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London, England, 1852-09-11 00:00:00

URDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1852.

of that day, and was subsequently mimed.
Oue of the nurses was so shocked at the dis-
covery that she fell into hysterics which delayed
further examination for nearly an hour. The search
was renewed in the presence of Mr. C. B. Francis,
senior surgeon, Bengal establishment, who was on a
visit to his brother, the rector of the parish, when,
upon the removal of a small box from the bed, which
the girl stoutly resisted, a folded sheet was found
containing the napkins and handkerchiefs which had
been used for both the natural excretions.
" It is believed that the girl can see and hear; and
in proof of the former it is stated that every move-
ment of those on watch appeared to be anxiously re-
garded by her. Struck with the frequent occurrence '
of this circumstance, some of the gentlemen often
looked intently at her, and occasionally the eye not
affected by cataract was observed to quiver beneath
their gaze. Go several occasions when a book was pre-
sented to her, she opened it, held it exactly in the
position, and eyed it just as a person would who was
reading it. She has been accustomed to guess the
ages of strangers from feeling their hands, which she
will do with a precision to which it is doubted whe-
ther the lengthened experience of a person really
blind could ever have attained. Soon after it was
stated that she bad become totally blind a letter was
penned by the girl, which has been shown to some of
the committee. It was well written, the lines were paral-
lel, and in one instance a word was inserted exactly in
the right place, and also the caret which marked its
insertion. That she is possessed of the sense of
hearing appears very probable, from the circumstance
of her having been known to sing through a hymn,
note by note and syllable by syllable, with another
person ; but all doubts on this head are completly
set at rest by the colloquy she held with the nurses
at the close of the investigation."
The committee conclude their report with the fol-
lowing declaration :
" In laying
the above facts fairly and fully before
the public,
We have no hesitation in avowing our
unanimous conviction that fraud has been practised.
" (Signed) W. IL B. WEBSTER, GEORGE TOVELL,
r
DAVID ITCAIRN, JOHN WHITBY, JAMES WEBB,
FREDERICK ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LONDON."
In connexion with her alleged abstinence from food,
it appears that while an inmate of the East Suffolk
Hospital,
in June, 1850, the nurses repeatedly drew
t
of the physician to the exteremely small
suffering
from a violent affection of the head, the re •
quantityPiai attention
of food she took. At this time she was
snit of intermittent fovcr, imealziuts t.,Lv irat.ii ot, was
producing delirium and fits.
Many persons still believe that no imposition has
been practised, and the girl receives as many visitors
as before. Her parents also persist in denying that
their daughter has taken any food or drink during
the period stated.
RACING FIXT

URES FOR 1852.
:MBE%

SEPTE:
Sherborne
Totnes and Bridgetown 13
Doncaster .... .....
Fiolbeck ,Ml 5
Dover .
16
Tewkesbury
Redditch
Cheadle (Cheshire)
20
Walsall
Ungar 2l
Bedford
Tenby 2l

Eg►inton Club
Leicester 22
Liverpool H. (Hoylake) 22
Manchester Autumn
Pains Lane ..... 27
Newmarket F. 0.
Chesterfield
Weaverthorpe 29
Western Meeting
Upton•on-Severn
Breconshire..... ...... 30

OCTOBER.
Chester
Royal Caledonian Hunt Perth
and Edinburgh Club. 6 Pontefract
York Union Hunt 6 Holy well Hunt
Monmouth
Wrexham
Harrogate
NOVEMBER.
Worcester Autumn
Epsom 4 Shrewsbury Autumn... 23
Liverpool Autumn lO
IRISH RACES TO COME.

SEPTEMItEIt.
21
Fullow
I
Johnstown 2l Cashel

OCTOBER.
Curragh l2 I 1
Carlow
Down Royal Corp 2O

NOVEMBER.

Kilkenny

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Joseph Seaman was charged with having forged a
certificate of character, for the purpose of obtaining
an engagement on board a vessel.
Mr. J. H. Brown, shipping master, proved that
the signa'ure to the character, which described the
prisoner as an eligible person, was a forgery.
The prisoner said the fact was he had got tired of
tossing about in a small vessel, and he wished to go
to one in which there was more room, on which ac-
count he had got a friend to give just the description
of him which be deserved.

The LORD MAYou fined the prisoner 101., and the
penalty not being paid sentenced him to imprison-
ment with bard labour for six weeks.

BETTING Housss.—Sir P. Laurie, in discharging
a young man who had been accused of robbing his
master for the purpose, as there was good reason to
suppose, of obtaining the means of paying off the debts
of honour contracted in betting houses and the atten-
dant expenses, took occasion to say," Nearly at the close
of the last session of Parliament, I waited, together with
several of the inhabitants of Aldersgate- ward upon
the Right Hon. Mr. Walpole for the purpose of re-
presenting the necessity which existed for putting
down the ruinous dens called betting houses with
which the metropolis is contaminated. I rejoice to
say that the Right Ron. Gentlemen gave us good
reason to expect that attention will be paid to the
public complaint of so serious an evil. I suggested
the propriety of introducing into every license granted
for the sale of beer and tobacco the condition that
betting of any description would not be allowed. The
beerhouses and cigar shops in which betting among
hopmen
and apprentices has been so extensively car-
ried on, would, I said, thus come under the supervi-
sion of the magistracy, and the evil would, through
their interference, receive a fatal check. Mr. Walpole
s
seemed to think that the proposition was likely to be
and he assured us that it should have his
matureco%sideration in the early part of the ensuing
eswhen he Would bring the subject before the
sHosin,uoseof
cernmons."

SEABORNE MAILS.
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by the night—and H bY the morning—dispatch.]

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pistol and the
ACCIDENTALLy
A SIMVAPIT
TER's SO.N.—Yesterday morning, between
the hore-80-
ave
eleven and twelve, the inhabitants of the immediate f
neigh-
bourhood of Northantpton-place, Hackney-road, da , were
shrieks of a female voice. It appears that the eldest son of
Mr. Forsey, who resides at No. 6, Southampton Cotta
thrown in to acme alarm by the report of a
Cottage,
horse- is the habit
for some time of keeping a large
of
h. p tol loaded in his
Northampton-place, Hackney-road, has been in
bed-room, contrary to the wisbe
frequently desired him to dispose of the same for fear of an
accident, and who had not the remotest idea of the same
being loaded, I when their youngest son, a
L boy nine
years of age, entered his brother's d be--room, while the ser-
vant was making the bed, took up the pistol, and, in a jok-
ing manner said, ~ Now, I will shoot you," when the girl,
turning round to see what be was about, the little urchin
fired the pistol, and lodged the contentttof the same in the
right side of the poor girl's face.. _ Medical
aid was immedi-
ately called in, and seam days will elapse before the girl can
be pronounced out of danger.
CABESEMONGERS' BENNTOLENT INSTITUTION. T
—...he
anniversary dinner in aid of the funds of this praiseworthy
and thriving charity, established in the year 1833, for the
relief of decayed members of the trade, took place on Thum.
day, at Highbury Barn Tavern, and was attended by about
]5O gentlemen. The chair was taken by Mr. James Free-
man, j un. A list of suboriptions amounting to 1201. was
announced by Mr. George SimPson, the secretary. The
proceeds of the recent fate in the Zoological-gardens, and the
amounts collected in the districts which several gentlemen
had voluntarily undertaken to canvass, in extension of the
resources of the institution, also afforded the most gratifying
prospects of success during the ensuing year.
OssourfE.—We understand that this private marine
residence of royalty will undergo a variety of imprevereout4
dating the Immo of the court is &Aland,
SpTarßelle,lit A

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Another Committee has been nominated by the
Admiralty, for the purpose of inquiry into, and re-
porting on, the merits of all vessels propelled by
screw machinery. Mr. Bedford, of the Admiralty
establishment, Whitehall, has been appointed to act
as secretary to this Committee.
Captain Washington, late of the tidal harbour de-
partment, has been ordered to proceed in the Light-
ning steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen, to
survey a reported shoal on the Doggerbank.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and Captain Sparshott
paid Deptford Dockyard a visit on Thursday, and,
accompanied by Mr. Wilcox, master-shipwright of
that establishment, inspected the Imperieuse, 50-g►un
screw frigate, which ship is to be launched between
two and three o'clock on the afternoon of tha 15th
instant. It is expected his Lordship will be present
on the occasion.
Captain Crispin, of the Victoria and Albert, has
proceeded on a fortnight's leave of absence.
The Admiralty have ordered the sum of 101. to be
paid to the master and crew of the Eliza and Ann,
at Portsmouth, for the good services they rendered
to the pinnace of the ordinary flag-ship Neptune,
when recently in danger.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieut. Patrick Inglis (1827), has been appointed
Admiralty agent for mails in a contract steam-vessel.
Lieutenants—Alfred Neal (1850), to Dauntless, 33,
5, Qw-frigate, Portsmouth; E. H. L. Ray (1849), to
the Excellent.

Surgeons—David Thomas, to be Superintendent in
charge of the Midlothian convict ship ; Lawrence
Carey (1852), to the Hercules.
Assistant-Surgeon—John E. Hamilton (1845), to
the Electra, 14, Portsmouth.
Naval Cadet—Arthur Brooke, to the Dauntless.
THE DOVER PACKETS.—The Vivid steam-packet,
Master Commander Snatthett, is still at Woolwich,
under the hands of the engineers; and the Admiralty
have ordered the Garland steam-packet, also from
Dover, to Woolwich, to have her defects of hull and
machinery made good.
The screw three-decker Windsor Castle, on being
launched at Pembroke on the 14th inst., will be taken
charge of by Mr. Davy, Assistant Master Attendant
of Portsmouth Dockyard, and navigated to the latter
port. In addition to the Simoom and Dispatch, the
Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Woolridge, has
been sent from Portsmouth to assist her.

The scr.«, of-battle ship Sanspareil, Si, Cap-
cam ',acres, will not be ready for sea service, at
Davenport, for at least a couple of months ; so that
she will have been in commission about six months
before she is ready for any service. This delay is
attributed to the contractor for the engines.
The screw guard-ship Blenheim, 60, Captain W.
H. Henderson, left Queenstown on Tuesday, on her
month's cruise at sea. She will probably pick up
Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron before she returns to
Spithead.
The screw frigate Arrogant, 46, Captain R. S.
Robinson, and the screw corvette Encounter, Captain
Gordon, are to be paid off at Portsmouth, all standing
for re-commissioning when their pay-books are ready.
Their defects are to be made good immediately, but
nothing is to be done by any department beyond that
at present estimated for.
The screw frigates Dauntless, 33, Captain Halsted,
and Highflyer, 21, Captain H. J. Matson, are ordered
to be ready for sea at Portsmouth by Wednesday
next, the 15th instant. The former will be taken out
of dock on the 13th.
Diligence store-ship, Master-Commander Mitchell,
left Deptford on Thursday morning with stores for
Gibraltar.
Daring, 12, Commander Napier, is progressing
with her rigging at Chatham, but enters men very
slowly.
Electra, 14, Commander Morris, will be r t
go to Spithead about the second week in October.
Fairy, Royal yacht tender, Master Commander
Welsh, came up to Portsmouth from Cowes yesterday
morning, with the Hon. Mrs. Phipps and family, who
after landing, proceeded by railway for town.
Hercules, Commander Baynton, has hosted the
pendant at Chatham. She is in dock, progressing in
making good defects and being rigged. She is to
have a compliment of 125 men, and is to be supplied
with one of Grant's galleys to cook for 1,000 men.
When the ship is undocked and completed in the
dockyard department, she is to be navigated to the
East India Docks to have her internal fittings com-
pleted under the direction of the Colonial Emigration
Commissioners.
Meander, 44, Spithead, Commodore Talbot, hoisted
a blue commodore' pendant yesterday morning. Some
alteration being required in the arrangement of her
shell-room, she discharged her powder yesterday
evening, and the joiners commenced the work. She
will not sail, in consequence before the 20th inst. for
the Cape. She has taken on board a number of su-
pernumeraries for the ships on that station.
Wasp, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Lord John
Hay, will be " paid down" at Woolwich this day,
when her crew will be granted a fortnight's leave,
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Devonshire, East
Indiamen, sailed yesterday for Calcutta ; and the
Queen sailed this afternoon for the same destination.
The Tyne store-ship, Mr. Peter Wellington,
Master, R.N., commanding, sails at day-light to-
morrow morning, taking 11 officers and a quantity of
stores for the West African squadron, under Rear-
Admiral Bruce, to be landed at Ascension, whence
she proceeds to the south east coast of America, to
land stores (at Rio), for the squadron on that station
under Rear-Admiral Henderson, C.B.
The First Lord of the Admiralty has ordered a
committee, formed of Captain Warden, R.N. (pre-
sident), Captain G. T. Gordon, R.N., Mr. Watts,
Assistant-Surveyor of the Navy; Mr. Hughes, C E.,
Assistant to the Chief Engineer at Somerset-house;
Mr. Baker, the Inspector of Machinery in her Ma.
jesty's yachts; and Mr. Lang, Assistant-Master
Shipwright, to visit all the principal shipbuilding
and engineering establishments in the United King-
dom, to collect such facts as they may deem useful
for the conducting of the national establishments, and
also for the advantage of the mercantile marine of
the country.
The following officers passed examinations on
Wednesday at the Royal Naval College, qualifying
for the rank of Lieutenant :—Messrs. W. H. Douglas,
A. J. Day, M. G. Jackson, and C. R. Tuckey. For
Masters :—Messrs. W. H. Sharp (who obtained full
numbers), and H. S. H. Hall. For entry into the
navy as Cadets :—Messrs. C. A. Waßycroft, J. M.D.
Elphinstone, and G. Henley.
ROYAL MARINES.—A court-martial has been
sitting this week at Forton Barracks, Gosport. com•
posed of Colonel Second-Commandant Wearing, pre-
sident ; Lieutenant-Colonels Willes and Phillips) •
Captains Nolloth, Ayles, H. Parke, Wearing, and
Alexander, and First- Lieutenants Jones, Barnard,
Buck, Morrison, and Ward • with Lieutenant and
Adjutant Cooke us afficiatingjudge-Advocate, to try
Lieutenant Charles Ducane Williams, for locking up
an officer in the double gate guard-house, on the
Gosport lines, and other grave breaches of discipline.
The Court sat two days ; the sentence is not yet
known.
A distressing event bas just occurred at Portsmouth,
which has resulted in the death of a promising young
officer. Lieutenant Reeves, of the artillery com-
panies, was going on leave of absence on Thursday,
and was crossing from Portsmouth to Ryde in a small
passage-boat, which is supposed to have capsized in a
squall, and to have drowned the waterman and his
passenger, as Major Mountjoy Martyn, of the 2d Life
Guards, who was cruising in his yacht, the Fernando,
in the Solent, on Thursday, has reported to head-
quarters picking up a small sailing-boat tenantless,
and a hatbox containing several small articles, and
bearing the address " Lieutenant Reeves, R.M.A. ;"
which, together with the boat, Major Martyn deli-
vered into the custody of the Commander of her Ma-
jesty's revenue cutter Mermaid.
WOOLWICH, SEPT. 10.--The powerful screw-pro-
peller, about eighteen feet in diameter, cast for the
Agamemnon, 90, was lowered into the stern of that
fine vessel yesterday, and she will be ready to have
her steam up next week. Mr. Dinnen, of the steam
department at Somerset-house; Mr. Chalfied, assist-
ant to the master shipwright at Woolwich Dock-
yard, and other members of the various departments,
made an inspection of the vessel to-day, connected
with the most approved plan for ventilating her, both
in the engineers' and shipwrights departments.
The Magrera steam-frigate, being now ready for
sea at Sheerness, Colonel Airey, first assistant Quar-
termaster-General, left London yesterday afternoon,
and was joined at Chatham by Brigade-Major
Wood, of that garrison, and both these officers pro-
ceeded to Sheerness for the purpose, in conjunction
with naval officers appointed fur the purpose, of in-
specting the Megrera as to the number of troops she
can conveniently accommodate in the voyage she is
about to make to the West Indies.
Niunow ESCAPE.--CHATHAM, SEPT. 9.—Yester-
day Mr. Burton, master ropemaker of this yard, had
a very narrow escape for his life. The workmen
were hoisting hemp into the hemp-house, when a rope
broke and injured him on the thigh and side, and also
struck him on the head, wounding the ear very se-
verely. Had the rope not struck a stancheon before
reaching him, in all probability he would have been
killed on the spot. As it is, he is so much injured as
to confine him to his bed.

DEATH OF TIM LAST SURVIVOR OF KEPPEL'S
ACTION,—Mr. D. F. Hainsselin, father of Mr. D. H.
Hainsselin, auctioneer, of Devonport, died on the 3d
instant, aged 92 years, Mr. Hainsselin was supposed
to be the last survivor of Keppel's action. He was
also at the celebrated relief of Gibraltar, at the taking
of St. Eustatia and other West India Island=, in the
Monarch which led the vsn in Rodney's ac ion; in
the skirmish with the French fleet off Plymouth, and
in the Royal George, on the 29th May and Ist of
June, for the two latter of which he had the medal
with two berg.--Plymouth Journal.

MIVONPORT DOCKYARD.—We have heard several
complaints from visitors to the neighbourhood of the
hurried manner in which they are taken over the
dockyard, when desirous to observe the many ob-
jects of interest with which that extensive establish-
ment abounds. We know not whether this is in con-
sequence of orders from the authorities for the pur-
pose of economising the time of the police. Speaking
of the police—it would appear that very strict disci-
pline is maintained in this branch of the establish-
ment. About a week since, we hear, one of the force
was sentenced by the director to confinement to the
yard for a week for speaking to a workman ; and,
since that, another has been ordered a similar pu-
nishment for taking a pinch of snuff offered him by
one of the artisans.— West of England Cosset-satin.

THE ARMY.
The following is a copy of a circular just issued for
the guidance of officers commandieg regiments:—
" War-office, Sept. 3, 1852.
"Sir,—lt appearing that some misapprehension has
prevailed in regard to the scope and operation of the
passage regulations contained in the pages from 65 to 79
of the Royal warrant of the Ist of July, 1848, I am di-
rected to point out for your guidanco, as occasion may
arise, that these regulations apply only to passages to
and from stations abroad, and not to any passages at
home coastwise in the United Kingdoms, or between
Great Britain and Ireland, or to or from the Channel
Islands, &c.
" You will accordingly be pleased to observe that,
although in certain cases of passages to or from stations
abroad the said regulations grant allowances in aid of the
messing of officers on board ship, and for the conveyance
of their civilian servants, no charge or claim on account
of such allowances is to be made on any occasion of pas-
sage at home coastwise, &e., as above adverted to.
" Due care is, therefore, to be taken by officers in
charge of troops conveyed at home, coastwise, &e., not
to include any civilian servant in their certificate upon
which payment for conveyance is made by the
through the Admiralty or otherwise.
"I have, &e.,
" B. IlewEs.
" To Officers Commanding Regiments."