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
Themen's Laud for service in the East Indies.
The following are the names of the officers to proceed:
—Major F. Mainwaring, 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.
Conolly, 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 rock 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. Loinsworth, 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.

MANIFESTO OF THE FRENCH
FREE-TRADE ASSOCIATION.
The following is the manifesto of the association,
which has just been issued :—" At the moment of unit-
ing for the defence of a great cause, the undersigned
feel the necessity of expounding the faith, of proclaim-
ing the aim, the limits, the means, and the spirit of their
association. Exchange is a nttAtral right, as is property.
Each citizen who has formed or acquired a property
ought to have it in his option either to apply it imme-
diately to his own use, or to cede it to any on the sur-
face of the globe, who consents to give him in exchange
the object of his desires. To deprive him of that op-
tion, when not made subservient to uses contrary to
public order and morals, and solely to satisfy the con-
venience of another citizen, would be to authorise a
robbery, and to wound the laws of justice. It is also a
violation of order ; for what order can exist in the
midst of a society where each branch of industry seeks
for success in the oppression of all others, aided in that
by the arm of the law ? It is a misconception of the
wishes of Providence which presides over human desti-
nies, and which are manifest in the infinite variety of
climate, of seasons, of natural forces and faculties, gifts
which the Almighty divided unequally among men, so
as to unite them by interchange in the bonds of uni
versal fraternity. It is a drawback to public prosperity,
for he that has it not in his option to exchange freely,
is deprived also of changing his work, and finds him-
self constrained to give a false direction to his energies,
to his faculties, to his capital, agents which nature had
placed at his disposal. Lastly, it is compromising the
peace of nations, for it is rending asunder the bonds
which unite them, and which would make wars out of
the question, as being so onerous. The aim of the
association is, therefore, free exchange. The under-
signed do not question the right of establishing on
goods that pass the frontier duties destined for the ex-
penses of the commonwealth, provided the wants of the
treasury are alone consulted in the establishment of
them. But us soon as the duties lose their fiscal cha-
racter, and aim at the exclusion of foreign produce to
the detriment of the treasury itself so as to cause an
artificial rise in a similar branch of national produce,
thus Sacrificing the community to a class ; from that
moment protection or rather spoliation manifests itself,
and that is the principle which the association wishes
to eradicate from the public mind, and to efface entirely
from our laws, independent of all reciprocity and of
systems prevailing elsewhere. That the Association
aims at the total destruction of the protective
. system, .
not to say that it desires it to be accomplished in a day.
Even from evil to good, and from a false position to a
natural state of things, prudence may command precau-
tions. The means of execution belong to the powers
of the state ; the mission of the association is to propa-
gate the principle, and render it popular. As regards
the means to be resorted to, legal and constitutional
means will be alone resorted to. Lastly, the associa-
tionis void of all political or party spirit ; it is subser-
vient to no particular class or branch of industry, to no
particular portion of the land. It embraces the cause of
eternal justice, of peace, union, free communication, fra-
ternity between all men, the cause ofgeneral welfare, which
everywhere, and under every aspect, is united to that of
the public consumer." Here follow the signatures.

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somewhat mysterious circumstances. It appears that about
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deem it prudent to go near the body, but at once obtained
the assistance of two policemen, who removed the body to
the ;infirmary. It was that of a young woman still alive.
Her face was bruised, and the was otherwise slightly injured
externally, bat in an utterly helpless and dying condition.
Medical aid was unavailing ; she was never able to speak,
and died yesterday afternoon. Her name is Catherine
Ilindinarsh, and her step-father, Rowland Smith, is a re-
spectable master tinner and brazier in the town. The un-
fortunate girl left her father's house about twelve o'clock
on Saturday night for the purpose of buying some butter
and eggs at a neighbouring shop, kept by a person named
Fairbairn. As she did not return within a reasonable time,
be went to Fairbairn's to seek her, and was informed she
had never been there. The unhappy man wandered about
all night, and early in the morning heard that a young
woman had been found on the Lambton Railway and taken
to the infirmary. He went thither, and his grief can be
better conceived than described when he found that it was
his daughter, and that she was unable to speak to him or
even to know him. How the reached the Rector's Gill,
which is about a quarter of a mile from her dwelling, and
a lonely place, is unknown ; but it is supposed (from a va-
riety of minute circumstances which have been ascertained)
that she had been drawn there by a worthless seducer, who,
after destroying her virtue, had, to escape detection and
punishment, thrown her over the bank and destroyed her
life. Suspicion attaches to a person who is not yet in cus-
tody. The police are making the most diligent inquiries
into the matter. This afternoon (Tuesday) an inquest was
held at the Londonderry Arms, before Mr. Maynard, one
of the county coroners, and a respectable jury. Some
formal evidence was adduced, and the inquiry adjourned to
rticiay.