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

THE ..4RMY.

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 recelitly
tried by district court-martial at Chatham on a
charge of having stolen a sovereign prom 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 assembled 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
Port Pitt Hospital, Chatham, by the medical staff
of that establishment. The wouttad'and disabled
troops, to the numher of -.67 non-commissioned
officers' and men, togethei with 17 women and
children, belonged to the 3d (Prince of- Wales's)
Dragoon Guards, 14th Light Dragoons, 17th Lan-
cers, ith-.(King's- Own), 18th (Royal Irish), 33a'
(Duke of'Wellington's), 56th, 71st Highlanders),
i72d (Highlanders), 78th: (Highlanders), 83d, 86th,
`and 95th Regiments were untkr the command of
Capt. G. S.
.Isi-unn,. 22d Regimeill, and in medical
charge of; Assistant-Surgeon H. C. Miles,.B3d Regi-
ment.- touring the voyage six deaths occurred on
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 headLquarters from two Months' leave or
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, Warley Wigvin, two miles from 01b-
bar, was returning home. When he was within a short
distance of his house, ho 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 hugo cinder or stone,
and his . skull was fractured. Mr. Powell was
stunned by the blow; but, nevertheless, ho 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 tiffhtly 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 fow houses are near the spot it is supposed
that the depredators felt themselves in danger. A reward of
.£2o—£lo of which Mr. Powell offered, and the rest of
which was promised by tho 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 recend 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
ho was stabbed until somebody told him. The further
hearing of the case, which has created great interest in the
neighbourhood, was postp.9ned till Tuesday.
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