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soon found that the house was on fire, but the pri-
soner would not allow her to open the door, and ho
took a knife and threatened to kill anybody who
entered. The neighbours, however, forced the door,
and endeavoured to extinguish the fire, but
without success, for the house was consumed. In
the course of the trial _ _

Mr. Baron Martin asked the counsel for the pri-
soner if the facts could be altered, for, if not, he
had but one alternative. _

Mr. Powell said he could not resist a conviction,
but he wished to examine some witnesses to show
that some of the prisoner's family had been insane,
and that when the prisoner had been drinking he
was in the same state.

The grandmother was examined on this point,
but she stated that her husband had a very firm
mind. The learned counsel abandoned the examin-

ation.

Mr. Baron Martin then directed the jury that if
they believed the evidence they must find the pri-
soner guilty, which they did accordingly.
His Lordship said the crime of which the pri-
soner had been convicted was a capital one, but
the statute, the 4th George IV., c. 48, authorised
him, if he thought fit, not to pass sentence, but to
order the sentence of death to be recorded. He
should adopt that course in this case, but, though
the prisoner's life would be spared, he must not
expect that his sentence would be less than penal
servitude for life.
Sentence of death recorded.

John Dean, aged 47, labourer, was charged under
the 7th and Bth of George [V., c. 29, with sending
a letter to one William Ilorlock, demanding money
with menaces, and without any reasonable or pro-
bable cause.

Mr. Powell appeared for the prosecution. The
prisoner was undefended.
The prosecutor, William Horlock, stated that he
was the porter of the Upton-on-Severn Workhouse,
and that in October last the following letter in the
handwriting of the prisoner was delivered to him :

"Oct. 25.
" Dear Sir,—l have been informed that you have had
dealings with my wife since we have been rnarreyed. I
have evident proof of the same, and in consequence I am
much injured, and if you don't leave 2/. for me at the
Publick House at Long Hope, called the Farmers T 3 iy,
on or before the 21 of November I shall go to Mr.
CArter's and take proceedings against you, and I can
tell plenty of what you will be sorry to hear.
"JOHN DEAN, May Hill.

"Address—.
" Mr. William Orlick, Porter at Westburyon•Severn

Workhouse, Gloucestershire.

"Leave it cealed and directed for me. I beg you will
keep out of my reach."
The prosecutor stated that there was no truth what-
ever in the imputation as far as he was concerned ;
but he admitted that he had on one occasion called
at the prisoner's house, in the prisoner's absence,
and given her a shilling for some drink ; but the
woman herself, who was in court, denied the state-
ment of the prosecutor, and declared that the con-
tents of the letter were true.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he believed the
charge to be true, and it
had caused him a good
deal of pain, and he had prayed to God that he
might have grace to forgive the prosecutor.
Mr. Baron Martin, in summing up the evidence,
said it was immaterial whether the charge contained
in the letter was true or false ; it would be equally
the offence contemplated by the statute.
The prisoner here interrupted the learned judge
by stating that he wrote the letter in the hope of
getting evidence that the prosecutor was guilty of
the offence.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
It was then proved that the prisoner had been
previously convicted of felony, and sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.
Mr. Baron Martin then sentenced him to be im-
prisoned, with hard labour, for 12 calendar months.
When the grand jury was discharged his Lord-
ship said the calendar was vary light, and it was
much to the credit of the county that (luring the
last four months, since the summer ass'ze3, there
had been so little crime.

The whole of the business was brought to a close
by half-past one o'clock.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—CHESTER, DEC. 9.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
THE BRAMH ALL MURDER.

Yesterday, after the despatch of our parcel, the
following evidence was taken in the case of James
Ferguson Henderson, charged with the wilful mur-
der of his father, Mr. James Henderson, a farmer,
residing at Hardy's Farm, Bramhall.
Jane Henderson examined—l am asingle woman,
living at Bramball, and daughter of the deceased, and
sister of the prisoner. I remember the 29th of
September. My mother, the prisoner, my brother
Thomas, and my married: sister Jessie Irlam, were
all at ardy's Farm, Bramhall. We all slept. in
the house that night, and the servants also. Two
other servants slept in the granary. My father
, slept in the front room, and my brother James in
the other front room. I slept in a back room, and
my mother and sister in the back room opposite.
"The servants slept in the attic, and also my brother
Thomas. The servants on the night of the 29th of
September went to bed at 8, my father at 9. My
brother Thomas went to bed, and my mother and
sister and myself at 12 o'clock. As we went to bed
we passed the back door. It was locked, and a
wooden bar across it. We left my brother James
in the parlour. He was writing. About 2 o'clock
in the morning we were disturbed by a noise on the
stairs. We came out on the staircase, and next
' thing I heard was my brother James opening the
door. He fired a gun and called out; " Tom,
come down immediately, there are robbers in
the house." James called out for a light. He
opened my bedroom door, and asked • for matches
to light a candle. I lighted my candle and gave it
to him. I asked him where the robbers were, and
he said they were gone downstairs. He was then
standing on the top of the stairs. I went into my,
room and shut the door. A few minutes after-
wards the servant man came to my door and told
me to come—that my father was shot. I went to
my father's room. My brothers James and Thomas
were there. I saw my father lying on his bed on
his back, with his hands on his chest. His head
was on the'pillow. He had been shot in the mouth.
I have frequently seen my father in his sleep, and
I have seen him in that position . My brother
James and Jessie Wein, my sister, came into the
room. James said his writing desk had been broken
open, and 141. 10s. taken from it. I had seen money
in his desk, but not shortly previous to that.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Parry—l have
seen money many times in my brother's desk, as
much as 141. orlsl. My father's face was conside-
rably blackened ou one si.le. I awoke suddenly, as if
roused up, and the first thing I heard was the sound
of footsteps. There appeared to 1115 to be more
than one person moving rapidly, but I could not
tell whether up or down stairs. When my brother
James came t my door he was only in his night
shirt. It would be quite ten minutes, if not more,
from the time of the outcry to the these the men
called me. My father was in the habit of going to
bed early and rising early. We nearly always
when we went to bed left my brother James. He
was cashier to Messrs. Saunders and Smith, corn.
factors, Manchester, and frequently when he ceme
home made up his business accounts. My father
used to rise about 4 o'clock. My brother James

used to leave the house before 8 o'clock to go to
Manchester, which i 3 about 10 miles distant. My
father was very skilful in rearing lean cattle and
fattening them. James had not such skill and
had nothing to do with the stock or management
of the farm. I know of money transactions between
my father and James, and that James made several
advances of money to my father. It was known to
the fanaily that .Tames was going to Sydney in
the spring, where I have a sister-in-law, On Monday
Sept. 28, there was a sale of cattle by auction at
the farm. A Mr. Brady was the auctioneer. There
was a great number of people, and lunch was pro-
vided. Ido not know whether any came merely as
spectators and to have a lunch. Mr brother James
is rather lame, and limps in his walk. I know my
brother's footsteps, and I am sure that the footsteps
I heard on the stairs were not his.
Re-examined—l
heard these footsteps aLout half
a minute after I awoke. I can tell my brother's
walk by_a halt, and I know that these footsteps
were not his because there was no halting. The
sound, appeared to be that of muffled feet, or of
persons walking in their stockings. I never know
of disputes between James and my father about
money transactions. They had a disput last No-
vember twelvemonth. 3/1..y brothers wished to takethe management of the money,
sight hail become ditn. Aly father was in the habit
of going to Scotland every year. He intended to go
there the next day if lie had not been killed. It was
kno Nll in the family that my father kept his money
in a drawer in a table in his bedroom.
father was in the habit
By Sergeant Parry—My because my father's
of going to Scotland to buy lean cattle to fatten.
In the dispute I mentioned between my father and
James a person named Turnbull was called in.
Owing to my father's dimness of sight he had paid
away a sovereign for a slain,. I am quite sure
that the dispute occurred in November.
By Mr. Welsby—Turubull was only once called
in.

Thomas Henderson, examined by Mr. Weisby.
I'am the younger son of the dezeasecl. I lived at
the farm, and was employed at farm work. I was
away from home on the !Atilt my father wils killed.
I returned home at ten, and went t 3 bed about
half-put, Bleese and the boy s'eep in the same
room as I do. I was alarmed in the night about 2
o'clock by the report of firearms, and I jumped up
out of bed and Went to the top of the staircast..
Before I came to the top of the staircase I heard mY

brother James jump out of bed and run across the
room. He then opened the door and fired the second
shot. My room is directly over my brother's. I
then shouted to Meese and the boy, but it
did not awake him. I then went to Bleese and
pulled the clothes off him, which awoke him. That
was before I heard the second report. I went into
the Irish girl's room, looked out of the window,
came back again, and shouted to Bleese. I then
went into my room to put on my trousers. After
the second report I heard footsteps running down
or upstairs. Bleese and I then went to the top of
the staircase. The Irish girl was behind us. I heard
James call to my sister for a light, and having got
it he went into his bedroom. Before that he had
called out to me that there were robbers in the
house. My brother want into his room, and I heard
him load both barrels of his gun. Bleese, the woman,
and myself then come downstairs. I went first, and
had a thick stick. We went with James down
into the back kitchen. James had the gun with
him. There was no other gun in the house, and it
was sometimes kept in the sitting room, mybrother's
room, and the kitchen. It belonged to my father. We
found the kitchen door open, and the bar was half
reared up against the wall. We thenlawoke the Irish-
men. We then went into the sitting room, and saw
my brother's writing desk with the hasp lying down
among the papers. James said there had been 14/.
10s. taken from it. We then went down into the
cellar, and observed that the ale cask had been run-
ning a little. There was wet below it. After that
we went to my father's bedroom, not ten minutes
after we were first roused. We found him lying
dead. We then came out of the room, arid James
handed me his gun. My father's door was not shut
and was not latched ;it was just half closed. I
am quite (sure of that. We then went to my
sister's bedroom to tell her what had happened,
and we all went back into the room. I examined
my father's desk, where he kept his money, to see
if it had been broken open. I lifted up my father's
hand and it fell down again. After coming out of
the room the second time James gave me his gun.
We went down 'stairs, but I don't recollect that
James told me to fire it. I think he told me that I
was to fire it out at the kitchen door, but I could
not be sure. I went outside and fired it in the air
over the pigcots. We then all agreed that Dillon
and I should go and fetch the police. That was
about a quarter of an hour after firing the gun. In
that time we dressed ourselves. I also went into
the sittingrootn, when I saw that all the things
were out of the desk. I then went to my brother's
room, where my trunk was, and put on my Sunday
clothes. I remember a sparrow being killed on the
Tuesday morning. There is a pear tree on the grass
plot, on the eastern side of the house. Thera was
a ladder at the tree. I was present at the sale
of cattle on the Monday. The amount of it was
about 2181., which sum was taken home by the
auctioneer. My father told him that he had better
take it home, as there had been several robberies at
farmhouses where the sales had been, and that he
and I would fetch it on Tuesday.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Parry—The
conversation about the robberies took place at tea,
and it was in consequence of what was said that my
father refused to take the money from the auc-
tioneer. Mr. Irlam was present, and in conse-
quence of what had been said slept in the house on
Monday night-. It was after the first shot that
I heard James jump out of bed and run across the
room. The first shot did not appear to me so loud
as the second, but I could not tell. It was as I
jumped out of my Led that I heard my brother
James jump out of his. After the second shot I
heard the footsteps on the stairs of more than one
person. My brother limps in his walk. The steps
I heard were quick, as of persons running. I can
undertake to swear that those were not the steps of
my brother. We knew it was James's intention to
go to Sydney. I know of James being security for
my father to the amount of 1,0001. My father was
surety for him for 1501. I think James made money
by other means than being a clerk. The 1501. my
father was security for was for speculations ; my
father get up early in the morning, an 1 James and
ho seldom met in the morning. James sat next to
his father on a Sunday, and used to help him to
his dinner. The kitchen door is easily op,•necl from
the inside. Suietton was the first constable who
came, about an hour and a half before any one else.
He had been employed to watch the farmhouse.
Mr. Andrews came after something. Persons could
easily get away from the house into the high road.
The door of my father's room was half-open.
Malocknay, who was with us when we went to the
room, was following behind. When I came home
at 11 there was no light in the back kitchen.
Re-examined--I know that the footsteps on the
stairs were not those of my brother, because there
dog
gs
in
no h halto h oino s
et
.h them. .
was
u Therepin wasmy
of my room was open. The dog made uo alarm. He
room. oScotch
h The sheep
is not a house dog at all.
By Mr. Sergeant Parry—He is a Scotch collie. •
He thinks more of sleep than anything else. I
never heard him bark in the house.
John Bleese examined—l was a farm servant of
the deceased. I slept in the attic with the boy
Wood, in the same room as Thomas Henderson.

We went to bed on the 29th about eight o'clock,
and at two on the following morning I was awak-
ened by two reports of firearms. There was about
half a minute elapsed belween the two discharges.
I got up after the second report. Thomas shouted
to me to get up. After the second report I heard
' nothing on the stairs. , I dressed and went down
stairs. I heard James say there were robbers in t;.O
house. Thomas went down stairs first. I had
struck a light. When I went down I saw
James at his bedroom door with a gun and a candle.
A few minutes passed between the last report and
the time I saw James at the door. The candle that
James had gave a good light, and appeared to have
been lit long. James was in his night-dress. I then
went down-stairs with James and Thomas. We
went into the kitchen. James h•ad a gnn. I saw
that the kitchen door was open. Janes went into
the kitchen, and•called the Irishmen. When they
came in we searched the cellar, but saw nothing
particular in it. We went up-stairs. James or
Thomas was first. We went into the old man's bed-
room. The door was shut and latched. One of the
sons raised the latch, but I do not know who went
in first. I saw the old man in bed. Nobo•ly touched
him. The nearest that anyone went was a few yards
from the body. No examination was made iu the
room. We then went down-staire.
Cross-examined by. Mr. Sergeant Parry—Perhaps
I was the third who went into the room. lam not
sure. I was as wide awake then as lam now. I
had only been engaged at the place two days. I had
been at Manchester that day, and had three glasses
of ale. I know Adshead'e at Cheadle, but did not
go there drunk.
John Dillon, one of the farm Lthourers who slept
is the house at the time of the murder, was next
examined, and deposed to the cii cuinstances in
connection w ith the disturbance caused by the report
of firearms.

George 03wald Andrews, superintendent of po-
lice for the Stockport division, detailed a convetsa-
tion he had with the prisoner about the murder on
arriving at the house, in which lie described how
he was arou,ed, hearing footsteps, opening his bed-
room door, and firing at the outline of a man upon
the wall, and seeing a light extinguished in his
father's room. Upon the bed on which the deceased
lay witness found about a dozen pieces of paper
blackened and singed. Upon the stairs beneath the
spot which the prisoner had struck when he said he
fired, he found another piece of paper blackened and
singed. In prisoner's bedroom witness found two
pieces of paper not singed or dirty, two spent caps,
and some shots, and in the orchard beneath the pear-
tree where the sparrow was. shot, he found another
piece of paper, dirty and slightly burnt. All these
bits of paper witness produced. In the prisoner's
bedroom witness also found about 70 numbers of a
serial entitled " The Cottage Girl, or the Marriage
Day:" Witness also produced the nits of wood with
which the latch of the granary door had been fas-
tened: The apprehension of the prisoner on his
return from Manchester, his apparent unconcern,
absence of surprise when he told his mother that
he was charged with the crime, and his sitting down
with them to. tea, were_ then described. In the
drawer of the 'table inn. _deceased's room witness
found a banker's.:Urder for lOW., a banker's receipt
for 751., and about 51. 63. in money.
Joseph Little, deputy chief constable of Cheshire,
police-constable Beejarnin Cooper, and police-con-
stable Thomas Hammond corroborated the evidence
of the previous witness. No marks of blood were
found on the stairs where the prisoner said he had
shot the supposed robber, nor were footpiiuts dis-
covered near the house.

This morning his lordship tcok Ifisseat at 9 o'clock.
The first witness called wag,
Police constable Homy Sineaton, of the S!:ock-
port division of police, wiio.3e evidence only went to
corroborate that of the police given yesterday.
Capt. Smith, chief const.lblo of Cheshire, was
examined, but no now fact elici ea.

George Young Graham, surgeon, Stockpor, was
next examined—Witness mad an examination of
the body of the deceased. The face was intensely
blackened, more particularly the left cheek. There
was a large quantity of blood on the bi.d quilt and
floor, which had flowed from the wound. The left
eye-lid was a little open, the right eye-lid was
closed. A great portion of the upper lip was de-
stroyed; and the':whol© of the hard and soft palate
with the upper teeth, had been blown away. The
bones in the left cheek were shattered. A portion of
the base of the skull had been driven into the brain.
On examining the brain he found a lacerated
wound corresponding with the wound in the face.
Witness extracted eight- pellets from the brain at
the base of the shmll. The mouth and back part of

-
the throat of deceased were torn by shot. The two
teeth produced by witness he extracted from the
back part of the throat. The body of the deceased
was in every other respect healthy. The person who
shot the deceased must have been within 12 inches
of him.

Geo. Downs and John Geo. Graham, surgeons,
Stockport, gave corroborative testimony, and the
latter of those witnesses deposed that he had made
a chemical examination of a portion of the pieces of
paper found on deceased's bed, and also that found
on the stairs ; both examinations resulted in a dis-
covery that they had been fired from some weapon.
Thos. Stensby, gunreaker, Manchester, deposed
to selling the prisoner a pistol, some powder, and a
quantity of shot, about a week before the deceased's
death.

Cross-examined—The shots witness sold prisoner
were considerably larger than those now produced,
which were found in the prisoner's bedroom.
By the Judge—The barrel of the pistol would
have held about the quantity of shot found in the
head of deceased, if sufficient wadding had been
put in. _ _ _

Richard }hard, letterpress-printer, deposed that
he was a foreman in the employ of Mr. Evans in
1853. In that year he assisted in printing a serial
entitled " The Cottage Girl ; or, the Marriage
Day." The pieces of paper produced (marked C)
form portions of No. 77 of that serial. (The pieces
produced were found on the bed of the deceased.)
Cross-examined.—Witness worked off 6,500 of
No. 77 of the serial referred to. Of his own know-
ledge he knew nothing of a piece of paper produced
marked A. (This was No. 77 of the serial.)
Mr. Sergeant Parry objected to witness being al-
lowed to compare the fragments of paper produced
with the serial number shown him.
The number of the serial was then taken from
witness, and he swore positively that he could tell
from the type (which was long primer) c n the frag-
ments produced, which were taken from the de-
ceased's bedroom, that it was printed from Mr.
Evans's type, and wai part of a particular publica-
tion entitled " The Cottage Girl ; or, The Mar-
riage Day."

Mr. Sergeant Parry her© claimed the right to
cross-examine the witness on this point, which was
allowed.

Cross-examined---Had never read the whole of
what had been issued of " The Cottage G-rl." Had
read parts, but not the whole, of several numbers.
Knew the matter on the fragments of paper pro-
duced had been printed from type belonging to Mr.
Evans, because it was old. Could not swear to
every bit of printing that went out of Mr. Evans's
office.

Re-examined—Was positive the fragments pro-
duced, found in deceased's room and under the
pear-tree in the garden, were portions of " The
Cottage Girl, or The Marriage Day," serial ; and it
must have been printed by Mr. Evans, because no
one else published the story. Upon the corners of
one of the pieces produced witness saw the figures
1,185, upon another 1,200, another had 1,198, and
another 119, which must have been 1,197. The
fragments "D" (found on the stairs) formed the
first part of the fragments marked "E," (found in
the prisoner's bedroom).
Mr. Bernard Finnigan deposed that on examin-
ing the writing-desk produced, he believed the hasp
must have Leen forced off when the desk was
unlocked.

Mr. Walker, steam-packet agent, Manchester,
deposed that he bad known the deceased for
several years. In the month of March last witness
remembered prisoner coming into his office and
saying to him, "That old villain has been
abusing us all ; he is quite mad and de anged, and
we must try to get him into a madhouse. He is
not c ipable of conducting his own farm, and they
intended taking it out of his hands." He then
halide l witness a lease, and desired him to keep it
for him until he wanted it. Witness refused to
keep the lease unless it was sealed up, which the
prisoner did. Witness told the prisoner it was no
use sen ling him to an asylum, as the surgeons
would soon find that out. A short time after-
wards—a few weeks—the prisoner called again ;he
then said, "I have had to do the old villain hand
and foot, and I have given him something which
he will not soon forget." The following day wit-
ness went to Brarnhall, and saw the deceased ; his
eyes were very much swollen, his arms abrased,
and his legs in the same condition. Witness on
returning to Manchester, received a note from the
prisoner' desiring to .meet him at his married
sister's, Mrs. Froom's. Upon meeting him the
prisoner said, " I want to show you what that old
villain owes me ;" he then showed me several sums
of money entered in a book, which purported to be
owing the prisoner by his father. Witness advised
the prisoner not to return home, but to lodge in
town ; and the prisoner replied it was his father
who caused all tho mischief. Oa the day of the
murder prisoner and a man named. Matthewson,
called at witness's office twice ; upon the second
occasion witness was in. The conversation which
ensued witness then detailed.

[The examination of witnesses was still proceed-
ing when our parcel was despatched.]

NAVALAND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The 99th Regiment of Foot arrived at Liverpool
from Dublin yesterday morning in the steamers
Trafalgar and Prince, and proceeded to the camp
at Aldershot.

With the view of affording the officers and troops
stationed at Chatham garrison every facility for
acquiring a knowledge of the use of the Enfield
rifle, previously to their embarkation for India, the
authorities have directed a public lecture to be
given to the officers and troops by one of the in-
structors of musketry every Wednesday evening in
the Garrison Chapel Schoolroom, the first of the
series being given last night. All the officers at-
tached to the Indian depots quartered at Chatham
have received directions to attend the lectures,
togeßer with the non-commissioned officers and
men of their respective corps.
The 94th Regiment, under comm and of Colonel
Mills, embarked on Tuesday at Plymouth on board
the steam-ship Abeona, belonging to the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company, for conveyance to
Alexandria for the East Indies; she was appointed
to sail yesterday. This is the third time of embarka-
tion • they left Cork on Monday, the sth October,
in the steamship Austria, which was disabled and
put back to Plymouth, where they embarked in
her a second time on the 14th November.
The following movements will take place to-day
and to-morrow in Scotland :—The Ist Battalion
Riflo Brigade proceeds from Edinburgh Castle to
Glasgow ; the let Staffordshire Militia, at Perth,
will wove to Edinburgh, and will be succeeded at
Perth by the depot battalion (composed of the
depots of two regiments) now in Glasgow.
At the official sitting of the Board of Admiralty
on Tuesd iy the appointment of Admiral Sir
Charles Ogle to be Admiral of the Fleet was defini-
tively settled, awl the pay voted. Capt. Gordon,
late of the Victory, will succeed Captain Ramsay,
as superintendent of steam-packets at the South-
ampton station, on the promotion of the latter
officer to flag rank by the creation of the Admiral
of the Fleet.
_ _

The Juno, 26, Captain Fremantle, was paid off
yesterday alongside the dockyard jetty, Portsmouth,
of the senior officer of the ordinary, Captain Eyres;
C. B. Not a man went to the pay table otherw.sa
than in a sober, orderly manner. Lieutenant Brad-
shaw, the second lieu' enant, having bee app:unt©d
first lieutenant of the Calypso, 20, at Chatham,
upwards of 60 of the experieaced seamen of the Juno
have volunteered: to follow him, The paid off men
beonging to the eastern ports took passage in the
Pigmy steam vessel, which conveyed also super-
numeraries from the Excellent and Victory for the
ships fitting out at those ports.
The Cuckoo steamer has been floated down from
her former position at' the. gun-wharf, Chatham,
and is now moored alongside the Arctiel3hip Reso-
lute, preparatory to being taken into dock.
n dyes-
terday the fires were lighted in the furnaces for the
purpose of ascertaining what` injuries bad been
e
to her machinery, when it Was found that, owing
to the long time it bad been under water and the
injury
steamereye sterd hasy
great quantity of mud, it will be necessary t‘D take
it to pieces for the purpose of being thoroughly
repaired and cleaned. The
seriousz.
inTeiheen inwhtsulli'e of
e h
ad
notThreecfeoilvle:wl ainngy
at the Admiralty :--

Lieut. Augustus F. Pyno, to the Renown ; Lieut.
C. D. Lucus, to the Edinburgh ; C. G. Stanley,
mate, to the Curacoa ;, H. W. Slane, midshipman,
from the Centurion to the Victory ; A. H. Blair,
midshipman, to the Curacoa ; W. M. Bridge-, mid-
shipm.n, to the Viper ; G. S. Brown, midshipman,
to the Ardent; S. Palley, midshipman, to the
Cambrian ; H. A. Monteith and A. W. S. Lyon,
midshipmen, to the Calypso ; W. Copland, mid-
shipman, to the' Aleut ; G. H. Steel, naval cadet,
to the Curacoai J. o'.B. Sceales, naval cadet, to
the Renown.

• MILITIA.
26 officers and 800 men of the Northamptonshire
Militia are appointed to arrive at Plymouth this
morning.
The Kerry Militia, from Tralee barracks, are
expected shortly at Plymouth on the way to Exeter
and Taunton.
The 4th Middlesex Militia sailed from Liverpool
for Dublin, onflie way. to Gal way,- yesterday even-
ing in the steamers Trafalgar and Prince.