The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-27 00:00:00

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,

OLD COURT.
THE " SATIRIST" NEWSPAPER.—Martin Hansell, a
respectable looking young man, described as an attorney,
and who was the proprietor and editor of the Satirist,
surrendered on Saturday to take his trial on the charge
of harbouring a female named Sarah Mills, who had
endeavoured to extort 101. from Mr. Bevan, a gentleman
of property, residing at No. 4, Hamilton-place, Picca-
dilly, and at Hamburgh House, Twickenham, she having
thereby committed felony.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddlestone appeared for the
prosecution, which was instituted by Mr. Bevan; and
Mr. Parry and Mr. Thompson for the prisoner.
The facts, as stated by Mr. BALLANTINE, will, no
doubt, be fresh in the recollection of our readers. Some
time ago Mr. Bevan received several letters from the
woman Mills, who is undergoing six months' imprison.
ment with hard labour, for her part of the transaction,
demanding money with menaces. She threatened, un-
less he complied with her request, to apply to Mrs.
Bevan, and to expose him in a " Satirical" paper, hint-
ing that his visits to two married ladies at Hanover-gate
and Westbourne Park were well known to her. Mr. Bevan
refused to comply with her threats ; and at length she
went further, and wrote to Mr. Bevan, to say, as he had
treated her letters with contempt, she would be glad to
know if he would like to stand in the position of a
defendant to an action for erica. con., and saying that she
should publish his amours in the Satirist, and send copies
to Mrs. Bevan, his partners (erroneously believing that
he was a partner in the banking-house of Barclay,
Bevan, and Co.), and to his private friends. At
the time several invidious notices to correspon •
dents, pointedly alluding to " Old B---, the
rich banker," appeared in the Satirist. Feeling much
annoyed at these matters, his solicitors, Messrs. Finmore
and Co., opened communications with Miss Mills and
the prisoner, with the view, as it was admitted by Mr.
Finmore in his examination, to suppress the threatened
publication, and to obtain possession of the documents,
for which, he also admitted, money would most likely
have been paid by his client. It was alleged that the
prisoner and Miss Mills were acting in conjunction.
Mr. PARRY addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soner.

Mr. Justice ERLE left the whole case to the jury, who
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 26.—This day being his Royal
Highness Prince Albert's birth-day, all the ships were
dressed in colours at an early hour, and at one o'clock
royal salutes were fired in honour of the auspicious day.
'l;6 The Lords of the Admiralty are expected here to-
t3o morrow evening, on their annual official visit, and the
• First Lord will hold a levee on Wednesday.
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, arrived here from Greenock
yesterday. A Sunday paper states that " There is no
truth in the rumour of the framework of the engines
of this fine ship having given way;" and continues,
" still more absurd is the statement that any reduction is
to take place in the complement of her officers and men."
We hope the latter sentence is founded on better in-
formation than the former.
The Growler steam-sloop, Commander Stoddart,
arrived off Gibraltar on thq 13th inst., en route to
Mecca, with the young Princes of Morocco on board.
The Pantaloon, 8, Commander Hyde Parker, was off
Oporto on the 11th inst., and proceeded southwards.
The Pallas, 50, Russian frigate, Commodore Nordinan,
weighed at half-past four this afternoon from Spithead,
and fired. a royal salute in most enviable style for the
second time to-day, having been " dressed' all the
% morning, and saluted with the others at one o'clock in
; honour of Prince Albert's birthday. She also saluted,
7,5, when under weigh, the Port Admiral, whose ship (the
)%
'2 Victory, 104 ,Captain Blackwood) instantly acknow-
. ledged the compliment. She worked out admirably
44 under topsails, and has sailed for Madeira.
A murderous onslaught was made on Friday night at
)34 Hardway, near Gosport, by a baud of cutthroats whose
smuggling transactions have latterly been prevented by
the vigilance of the Coast Guard officers. Their vie-
: tims were the brothers Mountfield, Coast Guard men,
Gd who latterly made a capture of a " run" made by one
of the party. These young men are lying in a highly
is dangerous state from the wounds and bruises they re-
,34 ceived from their ruffianly assailants, who numbered a
iee party of between twenty and thirty. One of them,
however, we hear, was shot with a pistol by one of the
Coast Guard in pursuit.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 24.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Vesuvius sailed yesterday with seamen and riggers for
sa Glasgow, to navigate to Woolwich the new iron steamer
Greenock.

Her Majesty's frigate Alarm was commissioned on
Thursday.
2a Her Majesty's brig Hound was paid off on Tuesday.
The reserve steam-vessel sare ordered to get up steam
daily to try their engines.
Her Majesty's ship Royal Adelaide having been
caulked and new coppered was taken out of deck on
Tuesday.
Mr. Pemberthy, clerk in the Dockyard, died at his
residence in Chapel-street yesterday.
Mr. Herbert yacht Faun, on his passage from
France, spoke on the 22d inst., 12 miles south of the
Start, the merchant barque Queen, of Hull, from London
for Quebec.
Plymouth Regatta is fixed for Tuesday, the 28th, and
Wednesday, the 29th of August inst.
WOOLWICH, Ana. 25.—Rear-Admiral J. W. D.
Dundas, C. 8., and Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., Lords
of the Admiralty; Captain Ellice, Comptroller of Ste urk
Machinery; Lieutenant-Colonel Irving, C. 8., Director
of Engineering Works; and Mr. Lloyd, Chief Engineer
at the Admiralty, arrived at Woolwich Dockyard at one
o'clock P.M. to-day, and their Lordships were received by
Commodore Henry Eden, Lieutenant Gore, Flag-Lieu-
tenant; Mr. Petley, Master-Commander :of the Light-
ning steam-vessel; Mr. Lang, Master Shipwright; Mr.
Gottlieb, Storekeeper; Mr. Humphries, Chief Engineer;
Mr. Chatfield and Mr. Peake, Assistants to the Master-
Shipwright; Mr. Trickett, Assistant to the Chief En-
gineer; and Mr. Bernays, Clerk of the Works.
Their Lordships immediately proceeded to visit the
Minx iron steam-vessel, fitted with high-pressure engines
of 10 horse-power; and Mr. Humphries submitted to
them a drawing of the plan proposed by Mr. Seaward,
for fitting the screw-propeller astern of the rudder,
which is to be tried on the Minx. Their Lordships then
proceeded to the west-end of the yard to ascertain the
best situstion for the erection of a new shed to receive
the engines of 800 horse-power ordered to be taken out
of the Retribution steam-frigate, that others of 400
horse-power may be substituted. Mr. Bernays, Clerk
of the Works, submitted a plan and estimate of a shed,
which could be substantially constructed, to serve for
various purposes, and be econemically effected by making
the back of a shed available, as a part which has been
already built, in which the gear of the Firebrand, Pro
metheus, Hermes, Styx, Grappler, and African, is at
present deposited, the works of each of these vessels
being kept separate in stalls running across the building,
and accessible to be put on board the respective vessels.
The space where the new shed is contemplated to be
built is at present used for breaking up old boilers, and
the funnels of steam-vessels, but there will still be ample
room for that purpose on the north side of the sheds,
and immediately adjoining the shears employed in
taking them out o, the vessels. Their Lordships then
went on board the Retribution, at present in the river
under the shears, having her coals and all her stores
taken out preparatory to being taken into the basin.
They also went on board the Archer in the basin,
at present taking on board a large quantity of iron

ballast preparatory to being tried down the river,
and, on leaving her, went on board the Niger, in
the inner basin, where a series of exp,rixnents aro
being made in her to test the economy of fuel in giving
a certain van tity of vapour in the boilers of that
vessel to be compared with the plan adopted in
the Basilisk. From the Niger they proceeded to the
factory, where they witnessed the screw-propeller, 5 feet
in diameter, and weighing 2 cwt. 3 qrs. 10 lb., made for
the purpose of being tried in the itelinx, steam-vessel;
and then examined the excellent arrangements made by
Commodore _Henry Eden, at the west end of the yard,
fur keeping all the stores, both good and waste, in the
beat order, and accessible at a moment's notice, and the
quantities ascertained without any trouble or turning
over as used to be the case. Captain Ellice and Mr.
Lloyd went on board the Desperate steam-vessel, in
King William IV. Deck, to witness the progress made
in fitting her engines Ey Messrs. Mandalay, Sons, and
Field, and their Lordships, after inspecting Mr. Hum'
phries' (the chief engineer) department, proceeded to
the landing steps, and went on board the Vulcan steam
troop-ship, lying at moorings in the river. After 90
inspection which occupied nearly four hours, their Lord'
ships entered the residence of the Comtuodore•Superin-
tendant, and dined in the evening with that Gallant
Officer. Lieutenant. Colonel Irving, director of engi'
mering works, proceeded, on leaving the yard with Mr.
Bernays, Clerk of the Works, to the Royal Marine
Barracks, and was accompanied by the Rev. J. C. Con-
nolly, who has expressed a great desire to have huts
erected for the accommodation of the married men and
their families.