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to acquaint the College authorities. I returned, and
foul d that the body had been removed to this
house, and medical men were present.
By the Foreman—There had been no " larking"
on the river ; we all rowed up slowly and steadily.
Mr. James Bardell Adamson, undergraduate of
Emmanuel, in the main corroborated the evidence
of the last witness. He said—We had none of us
been in canoes before. 1 could not swim, but I had
heard Mr. Pask say he could swim a stroke or two.
I was behind Mr. Pask—about 20 yards—so that
my face was directed to his back, but I did not see
him actually capsized. When I heard the splash
and saw him in the water he was in front of his
boat : the head of the latter was directed straight
up the river. Can give no information at all as to
the cause of the capsize. Can say nothing as to the
current at the spot of the accident, as I never reached
it. For a short time after immersion deceased ap-
peared to be endeavouring to support himself by
what is termed "treading water," but he suddenly
threw up uis hands, fell on his back, and sunk. He
only made one exclamation when in the water,
when he threw up his hands, and that was,
" Oh!" I ran off for assistance as soon as I
reached the bank. Two men went into the water
after deceased, but the body was recovered by the
drags at the first attempt. In had been in the water
at least 25 minutes.

Mr. T. Smallman, of Grantchester, said he was
summoned to assist, and on his way, finding the
body had not been brought out, sent back for a
small private drag, with which he brought out the
body at the first throw. Two men were in the water
searching for deceased when witness arrived, but
their efforts were impeded by the congregation of a
number of females on the bank, so that modesty re-
strained the men from getting out of the river to
plunge. The position of the body was revealed to
witness by a transitory gleam of sunshine. It was
nearer the side than the middle of the river. The
water is more than 12 feet deep there. Deceased
was quite dead when taken out. Witness tried all
means prescribed by the Royal Humane Society for
the resuscitation of apparently drowned persons, but
without effect, till Mr. Fawcett, surgeon, of Cam-
bridge, arrived, and pronounced him dead. Was
told on arrival at the river that the body had been
20 minutes in the water then, and it was 20 minutes
more before it was taken out. Some delay was
caused by a person telling witness's little boy (the
messenger) that the small drag was of no use, and
sending him to a farm-house for a horse-drag ; so
that witness had to send a second messenger for the
small drag.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of
" Accidentally drowned," all concurring in the
danger of the use of canoes by persons who cannot
sxs

The remains of the deceased have since been
brought to London for interment. This unfortunate
occurrence has thrown a gloom over the whole of
the University, but more especially the society of
which Mr. Pask was a member, in which he had
just concluded the June examination, and achieved
the place of honour of first man of his year.
The unfortunate young man received his early
education at the North London Collegiate School,
at which he gained the highest honours, and carried
off an unusual share of prizes_ His loss is a severe
blow to his unhappy parents, whose hopes were
centred in his future career, from which much was
expected by all who knew him.

New Discovery of Ancient Bones at

Gibraltar.

A correspondent of the Atheneum, under date,
Gibraltar, May 13, writes—" I send you an account
of the discovery of an ossiferous cavern on this rock.
The mere fact of a cave containing osseous remains
having been found would not perhaps be of suffi-
cient interest to justify me in asking you to give
place to a letter on the subject. But there are cir-
cumstances connected with this discovery which in-
duce me to believe that some account will not be
unacceptable to geologists. At any rate, it is de-
sirable to determine if possible the antiquity of these
remains, even though they be, as some declare, com-
paratively recent. The fact of a human skull hav-
ing been discovered in a cave embedded in bone
earth, in close contiguity to a stone implement and
the bone of a huge mammal 20 feet below the sur-
face of a limestone plateau, is sufficient to justify
some inquiry. For the last six months the Royal
Engineers have been employed excavating a large
tank for the use of the military prison on Windmill
Hill. The spot where this excavation has been
made is situated upon an oval plateau, 400 feet above
the sea, at the southern point of the rock. The pla-
teau is composed of compact limestone, in most
places scarcely concealed by the superficial sail. So
solid is the rock that the quarrying of the tank was
done entirely by blasting. About 10 days ago I
heard casually that some bones, described as ' beef
bones,' had been discovered in the excavations,
when proceeding to the spot I found the quarrymen
working about 15 feet below the surface, and they
were removing portions of a blast which had just
taken place. Beneath two large blocks of limestone
some dark, loamy earth was visible, and it was from
here that the first discovered bones had been taken.
Unfortunately, being considered valueless, they had
been thrown away. A few turns of the spade,
however, brought up others, including three
portions of a human skull and a hume-
rus, also human. Close by was found a frag-
ment of rude pottery made of baked clay. Since
this discovery the search has been prosecuted more
carefully, and with the following result. It was
ascertained that no fissure of any kind leading from
the earth's surface was observed during the pro-
gress of the excavations. The superincumbent
limestone was compact, and measured twelve feet in
thickness at the spot where the first bones were
found. After a few hours careful digging, during
which many bones were collected, the roof of a cave
was reached. Labour was then directed to the ex-
cavation of the cavern. It was filled to its ceiling
with dark, rich mould. This mould was filled with
bones, broken and dislocated, and presenting the
same appearance as the bones found in other osseous
caverns. The roof of the cave is covered with
broken stalactites. The depth of the cavernaht has
not yet been ascertained. It has been edscanviroen
vertically 24 feet below the surface;
and
at
rod forced through the mould gives
14 feet lower. The organic r.
avwaoterkdsaroef
Art found in the small portion y
numerous. Seventeen emairt aenxnocd
ed. Close by were two
human jaws were d feet below the level two
hed as if by frac-
one surface much worn and po
stone knives and anisocbolvoenrg slab of sandstone,. with.
tion. Within a few feet on the same level was a
stone shaped like a
rude pestle. The bottom sur-
face is worn and polished, and the handle or upper
part
has three small concavities, which exactly fit
the thumb and two fingers when the instrument is
grasped most conveniently. It seems probable that
this implement was used for grinding cereals or
breakingthese
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numberlessb
Mixed
of edwanitih-
mals, including a portion of the vertebra of a huge
mammal. An experienced surgeon has declared
this bone to have belonged to the elephant, but of
what date he is unable to say. In my opinion it
is the bone of a smaller animal. Amidst the vast
quantity of bones I have been able to recognise the
teeth of a large species of ox, the horse, a large
deer, the wild boar, the lagomys, the jaw of a car-
nivorous animal which I believe to be the hyaena,
and portions of the jaws of other carnivorous ani-
mals which I cannot determine. At the lowest
point yet reached two flint hatchets, more highly
finished than those of Abbevillee, were turned up.
Also, a small highly-polished and sharpened flint (?)
implement, cut with some skill. At this point por-
tions of three human jaws were found with the
femurs of a man and a woman.
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charcoal. A vessel of baked clay of the
manufacture, which appears to have been used as a
pipkin, has been preserved unbroken. When found
a Pecten jceobc-eus, or common scallop, was inside it.
Three rolled pebbles, of greenstone, have been
found ; also, a large pice of coral, quite bleached.
the coral is recent, and of the species Oculina
Ba7nea. Among the shells I fancy I recognise the
Murex alveolatus.

" It is somewhat singular that, close up under the
roof of the cavern, a copper fiso-hook three inches
in length was found. The vertebrae of many fish
have been picked up. The lower jaws of mammalia
are in greater abundance than any other part of the
skeletons.

"Since writing the above, I have again visited
the cave. l'lie excavations are progressing rapidly
under the superintendence of Mr. Brome, governor
of the military prison. As far as can be judged,
the cave is not very extensive, though its d.pth
cannot be ascertained, It is choked 'with bone
earth. Another slab of sandstone, about one foot
long and eight inches wide, slightly concave in the
centre, where it is worn and polished by friction,
has been brought out.

" A skull human) was also found to-day, hut
broken into many pieces. Its position when taken
out was about fourteen feet from the level of the
ground. Some recent shells, including the common
oyster, have been found at the same level. A. few
rolled pebbles have been picked out of the mould
at the depth of twenty feet. All the specimens
spection by competent persons."
found are carefully collected and preserved for in-

The Case of Sergeant-Major Miley.

The following is an authentic copy of the memo-
randum of his Royal Highness the Commander•in-
Chief on this most painful case
:-
4, Horse Guards, S.W,, Dec. IS, 1562.

MEMORANDUM.

" His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-
in-Chief having perused the proceedings of the general
court-martial on Paymaster Smales, of the Gth Inniskilling
Dragoons, and having had under his consideration not
only these proceedings, but also many acts bearing on them,
has seldom found himself in a more painful position, or one
in which it appears more difficult to deal out even-handed
justice to all parties who have become mixed up with these
unfortunate events, and at the same time to do justice to
the service.

"Not only is the reputation of one of the most highly
distinguished regiments in her Majesty's cavalry service
implicated by them, but they have taken such a course that
his Royal Highness is most unwillingly forced into the
position of differing to a great degree from the views
which appear to be taken by officers of high rank, great
reputation, and usually of excellent judgment, to differ
with whom he feels it to be not only painful to himself,
but in some degree embarrassing to the service.
4, His Royal Highness has, however, but one course to
pursue, and that is, after mature consideration, and a
patient hearing of the opinions of those who, from their
rank and position, are most likely to give unbiassed advice,
to act upon his own sense of justice to all parties, and with
due regard to the interests of the service over which he is
called to preside.

"In the mind of his Royal Highness there can he no
doubt that the Court have come to a proper verdict as re-
gards the insubordinate tone of the letter written by Pay-
master Smales to his commanding officer; and it would
have been quite sufficient for the purposes of discipline,

and have saved a great mass of evidence and extraneous
matter, had the charges been directed solely against the
tone and spirit of that letter, and the letter itself been laid
before the court as the only evidence required; in which
opinion his Royal Highness finds himself fortified by that
of the Judge Advocate-General of her Majesty's forces,
herewith annexed.

" With regard, therefore, to Paymaster Smales—without
entering into the minute points which the prosecutor has
brought evidence, with more or less success, to rebut, there
can be no doubt, upon the broad principles of discipline,
that that officer was guilty of most insubordinate conduct
in writing such a letter, and his removal from the army is
an act of justice to the service.

" Unfortunately, however, in bringing down on his own
head a just retribution for his contumacy in writing an in-
subordinate letter, this trial of Paymaster Smales has ex-
posed a state of things in the Inniskilling Dragoons which
his Royal Highness will endeavour to take an impartial
view of.

" There is no doubt that the Inniskilling Dragoons under
Col. White and his successor, Col. Shute—two distin-
guished officers, in whom his Royal Highness has great
confidence—before their embarkation for India, were all
that could be desired as to esprit de corps, unanimity, and
good feeling among the officers, and as to drill and discipline
among the men.

" On their embarkation for India some changes took placo
among the officers, and the regiment had not been long in
India when some unfavourable reports of the behaviour of
one or two individuals when off duty, or at the mess, called
down his Royal Highness's severe displeasure, the more so
that it formed so strong a contrast to the previously ac.
quired reputation of the corps.

" Still, with such exception, the regiment remained in the
highest state of discipline, as elicited from all the confiden-
tial reports that have reached his Royal Highness from the
Commander-in-Chief and inspecting general officers in
Bombay, till Colonel Shute was succeeded by Lieut.-Col,
Crawley from another corps.
" In permitting Lieut.-Colonel Crawley to succeed Colo-
nel Shute, his Royal Highness believed he placed—and he
did in fact place—at the head of the Inniskillings an officer
of experience in the lower ranks of the service, of consider-
able talent, knowledge, and zeal ; but, unfortunately, as
has been proved, an officer not gifted with the special
talent which unites with the firmness of command the tact
which inspires confidence and creates goodwill.
"From the first Lieutenant. Colonel Crawley appears to
have taaen an unfavourable view of some points in the re-
giment, and to have expressed himself is no measured terms
as to the changes he contemplated, which his Royal High-
ness cannot but think was uncalled for and unnecessary,
and which was sure to create an unfavourable feeling on the
part of the regiment.

" The conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Crawley subsequent to
the court-martial, if the address be made to his regiment,
both officers and men, be correctly reported, was, to say
the least of it, exceedingly reprehensible and injudicious.
" There are other points in Lieut.-Colonel Crawley's con-
duct of which his Royal Highness cannot speak in too
strong terms.

"His Royal Highness alludes to the confinement, under
arrest, of certain non-commissioned officers during the trial
under a charge of conspiracy, and for which there seems
not to have been a shadow of foundation.
" His Royal Highness has also reason to believe that had
the Commander-in Chief in India been better acquainted
with some of the facts of Sergeant-Major Lilley's case he
would have taken a different view of it from that which his
remarks prove him to have done, and would not have attri-
buted the death of that unfortunate non• commissioned
officer to excess.
" Under these circumstances nothing but the high opinion
expressed of Lieut.-Col. Crawley by the general officers in
immediate command has induced his Royal Highness to
continue him at the head of the regiment, and he does so
only upon trial, and under the hope that for the future he
will be able to carry on discipline without outraging the
feelings of the gentlemen under his command.
" With reference to Major Swindley, his Royal Highness
considers his conduct to have been most reprehensible, and
he finds it difficult to make any excuse for it.
andce Crawleywerehighlyunbecoming,
w if
olilisd a Royal
n l Highness bad not
been obliged to make the remarks he has done on Lieu.
Swindley from the regiment; but, as he has
tenant-Colonelgiven Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Crawley the benefit of the character he has
received from the general officers under who
m
his Royal Highness will also give Major Swindley he is serving,
vantage of the reports he
had the ad-
favour.previously heard in his
" His Royal Highness now warns both Lieutenant-Col.
Crawley and Major SwindleY
that unless
conduct themselves in their
relative
s they hereafter
positions in a manner
to set an example of discipline to
the regiment generally he
will feel it his duty to remove one or both of them from the
important stations they occupy.
" His Royal Highness feels it to be his duty also not to
pass unnoticed the conduct of Captain Weir and Surgeon
Turnbull.

"Nothing can excuse a subordinate officer for showing,
by manner or act, disapprobation of his commanding officer
before the younger members of a corps, who should look up
to the captains and officers of station and experience as ex-
amples of discipline and obedience.
" In conclusion, his royal highness trusts that the future
conduct of the officers of the Inniskillings will be such as
to eradicate the evil spirit which momentarily appears to
have crept into the corps, and to have tarnished a reputa-
tion which was second to none in the cavalry for all that
constitutes a well-ordered and most efficient regiment.
J. YouRE-SCARLETT, A.G."

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went against two persons who had forged the
mark of Cliquot Ponsardin on 300 vises of Wine. They
have been condemned to 18 months' imprisonment and
a fine of £1,200, and to the publication of the sentence in
the journals and the costs of its insertion. Their head eel-
iarman also has been sentenced to four months' imprison..
ment. Some of the wines were seized in London.

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