The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
The screw steam frigate Orlando, 46, Cap

George G. Randolph, from Bermuda, March 31,
under canvas only, arrived in Plymouth Sound
yesterday evening, all well. She left at the island
the Galatea, the Petrel, and the Terror.
The hired transport Newcastle, 1,137 tons, Capt.
Benest, belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwell,
from Calcutta, January 17, has arrived off Ply-
mouth, with 149 men, 6 women, and 14 children,
invalids from various regiments, under command of
Major Brownlow, and in medical charge of Dr.
Woodsworth. Sergeant Murphy, of the 80th Regi-
ment, died on the 14th of March.

The iron screw steam transport Niegwra, 6, Corn-
mander Henderson, left Plymouth yesterday with
the left wing of the 32d Regiment, for Dublin, en
route to the Curragh. .

The Leander, 2,760 tons, 400-horse power, lately
attached to the Ist division of the Chatham steam
reserve, was commissioned at the Nore yesterday
by Capt. Thomas Harvey (January 31, 1848), late
of the Colossus, 80, 400-horse power, for service on
the Pacific station. The Leander was formerly one
of the fastest 50-gun sailing frigates in the service,
and about three years since was cut asunder,
lengthened 30 feet amidships, and converted into a
screw steamer. She is now one of the smartest
frigates of her class in the British navy. The
armament of the Leander has been reduced to 35
guns, like that of the Euryalus, flagship of Rear-
Admiral A. L. Kuper, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief
in the East Indies. The Leander has been fitted
with additional cabins to accommodate a Commo-
dore and his Staff. She will probably relieve the
Topaze, 39, 600-horse power, bearing the flag of
Commodore the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, senior offi-
cer on the southern division of the Pac
Yesterday Major• Gen. H. Eyre, commd d
atnh e nwgho I e
forces in the Chatham district,
revie"'eon Chatham
of the troops composing the garrisondincluded the I)
Lines. The forces on the groan_
Koine Engineers,
battery Royal Artillery, the
British E.
British regiments,
the depots of the East
blntdtaia
.ions
of infantry, and
;fie station.
Yesterday
composing the three 1 I
the General
companies,General to oakn and
p after
his
position inspect-
ingd with 10 rounds of blank
provided
of the troops was
On the arrival of Gen. Eyre on the 1
cartridge.
he was received by the troops drawn up in
the brigade of
ground Royal Marines Light Infantry. Each
contiguous
in front of the flagstaff, when the entire force
marched past, by columns of companies, in slow and
quick time. The remainder of the afternoon was
luimonnstho
devoted to the execution of a variety of manoeuvres
ei ch b a
tc
toal
incidental to a brigade field day, in all of which the
troops engaged acquitted themselves in a very satis-
factory manner, The troops quitted the Lines

The Wreck of the Orpheus.
The following letters appear in the Thrust—
" There is one circumstance connected with the
Manukau bar which has not, I believe, been allulcd
to in the account of the wreck of the Orpheu=. At
the same pilot station where the signal Take the
bar' was flying on the morning of the ship's loss,
there is a signal post with moval north and south
arms, like the old semaphore telegraphs. As the
channel is constantly shifting, and pilots cannot be
always put on board vessels making for the har-
bour, these arms are employed in their stead to
steer ships in, being alternately raised or lowered
as the vessel entering deviates on either side from
her correct course. If due attention be paid to these
signals, the passage may be made in tolerably fine
weather with perfect safety, even by captains
strange to the coast. The commander of the Orpheus
in the official despatches wouldin
tmelasygrpaopshsi.blyThhaevceabreefeonl iwgnayorant of the use of this
almost which
ignoredmto
im-
ply that, in a spirit of self reliance, not uncommon
with naval officers, he neglected to follow itswarn-
it ni
ognss, al
onsdt trustinglife
atnodthheisAshdimpi.ralutynfsoartilainugatdeitryeci-t
will be a very small satisfaction to the friends of
the sufferers to know that this catastrophe might
have been avoided.-1 am, &c., E. G. G."
" you think the accompanying unvar.
nished tale,' from the pen of one of the few middies
mercifully saved from the wreck of the Orpheus, of
sufficient interest to be given to the public it is at
your service; My warmest gratitude is due to Sir
George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, for the
great kindness showed to my son in receiving him
into his own house and attending to all his wants,
even to supplying him with clothes from his own
wardrobe.—l am, &c., C. B. IL
"'Extract of a letter from a midshipman belong-
ing to her Majesty's ship Orpheus, dated Suez, April
2 :—I have sent you newspapers containing a rough
account of the wreck. They speak of young Bark-
ly's miraculous escape, but mine was quite as much
so. After we all took to the rigging I was in the
maintop with the commander, first lieutenant, the
master, and a midshipman named Broughton, and
about 80 men. It was about 9 o'clock when the
mainmast went, taking with it the fore and mizen
topmasts. The sea at the time was very high, some
of the waves being about 40ft. The mast fell to
windward, and every one with it. As we all rose
up we gave three ' farewell cheers' to the remaining
fellows in the fore and mizen tops, and then they

were washed off by dozens, till only four remained.
Every minute the sea washed some yards above our
heads, and oar legs would be in the air. We knew
that if we let go it would be a case ; twice my strength
failed me, but the receding wave washed me back
again. I was holding on the futtock rigging of the
top, which was at last washed with the mast across
the ship, and afterwards a clipping wave washed me
clear of the ship and carried the remaining mast
away, breaking the ship up entirely. We were about
three and a half miles from the shore, and the flood
tide was setting in. I had almost sunk when I came
across a capstan bar ; it was something to rest one's-
self on, I thought, but it was no go, for the breakers
brought a lot of the wreck on the tcp of me, and I
got some thundering good clippers on the head, so I
swam for the shore. Presently I saw a poor fellow
on the top of something which turned out to be a
chest of crawers, going along at a flue fate and turn-
ing somersaults, but he held on and began shouting,
and I saw in the direction be was going one of our
boats, the cutter, rise on the top of a wave. Well,
you may be sure I did not keep my mouth shut, and
soon after 1 was picked up regularly done for. IV e
were about two miles from the ship. We went to
the Maori pilot's hut, and having dried our clothes
and had some tea and bread we lay down on a coat
or anything we could get hold of, and slept. Most
of the men were not much hurt, but I was much
bruised and bad a sprained ankle. Some went on
the beach to look out in case any one was washed
ashore. Early next morning the steamer came for
us, and we, whom they had given up for lost, were
of course hailed with delight. We had to steam
about 18 miles to Onehanga, where we were met
by Sir George Grey and a large party. Barkly
and I stopped at his house for a day and night, till
the Miranda sailed for Sydney to catch the mail.
Really I could not have been treated more kindly
at home, &c. I lost all my kit, of course, except
an old shirt and trousers which I had on."

Explosion at the Ewell Powder Mills.

About 6 o'clock yesterday morning a fearful ex•
plosion of gunpowder, by which three lives were
lost, took place at the mills belonging to Messrs.
Sharp and Adams, of Birchin-lane, London. The
manufacture is carried on in five detached buildings,
distant from 160 to 400 yards from each other.
These are known as-1, the mixing-house ;2, the
mills, which are worked by steam ; 3, the press-
room ;4, the corning-house and glazing-room ; and
5, the dust-houses. The corning-house and glazing-
room formed one building of only one story ; it was
40ft, square, and was divided into two apartments
by a water wheel, which drove the machinery of
the mill, and by a thin partition. It was in this
building that the explosion took place. The noise
was fearful, and alarmed the whole neighbourhood.
The shock was like that produced by cannon and
file firing. Within a quarter of a mile of the spot
windows were broken in every house. In the High-
street of Sutton, three miles off, the shock was
severely felt, and the noise caused alarm at a dis-
tance of from six to seven miles. One of the work-
men engaged at the time in the press-house, about
400 yards off, on hearing the explosion, said to his
companion, "There's a blow," and made his way
into the open air. On looking up he saw a cloud
of smoke and black spots, which he knew to be
charred timbers tossed high into the air by the
plosion. The workmen, on repairing to the place
100
after the accident, found the whole space.
yards of the mill covered with charred ti
th• The
a few inches to many feet in leng •
a team not
itself was levelled with the ground,
square
less than 12 feet long and 15 a ianacdh eas t a
die-
standing almost upright in the
vighrere it had been.
tance of 30 yards from the Placaever
the tops of the
It bad evidently been boloeelvon
intervening without
3oung elms andTasohiarge ash and elm trees were
touching them. - and the old press which stood
torn up by the roots,
employed •
outside the building was also pulled from its socket.
aiNv. bi tehrien frill
in the rooms, and
adjoining
directions
he had just gone to work. The
at 6 o'clock t 9 hey
all three in the building, and
mill. Gardener,
Th eltbuoxdlye yo
fFtahremf.
were - were blown up
hPaicmke,dinudPiffinertebnet
with it. Their bodies (or portions of them) were
, belonging to Mr,
field,
Oldor 7Oyard s from the
lacedhe e One body, that of Thos.
Woolman, was found at Ia ( istanee of 90 yards; the
other two, those of
ormer was the least muti
James Baker and Henry Hook-
°lnfenthaerethuls'euea,lloYne arm only being blown oil.
Of the others
the heads and limbs were separated
from the bodies and scattered about the field. One
of the heads has not been found. Mr. Sharpc's pri-

vate residence, at some distance from the scene of
the accident is much damaged. Scarcely a pane of
glass remains whole, and the woodwork is much
torn. The walls are shaken to the foundation. Two
of the deceased men left families—James Baker, a
wife and six children, the eldest only 11 years of
age, and Henry Hookham, two daughters, one a
widow, with children dependent on him. But either
he or the other sufferer bad Lisa just secured to bun,
through the kind exertions of Mr. Sharpe, a pen-
sion from Sir Henry Bridges, the former owner of

(From hY char f s Co, respondence )
THE PRIISSO-PoLIsH FRONTIER, April 10.
In the government of Kalisch effiirs are in a
critical condition. The insurgents
the lar generally decline
the Russians have, 4000 p men in the district of
,
Bordnik alone, and various movements of the os ; but ge
engaging the Russia n tro
Rus-
sian commaniers, do not allow them to avoid every
happened that two
encounter. Thus, it lately
Russian columns which set out, one from Olkurz,
and the other from Relied),
Wielun, close to the Silesian frontier, had a bloody
engagement with the insurgents on the banks of
the Prone. The two columns were continually
harrassed during their moth by small bodies of
insurgents, and attacked in flank. The insurgents,
intending to unite at
in number over 100, were at last driven into a
morass, from which it was impossible to extricate
themleeNtre: It only remained-4o sell their lives as
dearly as possible. Forming themselves into a
wedge, they threw themselves on the centre of the
Russian front, and broke through the rank ; 45
were left dead on the field, 65 were taken prisoners,
and afterwards literally hewn to pieces by the
Cossacks.
From Courland it is reported that the insurrec-
rection gains fresh strength every day. It is under
consideration to raise a body of 3,000 men for the
insurgents in Courland and Finland. Whether it
be intended to keep this large body of men together
or to divide it into several corps, is not known. The
departure of a body of 300 men for the South seems
to indicate the commencement of a guerilla war.
Galecki's corps, 300 strong, has arrived at Plock
without meeting the Russians. Podlewski has bad
an encounter with the Russians at Kojgrod, about.
25 English miles from Augustowo. According to
all accounts the Poles were victorious.
The insurgents command the whole of the rail-
road from Tilsit to Mitava. Although the position
of the insurgents is the same, yet in the neighbour-
hood of Kalisch fresh bodies of insurgents have
sprung up, and some encounters have taken place,
of which accurate details are not yet published.
CRACOW, April 12.
The Russians are in great force in the palatinate
of Cracow, and the insurgents keep on the defen-
sive. Czechowski's band now numbers 1,500 men,
and is near Wonchock. There is another body of
1,000 Poles, under Geringer, at Brody, in the same
district.
The Russians were beaten with great loss a few
days ago by the Poles, whom they attacked at
Ciechocin. During the action, the insurgents, who
were in very small numbers, were reinforced by
another body of Poles. On the 7th inst. an en-
counter took place between the insurgents and the
Russian troops at Gawolin, in the palatinate of
Lublin. It is said that Lewandowski, who was
formerly reported to have been captured by the
Russians, was at the head of the insurgents. Tho
result of this battle is not known.
In Podlachia the insurrection is gaining ground.
There was some fighting on Good Friday, at, Kul-
lew. Sokol's men have crossed the Bug. A new
leader named Czajka has appeared near Wengrow.
iai
t r
ofthe
pa found out the close parties In the northern parts of the kingdom between
Radnik and Gane, a conflict took place between the
Rulsess. a n s
Neither
h einsurgents.
During the night of the 3d and 4th inst. a party
of 40 Russians were encamped quite close to the
Po
proximity of their enemy until towards morning,
when the Poles were discovered by some Russian
spies.
The Russians having procured fresh reinforce-
ments, made an attack upon the Poles in the forest:
After the Russians had lost 24 men and the Poles
10, the fight subsided. The Russians conveyed their
dead to Wielun in four carts; the fallen Poles, on
the other hand, were taken to Praszka, and were
buried on the 6th inst. without pomp, but in the
presence of a large concourse of people. The burial,
which was not to have taken place until the 7th
inst., was hastened, as it was feared that the soldiers
who left on the 6th inst. would return to prevent
any demonstration. As was expected, a division of
Russian troops stationed on the frontier entered the
town on the 7th inst. from Wielun, but finding
everything in perfect peace they left again.

Execution at Hereford.

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Yesterday morning William Hope, who was sen-
tenced to death at the last Herefordshire assizes for
the murder of Mary Corbett, at Ullingswick, was
hanged in front of the Hereford county gaol, and
setaend girlhererrai drinking
no public execution having taken place there for
more than a quarter of a century, the event was
entirely an exceptional one, as was the cause which.
led to it.
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meennder
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petogwoj ar a prisoner
girl,
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who,
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agricultural
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c( ao r rbeettitr,eardi
octilprisonersous and
returned a
solicitation. She
left the house
g asked her to drink,
second time, when Hope again
on leaving the
young girl of 16, came to thehoauc.
but she refused, and
Hope. Nothing
but shortly after this
more was seen of her
aht—th
time—about tea at night—the e screams of a woman
heard by a cottager as he was retiring to rest.
ware
waswith her '
violator
end murderer. Hope did not return to his lodgings
that night, but made an excuse that he slept in a
stable, which was shown to be untrue. The night
was a boisterous on
house again she was followed out by
e, and at daylight the do ad
bNo°d the poor '
covered with dirt,
her person. Sh
afterwards throttled
of the murderer's brawny _girl was found in an orchard,
nails were found
and blood which had flowed from
She had been brutally ravished, and
or suffocated by the pressure
hand. Marks of finger
on her neck and throat. At
the spot where a struggle had taken place there
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were marks which curiously connected the pri-
soner with the murder. The ground was soft,
and had received the impression of a person kneel-
ing down, the knee-mark having been made
by a person wearing peculiarly ribbed and patched
trousers, and exactly corresponding with
those worn by the prisoner. There was also
blood upon his linen and trousers. and a basket
which he had in his possession on the night of the
murder was found near where the struggle took
place, while the coat which he wore had been
stuffed into the hollow trunk of a tree. Altogether
the chain of evideuee v. us complete against
ahaidrn,haand
the fact that he tit' is a ticket-of-le av
in front of
There was a great crowd of person
The
iour was order y.
the gaol, but their behav d
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crime.
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK.
THis EVENING (Thursday), April 16 (Subscription
.Vight), will be performed, for the second time this season,
Beilinl's favourite Opera,

I PCRITANL
With the following powerful cast
Mdlle. itiens ; Enrichetta, Madame Corsi ; Walton,
mgnor Bossi ; Riccardo, Signor Gassier ; Bruno, Signor
Scldi ; Gloreio, Signor Vialetti ; and Arturo, Signor Giuni.
Conductor, Signor ARDITI.
After which will be produced a new and original Ballet,
in Four Tableaux, entitled LA FARFALL ET VA. Co m-
posed by Signor Prospero Diani. The music by Signor P.
(iorga. Farfalletta, Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris (her first
M.
ap-
pearance these two years), supported by Mdlle. Pieroni,
Diani, and M. Alessandro Paul.
IL TRO VATO RE, Saturday next, April IS.—ln conse-
quence of every place having been disposed ot tor its repre-
sentation on Saturday last, and owing to the impossibility ot.
repeating it for some period on account of forthcoming novel-
repeating
ties, Verdi's favourite Opera, Trovatore, will be again
performed on Saturday next, April is, vvith the same
unparalleled cast.
Doors open at hall-past Seven. The Opera will commence
at Eight o'clock precisely.
Boxes, Stalls, an Tickets may be had at the Box-office of
the Theatre (under d the Colonnade in the Hayman, et', which
is open daily, under the superintendence of M
ies and. Nugent, from
Ten till Six ; and at all the principal Librar Music-
sellers.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, April 18, for the 358th time in London,
PEEP O'DAY. Mes.ra. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy, C.
Verner, Addison, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. NeTilie, ;
Misses Cleveland, Clara Weston, M. Hudson, &c.
To conclude pith MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia
Thompson.