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After several private examinaifons of the 10 per-
sons in custody at Beverley, char ged with being
concerned in the murder of 'John Washington Jex,
head gamekeeper to Mr. Richard Watt, of Bishop
Burton, on the 21st of November, the magistrates
of the East Riding of Yorkshire' at their weekly
Sitting at Beverley on Saturday last, allowed the
inquiry to proceed in court. The principal witness
was the watcher, Mark Robinson, who was severely
injured on the occasion in question, and who now
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appeared in court for the first time. His head was
bound up, and he looked very thin and haggard,
and had to be accommodated with sp. chair. After
some preliminary evidence, he gave the following
circumstantial account of the part Of the affray in
side
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which he was engaged :—" I heard a dog bark and
hare scream. The sounds came from th direction
of the Brogdale Plantation, and I called the atten-
tion
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Middle Galops Plantation. When we came to the
over into the Brogdale seedsfield, and we caught
sight of three or four men in the field, along the
woodside. We saw another man in the corner of
the seedsfield nearest to Little Galops ; we stepped
over a low-cut hedge into the seedsfield. We had
not got far over the fence before some of the poachers
cried out, 'Come on, you —, you shall have it to-
night; we are fettled for you.' We had no dogs with
us, and their dogs came running up to us, and
round about us: I think there would be six or
seven dogs. Jex told them to call their dogs in,
and they made answer that they would not. lex
then said he would shoot the dogs, and the
poachers replied that they would shoot him if he
did. One dog came very near to Jex, and he shot
it. I believe another barrel was fired. at this time
from the poachers' side at Geddes. A man, who
was standing a little to the right of me, threw a
heavy stone at me, which caught me at the back of
the ear, and gave me a very hard blow. The blow
cut me at the back of the ear, and gave •me a very
hard blow: The stone cut me, and blood began to
flow. • I afterwards found that it was -a stone
which gave me one of my severe wounds. Several •
stones. were thrown by the
,poachers. Two hit me,
but did not.injnre me. Some of the poachers then
made an attempt to rush in upon Jcx, and I went
towards him to help him. They got round Jex and
the, and I received a very severe blow on the back
of the head with something very heavy; it was not
a stone, but I cannot say exactly what it was. I,
believe eight men were then surrounding us. The
blow brought me down on my knees, but before
that I heard several blows struck, though I did not
see them. I could see the sticks coming backwards,
but not the blows. I knew they were aimed at Jex,
because he was on my left hand. I then got up, but
had not been long up before I was knocked down
again. I think it was with a bludgeon. The second
time I fell I remained on the ground, and the
poachers beat me ; that is as far as I can recollect
of the affray. I have been ill ever since, and
this is the first day I have been out in the neigh-
bourhood since. The last time I saw Jex he was
holding up his gun with both hands to ward off a
blow. The last I saw of Geddes he was about 30
yards to the right of me, and there were some men
about him. I had heard Geddes shoot a dog some-
where behind my back." The witness, on being
requested to look at the prisoners, did so, and
pointing with his stick to Franklin, said, " He is
one I can recollect." Of M'Grath, who stood
second, he said, " He is very much like one." John-
son was standing on the other side of Franklin, and •
on Robinson looking closely at him, he said, " I
think he is the man who threw the flintstone at
me." He then pointed his stick at Marshall, and
said, " That is one." The last man he noticed was
Thompson, and he remarked, " I think he has the •
appearance of one." The witness added that there
were 11 or 12 poachers present, eight of whom
surrounded him and Jex. Marshall and Thompson
had not previously been identified. Some other
unimportant evidence was offered, after which one
of the prisoners, named Smith, who had surrendered
on bail, was discharged, and the magistrates inti-
mated that bail would probably be accepted for
Robson. The " confession" which it was supposed
one of the prisoners had made, amounts to nothing
more than a long rambling story about his personal
feeling, and an assertion that the gun which shot
the under keeper Geddes went off accidentally.

PRICE 4P. STAMPED, SD.

THE NA VY.

It is rumoured in naval circles that the Govern-
ment have it in contemplation to make a consider-
able augmentation in the Channel squadron by the
addition of 12 sail of the line. The greatest activity
prevails in all the dockyards in hastening forward
the completion of those line-of-battle ships which
have been on the stocks several years,most of which
are nearly completed, in order that they may be
commissioned and made ready for sea. During the
present year several first-class screw steamers will
be launched at Portsmouth, Chatham, Devonport,
and Pembroke, when other line-of-battle ships are
to be immediately laid down on the same slips.
The screw steamer Scotia, of Greenock, of 1,020
tons, Capt. Bell, arrived at Falmouth on Saturday,
in ballast, from the Havannah and Savannah. This
vessel about 17 months ago took out to India the
head-quarters of the 72d Highlanders, and then
proceeded to China, where she embarked a cargo of
coe!lies and took them to Cuba. Owing to the de-
pression of freights at Havannah, and the high port
charges she could not succeed in obtaining a cargo
either there or at Savannah, where she touched on
her homeward voyage.
Her Majesty's screw steam transport Urgent it
is expected will proceed to Waterford about the
20th inst., and there embark the Tipperary Militia.
Artillery, for service in the different forts on the
Gosport side of Portsmouth Harbour.
The Bloomer troopship, Captain Smith, sailed
from. Spithead at 11 a.m. yesterday for Bombay
and Kurrachee.

Captain the Hon. J. Drummond, Aide-de-Camp
to the Queen, recently appointed Commodore and
Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, and. at pre-
sent on leave of absence, yesterday visited the
establishment, and conferred with the- authorities,
for the purpose of making arrangements prelimi-
nary to his assuming office.
Rear-Admiral Smart and the members composing
the Dockyard Economical Committee at Woolwich
yesterday assembled in the pay-office belonging to
the factory and investigated the system of book-
keeping practised in that department. After a
thorough inspection of the books and offices they
expressed their approbation of the ready and effi-
cient method now in force for the payment of the
men, as well as the efficiency perceptible through-
out the offices. . _

Her Majesty's paddlewheel sloop Alecto, Com-
mander J. Hunt, was yesterday morning ordered
to be paid off at Woolwich on Saturday next.

THE ARMY.

It is arranged that the following lectures shall
be given during the winter to the men quartered
in the camp at Shorneliffe :—Jan. 13, " Remi-
niscences of Brazil," by the Rev. E. G. Parker,
Chaplain to the Forces ; Jan. 20, " The Geology of
our Coast," by Mr. Mackinson, of Hy the ; Jan. 27,
" Zigzags, or Travels in Switzerland," by the Rev.
T. R. Maynard, of Dover ; Feb. 3, " Eminent Me-
chanics," by Capt. Noble, R.E. ; Feb. 10, " The
Druids," by the Rev. J. Young, Presbyterian Chap-
lain ; Feb. 17, " China and the Chinese," by Mr.
C. W. Clift, Superintending Schoolmaster ; Feb. 24,
" The Wonders of Human Folly," by Mr. Runcie-
man, Schoolmaster 100t•h Regt. ; March 3, "On
Astronomy," by the Rev. J. D'Arcy Preston, As-
sistant-Chaplain ; March 10, "Travels in Spain,"
by Major Ewart, R.E. ; March 17, " Amicable
Ceremonies of Various Nations," by Mr. E. G.
Hildyard, Army Schoolmaster.