The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-12 00:00:00

CLAIM OF THE BARD OF DONOUGHMORE.

Mr. MESSITER appeared as counsel in support of this
claim, and having offered evidence in proof of the pedi-
gree, and the death of the previous earl,
The CHAIRMAN baying consulted, the noble and
learned Lords announced that the claim WAS admitted.
Claim admitted accordingly.
THE EARL OP ALDBOROUGH'S CLADS.

Mr. ALEXANDER appeared in support of this claim.
The necessary proofs having been given,
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the claim was admitted.
The claim was accordingly admitted.
LORD DIINSANY'S CLAIM.

Mr. CALVERT appeared as counsel in support of this
claim, and having produced the necessary proofs,
The CHAIRMAN said that this claim was also made
out.

The claim was accordingly admitted.
LORD CLONCURRY'S CLAIM.
Mr. HODOSON represented the claimant in this case.
The ordinary proofs having been adduced,
The CHAIRMAN announced that the claim was ad-
mitted.

Claim admitted accordingly.
VISCOUNT MIDDLETON'S CLAIM.

Mr. FLEMING was counsel in support of this claim,
and tendered the usual evidence and proofs.
The CHAIRMAN said that this claim was also admitted.

The claim was accordingly admitted.
THE RARL or SHREWSBURY'S CLAIM AS THE EARL OF

WATERFORD.

Mr. FLEMING, in support of this claim, said that the
petitioner sought to exercise the right to vote for repre-
sentative peers for Ireland as the Earl of Waterford.
The learned counsel then proceeded to put in the cus-
tomary proofs, and having brought his evidence to a
conclusion,

The CHAIRMAN announced that the claim was ad-
mitted.

VISCOUNT DONERAILB'S CLAIM.

Mr. R. CAPEL CURE appeared in support of this claim
The usual evidence having been adduced,
The CHAIRMAN announced that the claim waB ad-
mitted.
The claim was accordingly admitted.
VISCOUNT MOUNTGARRETT'S CLAIM.

Mr. I. BUTT and Mr. WORDSWORTH appeared for the
claimant in this case.
Mr. BUTT was about to state the circumstances under
which the claim was made, when
A solicitor said that be had only recently received
what he might perhaps term parliamentary instructions
to apply to the committee on behalf of Mr. Pierce
Somerset Butler for a postponement of the proceedings
under this claim, in order that an ejectment, which
would come on at the approaching assizes, should have
been determined, Mr. Butler having presented a petition
to that house claiming his right to the peerage as next
in descent.

The LORD-CHANCELLOR.--When was this petition
presented ? _ _ _

Mr. BUTT said he would explain to his lordship and
the committee how the matter stood. Some seven or
eight years since, shortly after the death of the late
Earl of Kilkenny, Mr. Pierce Butler presented a petition
to their lordships' house, claiming the title and estates.
But from that time to the present Mr. Butler had taken
no proceedings in reference to that petition, having bee❑
advised that the proper preliminary proceeding would
be by an action of ejectment.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it very strange that
so many years should have been allowed to elapse with•
out Mr. Butler having taken some proceedings upon
the petition which he had presented to their Lordships'
House.

The solicitor said, that he was really without any in-
structions in the matter, and could give the committee
no further information than that r. Butler had, under
advice, taken proceedings by way of ejectment. All
that he had been required to do was to apply to the
committee for a postponement of any proceedings under
the claim then before their Lordships until the ejectment
had been disposed of.
The LORD CHANCELLOR consulted the Chairman and
Lord Brougham, and then said that the counsel for the
claimant had better offer such evidence as had been ad.
duced on the former occasion, and then Mr. Pierce
Butler would have the opportunity, on the day on
which this matter would be adjourned to, not only of
meeting it if necessary, but of offering evidence in sup-
port of his own claim.

Mr. BUTT said, it was right that lie should inform the
committee that the basis upon which Mr. Butler founded
his claim was an allegation, that the late Lord _Kilkenny
had, prior to his marriage with the mother of the pre-
sent claimant, contracted a Scotch marriage, which Mr.
Butler was advised was a valid marriage.
The LORD CHANCHLLOR said that that might probably
be a matter for further consideration, but what was the
evidence on that point ?
Mr. BUTT said, with reference to the Scotch marriage,
they had at present no evidence to offer, but he was in a
position to prove that the marriage of Mr. Henry Butler
to Miss Harrison, the mother of the petitioner, had been
celebrated at Brighton on the 3d of September, 1811,
and that the parties had been received and visited and
reputed as man and wife, from that period until the late
earl's death.
Evidence was then given of these facts, Mrs. Butler
herself being one of the witnesses. The parties, however,
were not prepared with the registry of the marriage,
which _ _

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The LORD CELLNCELLOR said their Lordships' House
always required to have before them.
It was then arranged that, with the view to the pro-
duction of that and some other proofs, and to afford time
for Mr. Butler to prepare his evidence in opposition to
the claim, this matter should be adjourned to the 30th
inst.
Adjourned accordingly.

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PLATE ROBBERIES.—On Friday information was
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ceived that the premises, 29, King William-street,
had been plundered cif silver plate to the value'
of 150/., marked G. 8., crest a uragon's head • also, 8,
SLndly-road, South Lambeth, plate, jewellery, &c., value
100/. ; and from 35, St. Peter's-square, Lambeth, a
quantity of jewellery, value 1001., one locket enamelled
gold and blue, engraved inside, "In memory of Henry
Cameron, died 28th Dec,, 1850."

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The following very proper and becoming order by the
Port Admiral of Portsmouth, respecting naval officers
appearing in their prescribed uniform, has just been
promulgated :
"Her Majesty's Ship Victory, in Portsmouth

- Harbour, June 8.
" The Commander-in-Chief has been informed that offi-
cers are in the habit of going on shore, and even to parties
and public places, in plain clothes, and thereby treating
with contempt and disrespect her Majesty's Order in
Council on that point. The Commander-in-Chief would
suggest to those officers who are ashamed to be seen in
their uniform rather to resign their appointments than
thus disregard her Majesty's commands; and he enjoins
upon all captains and commanding officers to see that their
officers are dressed in the uniform assigned to them, and
to report to him when they shall see any officers of their
own or any other ship disobeying the instructions on this
head. When an officer wishes to absent himself from his
ship for the purpose of going into the country for exercise
or recreation, the captain may, at his discretion, give him
a permission on each occasion to do so; but at all other
'imes it is positively enjoined that every officer shall wear
established uniform.
"THOMAS COCHRANE, Vice-Admiral
and Commander-in-Chief.

"To the respective Captains and Commanders."
On Saturday ten of the Russian prisoners of war on
board the Crocodile, receiving ship, lying off the Tower,
were released at the instance of the Danish Consul.

Surgeon Thomas Russell Dunn, M.D. (1835), at pre-
sent borne on the books of the Conway, 26, flag-ship at
Cork, for service off Haulbowline Hospital, is promoted
to be deputy-inspector of hospitals and fleet, and ap-
pointed deputy-inspector of Yarmouth Hospital, which
is now to be re-opened as a naval hospital, consequent
on the requirements of war. It has been lately occupied
as a station for a portion of the army, and is a much
more commodious establishment than the hospital at
Deal, and on that account may have a larger medical
staff appointed to it.

WOOLWICH, JUNE 10.

The Rhadamanthus, paddle-wheel steam store-ship,
Master Commander John Belam, arrived at Woolwich
in the afternoon of to-day, on her return from Ports-
mouth and Sheerness.

The Medina, steam mail packet, Lient.-Commander
Beresford, has been placed under orders to leave Wool-
wich on Tuesday next for service as a mail packet on the
Mediterranean station, and to run between Malta and
Constantinople, and Malta and Marseilles, and vice versa.
The Medina will take out a mail for Malta and Con-
stantinople; and after having her compasses adjusted at
Greenhithe, will proceed to Sneerness, Portsmouth, and
Plymouth, to take out despatches, &c., from these ports
to the seat of war in the East.

The Hermes, paddle-wheel steam-sloop,Captain Fish-
bourne, has paid off to-day at Woolwich, after four years
and five mot.ths' service on the East Indies and China
station.

One sergeant, 1 corporal, and 11 gunners of the Royal
Marine Artillery disembarked at 12 o'clock noon, on
Saturday, from the Hermes, and marched up to the
Royal Maxine Barracks, and left again shortly after to
proceed by the one o'clock train of the North Kent Rail-
way for London en route to join the head quarters of the
Artillery companies at Portsmouth.

SHEERNESS, Juin 10.

A court martial was held on board the Waterloo, 120
guns, flag-ship, this day. The following officers com-
posed the court :—Captain the Hon. Frederick W. Grey,
C. 8., of the Hannibal, president ; Captain Superinten-
dent Christopher Wyvill, aide-de-camp to her Majesty,
in command of the Formidable, 84 guns ; Captain Lord
Frederick H. Kerr, in command of the Waterloo ; Com-
mander Josiah Thompson of the Formidable, and Com-
mander John Barling Marsh, of the Waterloo. Mr.
William Webb Hayward Presided as deputy judge advo-
cate. The court assembled to try Mr. William Hannant,
surgeon of the Philomel, 8-gun sloop, stationed on the
west coast of Africa, he being sent home in the Teazer,
steam tender to Tortoise, after a court of inquiry had
been held on him, to be tried by a court martial. The
charge on which he was tried was, for that he, the said
William Hannant, had been drunk and incapable of per-
forming his duty from the 16th to the 27th day of April
last, on board the Teazer, whilst in charge of the sick
and medical stores. Lieutenant F. D. Rich prosecuted.
The charge was fully proved by several witnesses, and
the sentence of the Court was that he, the said William
Hannant, be dismissed her Majesty's service.
The steam-transport Rhadamanthus, Master Com-
mander John Belem, arrived here at one p.m. this day,
from Portsmouth, with supernumeraries, seamen volun-
teers, and naval cadets for general service, all of whom
were transferred to the Waterloo. The Rhadamanthus,
when off Beachy Head, yesterday, between four and
five p.m., broke the sway-beam of her starboafd engine,
which caused other damage to that engine and her decks,
and compelled them to disconnect her engines, and she
has only been able to work her port engine ; with this
she has made (with sail) 6 knots from Beachy Head to
this port. She left here at 3.45 p.m. this day, accom-
panied by the steam-vessel Adder, Mr. Munchon, second
master in charge, in case of her services being found ne-
cessary from this port to Woolwich.
The Devonshire receiving-ship for Russian prisoners
of war, arrived here at 7.30 p.m. yesterday from Dept.,
ford (assisted by Adder and Monkey), in pilot charge o
Mr. Barnes, Queen's pilot, of Woolwich. The Devon-
shire will be placed in the first division of ships in or-
dinary, and be under charge of Commander Josiah
Thompson, of the Formidable, 84 guns, guard-ship of
ordinary.
The Waterloo, 120 guns, Captain Lord Frederick H.
Kerr, now musters over 500 hands. A large number of
them, ordinaries, and first-class boys, have, by the inde-
fatigable attention of their officers, been perfected in
great gun, musket, and cutlass exercises, and are now
ready for being drafted away for ships requiring their
services. Mang of these first-class boys are fully com-
petent to put their juniors completely through their
whole course of exercise, doing duty as first and second
captains of the guns, and are equally competent
at the musket and cutlass drill. These fine lads
will be found a great acquisition to any ships who
may be fortunate enough to get their services;
many of them being fully competent to give their orders
to lead their respective guns, and after lay it so that
every shot would tell on a ship's hull at practice distance
with as much accuracy as many of the old experienced
gunners from the Excellent, by whom, under the gun-
nery lieutenants of the Waterloo, these fine lads have
received instructions. The coast-guard guns on our
beach here have been found most advantageous towards
perfecting them at target practice.
The Wildfire, steam-tender to Waterloo, left here yes-
terday, for Chatham, to convey the officers who had at-
tended the court•martial to their respective ships, in con-
sequence of the Adder being required to assist the Rha-
damanthus to Woolwich.

The Royal Albert, 121 guns, screw steam-ship, in
charge of Mr. Rumble, chief engineer.—On the rudder
of this ship being unhung and placed on the wharf, upon
survey thereof it was found that the main piece only had
received damage, with the exception of a very slight
fracture of the copper on the fore side of the heel of the
main piece, which appears to have been caused by her
touching some hard substance on the ground or mooring
chain on her first immension when launched. Various
reports have been made as to the cause of the mainpiece
of the rudder immediately under the rudder trunk being
completely twisted, and thereby destroyed. The true
cause thereof was in consequence of the tiller yoke being
put hard over, and the rudder head being tightly choked
in the upper part of the trunk, to give the ship the pro-
per sheer head on the tide, that the immense pressure of
the body of water on the broadside of the entire rudder
when at her greatest immersion on launching was
too much fOr the substance of wood forming the neck
of the rudder, and the leverage therein caused the
main piece to give way. The main piece is of English
timber, the grain of which has given way, and completely
twisted, similar to the worm of a corkscrew. It will re-
quire all the pintles to be taken off, and a new main-
piece substituted, which is to be of larger dimensions ;
such an occurrence could never happen by a sea striking
her, or any other ship. It was the great rapidity with
which she displaced the water at the time of her being
launched, and the entire resistance met with by the
rudder being so tightly choked, which las been the cause
of the damage to the rudder. Although in itself trifling,
much has been the concern of parties ignorant in marine
architecture when the rudder was in place. This ship,
in addition to Grant's patent cooking apparatus, is to be
fitted with Grant's patent distilling apparatus, capable
of distilling 100 gallons from sea water every hour whilst
at work. The distilling apparatus will receive its supply
of water through branch pipes leading from the main
supply pipes for the boilers ; no extra supply pipes will
be required through the bottom of this ship, as hereto-
fore has been the case with other ships.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 11.
The Algiers, 90-gun steam-ship, is to be ready for sea
by the 24th. . . .

-The indefatigable, 50-gun frigate, was taken out of
dock yesterday, and is to be completed by the 19th of
July.

The Mariner, sloop, is also nearly ready for active
service.

The Scourge, 6, steamer, arrived here on Friday
from Portsmouth, en route to the coast of Africa.
The Minx, tender, arrived this afternoon, and is also
bound to Africa.