The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-01 00:00:00

IN.EWSPAPER
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The screw IniaanderNl
H. C. Glyn, from Sheer'. a urived
on Thursday morning in Plymouth Sound,. and
saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Houston
Stewart K.C.8., which was acknowledged by the
Impregnable. The Miranda is now in Hamoa ze
receiving coal.
His Netherlands Majesty's screw steam frigatal
Admiral Van Wassenaar, having had her rudder
repaired at I kvonport, was removed yesterday into
Plymouth Sound.
The paddlewheel steamsloop Gorgon, 6, Com-
mander Bedford C. T. Pim, having coaled and.
provisioned, was towed by the Confiance and-
Zepher from Hamoazc into the Sound. On Thurs-
day evening, with the brigantine Swift in tow, she
left Pl.) mouth for the Cape of Good Hope.
The screw steamship Hero, 91, Commodore
George H. Seymour, C. 8., at Plymouth, is now
alongside the hulk Bellona in Hamoaze, where shb
will be fitted with a new gang of wire rigging.
The screw steamsloop Ariel, 9, Commander
Alexander, was appointed to go from Harnoaze
yesterday into Plymouth Sound.
The paddle-wheel steamsloop Spiteful, 6, Com-
mander W. C. F. Wilson, went yesterday front
Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound.
Steam was got up yesterday afternoon on board_
the screw steam gun vessel Nimble, 5, in the basin
at Keyham steam yard.
The contractor's trial of the machinery and.
engines of the gunboats speedy and Doterel
took place on Thursday outside Plymouth Break-
water. When near Withey-hedge the Speedy ran
down the fishing-boat Albion,ls tons, belonging to
a widow of Penzance, which was at the time reach-
ing out. The Albion went down ; her crew, seven
men, had barely time to get on board the gunboat.
This circumstance will be investigated by the Port
Admiral.
The Royal Commissioners who have been otxu-
pied some days at Chatham in inquiring into the
control and management of that naval establish-
ment suspended their investigations yesterday morn-
ing, and at 12 o'clock embarked on board the pad-
dlewheel steamer Wildfire, Mr. G. Brockman
master-commandant, tender to the Monarch, 84,
from the Sun pier, and proceeded to Sheerness
dockyard, where they had an interview with Capt.
R. B. Watson, C. 8., the superintendent, their visit
being in connexion with the investigation about to
be opened at that establishment next week. The
Commissioners will resume their investigations at
Chatham dockyard this morning, the present inten-
tion being to bring the inquiry to a close, so far as
that establishment is concerned, this afternoon.
The Commissioner's, during the prosecution of their
labours at Chatham, have made a searching inves-
tigation into the general system and management
pursued in the various departments connected with
that establishment, most of the officials and heads
of departments having been under examination,
the Commissioners at the same time making them-
selves acquainted, as far as practicable, with the
general arrangements of the dockyard by a personal
inspection of the various departments, the official
documents and papers being at the same time
placed at their disposal.
Several of the alterations and improvements
recommended by the Royal Commissioners for
inquiring into the sanitary condition of barracks
and army hospitals during their late visit to Chat-
ham garrison, to promote the health, comfort,
and cleanliness of the troops, are now being carried
out at Chatham barracks, in addition to several
important improvements already effected at the
suggestion of Major-General Eyre, in command of
the forces of the garrison.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander I. Ball to the
Colossus, additional for service in the Coastguard ;
Commander A. I). W. Fletcher, to the Pembroke,
additional for service in the Coastguard ; Lieut.
P. W. Pellew, to be Flag-Lieut. to Vice-Admiral
Martin, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean ;
Tom H. Falcon, midshipman, to the Harrier ; Dr.
J. R. Holman, to be Assist.-Surg. to Chatham
Dockyard, vice Peacocke ; Thomas 1.. Walker,
chief engineer, to the Hero; George Cook, chief
engineer, to the Asia, for the Frederick William ;
and IL Williams, to the Indus, for the Liverpool.

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COMIITIAL OF A TEAcHER FOE
IYrAXSIA UGH TER.

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The adjourned inquest on the body of John
Bourne, a little boy aged nine years, who was taken
ill and died after a flogging he had received in the
Devon and Exeter Central School, was resumed on
Tuesday evening by Mr. W. H. Hooper, the
coroner.
Mr. J. Austin, the master, came forward and
stated that he was the master of the Devon and
Exeter Central School. The deceased was a pupil
in the school, and had been so rather more than 12
months. He belonged to the seventh class. On
the 2d of November that class *as under the care
of a monitor named Pidgeon. He could not swear
that Charles Hawker had not charge of the class
during the morning, but to the best of hie belief he
had not. He (Mr. Austin) had himself had charge
of the class during the morning on two occasions.
He noticed the boy in the afternoon, about 3 o'clock,
in consequence of one of the boys having told him
that he had been sick. He (Mr. Austin) saw he
was very pale. The deceased never complained to
him as having been struck. He heard nothing fur-
ther of the boy until the 18th of November, when
he heard a report from the Rev. Prebendary Lee,
who said that he had been told by Mr. Cum-
ming, the surgeon, that the boy was very ill from
a blow alleged to have been given by a teacher.
Mr. Leo and himself then visited the deceased, but
he was in a state of stupor, and he could not get
an answer from him.
The Coroner—Do you use anything in your
school called a " pointer ?"
Mr. Austin—Yes.
Two pointers used in the school were then pr?-
duced. These are deal sticks, about five feet in
length, rather more than an inch in circuraferepcte
at the largest end, and tapering towards the pointo
The Coroner—Have you ever been obliged_
complain of the pupil teachers beating the oy ?
Mr. Austin—Not with the pointers.
The Coroner—With the hand ?
Mr. Austin—Yes.
ever so complained of
The Coroner—Have you
Hawker ?
Mr. Austin—Yes.
Mr. Cumming was next examined. He said that
he had on Sunday morning last made a postmortem
examination on the body of the deceased. He con-
sidered that the blow was the cause of death. The
immediate cause was inflammation of the base of
the brain.
This being the whole of the evidence, the coroner
summed up, and, after deliberating half an hour,
The foreman of the jury said the jury had found
a verdict of " Alanslaughter against Charles
Edward Hawker."
Mr. Hawker, sell., applied to have his son ad-
mitted to bail.

The Coroner said he should be willing to do so,
and, in answer to Mr.Fildew, raid he thought that
his own recognisances in £5O, and two sureties in
£25 each would be sufficient.
Hawker was then committed on the coroner's
warrant to take his trial at the forthcoming assizes.

RATHER
SMART.—" Mr. Magistrate," said a
litigious
y for disorderly conduct, " has a man got a ri
young gentleman who had been taken into etva-
tod
wise magistrate. ght to
commit a nuisance ?" " No, sir, certainly not, replied the
" Then, sir, I claim my liberty, according
to your own authority. I was arrested as a nuisance • and
onsuil."
as nobody has a right to commit me, I claim a
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