The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 26.

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WE STMlNSTER.—.Porterfield Howitt, a young
man respectably attired, was charged with the fol-
lowing shocking brutality. to his brother :
Robert Howitt, between 11 and 12, living at 14,
Market-street, Westminster, said I live with
my mother ; defendant is my brother. On
Thursday he came home, and beat me ; then he
told me to go into the kitchen, and strip. I did, and
he tied a rope into knots and beat me all over till
the blood ran out of me. (Sensation). I don't know
why he beat me. My mother was not at home. He
did not give me any reason whatever. He went up
stairs and told the people to hold their noise, and
then I ran out. I took off everything I had on be-
fore I was beaten, and went out in the streets in
that state. He is a wood carver, and has not beaten
me like this before.
Cross-examined by defendant—He did not tell me
he beat me for robbing my employers, and stopping
away from my work. He did not-ask me to explain
what I had done with the money.
Witness answered all the questions decidedly.
The cord was here produced, and had nine- large
knots in it.

•
Thomas Slaughter, 8, Market-street, opposite de-
fendant's house, said—l heard a boy halloo out
" Murder !" " Save me!" I ran over the way and
saw the elder brother running after the other, who
was quite naked, in the street. I took the poor boy
to my place. His brother cane over and said he
would make me give him up, and he would give him
some more yet ! took him to my landlord. He has
not one inch of solid flesh on him, and many of the
places are bleeding. He has been served scandal-
ously. This was not all..
_, This morning the prose-
cutor was in the area`with only his trousers on, out
in the cold, and I stied° him, go. inside_ His mother
knew of his being beaten:. .....
Cross-examined—You did say, you would give
him some more—you said you would cut him in two.
Thomas Cording, landlord of last witness, said—
, The boy was brought into my shop for protection.
Prisoner declared' he would have him, dared
me to keep him, and talked about an action. It
was dreadful to look attlie boy. It made us com-
pletely shudder. (Cries of" Shame.") I believe
his mother knew his brother was going to beat
him, and went out, in order not to hear his cries.
Butcher, 109 B, said he was called to 8, Market-
street. Prosecutor and prisoner were there; the
former said his brother had made him lay down on
the kitchen floor while he beat him. I asked him
why he had done it.? He said it was no business
of mine. At the station-house he pulled out the
cord, and said he had merely given his brother a
"little chastisement." The,boy is one mass of sores,
and his little arms are shocking to look at. He
sores and weals all over. .

Defendant said complainant had been working
for Mr. Birch, the ombibus and cab proprietor, and
had latterly stolen some: money from him, and
stayed away from his work. He wanted to lead
him away from such evil :courses, and considered
himself of sufficient age to beat the boy:
In answer to inquiries from the magistrates, he
said he was
,22.
Mr. Arnold said the mother was the proper per-
son to beat her son ; why, had she not done so ?
Defendant said his mother was not fit to beat
him.

Mr. Arnold hoped not to that extent.
Mr. Birch said the boy was employed by a young
woman in his mother's family, and had been very
much petted by her ; latterly he had stolen various
sums of money from her, and had sometimes stayed
away from his work two days together; He had
got into bad oompany and was a. very bad boy.
The prisoner, a very respectable ,young man, had
beaten him, he having no father, and he was afraid
his rage at his brother's repeated misconduct had
caused him•to beat the boy too severely.
The mother, a very qmet-looking woman, who
stated that She knew ,the defendant was about to
beat his brother, said she did not know he would
have hurt him so much. lt was very cruel of him,
and it would not have occurred had she been at
home.

Defendant hoped the magistrate would be lenient
with him, as he helped to support his mother and
her family.
Mr. :Arnold said great cruelty had been used,
He would remand the accused, and should like th 4
poor little fellow to be examined by a surgeon.

CLERKENWELL.—Mr. Richard Canty, of Ra-
here-Street, Goswell-road, applied that the property
found upon the deceased Charles Canty, murdered
by Edward Tombs, and also what had been taken
possession of by the police, might be given up to
him. He had been left sole executor, and the books
belonging to the deceased- were required by his
partner 'Co enable the business to be carried on.
Mr. Inspector Witham, of the E division, pro-
duced the *ill, and said that the police had no ob-
jection to the property being given up.
The order was at once taken.
The deceased, it is arranged, will be buried on
Sunday next, at the.pow Cemetery.

MARYLEBONE.—EIiza Cook and Mary Ann
Armstrong, well-dressed females, the former 19,
and the hitter 13years Of age, were brought up by
Rowe, 201 S, charged with the following robbery
of a lady.'
It appeared from the evidence that at 11 that
morningliss Annie, 'neon, .31; Alliert-street, Re-
gent's-park, got into one -Of the London General
omnibuses near Trinity!..,Chiireh;and that when near.
Tottenham-court-road, W. NeWell, the conductor,•
distinctly saw. the 4-winger prisoner Armstrong
take a portemonnaie iron the lady's pocket ; shortly
afterwards both the prisonerS desired to be let out,
and on the vehicle being brought to. a stand they
were in the act of alighting when Newell askedthe
lady if she had lost anything ; she felt the pbcket of
her dresS, and foUnd that she had been robbed. He
laid hold of Armstrong, whom he charged with the
theft, when she threw. the . portemonnaie on the
step of the bus, saying that the lady had dropped it
inside. Prisoners were both given into custody.
Cook was discharged; and Armstrong, who
pleaded guilty, was sent to hard labour in the
House of Correction for sik Months.
William Bryant, a stiff-built young fellow, was
charged with being concerned, with three other
prisoners now in custody, in the following daring
garotte robbery.
It appeared. from the oVidence that as a young
man named Alfred Letolffe Was on his way home to
Little North-street, Lisson-grove, on Saturday night
last, and when near hisown • house, he was seized
from behilid, and thrown .111:4 very .04614

SOUTHWARK.—James Lyall, a journeyman
parchment cutter, was brought before Mr. Bur-
cham, charged with stabbing George Lyall, his
brother, with a parchment knife, thereby inflicting
such a severe injury oh him as to confine him to his
bedlin St. Thomas's Hospital.
Daniel George Lyall, a youth about 16 years of
age, and son of the injured man, said that they all
lived at 3, Smith's-gardens, his uncle, the prisoner,
occupying apartments above. Near one o'clock in
the morning witness went home, and not being able
to get in he pushed at the door. He was admitted,
and then he asked who shut him out, when the pri-
soner said lie did. His father then came down, and
angry words were used, when he saw his uncle
rush out with a knife in his hand. His
father and uncle then had -a scuffle together in
the dark, when he heard the former call out " You
haire stabbed me." Witness called in the police and
his uncle seeing a wound on the fleshy part of the
right arm fetched a piece of flannel and bound it
up. The constable then came and had his father
conveyed to the hospital, where he now remains.
Police-constable 291 M said that between one
and itwo o'clock he was called to No. 3, Smith's-
gardens, when he saw the wounded man reclining
on the stairs, with the upper part of his right arm
bound with flannel. He took him to the hospital,
when it was found that he had a deep cut on the
fleshy part of the arm, and the doctor told him he
had lost two, quarts of blood. 'The prisoner told
witness that he inflicted the wounds, but he had no
intention of doing it ; they had a scuffle in the
dark, and he was not aware that he had the knife
in his hand. Witness took him into custody, and
at the stationhouse he seemed extremely sorry for
his brother's sufferings.
Mr. Burcham remanded the prisoner until Wed-
nesday next, for the attendance of the surgeon.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAY.

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 22.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Samuel Petrie, Esq., Director of the
Commissariat Department of her Majesty's Army, to:be an
Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Clam,
or. Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 25.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of the undermentioned Officer of his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French, to be an
Honorary Member of the Military Division of the Third
Class, or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of
the ath, viz. : •
M. Jean Nicolas Eugene Melchior„. Major du Reg;ment
d'Artillerie a pied de la Gardeimperiale.
WHITEHALL, Nov 26.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, .granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Iroland unto Charles Clifford, Esq., the Speaker of the
House of Representatives of the colony of New Zealand.

- FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 23.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ed-
ward Herries, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Lisbon, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation
at Brussels.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Henry Page Turner Barron, Esq., now paid Attache to her
Majesty's Legation at Brussels, to be Secretary to her
Majesty'-e-i,egation at Lisbon.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry
Eugene Angelucci as Vice-Consul at Bombay for his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French.

COUNTY OF HEREFORD.
In consequence of the death of Thomas William Booker
Blakemore, Esq., late M.P. for the county of Hereford,
a warrant will be issued for the election of a new member
at the end of 14 days from this date.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 26.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—George Batley Gant.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Metcalfe, appointed to
the 7th Light Dragoons.
4th Dragoon Guards—The first Christian •name of Lord
Seymour, appointed to a Cornetcy, in the Gazette of the
29th October, 1858, is Edward, not Louis, as previously

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stated.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. F. A. Weatherley to be Ad-
jutant, vice Graham, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
7th Dragoon Guards-:—Veut. James Vance Cleland to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Goff, who retires ; Cornet E.
Molyneux tale Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cleland.
7th Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward Metcalfe, 2.-om the
2d Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Steuart, pro-.
moted; Edmund .11. .Kennard, Gent., to be Cosset, by
purchase, vice the Hon. C. Molyneux, promoted.
17th Light DragoOns—George Berkeley Belcher, Gent.,
Accountant in the late Land Transport Corps, to be
Paymaster, Nice Bennett, who reverts to half-pay as
Paymaster of a Depot BattaliOn.
4th Regiment of Foot—Henry Albert Fuller, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Hammond, promoted.
sth Foot—George Toddrick Beasley, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Cooch, promoted.
Bth Foot—Ensign James Seager Wheeley to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Black, deceased ; Ensign Robert
D. Forbes Shirrefr to be• Lieutenant, vice Wheeler, whose
promoti from the 94th Foot as stated in the Gazette of
Oct. 1, 1853, has been cancelled Ensign John Coleberd
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wheeley, whose pro-
motion, by purcluise, on Oct. 15, has been cancelled.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Drewe Edwards, from the
86th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Stewart, who ex-
changes.
14th Foot—Stainsby Henry Pigott, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purihase,,vice Francis Fox Robinson, super-
seded, being absent without leave.
16th Foot—Lieutenant John Pennefather, from the 724
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Crane, who exchanges;
Ensign George Witlam to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
N;ce Hogge, promoted.
18th Foot—Charles Orchard Cornish, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
20th Foot—Ensign Robert Foster-Melliar to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase,.vice ,Carden, proniothd.
21st Foot—Lieutexiaut Min Finlay, from the 78th Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase, vice. Weekes, whose
promotion from the 78th Foot, on the lath Sept. 1858,
has been cancelled. t..
37th Foot—Major Edward D. Atkinson to be Liettenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet.:COlonel Skelly, who
retires ; Captain Robert Prescott Harrison to be Major,
by purchase, vice Atkinson.
41st Foot—Montagu Thomas 80. Michell, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Gwynne, promoted in

the 20th Foot. .
49th Foot—William Stevenson, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Gilson, promoted in the 22d Foot ;
John Holmes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase,
• vice Dolmage, promoted in the 22d Foot.
58th Foot—Lieut. - Henry Hingeston to be Instructor of
Musketry.
65th Foot—Ensign Falcon Peter Leonard to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Wemyss, deceased.
71st Foot—Ensign James Hay. Campbell to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Browne, promoted ; Lieut. James Hay
Campbell to be Adjutant, vice Cowburn, deceased; Assis-
tant-Burgeon John Warren, from the Staff, to be Assis‘.
tant-Surgeon, vice Pirrie, who resigns.
72d Foot—Lieutenant Henry Arthur Crane, from the 16th
Foot, to be • Lieutenant, vice Pennefather, who ex-

changes.
78th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Wickham Pym Weekes
be Captain, without purchase' 'vice Foster, deceased ;
Ensign Alexander Ewing to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Weekes.; Ensign Thomas Hinde Thompson
to be lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ewing, whose
promotion on the 10th Sept., 1858, has been cancelled ;
Henry Swanson, Gent., to be Ensign without purchase,
vice Thompson.
80th Foot—Ensign Samuel Pollock. Muirheai, Gent., to
be Ensign, without purchase, vice. Keogh, promoted in
14th Foot. •
86th Foot—Ensign Stephen Wm. Sewell to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Coates, deceased ; Lieutenant
Duncan Stewart, from the lath Foot, to be Lieutenant,
vice Edwards, who exchanges ; Ensign Charles Keane
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Sewell, whose
il
promotion on Bth Oct., 1868, has been cancelled.
89th Foot—Augustus Wm. Gent., to. Ensign,
without purchase, vice the Hon. w _
vy, whose
transfer from the 26th Foot, has been caneely ed.
90th Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Carleton,
appointed on 12th Nov., is. Hone, and not Homo, as pre-
viously stated.
95th Foot—Capt. John Webbs Butt, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Captain, repaying the difference, vice Bre-
vet-Major Alexander.J. J. Macdonald, who exchanges ;
Lieut. Charles Frederick Parkinson to be Captain, by
purchase, v;ce Butt, who retires ; Ensign Wm. Pearson
George Remfry Herd,. Gent., to be Ensign,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parkinson; William
by purchase
vice Pearson.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Lieut. lames T. W. Andrews II
to be Captain, without purchase, vice Craig, who retires
be
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DEPOT BATTALION.—Captain Archibald J. Oliver
Rutherford, 70th Foot, 'to be Instructor of Musketry.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.—Sergeant Major John
Davies to be Quartermaster.
UNATTACHED.—Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Charles Holden,
from Captain, on half-pay Unattached, and Staff Officer
of Pensioners, to be Major, without purchase.
BREVET.
Captain John Wells B utt, 95th Foot, to be Major in the
-Army.
Brevet-Major John Wells Butt, 95th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel in the Army.
The following promotions to take place consequent on
the preinotion o Colonel Ord, of. •the Royal Engineers, to
be Major-General, in succession to -Major-General Sir
William Reid, K.C.8., deceased-:
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Richard B;acKin, Captain
4911-Pay Valitt4checl, to be VOlOiel;

. ... . .. . , un Wynne Lodder, 56th Foot, to be Lica.
manner. Some men then krielt on his throat,
and another held his arm, while a third knelt on
Captain Jol ai. Biylv Royal
, . ,Engineers, to be Major.
his chest. • A fourth was busy at his pockets, from - t 3
nllalnajto_rcloVl
0i:el;
:i.garnoenriaoti?nsto
Thomas
place consequent on the
which he took eight pawnbroker's duplicates, and 1 Lightfoot, C 8., on 15th
3s. or 4s. in silver. Ireland, 201 D, was on duty November„ , ,858 :
near the spot, when he, heard a stifled cry of " Get -1.% lajor-G eneral Edward Byam, Colonel of the 18th Light
delthheoffolLloiewiu
off my throat or you'll choke me ; " and upon his Dra goons ,to be Lieutenant-General.
going up to where the cries came from, he observed
e AratlGteern..l.
i-11 I,,,TeAtractoollaaetlhHa Henry Eyre, half-pay Unattached, Com-
m t;re- vet Lieutenant-Colonel
the young man on the ground with the four men 13olon
Campbell,Captain
in the portion before described. When they saw up ors half-pay Unattached,and S '
taff Officer of Pensioners,
him approaching with two other constables, the to be Colonel.
four men got up and Made off.in different directions. T Brevet-Major Bertram Charles Mitford, Captain upon
Ireland left one of the constables in charge of Ix- hal If-pay Unattached, and Town Major of Malta, to be
Li( ratenant-Colonel.
tolffe, who was quite insensible and black in the ‘,.7s.ptara Pearson Scott Thompson, 14th Light Dragoons,
face. The prisoners were pursued, and three o.f to be Major.
them captured, and the prisoner at that time COMMISSIONS BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.
escaped. A pawn ticket, a silver pencil case, and Royal Anglesey Regiment of Light Infantry—Adjutant.
2s. Bd. in money were found on them. • The prose-- 1 E. 0. Pearse to serve with the rank of Captain.
cutor, before he could proceed to the station to en- I Loyal Radnor Militia—Richard Winstanley Ormerod,
ter the charge, was obliged to be taken to the hos- Vrheoi itltiopoeoEt nsign, vice Edward Williams, appointed to
pital, as he was so badly treated. His trowsers 2 d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Richard
were so very much torn as to be quite worthless. 3to rker to be Captain, vice Lumsden, resigned.
The prisoner, in reply to the worthy magistrate, :Dorset Regiment of Militia—Ensign Robert Clayton
said he knew nothing about the matter, as he was Br, ,wn to be Lieutenant, vice Henning, deceased.
R oyal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia—Ensign
not there at the time. Rob ert Baynes Reed to be lieutena t, vice William
He was ordered to be remanded till next Mon- stei,-, ris Perry Keene, resigned; Ensign William Clarke to
day, to be brought up with the other prisoners. :,?
be Lie utenant, vice Thomas Hunt, resigned.
Ist 1 Regiment of Militia—John Davie Ferguson
Davie, late Captain in Grenadier Guards, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel Commandant, vice Drewe, resigned.
Devon Airilitia Artillery—Thomas Reynolds Arscott to be
Second LieWenant. .

PRIZE MONEY.

Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, Nov. 22.

.Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are nuw making for the intended distri-
bution of the award voted by Parliament for the destruc-
tion of pirates in the China Seas by her Majesty's ship
Hornet on the 19th March, 1857; and the award for sal'
wage services rendered to the merchant vessel Abyssinian
:
by her Majesty's ship Tortoise, between the 16th May an'
19th July, 1856.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de;
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds are requirea
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re'
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
and paid uuder the sanction of the Judge of the :said Court.
Agents and other persons holding powers of: attorney,
i prize orders, assignments, or other nstruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the :41104
belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay
as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied. by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-
house.'

Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the
London Gazette, of the date proposed for thr, commence-
ment of distribution ; and, at the same time, the amount of
an individual's share in the respective class° a will be eir
nounced.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLILD.

George Whieldon, briakmaker, Wincanto n, Dorsetshire•

BANKRUPTS.
Robert Pigg, grocer, North Tuddenhr on, Norfolk, t°
surrender, Dec. 9, at one, and Jan. 13, a t twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Josieph Elliot, grocer, Devonport, Dec. 13 and Jan. 16,
at one, at the Athenseum, Plymouth.
John Bradley, starch dealer, Manchester, Dec. 11 01
Jan. 11, at twelve,. at the Manchester Di strict Court.
James Beeson, ironfounder, Derby, Dec. 9, and 30, "
half past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottinght,
William Woollatt, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Plc'
9, and 30, at half-past ten, at the Shireh all, Nottingham. „
Stephen Cox, chemical manufacture n, Bristol, Dec.
and Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Bristol Mr strict Court.
Thomas Baynes, farmer, Chiddingst 3ne Kent, Dec. it
at half-past two, and Jan. 4, at two, at bl he Court of Bank'
ruptcy.
Edward Button, butcher, Gravesend, 1 )ec. 9, at half-pmt
eleven, and Jan. 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Perkins, ship-owner, Sandwich, Kent, Dec. 10, at
two, and Jan. 4, at half-past two, at thi s Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Joseph Cooper, licensed victualler, Bin mingham, Dec. 8
and 27, at eleven, at:the Birmingham Dis trict Court.
George Battison Haines and John Metcalf, electre-
platers, Birmingham, Dec. 16 and Jan. 6, at eleven, at UM
Birmingham District Court.
William Goddard, shoe manufacturer, Leicester, Dec. 9
and 30, at half-past ten, at the Nottinghat a District Cour'
George Taylor, licensed victualler, Swin clerby, Lincoln'
shire, Dec. 9 and 30, at half-past ten, at t .e Nottingham
District Court.
William Whittington Morris, chemical m © rchant, late of
Sise-lane, City, Dec. 6, at one, and Jan. 10, at two, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.