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London, England, 1846-07-18 00:00:00

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PRICE SD.

THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.

MILITARY INT _IGENCE;
On Wednesday, the 15th i, ~ five detachments—the
9th, 10th, 21st, 24th, and —consisting of 205 iren,
with seven officer' . at Gravesend, from Chatham
barraci ,arked from the Custom-house quay,,
in boats, on board the ship Sophia, Captain G. Saxon,
to join their respective regiments in India. Second-
Lieutenant C. B. Daveney, of the 21st North British
Fusiliers, embarked in place of Second-Lieutenant W.
T. M`Grigor, who is withdrawn.

The following eight detachments were selected on the
14th instant, from the provincial battalion at Chatham,
by the Commandant, Colonel T. Weare, K.H., for em-
barkation at Gravesend on the 31st instant on board
the ship Aun, Captain James Knox, 800 tons burden,
for Bombay and Cananore. The Bth Foot King's
Own, 31 men; 17th Foot, 59 men; 22d Regiment,
54 men; 28th Regiment, 36 men; 60th, Ist battaliun
of Rifles, 63 men; 86th, 14 men; 15t1:, King's Ow&t
Borderers, 38 men; and 78th Highlanders, 60 men;
making a total of 325 men, with the following officers:--
Lieutenant W. A. Armstrong, 17th Fort; Lieutenant
W. Bayne and E:tsign A. G. B. L. Butt. 22d Regi-
ment; Lieutenant George Burrell; Ensign B. G. Len-
nox; and Ensign Philip Henry P. Aplin, 28th Regi-
ment; and Ensign H. Gilmore, with Ensign R. Boyle,
78th Highlanders.

Last ;right the two following detachments, consisting-
of 32 men, including non commisslonerl officers, of the
51st King's Own Light Infantry, and 10 men of thn
96th Regiment, with 19 women and 51 children, arrived
at the Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt, at Chatham, frola
Gravesend, where they disembarked from the slip PCs-
tongebomangee' Captain John Austin, from Van.
Diemen's Land. The troops were in charge of Ad-
jutant Richard Roney, 96th Regiment, and they em-
barked on the 13th, and sailed on the 14th of March
last from Hobart Town, making the passage in 122
days. Two children died on the voyage, and one sol-
dier of the 51st died on Monday as the ship was off
Dover. The soldiers thus come home are old men,
and as the 51st and 96th are removed for service in
India, all young men were selected. The men, after
undergoing medical inspection, were removed to St.
Mary's barracks to await their discharge.
On Tuesday afternoon, the 14th instant, two detach-
ments from the head-quarters of the Chatham division
of the Royal Marines embarked at the new stairs on
board the Chatham tender for service at Sheerness, viz.,
Recruit and the Hound. The former takes 1 colour-
sergeant, 1 corporal, I drummer, and 17 privates; and
the latter, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 10 privates.
A detachment belonging to the Provisional Battalion
At• Chatham, consisting of I captain, anbalterße,2 ser-
geants, 1 corporal, and 35 Privates' embiiiiarYesteidity
on board the Victoria steam vessel for garrison.duty at
Sheerness, relieving a similar detachment which returned
to Chatham.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, 3fONDAIY.--T ;0u rrt-rm;tllar, compris-
ing Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., president ' • Cap-
tains John Pasco, of the Victory •, Sir Baldwin Wake
Walker, of the Constance ; Woodford I Williams, of
the Avenger ; Commander Willcox, of the Victory ;
and Mr. George Lamburn Greetham, Deputy Judge
Advocate of the Fleet, assembled this morning, on
board the Victory, to try Mr. William Ellis, supernu-
merary carpenter of the Victory, on the following
charge :

" For that he, the said Mr. William Ellis, then being
a supernumerary carpenter of her Majesty's ship Vic-
tory, did, on the 13th of June, 1846, embezzle and im-
properly take away from her Majesty's ship Trinco-
malee, in Portsmouth Dockyard, four pounds of paint
composition, and five ounces of nails and brads."
Sergeant Catling, of the dockyard police, proved he
saw the prisoner coming out of the blacksmith's shop in
this dockyard, about half-past one P.m., on the day
stated in the charge, and he appeared to have something
weighty in his coat pockets ; that on the prisoner's
coming out of the dockyard he (witness) searched him,
and found in his coat pocket a small wooden box, with a
tin cover, which box was full of mixed paint. In his
hat was found a tin canister or pot, also filled with mixed
paint. While being searched the prisoner took out of
his trousers pocket, and delivered to witness, some iron
nails, also Queen's stores, and marked with the broad'
arrow, which, together with the paint, he acknowledged
to having abstracted from the Trincomalee corvette
under his charge.
Lieutenant Henry Watson Hall, director of the dock-
yard police, proved the prisoner's acknowledgment of
having taken the stores from the Trincomalee.
Mr. James Horsey, clerk to the storekeeper of Ports-
mouth Dockyard, proved Sergeant Catling's delivery
to him of the stores found upon the person of the pri-
soner ; the value of the paint, nails, and brads was
about Is. 3d.

This was the case for the prosecution, which being
closed, Mr. C. H. Binsteed, of Portsmouth, the prisoner's
solicitor, applied for time to make out the defence, alleg-
ing he should be able to prove his client was of unsound
mind, and not consequently answerable for the commis-
sion of the act set forth in the charge.
The Court allowed until to-morrow at nine o'clock,
A.M., and then adjourned.
TUESDAY.—The Court met this morning at nine, but
immediately after adjourned until nine to-morrow morn-
ing, to await instructions from the Admiralty, the Pre-
sident having doubts as to the legality of trying the
prisoner by a court-martial for the offence with which he
stood charged.
WEDNESDAY.—The usual signal gun was fired at eight
o'clock this morning, and at nine the members of the
Court were all re-assembled, when Rear-Admiral
Parker stated that, having consulted the law officers
of the Crown upon the case, he had come to
the conclusion that the prisoner could not be legally
tried by a court-martial. He thereupon committed him
to the custody of the civil power, and the accused will
take his trial at the next general quarter sessions for
the borough. The Court was then dissolved.

Extract of a private letter, dated Cork, July 11,1846 :
—" I have just time to send you a line to inform you that
to-day, rather suddenly, a signal was made to land field-
pieces, and man and arm boats, &c. About 1,300 ma-
rines were landed, and 14 field-pieces, at a place called
Cork Bay. There was some little difficulty in landing
the cannon, owing to its being low water. Everything
else went on well. There was no firing, it being intended
as a prelude to Monday next, when a regular field day,
with firing, is to take place. The field-pieces were
manned by the seamen, who went through the exercise
with much spirit and good will. The whole was under
the command of Captain Willes, of the Vanguard."
The Avenger, steam-frigate, Captain W. J. Williams,
although far from complete, being still in the hands of
the joiners and painters, went out of harbour to-day,
being required for the service of his Highness Ibrahim
Pacha and his suite to-morrow.

The royal yacht will be reported ready for the use of
her Majesty to-night. All the workmen aro to be out
of her this evening. It is understood that her Majesty,
with the Prince and Royal Family, will embark in her
to-morrow, should the weather prove favourable, and
take a short excursion, accompanying Ibrahim Pacba, in
the Avenger, outside the Isle of Wight, as a parting com-
pliment to the illustrious stranger.
The Raven cutter, Lieutenant Commander Stephen,
arrived from Sheerness last evening, bringing the marines
belonging to this division paid off from the Albatross,
and supernumeraries. She sails to-morrow morning for
North Yarmouth with naval stores.