The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-27 00:00:00

THE WAR.

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sailed like a witch, beating everything they came across,
either on cir off the wind. She cause into harbour at 9 a.m.;
at 3 p.m. she was stripped to the stumps, and her sails and
riggirrtj returned into store. She will instantly be brought
forward for commission.
.3ealarki 8, Lieut. Commander Fenwick, returned into
`.-Seahatn on Wednesday afternoon'from her Channel cruise.
She will now turn her ship's company over to the Rolla, 6,
and be attached to the Illustrious as tender.
The Rhadamanthus, 4, paddlewheel steam-transport,
Master-Coin. John Belam, was detained at Sheerness un-
til yesterday, in consequence of the Melampus, Master
Com. John Jackson, having to take in a quantity of stores
for Portsmouth-yard, required for immediate service. The
Rhadamanthus left Sheerness at 1.30 p.m. yes, erday. with
the Melampus in tow, for Portsmouth, Devonport, Pens-
broke, and Glasgow; it blew a strong wind (in force 5,)
when they left, from east north-east.
Athol], 4, store-ship, Lieut. Commander William A. R.
Pearse, from the west coast of Africa, arrived and anchored
off Cowes on Tuesday night, awl was towed into harbour
this evening by Echo, steam-tug. She is 46 diys from As-
cension; officers and crew well. She brings home Penelope's
guns and dockyard stores; her news has been anticipated.
The following are the names of officers who tea passage
in her:-Captain M'Arthur, R.M., and Mr. Bowman,
Paymaster, R.N., of the Antelope on promotion; Mr.
J. B. Anderson, mate,- of her Majesty's ship Crane ; Mr.
White, clerk, of Ascension-yard • Mr. Robinson, mate, of
her Majesty's steamer Pluto; Mr. Achiudachy, engineer,
of her Majesty's steamer Plumper; and 27 invalids, sea-
men and marines.
Her Majesty's steamer Archer hai captured the Wil-
mina, Vorman master, off Pillau She has been sent home
in charge of a prize crew. The Archer left Memel on tho
21st inst., to. cruise in search of vessels breaking the I
blockade.

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French sliips-of-war, ,the Beaumanoir and Psyche, have
joined the rendezvous at Hamerfest. '
Two new vesselaof war, each of 20 guns, are being built
at Chatham; They Are to be named the Cadmus and
Charybdis. Two vessels, each pierced for 16 guns, to be
called the Camelia and Mntine, and two of eight guns, to
be named the Lyra. and Icarus, are to be built at Deptford.
A vessel to be called the Scout, to carry 20 guns, is being
built at Woolwich, and another of 20 guns, the Scylla, at
Sheerness.
Three troop-ships for service in the Baltic, to be named
the 'Urgent, Perseverance, and Transit; built for Govern-
ment, are now ready for launching in the port of London.
Advises were received yesterday, under date Gibraltar,
July the 10th, thatthe French transport Pericles, GUichon
master, fr,,m Bordeaux, with provisions and 2,000,000 f•
for the French commissariat at, Constantinople, had been
in collision off Malaga with a steamer, and was sunk with
the treasure
The steam-yacht'Vesta, Lord Newborough, on a cruise,
arrived in Plymouth Souud on Tuesday. At noon on Mon-
day, when coming round the Land's-end, wind E.S.E., a
foreign brigantine bore up to windward, until sufficiently
near to make out the yacht, when she suddenly put about
before the wind, and was soon out of sight. She was a
new vessel, with span new sails, rather deeply laden, and
had a very large deckhouse. There was no appearance of
arms. On Saturday, at 3 p.m., a brig-of-war, supposed to
be the Nautilus, was observed off the Lizard.
The Royal George, yacht, was towed up to her moorings
on Wednesday morning by Echo, having undergone neces-
sary repairs to her bull and copper.
The Dartmouth, 42, was on Wednesday navigated to the
river Thames, to lie near the Dreadnought for the reception
of cholera cases.
The American corvette Preble, Commander' Cravens,
sailed from Spithead this afternoon for Cherbourg, then to
Brest, after which she proceeds to Madeira, and returns to
America in October next.
The Owen Glendower, Indiaman, sailed this morning for
Bombay ; wind, E.N.E.

THE NEW GUN BOATS.
The Lynx, screw-steam despatch gun-boat, Lieutenant-
commander John P. Luce, having tried her engines at half-
past seven o'clock on Tuesday evening, and finding they
worked very satisfactorily at her moorings, it was decided
that she should be tried down the river on Wednesday, to
test their permanent working capabilities. Lieutenant-
conitmander Luce, having hoisted his pendant on board, was
present during the trial, and she left her moorings at John
Penn and Sons' establishment, at the east end of Deptford
dockyard, at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock, navigated under
the direction of Mr. Mugford, master of the Fisgard, flag-
ship At Woolwich, with 20 men of the crew of the Tar-
tarus steam-vessel, and Mr. Barnes, one of the Government
pilots from Woolwich. Mr. Berkeley, son of Rear-Admiral
Berkeley, Mr. F. P Smith, who has done so much for the
introduction of the screw propeller in the navy, and Mr.
Hartree, of the firm of John Penn and Son, the construc-
tors of her engines, were also on board to witness the way
in which they would work, considering that they had been
fitted in so short a time after being launched, without the
least port,on of machinery on board. The Lynx was only
launched from Messrr...J. C. Mare and Co.'s establishment
at Blaokwall on Saturday last, and within 76i hours after
la Wed brought over to John raw and Ws olitabli&lp

Horse Guards, 21st July, 1854.
CIRCULAR lIEMORANDUM.
A large part of the army being employed in Turkey,
where it has been found beneficial to keep the upper lip
unshaven and allow the moustache to grow, the General
Commanding-in-Chief is pleased to authorise that practise
in the army generally, subject to the followinv, regulations,
which are to bo strictly obeyed on home and colonial ser-
vice :
A eldar space of two inches must be left between the
corner of the mouth and the whisker—when whiskers are
growu. Tho chin, the under lip, and at least two incites:
of the upper part of the throat must be clean shaven, so
that no hair can be seen above the stock in that place.
The wearing of the moustache is to be optional with all
ranks.

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that servico.
By command, GEORGE CATHCART, A.G.
Recruiting parties are actively engaged in the north of
Ireland for the three regiments of Guards. A large num-
ber or men have joined.
The regiments of Royal Rifle Brigade, and GOth Rifles,
and Royal Marines, are being considerably augmented.
46TH REGIMENT.— The 46th Regiment, now doing duty
at Windsor Castle, is under orders to move for the East
one day next week. The Staffordshire militia from Dover
will afterwards do duty At Windsor for a month only,
when they will be relieved by the glorious 18th Royal
Irish, from' Canterbury; which regiment will remain at
Windsor for the winter It is expected the result of the
courts-martial on Lient. Perry and Lient. Greer, of the
46th Regiment, will be promulgated to-morrow.

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THE G3D nEGIAIENT.—e fog is a of offi-
cers of the regiment who
embarked on boardlist thethe Avon,
bound fur Varna ;—Lieutenant-Colonel Exham Schomberg
Turner Swyny ; Majors Hon. Robert Alexander George
Dilzell and Patrick Lindesey ; Captains Thomas Hurries,
Gustavus Nicolls Harrison, Charles Edward Fairtlough,
William Frederick Carter, John Stilman Gould, Henry
Ferguson Barclay, and Bamford; Lieutenants. G. C. W.
Curtuis, Charles Le Mesurier Carey, Thomas Johns, Wm.
H. Newenhetn, John Gekin Cockburn, F. T. Logan Peter-
son,Hunt Bowles, Fretleriek Lattim Fitzgerald ;
Christopher James Magnay, 'Vincent Mackesay, Vere
Adrian William FrElser, fleneage Thornas'Twysden, Archi-
bald Wyberg, James Hilton Clutterbuck,. Thomas Kyd
Morgan ; Paymaster John Tbfor,
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tant .Robert Bennett, Quartermaster Henry Ingram,
Surgeon Robert Lewins, Assistant-Surgeons Mills and
Flo a er.
. Ensigns
Major C. C. Young's field battery, of the Royal Artil-
lery, is placed under orders to frosted to the Baltic with
the siege guns, and will be the first detachment of Royal
,Artillery for that destination.
Captain J. N. A. Freese's No. 7
• PoMpany, 12th battalion,
has been placed under orders for immediate 'embarkation
for service in the East, and the greatest exertions are now
being made to have the whole of the six field-batteries now
under orders emharked in the course of the present week.
Nos.ni
No 4, 5, . 3 co 6, mand 7, will have is to be attached to the siege guns, and
for service in Turkey. "'Pounder field-batteries,

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DEATH OF GENERAL SIR HENRY KING.--We have to
: record the death of another gallant and distinguished
officer of the Peninsular army, General Sir Henry King,
colonel of the 3d Regiment. Sir R
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of war, and, with only three or four exceptions, were
finally approved and marched to the depots of their re-
and the militia, for service in the several corps
spective regiments preparatory to embarking for the East.
DESERTERS FROM THE MILITIA.—In consequence of the
order for embodying several regiments of militia for per-
manent service, the desertion of fellows who prefer an in-
active life, and who only enlisted for the sake of the bount
numerous, that in addition to
money, have become so
authorities have considered it necessary to forward their
names and descriptions to the parochial officers of the
parishes in which they resided at the time of their enlist-
ment, and also to those of any parishes in which it Was
known they had subsequently resided, with a view ,to
their speedy apprehension, and lists of the defaulte rs are
now to be posted up at the church doors of the
district
which they last resided. in
-VOLUNTEERS FOR • THE NAVY.—Yesterday a largo number of able and ordinary seamen morningandstoks
were forwarded from her Majesty's ship Crocodile to the
flag-ship at Sheerness, for service in the Baltic
fleet. The
services of the stokers are principally required for the
steam-boat flotilla, some vessels of which have been
recently Commissioned. Commander Greet, of the Croco-
dile, and the officers and potty officers under his com-
mand, have been for the last ten days particularly fortu-
nate in obtaining volunteers for particular ships; hot men
for general service are not easily to be got, the blue
jackets considering it only right that they should have th
choice of the vessel in which they are to do duty.
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Owing to the unparalleled smallness of Dublin garrison
by reason of the withdrawal of so many regiments for ser-
vice in the East, the military guards have been reduced in
number to the minimum•potht. At the Castle, Bank of
Ireland, and other stations not half the former complement
of men is called upon to do duty, but even with this
marked reduction the life of a soldier in the metropolis is
not an idle one, and, unless some relief is afforded by the
more general aid of the constabulary, or by the employ.
meat of the militia, a still further dirnimitiolit inukt be
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(Front the Mies.)
Had the Court-martial upon Lieutenant Greer been an
isolated proceeding, it would have been unnecessary for us
to say one word upon the subject. The military prisoner
might have been left to his military judges, who are per-
fectly competent to decide the question of whether or not
the offences with which he stands charged are in harmony
with the character of "an officer and a g,•ntleman." Even
now, as far as he is concerned, we should be perfectly wil-
ling to let the matter pass sub silentio, were it not that the
evidence taken in the last case supplies many of the .defi-
ciencies too obvious in the minutes of the former investi-
gation. We care very little indeed what his judges and
the Horse Guards may think it right to do with Lieut.
Greer—we have no wish to bring out the strong points of
the case against him, save in so far as they are inseparable
from the conclusions in favour of his antagonist. In a word,
we aro not striving for the condemnation of Lieutenant
Greer, but for the acquittal of Lieutenant Perry. Whether
it is right that the former of these two officers should con-
tinue to hold the Queen's commission after the evidence
that has appeared against him is no concern of ours ; but
the case of Lieutenant Perry stands on very different
grounds. Here is a young man arraigned before a military
tribunal for doing that which any man with one spark of
manly feeling left in his composition would have done
upon more slender provocation. He was subjected to a
long course of bullying ; he was abused ; he was bespat-
tered with the most foul and obscene epithets ; he was
made the object of personal violence by a man far his
superior in physical strength ; and at length indignation
got the better of his indecision or his forbearance,
he seized a candlestick from the table which stood
near, and knocked down his assailant. Who among
us would have done less? Who would not have
done Much more? Lord Hardinge is at the head
of the army—a man of untarnished honour, a soldier of
courage, bright and polished as his sword ; what would he
have done, even now that age has in some measure checked
the impetuous soldier of Albuhera, had he been selected
by a vulgar bully as the object of insult so intolerable?
The thing might have happened to him in a railway car-
riage—in the public street what could he or would he
have done in the last resort simply what Lieutenant
'Perry did the other day ? It is clear enough that this un-
lucky lad had better have kept out of bad company ; that is,
had nothing to do with his brother officer ; but then he is
but a lad just out of his teens, and that must be his excuse
for associating in his private hours with those whom he
met on parade and in the mess-room. There is no evidence
that the lad was an habitual gambler. Before this trans-
action he had played once or twice for the most trifling
sums of money, and can never be said, in the course of his
short military career, to have "gambled" at all until the
night when he was fairly rallied and bullied into so doing
by the very man who is now seeking his destruction.
It cannot fail to strike the most .careless observer that
Lieut. Greer's defence does not shake one single fact ad-
vanced by Lieat. Perry in explanation. We should blush
to write in excuse of his conduct. The greater part of the
defence consists of a wordy attempt to convince the Court
that Lieut. Perry was a witness in his own cause, and
therefore that his evidence was not to be trusted. We
should lie curious to know in what predicament Lieut.
Greer considers himself to stand ? What is there that
should induce us to give to his words the credit which he
wishes us to deny to those of his opponent? But we do
give credit to the statements of Lieut. Perry; not only be-
cause they have been confirmed, where necessary, by the
statements of most unwilling witnesses, but because Lieut.
Greer has been unable to set them aside in any single im-
portant particular relative to the matter in hand. We
should bo well content to rest the justice of Lieut. Perry's
acquittal upon Lieut. Perry's statement of his case. But,
when we look a little further into the second of the two de-
fences, we confess we are not a little surprised to find the
bully bringing the charge of " vindictiveness" against his
victim. Is the first investigation a matter so remote
from memory, that we have forgotten how Greer left it to
the Court to suppose that Perry had attacked him more '
than once, at intervals, and when he was in a state of half-
insensibility ? We trust, for the honour of human nature,
that the suggestion came from some older head than his
own, and that ho was too great a dolttocalculate the effect
it might produce. It is also not forgotten that in a trial
such as this, in which officers and gentlemen sit to decide
upon the conduct of officers and gentlemen, Greer over and
over again refused to answer the questions which Perry
thought it necessary to put to him. Who, with a feeling
of honour and a consciousness of rectitude, would take ad-
vantage of a parcel of quibbles and technical rules in a case
of that kind? Lieutenant Greer was not arguing a case
in court, with a Jew attorney on ono side of him,
and a special pleader on the other, but he was ac-
casing his brother officer before a roomfull of gentlemen of
ruffianism and disgraceful conduct. In such a case how is
it that the words " I refuse to answer that question" were
so frequently heard from Lieutenant Greer's lips? There
was no conceivable question he should have refused to an-
swer. Above all, it must be remembered that hero was
this poor lad Perry fighting his battle with every man's
hand against him; the Colonel of his regiment the accuser;
and interposing at every moment with any suggestion which
might damnify his case; the Deputy-Judge-Advocate
pulling him up whenever there was an opportunity, and
professing to be a friend of both sides, while he was in
reality pressing against one; every man against him, and
yet he had the wit and courage to defend himself—we
should sa to justify himself, in a manner which will not
apes ' orgotten.
-' 'The' matter cannot, we presume, rest with the termina-
tion of the inquiry into the conduct of these two young
officers. The public will not readily be brought to believe
that Colonel Garrett, the commanding officer, is not most
deeply to blame for the condition in which his regiment is
found to be.

(Front the _Examiner.)
Why was not Lieutenant Greer put upon his trial, in-
stead of Lieutenant Perry ? is the question of every one
who has read the proceedings of the Windsor Court-
Martial.
Lieutenant Greer was the assailant ; and the blpws he
received were given by Lieutenant Perry, to free his person
from his persecutor's hands. A long series of provocation
was ended by a sudden and rough act of chastisement.
But the prosecutor, Colonel Garrett, was obviouslyanxious
to keep out of view the facts preceding the violence ' and
this was quite natural on his part, for they are acts dis-
graceful to the discipline and charactetof his regiment,
and they raise a very grave question against the officer in
command, under whom such conduct could be suffered.
The President of the Court, who had not the same obvious
motive for suppressing the disgraceful truths, yet presented
every technical difficulty to the disclosure of the pr.voca-
tions, atttempting to confine the evidence to the einem-
stances immediately connected with the assault. This
would in effect have been to exclude Liqutenant t'erry's
defence altogether, for his justification Was provocation,
and the provocation was a series of outrages.
Mr Greer seems to have seized upon Mr. Perry, who was
what is called, by way of opprobrium, a quiet man, as his
property. He was to play with him at the game of his
choice and upon his own terms, and he was to play till he
lost, or ho was to be called the foulest and filthiest names
and hauled about. First, the game was billiards. And
here the character of the man appears ; for, entering the
billiard room, he desires the gentlemen iu possession of
the table to finish their game quickly, as, forsooth, he
wi-hes to play. He plays several games with Mr. Perry,
wins a trifle, and proposes double or quits, at which he
loses. The next proceeding is to bring a woman into the
barracks and Mr. Perry is challenged to toss up—for what?
To treat Mr. Greer's woman to a bottle of wine ! Greer
was now 51. in Mr. Perry's debt; so "go and get a pack
of cards and give me my revenge" is the word, the system
beipg to go on playing till the luck should turn in Mr.
Greer's favour. Cards could not be got, but Mr. Greer
was not unprovided: Mr. Greer, an officer in her Ma-
jesty's service, .had a snug little roulette table, a thing
liabo to seizure on a race-course, or in a hell • and he im-
portuned Mr. Perry into playing at the unlawful game,
and with such success that at one time they were nearly
quits, when he complimented Perry on losing back his
money in these terms, that " he was the best fellow in the
world, and acted like a gentleman ;"—that is to say, he
lost. But the luck turned again, and then Greer became
abusive. Perry left the room ; Greer followed him, and.
dragged him back by main force. The play was resumed,
and Greer repeated his former conduct. Again Perry
escaped and went to his room, again he was seized; and
Perry having had recourse to the expedient of Joseph,
Greer seized him by the waistcoat, and treated him, as
Perry phrases it, " in a most outrageous manner."
After some period of indulgence in this way, Greer or-
dered Perry to go through the sword exercise, but changed
his mind, and instead, insisted on Perry's betting 501. that
he would cut a candle in two, which he did,sand 1001. that
he would cut another in two, which he also did. Now this
was not being a good fellow and acting like a gentleman,
which was to lose ; so Greer commenced an attack upon
Perry, dashing him about, and calling him opprobrious
names. Perry, not being his assailant's equal in strength,
then took up the first thing that came to hand, and applied
it vigorously to Mr. Greer's head, and presently put him
hors de combat.

Greer's sense of Perry's character now appeared ; for,
finding himself severely hurt, he actually sent Perryou the
errand for a surgeon. By this highly significant circum-
stance, he confessed that in his then opinion (when smart-
ing under the blows) Perry was not actuated by any
malignity towards him, and that having done what was
necessary to self-defence, he knew he would do no more,
except in the way of charity and succour.
In this recapitulation we rely in part on Mr. Perry's
defence which is simple and feeling, and bears every mark
of truth ; and we trust to it, because it is corroborated in
several important points by the evidence of Greer himself,
and also that of the woman, who was a witness of most of
the scenes of profligacy and outrage.
It cannot be denied that Perry made rather too unmea-
sured use of the candlesticks. But in all such cases pro-
vocation carries interest ; and the much-enduring man,
who strikes at last, strikes twice or thrice for the one blow
which would have served in prompter season. Lieutenant
Perry ought to have resisted the first personal indignity,
and if, being the weaker, he had had recourse to his sword
to protect himself against the bully, he would have been
thoroughly justified. But he evidently did not know where
to draw the line, where to commence self-assertion, for he
had been, it seems, the butt of the regiment because he was
poor and frugal. He states that he was often roused up in
the night by his brother officers and made to go through
the sword exercise naked. He should have made his
sword protect him from such indignity, as he had in vain
appealed to his superior officers. We do not mean that he
should have had recourse to duelling, but that he should
have defended himself against outrage, as every good sub-
ject is free to do, by all means in his power. Even the
model of forbearance, Sir Charles Grandison, has recourse
to force upon a suitable occasion.
Upon the close of Lieutenant Perry's defence the prose-
cutor, Colonel Garrett, observed that there were statements
in it which he could contradict, but that he would not
occupy the time of the court with the disproof,thasistphreey.
were general, and not relevant to the issue. And
judicial remark passed without the reprehension or notice
of the court !
Colonel Garrett ought to have been told that he had no
right to impugn the truth of Lieutenant Perry without
instancing the statements disputed, and
producing his own
counter-statements, so that the court might judge between
them. To assert that a part of the defence is false, is to
intimate that the whole may be false--for a man capable
of falsehood ill ow PUtioulltrs Mut bo opoble of it is _

The balance sheet was taken as read. On the debit
side of the revenue account were the following items :
Salaries and wages, 21,9141. Bs. 4d. ; station expenses,
2,0701. 11s. 10d. ;.rents, taxes, gas, and insurance,
3,446/. Os. 2d. ; books, stationery, and printing, 2,5441.
Os. 3d. ; postage, 1451. ss. Bd. ; charges for intelligence
and sunries, 1,3771. 14s. 6d. ; law charges, 6101. ss.
3d. ; direction, audit, and district committees, 7201. ;
superintendents, stores, and maintenance, 9,3941.
4s. 7d. ; interest on debenture debt, 1,9481. 3s. 10d. ;
balance, 17,044/. 17s. 4d.; total, 61,2151. lls. Dd.
The receipts for messages, subscriptions, interest, and
maintenance during the half-year amounted to 61A15/.
11s. 9d. Under the head "general balance' was the
following :—Dividend on 12,000 shares, class A, and
11,900 shares, class B, at 7 per cent. per annum, to be
proposed at the general meeting, 16,7301 ; balance,
after payment of dividend, 4,0721.: total, 20,802/.
The balance, after payment of the dividend on the
31st Dec., 1853, was 3,7571. 2s. Bd., which, with the
balance of revenue amount on the 30th June, 1854,
made the total 20,8021.
Theermiumerr, in moving the adoption of the accounts,
said the directors had done everything in their power to
render the working of the lines as efficient as possible.
They now experienced all the competition which they
were likely to meet with, and there had been no diminu-
tion in the receipts. A company had been formed which
promised to carry messages to any part of the country
for a charge of sixpence for twenty words, but the fact
that it was defunct proved that there was a limit to com-
petition. (Hear, hear.) Since the last meeting the
wires had been constructed on 13 different railways, and
there were now in progress 3,869 miles of new wire.
['he motion was adopted unanimously.
On the motion of the Chairman, the following resolu-
tion was agreed to :—That the profits accumulated and ,
placed to the reserve fund be divided rateably, and paid ,
to the registered shareholders by the distribution amongst
them of 4,000 new 25/. shares, upon each of which 151.
shall be credited as paid up and charged upon such pro-
fits ; and the sum of 51. (making together 201. per share
paid up) shall be payable on the 12th day of August
next, on the delivery of such share.

A dividend was declared for the half-year at the rate
of 7 per cent. per annum, and a resolution was passed,
assigning to the directors an allowance of 2,300/. per
annum. •
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The meeting then separated.