The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

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'with the defendant, and the result
was such . as to leave an impressi&
which induced him to communicate ,
nor. The result was that the coroner brA,..
, inquiry. This inquiry was not made .till after a
second post-i—.l.au e.‘,atnination by Dr. 11.catt, Of
the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Dr. Heath said
`.hat he found all the organs of the body-in-a pa-
-1 '
1 fectly healthy state, but that the result of his exa-
ruination was much interfered with by the fact of
he previous examination. He was utterly unable
to account for death from the appearances of the
body, but he had certain surmises. The charges
against the defendant were three special charges of
perjury-1. That he had stated before the coroner
on the inquest that there was a tumour in the
stomach disclosed by the post-mortem examination,
such not being the fact, as proved by the surgeons
who assisted to make the first post-mortem exami-
nation. 2. That he had stated on such ii.qu.-st that
there was intense congestion , of the br.pi and its
membranes, which would be a symptom ot epilepsy,
which he could not have known had it been true,
because the head of the deceased had not at that
time been opened. 3. That he hr.d falsely stated
also upon oath at the inquest that he had never seen
deceasedanaiseor
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which was not true, he having seen her 12 mouths
ym,eanbdooakrefocreittstforrom£sh:
the 17th Dec., 1862. Mr. Musgrave also, in search-
ing the deceased's papers, had found among them
further receipt
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three letters in the ,defendant'. handwriting. The
letters had neither signatures nor dates, but, as
proved by the post-marks, the first was posted in
February, 18t1, the second in March, 1862, and the
last in January, 1863. The case occupied the whole
of the day, and the inquiry had not been brought
to a close when our report was despatched is the
evening. —....--...... r.,...

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
The trials of speed of her Majesty's ships Hima-
laya, Enchantress, and the Tyrian, at Portsmouth,
have been again unavoidably delayed, owing to the
continued roughness of the weather.
The iron-plated frigate Royal Oak, 34,1100 horse
power, should the exertions which are now being
used to complete her be continued, will be ready
for undocking at Chatham in about a month or six
weeks from the present date. Contrary to general
expectation, the Admiralty do not intend commis-
sioning the Royal Oak and sending her to sea, at
least for some time to come, an order having been
received at Chatham directing her, when out of the
hands of the dockyard authorities, to be placed in
the first-class steam reserve. This altogether inex-
plicable Carder has provoked very .unfavourablecom-
ments in naval quarters, as it was generally sup-
posed that the Royal Oak being the first vessel on
which the experiment had been tried of encasing a
wooden frigate in enormous slabs of iron, so as to
render her all but invulnerable to shot, no delay
would be allowed to occur in testing her merits.
The belief that such were the intentions of the Ad-
miralty was strengthened by the increasing efforts
made by the dockyard officials to have her completed,
and the frequent visits of Admiral Robinson, the
Surveyor of the Navy, to the dockyard to ascertain
her progress. It is to be hoped that the Admiralty
will reconsider their present intention, as in the
steam reserve the vessel will be practically useless,
and as soon as she is completed and ready for sea,
at once despatch her to join the iron fleet of the
Channel squadron, under Admiral Smart, K.H.,
where an excellent opportunity will be given of
comparing her sailing and other qualities with those
of the Warrior, Black Prince, Defence, and the
other iron steamers.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Blake,
to the Alecto ; Lieut. G. J. G. Purcell, to the Shan-
non ; Sub-Lieut. Edward Seale, to the Alecto ;
Sub-Lieut. the Hon. Edward S. Dawson, to the
Buzzard ; John Rorie, Burgeon, to the Buzzard;
Dr. Ernest Low, acting assist.-surg., to the Buz-
zard ; Alfred C. Carew, midshipman, to the Forte ;
Reginald 11. Thornton and Albert M. Ducat, mid-
shipmen, to the Buzzard; Charles V. Anson and
Thomas B. Lacy, midshipmen, to the Aleete ; Fre-
derick W. Guerney, Sohn St. V. Sautuarez, and W.
D. Morrish, midshipmen, to the Narcissus.

THE ARMY.
His Royal Highness the Field-MarshalCommand-
ing-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Thurs-
day, the 29th inst.
It is stated to be the intention of the authorities
at the HorseGuards,among other important chang( s,
to break up the depot battalions at Chichester and
Canterbury in April next, and amalgamate them
with other battalions. This will considerably re-
duce the expenses of the Staff.

Yesterday a detachment of 75 non-commissioned
officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal
Marines, under the command of Lieut. J. G. Fitzge...
raid, left headquarters to join the depot battation at
Deal. Owing to the activity with which recruiting
for the Royal Marines has proceeded for some time
past, the division at Chatham is now unusually
strong.
The application on the part of the Government to
extend the works of the Ordnance Department at
Chatham, making it necessary to close one of the
public roads, came on for discussion at a special
meeting of the Local Board of Health held yester-
day. The committee to whom the whole subject had
been referred unanimously recommended that the
application of the War Department should be ac-
ceded to, the Board at the same time stipulating that
a properly paved road, at least 30 feet in width,
should be constructed by the Government, connect-
ing Globe-lane with the Military-road, which latter
it is proposed by the War Department to hand over
to the public in exchange for the road taken_ The
committee further recommended that the Govern-
ment should undertake to pave both sides of the
Military-road throughout its entire length, and also
that a piece of vacant land at a corner of the road
. should be conveyed to the public of Chatham, on
which a town hall and other public offices might be

ultimately erected. After a long discussion, the
report of the committee, with some slight modifica-
tions, was unanimously agreed to, and a committee
of three members of the board appointed to confer
with Col.Twiss, the commanding Royal Engineer in
theChatham district,with respect to thefinal arrange-
ment. The addition proposed to be made to the Gover-
nment property will increase the Ordnance establish-
ment to nearly double its present extent.
The undermentioned gentlemen have bsen ap-
pointed Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals on the re-
tired list :—Chas. H. Fuller, Jason Lardner, Henry
Liddeli, Edward Davies, and Chas. R.

NEAR
night, while the wind was
About seven o'clock last
YARMoUTII, Thursday
CAISTOR, .
blowing hard from the W. 5.11"., the headmen at this place
lights in the direction of the
observed a vessel
Scroby Sands. Knowing the danger of her position, they
launched their largest yawl to her assistance, but, owing to
burning
the violence of the sea they found they could not render any
help to the vessel with the yawl, and therefore returned at
once for the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution
stationed here, in which they immediately proceeded to the
ship. On arriving alongside the vessel, which was in the
middle of the broken water on the sand, the lifeboat crew
let go their anchor and veered down towards her. Twice they
had to slip the anchor of the lifeboat before they could place
her in a proper position to reach the vessel. They, however,
succeeded at last, and put some of their crew on board. With
the assistance of a steam tug which came up at the time,
they were then enabled to take the vessel, which proved to
be the schooner Emily, of London, safely into Yarmouth
harbour. The night was very dark, and the schooner could
not have been in a more perilous position, nor could she
have been more gallantly rescued, as the sea was running
mountains high. The vessel's crew had been in the rigging
two hours when the lifeboat arrived alongside. The lite-
boat's crew, as usual, beh wed remarkably well. While the
Castor lifeboat was engaged in this service, the Yarmouth
Ilifeboat, which also belongs to the National Institution,
Mr. Ad-
came up ; but, seeing the Caistor lifeboat alongside, she re-
turned to her station.
A GAROTTEIt SHOT IN NOTTINGHAM —Between
crossing the morning,th eCat ring ton-
near the Midland Railway station, when he
dli2esaene,d
blooot'cmloacnkufoacatulNrerer,dwneassd
men following him. He
his pace and tried to evade them, but when he
suspicious-looking
Carrington-
street-bridges dtgweo.
got near to the Queen's-walk one of the men attacked him,
quickened
and the other came up immediately. Mr. Addlesee had
taken the precaution of carrying with him a pistol charged
with small shot, and, springing away from the men, turned
round and shot one of them in the face. The man reeled
for a second or two, and then decamped with his companion.
The men hays not yet been apprehended.