The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday detachments of cavalry and infantry,
to the number of upwards of 100 men of all ranks,
belonging to regiments serving, in India and the co-
lonic?, were discharged the service at St. Mary's in-
valid establishment, Chatham, in conformity with
an order to that effect received from the Horse
Guards, the whole of them having been previ-
ously inspected by the Commissioners of Chelsea
Hospital, and found unfitted for further service. The
troops who received their di.ichargo belonged to the
3d Dragoon Guards, 7th Dragoon Guards, 6th Dra-
goons, 7th Hussars, 18th Hussars, 2d Royals, 6th,
7th Fusiliers, 10th, 13th Prince Albert's Light In-
fantry, 18th Royal Irish, 21st Fusiliers, 23d Royal
Walsh Fusiliers, 25th King's Own Borderers, 46th,
51st King's Own Light Infantry, 55th, 56th, 60th
Rifles, 61st, 64th, 67th, 71st and 72d Highlanders,
81st, 83(1, 89th, 91st, 92d Highlanders, 94th, 97th,
98th, 99th, 106th, and the Rifle Brigade Regiments.
In addition to the above, 30 men of the 28th, 68th
Light Infantry, 69th and 99th Regiments, left
Chatham garrison yesterday and proceeded to join
the depots of their respective regiments at Fermoy
and Cork.

A notification was yesterday received at Chatham
from the War Department announcing that the
Secretary of State for War has been pleased to direct
that all persons employed in the Civil Service be-
longing to all departments of the service connected
with the War Department of the United Kingdom,
are to be granted two days' leave of absence, with
pay, for the purpose of enabling them to visit the
International Exhibition. In cases where the dis-
tance from London is too great to allow of two days
being sufficient for the visit the leave of absence is
to be extended. The order directs it to be distinctly
understood that this concession is not to entail upon
the public any travelling or other expenses, and that
leave is to be obtained at such times as will be least
inconvenient to the wants of the service.

An order has been received at Chatham garrison
from the Horse Guards for the presentation of sil-
ver medals and gratuities, awarded by the Duke of
Cambridge, to the following non-commissioned offi-
cers of the Royal Engineers, for long service and
exemplary conduct :—Colour-Sergeant T. Duckett,
medal and Xls ; and Colour-Sergeant James Camp-
bell, medal and £lO.

A most deplorable occurrence took place yester-
day morning in Woolwich Arsenal, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—A number of men belong-
ing to the Royal Carriage Department were engaged
in stacking plates of iron used in the construction of
platforms and traversing slides for gun-carriages,
when a man named Joseph Copley, in assisting to
form the stack, found the sleeve of his coat adhering
to a corner of one of the plates. In the attempt he
made to extricate himself, the plates, which are
about 16 feet long, 8 inches broad, and a quarter of
an inch thick, and weigh about 201 b each, fell on
him from the stack and crushed him to death.

THE lELVERTON LIBEL CASE.

(Before Lord Ardmillan and a Jury_)

MARTA THERESA LONGWORTH or YELVERTON V.
JAMES WALKER, Esq., of Dairy, Advocate.

This case came on on Wednesday in the Justiciary
Court-room, which was crowded in every part from
the time the court-room was opened, at ten o'clock,
till the close of the case. The counsel for th'e pur-
suer were the Solicitor-General and Mr. Fraser,
and for the defender, Mr. Young and Mt. A. B.
Shand.
The following was the issue and 'schedule sent to
the jury, which sufficiently explain the nature and
cause of the action :
" Whether, in or about the let day of Jemmy, 1862, the
defender did write and forward, through the Post Office, to
the Honourable William Henry Yelverton, at Whitland
Abbey, near Narberth, in South Wales, the letter, dated
Ist January, 1862, in the schedule appended hereto ; and,
whether the defender did, in said letter, falsely, calumni-
ously, and injuriously, represent that the pursuer is a most
degraded woman—that it is a disgrace for respectable per •
sons to associate publicly with her—and that the said NV.
Henry Yelverton, by receiving her into his house, was
bringing dishonour on himself and his relations P—to the
loss, injury, and damage of the pursuer.
Damages claimed, £3,010."
•
SCHEDULE.

Edinburgh, 6, Eton-terrace, Ist Jan., 1862.
Sir—l observe in to- day's copy of the Edinburgh Courant
a paragraph announcing the arrivhl at your house of the
Honourable Mrs.Yelverton, to pass the Christmas week. My
purpose in writing to you now is to inquire if this visitor is
the person who calls herself "the Honourable Mrs.Yelver-
ton," but whose real name is Theresa Longworth. As I
consider that the honour and character of my wife's family
is seriously affected by this eircumstance, if true, I don't con-
sider any further apology necessary for troubling you with
this letter. When first heard of your most extraordinary
an unnatural conduct in openly taking up the cause of Miss
Longworth at the Dublin trial, I must say, though greatly
shocked and grieved, I hoped that when you came to reflect
more calmly on your delicate position in regard to the suc-
cession to your nephew William C. Yelverton, and also when
the real character of Miss Longworth became generally
known, as it now is, that whatever your own private hopes
for the success of her case May have been, that respect for
your brother Lord Avonmore, and for your own character,
would have prevented you from publicly associating with
this most degraded woman ; but I fear I have been mistaken,
and that, with the new ye tr, another, and I may almost say
a worse dishonour has fallen on the family. Had you been
a more distant relation, or had you been merely one of the
public, uninterested in the result, whatever it may be, of
this case, I should have understood that your. disapproval
Wm. Yelverton's conduct, rather than your approval of Miss
Lon gworth's, had created a sort of sympathy for her cause, but
that, in yourposition, as being the only person who could be
benefited by 'William's child being made illegitimate, your
near relationship to him, and, above all, the consciousness
of the pain which you well know your conduct must cause
your kind-hearted brother and all his family, your conduct
appears to me so selfish, so base, so unnatural, that it is
hardly possible to believe it; and lam perfectly certain,
that in the whole world there is not one person, not except-
ing Miss Longworth herself, who must not from the bottom
of their hearts despise you. I have often heard it remarked
by those who strongly censured poor William's conduct,
that they would much rather be in'his than in your position.
I can assure you that it causes me great pain to write what
I have written to cne in your position, my wife's uncle, and
so much older than myself; but I cannot restrain my in-
dignation, and this I have written without consulting any
one. I know that my feelings are shared by all my wife's
family. I cannot conceive that your own family can approve
of the course you have taken, but with them it would not
become me to interfere. I have done what I conceive ray
duty, in telling you u hut my own and my wife's opinions
are.-1 remain your most obedient servant,

(Signed) JAMES WALKER.
(Addressed)—To the Hon. W. H. Yelvertorr,
Whit land Abbey.
Mr. Fraser opened the case for the pursuer in a
close and clear statement, and then called the fol-
lowing witnesses.;

The Hee. Wm. Yeivertov, of Whitland Abbey,
South Wales, who, being eza,:ined by the Solicitor-
General, deponed—l am the brothe,
of
Avon-
more, who is an Irish Peer, and
residesLinorAdT:
Ac,lavnon(3-.
I have for a long time resided at South Wales.
i a was formerly
High Sheriff of the county in which
I reside. Mr. Walker, the defender in this action, i
h a member of Parliament, and
have been