The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

IHE A _P.M' .

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief of the army has addressed a memorandum
to the officers of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich,
which was published last night in garrison orders,
signifying his approbation of the prompt and effi-
cient manner in which the numerous draughts, con-
sisting of upwards of 2,000 men, have been em-
barked under their care at Gravesend for India.
His Royal Highness at the same time desired that
mention should be made of his satisfaction at the
good military condition of the troops, as notified in
the returns to the Horse Guards.
General Sir Richard Dacres has succeeded in
organizing a hospital at Woolwich for the n,c,ssi-
ties of the wives and children of the soldiers in cases
of sickness or accident. The hospital is now
thoroughly established, and has already 12 patients
receiving medical care and attention. The establish-
ment is supported mainly by subscriptions from the
officers of the garrison.
The Isabella merchant vessel is ordered to call in
at Spit _be .
an, on her way down channel from the
Thames, to embark three officers and 50 men, eight
women, and 10 children of the 50th Regiment, for
conveyance to Ceylon.
Thirty
non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Engineers,
whohave completed their course
of instruction in sapping and mining, pontooning,
and fortification
despatched from the
head-quarters of the been
Chatham, to the Royal Militaryngi
cneelr establishment,
for the purpose of assisting in the o . lege, Srndhurst,
natruction of the
cadets destined for the Royal
Engineers.
The competitive examination of
candidates for
di-
rect commissions commenced at
-Gen. Knoll 'ea Hospital
yesterday before Lieut. vice-presi-
dent, and the members of the Council of Militar
Education. The examinations will extend over
days.
In accordance with orders received at Chstthatu\
from the :,fficp of Col. Chapman, C. 8., Deputy Adjt,_
Gen., parties of non-commissioned officers and men
have been despatched from the head-
quarters of the
Royal Engineer establishment to several of theprin-
cipal towns in England and Scotland, for the pur-
pose of raising the required number of men to form
the two additional companies of Royal Engineers
which are to be forthwith embodied, t he whole of
tha Indian Engineers, formerly stationed et Chat-
ham, having left that garrison and embarked for
India. The two new companies will be trained ex-
clusively for service in India, ace.? will be formed
into depot companies.
A number Pf the most intelligent non commis
sioned officers and nit. 11 61 tkitoyal Engineers have
_left hear4quarters, CLaihatn, to join the several com-
panies of Engineers now employed on the Ordnance
Survey throughout the Ueittil Kingdom.
A grand military bazaar, under the patronage of
their R.H. the Duchess of C.,mbridge and the Prin-
cess Marl, the Duchess of Northumberlend, Ole
Duchess of Roxburcrhe the Countess of De Grey
and Ripon, the '
Countess of Darnley, and several
o ..Lier ladies of distinction,will •
, be held in the newly
ere
ned Soldiers' Institute, Chatham, to-day and two
succeeding days, for the purpose
pose of raising the funds
to pay °
ff owing the debt still on the building.
Wm.
Bishop, the man
referred to some days ago
been barbarously treated as having at the hands of
the military police at Wool •
w_ 'eh, has been discharged
h h
from the infirularY, where has undergone a course
ent for the Injuries he
of medical treatim received.
11e has been since sent to the guard-room
of the

Royal Artillery, where he will await the decision
of the authorities for his disposal. The punishment
referred took place,according to Bishop's ~'atement,
six weeks after his first detention on the accusation
of his being a deserter. He states that t le pretext of
his being dirty wassimplyan excuse o Serg.-Major
Ashton to justify in some measure before his com-
manding officer the severity of the treatment he
underwent. It appears he was arrested on June 2d
in Somersetshire, and claimed by the military there
as a deserter from the Royal Artillery. At the end
of that month he was transferred to Woolwich,
where he is well known as having been employed
about four years in the dockyard and arsenal. On a
reduction of the latter establishment he went down
the country to seek further employment. This ap-
pears to be well authenticated. The fact of his being
a deserter is doubted. It seems that on thevisit of
the officer of the rounds he neglected or refused to
" stand attention." On his departure an altercation
took place between himself and the serg.-major,
upon which the latter ordered him to strip, and, on
his refusing to comply, he was given into the hands
of a couple of Marines and two of the Artillery,
who, he states, soused him four or five times in the
bath and afterwards tortured him with the sand
and scrubbing brush until the water became red
with blood. His friends, who have been permitted
to visit him in the hospital, state that from the nape
of his neck to the ankle bones they counted 36
wounds, produced by the severe friction which he
underwent. His friends, who are convinced of the
injustice of his arrest and punishment, state their
determination on his being liberated of suing for
ample remuneration.

THE MYS7ERICUS DISCOVERY A 7
COBHAM.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
Yesterday morning great excitement prevailed at
Cobham and its neighbourhood, in consequence of
the discovery of two bodies on the common, about
half a mile from the town. The police have been
very energetic, and it is satisfactory tothye young
yboeagblme
men
state that they have ascertained who
andLondone ogne
nSt Sunday
are. Several persons camrenifnrogm,
night and yesterday mo
who viewed the bodies expressed an opinion that
they were the sons of Mr. Bettlestone, who carries
on business as a naturalist, at No. 11, Neville-ter-
race, Hornsey-road. Mr. Brown, a harness maker,
residing at Cobham, proceeded to London, and then
to Hornsey, where he saw Mr. Bettlestone, and in a
few moments enough transpired to convince both
Mr. Brown and Mr. Bettlestone that a conclusive
clue had been gained. The two young men, it ap-
pears, left home together on the morning of Thurs-
day, the 26th July, with the avowed intention of
going down the South-Western line to fish, but they
did not state decidedly to what part of the country
they were going. They left the train at the Esher
Station, and walked through the village and past the
palings of Claremont-park, towards Cobham, where
they visited two of the hotels, partaking of mode-
rate refreshment. At the White Lion they had some
port wine, which, however, they appeared not to
like, and asked for some a little older. With this
they were supplied, and saying that it was very
good, they ordered a bottle of it, and took it away
with them in their basket. The eldest of the brothers
was 36 years of age, the younger 23. The elder was
armed with pistols, but nothing was known of the
fact until after the bodies were discovered. At first
it was supposed in the neighbourhood that a horri-
ble double murder had been committed for the pur-
pose of robbery, but the finding of money in the
pockets of both the unfortunate men, and other
valuable property about them, soon led to the con-
viction that no murder had been committed for that
object. The investigation, which has already taken
place, shows too clearly how the fatal acts were
committed. No doubt can exist that the elder
brother, in a moment of unguardedness, seized his
younger brother and shot him through the head,
and that having laid him out on the ground and
covered him with his railway wrapper, he lay down
beside him and shot himself through the heart. In
that position they were found, after sleeping the
sleep of death in that secluded spot more than eight
days; for they died, there can be little doubt, on
the morning of Tuesday, July the Bth, while their
bodies were not found until eight o'clock last Fri-
day evening. The memorandum which was found
indicates to some extent the state of mind of the
elder brother, who it is said was of an erratic and
roving disposition, but no light is thrown on the
motive which could have prompted him to murder
his younger brother, for whom he always seemed
to bear the strongest affection, and who is described
as a quiet, inoffensive, and well-conducted young
man. No quarrels of any kind are known to have
taken place between them, and as far as can be re-
collected by those who saw them on the morning of
their visit to Cobham, they were cheerful and
friendly, and to all appearance bent upon the sport
they expected from their fishing tour. It is a some-
what remarkable fact that although the young men
promised to return to the inn at Cobham in the
course of the evening, and although they were ab-
sent from their homes more than a week, no in-
quiries were made about them.
COBHAM, AIM. 4.
An inquest on the bodies of the two gentlemen
who were found on Friday in a wood near Cobham
was held this morning at the Ring's Arms Inn, be-
fore W. Carter, Esq., coroner for East Surrey. The
bodies had been placed in coffins previous to their
inspection by the jury, and in an outhouse adjoin-
ing the inn. The spot where the tragedy took place
was visited by hundreds of persons on Sunday,
many of whom came from the metropolis for that
purpose, and the trees near to which the bodies
had been were entirely stripped of their foliage and
branches by those who were curious to obtain me-
mentoes of the extraordinary occurrence. The excite-
ment continues to increase rather than to abate in
the neighbourhood.

The following evidence was adduced, after the
Coroner had remarked that, as the bodies presented
a most horrifying spectacle, the jury were only to
be shown the lower extremities by the lid of the
coffins being removed d few inches in order to satisfy
them that the bodies were those of human persons.
He observed that there were three hypotheses re-
specting the deaths, viz.—Suicide, or the murder of
one and the suicide of the survivor.

H. Hogan, cattle dealer, of Cobham, deposed to
being at the George and Dragon on Friday last,
about seven o'clock, when two men named Eyles
and Boxall requested him to accompany them for a
walk, and he did so. They left the village and
tnrned into the waste land on Walton Heath.
After proceeding about 150 yards from the Ripley
turnpike road a very offinsive smell was observed,
and on passing through the common towards the
road to Byfleet he remained behind his companions
'44 on turning round he saw what appeared to be
I this
bodies of two men, one of them was lying on
lm's
f
kvibith a cloth over him. The other was
the bre right side with his head reclining on
companions
the former. Witness called to his
and they then
°l;thom he pointed out the bodies, 1
bodies, and gave the
spot without disturbing the
ofrmation to Police-constable
Lovell. The smell
otizidtaently dead for some
sive, and they had beetn/aa bodies was very offen-
tntetrhkenc3w
th,,l,c,
days. Witness and the
eonatneon had no particular
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Thos. Lovell, polic:.‘-constable, stationecl. ~t Cob-
ham, deposed—On Friday evening last I ree,,,,
certain information which caused me to go to t:ovinde
waste land called Walton Common, being in the
parish or Waiton-On-Thames. I found several per.
sons standing around two dead me ,r , one of whom
was lying on his back with his legs crossed, and
having his head and face covered with a railway
wrapper. The other lay upon his right side, with
his head resting cn the breast of his dead companion.
Their dresses were not disordered. The bodies were
attacked by vermin, and they had probably been
dead seven or eight day&
Mr. Webb, surgeon, ac-
companied me. I observed
a pistol lying just be-
hind the head of the upper one, on which was an
exploded cap. I now produce it. It is empty,
having been discharged. A striped fancy cap was