The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Commander-in-Chief,
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, embarked in the Lightning
steam-tender today, and left immediately after, on an
official visit to the Channel Islands. Sir Charles was
accompanied by his Flag-Lieutenant (Mr. Cochran),
and by the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Ogle. By his departure
Sir Charles Napier becomes Commander-in-Chief of
this port, being the senior Rear-Admiral; but an
arrangement has been made by which the duties of the
port are to be transacted by Rear-Admiral Superinten-
dent Prescott, C. 8., and all the ships at the port, with
the exception of the St. Vincent, rrince Regent, and
Ansphion, have hoisted the blue ensign accordingly.
No emolument accrues to the temporary Commander-
i n-Chief by this transfer of duty, as Sir Charles Ogle's
flag is still flying within the limits of his station; his
absence will not exceed a fortnight.
The Bomby freight-ship is hourly expected, with the
77th Regiment, from Halifax, from which port the Maria
Suenes transport is also expected, with the 2d division of
the 83d.

THE PRINCE REGENT.—This remarkably fine two-
decker (92 guns) was the scene on Friday, of a rather
unusual piece of retributive justice on the part of her
captain (Capt. W. F. Martin). On that day Mr. Davis,
one of the clerks of the ship, was called upon the quar-
ter-deck, and compelled to read aloud, so that the whole
of the officers and crew (about 900 in all) could hear dis-
tinctly, a series of letters, in which he had slandered
the captain, officers, and the ship in very unmeasured
terms ; these letters were addressed to a friend on shore,
hut who baying quarrelled with the officer, sent the
letters of the latter to Captain Martin, who reprimanded
the author in the above manner.

THE SQUADRON AT SPITHEAD.—The St. Vincent, 120
guns, Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B. ; the
Prince Regent, 92 guns, Captain W. F. Martin ; the
Powerful, 84 guns, Captain the Hon. Robert Dundas,
C.B. ; and the screw steam-ship Amphion, 36 guns,
Captain Williams, were ordered on Saturday to victual
and store for four months, and are shipping their pro-
visions and munitions accordingly.
The Ganges, 84 guns, Captain Smith, remains at the
outer Nore.
Her Majesty's ship London, 92 guns, was taken out
of dock at Sheerness on Friday, refitted for commission.
The Ranger brig, Commander Newland, arrived at
Sheerness from Chatham, on Saturday, to be inspected
by the Port Admiral.
APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant.—S. H. Pickard (1845), of the San Josef
flag-ship at Devonport, to the Ranger brig at Sheerness.
Gunner.—William Seeger (acting) to the Excellent
gunnery establishment at Portsmouth.
Boatswain.—Henry Hurrell (acting) to the Poictiers
depot ship at Chatham.
Midshipmen.—J. B. Creagh, H. Burnaby, A. and M.
Wells, to the Frolic sloop at Portsmouth; J. A. Camp-
bell to the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth; A. J.
trines to the Amphion screw frigate at Portimoth.
Naval Cadet.—B. F. H. Carew to the Fisguard flag-
-lip at Woolwich.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, June 19.—
Troops for India.—This morning the following detach-
ments from the Provisional Battalion, consisting of 23
men belonging to the 25th Regiment (the King's Own
Borderers), nine men of the 51st Icing's Own Light
Infantry, and 10 men of the 84th, were inspected by the
commandant, Colonel James Simpson ; at the conclusion
each man Has furnished with the Articles of War.
These detachments march from the garrison at seven
i'elock A.M. to-morrow en route for Gravesend, thence to
embark from the Custom-house Quay, on board the ship
Ellenburough, Captain Henry Toynbee, for Madras, to
join their head-quarters. The following officers also
embark :—Ensign William Henry Newenham, 25th ;
Ensign C. S. Nott, 51st ; and Assistant-Surgeon Thomas
Crawford, of the same corps ; also Lieutenant I).
Hastings, 78th Highlanders, and Lieutenant F. H.
Garner and Ensign Elliott, of the 84th. With the above
embark 42 men of the 15th Hussars from the cavalry
depot at Maidstone with Cornet William Bennet and
Cornet F. %V. Goldfrap, for the Presidency of Madras.
Invalids from India.—On Saturday evening a detach-
ment of the 29th Regiment, consisting of eleven privates
and one boy, in charge of Sergeant James Doyle, ar-
rived at the invalid depot, Fort Pitt, and after medical
inspection by 1)r. Finch, two men were placed in hos-
pital. This detachment came to Gravesend by the ship
Prince of Wales, Commander W. F. Hopkins, from Cal-
cutta, which place she left on the 15th of February.
Sergeant William May and two privates died at sea.
With this detachment were 72 men, with two women
and four children, of the East India Company's troops,
i❑ charge of Major Welchman, and Dr. Clarke, belong-
ing to the ship, had medical charge. The soldiers of
,he 29th are decorated with three medals, suspended at
their breast, for their recent engagements in India.

AQUATIC SPORTS AT CREMORNE.—The first of a
series of novel and brilliant aquatic tourneys was an-
nounced to come off in these gardens yesterday, under
the joint contrivance and superintendence of Lieutenant
Gale, R.N., and Mr. W. J. Collier, formerly of the
Lyceum. Three o'clock was the hour fixed for the
aquatic masque ; but owing to the unfavourable state of
the weather it was not till long after that the necessary
preparations were complete. To the same cause no.
doubt is to be attributed the fact, that the attendance"
was not so thronged as on many of the ordinary days at
this favourite resort. Blasts of trumpets at length
sounded in due form to usher in the revel, and the per-
formers, marching in procession, took up their respective
positions under the auspices of Neptune and some my-
thological personages of the other sex. The entertain-
ment took place within a part of the river which had been
enclosed for that purpose with barges, and a number of
gay streamers waving over covered tents made the scene
as lively as could be wished. The feats followed each
other in rapid succession, and drew forth unbounded ap
clause, and the entertainment on the whole went off ex-
ceedingly well.
FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—A bril-
liant audience attended these performances last evening,
amongst whom we noticed the Duke and Duchess of
Leinster, the Earl of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess
Bruce, Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Holland,
Baron and Baroness Dimsdale, the Countess of Tanker-
ville, the Marquis of Donegan, Earl of Granville, Sir
Henry Webb, Mrs. Montefiore, Sir Joseph Copley, Mrs.
Charles and the Misses Hammersley, Colonel Romilly,
Lady and Miss Macdonald, Sir John and the Misses
Burgoyne, Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly, Miss Wynne,
and the lion. Mrs. Norton.
WALLS AND BUTTRESSES.—Professor Donaldson's
maxims that " The Freemasons of the middle ages
have established this principle of construction, that,
with equal quantities of material, a thin wall, with
buttresses, has greater strength and stability than a
thicker wall without"—is worthy of being kept in view
in these days of economy.—Builder.

LECTURES at the POLYTECHNIC

INSTITUTION.
BY ISLIAM BAGGS.
Yesterday the first of a series of important and very
remarkable lectures, illustrative of the " Phenomena of
Thunder Storms, and the Cause of Lightning," was
delivered at the Polytechnic Institution, by Mr. Isham
Baggs,: a gentleman already well known to the scientific
world by his discoveries in electro-printing. Both in his
manner as a lecturer, and his akin in the manipulation of
an experiment, Mr. Baggs evinced his capacity to
arrest the attention of an audience, and convey
abstruse facts to their comprehension in the
clearest manner possible. After entering at consider-
able length into the subject of atmospheric electricity,
after observing that a certain amount of electricity is in
every instance developed by friction (insomuch that the
Arabian fiction was to a certain degree realised, the
Genius of Electricity being evoked when the
lamp was rubbed by Aladdin), the lecturer de-
tailed the causes of the falling stars, the aurora
borealis, &c., &c., by a number of ingenious
and appropriate experiments. In a former article,
published several weeks since in the columns .of
The Sun, we explained as simply as we could
the circumstances and character of the discoveries in
electricity then submitted to the Council and Fellows
of the Royal Society, by Mr. Isham Bang,
the gentle-
man now lecturing at the Polytechnic Institution. The
lecture delivered by
him yesterday afternoon demon-
strated by experiment what was there expressed in
theory. Further details upon the series will be given
by us as it progresses; but, at present, we cannot refrain
from observing that ,it has commenced admirably, and
appears likely to be attractive and popular.

TRINITY MONDAY.—Yesterday, according to cus-
tom on Trinity Monday, the Duke of Wellington, with
the Wardens and Brothers of the Corporation of the
Trinity House, went from the Tower to Deptford. The
procession hafing attended Diving_ ferf in the old
aliureSbaffektolatOnoirernp Otini.eh
Hospital called the Trinity House of Deptford Strond.
They also visited the other Institution called Trinity
Hospital, and entered the great hall or chapel, for the
usual routine of business connected with their annual
visit. After the procession the Duke of Wellington re-
turned in his carriage to town. Trinity Fair was held,
according to custom, in a field at the north end of
Church-street.

RETIREMENT OF DR. CRAMBERS.—This accom-
plished physician, who has so long held the leading
position among the practising physicians of the metro-
polis, and monopolised the chief practice in the fashion-
able world, has, we regret to learn, been obliged to
retire into the country on account of health ; and we
are informed that it is extremely improbable that he will
ever be able to take-an active part in the arduous
labours of a physician of bis rank in practice.
A DESERTED SHlP.—Under date Hamburgh, June
14th, we have the following:—" The brig Ferdinand,
Captain Groot, arrived at Port-au-Prince from Liver-
pool, states that, in latitude 36.54, and longitude 21.40,
she fell in with an abandoned ship, named the Mary, of
Liverpool, painted green, and so covered with barnacles
that she must have been long deserted ; but, owing to
the roughness of the weather, it was impossible to board
her."—Liverpool Albion.
Count and Countess Troili left London yesterday
for Rome.
COLLISION BETWEEN THE POLICE AND THE POPTI-
LACE.—NORWICH, SATURDAY EvEmiso.—Yesterday, a
rather serious encounter took place in this city between
a party of the police and a numerous mob, who, with
stones and broken bottles, kept up a furious attack on
the former during their passage through several streets
from the police-office to the gaol, as an escort to some
paupers who had refused (after a former imprisonment
for a similar refusal) to be separated in the workhouse
from their wives. The police were compelled at length
to turn in their own defence, and having made several
charges with their staves, effectually dispersed the
rioters, but not until numbers were severely hurt on
both sides. The tumult was not quelled till about one
o'clock this morning.
THE LATE CONFLAGRATION IN WOOD-STEET,
CHEAPSlDE.—Yesterday evening, Mr. William Payne,
the City Coroner, and a respectable jury assembled at
the Bell-inn, Wood-street, Cheapside, for the purpose of
inquiring into the circumstances connected with the fire
which occurred on Sunday morning upon the premises
belonging to Messrs. Barford, straw.bonnet manufac-
turers, and Messrs. Scowin and Co., No. 95, Wood-
street, Cheapside. The most important evidence 'pro-
duced on the occasion was that of the policeman who
gave the alarm of fire, and who stated that at the time
he first saw the appearance of a fire through a window
in the second flour, he perceived a man leaving the
house. The man, when asked by the policeman, said
there was a fire in the house, and he was running for
the engines, but he did not return. It appeared frail.
the evidence that Mr. Barford, the proprietor, had left
for the country on Friday last, and that no person slept
on the premises. The inquiry was adjourned to obtain
the attendance of other witnesses.

THE WESTMINSTER REFORM SOClETY.—Yesterday
evening an influential meeting of the members of the
Westminster Reform Society was held at the York
Hotel, Upper Wellington-street, Strand, " to consider
the propriety of petitioning Parliament in support of
Mr. Hume's motion for a reform in the representation
of the people," and to receive the report of the committee
appointed to revise the principles and rules of the society.
—Mr. Geesin having been called to the chair, read the
principles, as recommended by the committee, and which
were as follow:—" The extension of the suffrage to all
persons paying a rental for a house, or any part of a
house, and having been resident there for a period not
less than six months previous to registration; the vote
by ballot; a more equal apportionment of members to
the population; and triennial parliaments." On the re-
port being received and adopted, together with a peti-
tion to the House of Commons, it was further agreed
that it should be signed by the chairman on behalf of
the meeting; that Mr. Lushingtoa should present it; and
that General Sir De Lacy Evans should be requested to
give it his support.
SOUTHAMPTON, MoNBAy, JUNE 19.—The Danish
ship Burgemeister Jensen, Captain Matthieson, from
Valparaiso, bound to Hamburgh, and the Bremen brig
Gazelle, Captain Bunge, from Arica for Hamburgh,
arrived in Cowes-roads yesterday for protection, in
consequence of the Danish war.
The funeral of William Woodhouse, late warder
in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, took place
yesterday, the melancholy circumstances of whose death
have already been stated in The Sun. The deceased
was highly respected by the Governor and the whole of
the officers of the above prison, and by a numerous circle
of private mends, who assembled on this occasion to pay
their last tribute of respect to his remains.
BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—Last evening a
public meeting of electors of the borough of Marylebone
took place at the Victoria Tavern, Mornington-road,
for the purpose of considering the questions of the re-
duction of taxation and promoting a better representa•
tints of the people. Mr. Thomas, a commissioner of the
Southampton Pavings Trust, presided, and the following
resolution was passed
That this meeting most
cordially approves of the motion given notice of by Mr.
Flume in favour of theballot, extension of the suffrage to
householders, the return to the just and wholesome re-
gulation of triennial Parliaments,
with a fair revision of
electoral districts." A petition founded on the resolu-
tion was carried nem. con., with a request that Lord D.
Stuart and Sir B. Hall be requested to support the same.
The meeting then separated.
A CHARTIST LEADER.--Mr. John Briggs, a
member of the town council of Sheffield, and lately a
delegate from that town to the Chartist Convention,
held in the Lecture-hall, John-street, exhibited last
Sunday afternoon such unmistakeable symptoms of in-
sanity that it was found necessary to convey him to the
insane ward at the Sheffield workhouse, where he now
is, awaiting the order of the justices for his removal to
the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, at Wakefield.

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LIE POISONING CASES AT BRlSTOL.—Yesterday
the inquest upon the body of Mrs. Michael was resumed
at Bristol. It was proved by Mr. Herapath that there
was no arsenic in her remains, but there was mercury:
whether it was administered as corrosive sublimate or
as calomel it was impossible at this distance of time .to
—Tho inquest on the
say. A very few grains of corrosive sublimate would
resumed, and the sister
have caused death. It was shown, upon the testimony
of a surgeon, that she had taken calomel in her last ill-
shheonw that after the deatk of
ill-
ness; and there being no further evidence to throw
light upon the subject, the jury found—" That the de-
ceased died on the 31st of October,,, 1844, but from what
olcauseifttleirb. iosHyt,oi l
John
jurorsohwheans
ilailllle, unknown.dw atos t
the infant no one remained in the house but Mr. Hill
and the children, except for a few hours in the day
time. Mr. Hill cooked all the victuals, and prepared
every meal, and gave the children their food himself.
He also made their gruel and arrowroot, and gave little
f e , ,
That
John his medicine. Witness was not in the house when
a, ren returned
never
ed arsenic.. : evneicr.d. Tt_....h o jury,
the death took place, but she was told that it took place
at ten o'clock in the morning, and not at night, as
stated to Mr. Humpage. A druggist named Reed
proved that Mr. Hill had purchased corrosive subli-
mate r aan ds opiumhort e 0 i
los
deceased died from the effects of arsenic administered
by his father;" which is, in short, a verdict of wilful
murder. of him,
but

HAMMERSMITH SUBSCRIPTION REGATTA.—Nine
landsmen contended yesterday, in four heats, at Ham-
mersmith, for various prizes subscribed by the residents.
The races were exceedingly well contested, the distance
extending from the Red Lion up to Hammersmith-
terrace, down to a boat off the Queen's, and back to the
starting place. First heat—T. Gibbs (yellow) 1, Samuel
Weddick (blue) 2; blue held the lead for a short dis-
tance, and was then passed by the winner. Second heat
—Thomas Hoare (red) 1, James Holder (blue) 2; the
winner went away with the lead, and kept it. Third
heat—Thomas Machley (blue) 1, Joseph Goodrick (red)
2; Goodrick held the lead for the first half way. Fourth
heat—Thomas Gibbs 1, Thomas Hoare 2; it was a
fairly rowed heat, and won by half a length only.
We understand it is intended to erect batteries at
the mouth of Weymouth Harbour, and also on the
Nothe, the necessary surveys having been made._
Salisbury and Wilts Herald.