The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 15.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Titontas Turnbull, who on
Tuesday appeared upon a summons to answer the com-
plaint of Edward Bateman, the particulars of which
were published on Wednesday, attended for the adjudi-
cation of the case by Sir Henry Muggeridge.
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Co., at-
tended for the prosecution ; Mr. Ballantine, instructed
by Mr. Wontner, for the defence.
Messrs. Hurst, who were spoken of in the evidence
upon the former occasion as having been concerned in
detaining the goods which had been supplied to the de.
fendant by the prosecutor, were present during the in-
vestigation ; but Mr. Bateman, upon being asked by Mr.
Ballantine whether he bad any charge to make against
either of those gentlemen, declined the responsibility of
making any whatever.

The evidence taken on the previous occasion having
been read over, the prosecutor was cross examined at con-
siderable length by Mr.Ballantine. His answers showed
that he had been bankrupt, that just before his failure
the Messrs. Hurst advanced him 90/., and there was no
doubt that Turnbull thought ho was justified in the
course ke bad adopted to obtain a partial restitution to
Messrs. Hurst.

Mr. Ballantine submitted that it was ridiculous to at-
tempt to ground a charge against gentlemen of such re-
spectability as the Messrs. Hurst were well known to be,
upon evidence which proved nothing but that the com-
plainant had a very objectionable way of transacting
business, and that at the time he actually owed a larg,
sum of money to them, he recompensed them by in-
sinuating a criminal offence. He admitted that the de.
fendant had proceeded in an irregular manner, and a-
such a course could not be legally resorted to, the goods
about which the dispute had been were in court, and the
complainant was at liberty to take them.
Mr. M.,rgan said he had advised his client to stop the
proceedings upon condition that the property should be
at once restored to him, in the belief that Mr. Turnbull,
when he took the goods, really imagined that there was
a bona fide claim upon Mr. Bateman.
Mr. Bateman said that Mr. Turnbull might have sup-
posed that there was such claim, and consented to such
compromise.

Sir H. Muggeridge said he had no objection to such
arrangement as that just proposed. I; was obvious,
from the circumstances stated in evidence, that the de.
fendant considered that he was justified in the course he
bad adopted to save the Messrs. Hurst, from injury,
bitt he certainly was by no means justified, and the testi-
mony of the complainant proved that the transaction
about the goods in question was to be wholly indepen-
dent of any former transactions between the parties. At
the same time, the complainant was unwarranted in the
means he had resorted to for the recovery of the goods.
The goods were then delivered up to Mr. Bateman,
and Mr. Turnbull was discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.—John Hart, a powerfully
built fellow, who described himself as a labourer, ww,
charged before Mr. Hammill with the following scanda
loos outrage upon two young women named Jane
Gable and Caroline Harris, and also a youth natned
Henry Liply.

Th; fir;tlamed comp'ainant deposed to having, in
company with her two friends, entered a public house
after leaving one of the theatres, at a late hour on Wed-
nesday night, and ulcer taking refreshment they were on
the point of leaving, when the defendant and tour other
men met them at the door. Defendant, who was per.
fectly sober, instantly made some scandalous proposition
to witness, and flung his arms around her neck. She re•
pelted him to the best of her ability, and succeeded in
pushing him from her, but he repeated the act, and on
being again resisted struck her, first on the nose and
then ou the head, the latter blow felling her to the
ground, where he kicked her on the bosom i❑ a most
savage manner,

Tun second complainant fully corroborated the above
statement, and added that when she herself rernonAtrated
with defendant he struck her on the nose, causing it to
pour with blood, and then commenced kicking her, and
severely injured her side. Their male acquaintance was
yet more punished.

Henry Liply, whose features were fearfully contused
and cut, depsed to both the assaults, and said that on
mildly interferin, defendant hit him on the right jaw
with his fist, adsonie of his companions kicked him in
the face, by which hiS right eye was cut.
Hollis, a constable of the 11 division, gave evidence
of having heard dreadful screams of women, and running
to the spot found defendant held by a number of per-
sons, who were calling fur the police. He admitted the
assaults. All the complainants were bleeding from the
face.

Mr. Hammill remarked that a mast wanton and scan-
dalous act of cruelty had been nominated on young
women and a lad without the slightest provocation, and
only because the first complainant very properly resisted
his infamous advances. He must go for two months
for each assault on the females, and pay a fine of 405.,
or suffer another two months' imprisonment for the as-
sault upon the youth.

WESTMINSTEII.—Jane Evans, known among the
begging fraternity as the Dowager Duchess of West-
minster, was on Wednesday brought up before Mr. Ar-
nold, charged with fraudulently endeavouring to obtain
charitable contributions from Lord J uhn Thynne, of
No. 101, Eaton-place.

It appeared that the prisoner had left a letter at his
lordship's house, purporting to be written by the Rev.
Mr. Russell, incumbent of St. John's, Camberwell, and
recommending the prisoner to his Lordship's benevolence
as a widow woman in great distress. The letter turned
out to be a fabrication, no such person as the assumed
writer being known in Camberwell.
_ _ _

Webb, one of the IVlendicity Society's officers, recog•
nised the prisoner as a notorious impostor.
Mr. Arnold remanded her until Monday.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—John, _lngram Owen,
Oeorje Smith Owen, and Edward Owen, were brought
before Mr. Bingham for further exanainaticno charged
with numerous forgeries.

li
A lady named Edwards was examined to prove that
the cheques ipurportinc, to be drawn by a lady named
Lloyd, since dead, on 'Messrs. Coutts and Co., and an
order for a cheque book, were forgeries. This witness
proved that she formerly lived in Sloane-street. Two of
the prisoners formerly lived in her house at the same
time as Miss Lloyd, and this circumstance gave them an
opportunity of ascertainino. that Miss Lloyd was a lady
of property, and kept cash at Coutte's. The amount of
the forgeries en Coutts's is about 6001.
A fresh case connected with the London. Joint-stock
Bank was gone into.
A cheque for 651., purporting to be drawn by Mr.
Harris, of Goodman's.fields, was presented at the bank
by a lad who had been employed by George Owen to
make the attempt on the bank ; but one of the cashiers
(Mr. Saunders), doubting the genuineness of tE e signa-
ture, caused the messenger to be detained. The sender
of the cheque was not to bo found at the appointed
place.
jiThe prisoners were further remanded.

LAMBETH--Mr„ Elliott, with the chief clerk and
gee° d usher, attended at the committee room of Horse•
monger•lane Gaol, for the purpose of taking the evidence
against Robert Everest, alias Evennent, alias Elwanbett, and
George Brown, prisoners in custody at that prison on two
charges—the first, of stealing from the bed-room of Mr.
Skinner, the lan'llord of the Zoological Arms beer-
house, in Penton-place, IValworth, about 151. in cash
and other property ; and the second, for a robbery at the
house of Mr. Knott, in Sutherland-place, while the fa•
roily were at church. The facts of the case have been
frequently made Wile.
Both prisoners were committed for trial.

WOOLWICH.—,Tames Smith., a :tabourer, residing at
PI ritnstead, was placed at the bar befitre Mr. Seeker, on
a charge of wilfully cutting off the tail'. of a monkey, the
property of Louis Previdi, an Itab an organ grind,r,
from whose evidence, which was corroborated; it ap-
peared that the prisoner and others 'austled him in the
street, and the monkey sought ref'sge under the com-
plainant's coat. The prisoner then :taught the monkey's
tail, which he suddenly severed with a knife.
Mr. Seeker commented upon tbe disgraceful and
cowardly act of cruelty, and fined the prisoner 405., and
U., the value of the monkey, or two Dionths' imprison-
ment.

COMIZENT OF TER OCEAN.—Vio-0, 31:ay 16..—Copy of
a letter found in a bottle in this bay on. the stir inst. :
" Brig Dryad, at Sea, Jai. 30, 1856. To whom it may
civic:ern. I throw this iato the sea tc try the current,
if it should by chance be picked up. 1 Irig Dryad, from
Liverpool, bound to Valiaraiso, out 21 days, al:d still a
S.W. wind. Latitude, ly observation , 30.21 N. ; lon-
gitude, by chronometer, 15.30 W.--- John Chambers,
maaer."

T_TIE U//BY.

Yeser lay the board of g;neral officus re-assembled
shortly af.tr 11 o'ciek.
The Judge-Advocate announced that he had written to
Sir Charles Treve!yan, informing him that his statement
had been laid before the board, and that every :acility
would be afforded to him to take part in the proceedings,
if ho wished to do so, and that he had received the fol-
lowing reply :

" Treasury, 15th May, 1356.
" Sir,—l have had the honourof receiving your letter
of yesterday's date, informing me, by desire of the Board
of General Officers, that Collimissary-General Filder will
come before them today, to make a statement relative
to the management of his department during the late war,
and to call the attention of the Board to a statement
signed by me, in explanation of the arrangements
made by the Treasury in reference to the supp'y of forage
to the army in the Crimaa,' and that if, under these mr-
cumsances, I should wish to take any part in the pro-
ceedings, every facility would be affirded me for that
purpose.

•
" In reply, I beg to state that as I have no reason to
complain of any part of the report of the commis:.ionere,
and as a full explanation has been furnished of the pro•
ceedings of the Treasury in reference to the supply of
forage, which had been commented upon in a previous
statement by Mr. Filder, I do not consider it necessary
to avail myself of the permission which has been kindly
given by the Board of General Officers to appear before
theta to-day.--I h _ _

" C. E. TREYELYAN.

'• The Right Hon. the Jud e•Advocate."

Mr. Filler, in c unniencing his statement, referred to
his reply to the misrepresentations of the commissioners
which had been laid before Parliament, observing that he
now wished to make some additions to what was therein
stated. In page 15 the commissioners charged him
with supplying unwholesome, instead of wholesome and
nutritious food to the army, and the general character
of the report was a censure on his department for mis-
management, improvidence, and want of energy in at-
tending to the supples of the army. He proposed to
address himself, to the general spirit of the whole, as
well as to the specific charges, to show that the
statements which it contained, so far as they related
to his department, were at variance ~ith actual
facts. There were many difficulties in the way of sup-
plying the large army in the East, arising from the sud-
denness of its movements, the unfavourable position in
which it was placed, being so far from supplies, and the
impossibility of foreseeing the misfortunes that attende.l
it. Under these circumstances it wag not surprising
that his efforts to supply the army shAild not have been
attended with the success which might have been wished,
though he bag used every possible exertion. Of these
qualifying circumstances the commissioners had taken
co notice in the reports. Tile commissariat in the Cri-

tea had to perform most onerous duties, and yet the
commissioners charged him with want of foresight—not
in the discharge of the duties of his own department
' alone, but in neglecting to interfere in matters over
which he had ne control. The great difficulty was with
regard to transport, and in Bulgaria, where the army
was suppled from the resources of the country, no dit-
ficulty was experienced. Everything was done that
could be done to keep up the efficiency of the Laud
Transport, though not with such success as ho could
have wished. Tiler° was great difficulty in getting sup-
plies to the camp, owing to the bad state of the road
from Bslaklava. No one could imagine the condition of
that road during the winter. The French did not suffer
on this account, as the ground between their stores and
the camp was very different to that between the English
stores and their camp. Supplies to the English had to
traverse a morass. With regard to the want of forage,
the commissioner had omitted it to be only fractional, and
it had been shown in evidence before the board that the
mortality amongst the horses was not attributable to any
want of mud, but to the eummi'ssariat transport duties.
The sea transport was also deficient, and in reply to his
constant applications for additional transport he received
letters from Admiral Boxer, stating that no more vessels
could be spared for this purpose than were already em-
ployed in bringing oxen and other supplies from Con-
stantinople. Lare quantities of fuel were in store in
November, and an order was given early in December
for it to be issued, but the difficulty was in getting it to
the front. The army received notice that rations of
charcoal could be obtained from Belaklava. He was
anxious that the Spanish mules when they arrived from
Malta should be employed in this service, but they were
ordered to be employed only for carrying buts for the
men. These mules had great advantages with regard
to fodder, but they began to fall off like the other horses
of the army, and the loss amongst them was not less than
30 per cent, in the first five weeks after their arrival.
On the 30th of Sept. he wrote to Sir Chas. Trevelyan
for 2,000 tons of hay, to which he received a reply stat-
ing that it was impossible that so large a quantity could
be supplied, and it was promised that 357 tons per month
should be sent to the East. In reply to this he (Mr.
Filler) wrote again to say that that quantity was not
sufficient ; that 580 tons per month would be required
for the artillery, cavalry, and commissariat animals alone,
and that not less than 860 tons would be necessary to
supply all the wants of the army. So little notice csa
taken of this that up to the Ist of Feb. he never re-
ceived more than 200 tons of hay per month. Undtr the
circumstances in which they were placed, he did not
think it was too much to expect that the horses of the
army would be sent down to BAlaklava f..r their own
forage. There was no great deficiency of forage in store
at this time, and the cavalry horses were receiving 8 ;be.
instead of 10 lbs. of hay, and the rations of the baggage
animals suffered a proportionate diminution. la the
storm of the 14th of November a large quantity of forage
was destroyed, and for a time he was left almost without
any in store. During the winter of 1854-55 every energy
was employed by the commissary at Constantinople to
get forage, but oily a very small quantity could be oh-
tained, and that at a very high pi ice, and in proof of this
he placed in the hands of the board a tender fur the sup-
ply of chopped straw from Constantinople. He then
referred to the quality and nature of the supplies to the
army, upon which he said the commissioners hal been
too hasty in drawing their conclusions. It was found
necessary with the salt meat diet to issue vegetables,
and an order was given by Lord Raglan to obtain sup-
plies, and a quantity was obtained from the Black Sea,
but not sufficient for a large army. In April and May,
1855, be sent to the Consul at Trebiz and to provide a
quantity of vegetables, but he was unable to do so. In
December some were received, but they were in a bad
state, and but for that perhaps there would have been
no deficiency. The returns would show that when there
was a large quantity of preserved potatoes in store there
was an uu wiilingnees on the part of the men to take
them ; that there was none taken during November aid
December, and that the men did not begin to take them
till January, 1855. With regard to the lime juice, as it
was sent out by the medical department in the absence
of special instructions, he concluded that it was intended
only for hospital use, and Dr. Hall reported that lie did
not recommend it to be supplied to the army till the
arrival ;of large quantities, Two thousand pounds of
lime juice were sent from England on the 19Ai Dec.,
1854, but the order from the Commander-in-Chief for
its issue to the army generally was not given till the
29th of January, 1855.

The board having adjourned for about half an hour,
on their return,

Mr. Filder stated that he was not prepared to proceed
any further with his case that day ; and, acoGrAngly, it
was arranged that he should resume it this morning.
At the request of the President, Mr. Filder undertook
to lay before the board his original instructions from the
Treasury, written in February, 1851, in reference to the
provisioning and foraging of the expedition to the East.
In reply to questions from Gen. Berkeley,
Mr. Filder said these instructions did not contain any
directions as to the manner in which he was to obtain
supplies. On being informed that the army was going to
Constantinople, be made requisitions both upon the
Treasury and the Admiralty, those upon the latter relat-
ing to biscuit, salt beef, Sco. The commissariat were
nearly always well supplied np to the period when the
army embarked at Varna for the Crimea. He could not
account for the deficiency of forage on board the tran-
sport ships during the passage.
In reply to a question from the Judge-Advocate,
Mr. Filder stated that there was always either more
hay or more chopped straw in Balakla,va harbour than
could be landed ; and in reply to further questions from
Gen. Rowan and Gen. Berkeley, he said that the corn-
missariat staff was inadequate from the first, and that
had a forward movement of the army taken place in the
Crimea, it would have been impossible for the staff to
perform the duties which would have been imposed upon
it.'

Col. Gordon made some explanatory remarks relating
to the evidence which he had given before the board.
At the conclusion of his explanation he observed that
Col. Telloch had stated that he Gould not reconcile Col.
Wetherall's evidence with regard to blankets with the
statement of the commissariat officers, and that that was
the reason why he omitted it from the report. That
being the case, why did he not put some questions to
him (Col. Gordon) on that subject ?
The board then adjourned till this day.

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In-
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Corps of Royal Engineers were minutely inspected by
Gen. Burgoyne, who expressed himself to the Colonel-
Commandant as being highly satisfied with the appear-
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