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The paddlewheel steam yacht _
K.G., landed af Key-
Commander John E. Petley, from Pel
rived in Hamoaze, Devouport, yesterday .
at half-past 7 o'clock. About 11 o'clock the First
Lhaomrd
,sttehaemDyukarde. of
HisSo Gracemerset was accompanied by
Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick W. Grey, C. 8.,
Mr. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Vice-Admiral
Lord Clarence Edward Paget, Rear-Admiral R.
Spencer Robinson, Controller of the Navy ; Capt.
Robert Hall, private secretary to the First Lord ;
and Capt. Cooper, with Sir Richard Mayne, Chief
Commissioner of Police, and Mr. Mallalieu, Inspect-
ing Superintendent. On landing the Duke was re-
ceived by Port-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle,
K.C. 8., Commander-in-Chief Rear-Admiral Thos.
M. C. Symonds, C. 8., Superintendent of the Dock-
yard ; Capt. William Edmondstone, C. 8., Chief of
the Steam Reserve ; Commander Joseph R. Martyn,
Master Attendant; Staff C omm ander Stephen Spain;
Mr. Moore, master shipwright ; Mr. Saunders,
assistant ; Mr. Miller, chief engineer ; Mr. Towns-
hend, superintending civil engineer; Mr. -Elliot,
storekeeper ; Mr Innes, cashier ; Mr. Thring, ac-
countant; and Mr. Bagster, superintendent of police.
Their Lordships proceeded at once to the office of
Admiral Symonds, where the Board sat for some
time, during which Mr. Woollcombe, chairman of
the South Devon Railway
Company, with Mr. Bush,
engineer of the Cornwall Railway, had an audience
for the purpose of submitting plans for connecting
the Royal arsenals with the existing railways.
Meantime, Capt. Hall and Sir Richard Mayne,
escorted by Capt. Edmondstone, inspected the screw
steam sloop Grayhound, 17, in the south basin at
Keyham. She was lost on duty in the West Indies ;
during the past seven months she has undergone a
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thorough repair, and s now nearly ready for sea.
The Royal Sovereign, 5, turret ship, Captain A.
Herbert,now making ready atPortsmouth for her trip
to Cherbourg with the Channel Fleet, will go out of
Portsmouth harbour to Spithead on Thursday or
Friday next, and is expected to join the Channel
Fleet thence in company with the Admiralty yacht
EnchUtress.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

where the body was found ; it is about half a mile from
my house. I was at home that evening about 7 o'clock.
Saw a dog. I was coming at the time from the stable.
The dog ran across the yard from the direction of the
river. He was running wildly, as if in search of some-
thing. My dogs attacked him. I got him inside. I looked
at the collar. The name "J. Hartley, sth Fusiliers,' was
on it. I then sent my son with him to Burke's field. I
was at the inquest, and saw the same dog with Edwards.
To Mr. Molly—Saw Tom Burke that evening. Ho ap-
peared greatly excited, and told me to have nothing to do
with the dog, and to say no more about it, as King had shot
the officer, and had passed by with the !gun and clothes.
This was about nine o'clock. Had not seen King. Did
not believe what B,irko had told me.
Charles Carroll deposed that he met King on Sunday
morning, the 9th of July, at the house of a man named
Maher, in the bog near the river, about half-past 5 o'clock.
Witness asked him where he had been all night. He said
that he was at a gamble at the house of a man named

WlsTamara.
• To Mr. Montgomery--I left them going to fish. They
were preparing to go when King came in.
A man named James M'Namara was then examined, and
deposed that he was at the gamble on the night in ques-
tion, and remained there till the break of day, and that the
prisoner during that time was not present.
The Solicitor-General then proceeded to sum up onbehalf
of the Crown, and afterwards Mr. Montgomery, in a most
able and eloquent speech, addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoner, contending that the evidence of the Burkes
was not to be relied on.
The Lord Chief Justice, in charging the jury, said—
Gentlemen, though I shall not observe on the evidence
given in this case, I shall direct your attention to the law.
All the witnesses produced for the Crown—and there were
none for the defence—were competent witnesses, and you
have no evidence whatsoever to warrant you in disbeliev-
ing their testimony, unless you shall discover something
in them to cause you to reject as untrue what they have
stated, or any portion thereof. It may be alleged that
somebody else might have committed the act ; but what
suggestion has been made by the prisoner's counsel who so
ably conducted the defence to give any such solution to
the difficulty how Mr. Clutterbuck met his death ? With
these observations I leave the case in your hands, concur-
ing in the means that ought to guide you in your judg-
ment so eloquently expressed by the counsel for the pri-
soner. _ _ _ _ _

The Liverpool, screw frigate, 35, Captain R.
Lambert, had a trial of her machinery made over the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, on Friday last, under
the supervision of the officials of Portsmouth Steam
Reserve and Factory. The ship's draught of water
on weighing her anchor from Spithead was 21ft.
sin. forward, and 22ft. aft. Her engines are of
600-horse power nominal, and drive a two-bladed
Griffiths's crew of 18ft. diameter, 26ft. 6in. pitch,
3ft. 6in. in length, and an immersion of the upper
edge of 2ft. 4in. Six runs with full boiler power
were made over the mile, the speed of the ship being
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in each instance 10.975, 9.399, 11.321, 8 801,
11.840, and 9,000 knots. The mean speed of the
ship in the six runs was 10.261 knots. Two runs
at half-boiler power gave 8.238 and 7185 knots, the
mean speed at half-power being 7.711 knots. The
indicated horse power was under 2.000, or consider-
ably less than four times the nominal power. The
machinery worked exceedingly well, but the dia-
grams on the indicator cards showed an insufficient
supply of steam.
The building of the Danae, 4, screw-sloop
(wooden) of 1,081 tons and 300-horse power of en-
gines, has been commenced on the blocks of
No. 2 building shipway at Portsmouth dock-
yard. The Danae has been designed by Mr. E..
J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, and
is one of several vessels designed by that gentleman
and described by Lord Clarence Paget in the House
of Commons when introducing the last naval esti-
mates, as " improved Alabamas." She will be
187 ft. in length, and 36ft. in extreme breadth, and
will have a seagoing draught of water of 16ft. Gin.
aft, and 13ft. 9in. forward.
The Urgent, screw steamship, Capt. S. H. Hen-
derson, was undocked yesterday at Portsmouth,
after receiving a new Maudslay-Griffiths screw, for
further troop service.
The hired sailing transport Edwin Fox arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from the Thames, and was
towed into the harbour, where she was berthed
alongside the dockyard. To-day she will embark
the remainder of the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment
for conveyance to Bombay.
Col. Hamilton, 87th Regiment, hts entered upon
his duties of the office of town-major of Portsmouth,
temporary, vice Capt. J. Breton, on sick leave until
the 31st October.

The jury then retired, and, after about half an hour's
deliberation, returned into court with a verdict of guilty.
Mr. Warburton, the foreman, stated that a majority of
the jury wished the verdict to be accomponied with a re-
commendation to mercy.
Mr. Montgomery said he had been requested to state
the recommendation was based on the fact that the pri-
soner in committing the act was strongly under the in-
fluence of drink.

The Chief Justice—l see no grounds for such a recom-
mendation, and shall not act upon it, as the murder was
committed under circumstances of gross treachery.
The Chief Justice then addressed the prisoner in a most
feeling and pathetic manner, during which he seemed
deeply affected, and, in conclusion, sentenced him to be
hanged on Wednesday, the 6th day of September next.
After the sentence the prisoner, for the first time, lost
his presence of mind, and, bursting into tears, exclaimed
to an old man in the court, "Dan M'Namara, remember
me to my poor father." Ile was then removed, and the
Court adjourned.
An Adroit Juvenile Pickpocket.

For some time back frequent complaints have
been made to the station-master at the Dundee
station of the Scottish North-Eastern Railway, by
lady passengers, who stated that they had either
been robbed of or had lost their purses. The com-
plaints were so numerous that it was presumed that
some adroit pickpocket was a constant traveller on
the line. What made things worse was that while
the ladies were positive that they had their purses
in their possession before leaving Dundee, they were
without them as soon as they got as far as the ferry.
Every effort was made to detect the thief, for it
was no longer supposed that the parties had lost
their purses. The police were apprised of what was
going on, and the railway officials cautioned to inti-
mate when they saw any person who might be sus-
pected. Notwithstanding these precautions things
continued as,before, and occasionally intimations of
losses were made. On Tuesday forenoon a young
lady stepped into a second-class carriage at Broughty
Ferry, and after sitting for a short time she had oc-
casion to put her hand in her pocket, when she dis-
covered that her purse had been taken away. She
leaped out on the platform immediately, told Mr.
Brown, the station-master, that she had been robbed
of her purse, which contained upwards of a pound,
besides the portrait of a friend, and insisted that
she had it when she entered the compartment a few
minutes before. A young girl who was in the car-
riage, and who, although decently attired, had a
somewhat suspicious look about her, was civilly
asked by Mr. Brown to leave the train and come
into his room, as from what occurred he felt it to
be his duty to detain her at least for a train. When
asked if she had taken the purse she point blank
said she had not. A policeman was at hand at the

Yesterday morning a competitive examination of
candidates for commissions in the army was opened
at Chelsea Hospital, and at the same time an exa-
mination of candidates for 40 appointments as assis-
tant surgeons in her Majesty's Indian medical ser-
vice. The examinations will extend over sevoral
days.

time, he was called in, the circumstances were com-
municated to him, and he requested her to deliver
up the purse to him if she had it. She now re-
lented, and, taking it from her pocket, handed it to
the officer. She was taken into custody, and Mr.
Brown being aware of the facts as we have related
them above, thotight it extremely likely that she
was the person who could give an account of the
missing purses. ' Superintendent Munro and In-
spector Adams, of the county constabulary, were
informed of what had taken place. They proceeded
to the ferry, and conveyed the girl to Dundee.
She gave her name as Ann Rodger, and stated that
she was the daughter of William Rodger, weaver,
Rosebank-street. The girl, who was evidently about
12 or 13 years of age, having been lodged in the
police-office, the officers deemed it expedient to make
inquiry after her father and mother. After
blichousea tedious
search they were instructed to go to a pu
in the Hilltown, where it was stated they were
almost certain to be found. Thither the officers
went, and discovered Rodger and his wife drinking.
Inspector Adams searched the man on the spot, and
found on him two purses, one containing a gold ring,
and the other a few shillings. Both parties were
taken into custody, and the officers having obtained
the key of the room which they occupied in Rose-
bank-street, they proceeded to it. In a lockfast
chest no less than seven purses were found, one
being a particularly pretty one. One of the purses
and the ring found upon the father have been iden-
tified, the purse by a lady residing in Broughty
Ferry, and the ring by a lady residing in Dundee,

who states that she got it taken from her pocket on
Monday last. Another of the purses has been iden-
tified by a Dundee lady, who states that it was
stolen from her the same day as the girl was appre-
hended. A few days ago a little girl, while passing
along the road near the Broughty Ferry Station,
discovered, much to her discomfiture, that some
one had picked her pocket of her purse, in which
there was a sum of money. Having remembered
that a girl had knocked up against her a short time
before, she looked about to see if she could get any
trace of her. Fortunately she espied her, and run-
ning up to her demanded back the purse of which
she alleged she had been robbed. The girl com-
plained against stoutly denied the charge, but see-
ing that the bystanders were beginning to take
notice of the child who was so loudly asking for
what had been taken from her, she threw the purse
on the ground and then snatched it up again, and
said she had foundit. She handed the empty purse
to the poor little girl, and it turns out from what
has since transpired that this too was a performance
of the same girl Rodger. Such a wholesale system of
pocket picking seldom occurs, and it is very
fortu-
nate that the guilty parties have been caught at
mftList.
ted
The father and daughter have both been committed
the
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to prison—the girl on a charge of,h
The theft,motherand has
father of theft or reset of theft. l
been liberated in the meantime.—Dundee Advertiser.

THE FIVE MISSING GENTLEMEN.—A rumour
was generally circulated through Dublin on Saturday that
the fivo young gentlemen who were supposed to have been
drowned on Monday night last had been picked up at sea
in an exhausted state, and had been conveyed to hospital.
We regret to say that there is not the slightest foundation
for the rumour, and it is now generally supposed that the
five young gentlemen have met a watery grave.—Freeman's
Journal.