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LIEUTENANT PERRY'S CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Your spirited remarks thereon are worthy of the
chivalry with which you attack every wrong, and deal
your " thunder" against every established or recognised
tyranny. I cannot refrain from asking—Why, if such a
weighty consequence as (so far as his " persecutors" are
concerned) the deprivation of all that is worthy of living
for is to be the lot of Mr. Perry—and I may ask, as nearly
the whole of my countrymen are doing, for what offence?
—what ought to be the punishment of the Greers and the
Waldys ? The latter worthy, I sincerely cherish the hope,
will be called to a different bar than that lately sitting at
Windsor. Perjury of the direst kind he has committed.
Bad enough in the sight of God and man would it have
been, jf it had simply been committed with the object of
obtaining some personal or pecuniary boon ; but when the
very essence of a gallant brother-in-arms' honour and re
putation were in issue was the stake, oh S it becomes "rank
in the nostrils," and insulted justice cries out for "satis-
faction." Surely the legal adviser of this injured gentle-
man will see to it. I call upon my fellow-countrymen to
indorse your appeal to their sympathy on his behalf ; and,
as an earnest of such appeal, I have sent two guineas
the Mayor of Windsor, whose efforts and friendship, I doubt
not, will meet their reward.—Your faithful servant,
Sept. 6. A SOLICITOR.

THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —Yesterday, the
first of a course of lectures by Dr. Scoffern, M. 8., on
the " Destructive Chemical Resources of Modern War-
fare," was delivered at the above institution. The lee
turer, in introducing the course to the audience. dwelt
at considerable length on the great improvements which
have been made in destructive instruments of warfare
during the last few centuries by the introduction of gun
powder, the manufacture of which, and its scientific
application as a projectile force, he fully explained by a
series of interesting experiments and diagrams. He also
touched upon some of those immensely powerful com-
pounds with which chemistry has made us acquainted,
and which at different times it has been proposed to use
BA a substitute for gunpowder, demonstrating that, in
the present age, mechanics had not kept pace with che-
mistry in this respect, inasmuch as that no apparatus
has ever been invented which would render their appli-
cation anything but exceedingly dangerous. Towarch.
the conclusion of the lecture, Dr. Scoffern briefly alluded
to the report now current that the Russians had placed
infernal machines under the water in the neighbourhood
of Cronstadt, in connection with a galvanic battery,
ready to be exploded the moment any of our ships should
pass over them, clearly illustrating, by a few practical
experiments, that our cruisers have nothing to fear from
them, as the explosion would not only be deadened by
the water, but would be distributed equally throughout
its whole mass, and that any ship would pass uninjured,
though the explosion should take place directly below
them. The lectures are to be continued on Mondays
and Thursdays.
ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN LAM-
BETH WORKHOUSE.—Last night a public meeting was
held at the Vestry Hall, Kennington-green, in order to
bring before the ratepayers the alleged ill-treatment of
the poor in Lambeth Workhouse, so as to cause an in-
vestigation by the guardians into the conduct of the
master and assistant-master. Mr. Stratton, one of the
churchwardens, was called to the chair, and the meeting
was addressed by Mr. Hyde, Mr. Baird, do., after
which the following resolution was unanimously
agreed to :—" That this meeting, viewing with
deep regret the harsh treatment of the poor in
Lambeth Workhouse, call upon the guardians to suspend
the master and assistant-master until the allegations
made to this meeting are investigated by the Poor Law
Board, and finally determined upon." Mr. Bushell, on
behalf of the guardians, exonerated them from blame,
and after attempting to make himself heard in vain for
some time, observed, amidst the cheers of the meetirg,
that
~they would certainly inquire into the matter. The
proceedings then terminated.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At a monthly
general meeting held yesterday at the society's house, in
Hanover-square—W. J. Broderip, Esq., F.R.S., vice-
president, in the chair—Lord Lindsay, Sir James Car-
negie, Bart., Colonel Cautley, Mrs. Nichol!, and Messrs.
S. Crawfurd, W. Harrison, and J. E. Richard, were
elected fellows of the society, and Mr. E. W. Wadeson
was proposed as a candidate for the fellowship. The
report of the council stated that the number of visitors
during the year had been upwards of 325,000, that the
additions to the menagerie during the last month con-
siAed of various objects of more than usual interest,
including a beautiful male specimen of the wild sheep of
the Punjab, which bad now been imported into Europe
for the first time in a living state and presented to the
society by Brigadier Hearsey, C.B. The report also
stated that his Majesty the King of Portugal had been
pieased to transmit to the society a fine specimen of the
true boa constrictor of Linnaeus. The collection gene-
rslly, as well as the flower-garden, are in a state of
efficiency to which the council refer with gratification.
Among the most conspicuously beautiful.,ornaments in
the garden are the Japan lilies, now coming prafusely
into flower, and an immense collection of the finest
dahlias furnished by Mr. Turner, of Slough.
THE DORKING CASE.---The hearing the charge against
George Elton, George Elphick, and Maria Fenn, was
resumed at two o'clock on Wednesday, the 6th inst., at
the Messrs. Hart's offices, before Captain Parrott, A.
K. Barclay, and George Cubitt, Esq. The depositions e-
of the previous day having been read,
deuce was given by James Farringdon
Pas:dm:scribed
of
Newdigate, who said when the prosecutrix
and said
what had occurred to him, she burst into tears,He tilt!'
she cluld not help it, there was three to one,
every
Par.
additiontear
repeated what she said to him, which i
titular the same as she bad stated in
for the prisoner
D. Sadler, Esq., solicitor, appearedh
Crowley at consi-
derable anti cross-examined Elizabething
to weaken her
derable length, but lie elicited
"After Mr. Sadler had
evidence in the slightest de4ree: herwas evidence. J.
appeal on behalf of
'natio a wry ingenious
.and
and Maria Fenn,
his client,
_George Elphick for the capital otie
IS aOrAtiOry.
the magistrates colimi-ttneedeGeorge Elton and