The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

AUGUST i 9

The Common Sergeant sentenced the pdsoner to 12
months' imprisonment with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(T.Lis Da:

SOUTHWARK.

CHALLENGING THE WIZARD OF THE NOE.TH. —James
Grub, an elderly man of rather respectable appearance,
was brought before Mr. Combe charged with being
drunk and creating a disturbance in the pit of the Surrey
Theatre.

Henry Peckham, the constable of the theatre, said
that while Mr. Anderson was going through his per-
formance on the previous evening the prisoner suddenly
jumped up in the pit, and, climbing on the platform used
by Mr. Anderson, called him a humbug, and said that
he had detected him in his tricks, which he could do as
well as himself. Mr. Anderson treated him very good
humouredly, thinking it the best way to pacify him, and
at the same time shots ed him his tricks ; but it .was evi-
dent to him that was ueeless as the person was drunk.
His conduct then became so uproarious that witness
was compelled to remove him and lock him up in the
station-house. However, it was not Mr. Anderson's
wish that he should be punished, as he had been locked ur.
Mr. Combo asked him whether he knew' anything of
him?

Peckham replied that be had known him for many
years as a respectable tradesman, and he was sure he
would not have so committed himself had he not been
under the influence of liquor.

The prisoner expressed his regret at haying annoyed
Mr. Anderson or his audience, and he promised not to

repeat it.

Mr. Combo hoped he would keep his promise, and
not get drunk again.
He was discharged.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday of his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the Aus-
trian frigate Radetzky being at Portsmouth, a general
Royal salute was fired at noon by her Majesty's and the
Sardinian and Dutch ships at Spithead, and tladflagships
Victory and St. Vincent, in Portsmouth harbour, hoisted
the Austrian Royal standard at the main during the
ceremony ; the Garrison Battery also fired. The Royal
Victoria Pier was dressed out in flags, and a grand ban-
quet took place on board the Radetzky in honour of the
occasion. In the evening the Austrian, Sardinian, and
Deitch officers attended a ball in their honour at the
King's Thionas, which was brilliantly attended by the
naval and military authorities, the foreign consuls, and
the best society of the neighbourhood. This evening
the Sardinian officers will be entertained at the Govern-
ment-house by Major-General Breton, the governor of
the garrison. The Captain and the staff of the Dutch
frigate De Ruyter and Mr. A. L. Vandenbergh were
entertained by the Port-Admiral, Sir George Seymour,
last' evening.
The Albatross steam transport:, No. 69, from Constan-
tinople, Malta, and Cadiz, arrived at Spitheasl yesterday
from Cadiz, which she left on the 11th inst., having on
board 60 officers' horses from the Clarendon, which was
grounded in Cadiz Bay, and the following officers
Lieut. Kildahl, 72d Highlanders ; Capt. Smith, Land
Transport Corps; Assistant Commissary-General Gard-
ner, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Green, Cor-
net Craig., Land Transport Corps; Messrs. Usher and
Burton, Commissary's Clerks; Dr. Hamilton, in medi-
cal charge, and 103 non-commissioned officers and men
of the Sand Transport Corps.
The Vigilant, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, Conimander
Wm." Arrnytage, is under telegraph orders from the Ad-
miralty to proceed to Portsmouth immediately her com-
passes are adjusted, and to wait there for final orders as
to her future destination.
The Retribution, 28 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate,
Capt. T. Fisher, is ordered to be paid off at Sheerness on
the 23d inst. Several officers have joined her under her
new. commission.
The Scylla, 21 guns, screw steam-corvette, was taken
into No. 1 dry dock Sheerness yesterday, to be brought
for ward for immediate active service,.
The Hawke, 60, screw steam-ship, chief engineer
John M'Kie, ba; been taken into the wasting basin and
dismasted, preparatory to her being placed in the steam
squadron of reserve at Sheerness, under charge of Capt.
lia'stead, in c Armand of the Edinburgh.
New boilers, weighing over 21 tons each, were landed
yesterday at Sheerness for the new screw steam-ship
Renown, of 91 guns and 800-horse power, now building
at Chatham yard.
In consequence of the constant filling up of the middle
discharging basin and camber at Sheerness, which now
prevents; vessels of moderate draught of water entering
to be discharged, the Lords of the Admiralty have en-
tered into a contract with Mr. T. Stately, merchant, of
Sheerness, for the removal of not less than 13,000 tons
of mud from the basin and camber. A powerful mud
engine was yesterday set to work, by which 360 tons of
mud per hour can be put into barges. The work will
be completed in 10 weeks, and when done ships drawing
from 15 to 16 feet of water will be able to be taken in
for the discharge of their cargoes.
The paddle-wheel steam-troopship Des was yesterday
hauled out of Woolwich basin, and, it being the desire
of the authorities to put Mr. Wethered's superheating
steam apparatus to some additional experimental trials,
she proc:eded down the river for that purpose.
The Zebra steamer, wrecked at the Lizard Point, broke
in two at 5 p.m. on the 16th inst., about the forward en-
gine-room, owing to the strong east wind and heavy
groundswell which had set in, and to which she was CALI.
pletely exposed. Had the weather continued moderate
there was great expectation of saving her, all machinery
and.necessary appliances being on tee spot for use after
the blowing up of the rocks under the starboard bilge
had been accomplished.
Assistant-Surgeon J. Irvine, M.D., 37th Rfgt.; has
received orders to embark at Southampton to-morrow on
hoard the mail steamer for Ceylon, fur the purpose of
joining the head-quarters of his corps.
R. Taylor, C. 8., Depaty-Inspeclor General of
Hospitals, medially inspected 90 convalescent invalids
yesterday at Fort Pitt, Chatietrn, the whole of whom
bad heel) invalided home from the C:imea and India, and
were found unfit for further service.
The following is the number of non-commissioned offi-
cers and men belonging 16 the Indian depots' at the Pro-
visional Battalion, Chatham, who wiilembark to-morrow

morning for Bombay to join the head•quarters of -their
respective regiments, viz , 64th Regt., 35 lion-commis.
sioned officers and men ; 74th Highlanders, 45 men ;
78th Highlanders, 65 men of all ranks ;. 83d Regt:, 68
men; 86th Regt., 52 non•ccimmissioned
_officers and
men ; total, 275 non•commissioned or ricers and men.
On Saturday morning the Admiralty steam yacht borneOs-
and the mortar frigate Perth, 12 guns, arrived in
-Kingstown harbour from Cork. The Osborne conveys
Sir C. Wood and Admiral Berkeley, who are at present
engaged in the annual inspection of harbours. On Sun•
day a telegraphic message was sent to Cork by the Lords
of the Admiralty, ordering the four gun-boats which are
at present stationed at Cove and a gun-brig to depart
for Kingstown. They were to arrive on Monday, when
there is to be shell practice outside the harbour.
Sunday morning, at 12 o'clock, the stcam•trausport
Istamboul, No. 90, Capt. Cole, arrived in Kingstown har-
bour from Portsmouth, with the 33d (Duke of Welling-
ton's) Regiment, and ano:tion of the 50th. The 50th
Regiment, the first of the army which left Ireland for the
Crimea, has returned to do duty in Dublin. The follow-
ing is the force disembarked from the Istamboul

Belonging to the 33d :—Lieut..Colonel Johnstone,
C. 8., Lieut.-Colonel Mundy ; Capts. Barrett, Wallis,
and Carr ; Lieuts. Roger?, Montinof-eney, Johnstone,
Ball, Campbell, Tanning, Forbes, Graham, Benwell,
Balby, llotbsin, Roberts, and Cross ';'"Ensign Aylmer,
Adjutant Toseland, Paymaster Thompson, Qta,termas-
ter Vyde, Assistant• Surgeons Ogilvie and Clarke, 612
men, and 11 women and eight children. •
Belongirig to the 50th—Capt. Blaekall, Lieuts. Clarke
and the Hon. E. Chetwynde, Ensign Kirin. and 253
non-commissioned officers and privates.
There were also 5 officers aad 30 men of the 47th, 2
officers and 22 men of the 62d, and 20 men belonging to
the Coast-guard. The team transport Pacific left the
North Wall on Sunday morning for Liver pool, ,haring
on beard the depots of the 15th and 96th Regiments,
consisting respectively of 10 officers, 22 serjeants, and
289 men, and 7 officers; 20 serjeants, and 185 men. On
Tuesday. (this day) the depots of the 82d and 90th will
leave Kingstown by tho Istamboul for England.
Colonel Tinley, a field-officer, has been ordered to
Nenagh with 400 men, on the promu,gation of the find-
ing of the recent court-martial.
The official notification declaring that Limerick shall
be no longer a military district was received on 'Satur-
day evening from the Horse Guards.
The following appointmentss were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Com. C. S. S. Stanhope to the Royal Albert ; Lieut.
J. C. D. Odevaine, to the Victory; W. C. Buck, mas-
ter, to the Medusa ; H. C. Davy, paymaster, to the
Medusa ; H. Loney, surgeon, to the Medusa ; W. Kel-
lett, mate, to the Camilla ; F. W. Prosser, midshipman,
to the Centurion ; H. W. Skene, midshipman, to the
Centurion ; W. H. C. Selby, naval cadet, to the Con-
queror ; F. R. H. Yorke, naval cadet, to the Impreg-
nable ; E. P. Foster, naval cadet, to the Amethyst.
The following appointment were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :
C. D. Macdonall, midshipman, to the Camilla ; J. A.
Fisher, midshipman,
to the Highflyer ; F. 11. H.
Hutchinson, midshipman,
to the Highflyer.
The officers of thc South Devon Militia, recently dis-
banded at Plymouth, have presented to the garrison
chaplain; the 11ev. 0-. Langmaid, a silver salver in ac-
knowledgment ef'his kindness to the sick in hospital, to
the chi:dren and adults of the. school, and for his con-
stant attention to his duties while the South Devon has
been stationed b the district.

M. Verdi has arrived in Paris, one of his objects
beini, is is said, to arrange with M. Calzano for the
p3rformance of these of his operas which have not yet
been heard here.

for 5101. with intent to defraud CharlesJa achim Ham-
bro. The prisoner also pleaded guilty another in-
dictment for a similar charge preferred against him by
his employer.'•

The prosecutors recommended the priso:ler to mercy.
He had- been in the service of his empl,)yer for three
years and had borne a good character. By the candid
statements of the prisoner when apprehended the prose-
cutors had not suffered any loss.