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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. Ho 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. He ap-
peared greatly excited, and told mil 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 Burke had told me.

Charles Carroll deposed that ho 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 whore he had been all night. lie said
that ho was at a gamble IA the house of a man named
M‘Namara.
To Mr. Montgomery—l 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 onbohalf
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 tho pri-
soner.

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 IPNamara, remember
me to my poor father." He was then removed, and the
Court adjourned.
An Adroit Juvenile Pickpocket.

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The paddlewheel steam
Commander John E. Petley, 3fr
rived in Hamoaze, Devonport, yesladayfitorilk
at half-past 7 o'clock. About 11 o'clock the First
Lord, the Duke of Somerset, K.G., landed at Key-
ham steamyard. His Grace 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. e
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 It. Martyn,
Master Attendant; Staff Commander Stephen Spain;
Mr. Moore, master shipwright ; Mr. Saunders,
assistant ; Mr. Miller, chief engineer ; Mr. Towns-
head, superintending civil engineer; Mr. Elliot,
storekeeper ; Mr lanes, 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
thorough repair, and is 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
Enchantress.

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
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, thought it extremely likely that she
was the person who could give an account of the
missing pursed. 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 a tedious
search they were instructed to go to a publichouse
in, the ililltown, where it was stated they were
almost certain to be found. Thither the officers
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found on him two purses, one containing a gld ring,.
and the other a few shillings. Both parties were
taken into custody, and the officers having obtained
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closase;
chest no less than seven purses were found, one
being a particul4rly pretty one. One of the purses I
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
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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 samegirl Rodger. Such a wholesale system of
pocket picking seldom occurs, and it is very fortu-
nate that the guilty parties have been caught at last.
The father and daughter have both been committed
to prison—the girl on a charge of theft, and the
The mother has
father of theft, or reset of theft.
been liberated in the meantime.—Dundee Advertiser.

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 waq 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. Gin. in ldngth, 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
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 7.185 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 indica%or 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. 6in.
aft, and 13ft. 9in. forward.

THE FIVE -MISSING GENTLEMEN. —A rumour
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vday night last had been picked up at sea
d to have been
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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 awatery grave.—Freeman's
Journal.

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 IL-arbour, where she was berthed
alongside the dockyard. To-day she will embark
the remainder of the 26th (Cameronians) Regiment
for conveyance to Bombay.
ry Col. Hamilton, 87th Regiment, hAs entered upon
his duties of the office of town-major of Portsmouth,
temporary, vice Capt. J. Breton, on sick leave until
the 31st October.

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 several
days.

The National Rifle Association,

The following report has been received :
National Rifle Association Camp, Wimbledon,
July 23, 1865.

Sir,—For the information of tho Council of the National
Rifle Association I have the honour to submit to you this
report of the medical and surgical occurrences which havo
taken place at Wimbledon Camp from the 11th to the 22d
of July, both days included.
Tho total number of volunteer troops encamped on the
ground has averaged daily 680, of which about 600 may be
fairly supposed to have been occupied in shooting with ball
cartridge.
The greatest number camped on the ground on any one
night was upwards of 1,066.
The total number of regular troops stationed here during
the period was 539, who were chiefly employed as markers
at the butts.
There were also 221 of the metropolitan police force.
The total number of competitors daily firing at the targets
cannot have been less than 3,000.

For the Queen's prize alone there were 2,000 competitors.
The number of casualties admitted into hospital on ac-
count of gunshot injuries have been six, of which three
occurred at the review of the 22d inst.
The volunteers and regular troops requiring medical,
treatment during the entire period have been 107, or less
than a daily average of 2 per cent.
The prevailing affections will be seen to have been those
which generally prevail in camp.
The most severe of the 107 medical cases which came un-
der my notice were those of two policemen stationed at the
camp; one was affected with a severe form of English cho-
lera, the other had smallpox of a confluent character, and
was immediately removed to the Fever Hospital in London.
Of the very few casualties from gunshot accidents
which occurred, the most severe wore the case of Sergeant
Cousins, of the Ist Lincoln Volunteers, who shot himself
through the upper part of the great toe, requiring subse-
quent amputation, and Private Walton, of the 2d City of
London Volunteers, who was shot at the review by the acci-
dental discharge of the rifle of the rear-rank man, carried
full cock at the trail. The whole of the blank charge with a
portion of the trousers were removed from a deep wound at
the back of the thigh, and the man was taken home in the
evening by the surgeon of his corps.
For a camp which is yearly assuming such large dimen-
sions as this, I have thought it my duty to suggest that
every sanitary consideration should be carried out, and
with that view a board of officers was convened to consider
this important object, the result of their deliberation and
conclusions was embodied in a special report, and trans-
mitted for the informati3n of the Council.

I bog to append a nominal list of the various diseases
and accidents treated, and I must be allowed to draiv your
attention to the very small proporton of gun-shot injuries.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN WYATT, Surg.-Major Coldstream-Guards.
The Secretary to the National Rifle Association.

A. DEPRAVED FAMILY.—An ex-policeman's wife
has met with her death in a shocking manner atMile-
end. Her name was Ellen Osborn, and her age was 61.
An inquest was held upon her body on Saturday night, the
evidence given at which proved that the deceased and her
husband, with a grown-up son, lived in a house rent free,
at No. 3, Back-buildings, Mile-end-road. She was a great
drunkard, and her husband was not much better. The jury
accompanied the coroner to the house to view the body,
when they found the husband in a beastly state of intoxi-
cation, staggering about the room. He was the chief wit-
ness, but his services were dispensed with. The son, who
is 30 years of age, was then called, and he was also found
to be half-drunk. The coroner then with difficulty ascer-
tained that the deceased about a week since had a quarrel
with a neighbour, who, it was alleged, had shaken her.
She was then much excited, and complained to a beerhouse
keeper on the subject. On Wednesday night the deceased
went home drunk, and sat in a chair, and when the son
returned he found her dead. She was bleeding from a vein
in the left leg, in which she had suffered long from a
wound. A medical gentleman said that he found the de-
ceased dead. The cause of death was rupture of a diseased
vein in the leg, whereby the deceased had bled to death.
With proper medical assistance she might have lived for
years. The jury returned a verdict of "Natural death
from hremorrhage of the leg."