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

THE ARMY.

A telegraphic message arrived at the head-quar-
ters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham,
on Saturday morning, directing the remaining de-
tachment of the Royal Engineers under orders to
proceed to British Columbia, which it was errone-
ously stated had embarked, to leave Brompton Bar-
racks
immediately:for Gravesend, where they are to
embark on board the Thames City, 1,500 tons. Im-
mediately on receipt of the order the men, to the
number of 128 non-commissioned officers and Sap-
pers and Miners, were inspected on the parade-
ground and afterwards marched to the Strood sta-
tion, and left by train for Gravesend. The officers
accompanying the detachment are Capt. H. R.
Lieuts. A. R: Lempriere and H. S. Palmer.
Col. R. C. Moody, R.E., also. goes out in command
of the expedition. The Thames City is very heavily
laden .with every description of stores that will be
required by the Sappers and Miners in the duties
they will have to perform on arriving in' British
Columbia. They will take out with them telegra-
phic apparatus, portable railroads, portable boats,
printing presseg; steam engines for the erection of
sawmills, photographic apparatus, and an immense
assortment of sapping and mining and other tools.
The whole of the men belonging to the expedition
are volunteers for that special service, and have
been selected with great care. They will be granted
a liberal rate of pay, which in most cases will be at
the rate of about ss. per day, in addition to which
they will enjoy many other advantages, and at the
end of a few years' service they will be permitted
to settle in the colony, should they be so disposed,
with the grant from the Government of about 60
acres of land. Cap. R. M. Parsons and 20 men of
the Royal Engineers have already departed: for
Columbia by the overland route in the steamer
Panama; and Capt. J. M. Grant and 12 men sub-
sequently left Brompton Barracks for British
Columbia, also, by the same route. When the pre-
sent detachment has reached Columbia the total
force of Royal Engineers there will consist of six
officers and 158 non-commissioned officers and men.

The screw steam-ship Indomitable, Capt. Kitt, i 1
arrived at Gravesend on Friday. night from Cal-
cutta with a large party of sick and wounded
troops, chiefly from Lucknow and Delhi, on board.
Her dates are, Calcutta, May 23 ; Saudieads, May
28 ; and St. Helena, Aug. 25, the passage from
Calcutta to Gravesend being a very tedious one of
138 days, caused chiefly by calms and adverse
winds. The invalids, to the number of 2 sergeants
and 98 rank and file, belonging to the sth Fusi-
leers, 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, 42d Royal High-
landers, 53d, 64th, 79th Highlanders, 88th Con-
naught Rangers, and 90th Light Infantry Regi-
ments, with 2 women and 5 children, reached Cal-
cutta, and embarked on the 18th of May, under the
command of Capt. H. H. Moseley, .42d High-
landers, and Lieut. G. Taylor, 53d Regiment, and
in medical charge of Dr. Brown. The following
officers came home as passengers—viz., Lieut. W.
S. C. Standish, formerly of the 7th Hussars ; Lieut.
G. W. Graham, 10th Foot ; Lieut. G. W. H. Bus-
sell, 23d Regiment ; Lieut. J. Young, 79th High-
landers ; and Ensign J. F. Ilaig, 90th Light In-
fantry. During the voyage a great deal of sick-
ness prevailed on board, and one officer, Lieut. G.
' Haynes 7th Hussars, who was invalidedhome, and.
14 men died, making the number of those who dis-
embarked 86 men of all ranks. On Saturday morn-
ing the sick and wounded troops disembarked at
Gravesend, and were conveyed to Fort Pitt Hos-
pital, Chatham, where they were medically in-
spected, and a number who required further
surgical treatment were admitted into hospital ;
the remainder were sent to the invalid establish-
ment, St. Mary's Barracks, to await their dis-
charge.
On Saturday morning the following reinforce-
ments embarked from Custom-house-quay, Graves-
end, on board the Blenheim, 800 tons, Captain T.
Hedley, which has been taken up by the Hon.
Council of India for the conveyance of detachments
to Kurrachee—viz. 35 men of the 81st Regiment
and 20 men of ;he 94th, from Chatham ; 16
men of the 27th Enniskillens, 12 of the 87th
Royal Irish Fusileers, and 15' men of the
89th Regiment, with the following officers :
—Captain J. Vim O'Donnell, 27th Regiment ;
Ensign William H. Warren, 818 t Regiment ; and
Ensign A. A. Von Beverhoudt, 87th Regiment. On
the previous day the Havering, 775 tons, Capt. C.
Vane, embarking the following reinforcements at
Gravesend for Madras :---12 men of the Ist batta-
lion Ist Royals, 30 men of the 44th Regiment, and
55 men of the 66th Regiment, from Colchester ' • 12
men of the 60th Royal Rifles, 3d battalion, from
Winchester ; 14 men of the 74th Highlanders, from
Aberdeen ; and 50 men of the 91st Regiment. The
following are to embark in the Havering at Cork—
viz., 116 men of the 68th Light Infantry, and 18
men of the 69th Regiment, from Fermoy, the whole
proceeding to Madras.
The 14 battalions of Royal Artillery at Wool-
wich, the majority of which have been reduced to
the most scanty proportions in consequence of the
numerous draughts despatched to India, are in a
fair Nvey of being speedily reinforced to their origi-
nal numbers. Since the commencement of the pre-
sent month some of the battalions have registered
from 10 to 16 recruits each per day, the whole of
whom are young men of the most useful and ac-
ceptable class, such as agricultural labourers,
mechanics, grooms, clerks, &c.
A detachment of 80 gunners, in charge of three
non-commissioned officers, left Woolwich :on Satur-
day for distribution among the various companies
in Ireland.

On Friday a detachment of troops left the camp
at Colchester en route for the Madras Presidency.
The detachment was 99 strong, and consisted of 55
men of the 66th Regiment, 31 of the 44th, and 13
of the Ist battalion Ist Royals. Another and larger
body of troops is under orders for Bengal, This de-
tachment will be drawn from the following regi-
ments :-sth Fusiliers, 60 ; 6th Royals, 23 ; 34th,
60; 37th, 25; 38th, 20; 54th, 60; 88th (Connaught
Rangers), 38; and97th, 40; making a total of 326
rank and file.

On Friday, at noon, Sir Harry Smith, Inspector-
General of the Northern District, reviewed the Ist
battalion of the Rifle Brigade on Newcastle-on-
Tyne-moor. After the review Sir Harry addressed
the men, and expressed the pleasure it gave him to
have again under his command the regiment which
had so gallantly served under him at the Cape of
Good Hope in 1849, since which time this was the
first occasion on which he had seen them. He
alluded to the distinction the regiment had won in
the Peninsula, in Africa, in America, and in the
Crimea—in fact, wherever there was fighting, there
were the green jackets. Referring to the fact that
the majority of the men wore medals, he said that
that fact reflected the very highest credit on the
brigade ; the glory of England's soldiers was the
glory of England herself.
Barracks have been completed at Grantham, occu-
pying a space of 142 feet by 222 feet. The exterior
is of rough blue stone, with dressed facings, The

parade-ground is 180 feet long and 120 feet in
width, and a covered drilling shed is provided. The
magazine is bomb proof.
Colour-Sergeant Pratt and Sergeant Motley, 44th
Regiment, have been awarded silver medals and
£l5 for good conduct and lengthened service.
A spacious building is in course of erection in
Woolwich Arsenal, which is intended as a reposi-
tory for models belonging to the Royal Carriage
Department—viz., model gun carriages, platforms,
mortar beds, targets, ambulance carts, invalid
cots, &c.
The new church recently erected in Woolwich
Dockyard for the use of the corps of Royal Marines,
as well as for the artisans and others employed in
the Admiralty establishment, is now complete.
The architect is Mr. G. G. Scott. The building is
of the early English style. It consists of a nave,
aisles, and chancel, and is fitted with side and end
galleries. The dimensions are—length of nave from
west doorway, to chancel arch, 91ft. 6in.; width,
60ft. ; chancel, 30ft. 4in.; height of exterior walls
to the eaves, 30ft.; height to ridge of roof, 73ft.
The walls are built of hard stocks, faced with
chequered patterns of red, blue, and black Staf-
fordshire bricks. The plinths, strings, doors, win-
dows, and other dressings are of Bath stone. It
stands east and west longitudinally, presents a
solid and compact mass of building, and is extremely
picturesque. The church has been designed to
accommodate 1,500 persons, and the cost is about
£9,500, being at the rate of £6 10s. per sitting.

THE MILITIA.
The West Kent Regiment of Light Infantry Mi-
litia, under the command of Col. Sir T. M. Wilson,
was inspected on Friday last, in the Barrck-
square, at Maidstone, by Col. Douglas, the Deputy
Adjutant-General of Disembodied Militia, and re-
ceived compliments from the Colonel for their good
conduct and appearance.
The Artillery Regiment of Militia, under Lieut.-
Col. Cator, was inspected on Saturday last on the
Western leights, at Dover, by Colonel Brown,
the Commandant of Royal. Artillery in Dover gar-
rison, and received great praise for the excellent
target practice made by the re,giment from the
batteries in Dover Castle. Both regiments have
completed training, and -were also reviewed, pre-
vious to their dismissal, by the Lord Lieutenant of
the county of Kent.
The Northumberland Artillery Militia, under
the command of Lieut. -Col. Clementson, after un-
dergoing their 21 days' drill at Hexham, was on
Thursday brought by special train to Clifford's
Fort, at the mouth of the Tyne, where they have
been disbanded. The conduct of the men has been
highly satisfactory.
The King's Own Rifle Regiment of Staffordshire
Militia will assemble at Newcastle-under-Lyne. on
Tuesday, the 19th Oct., for 21 days' training and
exercise.

The 2d Regiment of Derbyshire Militia assem-
bled at Derby last week, under the command of
Lieut.-Col. F. Cavendish, for 21 days' training and
exercise. _ _

The Duke of Richmond, Lord Lieutenant of the
county, has issued an order that the Royal Sussex
Militia are to assemble on Wednesday,. the 20th
inst., for 21 days' training and exercise. The
muster will take place at Lewes.
An address has been presented to the officers of
the Fermanagh Militia, lately stationed at Great
Yarmouth, and removed from that town in conse-
quence of disturbances having arisen between some
of the privates and a portion of the townspeople.
The address is of a complimentary character, and
has been signed by the mayor and a number of the
inhabitants of Yarmouth. •
The hired steam transport Melbourne left Ply-
mouth Sound on Friday afternoon for Queenstown,
Ireland, with the 2d Staffordshire Regiment of
Militia, consisting of 29 officers and 817 rank and
file, besides women and children.
The 2d Warwick Militia Regiment, 650 strong,
which left Aldershot on Friday afternoon, arrived
at Plymouth by the South Devon Railway on
Saturday morning.

THE CIiARGE OF COINING TURKISH

PIASTRES.

COMMITTAL OF MR. MOSS.

On Saturday, before the Birmingham magistrates,
Mr. Thos. Moss, described in the charge-sheet as a
Manchester merchant, but who, it appears, is sim-
ply managing clerk for the house of Otho lamson
and Co., of that city, was brought up on remand
charged with being concerned with Antonio Cal-
vocoressi, already committed, in having a large
quantity of Turkish piastres coined.
The evidence provmg that he had accompanied
Calvocoressi from one sinker to another, though
informed by the first. that what they were about
was illegal, was given in the Sun of Saturday.
The principal adthtional testimony on which the
prosecution relied as proving complicity was the
following letter addressed to Messrs. Wood, of Bir
mingham

" Manchester, March 10.

" Gentlemen-0* friend Mr. Calvocoressf is anxious' to
know if you can do anything in the matter for which we
called on you last week. The sample we left with you. As
he has had another communication from abroad respecting
it we shall be glad to hear from you.—Yours respectfully,
per pro. Otho Hamson and Co.,

"THOMAS Moss."

Messrs. Wood, in reply, said :
" Gentlemen,—ln reply to yours of the 10th we have met
with a party who will make the article you require, and
shall be glad to introduce you to him ; but as you cnow
there is some doubt as to the legality of producing them, we
would rather not run any risk in the matter, but leave you
to arrange with the party themselves. The party in ques-
tion is quite willing to make any quantity on advantageous
terms.

Mr. Otho Hamson was called to prove that he
had no knowledge of the transaction named in the
letter, having left Manchester for Constantinople
in June, 1857, and only returned in May last. Pri-
soner, he said, had been in his employ for five years,
and conducted the business of the firm in his ab-
sence. Witness was first made aware that Cal-
vocoressi had been doing business with Messrs.
Wood by receiving, at the latter end of June, an
invoice for the copper used. He at once handed the
invoice to Calvocoressi, and told Messrs Wood that
the copper had not been ordered on the account of
his (Mr. Hamson's) firm. On being asked by Mr.
Motteram (counsel for the prosecution) whether the
letter of March 10 was in prisoner's handwriting,
the witness hesitated a good deal. It looked like it,
but he had seen the same handwriting imitated
very much ; it was more like Moss's handwriting
than anybody else's, but ultimately he said he be-
lieved it was his.
Mr. Motteram asked whether he authorised the
letter of the 10th March to be written or not?
Mr. Hamson—l was away when this note was
written. I could not give authority when I was
away-.
Mr. Motteram—Didyou give authority generally
for the ordering of copper for Turkish piastres P A
good deal depends upon the answer,
Mr. Harding (Moss's solicitor)—You may decline
to answer that, if you like.
Witness—Then I do decline.
Mr. Motteram—Then you may stand down ; I
have no other questions to ask you.
Subsequently, on the nature of the position in
which his answer placed him had been explained,
Mr. Hamson said that, being a foreigner, he had
not properly understood the question put. The pri-
soner had a general authority to write letters on
witness's business by procuration, but witness had
no knowledge of the matter referred to in the letter
of March 20 either before or at the time it was
written. Moss had no instructions from him in such
a matter, and the first he knew of it was when the
copper invoice was sent by Messrs. Wood at the end
of June: He said that he scolded Moss for perilling
the credit of the firm in this way, but believed it
had been done out of friendship for Calvocoressi,
Mr. Moss not knowing the consequences.
Mr. M'Neil, managing clerk for Messrs. Wood,
then deposed, in continuation of the evidence pre-
viously given, that a few days after the letter of
March 12 had been sent to Manchester Calvoco-
ressi and another person (not Moss) called on them
in Birmingham. Witness accompanied these two
to Dipple's,introduced them, and stoodby while the
order was given, but made Calvocoressi, his friend,
and Dipple understand that the transaction was
not with Messrs. Wood, but between themselves.
In reply to Mr. Harding witness said that when
Calvocoressi and Mr. Moss went to Mr. Heaton's
and Mr. Bowler's Calvocoressi took the lead in the
conversation. Witness regarded Mr. Moss simply
as the clerk or buyer of Hamson and Co., having
done business with him in that capacity for several
years. When witness left Heaton's his impression
was that the making of coins would be illegal.
Went to Bowler's afterwards because it was near,
and because he was not exactly satisfied.
Mr. Wood, on being called by Mr. Harding, ad-
mitted that in going from Mr. Bowler's to the
hotel Moss said to Calvocoressi, " You see you must
t an authority ,• I would advise you to get it."
Witness regarded Mr. Moss simply as introducing
a foreigner who wanted to do business in Birming-
ham, as he had often previously done.
George Glossop, superintendent of the Birming-
ham detective police, deposed that when he appre-
hended the prisoner on the charge of being con-
cerned with Calvocoressi in betting the coins made,
Moss said, " You must be mistaken ; I had nothing
to do with it." On being told that he had been
identified as having. accompanied Calvocoressi to
Mr. Heaton's he said, " No such thing ; I never
was at Heaton's ; I don't know him ; who is he ?"
Witness explained that Heaton was the gentleman
to whom they went to get the coins made. Moss
then said, " I went nowhere ; it cannot be me ; it
must be Mr. Joseph damson, who is now in Coil,

stantinel:2le." Afterwards, on witness describing
Heaton and Dowler, Moss said, " I might possibly
have cal led with Mr. Calvocoressi on other business,
but I took no part in the proceeding: whatever."
This being the case for the prosecution,
Mr- _Harding submitted that there was nothing
to prove a guilty knowledge on the part of Mr.
Moss, but that he had simply acted in his capacity
as clerk to Messrs. Hamson.

The I tiagistrates, however, decided on-sending the
case bef 'ore a jury, and the prisoner was then com-
mitted for trial at the borough sessions, which are
to be IL old during the present week. Bail was
taken for his appearance.
We ma y mention that at the close of the hearing
Mr. Mott eram acquitted the Messrs. Wood of hav-
ing been guilty of any intentional impropriety in
this serious matter.

THE TRAGEDY NEAR PRESTON.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)

An inquest upon the bodies of Mary Hannah
Weinman, who was shot by her lover at Norton,
near Garstang, on Wednesday afternoon, and
Robert Bond, the murderer, who immediately after
the perpetration of the dreadful deed committed
suicide, was held by Mr. L. Holden, coroner, Of
Lancaster, on Thursday afternoon, at the house of
Mr. Nathaniel Calverley Bond, the father of the
suicide and murderer.
The scene of the dreadful occurrence is on the
highway in Porton, at the junction of three roads,
one leading to Cockerham, another to Scorton, and
the third to Winmarleigh and Preston. Mr. N.
C. Bond was formerly a spirit merchant in Liver-
pool, of the firm of Bond and Procter, and now
resides at a mansion named Richmond Grove,
as described.. His household consisted of
his -wife, the young man Robert, their only son,
and a woman servant. The son has for some time
past led a dissipated life, and has been much ad-
dieted to drinking. He is said to have been a per-
son of considerable educational attainments, and
during his short career (he was only 25 years of
age) he has visited Australia, America, and other
countries. His victim, the young woman Wein-
man, was 19 years of age ; she lived at a house
adjoining that of Mr. Bond, with three brothers,
their father and mother being dead. This family
rented the house and land they occupied from the
father of the deceased. What is certain is that the
murderer had conceived a passion for his victim,
who did not reciprocate his sentiments towards her,
and to the feelings engendered by this fact may be
attributed the awful tragedy which we are about
to describe. One day last week, Mr. and Mrs.
Bond went to Liverpool, leaving their son and the
servant in the house, and they did not return till
Wednesday afternoon, to behold the blood-stained
corpse of the young woman Wainman, and the
mangled remains of the suicide. During their ab-
sence, the murderer conducted himself in a very
wild and irregular manner, drinking brandy to ex-
cess, and exciting such alarm by his conduct that
a note was sent to his father requesting him to re-
turn. He was seen with a loaded gunin his hand,
and one of the brothers of Miss Weinman contrived
to obtain possession of it, discovering it under a
sofa in the house of Mr. Bond, in the absence of its
owner. • The murderer, missing the weapon some
time afterwards, went and demanded that it should
be returned to him • but the persons then in Wain•
t man's house (Miss Wainman, and a housekeeper)
refused to comply with his request. He uttered a
sort of half menace, and went away, saying that he
had another gun.
A little before 10 o'clock on Wednesday forenoon
the murderer appeared at the back door of his father's
house, with a single-barrelled gun in his hand, and,
as it proved, loaded. Mr. Bond's woman-servant,
and the housekeeper at Weinman's, immediately ran
away, screaming, from the house towards the gar-
den. He allowed them to pass, but the moment that
Miss Wainman, probably to ascertain the cause of
the alarm, appeared at the door of her own house
(a distance of about eight yards from where he was
standing), he levelled the piece, fired, and dis-
charged the contents into the right side of her head
and neck. The hapless victim fell to the ground
covered with blood, her right eye being shot out,
and one of her jawbones smashed to pieces. One
of her brothers, who was near, hearing the report
of the gun, hastened to the spot, lifted his sister's
head,"and then seeing her condition, ran into the
lane, -calling out " Police !" " Murder !" Mr. Jas.
Myerscough, a butcher, from Cockerham, who was
passing, attracted by the alarm, came up ; but at
first nobody venturned to enter Mr. Bond's house,
whither the murderer had went. About six minutes
after the first report of the gun a second was heard,
and on the parties looking through the drawing-
room window, they witnessed a most sickening
spectacle—the murderer was seated upon a chair,
with the gun still in his hands, the top part of his
skull blown off, and his brains scattered on the ceil-
ing and in various parts of the room. Hence, it is
-obvious, that as soon as he had despatched
his innocent victim, he re-entered the house, and
made preparations for despatching himself. He had
reloaded the gun, and after seating himself, placed
it between his knees, the muzzle in his mouth, and
pulled the trigger with the tongs, which were found
still in his hand. He was, of course, quite dead.
The poor girl lingered in great agony for nearly an
hour, when death ended her sufferings. Her dress
was covered with blood, and she presented a sorry
sight. The author of this crime was, however, far
worse disfigured, and his appearance made the
jurymen turn sick and pale, as the corpse had not
been disturbed, and was still sitting in the chair
when they viewed it.
The above facts having been substantially given
in evidence, the coroner briefly addressed the jury,
who returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity.'
The occurrence has caused the most painful feel-
ings throughout the whole district. The conduct
of the murderer is in some measure unaccountable,
but he appears to have primed himself with drink
prior to committing the double crime. Both
corpses, we understand, will be interred on Sunday
next, the murderer in Cockerham churchyard, and
the young woman, (who was a Roman Catholic, in
the burial ground belonging to the chapel in in-
marleigh.