The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

WOOLWICH-FRI DAY.

The Athol troop- ship, Mr. Pea rn, Master Commander,
came alongside the wharf wall at Woolwich Dockyard, yes-
terday, to take on board the baggage of Captain Lake's
c !rnpny of the sth battalion Royal Artillery, under orders
for Leith Fort, North Britain. The company was relieved
yesterday morning from field battery duty, by Captain
Flude's company, 7th battalion, and assembled at twelve
o'clock in heavy marching order, on the guard mounting
parade, with Brigade Major Cuppage's company, 9th batta-
lion, recently returned from Devonport, for the inspection of
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C.H.,
Commandant of the Garrison. His Lordship, attended by
Major Armstrong, Acting Brigade-Major, Major smith,
Captain and Adjutant Ormsby, and Captain and Adjutant
Maclean, inspected the men very minutely, and expressed
himself highly pleased with their clean and soldierlike ap-
pearance. Captain Lake's company embarked at the Wool-
wich Dockyard, at one o'clock r.isi. to-day, in the Athol
troop-ship, for Leith. •
Barrett() Junior, hired freight-ship, which left Woolwich
on the 28th of August last, with Major Anderson's company
and Capt. Stanway's company, both of the Ist battalion of the
Royal Artillery, for Halifax, Nova Scotia, arrived at their
destination on the 28th September, and the vessel was ex-
pected to sail on the sth of October, on her return to head-
quarters at Woolwich with Major Lock's and Capt. Mee's
companies of the Bth battalion.
The • Avon steam-vessel, Commander Denham, F.S.A.,
fitting here for service at the Bight of Benin and coast of
Africa, is not to be engaged in the pursuit and capture of
slave-vessels, although she is well armed, in case of being at-
tacked. Her employment is to be entirely devoted to the
survey of a large portion of the coast of Africa, where so
many British steamers and ships of war are now employed
in putting down the slave trade at its principal sources.
The Avon being about to be employed on particular surveying
service in a part of the world in the great majority of cases
fatal to European constitutions, has been prepared for the
special service in which she is to be engaged, with every
care and precaution that the aid or art of man can suggest
for the convenience, comfort, and preservation of the health
of her officers and crew. She is fitted with iron water bulk-
heads between the engine-room and the other parts of the
vessel, and around and in the roofing of the deck cabins.
The cabins, and the parts of the vessel appropriated to the
crew, are supplied with prostrate and shower-baths, adapted
to these places, to afford ample opportunities of ablution to
promote health, and to add to the comfort of the officers and
crew and relive the sick. The meat safes are protected from
insects and high temperature by similar means. Eight
boats had been provided for the Avon, two of which are
whale-boats, and fitted as life-boats, and every one of the
eight boats fitted with awnings and Redpath's cooking appa-
artus, with complete canteens down to the minutia; of salt-
spoons, for the comfort of detached parties, whether in the
boats or marquees they carry with them. The Lords of the
Admiralty have also been pleased to allow separate patent
galleys for cooking the officers' and ships company's provi-
sions on deck, thereby diminishing the bulk of cooking
duties, and additional in the vessel, had the whole cooking
been perforated betwixt the decks. The peculiar
service on which the Avon is to be employed in
traversing the hitherto unexplored part of the Bight of Benin
induced Commander Denham to take every precaution for
the safety of the crew and vessel; and from the experience
he had obtained while engaged in surveying on the British
coast, he applied to their Lordships and obtained thirty-one
of Porter's anchors, of sorts adapted to the vessel and the
boats, and they have been tested and stowed, after being
separated into three parts, as ballast in the hold; and so sa-
tisfied does he feel of their value, that he has not taken, nor
will he take, any other description on board during his
voyage. She also carries a stock of Warlick's patent fuel,
which it is anticipated will stand the test of being stowed in
small compass, and not be affected by a high temperature.
One thousand tons of the same fuel proceeds by the Avon to
Accra for her especial use. On entering the private cabins
of this vessel this morning, they were as pure and sweet as
the best rooms of private residences could be, owing to the
windows being open all night, and merely protected by the
wire-gauze ventilators.
The Ardent steam-vessel, Commander J. Russell (b), ar-
rived at Woolwich yesterday evening from Ascension and
Portsmouth, all well. Lieutenant Charles R. Johnson, who
went out in the Eclair, but was transferred to the Ardent,
has returned in the latter vessel in excellent health.
The crew of the Growler are permitted to have commu-
nication with _the shore to receive necessaries and fresh
water, but not to go out at the gate, or mix with the per-
sons employed in the dockyard. No new cases have oc-
curred, or any symptoms tending to create alarm, yet every
precaution is very properly taken to prevent the chance of
danger. The two persons of the crew who had been ill
some time before the arrival of the vessel, but were con-
sidered convalescent, have had a relapse, their constitu-
tions having been impaired when employed on the coast of
Africa.

QUEEN'S OWN WORCESTER-
SHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY.
WORCESTER, FRPAY.—This fine body of men are now
assembled in this city for eight days' permanent duty, under
the command of Colonel the Hon. R.. H. Clive, and a nu-
merous staff of officers. The regiment (which numbers be-
tween 800 and 900 members) mustered yesterday afternoon
on the Pitchcroft race-ground, adjacent to the city, where
they were inspected, and whence they marched to their
head-quarters at the Star and Garter Hotel. Lord Ward is
the Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, and the following
are the Captains and Lieutenants of the several troops, which
are eleven in Tumber :
Worcester—Captain Sir 0. P. 'Wakeman, Bart. ; Lieute-
nants Temple and Smith.
Evesham—Captain Lord Eastnor, Lieutenant Gist.
Westwood—Captain Pakington, M.P. ; Lieut. Skey.
Upton—Captain Hon. W. Coventry, Lieut. Dowdeswell.
Kingsnorton—Captain Taylor Lieutenant Taylor.
Tardebigg, No. I—Captain Sir F. H. Goodricke, Bart. ;
Lieutenant R. Hemming.
Tardebigg, No. 2 Captain Rufford, Lieutenant T. G.
Rufford. •
.Witley—Captain Cookes, Lieut. Sir W. Smith, Bart.
Stourbridgc—Captain Hickman, Lieut. Grazebrook.
Hanbury—Captain Galion, Lieutenant Parker.
Dudley—Captain Bennett, Lieutenants Hunt and Dixon.
The meeting for duty is later than usual this autumn, on
account of the harvest having been delayed by the cold sum-
mer. This regiment is acknowledged to be one of the most re-
spectable and efficient corps of Yeomanry Cavalry in the
kingdom, if, indeed, it is second to any, and has repeatedly
received the encomiums of the reviewing officer. Two pieces
of artillery are attached to it, and it possesses a fine brass
band. The martial exercises commenced to-day. Wednesday
next will be the grand field-day, when the regiment will be
regularly reviewed in full uniform. The review of 1843 was
honoured by the presence of the Queen Dowager and an
illustrious party, from Witley Court. Her Majesty left
Witley Court yesterday for a short visit to the Queen, at
Windsor, but will return early next week, and may probably
again attend the review, should the weather be fine.

MERCHANT TAILORS' SCHOOL.

The half-yearly examination of this ancient foundation
took place on Thursday in the presence of the master of the
company, Mr. Thomas Jackson, the wardens, and a large
number of the Court. The examiners were the Rev. Pro-
fessor Browne, of King's College, Prebendary of St. Paul's,
and the Rev. Dr. Sleath. After the examination, with which
the examiners declared themselves highly satisfied, the
Court were conducted into the school-room by the Rev. J. A.
Hessey, 8.D., the head master, in order to hear speeches
delivered by the senior boys, after the usual custom. Here
a very large company was assembled, consisting of many
distinguished clergymen and gentlemen educated at the
school, and various friends and relatives of the boys. The
following is a programme of the speeches, of which we will
only observe that they were all well and carefully delivered ;
sonic of the speakers, especially Mr. Warne, who spoke the
comic speech, acquitted themselves with a great deal o*
spirit :--

SUBJECTS AWD ORDER OF THE SPEECHES.
lead Monitor, Thomas H. Campbell, " Brasidas' Speech
to his Soldiers"—Thucydides.
2d, John Cohen Jackson,
War"—Aristoph anes.
7th, John Bernard Behrends, " Tiberius to the Roman: Se
nat e"—Tacitus.
3d, John W. Hammond, " Self-knowledge"—Persius.
Bth, Hubert Day Church, " The Imperial Student"—
Gibbon.
4th, Edward Coupland, " The Strength of Innocence"—
Milton.
sth, James Hunter Reid, "Richard ll.'s Soliloquy in Pri
son"—Shskspeare. . -
fitb, William T. Warne, "Captain Cuornero, or the Guelphs
and Ghibellines"—Anon.
In the evening a large portion of the audience assembled
at Merchant Tailors'-hall to partake of the magnificent hos-
pitality of the company.

" The Citizen's Complaint of

ESCAPE OF A HORSE STEALER.—At the petty BPS
sions held at Ilford a short time since, a man named Henry
Bradley, a horse dealer, living at Chigwell, was committed
for trial, charged with stealing a horse, the property of a
tradesman residing in Whitechapel. Preparatory to his
removal to Newgate he was conveyed to Ilford gaol for
security, the lock-up at the Angel Inn, where the sessions
are held, not being deemed sufficiently safe. Soon after- he
was locked up in the cell, he by some means managed to
slip the bolt and get into the yard attached to the women's
side of the gaol. In this part of the prison a new building,
for a wash-house, with a roof slanting from the outer wall
of the gaol, has recently been erected. Having got on to
the top of the wall, he was able to drop without hurting
himself in the meadow which surrounds the prison. His
escape was soon found out, and a strict search was made in
the neighbourhood for him, but without success. A descrip-
tion of him was advertised in the Hue and Cry for two suc-
cessive weeks, with the same result. At length information
was received at the gaol that a person answering his descrip-
tion was at Woolwich. Mr. Anderson, the governor of the
gaol, immediately proceeded there, and found that his late
prisoner had enlisted in the Artillery. He secured him and
conveyed him forthwith to Newgate, where he now remains
awaiting his trial.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT A WEDDING.—OR Thurs-
day evening, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a party of friends
having met at the house of Mr. G. Heal ndon, of Upper-
street, Islington, to celebrate the wedding of his eldest son,
Thomas, with Miss Robertson, of Ely-place, Holborn, some of
them commenced singing, and one of them having sung a
song called "The Mistleto-bough," the bride jocosely ob-
served that she would imitate the heroine, as there was no
fear of any such fatal result; and, accompanied by some of
her female friends, she ran up stairs, followed by her husband
and some others of the company. The ladies concealed them-
selves in a room on the second flcor, when a young man of
the name of Brooks, a law-writer, residing iu Penton-street,
Pentonville, Laving succeeded in forcing the door, Mrs.
Hearndon, in carrying out the jest, rushed to the chimney-
piece, and taking down a pistol, presented it at Mr. Brooks,
and, drawing the trigger, to the horror of all present, dis-
covered it was loaded. The charge entered Mr. Brooks's
left ride, and he immediately fell. Medical assistance was in-
stantly sent for, and Mr. Greigson, of Gibson-square, was
called in, who declared the wound to be of a most dangerous
character.

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THE HALF PART OF THE BODY OF A MAN having been read (not without discussion), a motion was proposed for
FOUND eN YDD Itivon.—Yesterda,7 an inquest was held at the payment of 3,000/. to the contractor on account of work done,
the Queen's Head, High-street, Poplar, on the partial re- In accordance with a recommendation to that effect from the corn.
mr4i os of the body of a young Man, apparently between sixteen mittee of accounts. Mr. Leslie opposed the }notion, and con.
fAnd twenty years of age. The portion of the body was picked dunned the mode in which the books and accounts of the Commis.
up yesterday morning floating from the river into the West sioners were kept. The committee of accounts had sanctioned the
India Docks. The body was immediately removed to the payment of money to the contractor before it was due and the
bone-house. Mr. Bain, surgeon, of Brunswick-terrace, said contractor had charged for work which he had no right to do. It
he had examined the body. He found that the whole upper was his (Mr. Leslie's) intention to take the whole matter before
portion of the body had been eaten away, including, the head, the Court of Queen's Bench. The Chairman and Mr. Hawkes
shoulders, chest, and the lower extremities. There were denied the statements of Mr. Leslie, and defended the conduct of
neither legs or thighs attached to the body, and the body had the committee of accounts. After an interchange of remarks of a
evidently, from its decomposed situation, been in the water personal and irritating character the motion (with some slight mo.
for some months. The jury returned a verdict " Found dification) was put and carried by a majority of 13 to 4. Similar
drowned." opposition and violence of debate pervaded the whole of the sub.
ROYAL MARINES.—Mr. Haverfield has been up- sequent proceedings, the Court presenting little of that deliberative
pointed to a Second Lieutenancy at the Pip:oollth division, and calmness and regularity 5Q desirable and necessary in a judicial
Dirt #angs.ter to one at pie Chatham oxrd,