The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Prince Jerome Napoleon has during the last week
been visiting some of the minor ports in the west of
Cornwall, in his steam yacht the Jerome Napoleon,
Capt. G. de Buisson. On Saturday his Royal High-
ness arrived by train at Pearse's Royal Hotel, Ply-
mouth, where he will remain until to-day. Mean-
while the yacht has arrived in Plymouth Sound.

The Danish frigate Jylland, 44, Capt. Pederson
[eft Plymouth Sound on Friday for Copenhagen.

The Russian frigate Swetana, Capt. Drescher, left
Plymouth Sound on Saturday for the Brazils. On
departure she fired a Royal salute of 21 guns, which
was duly acknowledged by the citadel.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Capt.
Aplin, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday, with Staff
Commander Spain and a navigating 'Arty, who will
bring the screw steam slocv Daphne, 4, from Pem-
broke to Devonport. Her burden is 1,081 tons, and
she will have engines of 300 horse power.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Dee, Master Com-
mander G. P. Raymond, having
shipped stores, left
Devonport on Saturday for Portsmouth and Wool-

wich.

It is reported at Devonport as probable that the
screw steam frigate Phoebe,
35, will beadvanced
sufficiently to take the duty of the Bristol, recently
returned disabled in her machinery from the 'West
Coast of Africa.

The screw steam frigate Liffey, 31, is being
coppered at Devonport, after which she will be un-
docked and placed under the sheer hulk fOr the pur-
pose of receiving her masts. She will then be sent
to Keyham steam-yard to be fitted for the for the
first division of the steam reserve in Hamoaze.
Chief Surg. Alexandre Candrychaffe, aged 37
years, died on board the Russian ship Girden on
Saturday, suddenly, from disease of the heart, and
was buried with military honours yesterday at the
Portsmouth Cemetery, according to the rites of the
Greek Church.

The screw-frigate Endymion, 21, 500-horse power
(nominal), Capt. C. Wake, having received the
whole of her sea stores, guns,
'ammunition, &C., on
board, was on Friday taken out of the harbour to
the measured mile, at the Maplin,sands, for the
purpose of testing her rate of speed at deep draught.
The trial was pronounced satisfactory by the officials
connected with the Steam Reserve on board, under
whose superintendence it was conducted, and the
Endymion afterwards anchored at the Little Nore.
A telegram was received at Chatham yesterday
announcing that she would proceed to sea either last
await final 'instructions from the Admiralty. She
night or this morning, calling in at Spithead to
proceeds, it is understood, to the Mediterranean, to
join the squadron under the command of Vice-
Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C.P.
The Speedy, screw (tender to the Dasher), Master-
Commander Rogers, left Portsmouth on Saturday
for the Channel Islands.
The Megmra, screw, store-ship, Capt. Montagu
B. Dunn, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
eastward. She will embark supernumeraries for
the Mediterranean fleet, and sail in a day or two.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the battle of
Trafalgar, the Victory, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir
T. C. Pasley, was decorated with garlands, and to-
day the Hon. Capt. F. Egerton, A.D.C., will enter-
tain a number of officers at dinner on board to com-
memorate the event.

The following non-commissioned officers and men
of the Ist division of the Depot Brigade, Royal
Artillery, have been awarded medals and gratuities
by his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com-
manding-In-Chief, for long service and exemplary
conduct :—Sergt.-Major P. M'Carthy, medal and
£l5 ; Sergt.-Major G. Frost, medal and £l5 ; Sergt.
G. Kennedy, medal and £l5; Battery Quartermas-
ter-Sergt. T. Deveny, medal and £lO ; Corporal
W. Rumsey, medal and £10; Gunner J. Napper,
medal and £5 ; Gunner W. Roberts, medal and
£5 ; Gunner D. Tuppen, medal and £5 ; and Gun-
ner J. Duinmort, Coast Brigade, medal and £5.
The usual half-yearly inspection of the battalions
of the camp at Colchester took place last week.
Major-Gen. Hay, Inspector-General of Musketry,
accompanied by Capt. M‘Kay, of the Hythe School
of Musketry, has also officially visited the camp,
and inspected the musketry returns and marksmen
of the 4th Depot Battalion.
The 43d Light Infantry, under the command of
Lieut.-Col. Synge, C. 13., was inspected on Satur-
day on Southsea-conunon by Lieut.-Gen:. Sir G.
Buller, K.C.8., Commanding the South Western
District, who was accompanied by his usual staff of
o 111 cers, _ . . .

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The officers of the 54th Regiment, stationed at
Gosport, have presented Col. Herbert, C. 8., on his
retirement from the regiment, with a handsome silver
centrepiece. One shield on the base bears the fol-
lowing inscription :—" Presented by his brother
officer; as a mark of their affection and esteem, to
Col. Charles •fferbert, C. 8., on his retirement from
the 54th Regiment, which he commanded for seven
years ;" and on the other shield is the crest of Col.
Herbert.
The following appointments were made on Satar-
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On Friday the island of St. Pierre was sighted,
and, as the French have always been anxious to
have it placed in telegraphic communication with
the rest of the world, Mr. Cyrus Field, Capt. Com-
mail!, and Mr. Temple, engineer to the Telegraph
Construction Company, landed, and after an inter-
view with the Governor-Colonel Creu were accom-
panied by him, and found a suitable place for land-
ing a cable.
On Saturday the ships were off Port au Basque,
on the S.W. extreme of Newfoundland, and the
following day the end of the cable was landed, and
the paying-out commenced towards Cape Breton
Island across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but Mon-
day morning brought such a heavy gale from the
S.W. that the ship in pitching broke the cable in
250 fathoms' depth of water, about ten miles from
the island of St. Paul, and thus the Medway had
once again to put her grappling powers to the test,
and was successful on Wednesday, the cable being
found all right to Newfoundland ; but owing to
some derangement of the machinery it broke again,
and it was not until Thursday that the lost end of
the cable was finally spliced to that on board the
Medway, carried into the picturesque bay of Aspee,
and the line -completed, 86 miles of cable having
been paid out.
The Terrible and Medway being nearly out of
fuel proceeded to Pictou, Nova Scotia. They were
most hospitably received and entertained by the in-
habitants of this, one of the most loyal of our
colonies, and one very agreeable day was passed in
a visit to the mines of the Albion and of the Acadia
Coal Companies. Novia Scotia is wonderfully rich
in minerals of all descriptions, the coal seam here
being 30 feet thick. At the mines of the former
company they have a section or column of pure coal
showing this —32 feet in length by 3 feet thickness,
intended for the forthcoming Paris Exhibition.
On Thursday, the 27th of September, the ships
left for Northumberland Straits to replace the cable
to Prince Edward's Island, and were visited by the
Governor of that colony, Mr. Dundas. Mr. Cyrus
Field, who had been with the Atlantic and this ex-
pedition since leaving the Thames in June last, left
h&c for New York, carrying with him the good
wishes of every one orl board. On the 2d of Oc-
tober, the cable having been replaced, the Terrible
left for Charlottetown to fill up with coal en route
for England, amid the heartiest cheering which has
ever been heard in these strange parts, for her cap-
tain, officers, and crew have gone so heartily and
zealously into all the telegraph work that to the
Medway it seemed like parting with a very old
friend. We were very much struck by the warm
way in which those connected with the real work of
telegraph cables always speak of the assistance
rendered them at all times by the navy; the return
of the Terrible to England would present an excel-
lent opportunity of gracefully acknowledging their
services.

The Medway steamed away on Tuesday for Eng-
land, passing through the Gut of Canso, and on
Sunday, the 14th, reached lat. 49 9 N., long. 14 27
W., where she unfortunately broke her shaft, and
lost her fan, and as this is 300 miles from Cork and
400 miles from the Liszard, with an easterly wind,
it was a most serious disaster, as the rig of the ship
is not at all adapted for sailing, but the captain
jury-rigged her in such a way that, although during
the last week there has been very heavy easterly,
gales, he sailed the ship into our harbour this morn-
ing, and is waiting for a tug to take her on to the
Thames, Mr. Temple, with some of his staff, leaving
for London by the night mail.
The weather is very unsettled at present, but
should it clear away the Medway will be crowded
with visitors, anxious to look at the machinery, &c.,
of a ship which has had so much to do with the
Atlantic cable.

The Wilful Damage at Miss Burdett

Coutts's Residence.

On Saturday, at the Marlborough-street Police-
court, James Wardell, painter, in the employ of
Messrs. Banting, upholsterers and decorators, St.
James's-street, was brought before Mr. Knox for
further examination, charged with wilfully damag-
ing pictures belonging to Miss Burdett Coutts, of
Stratton -street.

Mr. Wontner, jun., appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. E. D. Lewis for the prisoner.
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Mr. Wontner, jun., said that as soon as the da-
mage to the pictures was discovered, Mr. Banting
had an interview with Sir Richard Mayne, and on
stating the particulars, Inspector Tanner, of the
detective force, was sent to Stratton-street, who
called all the workmen into the room, and ques-
tioned them. The result of this interview would be
told by the inspector himself.
Inspector Tanner, of the detective force, Scot-
land-yard, said—l received instructions from Sir
Richard Mayne to proceed to Miss Burdett Coutts's
residence in Stratton-street, and I went there. I
examined the damaged pictures. One of them hung
near the ball-room, which is lighted by three win-
dows at the extreme end of the room, and the pic-
ture is about 29 feet off, and the windows covered
with holland, and in the centre of the room the fur-
niture was piled. I could not see the cuts on the
picture until I went close up to it. I afterwards
made inquiries among the men employed in the
house, and at the request of Mr. Banting I called
all of them into one room, the prisoner being
amongst them. I told them that a wilful and mali-
cious act had been committed, and that it behoved
them all as honest men to tell all they knew, so that
the perpetrator of the da:nage might be discovered.
I then turned to the prisoner and slid " I am
bound to tell you that I am InspectOr Tasntanteer-
of the detectives, and that as several
ments have been made by some of the workmen, I
.them in your pre-
am going to ask them to repeat,
sence. There is a suspicion restang. upon you, and
I wish you clearly to understand that. you„ need
The pnort,
unless you choose, answer any questions. i-
soner replied, "I am desirous of giving every infor-
mation, the same as any of the other men.
I will
answer any questions that you put to me. I am anxi-
ous to be examined, and I will go anywhere you
please." Walsh then repeated the §tatement he

Mr. Wm. Banting, of the firm of Messrs. Thomas
and William Banting, upholsterers and decorators,
No. 26 and 27, St. James's-street, said—About seven
weeks ago I was engaged to paint Miss Burdett Contts'
house, principally the outside. Dimmock, the fore-
man, and a man named Taylor superintended the job.
I heard of the picture being cut, and examined. I
found the cuts as described. I applied to Sir Richard
Mayne, and Inspector 'fanner was desired to make
an investigation. I made rough notes of the con-
versation with Inspector Tanner. I afterwards saw
the prisoner show the inspector how he carried the
steps, and I noticed that when the windows were
covered with holland the cuts were not visible. I
asked the prisoner if he had done the mischief, and
he denied it. I said I would give a reward to any
man who would tell who had done the malicious
act, but I said nothing about a pardon.
Mr. E. D. Lewis said he had just been informed
there were witnesses whose evide,.....e4wits material
to the prisoner, and as he should wish to have them
heard he would ask for a remand.

Mr. Knox said he would charge the prisoner for-
mally, b'it would remand him in order to give an
opportunity for hearing his witnesses.

The Newspaper Press of America.

The Spectator applies the word " snippety" to
the comments of the American newspaper press On
events passing under review. It adds that no people
believe less in what their newspapers tell them than
the Americans—not even the Italians, who always
imagine that the statements made are intended to
conceal, not to explain, the truth. The comments
of the Spectator on America are generally conceived
in such a broad and fair spirit, and conveyed in a
style so terse and vigorous, that we would be slow
to take exception to what our contemporary said,
but we think that in this instance the Spectator is
scarcely fair. " Snippety," by which we presume
is meant short and superficial editorial notices,
is perhaps a true and pert word to convey the
writer's meaning. The leaders in general are
" snibbity" though the exceptions are very nume-
rous. We have transferred to our columns an
article from the Round 7'able, in which that journal
replies to an allegation of the New York Evening
Post, accusing it of not being up to the mark of the
leading London weeklies, falling indeed consider-
ably behind the standard of such a journal as the
Spectator. The Round Table, with the good sense
that characterises it, meets the charge by a simple
admission of its truth, and retorts by saying what
is true in a still greater degree, that it comes
nearer to the standard of excellence attained
by the chief London weeklies than the New
York daily press does to that of the leading
London dailies. The Round Table may instance its
own successful establishment as a proof oi the rapid
advance of journalism in the United States. It is
characterised by the strongest and freest expres-
sion of truth ; commenting without fear on social,
political, and moral delinquencies. Its articles are
the reverse of " snippety," and its opinions are ex-
pressed without any regard to the public feeling of
the moment. The consequence is, that this journal
steadily gains in reputation and power ; and as its
circulation increases, the ability of its proprietors
will increase to attain their avowed aim to bring their
organ up to the standard they have in view. A
few years ago such a journal could not have main-
tained its ground in the United States. 'Then the
newspaper press of America was filled with sensa-
tionalt stories of a style which did not reflect.credit
either on themselves or their readers. Enthusiastic
hi g" sentiments
young ladies poured out their 44 gIIS-- 1.1--.11, to the
without regard to nature,
atnesott
wildest imagination, and
rubbish which they styled tales.
producing giving:l
thheosuggriel
wholly, this sort of thing is almost_ill There, in
for example the Philadelphator;l
the smallest sheets
the smallest possible type,. the news of the
exploded. Take
is ertun tined t
of paper,
parts of all countr)ileisdesi dCe
nos': etsipl
eoinr d
ne ne
wt ss fromaill
Union and of the world.
i the States up to the hour of going
t'atches bring the events oc-
joucurring throughout
rnal.
to press, and though to the eye of those accustomed
to L
yetnodn icee wspaper the appearance is unfavour-
able, consider it to be impossible to condense
more importa
nt matter into a smaller space. If the
o
of a newspaper be to give news, the Inquirer
ahcertainlyg fulfils its mission. Though its editorials
are short, they are always pithy and to the point,
and in keeping with the characteristics of the news-
paper. The broad sheets of the leading dailies of
New York are filled with the fullest information on
every subject from all parts. As these journals
aim at the dissemination of news, we cannot under-
stand how there can be any force in the statements
of the Spectator that the people put no faith in them.
This might be said of a weekly review devoted to
articles commenting on the news already given by
the daily journals, but cannot fairly be applied to
the daily journal, which contains little more than a
bare record of events. It is true that news may be
so conveyed as in a measure to disguiie its real
significance, but we think that the American papers
are as little opeu to such a charge as those

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