The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1856.

CRIMEAN BAINDET AT PORTSMOUTH.

PORTSM6IITH, TUESDAY EVENING.

To-day some 2,300 soldiers, sailors, and Marines, re-
cently returned from the Crimea, and now stationed in
this town, were entertained at a grand banquet provided
by the gentry and other inhabitants of the town and neigh-
bourhood, in grateful recognition of their memorable ser-
vices and sufferings during the war with Russia, and as a
token of welcome on their return to their native country.
The entertainment was held in a spacious pavilion, erected
expressly for the occasion, at an expense of about 2001.,
in the Governor's parade ground, situate within the for-
tifications of the town, and, the day being remarkably
auspicious, a great concourse of the inhabitants, with the
gentry and others for many miles round, were present to
witness the ceremony. The recipients of this spontaneous
act of homage wore all medal men, and many of them
were also decorated with the insignia of the French Le-
gion of Honour. They included 400 soldiers of the 20th
Regiment of Foot, 45 of the 21st Royal Fusiliers, 400
of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, 400 of the
Royal Marine Artillery, 400 of the 97th Foot, 35 Royal
Sappers and Miners and Royal Artillerymen, with a few
soldiers belonging to other regiments, making up the whole
of the troops now, in the garrison here. There were also a
number of men selected from the crews of the Victory,
her Majesty's yacht, the Admiralty yacht, the Princess
Royal, Comer, Colossus, Perseverance, Dauntless, Urgent,
Gorgon, Vigilant, Dragon, Lapwing, Cormorant, Bulfinch,
Pigmy, Fanny, Raleigh, St. Vincent, Seahorse, and Fire
Queen. The town throughout the day wore quite a holiday
air. Banners floated from some of the public buildings and
private houses, the church bells were rung and guns fired
at intervals. At 1 o'clock, the hour fixed for the dinner,
the men belonging to the fleet and the several regiments
.were marched to the pavilion, under the command of their
respective officers, and preceded by bands of music ; and
when they assembled within the building the scene was
extremely animated. The interior of the pavilion was taste-
fully decorated with banners and other naval and military
emblems. Over the seat assigned to the chairman the
flags of the allied nations were intertwined, and the weeds
"Welcome Home," "Honour to the Brave," and the
names of Sebastopol and Inkermann inscribed in the centre.
The front of a gallery designed for the accommodation of
ladies, which ran across the centre of the building, bore
the inscription " Florence Nightingale," in large letters of
gold on a white ground.
Dr. Engledue, a gentleman :resident in the town, and
held in high esteem, had been unanimously elected by the
managing committee to preside on this occasion, and be
assumed the chair at 1 o'clock, supported on his right and
left by Lord George Lennox, Sir George Seymour, Tice-
Admiral and Commander-in-Chief; the Rev. J. P. M`Gbie,
vicar of Portsmouth; Admiral Superintendent Martin;
Major-General Mercer, Royal Marines, and other gentle.
men. Major-General Sir R. Dacres, Captain S. C. Dacres,
Mr. John Martin, of Cambridge House, Commodore the
Hon. Henry Keppel, Captain G. H. Seymour, Flag-Liou-
tenant Malcolm, Flag-Lieutenant Brandreth, and several of
the municipal authorities were also present. General Sir
Harry Jones, General Sir W. F. Williams, and Colonels
Teesdale, Lake, and other gentlemen, invited to the officers'
banquet of to-morrow (Wednesday), arrived at Portsmouth
in the course of the day, and were in the Governor's parade
ground witnessing the ovation to the troops and seamen, as
did also Lady Seymour and family, uith many others from
the ladies' gallery. The non-commissioned officers of the
several regiments—a remarkably handsome body of men—
occupied a table assigned to their especial use, immediately
in front of the chair, and one of their number, Serjeant-
Maj or R. M`Callum, of the Royal Artillery, was selected by
them to respond to the toast of the army. The dinner, pre-
pared by Messrs. Bathe and Fuuge, of the London Tavern,
and personally superintended by them, was an exceedingly
substantial one, consisting of, among other viands, cold
roast, boiled, and corned beef, venison pasty, all in plentiful
supply, with hot potatoes and bread. Two quarts of porter
formed the specified allowance for each man, but, in fact,
they had it ad libitum, and to each of them were given two
ounces of tobacco after the repast. Mr. Nightingale, the
father of Miss Nightingale, contributed a hamper of game
to the festival, with a choice selection of flowers to deco-
rate the tables. Sir F. Baring, Mr. Charles Osborne of
Fareham, and others of the gentry, sent similar presents.
Almost tho whole of one side of the pavilion was open
to the public, and several thousands of them assembled on
the ramparts had a distant view of the proceedings in the
interior.

Grace having been said by the vicar, the men sat down
to dinner, the band of the 22d Regiment striking UP,.as,
they did so, " The Roast Beef of Old England," whiCh
caused a general laugh. The repast lasted upwards of an
hour, and at its conclusion, silence having been bespoken
by the sound of a bugle,
The CHAIRMAN rose and said—My gallant fellow-coun-
trymen, whenever and wherever Englishmen assemble
there are two duties not only imperative on them, but in
which they take delight. The one is to hold in grateful re-
membrancethe land which gave them birth, and the other
to revere the monarch who reigns over them. I propose
to you, then, " Health and long life to our most gracious
Sovereign, Queen Victoria."
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm; the band played
the national anthem, and a royal salute was fired from the
ramparts.
" His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales,
and the rest of the Royal Family," the next toast given
from the chair, elicited a similar manifestation of feeling.
The CHAIRMAN than said he had to propose a toast which
he was certain they would drink with enthusiasm, because
it was the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, their Commander-in-Chief. He could not avoid
telling theta ou that occasion what civilians thought of his
Royal Highness and of them. He would ask them who
led them across the Alma when they dashed up its steeps,
rushed forward to the Russian batteries, and drove the
creamy to the rear of his own entrenchments? (Cheers.)
Who led them in the early morn, on the memorable sth of
November, when they were outnumbered by 10 to 1—

" And foot to foot, and man to man,
" They fought as only Briton's can.
" Until thy glades, 0 Inkermart I
" Ran aucle-deep in blood."
They had no idea what effect their deeds on that day pro-
duced in England, as related by Mr. William Russell.
(Cheers.) Every man's breath was held, and his pulse
boat quicker and quicker as he bent over the glowing nar-
rative—

" Nothing could daunt, nothing dismay
" Those island warriors on that day,
" Through all the changes of the fray
" No matter how the battle sped,
"Uabroken stood the line of red
" Majestically firm.
"The line of red that never yields,
"Victorious in a hundred fields ! "
(Cheers.) Their Commander-in-Chief stood by them on
that occasion, amid their dangers and perils, and he was
with them still, now that these had passed away. Civi-
lians believedthlth he was the right man in the right place.
They anticipate4e would do all he could to carry out their
determination teilaintain the British army, not only in
the state in which it now was, and in which it always
would be, pre-eininent for valour and discipline, but that
he would endeavour to carry out the wishes of the British
people—so that it should be an army composed not only of
free men, but of educated men, well paid and conscien-
tiously tended. (Cheers.) He proposed to them in a
bumper—" His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
and the British Army." (Cheers.)
Serjeant-Major R. M`C.I.LLum, of the Royal Artillery,
responded to the toast. He said he could scarcely find
words to express how sincerely his brave comrades who
surrounded him and himself appreciated the honour con-
ferred on them that day by the gentry and inhabitants of
that neighbourhood. (Cheers.) It was A day they would
always remember with pleasure. The manner in which
they had been welcomed to their homes would help to
make them forget the hardships they had endured in the
service of their beloved Queen and country—a country they
were proud of for its benevolente—a Queen they should
ever revere for the deep sympathy she had felt in their
sufferings, whose honour it was their privilege as well as
their right and duty to defend ; from which duty they
had never shrunk, and never would shrink, while there
was a sabre left in Old England and an arm to wield it,
a musket with a hand and heart to use it, or a piece of
artillery and men to servo it. (Cheers.) Should they ever
again have to fight the battles of their Queen and country,
they would stand their ground, and, should ammunition
fail, they would again resort to stones, as they did at
Inkorman, and try what virtue there was in a British
Layonet. (Cheers) He wished, in conclusion, to acknow-
loge the obligations his brave comrades and himself wore
under to the navy for their support throughout the cam-
paign. They were with the army at the Alma, and did
good service on the enemy's flank ; they were with them
again at Inkernian, and rendered valuable assistance there;
and they were with them during their arduous trench du-
ties, to their own groat credit and the glory of old Eng-
land. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next asked permission to return to ano-
ther branch of the public service—the sailors, the brave
and the true. None in this country knew better than the
people of Portsmouth the power, the might, and the chi-
valry of the British sailor; and he would ask the men in
red how they would have gone to the scone of their glory
and their sufferings without the sailors; or whether they
could have maintained their position on the heights of
Sebastopol if they had not been watched over and provi-
sioned by them? Need he ask them to boar witness to the
efforts the sailors made and the dangers they went through
while they were iu the trenches side by side with them
during the whole of that dreary winter? Need he sing
out the names of Lushington and Koppel, or those of

Moorsom or of Peel? Need he remind them of the feats
they performed in the Sea of A.zoff, or of the demolition
and destruction of Sweaborg and Bomarsund? If the two
Russian fleets dared not come out to meet them—if they
preferred, the one to sink ingloriously beneath the
waters of the Euxine in the harbour of Sebastopol, and the
other to skulk behind the impregnable batteries of Cron-
stadt—they displayed a vast amount of prudence and fore-
sight, for to a certainty, instead of sleeping in full fathoms
five, they would have slept in fathoms fifty. (Laughter.)
In all parts of the world the motto of the navy was "Ready,
aye, Ready !" and whether they were employed in protect-
ing the peaceful pursuits of commerce, or in hunting down
the sea robber, their motto was over the same, and they
were never found' wanting. Ho could not forbear referring
to the services of the men who defended the heights of Ba-
laklava—the Royal Marines. They knew their services,
and he should not trouble them by recounting them. They
were,in fact, members of both services, for they were
almost as much sailors as soldiers ; and that arm of the ser-
vice included some of the best men whom the Queen had at
her command. He gave them, " Sir Charles Wood, the
Royal Navy, and the Royal Marines." (Cheers.)
Mr. JOHNSON, a warrant officer, acknowledged the com-

pliment.
The CIIIIRMAN next 'said,—My men, I am quite sere
you could not meet together on an occasion like this with'
out remembering that there were other armies beside your-
selves who fought aide by side with you. Remember that
your gallant Freneh comrades were always by your side ;
that the brave Turks did their duty valiantly whenever
they were nobly led and counselled by your countrymen ;
and that the Sardinians on !the only occasion on which
they were tried behaved manfully. (Cheers.) I think it
is possible, judging by the prosgra of affairs in another
part of the werld,-that it niay.irot belong before you may
have to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Sardinians—
(cheers)—and remember that, if ever you do so stand with
them, it will be to fight for liberty of speech arid liberty of
thought, the essentials of human progress and civilisation.
(Cheers.) After proposing " Our brave Allies," which
was drunk with acclamation, the chairman proceeded to
sty :—Have you ever heard of such a person as Florence
Nightingale ? (Great cheering.) Has she, and have the
ladies associated with her, smoothed the pillows of any of
you in the hospital at Scutari, by philanthropic acts and
consoling words? (" Yes, yes.") Miss Nightingale con-
ceived a great work, and, regardless of all consequences,
she left her country and did it. She held fast to her indi-
viduality, and took no counsel of any one but herself.
(Cheers.) Every unselfish action brings with it its own
reward, not immediately to the individual, but always to
the community. In this instance the reward to Miss
Nightingale and her lady companions is that they did what
in their conscience they believed to be right, and followed
out their darings to a successful issue. Tolthe community
the reward is that, apart from the grand example which
they have set, we shall see a great philanthropic institu-
tion spring into existence, which will have for its object
the raising a body of trained nurses to attend to the sick
and wounded of our army if ,ever it is called on to drive
back again the ;ruthless invader of other men's lands, or
to fight in defence of-the country. (Cheers.) The Chair-
man concluded by giving "Miss Nightingale and her lady
companions at Scutari."
A few other toasts followed, and the company separated
shortly after 3 o'clock. The troops and seamen were told
off to their respective quarters and ships about sunset.
Every man among them appeared delighted with the enter-
tainment, and it was followed by no excess of any kind.
On Mr. J. S. Tibbetts, with whom the:banquet originated,
the duty principally devolved of making all the necessary
arrangements for carrying it into full effect. In his capa-
city of one of the honorary secretaries to the committee of
management, and to those gentlemen and himself, the suc-
cess of the undertaking is wholly attributable.
Mr. Higgs officiated as toastmaster.

DINNER TO CRIMEAN OFFIGERS AT LEDBURT.—A
grand ovation has taken place at Ledbury to four Here-
fordshire officers just returned from the Crimea—viz.,
Major Bright, 19th Regiment ; Captain Ayneley, R.N. ;
Captain Hopton, 231 Regiment ; Captain Cbatfield,
49th Regiment ; Lieutenant Bidduiph, P.A. ; Lieuten-
ant Hopton, 88th Regiment ; and Assistant-Surgeon
Swinhoe, 95th Regiment. The event was celebrated by
an illumination and other marks of rejoicing. At the
dinner the chair was taken by Mr. Money Hyrle, colo-
nel of the Herefordshire M►litia, who, after the usual
loyal toasts, proposed the healths of the guests of the
day, on which speeches were made by those gentlemen.
Major Bright particularly alluded to the services of the
.lady nurses, and to the comfort which the soldiers ex-
13eriencred reeoislog from home the succours whole
theft' oduntrytheit bad sent out. 'Capt. Aynidey, R.N.,
said that; not being able to induce the enemy to meet
them on the waters, they had been obliged to confine
their operations to aiding the army. In the Sea of AzOIX
they had nothing to do but to " burn and destroy," for
as soon as they showed themselves the Cossacks ran away
and gave them no chance. Captain Money subsequently
' proposed as a toast "the health of Miss Nightingale."
He said he was at Constantinople some 'kart time be ire
the tail of Sebastopol, and took great interest in the hoe.
pitals of Scutari, where he was surprised at the wonderful
organisation, cleanliness, and masterly arrangements de-
picted in every department, which was astounding oven
to one who was prepared for much. All this and much more
be attributed in the first instance to Mr. Macdobald, the
Times correspondent, and subsequently to Miss Nightin-
gale, who, with her gentle companions, had staked
their lives and their health, and looked upon rendering
service to their country and succour and assistance to
the wounded as the greatest privilege allotted to woman.
In fadt, doing good was part of Florence Nightingale's
nature, and it was stated that in her childhood the same
desire to give relief to the suffering was portrayed in her
character, while her favourite plaything was a model
hospital, in which the beds and their patients were laid,
with little. waxen nurses over whom she presided.

Naval and intellii

nc,e.

The authorities at the ILrse Guards have it in con-
templation to remove the depots of regiments ou the
British establishment from the Provisional Battalion at
Chatham to various parts of the country, it being at
present intended to concentrate the depots of those
regiments serving at the Cape of Good Hope at Col-
chester, and those stationed in New South Wales and
the other Australian colonies at Templet-nom Should
the proposed arrangement be carried into effect there
will be increased accommodation at Chatham f,:r the offi-
cers and men belonging to the Indian establishment,
which would then be considerably increased. In addi•
tion to several other advantages there would be a con-
siderable saving effected in the amount proposed to ne
exr4nded in erecting a new range of buildings for (M-
-otors' quarters at Chatham, and handing over the present
quarters of the officers at Chatham barracks to the pay-
sirjeants and married soldiers belonging to the Provi-
sional Battalion, the officers' rooms being much too small
for married soldiers and their families.

The screw steam-ships Brunswick, 80, Capt. Hast-
ings R. Yelverton, and Sanspareil, 71, Capt. Asticy C.
Bey, are appointed to leave Plymouth this day for Cadiz.
The screw steam-sloop Wasp, 13, left Plymouth on
Sunday with supernumeraries for South America.
The crew of the paddlewheel steam-sloop Salamander,
6, Commander T. Mecham, on her return from Liver-
pool to Plymouth, are to be paid wages, previous to her
sailing for the Cape of Good Hope.
The crew of the Amethyst, 26, bent sails on Mon-
day, when she was towed from Hamoaze into Plymouth
Sound, and took her powder on board.
The steam gun-boat Staunch, Lieut. and Commander
Leveson Wildman, is appointed to leave Plymouth for
the East Indies on Saturday. She will probably call at
Rio Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope.
The Leander, 50, Capt. E. B. Rice (1856), has com-
menced stripping at Chatham, previously to being paid
off, after which she will be placed in ordinary. Her guns
and ammunition are ordered to be landed at the Gun•
wharf, Chatham, and her extra stores returned to the
dockyard.
The Malacca, 17, screw steamer, with engines of 200-
horse power, Captain A. Farquhar (1854), having com-
pleted refitting for sea, at Chatham, has received her
sailing orders, which are understood to be for the Medi-
terranean, proceeding in the first instance to Portsmouth,
for which post she steamed from Chatham on Monday.
The depot of the 40th Regiment, which is nearly 400
strong, will shortly be removed from Chatham barracks,
it being understood that they will be stationed at Temple-
more. The depot is under the command of Capt. M.
E. Smith and five subalterns. The head-quarters are in
New South Wales.

Las Powerful, 84, screw, Capt. Massie, arrived at the
Big Nore about 11. ,a.m. yesterday. She will come in
to-morrow, when she will proceed to Folly Point,
Chatham, to pay off. She has been three years in
cool mission.

The Lorenzo, barque, of Leghorn, arrived hero about
ten a.m. from Leghorn, with a general cargo of Italian
oak consigned to this dockyard. She bas anchored np
the harbour, but, being spring tides, it is expected she
will haul into the basin to discharge in a day or two.
The Leander, 50, Capt. Price, has arrived to be paid
off, without the bulkheads or other internal fittings being
disturbed. She is expected to be paid off about Saturday
next.

The Renown, 90, screw, building, is fast progressing
for launching.
The Hero, 90, screw. Great siimbers of workmen are
employed to complete her ready for launching.
The contractors, Messrs. Rigby, are making consider-
able progress in building a very spacious dock en the
site of the old second dock in this yard. The police
station-house has been taken down to give more room for
carrying on the works, and the old 28 gun ship Rattle
snake is appropriated for the accommodation of the
police force until a new station-house is built._

Mr.
Mr.

The Dido, 18 guns, Capt. William H. A. Morshead,
C. 8., arrived at the Nore yesterday from the Pacific
(last from Portsmouth), and anchored. After discharg-
ing her powder, shell, &c., she will go into harbour to
be paid off.
The Eurota4, 12, screw mortar-ship, Captain William
Moorsom, C 8., made her number at 2 45 p.m., yester-
day, and anchored in the upper part of the West Twin.
She will go into harbour this day's tide, to be paid off at
Sheerness.

The Vulcan, 6 guns, screw steam troop-ship, Com-
mander James H. Furneaux, was yesterday taken into
No. 3 dry dock at Sheerness to refit.
The Terror, 16 guns, floating buttery at Sheerness, is
ordered to be put out of the fitting basin to-day's tide.
She is to be placed in ordinary at that port.
The iron paddle-wheel steamer Antelope was yester-
day morning undocked at Woolwich, and placed in the
basin, when the paddle-wheel steam-vessel Banshee aid
screw steam gun-boat Roebuck were taken out of basin
and replaced the Antelope in No. 3 dock.
Commodore Shepherd, Superintendent of Woolwich
Dockyard, yesterday morning inspected the crew of her
Majesty's steamer Triton, from the Mediterranean and
Black Sea, prior to being paid off. They were put through
the usual course of gunnery, small arms, and cutlass
exercises. The conitnodore expressed himself highly satis-
fied with the general arrangements and deportment of
the Triton's officers and crew, and the readiness and
efficiency with which they went through the exercises.
The transpot t Mary Ann arrived at Woolwich yester-
day morning from the East with waggons, carte, and
various other returned stores. The transport Heroes of
Alma, 681 tons burden, Captain Little, arrived at Wool-
wich yesterday morning with a cargo of returned medi-
cal and Quartermaster's stores from the Crimea.
The transport Amarauthe, 370 tons burden, Captain
T. Young, has arrived at Woolwich with medical and
surgical stores, hospital bedding, &c., from the Crimea.
The freight-ship Conservative has sailed from Wool-
wich Arsenal with ammunition for the Cape.
The launch of the Diadem, 32 gun frigate, will take
place immediately from Pembroke dockyard. She is the
first finished of the four powerful frigates now in course
of construction. The Immortalitie 60, has been cut iu
two, and the after part launched some distance down
the slip, in order that she may he lengthened and con-
verted from a sailing into a screw frigate. With this
additional length she will be enabled to carry 60 guns
of the heaviest. calibre, and with the Melpomene, now
undergoiug the same process, wilt prove a frigate of the
first class. The line-of-battle ship, late the VictJria, 116,
guns, will require cutting in two and lengthening. She
'has been ready for launching these three years ; but,
owing to the faultiness of her lines, being too short for
her beam, she has not been sent afloat.
Sir Colin Campbell arrived at the Imperial Hotel in
Cork, accompanied by his aide-dc-Camp, Cob Sterling,
on Friday morning from Fermoy, where he had been
engaged in the inspection of the troops. On Saturday
he inspected the infantry in the Cork Barracks, and in
the evening paid a short visit to Admiral Chads, in
Queenstown, returning again to the Imperial, which he
left on Monday morning to proceed to Limerick. The
veteraa General looked in excellent health and spirits.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Capt. W. Peel, C. 8., to the Shannon,
commissioned ; Lieht. T. J. Young, to the Shannon ;
Lieut. 11. P. Hamilton, to the Perseverance ; Lieut. H.
E. Bacon, to the Inflexible ; Lieut. N. Salmon, to the
Shaneon ; H. Salmaid, midshipman, to the Medusa ;
W. M. Latham, do., to the Cruiser ; J. G. Stnith, assist-
ant-surgeon, to the Shannon; C. M. Normand, acting
assistant-surgeon, to the Devastation ; J. Flanagan, do.,
to the Shannon ; J. G. O'Connell, masters assistant, to
the Medusa • F. Woods, assistanaclerk, to the Iropreg-
nable; W. J. Nash, do., to the Raleigh..

ANCIENT COFFINS.—The Dundee Courier says several
stone coffins have been found within the last few days
during the laying out of the grounds on Mr. Yearnan's
property on th• Ferry-road, Dundee. On Monday morn-
iug one of great length was opened, in which the skele-
ton was remarkably well preserved. The bones were
extraordinarily massive, and must have been those of a
large and powerful man. The coffins are of the same
kind as those found a year or two ago near Baldovan,
but if anything mere shapely. No ineeriptiou of any
kind has been observed upon them, and in ono only were
found a few small copper coins, the date of which was
quite illegible. The time and circumstances of the in-
terments are entirely left to conjecture.
HORRIBLE MURDER.—Our county has been disgraced
by a most atrocious murder, made doubly so if the case
as it is now represented be fully proved, a thing which
we have little reason to doubt. The prisoners, who
now lie in our county gaol, committed on a charge cf
murder, are two brothers named Lydon. It will be
remembered by our readers that at the last assizes here,
a man named Pat Lydon was indicted for a serious
offence, but on the evening before his trial was to come
on, he was married, in his cell in the gaol, to the girl
who was to prosecute him. On being placed in the dock
next day, and on the prosecutrix stating that she was
his wife, the judge was under the necessity of liberating
him. After being thus discharged he returned to his
home, and the young woman to her parent's house; but
some time afterwards he went to her father's resileo.ce,
and said he wanted her to go and live with hhn, being
his wife ; she said that on the next day cite would
be
prepared to do so, and on that evening went out for a
time with him, and in passing along the saw a man
staeding near where they were walking, disgutsed, ae it
on come evil intent. Becoming a little frightened, she
returned home, and acquainted her brothers of the cir-
eumstance, stating that it was her belief the man in die-
guise was her brother-in-law. Upon the next evening
he returned again, and she went out with him, old was
not heard of after for a length of time, altheuOr every
search was made for her. A few days at however,
a mean who was going ashore, out of a boat, on the
banks of Lough Corrib, observed the lege of a human
body protruding from the sand, and without def. y
informed the constabulary, who instantly ai r- stsel the
two Lydons, and then proceeded to raise the boOy,
which proved to be that of the missing girl, buried in the
clothes in which she left her father's Owe. Mr. G.
Cottingliam having held au inquest on the body, the
Lydons were committed to take their trial at the ensu-
ing assizes in this town, for the murder of the unfertu
nate girl. In this we have given the facts as they now
appear, but cannot say whether they may be folly sup-
ported before a jury or not. The crime was a shocking
one, and we hope, be the criminals the Lydons or some
other persons, they will get the full benefit of the law.—
Galway Express.