The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-12 00:00:00

SALE OF RUSSIAN PRIZES.

Yesterday, the Russian brig Nadescha, 230 tons, taken
prize by her Majesty's steamer Alban, Captain Otter, was
put up to auction at Lloyd's. The first over was 7001.,
and she was sold for 1,430/. • making, with 2271. 55., which
her cargo fetched, a total of' 1,6571.53., to be divided be-
tween the officers and crew of the Alban. Tile foreign
brig Wasthi, 200 tons burden, of which Anders Paterson
was late master, an Admiralty droit, sold for 7206.

COURT-MARTIAL.
A court•marCal was held yesterday on board the flag-
ship Waterloo, to try William John Webster Yellan, act-
ing second-master on board of the Arrow steam gun-boat.
The following officers composed the Court :—President,
Commodore C. Wyvill, Captain Superintendent John
Jervis Tucker, Captain Arthur Farquhar, Captain Lord
Frederick Kerr, and Commander Josiah Thompson.
The court assembled at nine o'clock. The prisoner was
unassisted by counsel. The charges were—For leaving
and being absent from the Ilebe hulk to the Arrow on the
27th and 30th days of July last. Prisoner was ordered
under arrest by Commodore Shepherd.
Four witnesses were called by the prosecutor, Lieut.-
Commander Jolliffe. After their evidence was heard the
prisoner put in -a written defence.
The court was cleared from 11.25 to 1.15, when the
Deputy Judge-Advocate Mr. George Essell, read the de-
cision of the court to the following effect :—" That the
prisoner had been virtually released from arrest and sent
to do his duty ; they, therefore, wero of opinion that the
charges were not proved, and the court acquitted the pri-
soner."

THE PRUSSIAN PRINCE AT PORTSMOUTH.
The Lieutenant-General Prince Radzivilli visited the
Excellent gunnery-ship, yesterday morning, at eleven
o'clock, and was received by Capt. Sir Thomas Maitland.
The prince was accompanied by Lieutenant Hall, director
of police; and every attention was paid to the distin-
guished soldier. He was much gratified with the practice
of the Excellent, and expressed his acknowledgments to
Captain Maitland to that effect. The whole discipline of
the ship was prominently demonstrated, from beating to
quarters to attacking the enemy. The shell practice was
particularly.effective, and did justice to the officer in com-
mand of the gunnery department.
The prince and his son partook of a handsome luncheon
on board, and left the Excellent under the most favourable
impression of that establishment.

MILITARY.
Another delay has occurred in reference to the new dress
of the army. The patterns were to have been sealed yes-
terday. This day at half-past ten will decide the matter.
THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.--Colonel H. Itaikes, for
many years connected with this regiment, died a few days
since. He served in Hanover•, Denmark, Italy, and the
Peninsula, and was at the battles of Talavora and Busse°,
and at the siege of Badajoz. Ho held a modal and clasp.
THE NEW INFANTRY UNIFORM.—The uniform of the
band will be white as usual, but in the new shape, that
of a tunic.

MAJOR-GENERAL CIIATTERTON, K.H.S.F.
Our distinguished countryman, Major-General Chatter-
ton, K.H., S.F., has received from her Majesty tho pen-
sion for " distinguished services in the army," an honour
of which no officer is more deserving. His excellence as a
citizen is well known and appreciated here, and his conduct
as our representative in the Commons House of Parliament
won the favour and esteem of all parties. He is a deputy
lieutenant and magistrate of our county and city, and is
also provincial grand master of Munster. We extract from
Hart's Army List the services of our gallant townsman:—
Major-General Chatterton served in the 12th Royal
Lancers in Portugal, Spain, Flanders, and France, from
1811 to 1818, including the affairs of Fuente Guinaldo and
Aldea de Ponte ; the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Baclajoz ;
the actions of Usagro, Llerona, passage of the Tonnes, near
Salamanca (town) ; heights of St. Christoval, Raeda, Cas-
trajon, and battle of Salamanca ; affairs at Tudela, Yalla-
dolid, Celadadel Carminho; to the investment and siege of
Burgos; actions at Monasterio, Quintana falls Venta del
Pozo, and Cabozon; actions on the retreat from Burgos to
Salamanca, thence to the passage of the Huerba, Torre-
quemada, and outposts to Ciudad Rodrigo, upon the ad-
vance of the army in 1813; the passage of the Ebro,
action at Osma, and battle of Vittoria ; actions at Villa-
Franca, Tolosa, to the siege and capture of St. Sebas-
tian ; the action on crossing the Bidassoa and carrying the
enemy's fortified entrenchments ; the battle of the Nivelle;
the actions at St. Jean de Luz, at Anglet ; the Mayor's
House, Bidart ; the battles on the Nive from the 9th to
the 13th December, 1813 ; the passage of the Adour and
investment of Bayonne, occupation of Bordeaux, the pas-
sage of the Garonne, and affairs at Etaliers, or the passage
of the Dordogne, besides various skirmishes and minor
affairs. In 1815, the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo,
to the advance on and capture of Paris. He has received
the Cross of Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic
order, that of San Fernando of Spain, the war medal and
four clasps for the battle of Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle,
and Nive, and the Waterloo medal. Received the com-
mands of her Majesty to attend and boar the great banner
on the occasion of the funeral of the late illustrious Duke
of Wellington, ' in consideration of his long, faithful, and
distinguished services.' On home employment his eminent
services will long be remembered with gratitude and ad-
miration, during the turbulent and lawless scenes in Bir-
mingham, Manchester, Nottingham," izc.—Cork, Consti-
tution.

Thirty•five fine young horses were sent from Woolwich
to Chatham yesterday morning to complete Captain Moun-
tain's field battery at that station.
Mortar practice has been carried on twice every day
during the last fortnight at Woolwich.
Captain Cleaveland's company, 12th battalion Royal
Artillery, have been placed under orders to hold themselves
in readiness to embark for Malta. Large detachments will
embark at the same time to fill up the companies already
stationed at Malta.

TVORKING OF MR. FORBES MACKENZIE'S

ACT I.V SCOTLAND.

The Scottish Association for Suppressing Drunken•
ness have been procuring information on the effect which
the recent act for the regulating of public-houses has
had upon drunkenness and crime. They have endea-
voured .-to ascertain what the result has been for the
first six weeks in all the large burghs of Scotland ;
and so far as they have received the returns, the tes-
timony of individuals on whom reliance can be placed
warrant the committee of the association in stating
that the Legislature, in passing the act referred to,
have conferred a great boon upon Scotland, and that
with few exceptions, and these admitting of explana:
tion, the result has been a large diminution both of
crime and of intemperance.
One point as to which information has been sought Is,
the number of persons brought into the police drunk for
protection, or drunk and charged with crime, on thel.
six Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays subsequent to
Mr Forbes Mackenzie's Act coming into full operation
this year, beginning Saturday, May 27, 1854, and the
number of such persons for the corresponding period of
last7year, beginning Saturday May 28, 1853.
It has been ascertained that the following are the num-
bers for the last two years respectively, in the towns
from which returns have been already received, viz.,—
1853. 1854.
Aberdeen .................................... 248 117
36 18
Arbroath ... .................................
33 41
Ayr ...........................................
260
14 7
8anff..........................................
Dumfries county ....................... .. 16 13
Dunfermline . ... 7 3
Dundee 186
Edinburgh 5"3 381
Elgin
Inverness
Kirkcudbright
Leith .....................................
2ii
Montrose
Portobello
St. Andrew's (drunk and charged). 4 0
These are all the returns which have as yet been re-
very satisfactorily, a large
ceived. They seem to show,
diminution of intemperance, and corresponding saving;
of expense to the public in the maintenance of prisoners

_
HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
Their Lordships met at five o'clock.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal Assent was given by commission to the
following bills :—The Metropolitan Sewers, Literary
and Scientific Institutes, Militia (No. 2), Militia (Scot-
land), Militia (Ireland), Militia Pay, Ballots Suspension,
Prisoners Removal, Episcopal and Capitnlar Estates,
and Bankruptcy, Real Estate Charges, Medical Gradu-
ates (University of London), Mayo County Advances,
Incumbered Estates (West Indies), Legislative Council
(Canada), Merchant Shipping Acts Repeal, Stocker's
Divorce.

The Lords' Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll, and the Marquis of Westminster.

THE SLAVE TRADE AT CUBA.
The Earl of CLARENDON in laying on the table a
despatch from our Consul at Cuba said, since the ap-
pointment of the last Captain-General at Cuba a most
marked improvement had taken place with respect to
the suppression of the slave trade in that island. (Hear.)
The Common Law Procedure Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Report of the Select Committee on the Printing
of the House was considered and agreed to.
FINANCIAL BURDENS OF NEW ZEALAND.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from the
Legislative Council of New Zealand complaining of the
financial burdens cast on that colony.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that his noble
friend had referred to what had passed two years ago,
and to the part which he took in the debates on the
New Zealand Constitution Act two years ago. He
could only say that he fully adhered to every opinion
which he then expressed, and that he had stated •o when
he held the seal of the Colonial-office.

POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH FRANCE
AND SARDINIA.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to ask his
noble friend the Postmaster-General what prospect
there was of reduction being effected in the postage of
letters despatched to France and Sardinia ?
Lord CANNING said that the Government were not
disinclined to take any steps in their power to bring this
question to a satisfactory issue. The difficulty of deal-
ing with the postage on Sardinian letters arose from the
want of a more satisfactory arrangement with France,
and he did not think that anything could be done in
this matter until a new convention had been concluded
with that country. So far, however, as newspapers
were concerned, he believed that a more satisfactory
arrangement than at present existed might be made with
the Sardinian Government, quite independently of the
result of the negotiations with France.
The house then adjourned at a quarter-past six
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 3 o'clock.
NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. HATTER a new writ was ordered
for Marylebone, in the room of Sir B. Hall, who had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented by Mr. HUME from the So-
ciety of Arts, in favour of decimal system of weight
measures and coinage ; by Lord DUDLEY STUART, signed
by 13,564 of the inhabitants of Glasgow, praying that
no conditions of peace may be agreed to which do not
indemnify this country for the cost of the war, as well as
make Russia disgorge her ill-acquired possession in the
Crimea, Finland, Georgia, Circassia, and Poland ; Mr.
ISAAC BUTT, from the United Secession Church of
Paisley against the over-working of young children in
factories.