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, being second ; and
tird. The champion
.3f theraces, was w,
ei-the Royal Engineer
sweepstake, run for by officers !Ai
which was won by Captain F. Br'
Ensign Mytton, East India Com;
in second. Between the races ,ere were amusk
m of jumping in sacks, vau
inegn,ts wheelbarrow
lt=
and other games, which
caused much delight to the troops,, who entered into
them with the keenest relish, A race called the "Gar-
vd
rison liftl(e," of one mile, open to the whole garrison,
was won by Eosign Devereux, 87th Royal Irish Fust-
ed, consriasotiiongg,
Hers. There was also the Lilliputian Handicap, con-
tended for by the drummer boys and buglers, the winner
be ng Bugler Larkins, 29th Regiment. The Officers'
Hunt Stakes, of 408 yard 4, over eight hurdles, were
won by Ensign Malrgiii, East India Company's Service,
and another race of the sa,rne kind by Private Kerwan,
of the Royal Sippers and Miners.
The amu,ernerits wire not concluded until towards
dusk, having occupied several hour 3. Tue experiment
of providing games of this kind for the troops has been
eminently successful, and at the same time reflects the
hieiest credit on the originators. Tney are to be re-
peated next year on a larger scale.

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[PRioz 4D. STAMPED BD.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Engineer'corps of the Torkish Contingent have
nearly completed depositing the stores brought from the
Crimea in the places selected for them at the Ordnance
stores, Chatham. The tnen are under the command of
Captain Allan, of the Turkish Engineer corps, and the
stores, a great quantity of which are packed in casks,
having been lauded from the vessels and placed on the
Gtiv-wharf, are unpacked and deposited in the store
warehouses. An immense quantity of harness, used by
the waggon-train, is now being unpacked and returned
into store.

A Chelsea board of commissioners from Chelsea Hos-
pital assembled yesterday morning at the' office of Super-
intendent of the Invalid Establishment, Chatham, for
the purpose of inspecting a number of non-commissioned
officers and m: n, selected from the 42d Highlander's, 740
Highlanders, 83th Connaught Rangers, 89th, 90th Light
Infantry, and other regiments, the whole of•whorn were
ordered to be discharged on pensions, being no longer
fit for further service. Dr. J. It. Taylor, C. 8., (B)
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, assisted the
commissioners in their inspection of the sick and dis-
abled men.
The Tribune, 30, screw, Captain Harry Edgell, ar.
rived at Rio Janeiro in 36 days from England. She
found lying at Rio her Majesty's ships Indefatigable,
50, Harier, 17, and Spy, 3 ; the American frigate
Savannah and a corvette ; the Auguste, French frigate,
from the Pacific, with ssweral Brazilian men of war.
The Tribune sailed on the 10th of September for the
Pacific, going through the Straits of Magellan. The
Siren, 16, was at the Falkland Islands.
The Dragon, 6, steamvessel, was inspected on Friday
by Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander.in-
Chief.

COLCHhisTgil CA MP.
SCENE AT ME
EXTRAORDIN.A
.Y.

(From the Chdmsford:
ts:ohnsie
el
re v
)ice of Lieut.
On WedneSday the parade ground of the camp in the
vicinity of Colchester presented the remarkable scene of
"SauPundbelircs,dainsmEisrsigallisfhruonffit cheerro o Majesty's
aine of the cavalry regi-
ments of the British German Legion encamped here, for
insubordination. From inquiries, we learn that Lieut. &
Saunders bad tendered his resignation, which Gen.
ut•
terheim declined to accept, when the lieutenant not only
some
esed
mostto do the
offensivedu
and
ty u
n hewoaffic was
°errkdletraed e but' made use of
expression towards
the general, who had placed him under arrest to await
his trial by court-martial. Lieut.,Saunders refused to be
arrested, and mounting his horse, endeavoured to ride
out of the camp, when the sentries on duty at the gate-
ways went down on their knees with fixed bayonets, and
repulsed the horse, and the rider, who was paraded, was
surrounde I, and taken into camp. The affair was com-
municatsd tit e t!ommander-in-Chief, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, who considered that as the legion was so soon to
mr beaai
idthdibesni
rne and
gsfs
the
hhe de tor,
however,
trial
lt would t
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tog desireden le
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general
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the
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wholet l. Ge t
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ofgo.
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ni
se:Rißeocoytemhavel.
and some men of each regiment, and in the most public
manner to reprehend Lieut. Saunders for his mutinous
and disgraceful and unofficerlike conduct, and dismiss
him from her Majesty's service. At 10 o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning the officers and men formed three sides of
a square on the parade ground, in the centre which
Majo:-G en 'Gascoigne and staff and Gen. Stutterheim and
staff,took up their position, when Lieut. Saunders, divested
of his sword, was marched in as a prisoner by the adju-
tant of his regiment. Gen. Gascoigne having read aloud
the Duke of Cambridge's letter, proceeded to address
Lieut. Saunders in plain and outspoken terms, observing
that he was greatly surprised to find an officer of his
experience so far forgetting himself as to be guilty of 23
flagrant a breach of military discipline and iusubordina
tint' towards his commanding officer. He might consider
himself extremely fortunate in not being tried before a
general court-martial, when he would most assuredly
have been cashiered ; but it was now his duty to pro-
nounce his dismissal from her Majesty's service, not in
consequeaoe of his resignation, but through his insubor-
dination. If he left with the feeling that he had gained
his point by getting out of the service, after the severe
remarks of the Duke of Cambridge, in which he was as-
sured the whole of the Officers present concurred, he did
not envy him his feelings, and he now desired him to
leave the parade, as he was no longer an officer. Lieut.
Saunders made no reply, and Gen. Gascoigne, turning
to the officers, said he would take that opportunity of
thanking them, and their veteran Col. von Hacke, for the
extreme willingness and good temper they bad displayed
in the performance of their duties, especially at the time
they knew they were to be disbanded. He felt sure that
no English troops could have behaved better than the
British German Legion, and, notwithstanding the fears
entertained by the townsfolk, on their arrival from Col-
chester, they would, on their departure, carry with them
the good will and opinion of the inhabitants. Whenever
he went to London he was asked by his friends, " Well,
how do you get on with your Germans ?" and to was al-
ways proud of being able to answer, " They give me less
trouble than I ever had, and a better set of men I never
wish to command." Gen. Stutterheim briefly acknow-
ledged the compliment, and shaking hands with Gen.
Gascoigne, expressed to that officer the pleasure the offi-
cers, non commissioned officers, and men of the British
Gorman Legion felt in serving under snchla commanding
officer, and that the kindness they had received from
hint would be recollected when they were scattered
through various parts of the globe. The troops then
dispersed, Lieutenant Saunders marched off the parade
with the adjutant, and the same day quitted the camp.

The Cossar, 91, Captain Robb, Colossus, 81, Captain
Thompson, and the Ardent steam sloop, are ordered to

prepare for sea.
The St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain St. Vincent King,
arrived at Spithead on Thursday night from the Baltic.
She will sail shortly for Plymouth.
The Gorgon, paddle wheel steam oop, sailed from.
Spithead on Friday evening,- r .
The Industry, 2 guns, iron screw steam storeship, of
80-horse power, Master Commander John E. Petley, ar-
rive i at Sheerness yesterday at 9.30 a.m. from Plymouth
and Portsmouth ; she has brought round 105 supernu-
merary seamen, general service men, to join the flag-ship
Waterloo—for disposal.
The Terrible, 21 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, was
brought down yesterday from her harbour moorings at
Sheerness; by the steam-tug vessels Myrtle and African,
and taken into the basin. She is ordered to be put into
dry dock for survey and to make good defects.
The Industry store-ship left Sheerness yesterday, at
noon, for Woolwich.

The Calypso, 23, has been undocked at Chatham,
where she has undergone some extensive repairs. She
has been ordered to be brought forward for commission.
The African steam-vessel, from Sheerness, and the

iron paddle-wheel steamer Triton, lately paid off at Wool-
wich by Lieut. Fletcher, were admitted into basin at
Woolwich yesterday. The Triton's boilers are to be re-
moved. She is to be new decked, and to undergo
thorough repairs.
The Ann and the Fly, dockyard craft, are being new
rigged, and to undergo casual repair.
The demolition of the screw steam-sloop Rattler, over-
run with dry rot, and consequently ordered to be broken
up at Woolwich, is nearly completed. As the separation
of the timbers progressed it was discovered that the
disease had extended to every department of the ship.
This was a matter of considerable astonishment, as the
vessel has been scarcely 14 years afloat.
The fliating factory Chasseur has been ordered up from
the Royal Arsenal to Woolwich dockyard, and is to be
retained, without removal of the factory engines, in the
service of the Admiralty.
The following promotions have been made by the Board
of Admiralty for the Transport Service during the late
war :

Commander H. J. Laoon, to the rank of Captain ;
Lieut. M. H. Rodney and Lieut. A. D. W. Fletcher,
to the rank of Commander. To be Captains on the Re-
served List—Commanders John Tudor and Chas. Stor-
mer. To be Commanders on the Reserved List—Lieuts.
C. Wise, T. A. Lewis, C. K. Scott, and J. G. Ray-
mond.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
John J. Crawford, surgeon, to the Raleigh ; James
Laird, Surgeon-Assistant, to the Norman Morrier con-
vict-ship ; F. R. Bowerstock, Clerk, to the Royal
Albert; W. H. Alen, Clerk, to the Imaum.
Capt. Waller's Company of the 14th Battalion Royal
Artillery arrived at head-quarters Woolwich, from
Devonport on Thursday, and Capt. Freeth's (Deputy-
Assistant-Quartermaster-Genera.) Company of the
same battalion arrived on the same day from Ports
mouth.

EXTENSIVE CLOTH ROBBERY AT HUDDERS-
FIELD-VIOLENT CONFLICT WITH THL
ROBBERS.

On Thursday last, five powerful ruffians, named James
Atkinson, George Brook, John Hardcastle, Samuel
Patchett, and Abraham Appleyard, were tried before H.
W. Wickham, Esq , M.P., at the West Riding Sessions,
at Leeds, upon the charges of breaking into the ware-
house of Mr. Win. Walker, at Longwood, near Hudders-
field, and stealing ten ends of cloth, worth 1001. The
case has excited very considerable interest in the West
Riding, from the fact that the prisoners formed part of
a gang of robbers who have from time to time committed
extensive and daring depredations at Leeds, Bradford,
Huddersfield, and other places, from some of which
towns woollen goods have been stolen in one night al-
most sufficient to load a waggon.
From the evidence adduced on the prisoner's trial, it op-
peered that the prosecutor, Mr. Walker, is a merchant and
manufacturer of woollen cloth at Longwood, near Hudders-
field. During the night of the let of Aug. his warehouse
was briken open, and ten ends of black woollen cloth car-
ried off. Information was given at once to the police, and
Mr. Heaton, superintendent of the Huddersfield police,
took the requisite steps to detect the thieves. Nothing was
heard of the matter for some time ; but at length it oc-
curred to Mr. Heaton that it would be well to examine
various places in the neighbourhood. Among other
places searched was a building at Quarmby, formerly
used as a school, but at present the meeting-place of one
or two denominations of dissenters. In the ceiling of
this building is a trap-door or man-hole, giving admis-
sion to a space between the ceiling and the roof. An
officer went through the trap-door into the false roof,
and there found eight ends of black-cloth, which by the
tickets, numbers, and other marks, were identified as
fetch it away, the superintendent and several other eightoffi-
w ho of the
et
de e
tnhdes ssttoelleene.
pFreeepl
ei nrgtysatisfiedwould thateem the aoes
de
pers c ncealed themselves in an adjacent mistal and
watched night by night from the 25th of Aug. to the
Ist of Sept. ; and then the officers removed from the
rs Brook
11h eoy' c cl
cnk-
and subsequently walked towards Quarmby-fold. They
h
p
were followed by five or six other men, and all went to
andotni ut mistallde
Atkinson tt3ohl eaiof
fw gardenaSept.tch
came nn
alongegtrtte hrbay
tttnhh ihege
surteroh:. aioldotl , eae
lwn
fpt- ierasresoedtn ett
he barn,
the school where the cloth was concealed. One of these
men, the prisoner Patchett, was carrying a new plank.
Tnese men unlocked the door of the school with a skele-
ton key, and entered, while Appleyard kept watch at
the side of the garden where the officers were concealed,
and only separated from them by a low wall and iron
palisading. The men, who had entered the school
reared the plank so as to give access to the man-hole ;
but at this moment Appleyard saw or heard something
in the garden, and running towards the school, shouted
"All away, all away ! " The men rushed
out, and
the officers were upon them immediately. A severe
struggle ensued, the result being the capture
of Brook and Atkinson, and the escape of the
others. During the struggle, Brook cut open the face of a
constable witha dark lantern to cerried, and afterwards
attempted to brain him with a heavy life preserver. He
was, however, secured. Later the same night, Hardcastle
was apprehended at Wyke, near Bradford, at which time
his shoes and trousers were quite wet, and the shoes were
also warm. Next morning Patchett and the other prisoners
were apprehended at their homes, where some housebreak-
ing implements and a new waistcoat and trousers made of
black cloth of the same kind as that stolen were found.
E. Shaw, himself a convict, related a conversation which
he had with Hardcastle on the morning after the rob-
bery, when Hardcastle described its circumstances, and
stated that the cloth had been planted where it would re•
main for three weeks, or a month.
Fhe whole, of the prisoners were convicted, and in
to every'
\
passing sentence,
Mr. V
iekh
wereama
ssaetidotthienecnoubratncdoeudldtengoetthfoerrgteet thatec) commit
prisoners t
any deeds of violence, and the murderous designs of at
least one of them had been proved beyond all
doubt.
Having broken into the warehouse and concealed
vigilance of the police had slumbered, andhoe and
thethemselves
had blown over. But they had found
used and coo.
miserably disappointed, for the police bad
tinned exertions which must commend themctivity,
vigilance,
zeal, who had heard the case.
The a
Heaton and 46:1
hopeld th
plunder, they waited for 5 or 6 weeks in the that the
zeal, and patience of Superintendent
police were creditable to th em in the highest degree.
Looking at the desperate
court could not think of allowing them a chance of com-
mitting crime again for a
them was,
that they should each
tetnth
de for the period of eight years.
be placed in penal servi
• ty of 101. was awarded to Superintendent Sea-
ton for his excellentduct throughout the transaction. character of the prisoners, the

CAPTAIN NIAS.— -The court of inquiry into the con-
duct of Capt. Joseph Nias, C. 8., the Superintendent of
its
sittings, Royal William Victualling Yard, is still holding
sittings, and the investigation is being pursued at great
cost to the public, and, of course, to the great detriment
of the service—for it is impossible that such proceedings
as these can be instituted and carried on for weeks with-
out much expense, and without the persons, who are the
subjects of them, being withdrawn from the performance
of their usual duties. Fourteen charges have been pre-
ferred by the storekeeper against his chief ; but what
they are all about has Lot been transmitted to transpire,
We hope that we shall one day have an opportunity of
making them known. The feeling of suspicion that the
public have against all these naval tribunals has not
been lessened by the recent decision in the case of Dr.
Budd. They are no more trusted than the military tri-
bunals, and the public are consequently most keenly alive
to their proceedings. Capt. Nias is, however, about to
try his strength in another court. We hear that be bag I
instituted proceedings against a local journalist, for some
remarks upon his public conduct. If he should carry
his case into a court of law he may find he has different
materials to deal with in a jury to those which he is
accustomed to meet with in brother officials.—Plyntouth,
Journal.

yeSaaaralst",
during
ah
.wfwahi teihcshfteu North-Western
nhiandl;
MR. SALT AND THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
way Company
has received the most. flattering oompliments from the
directors and the public, has had his engagements sud-
denly and unexpectedly. brought to a termination. This
3lchtYhe Londont
llni
has arisen in consequence of his misconstruction of a
minute of the board, referring to the casual employment
of any of the servants of the company for purposes not
immediately connected with the service of the company.
Mr. Salt, it appears, did not conceive this minute to
vrei
werecf eers tnwo:ct
herrettqahuieni
rcehodorpubprysa,nt
hye.when
businessthe
o portersfth eundercompany hischarge
nule
honestlyßAlLlvAY servinge
directors' opinion of the minute did not coincide
r wiler•
that of Mr. Salt, and hence the termination 0A ---