The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25. 1856

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's steam-trausport Himalaya, Commander
B. Priest, R.N., arrived at Spithead on Saturday from
the East. She left Malta on the 12th, passed Gibraltar,
without communicating, before daylight on the Sunday
after leaving Malta, and arrived at Spithead at 8 a.m;
on Saturday ; almost constant head winds and heavy
head sea retarded her voyage. The bottom of the ship
has got very foul, so that her speed is decreased nearly
three and a-half knots per hour ;so apparent is her di-
minished rate of steaming that even the Jura beat her
nearly three knots in a run of 300. She wants but a
trifling refit, and as soon as she is docked and cleaned she
will again be as efficient as formerly. Since March last
she has run 35,000 miles, and has carried 4,000 horses
and 5,000 men, besides vast cargoes of stores. The et-
gines have performed nearly 9,000,000 revolutions dur-
ing this period. She left Portsmouth yesterday morn-
ing for Southampton. The Sprightly steam tender, Mr.
George Allen, master commanding, went out to Spithead
on Saturday, and brought in all the supernumeraries
from the Himalaya.
/Her Majesty's ship In3perieuse, 51, Capt. R. B. Wat-
son, C.B. ; Pylades, 21, Capt. D'Eyncourt ; and the
Falcon, 17, Commander Pollen, all screw vessels, form-
ing a portion of the advanced squadron of the Baltic fleet,
left Spithead for the Downs (where they will await fur-
ther orders) on Saturday, and the Harrier, 17, Com-
mander Derriman (which arrived at Spithead from Dart-
mouth on Saturday), was ordered to follow them yester-
day. They will be joined by the Euryalus, 51, Captain
Ramsay, C. 8., and the Arrogant, 47, Capt. Lyster.
The Blenheim, 60, screw hlockship, Capt. W. H. Hall
(Nemesis), C. 8., left Spithead at daylight yesterday
morning for Lisbon.

The Dragon, 6, paddle frigate, Captain H. Stewart
left Spithead on Saturday to follow the advanced squad-
TOD.

The steam transport Telegraph left Spithead on Satur-
day for the Thames.

The Hawke, 60, Captain Ommanney, has left her
berth at the 3lotherbank and returned .to Spitbead,
leaving there, in charge of the gun-boat flotilla, the
Colossus, 81, Captain the Hon. H. Reppel, C.B.
The Thames steam-transport embarked on Saturday
at Portsmouth the following officers and troops for the
Crimea :—Ensigns Hunter, Johnson, Thompson, and
Kershaw, and 88 men of the Ist Royal Regiment of
Foot ; Captain Pownall, Ensigns Brace, Huyshe, Tor-
riano, and iHotchkin, and 136 men of the 31 (Buffs) ;
Captains Tryon and M'Henry, Lieutenant Disney, and
Ensign Franklin, and 37 men of the 7th Fusiliers ;
Lieutenant Hackett, Ensigns Fitzroy, Walwyn, and
Richards, and 70 men of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusi-
liers; and Lieutenant Hellyer, Ensigns Kentish and
Carlow, and 120 men of the 46th Regiment. She went
out of Portsmouth harbour, and direct for Balaklava.
The Algiers, 91, Capt. Codriegton, C. 8., was taken
into dock on Saturday at Portsmouth, and the Shannon,
51, taken out. The Fury, 6, paddle-sloop, was also
docked on Saturday.
The screw steam-ship Orion, 91, Capt. J. E. Erskine,
left Plymouth Sound on Friday, for a cruise in the
Channel, to try her engines.
The hospital-ship Belleisle, 6, Commander J. Hosken,
was towed from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on Sa-
turday by the Conflanoe and Zephyr steam-vessels.
The screw steam-ship Nile, Capt. G. Mundy, and the
screw steam-frigate Euryaluts, 51, Capt. G. Ramsay,
steamed from Hamoaze into the Sound on Saturday.
The London, 90, Capt. A. L. Kuper, will be placed in
the basin dock at Devonport to day.
The Forrester gun-boat has arrived at Woolwich from
Messrs. Pitcher's building-yard, and is commissioned by
Lieutenant Inner. Sne is under the hands of the
riggers.

-the gun-boat Bouncer, 4 guns, 232 tons burden,
launched at Blackwall, and taken to Messrs. Penn's to
receive her engines, is expected at Woolwich in a day
or two.

A large number of 10 and 13 inch mortars have been
proved at the butt at Woolwich during the last few days,
which have passed through the trial 1-atisfactorily, with
but two exceptions. A day or two since a 10-inch mor-
tar, loaded with the usual proof charge of 91lbs. of
powder, &c., completely reversed its position, and
pointed the muzzle towards the arsenal, when it burst
into 10 large pieces. The shot had fortunately escaped
when the movement took place, and no accident resulted.
A 10-inch sea service mortar also burst under proof on
Friday. The proofs are to be conducted in future in an
experimental manner by firing the various pieces singly,
in order to avoid any accident which might be produced
by the fragments striking the other pieces whose fuses
were formerly lighted to be fired at the same time.
An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness promot-
ing Commander J. 13. Marsh (who has held the rank of
Commander since the 20th of May, 1344, and Command-
er's command of the flag-chip Waterloo), to be Captain.
It is resorted that Capt. Marsh is to be appointed im-
mediately to one of the new screw steam-frigates fitting
to join the spring fleet.
Her Majesty's order for the admission of strangers to
view the trophies was on Friday issued t• the police at
the Royal Arsenal-gate at Woolwich, and so great is the
public curiosity with regard to the various articles cap-
tured at the seat of war that numbers of, persons are con-
stantly arriving. Her Majesty was so impressed with the
Night of her brave soldiers thus surrounded by the Rus-
sian trophies that she resolved to retain some mementoes
of her ♦isit to Woolwich Arsenal. An order was
conveyed the same evening from Windsor Castle to
the household photographer, Mr. J. E. Mayan, to
proceed to Woolwich and produce several groups
of faces and whatever he should consider most in-
teresting. Accordingly, the artist, with his assistants,
was employed throughout Friday and Saturday in
striking off the most prominent features of the trophy
ground for her Majesty. An ambulance waggon was
brought to the spot for Mr. Mayan's laboratory, and
measures were taken by the police to prevent any ob-
struction
by the crowd.

Six Rus;ian prisoners of war, soldiers and sailors,
have, at their own earnest rAquest, been sent on board
the Waterloo from the Devonshire, having volunteered
for the service. There are now only 25 prisoners of
war, including merchant seamen, on board the Russian
prison-ship Devonshire, Lieutenant-Commander John

The officer commanding the depot of the 22d Regi-
ment, at,Chatham, has been directed to select a certain
number of the non commissioned officers of that corps
to be transferred to the 21 West India Regiment, where
they will be appointed to the rank of company serjeant-
majors. They are to proceed to the West Indies imme-
diately to join that regiment.

An' order has been received at Chatham garrison,
from the Horse Guards, directing that the noncommis-
sioned officers and men belonging to the depots of the
74th Highlanders and 84th Regiment who have been
instructed in the use and practice of the Enfield rifle at
the School of Musketry, Hythe, under Brevet-Major
W. Justin M'Carthy, are to embark Gravesend on
Saturday next, in the Earl of Hardwicke, for the pur-
pose of joining the head-quarters of their respective corps.
In consequence of the interest felt by the Secretary of
State for War in the troops attached to the home sta-
tions acquiring a perfect knowledge of the use of the
Enfield rifle before they are draughted to foreign sta-
tions, instructions have been conveyed to Colonel Henry
Jervis, commanding the provisional battalion at Chtv-
ham, directing him to select a number of the officers,
nen•coinmissioned officers, and privates from the depots
of regiments on the British establishment, and to hold
them in readiness to proceed to the School of Musketry
at Hythe, for the purpose of being instructed in rifle
practice, as well as perfecting themselves i❑ a thorough
knowledge of that important weapon, in order to act as
instructors to other troops:
The first detachment of troops from the depots of the
India regiments in Bengal and Bombay will leaae
Chatham barracks and embark at Gravesend on the 12th
of March.

The following appointments were made on Saturday et
the Admiralty :—Lieut: G. T. C. Smith, to the Urgent ;
W. T. Tregidgo, master, to the Pioneer ; Joshua Whit-
ing, master, to the Euryalus ; Henry Hutchings, mas-
ter, to the Belleisle ; Charles A. Martin, acting second
master, to the Nile ; Joseph Caldwell, surgeon, to the
Colossus ; R. T. Easton, surgeon, to the Algiers ; Gerald
Yeo, surgeon, to the Brunswick ; Richard D. Mason,
surgeon, to the Sansparel ; Charles Harper, assistant-
surgeon, to Plymouth Hospital ; John E. Sands, acting
assistant-surgeon, to the Exmouth.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Feb. 23.

Before Mr. Witham.

Ellen Lynch, a smartly attired young woman, surren-
dered to take her trial, with Mary Ann Sullivan, in cus-
tody, on a charge of having stqlen the sum of four shil-
lings from the person of John William Rees.

Mr. Gent was for the prosecution ; Mr. Brandt for
Lynch, and Mr. Itibton for Sullivan.
The case for the prosecution was this. The prosecutor,
who stated that he was an occasional waiter, and had
been engaged in that capacity at Clunn's Hotel, Covent-
garden, for twenty years, was at a birthday festival
given by a friend of his on the 12th instant, and be
drank ten or twelve glasses of gin and water, a drink
he admitted having rather a strong predilection for. At
half-past two or thereabout in the morning he was in
New-street, Covent-garden, quite sober, when he was
accosted by the prisoner Sullivan, a girl of the town,
who, after a short conversation, thrust her hand into his
trowsers pocket, and took out four shillings. He seized
her hand, and she let the money fall, and at the same
moment two women, an old one and a young one, ran
up to the spot, picked up the money, and got away.
He gave Sullivan into custody, and subsequently on ex-
amination before the magistrate she was remanded. A
number cf, persons had congregated near Bow -street
police-court to see the prisoner put into the van for con-
veyance to the House of Detention, and it was suggested
to the prosecutor that possibly one of the women who
picked up the money might be among them. He looked
about, and at last he singled out the prisoner Lynch as
one of the two. He did not swear positively to her
but from her appearance, face, and voice, he was of'
opinion that she was one of them. Lynch said she was
at the theatre at the time, and when told that that could
not be, owing to the lateness of the hour, she said she
was in bed at half-past twelve, and had not seen Sulli-
van since four o'clock-on the preceding afternoon.
Mr. Brandt said his defence for Lynek was an alibi,
which he should prove beyond all question, for at the
time when this robbery was committed she wee in bed
with a gentleman under whose protection she lived, and
who had manfally come forward, throwing aside the
feeling of delicacy which a man would entertain on such
a matter, to rescue a girl from a charge of which he
knew her to be innocent, and but for whom, no doubt,
she would have been sacrificed and convicted as a felon,
upon the mere opinion formed by the prosecutor, after
he had imbibed a dozen glasses of gin and water. Though
that person's conduct was not of the most moral charac-
ter, yet he (Mr. Brandt) claimed for him praise for un-
hesitatingly avowing his own immorality to save an in-
nocent person, and though the alibi could be proved
without him, he was anxious to place the matter beyond
all doubt ; he would add his oath to those of other', and
the jury would not (the counsel thought) think the worse
of a man for so doing. The circumstances were these :
on the evening of the day in question she met her friend
near Grosvenor-square, at half-past nine, and they pro-
ceeded in a cab to the Adelphi Theatre. They stayed
there until the performance was concluded, and they
went to No. 26, Charing-cross, where they passed the
night as they had frequently done before. They were
known there as man and wife, and were regarded as
regular lodgers, as they stayed there sometimes two or
three nights a week. They went to bed at half-past
12, and did not leave the house until 12 o'clock the next
day, so that she cou'd not have been in Newe-treet,
Covent-garden, at half-past two in the morning. It was
true that she was acquainted with Sullivan, an hearing
that she was in custody went to Bow-street to learn
the particulars, when she was given in charge by the
prosecutor, and committed for trial. Immediately
her friend heard of this, he went to his solicitor,
and subsequently, by application to Mr. Justice Wight•
man, he was allowed to become bail for her appear-
ance, and she was discharged, but not until she had
been three days in confinement. Under these circum-
stances, there could be no doubt as to Lynch being in-
nocent of this charge, and it was creditable to the man
who kept her to come forward to rescue her from the
peril she was placed in, though at the same time he
would have to avow his own immoral oonduct.

W. H. Knight, of 26, Charing-cross, said he kept re-
freshment rooms and let beds. The prisoner Lynch and
a gentleman had been in the habit of staying there as
man and wife for the kst 15 months. They slept there
two or three nights a week, and were always regarded
as man and wife. On the night of the 12th inst. they
came there about a quarter past 12, and at half•past 12
the prisoner retired to bed, and the gentleman soon after.
He saw them go away about 12 next day. He could not
possibly be mistaken as to the night or the prisoner.

- The -witness was crosa•exanained as to whether beds
were not let at his house indiscriminately. He denied
it ; he let them only to respectable poisons, and to none
who did not stay all night, and after his shop was closed
at night he admitted none but those he knew.
Harriett Bidwell, chambermaid at Knight's, stated
that on the night of the 12th inst. she accompanied the
prisoner Lynch to her bedroom at half•past 12 o'clock,
and on the following morning furnished articles for her
use. She left with her friend at 12 o'clock in the day ;
they gore always considered as man and wife, and
passed as such. and were looked upon as regular lodgers
at Mr. Knight's. They were respectable persons, and
appears I to be man and wife, and she never asked to
see their marriage certificate—that would have been
absurd.

The person alluied to as the prisoner's friend was then
called. He eaid his name was Edward Rayble, and
lived on his property. He passed most of bii time in
the csuhtry. He bad been acquainted with Ellen Lynch
five years, and bad been in the habit of staying with her
at Knight's, at Cbaring•cross. On the evening cf the
12th inst. he met her in Brook-str,:et, and took her to
the Adelphi Theatre. She afterwards passed the night
with him at 26, Charing.eross. She went to bed at half-
past 12 o'clock and remained with him until a quarter
past 12 o'clock following. When he heard she was in
custody he went to the 'police court to became bail for
her, but the magistrate who committed her was not
there, and he went to the judge's chambers and got her
liberated on bail by order of Mr. Justice Wightman. He
would swear she was with him at 26, Cuaring-cross,
when the alleged offence was committed.
Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for Sullivan, urging that
there were grounds for doubting prosecutor's accuracy.
Mr. Witham having summed up, the jury found Sul-
livan guilty, and acquitted Lynch.
The foreman asked if there was any former conviction
against Sullivan.
Mr. Ribton said such a question was a most infamous
and disgraceful one ; such a question ho had never heard
a jury put before. They were not fit to try the case, and
had he been in court when they were sworn he would
certainly have challenged some of them.
The foreman said his object in asking the question was
that the jury wished, if nothing was known against Sul-
livan, to recommend her to mercy.
Mr. Witham said that was a very proper explanation.
A juryman said ho thought Mr. Ribton's remarks
altogether out of place, and totally uncalled fur.

,
Mr. Gent asked Mr. Witham if be did not deem such
observations as Mr. Ribton had made contempt of court..

Mr. Witham made no answer. In consequence of the
recommendation of the jury, he should take two months
off the sentence which would otherwise have been passed.
He then sentenced Sullivan to four months' hard labour.

villa, Dalston, stated that about two months since the
prisoner called at her house in the company of a well-
dressed youth, whom he represented to be his brother,
and requested to be shown some furnished apartments,
the hill relating to which was exhibited in her parlour
window. After inspscing the room, with'which he ex-
icassrd himself perfectly satisfied, the prisoner and his
companion left the honey, with an intimation that he
would send "h.s mamma" on the following day to com-
plete the negotiation ; but soon after they were gone it
was discovered by witness that two gold watches, of the
value of twenty guineas, bad been abstracted from the
mantelpiece of the breakfast parlour, where they had
been left alone a few minutes while she proceeded into
an adjoin;ng,room to procure writing materials to enable
them to furnish her with their address, which turned
out to be fictitious.

A second charge was preferred against the prisoner by
Mrs. Mary Ann Meade, the wife of a civil engineer, in
Aehdown•villas, Dalston,
Remanded for a week.

In the course of the afternoon the prisoner's accom-
plice, a youth, named Samuel Bates, was brought up in
custody, and having been recognised as a participator in
the second robbery, he was also remanded until Satur-
day next.