true. It appears that a po-
liceman on going his rounds at 3 this morning in Pros-
pect-place, a cul-de-sac street with houses on one side
only, built in the easturn suburbs of the town, discovered
at daybreak the body of a yong man lying on the edge
of a ditch which separates the road in front of these
houses from a piece of waste land which they overlook.
He at once communicated with the sergeant on duty, and
they aroused the nearest surgeon, Mr. Boulter, of Dry-
pool, who, with a feeling that does him infinite credit,
assisted to convey the body to his own house, when it
was in a short time identified as that of Mr. F. W.
Maplethorpe, residing with his father, a retired trades-
man, in the abovenamed street; marks of a
scuffla on the pavement and the dragging of a
body across the road were perceivable, showing that the
poor youth had been attacked within a few feet of his
own threshold. The external appearances of the body
indicated that death had been occasioned by suffocation,
no marks of violence being observed, but some scratches
as of human nails upon each cheek. A gold watch,
which the deceased carried, had been torn from his
waistcoat pocket, and his money, to the amount of about
111., had also been taken from his person. Immediately
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charge of murder and highway robbery. and remanded
till Tuesday next. An inquest was held on the body
this day, and adjourned
i tilt Wednesday next. The evi•
(knee on both these inquiries went to show that the
prisoners, being strangers in Hull, had, immediately
after the murder was supposed to have been com-
mitted, taken a cab from the centre of the town for a 2s
drive on the Beverley road, and there dismissed the cab-
man; that the prisoner Snape had some scratches and
bruises on his hands and arm,, and that his clothing
was torn and muddy, g the earth on them bearing a re-
semblance to that which formed the bank of the ditch
where the corpse was found.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 22,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was very inactive
to-day, and without deviation in the few transactions that
were effected.

LIVERPOOL,T MAY 2
STOCKEXCITANE.
_heshare market
this morning, 2
opened heavily
but afterwards improved, and a fair amount
of business was done •
at firm prices. Ihe transactions
were as folio w :—Aberdeen, 13—Eastern Counties, BX East
Lancashire, 16311—Lancashire and Yorkshire 71%3—Ditto,
Fifths, dis.—Lancastar and Carlisle, Thirds. 9% IL—
London and North-Western, 122%—Ditto, New Quarters,
514 p.- Ditto, Fifths, 3'743 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 33—Midland, 681 A—Ditto, New Preference, 41,',
per cent., par—North British, 7;i— North Staffordshire, 7 dis.
PiIANCH ESTE tt, MAY 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 7114—Ditto, Fifths,he d 6
dis.—London and North-Western,l23—Manchester, S I ,
and Lincolnshire, 33—Midland, 68 South-Eastern and
Dover, 20 7/8.

BIRMINGHAM, MAT 22.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little or nothing done in
the share market to-day. The only sale reported
London and and North-Western, 123.

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has already been effected. At Hambur
per cent. From St. Petersburgh it is mentioned that milder
weather had set in, and that the opening of the
navigation
might soon be expec' ed. Several shipments of gold to Eng-
land will then take place.
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