The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

L.4IIIBETH.

Frederick Collins, Michael Fenton,
-and John' Murphy,
were again placed at the bar for further examination, on
a charge of buralariously breaking into the dwelling-
house of Mr. Weir, a draper in the London-road, and
stealing therefrom property to the amount of nearly 2001.
Sergeant Guff, 8 L, who at the recommendation of the
magistrate has taken up the case, for the purpose of
bringing it to maturity, requested another weeks re-
mand, and this was ultimately granted.
George Hartley Green, a well-dressed young man, who
described himself as a merchant's • clerk; was charged
with hating been guilty of the most beastly cruelty to a
cow.
Mr. NORTON observed that during the whole of his
experience as a magistrate a more abominable case had
not been brought under his cognizance. It was, in fact,
of such an unheard-of description that he could not find
in the books any enactment to reach the offence, or pu-
ni>h it as it deserved. He (Mr. Norton) should take it,
therefore, as a case of cruelty to the animal, and fine
him the highest penalty, which was 405., but this would
not protect him from an action at law to the owner of the

CAPT. MAREYATT'S NEW NovEL, " VALERIE."—
This work is of an entirely different stamp .to any of the
gallaut author's previous productions, except that it is
told in the same characteristic, forcible, and felicitous
style. It purports to be the adventures of a young and
lovely girl, related by herself. The illusion of an auto- J
biography is admirably sustained, and the heroine's trials
and vicissitudes are portrayed with great skill and power.
The character of Valerie is beautifully and most truth-
fully developed, From the moment that we behold herr
cast on the world, dependent for subsistence onhe
daily exertions, continually encountering fresh
iee.
difficul-
ties, and acquiring more and more experience of h
her eventful history, we see. her always
ashness and heartlessness of mankind,utphotosathmeeclooosheloef,
moderation
example
in misfortune, fortitude under reverses,
high minded woman, teaching by heex:lrd
iu prosperity.
C uommA.—This terrible disorder has broken out
with great severity among the workmen employed in the
Woodhead tunnel, near Manchester, on the Sheffield
line of railway. Many of the men had been indulging
in heavy drinking and dissipation for several days, and,
on their return to work, probably from want of proper
nourishment, and from drinking the water that flows
through the soil and rock, they were seized with dysen-
tery, which soon assumed the severe form of cholera,
and, before medical assistance could be procured, several
deaths occurred. The best professional aid that could
be had in Manchester was procured on Monday; but, up
to Tuesday, nine of the cases proved fatal, and further
deaths were expected. The appearance of the disease
had caused a panic among the rest of the workmen,
most of whom, several hundreds in number, bad fled
irom the neighbourhood from fear of being involved in
the calamity. Colonel Humfrey, secretary of the rail-
way company, is now on the spot, attending, with medi.
cal men, to the various cases—upwards of twenty in
number. Woodhead is situated in an upland part of the
country; a abort distance from Glosiop, where the Duke
of Norfolk has extensive property. It is, perhaps,
from its healthy situation, one of the last places in the
kingdom where cholera, or any epidemic, might have
I been expected t 9 Appear.

THE COAST.
PORTSMOUTH, WED; Grappler iron
steam-vessel, Commander Lysaght, whose arrival we
announced. yesterday, left this afternoon at four o'clock
for Woolwich to -be paid off. She lett Lnando on-the
Ist of April, and Ascension on the 20th, and brought 80
supernumeraries from that place. She arrived at Sierra
Leone on the 29th of April,.finding the Sealark, 8, Com-
matder Monypenny, and the Pluto steamsvesael, Lieu..
tenant-Commander Joliffe, there. Shortly before there
had been an engagement up one of the rivers near Sierra
Leone with the natives ; the engagement was led by..
Commander Monypermy. - There WS3-some rough skir-
mishing, in which the Pluto had one officer (Mr. Moor-
man, mate) and five men wounded. ,The Grappler left
Sierra Leone on the 3,1 of May. and arrived at Bathurst
(River Gambia) on the .7th. The Governor Macdonald
had left, with all his forces, on board, the
Dover and Albert steam vessels to settle a
" war palaver " up the river with his chiefs,
who had some time before attacked and assaulted his—
Excellency and his secretary; he was now going to seek
satisfaction and make terms. The residents requested
that the Grappler might be allowed to remain to pro-
tect the colonists, but her commander declined, hav-
ing so great a number of supernumeraries on board.
and the smallpox being very prevalent ashore, added to
which the occasion did not seem to warrant the hazard
of the probable consequences. She accordingly sailed
from Bathurst on the Bth, and anchored at Goree on the
9th, where she found the French Commodore and two
French corvettes, a brig, and a steam-sloop 1) ie,g; took
in coals and left on the 12th; went into Gomora bn the
22d, being short of coal, having, indeed, exhausted her
stock and been reduced to the expedient of burning the
coal-sacks, spars, and other woods, to keep the fires in
and steam up, which was a vital necessity, a large leak
having sprung in her bottom, from the fact of the mouth
of the hose, which is of copper, having corroded through
the iron bottom of the ship; she made a great deal of
water, so much as on one, night to have forced up the
hatches. She was compelled to send a schooner to Te-
neriffe for coals, a supply of which arrived from the
Consul of that place on the 27th. She got away imme-,
.diately, and anchored next morning at Teneriffe, where
she replenished again, and left on the 30th; arrived at
Madeira on the Ist of June. At Madeira the mercantile
residents were suffering great hardships from the long
and highly detrimental quarantine regulations, which
had but just been taken off; the Grappler replenished
eoill again, and left Madeira on the 2d for England. -
Commodore Fanshawe,C.B., in the Centaur steam-
frigate, was at Ascension when the Grappler left, and was
about going to the Bights and south coast, to finish the
introductory inspection of the station.
' We regret to state that there was every probability of
I a very unhealthy season on the coast, from the threaten-
ing way in which the tornados were coming on.
The slave-trade was as brisk as ever. The Telmer
steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Selwyn, had taken
a large full prize, but she had got ashore upon the mid-
dle ground at Sierra Leone. The prize was, however,
hove off by the Sealark, and the slaves saved.
Commander Dunlap, in the Alert, 6, was going to take
the command on the south coast as senior officer.
Mr. Boulton, Master in command of the Dover steam.
vessel, lent to the Colonial Government of the Gambia,
invalided at Ascension, and died at sea, on his passage
home, in the Grappler. Lieutenant Harward, of the
Alert, had been given the command of the Dover.
The following officers came home passengers in the
Grappler:—The Rev. William Bell, 8.A., late Chaplain
of the Tortoise, to join the Superb, 80; Mr. Wickham,
Paymaster and Purser, late of the Tortoise, term of ap-
pointment expired ; Mr. Morgan, Assistant-Surgeon,
invalided ; Mr. Legh, mate of the Pluto; Mr. Norman,
First Lieutenant of the Alert ; Lieutenant Morris, of
the Tortoise, to join the Favourite (paid off); and Mr.
Raymond, Second Master, late in command of the Snap
tender.
The Contest, 12, Commander M'Murdo, will be the
next ship home from the coast.
The Rattler screw-sloop. Commander Cumming, ar-
rived at Ascension, from England, on the 6th of April.
The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain the Hon. G. F.
Hastings, arrived at Ascension from the Bights as the
Grappler was leaving. She had taken two slavers. The
Firefly steam-sloop, Commander Tudor, had taken two
full slavers since the last accounts. The Grappler took
one on her way up to Ascension, making thirteen total
as her e‘ssaton of captures, by which she bad liberated
upe-ards of 2,000 slaves.
A court-martial assembled this morning on board the
Victory (Rear Admiral Prescott, C. 8., President), to
try Mr. John Rattray, gunner of the Blenheim steam
guardship, acting Captain J. R. Stevens, for having on
the Ist instant been found so drunk as to be incapable of
performing his duty on board the said ship. The Court
having heard the case for the prosecution, and what the
prisoner had to allege in defence. fieo.r.,l .t„,
fully proved, but in consequence of his previous good
conduct did not dismiss him the service, but adjudged him
to be dismissed his present appointment, and reduced
from the first to the third class of gunners in the Royal
Navy.
Wind—S. by W. (very variable), light airs, and cloudy
weather.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 12.—Early this morning her Ma-
jesty's flat-ship Hibernia, 104, Captain Charles Wise,
hove in sight to the westward, under all plain canvass.
Inside Penlee she clewed up royals, and entered the
Sound under her topgallant sails, at 5 o'clock. Inside
the Breakwater she saluted the Port Admiral, and took
her mooring ground to the eastward of the Camber. She
left Malta on the 26th of April, arrived at Gibraltar on
-the 17th of May, sailed on the 18th, and experienced
light northerly and north-easterly winds during the
passage home.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Janus, 2, Lieutenant-
Commander It. W. Powell, was at Gibraltar, having on
board the daughters of Admiral Parker.
Her Majesty's frigate Spartan, 26, Captain Thomas
M. C. Symonds, was this morning reported off the har-
bour, near the Eddystone.
The trial steamers Niger, screw, 12, and Basilisk,
paddle, 6, returned on Saturday evening, at 8 o'clock.
The competition is said to have been in favour of
the screw, especially the first day, when she was able
to get full power out of her machinery. On
the second day, in consequence of defective power,
her fires were let out, and some ashes were discovered in
the tubes of the boilers. Under canvass only, where the
Bisibsk went two miles to windward the Niger went
three. While in harbour both ships' boilers are to bo
filled with water, the fires lit, and the time taken in eva-
poration is to be carefully re corded. On the next trial
neither machine is to work at a higher pressure than
four, that being a point which the Niger's engines can at
all times obtain.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Plumper. 8, Commander
M.. S. Noloth, sailed on Sunday for the West Indies.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Sphynx, 6, called on Satur-
day and sailed again on a cruise.
The steam-vessel Shearwater, Lieutenant-Commander
Edmund E. Tumour, arrived on Sunday from Ireland,
and sailed on Monday for Portsmouth.
The Cleopatra was paid wages yesterday.
THE PACKET-SHIP AMERICAN EAGLE.
Yesterday the steam-vessel Contiance towed the store-
ship Andromeda, 44. from Ilamcaze into the Sound,
where she is to receive the stores of the packet, and all the
healthy and convalescent passengers and crew of the
Am- rican E ogle from her, and from her Majesty's ship
Tyne. l'ao deaths have occurred since Thursday last.
This day's report from the sue goons, Messrs. Francis
Fox and W. Brown, says,—" Diarrbce 4, subsiding; the
two severe cases first reported convalescent. The case
of the German, reported on the 10th, will most probably
prove fatal. The two remaining cases (one that of the
man nurse from the shore, attacked yesterday afternoon)
in some respects better."
The merchant barque Colonist, Captain Headley,
from Van Diemen's Land, 9th February, with oil, wool,
potatoes, and grain, for London, was off this port, and
landed a mail yesterday.
The schooner Majestic, Reeves, from Palermo,- for
London, was outside this morning; all well.
THE ROYAL WILLIAM VICTUALLING YARD.
The men in this establishment have recerply been em-
ployed in packing the sacks which were used for the re-
lief of the Irish. 200,000 are to go to Deptford, where
they will be sold, and 20,000 are to be sent to the gun
wnarf at Devonport for the use as forage sacks. At an
aucti, n here some three or four mouths since 50.000
were sold at an average price of 9d. each; they cost
about Is. 3d. each.
Light northerly winds and fire weather.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,— I perceive, with considerable surprise, from the
reports of the proceedings at the Drury-lane Theatrical
Fund dinner, that allusion was made thereat by his
Grace the Duke of Beaufort, and by Mr. Harley, the
treasurer of the fund, to Mr. Anderson, as the future
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and of M. Jullieu's solicitor (F. P. Chappell, Esq., of
25, Golden-square); and that on Friday last, the Bth
instant, Mr. Chappell received the requisite ibstructions
to prepare the necessary legal documents to Carry- out
the same. By this agreement I become the lessee of
Drury- lane Theatre from the 13th of December, 1849, to
the 30th of April, 1850, and for a similar term in the
years 1850-51 and 1851-52.

The theatre will be opened under my management for
dramatic and operatic performances on the 26th of De.
cember next.—l have the honour to he, Sir,
Your most ot edient servant,
JOSEPH STAMMERS.
33, Duke-street. Bedford- iqubre. June 12, 1849.

- _
THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS.—Amongst the old
soldiers who received medals in Hyde Park on the t
of June was a brave vet..ran, Sergeant-Major James
Stride, formerly of the 23d Dragoons, wbo was present
at the battle of Waterloo, and who, on the Marquis of
Anglesey's horse being shot under him, came tip and
gave the gallant Field Mar..hal his horse. Major Forbes,
at the close of the review, introduced the Sergeant-
Major to the
well, although he had lost sight of the person who bad
Marquis, who recollected the circumstance
aided him. Major Forbes also introduced Sergeant-
Major Stride to several of the ladies present, who cordially
situ k hands witb him, and they: then vied with each
other in obtaining his consent to be allowed to pin the
ribands of his medals to the breast of the veteran p;,n-•
sinner. Sergeant-Meier Stride can now boast of three
mrdalS—one for the Peninsula, with four clasps, one for
Egypt, and one for Waterloo.