The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-28 00:00:00

THE ARMI ,

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief inspected the garrison at Woolwich on
Saturday. He arrived at 10 a.m. under a royal
salute. The 10th Brigade, 13th Brigade, and the
Depot of Royal Artillery, the sth Company of
Royal Engineers, and a strong battalion of Royal
Marines, were drawn up in line in the barrack field
—the 10th Brigade under Col. Burrows, the Depot
under Capt. Nangle, the Royal Marines under Col.
Hopkins ; the whole commanded by Sir Richard
Dacres, K.C.B. On the common were four batte-
ries Royal Horse Artillery, three batteries: of the
Depot, a squadron of the sth Lancers, the riding
troop Royal Artillery, and two batteries of the
Military Train, the Royal Horse Artillery under
Col. D'Aguilar, the Depot batteries under Col,
Smyth, C.B. (Indian Artillery), the Military Train
under Col. Robertson, the sth Lancers under Capt.
Boyd, and the riding troop under Col. Henry. His
Royal Highness minutely inspected the troops,
after which the whole marched past. The Duke
then divided the force into two parts, taking com-
mand of one himself, and leaving the other to
General Dacres. The Duke took up a position on
the eminence at the top of the common, and sus-
tained the attack from Sir Richard Dacres with
good effect. Sir Richard succeeded in turning
the flank of the enemy, causing him to retire and
change his front. During the evolutions some bril-
liant charges were made by the cavalry. (the infan-
try having been dismissed to barracks), and the
whole of the movements of the artillery were con-
ducted with great celerity and precision. His Royal
Highness afterwards inspected the remount horses,
&c., the new quarters for married soldiers (which
elicited his highest approval), and the General Hos-
pital. After taking luncheon at the Royal Artillery
mess he returned to London, expressing the highest
approval of all he had seen in the garrison. The
duke was accompanied by Sir R. Airey, Major-Gen.
Bloomfield, Col. Bingham, Col. Clifton, and other
officers.

Last Wednesday considerable commotion took
place among the gentlemen cadets at the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich, the immediate
cause of which appears to have been a new regula-
tion which deprives them of the leisure time cus-
tomarily allowed on Wednesday afternoon ; but the
true source of discontent is said to have been the
quantity and quality of the provisions. The first
symptom of any irregularity was that oniy 30 cadets
out of 230 presented themselves at the roll-call on
parade in the afternoon. When called a second time
no one refused to obey. In the evening, however,
the old field guns posted along in front of the Aca-
demy (trophies from the battlefield of Waterloo)
were thrown into the ditch of the enclosure, and a
number of the drill swords were at the same time
east into the governor's garden, while other guns I
were loaded with the ylb. loaves recently intro-
duced in the rations. In vain the authorities endea-
voured to put a stop to the proceedings by punish-
ing some of the
supposed ringleaders, and also by
removing all
traces of the disturbance early on the
following "ring. In the course of the day the
governor harangued the malcontents, informing
themed that
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succeeding evening the gov ° Ar,aturWereposted
windows were
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smashed, and a variety of
placards
about the barracks. Ott Frida the mutineers
seemed to have obtained what they desired,
viz., an investigation into the cause of complaint
and dissatisfaction. A board of inquiry
.has sat
each day for that purpose, and consists of Colonel
Yorke, ILE., Major Fitzhugh, and Major Williams,
R.A. The cadets who were under arrest have, for
the present, been allowed to return to duty. Other
causes of complaint, as stated by the cadets are the
unjust manner in which they consider the '° special
class" to have been promoted over the heads of many
gentlemen now at Woolwich ; and also a new mode
of dividing the classes lately introduced by the Go
vernor. With regard to matters unconnected with
study, they state that the regulations are totally
unsuited to the present age of the cadets, and that
in various ways they are not treated as gentlemen.
A statement of the facts in a formal and official report .
is expected to be forwarded to-day to headquarters.
The Himalaya, screw troopship. Capt. J,. See-
comb; arrived at pi on Saturday from the
S "thea d
Mediterranean
t
anwith the following passengers, naval
invalids,
Wylde, loops on board :—Capt. E. M. A.
from the Wan'udie-r>erl.leut. C. H. Murphy, invalided
C. D. Davis, invalided
from the Doris ; Mr
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invalided from the London ; Mr. G. G. Boys, naval '
cadet, invalided from the Doris ; Mr. Hancock,
assist.-engineer, invalided from the Que n ; Mr.
Moorman, paymaster, invalided from t';e Queen;
the Rev. J. W. Clarke, M,A., to join t- e Hawke ;
Mr. C. F. Batcsh, midshipman, R. (Prussian
lieutenant); Mr. W. Dennison, Mr. M. Stocker,
R.N-., Mr. T. Shuter, RN., Mr. T. B. Kerr, R.N.,
68 invalided seamen, marines, and boys, one ordi-
nary seaman to join the Recruit, three seamen to
join the Orion, four passengers for harbour service,
two seamen for trial by court-martial, and two for
discharge. The troops on board were embarked as
follows :—From Corfu, on the 11th October, Lieut.
Givin, Ist battalion 9th Foot, 26 rank and file of
various regiments, invalided and to join their
respective corps, six women and 16 children ;
from Malta, on the 16th of October, the 17th
company of Royal Engineers, under the command
of Lieut. Lambert, and men invalided from va-
rious regiments, 116 rank and file, eight women
and 14 children, one lady and one child ; from
Gibraltar, on the 22d of October, the 24th company
of Royal Engineers, under the command of Lieut.
Durnford, and men invalided from various corps-
-144 rank and file, 21 women, and 19 children, and
Staff-surgeon O'Loughlan. The ship steamed into
Portsmouth harbour soon after her arrival at Spit-
head, and was made fast alongside the dockyard,
where the military will disembark this morning,
Lieut. Durnford's company of Royal Engineer's
proceeding to the camp at Aldershot, and Lient.
Lambert's company to Chatham, Malta was left on
the 17th, the day after the troops had embarked ;
Gibraltar on the 22d ; Spithead was reached thence
in 971 hours. The Himalaya sailed from Ports-
mouth on the 26th September, calling at Queens.
town, where she took in detachments of troops, and
went thence to Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu, and
back to Malta, Gibraltar, and Spithead, embarking
and disembarking troops at each port, and, in addi-
tion, taking 25U tons of stores. Rough weather was
experienced during the voyage out, but fine weather
during the return passage home, The superheating
apparatus acted better during the present voyage
than the previous one, but it requires to be entirely
re-arranged. At present it chokes the up-take of
the funnel, destroys the draught, and after two days
at sea it becomes a difficult matter to keep up steam.
The Himalaya's next services will be a voyage to
Halifax and Bermuda.

In consequence of the great want of artisans of
the Royal Engineers at Aldershott and Shorncliffe
Camps, and also at Dover, at which latter station a
large party of Royal Engineers have been for some
time past employed in repairing the defences at that
part of the coast, a number of skilled mechanics,
consisting principally of masons, bricklayers, and
carpenters, have been selected from the com-
panies of sappers and miners at Chatham,
and will leave head-quarters, Brompton-bar.
racks, this morning for the above stations. The
sappers and miners proceeding to Aldershott will
be employed, in conjunction with the men
of the 2d company of Royal Engineers, sta-
tioned at the camp, in erecting stabling and huts
for the horses and men of the A troop of the Royal
Engineer Train, which, instead of going into winter
quarters at Chatham, will remain at Aldershott
during the winter, the north square at Brompton
barracks, in which the men and horses of the Royal
Engineer Train have been hitherto quartered, being
now occupied by the D battery of the 9th brigade
Royal Artillery. The want of additional engineers
at Aldershott has been so great that the volunteers
from the Royal Engineers from the cavalry and in-
fantry regiments at the camp have been posted to
the second company, with which they are doing
duty, instead of being forwarded to headquarters.
On the completion of the stables at Aldershott the
volunteers will proceed to Chatham and be attached
to the depot company in order to be put through a
course of instruction in sapping and mining, and
pontooning.

The Royal Engineers at Chatham having com-
pleted the submarine cable, which is to be laid
down across the harbour at Portsmouth, Captain
H. D. Schaw, under whose superintendence it has
been prepared, will leave head-quarters this morn-
ing for Portsmouth, accompanied by the assist.-in-
structors on the staff, for the purpose of directing
the operation of laying it, and testing its working
after it has been put in the desired position across
the harbour.

The inaugural lecture "On Electricity" to the
officers and men of the Royal Engineers on the
opening of the new lecture theatre and other build-
ings recently completed at the Royal Engineer
establishment, Chatham, was given on Saturday
evening last, by J. Douglas, a private in the Royal
Engineers, on which occasion Col, H. D. Harness,
C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establishment,
presided, the officers of the staff, as well as the offi-
cers and men of the Engineers, to the number of
several hundred, being present. The lecture was
clear and lucid, the lecturer being evidently tho-
roughly conversant with the subject he undertook
to explain.

THE STTN, LONDON, MONDAY IVE.Ni-NG, O)OTORER 28, 1861:

purpose or another, and the French Press itself, ;
indeed, may trace mariT of its misfortunes to its I
neglect of that imperson.`‘lity by which a real Press
is necessarily characterised. Brilliant writers used t 0
mllle their fortunes, not by title properwork of tb eir
profession, but by promotion to offices of Etat,:
Of course such prospects were kept always, in
view, and the result was that a French journal,
instead of being what an English newspaper is,
was simply an organ of a political section, con-.
ducted not for the instruction sor advantage c,f
the public, but for the benefit of certain ind!..-
viduals. These men found tbeir account in the sys-
tem, no doubt, but the press so conducted had no
hold upon the country, and it 1:111, when the hour of
trial came, without sympathy or. .support. We coin-
cide entirely with our French contemporaries in
thinking that the Imperial Government i❑ its pre-
sent dilemma had far better raise newspapers to the
level of pamphlets than degrade pamphlets to the
level of newspapers. Better free the press alto-
gether than cripple it further, but when that free-
dom is restored we should hope that it would not
again be perverted from its proper use in asserting
public interests to the mere purpose of promoting
private ends.—Times.

TILE DUBLIN OUTRAGE.

The excitement created in Dublin in reference to
the outrage committed by the cabman on Miltown-
road, on the night of the 27th Sept., never appeared
more intense than on Friday morning when Curran
was brought Yip for trial. The doors of the Com-
mission Court were besieged from ap early hour by
an immense crowd, and the pressure and anxiety to
be present were such that a large force of police had
to be present for the purpose of guarding the pas-
sages. Half-past 10 o'clock was the hour fixed for
the opening of the court, but long before nine the
principal avenues were crowded by a large number
of the populace, who waited patiently for admission
for nearly two hours. On the doors being opened
the rush was so great that within two minutes every
inch of space in the court was filled.
At 11 o'clock the Right Hon. Judge Ball and
Judge O'Brien entered the court.
Jahn Curran was then put forward, and arraigned
for having, on the 27th Sept. last, unlawfully as-
saulted Louisa Martha Jolly, with intent to violate
her ; in a second count, for an indecent assault ; in
a third count, for an assault so as to occasion actual
bodily harm ; in the fourth count, for doing her
grievous bodily harm ; and in the fifth count he was
indicted for a C.1113M011 assault.
The Clerk of thn Crown—Prisoner, are you guilty
or not ?
Prisoner—No, Sir ; I do not know anything
about this case at all.
The prisoner was then given in charge to thejury.
Mr. Sergeant Sullivan, Mr. J. E. Walshe, Q.C.,
and Mr. C. R. Barry, Q.C., instructed by Messrs.
Anderson and Lee, prosecuted on the part of the
Crown.
Counsel for the prisoner--Mr. J. E. Curran and
Mr. J. Sidney, instructed by Mr. C. Fitzgerald,
jun.
Mr. Sergeant Sullivan stated the case for the
prosecution. The story is so well known to the
public that we will not reproduce the speech, but
proceed at once to the evidence.
Mr. Hamilton Jolly, examined by Mr. Walshe,
after repeating some of the facts with which the
public are familiar, said—The cab driver was a low
man, with aidrab coat and a..muffier. He was about
24 or 25. He was not stout. When engaging the
cab I obeerved a girl standing in the door next, or
next but one, where the cabman was. She was
more towards Nelson's Pillar. I would not know

her. After I had put my sister in the cab I observed
two girls about a yard from me. I saw my sister in
the cab as I was going along, but I did not see her
afterwards that night, nor until next morning. I
heard the two women who were behind me in the
street talking. When I was parting with my sister,
after putting her in the cab and bidding her good
night, I kissed her. The next time I saw my sister
after that night was the following morning at Mil-
town station, at the station master's house on the
railway. It was about half-past 9 or a quarter to 10.
She was greatly frightened and disturbed. I saw
two marks on her throat, as if caused by a finger
and thumb. I could not swear to the cabman

whom I saw that night.
To a Juror—The muffler the cabman wore was
not far upon his face. He wore it across his mouth.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sidney—Just before we
got the cab, I looked at the Post-office clock to see
what o'clock it was. It was then 17 minutes past
10. That was before we got into the cab, when I
was near Nelson's Pillar.

Agnes Wiles, sworn and examined by Sergeant
Sullivan. Is one of the women of the town. I am in
the habit of walking Sackville- street at night. Was
walking there on the night of the 27th September,
about half-past 10 o'clock. Was standing in a door-
way near Bewley and Evans's. The doorway where
I was standing was two doors from Bewley and

Evans's; between Bewley and Evan's and Carlisle

bridge. While standing There I noticed a cab com-
ing from Carlisle-bridge towards Nelson's monu-
ment. I remained in the same place while the cab
was moving up. I saw the cab stop, and the driver
dismounted and came down. He turned the
horse's head towards Carlisle-bridge. He left the
cab standing on the side of the street close to
the flags, and opposite to where I was. He came
and stood in the doorway where I was. I had seen
him before, but had never spoken to him. I had
seen him in Sackville-street. At the time he stood
by the door it was a wet and stormy night. He
said to me, "This is a wet night."
To the Judge—He said to me, " This is a wet
• niolt "
e.
What answer did you make to him ?—I told him
to get away. I would know him again. The pri-
soner at the bar is the person.

To Sergeant Sullivan—When he first said to me,
" this is a wet night," I made him no answer, and
he said "this is a wet night" a second time. I told
him to go away out of that. I came out of the door-
way, and walked up Saekville-street towards the
monument ; I then walked back again towards the
bridge, and I saw the cabman alongside his cab, and
a lady and gentleman engaging him. One of them
had a parcel in their hand—something black—l did
not exactly see what it was. The gentleman had an
umbrella. They were both standing facing towards
the cab, and the lady was at the gentleman's left
side. The cabman was opening the door of the cab.
I heard nothing of what passed between them. I
drew into a doorway near where they were stand-
ing. I saw the cab drive away. At the time I saw
the cab drive away I was walking towards Nel-
son's monument. As I was walking towards the
monument I met two girls coming down ; they
were not many yards from the cab. I heard them
laugh. They said something, but I do not know
what it was. I had seen the gentleman who I saw
speaking to the cabman before that night. I had
seen him, but never spoke to him before. I was
close enough to him to observe him and to see bim.
To the Judge—l saw the same gentleman in the
Castle-yard the following Friday. When I saw
him in the Castle-yard I at once recognised him.
To Sergeant Sullivan—The cabman wore a drab
ooat, buttoned about his neck, and a muffler. He
had the collar of the coat up around his tieck. The
coat came down below his knees. I think he wore
a cap, but lam not sure. I now see in court the
gentleman whom I saw speaking to the cabman
that night. That (pointing to Mr. Hamilton
Jolly) is the person.
To Judge Ball—l had seen the cabman several
times before that night. I am positive I saw him
at least three times. His appearance was familiar
to me. I had never spoken to him.

To Sergeant Su had never seen the lady
before 'that night. She got into the cab alone.
The cabman shut the door and drove off towards
the bridge.
Cross-examined by Mr. Curran—l live at Mrs.
Toler's, in Off-lane, near Moore-street. I have seen
the cabman on the car-stand near the Post-office. I
have seen him about two or four times altogether.
I have seen him in Westmoreland-street, alongside
the hotel. Ido not know the name of the hotel. I
do not know the Rose Tavern. I saw him about a
week or a fortnight before the occurrence.

Judge Ball—What is the reason that you noticed
this cabman so particularly ? Because many times
he began " chaffing" me when be passed me by.
(Laughter.)
Was that on one of the occasions that you state
you saw him ?—Yes, my lord.
Did he " chaff" you more than once P—Yes,
twice, my lord.
Then, am I to understand that was your reason
for recollecting his person ?—Yes, my lord.
He had treated you in that way on two occasions ?
—He did, my lord.
Mr. Curran—l am obliged to your lordship for
discovering this fact. Now, Agnes, I would like to
know where the first "chaffing" was P—Would you,
then ? (Laughter.)

' To be sure I would.—Then Pll tell you; it was
going down Henry-street.
Had he any person on his car ?—He had.
What did he say to you on that occasion P—He
said, " Hallo ! Mary Anne, come here." (Laughter.)
What answer did Mary Anne make ?—I did not
answer him. •

, You looked at him with indignation ?—Yes, sir.
He had a gentleman on the car 1)-1 do not know
whether he was a gentleman or no, sir.
I thought you said the cabman never spoke to you
before ?—I said I never spoke to him before.
Mr. Curran—No. You said that he had never
spoken to you.
Judge O'Brien said the 'witness had certainly
stated so, for he had taken down her answer as fa-