The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-10 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDERS.

Head-quarters, Calcutta, Aug. 3, 1825.
The right wing of his Majesty's 31st Regiment of Foot, ar-
rived from England on board the Honourable Company's
ship Charles Grant, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Cassidy* will, with the sanction of Government, be
disembarked from that ship, and proceed in the river-sloops
sent for the reception of the same. Further instructions will
hereafter be issued, respecting its junction with the left wing
of the corps.
By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
THOMAS M'MAHON, Col. A. 0.
.
EUROPEAN GENERA!, COURT-MARTIAL.
Head-quarters, Calcutta, Aug. 4, 1825.
At an European General Court-martial, assembled at .‘gra,
onSaturday, the 28th of May, 1825, of which Lieutenant.
Colonel J. Delamain 58th Regiment of Native Infantry, is
President, Gunner Phillip Dogherty, laboratory-man, attached
to the Agra Magazine, was arraigned on the following charges,
viz. :

•. Ist. For clandestinely concealing himself within the ma-
gazine-yard in Fort Agra, on or about the evening of the 234
of February, 1820, until after the gates of the yard were shut
for the night, with the felonious intention of stealing property
therefrom during the night.
2d. For feloniously and forcibly breaking open the lock of
the treasure-cheat lodged in the office or store-room, in the said
magazine-yard, and for feloniously and forcibly breaking open
the lock of-a box contained in the said treasure-chest, and for
feloniously stealing, taking, and carrying away therefrom, a
bag, containing the aunt of sunlit rupees 050, the property
of Uovernment, aid arrears of pay belonging to men then on
command, with which said bag, containing the sum of
.850
rupees, he, the said gunner, Phillip Dogherty, effected his
escape from the said magazine-yard, by lowering himself from
the window of one of the store-rooms, a height of abOut 22 feet
front the ground.
" 3. For absenting himself without leave front duty on the.
►morning of the 24th of February, 1825, and not returning till.
.brought back from the Blazer on . the forenoon of the 20th, in.
a state of drunkenness, when his box was examined, and in
it was found the hag, in which had been placed the said sum,
of sonar rupees 660, but which .said bag, on its discovery in
the raid prisoner's box, contained only the sum of sonar ru-
pees Ill."
Upon which charges the Court came to the following de.
cities

N nix tit -" The Court having maturely weighed and con.
sidered the whole of the evidence on the part of the pro:ecti.
don and of the defence, du find the prisoner guilty of the
Whole and every part of the first and second charges exhibited
against

On the third charge, the Court find the prisoner guilty of
absenting himself without leave from his duty, and nut re-
turning till brought buck on the ?Aim of February, 102 u, in a
State of drunkenness, when ,his box was examined, and in it
was found the bag in which had been placed the tutu of WO
rupee., stolen by the prisoner out of the box within the treasure-
chest, in Agra magazine; and that the said bag, when so dis-
covered .in the prisoner's box, contained in part, and that. the
prisoner's box contained in the whole, the sum of 111 rupees,
specified in the third charge.
SENT Eli ct.—The Court having found the prisoner Gunner
Philip (alias Phillip) Dogherty, laboratory man of the Agra
!magazine, guilty of the charges as above stated, do adjudge
him the said Gunner. Philip (alias Philip) Dogherty to be
transported as a felon for 7 years.
Approved and confirmed. •
(Signed) EDWD. PAGET, General,
Commander-in-Chief in India.
The Governor. General in Council concurs in the sentence of
transportation for seven years, poised by the Court-martial at
itgra on Gunner .Philip Dot.herty, which has bun approved
and confirmed by his Excelltney the Commando...in-Chief.
(Signed) di .)41 a a 14 AO 11.
ED WD. PAGET.
• • •,; JOHN TIiNDALL.
J. H. HARINGTON.
Theiprisoner Doglierty is to ',aunt to, the Presidency by.the
earliest convenient opportunity
The Court is dissolved.
By order of hist Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
W. L. WATSON,
Adjutant-Genetal of the Army

Tug MENAI Butner:.--The suspended bridge
across the Menai Straits, lately opened, and
which has been considered so extraordinary a
work of art, would appear, if the old Welch
legends are to Ire believed, not to be the
first which connected the two banks, for Mr.
Jones, of Gelly 1,344, quotes the follow.
ing from the Satt-Greal:—Arthur, when he
had completed his conquest of the 'Saxons,
made North Wales his principal residence.
In-this part of the island there were many
miraculous circuomtances, particularly between
Siretmares, which, from the description in
the san.Greaj, appears to be Ystead March, and
Gurloes, or Anglesey. it also says, that .there
was a bridge across the Menai, which was con-
stantly guarded thy a irnop of men in armour ;
and that there was a King in the island who
fought tutu, hard battles with Arthur.

liiltott, a boy about 11, years of age, hay.
jog on Saturday week spent his week's wages at
a public house in Stafford, was turned out of
doors by his oxeye:rated father, who lives in the
neighbourhood of Lune.eild, nod was obliged to
seek shelter and lodging in a new and unfinished
building, in which he was found on,, Monday
morning it; a most pitiodo condition, without
much sign of life. The poor lad shortly after
expired, and the Coroner's Jury returned a
verdict of--," Dicd by tho inclett►ency of the
weather,"