The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

AN AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.

A robbery has just been committed at the Hotel
Dessin, at Calais, with a degree of audacity which
shows that the perpetrator was a master hand at his
business. On Sunday week last a well-dressed
young man, of about from 20 to 25 years of age,
alighted at the hotel, gave his name as the
_Vicomte
de Nairne, soar of an Admiral of that name, and
stated that he was a midshipman in the French
navy. He had, doubtless, heard that officers in the
navy were treated with particular attention in that
house, in consequence of M. Dessin having a son in
the service. He found such to be the case, as he
moved about as though he were at home, and with-
out exciting any suspicion. The day after his
arrival, on pretext that he expected his father from
England, he requested that his room might be
changed for one with two beds, which was done.
During the day, the weather being wet, he asked
Mme. Dessin whether Calais did not contain an
establishment where he might pass an hour or two
in good society, and a letter of introduction was
given him to the president of the Cercle. In the
evening he remained at home, and stated that
he should not go to bed, as the packet
was expected in the night, and he complained
moreover Of a toothache, keeping his face tied
up with a handkerchief. All his measures had
before this been taken. During his stay in the
house he had observed where the key of the office
where the cash-box was deposited was usually
placed, and he took possession of it. At night he
entered the office, broke open the desk, and ab-
stracted 1,500 f. or 1,600 f. in gold and English bank
notes, with which he got clear off, calling to the
porter to open the door, as he was going to meet
his father at the packet and should soon return. He
had the impudence to leave behind him a letter
stating that he had been four years at the prison of
La Roquette, and having no money, and not being
able to find any one to supply hian, had taken the
sum belonging to the hotel. He thanked the pro-
prietor for the way. in which he had been treated,
and said that he would very soon send him 2,000 f.
from England, whether he was bound, if they would
not make a hue and cry after him. He recommended
the managing clerk at the hotel to keep a better
look out er such customers as he did not know,
and concluded by sayin(r. that the scheme of the
robbery had been planned at La Roquette, where
he had an accomplice, and that he had better look
sharp or his comrade would attempt something
against them when he got out.

COAST DEFENCES.—The Crown Commissioners
for Inspecting the Coast Defences have recently. visited
Harwich, in the vicinity of which there are several. Martel!,
towers. After visiting Languard Fort, the circular redoubt,
&c., the commissioners returned to London. General Sir
Harry Jones, G.C.8., attended as chief commissioner.
Colonel Wulff, Major \Vesthead, and other officials were in
attendance.
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At Malta the Hannibal, 91, bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral Mu ady, second in command (afloat);
Hibernia receivi n.: ship, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Codrington, Superintendent of Malta dock-
yard ; St. Jean, ei.'Acre, 101 ; Renown, 91 ; London,
90; Brunswick, 80 ; steamships of the line. Recruit,
G; Assurance,:4; Vigilant,:4; steam sloops. Banshee,
2 ; steam despatch vessel Boxer, 2 ; steam ten-
der ; Hearty steam tug ; and Azov and Kertch, '
sailing • gunboats. At Naples the Cressy, 80,
steamship of the line, and Terrible, 21, steam
frigate. At Corfu, the Racoon, 22, steam corvette,—
and Osp- ey, 4, steam sloop. At the Pirmus of
Athens the Gannet, 11, and Wanderer, 4, steam
sloops. At Syra the Medina, 4, steam surveying
vessel. At Canea the Tartarus steam surveying
vessel. In Sunda Bay (Candia) the Liffey, 51,
steam frigate. At Smyrna the Euryalus, 51, steam
frigate. At Constantinople the Intrepid, 6, steam
sloop, and the Caradoc steam despatch Vessel. The
destinations of the Argus, 6, steam sloop vessel,
which left Malta some weeks ago, and the Exmouth,
90, steamship of tho line, which left the same port
on the 16th of October, by telegraph order, are not
known.

By the last accounts received at Malta the Marl-
borough, 131, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
Fanshawe, the commander-in-chief, with Rear Ad-
miral Dacres on board as Captain of the Fleet ; the
Conqueror, 101; the Orion, 91; the Princess Royal,
91 ; the ,Renown, 91, stetunslifff6f the line ; the
Vulture, 6, etean frigate; the Scourge, 6, the
Coquette, 4, and the Lapwing, 4, steam sloops; the
Growler steam gunboat; the African depot ship;
the Redpole steam tug were at Gibraltar, as well
as the Edgar, 91, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Erskine, and the Neptune, 91, steamships of the
line belonging to the Channel fleet. The Caesar,
90, the James Watt, 91, the Agamemnon, 91,
steamships of the line, and the Virago, 6, steam
sloop, were on their way to. Gibraltar and the
Mediterranean from England; and on her way to
Malta from England and Gibraltar the Supply, 2,
steam storeship. On her way to Gibraltar and
England the Firebrand, 6, steam sloop. The Doris,
32, steam frigate, was at Tetuan, and the Quail
steam gunboat at Tangier.
Her Majesty's steam screw storeship Balaklsva,
William Pellatt, master. commanding, sailed from
.Woolwich Arsenal on Friday evening, laden with
grins and war stares, and 2,000,000 rounds of small
arms rifle ammunition.

The Advance and the Robert, hired transports,
have likewise shipped cargoes of war stores for the
west. The military store transport Inkerman sailed
on Saturday laden with war materials,
The company's new screw steamship Ca'diz, on her
first voyage to the Mediterranean, laden with mer-
chandise, specie, and passengers, called at Woolwich
Arsenal on Fri-lay, having shipped 100 tons of shot,
and sailed thence oil Saturday for her destination.
The transport Llewellyn has commenced discharg-
ing a cargo of returned military stores from Gib-
raltar. . _

Iler Majesty's steam-tender Bustler went down
the river on Saturday from Woolwich on an engi-
neer's trial of -her machinery, which has been re-
constructed on an improved system. The result of
the trial. was satisfactory.
The French aviso Galilee continues in Great Yar-
mouth roads. Capt. Lemosey, Lieut. Michell, and
the other officers of the steamer have entertained on
board Lord Claude Ifamilfon and the officers of the
Donegal Militia, the Mayor of Yarmouth, &c. The
healths of her Majesty and of the Emperor Napoleon
were warmly received on the occasion.
The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, has proceeded
from Chatham to Sheerness for the purpose of going
on her trial trip this day to test her engines and
machinery.
Extensive preparations are being made at Chat-
ham Dockyard for the launch of the large line-of- •
battle screw steamer Irresistible, 80 guns, which
will take place on Thursday next. The Irresistible
is as fine a specimen of that class of vessel as any
ever built at Chatham. Her extreme length is 190
feet ; length for tonnage,lsB feet ; extreme breadth,
56 feet ; and burden, 2;642 tons.
The Royal Commissioners on the national defences
have announced their intentioi“o visit, Chatham, to
make an inspection of the floating battery TrUSty,
which received such injuries during the trials made
on her with the elongated shot from the Armstrong

guns.
The Meander storeship, Commander Sir M. Mac-
gregor, was towed out of harbour to Spithead on
Saturday. This vessel, destined to supersede the
old Tortoise as storeship at Ascension, is fitted with
derricks and chain purchases worked by steam crabs,
for hoisting in and out coals at Ascension. She is
also fitted with a steam water-distilling apparatus.
She will sail for Ascension in company with the
Arrogant.
No. 40 mortar-vessel has been masted at Ports-
mouth, and is in the hands of the riggers, joiners,
and painters, preparing for service.
The Mohawk, 6, screw despatch vessel, Corn. P.
C. M‘Dougal, got up steam in the steam basin at
Portsmouth on Saturday.
The Shannon, 51, screw, has finished coaling in
the steam basin at Portsmouth, and has taken in
her maindeck armament-8-in. guns of 65 cwt.
The Dasher, 3, paddle, Com. Hore, was swung in
Portsmouth harbour for the adjustment of her com-
passes on Saturday.
The Urgent, Corn. Hive, exercised her officers
and crew with her newly-fitted topsails on Cun-
aing,ham's patent,.alongside the dockyard at Ports-
mouth, on Saturday. The snug appearance of the
yards, and the wonderfully quick manner in which
the topsails were reefed from the deck, created con-
siderable interest among the officers present. It is
believed that the Vulcan troopship
will be fitted at
once on the same plan.
The Simoom screw troopship, Corn. Cook, is taking
on board in the steam basin at Portsmouth a large
quantity of hospital stores, bedding, B:c., for China.
The Beagle, 6, screw despatch vessel, Com. hay,
steamed out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead on
Saturday, where she received her powder and shell.
The screw steamship Greyhound, 17, was masted
at Keyham on Friday.
Steam was got up on Friday on board the screw
steamship lievenge, 91, and the gunboat Snap, in
Hamoaze.

Capt. Lakeman has succeeded Capt. Rice in com-
mand of the screw steamship Royal Albert, 121,
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir C. Fremantle. To-morrow
(Tuesday) she will probably drop down Hamoaze
into Plymouth Sound.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Centaur, 6, Corn.
Aplen, slipped her mooring's in Hamoaze on Satur-
day, went outside the breakwater to try her en-
gines, and returned to Plymouth Sound.
The gunboats Snap and Bouncer were masted at
Keyhain on Saturday.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Hydra, 6, Comman-
der R. V. Hamilton, in Hamoaze, got up steam on
Saturday to prove her machinery. Her topgallant-
masts are on end, and she is progressing rapidly
towards completion.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Theodore B. Hollin-
worth, to the Prometheus ; C. Prickett, master ad-
ditional, to the Fisgard ; William Pitt, chief engi-
neer, to the Wellington, for charge of the Sans-
pareil ; William Lowther, first-class assistant engi-
neer, to the Prometheus, in lieu of a chief engineer ;
Owen Owens, first-class assistant engineer, to the
Rhadamanthus ; John Peach, acting third-class en-
gineer, to the Centaur, as supernumerary ; Christo-
pher Lund and Robert Roberts, third-class assist.
engineers, to the Prometheus.