The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

IVOOLWICII ROYAL DOCKYARD BATTALION.

The whole of the companies of this dockyard bri
gade assembled in the dockyard, at two o'clock P.M.,
on Saturday ; the artillery companies consisting of
9 sergeants, 9 corporals, and 287 men; the boat
brigade consisting of 8 sergeants, 8 corporals, and
200 men, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel
Bellamy; and the infantry companies consisting of
10 sergeants, 11 corporals, and 262 men, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lang; making a
total of 27 sergeants, 28_ corporals, and 749 men.
They marched through the town headed by their
brass band until opposite the Royal Arsenal, where
the infantry companies were detached, and proceeded
to the butt for practice with their small arms. The
artillery companies and the boat brigade held on to
the marshes for practice with shot ; the artillery
companies, with 6-pounder field battery guns, and
the boat brigade with 18 pounders, 24-pounders, and
32-pounders, mounted on ship carriages. The prac-
tice of the infantry companies was excellent, 10
rounds having been served to each man, one-half to
be fired at 60, and the other half at 100 yards' range.
The first company, consisting of forty-eight men,
fired 230 balls out of the'4Bo supplied to them into
the sail-cloth of which the target was formed, 10 of
the balls entering the bull's-eye, and the others into
the other circles and square of the target. Com-
modore Henry Eden, Colonel-Commandant of the
battalion, arrived at the butt to witness the practice,
and showed that he was a good marksman by taking
a gun from one of the men and sending the ball
through the target. The artillery companies prac-
tised with their 6-pounder guns at 600 yards' range,
and out of the 55 shot fired four entered the target,
and all the others passed near to it. The boat bri-
gade fired at 950 yards' range, and out of the 36
rounds six entered the target, and the others were so
close to it that only three shots would have missed a
frigate's pinnace, had they been directed against an
object of that dimensions.

On Friday Mr. H. M. Wakley concluded an
Isling-
ton, an ad-
journed inquest at the King's head,l.le gun
n-
ton, on Adelaide, the daughter of
smith, West-street, Islington,aged S
• rot u
erm,ae sre,d
formed an unfortunate liai,on with a married man; her
family did all in their
power, but in vain, to break off
the connexion.
On Sundey night the man's wife visited
Mr. Sturmer's house, where she saw deceased, with
whom she had very high words. Soon afterwards de-
ceased escaped from her father's house through the
window. Until one o'clock the following morning she was
seen wandering about the neighbourhood in a state of
phrenzy. That day her bonnet was found on the banks
of the New River, near Northampton street, and upon
further search her body was found close by in the river.
The body was in such a decomposed state that the sur-
geon with difficulty made a post moitem examination,
when he detected in the stomach corrosive sublimate,
which, in his opinion, was administered to cause abor-
tion, but could not say whether there was a sufficient
vanity to prcfrduce death—Verdict, "Found drowned."
AEROSTATION.—An aeronaut, nulled Arban, as-
cended in a balloon at Marseilles on the 2a instant. He
descended the following day at Stupini, near Turin.