The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Amphitrite, 26,
was commissioned at this port this morning by the ap-
pointment to her of Captain T. R. Eden (1844). She is
to have a complement of 240 men, which, we imagine,
she will not be long in picking up, men having a strong
feeling in favour of small vessels of this class, and Cap-
tain Eden being a highly esteemed and generally liked
officer. The Amphitrite was a 42-gun frigate, built at
Bombay in 1816, after the lines of the French Leda.
She is of 1,064 t.ns, and will carry a very heavy arma-
ment. This is her first commission as a razee corvette.
An order has been down for some days past to enter
men for the Cambrian, 36, at this port, which is expected
daily to be put in commission by Captain the Hon. H.
Keppell, purported to carry a broad pendant to the East
India and China station, to relieve the Fox, 42, Commo•
dore Sir H. Blackwood, and not to go to New South
Wales, as stated on Monday.
The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lushington, has at length
got her reduced complement, men having exhibited an
alacrity to join since Commander Aldham has been ap-
pointed to her.
THE COAST DEFENCE BRIGADE.

We were the first to mention the appointment of Com-
mander Jerningham, of the coast guard service, some
weeks since as an additional commander to the Excellent
for organizing the coast guard men into a brigade for
the defence of our shores in the event of an emergency,
and for other purposes. The plan of organizing this
highly important body for the above objects is the aug.
gestion of the Noble First Lord of the Admiralty, the
Earl of Auckland.
The drilling of the coast guard body is after the prin-
ciples taught in the Excellent, and has commenced with
great vigour under the superintendence of the Controller-
General, Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., a gallant and
most meritorious officer, and Commander Jerningham.
An instructing battery has already been thrown up at
Cambridge, Isle of Wight, and the system has com-
menced all along the coast in good earnest. It is the in-
tention to establish instructing batteries all round the
kingdom. Even now, from all appearances of the pro-
gress made, and the manifest good will of the corps, the
excellence of the system, and the indefatigable example
of the officers, it is most clear that within six months
from the commencement of the plan we shall have at
least 1,000 good and able men available for the service,
afloat or ashore, when called upon. This admirable
force would at once man two or three block ships and
gun-boats, the latter no mean auxilliary to a force, espe-
cially in shallow water. The Excellent is to afford
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PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.--We can now
state confidently that Parliament will be prorogued by
her Majesty in person on Thursday, the 22d inst.
THE CHESTERFIELD MURDER.-The town of Ches-
terfield has again beea thrown into a state of excitement
by the apprehension of Mr. R. Statham, a master
butcher, charged with abetting in the murder of George
Collis. A fortnight ago Anthony Launt, a butcher, was
apprehended on the same charge. Evidence has now
been given against Mr. Statham (who found the money,
and evinced great interest in the defence of Platts, ex-
ecuted as one of the murderers of Collis). A witness
swearsAoiri to seeing Mr. Statham in the yard at the back of
ey's shop, and to certain conversations passing
between him and Morley at the time Platts and Collis
removing
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his shop, and immediately after the " scuffle"
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a pane of glass into the shop. fact, if the evidence
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eider and abettor of the murder.was taken into
custody on Monday. When the warrant was read over
to him in his shop he made no reply, but accompanied
the policeman to prison. He was on Tuesdam
taken before the magistrate, when the witnesses examined
exaomrial
at Platt's trial were again examined, and the new evidence
adduced. At the close the Mayor said the bench felt
bound to commit the prisoner to take his trial at the next
assizes. An attorney, who appeared for the prisoner,
asked the magistrates to take bail, but they. peremptorily
refused to do so, " unless compelled by a judge." Stat-
ham said the evidence (as regarded himself) was false,
and that it was " a hard case." He was taken to the
county gaol at Derby on Tuesday afternoon, and both
he and Launt will be arraigned at the ensuing assizes.
HORRIBLE BARBARITY.—MiehaeI Halloran, of Bal-
lycahane, is committed to the county gaol on a verdict
of the Coroner's inquest, for the murder of his son, a
boy aged eight years, who had been sickly and unable to
leave the house. On Friday the poor child was found to
have soiled his bed, which so exasperated the father that
he pulled and struck him ; then, making the tongs red
hot in the fire, he caught his neck between the prongs,
and squeezed him. On the naked back and sides he also
applied the burning torture, and the helpless victim did
nut long survive it. The execrable monster was appre-
hended by High-constable Slattery.—Limerick Chronicle.
SUDDEN DEATU.—Yesterday afternoon a gentle-
manly-looking man, about fifty years of age, was ob-
served to stagger and fall in l3ow-street, Covent-garden.
He was assisted into a chemist's, when it was found that
he was lAbouting tziala- the trr,•c,t4 of a coup de soLil. Tian
usual remedies were used, but without effect. Nothing
being found on the body to lead to identification, it was
removed to St. Giles's workhouse. The thermometer
stood froth eleven a.ar- to: six P.M., in the shade, at 89
degrees of Fahrenheit, aAd in the ran io 100 degrees.