The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-16 00:00:00

MILITARY.

Yesterday, 400 rank and file of the 51st Regiment
arrived at Gravesend, and einb trked on board the Star
Company's packet Cornet, which conveyed them to
Black wall, whence a special train took them per North
London Railway to the Camden-town station of the
North-Western, whence they were carried on to
Manchester.

On Monday morning, a detachment of the 21st
Regiment (Royal North British Fusileers), to the num-
ber of 120 men and five serjeants, sailed from Merchant's
quay, Cork, in the Royal Alice, for Queenstown, to
embark in the Golden Fleece for conveyance to the seat
of war. The remainder of the regiment, consisting of
five companies, was to embark the same evening at 3
o'clock.
Lieutenant Loftus Robinson, R.N., having visited
some of the ports on the south-west coast of Ireland, has
returned to Dublin, and again opened the rendevous on
Sir John Rogerson's-quay, to raise men for the nany.

THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
The Golden Fleece, whose arrival has been for some
days expected, entered Cork harbour on Sunday morn-
ing, and anchored opposite Haul-bowline. She left
Southampton on Friday. This vessel is nearly as re-
markable for her beauty of construction and enormous
size as the Himalaya. Her registered tonnage is 2,500
tons. Her destination is Varna, to which, in addition
to a number of the troops now in garrison, she carries
45 tons of gunpowder, to be taken from the magazine at
Rocky Island, Queenstown, besides a large quantity of
shot and shell, and other warlike stores.

TERRIFIC POWDEII-IfILL EXPLOSION.—An explosion
of a most disastrous character took place on Thursday
morning at the government powder-mills at Horodsfoot,
Cornwall, whereby upwards of five tons of gunpowder
were destroyed, and damage done to the amount of
about 2000/. The explosion is said to have originated
in one of the men walking carelessly into the drying-
house with his trousers on fire, caused by a spark from
the fire-place. With great presence of mind he leapt
into a deep trench a short distance off, where he es-
caped with only a few bruises from stones which reached
him, Happily no other personal injury was) mitaincd,

The court re-assembled to-day at eleven o'clock, and the
cross-examination of Captain John H. Chambers, of the
4th West York Militia, was resumed. Major-General
Wetherall was in attendance as prosecutor, Colonel Kelly
president, and Major Dalgetty officiated as deputy judge
adVocate. All the other members of the court were
pre ent, with the exception of Captain the Earl of Long-
ford, who was excused on medical certificate. The room
was crowded as usual with military men and civilians,
among whom we noticed Colonel the Hon. Cecil Forester,
M.P., Mr. Hammond, Captain Henry Seymour, Mr.
Christopher Tower, Captain Grimes, the Military Knights,
and the Mayor of Windsor.
The prisoner requested the questions and answers might
be again read before the court.
They were so road by the deputy judge-advocate.
The Prisoner (in cross-examination of Capt. Chambers)
—Do you recollect • Wahly and Knapp's affairs, and the
attack on their rooms; and, if so, will you state, to the
best of your recollection, who was present ?
Witues2—l recollect, is the Linen-hall Barracks,
Dublin, aboat eleven o'clock in the morning, to the best
of ley recollection? .
President—Answer the question as it wasgiven to you.
Witness—Myself and several other ofileera or the Clth
went for the purpose of' drawing Mr. Knapp and Mr.
Wally, jun.—l mean the junior Mr. Waldy.. We found
Mr. Waldy's door open. We immediately pulled down
his bed me! threw the bedding. and bed clothes into the
lierrack-square, out of the window. • If went down when
the ()dicers wete,gone, net brought up the had clothee.,; I
was.very .sorry. Mr. TV'altly came in shortly afterwards,
and I assisted him to put his room in order; He said he
would report to the colonel of the regiment, and I recom-
mended him not to do so but to take things quietly. He
asked me to tell him who the 'officers were that upset his
room, and I declined doing so. I said, it is quite sufficient
for ye, that I' have brought your bed up. That is all that
I can recollect.
Prisoner—Who were the officers present ?
Witness—The officers present were myself (to begin
with), Mr. Greer, Captain Garrett, Mr. Lenard, and there
wore souse others, but I do not know who they were.
Prisoner- —Can you undertake to say that Captain Nicholas
was not ono of them; and has it not been your impression
that he was one of them ?
Witness—l don't recollect Mr. Nicholas being there. I
fancied at one time that he was there, but I now don't
think he was.
Prisoner—What is the reason for your altering the opi-
nion that you gave me yesterday that Capt. Nicholas was
one of them?
\Vitness—l fancied at one time that Captain Nicholas
was coucerned, but to the best of my belief he was not.
Prisoner—Have you had any conversation with Captain
Nicholas since the adjournment of the court yesterday ? If
so, will you state what transpired between you?
Witness—l have had a conversation with Captain
Nicholas since the adjournment of the Court yesterday. I
conversed with Captain Nicholas on the state of nay com-
pany when I handed it over to him. I may have said
something else to him ; but I said nothing to him relative
to the present court-martial.
Prisoner—Was any reference made to the present in-
quiry ?
Witness—No, sir; Captain Nicholas and I had no con-
versation with each other on the subject.
Prisoner—Have you had any conversation since the
adjournment of the Court with any and what officers, and
what was said ?

Witness—l have had conversation with several officers
about the court-martial ; and talking about practical
jokes, I said I think Nicholas was there, but I have no
recollection of his being there. I think the officers I was
speaking with were Major Vesey and Captain Garret. I
am positive that Captain Nicholas was not there. He had
no hand in throwing• the bed clothes out of the window.
I am quite positive he was not there.
Prisoner—Am I to presume, then, from what you state,
that you have changed your mind within the last twelve
hours about Captain Nicholas being present, and after
consulting with other officers of the regiment?
Witness—l never said that Captain Nicholas was pre-
sent. I thought he was present, and still I thought he was
not; I always had a doubt about it, and after thinking of
it I do not recollect him doing anything, and I am positive
he was not there. I wish to add further, that Mr. Ford
said he (Ford) was present on that occasion, but I have no
recollection of seeing him there.
Prisoner—Wore you present when Major Maxwell
ordered an officer to be brought down from his bed in the
Royal Barracks, Dublin ?
Witness—l never heard of it. I know nothing about it.
Prisoner—Do you recollect Lieutenant Dunscombe's
case in the Royal Barracks ?
Witness— I know nothing about it.
Prisoner—How was I treated during the time you were
in the regiment?

Witness—Alany of the officers were cool to 31r. Perry.
Prisoner—How in your opinion, have I conducted my-
self since I have been in the regiment.
Witness—lu my opinion Mr. Perry has conducted him-
' self very well. To me always like a gentleman.
By the Court —Did you understand that ColonelGa.rrett
bad called Lieutenant Perry personally a fool for his
pains, or that he had said so when speaking of him to
others ?
Witness—l heard that Colonel Garrett had called Mr.
Perry a fool for his pains. I never thought about it. Mr.
Curtis merely said to me, Colonel Garrett had called
Lieutenant Perry a fool for his pains. He did not say
whether he did so personally or not.
By the Court—On what occasion
Garrett had so called Lieut. Perry ?
Witness--On some occasion when Mr. Perry either re-
ported to the general of the district, or threatened to do
so. Ido not kndw which it was.

was it said that Co,

By the Court—De you remember Colonel Garrett repri-
manding an officer for annoying Lieutenant Perry; and if
so, was it on that occasion Colonel Garrett is said to have
called Lieutenant Perry a fool for his pains?
Witness—ln the Liuen-hall Barracks, Dublin, I be-
lieve Colonel Garrett reprimanded some officer, but I do
not know who that officer was. In continuation witness
said : I never was present at any reprimand, but I believe
Colonel Garret reprimanded an officer in the Linen-hall
Barracks, Dublin, about the month of May, 1853. Ido
not know who that officer was. It was not at that time
that Lieutenant Curtis told me that Colonel Garrett
made use of that expression. It was about a year ago.
By the Court—Do you know anything of Lieutenant
Perry reporting to the general of the district, or threaten-

ing to dc; so ?
Witness—l do not from my own knowledge know it.
Prisoner (in re-examination)—Were wo not iu the Royal
Barracks this time last year ?
Witness—No, sir ; I don't think that we were in the
Royal Barracks this time last year.
Prisoner—After that answer I have no further questions
to ask this witness.

By the Court—Was any person present when Lieut.
Curtis told you that Colonel Garrott called Lieut. Perry a
fool for his pains?
Witness—No person was present.
Major Pack was then called.
Prisoner—Did you not act as deputy jtOge-advocate on
my first trial ; and did you not call upon me in my room,
and say that I might ask any question of you that I pleased,
for as much that you was as much my adviser as you were
the adviser of the Court ?
Witness —On the 12th July in your room, and also in
open court on the 14th July, I stated as much.
Prisoner—lf you had received a letter from me, a
similar letter to the ono I sent to Colonel Pipon, would
you not have considered it a privileged communication ?
Deputy Judge-Advocate—That is the letter.
Prisoner—May I request that an army list be produced?
Deputy Judge-Advocate—Decidedly, yes.
Prisoner—Would you have returned it to me if you had
not ordered it to be read before the Court?

Witness—l should have returned it to you. I should
have sent it to the president, and requested him to call
Captain Nicholas.
By the Court—When Lieut. Perry addressed a letter to
Col. Pipon, was ho not a prisoner, and Col. Pipon could
not therefore be his adviser ?

Witness—l know nothing but what I have read in the
papers. It was not on the trial that I officiated as deputy
j edge-advocate.
Prisoner—May I request that the letter be road again ?
Tile letter was then read.
Prisoner—What was the state of the different companies
of the regiment the day before the two companies marched
for embarkation to Portsmouth?
The Deputy Judge-Advocate—You can call Col. Garrett
and ask him.
Prisoner—The adjutant will b 3 quite as well for the

date.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Charles Somerville 31`Alester

examined on his former oath.
Prisoner- What day did the order come down for two
companies of the regiment to embark for Turkey? And
can you tell me the state of the regiment at that time ?
Witness—Will you allow me to go to the orderly room
to fetch the documents?
The President—There can be no objection to your doing

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so in order to refresh your memory.
After a pause the witnesssAiodrste Guards,heorder
Julyarrived
mo.n, the
14tti of July, it was dated ~
The President—That is no answer to the question ; the
prisoner wants to know the state of the regiment on the
13th or 14th of July.
ColonelPri
n
yI t mean
intimated
mon a
ttel
thatl3t t was a very proper ques-
tion to be put, and ought to receive a direct answer.
Tho President—You request to know the state of the
se
whole regiment on the 13th of July, and the state of the
two companies on the day of embarkation.
The adjutant retired, and the documents, wo understand
will be forthcoming to-morrow.
Prisoner—May I request that Lieut. Waldy's letter may
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be produced and opened, and read before the court
The Deputy-Judge-Advocate—lt is Lieut. W. T. •Walcly
yoTuhmeeJain ?
Judge-Advocate then road the proceedings cf the
ninth day of the sitting of the court,tand read the following'
letter

" Windsor, June 12.
" dear Perry,—lf you are really going to exchange, I
wish you would mention to :our servant, Lawler, that I
should wish to take him after you leave. These are very jolly
quarters—lots of women—and we have a drag for Ascot, and
are going in grand style. You owe me three pounds—that
is, I owe it to you. I hope you may live till you get it. I
have a good mind to exchange myself, being pretty well tired
of the South Devon.' The drill is worse than ever, begin-
ninr, at 7 a.m., and very often till G p.m. We are obliged to
ask leave to go to London; although there may be no parade
on that day it is all the same. How does Knapp bear his lieu-
tenancy ? I think he will be taken down a peg or two, but
you need not tell him so, popular fooling being very much
against him here. Coote has had several takings down already
—the other day Nicholas told him he was ' a damned son of a
bitch of an ensign.' This was at mess, ho having given Nicho-
las the lie direct.—Believe me, yours truly,
" W. T. WALDT."
Lieutenant Waldy was then called and examined upon
his former oath.
Prisoner—Will you look at the letter nowpurtiovrclutieteclin,:r_nd
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read the same. Is it, or is it not, in your
stated Witness—Yes, sir, it is my handwriting.
Plueli Wore.

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after having read the letter written by you to Lieutenant
Perry?
Witness—l don't sex the discrepancy in it. I should
like to explain it.
The prisoner requested that the former evidence of the
witness be read over.
The evidence was read over by the Jadge-Advocate.
IVitness—l don't ree the discrepancy now.
The President--There is the discrepancy. It is in your
own letter.
Witness—There is a discrepancy now that I see in it;
but / don't know wliat to add to it.
Cc..lonA hly-th—Does that :.cinack apply to the whole of
your evidence?
Witness—The long and short of the. matter is, that it
was.done wit'uout any forethought.
Ciptain .an was then called, and a letter was
read, siJled " Charles IllacgTegor" which will be give
at length in to-morroWe impression. It being now fourn o'clock. the court adjourned until to-morrow (this day) at
e .even o'ciccic. • .

TO TUE EDITOR OF TILE TIMES. .
court:, dial in the 4fith Iteginatnt gave great sa.tisfaction
SlR,—Tha leading articles whic'i you bestowed on the
to_all who have the well-being th 3 arm
lies, first, the culpable negligence of commanding at heart. You,
are perfectly right in asserting that at they root of the
evil
officers
in regard to the general habits of young officers ; and,
held out
next, the deplorable system of idleness v.-bich is dominant
in our service. Tho former of these defects must find its
remedy in the resuire of public opinion. For the latter
Herbert, ago as February LiFt,
sonle bone that a cure wouldb be found. What has occurred
' to prevent the application to its proper purposes of the
money voted by Parliament for the establishment of dis-
trict military schools?
One point, however, even you have failed to notice. I
believe that gambling is forbidden in the army by the
Articles of War ; I know that at every barrack-gate a
military police is stationed to prevent the entrance into
barracks of persons of bad character, and particularly of
strumpets. Whence does it happen that amongst the
charges brought against Lieutenant Greer there is none
which puts him on his trial for gambling and for bringing
a strumpet into his room ; and why were not Captain
O'Toole and Mr. Perry tried for conduct unbecoming gen-
tlemen, if not officers, in accepting Mr. Greer's invitation
to go to his room and drink wine there with his woman?
An officer's room ought to be kept as pure as his chamber
in his father's house if he is expected to exercise any
moral control over his men. At all events, if officers be
allowed to convert their portion of the barrack into houses
of ill-fame, it is positive injustice to punish the privates for
seeking to do the same with theirs.—Your obedient
servant, ONE WHO HAS SERVED.