The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, APRIL 11.
The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of her
Majesty to-day.

Mr. David Chadwick and Mr. Hugh Fraser, of Man.
cheater, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson at the Board of Trade yesterday.

The Right Hon. W. Hutt has left London for Gibside.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRM—Yesterday morning, ehortly
before two o'clock, a destructive fire broke ont on the pre-
mises of Mr. Charles Holden, known as the Brunswick
Loan Fund, No. 1, Brunswick-grove, Cromer-street,
King's-cross, St. Pancras. On the alarm being raised,
Mr. Holden endeavoured to descend by the staircase, but
was driven back by the smoke and flames ; and, as the last
resort, jumped from the ffrst-floor window. The fire was
not extinguished till the house was entirely destroyed. The
cause is unknown. The loss will fall on the Imperial Fire-
office.

WIMBLEDON AND DORKING RAILWAY.— A
Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held yesterday at
the office, No. 1, Poet's-corner, Westminster Abbey, Mr.
Remington in the chair, for the purpose of approving or
otherwise a bill now before Parliament entitled, " A bill
for authorising the London and South Western Railway
Company to make and maintain additional works, and for
authorising the lease or transfer to them of the Chard Rail-
way and the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, and for
making arrangements respecting the capital, and for other
purposes." The chairman, in a few words of explanation,
moved a formal resolution declaratory of the approval of
the proposed measure, which, having been seconded, was
agreed to without discussion, and the meeting terminated.
THE NAVAL RESERVE.—Her Majesty has been
graciously pleased, upon the recommendation of the Duke
of Somerset, to confer upon Capt. J. H. Brown, R.N., Re-
gistrar-General of Seamen, the honour of Companion of the
Bath, as a recognition of the important services rendered
to the country in originating and carrying into effect the
measure for forming a Naval Reserve. To Capt. Brown
is due the credit of having solved this difficult problem of
manning the navy on an emergency, and the records of the
Admiralty testify with what unceasing perseverance he
urged the attention of successive boards to that subject.
Till now the merchant seamen have looked upon the scheme
with great suspicion, and it was only after calling the men
together at the several ports, and explaining the provisions
of the measure, that Captain Brown at length succeeded in
removing the prejudices they had against all relating to the
navy. The force now numbet s nearly 12,000 picked Ab.'s, and
the country lately witnessed how readily and heartily they
tendered their services in the American crisis. Captain
Brown is one of the few survivors of the battle of Trafalgar,
having been midshipman of the Prince, 98, in that action.

ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN THE REGENT'S
CANAL.—Yesterday morning, shortly after seven o'clock,
the body of a male person of gentlemanly appearance was
found floating in the Regent's Canal, near the New Globe-
bridge, Stepney. Mr. Horton, the divisional medical offi-
cer, examined the deceased, who had, in his opinion, been
immersed in the water nearly a week. The body bore
several marks or abrasions round the neck and front part of
the throat, as if the deceased had been garotted. The de-
ceased was about Mt. sin. in height, with dark hair and
eyes, and appeared to be about 35 years of age. There is a
public footway near the spot where the deceased was found,
and this is the third mysterious discovery in the same part
of the canal within a few weeks.

THE INCREASE OF CHILD MURDER.--INQUESTS.
—Yesterday forenoon Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner
for Middlesex, held an inquest tit the board-room of Mile-
end Old Town Workhouse, Bancroft-road, Stepney, respect-
ing the death of a male infant, newly born, supposed to
have been murdered, discovered on Wednesday morning
last by a police-constable in Ben Jonson's-fields, Stepney.
Mr. James Stephenson, surgeon, said that the deceased
had been dead several days. The body was fully developed,
and the umbilical cord had not been secured. He believed
that the deceased had died from neglect at birth. The
jury, in the ebsence of positive evidence, returned a ver-
dict of "Found dead ; but whether born alive they had no
legal testimony to prove," A second inquiry was also gone
into at the London Hospital, respecting a female child
found, wrapped in a piece of brown paper, on the grass in
the back garden of the London Hospital, on Wednesday
morning last. Mr. Dyte, the resident medical officer, stated
that the deceased had been born alive, and had died from
pressure or from suffocation. The Coroner having remarked
on the frightful increase of the crime of child murder, the
jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown."
A FIRE EXTINGUISHED BY CRlNOLlNE.—Yes-
terday morning an investigation was held at the Poplar
Hospital by the Middlesex coroner, touching the death of
Frederick Hayden, aged six years, who lost his life under
the following shocking circumstances :—Mrs. Mary Hay-
den, 4, Anne-street, Plaistow, said that deceased was her
grandson. Last Wednesday she went out to purchase the
dinner, leaving the child playing about the room. She had
been absent only twenty minutes, when she was sent for,
and upon returning she found that he had been most fear-
fully burnt, the clothes having been consumed from his
body. He was removed forthwith to the hospital, whore
death put an end to his sufferings. Mrs. Martha Offerd, a
lodger in the same house, said that directly after last witness
went out she heard fearful shrieks from the deceased, and
upon going upstairs she found him rushing about the room
in a body of flame. She had nothing at hand to fling over
him, so she wrapped him up in her crinoline and stifled the
fire. A juror remarked that crinoline had never been put
to so good a use before, and witness deserved much credit
for her presence of mind. The witness stated that the poor
child was drealfully charred, and had no doubt set himself
on fire by playing near the grate. The coroner summed
up, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

COURT-MARTIAL —A court-martial was held
yesterday on and tho Victory, flag-ship, for the trial of
Edward Caroll, A. 8., of her Majesty's ship Hawke, wait
ing a passage on board the Victory to join his own ship, on
charges preferred by Commander Bonham, as prosecutor,
Ist, for striking Corporal William Poole in the execution
of his duty in endeavouring to arrest him; 2d, for resist-
ing the naval police in the execution of their duty. The
Court was composed of Capt. Dickson, Trafalgar, president;
Capt. Powell, Defence ; Capt. Lord Gilford, Tribune ; Com-
mander Miller, Asia; and Commander Henderson, Mega3ra
—E. Hoskins, Esq., acting as officiating judge-advocate.
After a great deal of evidence, which was, however, very
conflicting, the prisoner was found guilty, and the Court
Sentenced him to be imprisoned with hard labour for three
months in Winchester Gaol.

MORMON CONFERENCE IN LONDON.—On Sunday
the 32d anniversary of the organisation of the Mormon
communityifyriyf
incincoAmereerniccae, the Mormons of London held their
half-yearly ea
gathering in St. George's Hall,
Southwark. Three of the 4‘ apostles"—Amasa Lyman,
Charles C. Rich, and George D. Cannon—were on
the platform. The hall was crowded to excess. In the
evening at least 1,000 Mormons were present, with a stifling
crowd of curious strangers within the railings in the street.
The conference was called to order at three and 6 30, ad-
journing at 4 50, and concluding at 8 15. Elder Staines,
in giving a report of his twelve months' presidency, stated
that the conference was financially prosperous, had cleared
off (Z 75) inherited from the previous year, and
a balance,
after providing for all liabilities. 177 converts
h
bbaptised, schools had been founded, contain-
nitnnagdtu
vt the
been
now
be
teah
stated.
243 children, and 85 " saints" had emigrated
o
The number expected to leave this season could
ets
250 were announced as ready, but fresh
accessions to the emigrant list were coming in daily, lead
ing him (Elder Staines) to think that half the conference
might go ere the season closed. Votes of confidence in the
presiding authorities in Utah, in Europe, and in the metro-
polis were taken in the afternoon, the affirmative of each
proposition being supported by a forest of right hands.
Addresses were given in the afternoon by Elder Cannon,
and in the evening by Elder Lyman.
SPECIE FOR THE EAST.— SOUTHAMPTON, April
12.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ellora, sailing t0,£43,860 ; bar gold, £20,000; gold, coin, £9,695; and sove-
reins, 1,500. day, takes out in specie--bar silver,