The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on
Saturday, the 23d inst.

Orders have been received at Portsmouth dock-
yard from the Admiralty to prepare, for tho infor-
mation of the Board, a special report upon the pre-
sent value of the hull and machinery of the screw
line-of-battle ships Colossus, and the screw frigates
Imperieuse, Arrogant, Termagant, and Euryalus,
with a view to those vessels being broken up or
sold.

Yesterd.►y an Ad►u:ralty order was received at
Chatham, announcing that it has been decided to
furnish ►he whole of the Royal Marines Light 111-
.f entry w:th the new Snider breech-loadidg rifle, in
lieu of the ordinary muzzle-loading rifle at present
in Ike :al that branch of the sere•,.;,., The new Snider
rifle will be suvplicd, in the first insta..ce, to the
detachments ordered fir emballottion, and that a
demand has sccordingly been sent in for a supply of
the new weapon for distribution to the non-com-
missioned officers and men serving on board the
line-of-battle screw steamer Rodney, Captain A.
Heneage, now fitting for service in China and
Japan.

The screw steamship Montezuma, belonging to
Messrs. Smith, Sundius, and Co., of London, ar-
rived at Spithead on Sunday with a detachment of
time-expired and invalided troops on board from
regiments in garrison at Malta, comprising :—Royal
Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon Coinyn, in medical
charge of troops, nine men, and four women and
children ; Ist battalion Bth Regiment—nine men
and four women and children ; 2d battalion Bth—
seien men and one woman; Ist battalion 24th—
two men; 29th—nine men and ten women and
children ; Ist battalion 6th—Lieut. J. A. Gordon,
one man and one woman and child ; 84thr-Lieut.
F. A. Gore, in military command ; Ensign Sir E.
Waller, seven men and four women and children ;
100th—one man and one woman. The troops were
disembarked from thn-ship_;at Spithead yesterday
morning. The Montezuma • afterwards. sailed for
London.

A Murder by Bushrangers.

We are indebted to the proprietors of the Dubbo
Dispatch for a copy of the " Extraordinary " of that
paper, published on the morning of the 10th inst.,
giving full particulars of the sticking up. last Friday
of the mail from Bourke and Lower Macquarie.
The attack, it appears, took place at Narramine,
some 25 miles from Dubbo, and is thus narrated :
On Saturday last Dubbo was alarmed by the re-
ceipt of intelligence that the mail coach from
Bourke to Dubbo had been stuck up by bushrangers,
and one of the passengers shot. It was at first
hoped that the facts were exaggerated ; but, unfor-
tunately, subsequent information proved them to
be only too true, for although the bags were left
untonched, Mr. J.G.Grenfell was mortally wounded.
The up-mail carried two passengers, Mr. Com-
missioner Grenfell (who was removing from the
Albert iu the New England District), and a Mr.
Cantrill, from Congolgan. About half-past 6on
Friday evening, as the coach was about two miles
from Mr. Christie's station, Narramine, two armed
men, "mounted on spirited bay horses, rode out on
the road from a patch of scrub, and several times
ordered the coachman, Charles Stuart, to bail up.
The driver was at the time filling his pipe, and the
reins wore held by Mr. Grenfell, to whom he said,
" Draw up; these are the bushrangers." Mr. Gren-
fell took no notice of the robbers' summons, but
jerked the reins in order to increase the
.speed of
the horses. Simultaneously he drew out of his
trousers pocket a small pistol, and deliberately taking
aim .fired at the scoundrels. Astonished at their
reception, the robbers retired a few yards, and then
rode ahead of the coach, sal began to fire at the
passengers with revolvers. Six or seven discharges
took place ; when one ball unluckily s'ruck Mr.
Grenfell in the upper part of the thigh ; another
bullet went through the trousers of Cantrill, and
embedded itself in the cushion on which he was
sitting ; and a third shot whizzed past the ear of
the driver. The horses were then pulled up, and
Mr. Grenfell said, " Charley, I'm shot.' The mis-
creants were at this time about a hundred yards
in advance of the vehicle. Mr. Greafell, whose
determined courage never flagged from the moment
the rascals rode up, jumped out of the mail, shook
his little revolver threateningly at the robbers, and
exclaimed in a loud tone of voice " Come on, you
scoundrels !" However, they did not accept the
challenge, but galloped off in the direction of the
Bogan River. The wounded man, weak from the
loss of blood, and suffering painfully from the effects
of his injury, now staggered and fell. With the
assistance of Mr. Cantrill, Mr. Grenfell, who was,
perfectly sensible, was lifted into the coach by the
driver and brought to Narramine, where he received
every possible kindness and attention. Information
was forthwith despatched to the police, and a medi-
cal man was sent for. Dr. Mountain at once started
off, and Dr. Tibbits followed in a short time ; but
-all the remedies which medical skill suggested could
not save the brave but unfortunate man, who, after
suffering th 9 most acute pain and agony, expired
at 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, just 24 hours
after receiving his death wound. The police,
under Mr. Hogg, are in pursuit of the mur-
derers. For obvious reasons we declinestating whether
or not a clue has been obtained to their where
abouts. They are supposed to be the same men
who stuck up and rifled the mail from Sydney to
Wellington last Wednesday. They were disguised
when they encountered Mr. Grenfell with white
gauze masks, the holes around the eyes being painted
black. Mr. Grenfell was formerly a gold commis-
sioner at Forbes, and at the time of the reoganisa-
tion of the goldfields management was appointed
Crown Lands Commissioner for the Albert district,
Bourke being his head-quarters. His gentlemanly
manner and affability endeared him to all with
whom he came in contact, either officially or other-
wise ; and we feel certain his death will be deplored
by a large circle of friends. He leaves a wife and
two or three children to lament his loss. The coo!

and brave manner in which Mr. Grenfell defended

the mail, and prevented the rascals from robbing i

is beyond mere eulogy ; and we trust the inhabi-
tants of the district will practically illustrate their

admiration of his heroic conduct by erecting to his

memory a monument recording the manner of his

death.—Sydney Herald.

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