The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

There is very good reason to believe, from information
which transpired on Saturday last, that second bat-
talions will be added to the under-mentioned regiments,
being next on the reciitry for foreign service :—The
6th, Bth, 24th, 321, 36th, 37th, 56th, and 69th, all, of
course, infantry. On this arrangement being carried
out, each regiment will receive the addition of one lieu-
tenant-colonel, one major, eight captains, and 16 sub-
alterns.

THE LATE LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR F. W. MULCASTER,
K.H.—This gallant officer, who expired on the 28rh
ult., at Charlton-barrack, Kent, in the 74th year of his
age, entered the carps of Royal Engineers on the 14th of
June, 1792, as second lieutenant ; his other commis-
sions being thus dated :—first lieutenant, November
27th, 179.3 ; captain, Septet:lll3:T 11th, 1795 ; brevet-
major, July 10th, 1805 ; lieutenant-colonel, May Ist,
1811 ; regimental colonel, February 7th, 1817 ; major-
general, May 27th, 1825 • and lieutenant-colonel, June
28, 1838. He served in Portugal' in 1797 and 1798, was
at the taking of Minorca, and in the Mediterranean in
1799, 1800, and 1801 ; commanded the Engineers in the
Mauritius, Isle of Bourbon, &c., from 1817. He sub.
sequently filled various staff appointments, and in 1832
was appointed colonel-commandant of the Royal En.
gineers, and inspector-general of fortifications in ,
1834. He was also for many years a deputy-lieutenant
for the cour.ty of Kent.
4TH DnacooNs.—Lord George Paget is now Major
of the 4th Light Dragoons. Lieutenant-Colonel Daly
has retired from this regiment, after a brilliant and
honourable service of thirty-four years. He served in
the American, the Peninsular, and the late Affghanis-
tan wars. He also served under the late Lord Keane,
at the siege and capture of Ghuznee. Major Sculley
has been promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy. Lord
Alfred Churchill, son to the Duke of Marlborough, has
been promoted to a lieutenancy in this corps, which he
joined in 1842.

- RIFLE BRIGADE.— On Wednesday last the companies
of the first battalion of this regiment, which have been
on duty in Dublin for some time,-left in one of the City
of Dublin Steam-packet Company's vessels for Liverpool,
which place they reached on the following day. On the
next morning (Friday) they proceeded to London, via
the Grand Junction and Birmingham Railways, arriving
in town the same evening. Saturday and yesterday they
were billeted at various houses on the Surrey side of the
river, being under orders for Dover, to which garrison
they will proceed this day, per the South-Eastern Rail-
way.
SIR GEORGE MURRAY.—In answer to inquiries made
on Sunday, it was stated that Sir George Murray was
somewhat better.

GLASGOW PIG-IRON TRADE.—TUESDAY, JAN.
Notwithstanding the severe pressure on the Money Market,
this article has assumed a very firm appearance. Peel's mea-
sures will, without doubt, cause other nations to reciprocate
in their tariffs, and consequently we have now opened up an
export trade, thus completely removing the difficulty as to
stocks. For iron-masters, as well as other manufacturers,
their prospects have never had so bright an appearance. For
money, one or two small lots (under 100 tons), was sold at
80s., but yesterday and Saturday contracts were made to a
limited extent by makers, at 855., cash; and we learn to-day
as much as 87s. 6d., say 87s. 6d., four months, was paid. We
quote the price, for to-day, as 82s. Gd. cash.—Glasgow
National.
RAILWAY IRON.--The paragraph which has been going
the round of the papers respecting railway iron having been
sent from France to Newport, is calculated to give the im-
pression that such article had been literally supplied by
France for use in this country. The facts of the case are,
that the ir in was originally shipred from this country for
France; during the voyage the ship met with some disasters,
and on the arrival of the vessel it was found that the iron
had become unfit for use, and it WWI then sent back to be re•
melted.—Bristol Journal.

FATAL AND SINGULAR OCCUR-

RENCE.

We have this week to notice n, most melancholy event
by which a young man, naaied John Brotherton, a farm'
labourer, from BeckwHishaw, loft his life on Sunday
morning, at the residence of Mr. Nathan Atkinson, a
farmer, residing at a lone house adjoining to Stainburn
Moor, about five miles from Otley. Before detailing the
circumstances of the case, it may be as well to menticn
that the inmates of Mr. Atkinson's house consisted of
himself and Mrs. Atkinson, a maid servant named Ellen
Brotherton, and two teen servants named llugh Ingle
and John Dickinson. An inquest was held on the body
of the deceased at the house of Mr. J. Holmes, innkeeper,
Stainburn, on Tuesday, before Thomas Brown, Esq.. of
Skipton, and a highly respectable jury, collapsed of
parties residing at Stainburn. and from the adjoining
townships of Lindley and Righton.
It appeared from the evidence of John Dickinson and
Ellen Brotherton, that they retired to rest about nine
o'clock on Saturday evening. That about half-past
twelve Mr. Atkinson was awoke by the breaking of glass
in the room window under his bed room. That he went
down stairs, came back, and called the men out of bed.
They got up, put on their trousers, went down stairs, and
got a light. They found the windows broken and the
glass scattered about. They saw the hair of a man's
head at the bottom of the window, but could not distin-
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guish any person outside. The person slunk away.
Dickinson and Ingle then went out into the g irden with a
lantern and candle, but could see no one. While there,
sticks and stones were thrown at them, and they returned
into the house, and locked the door. They fastened the
window-shutters again (we may, perhaps, mention that
the bar which secured the shutters, inside ones, did not
fit tight, as the spring was weak) and they were imme-
diately broken open. This was done several times. At
this time the impression on Dickinson and Ellen
Brotherton's mind was, that the attacks were made by
r avigators, on account of some of those parties having
attempted to get into Mr. Michael Dickinson's house,
in the same neighbourhood, a few days before. Mrs.
Atkinson brought the gun down stairs, and it was
charged with shot. Mr. Atkinson fastened the shu'-
ters again, tied them with a band, and called out, "Now,
my las, it you arn't off, or make yourselves known,
you'll be shot immediately ; he also said aloud to Ingle,
that if the windows were broken open again, he was to
fire immediately. The shutters were broken open.
Ingle fired, and all was still. It was dark and rainy at
the time. The attacks had been kept up for near an
hour and a half, as it was about two o'clock when the
gun was fired. The servants sat up till daylight, but
Mr. Atkinson went to bed. The deceased was found
dead the next morning, in a field about forty yards from
the house.

Ellen Brotherton also stated that Mr. Atkinson and
his men were on the best of terms with the deceased, who
had been at the house the Sunday previous, and that the
greatest good feeling prevailed amongst them.
Mr. Spence, of Otley, surgeon, had made a post mortem
examination of the body, and found that the charge had
skirted the lung, and lodged in the liver.
Mr. Smith called Mr. Cowgill, the landlord of the
public-house at Beck nrithshaw, from whose evidence it
appeared that the deceased was at his house drinking
from four o'clock in the afternoon until ten minutes past
eleven at night.
The jury returned a verdict of "Excusable Homicide."
The deceased courted the young woman Ellen Bro-
therton, and he knew where her bed-room window was,
and he must have been in a gross state of intoxication,
or he would not have acted in the manner he did.—Leeds
Mercury,