The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

COURT OF INQUIRY.—With regard to the Court of
Inquiry, consisting of three general officers, upon a
charge against Major-General the Hon. H. F. C.
Cavendish, the followinc, official letter conveys the
opinion of the Commander-in-Chief upon the result of
the investigation :

" Horse Guards, April 22.
" Sir,—l have received the commands of General Vis-
count Hardinge to forward to you the annexed copy of the
opinion of the Court of Inquiry given on the two points
submitted for their investigation, in which they distinctly
declare that you were not the writer of certain letters ad-
dressed in the years 1847 and 1848 to the late Commander-
in-Chief the Duke of Wellington ; and, secondly, that you
were not cognisant of such letters having been written or
sent to. his Grace.

" Viscount Hardinge has much satisfaction in conveying
to you the deliberate opinion of three general officers of
long-tried experience, of the most scrupulous honour, and
of high professional reputation, who have exonerated you
from the imputation of being in any way concerned in
writing or sending anonymous letters to the late Duke of
Wellington.
" Viscount Hardinge deems it to be due to you to state,
that as soon as you heard of these imputations, so seriously
affecting your character as an officer and a gentleman, you
immediately appealed to his Lordship, earnestly requiring
that the opportunity should be afforded to you of vindi-
cating your character by an investigation before the most
public and highest military tribunal.
" You were informed that insuperable difficulties pre-
vented a trial by court-martial, and when a Court of In-
quiry was suggested you assented to the proposal.
.` The arrangement was also readily acquiesced in by
Colonel Hall, both the parties agreeing to the terms laid
down by the General Commanding-in. Chief, that the
opinion and finding of the Court were to be considered
final, as far as any future military investigation was con-
cerned.

" The General Commanding-in-Chief desires me to ad-
vert to this point, as an injunction laid down before the
inquiry was commenced, and by which you and Colonel
Hall will both be guided.
" You are at liberty to make use of this letter.
" I am further commanded by Viscount Hardinge to
express to you his sincere gratification at the result of the
inquiry, by which a general officer of the army has cleared
his character from very injurious imputations, the whole
of which circumstances it will be his Lordship's duty
humbly to report to her Majesty on the earliest occasion.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" RICHARD AIREY,
Colonel and Military Secretary.
" Major-General the Hon. H. C. Cavendish."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 9.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Margaret, from Harlingen ;
Menai, Calais ; Helene, Emmershall ; Maria, Nykiobing ;
City of Paris, Boulogne ' • Druid, Amsterdam ; Ravens-
bourne, Antwerp ; Mary Ann, Whitstable ; Kitty, Rot-
terdam ; Derwent, Hobart Town ; Rendsburg Company
No. 2, Mellhert ; Lion, Harlingen ; Ceres, Rotterdam ;
Moselle, do. ; Joshua and EFnil, Stettin ; Little Pet,
Hamburgh ; Orion, Thisted ; Emperor, Rotterdam ; Maria,
Rudkjobing ; Louise Charlotte, Dantzic ; Daniel Simone,
Lokken ; Twende Brodre, Malmo ; Sophie Catherine,
Prestoe ; Friendschaft, Memel ; Algorta, Hamburgh ;
Louise, Stralsund ; Annegiena Jantina, Nykiobing ; Ca-
tharina Sophie, Sudwesthorn • Catherine, Skive ; Emanuel,
' Landscrona ; itus, do. • Why-not, Malta ; Farbourg,
Farbourg ; Wilhelm, Stralsund ; Cornelia, Worcum ;
Ceres, Flensburg ; Islander, Barbadoes ; Johanna Hen-
dri'ka, Amsterdam ; Josephine, Landscrona ; Clipper,
Marsala ; Famalia, Skive ; Agincourt, Calcutta and Cape ;
Little Edward, Aarhaus ; Anna Lena, Amsterdam ;
Adagea, Stralsund ; Aden, Engelholm ; Wopkea, Skive ;
Aurora, Thisted ; Amalia, Gothenburg ; Ysabel Segundo,
Guibeldona ; Hotspur, Calcutta ; Wilhelmina, Thisted ;
Ebenezer, Lubeck ; Phcenix, Sannesund ; ederknuft,
Nykiobing ' • Carl Johann, Landscrona ; Flora, Moss ;
Wenteren, Saunesund ; Hermanos, Sarpsborg.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—ThS Melpomene,
for Melbourne ; Castor, St. Petersburgh ; Hotspur, Cal-
cutta ; Rapid, Elsinore and Riga ' • Rosaria, Bilboa ; Ealing
Grove, Dominica ; Islander, Barbadoes ; Little Pet, Mel-
bourne ; Flor, Demerara ; Velocefera, Genoa ; Ysabel,
Santander, &c.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Margaretha,
for Harburgh ; Guildford, Zanzibar ; Mersey, Rio Janeiro ;
Affghan, Calcutta ; Wandringsmanden, Christiana ; Cuba,
Algoa Bay ; Magdalena, Adelaide ; Industry, Antwerp ;
Mercia, Port Philip.

HALIFAX, April 28.—The James Freeman, from Shields
to New York, coal laden, was spoken, April 15, with loss
of sails, spars, &c., making much water, and with part of
cargo thrown overboard. The barque Seaflower, 1,000
tons, from Cardiff to New York, was abandoned in a sink-
ing condition, April 4; crew saved, and landed here.
BOSTON April 27.—The British ship Queenstown, from

Honduras to Queenstown, went ashore about April 1, on
the Zwangley, 100 miles northward of Belize, and became
a total wreck ; two of the crew lost.
The New York, for New York, broke her shear, parted
her chain, and was on shore at the Victoria Tower on
Saturday afternoon, but has since got off, without damage,
and proceeded on her voyage.
The Manilla, Liverpool to Valparaiso, was spoken,
March 18, lat. 5 S., long. 23 W.
The Chorister, Cardiff to Buenos Ayres, was spoken,
March 19, lat. 3 S., long. 23 W.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Nicholas Cezard, Canton to Havre, March 9, lat. 32
S., long. 14. E.

the 'British Empire, Shields to Bombay, Fob. 13, lat.
24, long. 63 E.

The John Missey, Hull to Melbourne, March 29, on the
line, lat. 24 N.

The Lady Prudhoe, Coquimbo to Swansea, Aprill3, lat.
35 N., long. 42 W.
_ _

The Queenstown, from Demerara, steering, N.E., April
23, lat. 42 N. long. 23 W.
The Jessie, to Melbourne, March 16, lat. 2 S.,
long. 18 W.

The James Armstrong, London to Hong Song, March
18, lat. 2 S., long. 18 W.
The Julietta (barque), Demerara to London, April 18,
[at. 38, long. 39 W.
The Tremont (brig), of and from Liverpool, April 22,
[at. 38 N., long. 12 W.

The Barque, No. 7,619, 2d dist. pend., London to Ade
laide, S.A., Feb. 26, lat. 23 S., long. 33 W.
The Bride, standing south, March 12, lat. 1 S., long
30 W.

The Mary, of Bristol, standing west, April 30, lat. 49
N., long. 9 W.
The James Board, from Calcutta, Feb. 16, lat. 30 E.,
long. 11.
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fhe Tapio, Hartlepool to Ceylon, March 13, lat. 0.23 S
Lon. 20 W. _ _ _

The Isabella, from London, 17th, lat. 2 N., long. 20 W.
The Scotia, Bombay to London, lat. 18 N., long. 37 W.
The Mirzapore, Calcutta to London, March 16, lat. 2 S.;
Long. 21 W.

The Harvest Home, Mauritius to London, 19th, lat 0 N.,
long. 22 W.
The Queenstown, from Demerara, steering N.E., April
23, lat 42 N. Jong. 38 W.
The Elizabeth Antoinette, Java to Amsterdam, 30th,
lat. 48 N., long. 9 W.

THE CZAR AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.—A letter
from St Petersburg of April2s, mentioned in the Patrie,
of Paris, says :—" There is much talk in the best in-
formed circles of a secret mission of a Russian envoy,
sent to China overland, and , who it is said, has already
arrived at Kiatha, a town belonging jointly to the two
Governments. It is confidently reported that the object
of the mission is to offer to the Sovereign of the Celestial
Empire the aid of Russia for the purpose of quelling the
insurrection in his dominions."

FURTHER EXTENSIVE EXCAVATIONS AT FOUNTAINS
ABBEY.—The Right Hon. the Earl de Grey, anxious to
carry out as speedily as possible the extensive excava-
tions now in progress at Fountains Abbey, has during
the past winter and up to the first of this month, em-
ployed a great number of workmen on the unexplored
ground east of the Chapter-house and between that
building and the south wall of the choir. The space
south and east of the Lady-chapel, too, has been cleared
for a considerable distance. The discoveries that
have been made are highly important and curious.
The passage leading from the abbot's house to the south
door of the Lady-chapel is now cleared to its original
level. On its east side has been a large doorway
leading into an open court. On its west side is
the base of a handsome building of the "perpendicular"
period, having a doorway from the said passage, and one
leading into the court on the south side of the choir.
In one corner is a circular staircase, lined with bricks,
once leading to the main apartment above—for this base
storey, which is a few feet below the regular level, was
merely the undercroft of the principal apartment above.
A few feet from the south wall of the choir are the re-
mains of a wall which may have been intended to strengthen
the said choir wall by springing flying buttresses from it.
From the south-east corner buttress of the Lady-chapel
to the north-west corner of the abbot's hall has run a
wall dividing a spacious court south of the Lady-chapel
from the open cemetery which has been on the east side.
The most interesting part of the discovery are eight coffin
slabs, of different ages and designs, all laid in various
positions in this cemetery within 26 feet of the east
walls of the Lady chapel. They are sculptured with
crosses of different shapes—some incised, and some in
relief. One has on it a large sword and a shield charged
with " a bend." Another has the initial letter W
placed on one side of its cross. There is only one ridged
gravestone, and another slab has been so broken up as
to obliterate any sculptured or incised design, if it ever
bore any. Further east part of another sepulchral slab
was turned up, with the shaft of a cross on it ; and near
it an unfinished gable-cross. Mr. Harrison, bookseller,
of Ripon, has taken tracings and rubbings of the coffin
slabs, which it is his intention to have engraved,
for the new edition of Mr. Walbran's Guide. The
antiquary, and the lover of local and general
history, will ever feel grateful to the Right Hon. the
Earl de Grey for the spirit and care with which he has
caused this praiseworthy excavation to be conducted at
his great Abbey of Fountains. His lordship, in fact, has
set an example which it is to be hoped will be followed
by other possessors of our monastic remains, yet buried
in their rubbish. Mr. Walbran says in a recently pub-
lished paper that the excavations which have taken place
at his lordship's Abbey at Sawley, in Craven, is one of
the most perfect works of the kind ever accomplished in
England. Sawley Abbey was a great rubbish heap.
The whole of the plan has now been retrieved ; and the
resting places of two of England's middle-age worthies
discovered ; along with a mass of other curiosities of the
highest interest to history and art.

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