The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

P.ORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2.—The Vindictive has had all
her guns and stores taken out, and is being dismasted,
prepatory to her hull being repaired. She is very much
injured, and will require at least three weeks, if not
longer, before it can be properly amended. Had not her
bows been peculiarly,-and strongly constructed, there is no
question but that she must have been destroyed by the se-
verity of the bumping she experienced when on the shoal.
A Court of inquiry was held on Monday to investigate
the particulars of the affair, with a view to ulterior pro-
ceedings by Court-martial, or to the perfect exoneration
of the Captain and officers by such facts as might be
adduced before the Court, which would render any
further investigation unnecessary. This being a pre-
liminary inquiry, its details are private, and the result j

is not yet known, though it is generally believed
that the explanation has been most satisfactory, and
that the inquiry will not be carried further. Indeed,
• the known skill and ability of her Captain, his long
standing, and meritorious conduct in the service, are
i• sufficient to justify this belief, and to afford a guarantee
• • that nothing but uncontrollable difficulties, which nei-
ther skill nor experience could surmount, could have
placed his ship in its late disastrous position. When
once her hull is repaired she will not be long in being
refitted, as she is not like a ship newly commissioned
with a paucity of hands, but has her full complement of
men, who will speedily make her all ataunt again.
The recent Court-mart;al on Mr. Elton, late midship-
man of the Cambridge, is the subject of much comment
here, both in the naval and military circles. There is
scarcely an officer in either service that does not consi-
der the sentence as unusually severe, and quite dispro-
portionate to the offence. Indeed the conduct of Captain
Williams, the prosecutor, is looked upon by all the
officers at this port, even those of his own rank, as harsh
in the extreme, and much more deserving of censure than
that of the unfortunate gentleman who has been dis-
missed the service and imprisoned through his instru-
mentality. They all admit the truth of Mr. Elton's
second letter to Captain Williams, and agree with him
that there was a want of courtesy and gentlemanly
bearing on the part of the Captain in not replyinc, to his
first letter, yet they do not think he was justified, ac-
cording to the stringent rules of the service, in sending
such a letter to his superior officer, though he `would
have been perfectly justified in sending it had he been
merely a private gentleman, and received the same pro-
vocation. But while they condemn the junior officer for
a breach of discipline in writing these unpalatable
truisms to his superior officer, they still more severely cen-
sure the conduct of the superior in wantonly insulting a
gentleman in every respect his equal, though of inferior
rank to him in the service. Mr. Elton's first letter to
Capt. Williams was most respectful, courteous, and gen-
tlemanly', and according to the rules of society was en-
titled to an equally courteous reply. It is to be hoped for
the honour of the service that no other officer would have
refused it. Under painfully excited feelings at the slight
put upon him, Mr. Elton wrote the letter which formed
the subject of complaint ; and although neither the
military nor naval officers hre justify his conduct in so
doing, they all think the provocation he received a very
fair excuse in extenuation of his fault. Captain Wil-
liams is much condemned for , not receiving the ample
apology made by Mr. Elton, and his bringing him to a
Court-martial after this had been made to him in writ-
ing, is considered not altogether creditable to him. With
regard to Captain Basil Hall, who volunteered his assist-
ance to conduct the prosecution against Mr. Elton, there
is but one feeling among the naval and military officers
here on that gentleman's conduct, not very flattering to
him. It frequently has happened that officers have come
forward and assisted another officer in his defence when
tried by a Court-martial, but Captain Basil Hall stands
alone in the unenviable position he has selected in volun-
teering his aid to crush a young gentleman and ruin his
prospects in the service, not for any moral crime, but
for a breach of discipline, his first and only offence.
His Excellency Lord Ashburton (appointed to proceed
to Washington on a special mission) is expected here on
Friday, to embark on the following day on board the
Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Bay, C. 8., for convey-
ance to New York.

The brig Scylla, 16, has been commissioned at Ply-
mouth, by Commander Robert Sharpe, of this neighbour-
hood, it is reported, for the South American station.
The Rapid, 10, Lieutenant Earle, will leave this port
fin• Sierra Leone, Ascension, and the Cape of Good
Hope, about Feb. 5.
The brig Ringdove, 16, has been commissioned at this
port, by Commander Sir William Daniel, it is supposed
for the Mediterranean.

The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, is fully manned at
Spithead, and is only waiting the arrival of Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., to proceed with him to
Malta. Emeric Vidal, Esq., has resigned the Secretary-
ship, and has been succeeded by George Smith, Esq.
This noble ship will have on board more than twelve
hundred men, including supernumeraries.
The Wolverine, 16, Commander Johnson, arrived last
Sunday from the eastward, on her way to the East Indies.
At Spithead—Queen 110, Warspite 50, and Wol-
verine 16.

In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Hastings, Excel.
lent, Royal George yacht, Carysfort, Ringdove, Rapid
Nautilus, Echo, and Tender.
In Dock—Vindictive (repairing damages).

THE FUNERAL OF MR. C. DAY.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, FEB. 2.—The above ceremony was one of
the most imposing ever witnessed here, the whole of
the shops and private houses were closed, or rather
none of them were opened, and the body was follo wed
to the grave by the entire male population. After
the mourners the Rev. Thomas Mann, followed by
108 of the principal inhabitants in deep mourning,
then the officers and men of the Coast Guard ; then
came the members of the different benefit -societies,
the whole wearing crape ; such a demonstration of
public feeling has been seldom, if ever so generally
expressed, all shades of politics and creeds were for-
gotten, the general peace-maker of the town and
neighbourhood was, alone thought of; he was part
and parcel of every man's family, and as such every
one mourned that he was taken from them. It is the
intention of the inhabitants to enter into a subscrip-
tion to erect a tablet to his memory in St. Mary's
Church. Dr. Hoffmeister, Mr. Day's partner, suc-
ceeds him in the business, and is very highly spoken
of; but however great may be his professional ability,
he must be a very fortunate man indeed ever to ob-
tain the high esteem our departed friend had secured
from high and low, from. rich and poor—indeed from
all who had the happiness to know him.

MORNING S

CHESTER CUP.
1000 to 100 agst Mr. Kirby's Lanercost—taken
20 to 1 gst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More
DERBY.
10 to 2 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken
11 to 1 agst Cu!. Peel's Chatham
23 to 1 agst Loid Westminster's Auckland
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Dirce colt
40 to 1 agst Mr. Ramshay's Moss Trooper
50 to I agst Mr. Scott's Artful Dodger—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Espartem--taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Defier--taken
50 to agst Mr. Bowes Meteor—taken takilk
1000 to 15 agst Mr. G. Clark's William le Gros-- Aorp
1000 to 10 agst Duke of Bedford's Misnomer colt--v
1000 to 100 agst Chatham and Policy—taken asj the
1000 to 15 apt the Dirce colt, William le Gros,
Artful Dodger—taken in one bet
NEWMARKET NEW COURSING MEETING.

WEDNESDAY.
05/..
ALLINGTON-HILL.-THE ALLINGTON-HILL
Mr. Edwards's Antoinette, beat Mr. Inskip's Isa ; I!'
bede's Diana, beat MT. Bagge's Taglioni ; Mr. Inskr O'
beat Mr. Bryant's Edith ; Mr. Finch's Gossip, beat A
be,
lett's Grecian Queen (dr.); Mr. Vipan's Victorina, be,
Tyson's Filagree. ;1101j.
THE Cu P.-Mr. Edward's Arsenit, beat Mr. Killaq
forth ; Mr. Tyson's Fantail, beat Mr. Thorp's Nic
rf Ib~
Vipan's Vulcan, beat Mr. Dennis's Burwell; Mr. BagAriatgr'
Toad, beat Mr. Batt's Crucifix, Jun. ; Mr. Finch's "lit,
10
beat Mr. Nash's Cibber ; Captain Daintree's Knab,
Vipan's Violante , Mr. Dobede's Dunallen, beat Mr.. ,
Iliona ; Mr. Gillett's Ganymede, beat Mr. Bryant's
CHIPPENHAM STAKES —Mr. Edwird's Arctic, y Oe.
Gillett's Genuine ; Mr. Vipan's Victor' beat Mr. Finch,
nius; Mr. Nash's Caleb, beat Mr. Dobede's
Dobede's Defiance, beat Mr. .Vipan's Violence ; Mr gook:
Ibrahim, beat Captain Daintree's Kimbolton ; ' fsk
Railroad, beat Mr. Inskip's Irishman ; Mr. Fysou'• •
away, beat Captain Daintree's Kilkenny.: • re
PORT STA KES.-Mr. .Fyson's Finesse, beat Mr. 1010
Gambler ; Mr. Gillet's Go-to beat Mr.. Vipan's
Mr. Bagge's Telegraph, beat Air. Vipan's Verbena ;
bede's Delia, beat Captain Daintree's Kathleen ; !uutr,
ward's A B C, beat Mr. Gillett's Ghita ; Mr. Inskill.cinch,'
beat Mr. Nash's Cadiz ; Mr. Fyson's Fly, beat Mr.
,itteti
Garry Owen ; Mr. Nash's Curiosity, beat Captain IND
Kessehgoa.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, FEB. 3.—Wind this day at noon N. E.Ol
111
DEAL, FEB. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Emil jO9
for Calcutta ; Superior, ditto, for Demerara ; 3145'40
Sunderland, for Jamaica. Arrd. from the River,
lock, for Sydney.
frpd
RAMSGATE, FEB. 2.—The Margaret, 1-10-,a5t1(1,.!4.
Newcastle to Fayal, arrived off the North Forebullof
ports having crossed Aldborough Neaps in four
water, and no buoy on it.
Iftires
OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, FEB. 2.---
Hardy, Shields, for Fayal.
OFF DUNGENESS, FEB. I.—North Esk, Leith, 00'
BRIGHTON, FEB. 2.—Arrd. off, Beulah, James,
Augusta Julius, Havannah, for Hamburgh. rbolo
COWES, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Arrte Pain, KoPPe"
Havannah. -
ydM
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind W.—Arrd. 3'll fort.
London, Antigua; Lady Katherine, Bartraln, u";;IP
Jamaica; the Sirocco, Ainsley, from Marseilles,
put in here on the 26th ult., is discharging her csl"
a damaged state.
TI—to):,
FALMOUTH, FEB. I.—Wind N.W. to W.—AA lent
con, Smith, Odessa, leaky, with pumps choalmus
boat stove, &c.
CORK, JAN. 31. Arrd. Thomas Naylor, - *
Sierra Leone. Arrd. off, Aristo, Hutchings,
foundland.

CORN AVERAGES. oot
'GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH '
For the Week ended Jan. 28, 1842. made up from tbf,gisO•
the Inspectors in the different Cities and `fawns in P"" • 44,
Wales, per Imperial Quarter. 04. p,
Wheat (Os. 7d. tfats
Barley 2Bs. 3d. j Rye
AVERAGES OF THE LAST Six WEEKS. rot,
Week ending WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. EYE. I SRArt ...•'_, 6
--,'—...0.
162 10 30 ' 2 X2l 5'34 8137 so 7,
31 0
.63 129920743 6 f 36 .17
7 ...... ... 63 0 29 7 'A 7 39 9 36 ~ 51),'
14 62 5 29 1 20 4 40 11 34 11 4
4
21 a 5 28 10 90 t .s 01 33 96 54:
i
'2B 67 7 28 3 20 1 37 4 33 worfrii,
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE Slit
.1., ,j ,
Wheat 62s. 3d. I Oats ...ft.... 20.. 6d.1 8can5...... 45i. •
Barley, 29s. 1 4d, Rye • 41s. 6d.1 Pea5e......."
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
.. j 6.. Dif Wheat 2 Is. 8(1.1 Oats
Barley lBs. 4d. l Rye

Dec. 21..
,31
J All -

COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON
DANIEL GUNDR Y, ESQ.
On Wednesday the commission of lunacy which had
been twice applied for to the Lord Chancellor against
Daniel Gundry, Esq., who has acquired considerable
notoriety by his eccentric and abusive conduct at the
Police Courts and the Westminster Sessions, was opened
before Commissioners Blount, C. K. Murray, and J.
West, at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Holborn, for the
purpose of determining whether or not he was capable
of managing himself and his affairs.
Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Stock, and Mr. Prior, appeared as
counsel in support of the Commission ; Sergeant Shee
and Mr. Deedes on behalf of Mr. Gundry ; and Mr. Hill
to watch the proceedings for Mrs. Gundry.
Mr. CocKutraN, in his address to the Jury, stated
that Mr. Gundry, who was 30 years of age, had been
estranged from his family for some time. At the age of
14 he was sent to school at Walthamstow, in Essex,
and from thence he was remcved to Trinity College,
Dublin, and completed his education at Cambridge. He
was a young man of great promise, exhibiting very con-
siderable talent and ability, but unfortunately his man-
ners were marked by eccentricity while at Cambridge,
although it was not his (Mr. Cockburn's) purpose to
trace the malady of the unfortunate gentleman further
back than September last. It appeared Mr. Gundry pos-
sessed a life interest in 76,000/. 3 per Cents., which was left
him by a great uncle, a merchant and manufacturer, late
of Bridport. In the event of Mr. Gundry's death the pro-
perty, was to pass to his two brothers and his sister. He
also became entitled to 2,0001. on the death of his father,
Mr. Joseph Gundry, late of Bridport. In the year 1839,
Mr. Gundry married his housekeeper, a woman of very
inferior station in life to himself, but he had subsequently
lived separately from her, and he was an inmate of 1)r.
Phelps' Lunatic Asylum, at Kensington. The delusions
under which Mr. Gundry laboured would be found
to be varied and numerous. He imagined that his ser-
vants were brutes and beasts, and he treated them
with considerable violence ; he also took a dislike to the
police, whom he repudiated for being returned convicts,
assassins, and escaped bushrangers. He was in the ha-
bit of carrying about his person loaded pistols, and ima-
gined that an evil eye was upon him, and that spies
were set to watch his conduct. He would at times com-
pel his valet to sit up with him all night, arms!d with a
pistol, and at other times he would drive about the parks
at a late hour in the evening, . and, regardless of the
inclemency of the weather, would remain in his cab
several hours together, in the court-yard of the Albany,
and refuse to allow any carriage or vehicle to pass him.
Upon one occasion, when at the Opera, he imagined that
a gentleman named Cox, belonging to the Colonial-office,
had passed him rudely in the stalls, whereupon he called
him a blackguard, and grossly abused him, and finally
placed the affair in the hands of Captain Wallis. After
some interviews had taken place between Captain Wallis
and Mr. Ponsonby, the friend of Mr. Cox, the former
gentleman declined to act in the matter ; notwithstand-
ing which, however, Mr. Gundry proceeded to Calais,
from thence to Brawls. and then to Paris, alleging that
he intended to afford Mr. Cox his choice of places in
order to settle their dispute. On his return from Paris
to Calais, he observed a soldier cutting some bread
and meat with a knife, upon which he declared to
his valet that the soldier intended to assassinate him,
and upon afterwards seeing a coffin on the road, he in-
sisted that it was intended for his body, after he had
been assassinated. He travelled in the coupe of the di-
ligence, in which were seated a man and woman ap-
parently in the middle station of life; Mr. Gundry in-
quired of his servant if he knew who the parties were,
and when the servant replied in the negative, Mr.
Gundry said he was a fool and knew nothing, for it was
Louis Philippe and his Queen travelling in disguise. At
Calais he met with an English lady and gentleman, and
after promising to travel with them to London, he made
use of very offensive observations, which induced the
gentleman to withdraw his wife and leave his card for Mr.
Gundry on the table. This, however, Mr. Gundry took no
notice of, but at once proceeded to Dover, where he con-
sulted a physician upon the ground that his skin had
changed colour, and that he had been poisoned. The
medical gentleman advised him to be composed, and to
take seine medicine, but instead of following his instruc-
tions Mr. Gundry started the same night for London.
Upon his arrival at his chambers in the Albany, his ma-
lady assumed a more positive character, and he took a
singular dislike to his servants, and conducted himself to-
wards them in a way which has been repeatedly detailed
in the daily newspapers, in the police reports, and
the trials for assaults in the Sheriff's' and other Courts.:lt
further appeared from the Learned Counsel's statement,
and the number of witnesses that were examined in sup-
port of it, that he had during the latter part of the time
he lived with his wife got into the habit of striking her
with his hands over the legs and arms. He seemed to
have an ingenious refinement of cruelty about him, for he
would take offence at the manner in which she got into
bed, or find fault with her pillow being higher than his, . "0- r •1.
and thereupon adjudge her to stand for hours together in _ _
the room in her night dress. He also adopted the prac- London : Printed :aid Published by 11ILLRaD1012: straudo
tice of what he called "kneading" her, which was passing No. 112, Strand, at The Suaf OffiFeeetifuaru•y 4,1842.
the County of Middlesex, Friday, his knuckles between her ribs and round her bones, and
otherwise conducted himself in such a way that she was

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compelled to leave him. It also came out in the course:_:
the inquiry that Mr. Gundry had been a great travell.er_
having visited Persia, Egypt, India, and other foree
countries. oi•
Amongst other witnesses, Mr. Hardwick, the Aftlo4
striae, of Marlborough-street Police Court, was
and detailed the proceedings connected with Mr. T.,
dry, which took place before him, and were reported
the time. The first time Mr. Gundry was brought. °red
fore him was for assaulting a female servant aante
Kizzey ; but upon the ,officers attempting to ettli
the warrant, Mr. Gundry fired off a pistol, and a c'ari,
was -then preferred against him of ring# to
The lesser charge merged into the more serious one,
upon a personal inspection of Mr. Gundry's.
he (Mr. Hardwick) felt satisfied that the pistol laic/iv:4
discharged was not loaded with ball. He was tPt
over to his friends, as the impression on the Magiatl/
mind was, that he was not in his proper senses. .0.
All the witnesses underwent a severe cross-exam
Lion, with a view of showing that Mr. Gundry
very haughty and proud man, and very sensitive at n"ito
thing like an affront. He was not at all courteously
his inferiors, and was in the habit of speaking pun of
when excited. It was also stated that he was a 11114
great personal courage.
aparttnea;
The C:nmnissioners having sat until four o'clock
further inquiry was adjourned.

SPURTING INTELLIGENCE''
TAT fERSALL'S—YESTERDAT.
Owing to the absence of several members, at the oPellin‘sad
Parliament, the attendance was smaller than on Abnciljeser,
the betting much less animated. In one instance,
..vainst
it was interesting, inasmuch as a bet of 11 to ifelp
of
Chatham to 251. served, in some measure, to calm thl report
his backers, excited by his decline on Monday, an," ,a ore
thrt, in consequence of sickness in the stable, he had Lee to
to Marson's. Auckland was backed for about 150/.2. fere
and amongst others the Diree colt and the Artful Don sit,
in frequent demand. The Chester Cup betting was One:1.
Lanercost, who was backed for upwards of 100/. at ten