The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

.711. E NAVY..

The subjoined notification was issued yesterday
at the Admiralty, Whitehall:—
" By a recent regulation made by the Board of Admiralty
no person after the Ist of April next will be nominated to
a naval cadetship who shall be under 12 or above 11 years
'of age at the time of his first examination. The examina-
tion days are fixed for the first Wednesday in the months of
March, June, September, and December."
Yesterday a number of the additional hands or-
dered by the Admiralty to be taken on at Chatham
:Dockyard were entered at that establishment, the
entries being confined chiefly to labourers; very few
of the mechanics required having as yet offered
themselves. All the establishments arc now work-
ing early
.and late, and the utmost activity prevails
not only in the shipwright department, but also in
all the factories and workshops, in pressing forward
the work ordered by the Admiralty to be completed.
The vessels now on the stocks, and which are being
pushed forward vigorously, are the Atlas, 91, the
Bulwark, 91, the Undaunted, 51, the Rattlesnake,
21, and the Orpheus, 21, in addition to which two
other ships will be commenced as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements have been made. The Rodney,
91, and the Severn, 51, are both in dock, being
lengthened and altered into screw steamers, and the
Ariadne, 26, is being rigged and prepared for the
pendant.
The new regulations affecting the riggers of
Portsmouth Dockyard will come into force this day.
The class of "seamen riggers" is to be entirely abo-
lished, and in their stead are to be entered 122 first-
class riggers at 4s. per diem, and 36 second-class at
3s. 6d. per diem. Eight leading hands are also to
be kept on the establishment, in lieu of six as for-
merly.
The Pincher gunboat was masted in the steam-
basin at Portsmouth yesterday. No. 2 dredging-
vessel is rigged, and has her gear stowed in readi-
ness to proceed to Malta as soon as a steamer is ap-
pointed to tow her out. The Simoom steam troop-
ship, Commander J. Cook, is taking in her tanks
alongside the north wall of the steam-basin. The
Pitt., fittinr, out in the steam-basin as a coal depot
for the use of the fleet at Portland, yesterday shipped
her derrick booms and gear, and will this morning
make trial of her machinery. The Hornet, 17,
screw corvette, has been brought down the harbour
and placed in the steam-basin for repairs to hull
and machinery, &c.
Her Majesty's newly constructed screw steam
sloop Aldine, 17, in dock at Woolwich, was yester-
day masted and commissioned, and is ordered to be
prepared for service. The pendant was hoisted
provisionally by command of the Commander .Super-
intendent, in the absence of the commander, not yet
appointed. The Trident, 6, iron paddle-wheel
steam vessel, late from the West Coast of Africa,
Commander Francis A. Close, was yesterday at
Greenhithe, discharging her powder, in prepara-
tion for being docked at Woolwich.
The military steam etoreship Lord Panmure, J.
Moore commander, yesterday arrived at Green-
hithe, and commenced discharging powder-barrels
from the western yards.
The Ardent, 5, paddlewheel steam sloop, commis-
sioned by Commander Parish for service on the
West Coast of Africa, was yesterday hauled out of
basin at Woolwich in preparation for sea.
The crew of the paddlewheel steam-sloop Cen-
taur, 6, Commander Aplin. at Plymouth, were in-
spected by Captain Jerningham on Saturday.
The sere w steam-frigate Emerald, 51, Captain A.
Cumming, left Plymouth on Saturday for Portland.
The screw steam frigate Mersey, 40, Captain

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Caldwell, left Plymouth on Saturday "'v .;47-t
sions for Portland. • • - -
The Havoc screw gunboat was, swung-Ai-the 1L;,1:-.;-
justraent of her compasses in Portsmouthher.ooA,
yesterday.
The Royal screw yacht Fairy has lilkuled aloryp
side the south jetty of Portsmouth Dockyaril,-
will go into No. 1 dock at high-water to-day.
Ou Sunday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock,
Licut. F. Heron left the Admiralty-house, Ilamoaze,
in the "first" gig, with despatches for the screw
steamship Encounter, 14, Capt. Roderick Dew, in
Plymouth Sound. With him was Jas. Dyer, coxs-
wain, and four hands. The wind was aboutW.S.W.,
and as it was blowing hard, a reef was taken in
the sail—a lug. The rising tide always runs with
great force through the dangerous passage between
Drake's Island and Mount Edgecumbe, and its
velocity has greatly increased during the late
severe weather. Soon after the gig had crossed
the " Bridge" of Rocks, a sudden squall unstepped
the mast and turned her bottom up. All hands got
on to the keel, but she rolled right over and threw
them off. When she settled again they returned to
the keel, and were rolled over in the same way
three or four times, which caused great exhaustion.
The peril of their position was much increased by
the corning darkness, and nearly an hour elapsed
before relief approached. Two Mevagissey fishing
boats were lying in Cawsand Bay, and in the after-
noon their skippers, who are brothers, discussed
the suitability of going into Sutton harbour, Ply-
mouth. After some deliberation they determined to
start, and providentially selected the moment when
their services were most invaluable. It. W. Pearce,
in the Zedora, heard cries of distress, and bore down
immediately for the gig. In consequence of the
boisterous state of the sea it was with some diffi-
culty that he rescued all the crew, one of whom
was pulled up by the hair of his head when sink-
ing. It was then nearly 6 o'clock. The Zedora
conveyed them all to the Encounter, which is lying
at anchor near the Breakwater, ready to sail for
China. The gig was towed into Sutton _harbour -
by Skipper James Pearce, of the Mary. Anne. It
seems quite necessary that. the Adthiralty should=
issue regulations for the management Of boataiihett -
using the " Bridge" passage in heavy weather.
Many lives have been lost here.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander W. Graham to the
Mutine, commissioned; Commander H. P. Cator
to the Fawn, commissioned ;Lieut. A. Luckcraft to
be agent of mails; Licut. the lion. Albert D. S.
Denison to the Fawn ; Licut. G. S. Peard to tb•
Mutine; John D. Rogers, master, to the Fawn ;
Charles Prickett, master, to the Mutine ; A. L.
Nu,,cnt, midshipman, to the Odin; Charles Stuart,
midshipman, to the Centaur; James Henry. sur-
geon, to the Mutine; William Fasker, surgeon, to
the Fawn ; James B. 11PAvoy, paymaster, to the
Mutine; John J. Hayward, paymaster, to the
Fawn ; George Prince, assistant-paymaster, to the
Royal Albert; and Henry Pengelly, assistant-pay-
master in charge, to the Adroit.

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Intelligence was yesterday received at the head-
quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, that the Simoom, the ship chartered by
the Government to convey the detachments of Royal
Engineers to China, would be ready to embark her
troops on Wednesday morning. The Royal Engi-
neers selected for service in China have all been in-
spected, and everything is in readiness for their de-
parture. They arc expected to leave bead-quarters
this day.
The officers and men of the Royal Engineer Train,
together with the horses, waggoAs, and other ma-
terial belonging to that corps, vacated the camp at
Aldershot yesterday, where they have been quar-
tered during the summer, and proceeded on their
march to join the head-quarters of the Royal Engi-
neers at Chatham, where they will occupy the win-
ter quarters prepared for them. The troop will
proceed by easy marches, and will not reach Chat-
ham until Friday next.
The Himalaya, Commander J. Seccombe, coaled
at Shithead yesterday, and was appointed to leaye
that anchorage for Kingstown this morning, where
she will land the 26t (Cameronians) Regiment.
The military convicts were landed from her yester-
day. In addition to the troops enumerated in The
Sun of yesterday, the following arrived in the
Himalaya from the West Indies—viz., 3 private
soldiers and 1 woman of the 17th Regiment; 1 pri-
vate of the 37th ; 8 privates, 4 women, and 10 chil-
dren of the 39th ; 3 privates of the 631 ; 1 private of
the 76th, and 1 man of the Newfoundland Corps.

'The next examination of candidates for direct
commissions before the Council of Military Educa-
tion, composed of the following rnembers—Major-
Gcn. Cameron, C.TI., 'Vice-President, Major-Gen.
Port lock, Lieut.-Col. Addison, and Col. Elwyn, will
take placß one the 21st inst., and fire succeeding
days, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.

ALLEGED CASE OF PROCURING

ABORTION.

A protracted ixquiry was brought to a conclusion
late on Friday night at the Canning's Head Tr vcrn,
Sidney-strvet, Mile-end Old-town, before Mr. Hum-
phreys, the coroner for East Middlesex, involving
the serious charge of procuring abortion against
two persons.

It appeared from the evidence that Ann Smith,
a single woman, who had been servant at a public-
house at Shadwell, was delivered at her lodgings,
on Sunday last, of a female child, the dead body of
which was found in the chamber utensil by the
neighbours whom she called to her assistance, and
one of whom she requested to bury it in the gar-
den, which she refused to do, but gave notice to the
police that Smith had told her that instruments
had been used to procure abortion.
Mr. Horton, the divisional police surgeon, de-
posed to having examined the body of the child,
upon which he found no external marks of violence.
The lungs were collapsed and would not float, but
from having been born under the circumstances
detaKed in the evidence the child might have been
then suffocated. The child was a seven or eight
months' child, and there was no apparent reason
why it should not have been born alive. It was
quite possible that abortion could have been pro-
cured without the child being marked by the in-
strument employed.
Ann Smith, the mother of the deceased, stated
that on the previous Saturday (the day before her
delivery) she called upon a Mrs. Gibbon, who keeps
a chemist's shop in the Back-road, Shadwell, and
told her that she felt pains in the loins, but Mrs,
Gibbon said she did not think she was near her
confinement. Had called previously on Mrs. Gib-
bon, who gave her a powder. Did not believe the
child Wel born alive, and admitted that she in-
tended, if possible, to procure abortion, but did not
go to Mrs. Gibbon in reference to that matter.
James Chislctt, a labourer, deposed to having
accompanied Smith to Mrs. Gibbon's shop about
three weeks since, and waited outside for about
an hour and a half. Upon their return Smith
said that Mrs. Gibbon had not given her any
medicine, but had used an instrument to her. Wit-
ness had been living. with Smith for three weeks,
and knew she was in the familyway by another

person.
Mrs. Gibbon was called, and after being duly
cautioned by the Coroner said, she was a widow.
and continued the chemist's business which her late
husband had carried on at Back-road, Shadwell.
Ann Smith had been in the habit of coming to her
shop occasionally for small articles. Smith had
recently told her she was in the familyway, and
asked her to attend in her confinement ; but she
did not go on Sunday when sent for, as she did not
consider herself engaged. Sent a person on Sun-
day to see how Smith was, and also sent a mixture
of laudanum and powdered nitre to be taken if she
had been confined.
Ann Smith, upon being recalled' and el2sely
pressed, said she went with Chislett to Mrs.-Gib-
bon's to meet a young man named Wells, the father
of her child, who had previously had some conver-
sation with Mrs. Gibbon rfkout her terms, which
were £lO, for which she required a written under-
taking. Wells refused to give the undertaking,
but was to find the money. He did not come to
Mrs. Gibbon's on the night that Chislett accom-
panied her there. After being cautioned by the
Coroner the witness said Mrs. Gibbon had used an
instrument upon her three times, and had also given
her two powders which were to assist in procuring
abortion. She declined to say hether she first
proposed to Mrs. Gibbon to procure abortion. She
had not paid Mrs. Gibbon any money, nor did she
know that Wells had.
Mrs. Gibbon, upon being recalled, denied having
cceived any money from any one on account of
Smith.
The Coroner, in summing up tothe jury, remarked
upon the lamentable frequency of the crime of in-
fanticide within his district, whieh in fact was so
common that it appeared to be no longer regarded
as a crime by some classes in that portion of the
metropolis with which he was officially acquainted.
At the same time he cautioned the jury not to be led
away by the general outcry. that was now justly
raised against the crime of infanticide, but to de-
• cide upon the present case strictly according to the
evidence that had been adduced before them.
F The jury, after a patient and laborious investiga-
tion (the adjourned sitting having lasted from 4_
- p.m. until past 11 at night), returned a verdictof
- wilful murder against Ann Stnith _and Martha
Gibbon.
The Coroner then issued warrants for the com-
mittal of the two women for trial, 9r,cl they were
immediately conveyed to Newgate.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GA EDEN.
Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison
THIS EVENING, 13 INORA H. Messrs. Santley, H
Corri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, TWA-
wall, and Miss Louisa Pyne.
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.

- .
DIVERTISSEMENT. Mdlles. Levine, Pasquale, Pier-
Ton, and Mons. Vandris.

Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEAT RE-8.0 YA.L, HAYMAKKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
Ting FITTINING the performances will commence with
THE ROAD TO RUIN. Mr. C. Mathews.
And PAUL PRY. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Lessee, Mr. A. Tfarris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commenoe with
LOVE'S TELEGRAPH.
After which, PUSS ; or, Metempysychosis. Miss L. Keeley.
And LOVE AND FORTUNE.
To conclude with THE TWO POLTS.

THEA rt(l4: - AL, ADP:LPL-LI:
N Sole Proprietor and llanazer. Mr. Beni. Weboter.

THIS EVENING, to commence with GOOD FOR
NOTHING. Messrs..-T. L. Toole, Billington,Eburne, More-
land, Powell, and Miss Woolgar.

After which (by desire), ONE TOUCU OF NATURE.
Messrs. B. WelAter, Bil'ington, Moreland, Miss H. Simms.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.

Doors open at half-pa9t six—Commence at seven. Box-
() lice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing scats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment arc strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King7street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO
BLANK. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Cane ;
Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson.
After which, the new Comedietta, entitled CUPID'S
LADDER. Reuben, Miss Lydia Thompson.

Followed by MAGIC TOYS, support d by Miss Lydia
Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de
Ballet.
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To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L.
Buckingham, Esq., of VIRGINIEJS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Pops.

Reduced Prices--Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half past six; perform-
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanboronih
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
ZOOS.
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
And CAUGHT BY THE EARS.
Commence at 7 o'clock

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee Mr. William Cooke.

Most legitimate and perfect success of the New Historical
Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., entitled GARIBALDI, and
illustrating the principal (-vents in the life of that celebrated
Italian General, supported by Messr. R. Phillips, Delmore,
Ennis, Raymond, Miss Kate ('arson, aided by a powerful Dra-
matic Company, full stud of beautiful trained horses, appro-
priate and picturesque scenery, with great hippodramatic
effects. Enthusiastic reception of the renowned Delavanti
Family—Gymnasts par excellence—with Little Menoni, the
'moat wonderful Juvenile Equestrian ever known, who are re-
ceived each night with deafening plaudits—John Henry
Cooke. the unrivalled Parisian Ma,:inet—Artistes of astound-
ing ability from the Continental Cirques ':hiss Emily, the
most elegant rider of the day—Full troupe of Gymnastic Pro-
fessors, facetious Clowns, and Pierrots- -Magnificent Menage
Horses and clever Dwarf Ponies - Concluding each night with
THE MAN WITH THE CARPET BAG.
stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of -Verdi's Opera o.
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con.
eerts).

And a Grand Se'ection from Meyerbeer's new opera of
Comic Vocalists -Messrs. Georze [Tolson (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic\ W. r. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interestinf; Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of halls have tom re-decorated and
beautified. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 1.
THERMOMETER, IN TIIE SHADE.
55—highest since noon yesterday.
51—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.
BAROMErmt-28 82—A fall of half an inch since yesterday.
WLND,'South-Westerly ; fresh and fine
Two o'CLocx..—We have had some showers since noon,
and the wind has greatly increased—into a strong gale.
In the Parks it has been blowing a hurricane, and three
trees have been blown down in Kensington-gardens this
day.