The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-09 00:00:00

THE GOLDEN FLEECE.

The utmost exertions are now making at Southampton
to get ready the screw transport Golden Fleece for sea.
The Golden Fleece will take out a regiment of the line.
Twenty waggon loads of stores for the army and navy
are now at Southampton, waiting to be shipped. There
are also 200 tons of artillery stores for Circassia.
Amongst the stores are 3,000 blankets and hammocks,
besides clothes, pillows, several thousand pairs of shoes,
and 10,000 yards of duck and drill ; nearly 500 casks of
rice and barley.

the Banshee steam-vessel, for Varna, to assist at the
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Buffs, vacant by the death of General Sir Henry King,
will be conferred on Lieut.-General the Hon. H. L.
Butler, father of the gallant defender of Silistria.
THE 46TH FOOT.-A number of the refractory pri-
vates belonging to this corps were lodged in Rochester
gaol yesterday. The guard which conveyed them thither
returned to Windsor yesterday.
Messrs. Dunbar's troop-ship, the Poictier, Capt. R.
Izod Downes, is engaged for the conveyance of troops to
the seat of war in the East, from London, Cork, Gibral-
tar, and Malta. This favourite ship has just returned
front Australia. The passengers presented a piece of
plate to her commander as a memento of their esteem
and regard for his unwearied attention to his nautical
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duties, and kindness to the passengers.
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command
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Lieut.-Colonel T. Shadworth, has arrived at Cork bar-
racks to await transport for conveyance to join the ser-
vice companies at Corfu. In consequence of the crowded
state of Cork barracks, a detachment of the 63d has
taken up quarters .in Elizabeth Fort.

ARRIVALS, AT MALTA'
Our correspondent from *Malta, writing .on the 2d
A msaoysseimportant intelligence received yesterday
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by the French steamer Sins; from the Levant, consists in
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line, towed by as many
embarkedt is reckoned at 40,000, but
transports,
be the Crimea or Odessa does not
French and four English vessels alone remain at
totall
vs t hee,mtsl ineeeuvrr steamers,
hbeeirr° besidesd
seem to be accurately known.
flag of Sir Edmund Lyons ;
al Brown is mentioned as being on board the
Within the last few days several transportslo have
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robert on board the Napoleon. and Gen. Can-
turned from the East, on their voyage
and Rubicon, No. 38. These have left for
the Alangerton, No. 17 ; Medora bark, Nuao.elvsa.rdrCipvoirze"
No. 8; Colgrain, No. 12 ; Edmundsbury, No. 22-; St.'
which
a return
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freight, having yesterday left with 74 troops (invalids and
prisoners), 14 sailors, 117 women, and 165 children. They
were under command of Lieutenant and Adjutant Pope,
of the Buffs, who proceeds to the depot, of which he will
obtain the paymastership, resigning the adjutantcy.
"The Avon steam-ship arrived last night with the fol-
lowing officers and meu of the 63d and 46th, viz.:—Lieut.-
1 Colonel Swyny ; Majors the Hon. R. A. G. Dalzell and P.
Lyndesay • Captains Harries, Harrison, Fairtlough, Car-
ter, Gould, Barclay, and Bamford ; Lieutenants Curtois,
Carey, Johns, Newenham, Cockburn, Paterson, Magnay,
I Bowles, and Fitzgerald ; Ensigns Fraser, Twysden,
' Wybergh, Cluttdrbuck, and Morgan; Paymaster Thorp;
Adjutant Bennett; Quartermaster Ingram; Surgeon R.
Lewins, M.D. ; Assistant-Surgeons Mills, Flower, and
Adell ; 977 rank and file and eight horses of the 63eFoot.
Captains O'Toole and Hardy ; Lieutenants Shervington
and Knapp ; Ensigns Helyar and Townshond ; 221 rank
and file and ono horse 46th Foot.
"Owing to the appearance of cholera on the island, some
of the troops are to be encamped on the hornwork without
the city gates, with a view of preserving the barracks in a
less crowded state.
`_`A French steamer, just arrived from the East, au.

TENTH DAY.—TIIESDAY.
The court re-assembled shortly after ten o'clock this
morning, being an hour- earlier than heretofore; in order,
if possible, to finish the case for the prosecution to-day.
Amens; thosei present in the room were Colonel Cecil Fores-
ter, Sir John Cathcart, Major Ward, Colonel Crawford,
of the Grenadier Guards ; the military knights, and other
officers of various regiments ; the Mayor of Windsor, and
other civilians.
Lieutenant Alfred Henry, Waldey was the first witness
called.
BIT the Court--How long have you been in the 46th
Regiment ?
Witness—Since the 14th December, 1849.
By the Court—Have you ever received ill-treatment at
the hands of Captain Nicholas ?
Witness—s Never.
By the Court—ls it within your knowledge that Captain
Nicholas aids and abets other officers in annoying young
officers, or has aided and abetted others in so doing?
Witness—l never saw Captain Nicholas ill-treat young
officers after joining, nor have I heard that he did so.
By the Court—What is the character of Captain Nicholas
as regards his treatment to young officers on joining the
regiment ?
Witness—l have always seen him treat them with great
kindness.
Cross-examined by Prisoner—Did you ever hear Captain
Nicholas use opprobrious language towards any officer in
the regiment ?
Witness—Never.
Prisoner—Do you recollect the night when the officers
of the 21st dined with us at the Linen-hall Barracks,
Dublin ?
Witness—l do.
Prisoner--Do you not recollect my coming that night in
my uniform towards the mess-room to report to Colonel
Garrett the indignity to which I had been subjected?
Witness—l did not see you.
Prisoner—Are you not aware of my having done so ?
Witness—l never heard that prisoner had done so, ex-
cept that I recollect seeing somewhere—l forget where—a
statement from the prisoner that he had done so ; but I
think I saw it in the newspaper.
Prisoner—Do you recollect having come to my room on
that night, and asking me not to report to the General of
the district, and who was in the room with you by the
side of my bed?
Witness—l was not in the prisoner's room that night,
and consequently I could hive heard nothing about the
reporting to the General of the district.
Prisoner—Did you not come into my room any night
and ask me to report Curtis that same night ?
Witness—Never.
Prisoner—Will you positively deny that you ever came
to my room to ask me not to report anybody ?
Witness—l have not the slightest recollection of ever
having done so.
By the Court—When was it the dinner referred to
took place ?
Wituess—l cannot recollect the day; but as far as I can
recollect it it must have been in the month of July, 1853.
By the Court—Were you present when Colonel Garrett
reprimanded an officer for annoying Lieut. Perry ?
Witness —To the best of my knowledge I was not. '
By the Court—Do you know of any indignities receivid
by the prisoner in consequence of his having reported to
Colonel Garrett ?
Witness—l do not. i 4
By thd Court—Was Lieutenant Perry's society avowed,
and why ?
Witness—Lieutenant Perry's society was avoided fn
consequence of his disgusting, forward manner.
By the Court—Did Lieutenant Curtis come round to
your room on reoeiring—elinni—dtunationa to answer from
Colonel Garrett, and what did he say to you ? • '
Witness—l do not recollect Lieutenant Curtis coming
to my room; but•my brother told me afterwards that he
had come when I had left ?
Lieutenant John Augustus Fane, sworn, who stated in
answer to the four first questions of a similar nature put
to the former witness, that he never had received ill-
treatment from Captain Nicholas ; that he had no know-
ledge of his ever having annoyed young officers, or aided
and abetted in so doing ,• that, on the contrary, he had
always treated them with the greatest kindness; that he
had the character of treating young officers with the
greatest kindness, and tried all he could to tell them What '
to do on first joining the service.
Cross-examined by Prisoner—Have you read and dis-
cussed the reports in the Times of the evidence given on all
points on which you have been examined?
Witness—l have.
Prisoner—Did you never hear Captain Nicholas use
opprobrious language to any officer ?
Witness—Not to my knowledge.
Prisoner—Do you recollect the affair in Forde's room ;
if so, what occurred, and who were present ?
Witness—l do not.
By the Court--Did you at any time hear Col. Garrett
reprimand the prisoner, and call hima fool for his pains ?
Witness—Never.
By the Court—Are you aware of any indignity suf-
fered by prisoner in consequence of reporting to Colonel
Garrett ?
Witness—None, except that some of the officers were
not so friendly with him as they were before.
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Court—Name
rt— believe
Name Captainthe
By the Court—Did Captain Nicholas over censure any
officer for annoying the prisoner ? '
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for annoying the prisoner.
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Witness—l believe he was
so, state the reasons why ?
Witness—His society
was avoided by some of the officers
from his general overbearing
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manner.
Lieut. Greer, who has been i f
his room 28 days awaiting the
promulgation of his sen-
tence, and was looking the worse promulgation
To the four first questions
the next witness examined. for his confinement, was
w under confinementg to
Put by the prosecutor to this
witness, which wore precisely similar to those put to the
preceding witness, Lieut. Greer gave similar replies.
Cross-examined by Prisoner—Did you ever say to an
officer who is now gone to Turkey that I had been a badly-
treated and ill-used man ever since I had been in the re-
giment ?
Witness—l have no recollection of it.
Prisoner—Did you not say so to Lieut. Sherrington the
night before the two companies left to go to Turkey ;. and
did you not say so to Lieut. SherrisnA 2, who came into
your room to wish you good bye ; zioare
you not aware
that ex-
pressions of your good feeling towards roe?
Witness—l can only say, as I said before, I do not re-
collec after
Sherrington quitted my
room I heard him go up stairs, but Whether he went into
thaving leavings said
yourd so. room
After he came to mine, with
prisoner's room or not I cannot say.
Prisoner—Will you now positively undertake to say you
did not say so?
recollection
Witness—As far as my goes, I say again I
did not say so.
tial
Prisoner—Since this court-mar . has been sitting have
of the proceedings in the d • you read the reports
subjectand
and have you discussed the nature of the a d
evi-
dence with any and what of ' who Were they, rand
what has been said to you om time to time by those
officers ?
Witness—l have seen the daily papers, and I have dis-
cussed the evidence with one or two officers of the regi-
ment. Mr. Coots is ono of those officers. I really cannot
state the different remarks Mr. _Coots made.
Prisoner—How many officers have been with you, and
what are their names?
Witness —Six or seven, I should say.
I decline to men-
tion their names.
Prisoner—May I beg the court to press
for those names?
The Court deliberated, and made no order, the president
remarking, " It will be all in yofavour, Mr. Perry?'
Prisoner—lt will be impossible d
for me to clear myself if
they are suffered to shield themselves in this manner.
The two last questions and answers were again read by
ocate at the request of theprisoner.
the Deputy-Judge-Adv
Uoots'
Prisoner—Why did you mention name, when
there were six others?
Witness—l had more conversation with Mr. Coots than
I had with any other. '
Prisoner—As the witness declines answ •
ering my ques-
tions I will put no more to him.
By the Court —When Lieut. Sherrington left your room,
had you authorised him to deliver any message to the pri-
soner from you ?
Witness—l did not, to my recollection. I do not recol-
lect having authorised him to deliver an ymmage to the
prisoner.
By the Court—Did you hear Colonel Garrett at any time
reproach prisoner for reporting, and call him a fool for his
pains?
Witness—No.
By the Court—Do you know of any indignity suffered
by the prisoner in consequence of such report ?
Witness—l do not.
By the Court—Are
you aware that Captain Nicholas
reprimanded au officer for annoying others ?
Witness—l have heard of it, but was not present.
By tho Court —Were you present when Colonel Garrett
reprimanded an officer for annoying prisoner, and how
many subalterns were present on that occasion?
Witness—As far as I can recollect I was on detachment
at the time it occurred.
By the Court—Are you aware whether the prisoner,

either by word or by letter, threatened Colonel Garrett to
appeal to the general of the district ?
Witness—l am not aware of it.
Prisoner—May I be permitted to call Colonel Garrett to
ask him only two questions?
The President thought he had better exhaust his ques-
tions first ; he had only to call two more witnesses, Adj a-
taut M'Alister and Lieutenant Heathcoate.
Adjutant M'Alister recalled and re-examined.
Prosecutor put the four usual first questions, in answer
to which
Witness said he had never received ill-treatment from
Captain Nicholas; on the contrary, they had been good
friends ever since he first joined ; that he did not ill-treat
young officers, but was good natured and affable to them.
Cross-examined by the Prisoner—How many times did
Colonel Garrett tell me in your presence to sell out before
the first court-martial?
Witness—You know very well that your selling out or
not was purely optional, and you never were told to sell
out.
Prisoner—Was I ever asked or advised by Colonel Gar-
rett to sell out, and how many times ?
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Witness—You were advised to sell out by Colonel Gar-
rett through me several times.
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Guards, who said that I had no chance, and that I had
that
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7aotil the presenceH or Horse
Witness—l appeal to the president and the court. I
do not feel myself at liberty to state what Colonel Garrett
said to me when acting as his adjutant; but I may add that
I do not know the name of the person alluded to in the
question.
Prisoner—l do not press the question if he declines to
answer it, although it was not confidential. It was said
in my presence.
By the Court—Under what circumstances was the pri-
soner advised to sell out ?
Witness—After an assault committed by him on Lieu-
tenant Greer. Lieutenant Greer was also advised to pur-
sue the same course.
By the Court—Can you state that Captain Nicholas ever
reprimanded an officer for annoying others?
Witness—No, I cannot, as Captain, Nicholas would
naturally _seek a private opportunity of doing so.
Lieutenant Resketh recalled and vs-examined.
In answer to the four usual questions, he said he had
been in the regiment six years, and that Captain Nicholas's
treatment to young officers was kind and good.
The Coart adjourned ten minutes.
On its re-opening, Captain Campbell was sworn, and the
Prosecutor asked—How long have you known Captain
Nicholas ?
Witness—Upwards of nine years.
Cross-examined by Prisoner—Will you state for what
length of time you have been in the regiment during the
last two years?
Witness—l should say nearly fifteen months, about nine
months being passed on leave.
Prisoner—Have you known or heard of any practical
jokes in which Captain Nicholas has been engaged ?
Witness—A practical joke is a wide term. fhave never
known him engaged in a practical joke calculated to annoy
any person.
By the Court—Are you aware that Lieut. Perry's so-
ciety has been shunned by his brother officers, and why ?
Witness—My own reasons for shunning him are as fol-
lows : his impertinent familiarity towards me ; his gene-
rally depraved habits, a disgusting gesture he made use of
towards a friend of mine, and the general difficulty I had
during the short time he was under my command of keep-
ing him within the bounds of discipline.
By the Court—Have you been much with the prisoner
on military duty?
Witness—l have never been on any special military
duty with him ; he was under my command about a month
on detachment.
By the Court—Can you specify any cases of breach of
military discipline?
Witness—l had on one or two occasions to speak to the
prisoner relative to his remissness, and on a third occasion
he wrote to me for an extension of leave, and took the ex-
tension without being aware of the answer. For this I
publicly remanded him before all the officers of the detach-
ment. I stopped all future leave, and threatened him
with an arrest.
By the Court—What are the specific depraved habits to
which you allude?
Witness—My opinion was formed from hearsay—what
had been told me by my brother officers. The specific
habits were his keeping the society of prostitutes.
By the Court—Did Lieut. Perry ever treat military dis-
cipline with contempt while at Manchester?
Witness—Yes. The disgusting gesture I alluded to was
an instance.
By the Court—Can you state what happened when the
disgusting gesture was made ?
Witness—l was sitting in my room at Manchester when
the acting adjutant came to my room in a state of great
excitement, and said he had never been so insulted in his
life. I asked him what was the matter. Ho said he had
an occasion to hand an official memorandum to Ensign
Perry, who 'had made a gesture of wiping his posteriors
with it, and then handed it back to him.
Prisoner here asked permission to have the whole of the
papers relative to the transaction laid before the court.
Witness continued—He asked me what was to be done.
I told him to go straight to Major Fyffe and report it.
By the Court—Did you at any time hear Colonel Gar-
rett reprimand the prisoner, and call him fool for his
pains?
Witness—Never.
By the Court—Are you aware that the prisoner threat-
ened to report to the commanding officer in consequence of
the treatment he received ?
Witness—l never heard of such a circumstance until I
read the newspaper report of Lieut. Greer's trial.
Prisoner auras-examined this -witnees_through the court.
By the 'Court—Have you never been in the society of
prostitutes, and are not most of the officers addicted to the
society of prostitutes ?
Prisoner (addressing the Court)—l am sorry to intro-
duce such matter, and have studiously avoided throwing
discredit on any of my brother officers, but I shall be
obliged to do so now in my own defence, in consequence of
irrelevant matter having been allowed to be introduced.
Witness—l have been in the society of prostitutes my-
self, but most of the officers are not addicted to the society
of prostitutes.
The prisoner again requested the paper to be read before
the court.
The Court—Yes; certainly.
The court was then cleared, and remained in delibera-
tion about an hour. When the public were again admitted,
The Deputy Judge-Advocate said that on referring to a
clause in the Mutiny Act, they found that no witness was
bound to give evidence to criminate himself or others ; but
if such evidence is found necessary to support the charge it
must be given. The court had given prisoner every indul-
gence, and, after alluding to the evil results of recrimina-
tion, said that the court had finally decided that these
questions could not be put.
Prisoner—l place my character in the hands of my com-
manding officer.
Prisoner wished the papers to be produced and an exami-
nation made of them.
The Court—At present there is nothing .put before the
court on which an application can be granted.
Prisoner to Witness—What was the result of this dis-
gusting affair ?
Witness—The case was reported to Major Fyffe, letters
were written by Lieut. Sherrington to Ensign Perry, and
finally Lieut. Sherrington consented to treat it as a jest,
and not as a breach of discipline.
By the Court—Where are the letters alluded to ?
Witness—l believe in the custody of the present adjutant.
Prosecutor—l shall have no further evidence to bring
before the court.
The Court then adjourned until to-morrow (this day).

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 22.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John
Bell, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul, to be her Majesty's
Csnsul-General in Algeria.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 1.

The Queen has been graciously pleased appoint Arthur
Edward Kennedy, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-
in-Chief in and over the Colony of Sierra Leone and its
dependencies, to be also her Majesty's Consul-General in
the Sherbro country on the west coast of Africa.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 7.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
Duncan Thompson as Consul at Cape Town for his Ma-
jesty the King of Portugal.
OSBORNE, AUG. 3.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert has been pleased to
appoint the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Canon of Can-
terbury, to be Chaplain in Ordinary to his Royal Highness,
vice the Rev. Dr. Richards, deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 7.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copies of de-
spatches from her Majesty's Consuls at the places noted be-
low, relative to the quarantine measures that have been
adopted in the south of Europe in consequence of the out-
break of cholera : _ _

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MARSEILLES.
On vessels from this port; entering the ports of Nice aind
Genoa, a five days' quarantine is imposed • at Leghorn
'
and Civita Vecchia, six days; at Naples, 10 days at the
Lazaret of Nisida • and in the ports of Spain, 10 days at
the Lazaret of Malion.

LEGHORN.
The quarantine already imposed by the Board of Health
of this port, on vessels arriving From France and Corsica,
has been increased to a nine days' observation ; as also a
similar quarantine of observation on vessels arriving there
from Genoa and Naples.

from
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ROME.
The Board of Health at Civita Vecchia have subjected
all arrivals from Malta to a quarantine of six days,
as also those from Marseilles, which is extended also to
arrivals from the upper Italian ports, unless it can be
proved that no communication whatever has been had
with Marseilles.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 7.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
from the Scot-
tish Suspected.
spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Brussels, reporting
that the temporary prohibition to the exportation of corn
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from Belgium was to cease on the 31st ult. ; but that the
export of potatoes was still prohibited.
BOARD OF TRADE, WIETEIDIALL,tOAG•CaB.t
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have ieceived,
in Turkey, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
reporting pao r despatchting that
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WAR-OFFICE, AUG. 8.
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tain in the Army while so employed. Commissionof Cap-
date Ist Aug., 1851. to bear
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, AUG. 7.
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• Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second
Lieutenant
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