The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-10 00:00:00

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

CHATHAM, JULY B.—The Commandant-Colonel, Sir
T. Wiltshire, K.C.8., of this garrison, has directed
Colonel T. Weare, K.H., Commandant of the Pro-
visional Battalion, to cause the undermentioned officers
of the 51st King's Own Light Infantry to hold them-
selves in readiness for embarkation to join their corps on
the shortest notice. It is expected that they will pro-
ceed to India, as the regiment is on the route from Van
Diemen's Land for service in the East Indies.

The following are the names of the officers to proceed:
—Major F. Marnwaring, Captain R. D. Baker, Captain
E. Isham, Captain W. H. H. Anderson, Lieutenant
B. C. G. Crookshank, Lieutenant D. Stephenson, Lieu-
tenant J. H. Dickson, Lieutenant L. H. Bedford, Lieu-
tenant J. G. D. Marshall, Ensign S. G. Carter, Ensign
R. G. S. Mason, Ensign A. Robertson, Ensign A. W.
Cottony, Ensign G. 0. Nunn, Ensign H. B. Westropp,
Ensign F. J. Loyd, Ensign J. W. Bateman, Ensign E.
O'Callaghan, Adjutant C. T. Bentley, and Assistant-
Surgeon W. A. Anderson.
Colonel Thomas Weare has also caused the under-
mentioned detachments of regiments attached to the
provisional battalion serving in India, to be held in
readiness for embarkation for Bengal, on the 15th inst.,
when they will march en route to Gravesend, and there
embark on board the ship Sophia, Captain George
Saxon :—The 9th Foot, furnishes 81 men, with the fol-
lowing officers :—Captain F. D. Lister, LieutenantW. G.
Cassidy, Lieutenant F. W. D. Waddicombe, Ensign C.
W. Loiesworth, and Ensign S. B. Skinner; the 10th, 1
man ; the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers, 55 men,
with Ist Lieutenant John Watson, and 2d Lieutenant
William Thomas M'Grigor ; the 24th Regiment, 40
men; 29th Foot, 1 man; and the 32d Regiment, 27 men
—making a total of 7 officers and 205 men.
A general court-martial assembled at the General
Court-Martial-room of this garrison, of which Colonel
Thomas Weare was president, and Brigade-Major J. S.
Wood, Deputy Judge-Advocate, for the trial of private
James Tierney, of the 46th Regiment, on two charges:-
Ist, for having deserted from the depot of the 46th on
or about the 23d of May last, and not returning until
brought back by an escort on the Bth of June following;
2d, for having, on or about the period of his desertion,
as stated in the Ist charge, stolen one pair of boots and
one forage cap, the property of Lance-corporal Bryan,
of the same corps. Evidence was given, and it was also
stated, that this makes the third charge of desertion
against the prisoner. The decision of the Court will
not be known until confirmed by her Majesty.

THE MURDER in WARWICKSHIRE.

KINETOW, WEDNESDAY.—The magistrates of this division
of the county held a special meeting here yesterday, which
was very numerously attended, and at which it was re-
solved that an application should be made to the Home
Secretary of State to offer a reward for the apprehension of
the person or persons engaged in this diabolical affair. Every
possible exertion has been used by the magistracy of the
neighbourhood to unravel the mystery in which the transac-
tion is involved, and one or two circumstances have trans-
pired since the Coroner's inquest to confirm the opinion so
decidedly given by the surgeon, Mr. Brown, upon his exami-
nation—namely, that the deceased had died of an extensive
fracture of the skull, occasioned by several severe blows
from a blunt instrument, such as might have been inflicted
by the piece of timber found under the person of Chater
when he was discovered in a senseless state, bleeding from the
mouth, near to Pittern-hill, which is about half a mile from
Kineton, a very quiet secluded market town, containing a po-
pulation of about 1,400 inhabitants. It has already been stated
that near the body of the murdered man a quantity of coffee
was found spilled about the ground, as though in the course
of a struggle it had fallen there, from the bursting of the
paper in which it was wrapped ; but it has only just tran-
spired that this piece of paper, upon which are printed the
name and address of the tradesman from whom the coffee
was purchased (Meddoms, Kineton), was very carefully
folded up in the deceased's pocket, as if put there after an
attempt had been made to rob him, and with a view of pre-
venting any clue being given by it to the guilty parties.
With the exception of a few spots upon the piece of timber
spoken of, no blood was found near the body, or anywhere in
the vicinity, and this goes far to strengthen the supposition
that, being a man of spare frame and weak habit of body, the
deceased was carried to, and placed on, the spot where the
carrier's son discovered him after the outrage had been perpe-
trated. It has also been stated that only a few pence were
left in the pockets of the man, and there is no reason for sup-
posing that he was in possession of more than a very few
s
shillings throughout the day,
notwithstanding the attempt made by rumour to give undue weight to the affair in
this respect, in the conjecture that he had raised money that
day by mortgaging some cottages belonging to him at the
village of Cornbrook, where he resided. It appears, how-
ever, his real object in coming to Kineton was to procure an
under-bailiff's situation, which had fallen vacant by death,
on Lord Willoughby de Broke's estate, at Compton Verney.
Mr. Roby, the well-known and active superintendent of
police, has arrived from Leamington, and is now engaged in
a thorough investigation of the whole circumstances, in the
chain of which there is apparently one link to be supplied,
namely, where the deceased, who was last seen in the town
by a groom, named Fennell, about a quarter past ten at
night, had spent his time between then and twelve o'clock,
soon after which his body was found at the top of Pittern-
hill ; for two individuals connected with the Warwickshire
kennels passed the spot at half-past eleven, and described
the night to be so light that they " could see rabbits run
across the road," but saw no man lying down, which they
consider they must have done had any one been there, as
they had to drive a horse which shied at any dark object in
the road.
Suspicion has fallen upon some inmates, on the night of
the murder, of a lodging-house, kept by a blind man, wbo
lost his sight in Egypt 45 years ago, under the military
generalship of the celebrated Sir Ralph Abercromby, and
now enjoys a pension ; he also keeps a lodging-house in
King-street, Drury-lane, from which metropolitan establish-
ment one of the suspected parties married his wife. It is
thought that the inquiries now in course of being made
by Mr. Roby will terminate in a result that will materially
lessen the excitement which the melancholy occurrence has
occasioned for several miles around the neighbourhood of
Minton.