The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-10 00:00:00

AQUATICS.

CAFFIN AND KING (tho Ex-Champion Pugilist) FOR

£25 A-SIDE.

It will be remembered that this race was rowed on Tues-
day, the 28th February, when a protest was lodged by Mr.
Robert Bain, the trainer of Caffin, against the boat that
King rowed in, as not being an old-fashioned one accord-
ing to the articles drawn up on either side. The match
eventually took place, but a foul having occurred, the re-
feree decided that it should be rowed again on Mon-
day, the 13th of March—the protest in the mean-
time not having been decided. Since the match was
rowed an eminent boat-builder has given it as his opinion
that King's boat was not an old-fashioned one according
to the articles, consequently had he won the first match
the race the would been given to Caffin. Mr. Robert Bain
has again chartered the Volunteer and the Child
Harold steamers for the convenience of the numerous
visitors that are likely to accompany the match.
They will leave London-bridge at half-past one
o'clock, on Monday first, calling at all the piers upwards
to Putney. The Childe Harold will convey the umpire
and referee, and the other officials engaged on the occasion.
The other steamer will be specially devoted to the accom-
modation of the public. More than usual interest depends
upon the result, as King has already won two out of the
three events that he has backed himself for.

King is trained by George Drewitt at Barnes ; and
Garda by Robert Bain, of Lambeth, at Wandsworth. King
is the favourite, at 2 and 3 to 1 on him.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, held a levee yesterday afternoon at the
Admiralty, Whitehall. The following officers at-
tended :—Rear-Admiral W. H. Anderson Mors-
head, Rear-Admiral E. Ommanney, Rear-Admiral
H. Layton, Capt. S. B. Piers, Capt. H. Harvey,
Capt. W. G. 11. Johnstone, Capt. L. J. Moore,
Capt. the Hon. A. C. Hobart, Capt. T. Wilson,
Capt. T. Cochran, Capt. G. T. Hornby, Commander
W. H. Phipps, Commander E. L. Strangways,
Commander W. Jardine, Commander D. G. David-
son, Commander J. A. Agnew, Commander E. B.
H. Franklin, Commander C. F. Boughey, Staff-
Commander W. S. Luke, Lieut. Seymour Curtis.
Lieut.-J. B. Barnett, Lieut. -J:--.13-444.0hei1l -Staff-
Surg. R. Bernard, Dr. J. Donnet (surg)., and 3lr.
R. L. SlithrTlnnd (naymlster.)

Her Majesty's screw frigate Phaeton, 39, 2,696
tons, 400-horse power, Capt. G. Le G. Bowyear,
arrived at the Nore on Wednesday from North
America, and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
C. Talbot, K.O .8., Naval Commander-in-Chief.
During the day she commenced discharging her
powder and shell into one of the war department
transports sent from Chatham for conveyance to
the stores at Upnor Castle, and she is at once to be
dismantled in order to be put out of commission.
The Serpent, 4, screw steam gun vessel, 695 tons,
200-horse power, has been placed in the large basin
in Sheerness dockyard, and is being prepared with
all despatch for surveying service on the coast of
Japan, and will shortly be commissioned by Com-
mander Charles J. Bullock.

On 'Wednesday the screw steam Coastguard ship
Hawke, 60, Captain Edmund Heathcote, from
Queenstown (accompanied by the paddlewheel
steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Captain Francis 11.
Shortt) arrived at Plymouth, and anchored in the
SOund. Shortly afterwards the ironcased screw
steamship Prince Consort, 35, Captain George 0.
Willes, C. 8., also lying in the Sound, got under
way for the purpose of testing her speed at the
measured mile outside. The wind at the time was
strong from north-west, and the weather was rather
thick. The Prince Consort ran foul of the Hawke
and carried away her jibboom and damaged her
bowsprit. Her own fore and mainyards were in-
jured and a boat was smashed. Having sent down
the injured yards the Prince Consort proceeded on
her trial. Seamen belonging to the Hawke will be
paid off ; she is ordered to be dismantled, and will
probably be broken up.
Orders have been received at Chatham dockyard,
directing a survey to be made of the sailing sloops
Childers, 12, and Mariner, 12, attached to the re-
serve in ordinary, previously to both those vessels
being broken up.
One of the divers attached to Chatham dockyard
has been selected by the Admiralty to examine the
bottom of the Great Eastern steamer, in order to
ascertain its condition, special application for his
services having been made to the Admiralty by the
Atlantic Telegraph Company.

The undermentioned non-commissioned officers
and privates of the -Woolwich division of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry were on Wednesday pre-
sented at a general parade with medals for good
conduct and long services, and also with gratuities:
—Staff-Sergt. and Gun Drill Instructor William
Stock Sergeant, £l5 and medal ; Private Charles
Read, £5 and medal ; Private Charles Robinson,
£5 and medal ; William Henry Willoughby, pen-
sioner, late colour-sergt. ; Charles Jarvis and Alex.
Clarkson, late privates, pensioners, a medal only ;
and Sergt. William Jackson, £lO ; and Private
Young Baker, £5. Thirty-nine recruits joined
head-quarters of the Woolwich division on Wed-
nesday from the recruiting depot at Deal, and 40
left head-quarters at the same time for the
depot. Captain Melville Suther, R.M., has been
placed under orders at Woolwich to proceed by the
f
packet of the 20th inst., to join the battalion of
Royal Marines, serving in Japan. The followingiiol
notification was on Wednesday announced at
com-
wich : Lieut:-Col. W. G. Suther, C. 8., inh
mand of the battalion servinglin
conferred upon him by his lmperial la Japan,
sy
had
and her Majesty
LegionE meroorf of
fl
otinlemFirre;nch the insignia otfhoeffiQcleireeonfi theas
been. graciously pleased to grant her Royal licence
for that officer to accept and wear the Imperial
Order accordingly.
It appears that the total quantity of stock pur_
chased on account
184omilitary
5f
toJanuarysavings-banks
5 ,
1865,fr0m
Septem, was
E4l33tle,mllb6e—r vli9z:, £119,458 Three per Cent. Consols,
£90,590 Reduced Three per Cents., and £221,068
New Three per Cents. The total quantity of stock
sold in the same period was £94,236—viz.,
£78,118 Three per Cent. Consols, and £16,118
New Three per Coats. The total stock thus held

by the fund f0r3:3916i01i.,,8t5,8ar000y, savings-banks on January
5, 1865,
--gdiztj'cedv4Thl,3rleeo Tperil.rerCeenptZ
and £204,950 New Three per CentS. The £336 880
of stock represented an actual amount of cash held
of £302,959.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt.
E. Lacy, arrived at Spithead early yesterday morn-
ing, with the 92d Gordon Highlanders on board,
after a quick passage of 46 hours from Greenock,
strong winds from north to north-west prevailing
from the time of the ship leaving Greenock up to
her arrival at Spithead. The 92d will disembark
this morning from the Himalaya alongside Ports-
mouth dockyard, and proceed by special train on
the South Western Railway to Aldershot camp, via
Farnborough. Major Hamilton is now in command
of this distinguished regiment, which will arrive at
Aldershot to-day in the following strength :-27
officers, 782 men, 99 soldiers' wives, 137 soldiers'
children, officers' families, and six officers' chargers.
The Himalaya's next duty will be to convey a
regiment from Dover to Qafeenstown, Ireland,
and afterward one other regiment from that port to
Malta. From Malta the Himalaya will next convey a
regiment to Canada, and return thence with the regi-
ment relieved by the one from Malta to England.
The sailing ship Trafalgar (one of the Messrs.
Green's Indian fleet), Commander E. Stackpoole,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning with invalid
troops on board for the Royal Victoria Military
Hospital at Netley, under contract with the Hon.
Council of India. She made the voyage in 86 days
from the Calcutta Sandheads. Her troop list com-
prises Major J. 11. Creagh, 27th Regiment; Capt. J.
Wyse, 34th Regiment; Lieut. Lampard, 54th Regi-
ment; Lieut.W. H. C. Smith, 104th Regiment; Lieut.
C. G. Norris, 80th Regiment; Assts. -Sung. C. Hooper,
42d R. H. B. W.; 142 invalided men from various
coin. ents, 1 time-expired man, 12 soldiers' wives, and
12 soldiers' children.. Eight invalided s'oidiey.s died
during the passage home. The greatest satisfaction
is expressed with the accommodation and the food
and medical attendance on board. The disembar-
kation of the troops will be effected from the Tra-
falgar, at Spithead, by a Government steamer, for
conveyance to Netley this morning, the state of the
tide yesterday precluding the disembarkation on the
ship's arrival at Spithead. With the promised new
pier over the mud opposite the hospital at Netley it
will be possible, however, to land a freight of troops
from steamers of light draught, which are now being
constructed specially for the purpose, at any time of
tide, and any ship load of sick or wounded soldiers
who may then arrive in England will be removed
from the 'tween decks of the transport ship, so soon
as her anchor is dropped at Spithead, to the wards
of the hospital without having to undergo the vexa-
tious detention of some 24 hours on board ship, as
will be experienced by the majority of the troops
coming home from India this spring.
Her Majesty's 4-gun iron screw troopship Urgent,
Capt. Samuel H. Henderson, arrived at Woolwich
on Tuesday morning, and went alongside the T-pier,
in the Royal Arsenal. The Urgent reached Green-
hithe on the previous day at 1 p.m., where she made
fast for the night, sailing on the following morning
at 6, and arriving at Woolwich at 9. She brought
five batteries of the sth Brigade Garrison Artillery
from Plymouth, in command of Major Lukin, con-
sisting of 26 officers, 477 non-commissioned officers
and men, 69 women, and 140 children. They
landed and marched up to the barracks at 4 o'clock,
taking up the quarters vacated an hour previously
by the first seven companies of the sth Fusiliers, on
their departure for Ireland. The Fusiliers mus-
tered on the Royal Artillery parade at 3 o'clock 550
strong, every man answering the roll, and were
carefully inspected by Major-Gen: Warde, C. 8.,
commanding the district. .It was said that a more
exemplary body of men had never entered the gar-
rison, and that their temperate and well-regulated
conduct during the time they had been quartered
in Woolwich had been the subject of official re-
mark. A report to that effect was drawn up for the
Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief. The detach-
ment was under the command of Lieut.-Col. !Ull-
man and the following officers :—Surg. IV. K.
Swettenharn, M.D., Captain Townshend, Captain
Mattlaw, Quartermaster Drake, Lieut. C. J. Mills,
Lieut. and Adjt. Enderby, Lieuts. Williams, Ormond,
Knox, and ; Ensigns Marker, Sanders, Tynte,
and IV:.-ty____Ll.lere_averA -alzo 47 sOliers' wives and
48 children; the whole 'ottheni embarked mrboard
the Urgent for transport to Dublin, to be quartered
at Viii'

li2 r n

orders to depart on the return of the Urgent from
Ireland, after transporting the first detachment to
their destination. She yesterday steamed down the
Thames from Woolwich arsenal, taking her depar-
ture at 11 o'clock.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—On Monday—
Capt. E. Heathcote, to the Frederick William, vice
Codd ; Richard Holman, chief engineer to the Fis-
gard, to the Alecto ; John R. H. Potam, of the
Black Prince, and William Hallowell, of the Liver-
pool, promoted to first-class assist.-engineers; and
J. T. Trickett, acting second-class assist.-engineer,
to the Fisgard. On Tuesday—the Rev. John Er-
skine, to be chaplain of the Blenheim ; Peter Com-
rie, surgeon, to the Sparrowhawk ; John Dearden,
chief engineer, to the Sparrowhawk ; Philip T.
Gruchy and George F. Boothe, promoted to be
chief engineers ; Ezra Miles, engineer, to the Blen-
heim, for the Escott ; John Clift, engineer, to the
Sparrowhawk; James Ireland, acting engineer, to
the Blenheim, for the Raven; and Joe Bates, first-
class assist.-engineer, to the Sparrowhawk.

The Wife Murder at Derby.

-40.---

At the Derbyshire Spring Assizes yesterday James Potter,
aged 55, a bailiff, who lived in Traffic-street, Derby, was ar-
raigned for the murder of his wife, Sarah Potter, on the 23d
December last. The following is a summary of the evidence
which was adduced. The prisoner and his wife lived to-
gether in Traffic-street, Derby, and a lodger named Stone
slept in the same house. Potter, who was subject to fits of
strangeness or savageness, was in the habit of abusing and
ill-treating his wife, and at such times ha coarsely expressed
his jealousy of Stone. On the 22d December the prisoner's
married daughter, Mrs. Clements, went from her own
house to that of her parents, and found them about to go to
supper. The mother, having prepared the meal, left the
house to get the prisoner half a pint of beer. Just then the
lodger Stone, who had partaken of his supper, also rose,
and went out to get some beer. Potter rushed to follow,
and the daughter, knowing from past experience his con-
duct to her mother, interposed to stop him, but, unable to
do so, she ran before him to the publichouse to which she
knew her mother had gone. Potter followed, and caught
hold of his wife, telling her to go home, when she replied,
"Not to be ill-used." The daughter separated them as
well as she could, and the mother ran away and hid herself
from his violence up the street in an entry. The prisoner,
violently abusing her in opprobrious language, sought for
her some time, and ultimately locked up his house, so that
his wife and daughter should not enter, and went to a
neighbouring publichouse. Then Mrs. Clements went and
fetched her mother, and after a time endeavoured to get the
key, but the prisoner was abusive and refused it. dSheenthdeean
got a policeman to go into the publichouse,
voured to get the key from her father. The prisoner came
out with him and unlocked the door, the mother was
ud
fetched from the hiding-place, and they all went in. He
tsoeehmiseddaatugthhitsert, morewho
e calm an
soon after sawd quiet,
her
parents
but when she left their room she hoard her father lock the
heard through the wall three faint cries of
door on the inside. Not long after this a man living in the
next house
and spokeup to
civillyhe,
murder," and afterwards steps retreating after a door was
slammed. A policeman saw the
lhprisoneryhe
didstandingnotgboyhhomime-.
him-
self in the street, and asked him v
I househaelhl
lie made reply that his wife had locked him out, and that
iihxyliweeeofi nil
.1
oladnninlroyotoongi
tuaonn ldreosso
no tlthui ennitt)oiollt en,3
de-nrto withowmiFt ho
theythteirn ;.
foundtehye
the woman dead, with a wound in her breast, She had been
stabbed with a sword-stick belonging to the prisoner. Ho
was arrested and charged with the murder. Ho only made
some trivial excuse. The jury found a verdict of guilty,
and the Prisoner wee condemned to death in the usual form.

-.17\ TILLER.—Joe made his tir,A appear-
ance on the stage in 1715, in Drury Lane, in Far-
pillar's comedy of "A Trip to the Jubilee."_ He alsoplayed
Clodpolo in Betterton's "Amorous Widow," Sir 11. Gubbin
in " Steele's " Tender Husband," La Foole in Ben Jonson's
"Epiccene," and above all Sir Joseph Whit tol in Congreve s
" Old Bachelor," Hogarth designed a benefit ticket for
this play. As Ben in "Love for Love," Gibber cut out Joe
Miller. In 1721 Joe opened a booth at Bartholomew Fair
with Pinketlnan. His last great success was as the Mil-
ler in Dodsley's farce of " The King and the Miller of
Mansfield." Stephen Duck, the Wiltshire thresher,
afterwards a popular preacher, wrote his epitapth.—Thorn-
bury's Haunted London,

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms
of the past year 1864 the boats of the National Lifeboat
foatitution have saved 432 persons from different wrecks on
our coasts. The Institution also expended £19,531 14s. sd.
in the same period on lifeboat establishments, in addition to
granting £1,569 as rewards for saving 693 shipwrecked per-
)ns by its lifeboats, and other means.
The Committee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to
the t üblic for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the
continued heavy demands on the Institution's 110 lifeboat
establishments.
Contributions are received by Messrs Willis and Cod
0.,
Retries and Co., Coutts and Co., and by all the London and
country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq.,
at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi.
The ANNUAL GENERAL ME ItTING of this Institution
will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, liishopsgate-street,
on TUESDAY next the th inst. at o'clock pi ecisely.
His Grace the Due, of ARGYLL, 'K.T., yin the Chair.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
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(Opera Company, Limited.)
Tll IS EVEN IN 4, the Opera of THE, MOCK DOCTO a
(fly. English woris by (banes Kenny,. Principal characters
by He idarnes Poole, Thirlwall, and h anny ; andss
Bei ry Haigh, A. Cook, C. Lyail, Doss Lingham, H.
Corti.

Conduator,Mr. A. MELLON.
Alter which, the Grand and highly successful Pantomime,
CIN DEItELLA. Magnificent Scenery and gorgeous acces•
sories.