The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and an Investiture of the Most
Hon. Military Order of the Bath yesterday afternoon at Buck-.
ingham Palace.
The following Knights' Grand Crosses of the Order of' the
Bath assembled and were robed by Mr. Hunter in their Man=
Iles and. Collars, viz.:—The Duke of Wellington, Sir George
Cockburn, Lord Heyteabury, and Sir George Murray. The
Knights, preceded by the Officers, passed into the Picture
Gallery, where they were mct by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex. Acting Grand Master of the Order, and having
been called over, proceeded to the presence of the Sovereign in
the Throne Room, with the usual reverences. Her Majesty
was accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, both
wearing the Collar and Mantle of the Order.
Then by her Majesty's command Lieut. General Sir Howard
Douglas, Bart., was introduced between the two Junior
Knights' Grand Crosses present, preceded by Bath King of
Arms, bearing the Riband, Badge, and Star of the Order
upon a crimson velvet cushion.
Sir Howard kneeling, the Queen was graciously pleased to
put the Riband and Badge over the Lieutenant-General's
right shoulder. Sir Howard, rising; had the honour to kiss
the Sovereign's hand, and having received from her Majesty
the Star of a Civil Knight Grand Cross of the Order, withdrew.
Admiral the Hon. Sir John Talbot was introduced to the
Royal presence, and having been invested by the Queen with
the Riband and Badge, received from her Majesty the Star of
Military Knight Grand Cross of.the Order.
Admiral Sir Henry Digby was introduced, and was invested
by her Majesty with the Riband, Badge, and Star of a Military.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order.
The Officers of the Order assisting at the ceremony were
Bath King of Arms, Algernon Greville, Esq. ; and the Gen-
tleman Usher, Albert William Woods, Esq.
Liutenant-General Sir John Wilson was then conducted to
her Majesty. by Albert William Woods, Esq. (Gentleman
Usher), officiating for his father, Sir William Woods, K. H.,
Officer of Arms, attendant upon the Knights Commanders,
bearing upon a crimson velvet cushion the Star, Riband, and
Badge of the Second Class of the Order.
Mr. Woods, presenting on his knee to the Sovereign the
Riband and Badge of a Knight Commander, the Queen was
graciously pleased to invest Sir John therewith. The Lieut.-
General having had the honour to kiss the Sovereign's hand,
received from her Majesty the Star of a Knight Commander,
and retired.

Major-General Sir John George Woodford was invested
with the like ceremony, with the ensigns, u Knight Comman-
der of the Bath.

Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White was introduced to
the Royal presence. The Sword of State was thereupon de-
livered to her Majesty, and the Vice-Admiral kneeling, re-
ceived the honour of Knighthood, and, on rising, had the ho-
nour to kiss the Sovereign's hand. Sir John was afterwards
invested with the Star, Riband, and Badge of a Knight Com-
mander of the Order.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Richardson was conducted to her
Majesty, and had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon
him with the Sword of State, an was afterwards invested by the
Queen with the Star, RibUrd, and Badge of a Knight Com_
mender of the Order.
Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur FarT-rhar was invested by her
Majesty with the Ensigns of a Knight Commander of the
Order,
The Knights Grand Crosses having been, called over by
Bath King of Arms, retired together with the Officers of the
Order from theloresence. :
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fined the Throne Room at the ceremony, commanded by their
Lieutenant, the Hon. Sir Edward Vutler.
At tie Court th., Hon. Mr. Isllo, Envoy Extraordinary,
and Minister Plenipotentisry to the King of Hanover, was
presented to the Queen at an audience by the Earl of Aberdeen,
her Majesty's principal Seer tary of Sat for Foreign Affairs.
The Bishop of list badovs was presented to her Majesty at an
audience by Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Queen gave audience to Sir Robert Pea and the Lord
~,hatuberlain.

The Court was attendeiPby the First Lord of the Treasury,
he Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Depart-
ments, the President of the Board of Control, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain,
.he Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the House-
hold, fir. Henry Robinson, tandard Bearer of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen-at• Arms ; olouel Bouverie, Equerry-in Wait-
ing on Prince Albert; Mr. James Bruce Curling, Clerk of the
Cheque of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; the
Groam of the Robes; Sir Benjamin Smith, Mr. Byng and Mr,
Wilson, Pages of Honour in Waitirg.
The Dowpger Lady Lyttelton was the Lady in Waiting,
he Earl of NNarwirk Lord in Waiting, and Sir Robert Ot way
Groo.n in Wraiiing.
The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hell, corn.
mantled by Captain Seymour Saddler, the Exon in Waiting.
'I he Queen's Guard of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with the
Band of the Regiment, was on duty on the Palace Lawn.
The Queen and Peirce Albert visited her 'Majesty the Queen
Dowager yesterday afternoon, at Marlborough House. Major.
General Wemyss and Colonel Bou-erie, the Equerries in
Waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness, were in at-
terdance.

The Prince of Wales and the Primes,: Royal were taken
an airing in a carriage. •
Her Majesty, attended by the Dowager Lady I,3ttelton,
took an airing yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and
four. Prince Albert rode out on horseback, attended by
Col. nel Bouverie and Major. General Wemyss.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
vening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Liverpool, Lord George
Lennox, Hon. Caroline Lyttelton, Sir George
.Couper, Bart.,
and Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The
Band of the Coldstream Guards attended eluting dinner.
The Duchess of Kent took an ailing in a-carriage yesterday.
31. Dodd, the Netherlands Minister, transacted bus.ness
esterday at the Foreign -office.
A deputation from the General Shipowners' Society, consist-
ing of Mr. Barry, Chairmen, Mr. Ridley, Deputy •Chairman,
%Ir. Tindall, and Mr. G. F. Young, members of the Com-
mittee, and Mr. Oviatt, Secretary, had an interview with Sir
R. Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing- street.
Sir Thomas Wilde, M.P., General the Hon R. B. Lyeou,
ALP., and a deputation from the glove trade of the city of
Worcester, had an interview with the Earl of Ripen yesterday,
it the Office of the Board of Trade.
.The CemmissionersiorAls4..,eodeetion of dm National Debt,
had a meeting le:teinnfthe Treasury. There were present:
•he Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-Goverhor,
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General, attended,
Despatches from the Governor of Barbadoes were received
yyster day at the Colonial-office.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
COU RT- M A RTIA L ON LIEUTENANT THE HON, EDWARD
SIDNEY' PLUNKETT, OF THE 95TH REGIMENT.
CHATHAM, Arum s.—On Monday morning, at ten o'clock,
the whole of the troops in this garrison mustered on parade by
order of the Commandant, Sir Thomas Wiltshire. On 'the
ground were about 2,00 J men, and they formed into thirty-
two divisions, with their full ptoporticn of officers. The troops
were foimed into a square on the parade ground for the pur-
pose of promulgating the sentence of the court-martial held in
this garrison un the 3d of March last, and which continued for
the three following days. As soon as the soldiers had should,rea
their arms, the Commandant called for Mr. Plunkett, and de-
sired Adjutant Flume, on the 95th Regiment, to go forward
..nd escort Mr. Plunkett to the interior of the square. The Bri-
gade-111,jor O'Brien then announced the following sentence :
‘• The General Commander.in-Chief having had the honour
to lay before the Queen the proceedings of a general court-
martial held in Chatham barracks on the 3d-tat March, 1842,
and continued by adjournment to the 7th of the same month,
for the trial of Lieutenant E. S. Plunkett, of the 95th Regi-
Ment, arraigned upon the undermentioned charges—
" I. For ,conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and
a gentleman, in having at a late hour of the night of Friday, the
21st of Jan. 1:44,..)., together with other officers, made a great
noise and disturbance in the barracks at Chatham, in the course
of which disturbance the door of the room of Ensign Bridges,
of the 95th Regiment, who was then in such room, and in
bed, was violewly broken in by one of the officers, and being
the senior officer present while inch disturbance and acts of
violence were taking place, in not having endeavoured to pre-
vent and repress them, but in giving encouragement to and
joining them.

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" 2. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,
in having, on the night, at.d about the time mentioned in the
first charge, proceeded with the said officers, and with other
officers, his juniors, to the room of Ensign Carew, of the 9bth
Regiment, in the said barracks, and there drinking to excess
with such officers, and in having, on such erasion, introduced
into the said room, and to the company of such officers, a
woman of h ose and abandoned character, with whom he (the
said Lieutenant Plunkett) was at the same time cohabiting,
such conduct being subversive of good order and military dis-
cipline._

." 3. For having, after he had on the occasion beforemen-
tioned, and. as senior officer present, placed Ensign Carew in
arrest for striking Ensign 13aines, another of the officers pre-
sent, and afterwards continued in his comrany, and at last
overturned the tables, with the bottles, glasses, and other articles
thereon, at she same time throwing down the said Ensign
Carew, such conduct being ' &c.
"4. For neglecting on the said right of the 21st of January,
or on the following morning, t 3 report to-his commanding
officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Trevor, the conduct of Ensign
Carew, before mentioned, or that he (the said Lieutenant
Plunkett) had placed the said Ensign Carew under arrest,
such c.induct being, &c.
"5. For having at Sheerness on the 20th of December,
1841, entered the house of William Cole, butcher, and carried
wine to be sent for by William Cobs, and in not having then or
since repaid she same, and then violently assaulting the said
William Cole, and danr,aging and destroying certain articles
of furniture, the prop:rty of the said William Cole, such con-
duct,. fvc.

4, Upon those charges the Court came to the following de-
cision :-

" The Court having fully weighed and considered most
maturely the whole of the evidence adduced-in support of the
prosecution, together with what he advanced and stated in his
defence, is of opinion that he, Lieutenant E. S. Plunkett, with
respect to the Ist charge, is not guilty, and the Court, there-
Lcquits him sf the same. With respect to the 2d charge, that
he is not guilty, and the Court, therefore, honourably acquits
him of the same. With respect to the 3d charge, that he is
guilty, with the exception of so much of the charge which se-
ethes him of, at the same time, throwing down Ensign
Carew, and of which part of the said charge the Court
therefore acquits him. With respect to the 4th charge,
that he is guilty. With respect to the additional
charge (the sth), he is not guilty. 'the Cott -baring
found the accused guilty of part of the third charge, and the
whole of the fourth, which being a breach of the articles of
war, does, in virtue thereof, sentence him, the said Lieutenant
E. S. Plunkett, of the 95th Regiment of Foot, to be pub-
licly and severely reprimanded before the garrison of Chatham.
and further to be placed on the bottom of the list of lieutenants
of the 9th Regiment of Font, and her Majesty was pleased to
approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.
"J. MACDONALD, Adjutant-General."
Sir T. WILLS/lIRE, in addressing Lieutenant Plunkett, re-
primanded him severely, and said, d :ring the forty-fire years
of his military service, he never before had the unpleasant duty
of publicly reprimanding an officer. Ilis (Sir T. With:hire's )
dote was disagreeable and unplea:ant, and the reprimand which
he now received, he (the Commancb.nt) hoped would be a
warning to him ( Nlit. Plunkett) tor the future.
Mr. Plunkett then retired, and the troops marched off.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
POI:TS:1%1011TH, WEIDN ESDAY. —The Ringdore, lti, Com-
mander Sir IViiliam Daniel, sailed on Monday afternoon. She
takes out despatches to the Commander-in-chief at the West
Indies and North America, and will first proceed to Bermuda,
thence to Barbadoes.
The Cornwall transport, of 850 tons, has come round from the
eastward, and is now lying at Spithead. She is about to pro-
ceed to China with stores for the fleet, and will carry out the
recently-appointed storekeeper and agent-victualler at Hong-
kong. She tat for balast a quantity of coals for the use of tho
steamers, and will, among other stores, take out 4CO tons of
biscuits and flour.

The Volcano steam-vessel arrived here yesterday from the
eastward.

It is understood that the Excellent, gunnery ship, is to have
a steam-vessel as a tender. The object is to afford an oppor-
tunity for those officers who are at the Royal Naval College..
and those on board the Excellent, to acquire a practical know-
ledge of steam navigation, which has now become SO indispen-
sable in the nautical education of a naval officer. Another
advantage likely to accrue from the Excellent having a steam_
tender it, that it will enable the officers who are studying the
gunnery practice to acquire it more efficiently when the vessel
is rolling and pitching at sea, than they can do en board the
Excellent, where the imitation of a vessel rolling and pitching
is produced by attifi,ial means—a platform being worked by
machinery to produce such an effect.
The Adventure, navy trarnpott, will leave this port in the
course of the day with stores for the eastward. She will alto
carry the baggage of the 73d regiment of foot to Woolwich.
Several transports are expected round horn the river in the
course of a few days, to convey the troops under orders to em-
bark for India to their destination.
Tl:e Resistance, 42, and the Crocodile, 26, troop-ships, will
come here from Plymoulh as soon as they arc ready, to embark
trt ops for India.
Tho ap':ne, 20, and the Benhow, 74, are daily expectea
home from the Mediterranean. The former vessel left Malta
on the 23th of last month, and the Benbow on the day following.
The Wasp, 16, is also hourly loo'ked for. She was at Gib-
raltar on the 24,h ult., and was expected to leave on the fol-
lowing morning.
Ship Spithead—The Cornwall, transport.
Ships in Ilatbour—Winchester, St. Vincent, Victory, Ex-
cellent, Royal George yacht, Echo steamer, Volcano steamer,
and Adventure ravy transport.

TUESDAY.—The inquest upoPtrhe body of
Joseph Pierce, the suicide, who was tried a few days ago at
the Flintsbire County Assizes for thrice administering to his
wife arsenic, with the intent to murder her, and who was con-
demned to death for the offence without any hope of mercy-,
was held yesterday before Mr. Parry, the Coroner, and a re-
spectable Jury, at the Castle of Flint. The facts were proved
by Mr. E. Prichard, the gaoler, and Robert Griffiths, his as-
sistant, who found the culprit dead, hanging behind the door,
hisre precious
sattoeigtiliiet suicide othe deceased confessed to
n the Saturday morning.
onTh entering n r ing p
night
the crime for which he was sentenced to suffer, both to the
Rev. Mr. Browne, the chaplain of the gaol, and to Griffiths.
the assistant gaoler. To the latter the deceased stated that he
was a member of the Wesleyan connection, but that he ha&
always pretended to a religious impression which he did not
feel. He slid that he had only twice adminlitered the poison
to his wife, and he supposed she had not died in consegnenee
of his having given her too great a quantity. He said'that he
had behaved with great apparent kindness to his wife, in order
to lull the suspicion that he had poisoned her. It appeared,
however, that the gaolers had forgotten the braces, and the
handkerchief used was one' which the deceased had hidden in
a hole in the w.. 11 previous to his trial, from which it appeared
that. he contemplated self-destruction in the event of being
found guilty. All the witnesses examined agreed th‘t the pri-
soner appeared perfectly sane the last time he was seen alive,
and the Jury returned a verdict of Feb de se.
The Commerce asserti; on the authority of a letter
from Munich, that the Bavarian Minister of the interior has
sent a circular to all the females keeping schools for the daugh-
ters of persons of the midJle class, prohibiting the teaching of
the French language, it being the will of the
aGhouvernTent that
girls of this class receive an education.. c • te •to.make
them good housewives, instead of acquiring a taste fur French.
manners.
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meeting to condemn the proposed export duty on
The Town Council of Neweastle-upon-Tyne hare
held a special