The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-27 00:00:00

The Simla Court-Martial.

(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)
SIMLA, Saturday.
The finding of the court-martial in the case of
Captain Jervis declares him innocent on the first
and second counts, and guilty on all the others. He
was sentenced to dismissal from the service, but re-
commended to mercy. Sir W. Mansfield has refused
the recommendation to mercy, and confirmed the
sentence.

The following are the charges upon which Captain
Jervis has been found guilty, and sentenced to dis-
missal from her Majesty's service :
Third Charge.—With having at Simla, on the
22d May, 1866, neglected to obey the orders of his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, communicated
to him by the Military Secretary, to attend a com-
mittee of audit, which had been assembled by order
of his Excellency for the purpose of testing the ac-
counts kept by Captain Jervis on behalf of the
Commander-in-Chief, the said committee having
been, ordered for the purpose of affording Captain
Jervis an opportunity of relieving himself from the
imputations on his character as an officer and a
gentleman, containedin the first and fourth instances
of the first charge, with which he, Captain Jervis,
had been made acquainted at a court of inquiry
held on the 14th May, 1866, by order of his Excel-
lency the Commander-in-Chief.
Fourth Charge.—With having at Simla, on the
9th of June, 1866, he being at the time in mili-
tary arrest, imposed by order of his Excellency the
Commander-in-Chief, disobeyed the lawful com-
mand of his superior officer, Colonel D. M.
Stewart, Deputy Adjutant-General, to deliver to
him his (Captain Jervis's) sword.
Fifth Charge.—With conduct unbecoming the
character of an officer, and to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline, in having at Simla, on
the 22d June, 1866, in a letter of that datu writ-
ten and sent by him to the address of Colonel
Longden, C. 8., Adjutant-General, made use of the
following
highly insubordinate expressions in re-
gard to the orders of his Excellency the Comman-
der-in-Chief for his (Captain Jervis's) appearance
before a General Court-martial

it In reply, I have the honour most solemnly and
emphatically to protest against this proceeding, as
unwarranted by law, principle, or justice ; and to
state, with every respect to his Excellency, that
nothing short of physical force will in duce me to be
present at the Court, and that if dragged there as a
prisoner by violent means, I shall take no part in the
proceedings, save to reiterate before the Court my
protest against the illegality and injustice to which
I have been subject, and warn every member of the
grave responsibility he incurs by consenting to take
part in the proceedings."

The Anglo-American Te:egraph.

LONDON, Sept. 27.

A telegram has been received this morning from
Newfoundland, informing the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company that the land lines have been
restored, and that messages are being transmitted.
The Atlantic cables continue in the most perfect
condition, JOHN C. DEANE, Secretary.

EXTRAORDINARY LIBERALITY.—The other day a
"gentleman" left a first-class cat.iage at Newcastle rail-
way siation, and also left behind him a purse containing
notes to the value of £l,OOO. He ran about in a state of
considerable excitement, when ho was met by ah honest
porter who had found the property and now restored it.
The owner rewarded the potter with the smallest silver
coin of the re_thn, threepence, and it is extremely probable
that he anathematised the Government for not issuieg
twopenny pieces. The porter respectfully declined the
handsome offer.

A SOLAR lIALo.—A lunar halo, which there never
is any difficulty in perceiving is formed by rays of light
falling on condensed aqueous vesicler, or on thin clouds. It
is not perhaps generally known that similar haloes are also
observable round the sun ; bat as they can only be seen
through a blackened glass, they usually pass unperceived.
It is, therefore, not uninteresting to leers that Professor
Decharine, of Angers, observed ono a few daysago at 5 p.m.
Ho reinarkcdthat the halo, insteadof presenting the appear-
ance of a flat circle, seemed to be concave, like the torses of
a column inwardly scooped out.
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THE GREAT OCEAN RACE.—Mr. Rodger, of
Glasgow, the owner of the celebrated clipper Taving, has,
we are informed, praonted her commander with the muni-
cent gift of £5OO to mark his appreciation of that officer's
nautical skill, which did so much towards winning the
great ocean Imes from China. We may add that, so keen
was the interest felt in the match by some of the crews
engaged, that the men of the Fiery Cross wagered a
month's pay of all on board on the success of their own
vessel against the Sorica; the hands of the latter entering
into a similar engagement, which the earlier arrival of their
yew,' enabled them to iTiu.—Glasgow *Evening (yawl.