The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-09 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESD EVENIN JULY 9, 1#62.

7HE NAVY.

Letters received from British North America
by our Chatham correspondent announces several
items of important intelligence respecting the
movements of the ships comprising the North
American and West Indian squadrons. The
Aboukir, 86, 3,091 tons, 400-horse power, Capt.
C. F. A. Shadwell, C.B. ; the Hero, 89, 3,148
tons, 600-horse power, Capt. Ryder ; the Agamem-
non, 89, 600. horse power, Capt. Hope; the Mersey,
40, 1,000-horse power, Capt. H. Caldwell, C.B. ;
and the Melpomene, 51, 600-horse power, Capt. C.
F. Ewart, left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 18th
ult., for a cruise as far as Shelbourne and Ship
Harbour, for the purpose of exercising the respec-
tive crews at the great guns, after wiAich it was
understood they would return to Halifax. The
Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, Capt.
H. S. Hillyar,
C. 8., arrived at Halifax on the night of the 14th
ult., and the Challenger, 22ii, 400-horse power,
Capt, J. J. Kennedy, C. 8., on the 24th ult., from
St. John's, New Brunswick, where they had been
despatched to undergo some necessary repairs.
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power,
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9th Brigade, Royal Artillery, under the com-
mand of Major N. M. Mackay, was yester-
day placed under orders for removal to Shoe-
buryness,
where the officers and men are to
go through a complete course of instruction
at the School of Gunnery. The Duke of Cambridge
has directed the practice to be carried on under the
superintendence of the Commandant at the School of
Gunnery, instead of at Sheerness, to which it was
at first intended to remove the battery.
The Racoon, 22, 400-horse power, fitting at Chat-
ham for the pendant of Prince Victor Hohenlohe,
having been completed at that dockyard, will be un-
docked on Friday next, when the Chesapeake, 51,
500-horse power, belonging to the steam reserve,
will be plaeed in the same dock to undergo a thorough
overhaul and repair_ The Chesapeake will be towed
into Chatham harbour to-day. During the time the
Racoon has been in dock she has undergone very
extensive alterations in her internal arrangements,
and additional cabins have been fitted on the main
deck for his Royal Highness Prince Alfred and
suite, who will proceed on a cruise to Australia.
Her Majesty's screw steam store ship Drome-
dary, built by Messrs. Samuda, and recently
commissioned, left Woolwich on Monday, in
charge of Mr. Barnes, one of the Queen's pilots,
for Greenhithe, to be adjusted for sea. The
Dromedary is laden with victualling stores for As-
cension and Rio, and takes out a number of boats.
The following are the chief dimensions of the
Prince Consort, 51, armour-plated frigate, recently
launched at Pembroke :—Length between perpen-
diculars, 273 ft.; length of keel for tonnage, 232 ft.
83in. ; extreme breadth, 58ft. sin. ; breadth for ton-
nage, 57ft. 2in. ; moulded breadth, 56ft. 4in. ; and
depth of hold, l9ft. 10in. This fine frigate is 4,045
tons burden, and will receive engines of 1,000-horse
power. She was named by Miss Jones, of Pantglas.
Great disappointment was felt:at Pembroke dock
that Prince Alfred did not perform the ceremony.
The Rapid 11, screw, sailed from Spithead yes-
terday for service on a foreign station.
Captain the Hon. F. Foley, late of the Coquette,
will commission tb e Edgar, 86, screw, at Portsmouth,
on Friday next, for service in the Mediterranean.
A peremptory order was yesterday received at
Chatham from the Admiralty, directing two leading
men among the mechanics employed on the iron ship
Achilles, 50, to be immediately discharged from the
yard, as, from facts which have come to the know-
ledge of the Admiralty, they were the instigators of
the strike which took place in the dockyard a few
days since. Several of the men who left their em-
ployment now bitterly complain of the step which
they were compelled, under compulsion of the union,
to take, and would gladly re-enter the yard. Under
no circumstances however will any of the hands con-
nected with the late strike be again taken on. The
Admiralty are determined to submit to no coercion
from their own men, who had no real grounds for
taking the course they did. Yesterday several ad-
ditional applications were received from mechanics
for entry in the yard, and there is no doubt the
whole number of hands required on the iron ship
will before long be obtained.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Arthur Adams, surgeon,
additional, to the Fisgard ; and W. Williamson,
engineer, to the Revenge, for the Tyrian.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN GLASGOW.

Between the morning of Sunday last and Mon-
day a murder of almost unexampled ferocity was
perpetrated in the west end of tle city of Glasgow,
the circumstances of which are at present shrouded
in obscurity. The victim is a woman ; but the facts
so far as have been ascertained, do not point to any
motive which could have urged to the committal of
such an 4ttrocious deed. The name of the woman is
Jessie Macpherson ; she was between 30 and 40
years of age, unmarried, and employed as a domestic
servant by Mr. J. Fleming, accountant, Sandyford-
place, a two-storey house, with sunk flat, the block
of building in which it is situat3 running west from
Elderslie-street. The occupants of the house are, be-
sides other members of the family, Mr. John Flem-
ing, with his son, John Fleming, and his father, Mr.
Jas. Fleming. The family have a house at Dunoon,
and it was the custom of Mr. John Fleming, with his
son, to go to the coast on Friday, remaining generally
till Monday. On Friday last they proceeded thither
as usual, leaving in the house Mr. James Fleming,
who is 87 years of age, and the deceased. About
half-past 9 in the evening Mr. Fleming went to
bed, at which time the servant was in the scullery ;1
and about 4 o'clock on the following morning—as
he learned by a casual reference to his watch—the
old man states that he was aroused by hearing two
or three screams, which seemed to proceed from the
lower part of the house, in which the kitchen and
the bedroom of deceased are situated. He paid no
attention to the circumstance, however, thinking
that she had perhaps brought in a female friend to
sleep with her, as there were so few people in the
house, and that the noise might have been occasioned
in some trivial way. This opinion he still held when
on the following morning he arose about 10 o'clock
and found her bedroom door shut, the idea then oc-
curring to him that she might have gone out with
her friend, as the front door was only on the check.
At all events, he did not seek to investigate the
matter further, but after making and partaking of
breakfast quitted the house; and in the evening he
again retired to rest, her apparent absence from
home still unaccounted for. On Sunday he went
twice to church—the day and night passed, but still
there was no tidings of the missing woman. His
son and grandson came home about 4 o'clock on
Monday afternoon to dinner, and to them her dis-
appearance was made known. They went down
stairs to the sunk flat, but found the bedroom door
locked, and the key missing, The key of the pantry,
however, secured ingress, and on entering the room
the body of the murdered woman was found lying
on the floor, face downwards, and in a state of al-
most absolute nudity, with three fearful wounds in
the head, which had seemingly been inflicted with
a heavy and sharp instrument—one above the right
ear, and so large as almost to admit of the finger
being inserted, another across the forehead, and
the third over the bridge of the nose, while one
of the jaws was smashed in several places. The
clothes of the murdered woman were strewn
about the room, covered with blood, and the bed-
sheet, also red-stained, was found wrapped up and
placed behind the door. Leading from this room to
the kitchen streaks of blood were also descried,
and on close examination the conclusion was come
to that here the murder had been committed. After
the deed was consummated, the body had appa-
rently been dragged through the lobby to the bed-
room, there placed on the bed, undressed, and
afterwards left on the floor in the position in which
it was subsequently found. The kitchen appeared
to have been partially washed after the murder was
committed. On Saturday morning the door opening
on the back part of the house was found locked
and the front door, the only way in which egress
could have been obtained, was found on the check,
No definite opinion can be formed as to the mode in
which ingress to the house was obtained, and it is
equally a matter of uncertainty as to whether one
or more persons were concerned in the deed. No-
thing was removed from the house.—North British
Mail.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--July 8.