The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-06 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COUaT.—(This Day.)

TILE FENIAN TRIALS.
(Before the Recorder.)
Mr. J. U. Lewis trade an application to the
Court on behalf of the prisoner Casey, who is in-
ehltld with Burke and Shaw on the charge of trea-
.s"-felohzr, removed to this Court from the War-
wickshire Ass
is,
lz,'s to fix a day for the trial, and also
that it might not tcaze,
place until after the trial
or minder arising out of the Clerkenwell ex
plosion.

Mr. Montague Williams also ni,in an applica-
ion on behalf of Anne Justice, who is included in
he charge of murder above referred, that the trial
light not take place until a late day of the session.

lie said that the prisoner had no friends or
tneans of defence, and he had only just been in-
structed, and he wished for an opportunity to con-
aider the facts of the case and prepare for the de-
fence of the prisoner.
The Recorder said that all he could state
was, that it had been definitely arranged that
neither of the cases referred to would come on
this week. They would in all probability come on the
Tuesday of next week, and according to the ordinary
course the trial for murder would be taken first.

Re had, however, no control over that matter, and
tt would rest entirely with the Attorney-General
which of the cases should be taken first.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE

VALETTA, March 25.—The telegraph steamer,

Hawk, Capt. C. Halpin, returned here on the 21st
inst., after an absence of upwards of two months,
passed in futile attempts to restore communication
by the Malta and Alexandria cable. Notwithstand-
ing unfavourable weather, the cable has been re-
paired in a dozewplaces, but as an unknown num-
ber of faults have yet to be made good, and fuel
running short, there was no help but to suspend
operations until a fresh supply of coal could be ob-
tained. Much of the cable appears to be completely
worn through, and it is said that in one mile were
discovered no less than five fractures. On the other
hand, it is a consoling fact in submarine telegraphy
that all, or nearly all, the defects have hitherto been
found in shallow water—that is to say, within 20 or
25 fathoms. But at the same time it incontestably
shows that no confidence can be placed in the pre-
sent cable, which having been laid on wrong prin-
ciples, when submarine telegraphy was still in its
infancy, is constantly breaking. It is worse than
useless to lose time in patching it up, and our only
hope lies in the substitution without further delay
of a deep-sea line. Her Majesty's screw sloop Racer,
Commander L. Brine, which was all this time in
company with the Hawk, returned here from Derna
on the 22d inst., having been ordered to England
.o be paid off. She is now awaiting instructions
from the Admiralty, and it is most probable she
will be sent again to assist in the cable repair, as a
vessel is required, and no other ship is available or
'hat purpose. Her Majesty's screw frigates Endy-
mion, 21, Capt. C. Wake, and Arethusa, 35, under
the temporary command of Commander E. S.
Ideane, left port on Saturday, the 21st inst. The
former vessel, having on board Rear-Admiral Kel-
lett, C. 8., Mr. Thornhill, Flag-Lieutenant, and Mr.
rollemache, M.P., and Mrs. Tollemache, will pro-
ceed direct to Naples, and is expected back on the
4th of April. The Arethusa is expected back about

:he same time, and will visit Naples before return-

ing to Malta. Her Majesty's screw gunboat Wizard,
1, Lieut.-Commander P. J. Murray, returned into
harbour on the 21st inst., after a few days' cruise,
gun, and other practice. Her Majesty's screw iron-
clad sloop Enterprise, 4, Commander G. R. Bosan-
quet, is ready for sea, and is only awaiting the
weather to moderate to sail for the Pirasus, to re-
place the Lord Warden, which left, the telegraph
informs us, yesterday evening (the 24th inst.), and
she may consequently be expected here about the
27th or 28th inst. Up to yesterday there had been
eight cases of small-pox on board, which had been

landed at Salamis. The disease is believed to have
been brought to Greece by the Cretan refugees.
Sub-Lieutenant Worth, of the Caledonia, has been
appointed to the Enterprise, vice Littledale. Her
Majesty's Ittlian screw troopship Serapis has just
arrived from Portsmouth, on her way to Alex-
andria, with Indian reliefs. The Prussian frigate
Hertha, 21, and corvette Medusa, 17, left Malta
for Cadiz on the 19th inst. A court-martial was

held on Tuesday, the 24th inst., on board her Ma
jesty's ship Hibernia, Capt. Alan H. Gardner, o.
_ _

her Majesty's ship Caledonia, president, Mr. J. L.
Kirkness, R.N., deputy-judge-advocate, to try
George Shreeves, gunner Royal Marine Artillery,
of her Majesty's ship Lord Clyde, for being absent
without leave, and attempting to throw a skin of
spirits on board the Enterprise. He was sentenced
to be mulcted of eight days' pay, imprisoned with
hard labour for 12 months, and dismissed from her
Majesty's service.

His Prussian Majesty's corvettes Medusa and
Hertha, from the Mediterranean and Cadiz, put
nto Plymouth Sound yesterday morning, bound
for Kiel.

The screw steamship Prince Consort, 31, at De-
vonport, was put in commission on Thursday for
the home station, by Commander W. Hornby, for
Captain William Armytage. Her burthen is 4,045
tons. She is armour plated, and has engines of
1,000 horse power. Her complement will be 605
officers and men.

TIIE CASE OF LORD IVILLOUGIIBY AND

MADAME D'AL7EYRAC.

In this celebrated case Mr. Vernon Harcourt, the
arbitrator, has made the following award :
" 1. Lord Willoughby d'Eresby shall pay to the
Comtesse d'Alteyrac an annuity of £1,200 for the
term [of her life, the annuity to date from the
Ist of April, 1868, and to be payable by
half-yearly payments ; and I hereby order Lord
Willoughby d'Eresby to pay the said annuity
accordingly ; and I further award that that annuity
shall be legally secured by Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby to the Comtesse d'Alteyrac for her
life. I further award that, in order to secure
the said annuity to the Comtess d'Alteyrac,
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby shall, within two
months from the date of this award, purchase
from the Commissioners for the Reduction of
the National Debt a life annuity to the amount
of £1,200 per annum for the life of the said
Comtesse d'Alteyrac, and shall convey the same to
trustees on her behalf named in a deed annexed to
the award, and signed by me. And I hereby
order Lord Willoughby d'Eresby within two
months of the date of this award to purchase the
said annuity, and to transfer the same to the
said trustees ; and I order Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby and the Comtesse d'Alteyrac within two
months of the date of this award to execute the
said deed. And I further award that if for any
reason the said annuity shall not have been legally
secured by Lord Willoughby d'Eresby before the
last day of May in the year of our Lord 1868, then,
in addition to the annuity made payable as afore-
said, a further sum of £lOO shall become due and
payable by Lord Willoughby d'Eresby to the Corn-
tesse d'Alteyrac upon the said last day of May,
1868, and a further sum of £lOO on the last day of
each successive month, until such annuity shall be
legally secured, and I hereby order that Lord Wil-
loughby d'Eresby. shall pay such additional sums
t the dates aforesaid. These monthly payments
arc to be considered as additional to the payments
due in respect of the annuity, and as a penalty for
delay in the legal settlement of the same, but are
not to prejudice the right of the Comtesse
d'Alteyrac to enforce the securing of the annuity
by other means. As soon as the annuity shall
be legally settled by Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby the said additional monthly payments of
£l.OO to cease.
2. And I further award that Lord Willoughby
~sso, d'Alteyrac a
sum of £5,000, and I
d'Eresby shall pay to th 3
3dl".Lord Willoughby
,000
dto'Etrheesbsaymteo
behalf of the Cuuntea
uexed to this award, for and
t rpt'itsyt etehseassaitldiossoeur nameditlerof Isi
the deed
d'Alteyrac."