The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCrOBER 1, IB6a.

The performances of the bands of the Civil Ser-
vice and Enfield Corps added greatly to the plea-
sure of the day. All passed off without a single
accident, and to the entire satisfaction of every one
who had taken part in the proceedings.
The annual inspection of the whole of the four
corps of Kent Volunteer Artillery belonging to the
10th Administrative Brigade, stationed in the
Chatham district, under the command of Lieu-
tenant- Colonel Gladdish, has been brought to a most
satisfactory conclusion. By direction of the Field
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, Lieutenant-Colonel
Talbot, commanding tha Ist division of the Depot
Brigade, Royal Artillery, was selected to report to
his Royal Highness on the state and efficiency of
each corps, which the inspecting officer found to be
in a most satisfactory condition, not only as regards
the knowledge possessed by officers and men in the
theoretical branches of the science of artillery, but
also in the practical duties with which a volunteer
artilleryman is supposed to be conversant, relating
to the mounting and dismounting of heavy guns,
and the shiftings so necessary to be thoroughly un-
derstood in the transportation of iron ordnance.
The four corps comprise the Ist (Gravesend), con-
sisting of two batteries, under the command of Cap-
tain G. E. Sharland ; the 4th (Sheerness), consist-
ing of one battery, under the command of Captain
J. E. Beveridge; and the 13th (Sheerness), consist-
ing of two batteries, commanded by Captain J. H.
Harper. The annual allowance ofgarrison gun and
exercise ammunition, consisting of 100 minds of
shot, 25 rounds of common shell, and 30 rounds of
blank to each of the six batteries, has been already
expended, which bespeak a zeal in the attainment
of a sound practical knowledge in the use of heavy
guns not to be overlooked. The practice has been
divided between two sorts of guns—viz., 68-
pounders of 95cwt., and 32-pounders of 58cwt.,
smooth bores, and has been carried out at
the entrance of the river Medway, where an excel-
lent range to seaward is obtainable. The precision
in the art of nunnery attained by each corps was
found to be most satisfactory. In every instance
the guns were admirably laid, the elevation accu-
rately calculated, the deflection of the shot very
slight, while the cutting and fixing of the fuzes in
firing the common shells was characterised by great
accuracy. It is not yet known whether the Govern-
ment intends to exercise Artillery Volunteers in the
use and management of rifled ordnance, but it is de-
sirable that their instruction should not be confined
to the old smooth-bore cannon, which are being
rapidly supplanted by Armstrong rifled guns.
On Monday the members of the Ipswich Corps
and the IVatton Battery of Artillery were enter-
tained by Mr. J. C. Cobbold, M,P., in his picturesque
grounds at Holy Wells. 1.1. he fete attracted a very
large attendance. Various evolutions having been
performed, dinner was set out on a liberal scale in a
large tent in the grounds below the mansion, The
chair was occupied by Mr. CobbolC, who was sup'
ported by Lord Ranelagh, M.P., Captain Jervis,
M.P., Lieut.-Col. Schreiber, the Mayor of Ipswich
(Mr. G. C. E. Bacon), Captain Kerrick, Adjutant
2d Suffolk Administrative Battalion, &c. 1-1, prin-
cipal speaker of the evening was Lord Ranelagh,
whose name was associated with the toast of "The
Volunteers." The noble lord said he had been looked
upon. during the progress of the review as a kind of
" bogie," hut having watched the troops closely, he
must express his gratification at the manner in which
the various movements had been per formed. The only
thing of which he could complain was that the troops
did not give the "British cheer" when they charged'
It was a proud thing to be au Englishman, for Eng-
land was, after all, the land of freedom. Americans
might boast of theirs, but we were fifty times freer in
England than they ever were. He was at the
of the Volunteer movement, he had followed it UP'and he should never forsake it, for he believed it
tended to the advantage of the country in more ways
than one. birth

The annual meeting of the sth Hants Rifle volun-
teers for the competition for prizes commenced on
Monday at their practice range on the shore of
Langston harbour, near Portsmouth. For A
value £lO 10s., the gift of Meier Ford, five shots
were allowed at each of two ranges-200 and 500
yards ; Private ArChettne was the winner, with 25
prize
points. A money prize of £5 55., given by Sir J. "
Elphinstone, 111. P., was won by Private Wiult rt.ze
h•
'rho shooting was continued on Tuesday. A prize
of £5 55., the gift of Sir F. T. Baring, M.P., was
won by Ensign Eveleigh. A field-glass, the gi▪ ft
of Captain Itake, by Burrows, of Malvern, Was won
by Private Winkworth, who made 21 marks in his
seven shots at 600 yards. For a cup value £5 55.,
K to the
,
given by the Rev. J.
---naPp, chaplain
corps, seven shots at 500 yards were to be fired ;
Sergt. Chestle, Lieut. Grant and Private :NI tCheane
tied the winner, but in shooting off, Sergt. Chestle
won the first prize, and Lieut. Grant the second. A
ladies' prize, value £lO, was won by Sergt. Capl,i▪
n,
12th Hants, with 38 marks. Of a prize of £5 os;,
the gift of Ensign Davis (seven shots at 300 yards,,
Private Winkworth was the winner with
20 marks.
On Monday a grand display of the -Volunteers of
the counties of Anglesey and Carnarvon was made at
Holyhead, and a friendly engagement took place be-
tween them and the seamen and marines of her Ma-
jesty's ship Majestic, 80 guns, supported by the can-
non of their ship, An immense concourse of people
assembled from all parts of the northern counties, and
on the grand stand were among others
the Bishops
of Oxford and Bangor, Col. the Hon. E. G. B. Pen-
nant, M.P.,Sir It. W. Bulkeley, ALP., &c. The
force consisted of a brigade of artillery and another
of infantry, the whole commanded
by Major the
Hon. W. 0. Stanley, M.P. The
companies forming
the artillery brigade where the Ist anu
2d
Anglesey
(Holyhead), the 3d Anglesey (13eaumaris); and the
Carnarvon company. The infantry brigade consisted
of the Bangor and Carnarvon Rifles,quarries. and two cora-
st e
panics from the PenrhyoSpecial trains
conveyed the troops to Holyhead by 12 o'clock, and
from the railway station they marched to the market
hale appropriately decorated for the occasion, where
a substantial repast had been provided by Mrs. Stan-
ley. The dispositions for action were then made as
follows:—On the railway a 4-gun battery was posted,
with its face towards the sea; half-way np the hill
another 2-gun battery, direct'.y behind the other;
and on the road two field pieces, worked by the Ist
Anglesey Corps, were placed, so
as to meet any
attempt at turning the other batteries by a flank
movement. Between the road and the two-gun
battery the infantry brigade was massed. Shortly
after 3 o'clock the guns of the Majestic, which lay
some half mile from the beach, gave the signal of
battle, and seven boats, tally equipped, darted ra-
pidly towards shore.
A brisk cannonade was kept
up between the ship and the batteries, till it was
seen that the attacking Party would make their first
attempt at landing near the creek on the left flank.
A flying battery of Capt. Rigby's 2d Anglesey Ar-
tillery was hurried along the railway upon trucks
drawn by a steam engine, and arrived in time to
open fire on the marines landing from the boats.
The marines, however, compelled the 2d Anglesey
to hurry off at express speed, and commenced a
movement possessing themselves of the road
rilnn
up from the creek. They were met by
ufor
the Ist Anglesey, who worked their two field
pieces in creditable style, but ultimately the marines
succeeded in gaining the crest of the hill, driving
the artillery before them. The blue-jackets of the
Majestic, having supported the landing of the
Marines, passed in their boats to the right flank of
the four-gun battery, and effected a landing on a
spot partially covered by a knoll of rising ground.
Here they formed, and, led by Captain Inglefield,
ran on to the battery, pistols and cutlasses in hand.
but were driven back twice by the heavy firep'oured
upon them. Meanwhile the Marines on the crest
of the hill advanced towards the two-gun battery
under a heavy fire from the rifles posted behind
die walls on each side of the advance, and com-
pelled the 2d Anglesey Artillery, in charge of
the battery, to retire. The two guns being now
worked by the enemy made the position of the
four-gun battery below untenable, so that, on the
third attack of the seamen, the artillery broke and
fled. A lull of halt' an hour succeeded, during
which the Volunteers rallied, and a plan
of attack was formed. The field pieces, supported
by the Rifles, advanced on the two-gun battery,
and re-took it from the Marines, who retired in
good order towards the four-gun battery, closely
tOßO'eted by the Rifles, Whose file-firing was very

effective. While the Marines were retreating the
four-gun battery was suddenly attacked on the
right flank by the artillery, and a heavy fire from
the recaptured battery on the height completed the
discomfiture of the enemy. He now retreated to-
wards the boats, under a sharp fire from the Rifles,
who by this time had gained the beach ; but, covered
by the ship's guns, the boats retired. The departure
of the Volunteers and of the immense crowd of sight-
seers was as well managed as could have been ex-
pected in such a miserable shed as the railway sta-
tion at Holyhead. One painful occurrence cast a
gloom over the proceedings of the day. The gun-
boat Goshawk was moored within 100 yards of
the beach for the purpose of covering the landing
with her guns. After a few rounds had been fired,
a man engaged in working the gun neglected to
sponge it before putting in another charge. While
he was in the act of ramming it down the charge
went off, and precipitated the poor fellow into the
sea, Late at night his body had not been recovered.
Another man had his arm shattered at the same
time.

The annual carbine contest by the five Western
batteries of the Duke of Cornwall's Artillery Volun-
teers took place on Wednesday at St. Ives. The
proceedings were witnessed by a very large con-
course of spectators, who had arrived from dif-
ferent parts of the county. The weather was fine.
The principal event was the battery prize for the
highest aggregate score. Each corps were allowed
14 men, and each man five shots at the respective
distances of 100, 200, and 300 yards. The St.
Ives corps scored 439, three points more than
the competitors from Marazion. Other prizes, total
value about £3O, were also shot for, On Friday
the 2d Duke of Cornwall's Rifle Volunteers com-
peted for various money prizes at the ranges of 150
and 200 yards. Private J. Harris scored 24 for five
shots at each distance, and won the principal prize.
The 39th West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers, Bing-
ley Company, held their annual prize shooting on
Saturday at their range on Baildon-moor. The
scoring was good, and a large number entered. The
first prize was won by Private W. Sugden, 35
points, seven shots at 200 and 400 yards.

sister's eyes blackened, and scars on her face from his ill-
usage. They had lived an unhappy and miserable life.
The prisoner, in defence, said his work called him away,
and it was too far for him to go home. He had been out
of work lately, and the week he obtained employment he
went home to his wife with some money. The following
week he was thrown out of work, but last week he obtained
employment. He went home on Saturday night and found
his wife had been removed to the workhouse. He saw her
on Sunday and he was told by the porter that there was a
warrant out against him. He went on Monday night to
make an arrangement and to see his wife, but ho was re-
fused admission to her, and he was taken into custody.

Mr. Ingham pointed out to Mr. Edmonds that the pri-
Boner's work caused him to be a distance from his home.
Mr. Edmonds said that if he had time ha could produce
evidence to show that the prisoner was never out of London
during the time in question.
Mr. Ingham then remanded the prisoner till Tuesday.
The prisoner applied to be admitted to bail to attend tho
funeral of his wife as he wished to see the end of her,

Mr. Ingram said ho would take bail, but as it was not
Forthcoming, he was removed to the cells.

WANDSWORTH SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY BY A
SERVANT.—James Fisher, a carpet planner, was finally
examined on a charge of robbing his employer.
Charles Quilter, in the service of Mr. 1: . O. Clark, an up
holeterer at Clapham, stated that for the last five weeks he
had had his suspicions of the prisoner, and had watched him
in consequence of his keeping back after the other workmen
had left at leaving-off time. About five minutes after five
o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st inst., he discovered a roll
of carpet in Mr. Clark's chaise, in the coach-house. He com-
municated with Mr. Clark, and it was arranged that witness
should watch till the police arrived. About eight o'clock,
being concealed under the chaise, he saw the prisoner enter
the coach .house, and unfasten the gates. He then went up
to the side of the chaise, Witness could not see him take
anything, but as soon as he had gone out he felt in the
chaise, and found the carpet had disappeared. He rushed
after the prisoner, and caught hold of him as he was leaving
the gates, when he dropped the carpet into witness's hands.
He then seized witness by the throat, and said, "Don't
holloa; for God's sake don't holloa." Mr. Clark came up
at the time to his assistance, and the prisoner was given in
charge.
Mr. Clark said the prisoner had been in his service about
two years as a carpet planner, and had access to his stock.
On the day in question ho received information from Quilter.
In the evening he heard a cry of help, and on going up he
found the prisoner and Quilter struggling together outside
his gates. Witness collared the prisoner, who then said,
" Let me put on my coat, and I'll go quiet." The piece of
carpet was 71 yards iu length, and had been cut off a roll in
witness's shop. The witness added that the coach-house
was 70 yards from the shop. Ho had lost a great deal Of
property.

- ; - The prisoner did not deny taking the carpet, and said ii
was his first offence.

Mr. Ingham committed him to the Wansworth House o
Correction for six months, with hard labour.

AN INCORRIGIBLE IMPOSTOR,

Wolverhampton would seem to be fatal to impostors.
ere the notorious Alice Grey was committed to the assizes

from which she was sent to penal servitude ; a few months
ago another female impostor, who had feigned illness and
alleged that she had been robbed in railway trains, was
committed from the same town; and now a third Alice Grey
has been effectually stopped for a while in her extraordinary
career. Yesterday in the Wolverhampton borough police-
court a young woman named Mary Ann Jones, alias Hutton,
alias Williams, alias Taylor, who had been remanded from
that day week, was again brought up, charged with being an
imposter.

Capt. Segrave, the chief constabld—l have made inqui-
ries about the prisoner, and hold in my hand a number of
letters which I have received from nearly all parts of Eng-
land. Her history seems a long one, and it proves her to be
a rogue and a vagabond beyond any room for doubt.
John Chidley, chief warder at the Stafford gaol, deposed
that he knew the prisoner had been committed to that pri-

son seven times. On the first occasion, on Oct. 3d, 1861,
she was sent for a month's imprisonment as a disorderly
pauper. He did not remember where she had been commit-
ted from in this or any of the cases, as he had come away
with little notice.

The prisoner—From Burslero.
Witness—On the 13th Nov., 1861, she was sent to prison
for 21 days as a rogue and vagabond. On the 11th of the
following December she was sentenced to three months for
want of sureties. On the 19th of March, 1863, she was com-.

mitted for a month under the Vagrant Act. After being out
about a day she was sent back also for a month, likewise for
being a rogue and vagabond. On the 25th May, again
under the Vagrancy Act, she was sent to prison for three
months; and on the 31st of last month she was committed
as a rogue and vagabond for 21 (rays.
Police- constable Henry Tew stated that about half-past 4
on Sunday morning he was on duty in Queen-street, and
saw the prisoner standing at the top of Piincess-street.
Hearing her groan very much, he went and asked her what
she was doing there. lie could get no reply further than
that she came from Stoke, and that she would go and drown
herself. She subsequently sat down on a step and appeared
to go into hysterics, and although he put many questions,he
could get no satisfactory answers. He at length took her to
the station, and she then said she had run away from Bur-
lem with a young man, who had deserted her near Wolver-
hampton. Judging from the smell of her breath that she
had taken poison, he sent for a surgeon, and the result was
that it appeared she had taken something of the sort.
Mr. T. H. Wolfington, surgeon, and assistant to Mr.
Dehane, surgeon to the police, deposed that he was sent for
by the police on Sunday morning, the 20th inst., to the
police-office, where he found the prisoner attempting to
vomit. In reply to him she said she had taken some powder
as a poison. He gave her an emetic and afterwards several
nauseous draughts. The emetic produced a slight vomiting,
and the nauseous draughts cleared the stomach. The pri-
soner appeared very ill, and being himself alarmed, he called
several times during the day. She appeared better after she
had taken the medicine, and calling him aside said a young
man had given her the powder to obviate the consequences
of previous misconduct, and that sha was likely in five or six
months to become a mother. Yesterday morning, however,
on the instruction given by the Mayor a week ago, he made
an examination which enabled him to state positively that
she was not in that condition.•
The prisoner declined to put any question to either of the
witnesses.
The Chief Constable said there was an officer present who
could depose that there was no such person in Burslem as
the imaginary young man charged by the prisoner with the
offence named. It was not thought necessary to examine

this witness.
Mr. Iremonger then read to the prisoner certain of the
communications that had been received by the police autho-
rities. From those documents it was gathered that the pri-
soner's name is Mary Ann Hutton. She is the daughter of
respectablelworking people of Burslem ; for somo time she
lived as servant in the family of an uncle, who is a grocer
*--

in that town, but she absconded about six years since,
Nothing was again heard of her until about two years ago,
when she was found ty the roadside at Stone by Mr. R.
S. Adderley, who having been told by her that she had
been violated by three men at Trentham, took her in his
carriage to the Stone Workhouse. The abominable charge
was proved to be unfounded, and she afterwarda con-
fessed as much. We next hear of her in the city of Chester,
where she made a somewhat similar charge, and was de-
tected, but being destitute, the magistrate only sent her to
the workhouse. At Eliza Ann Williams she has also been
in the custody of the county police of Chester, on the charge
of feigning fits in the streets of Tarporley, in that county,
For this offence she was imprisoned four days. She is wel
known at the General Railway iStation at Chester,
which place, after feigning fits, she was taken to the Chester
Infirmary. Because of her celebrity, the Chester police
had her photographed, and the likeness was yesterday pro-
duced in court, The prisoner was evidently the original,
notwithstanding her effort, by closing her eyes when the
photographer was before her, to disguise her identity. At
midnight on the 22d of May this year a young woman was
found in the streets of Eccleshall, in Staffordshire. She
appeared very much excited, and said " I will destroy my-
self. Oh I I wish I had never done it." She was ap-
parently in great pain, gave her name as Mary Ann Taylor
Hutton, of Burslem, but would not say what she had done.
She was searched, had refreshment given to her, and was
put into a cell for safety. On the next morning she ap-
peared very ill, and Mr. Greatres, surgeon, was sent for.
She told him that she had taken arsenic that had been
purchased at Shiffnal, in Shropshire. Every attention was
paid to her on Saturday. On Saturday morning she seemed
a great deal worse, and Mr. Greatrex was again called in.
She told him she had taken more arsenic, which she had
concealed in her stays. Mr. Hawthorne, another medical
man, was sent for, and they both considered that her depo-
sition should be taken. Accordingly, the magistrates (Mr.
E. Lyon and Mr. H. Hillick) were called out of church to
be present, when the clerk took down her statement. On
Monday morning Policeman Keith saw her in the cell,
and at once recognised her as the woman whom Mr.
Adderley found on the roadside at Trentham, and further-
more showed that three months after that time, when a
keeper on the Trentham estate bad been nearly killed
by poachers, sho alleged that she could give evidence
which would secure the conviction of the offenders, and a
house pointed out by her at their rendezvous was searched,
only, however, to prove an imposture. This evidence the
officer gave before the magistrate on that (Monday) morn-
ing, and they committed the now fully-recovered impostor
for three months' imprisonment. Since that time she has
been further imprisoned by order of ertain of the Pottery
magistrates. We next hear of her in the South Staffordshire
Hospital, at Wolverhampton, to which pih,ce she had been
conveyed from the adjacent village of Moxley on the 11th
of last March, alleging that she had been poisoner,
&c.;
but Mr. Keogh, the house surgeon, who had deteCten.
similar case a few months before, soon discovered the cha-
racter of his patient, and she was discharged on the follow-
ing day. Although she gave the name of Mary Ann Taylor
Hutton, yet Mr. Keogh has identified the prisoner as one
and the same person. On the 12th of March last, the very
day she was sent from the Wolverhampton Hospital, a Mary
Atm Taylor lititto,tl was foul en the road at P:ettley,

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