The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-17 00:00:00

IRISH SOUTHEASTERN.

The report c.f the directors states that the surplus revenue
for the half-year available for dividend, iucluliig the
balance of £l,llB brought from the preceding half-year,
amounted to £1,473. Out of this the directors recommend
a dividend of 1 per cent, per annum, leaving a balance of
1 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £341 for next
account. The receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of
June last amounted to £6,698, against £6,824 for the corres-
ponding half of 1861, showing a decrease of £126. The
Board made an application to the Great Southern and
Western Railway Company to take a lease of the line for
ten years, renewable for ever, at such a rent as would pro •
duce 2i per cent. on the original shares of the company.
This proposal was declined, and the Board appointed a
deputation to wait on the directors of the Great Southern
and Western Company, which resulted in a proposition to
lease the line in perpetuity at 2 per cent, per annum. This
proposition was submitted to the committee of shareholders
appointed at the last half-yearly meeting to confer with the
directors as to the sale or lease of the line, and the com-
mittee informed the Board that, after anxious consideration
of the subject, they were determined to advise the share-
holders not to entertain so low an offer, and subsequently
made a proposal to lease the line at 2i per cent, per annum,
or to accept £7 of original stock of the Great Southern and
Western Company in lieu of the £l2 shares of the Irish
South-Eastern Company. This proposition was declined by
the Great Southern and Western Company. The Bagenals-
town and Wexford line was opened to Ballywilliam in
March last, but the traffic arrangements were as yet in
such an incomplete state that no beneficial result had
been received by this company from the extension. The
capital account to the 30th of June showed that £317,893
had been received, and £312,841 expended, including
£50,000 invested in the Bagenalstown and Wexford Rail-
way, leaving a balance of £5,052. The revenue account
for the half-year showed that £6,702 had been received,
and £4,404 expended, leaving a balance of £2,298. Out of
this was deducted £1,973 for interest on loans, leaving 1325.

THE SUSPECTED 31U.RDER OF AN

ARTIST AT PLYMOUTH.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.

The inquest on the body of Mr. W. T. Norman,
artist, who was yesterday found dead under myste-
rious circumstances, was held this evening before
A. B. Bone, Esq., coroner.
Evidence of the finding of the body and the ap-
pearances as already detailed having been given,
Henry Ralph gave the following extraordinary
evidence :—He said that he was a lamplighter, and
at four o'clock on Sunday morning he went through
the Pennycomequick-archway to put out the lamp,
and near the archway he saw the body of a man
lying op his back across the path, not over the kerb.
He thought he heard him breathing, and took no
notice of him and passed on. It was dark and
raining in torrents. There was a lamp 20 or 30
feet off. He thought the man was drunk.

The witness was cross-examined, but only re-
peated the same story.
The Coroner severely censured him for his utter
want of 'all consideration in not stopping to see
whether the man was dead or alive. It was the
most extraordinary case of apathy he had ever heard
of, and probably might have cost deceased his life.
Waiters from the Globe and another inn deposed
to having served deceased with refreshments on Sa-
turday evening. Deceased " had been drinking,
but appeared capable of taking care of himself."
At the latter place "he seemed a little the worse
for liquor." He did not there say that he had sold
two paintings that day. He had on a pair of new
boots. (When he left home he had on old ones, and
must have obtained money to buy the others.) He
left home about half-past eleven.
Mr. De la Rue, surgeon, described the state of
the body and injuries. There were abrasions above
the chin, on the nose, and the left eye; also abra-
sions on the wrist and knee-cap. At the back of
the head, just behind the right ear, was an incised
jagged wound one inch long and half an inch deep,
extending down to the bone. There was no contu-
sion or bruise about the wound. Hemorrhage from
the wound was the immediate cause of death. The
rest of the body was extremely healthy. The de-
ceased might have been alive when the lamplighter
went by.
Mr.:Edwards was recalled, and, in reply to a jury-
man, stated that there was no blood on the ground
whet e the body was found.
Several unimportant witnesses having been ex-
amined, the Coroner summed up.
The Jury, after deliberation, returned a verdict
thut William Thomas Norman, on the 14th day of
September inst., was found dead near the Penny-
comequick railway aich. That the said William
T. Norman died from hemorrhage, caused by a
wound upon his head, but how or by what means
such wound was caused, no evidence appears to the
jurors to show.

THE ALLEGED STARVATION OF A

FAMILY.

Yesterday the inquiry respecting the alleged
death from starvation of Mrs. Charlotte Crippin,
aged 45, and the dreadful sufferings of her family,
was resumed by Mr. H. Raffles, Walthew, the
depaty coroner, at the Grasshopper Tavern, Church-
street, Whitechapel.
It will be recollected that a Mrs. Yelland, resid-
ing at No. 12, Wellclose-square, hearing that a
family were perishing from starvation at No. 14,
went there and found Mrs. Crippin and two chil-
dren lying on a mattrass, and reduced to mere skin
and bone. Mrs. Crippin said that her husband
had left them in that condition. They were re-
moved to the union-house, where Mrs Crippin died
in a few days. George Crippin, her husband de-
posed that he was not to blame for the calamity,
but was compelled against his urgent entreaties to
remove his wife and children from the union-house,
at a time when he had not a halfpenny to buy them
a morsel of food.

Upon the coroner taking his seat the brother of
George Crippin stated that he was lying danger-
ously ill, and could not be present to-day, but there
was a witness who could corroborate his statement
with reference to the conduct of the workhouse
authorities, whom he would wish to produce.
William Couper, a bricklayer, said that he knew
Crippin and his wife for 17 years, and Crippin was
a very kind husband. About four months since
they were turned out of their lodgings because
they could not pay their rent, and deceased was for
a night or two sleeping about on door steps. CriP-
pin tried to get a shilling that was due to himto
get a bed for her, but not being able to do 6° Wit-
ness took them into his house, and kept them for
three or four days, She went into the workhouse
witnessh
soon afterwards. About three months ago
was in Mr. Wilton's, in NVellelose-square,-
meeern
Crippin came in, and said, " Coupe* been down'
Mr. Eaves, from the workhouse haws ife and two
here and said—' You have got themfrom the
children, and you must
workhouse by Monday befmor%vefoer o'clock' If
months, and only
you don't I will get you three oat once." Crip-
I know you I ought to takeriay, and Mrs. Crip
pin took them out on the lo
it% witness's hous©. She
pin called on Tuesday..a_ess,s question, that she
said, in answer to yolutpse in consequence of the
came out of the wortiksnband remove her. She said
officer making her of guardians might keep
hboard
that in order that th°told them a lie, that her hus-
of ill-using her, and that he
band streets.e
her in the house sbe.tt,
band was in th_ie,...Dotild leave her to die in
her as
starved her, ansue-ii Crippin sometimes give'
ed 255. per week, but that was 12
Witness had
I:iyaorir the last ten years h
much as
he has had no
ill-health and not
Years °V" loyment through
.°l-ti his trade. Mrs. Crippin eat heartily
regular
being 0;11
. _ fo i
, , got food at witness's house, before going
when ''`i- khouse, after ti,, workhouse, she Was turned out from
into
her I°dgingB'
Mt• e,
r. -• 1-'eves, nsaisl ant relieving-officer to the
Whitechapel Union, said-1 recollect Mrs. Crippin
Applying for relief on the 4th July. She said her
husband had i ne,.,v ected her, and she was starving.
On that statement she was admitted the same day.
On the following Tuesday she repeated the state-
ment before the board of uardians, and they or-
derer'that proceedings should be taken against the
haribtand. t I went to the Music
)11 the Thursday
Rail, Wellclose-square, and saw Crippin standing
in front of the bar. I put my hand on his shoulder
and called him into the street, and asked him where
was his wife and children. lie first said " 1 wish
I could hear sho was dead.", I said, " She is not
dead, but in the workhouse.' " Yes, so I believe,"
he replied. He said it was not true be had deserted
her, that he was going to take her out, and he had
taken a room at 14, Wellclose-square, to which he
would remove her if he got two or three days' time,
as he had work to go to, I said, " Very well, I will
mention that to the relieving officer, and it will not
aturday be
be objected to, I dare say." On the S

I RP; NA VI.
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The screw steam sloop Africa, 4, 669 tons, left
Plymouth on Sunday, under the flag of the Emperor
of China—green ground, yellow border, and yellow
diagonal cross,—having been purchased by His
Imperial Majesty. She is now called the China.
This sloop will bear the pennant of Capt. Sherard
Osborne, R.N., and will be in charge of Commander
Allan Young. She is to be masted, rigged, and
equipped for sea in the Victoria Docks, London,
where the Amoy (late Jasper, 1, gunvessel, 301
tons, 80-horse powor),Lieut. Arthur Salvvay, R.N.,
is under equipment. The third ship belonging to
the squadron, the screw gunvessel Mohawk, 4, 697
tons, with engines of 200-horse power, is com-
manded by Capt. Burgoyne, R.N. There will be
a redundancy of commissioned officers on board each
ship. The sqn. after equipment, proceed
for Pekin. -
Yesterday the Jasper, 5, screw steam gunvessel,
425 tons, made an official trial of her engines. The
vessel left the harbour of Sheerness in charge of
Captain T. P. Thompson, and proceeded to the
measured mile off Maplin Sands. The engines are
of 80 nominal and 300 indicated horse-power. The
trial was considered by all the parties interested to
be of a most satisfactory nature.
The mechanical arrangements for fitting and fix-
ing the armour plates of the Prince Consort at
Pembroke dockyard have been completed. These
arrangements, which have been devised and carried
out under the superintendence of Mr. J. Inman
Fincham, the master shipwright of the yard, pro-
vide for an economical system of work, and have
been warmly commended by the Board of Admi-
ralty. Tramways have been laid down from the
landing wharf to the ship's sides and to the
machine-house, and steam cranes for raising and
lowering the plates have been placed upon them
on wheels, so that the huge plates, weighing several
tons each, can be transported from the wharf either
to their places on the side of the ship or to the
machine-house and back again in a very few
minutes. The machine-house contains numerous
well-selected machines for bending, planing, and
drilling the plates, and furnaces for annealing them
when necessary. The workmen are busily occupied
in fixing the armour upon the Prince Consort.
The Edgar, 86, screw, Capt. the Hon. R F. Foley,
just completed in her fitment at Pgrtsmouth as the
flagship of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., for
service in the Mediterranean, yesterday made her
official trial of machinery, &c., under the supervi-
sion of Capt. H. Broadhead, commanding the Re-
serve, assisted by Mr. Murdoch, inspector of machi-
nery afloat, and Mr. Ward, assistant to the engineer-
in-chief of the dockyard. The ship was to have run
at the measured mile, but owing to the working of
the machinery not being of the most satisfactory
character, this was postponed.
The Rifleman iron screw sloop was brought down
from her moorings in Portsmouth harbour yester-
day, where she has lain since her return to England
&Om foreign service, and placed in No. 2 dock.
In accordance with orders to that effect received
at Chatham, every exertion is being made to have
the paddle-wheel steamer Argus, 6, 300 horse power,
Commander P. Moor, fitting for the China and
Japan waters, ready to leave the Medway during
the present week after making her trial trip at the
Maplin Sands. The whole of her officers who had
been absent on leave rejoined yesterday at the
Nore. The Argus will swing, to adjust compasses,
either to-day or to-morrow, and is expected to
leave the Medway for Spithead on Friday to await
final orders. She takes out a detachment of
Royal Marines for escort duty at the British
Legation, Japan. During the time the Argus has
been in the Medway waters she has undergone a
very thorough repair, both to her hull and ma-
chinery, and has been fitted with new funnels. Her
crew numbers 170 officers and men.

It is understood that the new coaling arrange-
ments at Portland, which are of a very complete
character, will be made available at no distant
period for the coaling of her Majesty's ships. At
present the huge coal store, capable, it is said, of
holding 6,000 tons of coals, is empty, and in the
adjacent yard not 100 tons are in stock to supply
the immediate wants of the large iron-plated and
other steam-ships now in the harbour.

Capt. Ramsay, R.N., C. 8., whose period of ser-
vice as Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard has
just expired, took his departure from that place on
Saturday afternoon, in her Majesty's steamer
Lightning. The whole of the officers and workmen
assembled at the place of embarkation, and cheered
the gallant officer lustily as he left. This sponta-
neous demonstration of good feeling was received
by him with much apparent emotion, and must have
afforded him great satisfaction at the termination of
appointments were made yester-
and vigorous services at Pembroke.
his long
Admiralty :—John D. Switzer, master
dayThaet followingth e
additional to the Cumberland, for,the Lily.

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A Royal warrant, signed by Sir G. C. Lewis, Se-
at AV ar, was yesterday promulgated at
Chatham garrison, amending that part of the Royal
warranteretil of the 9th of February, 1855, relating to the
retirement on half-pay of riding masters of the
army, and directing that in future every riding-
master who shall have served for an aggregate pe-
riod of 30 years, of which 15 years shall have been
as riding-master, shall have an unqualified right to
retire, with the honorary rank of Capt., on the half
pay of 10s. a-day, provided such retirement shall be
recommended to the Secretary of State for War by
the Commander-in-Chief.

A circular memorandum has been received at
Chatham a
garrison front the War-office, announcing
tthrayt
oinf asctcaotredfaonr wce e-
with the decision of the Secr
ar medical aid to all branches
of the military service will in future be governed by
the army medical regulations dated Oct. 7, 1859,
all other previous regulations and orders on the
subject being cancelled. This decision on the part
of the Secretary of State for War is notified for the
information and guidance of staff and regimental
officers and the various departments of the army. In
accordance therewith all officers, as well as members
of the civil and military departments, will in future
only be entitled to medical aid at the public ex-
pense when there is a military surgeon at the sta-
tion, or a private medical practitioner in attendance,
at contract rates, on troops, staff pensioners, or the
permanent staff of militia regiments; and when
their residences are situated within the radius of
a mile from the principal Fumy dispensary at
the station, or such other point as may from time
to time be fixed. No separate medical claims
will be allowed for any of the individuals above
named.

Yesterday Col. Nedhanr, commanding the Royal
Artillery in the Chatham district, concluded his
half-yearly inspection of the Ist division Depot
Brigade, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Talbot.
The entire division having been paraded in drill
order, in open column, right in front, Col. Nedham
spent some time in a cicse inspection of the ranks,
after which the brigade was marched to the fortifi-
cations commanding the entrance to the Medway,
where the; works were manned and
an extended
course of heavy gun drill gone through in a highly
creditable manner, the result of the inspection just
brought to a termination baying been Pronounced
'very satisfactory.

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made the same statement, when mn6 %04:0-riiit 1 tv /7;4-
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liquor. On the Monday he remov
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ingly. I Lever threatened to give him 4ton
imprisonment. I only supposed he was abM‘to sit S
port his wife from what he himself said.
The Coroner—Did the chairman of the board of
guardians ask deceased whether Crippin was in
employment and could support his wife ?
Witness replied that that question was not asked,
Dr. Richardson said that he performed a post
mortem examination of deceased, and found It
chronic inflammation of the stomach. The cause
of death was inflammation of the stomach and
diseased liver. Deceased presented a most emaci-
ated appearance, and seemed to have been much
starved. She had been of intemperate habits, and
such habits might have produced such disease.
The Coroner said that as Crippin was too ill to
attend to sustain his account of the circumstances
of the case he had no option but to again adjourn
the court.
The court was accordingly adjourned.

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(Thursday.)—During the Exhibition open from Nine
till dark. ALL THE GREAT FOUNTAINS at Four
o'Clock. One Shilling.

CttYSTAL PALACE.-ARRANGEMENTS
TO-MORROW (Thursday). Open at NINE.

Orchestral Band at
Great Organ Performance at
Great Fountains at
Orchestral sand at 5. 0
Admission to all, One Shilling ; Children, Sixpence.
NOTE.—Frequent trains throughout the day.

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Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
This Evening, THE YANKEE LEGACY. After which.
THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. To conclude with THE
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Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
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OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA.
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