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away. The prisoners were apprehended about half an hour
afterwards in flowden, in company with three others, when
the prosecutor immediately pointed them out as the individuals
by whom he had been robbed. None of the prosecutor's pro•
perty was found upon them.
The prisoners were found Guilty. Sentence was deferred.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.— Winchester, July 12.
THE 6031.01 LT DUEL.
The grand jury returned a true bill against Lieutenants
Hawkey and Pvtn for murder.
Mr. RawLtNaos applied for a bench warrant against these
parties, which was granted.
Mr. Baron Platt was occupied nearly the whole of the day
in trying cases which were totally unfit for publication.

THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON
Poamsmourw, JULY 13.—The squadron now at Spithead
ender the orders of Rear-Admiral 113de Parker, is officially
reported ready for sea, and will leave the anchorage on the trial
cruise to-morrow.

This being the last opportunity we may have for some time
of mentioning in detail the experimental squadron, we will
give a few particulars respecting the construction, ke., of each
ship, which may be interesting to the general as well as the
nautical reader.

The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, the flag-ship of
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, Commander-in-Chief of the
squadron, was built on the lines furnished by the late Sir
William Rule; the Trafalgar, 120, Captain W. E Martin,
was built by Mr. Oliver, Lang, Master Shipwright of Wool-
wich Dockyard, at that yard, in 1841 ; the Queen, 110, Cap-
tain Sir B. Walker, was built on the plan furnished by Sir \.
Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, at Portsmouth Dockyard, in
1839 • the Rodney, 92, Captain Edward Collier, was built on
the plans furnished by the late Sir Robert Seppings (Surveyor
of the Navy), at Pembroke Dockyard, in 183 t ; the Albion,
90, Captain Nicholas Lockyer, was built on the plans of Sir
William Symonds (Surveyor Of the Navy ), at Devonport Dock-
yard, in 1843 ; the Vanguard, 80, Captain G. W. Willes, and
the Superb, 80, Captain A. L. Corry, were also built by Sir
William Symonds (the former at Pembroke Dockyard in 1836,
and the latter at the same yard in 1842); the Canopus, 84,
Captain F. Moresby, is of French construction, and was cap-
tured at the battle of the Nile.
These are the eight ships forming the experimental squadron
of 1845,•which will sail from Spithead on Tuesday to try their
respective qualities as models for future ships of their class. As
this is professedly to be a trial of fairness we may be excused
for offering a few remarks upon what appears to us a want of
equity in the said trial. It will no doubt strike the reader, as
it does us, as somewhat strange, and at variance with those
principles of impartiality upon which a squadron of such import-
ance should be sent out for the attainment of so great and na-
-ionally important an end, that four of the eight ships com-
posing it are by one constructor, and two of them of the same
class.
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following table, being a copy of the official return
to be made to the Lords of the Admiralty by the Corn-
-in-Chief of the squadron, on Friday last, shows, in
ble terms, the capabilities of each ship of the squadron,
an authentic document, is highly interesting and im-

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