The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

TO THE RECRUIT.

X a. d.
On being attested, in cash
On final approval by the inspecting field-officer,
in cask 0 7 6
On joining his corps, in cash, without deduction 2 la 0

Amount of bounty £3 0 0
and a free kit of necessaries.

" The other portions of the levy money to remain as
provided by the General Order No. 697, dated the 23d
ultimo.

"By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding in Chief.
" G- A. WETHEItALL, Adjutant-General."
The following circular has been addressed to the
officers commanding depot battalions :
"Sir,—l have it in command to acquaint you that
in compliance with the recommendation of his Royal
Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, the Secre-
tary of State for War has approved of an assistant
inspector of musketry being appointed to each depot
battalion composed of more than five depots, with an
allowance of 2q. 6d. per day.—l have the honour to be,
Sir, your obedient servant,
" G. E. HILLIER, D. A. A. General."
Her Majesty's steam troop-frigate Vulcan, 6,
Commander John Seccombe, not being in want of
any repairs, &c., is ordered to embark at Ports-
mouth on the 12th lest. the 2d battalion of the 2d
Queen's Royals, for Malta.
Ensign Henry B. Pulliene, GO men, one woman,
and two children of the 30th depot, crossed over
from the Isle of Wight on Wednesday, and were
berthed iu barracks at Portsmouth until yesterday,
when they embarked in the Irish trading steamer
Devonshire, for Dublin. Lieutenants Wood and
Poole, who should have accompanied this detach-
ment, are ordered to join in Dublin from leave.
The Blenheim, 60, screw bloekship, was taken
into dock at Portsmouth yesterday to have her de•
fects repaired. Captain Francis Scott, C. 8., and
his officers and crew are berthed in the Meander
while these repairs are in progress.
The Sealark and Rolla, 6 gun instruction brigs,
are being refitted in Portsmouth harb)ur for the
ensuing summer cruises.

The -freightships Investigator and Albemarle
were yesterday taken up by the War Department
for the conveyance of military stores from Wool-
wich to Hobart Town and Colombo.
The convict ship True Briton, with convicts for
Bermuda, is ordered to ship ammunition on Wed-
nesday nest, preparatory to departure. The steam-
transpart Dutchman, laden with a general cargo
and war stores for the Mediterranean, sailed yes-
terday frein Woolwich. Her Majesty's paddle-
wheel steamer Banshee, Mr. Vincent Williams,
commanding, yesterday it-turned to Woolwich from
special service at Dover.
An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness for
the officers and crow of the Edinburgh to be turned
over to the Cressy ; the officers and crew of the
Southampton to be turned over to the Pembroke ;
and for the Southampton to bs laid up in ordidary.
Tha Majestic, 10 guns, sere ste unship, has been
taken into No. 3 dry dock at Sheen-less, to he got
ready for the pendent.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE
1N BIRMINGIiAM.

Yesterday a man staying at the Clarendon Hotel,
Birmingham, attempted to murder a woman who
passed as his wife, and then committed suicide.
About a fortnight ago Mr. Harrison, the proprietor
of the hotel, received a note dated Northampton,
engaging apartments for a man and his wife for a
week. A front sitting-room and bedroom were set
apart for them, and on Friday last they arrived.
Tim man appeared to be between 30 and 40 years'
of age ; the woman about '2O. Mr. Harrison sup.
posel the man to be a commei cial traveller. Up to
a quart er to 1 o'cicck yestel day they had not quitted
their chamber, when a discharge of fire-arms was
heard, immediately followed by another, accom.
pained by shrieks of murder from the lauding on
killed
e d wound
m,,
i
which the bedroom of the two persons was
osasidtr, , streaming
! situate. On the servants rushing up stairs they
saw the woman standing outside the door par-
tially-hasfro
and then repeated several times the
in her dressed,i ieck. She
do
jealousy." 17 n e man was found word
s, re coed upon the
bed, apparently lifeless, his right hared
grasping a
pistol. A second pistol lay upon the floor. Medi-
cal aid was procured, but
he was insensible, and
died in a few moments.
It was found that the
woman was wounded on the right
side of
the head,
and that the bones had bon shattered by the bul-
let, the ball itself
remaining lodged. This was
extracted by Mr. Bolton, one of the surgeons of
the General Hospital, but it is doubtful whether
she can recover. Last evening she was in a very
precarious state. According to the woman she was
in the act of getting out of bed, when the deceased
told her to lift a handkerchief lying in the counter.
pane. She did so, and discovered two pistols. In
some alarm she asked what he meant, when he re.
plied—" Oh, nothing ; but there's one for you and
one for me." He added, however, that she need
not be afraid, and that she must go to sleep again.
She returned to bed, when the deceased snatched
up a pistol, and placing it to her head, discharged
it. Partia!ly stunned she rushed to the door, saw
him put the other pistol to his ear and fall on the
bed, where ho died. A letter written by the de-
ceased, and found on the dressing table, states that
his name is Ebenezer John Harrison, and that his
parents reside in Derbyshire ; that the young
woman was not his wife—a statement the truthof
:
which she admits—that she is the daughter _o _ f re-
spectable parents in Northamptonshire, and h
ad
been unfaithful to him.

Each h :is
es flt
iha aeg.
hoisted ll a
Bretarme at Toulon two days back as Commander
Vice-Admiral Trehouart 'struck I
of the 'Mediterranean squadron •; and Vice-Admiral
R,omain-Desfosses, his successor,
in the same vessel three hours afte;
Jalopy was accompanied I.)y a Salute of 11 guns.