The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS

Mr. Stephen A. Harris, Second Class Assistant En-
gineer, late of the Phcenix, screw steam-sloop, to be
Asting First Class Assistant Engineer, and appointed to
the Terrible, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, for service on
the Mediterranean station.
Mr. Henry Jones, to be Acting First Class Assistant
Engineer, and appointed to Woolwich Ordinary.
William R. Forder, Gunner's Mate, late of the
Phcenix, to be Acting Gunner.
William Elliott Caulker, late of the Phcenix, to be
Acting Carpenter.
Mr. West, Third Class Boatswain, recently of the
Prometheus steam-sloop, and at present borne on the
books of the Fisgard, to the Second Class, for meri-
torious services and good conduct on the coast of Africa.
John Nye' to be Acting Boatswain.
The Rev. Dr. Woolley has concluded his examination
of Royal Dockyard and Marine Schools. On the 17th
inst. the rev. doctor commenced his examination in this
dockyard, and, on concluding the following day, ex-
pressed himself much gratified by the general progress
and good answering of the apprentices, which he attri-
buted, not merely to the zeal of their unwearied master,
Mr. Macavoy, but to the steady interest which Com-
modore Henry Eden and the school committee take in
their advancement. The professor was attended in hisd
examination both here and in Deptford by the dockyard
chaplain, the Rev. James C. Connolly.
The Monkey steam-vessel, in chargerr of the Second
to take
Master Sallener, went up to Greenwich to-day
o-daA. ydam,
for
on board the furniture of the late Sir C r_l
al
the purpose of conveying it toßu division of Roy
rut. slia'and,enear Leith.
Forty-five privates of the Woolwich
Marines, volunteers, left the dockyard station of the
i North Kent Railway, at nine o c .o k a.
in.,
en route to
al Mcarino Artillery sta.-
! Portsmouth, to join the i
Roy
there.

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PAYMENTS TO THE ROYAL FAMILY.-It appears from
a parliamentary paper recently printed (procured by Mr.
William Williams), that in the year ended the sth of
family amounted to 152,35 M
January last the allowances to the several branches of
the royal

MURDER.
(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. Justice Creswell summed up, and the jury, after
deliberating in the box for about a quarter of an hour,
returned their verdict, finding the prisoner guilty of
murder.

Mr. Harker, the principal usher, immediately made
the usual proclamation, and the prisoner was called up
for judgment.

SENTENCE OF DEATH.

His Lordship having put on the black cap, addressed
the wretched prisoner, and said, that he had been found
guilty by a jury of his country of the crime of wilful
murder, committed on the person of his wife, whom he
had sworn at the altar to love, cherish, and protect. He
wished he could have discovered in the case one single
circumstance of palliation, but he had been utterly un-
able to do so. It appeared that he had been married
before, and that he had children who were the issue of
that marriage. He had been married a second time to
the unhappy woman whose death had been that day the
subject of inquiry, about sixteen months ago, and there
was nothing whatever to show that she had acted other-
wise than as a kind, gentle, and careful mother to his
children, and indeed the expression of " Oh, mother,
mother," made use of by one of them at the time when
he was committing this dreadful violence showed that
she was regarded as a mother by the children. The
evidence left no doubt that when he was under the in-
fluence of drink, and that on almost every occasion when
he gave way to that beastly propensity, he mania the
habit of exercising the most gross and unmanly violence
towards this unhappy woman. It had been sought to
palliate his conduct by an insinuation of infidelity on
the part of the deceased, but he was bound to say that
the evidence did not disclose one tittle of proof in sup-
port of such a suggestion. There was not even the
miserable palliation of his being in liquor at the time the
offence was committed. Having driven his unhappy
wife from her home on the previous evening by his
brutality, it appeared that in the morning when he bad
had time for reflection, so far from showing any contri-
tion, he again commenced his unmanly conduct towards
her, and he continued it until probably his own brutal
violence incited him to the commission of the fatal act
which terminated her career and his own. He had now
but little time to live, and he exhorted him to prepare
for a fate as violent and almost as sudden as that which
he had inflicted on his victim. The learned judge con-
eluded by passing sentence of death in the usual form.
The prisoner, who did not during the trial or at the
passing of sentence exhibit the least emotion, was then
removed from the bar.

MANSLAUGHTER.
Joseph. Birch, 22, and Caroline Wood, 22, were jointly
indicted for the manslaughter of a child named Richard.
It appeared that the child, whose death was the sub-
ject of the inquiry, was an infant eleven months old, and
was the illegitimate child of a woman named Banks. The
prisoners, who were in very poor circumstances, lived
together as man and wife, occupying one room in a house
in Little Dean-street, Soho, and it appeared that the
mother of the deceased had placed the child under their
charge, agreeing to pay them two and sixpence per week
for it. The infant was first placed in their care on the
4th of October, and it died on the 14th, and upon an in-
quiry taking place as to the cause of its death certain
matters were disclosed which resulted in the committal
of the prisoners upon the present charge. According to
the evidence of other lodgers in the house in Dean-street,
and persons who lived in Bond-street, Southwark, an-
other lodging to which the prisoners removed with the
child, at both places they were in the habit of slapping
and otherwise ill treating it, and from the testimony of
the surgeon there was no doubt that this ill treatment
had had the effect of causing such a state of excitement
in the child as to produce congestion of the brain, which
resulted in its death. According to the statements of
some of the witnesses, they had remonstrated with the
prisoners upon the cruelty of their conduct towards the
unhappy infant, but the only effect was, that both the
prisoners abused and threatened them in such a manner,
that they were afraid to interfere any further.
The jury found both the prisoners guilty, and Mr.
Justice Williams, after commenting upon their brutal
and barbarous conduct in indignant terms, sentenced
them severally to four years' penal servitude.

THE QUEEN OF THE TEIGN.
In the course of the day the grand jury ignored all the
bills preferred against the officers of the Queen of the
Teign for murder, and at the same time returned a true
bill against two Lascars belonging to the same vessel for
unlawfully cutting and wounding. The grand jury shortly
afterwards concluded their labours, and were discharged
from further attendance.