The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

JANUARY 27, 1845.

ehampetre to dine with him, and paid for twelve
bottles of wine. The next morning he called for
nine more, and passed the night at a place of ill-
fame in the Rue des Cailles, where he and three com-
panions (to quote the words of one of the witnesses)
" drank a quantity of litres of faro."
Vandenplos had encountered at the public-house,
called A la Grenade, in the Rue des Cailles, a young
woman named Barbe Amour, with whom he had been
' long acquainted. fie conducted her, during the week
after his first orgies at Vilvorde, to the kermesse at
Molenbeck, and to Vilvorde, where in two days he
spent thirty-two francs, and changed a fourth gold
piece of ten florins (known as a Guillaume). On his
return to Brussels, he stopped a day and a night at
the Grenade, and expended seventy francs more. llis
extravagance at Vilvorde attracted attention, and
some individuals even requested the Commissary of
Police to arrest him on suspicion of being concerned
in the murders in the place Sr. Gery. Until the end
of October, it has been proved that Vandenplas, in
company with Barbe Amour, had expended thirty-
one gold pieces of ten florins each, and that, accord.
ing to Rosseel, he had his share, thirty-five pieces
altogether. About the end of October he had endea-
voured to open a house of ill fame, in conjunction
with his mistress, in the Petite rue des Cinq Etoiles,
13ruscels.

WISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.

CLONMEI„ JAN. 24.-7 The judges arrived here at
three o'clock this afternoon, and came down to the
Court-house, at four to open the commission fur the
county Tipperary.
There are upwards of 400 prisoners in the gaol,
but only the principal cases will be tried under the
commission, the others being postponed until the

assizes.
There was a large attendance of grand jurors, but
all who were called did not answer to their names as
in the counties of Limerick and Clare. The following
gentlemen were swore as a grand jury under the
commission :—The Hon. Osborn Prittie (foreman),
the Hon. H. Hutchinson, Sir T. B. Dancer, Mr. P.
Barker, Mr. E Waller, Mr. N. Mahon, Mr. S. Moore,
Mr. J. rantoMr. R. Pennefather, Mr.G.Ryan, Mr. J.
Bayley, Mr. Butler, Mr. W. Quin, Mr.-J. Cooke, Sir
J. Carden, Mr. J. Carden, Mr. J. Lonergan, Mr.
S. Burton, Mr. C. Going, Mr. E. C. Moore, Mr. C.
Clarke, Mr. Gason, and Mr. T. Lloyd.
The grand jury were sworn, and the LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE addressed them in a most able and impressive
manner • but as he concluded only just before the
post left, we are unable to give a report of his charge
until to-morrow. We may, however, observe that
his Lordship recommended the formation in every
parish of associations for the preservation of the public
eace.
A bill against John Lonergan, for the murder of
N r. William Roe, at lioytonrath, on the 2d of October
last, was sent up to the grand jury, but their decision
upon it was not stated when our dispatch left.
Last night a barbarous murder was committed upon
the person of a young girl, near Thutles. Three
miscreants seized her, violated her person, and then
murdered her. We have heard only the fact : the full
particulars have not been ascertained here.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Powerful, 84,
advance ship, is ordered to be commissioned as the
•ea service guardship at this port. Captain the Hon.
R. S. Dundas, C.B. (1824), who was Captain of the
Melville, 72, on the coast of China, including the
capture of the forts of the Bocca Tigris and the
operations against Canton in 1841, is appointed to
commission her. She is ordered a complement of

350 men.
The Government are gradually getting a large
naval force into commission. Orders have arrived
this day for her Majesty's ship Powerful, 84, to be
brought forward for sea service, and Captain the Hon.
Richard Saunders Dundas, C. 8., is to command her.
She is to have a crew, at present, of only 380 officers
and men. She will, in the first instance, be fitted for
the conveyance of troops, like the Bellerophon, and go
to sea without her lower-deck guns, and after being
out eight or nine months, return to the port to be
completed as a ship of the line in officers, men, and
guns. Her Majesty's ships Vanguard, Superb,
and Canopus, have been in commissson nearly three
years, but are not expected to be relieved for some
months.
Her Majesty's ship Illustrious, 72, is to be the
depot ship of the Ordinary at Portsmouth, and Cap.
taro Yates and the officers and part of the crew of the
Blenheim are to be transferred to her. The Illus-
trious is to have a complement of 386 officers and
men, and will be armed and equipped as a line-of-
bathe ship, and, consequently, kept ready for service.
Her Majesty's steam block-ship Blenheim is to
carry the pendant of the captain who is to have the
charge of all the steamers at Portsmouth not in com-
mission. She is to have a complement of 240 officers
and men. It is expected that Captain H. T. Austin,
C. 8., will be transferred from the Fisgard at Wool-
wich, and be appointed to the Blenheim, and have the
superintendence and arrangement of that class of
men-of-mar, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Pres-
cott, C.B. Great exertions are making to get ready
the new steam-basin and the workshops attached to it
early this spring, that the greater portion of those
steamers coming from Woolwich, &c., may be placed
there.
Mr. Spencer St. John is appointed secretary to
Governor Brooke, and ordered a passage in the
Meelnder.
We have received information from an authentic
source of the body of a man having been picked up on
the coast of Africa lashed to a chest, believed to be
that of one of the unfortunate Avenger's crew. A
gun-carriage has also been washed ashore and iden-
tified as one belonging to that ship. The body of the
man on the chest was not identified.
Captain Alexander Milne, junior naval Lord of the
Admiralty, arrived here this evening. Four other
members of the board are expected by the first express
train on the South-Western Railway to-morrow

morning, on an official visit.
Mr. W. P. Browne, Paymaster and Purser, of
1808, late of the Canopus, 84, died at midnight on
Monday, in the Royal Hospital at Ha,slar.
The Fairy royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitaclarence, G.C.H., in dock, requires new boilers, to
obtain which she is to be sent to Woolwich, we are
informed. She is also having an alteration made in
her stern-post, &c.
We have seen to-day an excellent specimen of coal
brought home by the Cormorant from Vaneouver's
Island. It is considered by competent judges to be
of good and serviceable quality, and equal to any that
can be obtained in the British mines. It abounds,
we are told, is immense quantities on the surface of
the above island. Coal has been supposed to abound
in the above neighbourhood ; but we are not aware
of the fact ever having been proved before. A speci-
men has been sent to the Admiralty. The Cormorant
called at Vancouver's Island on her passage home,
and paid only four shillings per ton for toe article,
which was brought alongside the steamer in
canoes, eight hundred in number; at the same time
Government were paying sixteen pounds per ton
at Valparaiso for the same article. So extraordinary
a fact is sufficient to induce (we should think),
the taking up of merchant tonnage by the Govern-
ment for the shipment of this coal, and its conveyance
to Panama, or some other depot where our cruisers
need,it, when it is believed it would cost the Crown
no more than ls. per ton. The mills are much in-
crease i all down the coast, rendering this mineral
indispensable. The straits (Puget's), bet#een Van-
couver's Island and the main are only three miles in
width, and the shipment and transport is easy. The
population alongshore, however, is. a mixture of
Indians of all classes, and great caution is rendered
necessary in treating with them, or the white man
will be worsted in the bargain in more ways than
one. Three vesels and their crews have already dis-
appeared unaccountably in these waters. The Hud-
son's Bay Company's steam-vessel, in navigating the
Columbia, is generally obliged to have her boarding
nettinga up.
Lieutenant Hosken, late of the Great Western and
Great Britain steam-ships, is appointed by Lord
Auckland Captain of the port of Labuan, and will
go out in the Meander, 44, in the suite of Mr.
Brooke, the Ilaja of Sarawak, to enter upon his ap-
pointment.
The Confiance Devonport steam-tug, Mr. Jago
Master Commanding, left last night, on her return
with supernumeraries.
Wind, E.N.E., fresh gales; weather hazy, intensely
cold, with an inclination to sleet or snow.—Five
o'clock P.M.
Pl./MOUTH, JAN.25.—The barque Victory, Captain
Allan, which left Table Bay on the Vith of Novem-
ber, reports that the inhabitants of Cape Town were
then preparing to illuminate on the approach of the
new governor, Sir Harry Smith.
The schooner Saldanha Bay Packet was upset in
Three Anchor Bay, and the schooner Ghika was
driven ashore in Buffalo Bay, about the middle of
November; both crews drowned.
One of her Majesty's steam-frigates, from Simon's
Bay, arrived at the Cape two days before the Victory
left, and, having coaled, came out with the barque,
shaping a course to the eastward.
A brig-of-war anchored at St. Helena, was joined
on the 10th of December by her prize, a brigantine,
with a full cargo of slaves, taken on the Ist of
December.
The damage to the barque Passenger, reported in
The Sun of Wednesday, was done by a French mer-
chant ship.

A WHITS D-13.—The somewhat marvellous an-
nouncement that a white deer had been seen at Ardish-
lake some time ago reached the cars of the sporting
gentlemen at Applecross, who shortly afterwards started
in pursuit of the prodigy. It was captured, after a
laborious search, and proved to be an albino--a hind
almost purely white.—lnverness Courier.