The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NO 17, 1863.

DNO NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT.
—We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's
Concert.

THE LUD GATE HILL VIADUCT.-
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
In consequence of the immediate Extension of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway, the Committee have been
compelled to REMOVE their OFFICES to 100, FLEET-
nTREET, where all communications are to be addressed.
By Order of the Committee,
HENRY W. GREEN, Secretary.
Offices-100, Fleet-street, E.C.

The Battlefield Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ;
the second to save his stake. Winners extra. Three-
quarters of a mile. 33 subs.
Lord Uxbridge's Liston, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (in. 101 b extra)
(T. French) 1
Mr F. Fisher's Reindeer, 5 yrs, 7st (Prior) 2
Mr Bryan's Zora, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b (Challoner) 3
Mr C. Peck's Bernice, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (E. Harrison) 4
Betting—Even on Zora, 3 to 1 agst Liston, and 5 to 1
agst Bernice.
They ran together to the turn into the straight, when
Bernice dropped away and Zora came on with a clear lead to
the stand, when she died away to nothing and was headed
by Liston and Reindeer, the former winning cleverly ;by a
length—a neck separating the second and third. Bernice
beaten off.

TATTERSALL'S -LAST EVENING.

DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Paris (taken)
20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken)
20 to 1 agst Forager (taken)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.
FEBRUARY.
Chelmsford Spring 23
MARCH.

Nottingham Spring .... 1 I Shrewsbury
Derby Spring 3 Northampton 29
Liverp00l

sors, suspended the certificate of Mr. James Stone for
six calendar months from this date.—l have, Sce.,
" T, S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate.

" Nov. 12, 1863.
"
" We concur in this report.
"H. HAnnts,
Nautical Assessors."
It. B. BAKER, I

The Court-martial on Colonel Crawley,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Mr. Samuel Lilley, the brother of the late
Sergeant Major John Lilley, has instructed us to
request you to give publicity to the accompanying
correspondence we have had with the adjutant
general on behalf of bis family, as he is naturally
anxious the public should know it has not been for
the want of any effort on the part of the family that
they will not be properly represented at this court-
martial, or that the issues on that inquiry have been
confined to such narrow limits, and have failed to
embrace the important question as to the legality
of the arrest of the three sergeant-majors without
trial.—We hire, sir, your obedient servants,

THORNDIKE and SMITH.
1, Staple-inn, London, W.C., Nov. 16.

4, 11, Staple-inn, London, W.C., Oct. 30, 1863.
" Sir,—We are instructed by Mr;Samuel Lilley,
of Llandudno, the brother of the late Regimental
Sergeant Major John Lilley, of the 6th Inniskil-
ling Dragoons, to apply to you, on behalf of
himself and the other members of the family of
the deceased sergeant major, to be furnished with
a copy of the charges upon which his Royal
Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief
has ordered Lieut.-Col. T. R. Crawley to be tried
at the general courtmartial about to be held.
"As it is quite obvious that the full and impar-
tial trial which his Royal Highness pledged himself
should be had cannot take place without the ques-
tion as to the arrest and imprisonment of the de-
ceased sergeant major being justifiable or other-
wise being a matter for consideration, and as this
obviously involves an inquiry into the character and
conduct of the deceased Sergeant Major Lilley, Mr.
Samuel Lilley instructs us also to request that Cols.
White and Shute and Lieut.-Col. Fitz wygram, for-
merly commanding officers of the 6th Dragoons, and
the Hon. Capt. E. R. Bourke, also of that regiment,
may be summoned to give evidence on the court-
martial as to their knowledge of the character and
antecedents of the late Sergeant Major Lilley.
dwe have also, on Mr. Lilley's behalf, to request

that, for the reasons we have before stated, his
Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in
Chief will authorise him to attend the trial on the
condi:partial, with his legal adviser, to watch the
proceedings and protect the memory of his deceased
brother from being improperly assailed.—We have
the honour to be, sir, your obedient servants,
" THORNDIKF and SMITH.
Is To the Hon. Major General Sir J. Y:Scarlett,
Adjutant General of her Majesty's Forces,
Horse Guards, S.W."

" Horse Guards, S.W., Nov. 3, 1863.
to your letter of the 30th
by his Royal Highness the Field
Marshal Commanding in Chief to acquaint you that
it is not in accordance with the practice of courts-
martial eanmt
teom directed einurailanh reply
copy
a p y a
of the charges on
uwlht".
eGlIh a
prisoner is to be arraigned to any one
except to the prisoner himsslf, or to summon
any other witnesses than those who are required ou
the part both of the prosecution and of the prisoner ;
and that as a courtmartial is an open court it is
competent for any one to attend it and to take notes
the proceedings.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" J. YOItKE SCARLETT, A.G.
Messrs. Thorndike and Smith,
11, Staple-inn, W.C."

XL_ Staple
p ree .in,
in receipt LoiW.C., Nov. 11, 1863.
ne:fyour letters of the 3d
are
dp ot
inst., which we have communicated to INlr. Samuel 1
Lilley.
Mr. Lilley requests us to express his regret and
disappointment that in a case in which he and his
relatives have so great and manifest an interest his
Royal Highness the k ield Marshal Commanding in
Chief should allow the practice:of courts martial'
to interfere in preventing the concession to him of
the very reasonable requests we made on hie behalf
in our letter of the 30th ult., especially as we again
repeat that the full and impartial trial promised by
his Royal Highness cannot be had if the relatives of
the deceased sergeant-major are not properly repre-
sented thereat.
" In consequence of the refusal of his Royal High-
ness to allow our clients to be furnished with a copy
of the charges upon which Lieut.-Colonel Crawley
is to be tried, for (as we venture to think) the very
insufficient reason that it is not in accordance with
the practice of courts martial to do so, the reports in
the public journals are the only source from which
the relatives of the deceased sergeant-major can de-
rive any information on the subject.
" We are instructed to urge upon his Royal High-
ness that the proposed charges, as contained in those
reports are 'wholly insufficient to meet the justice of
the case in the present instance, and do not embrace
to the full extent the wrong alleged to have been
done by Lieut.-Colonel Crawley upon his unfortu-
nate deceased subordinate officer.
"We are, therefore, instructed by Mr. Samuel
Lilley, on behalf of himself and of his family, as
well as in the interest of the public, to demand as a
right that the accompanying two additional charges
may be preferred against Lieut.-Colonel Crawley,
of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, at the approach.-
ing court martial.
"The charges the Lilley family are prepared to
prove on the testimony of various witnesses now in
England; and as his Royal Highness the Com-
mander-in-Chief, in his place in the House of Lords,
pledged himself that a full and thorough investi-
gation should take place into all the circumstances
attending the Mhow court martial, we are certain
that his Royal Highness will not fail to redeem his
pledge when our clients call upon him, as they now
do, to fulfil his promise iby at once directing that
the inquiry shall be extended by adding the two
charges we have been instructed to require at his
hands.
" As the meeting of the court martial is stated to
be so shortly to take place, we must request that
this letter be immediately breught under the notice
of his Royal Highness, that an omission which we
are confident will excite as much surprise with the
public generally as it has done with the parties in-
terested, may be remedied before the assembling of
the court.—We have the honour to be, your obedient
servants,

" THORNDIKE AND SMITH.
"To Major-General Sir I. Yorke Scarlett,
G.C.8., Adjutant-General of her Mit-,
jesty's Forces, Horse Guards, S. W•
" ADDITIONAL CHARGES TO BE PREFERRED
TILE AGAIN
6TH
ST
LIEUT.-COLONEL T. R. CRAW LEY
OF
INNISKILLING DRAGOONS.
"1. For highly unofficerlike conduct in placing
Regimental Sergeant-Major Lilley, of the placing
In-
niskilling Dragoons, in confinement,
.and kpeaerptinogf
him there for upwards of a month, without, as the
Articles of War direct, bringing him tothae
ocfrioueriatl
martial, and which illegal conduct on the
Lieut. Col. Crawley. was especially prejudicial to
military discipline, in so far as that by
memorandum of his Royal Highness the Field Mar-
shal Commanding in Chief, dated Horse Guards,
18th December, 1862, the confinement of the said
Sergeant-Major Lilley, as well as that of Sergeant-
Majors Wakefield and Duval, had hcaodn notthenshhaavdionwg
of
,e,vi.deFnocre
htoigjhusly disgraceful
2
prohibited any woman or nurse
eto attend on the
wife of the late Sergeant-Major John Lilley during
her illness, and when occupying the same room as
her husband, and who was suflering under a severe
attach of diatrima whereby the late Sergeant-