The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The first detachment of wounded troops from
Cawnpore arrived at Fort Pitt general hospital,
Chatham, from India, on Sunday evening, having
disembarked at Gravesend from the East India
Company's ship Hotspur, Capt. Thorn hy. The sick
and wouudedaroopsi to the number of 96 non-coin-
inissioned officers and men of the 10th, 35th, 53d,
60th (Rifles), let hat., 78th (Highlanders), 79th
(tliAlandere), and 84th Regiment, with 23j women
and children, embarked at C ,leutta on the Bth of
January, and arrived in the Thames on Saturday
last, af,er a fine passage of 108 days. During the
voyage 11 deaths occurred on board, most of those
dying having been severely wounded. he Hot-
spur remained five days at the Cape of Good Hope.
On disembarking at Gravesend the wounded troops,
with the exception of three men who were unable
to leave Gravesend, were conveyed to Fort Pitt
omnibus, where they were oaten red by Dr. J. R.
Taylor, C. 8., and the-medical staff of that establish-
ment. After the medical examination had been
made,.l3 men were taken into hospital for further
surgical treatment. Nearly the whole of the troops
who are suffering from wounds were at the capture
of Cawupore, where they received their injuries ;
some of them are very severely wounded, and seven
men bave lost either an• arm or a leg, while others
are suffering from severe sabre cuts. The sick and
wounded came home in charge of. Capt. A. G.
Shawe, 34th Reat., and under the medical care of
Dr. Brown. The non-commissioned officers and
men not requiring surgical treatment ware re-
moved,to St. gary's invalid depot, to await an in-
spection by the Commis-dosers of helsea Hospital.
Four others of the East India Company's ships are
daily expected to arrive with sick and wounded
troops from India.
Captain Hardinge, Lieut. Fyler, one drummer,
and 80 rank and file of the 50th Foot, have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to embark
at Portsmouth for Ceylon, to join the service com-
panies.
9 officers, 333 men, 3 officers' wives, 6 officers' chil-
dren, 3 female servants; 20 soldiers' wives, and 20
children of the Id battalion of the 3d Buffs, n,,w
in Portsmout). garrison, are ordered to hold them-
selves in readiness to embark about the 2d of May,
in the British and Irish Steam Navigation Com-
pany's ship Dutchman, for Malta.
Pending expected orders for the disembodiment
of the militia regiments quartered at Portsmouth,
volunteering for the line has been going ou for
some days past, with the following results :—The
Roscommon Militia has given liman to the sth
Dragoons, 2 to ha Bth Hussars, several to the 13th
Light Dragoons, 5 to the second battalion of the
4th Foot, 36 to the second battalion of the 1011-1
Foot, 10 to the second battalion of the 12th Foot,
2 to the second battalionof the 13th Foot, and 24 to
the 29th Foot. The 2a West York Mrli is has
given 2to the second beat-Ilion of the 12th Foot, 1
to the second battalion of the 17th, and 1 to the
fourth battalion of the 60th Rifle Regiment. The
Lancashire Artillery Militia has given 29 to the
Royal Artillery, 3 to the second battalion of the
12th Foot, and 12 to the second battalion of the
13th.

Emerald, 151, new screw frigate' is being fitted
for the pendant in No. 3 dry d,,ck, Sheerness. •
. Exmouth, 90, screw, at Devonport, will be
taken • out again when convenient opportunity
offers, and her speed tested at the measured
mile.
Fire Queen, tender, Master Commander Frede-
rick William Paul, is alongside the Dryad hulk
completing her painting for the usual Admiralty
service, or where extraordinary expedition is
necessary, her speed bring equal to 13 knots_ an
hour.
The Perseverance, 6, screw troop frigate, bas
hauled out of No. 8 Dock, into the seam basin, to
be masted under the patent shears, .and to be put
in a state of efficiency for foreign troop service ; h. r
yards are rigged with Cunniugbam s patent gear
for re,fing topsails from the deck.
The following vesels are at Eb vonport :—ln the
Sound—Brunswick, Renown, Diadem, Racoon,
Curagos, and Lapwing. In Harbour—lmpregna
We, Royal William, Exmouth, Euryalus, Cam
bridge, Agatneninon, Niagara, Sylph, Avon, Con-
fiance, Aid, and Binbad, lighters.
An Admiralty order has been received at Wool.
with Dockyard, directing that the whole of the
riggers shall receive an addition to their wages of
3d. per diem ; and also that the 'pensions of tho-e
superannuated shall be raised to the same scale as
the sailtnakers and ropemakers, varying from 201.
to 241. per annum.
The Gorgon, steam sloop, Commander Dayman,
ordered to join the Agamemnon, for tie purpose
of paying out the Atlantic telegraph cable, will
leave Woolwich for Greenhithe to adjust compasses.
She is ordered to convoy to Portsmouth two of the
gun boats which arrived there from Deptford.
Sir J. Pakington, Firs; Lord of the Admiralty,
has intimated his intention of continuing to give
annually for competition among such of the stu-
dents of the Royal Naval School, New-cross, as
are the sons of naval and marine officers, the marine
cade'ship which was first granted by the Earl of
Ellenborough and continued by succeeding First
Lords of the Admiralty.

Country Nlancets.

COLCHESTER- APRIL 23.

The supplies of wheat are very limited, and the full
prices of last week were readily obtained, and in some in-
stances is dearer. The malting seeson being nearly over,
barley is not so saleable. All other descriptions of Spring
corn rather dearer.
Prices to-day were as follow:—Wheat, white,T,36s to 50s;
red, 42s to 465; barley, 36s to 43s ; oats, 21s to 30s ; beau-
Dilazagan, 31s to as ; middle and small, 38s to 42s ; peas,
white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 40s to 445.

GUILDHALL—SAVAGE CONDUCT OF :A PRI-
SONER.—Johu Cornelius, a convict under sent?nce
of twelve months' imprisonment, was brought up
on remand before Aldermen Challis; charged with
the following savage and unprovoked attack upon
two of the warder! of the Hollosay House of Cor-
rection. •
Mr. Stuchbury, from the City Sol'cisot's office,
attended to prose,,ute on b.f.h.lf of the prison
authorities.

Mr.. Woolf appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 13th £f last April the
warder, according to the u-ual custom, placed a
pannikin, containing hot gruel, in the door-trap
eonstructed for that purpose ; but prisoner refu-ed
on that morning to receive his food in that way,
and the warder thereupou opened the cell door, and
placed it inside. Having finished. his meal, the
prisoner omitted to place the empty pannikin
through the trap in the door, and when the warder
opened the door to fetch' it out, the prisoner, hurled
the pannikin at. his head, and inflet d a wound
which had incapa:itated him fel- sevet al days. He
iatmediaely gave an alarm, and got away ; and
upon another warder assisting tosecure t he prisoner,
the latter kicked him several times iu such a man-
ner that it was evidently his intention to injure him
for life, but fortunately he did net succeed. The
witnesses underwent a searching cross-examination
as to the treatment and provezation the prisoner
had received, and sated that the prisoner had
been reported • tor misconduct in cutting of his
whiskers contrary to the prison regulations, but
that he had not been singled out for annoyance
in any way. The gruel supplied to him on the day
in question was not his regular food, but he took
to his bed that morning, and the doctor ordered
him gruel, but nut as a puni.hment. After the
assault the prisoner was secured upon a bedstead,
hitt Ire-had not teen treated with more-riga= thau
ilia ordinary prisoners. They had no ill-feeling
towards the prisoner, who was well known to the
warders, having been under their care at vatious
' times for the last eight or nine years.
The warder was then examined, and said on hear-
ing the alatm, be proceeded to the prisoner's cell,
and met the Warder Bridge, who was first assaulted,
staggering down stairs, and hokling his head, which
was bleeding profusely from the wound inflicted by
the pannikin. He afterwards saw the prisoner
struggling with the other warder Spencer, whom he
attempted to bite, and did succeed in kicking,
several times. After the prisoner was secured, his
handkerchief was taken from him, and when
examined,, a stone, about half a pound in weight,
was found tied up in one corner in much a manner
as to make it a formidable weapon in the hands of
any one able to use it.
The surgeon of the prison said he orderei the pi i-
soner gruel instead of his usual food on account of
his indisposition. He attended to the Warder
Bridge, and found a severe incised wound on his
head, which must ha e been inflicted with consider-
able violence. The loss of blood, and the shock to
the system occasioued by the violence of the blow,
has seriously affected his health. Had the wound
been half an inch lower, it might have been at-
tended with fatal consequences. Tne wander
Spencer was also very severely bruised and injured
by the kicks he rece ved from the prisoner. He•
had also attended the prisoner, and never even
suspected, ho was out of his mind.
The prisoner was committed for trial.