The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The reports from Malta reach to the 15th of
June, and announce that the only naval movements
at that port since the departure, on the sth, of the
Commander-in-Chief for Naples, were the departure,
on the Bth, of the Caradoc for Corfu, which re-
turned on the 13th with the mails ; the departure
for Naples, on the Bth, of the Terrible, and of the
St. Jean d'Acre and Orion, on the 9th, to cruise in
the offing of Malta; the arrival on the 11th, from
Portsmouth, of the Hannibal, bearing the flag cf
Rear-Admiral Rodney Mundy, the second in
command, and having on board, for garrison
duty at Malta, Lieut. Harrington and Ensign
Boyle, with 101 non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates of the 4th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade.
Also, the arrival on the 13th of the Assurance from
England and Gibraltar, and of the Lapwing from
Naples and Messina, bringing the announcement
that the fleet under Vice-Admiral Fanshawe were,
pursuant to orders from England, to leave Naples
on the 11th, but for what destination was not
known. The Melbourne, steam transport, arrived
on the 7th, and the Sir William Peel steamer, on
the 13th, both from Corfu ; the former left for Eng-
land on the Bth, the latter for Marseilles on the
13th. On the 15th the Hannibal, 91, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Rodney Mundy, and the Hi-
bernia receiving-ship, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Codrington, the Superintendent of Malta
Dockyard, the Assurance, 4, Lapwing, 4, Kertch
and Azoff (sailing) gunboats, Caradoc despatch-
vessel, Boxer sloop, and Hearty steam-tug, were in
Valetta harbour; the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, and
Orion, 91, cruising in the offing of Malta, and the
Doris, 32, and Banshee despatch vessel, hourly
looked for from England. On the 11th the Marh
borough, 131, bearing the flag of the Commander-
in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, with the Con-
queror, 101, the Princess Royal, 91, Renown, 91,
Victor Emmanuel, 91, Brunswick, 80, Centurion,
80, Euryalu9, 51, and Terrible, 21, were at Naples ;
the Gannet, 11, was at Leghorn ; the Coquette, 4,
at Marseilles ; the Argus, 6, and Vigilant, 4, in the
Adriatic ; the Racoon, 21, at Corfu ; the Osprey, 4,
at the Piraeus of Athens ; the Medina, 4, surveying
vessel, at Candia ; the Tartarus, 4, surveying
vessel, at Alexandretta ; the Scourge, 6, at Alex-
andria ; the Wanderer, 4, at Constantinople ;Stehle-
Recruit, 6, at the mouth of the Danube_ ; the Sup
ply, 2, storeship, at Boudroun ; the Vulture 6, and
the Growler and Quail gunboats, and B' tler
steamtug. at Gibraltar. Another Frenchseilles on the
prize was
brought into Malta on her way to M
13th of June-the Austrian bark Catarina, Capt.
Santega, of 372 tons burden, laden with wheat from
ar
Taganrog, captured on the 25thof May, in the
vicinity of Tenedos, by the Pomone, French steam
frigate. Upwards of 60 Austrian vessels are now
collected at Malta, which have contrived to escape
French cruisers.
The Gorgon, 6 guns, paddlewheel steamvessel,
remains at Sheerness,
waiting Admiralty orders
for her destination.
The Scylla, new screw steam corvette, was put
out of No. 3 dry dock at Sheerness yesterday, after
having bad her feed-pipes, propeller gear, &c.,
overhauled. She remains in the fitting basin, and
will forthwith be proceeded with to complete her
equipment for immediate active service.
An Admiralty order has been received at Sheer-
ness, ordering the artificers and labourers to cease,
from and after Saturday, to work over hours, ex-
cept in any cases of emergency that may hereafter
arise.
The following shipbuilding firms have contracted
with the Government for the supply of new gun-
boats :-Mr. Pitcher, 1 ; Scott Russell and Co., 3 ;
Thames Shipbuilding Company, 2 ; Miller and Co.,
2. These vessels are required for speed, therefore
they will have fine lines and light scantling, and
be fitted with engines of 80-horse power. From
the specifications it wonld appear that they are in-
tended to carry Armstrong's guns.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :7-.Lieut. Charles Murphy, to
the Excellent ; Lieut.:Sillney Metcalf, to the.
Dauntless ; Lieut. Joshua. Palmer, to the Neptune
Lieut. C. A. J. Heysham, to *the Ajax ; J. IV. IV.
Green, paymaster; additional,' to the Trafalgar;
,A4MITAOFo-Mikrr4,Y, 'swoop to.3the Abpukir mod, A.
R. Turner, midshipman, to the Hero.

THE WALIVORTII MURDER.

EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER
[The following appeared in our late edition of yesterday
evening
William Abraham Moore, charged on the coroner's in-
quest with the wilful murder of his wife Sophia, by stab,
bing her, was yesterday placed before Mr. Norton for exa-
mination, at the Lambeth Police-court.
The prisoner was most respectably dressed. He wore a
blue frockcoat with velvet collar, light waistcoat, black
neck,-tie,, and a coloured shirt. He is of a light complexion,
With, a good forehead, a quick, restless eye, and appears
about, 38 years of age.
Mr. Solomon appeared for the prisoner.
The first witness called was Emma Harle, married, who
said I reside at 23, Trafalgar-street, Walworth-read.
The prisoner lodged in my house, with his wife and two
children. On the 24th of May, about half-past seven in
the morning, I was aroused by Mrs. Moore running into my
room Niith her hand at her back, saying, " Oh my back,''' in
a sort of hysterical scream. I understood her to say the
prisoner had kicked her. She appeared as if she could not
,drairelicr breath. Upon that I rubbed her back, but I di-
rectly felt something hot, which I found to be blood. She
(deceased) raised the alarm, and I heard her say " Oh,
William,' what have you done; what shall I do ?" No one
appeared to come, and I then sent out one of my children to
cry out that some one had been stabbed. I was in bed when
Mrs. Moore came in. Mrs. Moore ran out of the house
screaming. The next time I saw her was in a neighbour's
house vomiting blood, and a surgeon dressing the wound.
The wound was under the left bladebone. I, with some
other persons, went with her to the hospital. The Sunday
following I saw her lying dead. On the day before the
murder I heard that Mr. Moore had been having his goods
valued by a broker. Mrs. Moore and her father, and some
other relations, had gone out.. When they returned I told
them what had been done. _Mrs. Moore went up-
pairs, and shortly afterwards she came down and
asked me to mind a. few things she had. brought
down. I did not like to refuse,.and she remained for some
time in my room. Mr. Moore returned; shortly -0-ter oixe
&clock in 'die morning, and asked who had. broken Open
the door. 'Mrs. Moore said, "I
,did ; who has'.a batter
right -than your wife ?" He said ..f.!Xes„:soNyou, are in,
eVerysense of the Word, blit-this is the last nightt-pint be
here; the children are going away where they will be well
taken csie. of." His wife made no answer, but sat crying..
After a short conversation with my husband he.went up*
stairs,' btit'his wife remained down stairs. He returned to
my room afterwards, and said, " Now, Mrs. Moore, it's not
likely You're going to sleep in another person's room ;
there's your own bed to go to." , He said if I encouraged
her ,to remain, he 'should consider we were as bad
as his wife. Mrs. Moore said, " Very well, I'll colt() up
stairs." She then went up stairs, and all was quiet.
About six o'clock my husband got up to go to work and
left. In a short time afterwards Mrs. Moore came into my
room and awoke me, by saying she was very-cold, as she
had laid all night on the, outside of the bed with' her clothes
on. Mr. Mooie slept that night in. the back room with the
children. She left_iny,room saying she would go and wash
-herself, as that would revive her. In a short time after
she came clown stairs to. ask me if I would allow her to go

into my room to find her comb, and I said-certainly. She
''went.in, and while there I heard her husband pass into the
yard. He went up stairs, but came down very quickly,
and, tapping at my door, said, " Mrs. Moore, come out of
tliat room ; and if Mrs. Harle harbours you there, I shall
consider her as bad as you." I said, "Go, go, perhaps 'he's
got breakfast ready." He then said, "Mis. Moore,
do, you hear ?" She said, " I'll ecmie.." A erne
'she had been up stairs about three' minutes I heard ,
her scream out, " Ah, dp if you darer '•This
was followed by a hysterical scream. She came dOwn
saying, "Oh my back, my back." I then found her stabbed
as I have stated. Directly.after Mrs. Moore ran Out of the
house, I heard
-one of the children. cry out " Father,,father,
what will become of yoU.and us?" I heard no reply. I
never heard them quarrel. Mrs. Moore's mother said they
had had some words. Mr. Moore appeared drunk when he
returned home on. the Tuesday morning.. I had heard that
Mr. Moore had had some words with his wife. in cone• •
quence of some one kissing her.
Mrs. Banting, residing at 13, Trafalgar street,
don't know either Mr. or Mrs. Moore. About 25 minutes-
to eight onrthe Tueiday.morhing, I heard MrS. MOore cry-
ing for assistance.. She was on the opposite side of the way:
I went over Ito her; as she appeared to he ill, -and I asked
her if she was unwell. She said she had been-, Birabbed.';l
I'see you have—in your mouth."., She said, "In my '
'back." I assisted her tolny room and sent for a doctOi.
Undressed her, and found a wound under the loft blade-
bbne. As she coughed the blood poured from het' mouth.
As the doctor was strapping up the wound a man named
York came in. Deceased, -on seeing him, said, " Tura
him' out, he is the instigator of it all."

Mr. Chas. Sheppard, assistant to Mr. Ens& liowitt, sur•
geon, 5, Apollo-buildings, East-street, Walworth, said—l

examined the wound. I found the deceased in a very ex-
hausted state. She was bleeding profusely from the mouth..
Scarcely any blood was issuing from the wound. I strapped
it up, and seeing the woman was in great danger, I directed
her to be conveyed as quickly as possible to the hospital.
Mr. James Broad, house-surgeon to Guy's Hospital, said
—I found an incised wound near the left bladebone. She
was in a state of collapse from loss of blood. She was in a
very dangerous state when she came to the hospital. She
lived 70 hours after her admission. I have made a pea t
mortent examination. I found two or three pints of blood
in the left side. The lung was wounded and quite col-
lapsed. Death was caused by the wound. There was no
deposition taken. I advised that such should be done when
she was first brought in, but it was not taken. For the
next two days she improved, but after that she became so
as to be utterly unable to undergo any excitement.

William Frost, residing in Trafalgar-street, said he saw
Moore after he had stabbed his wife. He was with him
when he went to his wife's mother's. Moore then went
on his knees, and said he never premeditated the crime.
Moore left the house alone, and thus got away unobserved.
Robert Bell, police sergeant 39 P, said he went to the
hospital to see Mrs. Moore after she had been stabbed. He
asked her who had done it, and she said her husband, Wra.
Moore, had stabbed her with a black-handled knife in the
back. On the day previous to her death he again asked
who stabbed her. She said, "William' Moore, my hus-
band ; and if you get my stays and chemise, you'll see
where the knife went through." On being asked how the
quarrel arose, she said, a young man who was keeping com-
pany with her sister, named Ted York, said he could do
as he liked with her ; but it was false—he never had had
anything to do with her. She said she could not tell why
her husband stuck the knife into her.

John Youell, 250 P, produced the knife with which the
unfortunate woman was stabbed. It was a common black-
handled table knife.

Francis Carroll was called, but merely proved pninting
the prisoner out to the police.

Mr. Solomon—A hundred pounds reward was offered,
was there not ?
Witness—Yes.
Inspector Holloway said he apprehended the prisoner in
Clarendon-grove, Notting-hill. On being told that he was
charged with murdering his wife he denied it. He said it
was ridiculous. A short time afterwards he said " Business
is business. I'm the man you want. I don't wish to give
any more trouble than is necessary. My name is William
Moore." When the charge was read over to him at the
station-house he said he did not kill his wife feloniously.
On searching him a small phial and a letter (produced) was
found upon him. It was signed William Moore. The letter
was read. It evidently showed that the writer contem-
plated suicide, and begged his family not to think that he
was a murderer at heart. He begged when dead to be laid
by the side of his deceased wife, who, he thought, had not
been as discreet as she ought to have been. The letter con-
eluded with a prayer for forgiveness.
Onthe applicationweek of Mr. Solomon the prisoner was re
manded fora

TEE BATTLE OF MALEGNANO.

Yesterday's Moniteur contains the following
official report of the battle of Malegnano, addressed
by Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers to the Emperor :

Malegnano, June 10, 1859.
Sire,—Your Majesty gave me the order yesterday
to proceed with the Ist corps along the Lodi road,
to drive the enemy out of San Juliano and Maleg-
nano, informing me that for this operation I should
be joined by the second corps, commanded by Mar-
shal MacMahon.
I immediately went to San Donato to arrange with
the Marshal, and we agreed that he should attack
San Juliano with his Ist division ; that after expell-
ling the enemy he would make for Carpaniello in
order to cross the Lombro, the approaches ts which
are very difficult, and that thence from there he
would proceed to Mediglia.
The second division was to take at San Martino
the road which would conduct through Trivulzo
and Casanova to Bettola, and then it was to aid-
vance to the left of Mediglia, in such a manner as
to turn the position of Malegnano.
It was agreed that the Ist corps should advance
in full strength along the Malegnano high road,
and, at the spot marked " Betolma" on the
map, should detach to the right the Ist divi-
sion, which, passing through Civesio and Vibol-
done, should go on to Mezzano, establish at this spot
a battery of 12 guns, to play first of all against Pe-
driano and afterwards against the cemetery of
Malegnano, where the enemy had entrenched him-
self and established strong batteries.
That the 2d division of the first corps, having
left San Juliano, should go to San Breta, and esta-
blish there alSo a battery of 12 guns, to play against
the cemetery and enfilade the road from Malegnano
to Lodi.
Lastly, that the 3d division of the same corps
should advance direct on Malegnano and carry the
town concurrently with the Ist and 2d divisions, as
soon as the fire of our artillery should have produced
disorder there.
The Ist division, leaving Malegnano on its left,
had orders to bear on Cerra; the 2d and 3d on
Sordio, where they were to expect the 2d corps also
proceeding thither through Dresano and Casal-
maj occo.
For these dispositions to have entire success, time
would be requisite for their completion, and in
commanding me to operate on the same day that I
left San Pietro l'Olmo, your Majesty rendered my
task more difficult, for the head of the 3d division
of the Ist corps could not enter into line before half-
past three o'clock, so greatly was the road obstructed
by the convoys of the 2d and fourth corps. How-
ever, at half-past 2 o'clock I ordered Marshal Mac
Mahon to march on San Juliano. Not finding the
enemy there he forded the Lombro although a bridge
was marked on the map at Carpianello, and. con-
tinued his movement on Mediglia. At half-past
five, the 3d division of the Ist corps arrived to
within some 1,200 metres from Malegnano, occu-
pied by the enemy, who had thrown up a barri-
cade about 500 metres in front across the road,
established batteries at the very entrance of the
town, behind a cutting as high as the first houses.
I ordered General Bazaine to draw up his division
for the attack ; a battalion of Zouaves was thrown
forward and on the flanks, as sharpshooters. The
enemy received us with a cannonade that might have
become dangerous, as the balls raked the road we
had to take in column. Our artillery replied
successfully to that of the Austrians, and General For-
geot, with two batteries and the sharpshooters of
the Ist division at Mezzano, supported on our right
the attack we were about to commence. I ordered
the knapsacks to be thrown down, and the 2d bat-
talion of Zouaves, followed by the whole of the Ist
brigade, to charge at double quick pace. The Aus-
trians had lined with a cloud of sharpshooters the
first houses of the town, the cutting of the road and
the churchyard, and yet they could not resist our
onslaught, beat a retreat right and left, made a
vigorous resistance in the streets, at the castle, be-
hind the hedges and the walls of the gardens, and
were completely driven out of the town by nine at
night.
The 2d division, on its arrival near Malegnano,
bore to the left of the 3d, following the river side,
and took or killed the enemies whom we had al-
ready driven from the upper town and thorough-
fares. Marshal MacMahon was able even to send
after the Austrians some balls and bullets on the
Lodi road, for at the noise of our musketry he had
advanced on Colognio.
The enemy's resistance has been vigorous. The
bayonet was used several times ; in one of the of-
fensive returns of the Austrians, the eagle of the
33d, for a moment in danger, was bravely defended.
The losses of the enemy are considerable ; the
streets and places near the town were strewed
with their dead ; 1,200 wounded Austrians have
been brought to our ambulances ; we have made
between 800 and 900 prisoners, and taken one gun.
Our loss amounts to 943 men killed or wounded,
but, as in all the previous engagements, the officers
have been struck in a large proportion. General
Bazaine and General Goze have received contu-
sions ; the colonel of the Ist Regiment of Zouaves
was killed; the colonel and lieutenant-colonel of
the 33d were wounded ; in all 13 officers have been
slain and 56 officers wounded.

I ha'•e the honour of sending to the Emperor,
with the account of these losses, the propositions
made by the generals of divisions and approved by
me. I beg him to attend to it, and to treat the Ist
eerps with his usual benevolence.

I shall specially recommend to him Col. Alselme,
my chief of the staff, proposed to be a general of
brigade ; Commander Foy, whose horse was
-wounded, and who is proposed to be a lieutenant-
colonel; Commander Melin, proposed to be an officer
of the Legion of Honour ; Capt. Rambaud, for whose
promotion I have already asked ; and M. Franchetti,
a non-commissioned officer in the Ist African Chas-
seurs, my porte-guidon, who was wounded at my
side.—l am respectfully your Majesty's most humble
and faithful subject,
The Marshal BARAGL'AY D'HILLIERS.