The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-18 00:00:00

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depot, Ste Mary's Barracks, until ak.,:io w \,4 -I,‘ ~z
received for their discharge from thleA- 'EIP-:',,,,:•-'o,,tz
A general court-martial, of whiklrc,. :7,1g...,101, /"hi-,,
March, second commandant of the Oilittlitirs-NOS
sion of Royal Marines Light Infantry, wlithefile:
sident, assembled at Chatham on Friday for the . ,
trial of Private James Coyle, on a charge of having
assaulted Capt.-D. Blyth, the gunnery instructor to
the division, his superior officer. The prisoner said
that he was drunk when the offence was committed.
The Court, after deliberating for some time, found
the prisoner guilty, but the sentence will not be
promulgated until it has been approved by the
Lords of the Admiralty. The offence of which the
prisoner has been convicted renders him liable to
be kept in penal servitude for life.
On Saturday Major-General C. C. Hay, Inspec-
toe.-Ciez,eral of Musketry, who was accompanied by
Capt, 3. -,k`a-y, Deputy Assist.-Adjt.-GE:perni,
completed hint inqectiop of. the officers and troops
of the vtaious 114-diverts raid dfP°tB undc'' instr' e"
tion at Chatham gari.loll, in which he hid he (-71
occupied several s. ..Like kspeetor-General also
went through the returns of ne svvEral-depots, in
order to select the non-commissioned officers and
men of each regfment who for their excellence at
rifle practice are entitled to wear t:.'e distin-
guishing badge and to receive an increase of pay
for one year, previously to their names being folb-
mitted to the Horse Guards for approval. The re-
turns for the past year exhibit a considerable im-
provenitnt in rifle shooting.
The brigace field-days by the troops at Chatham
arrLfon having ttsrini
nated for the season, a garri-
son order was on Saturday issued by Major-Gen.
H. Eyre, commanding the forces an -the Chatham
district, directing the whole of the troops composing
the garrison to take period cal marches into the
country, weekly, during the win:- er. On these oc-
casions the troops are to be occasiona;;Y halted, and
pickets and advanced guards thrown out, .and other
manoeuvres attempted which the nature of the cOllll-
- visited will permit. The, officers 'accompanying
the forces are to make occailonal reconnaissances
and reports of the districts traversed, and the ad-
vantages or disadvantages which they present for
carrying on military operations. A sketch of the
country is also to accompany the report sent in by
each officer. The battery of Horse Artillery sta-
tioned at Chatham took their first march for the
season on Friday last, on which occasion they were
accompanied by their battery of field Armstrong
guns, ammunition and other waggons, and the other
accompaniments of a field battery. The ariillery
took the route of Bluebell-hill and Aylesford, pro-
ceeding in that direction nearly as far as Maidstone,
and returning to their quarters, Bromptonßarracks,
in the afternoon.
In accordance with orders to that effect from the
War-office, every exertion is being used at the
Royal Arsenal for the equipment of 40-pounder
Armstrong batteries of position, for the defence of
the coast. On Saturday a complete battery of new
40-pounder Armstrong guns, for the land defences,
each weighing,3,4 cwt., mounted on travelling car-
riages, with (animunigon waggons, &c.; ?complete,
was received at Gravesend, having been sent from
Woolwich in charge of a detachment of Royal Ar-
tillery. The guns are intended to be placed at New
Tavern Fort, opposite Tilbury Fort, for the defence
of the Thames. Other batteries of a sistilar nature
are in a forward state, and as soon as completed
will be sent to the Artillery stations on the banks of
the Thames and Medway, in the Chatham district.
Each gun is amply equipped with shot and shell
and a full supply of all descriptions of stores.

WALKING MATCH BETWEEN MILES AND HATLET.,
--The contest between William Hatley, of Blackfriars, and
James Miles, of Brixton, the champion, for a stake of £5O,
was decided yesterday afternoon at Mr. Baum's, Hackney
Wick. The distance to be traversed was two miles, the

champion allowing Hatley a start of 100 yards. Shortly
after four o'clock the competitors appeared on the ground,
and a good deal of betting took place at 7 to 4 on Hatley.
On the signal being given they started at a rattling pace,
Miles in the first lap gaining something like ten yards. He,
however, never caught hie opponent, who won with ease in
15 minutes 25 seconds. F. Symes was referee.
RUMOURED RAILWAY ALLIANCE.—In the north
there is a very generally believed rumour (Which has been
confidently mentioned in some share circulars) that the
Istdrth Eastern and North British Companies are afloat to
lease the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at five per ceni,s
in order to secure to the east coast linos an independent
access to Glasgow, together with command of all the largo
towns and ports from the north to London, via the Great
Northern. The effect of the rumour has been to cause a
rise in the value of Edinburgh and Glasgow stock to a
point higher than it stood before the late dreadful accident.
However desirable the proposed alliance might be for the
east coast interests, it is certain that as yet nothing definite
is known of the arrangement in official quarters. Leeds
Mercury.
Jefferson Davis, the Son thern President, now abou
fifty-five years of age, is a native of Kentucky, though by
the pos,,ession of property and long residence therein mere
intimately connected with Mississippi. Entering the 'U.S.
Military Academy at Westpoint, N.Y., in 1824, he served in
the let Infantry and let Dragoons successively, and retired
to civil life in 1835. At the opening of the Mexican war he
was a representative in Congress; but conceiving that at that
crisis he could best serve the state in the field, he accepted
1 the command of a volunteer rifle regiment. In acknowledg-
ment of his distinguished services on the Elio Grande, Con-
greats named him a Brigadier-General, but he declined ac-
cepting a title which had ceased to be honourable, because
too often bestowed on the unworthy from party considera-
tions. From 1847 to 1851 he sat in Congress as senator from
Mississippi, and was remarked for his eloquence and ability
in debate. He was Minister of War during General Pierce's
presidency, and in that officedisplayed great administrative
capacity, and by his care for its interests was very popular
with the army, to which he was:already favourably known
as a gallant soldier. He is tall, spare, dark-complexioned,
as Southerners generally are, with a massive forehead, bril-
liant deepsot eyes,.a pensive and somewhat sad expression,
and a perceptible limp arising from a wound received at the
battle of Buena Vista, apropos of which an interesting anec-
dote is current. When young he fell in love and eloped
with a wealthy heiress, the only daughter of Gen. Zachary
Taylor. The old gentleman was yet unreconciled to him
when the current of events brought Davis, as Colonel of the
Ist Mississippi Rifles, under his immediate command in
Northern Mexico ; but discernment of his sonin-law's mi-
litary merits gradually soothed his anger ; and when the
brilliant charge of the Mississippi Rifles under the leader-
ship of Davis retrieved the almost desperate fortunes of the
bloody day of Buena Vista, unable to repress his admiration
any longer, the stout old general hastened to the front where
Davis was lying desperately wounded, and seising his
hand, exclaimed—" I forgive the hasty marriage, my dear
lad ; any father might be proud of such a son I" Jefferson
Davis is alike wary in council and fiery in the field ; but
his swift audacity is guided by a cool and powerful intel-
lect, and is the servant, not the master, of a resolute will.
—Ono a Week.
MURDER OF BRITISH SEAMEN.—In September,
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the
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crew, 1 u
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a small boat, after enduring great suffering by exposure
the cold, succeeded inrehacohis
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England next summer. But
of were
homes in entertained, and three
of the fate of the master of this
vessel,Mr. Ellis, and the
remainder of the crew, who left tbeship in
ofa thelongv-besosealstl
nothing has been heard until the arrival
from the Hudson Bay stations this autumn, when the sad
intelligence has been brought that the 11 poor follows fel
into the hands of unfriendly Esquimaux, and were murdered
for the sake of their blankets. The missionaries at Okak,
writing to the widow of the master of the vessel in Angust
last, say—" It is with grief, madam, we must inform you
that it is, alas, only too true that the long-boat, with her
master and crew, arrived at Ungava Bay, but that none of
the men survive. Last winter Esquimaux from Ungava
Bsy visited our northernmost settlement, Hebron, who re-
lated that in the winter of 1859-60, several Europeans in a
boat landed at the island called Apatok, in Ungava Bay. They
lived with the Esquimaux until about January, upon what
the latter could provide for them ; but then, most likely
when their provisions became short, the Esquimaux at-
tacked them when they were asleep and killed them, stab-
bing them with their knives. There is no doubt of these
really being the men from the Kitty, because the Esqui-
maux knew there had been another boat with five men
belonging to them, whom they doomed lost. They said one
man of the murdered company had very frost•bitten fret ,
and him the Esquimaux would not kill by stabbing, but
showed him a kind of heathen mercy, as they put him into
the open air until he was dead by severe cold." It seems
that these unfortunate men had been murdered for the sake
of the blankets they had with them. It would appear that
one of the Esquimaux wanted to save the three Europeans
who lodged with him, but they met the same fate as their
companions. The tribe who have committed this murder
do not appear to have been brought in contact with the
European missions; and the friendly tribe who brought
the information in to Hebron further informed the Mora •
vian missionaries at that place that a
little further north
mfr Ungava,ya Bay a whole crew, consisting in all from 40
on shore and then killed by Esquimaux.