The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1863,

TV NO FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT.
-W, Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's
Concert.

THE LUDGATE HILL VIADUCT.--
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, IVANSTEAD.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
In consequence of the immediate Extension of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway, tht- Committee have been
compelled to REMOVE their OFFICES to 100, FLEET-
STREET, where all communications are to be addressed.
By Order of the Committee,
HENRY W. GREEN, Secretary.
Offices-100, Fleet-street, E.C.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

The Battlefield Handicap of 5 sous each, with 30 added
the second to save his stake. Winners extra. Three-
quarters of a mile. 33 subs.
Lord Uxbridge's Liston, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (in. 101 b extra)
(T. French) 1
Mr F. Fisher's Reindeer, 5 yrs, 7st
Mr Bryan's Zora, 5 yrs, 7st 11Ib
Mr C. Peck's Bernice, 5 yrs, Bst 51b
Betting—Even on Zora, 3to 1 agst Lis(tEen(::h
agst Bernice. .andftHarrison)l (Prior)h
nse rt
o) 4321

They ran together to the turn into the straight, when
Bernice dropped away and Zora came on with a clear lead to
the stand, when she died away to nothing and was headed
by Liston and Reindeer, the former winning cleverly :by a
length—a neck separating the second and third. Bernice
beaten off.

TAT TERSALL'B.—LAsT EVENING.
DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Paris (taken)
20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken)
20 to 1 apt Forager (taken)

........... 11.1.1.0

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.
FEBRUARY.
Chelmsford Spring 23
MARCH.
Nottingham Spring ...• 1 Shrewsbury
Derby Spring
3 Northampton 29
Liverpool ' 8

Croxton-park .......... APRIL.I
1 Newmarket First Spring 25
Newmarket Craven .... 11 1

MAY.
Chester
3 I Harpenden 2O
Salisbury .............. 12 Epsom .. 24
Bath ................ 17
Ascot ................ 7 Ne weastle-on-Tyne .. 29
Chelmsford ............ 28 Worcestur (Summer) .. 30
JULY.
Newmarket July ...... 5 I Nottingham

. -
ATIGITST.
Reading .............. 11 Derby
Egham .............. 23 I Lichfield
Oxford .............. .. 25
SEPTEMBER.
Leicester .............. 8 Monmouth 22
I
Doncaster ............ 13 Newmarket First October 27

CTOBER.
Newmarket Second Oct. 010 I Newmarket Houghton.. 24
NOVEMBER.
Worcester Autumn 1

STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864,

JANUARY.

hlanchester
FEBRUARY.

Lincoln
MARCH.

Liverpool

The Royal Mail Steamship Africa.

THORNDJ.KE and SMITH,
11, Staple-inn, London, W.C., Nov. 16.

" Horse Guards, S.Air., Nov. 3, 1863.
Gentlemen,—la reply to your letter of the 30th
ult., I am directed by his Royal Highness the Field
Marshal Commanding in Chief to acquaint you that
copyarroad to any one
it is not in accordance with the practice of courts-
the charges on
emwxhac courts-
martial at l
at
to the
sfounre
prisoner
is a s
to
himsslf, or to summon
any other witnesses than those who are required on
b e
arraigned f
the part both of the prosecution and of the prisoner ;
and that as a courtmartial is an open court it is
competent for any one to attend it and to take notes
the proceedings.
" I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
"J. YORKE ScARLETT, A.G.
",'Messrs. Thorndike and Smith,
11, Staple-inn, W.C."

" 11, Staple inn, London, W.C., Nov.
1863.
" Sir,—We are in receipt of your letters of the 3d
inst., which we have communicated to Mr. Samuel
Lilley.
" Mr. Lilley requests us to express his regret and
disappointment that in a case in which he and his
relative,' have so great and manifest an interest his
Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in
Chief should should allow the practice.of courts martial'
to interfere in preventing the concession to him of
the very reasonable requests we made on his behalf
in our letter of the 30th ult., especially as we again
repeat that the full and impartial trial promised by
his Royal Highness cannot be had if the relatives Of
the deceased sergeant-major are not properly repre-
sented thereat.

" In consequence of the refusal of his Royal High-
ness to allow our clients to be furnished with a copy
of the charges upon which Lieut.-Colonel Crawley
is to be tried, for (as we venture to think) t he very
insufficient reason that it is not in accordance with
the practice of courts martial to do so, the reports in
the public journals are the only source from which
the relatives of the deceased sergeant-me jor can de-
rive any information on the subject.

" IV; are instructed to urge upon his Royal High-
ness that the proposed charges, as contained in those
reports are wholly insufficient to meet the justice of
the case in the present instance, and do not embrace
to the full extent the wrong alleged to have bee❑
done by Lieut.-Colonel Crawley upon his unfortu-
nate deceased subordinate officer.

"We are, therefore, instructed by Air. Samuel
Lilley, on behalf of himself and of his family, as
well as in the interest of the public, to demand as a
right that the accompanying two additional charges
may be preferred against Lieut.-Colonel Crawley,
of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, at the approach-
ing court martial.
"The charges the Lilley family are prepared to
prove on the testimony of various witnesses now in
England ; and as his
Royal Highness the Com-
mander-in-Chief, in his place in the House of Lords,
pledged himself that a full and thorough investi-
gation should take place into all the circumstances
attending the Mhow court martial, we are certain
that his Royal Highness will not fail to redeem his
pledge when our clients call upon him, as they now
do, to fulfil his promise by at once directing that
the inquiry shall be extended by adding the two
charges we have been instructed to require at his
hands.

"As the meeting of the court martial is stated to
be so shortly to take place, we must request that
this letter be immediately brought under the notice
of his Royal Highness, that an omission which we
are confident will excite as much surprise with the
public generally as it has done with the parties in-
terested, may be remedied before the assembling of
the court.—We have the honour to be, your obedient
servants,

"TIIORNDIKE AND SMITIL
"To Major-General Sir J. Yorke Scarlett,
G.C.8., Adjutant-General of her Ma-

jesty's Forces, Horse Guards, S. W."
" ADDITIONAL CHARGES TO BE PREFERRED AGAINST
LIEUT.-COLONEL T. R. CRAWLEY OF THE 6TH
INNISKILLING DRAGOONS.
"1. For highly unofficerlike conduct in placing
Regimental Sergeant-Major Lilley, of tLe 6th In-
niskilling Dragoons, in confinement, and keeping
him., there for upwards of a month, without, as the
Articles of War direct, bringing him to a court-
martial, and which illegal conduct on the part of
Lieut. Col. Crawley was especially prijudicial to
hsa that
shadow
military discipline, in so far as that by the official
memorandum of his Royal Highness the Field Mar.
shal Commanding in Chief, dated Horse Guards,
18th December, 1862, the confinement of the said
S; r gea nlaltv- Rkeaj
fio re
ILd i
al 1
nd e y ,
aDs wv
a d n o
t o f t
11 0 Sergeant-
Majors
e a
of evidence to justify it.

2. For highly disgraceful conduct in hating
"
prohibited any woman or nurse to attend on the
wife of the late Sergeant-Major John Lilley during
her illness, and when occupying the same room as
her husband, and who was suffering under a severe
attack of diarrhoea, whereby the kite Sergeant-

sors, suspended the certificate of Mr. James Stone for
six calendar months from this date.—l have, &e.,
" T. S. RIFFLES, Police Magistrate.

"Nov. 12, 1863.
" We concur in this report.
"H. HARRIS,
"It. B. BAKER, Nautical Assessors."

The Court-martial on Colonel Crawley,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—Mr. Samuel ',they, the brother of the late
Sergeant Major John Lilley, has instructed us to
request you to give publicity to the accompanying
correspondence we have had with the adjutant
general on behalf of his family, as he is naturally
anxious the public should know it has not been for
the want of any effort on the part of the family that
they will not be properly represented at this court-
martial, or that the issues on that inquiry have been
confined to such narrow limits, and have failed to
embrace the important question as to the legality
of the arrest of the three sergeant-majors without
trial.—We are, sir, your obedient servants,

" 11, Staple-inn, London, W.C., Oct. 30, 1863.
"Sir,—We are instructed by Mr. Samuel Lilley,
of Llandudno, the brother of the late Regimental
Sergeant Major John Lilley, of the 6th Inniskil-
ling Dragoons, to apply to you, on behalf of
himself and the other members of the family of
the deceased sergeant major, to be furnished with
a copy of the charges upon which his Royal
Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief
has ordered Lieut.-Col. T. R. Crawley to be tried
at the general courtmartial about to be held.

,‘ As it is quite obvious that the full and impar-
tial trial which his Royal Highness pledged himself
should be had cannot take place without the ques-
tion as to the arrest and imprisonment of the de-
ceased sergeant major being justifiable or other-
wise being a matter for consideration, and as this
obviously involves an inquiry into the character and
conduct of the deceased Sergeant Major Lilley, Mr.
Samuel Lilley instructs us also to request that Cols.
White and Shute and Lieut.-Col. Fitzwygram, for-
merly4commanding officers of the 6th Dragoons, and
the Hon. Capt. E. R. Bourke, also of that regiment,
may be summoned to give evidence on the court-
martial as to their knowledge of the character and
antecedents of the late Sergeant Major Lilley.
,4 We have also, on Mr. Lilley's behalf, to request
that, for the reasons we have before stated, his
Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanling in
Chief will authorise him to attend the trial on the
courtraartial, with his legal adviser, to watch the
proceedings and protect the memory of his deceased
brother from being improperly assailed.—We have
the honour to be, sir, your obedient servants,
" TIIORNDIRT and SINTITII.
tt To the Hon. Major General Sir J. Y;Scarlett,
Adjutant General of her Majesty's Forces,
Horse Guards, S.W."