The Sun.
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THE NAVY.

The screw line-of-battle Alps Royal Albert, 121,
bearing the flag of Sir Charles Fremantle ; James
Watt, 91; Algiers, 91; Hero, 91 ; the screw-
frigate Mersey, 4(2) and the despatch gunboat
Flying Fish* 94 areived at Portland under steam
on
4:1144y morning, after a few days' cruise in
the Channel. The other ships at anchor at Port-
land are the Agamemnon, 91; Aboukir, 91; Eme-
rald, 51; Blenheim, 60 ; and the gun-boats
Pioneer, 6, and Biter, 2.
Lord Ripon, Under Secretary of State for War,
paid the first official visit of the new Ministry to
the establishment of Woolwich Arsenal on Satur-
day. Col. Alexander Tulloh, Lieut.-Col. Maron
Eardley Wilmot, and Capt. Edward Mourner
Boxer, representing the three manufacturing de-
partments, at present in full working order, re-
ceived his lordship_ on his arrival in the Dial-
square; and assisted him in his examination of the
most important portions of the establishment under
their direction. The inspection occupying three
hours, and consequently extending beyond the
regulated time at which the week's labours usually
terminate, the whole of the machinery was con-
tinued in motion until two o'clock, and the men
were allowed the advantage of extra work. His
lordship expressed his desire to be informed upon
every subject relating to the establishment, and
entered into a minute examination of the duties
and emoluments required of and granted according
to present regulations to the artisans and operatives
employed in suoh vast numbers in the Arsenal, and
for whom he appeared to entertain a special in-
terest.
The new screw steam vessel Lord Panmure, in
the service of the Military Store Department of
Woolwich, has been new caulked, and on Saturday
commenced shipping 500 tons of shot and heavy
war stores.
The numerical return given by the officers of
her Majesty's receiving-ship Fisgard at Woolwich
states that the total amount of able seamen and
lads entered and received on board since the 3d of
May last amounts to 1,640; upwards of four times
that number, although selected, having failed to
pass the medical attestation, were consequently
rejected. On Friday, 52 lads and five able seamen
were entered and passed.
Mr. Taylor, R.N., has hoisted his pendant on
board her Majesty's ship Firefly at Woolwich, for
a two months' survey commission. It is stated that
Capt. Brock, many years employed with the late
Capt. Graves, will take the command of the Firefly
during the expedition.
The Belleisle, recently returned from China, left
Plymouth on the 3d of June, 1857, under the com-
mand of Commander J. R. Rodd (1849), with a
detachment of the 93d, Col. the Hon. Adrian Hope,
for China. On arriving at the Cape, the news of
the Indian mutiny caused the Belleisle's destination
to be changed. After a rapid passage, beating all
the steam transports, she landed her troops at Cal-
cutta in such a high state of efficiency and health
as to call forth the written approval of the General
Commander-in-Chief, Sir Colin Campbell. At Cal.
cutta the Belleisle's lower deck ports and rudder
were found to be in so damaged a state as to render
her detention for repairs absolutely necessary to
her safety, and, although every possible despatch
was made, she did not reach Canton until a few days
after the capture of that place. The Belleisle was
subsequently ordered to Pe-chile with provisions
and stores fortlie fleet. After an excellent passage
of only 20 days, against the monsoon, she arrived
in time for the capture of the forts, and received the
wounded. On the return of the ship to Hongkong
the failure of Commander Rodd's health obliged
him to invalid, the command of the ship being given
to her first lieutenant, Mr. Bingham, who has
brought her to England. Commander Rodd was
the senior of his rank on the East India and China
station-during the whole of the operations; arid; as
senior commander, was present at the signing of
the treaty at Tien-sing.
The screw steam-frigate Topaze, 51, Captain the
Hon. W. S. Spenber, received her powder at Ply-
mouth on Friday.
The screw steamsloop Donegal, 101, Capt. Glan-
ville, made an experimental trip outside Plymouth
Sound on Saturday. The extreme speed attained
was 12.8 ; average on a number of passages, 12
knots.
The Scout, 21, screw-corvette, is at present lying
in Great Yarmouth Roads, and is expected to re-
main off the coast for about a fortnight for the pur-
pose of entering volunteers for the naval service.
The French war steamer Galilee is still in Yar-
mouth harbour, and her officers have fraternized
with those of the Scout.
At a meeting of the Great Yarmouth town council
last week it was resolved that a memorial should be
addressed to Government urging the necessity of
increased attention being given to the defence of
the coast and harbour. The views of the council
seem, however, to have been anticipated, as on the
following day the schooner Alma, from Woolwich,
arrived with ten 68-pounders, with carriages, &c.,
for the earthworks on the beach. As stated in The
Sun a few days since, the erection of a work for
five guns at Gorleston, a sltliburb of Yarmouth, is
also under consideration.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :--Commander W. C. De
Vere to the Agamemnon ; Paul Storr, midshipman,
to the Topaze; and W. J. Ellis, clerk, to the
perieuse.

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to-the volunteers considering the short time the
co s
ha
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OTAMYED,
been in drill. The test company having been re-distributed rap
ted, CRA.RING-CROSS RA IL IVA F.
a squad of new recruits (two from each company), was put
through a short drill and .re-distributed. The battalion
haVing been again marched into the centre of the quad- This important metropolitan improvement, whi.
..., ex-
tangle, was addressed by the commanding officor, wb, .- a short time since pass?d the ordeal of inquiry in
pressed himself much pleased with the progress the House of Commons, has, duringwhole of
ommons,
urged the -members to exert themselves to and the t
numbers to 500 as quickly as possible,in ord- -acrease their Pas week, formed the subject of inquiry befo. re
be in a position to accept the proposal • ~,r _that they may a committee of the House of Lords. The committc !e
Herbert, the Secretary for War. 10,e;clininalr b
dyhMr. Sidney consists of Lord Belper (chairman), Earl Spence: r,
to accept the service of th"
.6 •*1 Rill e•VI her Majesty Earl of Munster, Viscount de Vesci, and Lord Tal
_a nao e olunteers as a got
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thel)ttsaalimone ocnonth9i.ro_atthating that numerical strength. On de Malahide ; and as in the case of the Com
t e Secretary of State has also intz- coons, the members of the committee have display-el
mated that he win 1)
-*A e prepared to authorise the appoint- the greatest possible anxiety that the whole of the 3
ment of a 11P- ton
-.41 ant-colonel, a major, and an adjutant, to merits of
be Paid 4 the corps, the case, as well of the promoters as o,
the opposition, should be thoroughly investi ated.
When the bill was before the Commons e g ons e opposi-
tion to it was something of a formidable
character,
so far as the number of petitioners were concerned,
and they were headed by the Metropolitan Board _
of Works, which, as we then stated, was unable to
carry out any metropolitan improvements them- -
selves, and seemed determined to prevent any other
parties from doing so. The Metropolitan Board of
Works have, however, thought better of the matter,
and they are now.petitioners before the committee
praying that the bill may pass in its present form.
They have found, in fact, that the new street in
Southwark, which has been so long under conside-
ration, will, if formed, be greatly benefited by this:
undertaking. The only opponents, therefore, are the
Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital and a Mrs..
Jane Seymour, who claims compensation for some-
property which will be affected by the proposed
line. The Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital
have achieved for themselves the notoriety of
being the most litigant body in the, country so
far as railway enterprises are concerned, and they
have probably spent more money in endeavouring
to prevent railway accommodation at London-
bridge than would have sufficed to build a new hos-
pital in any other...partof London. When the
Greenwich line was first proposed, they were before
the committees of both houses to oppose the scheme.
Fonr yeas s later, in 1835, they were again oppo-
nents to a bill for effecting some desired alterations
in the station. In 1838 they opposed the London
and Croydon bill. In 1840 it was found necessary
to widen the railway for the accommodation of the
traffic—the Governors of st. Thomas's Hospital
were duly at their post. Again, in 1845, when
the Greenwich Company was leased to the South
Eastern, there was opposition from the same
parties ; in 1846, when the Croydon Company was
proposed to be amalgamated with the Brighton,
the plan was opposed by the governors ; and on
every occasion on which it has been found neces-
sary, for the sake of public convenience, to provide
some additional room or accommodation, the autho-
rities of St. Thomas's Hospital have invariably
brought all their power to oppose it, and on every
occasion have succeeded in claiming and exacting
some increased demands from the companies. No
person would desire to see the benefits of a public
hospital unduly interfered with, but at the same
time the convenience of the public has also some
claim for consideration. More than thirteen mil-
lions of persons use the railway station at London
Bridge, and it is somewhat hard upon a majority
of those persons, as well as upon the whole traffic
of the metropolis, which is more or less impeded
by their goiing to and from the station, that an
imaginary injury to two or three hundred patients
in the hospital should be allowed to stand in the
way of carrying out an enterprise which cannot
fail to be of real benefit to the public.
The manner in which the company promoting
this bill has sought to propitiate the governors of
the hospital has been marked with the utmost
liberality ; indeed, we think they have almost gone
beyond what was dne to the intereEts of their pro-
prietary body. When the bill was before the Com-
mons the company offer:d a sum of £20,000, though
they did not take a brick of the hospital buildings,
or a yard of land on which it stocd. This sum
would have enabled the hospital authorities to
erect a new wing from the design submitted by Sir
Charles Barry, on some open ground belonging
to the hospital, which would be completely re-
moved from, and out of sight of, the railway, and
which might be used for patients ; while the exist-
ing north wing would still remain, and might be
used as convalescent wards, for the purpose
of the- museum, of a laboratory, or for offices
connected with- the hospital. The company per-
sisted in their refusal; and the committee went
down to the proposed site of the railway, examined
the line of the railway which was shown by a
.emporary erection near the hospital, and they
very clearly expressed their opinion of the injury
which would be done, and of the sufficiency of the
compensation which was offered, by passing the
'preamble of the bill ; and the committee left it to
the hospital authorities to say whether the amount
of compensation should be dealt with in the usual
way, according to the Lands Claim Act, or referred
to arbitration; or whether they would themselves
name any sum which should be agreed upon and
inserted in the bill, the company paying in addition
all the expenses which the hospital had incurred in
their opposition. With the most dogged determi-
nation the authorities refused every offer which
was made, and the bill was read a third time in
the Commons, despite the opposition of Mr. Tite,
M.P., one of the governors of the hospital, with-
out any claim of compensation, it being understood
that the hospital authorities were to reserve them-
selves for the great fight on the bill in the Lords.
This is, however, by no means all that has been done
in order to remove the apprehensions and satisfy the
demands of the governors of Si. Thomas's. It is
proposed that the sides of the railway should be
constructed of lattice work, in order not to inter-
fere with the ventilation of the hospital ; that the
roadway should be formed of indiarubber or some
other material which would deaden the sound of
passing trains ; that no train should be allowed to
pass the north wing of the hospital at a speed of
more than six miles an hour; that the steam whistle
should not be sounded except in case of absolute
danger ; and that the arcade leading to the railway
station should be removed to give increased ventila-
tion. The line of railway is proposed to be con-
structed on iron columns of 24 feet in height, which
would rest on the garden of the hospital, so as to
afford as little obstruction to light and air as possible,
and the removal of some houses in Wellington-
street, to provide for the passing of the railway,
would serve to give an increased amount of open space
in front of the hospital. All, however, has been una-
vailing, end the hospital authorities have, during the
week, oppoged the bill with a resolution and deter-
mination worthy of a better cause. The case was
continued on Friday, and the committee have ad- '
journed until Tuesday, in order to afford them an
opportunity to try once more the effect of negotia-
tion upon terms more liberal than those offered
when the bill was before the Commons. The offer
now stands thus :—That the company is prepared
to pay compensation to the amount of £20,000 ; to
erect buildings for the hospital on a plan proposed
by Sir Charles Barry, and which would improve
the architectural appearance of the hospital as well
as give increased accommodation ; or thirdly, to
adopt the suggestions wnich had been thrown out
by one of the members of the committee, to extend
the south wing, so as to give an amount of accom-
modation equal to that now afforded by the north
wing. This latter course will involve the removal
and rebuilding of St. Thomas's Church, and the
purchasing of several houses in St. Thomas's-street,
the whole costing from £35,000 to £40,000. Con-
cession must surely now have reached its limits,
and we cannot conceive upon what grounds the
committee can hesitate, on Tuesday next, to declare
the preamble to be passed.
That it is desirable upon public grounds to construct
this line there can be no two opinions. There are
25 petitions in its favour from the inhabitants of
various towns on the line of railway, who desire
to have the convenience of a West end terminus_
and are anxious to avoid the danger and annoy '
ance
of the journey through the City. The
Lord
Mayor and corporation of London are petitioners
in favour of the bill, and the principal mercantil
establishments in the City pray that the line e
may be constructed, "as it would be a great
public ad-
vantage, and would tend to relieve th th
e orough-
fares of the City, by a diversion of the t ffi " the evidence of Mr. Mitchell, one of thera. c.
In
of the city police, he stated that inspectors
doou the 17th of
March last there passed over the b •
ri e 4,483 cabs,
4,286 omnibuses, 9,245 waggons, 2,430 other vehi-
cles, and 54 horses; that the
passeners in vehicles
numbered 60,836, and on foot 107,07g4, and at least
three-fourths of the omnibuses and cabs passing
over the bridge came from or went westward. The
authorities of the Post office complained of the de-
lays which were cont. inually taking plac mand that
more time was taken in conveying thel bags
the short distan
•ce from the Post-office to the Lon-
don-bridge Railway Station than to the Euston
Station of the London and North-Western Railway.
eMr. Eborall, the traffic manager of the South-
astern Railway, showed that of 3,611 cabs pass-
g Over London-bridge 2,386 were to and from
places west of Temple-bar, and some idea of the
traffic going on may be formed from the fact that
320 trains leave the London-bridge Statian every
day. In the midst of all this traffic, and " this con-
inuous rumbling noise," as it was described by

1.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.---WiNciIEsTER, JULY 16.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
TIIE JAIITRDER AT ALDERSHOTT CAMP.
Henry Benjamin Haynes, a soldier, aged 21, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Mary M'Gowan,
at Aldershott, on the 6th March.
The prisoner, on being arraigned, said he did not
want to plead, but wished to be tried. The matter
was explained to him, and his reply was directed
-to' be recorded as a plea of not guilty.
Mr. H. T. Cole prosecuted; Mr. Edwardes • de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared that about 10 o'clock on the morning
of Sunday, the 9th June, the prisoner and a com-
rade named RDbert Callender, both of them
belonging to the 9th Foot, left the Aldershott
cs.mp without leave, and went to the London
Tavern, a house formerly a beer-shop, then used as
a place of' resort for low women. After partak-
ing of some beer in the kitchen, Callender went up
stairs with a girl named Emma Turner, and
Haynes accompanied the deceased, M'Gowan, to
another apartment. M'Gowan was a native of
Leeds, in Yorkshire. Callender fell asleep, the girl
Turner left him, and he did not awake until aroused
by the footsteps of Haynes immediately before the
murder. When Turner got up she went to M'Gowan
and told her it was time to get up. It was then
about three o'clock. M'Gowan got up and began
to wash herself. Prisoner put his arms round her
neck and kissed her. M'Gowan said she had left
something in another room, and went out, followed
by Haynes. They went into another room. Almost
immediately fearful cries of " Murder" were heard,
and on Henry Ferris, of the North Down Rifles,
and Charlotte Davies, a female in whose room ho
was sitting while she was dressing, going to the
spot from whence the shrieks proceeded, they disco-
vered the unfortunate girl in :..he act of falling upon
her knees, and Haynes withdrawing his hand, hold-
ing a razor, from her throat. The girl was bleeding
profusely from a wound on the neck. She put up
her hands, and exclaimed, " Lord have mercy on
my soul. I hope my poor mother will forgive me ;
I have been a wicked sinner-" Haynes put the
razor on the table, took up the case, and put it in
his pocket as he walked out of the room, and was
found by Callender leaning over the bannisters,
very pale and exceedingly agitated. Callender asked
in the name of God what made him do that. He
shook his head, looked up, and merely replied, " Is
she hurt ? Is she hurt ?' She made no attempt to
escape. The unfortunate girl expired in less than
five minute. Private Wm. Trevanner, of the Mili-
tary Train, with some comrades, and Royal Artil-
lerymen, conveyed Haynes to the lock-up. On his
way, Haynes said his mind had not been easy since
he came from America, on account of what he had
done there. Trevanner asked him what made him
murder the girl. He replied, "Poor girl ! She
never done me any harm, and I never done her any
harm. I never spoke to her, nor she to me." Tre-
vanner told him his intention had been to murder
some one, as lie had brought his razor out ; and he
said it was not this girl he intended to murder,
but Margaret Cheltenham, who had caused
him to have to enter the hospital. He
had not, however, inquired for the girl Cheltenham
that day. Trevanner then asked him what caused
him to murder this girl, and he said it was the
devil.
Evidence having been led,.
The jury retired, and having been absent upwards
of two hours, returned into court with a written
message to the learned judge.
His Lordship said he had received a communica-
tion to the effect that some of the jury, having some
doubt as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time
he committed the murder, desired_a further expla-
nation of the law.
The foreman said they felt a doubt as to his lord-
ship's meaning respecting the offence being com-
mitted under a sudden and uncontrollable impulse.
His Lordship replied—The suddenness of the im-
pulse did not make, it the less murder. He read the
law seriatim. No jury, he added, could properly
acquit on the ground of insanity, where they be-
lieved that the man was conscious of the act which
he was about to do. An uncontrollable impulse
must be one which overcame all consideration. If
a man were conscious of the act which he was about to do, and the act was contrary to the law of the
land, he was properly punished.
The jury at once returned a verdict of guilty of
murder.
His Lordship then assumed the black cap, amid
breathless silence, and passed sentence of death in
the usual form.

METROPOLITAN TOLLS.—The report of the Right
fin. Viscount Eversley, the Hon. Col. Pennant, and Mr.
Wrightson, M.P., the Royal commissioners, was presented
to the House of Commons last night. It is not yet printed,
but it is stated it shows that the Royal commissioners took
a great amount of trouble in the inquiry, and in the end
they report in favour of what must be a coercive measure
against those parishes in the outer area which have not
taken to the roads like those in the inner area.
EARLY COSI
associationNG ASsOc
tookrAilO lacNp.—T on Friday,he efir
and
proved of
ad
two
fetes of the abovehighly
successful. The boys of the Duke of York's
school, and the Royal Caledonian
.. Asylum, attended,
mid
amused the company with a variety of gymnastic games
taenridstpiasectoimstumes.
esß,anotdhosocohomooplsaniweed by reattthi
irederteinspethetieirvecthanarades-.
The fete of Saturday was also very attractive. The
Programme of out-door amusements commences at eleven o'clock with a grand cricket match, followed by perform-
ances by a drum and fife band. foot and hurdle racing, &c.,
and terminated with a display of the whole of the uppr
series of fountains, at half-past five. The in-door attrac-
tions consisted of a grand vocal and instrumental con-
cert, and performances by the orchestra band of the com-
pany. The great festival organ, and the Paris prize organ,
played at intervals during the day.
armCiEstLimEsEßreAcTorEdDedAinßfosaTernlet ---toyTher:nztfocutywinelebrgated
" That of Leoben, in 17,9;,.Wedas
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victoryict,haasr
lmes
e.onf t fo::w ledia
ans
Gfenntheral Bonaparte himself who proposed
_sigiedaa few days after r.the
am by Napoleon I. over Prince
a few days since. This armistice was fol-
lowed by the preliminaries of Leoben and treaty of
Campo-Formio. The armistice of Stayer, coneluded on.
the 25th December, 1800, took place after the battle of Ho-
henlinden.. It was signed by Moreau. On the 16th
J-9uarl, 1801, Brune signed the armistice of Treviso,
which livered into the hands of the French the fortified
places of Ferrara, Peschiera, and Porto-Legnano. He was
reprra.ched with not having demanded Mantua. In 1805,
Murat concluded an armistice at Hollebrun, which saved.
the :Russian army, and was the cause of a severe letter writ-
ten to him by the Emperor. On the very evening of the
battle of Austerlitz, the Emperor of Austria demanded and
obtained an armistice, which was preliminary to the peace
of Presburg. Another armistice, also celebrated, was signed
after the battle of Friedland, and led to the peace of Tilsitt.
At -Wagram took place the armistice of Znaim, which was
the prelude to the peace of Vienna, 1809. Lastly, on the 4th
June, 1813, after Bautzen, was signed the armistice of Pleis -
witz, which the Emperor Napoleon I. himself considered a
fault."

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