The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-22 00:00:00

COURT-MARTIAL.

A general court-martial assembled yesterday morn-
ing at Chatham Garrison, for the trial of private John
Mitchell, 14th Regiment, No. 1,665, Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas E. Kelly, President, and Captain J. S. Wood,
Brigade-Major, Deputy Judge Advocate.
The prisoner was arraigned upon five charges. For
having, in the orderly room at the barracks at Newport.
Monmouthshire, on the 22d of August last, when or•
dered for punishment by his commanding officer for
committing an offence, said, " If I am to be tried for that
I'll have something to be tried for," and he immediately
struck Sergeant Charles Newman, the sergeant of the
guard, with his fists, and seized the bayonet out of the
sergeant's hand. Lieutenant and Adjutant R. Macdonald
rushed upon the prisoner and took away the bayonet,
Sergeant Newman was insensible from the blows given
by the prisoner in the presence of the commanding officer.
The prisoner was secured and marched to the guard-
room by a file of the guard, and then he was placed
in confinement ; and on the 30th of August, the
prisoner, with another prisoner of the name of Cummins,
who was tried the beginning of the week, destroyed
the prison door by smashing it into fragments, and using
threatening language to Sergeant John Beckworth; and
on the 31st of the same month the prisoner sent for the
Adjutant, and on that officer appearing, the prisoner
asked him how long be was to be kept in the cell, and
was told until he was tried, when the prisoner replied, in
a threatening manner, "Then I'll give you something to
try me fur." The damage done to the prison door, and
to the bed, amounts to 11. 19s. 10d.
The prosecution being closed, the prisoner, in his de-
fence, said, " I considered that I was, in the first in-
stance, undeservedly punished by my commanding
officer, fur a crime imputed to me, and that was the cause
that induced me to commit the offence I did, and I'll be
revenged, if I die for it."
Lieutenant and Adjutant Macdonald produced leaves
from the Court-martial book. The prisoner was tried by
regimental Court-martial at Londonderry, on the Ist of
Al arch, 1843, and sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment,
with hard labour. his general character is bad. He
has been eight years and eight months in the regiment,
and is 25 years of age.
The Court found him guilty, but the sentence will not
be known until confirmed by the Commander•in•Chief.

CHRIST'S HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday being the anni-
versary of the foundation of this admirable institution,
the senior scholars, in accordance with ancient usage,
delivered in the great hall, before the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, Governors, and friends of the Hospital, a series
of orations on the benefits arising from the establish-
ment. Upwards of 2,000 visitors, the majority of whom
were ladies, were present. Mr. Charles Dacre Craven,
second Grecian, who is proceeding to Lincoln College,
Oxford, as Thompson Scholar, commenced the proceed-
ings with a Latin oration, remarkable for purity of style
and elevation of sentiment. Mr. D'Arcy Wentworth
Thompson, third Grecian, Classical Medallist, 1847, and
Mathematical Medallist, 1848, who is proceeding to
Trinity College, Cambridge, followed in an English
oration of great merit, and was mach applauded. The
Greek oration was given by Mr. Robert Black, fourth
Grecian, who is going to Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge, and the French oration by Mr, James
Lempriere Hammond, first Grecian, Mathematical
Medallist, 1847, Classical Medallist, 1348, and
who is proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge.
These acquitted themselves most creditably, and were
highly applauded, especially the latter, who, in addition
to his superior elocution, had the advantage of speaking
in a language generally intelligible to the fair sex. The
remaining compositions recited were " Latin Alcaics on
Cleopatra," by Alfred Sweeting, tenth Grecian; " Man-
fred's Soliloquy," translated into Greek iambics, by
Herman Charles Heilbronn, fifth Grecian; Latin hexa-
meters on " British Freedom," from Goldsmith's " Tra-
veller," by Lawrence Craven, sixth Grecian; Collins's
" Ode to Evening," rendered into Greek sapphics, by
Thomas Holbron, seventh Grecian; Latin hexameters
on " The Death of Socrates," by James Gill, eleventh
Grecian; Latin elegiacs on " Mary Queen d
of Scots," by
Henry Charles Jones, twelfth Grecian; an an English
poem on " Borneo," by George Hector Croad, eighth
Grecian. Mr. Charles S. D. Townsend was to have
spoken a second English poem, but was absent through
illness. The whole of the proceedings passed off with
great éclat, and ri fleeted vast credit on the Rev. Dr.
Rice, head master, and his able assistants.
NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.—In an
inhospitable portion of one of the Australian colonies
there resided two young men, of education and respecta-
bility, who, with many others, had left their country
and their friends to seek their fortune in a land of
strangers. The place which they selected for their
new enterprises proved to be unsuited to their objects,
and a very common lot befel them—they were reduced
to poverty—and compelled to resort to untried expe-
dients in order to procure the means of subsistence.
One of them commenced a school, and the other resolved
upon an undertaking vihich, considering the circum-
stances under which it was prosecuted, may be ranked
amongst the wonders of colonial life. The want of a
small coasting vessel to trade between the outports of the
province had long been a source of inconvenience to the
seized upon the chance of
settlers; and this young man
retrieving his lost fortunes by an attempt to supply this
desideratum. He had never before been engaged in
shipbuilding, and he had no person to assist him in the
laborious part of such a work. This, however, did not
discourage him. His genius overcame the first of these
difficulties, and his perseverance mastered the second.
The keel of a vessel was placed upon the stocks,
hewn out of the forest by his own industrious hands,
and by indomitable toil the same hands cut and
fashioned, and conveyed to their proper destina-
tion, the various timbers necessary for the completion
of this arduous work, the affectionate schoolmaster in
the meanwhile supporting from his earnings the amateur
shipbuilder. The vessel was finished anelaunched, and
to the gratification of every one who had marked the
consummation of this extraordinary undertaking, rode
proudly on the waters of the settlement. A melancholy
event followed. The two brothers were struggling in a
small boat to drag their newly-acquired prize over a bar
which intervened between her and the ocean she was
destined to traverse, when, from the violence of the surf,
and the inexperience of the sailors, the boat was cap-
sized, and the unfortunate schoolmaster was drowned!
The bereaved brother was thus left to plod his lonely
way, with his little craft, through the new scenes upon
which he had entered. He progressed from step by
step, rewarded by deserved success, until a more extended
voyage was contemplated. The theatre of his labours
was left behind, the staunchness of his little vessel was
tested by the billows of the Lenin, and now she lies,
safely anchored, in the harbour of Port Adelaide, the
Gazelle of Western Australia, and a gem in colonial
naval architectum We give her enterprising owner
(Mr. J. Kemp) a hearty welcome to our shores, and wish
him all the prosperity to which his unexampled industry
and privations so richly entitle him.—South Australia
Register, April 1.
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