The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-29 00:00:00

THE CHARGE OF SCUTTLING A `HIP.

At the Mansion House yesterday further inquiry
was made into the charge against Hector Gillies, ship-
owner, and John Fitzgerald, master mariner, for scuttling
the ship Admiral Napier, with the view to defraud
the Azienda Insurance Association of Trieste of
£6OO, for which the ship was insured. John
Gordon, who was mate of the ship when a former
witness, Somerville, was the captain, deposed to
the details of a conversation he heard between Gillies
and Somerville about getting rid of the vessel,
which led him to leave her, and give information to
Captain Dounward, who instituted the present prosecu-
tion. Witness's evidence confirmed that given by So-
merville, as to the offer of £2O made to him by Gillies to
lose the ship. The next witness, James Buddy, of
Gravesend, stated that he was mate of the ship
from Dublin to Liverpool, and from thence to Aber-
deen. On the 7th of June the witness discovered
a leakage near the master's cabin. The captain, however,
made no effort to have it stopped, and told the witness
not to meddle with it, for fear he should make it worse.
He might, the witness said, easily have rim the ship on
shore, but he made no effort to do so. The ship went
down head foremost, and the crew were landed at Lam-
lash. They saved some tools, among which was a large
auger, which the captain threw overboard. At Lamlash
witness quarrelled with Gillies, and told him that the
ship had not been lawfully lost. Evidence confirmatory
of several of these statements was given by William
Lacy, one of the sailors, by two of the boys, and the case
was remanded to the sth August.

It has, we believe, been definitively settled that
the session shall close ou Thursday week, the 11th of
August, and Parliament will, if possible, be adjourned on
that day. In the interval, however, Mr. Gladstone
will be able to carry a bill, which he has introduced,
to amend the Acts of the 37th Geo. 111., c. 127, and
the 39th and 40th Geo. 111., c. 14, by enabling the
Government to assemble the Parliament within six
days, instead of fourteen days, after the public noti-
fication.

The Galatea, Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edin-
burgh, is to be docked on her arrival at Sydney, in com-
pany with H. M. S. Clio.

ARCHDEACON HALE.--In the opinion of Dr. Bur-
rowes, the Archdeacon of London is steadily improving
in health, and therefore no further bulletins will be
issued.

The death is announced of the Rev. Henry
Griffin Williams, Professor of Arabic in the University of
Cambridge. The deceased gentleman was also rector of
Preston, Suffolk, an office worth £5OO a year.

Captain H. F. M'Killop, R.N., who some few years
since proceeded to Egypt, to organise the Khedive's
maritime forces, has been appointed harbour master at
Alexandria.

The rectory of Miserden, near Cheltenham, has
been conferred upon the Rev. H. G. Cundy, M.A., Pro-
fessor of Classics in Queen's College, Birmingham.
The armour-plated ship Warrior left Spithead on
Wednesday, to act as escort to the Princess Royal on her
journey across to this country on a visit to her Majesty.
The Semaphore of Marseilles announces that sixty-
eight Cardinals and Prelates have landed in that city ,
coming from Rome.

The Vice-Principalship of St. Mark's Training
College, Chelsea, is about becoming vacant. It is
worth £l5O a year, with board, rooms, and other advan-
tages.

DEATH OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP.—The
Most Rev. Dr. M`Cabe, Bishop of Ardagh, died suddenly
on his return from Rome. His remains were forwarded to
Paris on Thursday.
The Standard says that immediate steps are to be
taken to place twenty-five battalions in a state of readiness
for active service. Another authority states that it is
intended to send a battalion of six companies of Royal
Marines to Japan, to replace the Ist battalion 10th
Regiment.

On Wednesday Mr. Headlam, the stipendiary
magistrate of Manchester, committed five men, named
Ryan, Cowen, Bielenberg, Ogden, and Cook. for trial at
the assizes, on the charge of having conspired to de-
fraud several merchants in Manchester. The prisoners,
it is alleged, belong to what is known as the " long firm."
Several armour-plated ships are ordered to be
brought forward for commission, but where the men and
stores are to come from appears to perplex the chiefs of
departments.

The special correspondent of the Birmingham
Gazette says—l learn that Government is gathering to-
gether a fleet of ironclads to cruise in the Mediterranean,
in case of eventualities. After all, there is a little activity
—at the Admiralty.

A man named Churchill, arraigned for the offence
of bigamy, has been acquitted at the Lancaster assizes, the
prosecution not being provided with legal proof that the
chapel at which the alleged first marriage took place was
duly registered.

The Earl of Shaftesbury has given notice that
when the House of Lords is in Committee on the
Education Bill, he will move to alter one of the clauses
in such a manner as to require the attendance at scoool of
all children between the ages of four and ten years, instead
of five and thirteen, as provided by the bill.

A new club for the Conservative party is about
to be formed under the auspices of the Earl of Dartmouth,
Viscount Holmesdale, M.P. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P.,
Mr. Dimsdale,.M.P., Lord Garie ,s M.P., the Marquis of
Hamilton, M.P., Mr. H. Cecil Haikes, M.P., and other
gentlemen. A site in the immediate neighbourhood of
the Houses of Parliament will be secured, and it is ex-
pected that the club will be opened on the Ist of
January, 1871. Its precise title has not yet been deter-
mined upon.

DEATH OF THE HON. F. CHARTERIS.—We re-
gret to state that the Hon. F. Charteris died from the
effects of his wound, at his father's residence, in St.
James's-place, at half-past twelve p.m. yesterday, after
enquring great suffering. Surgeon-Major John Wyatt,
of the Coldstream Guards, was in constant attendance,
and Sir W. Fergusson, Dr. Gull, and Mr. Prescott
Hull, with other eminent surgeons, made every en-
deavour to save the unfortunate gentleman's life.
The Queen was constantly informed of the progress
of the case, and numerous inquiries have been made
daily at Lord Elcho's house since the disastrous occur-
rence.

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