The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-14 00:00:00

THE LATE MILITARY OUTRAGE

AT CHATHAM.

ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST-(TIIIRD DAY)

Yesterday Mr. Richard Hinde, Coroner, and the Jury,
assembled for the third time in the chapel of Melville
Hospital, Chatham, for the purpose of further investigating
the circumstances that led to the deatn of Robert Ross, a
marine, who, with several others (one of whom has since
died), was ferociously attacked and alleged to be murdered,
on the evening of the 27th ult., by a party of the 67th and
74th Regiments.
It has been the subject of observation, that no persons has
been in attendance either from the Admiralty or the War-
office, to watch these proceedings.
The inquiry was resumed yesterday, at te'n o'clock, when
the summoning officer, in answer to the Coroner, said he had
no more witnesses to produce.
VERDICT.—" Wilful murder against John Callaghan,
Morris Lyons, and John Connell (of the 67th), as principals ;
and against Joshua Sykes, Robert Farrell, and Robert John-
man (of the 74th), Dennis Doyle, Timothy Lawler, Bar-
tholomew Brasuer, and John Ninin (of the 67th) as aiders
and abettors." _

The remaining man, John Noonan (of the 67th), was
the only one out of the eleven prisoners not included in the
verdict.

The Coroner then bound over the witnesses to attend and
give evidence at the Spring Assizes against the prisoners, and
made out their committals to Maidstone gaol, but it was be-
lieved that they would not be removed thither until after the
inquest had sat upon the body of the other marine, named
Jeffcott.

The remains of Robert Ross were removed from the dead-
house, adjoining Melville Hospital, to the new burial-ground
at Chatham, at two o'clock yesterday, where they were interred
with the usual military honours.
The proceedings of yesterday commenced at ten o'clock
in the morning, and did not terminate until six o'clock at night.

To THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AME-
RIDA, ON THEIR STRIPED AND STARRED BANNER:-

United States your banner wears
Two emblems, one of fame :
Alas 1 the other that it bears
Reminds us of your shame !
The white man's liberty in types
Stands hlason'd by your stars—
But what's the meaning of the stripes?
They mean your negroes' scars 1
THOMAS CAMPBELL.

THE CHARTISTS.—The Ayrshire Chartists had
a gathering the other day at Kilmarnock. The object of the
assembly was to choose a general delegate to " the Peoples',"
in contradistinction to the National, Parliament.

Sterne, who used his wife very ill, was one day
talking to Garrick in a fine sentimental manner, in praise of
conjugal love and fidelity. " The husband," said Sterne,
" who behaves unkindly to his wife, deserves to have his house
burnt over his head." "If you think so," said Garrick, " I
hope your house is insured."

An English gentleman at Boulogne is said to have
purchased from a M. Lefebvre, a handkerchief which belonged
to Charlotte Corday, with a letter written by her to him from
the prison in which she was confined, after stabbing Marat in
the bath. The heroine declares, in this document, that she is
ready to appear, without terror and without remorse, before
her God, and expresses her gratitude to M. Lefebvre for his
kindness to her during her confinement, and at the same time
hopes that her writing will not be taken as an indicatiOn that
there was any community of political sentiments between
them. M. Lefebvre never intended to part with these relics,
but being old and in reduced circumstances was tempted by
the offer of 158 f.

We learn from St. Petersburgh that the rebuilding
of the Winter Palace of the Emperor of Russia, on which
several thousand workmen have been constantly engaged
throughout the whole summer, is being carried on with the
most surprising assiduity, and the facade of the building is
almost completed. His Majesty has recently visited the
works now going on, and, in order to guard as much as pos.
sible against the repetition of the calamity which levelled
this fine palace with the ground, he has given directions to
Prince Dolgorouky to examine and report upon the invert-
firm (recently discovered in England) for preserving build-
ings from fire, which, if found to be efficacious, will be imme-
diately adopted. It is stated that the apartments of ceremony
for holding levees, &c., will be quite ready by Easter.
BAPTISM OF R. M. BEVERLEY, Esq.—At Ox-
ford, en Thursday evening, the 4th ultimo, Mr. R. M. Bever-
ley and nine other persons were baptised, by immersion, by the
Reverend Mr.Bulteel.

TITIIE CONFLICT.—LOSS OF SIX LIVES.—
The rumour relative to the alleged occurrence of a tithe
affray, in which six lives are said to have been sacrificed, at a
place called Sollihead, on the borders of the counties of Tip-
perary and Limerick, remains unconfirmed. Up to Monday
evening, riothing certain was known about the flatter in
Dublin, and the Mai/ of that eveilim.7 speaks of the paragraph
which we took yesterday from the Times as a vague rumour,
and an unsatisfactory account, copied from the Mercantile
Advertiser.