The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-06 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MIX4TAItY.

By order of the Admiralty, several master-shipwrights
from our leading dockyards, assembled at Woolwich, on
Monday, to decide upon fixed principles for building her
Majesty's vessels, so as to prevent the possibility of the
work of one master being altered by another on removal
to another dockyard.
LAW AND POLICE.

At Bow-street on Tuesday, James Low, charged with
stealing from the person of Mr. Robert Reeve, of Has-
tings, three 51. notes, a silver watch value 101., a gold
ring, and various other articles, his property, was fully
committed to take his trial. It appeared that the pro-
secutor on the 27th ult. had wandered into the Lowther
Rooms in a state of liquor, where he met the prisoner,
and drank with him, but recollected nothing more that
happened till he found himself in the George Inn, Bo-
r.:mßo-
rough, without the property specified; suspicions fell on the
prisoner, and on his apartments being searched part of it
was found in his possession.
Evans, the lunatic, who made a desperate assault on
Dr. Mullins about a month ago, was committed from
Queen-square to take his trial, in order that the Judge,
on conviction, might have the power of providing for the
safe custody of the unfortunate man, by sending him to
a lunatic asylum.
Goodeve and Williams, the late cashiers of the Chi-
chester Old Bank, were tried on Monday for alleged em-
bezzlement, at the Chichester Sessions, and both acquitted.
At Clerkenwell, William Mills was fully committed
for attempting to murder the child of a woman with
whom he cohabited. The circumstances of the case
bore a strong resemblance to those of the unfortunate
man Ward, the last executed at the Old Bailey. The
child in this instance survives, and the prisoner was
ordered to be again brought before the Magistrates to
hear the evidence of the surgeon.
At the Thames Police Court, Robert Garbutt, the
chief mate of the ship Edward, now lying in the Com-
mercial Dock, was charged with assaulting, on the home-
ward voyage, two seamen, one of whom had since died,
and the other fell or went overboard. It appeared from
the evidence of several of the men, that both the deceased
had been repeatedly beaten (or " stirred up," in the
mate's words), by a rope. The men were not accus-
tomed to the work ; " and if," said he in his defence, "I
had not been taut with the men all would have been lost."
She was, it appeared, an old worn-out ship, and the men
were thus treated by the mate, and the Captain also; in
order to keep her afloat. The Magistrate said the case
might at once be taken before the Grand Jury.
TICEATIMICAIL.
The nerformances of the French plays will begin on
the 26th inst., under the management of Mr. Mitchell, of
Bond-street. Perlet will be the first star, and will be
succeeded by Plessy, Bouffe, Dejazet, Cartigny, and
Fougeot. The season will consist of 40 nights. Boxes
have already been taken by his Excellency the French
Ambassador, the Duke of Beaufort, Lady Chesterfield,&c,

SPORTING.
At a late county meeting held in Renfrewshire, Mr.
Wallace, M.P., showed a letter from the Marquis of
Breadalbane, in which he stated that the breed of Capper
Kailzie, which he lately introduced on his estates, is
doing uncommonly well, and that he considered this kind
of game completely restored to the Highlands.
COURT--FASHIONABLE.
We learn with regret that a change for the worse has
taken place within the past week, in the health of the
Duke of Cleveland.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are gone to spend
a week with the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield.
His Excellency Prince Estherhazy has written to an-
nounce his return for the 16th of this month.
The Marquis of Salisbury arrived in Arlington-street
on Tuesday from Hatfield House.
Preparations are in progress at Wynyard Park for
celebrating Lady Londonderry's birth-day on the 17th inst.
Earl Jermyn, M.P., has arrived at Belvoir Castle.
The Right Hon. J. W. Croker arrived in town on
Tuesday, from Drayton Manor.
Lord and Lady Dinorben have relinquished their in-
tention of passing the early part of the year at Brighton.
The reported marriage to be betwixt the son of a Noble
Whig Marquis and the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of a Foreign Ambassador, appears to have lost
all probability.
The Dill and Countess of Shrewsbury, after a length-
ened residence of nearly two years in Italy, return to this
country at the close of the ensuing month or early in March.