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London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

MARRIAGES.

33ROOKS—GEILS,—On the 4th inst., at Queen
Manor, Somerset, Robert A. Brooks, Esq., Odes
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Robert Brooks, Esq., M.P.. of Woodeote-Rark,
to Katherine Pascal, eldest daughter of J. E. °el
of Dumbuck, Dumbartonshire.
COMPToN—POWELL.—On the 4th inst., St' Stt idov
at 1100'0,.
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Westbourne-park, William Compton,
ham, to Rhoda, third surviving daughter Esq.,
of la-"" late 11
Powell, Esq., of St. John's-wood.

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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum-
berland, K.G., F.R.S.
CrrArnmAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has incurred expenses amountng to £27,260 on
various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of Eng7and,
Scotland, and Ireland.
During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution
have teen instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow-
ing Vessels:—
Barque Vermont, of Halifax. U.S. .. .. 16
Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2
Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby 5
Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis 3
Steam Dredge, at Newhaven 9
Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. .. 6
Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. 5
Schooner Rose, of Lynn . 3
Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11
Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough 7
Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6
Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn 7
Brig Gloucester, of South Shields •• .. 7
Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• •• •• 6
Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. .. 5
Schooner Prospect, of Berwick ,„
Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose
Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone 6
Brig Pallas, of Shields 3
Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow 9
Smack John Bu, of Yarmouth .. 5
Schooner Cathetine, of Newry
Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11
A Barge of Teignmouth
Brig George and James, of London
Bri Zephyr, of Whitby
Coble Honour, of Cullercoats 3
Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .• .. 7
Barque Oberon, of Liverpool
Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth•
• • .. 9
Smack Wonder, of Teig-nmouth
Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. •
• 6
Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. •• • • 5
Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .• • • 5
Brig Ann, of Blyth
Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves-
sel and one of the crew) .. .. •
• • • 1
Sloop Hope, of Dublin
• 3
Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. • • • • 5
Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and
crew) • • • • • • • • • 4
Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew') 8
Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and
crew) .. .. 6
Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved ves-
and crew) ..•
3
Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4
Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives • • • • 3
Fishing-boats of Whitburn •• •• •• 16
Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• •• •• 8
Schooner Dewl Wynn, of PortmadooB
Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2
Schooner William, of Morecambe 5
Smack Gipsy, of Newry•Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. 4
Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven 8
Schooner William, of Liverpool .. 5
Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown
Brig Providence, of Shields .• 8
Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle
Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. 4
Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. .. 19
Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. .. 10
Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide .. 2
Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna 8
French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese .. 6
Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. 5
Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater .. 4
Ship Danube, of Belfast
Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. .. 4
Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4
Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. 8
Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. 5
Barque Druid, of Sunderland
Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. .. 1
Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon • . . • • • 1
Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich .. 5
Brig Minerva, of Workington . .. 4
Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of 'Newburgh 6
Brig Sisters, of W hitby 9
Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm •• • • • • 4
Brig Jane, of North Shields . •. 10
Brig Trial, of Poole . 7
Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • :. 3
Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and
crew) . • •
Barque Frederick, of Dublin • * • • ••
Smackßarge2
Lugger Peace,As Adventure,
avunyot
Lass,
Londonraes
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• • • • •• • • 1
• • • • 1101
Pilot clatter Whim, of Lowestoft • • • • ..
Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen • • : •
Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank: on the Irish 1
coast
Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone • • 1 ••6
Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. 5

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Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin' ••••
4
Brig Content, of Sunderland
Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan • • • • 5S
Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda ..1342
Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool
Sloop William, of Liverpool . •
Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth :
Portuguese Barque Cruz V. .. . It
Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore,•U.S... .. 18
Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. 4
Total 762
For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has
voted £2,158 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has
also granted rewards amounting to £572 for saving 562
,hipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, mak-
ing a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during
the last two years and a half.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,690;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 713 Silver Medals, and
£16,000 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart iages, and Boat-houses.
The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts
now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship-
wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at
the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions
h e Society has made within the past few years, it has now
One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man-
agement, tor the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough
efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely
needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following
:
£ d
Her Majesty the Queen .. .. annual 50 0 0
A Lady at Leith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0
Clerk, Colonel, B.A. annual 1 1 0
Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. .. .. don. 25 0 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
I.ambton, Messrs. W. H. & Co., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0
Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0
Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of
Salf ord •• •• •• •• 100 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .• 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. don. 15 15 0
Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P.annual 5 0 0
annual 2 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, R.C.B. ..
Trench, Lady Helena .. don 30 0 0
.
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. 'Terries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by a'l the Bankers in the United
Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at
the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolph', LOn-
don, W.C.

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ber 4th, arrived at Gibraltar November 11th, and
left again November 15th, in company with the
Algiers and Neptune. The Amphion has brought
home one Marine from her Majesty's ship Shannon
to undergo two years' imprisonment by sentence of
court-martial, and 35 military invalids, consisting
of one private Royal Artillery, six privates Royal
Engineers, one private 2d battalion 15th Regiment,
one sergeant nine privates Ist battalion 22d Regi-
ment, one private 2d battalion 22d Regiment, one
sergeant, one private, 2d battalion 23d Regiment,
and 2 sergeants 12 privates Ist battalion 25th Re-
giment. The Amphion has experienced heavy
weather all way from the Rock of Gibraltar, and
foul winds, which have compelled her to lie at Port-
land for the last three days. She landed her inva-
lids in the Pigmy
The ship steam-tender yesterday afternoon.
is expected to go round to the eastward to
be dismantled and paid out of commission.
The Neptune, 90, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt.
G. T. P. Hornby, arrived at Spithead from the Me-
diterranean yesterday morning. She left Malta on
the 6th November, and Gibraltar on the 15th No-
vember. The Neptune awaits orders at Spithead.
Considerable progress has been made in the work
of plating the Royal Oak, at Chatham, the whole of
the available shipwrights and mechanics not re-
quired on the iron frigate Achilles, 50, now work-
ing upon her. The last tier of armour plates, which
will entirely encase her from stem to stern—render-
ing her, in fact, a complete mass of floating iron—
was affixed to her sides yesterday, and mechanics
have commenced bolting the armour plates to her
stern. Several of the plates have already been fixed
to her " counter." In order to facilitate the difficult
operation of hanging and securing the shield plates
to the vessel's sides several portable steam cranes are
employed on each side of the slip, and tramways '
have been laid down the entire length of the dock,
Ito enable the engines to be removed to any part of
the frigate. Six tiers of armour plates are now laid
on each side of the Royal Oak, the armour extend-
ing for several feet below her load water line to
her bulwarks, thus rendering it impossible for
any missile at present known to strike the ship
below the water line. The slabs of iron already
fixed are of an uniform thickness of 4 inches,
but the remaining plates encasing her stem
and stern, where the chances of shot striking
her are not so probable, will gradually
diminish to three inches, excepting under the but-
tock, where they will bo again reduced to two inches.
The Royal Oak is intended to be furnished with
engines of 1,000 horse power, and a considerable
portion of her machinery is already on board. The
immense mass to be propelled through the water,
together with the great draught of water, will not,
it is anticipated, admit of anything at all approach-
ing a high rate of speed being attained; so that the
Royal Oak and the other vessels of her class now
building will be, in effect, useless as steam rams,
any vessel of ordinary steaming qualities being able
to avoid them by superior sailing. The Admiralty
have therefore abandoned the original intention of
constructing the bows of these vessels so as to en-
able them to be used in running down and sinking
a hostile ship, and have preferred sacrificing the
advantages which such a vessel would thereby pos-
sess to those of complete protection from shot. Ac-
cordingly the Royal Oak and the various other ar-
mour plated frigates have been constructed without
any protection at the bows. They have instead of
this what is termed a tumble-home stem. Should
the trials with the improved steering apparatus in-
vented by Mr. Lumley, which the Admiralty have
directed to be fitted in the Columbine, 4, and some
other vessels, be at all satisfactory, the invention
will be applied to the Royal Oak. By this means
she will be rendered far more effective. After de-
livering her broadside into the enemy's ship she
may be turned in little more than her own diame-
ter, and in the space of about a minute another
broadside poured into the same vessel.
The Pylades, 21, 350 horse power, Capt. A. IV.
A. Hood, fitting at Chatham for service in the West
Indies, left her moorings at the dockyard yesterday
and went down the river to receive the remainder
of her sea stores, coals, and powder, after which
she will proceed to Portsmouth to receive her final
orders. Her Royal Marines and Marine Artillery
joined yesterday, as well as a number of her
crew, who have been sent from the various re-
ceiving ships at the various ports. The following
appointments have been made to the Pylades up
to yesterday, most of the officers having joined
and taken up their commissions :—Lieutenants
S. Smith and R. H. Swindon, Master R, J. C.
Grant, Chief Engineer W. M. Chambers, Acting
Assist.-Engineer J. Horrocks, First-class Assist.-
Engineers It. Winter and A. Purvis, Second-class
Assist.-Engineers J. A. Shawyer and J. Stout, Pay-
master J. Pooley, Assist.-Paymaster F. T. Fitz-
maurice, Surg. 0. L. Lewellyn, Clerk E. 1). Green.
An order has been received, at Chatham, an-
nouncing that tho following vessels have been
chartered by the Government for the conveyance
of troops and military stores to India and the co-
lonies—viz., the General Caulfield, for Madras;
the Punjab, for Kurrachee ; the Hammersmith, for
Bombay; and the Water Lily, for Algoa Bay.
On the 28th ult. we drew attention to a regula-
tion just issued from the Department of the
Controller of the Navy directing that the linvaston
disengaging hooks were to be in future fitted to the
stern and quarter boats of all ships brought for-
ward for the first-class steam reserve and for com-
mission, and which order virtually excluded from
from the service Clifford's boat-lowering apparatus,
by which so many lives have been saved at sea both
in the Royal and mercantile navies. In conse-
quence, the subject was brought prominently before
the Lords of the Admiralty,
and their lordships
have written to Mr. Clifford, officially to inform him
that the captain of any of her
arajcsty's ships on
applying for his boat-lowering gear is to be supplied
with it as heretofore. It is to be hoped that this
decision of their lordships will not be rendered
nugatory by contrary orders issued from the office
of any subordinate department.

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IRD CIRCUIT.---STAFTOPD, DLO. 5.
(Before Mr.jJustiee IVIEllor.)
).e OF MURDZ.RING A PvLICLAIAN.
Bialphon, 32, potter, John Hughes, 42,
potter, and John Wardle, 45, potter, wet e at raigued
charged with the wilful murder of James Crump on
the 10th. of August, at Cobrid,:w, in the parish of
Stoke-upon-TIE u t.

Thu prosucutiuu was conducted--by Mr. Bowyer
and Mr. Brown, wnilc the pziaouera were severally
defended by Mr. Moteratu, Mr. M'Mahoa, Mr.
Kennley, and Mr. Brindley.
address and from the evidence
it
wFarsomshtohwe opening
ntliatthe deceased had been a young
man, and a policeman,aged 21, stationed at Burslena
near Henley. On the 18th of August, having been
told of to duty shout nine o'clock, he, going to.
wards a public-house, at Colbridge, called the Black
Boy, met with a fellow police-officer, with asholn
he drank. In company with another mln they then
proceeded to a public-house about a quarter of a
mile distant, called the Village Tavern, where they
drank together. In the same house were the three
prisoners, Tho fellow police officer Wells left about
half-past 12, and soon after deceased with the other
man also left, followed in a few minutes by the three
prisoners. Crump and his companion proceeded
together towards the Black Boy for a short dis-
tance, when the former was left to go on by him-
self. On the departure of his customers the land-
lord of the Village Tavern fell asleep, and waking
in about half an hour went outside to close the
shutters. When about to do this he heard groans,
and looking down he observed, crouched in the
gutterof a
m aann. d hAopl dpirng oa
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ehead,h ethefound
it figureto
be the policeman Crump, bleeding profusely from
wounds in the head. With the landlord's aid he was
then conveyed into the house and properly tended.
On searching the vicinity the staff of the wounded
man was found near the spot in which he had been
taken up. Two or three yards distant his cap, cut
through the peak and clotted with blood and hair,
was also found ; and still further on in the road was
Seen a pool of blood. Deceased was afterwards re-
moved, and, on being examined by two surgeons,
was found to have sustained a vertical wound on
the left eyebrow, and a fracture on the back of the
skull, through an aperture of which the brains after
protruded. Respecting the possible cause of these
wounds the two surgeons called differed ; one think-
ing that they must have been caused by a fall upon
a rough iron kerbstone, such as that near which the
deceased was lying ; and the other, that nothing.
save a heavy blow from a similar weapon to a
staff could have produced the fracture at the back
of the head. Of these injuries Crump expired in
a few days, identifying, however, before his
' death the three prisoners as his assailants.
About the time of the occurrence a woman
living in the neighbourhod was awoke by a noise of
wrangling, and, opening the window, saw a num-
ber of people in the road, and heard an altercation
as though between a police-officer and a man, who,
in a stern voice, was refusing to move away. Pre-
sently a scuffle was hoard, and then the thud of
blows as though inflicted with a staff or stick. Upon
that a scampering of feet was heard, and then a
groan ; after which all was quiet. A circumstance
by which it was thought that a motive for the com-
mission of the offence could be imputed to Hughes
in particular consisted in the fact that a short time
previously he had been heard to utter a threat
against deceased. When the prisoners were arrested
they made three several statements, which did not
always correspond with each other. By Wardle's
statement it would appear that he and his compa-
nions, while walking together outside the public-
house, were ordered to move away by Grump. Simp-
son refused, and a scuffle ensued, during which the
policeman used hie staff, and was thrown to the
ground by his antagonist, the other meanwhile
standing aloof and presently going away. During
the hearing of the evidence in support of the fore.
going, it was admitted by one of the witnesses that
deceased on one occasion made an oral statement, in
which he said he and another man with dark whis-
kers had a struggle, during which he (Crump) struck
and marked him with his staff. Simpson does not
possess whiskers, and when examined a week after
the affray was not found to have sustained any in-
jury or bruise. A severe and lengthened cross-exa-
mination was undergone by the same witness re-
specting the authenticity both of the dying state-
ments of the deceased and also of the statements of
the prisoners. It was also shown that while Simp-
son and Wardle were confined in adjacent cells at
the police station a conversation was overheard be-
tween them, in which Wardle exhorted his compa-
nion " to keep his mouth shut and trust to Provi-
, deuce.'

A mess cf evidence having been given,
Mr. Motteram addressed the jury on behalf of
Simpson, and in a long and able address contended
inasmuch as no proof had been given that
p was in the execution of his duty, the crime
ecthmoriaunt, m
ittod could only amount to manslaughter, and
that both from the discrepancy of the statements of
the deceased and also from other evidence given, the
identity of his client had not been proved.
Mr. M'Mahon then addressed the jury for llughes,
and contended that only one individual was respon-
sible for the death of Crump, and that individual
was not his client.
The jury having been addressed by Mr. Ronealey
on behalf of Wardle,
His Lordship summed up, and
The Jury returned a verdict of Acquittal.
The trial lasted nearly 12 hours.

HORRIBLE MURDER A 7 BIRMINGHAM.

Late on Thursday night a murder, accompanied
with circumstances of unusual atrocity, was com-
mitted in Bissell-street, Birmingham. The victim
is a girl named Alice Insley, aged 17, who lived
with her parents in a court in Bissell-street, and
was employed in a jewellery warehouse in Lower
Essex-street, and the murderer is Henry Carter,
alias Nobby Hall (not the fighting man who bears
that cognomen), aged 20, a brass founder, living in
Skinner-lane_ For some nine months back he has
been keeping company with the deceased, who was
a very good-looking girl, and who did not look upon
him with so much favour as he wished. Ott Thurs-
day afternoon she went to the funeral of a relative,
and when she returned home she was accompanied
by Carter, who spent the evening with her at the
house of her parents. During the evening all seemed
to go on comfortably enough, and when Carter rose
to leave the house, at about 11 o'clock, the girl
went with him across the yard of the court, and to
the end of the entry leading into the street. Here
they talked together for some time, and a neigh-
bour woman, who was standing outside the entry,
heard Carter say to deceased, " Do you mean it,
Alice ?" and heard her reply " I do." A moment later
she heard a pistol shot, and Carter then rushed past
her into the street. She then went up the entry,
and at that end of it nearest the court-yard she
found deceased lying on the ground quite dead.
The people who live in the court assisted in carry-
ing the body of the poor girl into her father's
house, and it was then found that she was shot
through the back, apparently with a pistol bul-
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into the house where the body was lying, but made
no resistance to the apprehension. When he was
searched there was found in his pocket a double-
barrelled rifled pistol, with one barrel loaded and
the other having evidently been only recently dis-
charged. In his pocket there was also found a
number of percussion caps and some powder. When
charged with having murdered the girl he admitted
that it was him who had fired the pistol. It has
since been ascertained that on Thursday afternoon
the prisoner bought threepenny worth of bullets in
Worcester-street, and that among them were two
Minie balls, which just fitted the pistol, and one of
which was in that barrel of the pistol which had
not been discharged, while the other is missing.
When he bought the bullets he showed the shop-
keeper the pistol, and said he had bought it that
day. A girl who worked with deceased stated that
Alice had told her about a week ago that Harry had
threatened to take either her life or his own.

At:the Birmingham Police-court yesterday morn-
ing, before Mr. J. C. S. Kynnersley, the stipendiary
magistrate, Carter was brought up charged with
murdineqtwt
murder, and was remanded to await the result of
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