The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-07 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J ULY 7, 1857.

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TO be SOLD, pursuant to orders of the High
Court f Chancery, male in certain causes of CONDU[TT v.
sOANE, CONDUITT v. PRESTON, and CONDUI TT v FOXIIA.LL,
with the approbation of t' e* Vice-Chancellor S,r John Stuart, the
Judge to whose Court the said causes are attached, by Mess enrs
DANIEL SMITH, SON, and JOHN OAKLEY (the persons ap-
pointed for the purpose), on TUESDAY, the 28th day of July neNt,
at I-o-clock in the afternoon preckely, at the Mart, opposite the
Bank of England, in Five Lots, valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY,
consisting of the following particulars:—
Lot 1. One nr divided third-part or share of and in a certain public
house and premises, called " The Talbot," situate and being at the
corner of Gray's-inn-lane, in the occupation of Mr. John Battle.
Lot 2. One undivided third-part or shareot nd inthe Talbot Livery
:stables, situate in the rear of Lots 1 and 3, in the occupation of Mr.
John Battle.

Lot 3. One undivided third-part or share of and in a House and
Premises, being No. 66, Gray's-inn-lane, partly in the occupation of
Mr. Barralet and partly in that of Mr. Lloyd.
Lot 4. One undivided third-pa•t or share of and in a House and
Premise*, being No. 1, Liquorpond-street, in the occupation of Mr.
Morris.

Lot 5. One undivided third-part or share of and in a House and
PfemNes, being No. 2, Liquorpond-street, In the occupation of Mr.
IL W. Bunworth, together with one undivided third-part or share of
and in two three-roomed homes In Cow-yard, in the rear of No. 2,
Liquorpond-street.

Printed particulars and conditions of sale may be had (gratis) of
Messieurs Kingsford and Dorman, solicitors, 23, Essex-street, Strand;
Messieurs White, Broughton, and White, solicitors, 12, Great Marl-
borough-street; Messieurs Coverdale, Lee, Purvis, and Cellyer, so-
-1 citors, 4, Bedford-row; of the Auctioneers, 10, Waterloo-place,
Pall-ma 1; and at the Mart. '

ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk.
KINGSFORD and DORMAN, 23, Essex-street, Strand,
Plaintiffs' Solicitors.

THE GLASGOW POISONING CASE.

EDINBURGH, JULY 6.
MONDAY-SIXTH DAY.

The judges decided to reject the evidence of the
deceased's memorandum book, and no futher evi-
dence of importance was offered for the Crown.
Thirty-one witnesses were examined for the de-
fence.

Robert Baker resided with deceased in Edinburgh
in 1851, when he was very low-spirited about a dis-
appointment in love, and once threatened to throw
himself out of the window, and another time spoke
of throwing himself off the pier.
Several witnesses from Dundee stated that on one,
occasion, on hearing of the marriage of a lady he
had been in love with, he took up a large knife from
the counter and threatened to stab himself; that
he several times threatened or spoke of self-destruc-
tion by different means ; that he had once spoken
of giving some horses arsenic while in France, to
give them wind for their journey, and, when asked
if he was not afraid to do so, said, "So far ft om
that, I have taken it myself." He said he took it to
relieve pain. He had also been seen to take poppy
seed in considerable quantities.
To one witness he had spoken of using arsenic
regularly.
To Alexander Millar of Glasgow, he had once
said that he thought it no sin for a person to take
his own life and thus get out of the world if he
could not be happy in this. Witness said deceased
had frequently severe bowel complaints.
Janet Christie had heard deceised, and Agnes
M'Millan had heard prisoner speak of using arsenic
for the complexion, and several druggists deposed
t ) having been on occasions asked for it for that
purpose.
William Roberts and Charles Baird spoke to
occasions on which deceased had been taken very
suddenly and severely ill with vomiting and
purging.

Several witnesses deposed to deceased being some-
what untruthful as well as boastful.

Charles Adam, druggist, of Coatbridge, deposed
to a person of appearance like deceased purchasing
laudanum at his shop on a Sunday afternoon, about
the end of March.

James Dickson, druggist of Baillieston, on the
way from Coatbridge to Glasgow, spoke of a person
extremely like the photograph of deceased coming
in on a Sunday about the same time, complaining
of bowel complaint, and getting laudanum.
Miss Kirk, daughter of a druggist in Gallowgate,
Glasgow deposed to giving medicine on Sunday
evening to a person strikingly like the photograph,
but did not remember what it was. It was not
arsenic.

Witnesses deposed to the wide circulation of an
article in Chambers' Journal, Blackwood's Magazine,
82-,c., in which the use of arsenic as a cosmetic is
spoken of.
Letters of the prisoner were put in, in which she
remonstrates with deceased against his threat of
suicide.

Doctor Patterson, of Leith, had attended seven
cases of suicide by arsenic, in which the suicides,
except one who confessed after recovery, denied to
the last having taken poison.
Two storekeepers of manufacturing chymists
spoke to the extensive use of arsenic in their pre-
mises, and the possibility of its abstraction.
Janet Smith, youngest sister of prisoner, deposed
to going to bed with her on Sunday, the 22d of
March, and their rising together.
Dr. Lawrie, of Glasgow, and Dr. Douglas
M‘Lagan, of Edinburgh, spoke to the possibility of
putting arsenic in water and laving it about the
face without injurious results.
This closed the case for the defence.

On Tuesday the Lord-Advocate and the Dean
of Faculty will address the jury, and the case is
expected to terminate on Wednesday.

EXECUTION FOR MURDER.

Yesterday Thomas Mansell, a private in the 49th
Regt., who was convicted, at the last winter assizes
for the county of Kent, of the murder of Alexander
M'Burnie, a corporal in the same regiment, by
shooting him, was executed at Mailstone.
Seven months have elapsed since the prisoner's
conviction, but the delay in the execution of the
sentence has arisen from the attempts made to set
the conviction aside upon a writ of error. The
arguments upon each occasion have been reported
in The Sun. The judges having decided against
the objections taken by the prisoner's counsel, the
sentence was ordered to be carried into effect yes-
terday.
The prisoner retired to rest about 11 o'clock on
Sunday night, but he got up early and dressed him-
self, and then, for the first time, appeared to feel
his awful position. Upon seeing the Ordinary and
the Governor of the prison he shook hands with
them and thanked them for their kindness, and
asked them to forgive him for the trouble he had
given them and for the manner in which he acted
upon several occassions. .He then requested that
his Crimean medal might be given to one of the
officers of his regiment, and he was assured that
his request should be complied with.
A few minutes before 12 o'clock, Mr. Wildes,
the Under-sheriff of Kent, accompanied by some of
his officers, arrived at the gaol, and proceeded to
the cell were the prisoner had been confined. Cal-
craft, the executioner, shortly afterwards com-
menced the task of pinioning the culprit, to which
he submitted without making any observation.
The prisoner, who is about 29 years old, and who
has allowed his beard and moustaches to grow
during 'the whole period since his conviction, did
not betray the least emotion during the process,
and when the prison clock commenced striking 12
he turned round to Mr. Hillyard and said, in a
very cool manner, "Are you not a little behind
time?"
The usual procession was then formed, and the
culprit walked with a firm step towards the place
of execution. The moment he emerged from the
gaol and took his place on the scaffold he cast an
earnest look at the crowd, and then proceeded to
mount the ladder to the drop. Calcraft took hold
of one of his hands to assist him, but he exclaimed
" I don't want that," and ran up the steps of his
own accord. The executioner then placed the cap
over his eyes and adjusted the noose, the drop fell,
and the culprit appeared to be dead in an instant.
The crowd, which was much smaller than usually,
assembles upon these occasions, conducted them-
selves in the most orderly and decorous manner,
and it was observed that there- were very few
women among the spectators. The body, after
hanging an hour,. was cut down and placed in a
shell, and buried in the course of the day within
the gaol,

PARLIAMENTARY

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 6.

PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION

BILL.
Clause 40 (probates and administration may be granted in
common form by district registrars in certain cases) :
Amendment proposed, in page 1:3, line 30, to leave out
from the word " agidavit" to the and of the clause, in
order to insert the words "and such probate or letters
of administration shall have effect over the personal
estate of the deceased in all parts of Eogland accordingly,"
instead thereof. Question put, "That the words and
that the personal estate of the deceased' tand part of
the clause. The committee divided :--Ayes, 131;
Noes, 162.

AYES-131.
Adeane, Henry Gray, Captain Potter, Sir S.
Althorpe, Viscount . (trey, Sir G. Price, W.
Atherton, W. Grey, R. Pryse, E. -
Baines, Bt. Hon. M. Griffith, C. Pritchard, 3.
Baring, Sir F. Gurdan, B. Pugh, D.
Baring, T. . Cu ney, J. Pulle ,C.
Bass, T. Gurney, S. Ramsden, Sir J.
Beale, S. Hadfield, G. Rebow, John
Bethel', Sir R. Danbury, Robert Rich, H.
Blackburn, Peter Harkey, T. Ridley, G.
Blake, 3, ' . Harcourt, G. Roll, J. •
Bonham-Carter,J. Ilardcastie, A. Russell, F. W.
mouveria, lion. E. P. Lleacilaw' T. Bandon, Vis.
Bouverie, lion. P. P. Herbert, 11. Schneider, II
Bevil', W. Howard, C. Sheridan, It. B.
Brand, H. Ingham,-R. Smith, It.
Brisct..e, John Jolliffe, Sir W. Smollett, A.
Buxton, Sir E.N. Keating, Sir H. S. Stanley, Lord
Byng, G. Kendall, N. Stirling, William
Calcraft, J. H. Kershaw, J. Start, C.
Cavendish, Lord Labouchere,fft.lion.l.l Sykes, Col.
Cavendish, G. Lang ton, H. G. Talbot, C.
Clinton, Lord B. Levinge, Sir R. Taucred, 11.
Codrington, Sir C. W. Lewis, Sir G. C. Taylor, S.
Jollier, R. P. +.T,r.we, B. Thornely, T.
Colville, C. R. Mackinnon, W. A. 'I relawney, Sir J.
Cowper, W. F. M ilius, It. Vance, J.
Crossley, F. Mangles, C. E. Warburton, G.
De Vere, S. Mangles, IL 2.. Wary, J.
Dodson, J. Massey, W. Wegaelln, T.
Duncan, Viscount Matheson, Sir J. Whatman, J.
Dundas, F. Melgund, Viscount Whitbread, S.
Ebrington, Viscount Mills, T. Wickham, H. W.
Ennis, John Moffatt, G. Willcox, B.
Euston, Earl Monsell, W. Wilson, J.
Evans, T. W. Mostyn, T. Wood; Sir C.
Fenwick, H. North, F. Woods, if
Ferguson, Sir R. O'Brien, P. Worsley, Lord
Fitzgerald, J. Osborne, R. Wyld, James
Foljambe, W. Paget, Lord A. Wyvill, M.
Foster, W. Palmerston, Vint.
Fortescue, F. Patten, Col. W. TELLERS.
Gifford, Earl of ' Paull, H.
Glyn, G. Pechell, Sir G. Hayter, W.
Grentell, C.. Portman, W. Mulgrave, Earl

NOES—I 62. .
Adams, W. Forde, Colonel Morris, D.
Adderley, C. Forster, C. Mowbray, J. R.
Akroyd, E. Gallwey, Sir W. Naas, Lord
Alcock, T. Galway, Viscount. Napier, J.
Aunesley, Captain Gard, R. Napier, Sir C.
Antrobus, E. Garnett, W. Newdegate, C.
Ayrton, A. Gaskell. J. lila ,1, D.
Bagwell, John Gilpin, Colonel ' Nisbet, Robert
Barnard, T. Goddard, A. Norreys, Sir D.
Reamish,F. Goderich, Via. O'Brien, Sir T.
Beecro;t, G. Greene, John Ogilvy, Sir J.
Bennet, Capt. P. Gregson, S. Paget, C.
Bentinck, G. Grogan, Edward Pease, H. •
Bowyer, G. Grosvenor, Earl Pennant, Col. E.
Bramley-Moore, J. Hackblock, W. , Pilkington, J.
Bridges, Sir B. Hamilton, G. A. Platt, James
Broeklehurst, J. flamer, Sir J. Powell, F.
Brown, J. Hardy, G. Raynham, Viscount
Bruce, C. Hams, J. Robartes, T.
Buchanan, W. Ilassard, hi. Roebuck, J.
Buller, J. W. Heneage, G. Russell, Sir W.
Burghley, Lord Henley, J. Rust, James
Cayley, E. Hilkiyard, R. C. Salisbury, E.
Cecil, Lord R. Hodgson, W. Sclater, G.
Charlesworth, J. Hopwood, John Seymer, H,
Child, Smith Horsfall, T. B. Shafto, R.
Clark, J. Hotham, Lord • Smith, A.
Cl fford, H. Hudson, G. Smyth, Col.
Clive, G. Hughes, W. Somerset, Col. E.
Cobbett, J. M. Hutt, W. Spooner, R.
Cogan, W. 11. F. Ingestre, Viscount Stanhope, J.
Collins, T. 'Jermyn,Earl Stapleton, I.
Coningham, W. Johnstone, H. B. Sullivan, Michael
Cowan, C. • Johnstone, Sir J., Thompson, Gen.
Cox William Jones, D. Thornhill, W
Crauturd, E. H.J. Kelly, Sir F. Tollemache, J.
Dalgllsh, R. Kinglake, A. , Trefusis, C.
Darner, L. Klnuaird, A. Turner, J. A.
Dashwood, Sir G. H. Kirk, W. Vansittart, O.
Davey, R. Knatchbull, W. Vansittart. W.
Deasy, R.'i Knight, F. Walcott, Admiral
Denison, W. H. Langston, J. H., Walter, J.
Dod, J. W. Langton, W. ~ Watkin, E.
Du Cane, C. Legh, G. C. Watkins, Col.
Duncombe, Hon. A. Lidnell,Fl. G. • ' Welby, W.
Dunlop, A. Locke, J. Western, S.
Dutton.R. Maeartney,"G, White, J.
East, Sir J. Macaulay, K. Whitmore, H.
Egerton, Sir F. Mackie, J. Williams, W.
Egerton, E. Maguire, J. Wise, J.
Elt m, Sir A. Miles, W, Woodd, B.
Farnham, E. Miller, T. Wyndham, W.
Fergus, J. Mills, Arthur ' TELLERS.
Foley, J. Milnes, M. 1, Westhead, J.
Foley, H. Morgan, 0. I Trollope, Sir J.

Question put—" That ttose wards be there insertea."
The Committe divided ; Ayes 141, Noes 139.
AYLS-141.
Adams, W. H. Foley, J. H. Wines, R.
Akroyd, E. Fo'ey, H. W. Moffat, G.
Alcock, T. Fordo, Colonel Morgan, O.'
Annesley. Hon. Hugh Oallwey, Sir W. Mowbray,J. $.
A yrton, A. Galway, Viscount Naas, Lord
Bagwell, John Gard, R. Napier, J.
Barnard, Thomas Garnett, William Napier, Sir C.
Bernard, T. Gaskell, J. Nicoll, D.
Beach, W. Gilpin, Col. H. Nisbet, R. P.
Beamisti, F. Goddard, A. Norreys, Sir D.
Beccroft, G. Goderich, Viscount Ogilvy, Sir J.
Bennet, Capt. P. Greene, John Pease, Henry
Bentinck; G. Gregson, Samuel Pennant, Col. E.
Bovill, W. Grosvenor, Earl Powell, Francis
Bowyer, G. liacabloct, William Raynfiam, Viscount
Bramley- Moore, J. Hamilton, G. A. Roebuck, J. A.
Bridges, Sir B. Hamilton, J. Russell, Sir W.
Brocklehurst, J. Hanmer, Sir John Salisbury, Enoch
Brown, J. Hardy, G. Sciater, George
Bruce, Major Hessard, Michael. Seymer, H.
Buchanan, Walter Heneage, Geo. F. Shaft°, R.
Builer, J. W. Hildyard. R. C. • Smith, A.
Burghley, Lord
Hodgson, Millard Smyth, Col.
Cayley, E. S. Hopwood, John Somerset, Colonel
Cecil, Lord R. Honda% T.
Stanhope, J.
Charlesworth, J. C.D. Hothrun, Lord Stapleton, John
Child, Smith Hudson, G. Sullivan. Michael
Clive, George Hughes, W. Taylor, Colonel
Cobbett, J. M. Hutt, W. Thompson, General
Collins, T. Ingestre, Viscount Thonihill, W.
Cox, W. Johnstone, IL B. Tollemache J.
Craufurd, E. H. J. Johnstone, Slr J. Trefusis, C. •
Dalglish, R. Jones, D. Turner, J. A.
Darner, L. D. Kell", Sir F, Vansittart, G.
L avey, R. Kinglake, A. Vansittart, W.
Peas, , it. Ktnnaird, A, Walcott, AdmiraL
Denison, W. H. Knatchbull, W. Watkin, Edward
D.I, J. Langton, W. 0. Welby, W.
Da Cane, C. Legh, G. C. Western, Thomas
Buncombe, A. Liddell, H. (1. White, James
Dunlop, A. Locke, Jo'n 'Whitmore. 11.
Dutton, Hon. R. H. Macartney, George Williams' B.
d
East, Sir J. llacaulay, Kenneth Williams, W.
Egerton, Sir P. Mackie, J. Wise, J.
Egerton, Edw. C Maguire, J. F. Woodd, B.
Elton, Sir A. H. Miles, W. TELLERS.
Farnham, E. Mil er, Taverner Westhead, Joshua
Fergus, Johu Mills, Arthur Trollope, Sir J.

NOES-139.
Adderley, C. B. Grey,'ltt. Hon. Sir G • Pilkington, J.
Adeane, H. Grey, R. Platt, J.
Althorp, Lord Gurdon, Brampton Portman, W.
Antrobus, E. Price, W.
Gurney, I. H.
Atherton, W. Pryie, E.
liaddeld, George
Baines, Rt. Ilon. M. Hanbury, Robert Pritchard, J.
Baring, Sir F. Hankey, T. Pugh, D.
Baring, T. G. Harcourt, G. G. Puller, Christopher
Bass, M. Hardcastle, Joseph Ramsden, Sir J.
Beale, S. Harris, J. D. Rebow, 3.
Bethell, Sir R. Headl.un. T.
Blackburn, Peter Henley, J. Ridley, George
Make, J.
Herbert, H. Holt, J.
Bonham-Carter, J. Holland, E.
Bouverie, Hon. E. P. Russell, F. W.
Howard, C.
Rust, James
Bouverie, P. Ingham; It. • ' qandon' Viscount
Brand, Hon. H. JoWife, Sir W. Schneider, Henry
Briscoe, J. Keating, Sir H. Sleridan, R.
Butt, I. Kendall, N. Smith, V.
llyng, G. H. C. Kershaw, J. Rich, 11.
Smollet, A.
Calcraft, J. Kirk, W. Spooner, R.
Cavendish, Lord Kreght, F. Stanley, Lord
Cavendish, G. C. Labonchere,Rt.Hon.ll Stirling, W.
Clinton, Lord R. Langton, a. G. Start, C.
Codrington, Gen. Loving% Sir R. Sykes, Colonel
Colvile, C. R. Lewis, Sir U.O. T Talbot, C.
Coningham, W. Locke, J. aylor, S.
Cowper, W. Lowe, It. Thomely, T.
Cowan, C. Mackinnon, W. Trelawney, Sir John
Crossley, F. Matins, Richard Vance, John
Do Yore, S. E. Mangles, R. D. Warburton, Major
Dodson, J. Mangles, C. Warre, John
Duncan, Viscount Massey, W. Watkins, Col,
Ebriogton, Viscount Matheson, Sir J. Wegnelin, T.
Ellice, E. Melgund, Lord Whatman, 3.
Ennis, John Mills, T. Wickham, H.
Euston, Earl of Monsen, W. Willyams, E.
Evans, T. W. Mostyp, E. Wilson, J.
Fenw:ck, H. Newdegate, C. Wood, Sir C.
Ferguson, 'll- Robert North, F. Woods, Henry
Fitzgerald, J. O'Brien; P. Worsley, Lord
Foljambe, Francis Osborne, R. .Wyld, James
Foster, W. 0. Paget, C. WYvill, 1.1.
Fortescue, Hon. F. Paget, Lord A.
Gifford, Earl or Palmerston, Viscount TEILEIta.
Glyn, G. Patten, Col.
Grenfell, CharleS ,Paull, Henry Ilayter, W.
I Gray, Captain Pechell, Sir G. Alulgrave, Earl of

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Naval and Military intelllLEco.

Her:Majesty's steamvessel Banshee, IL W. Allen,
master, commanding, left Woolwich yesterday for
Dover, to convey his Royal Highness •the Prince
of Wales and suite to Ostend.

The Fire Queen, Master CommanderF. W. Paul,
having the Commander in 'Chief, A.dmikal Sir
George Seymour ; his Flag Captain, George Henry
Seymour ; and Flag
..Lieutenant Malcome, the
Rear Admiral Sur erintendent Fanshawe Martin,
and Flag Lieutenant Brandreth, proceeded to
Cowes Roads from Portsmouth yesterday morn-
ing to pay the return official visit to Captain Sands
and Officers of the United States paddle frigate
Susquehanna. The admiral was received on board
with all due honours, and mutual compliments
were exchanged. On leaving the American frigate,
the British flag was run up at the main of the Sus-
quehanna, and a salute was filed, which was thi'ly
acknowledged by the admiral's bargel tossing oars.
The urbanity of Captain Sands, and the courteous
disposition of his officers, have made a kindly im-
pression upon all who have visited the Susque-
hanna.

Flag Captaia Fulford joined hia ship, Ganges,
84, at Sh-ern(ss, fitting for the South American
station, yesterday 'Morning. The Ganges has re-
ceived her marines and Lieut. G. H. Elliot, from
Chatham.

The Flying Fisb, 6, screw gun dispatch vessel,
went again to the measured mile, Stoke's Bay, yes-
terday, with the BretEigne, screw, reduced to two
blades. The iesult has been rather unfavourable,
not averaging 11 knots an hour. She will have
other; trials with alterations of the blades.
Captain CLck burn, of the Cossack, 20, screw, has
retorted his ship ready to be paid off next Thurs-
day at Sheerness. This corvette,, it will be remem-
bered, was one of the Russian men-of-war seized in
the river at the shipbuilder's yard after the com-
mencement of how ili .les.

The Leopard, 14, paddle, Captain Wainwright,
returned to Devonport on Saturday night, having
se-n the Princess Charlotte, 104, C ,ptain N. V.
King, C. 8., clear of the Channel. She will fill up
with coal, and proceed to join the Agamemnon.
The Royal Sovereign, 131, screw, has completed
coppering to the "light" load line, and will come
out of dock at Portsmouth on Thursday next.
The Terror, floating battery, Lieut. Commander
T. M. Campbell, hauled out of Sheerness basin
yesterday, and proceeded direct ou a trial rip round
the Mouse, and returned about two p.m. She went
in against a strong W.S.W. wind and ebb tide at
about four knots per hour. The African, steam-
tug, accompanied; in the event of her services be-
ing required.
The Arab, 12, Captain R. B. Pearse, which was
paid off at Chatham yesterday, has been in com-
mission nearly four years, having sailed from Chat-
ham in August, 1853, at which port she was com-
missioned by Captain Ogle. She sailed in 'the &A
instance to the coast of Africa, where she was cruis-
ing for 12 months, after which she proceeded to
join the squadron of Rear-Admiral A. Fanshawe,
C. 8., Commander-in Chief on the West India sta-
tion, where she remained until ordered home.
During the whole time she was in commission she
was employed in the suppression of the slave trade,
and while crusing off the southern coast of Cuba
succeeded in capturing a Spanish slaver, name un-
known, with 370 slaves on board, the whole of
whom wt re liberated at Jamaica. The crew have
been remarkably healthy, not a single dea'h having
occurred on board. At Halifax Commander Pearse
relieved Captain Ogle in command of the ship. The
Arab will be attached to the fleet of vessels in ordi-
nary at Chatham.
Her. Majesty's screw steamer Vulcan, 6, Com.
J. H. Furneaux, which has arrived from the Cape
of Good Hope, brought home 209 non-commisioned
officers and men belonging to the 2d Royals, 6th,
12th (reserve battalion), 13th Light Infantry, 45th,
60th Rifles, 2d battalion; 73d, 85th, 89th, Cape
Mounted Rifles, the Royal Artillery, and ths Royal
Engineers. The Vulcan sailed from Table Bay on
the 26th of April and had a fine passage. During
the voyage four deaths occurred on board, and one
of the men belonging to the 60th trifles, who was
insane, jumped overboard. The following officers
came home in charge of the troops :—Lieu,enant
Col. G. King, 13th Light. Infantry, and Lieuten-
ant B. G. D. Cooke, 73d Regiment ; Capt. H. E.
Jones, 6th Regiment, came home as a passenger.
The troops were medically inspected yesterday at
Fort Pitt, Chatham, when those who were found
unfit for further service were ordered to be dis-
charged.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steamer Widgeon,
S. Umfreville, master, went down. to Sheerness
yesterday from Woolwich, for the conveyance of
Captain Wood, First Lieutenant Forbes, Second
Lieutenant Willis, and 80 rank and file of the 4th
battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry, for service
on board, her Majesty's 84-gun ship Ganges,
ordered for service on the South America and West
India station. The freightship Laura Janet has
been taken up by the War Department for the
transportation of Ordnance supplies, from Wool-
wich, for the West Indies.
Commander E. R. Power has been appointed to
the Geyser in the room of Commander Arthur
Tower, invalided.