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London, England, 1851-12-10 00:00:00

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little girl was discovered in the area. She was liel;ed
up by son le of the bystanclPrs, and immediately ear-
tied to the Roy d. (,leeding from the head.
Within a few moments after her admission she ex-
pired. A postmortem exlmination wits made by Mr.
Skinner, the house surgeon, and he deposed to the
fact that a portion of the wadding had pierced the
skull and penetrated to the brain, which, of course,
was the cause of death. There was some considerable
confusion in the narrative which was derived- from the
different witnesses ; and at the close of the case for
the prosecution.
His LORDSHIP, without calling on Mr. Wheeler
for the prisoner, directed the jury to acquit. He said
the unfortunate event could be in no way considered
as other than accident.

The prisoner was forthwith discharged.
Thomas Gleeson, aged 26, was charged with the
manslaughter of Joseph Younghusband.
Mr. John Cross conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. Wheeler defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the evening of Saturday, the
20th of September last, the prisoner went into a
beer-house in the Stratford New-road, Manchester,
kept by a man named Kay, and having sat down in
the bar, shortly afterwards the deceased came in
rather the worse for liquor ; having entered into con-
versation with the prisoner, he wanted to make a bet
that he had been furthest from land of the two, and
threw down a sovereign on the table in order that the
bet might be taken, but a young man who was present
took up the sovereign and would not allow the bet to
be made. Some words then ensued, and the prisoner
struck the deceased, and shortly after they went out
of the house accompanied by a man named Cain. The
landlord followed, and found them outside, the pri-,
soner with his coat off, as if they were going to fight,
and a scuffle took place ; something was seen to be
thrown by one of them in the scuffle, and then the
men ran away, and went into a butcher's shop, where
the prisoner said to Cain, who was with him, " I'll
be the death of that --," and shortly after the de-
ceased got hold of the prisoner by the hair of his head,
and then the prisoner, who was lying on the ground,
made a stab at the deceased, who immediately
cried out, "I'm done." It was then discovered that
the deceased had been stabbed, and on being taken to
a surgeon's he died almost immediately. When the
prisoner was arrested he seemed very much put out
of the way, and said that he ran at the deceased with
a knife, but did not know whether he had stabbed the
deceased or not. On a post mortem examination
being made it was found that the knife had penetrated
between the fifth and sixth ribs, going right through
to the heart.

Mr. WHEELER addressed the jury for the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, stating that
it was committed under very extenuating circum-
stances.

10, 1861.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

L Ibe re.,:ntia.hcaai that, for many years past, it
coggc6i:nl tno tan gia.at iN'ESteril naval port
should have a gunnery atabli,,ament, either as a branch
of the Exoellent, or as an independent training school.
We believe that Captain Engledue, now the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's able superintendent at South-
ampton, more than s, dezm years since suggested a
guuuery training department at Devonport, and offcred
his services on that occasion to institute and establish
it, being fully equal to the duties from his experience as
the first lieutenant of the Excellent. Up to this time,
however, Davenport has not only b..ien without a training
ship, but there has seldom been a spare sea-going'
steamer kept at that port. Now, however, that so many
ships are coming home and are being paid off, the Ad-
miralty find themselves in a position to carry out to
some extent what has been so long deferred, and we be-
lieve it is at length determined that, as a commencement,
the frigate appropriated for the exercise of the Coast
Guardmen shall bo turned into a tender to the Excel-
lent, on board of which the same course of practice and
instruction will bo carried out as at Portsmouth.— Haab/.
The following officers had interviews with Rear-Ad-
miral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P., at Whitehall, yester-
day:—Captain Wetherdll; Commanders J. B. Cator, W.
Barrie, Rawstorne, Dwyer ; Lieutenants K. Mac-
leod, Campion, Crang, Robinson, G. M. Jackson, Mister
James Hardie; Paymasters F. Munday, Maddock, T. E.
Gould.

Commodore Superintendent Eden, of Woolwich Dock-
yard, has proceeded on six weeks leave of absence.
Captain W. B. Monypenny, who was promoted a few
days since, entered the navy April 29, 1823, on board
the Ramillies, 74, passed his examination July 4, 1829.
While in charge, in 1833, of one of the lE7ptia' decked
boats, manned with but four hands, he accidentally lost
sight of the ship off the Straits of Gibraltar, but provi-
dentially succeeded in reachi►:g Portsmouth after a pas-
sage of nineteen days, arriving there on September 18.
Towards the close of the same yelr ho again sailed for
the African coast in the ./E:na. He continued in that
vessel under the command of Lieutenant Ar-
lett and Captain Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal
(ten months of the time as Acting Lieutenant) was
promoted Sept. 30,.1837, to the rank of Lieutenant. He
served Nov. 3, 1837, as additional, to the President, 52,
flag-ship, South America; and June 16, 1838, as senior
to the Sulphur surveying vessel, commanded by his old
Captain, Sir E. Belcher. On his subsequent arrival
in China from the Pacific, we find him assisting, in
the early part of 1841, at the capture of Chuenpee, Ty-
cocktow, and the Bogue; uniting also in the attack made
by a squadren under Captain Herbert on the enemy's
camp, tort, and ship Cambridge, bearing the Chinese
admiral's flag, at their position below Whampoa Reach,
where 98 guns were in the whole destroyed; and parti-
cipating in the operations against Canton. As a reward
for his exertions he was promoted to the rank of com •
mender by commission dated June 8, 1841; and lastly
commanded the Sealark, 8, on the coast of Africa.

Captain Douglas, also promoted last week, is the son
of General Sir Howard Douglas. He entered the navy
Jan. 27, 1833, and obtained his first commission Feb.
14, 1840. He was afterwards appointed, Oct. 13 follow-
ing, to the Hastings, 72, Prince4s Cnarlotte, 104, Power-
ful, 84, Formidable, 84, all employed on the Mediter-
ranean station. Ho was made a commander Feb. 28,
1845, and from Juno 29, r 846, was in c)mmaud of the
Pantaloon, 10, on the coast of Africa and West Indies.
_ _

Commander John Crawshaw Bailey, just promoted,
is the brother of one of the M.P.'s for Hereford. He
entered the Navy in 1834, and was made lieutenant
1844, served in the Agincourt, 72, and Wolverine, 16, at
China, and commanded the Sharpshooter screw-schooner
in the Mediterranean and coast of Brazils, and on the
latter station made ten captures of slavers.

The Admiralty have ordored that the 100-gun screw-
ship St. Jean d' Acre, is to put in frame at Devonport
as soon as possible; and that the 700-horse screw-ship
James Watt, building at Pembroke, is to be pro-
ceeded with, and to have additional hands placed at work
upon her.
Avon steam-tender sailed from Devonport on Mon-
day with supernumeraries for the Britannia, taking the
body of the Rev. Mr. Langdon, late sou-in-law to Ad-
miral Sir J. A. Ommannoy, .vtio died at the Admiral's
house on Tuesday last. He will bo landed at Ports-
mouth, and taken from thence to the family mausoleum
in Hampshire.
Ceylon, old frigate depot-ship at Malta, will be broken
up at that port, as soon as her officers and crew are
transferred to the Hercules.

Fury, 6, steam•sloop, Commander Tatham, fitting a
Woolwich, proceeds to the Mediterranean.

Savannah, 19, Captain Erskine, was mustered, in-
spected, and exercised on Monday morning, by Com-
modore Seymour (not by Captain Lowe, as reported
yesterday), who expressed himself highly pleased with the
discipline and good order with which they went through
their exercise, and also the general discipline of the ship,
both officers and men.

Ascendant convict ship arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Monday, having male convicts on board for Bermuda.

PORTS2IOIITEr, DEC. 9.—The Britannia, 120, is being
expedited as fast as possible; in overhauling her bottom
it was found necessary to remove six streaks of copper
from her water line to examine her caulking. The
caulkers and shipwrights at work on her are as close as
they can stand on the stage.
The Flying Fish will be paid off alongside the yard on
Saturday next.
The Hastings, 72, Rear-Admiral Austin. C,8., left
Penang (prior to the last mail) for Singapore and Hong-
kong, in tow of the steam-sloop Sphinx. It is be-
lived the Hastings will return to India again early
next year.

The Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, and Serpent, 12,
Commander Luard, were in the Hooghly when the mail
left Calcutta, the formor ship in Diamond Harbour, the
latter at Fort William. The steam-ship llermts would
accompany the Fox to Bombay and the Persian Gulf in
November or December.