The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-19 00:00:00

THE SUM LONDON) WEDNESDAY F; vEN MARCH 19 546,

She has taker on board her stores, and is under orders
to leave Sheerness.
The Eurotsm, 12, mortar-ship, is receiving her mortars
and mortar-beefs on board, each mortar exceeding five
tons weight.
The Victor, 6, screw steam gun-vessel, Commander T.
It. Algernon De Horsey, now fitting in the basin, Sheer-
ness, has had a very satisfactory trial of her machinery in
the basin ; 6.1 revolutions were obtaiaed, and she is to
proceed on a trial trip in a few days.
The Soylla, 20 guns, new screw steam-corvette, now
being built at Sheerness, will shortly be ready to be
launched. The frames for another vessel of the same
class are being prepared to be laid down on the same
slip. Vessels of this• class are built substantially for the
purpose of carrying a heavy armament oh their upper
deck.
The gun-boats Violet and Goldfinch have filled their
ammunition stores with powder, shot, and shell, in pre-
paration for lengthened service, and Failed yesterday
morning from Woolwich, to test the qualities of their
engines and machinery, after which they are to proceed
to Greenhithe to' be swung.
A new gun-boat,named the Roebuck, is to be launched
on Saturday at Messrs. Scott Russell's.,
Lieut. W. Arthur has hoisted his pennant as com-
mander of the gun-boat Manly ; and Lieut. G. J. Row-
ley, of the Magnet ; both vessels have commenced their
preparations tor sea at Deptford.
The schooner Junction is to sail from Woolwich to-
day with guns, mortar-beds, and gun carriages, &c., for
Portsmouth.
The shipment of Ordnance materials from the Low-
moor, Liverpool, and Scotch foundries to the War De-
partment at Woolwich will shortly be suspended, as th.s
contracts for the season are fait drawing to a termina-
tion. Large numbers of mortars and heavy guns of every
description, with many 63 and 32-pounders, to supply
the fleet of gun-boats, have passed through the proof (se
pertinent there. The new system of firing the proof
singly has been ordered to be entered as a permanent re-
gulation.
Mr. Gottlieb, late storekeeper of Woolwich Dockyard,
in addition to his full pay of active service, has I wen
granted 10C/. per annum as an equivalent for free quar-
ters. The newly-created post of accountant in the St'ore-
keeper's-office at the Dockyard, Woolwich, was filled up
on Saturday, from Portsmouth, at a fixed salary of 5401.
per annum. A first-class clerk in the same departote nt,
with a salary commencing at 3151. and annually incri
151. up to 4501., v.,as likewise appointed at the rescue
time from Portsmouth.
The followiag commanders have been appointsei to
command steam despatch and gun ♦essels :
Commander H. C. Majendia, to the Alacrity ; Gem-
mander W. .:ones, to the Assurance ; Cons. B. J.
Bloomfield, to the Osprey ; Com. W. Armytage, to the
Vigilant. B. S. Ogren and R. D. 11. Ferquharson have
been appointed midshipmen to the Vesuvius and the
the Retribution.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 18.

without effect ; and as the applicants were too vier to
incur the expense, they wished to know what course
they were to pursue ?
Mr. Arrilld intimated that the ordinary mode under
such circumstances was to apply to the parish autho-
rities. _ _ _

MANSION•HOUSE.—An application wa3 made to
Sir R. W. Carden on the sth inst., the particular circum•

stances connected with which aro calculated to excite

strong public sympathy, and will probably command the
attention of those whose interposition may be effective
in checking the shocking evil which.it exposed.
A man of respectable appearance named Thomas
Evans, who resides at John -street, Parker's-row, Ber-
mondsey, said he had received information that morning
that his daughter, who was about 16 years of age, bad
been inveigled on board a steam-vessel which htvd started
a few hours before for Ilamirxrg, and that, taking into
consideration the character of those with whom the un-
fortunate girl had been seen, no doubt could be enter-
tained that she would fall a victim to the confederacy of
procuresses who traffic between the seaport towns of
England and the continent if the most speedy inter-
ference wera not resorted to.
iz B. W. Carden expressed the utmost readiness to
render all the assistance which a London magistrate

The male applicant olmerved that the deceased lady
was the cousin of a viscountess, and the-whole of her
connexions were of the highest respectability. He
00-tight it V7:19 not right that the deceased should be
bufied by the parish while she had sons possesing such
wealth, and he wiiheil to ingaire whether they could
not be compelled by law to decently inter the remains
of their deceased parent ?
Mr. Arnold observed that be was reluctant to give
opinions relating to matters over which be hal no juris-
diction, but he was. not aware of the existence of any
each law.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.

coull give in such a case, and immediately sent fur two
officers of skill and experience, to whom he gave in-
structions to telegraph to Hamburg, in order that the
vessel in which the girl was stated to have sailed might,
on its arrival, be searched and the girl be protected.
The statement of the father was to the following
effect : —His daughter Susannah, accompanied by a

TIIE TIPPERARY BANK. •
The selection of Mr. M'Dowell, F.T.C.D., to fill
the office of official manager was quite a surpri e,
no less to theexpectants of the prize than to the

public generally, and grave insinuations were freely
hinted against the fitness of the learned gentleman
to discharge duties apparently so incompatible with
those of a tutor of the University. Nevertheless,

finale acquaintance, was the day brfore, a 3 they were
going to their work, met at the corner of Fenchurch-
street by a Belgian Jewess, who appeared to be known
to the latter, and who, in a very friendly manner, asked
them to go with her to tee two or three young girls like
themselves, who resided in Lambert-street, Leman-
street, Goodman's-fields. They consented, and accom-
panied their inviter in a cab to a house situate a:, de-
' scribed, whore they were introduced to two young wo•
men in a room on the second floor. The appearance of
the place and of the women was not satisfactory to Su-
sannah Evans, who expressed much anxiety to get away,
but was prevailed upon by the Belgian Jewess to stay
to dinner, while the new acquaintances informed her
that they were going the next day to Hamburg to get
into splendid situations, in which they would be enabled
to live in style, wear gold watches and other jewellery,
and supply their parents with the luxuries as well as the
necessaries of life. The more desirous she was to go
home the more they pressed her, to stay, and at last she
was prevailed upon to go to bed, after having in vain at-
. -

;he appoiutment is believed to be ouo of the best

that could have been made out of the batch of can

didates submitted to Master Murphy. Mr. M'lle well
is said by those intimately acquainted with him to
possess all the requisite qualifications for his new
office, and it is urged that he has been already en-
gaged in winding up the affairs of a public company
under nearly similar circumstances to those which

brought the Tipperary Bank under the guardian-
ship of the Court of Chancery. Subjoined is a sketCh
of the proceedings yesterday ill the Mister's
office :

"In accordance with the intimation which he gave at
the close of the proceedings on Saturday, Master Murphy
this day announced his decision as to the gentleman

whom he had selected out of the list of candidates for

tempted to leave the house. In the morning, a. an
early hour, there was a bustle in the house, and off she
was hurried in a cab with the two girls to whom the
had been newly introduced and deposited on board a
steamer which lay near St. Catherine's-wharf. These
circumstances the applicant, said he bad been, informed
of by the young girl with whom his daughter had been
walking when she was accosted by the Belgian Jewess,
and who had contrived to escape from the house in
which his daughter had been detained.
Smith (572) and Monger, the detective officer,
were the men direCted by Sir R. W. Carden to make
arrangements to meet the exigencies of the case, and to
bring back the girl to her perents under auy circum-
stances ; and the former, upon representing the particu-
lars of the transaction the office of the Steam Naviga-
tion Company, to which the vessel in which the girl
had sailed belonged, was meat readily offered a passegt
and supplied with al the information they possessed as
to the apparently sanctioned practices of the Hamburg
proeurese.
Upon arriving at Hamburg Smith found that the girl
was detained by the authorities in consequence of tee
telegraphic meseaee, hut he found also that the Belgian
precuress was determined to make e eery effort to secure
tier prey notwithstanding the interposition of the police,
and that she had actually assured the officials teat
the young woman had accompanied her" from Eng-
land under a reoelar engaeement, to receive the visits
of gentlemen. In order, else to 'increahe the exer-
tions of the police, with whom sles appeared to he
on very good term., she charged the poor girl with hav-
ing robbed her parents of 51., and referred to a letter
found in her pocket, but not at all liable to any construe-
tion of the kind as evidence of. her dishonesty. When
Smith endeavoured to convince the Hamburg police
that such a charge was a wicked misrepresentation, he
found them very incredulous, but he succeeded perfectly
in the object •of his mission, and safely placed the girl
on board the steamer, which was about to return. Tne
young woman, who was i3er this timely interposition of
the Loud( n magistrate saved from destruction, coin-
plairied much of the attempts of a person who, she was
told, was the doctor appointed to examine all the fresh
female arrivals under engagements to the base wretch by
whom she had been forced on hoard ; and Smith soon
learned that there were several new importations, awl
that the system, a rocious as it was, most extensively
prevailed. He determined to bring back to Sir R. W.
Carden all the information he could collect, and cerfainly
the description he gave of the couchtion,ot several poor
English girls, who were detained by the procuresses and
panders on the pretext of debt, who are anxioas to re-
turn to their parent, was calculated, as the alderman
said, to fill any one's heart with compassionate anguish.,
He accordingly waited upon Col. Hodges, the British.
Censul, and stated the circumstances under which he had
visited.Hanaburg, and the particufare of which he had
been an eyewitness there, and soon learnt 'that the con-
sul was perfectly aware that the atrocious traffic had
been carried on for some time, and constantly lameeted
the deplorable condition of the poor girls who were in-
duced to leave their homes to be plunged into such abo-
mination. Ho represented that the authorities in Lon-
don, by whom he had been sent to inquire into the facts
and to snatch one victim, at any rate, from the conta-
mination which had awaited so many, were anxiously
expecting the interposition of the Euglis Consul ; and
Colonel Hodges replied that nothing would give him
higher gratification than the power of checking so
monstrous an evil, but that :the immediate interfer-
ence of Lord Clarendon would, in his opinion, be neces-
sary before much good could be effected in the way of
counteraction, awl that it would be advisable to present
a memorial to that Minister for an inquiry into the case.
The Vice-Consul added his testimony to that of his su-
perior, and mentioned several heart-rending cases, pre-
senting new pictures of the horrors of the prostitution
thus apparently sanctioned.
The two officers waited upon Sir R. W. Carden to
maketheir report, and were accompanied by Susannah
Evans, and her father and mother, who in tears ex-
pressed their gratitude to the Alderman for the service
which had been done for them, and, they hoped, for the
community. The young woman detailed, hue in an
almost unintelligible manner, the scenes she had wit-
nessed. The Belgian Jewess bad, she 'stated, been
generally accompanied by two ill-looking men, whom
she had seen in Lambert-street on the day which she
spent in the house there, and' who had sailed to Ham-
burg in the vessel with her, and constantly watched her
steps.
Sir R. W. Carden said the officers had done their
duty with the skill and propriety which he expected to
see exercised by them upon all occasions. Ho rejoiced
that the application had been made to him, and can-
gratulated the father and mother of the girl who had so
narrowly escaped upon the complete success which had
attended the exertions made to prevent a most serious
calamity. He had no doubt at all that measures would
speedily be taken to put an end, at all events to give an
important check to, a traffic the most cruel and revolt-
ing that could be imagined.

GUILDHALL.—Henry Sheen, 'Mary Ann Dclap,
and Elizabeth kyag were charged with being concerned
with two men, named Flynn and Geary (who were await-
ing their trial for that offence), with breaking the Win-
dow of Mr. Walter's shop in A idersgate..sitreet, on the
27th of February last, and stealing therefrom gold and
silver watches and jewelery to the amount of about 1001.
The evidence against • the prisoners merely went to
show that they were in the vicinity of Mr. Walter's shop
at the time of the robbery.
Alderman Sidney said there was nothing to criminate
the prisoners, and they were therefore discharged.

BOW-STREET.—A pest-office letter-carrier, narneil
James TNlliamsdn, was charged with stealing a money
letter.

The prisoner had been detected in the usual manner,
by means of a test letter containing marked money and
postage stamps, which he should in due course have de-
livered. Having abstracted the letter, he spent the
money in drink, and was apprehended the same night
in a state of intoxication. The marked stamps were
found upon him.
He was committed for trial.

A. labourer named John Burn, who for 20 year* past
ha 4 worked at the British Museum, for Messrs. Baker
and Son, contractors, was charged, on remand, with
attempting to steal 'a portion of the bell of the old Mu-
seum cloCk. _ .

It seems that the bell, which was kept in the store-
room, was p Tfectly whole and sound up to the sth inst.,
when it was found to have been broken. A watah was
constantly kept by Sergeant Williamson, of the detective
force, until Monday, the 10th inst. At about 5 o'clock
in the afternoon of that day, the sergeant, being in an
adjoining room, heard the sound of a heavy blow on the
bell, and on hurrying to the spot caught the prisoner,
who was trying to escape by the window. He was very
drunk. The lower portion of the bell had been again
broken, and alicavy sledge-hammer lay beside it.
It was represented by Air. Lewis, for the defence, till
this was an act of drunken wantonness on the part of
the prisoner, who had not intended to carry away the
fragments of the bell. Mr. Lewis suggested that, had
that been his purpose, he vvodld hardly have used SD
noisy a weapon as a sledge-hammer, nor would he have
pr. cseded to get of the window without his booty. Ho
(Mr. Lewis) trusted the magistrate would treat the case
as one of wilful damage, and not destroy the good cha-.
ract-r the prisoner had maintained 20 years by commit-
ting him for attempted felony.
Mr. Henry, believing that ajury would probably take.
the view of the case suggested by Mr. Lewis, convicted
the prisoner under the Wilful Damage Act, and iuflicted
a penalty of 51., or in default one month's imprisonment.
On hearing the sentence the prisoner, who had not
previously spoken a word, exclaimed, with an oath, that
he did nut break the bell.
He was then removed.

WESTMINSTEIL—adorge Eclatonson, nonzu Yen-.
tuna, and John Abbott were charged with burglariously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. West,
10, Manor-street, Chel,tea, and stealing therein a (pan-
tity of wearing apparel ani other property, valued be-
ween 401. and 501.

The prisoners were remanded til Saturday.
A young man and woman, respectably attired, who
deicrihe 1 themselves as man and wife, entreated the
magistrate's advice in the following matter :
They stated that the young woman's mother, who bad
been maintained by them for the last two months, died
on Saoday morning, when, as her two sons were per-
sins in very affluent circumstances, application was
made to them to bury the deceased, but unfortunhtety

From the London Gazette of Last Night
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 13.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold
.Drawing-Rooms at St. James's-pelace, on the following
days, at o'clock :—Tharsday, 10th April next, Tues-
day, 29th April next.
LORD CH utosaLA.ty3 OFFICE, MARCH 13.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold
Levees, at St. James's-palace, on the following days, at
two o'clock : —Wednesday, 16th April next, Weinesday,
7th May next.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Mallen 15.
This day had audience of her Majesty :—Jas. Buchanan,
Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the United States of America, to deliver his letter of
recall :—To which he was introduced by Viscount Pal-
merston, G.C.8., acting for the Earl of Clarendon, K.G.,
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
conducted by Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cast,
K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Mama 17.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Nathaniel
Selornou as Consul at S. Helena for the Grand Duke of
Oldenburgh.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 15.
The Queen lies been pleased to appoint John Scott,
Esq., to be Lient.-Governor of the District of Natal in
Sauth Africa.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John Stone,
Esq., to be Stipendiary Megietrate for the Western Di--
trict of the County of St. George, in the Island of Trinidar",
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Manca 17.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy-Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of :.hate for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Deepatch from her Majesty's Consul at Naples, stat-
ing that the exportation of the undermentioned articles is
permitted at the following rates of duty:—
From the 4th instant to the 31st May, next, bis:uit and
maccaroni, on paying one ducat per canter export duty ;
and, from the 4th inst. to the 30th April, 183 T, lupines,
on payment of 50 grains per cantar, and beaus 80 grains
per cantar, export duty.
WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCEe 18.
sth Regiment of. Foot—Lieutenant-General Wm. Love-
lace Walton to be Colonel, vice General Sir John Grey,
K.C.8., deceased.
WAR DEPARTMENT, MARCH 18.
Royeel Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant John Stirling
Stirling to be Secor.i. Captain, vice Harding, retired upon
half-pay. The undermentioned Gentlemen to be Lieute.
.nants with temporary rank :‘ —Alexander Doull, Robert
Emmett Cane, Archibald Hamilton Bell, Francis Sidleir
Stoney, John Watts Brassington, 'George Budd, John
Houghton, Henry Rogers 'fevers, Robert Lloyd, James
Colcythouu, Thomas Clarke, William Godeffroy Brancker,
Danabl. Roderick Cameron, William Henry Nc,ble, George
O'Connor, Richard Newton Young, Francis Hume Dodg-
son, Joseph Haythorne Eiger.
21st Foot.—Lieutenant-Colonel the Hen. J. L. Browne,
from a Depot Battalion, to be Lieutenant-Celonel, vice
Lord West, who exchanges.
PROVISIONAL DEPOT BATTALION.
Brevet-Colonel C. R. S. Lerd•West, C.B , from the 21st
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Browne, who ex
changes.

LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.
TO BE LIEUTENANTS.
SerjeanteMajor Ralph Norman, from the Mounted Staff
Corps.
Thomas Fletcher, Gent.
Farrier-Major William Addy, from sth Dragoon Guards.
Serjoant James 011erton, from 30th Foot.
Serjeant-Major J. Watson, from 50th Foot.
Serjeant ►Villiam Smith, from Rifle Brigade.
Quartermaster-Serjeant William Sykes, from 55th Foot.
Serjeant J. Smith, from USth Foot.
Serjeant George Donelly, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant John Murphy, from Artillery.
Serjeant John Mackenzie, from Royal Artillery.
Alfred Lander, Gent.
Cornet J. Milne.
Cornet G. James.
Cornet G. Edwards. • •
Cornet W. Magee
Cornet J. Eleazby.
Col net J. Bridge.

TO BE CORNETS.
S:lirjoant. George Hall, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant James Pettigreir, from Royal Artillery.
Troop Serjeant-Major -- Malley, Land Transport
Corps.
Colour-Serjeant J. Faulkner, from Royal Sappers and
Miners.
Serjeant John Landry, from Royal Sappers and Miners.
Sorjeant H. Macleod, from ltoval Artillery.
Sorjeant W. M'lntosh, from Royal Artillery.
Coleac-Serjeant James Spry, from Royal Sappers and
Miners.
Colour-Serjeant John Sweeney, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant John Wilson, B,oyal Artillery.
Sorjeant Henry Adams, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant George Alexander, from Royal Artillery.
Troop Serjeant-Major William Henry Waters, Land
Transport Corp 3.
' Regimental Serjeant-Major William Matthews, from Ist
Dragoons.
Serjeant George Ramsay, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant Thomas Ritchie, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant George Taskor, from Royal Artillery.
Serjeant William.Shackelton, from Royal Artillery.
Colour-Serjeant Win. Armstrong, from 49th Foot.
ColourSerjeant Richard Collins, from 56th Foot,
Regimental Serjeant-Major William Thompson, Land
Transport Corps.
Serjeant Charles Sutton, from 31st Foot.
Coloar-Serjeant Joseph Clarke, from 33:1 Foot.
Colour-Sorjeant Mickasl Stapleton, from 4th Foot.
Quartermaster-Serjeant Robert Davies, from S.'.tl Foot.
Quartermaster-Serjeant John Packwood, from Cold-
stream Guards.
Qua.rtermaster-Serjeant Michael M`Cain, from 49th Foot,
Serjeant Wm. Jeireries Pagers, from 66th Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Thomas Smith, from Ist Foot.
Serjeant John Baird, from 41st Foot.
SJrjaatit Robert Stewart, from Ist Foot.
Serjeaut Joseph Palmer, late 76th Foot.
Serjeant-Major John Briggs, from 9th Foot. .
Regimental Serjeant-Major William Ross, from is
Dragoon Guards.
Serjeant-Major Isaac Cammin, from 93th Foot.
Quartermaster-Serjeant Andrew Munro, Laad Tranepor
Corps.
Regimental Serjeant-Major Malachi Powell, Land
Transport Corps.
.-erjeant William Lowe Shawe, from 28th Foot.
Paymaster-Serjeant Alex. M`Donald, from 79th Foot.
Colour-Serjeant Mowbray Skeates, from Rifle Brigade.
Donat M.`Mahon, Gent.
Colour-Serjeant George `Pohlmann, from Royal Sappers
and Minors.
Colour-Serjeant Cornelius Godfrey, from R-yal Sappers
anti Miners.
Staff Seijeant-Major Alexander Baird, Land Transport
Corps.
Peter Burrowes, Gent.
Ernest Lewis, Gout.
TO BE REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTERS.
Quartermaster-Serjeant William Todd, Land Transport

Col7ps.
Quartermaster-Serjeant George Blake, Land Transport
Corps.
Paymaster-Serjeant Abraham Anderson, Land Transport
Corps.
Quartermaster-Swjeant Thoophilus Greenway, from 21st
Foot.
Troop Sorjeant•Major James Winter, Land Transport
Corps.
Colour-Serjeant William Lambeit, from Royal Sappers
and Miners.
Paymaster-Sorjeant Alfred Allen, Land Transport Corps.
Sed cant Thorn:v.-Barstow, from 33d Foot.
Pay master-Scrjeant J. Garnon, Irons 39th Foot.
Paymaster-Serjeant Patrick Francis Foley, from 31st
Foot.

Daniel a3aeon, Gent.
Thomas iiwitllestone, Gent.
Coinpauy-Serjeant J. Stratford, from Royal Artillery.
Couipany-Seijea,nt J. Copeland, from Royal Artillery.