The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-16 00:00:00

The Court-martial on Colonel Crawley.

The court-martial on Colonel Crawley commences to-
morrow. The military authorities were quite prepared to
enter on the inquiry on the day first named, but on Monday
an application was made by the legal advisers of Colonel
Crawley for further delay to enable them to complete the
evidence for the defence. The matter was referred to the
Judge-Advocate-General, who at once acceded to the re-
quest. The announcement was telegraphed in the course
of the evening to the authorities at Aldershot; but so far as
they are concerned, their chief duty being to provide the
necessary accommodation for the court, and take charge of
the witnesses, the inquiry could commence at any moment.
In regard to the constitution of the court itself, we may
stats that Colonel Palmer, of the 60th, who was named one
of its members, has been seized with illness, and that his
place has been supplied by Colonel Lodder of the 59th.
The following is a complete list of the officers who are to
compose the general court-martial:—President—Lieu-
tenant-General Sir George Augustus Wetherell, K.C.B.
Members—Major-,General John Lawrenson, Major General
David Russell, C. 8., Major-General Randal Rumley, Major-
General Edward Cooper Hodge, C. 8., Colonel Robert Ward-
law, let Dragoons, Colonel Gloucester Gambier, C. 8., Royal
Artillery, Colonel Hon. George Talbot Devereux, Royal
Artillery, Colonel Thomas George Alexander Oates, 12th
Lancers, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Sawyer, Gth Dragoon
Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Wynne Lodder, 59th
Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Neptune Sargent, 3d Foot,
Lieutenant-Colonel Seattle Gambier Jenyns, C. 8., 13th
Hussars, Lieutenant• Cdlonel Hugh Maurice Jones, 73d
Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Douglas Grey, 37th Foot.
Officiating Judge-Advocate—Colonel James Kennard
Pipon, unattached. Prosecutor—Colonel Sir Alfred Hors-
ford, K.C.B. The prisoner will be assisted in his defence
by Mr. Vernon Harcourt.

It is impossible to say to what length the trial may ex-
tend ; but if it were not for the cumbrous procedure of the
Court, the questions and answers being all written, the
issues before it might easily and expeditiously be deter-
mined. Divested of technicalities, the charges agaii,st
Colonel Crawley resolve themselves into the following, as
already stated in our columns :—First, that he, by undue
severity to Sergeant-Major Lilley, when under close arrest,
was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle-
man; and, secondly, that in a❑ address made by him at
the Mhow court-martial he accused Lieutenant and Ad-
jutant Fitzsimons or having of his own accord acted with
that undue severity towards Sergeant-Major Lilley, he
(Colonel Crawley) well knowing that the accusation was
false, inasmuch as he himself had given express orders on
the subject to Adjutant Fitzsimons, in the presence of many
witnesses. These are the oharges into which the Court will
have to inquire, and every effort, it is said, Ni ill be made
strictly to limit it to those issues.

The Rev, Charles Kingsley is about to publish
" A History of England for Boys." Rather superfluous
after Charles Dickens's " Child's History of England."
TIIE NATIONAL SHAKSPERE COMMITTEE.—The
Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton and Sir C. L. Eastlake
have consented to act as Vice-Presidents of the National
Shakspero Committee. The following names have been
added to the list of the committee during the past week H
The on. J. Blackie (Lord Provost of Glasgow),
Burnand, Esq.,
W, Crum, Esq , Prof. Delius, Prof. Elze,
L. Lamb, Esq., G. H. B. Macleod, Esq , M.D., D. Macrae,
Esq., Viscount Stratford de Radcliffe, Prof. Ulrici, M.
Williams, Esq., and S. 'Williamson, Esq. Herr Albert
Cohn has been appointed German secretary to the commit-
tee, with authority to invite distinguished persons to form
a central German committee in Berlin, and committees-in-
aid in the principal cities of Germany. —Athenceum.
ARRIVAL OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES KEAN IN
AUSTRALIA —Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean and party
arrived at Melbourne on the 25th of September, all well.
THE MARCHIONESS OF WATERFORD, one of the
ablest of our amateur artists, is painting, in die.
temper, on twelve arched compartments on the walls of the
schoolroom at Ford, Northumberland, a series of pictares
representing boys and girls mentioned in the Bible. One
subject is already done; it shows Cain and Abel, youths of
ten or twelve years of age, sacrificing. The second subject
is Isaac going to the sacrifice—the third, Esau selling his
birthright—the fourth, Joseph and his Brethren.
AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE THIS WEEK._.
There are three steamers due at Liverpool this week with
mails from the United States, viz, :—the Etna, from New
York, on the 7th, will probably reach Queenstown on Wed-
nesday next, and the Damascus, from Quebec, on the 7th
is also due at Londonderry on the same day. On Saturday
next the Cunard steamer, Canada, with dates from .Boston
to the Ilth, and Halifax to the 13th, is dux at Qtteous-
town.