The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-27 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.

Late on Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning,
a most daring felony was committed at the Cambridge.
shire Lunatic Asylum works, at Fulbourn, about three
miles from Cambridge. Upon laying the corner stone of
this building on the 30th Sept. last] a glass cylinder,
containing one of each of the current coins of the realm,
with a vellum scroll, on which was written the names of
the committee of visitors and officers, was placed i a
receptacle hollowed out of a large stone, upon which
the corner stone, bearing an appropriate inscription, and
weighing at least half a ton, was placed ; this was also
secured by the brickwork and masonry surrounding and
built over it. The whole remained safe till Saturday
last. On Sunday morning, however, it was discovered
that two courses of the brickwork above the corner stone
bad been removed, and supports placed to shore up the
remainder, supporting clear of the stone at least seven
or eight tons weight ; the corner stems was forcibly
lifted out of its place by some leverage. Brickwork was
then placed under it, so that a mans hand and arm
might be got into the receptacle of the lower one con-
taining the coins, and which, upon inspection, were found
to have been abstracted. Frome the wilful manner in
which this most extraordinary and impudent robbery was
planned and executed there is no doubt that the per-
petrators were parties•well acquainted, not only with
the situation of the cylinder containing the coins, but
also with the brickwork and masonry. Toe wonder is
that the robbers were not crushed by the fall of the heavy
mass of brickwork above the stone, as the shores put in
by them Ss kupportv, to enable them to remove the
courses of brick, was not strong enough to support the
weight, and consequently the buttress parted from the
portion of the main wall to which it was-attached, to the
extent of an inch. Notwithstanding the labour and toil
which the perpetrators of this daring robbery had to
undergo, it is gratifying to know that they have been
disappointed in the amount of booty which they expected
to find, the value of the coins being only 21. I.s. Bd. A
reward of 201. has been offered for the apprehension of
the parties, and information given to the police; and,
from the peculiarity of the marks upon the coins, there
is little doubt the offenders will be speedily brought to
justice. The damage done to the works is between 201.
and 301. It may be mentioned that a watchman is
usually upon the premises, but on Saturday night he left
at seven o'dcerk. Tee vtlium scroll was afterwards found
in a hedge on the ground.—eanthrjetv Independent,

The crew of the screw steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre,
101, Captain George St. Vincent King, C. 8., were paid
off a; Plymouth on Friday. The crew of the Meander,
44, Captain ThOmas Baillie, are appointed to be paid off
on Wedne day.
Thirty additional shipwrights are ordered to be entered
at the Devonport Dockyard.
The new screw steam-corvette Scylla, 21, steamed out
of the fitting basin at Stteerness on Saturday morning,
and proceeded on a trial of her machinery. She was
kept under way between the Nore. and the Mouse for
six 11°111'4 )ITII-1 a 1 half, during which time her average
rate of speed was 12 knots, herengines making B 3 revo-
lutions with 20. b. steam. There were no hot bearings,
no priming, and the authorities have expressed them-
selves;highly satisfied with her trial. Her dimension.
are--

Length between the perpendiculars 2OO 0
Length of keel for tonnage l7l 91
Breadth extreme
Moulded
Depth in hold.
Burden in tons, 1,462 21'94.

Nimrod, dispatch gun boat, progresses fast at Sheer-
ness dock ; she is coppered, &c., -and has some .100
mechanics working at her. Her imensions are—

Ft. In.
Length between the perpendiculars 201 0
Keel for tonnage 179 71
Breadth extreme
Ditto for tonnage
Moulded
Depth in the hold
' Burden in tons, 864 60-94.
A court-martial assembled on board the Waterloo-
flag-ship at Sheerness on Saturday to try Wm. Forster,
sailmaker, doing quartermaster's duty in that ship. The
charge against the prisoner was for having behaved, on
repeated occasions between the Ist May and 6th Oct.,
1856, in a scandalous manner. The prisoner was tried
under the 21 Article of War. The following officers corn-
poied the Court :—Captain Superintendent John Jervis
Tucker, in command of the Formidable, 84, and second
in command of the ships and vessels riding in the river
Medway and at the buoy of the Nore, president ; Cap-
tain E lward P. Halsted, in command of the screw
steam reserve guardship E,:inburgh, 60 ; Captain Super-
intendent of Chatham Yard George Goldsmith, C. 8.,
&c. C-tpt-..in John Borla'e, C. 8., &c., in command of
the store ,hip Melampus, 42; Commader Joseph M.
Laogtree, of the Welle-ley ; and William Webb Hay-
ward, Deputy• Judge Advocate, First Lieutenant of the
Waterloo ; Edward E. Maunsell officiated as officer of
the Court; Captain Lord Frederick Kerr, of the Water-
loo, prosecuted. Eleven witnesses were examined, moat
of whom were boys of the first-class serving on board
that ship, one of whom gave such evidence that the
Court considereT it necessary to caution him against
giving any evidence that might criminate himself. The
prisoner, in his defence, merely denied the charge. The
Court was of opinion that the charge against the prisoner
was fully proved, and adju iged him to 12 months' im-
prisonment in the county gaol at Maidstone, with hard
labour ; after which he was to be discharged from her
Majesty's-service with disgrace.
A handsome richly engraved silver pocket communion
service, in case, and silver waiter engraved, was pre-
sented to the Rev. H. Huleatt, A. 8., on Saturday, from
the nen•commissioned officers and gunners of the Royal
Artillery at Sheerness, as a token of affection and
esteem.

WOOLWICH, Sunday.—Edgar, 90, screw, is built to
her upper decks, and is in, a foward state. She will be
an excellent specimen of improved naval architecture.
Machinery for the Diadem, steam-frigate, recently
launched at Pembroke, and the Renown, at Chatham,
has arrived here from the manufacturers, Mean's. Maud-
slay, Son, and Field, and are to be shipped to them)
ports.

PIRACY AND MURDERS ON BOARD THE
ENGLISH BARQUE GLOBE.

PORTSMOUTa, SATURDAY.
Guiseppe Lagarva and Giovanno Barsalano, Italians,
and Motto Pettrich, an Austrian—three determined-
looking young men—were brought before the Mayor
and other magistrates, sating at the Court-house this,
day, charged with committing piracy on board the barque
Globe, an murdering Joseph Pattinson and Evan Evans,
English seamen on board the ship. They were further
charged with wounding twe more of the crew, Daniel
Cullen and Daniel Thomas, with intent to murder.
Mr. W. Scotland, the chief mate of the Globe, was
examined at considerable length. He deposed that oil
the 4th July last the Globe was lying in the Bosphorus, •
close to Constantinople, the craw consisting of the three
prisoners, two other foreigners, and six Englishmen and a
boy, including himself and the master. The foreigners
had formed part of the crew about three or four weeks.
On the (lay named the Globe got under way and left
the Bosphorus for Balaklava. At half-past 3 o'clock on
the morning of the sth July witness, who had just gone
below having finished his watch, heard the report of 3
pistols, he instantly ran on deck, and called to the mas-
ter to turn out. When he got on deck he found Evans
and Callen, two of the crew, lying on the deck, crying
out that they were shot. While witness and the master
were standing by the wounded men, Lagarva and a man
not in custody, called Angelo, came up and snapped a
pistol, one at witness, the other at the master. The caps
went off, but the pistols missed fire. Witness and the
toaster assisted the men wounded into the cabin and
fastened the door. The wounded men could be of no
use, but the master found a .musket barrel;
he 'contrived to splice on a stick. Witnesii and the
master then loaded it with powder and ball, and kept
guard at the cabin 'door, intending if necessary to dis-
charge it by striking the cap with a hammer. The
witness entered into a long statement of the pri-
soners' movements about the ship, while witness and,the
master were for some hours in the cabin. Ultimately, he
said, the prisoners demanded money, and
promised to
leave the ship if the master gave them what money he
had. Witness fastened eight or nine sovereigns in a piece
of paper to the end of a ramrod, and held it up through
the companion. Afterwards, by agreement with thepri-
soners, witnesa and those in the cabin retired to another
cabin, while the prisoners went down and ransacked
the
master's chest, &c. Same time afterwards
bthoealirisone
discoveredfrecas
te.
and the other foreigners left the vessel,iinnenatdhe
piece of skin.
Wit-
ness and the master went on dck
bc,a)ufnt
iihnneghei rsbeytteh,
raecaa
tm ea
nudpaownhdhenckd
Pattinson dead, with his throat cut,
His
David head
e aTlh ~wmaass ,
out of the hold, withnal:1:0(171e:
in his breast. Witness and the master stood for the
Bosphorus, and having anchored in Beudley Bay, in-
formed Admirals Grey of the murder, &c. The Recruit
gunboat was sent in search of the murderers. The
Turkish authorities acted very promptly in the matter,
and the prisoners were captured a Lew miles inland from
the coast, and banded over to the British admiral, who
forwarded them to England for trial, according to the
law of this country. -
An interpreter, duly sworn, read over the above evi-
dence to the prisoners, and they were asked whether
they had any question to put to the witness.
Lagarva said be had nothing to say or ask. All that
was aritten on that paper (Mr. Scotland's deposition) was

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untrue.
Barbalano said that what had been stated was untrue.
He bad nothing more to say.
Pettrtch gave a similar answer.
Mr. Swatmon, in answer to the bench, said the other
evi.lence (Duet necessarily take some time to take.
The Mayor said, under those circumstances, he would
remand the prisoners until ToeEday.
The prisoners were then remanded to the Borough
Gaol. They appeared to treat the proceedings very lightly.
Pett rich and Barbalano frequently smiled at various points
of the mate's evidence as the interpreter read it over.