The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-21 00:00:00

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THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
TATTOO IN TEM LIMERICK GARRISON.— Considering
the advanced et ate of the spring, and the length of
time which has transpired since the period at which the
tattoo of the soldiers should be extended, it is strange
that not the slightest symptoms have es yet appeared of
an intention to give the troops serving within the
Limerick District the benefit of the indulgence. It is
now nearly a whole month since one of the bravest
generals in the service caused the tattoo of the soldiers
serving within his district to be prolonged; and surely
when the conduct of. other regiments deserves equal
favour, the withholding it is not only inconsistent with
the customs of the service, but to all intents and pur-
poses unjust. What delight can any officer have in
ctimpelling the men under his command to be in bed
during the grey twilight?
PROTECTION AT TARGET BALL-PRACTICE,—A. cor-
respondent suggests that, with the view of guarding
against accident to the markers at target practice, the
target should be divided by lines into eleven different
compartments, the centre ones running down the whole
length of the target, being numbered from one to five
(three occupying a square contiguous to the bull's-eye),
and the side compartments consisting of three each,
being the remaining numbers of 6,
and 11; and that the numbers 7, and 8, and 9, 10,
should be so lightly
drawn as only to be visible at a distance of thirty yards.
At fifteen yards to the left front, it is proposed that a
guard box of sheet iron, just large enough to shield two
men, be placed, with one man to watch and report each
shot, while the other man telegraphs the same by hold-
ing up the number of the compartment within which the
shot has struck the target—or he might note down in a
book the position of each consecutive shot. The former
plan, however, would be the best, and the number ex-
hibited could always be made out by means of a recon-
noitring telescope.
STAFF, EAST INDIES.--Major-General Henry God-
win, C. 8., has been appointed to the Staff in the East
Indies, vice Major-General Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill,
deceased. Major-General Godwin proceeds to the
Bengal, ?residency. This appointment cannot fail to
give satisfaction in India. Officers and men in that
country have confidence in those generals who have
had local experience, and General Godwin's has been
purchased in peace and in war. After a fair share
of Peninsular service, including the battles of Tarifa
and Barossa, and the memorable passage of the Douro,
he went to India, in command of the 41st. He then pro-
ceeded on the expedition to Burmab, and distinguished
himself greatly in the storming of Manahan, Tantabain,
and the battle of Sembike. He subsequently returned
to Madras and commanded a division of the army.
Brevet Colonel William Turner, Unattached, has bees
granted the Good Service Pension of 1001. per annum,
vice Fella, deceased. The grant has operation from the
14th ultimo.

THE ADMIRALTY AND THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.—
The Right Hon. the First Lord, Sir F. Baring, Bart.,
has proceeded to his country seat, Stratton Park, Hants;
his private Secretary, Captain Charles Eden, has gone
to Wimbledon. Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8.,
left town this morning for a country tour. Rear-Ad-
miral Berkeley, C. 8., is stayieg at Glen Usk Park,
Crickhowel/. The Hon. W. Cowper has proceeded to
Brighton. Mr. Secretary Parker is at Rotherham.
PRESERVATION OF SHIP'S COPPER. Mr. Peacock,
who has been permitted by the Admiralty and the Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company to try various expe-
riments, with a view to the preservation of the bottoms
of iron ships, has now brought forward a composition for
preserving the bottoms of coppered wooden vessels. The
Admiralty have offered him the opportunity of trying it,
and have ordered at all the dockyards, that the next
new coppered bottom ship shall receive a coating of
the liquid, in order to test the merits of the invention.
Captain Herbert Schomberg, promoted last year for
his gallantry when in command of the Cormorant, 6,
steam sloop, on the coast of Brazil, has come home in the
Brazilian packet.
Commeander Rivers, who a short time since proceeded
to the coast of Africa in command of the Volcano steam-
vessel, has come home invalided in the Brazil steam-
packet. He could scarcely have reached his station.
He only commissioned the ship in December last.
THE WEST INDIA SQUADRON.—The Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., was at
St. Vincent, March 10, and was to leave the following
day for Bermuda to hail the arrival of his successor Vice
Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, C. 8., G.C.H. Commander
Bennett, of the Imaum, was at Port Royal, March 14.
ADMIRAL SIB, E. CODRINGTON, G.C.B.—We regret
to hear that this venerable and most distinguished officer,
the second senior Admiral of the Red, is to seriously ill
that it is not expected he will live out the night. The
gallant officer is now in the 82d year of his age.
By letters from her Majesty's ship Herald, surveying
vessel, Capt. Kellett, C. 8., dated the beginning of March,
Simon's Bay, we are sorry to announce the demise of
Paymaster and Purser Thomas Woodward, of that ves-
sel. The Herald may be hourly expected. She has
been in commission for an unusually long period, Capt.
Kellett's appointment being daled Feb. 8, 1845.

A MAN SHOT BY A CLERGYMAN.
(From the Carlisle Journal.)
We have this week to record one of the most lamentable
occurrences that have ever fallen within the sphere of
our duties in this neighbourhood, resulting in the loss
of a valuable life, in the prime of manhood, by the hands
of a clergyman of the Church of England. The scene
of this shocking catastrophe is Walton—a village about
three miles north of Brampton—the victim one of the
most respectable and respected yeomen of the district,
and the unfortunate cause of the death the clergyman of
the parish.
The deceased was Mr. William Armstrong, of Sorbie
Trees, in Bewcastle, a large farmer and considerable
land-owner, about 38 years of age, married and having
two children. Ile was a man highly respected in his
neighbourhood, open hearted, generous, and hospitable.
On Wednesday he visited Brampton for the purpose of
making arrangements for the completion of the pur-
chase of some property which he had recently bargained
for. It was market day, and meeting with a number of
friends from different parts of the country, had drunk
somewhat freely, and when he left Brampton, about
eight o'clock in the evening, was apparently the worse
of liquor. He was on horseback, and proceeded home-
wards by way of Cambeck Bridge and Walton. At the
inn at Cambeck Bridge ho had stopped and had more
drink, about eleven o'clock at night—stopping about a
quarter of an hour, in company with two friends—Mr.
Thomas Richardson, of Solmain, and Mr. Elliot. All
three left the public-house together, and Mr. Armstrong
soon cantered forward, leaving his friends behind, and
was not again seen alive.
We now remove the scene to the parsonage house at
Walton, about a mile from the public-house at Cam-
beck Bridge. At Walton, a little beyond the parish
church, the road diverges in three different directions—
leading on the extreme left to Walton Mill, in the
centre to Bewcastle (the homeward road of the deceased),
and on the right to the parsonage house, occupied by
the Rev. Joseph Smith, the incumbent, and his family.
The distance between the Bewcastle road and the par-
sonage road is about 40 yards. It was now about half-
past eleven o'clock and a fine moonlight night. From
the main load to a gate leading to the shrubbery at the
entrance of the parsonage grounds is a distance of SG
yards, and from this gate to the front door of the par-
sonage is 45 yards.
Mr. Smith had not gone to bed—but all the rest of
the family had retired. About half-past eleven o'clock
he heard a knocking at the study window : this was
soon after repeated. Mr. Smith proceeded to the study,
did something to the window-shutter for the pur-
pose of making a noise, then armed himself
with a six-barrelled revolving pistol, which he kept
loaded in a drawer in the study, and proceeded to the
front door, making a great noise in opening it, stepped
outside, fired the pistol three or four times, and then
went back into the house—closing the door after him.
Nothing more was seen or heard till about seven o'clock
in the morning, when the body of Mr. Armstrong was
discovered just inside the gcte, quite dead ! On the out-
side of the gate there were marks to show that a horse
had been fastened up there, and that it had stood a
considerable time. Shortly afterwards Mr. Armstrong's
pony—a white one, it may be necessary to remark—was
found at Walton Rigg, about a mile from Walton, on its
way home.
On a post mortem examination of the body of the de-
ceased, it was found that there were two bullet wounds
—the first and fetal ono had entered the right breast,
about four inches below the nipple—had passed through
the liver, entered the posterior wall of the stomach,
passing thence by the lower cavity of the chest on the
left side, without wounding the lung, and finally lodging
close to the akin between the tenth and eleventh ribs.
Here considerable swelling was exhibited on the outside,
and a bruised and blackened appearance was presented.
The second ball bad entered at the back part of the
right shoulder—coursed along beneath the shoulder
joint, and made its exit in front of the shoulder, and
was found, on the body being stripped, lying under the
right arm-pit.
The bullets, which were about the size of a small bean,
hal passed through a top-coat, a dress-coat, a thick
waistcoat, a linen shirt, and two flannel shirts—at what
distance the shots must have been fired, to perform such
fatal work, it must be for others better acquainted then
ourselves with the force of gunpowder when exploded
through revolving barrels of four inches in length to
decide.

As may readily be imagined, there was very great ex-
citement amongst the inhabitants of the vil►age and
neighbourhood, and wherever the fatal occurrence be-
came known, the strongest feelings wero excited.

THE NEMPNETT MURDER.—The execution of John
Wiles and John Smith, who, it will be remembered, were
convicted at the recent assizes at Taunton of the wilful mur-
der of William Wilkins, a shopkeeper, residing at Nempnett
Sornersetsbire, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, is
fixed to take place on Wednesday next, the 2id instant.
Both admit committing the robbery, but each endeavours to
shift the guilt of murder upon the other. The chaplain of
Wilton county gaol, where they are now tinder sentence of
death, has been most unremitting in his endeavours to bring
the unhappy culprits to a sense of their awful condition, and i
his religious admonitions seem to have taken eflect. It s
expected a detailed confession will be made by one if not both
of the murderers. The execution will take place at the north-
west end of the prison, and the usual and proper precautions
have been taken by the prison authorities.
THE PULSE OF THE lionsE.--During sleep is, per,
haps, the most favourable time for counting the pulse and
respiration of any horse in health; the average pulse is 3.2,
it rarely rises as high as 36,
or sinks
be low 28 ; it is set
higher by veterinarians, but the foregoing is considered most
correct. In ordinary breathing the respirations are six per
minute ; during sleep not more than four. This it is very
important to know, because disordered respiration forms one
very important part of veterinary surgery. In judging of
that material point " wind" gallop a horse out of breath,
agitate his respiration, and then let him rest in quiet, and his
disturbed heaving at the flanks will speedily subside, if
sound ; if the horse's lungs are diseased the breathing wiil
regain several minutes for subsidence,

SPORTING NOT4-65i\ - -
No. XXXVIII. -
ODDS AND ENDS FROII NEWSLARREA
THE *gear.' .r.O IA ;Ike
TO THE EDITOR OF
Sim,—Ere this meets the eyes of the public Balsam*
or tha Squaw will have won the 50 Soya. Stakes, AS.,
Coticule and Barcelonewill have run home first and se-
cond for the 200 Soya. Stakes, and Uriel and Bordeaux
will have won their respective matches; but, with the
exception of the struggle between Balsam() and the
Squaw (the former in the Derby and the latter in the
Oaks), they will not have any effect upon any race of
consequence in the womb of time. For the 2,000 Gui-
neas, to-morrow, the field, it is presumed, will consist of
the following:—Newminster, colt by Touchstone out of
Mountain Sylph, The Confessor, Hernandez, Aolus,
Midas, Camas, Glenhawk, and, perhaps, Exeter and
Buekhound. Newminster's arrival at ewmarket on
Saturday was telegraphed up to town immediately, and
completely electrified some of the list proprietors, who
had been laying twenties and thirties against him; it is
said, however, that he is not quite up to the mark,
but whether so or no, he shall be my cock-
boat—my forlorn hope on the occasion. Leay.
ing him out of the question, I must still stand to
my colours in the order I planted them last week; at the
same time believing that very little space will divide the
squire's colt from the Confessor and Hernandez. The
other horses in the race I have no fancy for whatever.
The 300 Sovs. Stakes will be contested by Bor-
deaux, Tomboy,
and Nutcracker, and they will, in all
probability, find their way home as I have placed them.
No other change of any
importance, with the exception
of a report concerning ID
hlegra, whom, it is said, has
either broken down or gone dead amiss.
The betting this morning shows but a slight alteration
since Saturday on the Newmarket events; the only dif-
ference is in Newminster and Exeter for the 2,000
Guineas (the former finding backers at 10, 8, and 7 to
1. the latter being minus them at 20 to 1), and Aphro-
dite, Pussy, and Phlegm for the 1,000 Guineas
second
the first-
named is quoted at 5 to 4, 6 to 4 taken freely;
at 10 to 1, and the third at any price
the
that may be
required. I am, Sir, yours, &c.
THE TURF.THE SPIRIT OF

April 21, 1851.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

NEWMARKET, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The following are
the recent arrivals:—Mountain Sylph colt, Faux-pas,
Minimum, Joe o'Sot, c by Touchstone out of Camp Fol-
lower, c by Hetman Platoff, dam by Camel, Barcelona,
Glendale, Cariboo, Clarissa, Old Dan Tucker, Edward
of York, Glenhawk, Ginevra, Balsamo, Buckhonnd, 800,
Anspach, Hernandez, The Squaw, Theorem, Una,
Newminster, Croupier, Iris.
Aphrodite, Confessor, Juggernaut, Cnsens, and one or
two others are expected before to-morrow or Monday.
The late Sir Gilbert Heathcote's horses in training
will come to the hammer, at Tattersall's, on Monday,
the sth of May, and the brood mares and young stock
shortly after. There can be no doubt, from the supe-
riority of the blood, that many of the lots will realise
great prices.
BETTING ON SATURDAY NIGHT.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Confessor I 8 to 1 agst Glenhawk (t)
3 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph c I 8 to 1 agst Hernandez (s)
1,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
I
11 to 8 agst Aphrodite 3 to 1 agst Iris.
CHESTER CUP.
Bto 1 agst Rhesus (t) I 20 to 1 agst Italian
15 to 1 agst Kent's lot (t) 25 to 1 agst Haricot
16 to 1 agst Nancy 25 to 1 agst Backbiter
16 to 1 agst Russborough 33 to 1 agst Kt of Avenel
16 to 1 agst Montague 1,000 to 10 agstLadyEvelyn
NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT.
ENTRIES FOR MONDAY.
501. Plate; last three miles of B.C.
Fernhill, 6 yrs; Fireater, 5 yrs; Nutcracker, 4 yrs;
Cariboo, 4 yrs; b o by Dromedary, dam by Mulatto,
4 y rs.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old. Winner

to be sold for 2001
Crouper, Trinket, Harp, Guy Mannering.
Handicap. T.Y.C.

Westport, 5 yrs, Bst 71b; b f by Slane out of Palmyra,
3 yrs Est 71b; Nondescript, 3 3 rs, sst 101 b.
California and Merry Peel pay forfeit in their matches
with Bordeaux.

Cnmus arrived here yesterday afternoon. Confessor
and Aphrodite will not be here until to-morrow.
A great deal of rain has fallen this evening, and the
prospect of fine weather, favourable in the extreme until
this afternoon, Las vanished.