The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-05 00:00:00

TH:E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY r.VENING,

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
COLBUJ?A'S NE IV iIIONTHLY.
Among the " continuations" are " Frenel
Governess"—" A Visit to the Battlefields-oaf Cressl
and Agincciurt"—" A few Months in Southern
Africa''—"'lick"—and the concluding chapters of
"Philip and his Poodle" and " The Richest Com-
moner in England." As if to disabuse the imagina-
tion of the reader of any conjecture that the richest
commoner in England means his Majesty George the
Fifth, otherwise Mr. Hudson, otherwise the Railwpy
King, the author states that Mrs. Dovey is ambitious
of seeing Charles Surnmerley fixed on the other side
of the " Rock of Gibraltar"—meaning the tall house
near Albert-gate vis-a-vis to the residence of the ex-
Lord Mayor of York. In a note the uninitiated are
informed that " the tall houses on either side c f
Albert-gate were christened the Rock of Gibraltar.
because it was prophesied they would never be taken.''
Captain Medwin's jeu d'esprit on the Germanic tri-
colour is not so good by half as the one which was
already familiar to the million, to the effect
that Allemania had appropriately selected as its
colours in the gambling game of revolutions
the mixture of gold with rouge et noir.
A sensible and seasonable paper on Vancouver's
Island " explains the numerous advantages possessed
by that remarkable colony. " Brighton in the
Autumn " is an amusing trifle from which we obtain
the following veracious information respecting the
personal appearance and peculiarities of three cele-
brated authors of the present day,—the writers of
" Dombey," of " Harold," and of the " Lancashire
Witches :"
" Mr. said Mrs. Endor, herself, in this
respect, an undoubted witch, Mr. D— is a very sin-
gular old man.'
An old man?' we inquired, innocently, believing
him as well as the other two to be in the prime of life.
" 'Yes, sir,—very old,— seventy at the least; I am
sixty •five myself. He has bong white hair which
reaches half-way down his back, and what is more
extraordinary, he has not eaten animal food ever since
he was a boy of fifteen (they do say in consequence
of a vow); and I can tell you another thing : to my
certain knowledge he never goes to bed, but passes his
nights in the streets of London picking up materials
for his stories.'
" This was information certainly, and of the kind to
make us anxious for more.
" What kind of person,' we asked, 'is Sir Edward?'
" Altogether ditferelit,' replied Mrs. Endor; he
never gets up at all—except just to have his bed made,
and even then he always remains in a horizontal po-
sition,—l may say, quite flat; of course he doesn't
write his own Looks,—l mean with his own hands,—
but keeps four young men constantly employed, day
and night, taking down to his dictation till the work
he is engaged upon is finished. He then covers the
clothes over his head, and, perhaps, doesn't speak to
any body for a month ; some say he sleeps all that
time, but my private opinion is that he hasn't had a
wink for years!'
" Marvelling greatly at Sir Edward's pertinacious
vitality,—for, by Mrs. Endor's account, it appeared as
if he abstained, not only from animal food, but from
food altogether,—we ventured a request as to the pur-
suits of the third novelist.
" ' That gentleman,' said our old lady, is the most
extraordinary of them all. He lives on board his
yacht almost all the year round, and writes best in a
gale of wind. Whenever he comes down to Brighton,
and lie is often here,—though I must say I have never
seen him,—he at once goes on board of his vessel, no
matter what the weather is, and as soon as a storm
comes on he begins to write. Where he goes to I
don't pretend to know,' and here Mrs. Endue nodded
her head in a very mysterious manner; I have heard
to the coast of Afriky, for there it was he met with
the loss of his right hand in an engagement with'the
slave drivers; but one thing I do know, and that is,
that he has always a drawn sword on the table beside
him; and never,' she added emphatically, 'never sleeps
in a night-cap.'"
J. E. Carpenter contributes a poetic scrap called " It
cannot be so long ago," and Mrs. Acton Tindal ano-
ther addressed to her " Guardian Angel." The frag-
mentary article on the " Pyrenees " is amusing; it
reads like a mixture of Oviedo and Baron Mun-
chausen. Charles Hervey has a few droll jottings by
the way from " The Habitas Note-book." " ran-
slavism and the Slavonians " is a resume of the in-
formation contained in the important effusion
by the Count Valerian Krasinski, already
noticed by ourselves; and another contributor unfolds
the mysteries involved in the intricacies of " The
New Zealand Question." Besides the foregoing
articles there are an abundance of miscellaneous
criticisms.

the portions of the October number. When we read
the tine dote abaut the first reli anal of the Nozze
Figaro we are fain to call out with the orchestra, the
auditors, and the very performers themselves (from a
mere r2collection of the enchantitg strains of the
great comroser), Bravo, bravo,:maestro ! Viva, viva,
grande Mozart! As to the incidnt recorded ( f
Handel in the 111arylehone Garden,:, we must he for-
given if we are sceptical of its authenticity. The
rest of the number is of the usually miscellaneous
character.

JOURNAL OF AG UICH LTURE, AND
TRANSACTIONS OF IHE HIGHLAND
AND AGRICULTUI:AL SOCIETY OF
SCOTLA.A D.
This quarterly journal contains much useful in•
formation on the subject of agriculture. Every farmer
who aspires to the character of a scientific agricul-
turist should make himself acquainted wi:h its
contents.

NAVAL CO URT-MAR Mil L.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 3.—This morning a court-martial
was held on board her Majesty's ship San Josef; 1 10,
now lying in Hamoaze, on two men, named Thomas
Keane, an ordinary seaman belonging to the Cale-
donia, 120, Captain Carter, and Thomas 'Murphy, a
private of the third class of the 19th company of the
Plymouth division of the Royal Marines, on the four
following charges :-Ist, With having deserted from
the Caledonia 4n the night of the 14th of September
last; 2d, With having stolen 215., a blue cloth pea
coat, one blue cloth round jacket, and one red figured
silk handkerchief; the property of John Ellenborough,
of the Caledonia; 3d, With having stolen a blue cloth
ruuul jacket, a handkerchief, a pair of boots, and a
pair of stocking?, belonging to Robert Kempt Philp,
ordinary seaman ; and 4th, With having stolen a
black cloth cap belonging to John Lampier, all ordi-
nary seaman. _

rn consequence of the fleet being now in the Sound
there was a very large court, and an unusually large
attendbnce of naval officers on board. Rear- Ar!iniral
of the Red Sir John Louis, Bart., the port admiral,
presided; end the other members of the court were
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., of the
St. Vincent, 120; Captain Mends, of the Agincourt,
72 ; Captain W. P. Martin, of the Prince Regent,
32; Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Amphion steamer;
Captain Ilgynes, C. 8., of the Blenheim, 56; Captain
Sir 'Thomas Maitland, C. 8., of the San Josef, 110;
and Captain Dacres. William Eastlake, Esq., offi-
ciated ;Is judge advocate. The prisoners were un-
defended.

hneoissaew,
The facts of the case are these : On the
night of the 14th of September a private t
hearde
ta
er
ma-
rine, who was on the w'.:.ch about twelve
o
after giving an alarm, he and others were sent in
men
pursuit of the men to Borisand, on the eastern shore
at nwdo
it
no
at hebo side, of
e and
of the Sound, where they picked up the boat that
had been taken away from the Caledonia, which sh;p
was at that time lying in the Sound. The'men that
were sent in pursuit went over the hills, and searched
about for an hour and a half; but were unable to find
either of the prisoners. They then returned to the
ship, and on the morning of the iith, a sergeant and
some other men were sent on shore to Plymouth, to
endeavour to find the prisoners, who, it was ascer-
tained, had left the ship. The prisoners could not
be found in Plymouth, but, en the sergeant making
inquiry at the station of the South Devon Railway,
it was found that two persons, of a similar description,
had that morning gone to Exeter. Thither the
sergeant went, and after some inquiry the prisoners
were found, with most of the property that had been
stolen in their possession. They were then taken to
the Guildhall, at Exeter, and on the next (lay
brought down to the Caledonia in custody. On their
return to the ship the property that had been stolen,
with the exception of the money, was claimed by three
seamen, to whom it belonged, who now also identi-
fied it. On the investigation of the case it appeared
that the boat was not taken till two minutes after the
clock had struck twelve at midnight on the 14th, and
this led to a great deal of inquiry, the Court appa-
rently thinking that the prisoners could not be found
guilty upon that charge. If that was their opinion,
the difficulty was got over, for after the court had
been closed a short time it was re-opened, and the
Judge-Advocate said he was authorised by the
prisoners to state that they acknowledged the deser-
tion and threw themselves on the mercy of the
Court, but denied the robbery.
The court was again cleared,. and, after an hour-
and-a-half's deliberaticn, on being re•opened the
Judge Advocate read the decision.
The COURT was of opinion that the first and fourth
charges had been proved, and that the second and
third charges had been partially proved; and the
Court, in consequence, adjudged that the prisoners
should each receive fifty lashes with a cat-o'nine-tails
on their bare backs, on board her Majesty's ship
Caledonia, to which they
.belong, at such time or
times, and in such proportions, as the Commander •
in-Chief of her Majesty's ships. at Plymouth shall
direct; and the Court further adjudged that the pri-
soners shall be imprisoned in the gaol at Exeter for
twelve calendar months, to be kept to hard labour, to
be mulcted of all pay due to them in the service, and
to lose all the time which they have respectively
served in the Royal Navy and in the Royal Marines.

The Board of Trade have appointed E. E. Smith,
R.N., shipwright surveyor, and T. Stuart, Esq., engineer,
under the 9:h and 10th Vic., c. 100, and the 11th and
12:h Vie., c. SI, to examine and report on the hull and
machinery of all steam-vessels in the Port of London.
Vessels are liable to survey twice a year, viz., in October
and April.
BELGIAN PRODUCE.—The steam-ship Triton, from
Ostend, brought the large quantity of seventy-four ham-
pers and boxes of poultry, the produce of Belgium, in-
cluding, as may be supposed, considerable quantities of
geese for the supply of the markets at this particular
season. The same vessel also brought seventy sheep of
Belgian production, which is a large increase on former
supplies.
DISASTROUS FLOOD.—WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY.
—ln cons. quence of the extraordinary fall of rain in
this and the neighbouring counties during the last ten
days, all the rivers and smaller streams have been
swollen to an alarming height, and much destruction of,
property has consequently taken place. The flood upon
the Avon, throughout its course from Stratford, through
Evesham, Bershore, Tewkesbury, &c., has been unpre-
cedented, and flocks of sheep and other animals have
been destroyed. At Stratford. on-Avon many of the
roads are four and five feet deep in water, and traffic
has been suspended. In the town the warehouses and
dwellings near the river have also been flooded. At
Evesham the inhabitants of the houses in the lower part
of the town, near the river, have been either driven out
altogether or have been obliged to take refuge in the
upper stories of their houses, where provisions are
brought to them in boats. The Northwick Arms, the
principal inn in Bingworth, is inaccessible. The river
is swollen into a rolling torrent, and bears upon it the
wrecks of furniture, sheds, hay ricks, &c., carried off by
the flood. The flood was at its height yesterday, when
several serious accidents happened, but as yet we have
heard of no loss of human lite. A subscription is being
raised in Evesham for the relief of the poor sufferers in
the town. At Pershore the toll-gate near the river has
been locked up for two days, the passage over the bridge
and adjacent parts being too dangerous to attempt.
Many persons have lost sheep and cattle. The flood on
the Severn has not been so disastrous. The waters are
subsiding to-day.

EXPERIMENT BY THE
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.—An experiment was mado at Manchester,
yesterday, by Mr. Cox, tsuperintendentc of the Electric
Telegraph Company, and assistants, as to the practica-
bility of passing electric urrsents along covered wires
under water. The wire
was that ordinarily used, of
copper, wrapped with cotton, and then passed through
shellac and coated outside
with India-rubber (cold
naphtha being used to cement the latter), One end of
the wire was in communication with the Telegraph
the
Company's instruments atoffice near the Exchange,
and the other cad with an instrument of Mr. W. Gas-
kell's mill, on the Salford side of the river, at about 500
of yards distance. A portionthe wire, includinc, a coil
of about half a mile in length, was submerged' in the
river Irwell. Communications
wire with the ordinary facility, and the experiment ap-
pears, so far, to have answered.
EMIGRATION PLYMOUTH, O.T. S.—The Man-
chester, 600 tons, Captain Forsayth, sailed on Thursday
last, with 236 emigrants, for Port i h .P. i; The Thomas
Arbuthnot, 621 tons, Captain Heaton,
sailed to-day,
with 263 m igrants, for Sydney. The S Bedding-
ton, Captain Buish, is now in the Sound to take emi-
grants for Port Adelaide. All the above •
ships are under
engagement to the Colonial Land and Emigration Com-
missi„ers. Besides these ships, Messrs. Marshall and
Edridge have dispatched the Candahar from London,
and will call here for emigrants. The date to leave
Plymouth is the ith inst. She will have 150 adults on
board. The Candahar will be succeeded by the Glenelg,
a fine vessel of 1,500 tons register, which is bound to
Adelaide and Port Philip, and will leave here on the
25th inst. These ships, like those sent out by the Com-
missioners, carry experienced surgeons, and are vic-
tualled, fitted, &c., under the inspection of the Govern-
ment emigration agent.
A MOTHER STABBED IT HER OWN SON.—A few
eve reported the examination of
days, ago 1 a young man
named Edward Corbett, a joiner, on
a charge of having
stabbed his own mother, and also a man named Plumb'.
As we then stated, the charge was not gone into, both
the wounded parties being so seriously injured as to pre-
vent their appearance in court. The prisoner was con-
sequently remanded, in expectation that they would be
sufficiently recovered to appear and prosecute, but the
female's life has since been in such jeopardy that it has
been found necessary to take her deposition at the Royal
Infirmary,. in the presence of a magistrate. As she still
continues in a dangerous state, it has been deemed expe-
dient that only one case should be taken against the pri-
soner, that for stabbing the man, and on Monday he was
brought up and evidence was gone into, when he was
committed for trial at the assizes. As we have previ-
ously stated, the prisoner went to
his mother's house in-
toxicated, and finding her in bed with the man Plumb,
with whom she lived in adultery, he was so exasperated,
that he pulled out a knife from his pocket and stabbed
them both.—Munchester Courier.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.--The _ Rev. Dr.
Warm_ford has presented to Queen's College, through
Mr. W. S. Cox, the munificent donation of 1,0001., to be
applied to such purposes and uses as may be considered
by the Rev. Chancellor Law,
the Rev. Vaughan Thomas,
and Mr. Sands Cox, most beneficial to the institution.'
The Principal, Vice-Principal, Dean of the Faculty, and
Council, inkpected the new buildings at Queen's College
on Friday morning- They consist of a lecture theatre,
a chemical laboratory, an anatomical room, and addi-
tional apartments for the students. The chapel has also
had a recess made for an organ. The buildings com-
prise two sides of the intended quadrangle.__B• , .
ag ,
urn:leam
Gazette.
ENCLOSURE AND CULTIVATION OF ALE WICK MOOR,
on AYDON FOREST.—This immense wilderness, contain-
ing upwards of three thousand acres of land, a large
portion of which is capable of cultivation, is about to
be reclaimed. Proposals having that object in view have
been made by the Alnwick freemen to the Duke of
Northumberland, and his Grace has a returned ' favour-
able answer.
Scarlet fever is at present very prevalent in this
town. Last week one-fourth of the entire deaths within
the borough were from thie dizesteeo—Liverpool Courier,