The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-14 00:00:00

the stand in Charles-street, Covent-garden, while he
went over to the Waterloo-road ; that on his return
in passing over the bridge alone, the complainant, who
was intoxicated, shoved up agaikist him, and a dispute
arising, he called the police, and gave him into ctwody
fur a highway robbery. That when they got to the Bow-
street station-house, he (hove the complainant and the
policeman who took him into custoly over to the Thames-
street station in his own cab.

Mr. COTTINGIIA3I said that he should remand the pri-
soner, in order to give an opportunity for other evidence
to be produced b, fore he sent the case for trial. The
Magistrate also remarked on the extraordinary conduct
of the police at the Bow-street station, in permitting a
man charged with highway robbery to drive the com•
plainant and policeman over from that place in his own
vehicle, to the Tower-street station.

The prisoner was then remanded until Wednesday.
WANDS IVOR TH.

On Saturday Mr. Paynter, the sitting Magistrate, was
occupied for several hours in a case under the new Bas-
tardy Act. The defendant was Mr. Robert Cook !thole,
of the firm of Bruce and Moore, me..lical fixture dealers,
No. 24, St. Mary Axe ; and Emily Fi Id, a young
woman of respectable appearance, was the complainant.
Mr. Games conqu,qed the ease on the part ~f the com-
plainatr, and Mr. Burrs appeared for the defence.
Mr. Games said the complainant was the daughter of
poor but respectable people, living in the lower part of
Norfolk. When she was about twenty-one years of age
she entered the service of Mrs. Moore, the widow of the
Rev. Robert Moore, rector of Clay-on-th-:-Sea, in the
county of Norfolk. The defendant, who is the eld'st son
of Mr. MGore, commenced laying attentions that were
far from honourable to the complainant. After three
years' persecution the complainant quitted Mr. Moore's
service, upon these grounds only. She entered the
family of Mr. Wain, of Ma!-Lche3ter-street, Manchester-
square. and it was in this house, on the 221 of Septem-
ber last, that the occurrence t,-ok place which led to the
present proceedings. On that occasion the family were
out or town, and the defendant,whom his client had never
seen since she left Norfolk, came to the house. Some
conversation took place between the parties in the par-
lour, when the defendant suddenly seized the corn-
plainant by the waist, and after a desperate struggle on
her part, threw her on the sofa, and succeeded in his
object. Soon afterwards the defendant's brother, a lucre
youth, who was in the habit of visiting the complainant,
called, and the derendant walked away with him. The
result of this forcible violation was the birth of a female
child on the 18th of June last.

The complainant having been sworn gave evidence in
support of the foregoing statement.
Cross-examined by Mr. Burn—l persist in stating that
I was never intimate with any other man.
Corbett Metcalf Moore stated that he was brother to

the defendant. He recollected going to No. 45, Man-
chester-street, on the 22d of September last, and finding
Ins brother there.

John Wooding, a grocer, in the Plain, Wandsworth,
said the complainant was his niece, she came to his house
and was confined on Tuesday, the 18th of June.
The solicitor for the defence argued that no corrobo-
rative evidence of the defendant being the father of the
child had been adduced.

Mr. PAYNTER said there was no reasonable
doubt that the defendant was the father of the chi d,
and ordered hi -u to pay 2s. Gd. per week.
Mr. Burn said his client would appeal against the ma-
gistrate's decision.
IMMI

MILITARY FLOGGING.
EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Two privates in the 2d battalion of
Coldstream Guards, stationed at Windsor, were flogged yester-
day afternoon, in the Barrack-square, for a breach of military
discipline, in having refused to be taken to the black-hole, ac-
cording to the orders of the officer in command of the regiment,
Colonel Brinckman, in the absence of Colonel C. Bentinck,
who is now on leave. The names of the privates, who are both
stated to be exceedingly steady, and generally well conducted
men, are Henry Seyman and William Lawrin.
The circumstances connected with the punishment of these
two men (which has caused the greatest excitement throughout
the regiment) are as follow : —On Friday last a whole com-
pany, consisting of between sixty and seventy men, were
ordered into their room for the purpose of being in-
spected by Dr. Greatorex, the surgeon of the bat-
talion, similar inspections of two other companies having
respectively taken place on the 25th of June and the 3d
of this month. The men were all ordered to strip them.
selves and to appear in a state of perfect nudity, for the purpose
of being examined by the surgeon. Seyman and Lawrin both
objected to undergoing such an exposure publicly amongst sixty
or seventy other men, and took the liberty of remonstrating
with Dr. Greatorex on the great indelicacy of such a proceed-
ing, a plan which had never been resorted to before, as we have
been informed, by a person who has been in the regiment for
upwards of twenty years. The two men positively refusing to
strip in the manner directed by the surgeon, they were imme-
diately ordered to be placed under arrest, and to be taken before
the commanding officer the next (yesterday) morning, when
upon the facts being stated to Colonel Brinckman, they were
ordered to be taken to the black-hole, there to remain for
twenty-four hours. The men refused to obey the order of their
commanding officer, alleging that they had no right to be called
upon by the surgeon to strip themselves naked along with 60 or
70 of their comrades, and thus indecently expose themselves;
and that they did not consider, for this refusal, they had
committed any offence. A court-martial was instantly con-
vened, before which Seyman and Lawrin were charged with a
breach of military discipline, in having refused to go to the
black-hole when ordered. They were found guilty, and each
sentenced to receive one hundrssd lashes. The " triangles "
were immediately brought into the Barrack-square, and placed
in front of the guard-room ; the few who were in the barracks
at the time being drawn up on the parade to witness the in-
fliction of the punishment. and the barrack-gates closed to pre-
vent the admission of the public. Several of their comrades,
who were outside the gates, were refused admission by the ser-
geant of the guard, until the flogging was over. The men
received their punishment with great fortitude, notwithstanding
their sufferings were most severe, Ithe blood trickling down
their backs in streams, after the first 15 or 20 lashes. The
comrades, who were drawn up in the square, looked on in
sullen silence. The moment they were dismissed they gave
vent to one loud simultaneous hiss. A hackney fly, which had
been sent for, in the meantime, and which was in waiting out-
side, then entered the Barrack-spare ; and the two men, with
their coats loosely thrown over their backs, were driven to the
Infantry hospital at Spital, followed by Dr. Greatorex, where
the usual medical treatment for their recovery was resorted to.
It is stated that Dr. Munro, the assistant-surgeon to the bat-
talion, declined to undertake the duty of inspecting the men in
their barrack-room, in the manner described, and that there-
fore it was performed by Dr. Greatorex. Great excitement
and discontent prevails throughout the whole of the men com-
prising the second battalion, who do not hesitate to declare
that they consider the sentence, under all the circumstances
connected with the case, especially with reference to the haste
in which it was carried into execution immediately upon the
breaking up of the court-martial, to be excessively severe, if
not unjust. The men were tried, sentenced, punished, and
taken to the hospital, all within two Lours and a half.

MURDER OF MR. PALMER AND
EIG HT SEAMEN OF HER MAJESTY'S SLOOP

WASP.
On the prisoners being committed on Friday, they appeared
no way surprised at the result of the investigation, but rather
prepared for it. Serve, the captain of the Echo, is suffering
from great debility, and was obliged to be accommodated with
a bed in court. He is labouring under a dreadful skin disease,
the result of bad air and confinement. He exhibits a reckless.
ness and abandonment of manner, as though expectant of the
consequence of his diabolical crime. The cowardly Spaniard
Majarval, who stabbed the unfortunate young officer Mr. Palmer,
is less desperate in appearance than some of the others. He is.
understood to be a native of Barcelona, and, to use the words of
a Spanish captain to whom he is known, is " of a good house."
Serva kept a large establishment at Rio de Janeiro. The
prisoners have been removed to Exeter, where the assizes
commence on Saturday. It is not probable that the case
will be traversed. The evidence against the prisoners, as
regards the actual committal of the horrid crime alleged
against them, is most conclusive, the severest cross-examina-
tion of the approvers ( who cannot in any way be considered
accomplices) was unable in the least to shake their testi-
mony
given in the examination in chief, and each afforded the
strongest corroboration of the truth of the other's statements.
Under these circumstances the main line of defence, it is
understood, will be very different from that first attempted.
The question of the illegality of the capture by the British,
and the justification of the act of the prisoners, as under the
protection of the Brazilian power, will be raised. It is said
the arguments of counsel for the defence upon this point
will, under all the circumstances of the case, be more
strongly grounded than might at first be imagined, and the
ability of the gentleman who has been employed by the
Spanish and Portuguese Consuls at this port is a guarantee
that he will make the most of the position he has advi-edly
taken. Even apart from the atrocity of the dreadful
murders, the nationality of the point which will be raised
and decided will invest the trial with unusual interest.
, During the latter part of the examination of the prisoners before
the justices an episode occurred of rather an interesting cha-
racter. One of the men who was on the raft with Lieu.. Wil-
son, named George Steer, in &tomer to several questions put
by the bench and Air. Eastlake, the Crown solicitor, stated that
he caught the shark upon which they had subsisted during the
twenty days they were on the raft. He held his hand in the
water with a piece of salted pork until he saw a shark approach.
A Krooman most dexterously cut his tail off immediately it ap-
proached the surface to prevent its sweeping the men off the
raft, which it no doubt would otherwise have done, and then
ropes were fastened round it instantly, and they made a
hearty meal off its sides, the " best slices" being speedily in
requisition. The shark must have weighed from two to three
cwt. Five of the men died from exhaustion and thirst, and
the preservation of the others was most miraculous, momen-
tarily threatened as they were with the breaking asunder of the
raft.

MORE BLACK DOINGS ON THE TURF.—The atten-
tion of the Jockey Club is, we understand, next week to be
devoted to an investigation of a charge against a person well
known at Newmarket of having endeavoured by a bribe to
induce a tradesman in the same town to poison Idas, previous
to that horse starting for the Derby. It would seem that a
certain deleterious powder was given to the hopeful agent,
which he was to induce a boy in the stable to mix with the
horse's corn before he quitted Newmarket for Epsom. The
agent's heart, however, failed at the last pinch, and he did
not carry out his fell intent ; and now, having quarrelled
with his principal, in consequence of his- not paying him at
least a portion of the bribe, has "split," and disclosed some
correspondence bearing on the subject. The powder was
shown to a respectable innkeeper in the town, but whether
any of it has been preserved we have not ascertained. The
circumstances will be rigidly inquired into, and we suppose
we shallhave further "warnings off the Turf."
TIIE IRON TRADE.—It is anticipated that no
alteration will be made in the prices of iron M the ensuing guar.
terly meeting of the trade. It is difficult, in the existing state
of the iron market, to judge how far prices are likely to remain as
at present. The demand continues very dull, and stocks must be
accumulating. The present price of bar Iron is nominally 101. at
the works, but many sales have been effected at much lo.ver
prices. The hopes of the trade rest very much on the demand
which is expected for railway iron. Although it will fall far
short of what was once most sanguinely looked for, and be epread
over a much longer period, we have every reason to believe it will
maintain prices at their present rate. It is very desirable for the
manufacturing interest of this town and neighbourhood that a
steady price should be maintained ; and the present rates, we be-
lieve, if fully obtained, would be remunerative to the iron manu.
facturer, and in no degree injurious to the export trade of the dis.
trict. The stocks of pig iron in Scotland are unusually large, and
prices extremely fluctu At ing, the markets being principally in the
hands of speculators.--Bin h Ingham Times.
Tile King "f \V t-tel»lburg had a narrow escape en
the sth inst. Whilst at Ludwigsburg, seeing some experiments
with a newly invented cannon ball, one of the projectiles burst close
to his Majesty, but, fortunately, the pieces took a contrary direc.
tion. An officer and some men were slightly wounded.