The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-17 00:00:00

DUELLING-THE NAVY.

The following order is in the new Admiralty instructions,
in reference to this matter

1. Every officer serving on board any ship or vessel of
her Majesty's fleet, is hereby positively ordered neither to
send nor accept a challenge to fight a duel with any other
person of the fleet. _ • _

2. Every officer of the fleet, on becoming privy to any
intention of other officers to fight a duel, or having reason
to believe that such is likely to occur, owing to circumstances,
that haVe come 'under his obserVation .or knowledge, is
hereby ordered to take every measure within his power to
prevent such duel, having recourse, if necessary, to the cap-
tain or commanding officer.
"3. Every officer of the fleet is hereby ordered, in n
manner or. degree to evince dissatisfaction with, or to up-
braid another officer for refusing or not sending a challenge,
and all . officers are strictly enjoined neither to reject,
nor advise the rejection of, a reasonable proposition for
the honourable adjustment of differences that may have un-
happily occurred. _ _ - _ • .

44. Any officer of the fleet who may be called on to az..t
as second or friend to an officer intending to fight a duel, is
to consider it to be his imperative duty, and he is herd*
ordered strenuously to exert himself to effect an adjustment
between the advisee parties, on terms consistent with the
honour of each, and should he fail, owing to the determine
tion of the offended parties not to accept honourable terms
of accommodation, he must refer to the second paragraph 01
this order.

"As obedience to orders is the essential and governing
principle of the naval service, those officers may rest assured
of the support and approbation of the Admiralty, who,
having had the misfortune of giving offence to, or having
injured or insulted others, shall frankly explain, apologise, or
offer redress for the same, or who, having had the misfortune
of receiving offence, injury, or insult from another, shall cor-
dially accept frank explanation, apology, or redress for the
same, or who, if such explanation, apology, or redress are
refused to be made or accepted, shall submit the matter to be
dealt with by the captain:or commanding officer of the ship or
fleet; and every officer who shall act as hereinbefore directed,
and consequently refuse to accept a challenge, will be deemed
to have acted honourably, and to have evinced a requisite
obedience not only to this order, but also to the pleasure of
the Queen."

FUNERAL OF THE LATE LORD ABINGER.—This
mournful ceremony took place on Sunday morning last, at
the small village of Abinger, about four miles from Dorking,
in Surrey. The remains of the late noble Lord were removed
from Bury to London on Tuesday, by a special train on the
Eastern Counties Railway, :and subsequently conveyed to
Abinger Hall, where the body lay in state on Saturday last,
in one of the drawing-rooms of the mansion. At nine o'clock
on Sunday morning the melancholy cavalcade, with all the
trappings of funeral pomp, preceded by about thirty of the
Noble Lord's tenantry, attired in deep mourning, left the
Hall and proceeded to the church. Onarriving at the church,
which was hung with black cloth, the procession was mot by
the Curate of Abinger (in the absence of the Rev. Mr. Daw-
son, the Rector), who read the service in a very impressive
manner. This portion of the ceremony concluded, the coffin
was re-conveyed to the churchyard, in one corner of which
the family vault is situate, Lady Scarlett, the deceased
Baron's first wife, having been interred there in the year
1829. The body was here lowered into the grave in the
usual manner, and the customary prayers having been read
over it, the mournful procession returned to Abinger Hall.
SMUGGLING.—At the Rochester Petty Sessions,
on Friday, a Deptford waterman, named James -Pattison;
was charged with having on board his boat seven three-
quarter pounds of contraband smuggled tobacco, when in
lea Reach, on the Bth instant. Lieut. Henry of the Coast,
Guard Station at Holvhaven, deposed, that on the Bth
about twelve o'clock, lie boarded defendant's boat in Sea
Reach. Witness was not in a galley, and had on a shoot-
ing dress. Found a box of cigars on the stern meats
another under the head sheets, and part of two or three
other boxes in the boat. They were all wet. Pattison, in,
his defence, said that he found the cigars floating in Sea
Reach. George Henderson, a Gravesend waterman, proved-
that he saw the cigars floating down the river on the day in
.question, but would not pick them up. The Chairman told
Pattison that they must convict him, and gave him the
lowest term of imprisonment, six months, and remitted the
hard labour, in consideration of his ill health. The solicitor
of the Customs said he should be happy to recommend
mitigation of punishment, and the magistrates accordingly
directed a letter to be written to the Commissioners of Cus-
toms on defendant.'s behalf.
REVOLTING CHARGE.—At the Bristol Quarter Ses-
sions on Tuesday, the Rev. Henry Ileatlicote, who was de-
scribed in the calendar as forty years of age, and who is A
clergyman of the Church of England, a married man with
two sons, was placed at the bar charged with a series of
offences of the most disgusting character. It is utterly im-
possible to give the evidence, which disclosed a state of
moral depravity on the part of the prisoner scarcely possible
to exist with sanity of intellect. As respects the first indict-
ment, the jury acquitted the prisoner of all the serious counts,
and found him guilty of only the common assault; on tho
second indictment they found him not guilty of the intent,
but guilty of the solicitation, and of the common assault.
The other indictment was 'withdrawn. The Recorder then,
on the first indictment, sentenced him to pay a fine of twenty
shillings i for the offence in the second, of solicitation, &c.,
twelve months imprisonment in the common gaol of the.
city ; and for the common assault in that indictment to pay
a further fine of twenty_shillings.—Bath Herald.
DESTRUCTIVE "FIRE.—SALISBURY, SUNDAY.--'
Shortly before eight o'clock this morning a fire broke out in
the.very extensive buildings in the rear of the principal en-
trance :of Giddings and Company's brewery. The whole
centre of the chequer formed by four streets, one dense mesa
of buildings, consisting of the brewery department, corn
stores, tenements, stables, &c., was on fire in every direction.
About eleven o'clock the flames gained a very powerful as-
cendancy in the extensive hop stores adjoining, and therefore
the Messrs. Peniston and Sleat, architects,in attendance,
gave directions that the commonication should be cut off on
the Winchester .street side of this hop-store, and
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flames were, by half-past eleven,
premises are partly insured, but correct particulars relative
to this circumstance could not be ascertained. The fire ori-
ginated, it is said, somewhat got unde • The
.
owing to the porter malting floors being
overheated, and which,
burst-
ing out in so many directions soshortly after the alarm was
if true, accounts for the flames
The loss sustained must b
their very excellent assistance.
given. Great praise is due to the inhabitants in etal for
some thousand pounds. A great portion of the porter malt
was saved.
CORONER'S INQUEST.-.-*Mr. Higgs held an inquest
on Monday evening, at the Rose and Crown, Knightsbridge,
on view of the body of Margaret Orger, aged. sixty-eight.
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cess ; deceased had evidently been in the water a longtime.:
Mary Elizabeth Phillips, an inmate of St. James's Work-
house, Poland-street, said that. deceased was a widow, and,
bad latterly been an inmate of the workhouse with witness,
and in the same ward. Deceased had leave to go out last.
Saturday for the day, and left the house at one o'clock in the-
afternoon. For some time past she had been suffering under
great depression of spirits. She was never seen after leaving
the workhouse on Saturday, and no one knew what had be-
come of het until her bay was found in the Serpentine.
She had been in the workhouse two years, and was much rep
spected there by the master and matron. John Brodie, de-.,
ceased's son-in-law, said that deceased had been dreidfidly-
affected, about two years ago, by losing the society of her.
daughter, who went to America. She always said she was
well treated in the workhouse. One of the deceased's sons
had also been absent in America during the last three yea*.
and had never written to deceased, and that also preyed upon.
her mind. Deceased had been very infirm for some years
past. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE SIR EDMUND NAGLE.-+;
When a young men, travelling in a post-chaise up
Shooter's-hill, a highwayman rode up, presented a pistol.
into the window, and demanded his money or his life,
Sir Edmund, then a very athletic man, seized the arm of_
the- ruffian, twisted the pistol from it, dragged bins
through the window, and, placing him beside him to-
keep him quiet, ordered the post-boy to drive on. The:
humble supplications of the highwayman were answered
with, "Be easy, boy, be. easy, I won't hurt ye." Still
the conscience-stricken robber kept. pleading, till,- at.
length the chaise reached the captam s lodgings, when
he hauled the fellow out of the coach, walked up to the,
garret, and locked themselves in. He then took off his-
own coat, and said, " Now, Sir, I neither mean to hang
ye, nor hurt ye, but just give you a broth of a best-
ing, which, haying accomplished, he opened the door,
bade the robber be oft; and the next time he stopped s
coach, to rap at the window, and ask if Pat Nagle- was
inside, before he ventured to poke his pistol into it.

Waft WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TH:S DAY.
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