The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-07 00:00:00

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The Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief, held a ley& yesterday afternoon
at the Horse Guards. Upwards of 80 officers
attended.
The screw corvette Reindeer, 250 horse power,
orginally laid down at Chatham dockyard as a screw
corvette, after remaining some years on the stocks
unfinished, is now being completed from the plans
of the Chief Constructor of the Navy, Mr. Reed,
and brought forward for launching. To enable her
to mount the few heavy broadside guns she is to
carry on her weather fighting deck she has been
fitted with iron deck beams laid on iron knees. Her
timbers will be strengthened by the introduction of
angle iron carried up to her bulwarks. On being
taken in rand it was found necessary to give her a
new keel. She was originally intended to be fitted
with a poop, but an order from the Admiralty di-
rects her to be completed with a topgallant fore-
castle instead. The Reindeer is to he ready for
launching early in the ensuing year.

PRICE 4d-.
STAMPED sd.'

Crucifix at every stride, and won a most exciting race by a
neck. Nothing else passed the past.
The winner was bought by Mr. B. Land, jun., for 76
guineas.

The objection against Saucebox, who came in first for
the Open Hunters' Stakes on Tuesday, on the ground of
his having been in a training stable, was substantiated,
and the stewards awarded the stakes to King Arthur, who
came in second. By this decision the sale of Saucebox
bs-
came void, and King Arthur was immediately put up for
sale, and bought by Mr. West fur 86 guineas.

The Icarus, 11, 150 horse power, fitting in the
steam basin at Sheerness for the first division of the
Chatham Steam Reserve, will be out of the hands
of the dockyard officials on the 18th inst., when she
will take her place in the Steam Reserve in readiness
for the pennant.
The Star, 4, 200 horse power, attached to the
first-class Steam Reserve in the Medway, has had
her bottom cleaned, previously to going on an offi-
cial trial of her speed at the Maplin Sands.
The Zebra, 17, 200 horse power, recently paid
off into the Chatham Steam Reserve, is in the steam
basin, in readiness to be taken in hand for the pur-
pose of undergoing a thorough overhaul and repair.
The experimental boiler made in the factory at
Woolwich dockyard, and which has been at work at
intervals during the past 15 months, in testina petro-
leum, shale, and other oils, for steam purposes, to
supersede the use of coals, was yesterday given
over to the Admiralty authorities by Mr. Richard-
son on the completion of his experiments, which it
is stated have thoroughly matured the principle,
and rendered his theory a matter beyond doubt.
Mr. Richardson has likewise, at their lordships' re-
quest, submitted plans for the conversion of the or-
dinary ships' boilers into boilers for which petroleum
can be used. This, it appears, can be done at
small cost.

Her Majesty's 20-gun screw corvette Tartar,
1,296 tons, 250-horse power, recently paid off at
Sheerness by Capt. John M. Hayes, from China,
was yesterday brought up to Woolwich by the
steamers Locust, Master Commander Harvey, and
the Monkey, Master Commander Smithers. She was
hauled into the fitting basin to make good defects
and be prepared for recommission.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Wm. B. Goldsmith, master, to
the Asia, for service in the Simoon ; George Alex.
Broad and Robert William Stephens, second mas-
ters, additional, to the Victory ; Christopher .B.
Watson, assist.-paymaster, to the Malacca ; Nar-
eott D. E. Roberts, assist.-paymaster, to the Has-
tings ; James Melrose, first-class assist. -engineer,
to the Gleaner ; Michael J. Shannon, first -class
assist.-engineer, to the Triton ; Wm. J. Han cock,
first-class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, for ser-
vice in the Prince Albeit ; Richard J. Butler, se-
cond-class-assist-engineer, to the Oberon ; and H.
M. G. Pellew, acting second-class assist.-engine cr,
to the Cumberland, for service in the Wildfire.

Miss Longworth and the ~ Saturday Review."

On Tuesday the pleadings were continued, at
Edinburgh, in tho case of the pursuer in the Yel-
verton case against the proprietors of the Saturday
Review. The Lord Advocate resumed his address
for the pursuer, which altogether occupied about
six hours, the time being chiefly bestowed on an
examination of the evidence in the marriage case,
with the view of showing the calumnious nature of
the article complained of. He maintained that the
evidence and correspondencee proved that the
statements in the article were false and slanderous,
and that the judges, even in deciding against the
pursuer, had left her character unimpeached. The
Solicitor-General followed for the defenders, and
pointed out that the writer had been at least impar-,
, tial, having administered to both parties that just
rebuke which the interests of society required. He
defended the article as not only " fair criticism,'
but as being substantially a reflex of the opinion
formed by Lord Ardmillan and by the majority of
the House of Lords, and also as expressing the
sentiments entertained by the great majority of
right-thinking men in regard to this extraordinary
case. He maintained that the writer had dealt
with the case honestly, that he had not attacked
private character or uttered slander, bat had pro-
perly exercised his right as a public journalist to
comment on proceedings taking place in open
court, and which affected the proprietors and the
morality of social life. Incidentally, in his re-
marks on the correspondence, the Solicitor-General
said the only letter in which a word equivalent to
wife occurred was one of Major Yelverton's, which
the pursuer had tampered with by changing the
word possibilanzente to sposa bella mia. Mr. Smith
denied the statement, and claimed the production
of the letter, which the judge ordered to be made.
On Wednesday morning the Lord-Advocate re-
ferred to the alleged tampering with one of Major
Yelverton's letters, and said that the pursuer knew
nothing on earth about it, and that the accusation
against her was quite false.

The Solicitor-Oeneral said hd had done no more
than refer to the statements made by the judges in
the case.

Lord Jerviswoode charged the jury, pointing out
that newspaper writers had no privilege beyond fair
reporting, and that if unfair or calumnious comments
were made the injured party might seek redress. He
left to the jury to pronouca whether the comments
in this article were fair, looking to the whole cir-
cumstances of the case.

At half-past 11 the jury retired, and were absent
three hours. They then stated, through their fore-
man, that they were equally divided, six to six, and
that there was no chance of their coming to any
other result.

Lord Jervitwoode said the statute did not allow
him to receive a verdict with a less majority than
nine, and that. only at the end of three hours. If
nine did not by that time concur, the statute pro-
vided that they should go back for three hours more;
and if at the end of six hours nine should not be
agreed, they might be discharged.
The Foreman of the Jury, amid loud laughter,
asked for refreshments, which, with consent of
parties, were allowed. At a quarter-past otthe jury
returned a verdict, by nine to three, in favour of the
defenders.

A TRAVELLING GIANT. It was under those cir-
cumstances that I come acquainted with a giant. I
might have been too high to fall into coversation with him,
had it not been for my lonely feelings. Forthe
is, going round the country, to draw the line at dressing
general rule
up. When a man can't trust his getting a living to his un-
disguised abilities, you consider him below your sort. And
this giant when on view figured as a Roman. He Was a
languid young man, which I attribute to the distance be-
tween his extremities. He had a little head and less in it,
had weak eyes and weak knees, and altogether you couldn't
look at him without feeling that there was greatly too much
of him both for his joints and his mind. But he was an
andami
spentble t h
theou g though timidoney), youngand we come acquainted when he man (his mother let him out,
was walking to ease the horse betwixt two fairs. He was
called Rinaldo di Velasco, his name being Pickleson. This
giant mentioned to me, under the seal of confidence, that
beyond his being a burden to himself, his life was made a
burden to him by the cruelty of his master towards a
step-daughter who was deaf and dumb. Her mother was
dead, and she had no living soul to take her part, and was
used most hard. She travelled with his master's caravan
only because there was nowhere to leave her, and this
giant, otherwise Pickleson, did go so far as to believe that
his master often tried to lose her. He was such a very
languid young man, that I don't know how long it didn't
take him to get this story out,
but it passed through lus
defective circulation to his top extremity in course of time.
When I heard this account from the giant, otherwise
Pickleson, and likewise that the poor girl had beautiful
long dark hair, and was often pulled down by it and beaten,
Leouldn't see the giant through what stood in my eyes.
Having wiped 'em I gave him Gd. (for he was kept as short
as he was long), and he laid it out in two threepennorths of
gin and water, which so bricked him up that he sang the
Favourite Comic of Shivery Shakey, ain't it cold. A popu-
lar effect which his master had tried every other means to
get out of him as a Roman, wholly in vain.--Dr. Marigold's
Prescriptions, by Charles .Dickens.

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