The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-15 00:00:00

men.
Besides Mr. Dunbar's ship the Canterbury, the Go-
vernment have chartered for the transport of stores to
Malta the Orient of 1,050, the Sir John Pollock cf 640,
and the Georgiana of 780 tons. These vessels were
taken up before the notice for the seven or eight ships
which expired yesterday was issued, and are not in-
cluded in it. In answer to that notice so many tenders
have been sent in that the Government have not yet
decided which they will accept.
Captain Sheringham issued notices inviting the resi-
dent seafaring population of Southampton and its neigh-
bourhood to meet him at the Town-hall last evening for St.
the purpose of hearing an explanation of terms upon 10
which seamen will be admitted to enter for the Royal st.
Naval Coast Volunteers, the enrolment of which is to 25
take place at the Custom-house in this town during the
whole of the present week. 20
Yesterday all the outpensioners of Greenwich quar- 20
tered within the district of Portsmouth assembled in the 50
Carr Abridge Barracks to be surveyed by the medical staff, 20
an•A mustered by Captain Wilson, the staff officer of
pensioners. A large muster took place, and upwards 20
of 200 were found fit for duty, and added to the service- 10
able contingent. Those outpensioners not mustered on St.
Monday in the dockyard before Rear-Admiral Berkeley, 25
also those on the Chelsea list, employed in the dockyard, 25
have attended at the pension-office, and many have been St.
selected for service, while others have been sent again --
to their work in the dockyard. Palpable evidence of
progress with the ships fitting to join the Baltic fleet
ma.y be noticed daily.
Draughts of Coastguardmen keep coming in by land St.
and sea, and every resource of this vast port and arsenal St.
is put in requisition to provide for the exigencies of the 25
Eastern expedition. Besides the usual routine duty of
St.
baking biscuit, of wh,;ch they complete 18 " suits" a-day 2t6
(60 tons a-week), slaughtering bullocks and salting them St.
down, pemmican makiri- g, &c., they make 120 beds and 15
bedding a-day for ship t,ervice. Rear-Admiral Corry's
squadron is hourly look& for at $
pithead, and it is ex- 64
petted he will change his ,eailing flagship for a screw— 64'
a very necessary movement, as it is deemed here ; but
we have not heard any ship .named as likely to be put in 3
commission for such service— -indeed we do not know of
any screw line-of-battle ship not in commission being
sufficiently far advanced to effec t the exchange.
Captain Stace's company, ,7th battalion, left the •
arsenal station of the North Kant Railway at half-past 6;
6 o'clock a.m., yesterday, by special train, en route to ie
Dover to relieve Captain Swinton', •-4 company, 11th bat-
talion, under orders to return to hi lad-quarters, to pre-
pare for embarkation for foreign sere 'ice. Captain Swin-
ton's company arrived at Woolwich Arsenal station by
special train at half-past 4 o'clock of tl. le same day.
Captain Gilbert's F troop of the Ro. val Horse Artil
lery has been placed under orders to lea
at Woolwich this morning, and procet ye the garrison
id to Chatham, I
where the troop is to be stationed for som e time. This
arrangement has been found requisite in o. rder to obtain
room for a portion of the great number of horses ex-
pected from the country to make up the fii 31d batteries
to their required state of efficiency.
Colonel Tull* commanding officer of ti London
district of Chelsea pensioners, has issued a circular to all
the staff officers in the divisions of the Woostrict, calling upon them to assemble the pens: weiecehrsdiisn-
their respective divisions, and attend at Deptfoi. -el dock- ou
yard on Thursday, the 16th, for the purpose a f their
being inspected as to their fitness for service. Tai ose at St.
a distance will be conveyed by railway free of 'exp -ens& St.
-Um drilhsergeants .4-the—doekyard-brigedes._eui, t the: St.
and 16
pensioners employed as convict guards are exempt, St.
will remain at these duties. 20
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EXECUTION AT GUERNSEY.

On Monday, John Charles Tapner underwent the lasi,
sentence of the law for the murder of an old lady named
Saujon, the widow of a French merchant, in whose house
he had lodged. He had for some time held an appoint-
ment as clerk in the Ordnance Department of Fort George,
and is said to belong to a good family resident near Wool-
wich. Tha prisoner was sentenced to death on the 27th of
January, and still persisting in his previous declarations of
innocence, his friends and legal advisers thought it advis-
able to send a petition to the Queen, which as usual was
referred to the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment ; but Lord Palmerston, after reading the evidence
taken at the trial, as reported by the Queen's Procureur,
informed the island authorities that he saw no reason for
interfering with the sentence passed by the court. How-
ever, at the instance of the chaplain of the gaol, and other
gentlemen who took an interest in the culprit's spiritual
welfare' the court granted two further reprieves, accompa-
nied in the last instance with an intimation that the exe-
cution of the sentence would be deferred no longer. From
that time the prisoner evidently abandoned all hope of
mercy, and applied himself zealously to his religious duties,
in which he was assisted by the gaol chaplain, the Rev.
Mr. Bouverie. the Rev. Mr. Pearce, and other clergymen,
and at the last of these interviews he made a full confession
of his guilt, although he seemed at first anxious that it
should not be published to the world. Hvwever, the in-
utility of this having been pointed out to him, the unhappy
man consented to place at the disposal of the Rev. Mr.
Bouverie and Mr. Pearce an authenticated declaration.
On the second day previous to his execution, the culprit's
wife and three children were admitted to the condemned
as may be supposed, was painful in
Tapner appeared quite resigned.
cells.
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The execution took place at eight o'clock in the morning,
a scaffold erected in a field adjacent to the prison. It
was attended by the Queen's procureur, the greffier, tho 1.0
sheriff, deputy-sheriffs, a, party of the bordiers, and the 25
executioners and his assistants. Tapner betrayed compa- 10
ratively little agitation, but he struggled considerably 1.0.1
when the drop fell. The body has been interred in the
St.
burial-ground adjacent to the prison.
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CALtEDONIAN SOCIETY.—We are glad to learn that the
ball of the Caledonian Society, at the Hanover-square
Rooms, on Thursday, is likely to be numerously at-
tended. The balls of this society are so well managed
(including an excellent supper, with •elenty of well se-
lected wines), that it is not surprising the attendance
should be large ; but on this oreasion, when the profits
are to form an additional
7.ceans of usefulness to our
breat national charity, %fa trust the gathering will be
oth numerous and));alliant,

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