The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The sailing-transport Nelson left Portsmouth yester-
day for Constantinople, with 460 tons of provisions,
which she shipped from the Royal Clarence-yard.
The Spitfire, 5, steam-sloop, Captain Spratt, C. 8.,
arrived at Spithead on Monday night from the Mediter-
ranean, where she bad been employed on surveying ser-
vice. She was to sail last night for Woolwich to be paid
oIL having been in commission since April, 1851.
The Cmsar, 91, screw-ship, Captain Robb, got up
steam in the steam-basin at Portsmouth yesterday, after
having had her machinery extensively repaired. The
trial of the engines was very satisfactory. The Caesar is
to go out of the steam-basin to-day, and will in a few
days proceed to Spithead.
The Tickler steam gun-boat arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from Sheerness, and the Sandfiy on Monday,
to join the divisions of gun-boats,fitting for the Baltic.
The Ariel, 9, screw-sloop, Commander Mamie, left
Spithead yesterday morning for Gibraltar.
• The. Ajax, 60, screw-ship, Captain Warden, is to leave
Spithead in a few days for Leith, to be stationed there
as a guard-ship.
The Rodney, 90, Captain Moorsom, is discharging
stores, Bre., at Portsmouth, prior to being converted into
a shell magazine for the Baltic.
The Indian steam-transport was ordered to leave
Portsmouth yesterday for Plymouth, to embark troops.
From Plymouth she will go to Dublin.
6, paddle-sloop, Commander Dew, was
The Geyser,
taken alongside her hulk at Portsmouth yesterday to
receive her crew.

The Orientsailing-transport left Portsmouth yesterday
to discharge old stores at Deptford, and to be paid out
of the transport service.

A. Naval Patriotic Association has been formed at
Sunderland, with the view of raising a sum of money for
the purpose of manning one or more of the gun-boats
building on the Wear. It was set on foot by Mr. D.
Jonassohn, colliery owner, who communicated with the
Admiralty with the view of ascertaining if Government
would countenance the scheme. An answer, couched in
terms of cordial approval, was returned, and conveying
all necessary information upon the subject. The men
who enter are to have the option of claiming their dis-
charge at the end of this year's Baltic season, and the
niaeter in charge of the rendezvous has been ordered to
afford every assistance to the association. A meeting of
..the members was held on Monday, when it was resolved
to Ofhta bounty of 101. to each volunteer. Among the
subscriptions announced at the meeting were, Messrs.
Briggi and Son, shipbuilders, 100/. ; Mr. Jonassobn,
501.'; the Mayor of the borough, 20/. ; &c.
An order was issued yesterday to the Commandant of
the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, for the volunteers
from the Provisional Battalion to the 41st, 55th, 62d,
and 90th Regiments to proceed to-morrow morning, in
command of Ensign G. S. Black, 99th Regiment, to
Teroplemore and Mullingar, to join their respective
corps. On the same day the volunteers to the 46th and
95th are to proceed with one non-oommissioned officer,
in command of Alfred J. Take, 64th Regiment, to Win-
chester and Parkhurst. On Friday the remainder of
the volunteers to the Ist, 9th, 30th, 33d, and 50th Regi-
ments, in command of Capt. James Baillie, sth Regi-
ment, and three non-commissioned officers, are to pro-
ceed to Limerick and Fermoy.
Orders have been received at head-quarters of the
Royal Marines, at Woolwich, to the effect that lists may
be transmitted to the office of the Assistant Adjutant-
General, made out in the usual manner, of such men of
the division, of the following description, who are desi-
rous of volunteeringr, for the Artillery corps—namely,
height not under 5 feet 8 inches, of strong muscular
frame, general intelligence, and good character. Men
not able to read and write are to express their willing-
nese to attend school.

Lieut. Symons has been appointed to the command of
the gun-boat Charger, fitting out in Woolwich basin.
The Charger will be ready to join the squadron in a day
or two.

The Vixen arriTed at Woolwich on Monday evening
from Portsmouth.

The ingeniously contrived percussion-cap•making ma
chine, lately purchased by Government, and which was
temporarily set into operation on the occasion of the
late Royal visits to Woolwich Arsenal, is now perma-
ntntly fixed in the large machinery room of the Royal
Laboratory there. The advantage which this apparatus
possesses consists of the facility of forming and charging
the cap at the same time. The machine is supplied with
copper in sheets (lain. by 48in.). The blank is cut,
formed, and charged without handling, producing 3,000
caps per hour, ready for being varnished. The patentee
is a Mr. Wright, an American engineer.
A party of invalids arrived at Chatham yesterday, in
command of Assistant-Surgeon White, 3d Dragoon
Guards, with Hospital Dresser Pulivet. In addition to
the wounded were five men of the Land Transport Corp-,,
all direct from the Crimea. Dr. Heffernan, 19th Rogt ,
inspected them previously to their being admitted into
hospita►. _ _ _

The Commander•ie-Chief has sanctioned the appoint-
ment of Capt. G. J. de Winton to be Major of Brigade
at Smyrna to the British Swiss Legion, which corps lie
has lately been assisting to raise and organise.

APPOINTMENTS.
The following appeared in our late edition last
night :

LIEUTENINTS.
R. P. Jenkins to the Flying Fish.
D. E. Orr to the Esk.
C. G. F. Knowles to the Sappho.
G. W. Strong to the Arrogant.

MaiE.
G. F. Bridges (acting) to the Flying Fish.
ASSISTANT PAY3IASTEBS.
William J. Comerford to the Algiers.
John S. Moon to the Royal George.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Jan. 22.

(Before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant-Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
Jonathan Parrot, 22, carpenter, was indicted for
stealing two railway tickets, the property of the London
and North-Western Company.
Mr. Gi tfard appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner
pleaded guilty by the advice of his counsel, Mr. Horry.
The circumstances of the case stated to the court were
these. On the 10th of December the prisoner arrived at
Wolverton by the half-past four o'clock train, and pre-
sented a passenger ticket ; but in consequence of there
being something suspicious about it, the collector felt
it to be his duty to take him before the station-master.
The ticket was touch defaced, and was such a one as
would not be issued from Euston station to Wolverton,
as it purported to be. An investigation took place,
aid alter considerable trouble, Mr. Bedford, superin•
tendent of the railway police at Wolvertou, ascertained
that the ticket in question and another had been stolen
from Sudbury station, and erasures made on the
face of it by the prisoner, who went to Wolverton, and
presented it, as a regularly-issued and paid-for ticket,
expecting that the erasures on it would prevent detee•
Con. The prisoner had been skulking about Sudbury-
station for some time.
The Assistant Judge sentenced him to 3 months' hard

labour.
flace;s, 24, Beajamin James, 26, and Charles
Jones, 17, were indicted for stealing a gold watch, value
601., the property of James Lees, from his person.
Mr. Laurence prosecuted, Mr. Ribton defended James,
Mr. Gillard appeared for Harris, and Jones was not
defended.
On the evening of the 9th inst. the prosecutor, a re-
tired tradesman, living at No. 8, Rockingham-row East,
New Kent-road, went to Saville-house, Leicester-square,
to see a "sparring match." While there he was robbed
of his watch ; and the evidence of Cole, 53 C, a detec-
tive, went to show that the prisoners were together there,
and that at least two of them, Harris and James, acted
iu concert in the commission of the offence. The evi-
dence xuainst Jones was leas conclusive.
The jury found James and Harris guilty, aad ac-
quitted Jones.
Numerous convictions were proved against Harris and
James ; the latter had been sentenced to 18 months' for
robbery with violence, and two years for smashing.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced James to four years'
penal servitude, and Harris to 18 months' hard labour.
Jones was cautioned as to his future conduct.
James, as be was being removed, said, " I've just got
four years' penal servitude. That I don't mind ; but
I've get it wrong, that's ail. I'm innocent this time,
any how. I've been a thief all my life—that's right
enough—and am a thief still ; that policeman knows it,
and he took us wrong when this robbery was dote.
Why, that watch was stole twenty minutes before we
went into Saville-house, as I know. So we didn't do
it. I'd steal a dozen watches, too, if you like, if I'd half
a chance ; but, take my word, I didn't have that."
(Before Mr. Witham.)
A TICKET•OF-LEAVE MAN'S PUPILS.
_Edward Cain, 15 ; Cornelius Driscoll, 14 ; and Id-
ward Tolland, 14, were indicted for unlawfully attempt-
ing feloniously and burgla.riously to break and enter the
dwelling-house of John William Gardner, with intent to
steal goods and chattels therein belay.
From the evidence of Walter Holmoß, police constable
50 b, it appeared that at half-past 3 o'clock, on the
morning of the 17th of December, he was standing at
the end of lilackmoor-street, Drury-lane, when he oh.
served the three prisoners in company. When they
saw bun they turned into Vinegar-yard, and thence to
Russell-court, when Driscoll left the other two, went
into a corner, had a good look round, and rejoining the
others, they all went into a coffee shop in Brydges-
street, where they remained some time. On leaving they
went into White Hart-street, where Cain and Yolland
stooped down and tried to force open a cellar flap with
part af a broken walking stick, the others being on the
look.out. Hearing the approaching footsteps of the
policeman on the beat, they ran off, and Holmes lost
sight of them for a while, but from a report he had from
the constable, he went to the King of Prussia public-
Louse, the prosecutor's, in Wych-street, where they
attempted to raise the cellar-flap, but it fell, and made
such a noise that they ran a short distance, and then
watched to see if any one bad been disturbed. Tkley
made a second attempt to get the flap up as a cart was
going by, but catching a Klimpqe of the policeman, they
all darted off at the top off their speed. They were pur-
sued, captured, and taken to the station.
The jury found them guilty.
Cale and Driscoll were shown to be notorious thieves.
Nothing was known of Yolland. The officers stated
that the former had been initiated into crime by a ticket-
o!.-leave man who fell in with them in the pit of a theatre.
He put them through a course of instruction in burglary,
and induced one of them, who was then iu the employ
of an ironmonger, in Tottenham-court-road, to tell him
where his master kept his money, and "put him up" to
taking. wax impressions of the lock of the safe. That
wan ad since been tried for burglary, and sentenced to
six years' penal servitude.
Mr. Witham sentenced Cainang Driscoll to 12 months
Lard labour each, and Yolland to Six monthe.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(Prom the Report of the Registrar-General.)

Eleven hundred and twenty one deaths were registered
in London in the week that ended on Saturday, Jan.
19. The average number of deaths, corrected for increase
of population, is 1,332 iu the third week of Jan., which
is the coldest week of the year, in the ordinary course
of the seasons. The deaths were 211 below the average.
495 of the dead were children and young persons ; 156
were of the age 20-40 ; 211 of the age 40.60; 217 of the
age 60.80 ; and so few attain ripe old age in the present
imperfect state of the public health that 42 only were of
the age of 80 and upwards.

264 persons of all ages died of small-pox, measles,
scarlatina, hooping•cough, typhus, and other zymotio
diseases. Hooping•cough and typhus are epidemic.
Mr. Watts, the Registrar for the Islington West sub-
district, remarks:•." That 10 deaths have occurred in
the London Fever Hospital, between the 11th and 19th
January ; the whole of the causes have been from
typhus. The hospital is at present very full of patients
suffering from fever."
132 persons died of consumption, chiefly of the age of
20 and under 60 ; 26 of apoplexy, and 34 of paralysis ;
191 of inflammation of the lungs and air tubes; 12 women
died of childbirth.
Last week the births of 817 boys and 827 girls, in all
1,644 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 the average
number was 1,494.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week wail 29.732 in. The read-
ing of the barometer increased from 30.40 in. at the be-
ginning of the week to 30.55 in. by 1013. 9.. m on the
13th ; decreased to 29.82 in. by 3h. p.m. on the 15th ;
increased to 29'87 in. by 9h. a.m. on the 16th ; decreased
to 29.35 in. by 9h. p.m. on the 17th ; was nearly sta-
tionary at this reading till after 2h. p.m. on the 18th ;
and then further decreased to 29.07 in. by the end of the
week. Rain fell on the last four days of the week. The
wind blew chiefly from the south and south-west, with
an average horizontal movement pf about 119 miles each
day. The sky for the most part was overcast, and the
electrical state of the atmosphere was positive through-
out the week. The mean temperature of the air was
38.7 degrees, which is 21 degrees above the average of
the same week in 38 years. The highest temperature
occurred on Friday and Saturday, and were 50 deg. on
each day; the lowest, which occurred on Tee-day, was
24.3 d•ig. The entire range of the temperature of the
week was 251 deg. The air was milder than in the
In:raviolis week ; the mean daily temperature being above
the average on the last four days. The mean dew-point
temperature was 35.8 deg., and the difference between
this and the mean air temperature was 2.9 deg. The
mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 37.5
degrees.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 19.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 4B
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration . 227
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &C.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy
Old Age
5udden................ .
Violence, Privation' Cold, and Intemperance l3
Causes not specified

... 47
... 15

DZA.TIIS BROM ALL CAusts 1,121
Population Deaths in corr.- 1)ea11 a
Enumerated. sponding week in th.
1851. 01855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522 - 314
South Districts

Totals

1,549

Males
Females
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

578
543

Males
Females..

817
827

Total

Sporting Intelligence.

1,121

OUNDLE STEEPLECHASES—TuzeDAY.
The Fanners' and Tradesmen's Steeplechase. About

three miles.

Mr. More's Little Yeonaan
Mr. Price's filly by Cranbrook, dam by Sir Hercules 2
Mr. Percival's Mise Collingwood 3
Mr. Deacon ne Marmadeke
Won by four lengths ; two lengths between the second
and third.

The Fox-hunters' Stakes. About three miles,
Mr. Allenby's. York You're Wanted
Mr. Percival's The Times
Hon. Captain Lawley us The Serf
Won by h length.
Grand Handicap Steeplechase. About four miles.
Mr. Thorp's Torn Gurney
Mr. Golby's Ploughboy .
Mr. Land's Odiham
Mr. Capel's Ganymede
A fine race. Won by a length.
The Selling Steeplechase. About two miles.
Mr. Henderson's Lincoln
Mr. Price's Cbeddington
Mr. Whitahead's The Squire
Won by two lengths.

LIVERPOOL SPRIN
WRIGHTS for the LIVER2OI
a•half.

3. MEETING, FEB. 26.
IL SPRING CaP. MN and
31 subs,

Age et lb
Alonzo
Eulogist 6 7 10
B ier
Lightning
Gamekeeper
Saraband
Jemmy the Black a 7 0
Little Davie a 7 0
St. Clair 5 7 0
Bolton
The Raja b 4 7 0
Surgeon General 5 610
Cossey
st,ry
Prince Plausible 4 6 61
zina 4 6 2
WEIGHTS for the AINTREE P
Age st • Ibi
The Assayer 5 8 7
Gamekeeper
Mary 4 7 12
Sir Rowland

Age st b
Haddam 4 6 2
Laura Selina 4 6 0
Bald Boor:tench_ 3 5
Bobby Taft (h b) 3 5 0
Staffordshire Nan 3 5 0
Prince of Orange 3 4 12
Shelah
Lady Florence
Pollux
Omer Pasha
Baroness
Van /Make!!

De Giotto! 3 4 7
Fby Birdcatcher 3 4 7
the Village Cook 3 4 7

'LATE. One mile. 15 subs.
Atle et lb
Gatheroole 3 6 0
Janet Pride
Salmon
Pera

'Trenchard
Menzie
General Picton ... 4 7 4; De Giukel 3 5 0
Hod dam 4 7 4 The Village Cock 3 5 0
Tne SEFTON HANDICAP. Mile and a quarter. 18 subs.
Ago st lb Age st lb
Alonzo
Eulogist 6 7 11 Prince Plausible 4 6 6
Gamekeeper
Little Davie
Bolton
The Rajah 4 7 2' Alfred 3 5 6
Sir Rowland I Prince of Orange 3 5 2
Trenchard a 7 0, Shelab . 3 5 0
Mary 4 7 0 De Giukel 3 4 9
Ueneral Picton ... 4 6 10
WEIGHTS for the GRAND NATIONAL STREMERHASE.
About four miles. 5.1 subs. Forfeits to be declared
on or before the lato.L.Febrtiary.

Age st lb
Bourton
Sir Peter Laurie a 10 12
Frank Picard a 10 12
Trout a 10 12
Jean du Que..ne a 10 6
Star of the West

Ago st lb
Cavendish
Freedom
The Black Swan 6 9 8
Boundaway
Freetrader ...... a 9 6
Spring
The Widow
:Motley
Escape
British Yeoman
Teddesley
Little Charley
Jemmy the Black a 9 4
Minos a 9 4
Dan O'Connell a 9 4
Banstead
Victor Emmanuel 6 9 4
Rockley 6 9 4
Stamford
Wilmont
Fenman 6 9 0
Liverpool Boy
Taffy
Dangerous a 8 10
Harry Lorrequer 5 3 10
Alice Grey a 8 7

(h b)
Major 5 10 5
The Pasha a 10 4
Emigrant
The Seaman a 10 2
The Forest Queen a 10 4
Tom Gurney (It b) a 10
Molly Bawa (4 b) a 10 0
Flying Buck a 7 12
Odiham (la b) a 9 12
British Sailor a 9 12
Lady Arthur
110
Gerard Q 0
Ilopbless Star a 9 10
Hatbox
Jumpaway (4 b) a 9 10
Harold
Master David
Minerva (lib)
Potter

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' SUDDEN DEATH OF COLONEL LARDY AT MIISTOL—OOI.
I Lardy, formerly of the 53d or Shropshire Regiment of in-
fantry, expired suddenly on Monday morning at his resi•
- deuce at Bristol. The gallant officer bad attended divine
4ervice on Sunday morning and evening at the Church of
St. Matthew, Kingsdown, of which he was one of the
churchwardens, and he retired to rest on Sunday night
apparently in his usual health. At an early hour iu the
morning Mrs. Lardy heard a sort of moaning noise, and
on speaking to her husband shortly afterwards shefound
that he was dead. The gallant officer retired from
active service at the brevet in November, 1346, and
since that time he has devoted himself chiefly to religi-
ous pursuits. He was a staunch Protestant, and a lead-
inn' and distinguished member or the Bristol Protestant
Alliance, over whose meetings he frequently presided.
Colonel Lardy was also an active promoter of the mis-
sionary cause, both foreign and domestic, as well as of
Church of EuglAnd education. : .:. ~,.:ftt ~„