The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

TEE ARMY.

The Duke of Cambridge has issued an order di-
recting the bounty paid to those men who re-enlist
after 12 months' absence from their regiments to be
reduced from 30s. to £l.

The following very important General Order has
been issued to the various divisions of the Royal
Marines from the Admiralty :
" Admiralty, May 1, 1860.
"The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
have been pleased to signify that soldiers who may
have claimed their discharge from the army under
the Limited Enlistment Act, or obtained it by pur-
chase, or by a free discharge, and who shall enlist
in the Royal Marines within two years of the date
of such discharge, are to be allowed to reckon their
former service in the army towards pension on corn-
pletir.g 21 years in the combined services. Each
man must produce a certificate .of good character
from the corps, in which he has served, and mll-,t,
be of the regUTated standard height, and generally
a desirable mark For the Royal Marines.
" No man-is-to-he enlisted who is above 30 years
of age.'-'.., - •

Th 6 3d battalion military train, in command of
- Major M'Court, encamped at Woolwich, being
under orders to relieve the 2d battalion, Lieut.-Col.
Robinson, at Aldershott, started yesterday from
the encampment on Woolwich-common. Two
troops, commanded by Capts. Morrison and Wool-
ridge, Lieuts, Keogh and Ramsay, yesterday per-
formed the first day's march, and the remaining
squadron, together with the headquarter's staff,
will leave this morning. The dismounted men and
the sick will be conveyed by railway. The officers
composing the staff consist of Major M'Court, Capts.
Powell and McFarlane, Paymaster • Willins,
Quartermaster Salford, Lieuts. Keogh and Powell,
and are accompanied by a train of 30 waggons.
A 12-lb. wrought iron experimental gun, upon a
principle varying between that of Sir Wm. Arm-
strong and Dr. Church, manufactured by Mr. Mor-
gan, was yesterday tested at the proof butt, Wool-
wich, in the presence of Col. Tulloh, R.A., In-
spector of Ordnance, and the officers of the depart-
ment. The exterior of the piece nearly resembles
that of the Armstrong. The bore is eliptical, and
the grooves four in number. The proof charge was
confined to 211 b. of powder, and,an elongated shot
weighing 121 b. The test was perfectly satisfactory,
and the opinion generally expressed was, that it
was doubtless a good ordinary gun, devoid of any
special qualifications or superiority. -.No experi-
ments as to the range were entered 'into, the object
being simply to test the method of loading and the
possibility of any escape of gas, &c.
Some interesting trials of the new breech-loading
rifled carbine, the invention of Mr. Leitch, took
place on the praetising•ground of the Royal Engi-
neers at Chatham, on Tuesday afternoon, in the
presence of a number of scientific gentlemen and
others connected with the Royal Engineer Depart-
ment. It had originally been intended for Mr.
Leitch to make some competitive trials with his
breech-loading rifle against the best markanien el
the Royal Engineers with the Lancaster rill?, the
authorities at Chatham having granted permission
for the trials to be made. Owing, however, to the
rifles brought by Mr. Leitch not having been cor-
rectly sighted and adjusted, the competitive portion
of the trials was necessarily postponed. Nir. Leitch
then exhibited the telling effects of his breech--
loader, when fired at long ranges, with satisfactory
results. The range first selected for the experiments'
was 500 yards, which was afterwards increased lo
900 yards. Upwards of 200 rounds were firp3 in
all, without a single instance of miss-fire or fonl in g,
or the slightestescape of the powder gas manifest--
ing itself. The rifle was lolded witKlhe ntmcilt

pidity, the movement of loading and firing being
almost instantaneous. The experiments gave com-
plete satisfaction. Mr. Leitch shortly intends mak-
ing some further trials on a much larger scale at
Chatham.

THE MURDER IN SBOREDITCH.

SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER AND DIS-
COVERY OF THE BODY.—LATEST PAR-
TICULARS.
The detective police continued their exertions,
until two o'clock yesterday in endeavouring to find
the man Raddon, but no clue whatever could be
traced of him until about ten o'clock, when the body
of a man was dragged up by the towing rope con-
nected with a barge which was being navigated
through the Regent's-canal. It seems that, at the
time named, several men were employed at Messrs.
Garrod's coal wharf, Whitmore-bridge-road, Hox-
ton, when they saw the body of a male person sud-
denly rise to the surface of the water. They raised
an alarm, when deceased was got out on to the
towing-path. The deceased was not known at that
time, and when taken out of the canal the hands
were found to be firmly tied round with a pocket
handkerchief, and the arms were lying upon the
breast as if he, the deceased, had bound them
round to prevent his struggling and to hasten
his death. A police•constable was called and
the deceased was placed upon a stretcher and
conveyed to the dead-house at the rear of
the Shoreditch workhouse, Kingsland-road, where
it was immediately identified as being that of the
murderer. The deceased's cap had been found float-
ing in the canal some distance from the spot where
the body was discovered, and there is no doubt that
he committed suicide by leaping off the bank near
the coal wharf, which is easily to be reached from
the main road.
Police-constable Buckley, of the N division, as-
certained that the accused (Raddon) must have left
home soon after the dreadful crime was perpetrated,
for he went to the house of the deceased's sister
(Mrs. Webb), residing at 6, Holloway-grove, at two
o'clock on Tuesday. morning and knocked at the
front door. The window was opened by Mr. Webb,
who asked who it was, when Raddon replied, "It
is Joe." He wished to come up stairs, but he was
informed that he could not be admitted at that
hour. He spoke in a low voice, and said that Mrs.
Webb's sister was dying. He was not sober, but
knew what he was about. He then went away,
and it is supposed that he must have shortly after-
wards committed self-destractions
Yesterday afternoon about two o'clock the brother
of the ' deceased man (Raddon), and several other
relatives, called at the workhouse and identified the
1.
body. The police searched the pockets of the d -
ceased, and the only things found were a clas
knife, and a duplicate of a silk handkerchic:,
pledged for 2s. on Monday last. ~
Yesterday raternoon, at three o'clock, Dr. Gat,
of Finsbury-pavement, and Mr. Clark, the medical
officer of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, proceeded to
the house where the murdered woman had beep
discovered to make a minute examination of the
body by order of the coroner, Mr. John Humphreys.
The wretched female was still lying upon the bed,
as she was first discovered, upon the left side,
in a pool of coagulated blood. The limbs - were
quite stiffened, and deceased presented a sad
and sickening spectacle. The blood from
the wound had saturated the bedclothes,
and had passed through the sacking of
the bedstead on to the floor, and from
thence had penetrated through the boards to the
ceiling of the lower room or back parlour. The
opinion expressed by the medical gentleman is that
the deceased must have been xnurdered while fast
asleep, and that the murderer tad stood behind her
with his left hand over her mouth while he inflicted
the fatal injury with the right hand. The wound
nearly severed the head from the trunk, and had
penetrated the upper cervical vertebrae of the neck.
It would also seem that after the incision the mur-
derer had withdrawn the razor to the back part of
the head, as there were several spots of blood upon
the pillow, which must have dropped from the blade
of the weapon, which had likewise been placed upbn
the sheet behind the shoulders of the deceased, as
there were marks indicative of the fact. The mur-
derer must then have leaned over the body of his
victim and placed the razor in the deceased's left
hand, which lay immediately by the front of the
face. The right hand was firmlyclenched and covered
with gore. The deceased must have bled very
rapidly, and death must have been instantaneous,
and she could not have struggled nor have made any
noise. There were narks of blood upon the chin as
if the murderer had held the unfortunate woman's
mouth. In the centre of the room was found a pail
half filled with dirty water, where it is supposed
that the murderer washed his hands, for close by the
pail were found a wet towel, which bore marks of
blood, and an old scrubbing-brush, which had been
recently used. There was plenty of bread and other
articles of food in the cupboard, and the breakfast
things were upon the table in the centre of the room,
which would show that the murderer and his victim
had taken tea upon their arrival home.
The police and Mr. Waller, the summoning offi-
cer, made a further search of the room yesterday
morning, and in a drawer they found a number of
duplicates and a county court execution paper for a
distraint upon the goods of the murderer. The de-
ceased woman was very respectably connected, and
was a hardworking, industrious woman, clean in
her habits, although the apartment where she and
her paramour lived was very poorly furnished.
A number of police officers were in charge of the
house and body during the whole of yesterday, and
crowds of persons still remained in front of the
house att. late hour last night.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTE

LONDON RAILWAY.

Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, a very
alarming accident happened to a passenger train on
the North London Railway, at Blow, which was
nigh involving the most disastrous consequences.
The train was from Camden-town, and having made
the usual stoppage at Bow station, proceeded on its
way to Fenchurch-street up the curved incline
which connects the North London with the Black-
wall line. Owing to the rise being rather severe,
a speed of from 12 to 15 miles is seldom exceeded
in going up the bank:. The writer was a passenger
in the second carriage from the engine, and on the
train reaching the top of the incline, abreast of the
.works of the Great Central Gas Company, he was
startled by a violent jerk and crash, followed by
two other shocks of as severe a eharacter,.and-a
rolling or jumping motion bf the carriage, as if it
was off the line, and in less than half a minute the
train was brought to a sudden stoppage. On alight-
ing, a most fearful scene presented itself. The en-
gine, No. 32, a large powerful six-wheeler, was
lying on its side, enveloped in steam, completely
across the down line and the road used by the
Gravesend (Tilbury), "Woodford, North W001=,.,
with, and other trains. Next to the engine was a
second-class passenger, (break) carriage, and the
escape of the occupants appears most marvellous.
The front of it, used as the guard's break, was shat-
tered to pieces, and how the guard was preserved
from instant death seemed most surprising. .This
carriage, with the next, had been dragged off the
line, and apparently had been shattered and ripped
by a rail, which had been torn up by the engine,
and was standing up perpendicular between the two
carriages. Fortunately there were not many pas-
sengeis in the train, and more providentially still,
they all escaped any serious injury with the excep-
tion of an elderly lady, Mrs. Sutherland, who sus-
tained a serious contusion on the face. They
jumped and scrambled out of the carriages as best
they could, and made their way to a more distant
part of the line, it being feared that the hissing
prostrate engine, which was sending forth dense
volumes of steam, might explode. The excitement
for the moment having somewhat subsided, in-.
quiries were made after the engine driver and
stoker, and it was ascertained that they too had
been most miraculously spared. The poor fellows
had stuck to their posts to the last, and as the en-
(sine stewed round and turned over they were
thrown forward some few feet on to the permanent
way, and escaped, save a few bruises. As soon as
they had somewhat recovered they did their best to
lessen any further mischief arising from the some-
what dangerous condition of the engine, and the
with as much expedition, gave.the necessary
signals to stop all trains, up or down. Mr. King,
the superintendent of the North London,-and Mr.
Wightman, the superintendent of the Blackwall,
with other officials, were soon on the spot, and the
most vigorous measures were taken to restore the
road, and remove the engine, which completely
stopped the Gravcseild, Woodford, Victoria Docks,
North London, end other traffic.
On examining the line where the accident oc-
curred it would appear that the engine left the
metals on the inner side some 50 or 60 feet before
it went over. In its course the wheels came in
contact with the sleepers and rails of a crossing,
which eventually threw the engine round as before
described. The permanent way was:ploughed up,
the sleepers cut through, and the rails torn up and
twisted. The cause of the engine leaving the line
is yet to be explained. The keeping up of this part
of the road is said to-be under the charge of the
engineer of the. Blackwall Railway Company, and,
it is stated that the line where the engine went off
was found to be of proper gauge. The escape of
the passengers is mainly attributed to the reduced
speed of the train in goingaip-the bank. It is also
a most providential circumstance that the engine
took slant inwards, Had it been the other