The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-10 00:00:00

IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS IN
THE MUTINY ACT, AND RETURN TO EN-
LISTMENT FOR LIMITED PERIODS.
It appears from the Mutiny Act for 1816, that instead
of loozonl men, the Act directs that the number of the
forces sham c,,,‘!?sist of 108,605 men. The Act to extend
•to Jersey, Jersey, Guernsey, &c.
ENLISTMENT AND SWEARIX9 OF RECRuITs.—And
when any person shall be enlisted as a solciie: in her Ma-
jesty's land service, he shall within four days (any ini:-
vening Sunday not included), but not sooner than
twenty-four hours after such enlisting, appear, toge-
ther with some person employed in the recruiting ser-
vice of the party with which he shall have en-
listed, before any justice or other magistrate in
the vicinity of the place where such person shall have
enlisted, or before any justice, or other magistrate acting
for the division, district, or place where such recruit
shall have enlisted, and not being an officer in the army,
he. In Scotland any baillie of a royal burgh residing
within the vicinity of the place, and acting for the divi-
sion or district.
required forthwith to read over, to such recruit the
first and second articles of the second section of the
articles of war against mutiny and desertion, and to ad-
minister to such recruit the oath in the schedule to this
Act annexed for limited or unlimited service, or for ser-
vire in the forces of the East India Company, as may be
applicable to the case of the recruit, and no other oaths,
anything in any acts to the contrary notwithstanding,
and , the fee for administering such oaths shall be one
shilling and no more, &c.
Questions in the schedule to be put to the recruit
enlisting for unlimited service.
9. At what place, on what day, and what hour of the
day, and by whom were you enlisted?
11. Have you any objections to make to the manner of
your enlistment ?
12. Do you now belong to the militia ?
NOTE.—The justice is directed, in putting the twelfth
question to the recruit, and before he receives his answer,
distinctly to apprise the recruit that if he belongs to the
militia and denies the fact, he is liable to six months'
imprisonment.
ENLISTING FOR LIMITED SERVICE.-8. Are you will-
ing to be attested to serve in the -- regiment of
for the period of -- [This blank to be filled up by the
justice with seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years, as
the case may be ; ten, sixteen, or twenty-four for cavalry ;
and twelve, sixteen, or twenty-one, for artillery, if the
person is of the age of eighteen or upwards; but if
under the age of eighteen years, then the deficiency be-
tween his age and eighteen to be added such seven,
ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-
four (as the case may be) years]. provided her Majesty
should so long require your service, and also for such
further term, not exceeding twelve months, as shall be
directed by commanding officers on any foreign sta-
tion, and not exceeding three years, as shall be directed
by any proclamation of her Majesty ; such additional
period in the latter case to determine whenever six
months' continuance in peace, to be reckoned from the
ratification of any definite treaty, shall have elapsed
subsequent to the expiration of the said (seven, ten,
twelve, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-four as
the case may be) years. •
Provision for the removal of the doubts as to attesta-
tion of soldiers :
And whereas certain soldiers who have heretofore
been duly enlisted, and who have voluntarily taken the
oath of allegiance and fidelity, and are now receiving
her Majesty's pay, have been sworn and attested, but
doubts having arisen whether the justices were duly
qualified to administer to such soldiers the oath pre-
scribed by the several acts passed for the prevention of
mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the
army and their quarters, be it enacted, that in every
case where any such soldiers having been duly enlisted,
shall have been so attested and sworn, and shall not
have claimed to be discharged on or before the 17th
March, 1346, he shall not be entitled to his discharge
by reason of such informality, but he shall be liable to
the provisions of this act, and of the act passed during
last session of Parliament for the punishing mutiny and
desertion, and for the better payment of the army and
their quarters, where in force, and shall be entitled to
the full benefit of his past services, and to all pay and
pension in respect thereof, to all intents and purposes,
and in like manner as if he had been duly attested and
Sworn.

IREL AND.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBLIN, Julia B.—The weekly meeting of the association
was held this day, T. F. Meagher, Esq., in the chair.
The SECRETARY read a letter from Mr. Smith O'Brien,
accepting the invitation to a public dinner and banquet, but
suggesting that it would be better to postpone the affair till
the return of the Irish Members from London.

It was then moved and adopted that the letter of Mr.
O'Brien be referred to the committee appointed to carry out
the arrangements.
Mr. D. O'CorrxELL, jun., moved the expulsion of Mr.
Archdeacon (a repeal warden of Liverpool) from the asso-
ciation, for recommending the adoption of physical force as a
means of acquiring the repeal of the union:
Mr. STEILE seconded the motion, and briefly explained
the principle of the association, which deprecated anything
bordering on the recommendations of Mr. Archdeacon.
The SECRETARY read letters from several repeal Members
of Parliament (in answer to a circular) announcing their in-
tention to attend in Parliament to assist in opposing the
Coercion Bill.
Mr. J. M. BARRY (barrister) addressed the meeting at
considerable length.
A letter was also read from Mr. Smith O'Brien, in reference
to the payment by the association of the fees to which he
was liable on his discharge from custody. He accepted the
offer of the association to refund the sum, which amounted to
41/. 6s. Bd.
Captain BRODERICK, in addressing the meeting, announced
that the Whigs have resolved on aiding the repeal party in
opposing the Coercion Bill.
The amount of rent up to post hour (three o'clock) is said
to be 100/.

THE LATE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY.
The result of the inquiry into the conduct of Mr. French,
resident magistrate in Westmeath, which had been instituted
by the Government at the instance of Sir Francis Hopkins,
transpired to-day. The Lord-Lieutenant, with a view to
mark his disapproval of the part taken by Mr. French
(in regard to the depositions of Sir Francis against Brian
Seery, who was lately executed), has directed that that
gentleman should be removed from Westmeath to another
district.
ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN WESTMEATH.
The Evening Mail states that Brian Kenny, steward of Sir
John Nugent, Bart., in the county of Westmeath, was fired
at and seriously wounded on Saturday evening.
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. _

There was an examination to fill a vacant fellowship last
week. There were nine competitors. This day Mr. Ingram
was declared the successful candidate.

THE HYDROPATHIC SYSTEM.
Yesterday Mr. W. Payne resumed the inquiry at the
King's Head, Eastcheap, as to the death of Mr. Richard
Dresser, who was alleged to have died from improper treat-
ment at the Hydropathic Establishment of Dr. Ellis, Strad-
brooke Park, Petersham.
Since then the case appears to have caused much addi-
tional interest, and Mr. Prendergast appeared for Dr. Ellis,
and Mr. Jones, of Size-lane, for the friends of the deceased.
The first witness examined was James Maynard, the bath-
man at the asylum, and from his testimony it appeared that
the deceased was at Dr. Ellis's from Friday week to the 3d
inst., having gone there at his own desire for rheumatism.
He had baths every morning at a temperature of 85, in
which he remained ninety seconds. Tapioca and bread and
butter were supplied to him for breakfast, but he complained
to his wife of being kept very humble, which he had not
been used to. The witness also took up occasionally a jug
of warm, and another of cold water, with a bandage, but
this was applied by Dr. Ellis, who sat up with him. He died
on Tuesday morning.
By Mr. Prendergast—He took all the food he wished.
Never took cold water up without some warm.
Dr. Ellis's diagnosis of the case was read, from which it
seemed the deceased had first been treated for rheumatism,
and subsequently, according to the document, fur liver com-
plaint, and inflammation, and suppuration.
Mr. Waterworth, of the New Kent-road, surgeon, the part-
ner of Mr. Hicks, who was examined on the first day, having
jointly made the post mortem examination, said that Dr.
Ellis's paper did not agree with witness's examination in
any one point. He had known the deceased for six or seven
years. He was generally in good health, but was not a
strong man. He saw him last in April. The cause of death
was congestion of the heart and lungs. There was no ap-
pearance of inflammation or suppuration of the liver, and
the application of cold or hot baths, even if he had been so
attacked, would have been very improper except for a short
time. He believed the congestion was the result of some
cold application, or exposure to the atmosphere.
The CouortEx summed up at great length, and pointed out
what the law was laid down to be in the case of St. John
Long, and left it for them to decide whether Dr. Ellis was a
man of competent skill, and had acted with due caution or
in a spirit of rashness.
The fin ovae timc, and the foreman said,
tsrashness.j i,eness. "
We find that the deceased lost his life through improper
treatment at the asylum."

The CORONER-150 you mean great rashness on the part
of Dr Ellis?

The jury again retired, and finally delivered this verdict
" That the deceased died from the effects of the rash treat-
ment of Dr. Ellis, against whom we return a verdict of man-
slaughter."
Dr. Ellis then entered into his own reCOgnizances of 5001.,
and two sureties of 2501.1 to appear at the next sessions of the
Criminal Court.

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BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE .
—The
es
hastemperaturenearly
in the metropolis during the last eight or
equal to that of the West Indie
s•
There has been a general preva-
lence of easterly winds, which
has caused a considerable blight, par-
ticularly among the rose trees. The heat of the weather has ren-
derederal, and vast numbers have in consequence
repaired for that purpose, each morning and evening, to the serpen-
tine in Ilyde-park. The following is the register of the temperature
in the shade, as taken at the Royal Humane Society's receiving-
house, with the number of bathers attending :
Morn. Noon. Night. Morning. Evening.
Deg. Deg. Deg. Bathers. Batheooo rs.
7000
• • 5,
Sunday, May 31 .. 63 .. 73 .. 68 • • ,
.. 4 000
Monday, June 1 .. 64 .. 72 .. 63 .. 3,000 ,
63 .. 3,000 • • 2,500
Tuesday, 2.. .. 62 .. 71 •• 2,000 .• 3,000
Wednesday, 3 • • 62 .. 76 ••
772, '..
4,000 .. 3000
Thursday, 4 • • • • 68 • • 73 •.
ii : • 2,500 • • 4,000
Friday, 5 .. .. 71 • • 78 '.
75 .. 3,000
• • 4,000
Saturday, 6 .. .. 68 • • Si
~
.. 76 .. 8,000 .. 5,000
Sunday, 7 .• .. 72 .. 8.
It will thus be seen that the heat has been increasing during the last
Sunday was the hottest day, and that the num-
berthree days, and that
eight days, in the Serpentine ays, alone, has
of bathers during the
been no less than 65,000 !
commTTAL OF THE LATE TREASURER OF THE
BTRIVINGIIAm WORICHOUSE.—The examination of Mr. J. Y. Welch,
of the Birminam Wor, was resumed at the
late tre
public-officeasurer of that borough on gh
Mondays ,khous deadjourned to Tuesday,
when the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next War-
wick assizes on a charge of embezzling the money of the parish. Bail
was offered, but the magistrates, in consideration of the serious
character of the offence, did not feel themselves justified in ac-
cepting it.
Pam OF WHEAT.—A return has been issued by order
of the House of Lords, showing the lowest and highest prices of
wheat as sold in the markets of Uxbridge, Guildford, Wisbeach, and
Ely, in each week, from the Ist of May, 1845, to the end of April,
1846. The highest price during the whole ofthat period, in Uxbridge
market was 80s., in the week ending "9th of November last, and the
lowest 40s , which was the price several times during the same
period. In Guildford market the highest price was 755., in October,
and at two or three other times, and the lowest 40s. in February,
week ending At Wisbeach, the highest price reached was 775., in the
4th of October, and the lowest 225. [Query, 325.? it is, however,
printed 225. in the return), in the week ending 17thof NT
At Ely market the highest price attained was 705., in the weeks'—
ending lit of November and 13th of DeCerab@ q th. r, an lowest was
, 251,, in th@ MO Wing 16th of lioTeutber.