The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

VALUE OP A TooTlr.—At the Dudley County Court, a
Mrs. Barnett sued a Mrs. Baker for £5 damages, for an
assault. The action arose out of a quarrel within the pre-
cincts of the court. The parties had been before the judge
in a summons case on a previous occasion, when his
Honour decided against Mrs. Baker, who no sooner got
out of the court than she struck the plaintiff and knocked
her tooth out. His Honour gave judgment for the amount
claimed.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT WITH AN AXE.-At the Black-
burn Police•court, a lodging-house keeper, named William
Thompson, was brought up in custody, charged with
murderously assaulting Richard Hodgson, a weaver,
about midnight on Saturday. An altercation took place,
which ended in the prisoner rushing at Hodgson, and
striking him in the centre of the forehead with an axe,
inflicting a terrible wound, from which the blocd flowed
in copious streams. The skull was fractured, and the
injury of such a nature as to seriously endanger life. The
prosecutor was unable to appear, and as the surgeon was
unable to say when he could be present, or what the result
of the wound would be, the prisoner was remanded for a
week.

KNOCKING A WOMAN'S EYE OUT.—At the Liverpool
Police-court, a lad named William Taylor, whose head
scarcely reached the top of the dock, has been charged
with assaulting a woman, named Bridget Rogers. The
prisoner, while quarrelling with another lad in the
street, threw at him a piece of a broken jug. The
missile missed the boy, but struck the complainant
in the face and knocked out one of her eyes. As the
woman was in a dangerous state, the prisoner was re-
manded.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.-At the County Petty Ses-
sions, before Mr. Thomas W. W. Browne, Samuel
Rogers, alias " Harry the Traveller," a powerful-looking
man of Horsehay, was brought up in custody, charged
with night poaching on lands in the occupation
of Mr. Thomas Sumners, of Growgreaves, in the
parish of Stockton, over which Mr. IV. 0. Foster,
M.P., has the right of shooting. It seemed that Botley,
a watcher, with four others, was watching, and about
twenty minutes to twelve heard men talking. The
watchers immediately went in the direction of the sound,
and on getting up to the prisoner the latter said to his
brother poachers, " Stand, boys, and fight." Botley
caught hold of a net, when the prisoner struck him.
Penny, another watcher, came up to his assistance, and
the poachers, after doing some other damage, ran away.
The prisoner had nothing to say in defence, but denied
striking Botley on the head with the stake. He was sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment, and was required
to find, at the expiration of that time, two sureties in £5
each and himself in £lO ; in default he would be further
imprisoned for six months.

Mr. J. C. E. Weigall offers to fit a train with
Bontet's system of breaks, if any railway company will
accord him the use of a train and a suitable lino of rails—
which might easily be found on a branch line—and under-
take to pay him the cost of it in case ho succeeded in stop-
ing a train of thirty carriages, travelling at express speed—
say forty-five miles an hour—within a distanco of 150
yards.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.—On
Sunday last, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, Prince John of Denmark, and their
suite, attended divine service in the church of Crathie.
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, who is on D visit to
his Royal Highness at Abergeldie, was also present. The
Rev. Robert Stephen, of Renfrew, preached from Ist
Samuel, xxviii. 2, the last clause of the verse—" Bring me
up Samuel." A grand ball was given last week at
Abergeldie Castle by their Royal Highnesses.
SUNDAY RECREATION IN LEEDS.—On a recent
Assize Sunday in Leeds, Mr. Baron Bramwell and Mr.
Justice Lush visited the exhibition, and for several hours
enjoyed an inspection of the splendid art-works there
collected. On the same Sunday Mr. Councillor Clapham
gave a band performance of sacred music in the Leeds
Royal Park, for which " offence " ho was fined £5 and
costs by the local magistrates. Mr. Clapham has issued a
bill, in which he says that be has during the present sum-
mer been compelled to pay £9l in fines (exclusive of costs)
for giving performances of sacred music on Sundays.

SERIOUS FIRE.—A serious fire happened on
Tuesday night about 8 o'clock at Bermondsey-wall, and at
midnight the flames were far from being entirely extin-
guished. the premises were the well-known granary and
corn stores belonging to Messrs. Darnell. The ware-
houses stretched back to the waterside, and at one time
the numerous vessels lying at the side of the wall of the
Thames were exposed to imminent danger. The river
floating engines, by Shand, Mason, and Co., were at cnce
drafted alongside the burning property, as well as
numerous engines of the metropolitan brigade and another
powerful land steamer from Hewett's brewery. The
granary and contents have been destroyed, and the
damage is roughly estimated at £50,000.

TENACITY OF LIFE IN A LAMB.—A few days
since a most singular circumstance occurred at hoyden,
shelving how long animal life may be sustained without
food. Three weeks and three days since the flock upon a
farm was counted, and one lamb found to be missing.
Search was made, but nowhere could the lost one be
found. Last week a well-digger was called in to inspect
a dry well some 46 feet deep, which had been recently dug
upon the premises, with a view of sinking it deeper,
when, much to his astonishment, the long•lost lamb
was found at the bottom. It had broken its shoulder, but
was otherwise unhurt, and when brought to the surface
immediately ran away upon three legs, and commenced
feeding, apparently much delighted at its most miraculous
escape.

INCENDIARIS3I IN IRELAND.—TIIO Wyse family,
who are the owners of extensive estates near Cork, have
been made the victims of the cowardly malice of some
concealed enemies, who on Sunday night kindled no less
than three incendiary fires on different parts of their pro-
perty. The most destructive was discovered about two
a.m., on Granabrahr, the estate of Mr. Francis Wyse,
where three large ricks of hay, containing 130 tons, a portion
of the barn, thirty tons of straw, and a large quantity
of other property in the farmyard, were destroyed.
Another fire at Mountlesert, the estate of Miss Anne
Wyse, also destroyed an immense amount of property ;
and on the farm of Mr. Edward Wyse, of Leemount,
several stacks of corn were simultaneously fired. It is
stated that the large crowds who assembled at each scene
of conflagration showed no willingness to arrest the pro-
gress of the games, or to save any portion of the property.
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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Aug. 27.—Her Majesty's surveying
steamer Newport left for Girgenti on the 17th, con-
veying on an excursion to the ruins of ancient Agri-
gentum Mrs. and Miss Fanshawe, the wife and
daughter of Rear-Admiral Superintendent Fan-
shawe ; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals Dr. Dom-
vine and wife; Mr. R. C. Legh, auditor of accounts,
and wife, and Mr. Oates, the British Vice-Consul
at Girgenti. She returned on the 23d last from
Syracuse, with the Azov still in tow, the excur-
sionists being divided between the two vessels for
greater personal convenience during the prevailing
stifling hot weather. her Majesty's screw steam
corvette Cruiser left Malta on the 22d of August
for Patras, to protect the many British ships now
there, some with capital in specie for the purchase
of fruit for England and Holland. Her Majesty's
stcamsloop Antelope arrived from Corfu on the 25th,
bringing accounts from the British squadron in the
Adriatic to the 18th, then getting under weigh at
Trieste for Lissa, the coast of Albania, and Corfu,
for which last-named port the ironclad screw steam
frigate Prince Consort, which arrived from Ply-
mouth and Gibraltar on the 19th, has this morning
taken her departure to join the Commander-in-
Chief. His Italian Majesty's 40-gun steam frigate
Principe Umberto arrived on the 23d from Tunis,
and continues in port.
The Government (hired) screw hospital ship
Golden Fleece, J. Smith, commander, arrived at
Spithead early yesterday morning from Annesley
Bay with officers and military invalids on board, in
charge of Government Staff officers.
The large iron caisson constructed for the en-
trance to No. 4 dock at Chatham is ordered to be
fitted in its place as soon as the clearance of the
dock has been effected, after which the dock will be
prepared for the reception of the double screw iron
armour-plated turret ship Cerberus, built by the
Palmer Shipbuilding Company at Jarrow-upon-
Tyne, which is to be completed and fitted at
Chatham.

The floating iron dry dock was launched to-
day from the building-yard of Messrs. Campbell,
Johnstone, and Co., at North Woolwich, having
been constructed by that firm under Admiralty
contract for service at the island of Bermuda.

Yesterday morning the Ist Battalion Coldstream
Guards, under the command of Col. the Hon. J.
Fielding, paraded at the Sheet-street Infantry Bar-
racks, Windsor, for the purpose of marching by
road to the metropolis. The route taken was via
Datchet to llounslow-heath, which was reached
early in the afternoon. The Ist Battalion on its
arrival at Hounslow took possession of the camp
which had been vacated in the course of the morn-
ing by the 2d Battalion of the same regiment. The
Ist Battalion remained last night under canvas upon
the heath, and this morning will march via Brent-
furd and Hammersmith to Chelsea.
The 2d Battalion Coldstream Guards, which slept
in the camp at Hounslow-heath on Monday night,
paraded at about 8 o'clock. and marched from
Hounslow at half-past 8, en route for Windsor,
where they arrived shortly before 1 o'clock.
The troops in garrison paraded yesterday morning
on Woolwich-common, and were put through a
series of field-day evolutions by the Commandant,
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., B.A.
Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Lovell, C. 8., has been ap-
pointed commanding Royal Engineer at Sheerness,
succeeding Col. S. Freeth.

The colonelcy of the 93d (Sutherland high-
landers) Regiment of Foot is vacant by the death
of General Alexander Fisher Macintosh, K.H.,
which occurred onFriday last. The gallant general,
who was in his 74th year, entered the army as cor-
net in the 3d Dragoon Guards in 1811, and served
in the Peninsula from August, 1812, to the end of
the war in 1814, including the retreat from Madrid
to Salamanca and action at Alba de Tormes ; the
retreat of Ciudad Rodrigo and action at San
Munos ; passage of the Tormes above Sala-
manca and attack on the French rear-guard
under General Villate ; the action at Hormasa be-
fore Burgos ; and the battle of Vittoria, investment
of Pampeluna, action at Tarbes, attack on the French
cavalry rear-guard at St. Gaudens, and battle
of Toulouse. lie had received the war medal with
with two clasp for Vittoria and Toulouse. Ile
was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guel-
phic Order in 1833. llis commissions bore date as
follows : —Cornet, Oct. 13, 1811 ; Lieut., June 11,
1812 ; Capt., June 9, 1816 ; Major, Sept. 18,
1823 ; Lieut.-Col., Dec. 15, 1825 ; Col., June 28,
1838; Major-Gen., Nov. 11, 1851 ; Lieut.-Gen.,
Aug. 2, 1858 ; and Gen., Dec. 27, 1564. Ile had
held the colonelcy of the 93d Regiment since June,
1862.

Yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, the 2d battalion
Coldstream Guards, under the command of Col.
Baring, paraded at the Chelsea Barracks, prior to
marching by road to Windsor. Shortly after
eight o'clock the regiment, headed by their
band, left Chelsea, and marched by way of
Hammersmith and Breutford to Hounslow-
heath, which was reached soon after noon,
where the troops halted for the day and night.
A detachment of the Military Train, under the
command of Capt. Keogh and Lieut. Roberts, with
thirteen waggons carrying camp equipage for the
Guards, quitted Aldershott Camp between 2 and 3
o'clock in the morning, and marched to Hounslow,
a distance of about 24 miles, where they met the
Coldstream Guards. Another detachment of the
Military Train, consisting of four waggons with
provisions and stores, and an ambulance waggon,
commanded by Lieut. Braine, left Kensington
Barracks at six o'clock in the morning, and arrived
at Hounslow-heath in the course of the day. Upon
the arrival of the Guards tents were immediately
pitched on the Cavalry exercise-ground, and a
camp formed with its front towards the high road
leading to London. The encampment was formed
in several lines, for the security of which a front
and rear guard were told off and posted. The
head-quarters were near the centre of the camp.
The Military Train encamped on the east of the
Guards, and on the south-east were the trenches.
There was an evening parade at five o'clock.

Yesterday the proceedings and finding of the
general court-martial which assembled at Chatham
so far back as the 30th of June, under the presi-
dency of Col. R. 11. Crofton, Royal Artillery, for
the trial of private Arthur Yeomans, of the 109th
Bombay Infantry, were promulgated to the troops
in Chatham garrison, the prisoner having been kept
in confinement ever since his trial. The charges
on which the prisoner was arraigned were for de-
sertion and using abusive, obscene, and threatening
language towards Staff Assist.•Surg. F. Ferguson,
M D., at the time he was undergoing his medical
inspection. Since he has been in the service the
prisoner has been a very bad character, and has
several times been tried by a court-martial, besides
being branded with the letter " D." The Court
sentenced him to be dismissed from her Majesty's
service with ignominy, to be branded with the
letters "8.C.," and to undergo five years' penal
servitude.

The Ilighflyer, 21, screw (unarmoured wooden)
corvette, 1,161. tons, 250-horse power, Captain
Thomas M. Sabine Pasley, recently returned to
England from foreign service, was paid out of com-
mission at Portsmouth yesterday, under the super-
vision of Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, commanding
the steam reserve at the port. The ship was put
out of commission in very excellent condition. She
was commissioned by Captain Pasley, sou of Ad-
miral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, Port Admiral and
Naval Commander in Chief at. Portsmouth, on the
13th of December, 1861, for service on the East
India station. In the Persian Gulf she was en-
gaged in coast operations against the Wakasses.
She was next employed in the suppression of the
slave trade on the coast of Africa, during which
time she captured nineteen dhows and liberated
five hundred and eighty-six :slaves. During the
latter part of her commission she was employed in
sending on stores to Annesley Bay for the Abyssinian
Expedition, and remained there -until her receipt of
orders to return to England, where she arrived at
Spithead, after a good passage, on the 12th of
August. Since her arrival at Portsmouth £2,290
sterling hz-,0 been paid on board: in part liquidation
of prize money due to her officers and crew.
The unarmoured composite-41U gunboat Cracker