The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-26 00:00:00

EVENING-, APRIL': 26; r 854.

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The officers and men of the Royal Dockyard at Ports-
mouth and of the Victualling-yard at Gosport received
orders on Monday by Admiralty circular, enjoining
them to observe tl is day in all respects as Sunday.
Considering that the staff of the !atter establishment have
spent Sundays lately in victualling and despatching trans-
ports to the seat of war, and that the staff of the former
are to embark troops to-day, the boon of a holyday in-
tended to be conveyed by their lordships will be rather
shorn of its usual value. They are now loading the
Tyne storeship (a 26-gun frigate), to convey a vary
large stock of victualling supplies to Sir Charles Napier's
fleet.
The Resistance, storeship is taking in a large quan-
tity of stores for the fleet. To enable her to stow more
than usual (she is R 42-gun frigate), she is discharging
her tanks at the Clarence-yard.
The Penelope, 18, paddle-wheel frigate, Capt. Caffin,
went to Spithead yesterday. She takes out a great
quantity of slops and stores for the fleet in the Baltic,
but will not sail until the arrival of the Portland, 50-
gun frigate, from the Pacific, now hourly expected, as
she sailed from Rio on the 10th ult.
The Brisk, 14, screw-sloop, Commander F. B. P.
Seymour, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from
the West India station, from which she has been de-
tached to serve in the Baltic. She left Halifax on the
30th ult., where the Vestal, 26, Captaiti Thompson,
temporary flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Fanshawe, was
daily expected from Bermuda. Mr. Callaway, clerk of
the Brisk, has been promoted to be paymaster of the
Daring, vice Evans. Lieutenant Jenkins, late of the
Cumberland, took his passage home in the Brisk, which
has lost three men and boys friim fever on the station.
She will refit for the Baltic,.and went into Portsmouth
harbour yesterday afternoon for that purpose.
The Medea, 6, paddlewheel sloop, Commander Min-
more, returned to Spithead yesterday, after-a cruise to
the northern parts in search of volunteer seamen, of
whom she is reported to have picked up 200. She went
into Portsmouth harbour to refit with all despatch for
foreign service.
The Scourge, 6, paddle steam sloop, Capt. Adams,
has got her lower and topmast rigging up, by the aid of
the Portsmouth dockyard riggers, and is making some
progress towards completion.
The Spbynx and Geyser, 6-gun paddle steam-sloops,
at Portsmouth, are nearly complete in the master ship-
wright's department, and will shortly be removed to the
steam-factory department, to be completed for commis-
sion.

Yesterday considerable excitement was created among
the apprentices to free lightermen and watermen, it hav-
ing been announced that it is the intention of the Water-
man's Company immediately to provide a portion of the
quota (50U men) that the company is compelled by its
charter to supply for service in the Royal navy. This
relic of the feudal system was strictly observed during
the last war and the required number is completed as
follows :—Lists of the apprentices of three, four, five,
and six years' standing are filed, and the number is
balloted for, first from the junior classes, and sliould the
list of apprentices be expended before a sufficiency has
been obtained, the free watermen then take their turn
on the ballot, or provide substitutes.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Megmra arrived at Ply-
mouth on Saturday from Ireland, with about 20 seamen
volunteers for the fleet.

The Indus, 80, is to have her copper taken off and her
bottom caulked and re-coppered.
The following appointments have been made :
Admiral Sir William Parker is appointed Commander-
in-Chief at Devonport, vice Admiral Sir John Ommanney,
K.C.8., whose three years' period of service expired on
the 17th inst.

Paymaster Charles Richards (a) (1846), to be secretary
to Admiral Sir William Parker.
Naval Instructor E. M. Johnstone (1854), to the
Edinburgh, 60, screw steam flag-ship of Rear-Admiral
Henry Chads.

Clerks.—Luke Masterson (1846), serving in the Dee,
paddle-wheel steam troop-ship, on the Cape Of 'Good
Hope station ; Joseph Whittall (1846), serving as
clerk to the secretary on board the Waterloo, 120, flag-
ship of Vice-Admiral the
,llon. Joceline Percy, C. 8., at
Sheerness ; Frederick Lucas (1846), serving as clerk in
charge of the Myrmidon, iron paddle-wheel steam-ves-
sel, on the West Coast of Africa station ; Frederick G.
Bulgin (1846), serving as clerk in charge of the Dol-
phin, brigantine, on the West Coast of Africa station ;
William L. Wright (1846) serving as clerk of the
Simoom, 18, iron screw steam troop-ship ; George A.
Eversfield (1846), serving as clerk in charge of th;Rifle-
man, screw steam gun-vessel, on the south-east coast
of America station ; Henry J. Kelly (1846), serving as
clerk in the Grecian, 12, sloop, on the East India sta-
tion ; Alexander C. Yule (1846), serving as acting pay-
master to the Salamander, steam-sloop on the East India
station ; William F. Iluyghue (1846), serving as clerk
of the Impregnable flag-ship. at Devonport ; Charles
Saunders (1846), serving as clerk in charge of the Por-
cupine paddlewheel steam-vessel in the North Sea ; and
James E. Terry (1846), serving as clerk in charge of the
Resistance troop-ship, have been promoted to be pay-
masters,

The Admiralty have had in consideration a plan by
which their lordships will render available for service at
sea the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of
the Woolwich division required to do
,duty at Deptford
and Woolwich dockyards. The plan, it is understood,
will be carried into effect by increasing the strength of
the police force, which has for a considerable time past
been employed in these establishments.
Her Majesty's screw troop-ship Simoom, refitting at
Portsmouth, is ordered to embark the 79th Highlanders
for Turkey as soon as she is ready-to receive them.

The EVeline, hired transport, embarked the head-
quarters of the 17th Lancer% under Colonel Lawrenson,
at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday morning, and sailed
in the evening for Gallipoli. She tikes also a quantity
of stores for the troops.
We learn by electric telegraph from Plymouth that
the Shooting Star, with a troop of the Bth Hussars on
board, was (9 p.m.) last night at anchor in the Sound.
The fittings of the horse transport-ship Medora have
been completed at the Devonport dockyard preparatory
to the embarkation of the fourth troop of the Bth Hussars,
which arrived yesterday morning from Exeter.
Captain Bevis, R.N., of Liverpool, has received orders
to survey the Conrad, Haidee, Deva, Theodore, William
Jackson, and Palmyra, as regular transport vessels.
Arrangements have been made for the embarkation on
Tuesday (yesterday) of the 14th Regiment, at Queens-
town, on board the Bombay transport for conveyance
to the East. At 7 o'clock a.m. on Monday 100 men of
the 14th Regiment sailed in the Royal Alice for Queens.
town to embark on board the transport Bombay, now
lying there. At one o'clock 100 men, with 44 women,
embarked in the Prince Arthur for the same destination.
The service companies of the 17th Regiment arrived
in Cork from Templeniore on Saturday, to await the
arrival of a transport for conveyance to the East. This
regiment will be replaced at Templemore by the 47th
depot from Birr.

During the past month recruiting has been carried on
in Belfast and neighbourhood with almost unexampled
briskness. A local journal remarks—" Some time ago
we had no less than 13 different recruiting parties sta-
tioned here ; at present we have only five. The other par-
ties, having completed, we understand, the num"ler of re-
cruits whom they were sent to Belfast to obtain, have
been withdrawn, and the remaining parties are making
a good harvest of it, as the field is extensive, and the
number of young fellows offering to enlist increasing,
instead of diminishing. On an average there are from
80 to 70 recruits picked up in this town per week. One
soldier, belonging to the 27th Regiment, on the recruit-
ing service, enlisted no fewer than 10 men on Wednes-
day last. On Friday, at the police-office, Mr. Kennedy,
attesting-clerk, swore in 15 lads, and on Saturday he
swore in 12, two of whom were for the Sappers and
Miners. Of those 12, two were surveyors—very smart
young fellows—from the county of Donegal, two were
flax-dressers, one a cabinetmaker, one a bleacher, and
the others of no trades or calling, and all belonging to
the county of Antrim."
The head-quarters (about 360) of the 38th Foot, under
Colonel Sir John Campbell, marched into Portsmouth
garrison yesterday afternooon, having arrived from
Chatham by special train, on the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, and crossed over by the float-
ing bridge to quarters at Haslar Barracks, Gosport.
They recross this day embarkation from Portsmouth

dockyard, in. her Majesty's steam troop-ship Megxra,
for Turkey.

The companies of the 38th Regiment stationed at
Woolwich for some time past marched from the garrison
at ten o'clock yesterday, accompanied by the band of
the Royal Artillery and the band of the Woolwich divi-
sion of Royal Marines all the way through Charlton and
over Blackheath to the railway station. The companies
left the New Cross station for Portsmouth in the highest
spirits, and are to embark fur the East at that port.
Major the Hon. St. George Foley has been appointed
aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Rose, her Majesty's
Commissioner with the head-quarters of the French army
serving in Turkey.
A fourth troop of the Bth Hussars, under Capt. Long-
more, left the Topsham-road Barracks, Exeter, on Mon-
day last, for the port of embarcation. The men assem-
bled in heavy marching order shortly before 11 o'clock,
and, having been inspected, proceeded along Ennoway-
a hill and South-street, headed by the band of the 3d Dra-
goons playing " St. Patrick's Day in the Morning," and
other airs. Crowds of people cheered them on their waf.
t The soldiers were in excellent spirits, and many of them
waved branches of evergreen and colours. They halted
for the night at Ashburton, and reached Plymouth yes-
terday. The head-quarters of the Bth will leave Exeter
to-morrow for Plymouth, where transports are now
waiting to convey them to Turkey.

the Earl of Sandwich (Colonel), are to assemble on
Wednesday, the 3d of May, for 23 days' training.
Ti.e Sherwood Rangers (cavalry), under the command
of the Duke of Newcastle, are to assemble on the 4th
of May for their annual training tct Kelhatn, the seat of
Captain M. Sutton, and to march to Newark, where
they are to be drilled. The band have been presented
with new saxhorns by Lord Robert Clinton. They will
be reviewed on the 11th proximo.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-April

COURT OF COMMON
(Sittingi in :F..'anco.`)
EAKEWELL V. INGRAM.

This was an action for libel brought by the plaintiff,
who is secretary to a water-works company, against the
defendant, who is the publisher of the Ladies' Newspaper.
The defendant pleaded the general issue, and at the trial
before Mr. Justice Crowder on Saturday last, the jury
returned a verdict for the defendant.

Mr. Sergeant Wilkins (Mr. Houston Browne with
him) now moved for a new trial on the ground that the
verdict was against the evidence. The libel was con-
tamed in article headed "Woman and her Master," and
after referring to a case of alleged brutal treatment of a
woman by her husband, it proceeded thus :
" The other case has probably more than once come
under the notice of our readers. It is that of Mrs.
Hakewell, who having been restored to the protection
of her husband by a decree of the ecclesiastical court
found her miseries so aggravated by the restitution of
her conjugal rights that she was compelled to resort
to a police court for the little help which our glorious
English constitution gives to the English wife and
mother. Now neither Mr. Fitzroy's bill, nor the
proposed reforms in the law of divorce, will meet the
hitter exigence of either of these cases. Woman and
her master will remain precisely in the same relation
in which they stood to one another before—a relation
of love, of protection, and reverence, where honour
and manliness hold the sway, but more degraded,
servile, abased, and oppressive, where the brute in-
tervenes, than the condition even of the negro." If
that were not a libel, the learned sergeant said, he
did not know what a libel was ; but the jury had been
so wrought upon by his learned friend Mr. Chambers,
Q.C. (probably he saw some of his constituents in the
box, and that made him more than usually eloquent)
that although the learned judge told them if the article
assumed a state of facts which, if proved, would throw
great discredit on the plaintiff, it would be a libel for
which he would be entitled to damages, they nevertheless
returned a verdict for the defendant. His,learned friend
ju
ry
disposed so eloquent and so poetical, he thought the
disposed not only to give him the verdict, but three
cheers afterwards ; whereas he himself had been so con-
fident that the mere reading of the article would establish
his case, that he had said very little to them. Amongst
other things he told them that if they should find the
article to be a libel they would deprive the public of the
advantages of newspaper reading, and they would be
thrown back upon philosophy and ancient history.
(Laughter.) He also said so much to them about the
style of the article—
The Lord Chief Justice--That probably they did not
understand, and so found for the defendant. You may
take a rule, brother.
Rule nisi granted.
The Court will not sit to-day, but will proceed with
the special paper on Thursday, and with the new trial
paper on Friday.

ARCHES COURT.
(Before Sir John Dcdson.)
ROBERTS V. ROBERTS.

A report of the facts of this divorce suit appeared in
our journal a short time since. The learned judge
gave his decision this morning.
The Court said the present suit was brought by the
husband, the Rev. Edmund Roberts, of Paul's Cray,
against his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Roberts, by reason
of adultery. In support of Mr. Roberts's case that gen-
tleman had brought in a libel, which pleaded the mar-
riage of the parties, their subsequent cohabitation, and
that the issue of the marriage still living was six children.
It also pleaded that Mr. Roberts received and educated
pupils at Paul's Cray, and shortly after the Easter vaca-
tion of 1352 he engaged Mr. James Mowat, a youth about
twenty years of age, as an assistant ; that soon after Mr.
Mowat's arrival Mrs. Roberts began to evince consider-
aide affection for him, and he had been seen kissing and
embracing her ; that they occasionally walked out to-
gether ; and that indecent familiarities had passed be-
tween them. The libel further alleged that while Mrs.
Roberts was staying at Brighton a clandestine corres-
pondence was car• ied on between her and James Mowat,
in the absence of Mr. Roberts in Ireland, and that they
afterwards met in London and went to Bath together, and
lodged in the same house, and after their return to Paul's
Cray they were observed on one occasion coining out of
the bedroom of one of the pupils. It pleaded that, upon
some of these facts coming to the husband's knowledge,
Mowat was dismissed, and a quarrel took place between
Mr. Roberts and his wife, upon which she left him,
saying she should go to her mother's, at Brighton, but
subsequently returned, when the husband, having dis-
covered a letter which had been written by his wife to
Mowat, the parties finally separated on the 27th Sep-
tember, 1852. The libel charged adultery on several
of the occasions before referred to. In answer to this
charge the wife had brought in an allegation denying
that any indecent familiarity had taken place, and
that adultery had been committed. It pleaded that
when James Mowat first went to Paul's Cray he was
in a delicate state of health, and that she conse-
quently occasionally offered him a glass of wine, and
that he had offended his family, who were Wesleyans,
by joining the Church of England, and he sometimes
advised with Mrs. Roberts upon the subject ; that in
June, 1552, being unwell she was recommended by her
medical men to take the air, and, in consequence, began
occasionally, with her husband's sanction, to walk out
with the pupils, and that, when fatigued, she might have
taken Mowat's arm, but never did so clandestinely. It
denied that the tutor and herself were ever in the library
at Paul's Cray, with the doors locked, and pleaded that
all the circumstances connected with Mowat's visit to
her in London were known to her husband, and that
she having hired some servants who would not suit, de-
termined to go to Bath, where she had obtained ser-
vants on former occasions ; but, before mentioning her
intention, Mowat, having heard that his parents were
prevented from joining him in London, resolved to return
to Bath, and to escort Mrs. Roberts thither. It further
alleged that she was enciente at the time, and while in such
state occasionally became deranged, which rendered her
irresponsible for what she said or did. Since the ad-
mission of this allegation, Mr. Roberts had brought in
a responsive allegation, which pleaded that a medical
man had prohibited Mrs. Roberts walking, but had re-
commended her to ride out in the open air, and denied
that she was in a state of derangement when enceinte.
The court, after examining the charges contained in the
libel, and the evidence to support them, considered there
were proximate acts which justified it in concluding that
if there was an opportunity afforded the offence would
be committed. There certainly- was opportunity while
in University-street, in London, and also afterwards at
Bath ; and, looking at all the circumstances attending
the case, he (the learned judge) was clearly of opinion
that the offence had been committed by the parties in
question, and therefore that it was his duty to decree a
sentence of divorce.
The Proctor for Mrs. Roberts appealed.