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London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

BULL, 57TH REGIMENT.

(EXTRACT FROM GARRISON ORDERS, FZB. 12, 1847
Field Marshal the Commander-in-Chief having had the
honour to lay before her Majesty the Queen the proceedings
of a general court-martial, held at Chatham, on the 10th
December, 1846, and continued by adjournment to the 21st
of the same month, for the trial of Captain John James Bull.
of the 57th Regiment, who was arraigned upon the under-
mentioned charge, viz.:—
For conduct prejudicial to good order and military disciP•
line in the following instances :-
Ist Instance—ln having, on the 9th of July, 1846, on
board the barque Mary Anne, then at anchor at Simon's Bay,
Cape of Good Hope, ordered Major Shadforth, 57th Regiment.
then being his commanding officer, into arrest.
2d Instance—ln having, at the same time and places
without authority, assumed the command of the head-quar-
ters of the 57th Regiment, by ordering Lieutenant Sweeten
Grant, the acting adjutant to the corps, to place Capt. Stan-
ley in arrest.
3d Instance—ln having, on the 10th July, on board the
barque Mary Anne, without authority, assumed the command
of the head-quarters of the 57th Regiment, by issuing regi-
mental orders, and relieving himself from duty as captain of
the day for which lie had been detailed.
4th Instance—ln having, on the said 10th of July, and at
the same place, refused to sign a pass-order for calling •
meeting of the officers which had been issued by Major Shad-
forth, then being his commanding officer.
sth Instance— In having, on the said 10th of July, after
he had been detailed in regimental orders as captain of the
day, left the said barque Mary Anne, although express orders
had been given by Major Shadforth, then being his com-
manding officer, to him, Captain Bull, that no officer was to
Days the said barque without his, Major Shadforth's, per•
mission.

Upon which charge the Court came to the following de•
cision :--

The Court having maturely weighed and considered the
evidence in support of the prosecution, together with what
the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opiuion that he,
Captain John James Bull, of the 57th Regiment, is guilty of
the charge upon which he ii arraigned in each of the five
instances.

The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge
preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles
of War, do sentence him, Captain John James Bull, of the
57th Regiment to be cashiered.

The Uourt having, by its finding and sentence, pro•
nounced the strongest condemnation of the conduct of
the prisoner, Captain John James Bull, cannot but remark
upon the total want of judgment an 4 energy evinced
by the prosecutor, Major Shadforth, under grave end
trying circumstances that called for that degree of firm•
ness and decision which alone could check and supprea
such an outrageous violation of military discipline as oc•
curred on board the Mary Anne on the night of the 901
July, 1846.
The Court having passed sentence upon Captain Bull,
the prisoner, commensurate with the serious offences 9,
which he has been found guilty, begs to recommend log
case to the favourable consideration of her Most Gracious
Majesty, on account of the high character he has re-
ceived from his colonel and the officers with whom he hal
served.

Her Majesty was pleased to approve and confirm the find;
ing and sentence of the Court ; in consideration, however, of
the recommendation of the Court, and the ground of that
recommendation, her Majesty was further pleased to extend
her most gracious clemency to the prisioner, and to coniunl
that he be restored to the functions of his commission,
removed to another regiment of the line, and seriously *dal°•
niched as to his future conduct.

(Signed)

J. MACDONALD, Adj,•Gener&l.

Lieutenants the llon. Percy Fielding and Plunkett Burton.
were presented on Friday, at the levee, on their appointment
to the Coldstream Guards, by his Ito} al Highness the Duk•
of Cambridge.

r VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIRE-•—Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston received the Couftesshleofjao%
kerville, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady As
Dudley Stuart, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, the Right
lion. h. J. and Mrs. Stanley, the lion. W. Cooper, the Hon.
MisS Eden, Mr. B. Sheridan, and a select party to dinner on
Saturday last, at their mansion in Carlton-gardens. Her
Ladyship at a more advanced period of the evening had au
assembly. Among the guests were his Excellency Count de
St. Aulaire; his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Dietrlchstein, his Excellency Count Kielmans
segge, his Excellency Baron de Beust, his Excellency the
Brazilian Minister and the Marchioness di Lisboa, his Excel-
lency Mr. Bancroft, his Excellency Count Schimmelpeninck,
his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen,
his Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Re-
ventlow, and the Countess Hilda Reventlow, Count Potocki,
Baron Koller, Baron Brenner, Baron and Baroness de Lin-
den, Baron Nicholay, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Count de
Noailles, Prince Lowenstein, Baron and Baroness L. Roths-
child, Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Princess Callimaki.
the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Villafrancar
the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess
of Listowel, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Auckland
and lion. Miss F. Eden, Viscount and -Viscountess Mabee,
Viscount Anson, Viscount and Viscountess Melgund, Viscount
Folkestone, and Lady Jane Bouverie, Viscount and Viscountess
Falkland, the Earl of Clare, the Lord Chancellor and the
Hon. Misses Pepys, Lord Monteagle, Lord Foley and the
Hon. Miss Foley ; Viscount Goderich, Lord Campbell and
the Hon. Miss Campbell ; Lord and Lady Beauvale, LadY
Brougham, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Beaumont,
Lord Seymour, the Lord Advocate, Baron and Lady Parke
and Miss Parke, Lord Brooke, the Lord Chief Justice and
Lady Wilde, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Seaford and the MisseS
Hardy, Lady William Poulett, Sir Stratford and Lady CO'
ning and giss Canning, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, Sit
John and Lady Charlotte Guest, Sir A. and Lady Dun
Gordon, Sir R. J. Murchison, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Sit
Benjamin Hall, the Hon. W. Ashley, the lion. J. Howard.
Sir D. J. Norreys, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Mr. Panizzi, the
Misses Drummond, Mr. and Miss Clifford, Hon. Col. Keppels
sir. 11. Vyner, lion. Spencer Ponsonby, Mr. Grenfoll and
Miss Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs. John Townley, Hon. Captain
and Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Addington, Hon.
R. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, Hon. Mr. Duncan, Mr.
Harcourt, Mr. and Lady Caroline Maxse, Mr. S. O'Brien,
Mr. R. M. Milnes, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. E.
Denison, Hon. Charles Howard. Captain F. Seymour, Mr.
Matheson, lion. Mr. Grey, Mr. 11. Sullivan, itc.
THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right nom the
Speaker of the House of Commons entertained at his Par-
liamentary dinner on Saturday last—Lord Seymour, Lord
Harry Vane, the lion. Charles lioward, the Right lion. Ed-
ward Ellice. the Right Hon. Francis T. Baring, the Hon.
Colonel Anson, the Right Hon. Edward Struts, Sir T. E.
Colebrooke, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sit
Denis Le Marchant, Sir William Clay, Sir Andrew Leith
Hay, Major-General Fox, Mr. John Rotnilly, Mr. Wise, Dir.
E. Rice, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr.
Hume, Mr. Rosa, Mr. Tuite, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Tancred.
Mr. E. Denison, Mr. Loch, and Mr. Hastie.
HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.—We are
happy to see by the last bulletin of the health of her Ma-
jesty the Queen of Prussia, published at Berlin on the Bth
of this month, that she continues to improve. The cough
has become less irritating, and the fever is moderated.
STOCKINGS FOR THE ROYAL INFANTS.— The
Clare Journal says—" We feel great pleasure in recording
an instance of her Majesty's wish to encourage by her pa-
tronage the native manufactures of Ireland. Two girls, sis-
ters, of the name of Davies, living in Corofin, in this county,
having long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for the taste
and skill evinced by them in the knitting of stockings, were
advised to present a pair of them to her Majesty, who was
so pleased with the beauty of design and execution dis-
played in them, as to order four and twenty pair for the
royal infants."
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Constitutionnel publisher;
the following letter, dated Berlin, 31st ult. :—" A few days
since M. Braconier, a stock-broker, was condemned to hard
labour for nine years fur having gambled with the property
of his clients and having ruined himself. M. Braconier 13
a member of one of the most wealthy families in the capital,
and every effort was made by offering to pay his debts to
save him from disgrace, but it was too late. ft is hoped that
his fate will have the effect of preventing other speculators
from risking property confided to their care."
NOVEL SPECIES OF BALLooN.—A balloon con-
structed on a principle by which the longest aerial voyages
can be performed, and by which all danger is avoided by the
expansion of gas, and all waste of gas prevented, may now
be seen in the Montpellier-gardens, at Camberwell, by per-
sons_ connected with scientific inventions and pursuits. The
invention is that of a Mr. Gale, a gentleman of some repu-
tation in science, and well known on the continent as An
aeronaut, and as a pupil of the celebrated Arnaud Robert.
The improvements on the old lumbering machines, which
have hitherto done little beyond collecting an idle, gaping
mob at tea-gardens, and by the ascent of which science has
received no information whatever, consist in elastic tubes,
pipes, or what is called hose, by which all the gas which
escapes from the lower part of the machine is received and
conveyed into large bags or receivers attached to the
middle of the balloon, so that let the expansion of the
gas be what it will from heat, or other causes, the gas can
be let off and preserved, and no danger of bursting incurred.
The car is also differently constructed from the old method;
and the aeronaut can without trouble lower beneath the car
another car, to any distance he may please, in which scientific
experiments can be carried on, or fire made use of, without
danger to the balloon. The cars aro very light, being made
of prepared cork and Indian rubber. This balloon is nearly
as large as the great Nassau balloon, and is made of silk ma-
nufactured by Blessrs. Merciers and Vauner, of Spitalfields-
The designs for the external painting are very good ; they
are by Mr. D. Roberts. The whole apparatus, grapnel's, &c., are
improvements on the heavy and clumsy things hitherto used
for aerial voyages.

THUNDER- STORM AT LINDAL.—On Tuesday
night last this neighbourhood was visited by a tremendous
storm of thunder and lightning, which continued without
intermission the greater part the night. About nine o'clock
the storm broke over this neighbourhood with extreme
violence, vivid flashes of lightning succeedlag each other in
quick succession, and illuminating thewsky in all directions,
were succeeded by heavy peals of thulder. A slight fall of
snow accompanijd this extraordinary and unseasonable tem-
pest. The roaring of the wind during the storm was almost
equal to the thunder itself, which aroused the peaceable
denizens of Lindal from their quiet slumbers, in no small tro-
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