The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE•

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s.—We are happy to state, that
the naval court-martial. Which assembled this morning
on board the Victory, to try, at his own request, First-
Lieutenant Crawley, of the Avenger steam• frigate, on a
charge of a serious nature preferred by Joseph Henry
Grant, aged 16, his servantin the same ship,after hearing
the evidence, delivered the following decision:—" The
Court is of opinion that the charge against Lieut. Craw-
ley has not been proved, and that it is frivolous and vex•
atious, and the Court doth adjudge him, the said Lieu-
tenant Crawley, to be fully acquitted." The President
added, " I have great pleasure in returning you yout
sword, Lieutenant Crawley, and at the same time I beg
to state, that you leave this Court without the slightest
blemish on your character."

APPOINTMENTS.
Edward Groves, surgeon, William Betts, acting mas-
ter, E. W. Cole, acting purser, Frederick Hullott, boat-
swain, George Tucker, carpenter, to the Mutine; G. W.
Grant, master's-assistant, to the Peterel ; Walter 13.
Gordon, clerk in charge, to the Shearwater ; J. A.
Hodgskins, lieutenant, to the Sidon ; John R. Bluett,
purser, to the Actaeon ; Frederick Lucas, acting purser,
to the Kingfisher ; James Morris, boatswain, to the
Avenger; James H. Furneaux, lieutenant, to the Excellent;
George Wilson, master, to the Blazer ; Robert W.
Roberts,. master, to the Dasher ; Edward Maunder,
second-master, to the Blazer ; H. T. Ellis, second-
master, to the Medina ; Frederick L. Cotton, mate, to
the Mutine ; Robert Wylie, surgeon superintendent, to
the Arabian convict ship ; James Davidson, assistant-
surgeon, to the Seaflower ; Rev. Philip Somerville,
chaplain, to the Endyinion ; Cr. W. Burtchall, master's
assistant, to the Imauui ; William C. Buck, master's-
assistant, Edward J. W. Brown, supernumerary clerk,
to the Caledonia ; William Weller, clerk's-assistant, to
the Avenger ; William Broom, gunner, supernumerary,
to the Excellent ; Charles Trood, carpenter, to the
Victory ; John Raymond, carpenter, to the Rattlesnake.

COAST GUARD.
Samuel S. Shore, chief officer.
PROMOTION.
Walter Ross, to be acting-carpenter to the Raleigh.

Dr. Wolff is about to give a course of lectures in
Bath for the benefit of the Polish Association.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-On- the night of Saturday
last the following daring highway robbery was com-
mitted on the Great Western-road, about midway be-
tween Knightsbridge and Kensington. It appears that
just after midnight, as Mr. Osborn, of Pimlico, was re-
turning home along the Great Western-road, from the
direction of Kensington turnpike, he was suddenly at-
tacked by six or eight men, dressed as labourers, who
demanded his money. Mr. Osborn called out for the
police, but one of the men instantly tore open Mr. Os-
born's coat, and snatched from his waistcoat pocket a
silver watch, with which they ran off.
Policeman Frond
hearing Mr. Osborn's cries, hastened to the spot, pursued
the thieves in the direction pointed ott IV Mr. Osborn,
and shortly came up with four men answering the de.
scription, two of whom he secured. They were imme-
diately conveyed to the station-house, Kensington, but
Mr. Osborn being unable to identify either of them, they
were liberated. _

ROBBERY AT BIRMINGHAM.--A quantity of plate,
consisting of spoons of various kinds, knives and forks,
&c., amounting in value to upwards of 1001., was stolen
from the Stork Hotel, in this town, on Saturday night
last, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock. It
appears that the servant whose duty it was to collect the
house plate, before conveying it to the safe in which it
was usually deposited at night, left a basket containing
a portion of the articles on a sideboard in the ball, oppo-
site the bar, but near the entrance door of the hotel.
She then went into some other rooms to collect the re-
sidue of the plate, and on her return missed the basket,
and immediately called the attention of the Misses Smith
to the loss. Search being made, neither the basket nor
its contents could be found. Information was imme-
diately given to the police, but up to the presefit time
they have not succeeded in obtaining any clue that is
likely to lead to the detection of the thieves. Suspicion
has fallen upon two strangers who came into the house
taosthhoartnotiffmeee.proroevini,oucsallyledtofothreharlofbaber3, and proceeding
pint,
of sherry. They
then commenced talking loudly and arguing, apparently
as if they were commercial men transacting some busi-
ness. When they had drank their wine, one of them
tendered a a note of the bank of Messrs. Taylor and
Lloyd's in payment. The bar-maid, however, not know-
ing either of the parties, and suspecting all was not right,
declined taking the note, on which the party paid her
Is. 6d., after having assured her that the note was quite
correct. During this transaction the other person was
in the passage and about the door, and it is supposed
that in the interval the plate-basket was removed.—
Birmingham Gazette.
DEATH OF COLONEL LORD JOHN SOMERSET.—We
regret to have to announce the death of the Hon.
Colonel Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset, inspecting
field-officer of the Bristol district, which took place at
h
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in the afternoon of Sa-
turday. Lord John Somerset, who was much respected
ittnndßEr Elizabeth, daughter
d, the
eli
of neighbourhood
on fr yfiftDuke of Beaufort.
as inspecting field-
officer,
Admiral the Hon. Edward
Boscawen, and was born on the 30th of August, 1787.
and was therefore in the 60th year of his age. On the
4th of December, 1814, he married the Lady Catherine
Annesley, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Mount-
morris, who is still living, and by whom his Lordship has
left one son and three daughters. His deceased Lord-
ship entered the army at an early age, and served on the
general, acpointed as in-
specting of
the Bristol staff at the battle of Waterloo, in which battle his name
is honourably mentioned. After passing through the
various grades of military life his Lordship received his
commission as colonel in the army on the 10th of
January, 1837, and was, upon the promotion of Colonel
Fauneeto
field-officerh r rank of
and
commandantmayor
dis-
trict. By his Lordship's death several noble families
will be placed in mourning. His Lordship was brother
of Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and uncle of the present Duke
of Beaufort.