The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-14 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 39, Cal:A.
Rowley Lambert, from Gibraltar February 28,
arrived at Plymouth on Monday morning. She
brings the ships' companies of the Firefly and
Cockatrice, and Lieut. Lacken, of the 32d Regi-
ment, stationed at Gibraltar. The Liverpool left
in port the gunboat Skylark, Captain J. C. Pre"
vost, and spoke off Cape Spartel the screw steam
frigate Topaze, 31, Capt. 'William M. Dowell, C. 13
bound to the Pacific, but which was said to he
going :into Gibraltar in consequence of the aP"
pearance of smallpox among the crew. On San"
day last the Liverpool spoke the Alexandrine,
from Foo-chow-foo, with tea, and the Postilion,
from Calcutta, both bound to London.
The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Oberon, 3,
Lieut.-Commander Edmund H. Verney, at PIP'
mouth, having made a satisfactory trial of her
engines, will now require some minor defects to
be made good, when she will proceed to her
station, the 'West Coast of Africa.
The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, was towed
on Monday from her moorings in Hamoaze to'Sei;
ham steam yard, where she will be docked and fitted
for the first division of the steam reserve.

The trials of the Bellerophon, iron screw frigate/
14 guns, 4,270 tons, 1,000-horse power, Capt. B•
Tatham, are fixed to commence over the measured
mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, on Thursdall
the 15th inst., weather permitting, under the super'
intendence of Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., command:
in; her Majesty's ship Asia and the Portsmouth
Steam Reserve.

A court-martial assembled on Monday morning
on board the flagship Royal Adelaide, in lla,moazet
for the purpose of trying Mr. E. A. 31. Chaffers,
assist.-paymaster of the Doris, for being drunk on
board the said ship on the 28th of February last•
The Court consisted of Capt. C. J. F. Ewart, Capt'
R. Drew, Capt. Aplin, Capt. Tremlett, and Capt'
V. Baker. Mr. William Eastlake, Deputy-Judge-
Advocate. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and it
being on record that he had before been on proba'
tion under a charge of intemperance the Court ad:
judged him to be dismissed from her Majesty °
service. . _

The following appointment has been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Sub-Licutenant)
Charles Greulich.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.

(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Common Jury.)

lIODGE V. lIODGE SIMMONS AND SY3IONDS.
Dr. Dean, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwicke appeared
for the petitioner, and Dr. Sninks for the respon-
dent, who entered au appearance, and denied the
adultery. The co-respondent entered no appear
ante.

From the evidence it appeared that the petitioner
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was a builder, and lived at a place called Stoke, near Plymouth. The acts of adultery deposed to were
of the most flagrant character, and committed under
circumstances of a very revolting description. did,
Some witnesses were called with a view totl,
credit the testimony of the witnesses for the Pc
tioner, and counsel having addressed the jury,
His Lordship summed up very carefully.
The jury, after a short consultation, found 3
verdict for the petitioner on all the issues raised. d
His Lordship then pronounced a decree nisi, an
condemned the co-respondents in the costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Ths DaY•

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MARLBOROUGH STREET. bed
DAMAGING A PICTURE.—James Reed, described
as a hawker, was charged before Mr. Tyrxvhitt with
wilfully damaging a picture, the property of a gel'
tleman, residing in John-street, Adelphi.
John Morgan, a young man, porter at the auctiell
rooms in Savile-row, said that on the Previ°d.th4
afternoon a gentleman purchased an Italian lanto
scape at the rooms, and asked him to take it
John-street, Adelphi. In the evening, while car,
i,
rying the picture along Tichborne-street, the 1/',
Boner and two or three other men, all ha/i,ro
baskets, obstructed him,. and on his requesting Led
prisoner to move so that he might pass, he exelairn,,a
" I'll shove this stick through your picture," 370
immediately did so. The gentleman was desireiv
that the prisoner should not be prosecuted, only
requiring that the damage should be paid.
The evidence having been corroborated, 31r. Teawhitt asked what was the amount of damage, sof
the porter said about £l, but the painting 105 d id
the value of £l3. The gentleman, however,
not care much about the damage to the picture' to
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was fortunateve
have alighted on a man who seemed to like to lwse
his picture damaged. He should deal with the ca
as one of assault, and fine the prisoner 405., °r
month.

THAMES.
HALF A YEAR AGO.—AUgUStUS Stuta, a Y°ll3
man, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged '6'o,
stealing a suit of clothes and a neckerchief, the r
perty of Frederick Wulman.
The parties are German sugar bakers. The. Por.s
secutor said that half a year ago he was lodgin'to
Pennington-streQt, St. George-in-the-East, and ;two
prisoner also lodged there for two days and'-D
nights. He then missed his suit of clothes 3i.
necktie. He saw no more of his clothes or the
,P to
soner until last night, when the thief earile:ot
Messrs. Gunwood's sugar house, where he W.,rtg elf
work, and asked for employment. He mi mew- tie
recognised the coat on the prisoner's back: „co
was sure it was his property. He brought it it
Germany more than a year ago. He vaille waS
at 20s. only, but the whole suit when stolen

worth £3.
Hunrick IVulman, brother of the last Wit
also identified his brother's coat, which he saw °
the prisoner's back last night. ,
The evidence having been translated to t'-'ef'
soner by M. Wintjen, interpreter to the Nur," be
said the coat was his own property, and tha" hie
brought it from Germany. It was a gift fro
father, for whom it was too large. d sc3s
The prosecutor repeated his evidence, an
certain the coat was his property. He was 3°-
confirmed by his brother.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial.
ref,
TliE Two BROTHERS.—SamueI Heath, a lab°llte
loal-
was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with $ hip
ing a watch and a pair of boots belonging t°tlree,
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brother, George Heath, a carman, and some
the property of Joseph Blake. locig"
On the 25th of last month the prisoner wa,s
ing with his brother at No. 24, Redman s" day,
Stepney. He was missing on the following
Ire,
and the property, the subject of the present eh,' bis
was gone. Last night George Heath met Ns'i ith
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brother at Riverhead, in Kent, and taxed hinl I,tiso
the robbery, which he admitted. The prisoner
to A
said he had sold his brother's watch and b°l9tstolol
man at Lewisham, in Kent, and the rest of the $
property to another man at Oakstcad,
in surreyMr, Paget remanded the prisoner fora Week