The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-23 00:00:00

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

CIIATHAM, FEBRUARY 9.—Tho following detach-
ments from the Provisinal Battalion march from this
garrison, on Monday, the 21st, en route for Woolwich, for
embarkation as a convict guard on board the transport
ship Anna Maria, for conveyance of convicts, as free set-
to Hobart Town and Port Phillip. The detachment
was inspected this morning by the Commandant•
Colonel Simpson. It consists of I sergeant, 2 corporals
and 27 privates. The sSth regiment furnishes IS pri-
vates; 11th, 1 corporal; 99th, 1 sergeant and I corporal;
and 65th, 9 privates, with the usual allowance of women
and children. Lieut. D. Bazalgette, 65th, with Ensign
J. Mac Henry, II th regiment, takes command of the
detachment.

On the morning of the 18th inst. a detachment from
the provisional battalion marched from this place to Til-
bury Fort, consisting of 4 sergeants, 4 corporals, and 37
privates, under command of Ensign I.l.agster, for the
put pose of assisting in the carrying out the sentences of
court-martials on eight prisoners, privates of the 95th
Regiment, viz., Richard Meaher, John Shea, Robert
Smith, John Glanville, Charles Godfrey, Bony, and
Rogerson, who were tried at that fort by a district court-
martial for violent and insubordinate conduct on the
night of the 23d of January last, at the New Tavern
Fort, Gravesend ; the sentence of the court being that
each prisoner should be imprisoned for six calendar
months, and that C. Godfrey, Lane, and Berry, in
addition, to receive corporal punishment of 50 lashes.
On the detachment making its appearance at the fort,
the prisoners set up a most savage yell, and it appeared
to be their intention to commit some outrage, but
os►ing to the order given to the detachment to fix
bayonets, the prisoners were brought in front of the
line, when each of them received their sentence. Lane,
Berry, and Godfrey, being the principals in the outrages,
the aornreander-in-Chiet altered the sentence on these
prisoners by ordering them to seven months' imprison-
ment, and in addition to receive 25 lashes each, which,
punishment was inflicted in the presence of the troops,
and as each was loosened from the halberts, he jumped
and laughed at all around. The whole of the prisoners
were then reproved under a strong escort to the military
prison, Fort Clarence.
First-Lieutenant C. A.. Wylde, of the Royal Marines,
is this day placed under orders to proceed to the Maid
of Ascension.

Lin RECRUITING SERVICE.—It is rumoured that n
considerable change is about to be made in the mode of
raising recruits fur the army. Although unable at present
to speak positively on the sabject, we have some reason for
believing that the recruiting will iu future be entrusted
exclusively to the staff officers of pensioners, and those em-
ployed under their command; and that both officers aud
men at present employed on the rt cruiting service will
shortly return to the regiments to which they belong.
As a corroborative fact, we may mention that nearly all
such non-commissioned officers and soldiers belonging
to regiments and depots stationed in Ireland are now on
the march for the head-qnsrters of their various regi-
and depots.—United Service Gazette.
It is understood that Alajor-General the Hon. Henry
Cavendish has been appointed the cavalry officer of the
acting committee for the inspection of army clothing.
The Master General and Board of Ordnance have au-

thorised the following pieces of ordnance being placed
in the grounds of her Majesty's Royal Military Hospital
at Chelsea, viz.:-1 brass mortar, captured from the
French, 1 brass field gun of 12 pounds, one of 8 pounds,
and 1 brass howitzer of 6 inches; the three latter were
captured at the battle of Waterloo. Orders have been
given for proper carriages being prepared for their re-
ception.—United Service Gazdte.

ADJOURNED INQUEST ON MRS.

SHUTTLE WORTH.

Yesterday, at the Manchester Arms, Adarn•street,
Manchester-square, Mr. Waklev, M.P., and a respect-
able jury, resumed and concluded an inquest on the body
of Martha Elizabeth Rhodes, alias Shuttleworth, who
died on the 6th of January last at York House, Chelsea,
a private lunatic) asylum. Tho particulars of the case
have already appeared in The Sun.
The nurse who attended deceased during the last
month of her life, the sister of the deceased, and the
Rev. Mr. Rowlett and Mr. Wilmot, who signed the
certificate of lunacy, were examined at great length.
Mr. Wakley then deemed it indispensable that the
nurse who had attended the deceased before the 21st of
December last should be summoned, and from the state-
ments made by Miss Rhodes in the course of her evi-.
dence, that 1)r. Turner, one of the Commissioners of
Lunacy, should be requested to attend.
Among the witnesses examined yesterday were
Dr. Millingen, Dr. Thomas Turner, and Dr. H. Quain.
The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from
debility and paralysis, owing to effusion on the brain and
spinal marrow.

THE INCOME-TAM AGITATION.—Meetings in all
quarters respecting Lord J. Russell's proposed addition
to the unjust, partial, and therefore oppressive income
tax are already threatened. There will be a meeting at
the Marylebone Court-house this evening. On Thurs-
day, St. Bride's parishioners assemble on the subject ;
and on the SAMO day the members of the Common
Council of the City of London meet, " in consequence of
the proposed continuance and increaseo
fthethiencLoomrde
tax,' to corsider the propriety of requesting
Mayor to convene a special Court.
TLIR INCOME-TAX —BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.--
The threatened imposition of an increased income-tax,
has already aroused s vigorous opposition in this town.
A public meeting is in contemplation; but in the mean-
time a petition against the Minister's proposition has
been already signed by a large number of the most in-
fluential merchants and tradesmen in the town.
SUICIDE ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.-
Last night an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, at
the Nino Elms Tavern, Battersea, upon the body of
Robert Oakley, aged 29, a seed merchant and fruiterer
at Southampton, who deliberately committed suicide by
precipitating himself in front of a train on the South-
Western Railway. From the evidence adduced, it ap-
peared that the deceased's mind had been affected by the
loss of a law suit, which led to his bankruptcy. The
jury, after a short consultation, returned the following
verdict:—" That de-ceased committed suicide by placing
himself before a locomotive engine and train in pi ogress,
thereby being instantly killed, being at the time of an
unsound :tete of mind."

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—We learn that yesterday '
morning un accident of rather a serious nature occurred
with the mail train, from London, on the Caledonian
Railway, about twu miles on the other side of the Car-
stairs station. It appears that the mail train, which
should have reached Glasgow at 20 minutes to two
o'clock in the morning, did not arrive till 10 minutes to
four. So fur as we cats ascertain, the delay was caused
by the engine and tender running off the rails, in con-
sequence of a chain having given way, by which they,
along with one or two of the carriages, were very much
damaged, and the engine-driver and stoker more or less
hurt. We have not heard of any of the passengers hav-
ing sustained any injury.—Norilt British Mail.
HAYMARKET TIIEATRE.—Last night the perform-
ance ut this theatre was for the benefit of the Hotel and
Tavern-keepers' Provident Institution. The pieces were
Goldsmith's ctanedy of She Stoops to Conquer, the new
farce entitled Dearest Elizabah, and the lairy extrava
ganza of The Invisible Prince. The audience was nume-
rous and the performances gave the utmost satisfaction.