The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-13 00:00:00

:‘4J IN, N DoN, FRIDA Y EV EA ING MARCH 13, 1863

-01 OSP,. MAYOR —A COMMON COUNCIL
-I-U holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City
of i ondon, on THURSDAY, the 12th day of March, 1863.
Resolved un ,nimousiy,—That a dutiful and loyal Address
of Congratulati n be preseated by this Court to her Most
Gracious dajesty the Queen on tue occas on of the marrta_,e of
his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, with
the Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
Reso ved ui.anim usly,— I hat compliments of Congratu-
lation be p esenteu by this Court to his oyal Highness the
Prince of ales upon his marriage with her lioyal Highness
the Princess A eXandra of Denmark.
ties° ved un initnou ly, That compliments of congratula-
tion be presented by this Court to her Royal Highness the
Prince s Alexandra of Denmark on her niarri .ge with his
Royal highness Albert Edward i'rnce of Wales.
Resolved unanimous y,—That his Royal Highness Albert
Edward, Prince of Wa,es, be very respectfully requested to
take upon himself the Freedom of t us City, to wuich he is
entitled by patrimony, and that upon his acceding to this
request, h s Royal II witless he pre.ented with the Copy of
the Freedom, enclised in a casks t of the value of £250, as a
testimony of the affection and profound respect entertained
by this Court for his person and character.
WOODTHORPE.

iti deceased. on their being taken to the station,
deposed that, the woman Donigan was suffocated,
and that there were no marks of violence on the
body. Mrs Cryst all's skull had been fractured, but
he thought she too had died from suffocation, though
the fracture of itself would have occasioned death.

The Coroner, having brit fly reviewed the evi-
dence, said, whether any better precautions could
have been taken to prevent accidents on the night
of the illumination he did not know. Inspector
Foulger was of opinion that barriers would have been
of no use. Supposing recourse had been had to bar-
riers, they must have been erected in the middle
of the road or at the edge of the footpath, and
that, perhaps, would have narrowed the way so
much that runny people might have been crushed
against them. It was clifffi;ult to say what ought
to have been done under the circumstances. If a
crowd was r. quired to stand still in a given area, it
was desirable to keep them within barriers; but
where they had a moving multitude to deal with,
such an arrangement might of itself be the cause of
death. On the one hand, if the jury thought there
was any way by which such a calamity might be
prevented in future it would be of advantage to the
public to know it, and they might append any sug-
gestion of that kind to their verdict; but if, on the
other hand, they thought the best means of avoiding
them was for people to stay at home on such occa-
sions, then they would probably be of opinion that
in this case death had been the result of accident.

inspector Foulger, being recalled and asked by
the Court whether the police believed they had the
power to prevent carriages going through the
streets, he replied the Commissioner of Police
might make an order to that effect, which would be
valid if sanctioned by the Lord Mayor and the
Court of Aldermen.
The jury, after a brief .crmsuliation, returned as
their verdict that death in both cases under con-
sideration had been purely accidental.
Several of them expressed a strong opinion that
the a- mission into the streets of carriages, vans,
waggons, cabs, and the like on such occasions
tended greatly to ,ndanger ii e ; but they came to
no formal resolution on that or any other subject.

son of Ralph Cooper, at Miadlesbor( ugh, on the 3a
January last.
Mr. Charles 0 wen appeared on behalf of the pro-
secution ; the prisoners were undefended.
It appeared that the prosecutor was in South -
street, Middlesborough, about /0 o'clock at night,
oq his way home, when the female prisoner came up
and seized him by the arm. Immediately atterwards
the male prisoner appeared, and while the prose-
cutor was being held by the woman tore off from
his waistcoat, his watch chain and seals with which
he made off. Both the prisoners were shortly after-
wards captured. The evidence clearly brought the
case home to the prisoners, and the jury, after a
short consultation, found them both guilty.
The learned Judge sentenced the male prisoner to
six years' penal servitude, and the female prisonet
to eight calendar months' hard labour.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Kite paddle steamer, of 300 tons and 170
horse power, arrived at Spithead early yesterday
morning from Fayal and Bermuda,after a lengthened
passage, owing to the defective nature of her machi-
nery and boilers. Only one boiler has been used
on the passage, and that at a low pressure of steam.
Orders are expected for her to proceed round to
Woolwich to pay out of commission.
The Powerful, target ship at Portsmouth, has
been brought down the harbour, and is being pre-
pared alongside the dockyard for the reception of a
fresh supply of plates for trial, including a ham-
mered 41-inch plate from the Thames Iron Works
Company, cut in two equal parts, one part to be
fired at in the condition in which it was received
from the makers, the other bent 21 inches trans-
versely out of a straight line. The Admiralty are
just now displaying considerable interest on the
subject of " bent" plates, which is undoubtedly one
of the highest importance in relation to the armour-
ing the bows and sterns of our ships of war. Two
other plates are being drilled for trial at the same
time as the Thames plate. They are respectfully
of 41 and 51 inches in thickness of metal, and are
manufactured by one of the best firms in France.
The Black Prince iron frigate, Capt. Wainwright,
continues in the steam basin at Portsmouth taking
out damaged machinery and refitting. The Emerald
frigate, Capt. A. Cumming, goes into harbour from
Spit head this morning to take out her damaged
screw and ship another for her experimental trials.
The other ships of the Channel Squadron now at
Spithead comprise the Revenge flagship, the War-
rior, Resistance, and Defence, iron frigates, the Kite
steamer, bound for Woolwich, and the Racoon, 22,
screw frigate, Capt. Count Gleichen, on special
service.

The principal work to be completed on board the
Royal Oak before that iron frigate is floated out
of the dock, in which she is preparing for sea in
Chatham dockyard, is on the iron-cased reconnoit-
ring tower. The inner iron caning and the 10 inch
teak backing, to which the iron plates will be bolted,
have been fixed in their places, and three of the
eliptical 44-inch armour-plates with which the
turret will be encased fastened to the exterior. The
entire titaness of the tower will be rather more
than 15 inches, the iron casing being 5 Bths of an
inch, the teak planking 10 inches, and the outside
plates 41 inches, the turret itself being about 10
inches less in thickness than the broadsides of the
Royal Oak. The entire surface, however, of the
look-out tower will be convex, so that there is even
less chance of a shot penetrating it than there is of
the broadsides being pierced, which lat ter may, in
fact, be considered invulnerable. The reconnoitring
tower is entered by an aperture communicating
with the main deck. The officer in command of the
vessel will thus.be enabled to direct its movement
in perfect security in the midst of the thickest fight,
while Gisborne's patent electric code of signals,
which invention is now being fitted on hoard, under
the superintendence of the inventor, will allow him
to keep up instantaneous communication both with
the engineer and the men at the wheel. Several
hundreds of machines and workmen still crowd the
decks, and all is energy and bustle on board in order
to have the frigate ready for undocking by the 19th
inst , when, should the state of the tides permit, she
will be floated out of dock and steam to Folly Point,
in readiness to make her trial trip at light draught,
without her guns or any of her heavy stores on
board, and afterwards, when completed, and in her
sea trim. She is now out of the hands of the riggers,
and every rope and spar in their places. The Royal
Oak, like the Defence, and some others of the iron
squadron, is what is termed " bark-rigged,"
which, considering the great size of the vessel,
gives her a naked appearance aloft. It seems, pro-
bable, however, that a very short experience at
sea will necessitate a material alteration in her
present rig, which, even now, is generally con-
,
damned as being altogether unsuited to a vessel of
the size and tonnage of the Royal Oak. There is
still a great deal of work remaining between decks,
principally in the way of fitting, which is likely to
detain the frigate in harbour for some weeks after
she is undocked. Already the most favourable opi-
nions are formed of the success of the system of
ventilation which has been adopted on board from
the suggestions made to the Admiralty by Captain
Fanshawe, the superintendent of the dockyard,
from whose recommendations, in fact, the between-
decks of the Royal O ak have been ventilated. Should
the plan be attended with success, of which there
appears all probability, a similar system will be car-
ried out on board the other iron and iron-cased ships
now building. The chief feature in Capt. Fanshawe's
plan of ventilation is that of having a current of air
eoneantly circulating through every part of the
deck both by day and night. The Royal Oak be-
ing constructed without bulkheads or water-tight
compartments, as is the case with the Achilles, De-
fence, and other iron vessels, a system of gratings
and other openings is carried round the decks by
which the air below is kept in constant circulation,
while the hollow iron masts, into each of which is
an opening from all the decks, serve as powerful
air-shafts to carry off the vitiated air. There is
little doubt that the effect of this arrangement will
be to keep the air between the decks at all times
pure, thus doing away with the inconveniences which
are now so seriously felt on board most, if not all,
our iron ships from the want of a proper and effec-
tive system of ventilation.
The screw steamship Revenge, 73, Capt. C. Fel-
lowes, flag of Rear-Admiral R. &nett, K.H. ; the
Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane; and
the Resistance, 16, Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, all
three belonging to the Channel Squadron, are ex-
pected at Plymouth, to remain some time.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Rhadamanthus,
from Woolwich, with engine gear for the Prince
Consort, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning, and sent to the receiving ship Implacable
100 supernumerary boys for training, After coaling
she would proceed for Pembroke, probably in the
afternoon.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander V. 0. Inglefild.
and Commander C. W. Andrew, to be Inspecting
Commanders of the Coastguard, vice Commander
' Cockraft and Commander Comber, resigned ; and
Henry H. Justice, midshipman to the Virago.