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London, England, 1862-05-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, EVENING, MAY 17, 1862.

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COURT OF D FORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
STOYLE V. STOYLE AND BUTCHER.
This was a petition presented by the husband, praying
far dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery.
The marriage took place in Glasgow in 1841. In order
to prove the fact,
Mrs. M'Fee was called—She said I was present at the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Stoyle. It was performed accord •
ing to the rules of the Scotch Church.
Mr. Hill, counsel for the petitioner, asked the witness to
tell the Court what took place when the marriage was per-
formed.
Witness—Well, they did all that was usual.
Counsel—What was that ?
Witness—Why, they married.
Counsel—Well, what was that ?
Witness—Why, they were married in the usual form, of
course. (Laughter.)
The Judge—What did the clergyman say, and what did
they do ?
Witness—The clergyman says it all, and they have to
make their obedience to him.
Judge---Well, did they do so ?
Witness—Of course they did.
The Judge—Did they sleep together after they were
married ?
Witness—Of course they did. (Laughter.) Why
shouldn't they ? (Laughter.) They were married. (Roars
of laughter.) Don't you know, my lord, there's always
great fun made at a bedding in Scotland. (Great laughter.)
The Judge—Well, well, my good woman, I don't want
to know about the fun that takes place at the " bedding" in
Scotland—(laughter)—all 1 want to know is the facts of
the case. Did they sleep together ?
Witness—Why, of course they did. (Laughter.)
The Judge—l don't want to know what they did of
course. I only want to know whether they went to bed or
not?

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Witness—Well, then, they did. (Laughter.)
Mrs. Boyd said she was present at the wedding of Mr. and
Mrs, Stoyle. It was done in the regular way.
Counsel—Well, will you tell the court what was done ?
Witness—They were married. (Laughter.)
The Judge—Yes, so the other witness has said. We
want to know what was done at that ceremony ?
Witness—Well, they did nothing.
The Judge--What I did they not say anything ? (Laugh-
ter.)

Witness—No Nothing is said by either party. The
minister does all that. (Laughter.)
The Judge—They must say something. Did you say
nothing when you were married ? (Laughter.) I suppose
you were married according to the Scotch law.
Witness—Yes. (Laughter.) Well, when I was married
the minister said the words. My husband then put a ring
on my finger, and we then acknowledged oursely©s to be
man and wife.
The Judge—Well, was all that done when Mr. and Mrs.
Stoyle were married ?
Witness—Yes, of course it was.
The Judge—Then why could you not say so when the
gentleman asked you at first ?
Mr. Anderson, Q.C., said—l am a member of the Scotch
bar, and I have no doubt tjae marriage was legally per-
formed according to the law of Scotland.
Witnesses having proved the adultery,
The court decreed a rule nisi.

SHERIFF'S COURT.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Wheeler.)
BUCHANAN V. ALBERKY.

This was an action upon a bill of costs, and the facts of
the case may be well gleaned from the able judgment,
written by Mr. Kerr, the judge of the court, and delivered
by Mr. Sergeant Wheeler, sitting, to-day, as deputy judge :
—" In this case the plaintiff seeks to recover from the
defendant the costs of an action, brought at defendant's
instance, in the Mayor's Court, to recover a debt of £5 Os 71d.
Being 71d. over £5, the defendant was entitled to employ
an attorney, and have the service of counsel, and recover
the cost of so doing. The plaintiff here, who was her
attorney, now seeks to recover £1 6s. 10d., his bill of costs
for issuing the writ. Hitherto, in such cases, I have felt a
difficulty in giving a plaintiff a verdict, as this court has nc
means whatever of taxing a bill of costs for work done in
the Mayor's Court, and I have not unfrequently exercised
the powers conferred by the statute, and entered a nonsuit,
thereby leaving the plaintiff to seek his costs against his own
client in the court in which the work was done. lam re-
lie-ved of difficulty in this case, however, as it is proved that
the defendant did not leave it to her attorney to bring the
action in this (the Sheriff's Court), where unquestionably
an action for £5 Os. 71d. ought to be brought. She expressly
directed plaintiff to bring the action in the Mayor's Court,
and cannot therefore complain of the expense incurred. I
find, therefore, for the plaintiff, and I further make a special
order under the seventh rule as to costs for the plaintiff's
costs of suit.

Mr. Buchanan attended, but no one was present for the
defendant, though this is a most important question for the
public, whose business may take them to the Mayor's Court.

CRIMINAL COURT-TI-ITS DAY,

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
EMBEZZLEMENT.

James Nicholls, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Streeton
and Co., pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling certain
monies, the property of his employers.
The Recorder sentenced him to 9 months' imprisonment.
NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
James Martin, late a police-constable in the Metropolitan
force, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charg-
ing him with wilful and corrupt perjury on the occasion of
a trial at Westminster, before Sir Cresswell Cresswell, in
the Divorce Court, on the 14th M arch last.

in a cause in which a Mr.
On being arraigned the defendant pleaded not guilty.
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sionand Isabella Wheddon, his
wife, was the respondent, and a man of the name of Smith
was the co-respondent. Tho cause was instituted for

the purpose of' obtaining a divorce on the ground of
adultery committed by:theirespondent with the co-respond-
dent Smith. The respondent put in an answer, and ap-
peared by counsel, but the the co-respondent did not appear.
It became material to establish in evidence one specific act
of adultery, alleged to have been committed by the respon-
dent with Smith on the 18th November, 1859, and for that
purpose the defendant was called as a witness, and he then,
on his oath, stated in substance, that on the night of the
18th November, 1859, he was in Newington-causeway
with a person of the name of Hayes, and that they went
together to a publichouse in that neighbourhood, and
that while in that house the co-respondent, who was a
porter in the establishment of which Hayes was the tra-
veller, came in accompanied by a female. The defendant
stated that Smith and the woman remained some short
time, and, after having partaken of some refreshment, they
left. The defendant further swore that he followed them
to a brothel in William-street, Newington-causeway, where
they remained some considerable time. The defendant
swore positively to Smith being the man, and with reference
to the woman who was with Smith on the evening in ques-
tion, the defendant told the learned judge that he had been
shown the respondent, Mrs. Wheddon, in Westminster
Hall, the day before the trial, and that she was the woman
who was with Smith at the public-house, and who went
with him to the brothel on the 18th November, 1859, The
defendant in his evidence had gone on to state that he had
seen the same woman on the evening of the 23d December
following, standing alone outside the Alhambra, in Leices-
ter-square, as if she were waiting for some person or another.
Witnesses proved that the statement was untrue.

The defence was that the perjury was inadvertently com-
mitted, the defendant having been made the tool of other
parties.

Tho jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGHISTREET, THIS DAY.

HTC*HWAY ROBBERY.—Henry Carnon, a painter, living
in Hart-street, Covent-garden, was charged with stealing
a gold chain, of the value of £3, from Matilda Gurney, a
young woman, of 53, King-street, Soho,

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- The prosecutrix said the chain produced was her pro-
perty, and of the value of £3. About 2 that m trning she
was walking along Regent-street, when the prisoner came
up to her and asked her where she was going, and then her
address. She told him she wanted to have nothing to say
to him, when he put one hand on her shoulder and the
other on her breast, and threw her down, and as she was
falling she felt the chain which was round her neck
snap, one half of it being in the prisoner's hand
the other half attached to her dress. The pri-
soner then tried to get away, and a female ran after him
and struck him with her umbrella, and two gentlemen
stopped the prisoner. One of them then crossed over and
fetched a constable from the other side of the street, and she
thou gave the prisoner into custody and he was taken to
the station, where he denied the charge and abused her.
She was a good deal bruised by falling.
Emma Willis, a young woman, living in Cleveland-
street, said she was in the Regent-circus and saw the pro-
secutrix thrown down by the prisoner, and as he ran away
she ran after him and gave him a blow with her umbrella.
The prosecutrix then came up, and said " You have got my
chain," and at the time the prisoner had a part of it in his
hand, the other part being attached to the prosecutrix's
dress. The prisoner tried to get away, but the gentlemen
prevented him, and said he should not leave till the con-
stable came up.

Prisoner asked witness, on her oath, whether she saw any
part of the chain in his hand, and she replied in the affirma-
tive.
Samuel Grinham, 132 C, said the prisoner had given, he
believed, a correct address.
Prisoner said he was a respectable man and in work--.
working for a good master.
Mr, Knox said he should remand him for a week for the
attendance, if possible, of one of the gentlemen but if the
his appearance.
officer found that he was in work, he should take bail for

FR 0112 THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 16.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-General Henry J.
Savage to be ,Colonel-Commandant, vice General Sir
George Whitmore, deceased.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Lieutenant Arthur
Hamilton Serope, from 12th Lancers, to be Cornet, by
_ purchase, vice Wingfield, premoted.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Richard Harpur Crewe
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Evelyn Harpur Crewe,
who retires; Cornet and Adjutant J ,hn Nethercote to
NhQaouvei
nel
to,
oehpeerankLitchfield
etho.efn_
aLn;te,uhteyn
purchase,a n t ,• Cornet
vice
Thomas Albert
Crewe;
3dpuurucshsaasres,_voicoern4eutihneld Woods, Gent., to be Cornet, by
Charles E. Nettles to be Instructor of
u sk e tre
4thMHussars—Lieutenant,
Russell England to be Instructor
o Musketry.
Lionel Beauchamp Cole to be Lieu-
tenant,Hussars—Cornet vice Francis de Burgh, who
retires
; Lieutenant
Reginald Calvert to be Instruct or of Musketry.
12th Lancers—Cornet James Stevenson to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Scropc, appointed to a C t
°roc ce in the
Royal Regiment of How Guards.
13th Hussars—Lieutenant Thomas George Johnson to be
Instructor of Musketry.
15th Hussars—Lieutenant James Alston Clark to be In-
structor of Musketry.
18th Hussars—Frederick John George Murray, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Parkinson, who re-
tires ; Captain John Macartney, late 17th Lancers, to be
Paymaster, vice Paymaster (with the honorary rank of
Captain) William Betson, who retires upon half-pay.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant William James Smith Neill
to be Second Captain, vice Legh Delves Broughton,
deceased. The dates of promotion of the undermentioned
Officers to be altered as follows :—Second Captain John
Robert King to 16th March; Second Captain Henry B.
Maule to Ist April ; Second Captain Charles W. Wal-
road to 4th April.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
-William Craw ey Stace to be Colonel, vice William Bid-
dtecomb Marlow, promoted, to be Major-General; Cap-
tain and Brevet-Major Richard Burnaby to he Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Staee ; Second Captain
William Coles Phillpotts to be Captain, vice Brevet-
Major Burnaby; Lieutenant George Watts Stockley to
be Second Captain, vice Phillpotts; Lieutenant John
Ashton Papillon to be Second Captain, vice Lionel
Charles Barber, placed on temporary half-pay,
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Fitz Roy Au-
gustus Talbot Clayton to be Captain and Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Lord Frederic John Fitz Roy,
who retires ; Ensign and Lieutenant Charles George
Henry, Viscount Hinchingbrook, to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Clayton.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William
White to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mackay, who ex-
changes.
sth Foot—Ensign Lucius John Blake to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice John Leslie, who retires; Thomas Arthur
Cook, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blake.
10th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Nicholas Edward Carr
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice S. F. Poole, pro-
moted.
13th Foot—Ensign Robert Warren to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieutenant King, who resigns that ap-
pointment; Surgeon Wm. Green Trousdell, M.D., hav-
ing completed a period of 20 years' full-pay service, to
be Surgeon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal
Warrant of Ist October, 1858.
20th Foot—Lieutenant Stephen Egan to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Barrington G. Dashwood, who retires;
who retires; Ensign Thomas Alfred Davies to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Egan; Ensign George Gordon
Fergusson, from 18th Foot, to be Enz-ign, vice Parks,
deceased ; Thomas P. rceval Palmer, Gent., late Lieu-
tenant North Mayo Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Davies.
23d Foot—Surgeon Patrick Sinclair Laing, having com-
pleted a period of 20 years' full-pay service, to be Sur-
geon-Major under the provisions of the Royal Warrant
of Ist October, 1858.
24th Foot—Lieutenant John Foot to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice William Winniett, who retires ; Ensign
William Maxwell Brander to be Lieutenant, by par-
chase, vice Foot; George Arthur Lee, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Brander.
37th Foot—Major Francis Douglas Grey, from 63d Foot,
to be Major, vice Robert Press_ tt Harrison, who ex.
changes.
39th Foot—Ensign Frederick Trotter to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Frederick Augustine Lynam, who retires;
Thomas l'oydell, Gent , late Lieutenant Denbigh Militia,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Trotter.
40th Foot—Lieutenant John Thomas Whelan to Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant Johnston who resigns that appointment.
45th Foot—John William Micklethwait, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice John Webb, who retires.
48th Foot—Ensign itliam Rapp Tudor, to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Wyse, promoted • Lieutenant
Gee. '1 homes Miller, to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Rawlins
promoted.
50th Foot—Lieut. Clement R. Johnson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Edward Crawfurd Antrobus, who retires;
Ensign John Harrison Vander-Meulen to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Johnson ; Henry Russell Worthingi on,
Gent,, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Vander-Meulen.
57th Foot—Charles Picot, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice M'Clintock, who retires ; Lieutenant Charles
Mansfield Clarke to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Waugh,
who resigns that appointment.
59th Foot—Ensign John Trohear Rudd to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Drage, promoted, by purchase, to an
Unattached Company ; Taverner Charles Miller, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rudd.
63d Foot—Major Robert Prescott Harrison, from 37th
Foot, to be Major, vice Francis Douglas Grey, who ex-
changes.
66th Foot—Lieutenant John Healey, from 83d Foot, to be
Lieutenant, vice Walter Cecil Strickland, who exchanges.
67th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Andrew Moffitt to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ross, promoted to the Staff.
78th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Pierce Butler to be Ad-
jutant, vice Lieutenant Thomas Mackenzie, who resigns
that appointment.
80th Foot—Lieutenant Samuel George Huskisson to be
Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Craufurd, who resigns that
appointment.
83d Foot—Lieutenant Walter Cecil Strickland, from 66th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Healey, who ex-
changes.
95th Foot—Lieutenant John Joseph Bacon to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Benison, deceased ; Ensign
Edward Warren Golding to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Bacon.
96th Foot—Surgeon Benjamin Swift, M.D., having com-
pleted a period of 20 years' full-pay service, to be Sur-
geon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant
of Ist October, 1858.
Ist West India Regiment—Charles Jones Lucius Hill,
Gent., late 'Lieutenant Royal Antrim Rifles Militia, to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice Nicholson, promoted.
UNATTACHED.
Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Russell
Harris, half-pay, 60th Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners,
to be Major without purchase.
Lieutenant Frederick Drage, from 59th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, by purchase.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—Assistant-Surgeon Alexander
Clark Ross, M.D., from the 67th Foot, to be Staff. Sur-
geon, vice Laing, removed from the Service. To be Staff-
Assistant Surgeons—Samuel Rowe, Gent., vice More
phew, promoted on thg Staff; Alfred John Bellmore,
Gent., vice O'Callaghan, promot.-d on the Staff; Allan
Nesbitt Fox, Gent.; Angus John Mackay, M.D., from
the Ist Foot,vice White, who exchanges ; Walter Nether-
coat Pell, from half-pay, vice Moffit, appointed to 67th
Foot.
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT—Andrew Galraith Ross,
Gent., to be Acting Veterinary Surgeon.
BREVET.
Lieutenant-General John Oldfield, Royal Engineers, to
be General, vice Sir George Whitmore, deceased.
Lieutenant General William Douglas, retired, full pay,
Royal Engineers, having stood below Lieutenant-General
Oldileld on the effective establishment of the corps, to be
promoted to the rank of General, under clause 35 of the
Royal Warrant of 14th Oct., 1858.
Major-General Henry John Savage, Royal Engineers,
to be Lieutenant-General, vice Oldfield.
Colonel Wm. Biddlecomb Marlow, Royal Engineers, to
be Major-General, vice Savage.
Captain Hugh Henry Gough, Bengal Army to be Major.
Paymaster, with the Honorary rank of Major, George
Frederick Rosser, retired on half-pay, let 3 16th Lancers,
to have the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Lieutenant, with the honorary rank of Captain, Andrew
honorary
Sievwright, Paymaster, 9th Foot, to have the
rank of Major, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant
of 27th January, 1860.
Train, to have the
Paymaster Grahame Craig, Military
Royal Warrant of
• honorary rank of Captain,
under the
27th January, 1860.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
on the promotion of Colonel William Biddlecomb Marlow,
Royal Engineers, to be Major-General, j la'or-General, in the succession
to General Sir George Whitmore, Colonel Commandant
Royal Engineers, who died on the Ist April, 1862 :
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick English, C. 8., 534 Foot,
to be Colonel.
Major the Hon. Gilbert Elliot, Rifle Brigade, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Maj Captain Arthur Comyn Pigou, Royal Arall cry, to be
or.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
Marines, to be Major-General on the fixed n' of the Royal
that corps, in succession to Major-Gen establishment of
Royal Marines, retired upon full pa
or-General S. R. Wesley,
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charyle
Major of a Depot Battalion, to be Cols Lavallin Nugent,
Major John Wycliffe Thorn Colonel.
Lieutenant-Colonel. Thompson, Cavalry Depot, to be
Captain Raymond Richard Polly, 37th Foot, to be M • ADMIRALTY, MAY 16. Major.
Royal Marine Light I f
mandant John Geor n antry—Colonel and Second Com-
mandant, vice Moo ge Augustus Aylee to be
Lieutenant-ColonelColonel-Com-
re, retired on full-pay.
Willi
am Henry March to be Colonel
and Second Commandant, vice Ayles, promoted.
Captain and B
be revet-Major George B:rydges Rodney to
Lieutenant-Colonel,March, vice promoted.
First Lieutenant William Sanders to be Captain, vice
Rodney, Promoted.
Second Lieutenant James Inman to bo First Lieutenant,
vice Sanders, promoted.

A return has been called for by the Admiralty of the
armament of the ship gun drill batteries at each division of
the Royal Marines and Royal Marine Artilleiy. The gun.
nery instructors attached to the respective divisions are also
called upon to report whether it would be advantageous, or
otherwise, to the service to substitute the Armstrong for
any of the smooth-bore guns at the various batteries,
The Shannon, screw frigate, Capt. Wainwright, made her
preliminary trial of speed with the Admiralty screw, lead-
in,g corners cut, yesterday, at the measured mile in Stokes
Bay, under the command of Captain H. Broadhead, com-
manding the Steam Reserve, and Messrs. Mendoch and
Miller, of the Steam Reserve and Factory departments. The
ship's draught of water was—forward, 20ft 3in ; aft, 21ft
9in. Six runs were made at the miles with the following
results in knots :-Ist run, 1P533 ; 2d run, 10.315 ; 3d run,
12.500; 4th run, 9.944 ; sth run, 12.857 ; 6th run, 9.783 ;
the mean result of the whole was 11.288 knots. The pres-
sure was 201 b, and the vacuum was, forward, 25, and aft
the same. With five men at the wheel the order was given
"Hard a port," and a circlo was completed by the ship in
7 min 43 sec. " Hard a starboard," the circle was com-
pleted in 7 min 24 sec. In the first instance the rudder
was only got over 121 degrees, and in the second 14 degree,.
Apart, however, from this difficulty in getting the rudder
over when under steam, a difficulty common to all our
screw ships, the Shannon steers admirably. She instantly
answers the slightest touch of her wheel. To-day, should
the weather be favourable, the Shannon will follow up her
preliminary trial of yesterday with a double-bladed screw
cast in Portsmouth dockyard, on the principle introduced
by M. Mangan into the Imperial French navy. Other
trials will follow with screws of four and six blades attached
to a Griffith's boss.
Letters received from the West Indies by our Chatham
correspondent give several items of intelligence of the move-
ments of Her Majesty's ships in those waters. The screw
frigate Immortalite, 51, Capt. G. Hancock, left English
Harbour, Antigua, on the afternoon of the 13th ultimo, for
Barbadoes. The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, Capt. H. S.
Hillyar, C. 8., left St. John's, Antigua, on the 17th ult.,
and arrived at St. Kitt's on the following morning. On
the 21st ult. she left that islankfor St. Thomas's, which
she reachel on the following day, and on the 23d of April
she sailed for Bermuda, where she would be stationed for
some time. At the date of the mail leaving the officers and
crews of the vessels were well. First-Lieut. M. H. Price,
of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, died at Vera
Cruz on the lath ult., from yellow fever.
An intimation has been issued from the Admiralty that
the Queen's regulations and circular orders relating to the I
navy, now in use, are about to be called in, with the view
to their being revised and amended and fresh orders issued.
The workmen have been taken off the Conqueror, 86,
screw steamship, which was being fitted at Sheerness for
the pennant, and instructions have been received to the
effect that the hands employed on the Chesapeake, 51, are
to proceed no further than will be necessary to render the
vessel capable of floating with safety at her moorings in the
harbour. She is now in No. 1 dock in Sheerness yard, but
will shortly be removed.
The Argus, 6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, 300 horse power,
is being brought forward in the basin in Sheerness yard with
the utmost despatch for immediate commission.
It is understood that the Resistance, 51, ironcased screw
steam frigate, 600 horse power, which is lying off Sheerness
yard, is to be strengthened in the bow w;th iron plates of
additional thickness, to prevent any accident similar to that
which occurred to the Defence. The guns of the Resistance
are all on board, and she is being proceeded with with all
despatch. The vessel is to be reported upon when she is
considered to be ready for the pennant.

The North Star, which is in frame in the building slip at
Sheerness, is to be proceeded with, and adapted to receive
iron plates of sufficient thickness both above and below the
load line, to enable her to ward off a nlb. shot. Her sides
are to be lined with plates sufficiently strong to resist a shell.
Plans have been submitted, and are under consideration at
the Controller's-office, by which this vessel and others of
the same class now in course of construction will be plated
and adapted for long voyages.
Great inconvenience and considerable loss to Government
are being sustained in consequence of the inadequate deck
accommodation for the present requirements of the service
at Sheerness. Should any accident of sufficient importance
happen to the Arethusa, 51, or the Resistance, 51, to render
it necessary for either of them to be docked, these vessels
would be compelled to be removed to Chatham, as the docks
at Sheerness are not long enough to admit them. Attention
to this matter is more imperative when it is taken into con-
sideration that a frigate cannot reach either Chatham or
Woolwich without having her stores and ammunition taken
out. Vessels of this class under difficulties such as would
render docking necessary without removing their stores
would be required to proceed to Portsmouth. The large
basin in Sheerness yard is also too small for such vessels.
Yet roomy docks and an admirable basin might be obtained
at a comparatively trifling expense. It is considered by the
highest authorities that a basin constructed from the south
side of the dockyard to the Queenborough Creek and to the
Lappel-edge would be one of the most commodious and
largest in England, and capable of taPing in even the Great
Eastern at low water.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Commander C. M. Buckle to the Cormorant,
commissioned ; Commander C. R. F. Boxer to the Race-
horse, commissioned ; Lieut. W. F. A. Harris to the Ajax,
additional for service in the Coast Guard ; Lieut. Henry
J. Coddington to the Vesuvius ; Lieut. Duncan E. K.
Grant to the Cormorant ; Sub-Lieut. the Hon. Henry
Molynenx to the Galatea; Henry Brown, promoted to
chief engineer; W. H. Wivil, first class assist.-engineer, to
tho Royal Adelaide, for the Princess Alice ; Geo. Thomson
and J. H. Bradshaw, in the Donegal, confirmed as second
class assist.-engineers; J. H. erguson, confirmed as
second class assist.• engineer in the Galatea ; W. H,
Thompson, paymaster, to the Racehorse ; T. Seccombe,
paymaster, to the Cormorant; W. P. Scott, paymaster,
additional, to the Royal Adelaide; R. Crabbe, clerk, to the
Racehorse; and T. S. Cleave, clerk, to the Cormorant.
MARKETS-THIS DAY.

MAY 16.
Royal Moline Light Infantry—Captain and Brevet-MajGr
Jermyn Charles Symonds to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Hamley, retired on full pay ; First Lieutenant and Adju-
tant Umber Lee Morris to be Captain, vice Symonds, pro-
moted ; Second Lieutenant George Anne Greenwell
Martin to be First Lieutenant, vice Morris, promoted.