The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

DEATH OF MISS GRACE
AGUILAR.

To communicate evil tidi7g;Privately is one of the
most painful talcs we have to perform in the course
of our lives. But to be the medium of announcing to
the public a heavy national loss is a duty so sad and
hears-rending, the extent of which can only be felt
by the messenger of the mournful event. Such, we
lament to say, is wur duty this day, in recording the
death of Miss Grace Aguilar, at the age of 32. We
do not in the least exaggerate the loss in calling it a
national one, as the numerous literary productions of
that lady were not only appreciated in England, but
also in America, Germany, and France. Indeed, we
may go so far as to state, that her works were much
more appreciated by the Jews on the continent than
by those in this country. Her " Women of Israel,"
a work every page of which is stamped with the most
ardent zeal and fervent piety—in every line of which
breathes that national sense and true patriotism which.
is the great. characteristic of all her writings ; her
" Women of Israel," which are teeming with powerful,
lessons to her own sex, and eloquent exhortations to
the opposite one—parts of that work have been trans-
lated into the German, propagated by her true friend
the Rev. Mr. Leeser of Philadelphia, on the other side
of the Atlantic ; hut, alas, our Jewish brethren in
England }lace not appreciated its value: Had it not
been for the kindness of an excommunicated philan
thropist, her works would hardly have become
known, much less disseminated, among the Jews of
England. Her " Spirit of Judaism," " Jewish
Faith," &c., are likewise works of great merit, and
full of that pious fervour and filial affection which
carries the reader along with her alike in sympathy
with the writer and conviction of the argument. The
"Jewish Faith" betrays signs of no mean acquaint-
ance with Jewish and Christian philosophers and
divines, and its logical reasoning is far from betray-
ing the sex of the author.—Jewish Chronicle.

COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.
Yesterday at Chatham Barracks, the officers, con-
sisting of two majors, five captains, with seven lieu-,
nants, assembled in the General Court-martial Room,
as members of a general Court-martial, of which Co-
lonel Charles Menzies, KAI., Royal Marines, was
president, for the trial of private John Hare, No.
2,262, of the Bth Regiment of foot, who was arrainged.
for having at Chatham, on or about the 16th of Sep-
tember, 1847, struck and offered violence to Lance-
sergeant Thomas Hennesley, of the 86th Regiment,
his superior officer, then and there being in the exe-
'cution of his office.

The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Sergeant Thomas Hennesley, of the 86th, was then.
examined, and his evidence NA ent to show that on the
16th of last month he was on duty at the Battalion.
Barrack-guard, and the prisoner, with others was
there confined, when a sergeant and an escort of the
prisonees regiment came for their prisoners, as they
were to sign their accounts previous to their embark—
ation the next day, and as an order had been given.
by the commanding officer, that in case the prisoner
was wanted he was not to leave without the handcuffs
being put on him, and in the execution of that order
the prisoner struck him over the forehead with his
fist, and then escaped into the guardroom, and on.
being retaken the prisoner again struck him in the
face.

Captain W. Kirby, 94th Regiment, and Acting
Staff Captain of the Provisional Battalion, produced
the battalion court-martial hook ; in that it appeared
that the prisoner was tried by a district court-martial,
held at Chatham on the 13th April last, on two
charges—first, for desertion; second, fur re-enlisting
when in a state of desertion, and he was convicted
and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to
be marked with the letter D. ; two months of that
sentence were remitted by order of his Grace the
Commander-in-Chief.

The issue of this trial will not be known until con.
firmed by the Horse Guards.

ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.
A board of officers, consisting of Major-General
J. Webber Smith, C. 8., Director-General of Artil-
lery, president; Major-General John Boteler Parker,
C. 8.; Major-General Edward Fanshawe,C.B., acting
in place of Major-General Sir J. Burgoyne, K.C.8.,
who is at present employed on the poor-law measure
in Ireland; Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon ; Lieutenant-.
Colonel Dundas, C. 8.; and Lieutenant-Colonel Jones,
of the Royal Military Academy, assembled yesterday
at the Cadets' Barracks in the Royal Arsenal. Brigade-
Major Cuppage, Royal Artillery, Captain Stotherd,
Royal Engineers, and a number of officers of the
Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers being also
present to witness the examination of forty-one
gentlemen cadets of the first or practical class, to
ascertain their fitness for being passed for commis-
sions in the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Royal
Engineers. The gentlemen cadets were drawn
up in line at eleven o'clock A.M., under the com-
mand of Captain Harrison, and inspected by
Major-General Parker, and immediately after
marched to the hall for examination, whiclz
continued until nearly two o'clock, when the follow-
ing were recommended to the Master General for
commissions :—Samuel Digby 'Wright, Alexander
Ross Clarke, Edward Bainbridge, James Murray,
Francis Horatio de Were, George Ranken, Augustus
Young Earle, Hon. Leonard Allen Addington,
Henry Raymond Pelly, Robert Mann Parsons,
Frederick Brine, Arthur Vandeleur, Arthur A'Court
Fisher, Andrew Spottswood Orr, George Montagu
Stopford, Edward Bridge, Charles Rowland Hill,
Henry Reynolds Luard, Patrick John Campbell,
Francis Cornwallis Maude, Arthur William Twiss,
Reginald Curtis, Allen Sievwright, Frederic South-
cote Seale, John Boulton, John de Luttrell Saun-
derson, Montagu Stopford Whitmore, Moutray
Anketell, Philip Dickson, .Mneas Clark, Francis
Place, Edward Jackson Bruce, 'William Powell
Richards, John Edward Hope, Henry Walpole John
Dashwood, Algernon Brendon, James de Havilland,
Sidney Carden, William Walker, George Allix Wil.
kinson, William Windham Augustus Lukin.
At the conclusion of the examination a regulation
sword was awarded to Sidney Carden, for general
good conduct ; and the second prize, consisting of a
handsome pocket sextant in case, to Francis Heretics
de Vere.