The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-10 00:00:00

THE .11011:

A general parade of the troops belonging to the
Ist Battalion of Infantry at Chatham garrison took
place at an early hour yesterday morning, after
which the whole of the depots were marched to the
Spur battery for the purpose of witnessing the in-
fliction of corporal punishment on a private of the
53d Regt. named Thompson, who was recently
tried by district court-martial at Chatham on a
charge of having stolen a sovereign from a comrade
in the barracks. For this offence the prisoner, who
bears a very bad charaCter in the corps, was sen-
tenced to receive 50 lashes, and also to be impri-
soned for six months. The sentence of the Court
having been read to the assemb!ed battalion, the
prisoner was marched to the centre and fastened to
the halberds, where the corporal punishment was
administered to him. He was afterwards removed
to the military hospital, and as soon as he is dis-
charged from that establishment will undergo the
remainder of his sentence at Fort Clarence.

The sick and wounded troops who arrived from
Bombay in the Caduceus have been inspected at
Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, by the medical staff
of that establishment. The wounded and disabled
troops, to the numher of 67 nor.-commissioned
officers and men, together with 17 women and
children, belonged to the 3d (Prince of Wales's)
Dragoon Guards, 14th Light Dragoons, 17th Lan-
cers, 4th (King's Own), 18th (Royal Irish), 33d
(Duke-of Wellington's), 56th, 71st (Highlanders),
72d (Highlanders), 78th (Highlanders), 83d, 86th,
and 9.5tk Regiments were under the command of
Capt. G. S. Nunn, 22d Regiment, and in medical
charge of Assistant-Surgeon H. C. Miles, 83d Rcgi-
inent. During the voyage six deaths occurred ou
board. Many of the troops have been severely
wounded, and on being medically inspected it was
found necessary for 30 men to be taken into Hos-
pital for treatment, the remainder being ordered to
await an order for their discharge from the service.
Colonel W. H. Parke, Commandant of the Chat-
ham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, has
joined head-quarters from two months' leave of
absence, and yesterday resumed the command of
the division, the duties of which had devolved on
Colonel E. Rea, Second Commandant.

AN ENCOUNTER WITH HIGHWAY ROBBERS.—
On Friday, at the petty sessions for Oldbury, a colliery
town near Birmingham, a man named William Billington,
miner, was charged with a highway robbery with violence.
On the previous Wednesday night,' Mr. Richard Powell, of
the Moat Farm, Worley Wigvin, two miles from 01b-
bar, was returning home. When he was within a short
distance of his house, . he heard a shuffling by
the roadside, and thinking that some dangerous persons
were near,- he drew a spring pocket knife. Instantly
afterwards he was struck on the head with a
missile, which he supposed to be a huge cinder or stone,
and his skull was fractured. Mr. Powell was
stunned by the blow; but, nevertheless, he mustered
courage, and as one of the villains rushed upon him,
he plunged the knife into his side with as much force
as his exhausted strength would permit. Finding that
Mr. Powell offered such stout resistance, the first rob-
ber held him tightly while the- second pelted him with
stones, chiefly aiming. at his head. Having weakened
Mr. Powell in this way, the thieves searched his person.
One of them first dipped his hand into one of Mr. Powell's
trousers' pockets, which contained only 2d. A large sum of
money was. in Mr. Powell's • ;possession at the time, but the
robbers did not find it. ,Mr. Powell repeatedly cried "Mur-
der," and as a few houses are near the spot it is supposed
that the depredators felt themselves in danger. A reward of
£2O--XlO of which Mr. Powell offered, and the rest of
which was promised by the Halesowen Association for the
Prosecution of Felons—was offered for the capture of the
felons. On Friday morning Sergeant Simmons, of the Old-
bury police force, succeeded in discovering Billington in a
house near Langley Green and on examining him found
that Billington had recently received a stab in his left side,
that being the side of his adversary into which Mr. Powell
must have plunged the knife. The prisoner, on-being
charged with the offence, replied that he did not know that
he was stabbed until somebody told him. The further
hearing of the case, which has created "Teat interest in the
neighbourhood, was postponed till Tuesday.
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to be cured of it. But I asked in vain. At last,:seeing an
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LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 9.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)

ALLEN v. ALLEN AND ANOTHER.

In this case Dr. Spinks moved to refuse the peti-
tion, by striking out certain allegations which had
been set forth in order to substantiate the aver-
ment of adultery. The learned civilian supported
his motion by referring to the rules of the court,
which he contended laid downthe principle that no-
thing ought to be pleaded beyond the fact of the
marriage and cohabitation, and the grounds upon
which it was sought to dissolve the marriage, or
judicially to separate the parties.
Mr. M'Queen supported the allegations at great
length, and with copious extracts from the report
of the Common Law Commissioners on the subject
of pleading. The learned counsel contended that
it was the duty both of plaintiffs and of i'.efendants
to disclose the main features of their case.

The learned Judge was of opinion that the peti-
tion must be reformed, as prayed. No doubt a plain-
tiff was bound to disclose his ground of action, but
he was not bound to show the evidence by which
he intended to prove his case. In the present in-
stance the plaintiff alleged his marriage and the
adultery of the respondent with A. 8., or with some
person unknown. That was quite as much as used
ever to be disclosed by the declaration in an action
for criminal conversation ; and it was now contended
that that was not amply sufficient to disclose the
cause of action. The marriage of the parties, and
the subsequent adultery of one of them, were
grounds of action ; but the facts alleged in those
portions of the petition which were objetced to were
not. They must therefore be omitted.