The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

TIM SON. LONbON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER :6, 1863.

MISCELLANEOUS—[Continued].
International Financial Society, Urn., 91
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 00, 881
Joint stock Discount, 6
Ditto, new, I
London Financial Association, lim., 15;
National Dicount Comp my, Rm., 9,L1
Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 21
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 831
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 27a
Ditto (£4),
Royal Mail Steam, 76 5
South A (limn Mortgage and Investment, 71

LAW INTELLIGENCE —This Day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings in. Banco, before the Lord Chief Justice Erie,
and Justices Williams, Bytes, and Keating.)
RICHARCSON V. ELOIE AND ANOTHER.

Mr. M. Chambers, Q C , a ith Mr. Needham, applied to
set aside the verdict touna for the plaintiff on the ground
that it was against evidence. The action, which was tried
before Mr. Justice Keating at the Guildhall, and brought
by the plaintiff, an architect and surveyor, fur the prepara-
tion of certain plans for the erection of a large refreshment
booth for the million, with a bar of 70 feet in length, on a
piece of land near the western entrance to the Great Exhibi-
tion of 1862. The defendant, Jeremiah Savage E Igie,was ac-
companied by his father, the elder defendant, at the in-
terview but it wa denied that he had anything to do with
the speculation. Owing to the great expense of the build-
ing according to the first plans, the plaintiff, at the request
of Jeremiah Savage Elgie, prepared other plans, but ulti-
mately the negotiation went off.
The Court granted a rule nisi for a new trial.

PEARSON V. THE COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE COM

PANY.-TIIE BURNING OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE STEAM

SHIP IN THE THAMES.

Mr. Lush, Q.C., moved for a rule nisi to set aside the
verdict found for the plaintiff, with £lo,uoo damages and
to enter a nonsuit. The action was tried before the Lord
Chief Justice at Guildhall, and was brought upon a policy
of insurance against fire only for three mouths on the
steamship Indian Empire, then lying in the Vic-
toria docks with lib3rty to go into dry dock. It ap-
peared that adjoining the Victoria docks, there was the
Thames graving dock, which was used for all the purposes
of a dry dock, and there were also great precautions against
fire in the Victoria docks. The Indian Empire was not, how-
ever, taken into that dock, but her paddle boxes were taken
off, and the vessel taken into a private dry dock, two miles
up the river, where she underwent repairs. After that she
was taken into the river, and moored to a Government
buoy to complete her repairs. It was then that
the fire occurred destroying the ship. The defendants con-
tended by their policy they only insured the ship when in
the Victoria Dock or in a dry dock, and that they were not
liable, for the ship was burned while in the river.
Rule nisi granted.

COURT OF DIVORCE,
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
YEATMAN V. YEATMAN.

In this case the petitioner, who is a barrister, brought a
suit for dissolution of marriage with his wife on the ground
of her adultery with Prince liohenlohe. The case was tried
before the Judge Ordinary and a jury last July, when a
verdict was found to the effect that the adultery was not
proved, and that the petitioner had deserted his wife with-
out sufficient cause.

Mr. Yeatman, in person, now moved for a rule calling
on the respondent to show cause why there should not be a
new trial on the ground of misdirection by the Judge
Ordinary, and that the verdict was against evidence. The
learned gentleman contended that the jury were not com-
petent to try the question of desertion.
The alleged adultery with Prince Hohenlohe was stated
to have taken place at He delberg.
Tho learned Judge said as the case had been heard before
the late Judge, and the point had not been decided, the rule
nisi must be granted, and also as against evidence, that he
might h tve the evidence before him.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

RE MARSHALL.

The bankrupt was described as a newspaper proprietor,
of Charlotte-street, Fit zroy.square, and this was a meeting
for examination and dischurge,

Mr. Sargood opposed on behalf of Mr. Shipley, on the
ground that the bankrupt had not even attempted to render
a proper account. He had purchased of Mr. Shipley the
copyright of the Lamp newspaper for £4OO, but had only
paid a deposit of £25, but he set it down as worth
£5OO, although he discontinued the publication in a
few weeks after he had possession. He had also
set down as good and doubtful debts £l9O, out of which
only ss, 6d. had been got in. Under the name of
"Harkaway," he had received a large amount on sporting
matters, and in one instance he had received £l,OOO at Tat-
tersall's, which he accounted for by one sweeping item, that
he had paid it to persons who had given him commissions.
He, Mr. Sargood, submitted that this could not be deemed
any account, indeed it had been carefully made out so as to
give no information. He, therefore, asked for an adjourn-
ment, sine die, without protection, or that the petition
should be dismissed.

His Honour adjourned the examination sine die, with
Mited protection.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market opens dull and irregular. Sales, probably
4,000 bales.

The action of the bank has completely paralysed
the market, and prices of all kinds reduced one
penny per pound, though there is less pressure to
sell than might have been expected, the very meagre
stock staying any tendency to panic. Committee's
quotations for middling cotton are reduced li d. in
bowed and ld. in Mobile and Orleans. Sales,
29,910 bales, 7,650 on spec and 5,520 for export.
Actual export, 15,107. Imports, 17,381. Stock,
152,000.

Sir David Brewster and the Abbot of

Kinloss.

A correspondent of the Scotsman says :—" In his
inaugural address delivered in the Music Hall, on
Monday last, Sir David Brewster struck a very
undeserved blow at the Catholic Church. Refer-
ring to the bequest made by the last Catholic Bishop
of Orkney, for the erection of a University in Edin-
burgh, the learned Principal said :—'ln 1558 Mr
Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney, a prelate of high
accomplishments, bequeathed 8,000 marks for this
important purpose. This sum, however, was with-
held by his executor, the Abbot of Kinloss, and it
was not till 1582 that half the legacy, withoat
interest, was realised by the citizens of Edinburgh.
The opposition thus made by the Catholic powers
to the erection of a college
,in the metropolis was
fortunately baffled by the zeal of the Reformers.'
" So says Sir David, but authentic history tells
another tale. The Protestant Bishop Keith, in his
Historical Catalogue of Scottish Bishops,' p. 225,
Bishop Russell's edition, observes---' The history of
the family of Sutherland says that this Bishop
(Reid) left a great sum of money for building the
College of Edinburgh, which the Earl Morton con-
verted to his own use and profit by banishing the
executors for supposed crimes.'
"Now, Sir David must be aware that Morton
was a Reformer and a great enemy of the Catholic
Church; so that whatever opposition was made to
the erection of Edinburgh University was the work,
not of the' Catholic powers,' but of some of the re-
forming party."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY wyrit VIOLENCE.—A lad named
Wm. Allen was charged before Mr. Knox, by Sergeant
Shore, 11 F, with being concerned, with others not in
custody, in the following robbery :
Antoine Barral, 33, Church -street, Soho, said that at 11
o'clock at night he was in Moor-street, Seven-dials, when a
boy came up to him and butted him in the stomach with
great violence, and no sooner had he been butted than he
was surrounded by a number of lads who felt in his pockets
and then stole his watch.

Wm. Webster, a young man, living at 25, Earl-street, said
he saw the prosecutor going along, and six lads went up t.)
him, and one of them butted the prosecutor while the others
stole his watch. The prosecutor then called " Police," and
one of the lads struck him, and then they all made off He
gave information to the police, and on being subsequently
sent for to Bow-street, he identified the prisoner as one of
the lads, though not either of the two who butted the
prosecutor or stole his watch.

Sergeant Shore, 11 F, said that, from information ho
received, he apprehended the prisoner in Seven Dials, and
at the station the last witness identifiol him from amongst
several others.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.
A BETTING MAN COMMITTED UNDER TILE VAGRANT
Ac-r.—John Pilgrim, described as a betting man, was
charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in King-street, St.
James's, for the purpose of committing a felony.
Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that on the previous night he
saw the prisoner standing at the corner of Litchfield-street,
Soho, in conversation with a man just returned from penal
servitude—a man well known as a " lumberer" (a man
who carries stolen property for thieves, and introduces
them to receivers) standing about two yards off at the time.
He (the sergeant) accompanied by two other officers
(Webb, 112 C, and Weeks, 155 C), followed the men,
but they only succeeded in taking the prisoner
into custody, when he threw from his hand a silver
watch broken off at the bow, and then resisted violently,
and on Weeks attempting to pick up the watch it was
snatched up by some one who got away with it. The pri-
soner said he was not a thief but a " magsman," and ho (the
sergean') knew him as a person who visited fairs and races,
and played at cards. On searching him he found in his
possession an Australian note, some cards (known as
" breads") and a pair of spectacles used by " magswen,"
to give them when among flats a sedate and respectable
appearance.

Prisoner said he was not a thief, but he would acknow-
ledge that he got his living by gambling at fairs and races.
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months'
under the Vagrant Act:

THAMES.
SUSPECTED ROBBERY BY A DESERTER,—John Gibson,
a deserter from the 7th Royal Fusileers, and described as
having no home, was brought up on remand before Mr.
Partridge, cha•ged with being in possession of two plated
cruet-stands, which had either been stolen or unlawfully
procured.

A few days since the prisoner offered a plated cruet-stand
in pawn to an assistant in the shop of Mr. William Nathan,
a respectable pawnbroker, in the Commercial-road, East.
The assistant questioned the prisoner, who could give no
satisfactory account as to the way he became possessed of
the cruet-stand. Mr. Nathan's assistant gave the pri-
soner into the custody of a police-constable named
Carter, who searched the prisoner at the station-house, and
found another cruet .stand under his left arm. The name
Matthews, Esq., or Marquand, Esq., was very faintly
written in ink under one of the stands. There were three
D's impressed on the prisoner's idt side, indicating that he
had deserted three times. Prisoner had deserted a fourth time
from the 7th Fusiliers at Weimer, in August last. The pri-
soner was fully described in the " Hue and Cry" and Pollee
Gazette of August 11, 1863. Carter had communicated with
the military authorities, but no one attended to claim the
prisoner as a deserter. The officer believed the prisoner
was so bad that the regiment from which he had deserted
would have nothing more to do with him,

The prisoner made no defence, and refused to give any
account of the way he became possessed of the cruet-stands.
_ _

Mr. Partridge said he had no doubt whatever the pro-
perty taken from the prisoner was stolen. It appeared the
prisoner had deserted from his regiment four times, and
there was no doubt he was a man of bad chatacter. Hs
sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months in
the House of Correction and kept to herd labour, for the
unlawful possession of the cruet•stands.

MARKETS—This Day,

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to Mark -lane to-day the arrivals of home-grown
wheat were on a limited scale, but most samples were re-
ceived in tolerably good condition. Millers showed no dis-
position to operate in excess of their actual requirements.
Nevertheless the greater portion of the supply was disposed
of at the full prices of Monday last.
There was a full average show of foreign wheat on the
stands. The transactions in most descriptions were of fair
average extent, but the trade exhibited no activity. The
quotations generally ruled firm.

Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request,
at previous currencies.

The market was well supplied with English and foreign
barley. Fine malting parcels commanded extreme rates ;
otherwise, the trade was dull, at fully the late decline in
prices.

- Fine old malt was firm in price. Other kinds, however,
met a slow sale on former terms.

The supply of oats was much less extensive. The trade,
however, was rather slow, yet prices were supported.
Beans and white peas sold heavily at the late fall in their
value. Hog peas, however, were tolerably firm.
American flour, the supply of which was good, was in
fair demand at full prices. Other descriptions of flour were
in fair average demand at late rates.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat- Barley. Malt. Oats. Flom.
English 780 1 610 1 530 1 800 1 650
Irish.. — --1 5250
Foreigu 6,200 11,340 I 400 , 100 sks.
10,760 brls.

Visit of M, Alexandre Dumas to Sanson, the

French Executioner,

In the Indipendente of Naples M. Alexandre
Dumas has just published, under the title of " Me-
moires de Monsieur de Paris," a curious recital,
which we subjoin :—" I had read," says that writer,
" in many narratives of the death of Louis XVI.
that he refused to ascend the scaffold, that it was
necessary to use force, and that a struggle took
place between him and the executioner's assistants.
The incident seemed to me so contrary to the cha-
racter of the King that I was anxious to ascertai❑
the truth, if possible, and, for that purpose, resolved
to apply to Monsieur de Paris, who was the son of
Sanson, who guillotined Louis XVI.; he was only
twelve or fourteen years old at the time, end, as
he was present on the scaffold, he must certainly
remember all that took place on that memorable
occasion. But I wanted some excuse for call-
ing on him, which I soon found ; so one
evening I went to Sanson's house to purchase a pot
of the ointment which he sold as a cure for rheumatic
pains, and which, according to popular report, was
made of human fat. I was introduced to M. Sanson's
business room, and found him engaged in looking
over accounts, and in an adjoining room I heard a
piano played with considerable skill. AI. Sanson
rose on my entrance, and having heard what I
wanted, he told his servant to fetch the ointment.
I asked the price, and he replied that it depended

on circumstances, as he gave it gratis to the poor,
and sold it for 10f. to those who could afford to pay
for it. I gave him the money, and was hesitating

how to introduce the subject which was the real
cause of my visit, when Sanson, perceiving that I
had something more to say, remarked I
hardly dare ask you to take a seat.' To which
I replied that I would willingly do so, and at

once sat down, and said, ' M. Sanson, I see that

you suspect the pot of ointment to be only a pre-
text, and that you wish me to explain what more I
have to say.' You want to ask me something, I
suppose, sir. If so, speak ; for the happiest days of
my life are those in which men of the word do me
the honour to converse with me.' I then told him
who I was, and, after an exclamation of surprise, he
eagerly requested to know what he could do to
oblige me. You can clear up,' I said, an histori-
cal doubt. You were present at the execution of
Louis XVI. ?" I Was.' And you remember it
perfectly ?" 1 do.' Well, sir, some historians say
that, at the foot of the scaffold, Louis XVI. shrank
from death; that he struggled with the executioners,
and was in a manner lifted on to the scaffold. For
my part, I do not believe the statement, as it was
contrary to his character and temperament.'
There is, nevertheless, some truth in it ;' re-
plied the other, as Louis XVI. did struggle
violently for a moment with my father's assistants,
and for the reason lam about to explain. You are
aware that Louis XVI. was conveyed to the place
of execution in his own carriage, and without being
pinioned. Before he ascended the steps the execu-
tioner's assistants, fearing he might struggle at the
last moment, wished to bind his hands with a cord;
but this indignity roused all the pride still remain-
ing in the unhappy monarch, and he resisted, ex-
claiming " No, no, I will never submit to that !' The
men were about to use force, when my father stepped
forward, and taking from his pocket a handkerchief,
said in a tremulous voice and with tearful eyes,
44 With this handkerchief, Sire ?" Louis XVI. had
not heard himself called Sire for six months before.
He looked at my father, saw his tears, and at once
held Which my father tied with
the handkerchief. The rest passed as re-
latedt n
eh
outaby the historians.' Having obtained
Sanson's permission to ask a few other questions, 1
requested to know whether it was true that the
office he held was hereditary and obligatory in his
family. ' No, sir, he replied, but in the absence
of a positive law, there is the law of proprieties.
What profession but his father's can the son of an
executioner follow ? I await your other questions.'
My next inquiry was whether it was true that he
could not have a carriage, except on condition that
his name should be inscribed on the doors. here
is no obligation,' replied he; but such is the cus-
tom.i hotwhewe
elude
affirmative,
hi n
practice
e
Shouldr Havingy ul
answeredlike t o see
n said that be would take me down to see the cm -
liege, and accordingly ordered the servant to
bring a lantern. While the man was gone,
Sanson said that his daughter would never
forgive him if he allowed me to leave
without her seeing me, and was about to fetch
her when I remarked that I would rather go to
her in the drawing-room. He seemed pleased with
my proposal, and we went there. On entering the
room we found her seated at the piano. She was
a fair girl of about 19, with blue eyes, and a rather
melancholy expression of countenance. 'My dear,'
said Sanson,' here is a gentleman whom you think
much of ; knowing all your admiration for him, I
could not let him leave without doing you the
honour to embrace him.' She looked embarrassed
and blushed quite red. First of all, father,' said
she with some confusion, I wish to know the gen-
tleman's name.' He replied, You shall know it
afterwards, for I told you first, it is you that
would embrace him.' Oh! father!' she exclaimed
in a tone of reproach. I then embraced her,
after which she looked inquiringly at her
father, who said, Well, he is M. Alexandre
Dumas.' She then dropped on a chair, and sat
looking at me as if amazed. ' Look at him well,
girl,' said the father with that melancholy accent
which was habitual to him, for it is probabiy the
first and the last time you will ever behold him !'
'Phis little scene made such an impression on me that
fifteen years later I attempted d to reproduce it in the
novel of La Iteine Margot.' We went down to the
coach-house, in which were two or three carriages.
Sanson took me to the handsomest, and showed me
the escutcheon on the door; it pretented a broken bell
argent on a
red ground, and under it as a motto
were the two words SANS SON, being a pun on the
family name. Having learned all I wished to know,
I now expressed my thanks to M. Sanson, and took
my leave."

Another Attempted Outbreak of Convicts

at Dartmoor Prisons

For some weeks past the convicts at Dartmoor Prison
have been manifesting symptoms of renewing their at-
tempts of outbreak and insubordination. On last Saturday
evening, after the warders had served each convict with
his oupper, and clean linen for the ensuing day—being
thus supplied with all their wants, they commenced to
shout and hoot at their windows, and use threats of defiance
towards the highest prison officials. All the prisoners
cated in A and B Hall, No. 2 Prison, joined in one continued
shout of defiance, and doggedly refused to close their cell
doors. Capt. Best (the Deputy Governor), on being made
acquainted with the disturbance, promptly appeared on
the Beene, accompanied by a strong bady of warders, and a
detachment of the armed civil guard. Captain Best ordered
the warders to close all the cell doors, on which the convicts
commenced yelling, whistling, and knocking3against the
doors and partitions of their cells. Quietness and good order
were, however, ultimately restored. But on Sunday after-
noon, after having heard a moat impressive lecture from the
prison chaplain, all the convicts located in a hall, No. 2
Prison, refused to enter their cells and openly bade
defiance to the warder; demanding their regular exer-
cise and that their cell• doors should be left open,
other-
wise they would not return to their cells; The gnov.„Ter_no• 2r
had given orde's that all the prisoners located i
exercise
Prison should be deprived of their Sunday's
d , also that
and not be allowed to assemble together on
pernaisehment for
their cell-doors should be kept closed as a Puvening. The
their outrageous conduct on the previous ems!),
advanced
warders, with staves in their hands, courageously
towards their
on the infuriated convicts, and drove
ht
description. Shouting, yelling,
imprecations,
if their demands
cells. The scene of tumult and coufusiceatitoehnast,enashudedthbarffieaetes
of vengeance were uttered by the
detachment of the civil guard,
were not complied with. A -e— e drawn up in
tewearvailable officers
that could be procured
fwr ot tnht fio
ead hall,bay
were despatched to aid the warders
bayonets and arnrdisoloniidaedad arms,ali
in charge of No. 2 rrison
d;
atyhe wwaerrdeersalweehoesaellteudrnieitte wasthe
to be off duty that
prison at 11. 30 a.m. t-r act as a reserve. The con-
victs. seeing such a formidable and determined force,
after giving full vent to their lungs, succumbed to the war-
ders and returned to their cells. Nine of the instigators,
or rather ringleaders, were secured and removed to the re-
fractory cells, to await tha decision of Captain Gambier,
the visiting director, who is expected to arrive at the prison
in a day or two. One of the ringleaders, named Griffiths,
has been sent back on two different occasions to the penal
class at Pentonville Prison for murderous assaults on the
warders at Dartmoor ; so that, after completing his penance
at Pentonville, he has been let loose at Dartmoor to carry
out his murderous designs, and was allowed full scope to
incite his companions in villany to acts of mutiny and in-
subordination. Only last month five of the convicts at
Dartmoor underwent the punishment of the lash for vio-
lently assaulting the warders,—Western Daily Mercury.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,
_ ,

HEREFORD RACES-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
CORPORATION PLATE.

Flower Safety
The Monk
Orphene

:Eleven ran.

ARISTOCRATIC HANDICAP.

Lothian's King
Whitehall
Allow Ma

Eight ran.
GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.

Piff Paff
Ocean Witch

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O' CLOCK.

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 6.
:The following despatch has been addressed to her Majesty's
Ambassador at St. Petersktrgh

Foreign-office, Oct. 20, 1863-
My Lord,—Baron Brunnow has communicated to me a
despatch from Prince Gortchakoff, dated August 26,
(September 7), in reply to my de spateh to your Excellency,
No, 178, of the 11th ult., of which you were instructed to
give a copy to his Excellency.
Her Majesty's Government have no wish to prolong lb o
correspondence on the subject Poland for the mere pui
pose of controversy.
.11e-: Majesty's Government receive with satisfaction th 9
assurance iliac the Emperor of :Russia continues to be ant-
matsd with intentions of benevolence towards Poland, and
of conciliation in respect to all Foreign Powers.
Her Majesty's Government acknowledge that the rely -
tions of Russia towards European Powers are regulated by
Public Law. But the Emperor of Russia has special obli -
gations iu regard to Poland.
Her Majesty's Government have in the despatch of the
11th of August, and preceding despatches, shown that, in
regard lo this particular question, the rights of Poland at.e
contained in the same instrument which constitutes thia
Emperor of Russia, King of Poland.--. 1 am, &T..
(Signed)
p.s. your Excellency
bako is instructed to give a copy sr
of this despatch to PriEnceff,
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 5.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. the
Schunhoff as Consul at Cape Town tor . his Majesty the
King of Hanover.
INDIA-OFFICE, Nov. 5,
The Queen has been PleaCsoedunsteol nlePaPrniend 11°11'7 Miug
Esq., one of her Majestycs
Fort law, ro
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ham in Bengal.
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be a Judge of the High °nit of Judicature ::I't the
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London, Esq,, to be her Majesty's The Queen has been pleased by letters patent under th
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, e
ofC the Middle appoint ;—William Henry
London, Esq., John Gray,
Esq., .and John Joseph Powell,
Council learned in ?Jag
la w. MoifddtlheeT

Nov. 5.
MEMBER TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
Borough of New Windsor—Colunel itichard Henry
Richard Howard Vyse, of Stoke-place, in the cDt(nty of
Buckingham, in the room of George William ,Hope, Esq.
deceased.

BOROUGH OF ANDOVER. ,
The Gazette contains the Speaker's warrant for issung
a new writ for the electing of a member to servo in Parlia-
ment for the borough of Andover, in the room of William
Cubitt, Esq., deceased.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov.
2d Dragoon Guards—Frank Barrow, Gent., to b. Comet,
by purchase, vice Vincent Stuart Robertson, who re,-
tires.
3d Dragoon Guards—Cornet George Francis Robe rtson tp
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Don, who retires;
Henry Fred. Twynam, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Robertson.
7th Hussars_Captain Edward M. Palliser, from the 82i1
Foot, to be Captain, vice Gore, who exchanges.
Royal Artillery—The Resignation of Assistant-Surgeozi.
Joseph Fletcher Lougheed, which appeared in the Gazette.
of 20th February, has been cancelled.
Military Train—Ensign Stephen K. Winkworth has been
permitted to retire from the service by the sale of hit
commision.
9th Regiment of Foot—The supercession of Lieutenant
Francis Russell for being absent without leave, and cola,-
aind:rtshAige
sus
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re
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sion,
te.appoint-
been cancelled.
10th Foot—Jasper Nicolls Anderson, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Brookes, transferred to 89th.
Fcot.
31st Foot—Lieutenant John James Bailey, from 29th
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Paymaster, with the:
honorary rank of Captain, William Edmund Adams.,
deceased.
56th Foot—Gentleman-Cadet Arthur Adolphus L. F.
Levert, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,,
without purchase, vice Burnett, deceased,
634 Foot—Capt. Lloyd Henry Thomas, from the 91st Foot,
to be Captain, vice Bruce, who exchanges.
82d Foot--Capt. John Gore, from the 7th Hussars, to be
CAptain, vice Palliser, who exchanges.
78th Foot—Ensign George Cox to be Adjutant, vice Licua.
Mackinnon who resigns that appointment.
S7th Foot—Lieut. Henry Lowis Harvest, to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Robert Selby, deceased ; Lieut.
Simpson Hackett Hobbs to b e Captain, without purchase,
vice Brevet-Major Robert Gibson. who retires upon full-
pay
L
; Ensign Charles William Burton to be ieutenant,
• Ensign Charles Vernon
without purchase. vice Harvest ,
Ensign William Maitland Meacham, trom the 4th West
Hassell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hobbs;
India Regiment. to be Ensign, vice Burton;
George Daniel
-Hall Brookes, from the 10th Foot, to 'be

Ensign, vice Hassall.
91st Foot—Captain Stewart Hervey Bruce, from the 63d
Foot, to be tiaptain, vice Thomas, who exchanges ; the
Christian names of Ensign Voyle are Francis Rank=
Cave, and not as previously stated.
102 d Foot—William Hector McCaskill, Gent., to be En-
sigu, vice Brydon, transferred to the 101st Foot.
108th Foot—Lieutenant John Hay Shaw to be Adju-

tent.
4th West India Regiment—William Sloane Elderton,Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Meacham, trans-
ferred to the 89th hoot.

MEDICAL DEPAP.TMENT.—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph
Fletcher Lougheed, trout the Royal Artillery, to be Staff
Assistant-Surgeon.

STAFF.—Major and Brevet-Colonel Henry Hamilton,
C. 8., 78th Foot, en secondo from Assistant Ad j utant -
General, Cork, to bo Deputy Adjutant-General, in Ceylon,
vice Brevet-Colonel H. L. Meydwell, Major on half-pay,
Depot Battalion, whose period of service on the Staff hes
expired.

PIRAT: ES IN THE CHINESE SEAS.

The folk )wing letter has been received in Liver-
pool Ann°. anciars the fate of the ship Parana and

her crew :,

" Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1863.

"Dear Sirs,—Referring you to enclosed press
copy of our last respects under date of the 10th
inst., it is now with most sincere regret that we
have to announce to you the reported loss of your
bark Parana, and the still more melancholy fact of
the murder of Capt. Morrish and the entire crew.
The following are the fullest particulars regarding
this; most unfortunate affair.

si As We wrote you on the 12th inst., Captain
)lorrish started on his homeward voyage from hence
.on the 2d inst. On Saturday morning, the 12th
inst., news arrived from Macao (about 40 miles from
this), where the Parana loaded, that some mandarin
boats had had an engagement with piratical junks,
-which ended in the former capturing one or more
of the junks, as also 20 prisoners. These they
brought over to Macao. On reaching the junk
it was found to contain about 300 cases of cassia,
-which the agent of the Parana found to be marked
' O. and Ca., Parana,' and a portion of the cargo
he had shipped by that vessel. On an examination
of the pirates by the mandarins, one of them stated
that 103 en close by Latai they attacked and boarded
a foreif;n vessel, plundered her, and then set fire to
her, after having killed the captain and crew.
'` Oar senior, with one of the firm of Oxford and
Co., the charterers, waited on the senior naval officer
inar aediately after the receipt of the news and corn. -
intenicated the facts of the case to him, upon which
he ordered the Opossum gun-boat out with orders
to procure any tidings they might bs able to gain
of Capt. Morrish and the crew, or any other parti-
.culars of the unfortunate event. The gunboat re-
turned on the 21st inst. They had twice visited
the piratical haunt, destroyed
13 prisoners, a small
l in all five of their
junks., and brought with them
qaant ity of cassia, a timepiece, and some ship's gear,
which has been. proved to have belonged to the
Parana. Tbe examination of these 13 men took
place on M.onday, the 21st, at the Police-court, in
the preser.ce of our senior, when it was proved by
the Chin a pilot of the gunboat that one of the 13
men ac'S .Howledged to at least being cognizant of
the whf )1e circumstances attending the affair. His
story v /as that five boats had attacked a foreign
vessel, taken all her valuables out of her, put the
crew b Blow, battened down the hatches and set fire
to the vessel. This, if true—which we have little
doubt of—is in its result the most barbarous pira•
tical attacks we have ever heard of, even in China.
We regret, to say that after the conclusion of the
exe.mlna',ion the magistrate thought there was
hardty sufficient evidence to convict them of mur-
der. He could only there enema them for
Piracy, but gave us the option of a remand for
farther evidence, of which we have availed, and
have addressed her Britannic Majesty's Consul,
31r. D. B. Robertson, at Canton, with full de-
tails of the case, requesting that he would lay
the matter before the proper Chinese authorities,
ih Whose custody is the first batch of the pri-
soners taken by the mandarin boats, in order that
they might, it possible, aid us with any evidence
tending to convict the above 13 men of murder. To
this we have not as yet received any official reply,
but from a private source we gather that six of the
20 taken by the mandarins have confessed to having
been in the piratical attack ; that the vessel'was
boarded out at sea in the night, pillaged, and burnt,
all the Europeans on board doubtless perishing; '
bat of this there is no Actual certainty. We shall
hope to hand you the official report per Peninsular
and Oriental steamer, which will, we trust, be of
such a nature es will enable the authorities here
without any difficulty to convict the whole of them
of murder, as also of piracy.
" The arrival of the English mail yesterday, so
close on the departure of the French steamer, pre-
vents our writing you at greater length, and trust-
ing to be able to give you farther intelligence per
Peninsular and Oriental steamer on the 27th inst.
—We are, dear sirs, in haste, yours faithfully.
" WALKER, BOKRODAILE, and Co.
" Messrs. James Poole and Co., Tower-buildings,
Liverpool."