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

THE ARMY.

The ith 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, preparatory
to proceeding to Dover, where the company will be
employed in erecting additional defences and the
repair of the existing fortifications at that part of
the coast. The class of men transferred to the com-
pany are chi( fly 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 LANCASTER.—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 £17,725, were £55,682, the
principal items 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 was paid dining the year
to the keeper of her Majesty's privy purse the sum of
expenses of
£22,C00. There was also paid for repairs, taxes, salaries
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to officers (£5,991), superannuation
allowances
general
donations and charities (X 1,801), and
ma..nagement, a total amount of £14,600, leaving a balance
of £L9,082 carried to next account.
Tim' ALLEGED FRAUD BY A STOCKBROKER.—At
the Guilc,lball Police-court on Friday, Mr. John Bruce, a
stockbroker, of 4, Bank-buildings, and a member of the
Stock Exchange, appeared before Alderman Humphery
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 Pernambuco Railway shares.
The details of the case have already been given.
Mr. Felkard attendedooi behalf of Mr. Vivian ; and Messrs.
Pawle and Lovesey for 'Rix. Bruce. Mr. Folkard said, in
accordance with the suggi, stioa thrown out by the magis-
trates at the former hearing, an arrangement had been come
to by the solicitors on both siLles with reference to the sub-
ject in question, which would re.nder it unnecessary to trou-
ble the magistrate any further. ,klderman Humphery con-
gratulated both sides upon having ,settled their differences,
and the matter terminated.
The Italic of Turin announces that the diligence
from the Abruzzi to Naples was att,qcked on the Ist
by about twenty brigands between Veriair.o and i s rnia.
1, igan chief,The passengers were stripped of all i h.e,rir vadluabl.es,
and the letters destroyed. The terrible
Guzzo Falcione, wns killed on the 2d in an engagement
with the National Guard of Cimigliano,
DIE MURDER IN SALOF.--Edward Cooper was
brought before a bench of magistrates on Thursday,
at Shrewsbury, on the charge 6'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 pie.
The particulars of the case have recently appeared. From
the appearance of the body it would seem that it was not
quite dead when it was buried. There was a handkerchief
tied so tightly round the neck that the medical gentlemen
who examined the body had no doubt that death arose from
strangulation. Several witnesses were examined, and at
the conclusion of the evidence the prisoner was committed
for trial on the charge of wilful murder.