The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 7th company of Royal Engineers, which re-
cently arrived at Chatham from Nova Scotia., has
been augmented to its full strength from the depot
and other companies at headquarters, prep oratory
to proceeding to Dover, where the company will be
employed in erecting additional defences and the
repair of the existing fortifications at t}tat part of
the coast. The class of men transferred to the com-
pany are chiefly miners and excavators, the work on
which they will be employed being very laborious.

Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
finds. Horniman's tea is uncoloured, and therefore always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.
THE DUCHY OF LANCAST2R.—The accounts of
the duchy for the year ending Dec. 21, 1862, have
just been published. The receipts, including a balance
from the previous account of X:7,725, were £55,682, the
principal hems being " rents and profits of Courts"
£26,185, and " royalties and reservation of dues, and rents
' of mines and quarries," £7,794. On these heads there were
also arrears outstanding on Dec. 22, 1862, of £6,592. Out
of the amount of the receipts there waspaid during the year
to the keeper of her Majesty's privy purse the sum of
£22,000. There was also paid for repairs, taxes, salaries
to officers (£5,991), superannuation allowances (X 2,057),
donations and charities (X 1,801), and 'general expenses of
mairtgement, a total amount of £14,600, leaving a balance
of £19,082 carried to next account.
THE ALLEGED FRAUD BY A STOCKBROKER.—At
the Guildhall Police-court on Friday, Mr. John Bruce, a
stockbroker, of 4, Bank-buildings, and a member of the
Stock Exchange, appeared before Alderman Ilumptiery
to answer the charge, preferred by Mr. John henry
Brougham Vivian, of Morden Lodge, Tulse-hill, of having
unlawfully appropriated to his own use the sum of
£1,726, the proceeds of certain London, Chatham, and
Dover stock entrusted to him for the purpose of
exchanging for 140 Pornambuco Railway shares.
The details of the case have already been given.
Mr. Folkard attended on behalf of Mr. Vivian; and Messrs.
Pawle and Lovesey for Mr. Bruce. Mr. Folkard said, in
accordance with the suggestion thrown out by the magis-
trates at the former hearing, an arrangement had been come
to by the solicitors on both sides with reference to the sub-
ject in question, which would render it urnecessary to trou-
ble the magistrate any further. Alderman Humphery con-
gratulated both sides upon having settled their differences,
and the matter terminated.

The Italie of Tttriti announces that the diligence
from the Abruzzi to Naples was attacked on the Ist
by about twenty brigands between Venafro and Ise ruin.
The passengs,rs were stripped of all their valuables,
and the iet.ters destroyed. The terrible brigand chief,
Guzzo IVicione, was killed on the 2d in an engafsernent
with the National Guard of Cimigliano.
'EWE MURDER IN SALM—Edward Cooper was
brtnight before a bench of magistrates on Thursday,
at Shrewsbury, on the charge 4,f having on the 14th Decem-
ber, 1862, at the parish of Baschurch, in the county of
Salop, wilfully killed his son, a poor hump-backed cri )ple.
The particulars of the case have recently appeared. From
the appearance of the body it would seem that it we.s not
quite dead when it was buried. There was a handkwchief
tied so tightly round the neck that the medical gentlemen
who examined the body had no doubt that death arow from
strangulation. Several witnesses were examined, an. dat
the conclusion of the evidence the prisoner was centimtted
for trial on the charge of wilful murder.