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London, England, 1844-12-05 00:00:00

her captain had met with; but " she had been Puri
posely kept light, her water-casks were not filled, $1,)„
she was rather short of three months' provisions" slue;
she started. This was her trial with the surveyors
friga.e Vernon, ashen it was trumpeted forth to the
world that additional " laurels had been added to tb
surveyor's brow " by the Qicen beating the Vernon'
which was stated to be " the fastest frigate in tbo ser
vice." Now it the Queen, by heating this frigate, c°,l"
ferred so much honour on Sir W. Symonds, whet t"
gree of mortal praise is due to the venerable construe''
of the St. Vincent, which vessel has proved no Oro,
rior to the Queen ? And, allowing the Albion tm°
credit of outsailing the three-deckers, it MO ,i,";
asked how shall we estimate the sailing qualities of 1."
Vernon, " the fastest frigate, in the servicer 0111
we find that the old Fox, 42, frigate, beat the Albion'
that ship, having heat the three-deckers, among thelll,
the Queen, which ship was said to be superior in sail',
to the Vernon ?
THE 'SURVEYOR'S SAFETY VESSELS.—On two kit!
occasions, to bolster up and claim a superiority for Fit;
" intuitive" vessels of the surveyor, the disasters'whic
befel the Acorn, and some of the old 10-gun brir
were triumphantly pointed out by a morning contel;
porary. That journal, however, would seem t°
,_,n
oblivious of the loss of life and property which has
sustained by the surveyor's ships, although their 11%
have been preserved. NV i'lout taking into considerstwn
the narrow escape of the Pique, 36, from total wreck, °e
her voyege from Canada, when she was saved only by $12,,.e
indomitable skill and perseverance of Capt. Rous and R"
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officers, we may allude to the mishaps of the Star p*
Three times was this ve•sel thrown on her beam-ends ,1,1
frightful loss of life ; on en, occasion a lieutenant and 'el
men—et v. hole vv,tch—were washed out of her
drown( d: arid oas saved from going down by cuttilit!
away thy masts, white:, fortunately, they were enabled 0
do from tl,e channels of the Star having been fitted °r
a principle to the patentee of which the sorrel
and his officials have offered very great opPosite,
The Racer. 16, %%a.,4 also thrown on her beam-ends tlT'",;(i
with loss of life. The Mercury, tender, nearly drovile'i
the pay clerks at Chatham-yard, and as nearly site,
their ue.nev, off Sheerness, and afterwards raPelni
with loss of many lives, a similar specimen of her
t7bs
qualities in the Bristol Channel. On this occasion, h
mate in command, by almost superhuman exertiotly
saved the tender, and his meritorious service "MS fiCkoe4
'edged by his promotion. The causes which occasOnd
such losses as those of the old Acorn and Martin.bts
been properly explained in the House of Commons; is
the above-mentioned instances will show that there,
little reason for boasting of the safety of the " intuit"'
vessels.—Herold.

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COURT-MARTIAL ON LIE cr.
STOKES.
Some little time since we were led to offer $ feffi
remarks upon the case of Barnes, the carpenteloo
mate of the Resistance, and especially with refetelltb.
to the extraordinary determiation come to by ,
Lords of the Admiralty, in incarcerating. that It
for two years, for the commission of an offence•,!s
cognised indeed by the articles of war, but WlL'if
would have been scouted out of any civil court of l'ott
governed by the principles of justice and COrtlett
sense. Barnes, it will be remembered, was convicv4
of lifting an adze against the boatswain (Lee), /I`;‘,
in a state of insensibility, the effect of Lee's YinLe° d
and was sentenced to be hanged at the yard-ny
such one of her Majesty's ships as the Lords of
lit
Admiralty might direct. We then stated, that
there was a case showing the necessity for a rely
of the articles of war, that of Barnes wail, to
identical one. We have, however, this weePoil
record a still greater anomaly, in the lids
of the trial of an officer upon a charge iv, ty
in a civil court of law would have involven.o4,
liberty of the accused for a considerable Per./00
An officer of the Tartarus, Lieutenant Stokes, 'ffssdir
Tuesday brought to a court-martial upon certain bol
gusting charges, preferred ;against him by a
sot
named Terry, belonging to the same ship. Ittf„,,i
for us to question the judgment of the metnevv-ty
that court who tried the prisoner, in coming t° of
decision they did, but certainly the consequence'
that decision shows a lamentable amount of 3°
gruity in the various degrees of punishment will bi
articles of war prescribe for offences recogldsefas,
the service. Thus, in the one case, where A P'n
proved to have been insensible, and by conssill',
ioll
irresponsible, lifted a weapon in self-defence $lO to
a brutal boatswain, the punishment was, accordillop
these precious articles, death. In the present, lope
the court is of opinion that an officer is guilt/ ~,0561
of the most disgusting offences known to eiv'str
man, the sentence is, we presume, by the sent tbe
Iles, simply dismissal from the ship in which: of
offender was serving at the time of the commi"l°,oo
the offence. Thus much with regard to the ign°r-ritt
and folly of rhoFe articles of war ; now for the Ow
of the case in question. We have said it does netbes
come us to impugn the judgment of the mem..e.
of the court on Tuesday last, but it does
to
come us as public j mrnalists to express poe
opinion as to the nature of the evtietbo
adduced in support of the charge again" the
officer, and, if possible, to discover whether it it
prisoner's guilt was rendered as conclusive A 5 tor,
made by the sentence of the court. The proseeuitoo
upon whose evidence alone the charge rested' bore
proved by witnesses of irreproachable credit to boo
been anything but a good character—to have ',tit
guilty of falsehood, and to have evinced not once' 00
many times, a spirit of hostility to the accused,'„ne
himself admitted that he had been punished Oboe
glect of duty, and, what was of still greater e° the
quence, that Lieutenant Stokes was obnoxious_4t°oo
crew, who desired to get him out of the ship, bite
he was too strict a disciplinarian. These were, 0
portant facts drawn from the prosecutor, and w„-ter,
what jury of conscientious Englishmen would !:',Ol
taro such a charge after admissions of so unegs„."4ll
a nature ? Again, it was proved that the boy, -L'oe
had exulted in the belief that by his instrumentalt,ftg
prisoner was " in for it," and this, too, immedlot,
after the commission of the alleged disgustielf be-
For the credit of human nature, it is not to bee
lieved that an individual, under such circutnst° Ao
could have acted with the gross levity which itiot
distinctly sworn the prosecutor did. The comas ori
of the Tartarus and the brother officers of the
soner gave him the highest character for moral obi
religious bearing, and the medical officer of therosr
entirely disproved the statement made by the Pioor
tutor as to indications of the offence having been
tf
mitted. Ought such a prosecutor to have bee,
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dited ? Was not the testimony to character of eoP
importance, and was not the evidence of the 040
of the highest importance ? Notwithstandieg'oo
court thought the charge proved, and Liente e
Stokes was sentenced to be dismissed his ship' Gilt/
of two things is certain—either the prisoner Ivo e
of the imputed offence, and ought to have beinothel
missed her Majesty's service, and subjected t° we'
punishment, no matter how severe ; or he was ...,rorze
cent of the charge—that it was a foul eenl_,P-to
against him, and that he ought to have been Inf./
to his previous honourable position in s°che
Devonport Independent.

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vanced age, and of forty or fifty years' standing..a- 001,
treme deafness, instantly to join in general convey •/
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nets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ei110901(
improved Hearing Trumpets of every descripti°l3'.oo
of those instruments have received the approbaus
the Royal Society and Royal Institution of Grei‘otelj
tain. The Newly Invented Spectacles, inll3l • joibl
they are placed before extremely imperfect /1000:,
is brought to its youthful, natural, and originsilic7o,
Also Achromatic Telescopes, Opera-glasses, wool)
scopes, &c.—Caution : Messrs. S. and B. St'd
Opticians and Aurists, are not in any way eonnec""oeir,;
a person of the same name in their immediate re
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