The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-03 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

On Friday last a Court Martial assembled at the
New Barracks, Limerick, at which Captain Gray, of
the 36th Regiment presided, to investigate certain
charges preferred against private Thomas Roche, of
that regiment, by a countryman, named Patrick
Grady. It appeared that on. Christmas eve, about'
seven o'clock, Grady, who lives near Meelick, was
on his way home, when he met Roche, who was a
distance after three other soldiers coming into Li-
merick, all of whom appeared to him to be intoxi-
cated. Deponent stated, that he previously heard
that there was some quarrelling.between the soldiers
and the country people. He asked Roche what was
the matter, and immediately he drew his bayonet,
forated his coat, and made au incision of the skin
near the hip. In the struggle they both fell, and
after getting up, the soldier took his (Grady's) hat,
leaving the cap he wore after him. Grady, as soon as
he discovered that he was net severely wounded,
came into Limerick, and gave the cap to the Brigade
Major, to whom he made the statement of what oc-
curred. These were the chief facts of Grady's
case. He then proved the hat to have been his;
and the Adjutant of the regiment having been called,
deposed to having found it on the prisoner, and also
that the cap left by Grady with the Brigade Major
was that produced in Court, which the soldier ac-
knowledged to be his.
The Court adjourned to the following morning,
when a further examination of Grady took place,
after which the case was finally postponed, until a
Court of Inquiry was appointed to investigate the
affair. .

On Tuesday morning the.67th Regiment of Foot,
at present stationed in Liverpool, under the command
of Colonel Burslem, were marched from their parade,
in Clayton-square, to a vacant piece of ground near
Toxteth Park, for the purpose of having a new pair
of colours presented to them. Upon the arrival of
the regiment on the ground, about eleven o'clock,
they were formed into a square, and the two senior
Ensigns received the colours from the hands of Co-
lonel Burslem's lady, who delivered an address suit-
able to the occasion. Immediately on the reception
of the flag, the band of the regiment struck up the
national anthem of" God save the King," the sol-
diers presenting arms; and after giving four times
four cheers, were marched to Clayton-square, from
whence the colours were conducted to the Colonel's
quarters, under the guard of the first company of
Grenadiers. The Earl of Sefton, accompanied by
his Countess, Lord Molyneux, and several of the
female branches of the family, together with a number
of ladies and gentlemen, honoured the regiment with
their presence during the ceremony. In the evening
the officers of the regiment dined together at the
Waterloo Hotel.—Liverpool Courier.

The surest and most convenient way of ren-
dering meat or poultry speedily tender, is to wrap it in a
cloth to preserve it from dirt, and expose it the preceding
evening to a gentle and constant heat—such as the hearth
of a fire-place.--Jour. des Conn. Usuelles.

ROWLAND STEPHENSON3THEEX-BANKER.

—Rowland Stephenson, the banker, whom you mention
as having rather unceremoniously withdrawn himself and
a considerable sum of money, is a man of so much inge-
nuity, experience, and travel, that the visit amongst the
Western States of North America, which your City Cor-
respondent has chalked out for him, so far from being dis-
pleasing to him, will suit his likings, and enable him to
find himself quite "at home." Years ago he had tra-
yelled much, and amongst the Indians, in both hemi-
spheres, it I mistake not ; certainly in various wilds, where
it was requisite for him to carry his gun, to earn, or rather
to procure, his dinner. This he did for a long period,
and with this course of life he was much delighted. It
occasioned him to perfect, rather than to acquire, the
useful talent of providing and attending upon himself un-
der all circumstances ; so that the absence of servants,
shops, and markets, to him created no inconvenience.
" Robinson Crusoe" himself (or in reality Alexander Sel-
kirk, Daniel Defoe's model for Robinson Crusoe) was not
a " handier" man. He had every species of Crusoe cle-
verness—but, above all, he was a specially good sports-
man ; and he could sport well even without dogs, and the
other " paraphernalia" of so much consequence to your
" Gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease."
He was an admirable mechanic, a right excellent turner ;
lie could use a lathe with skill and taste ; but, to leave off
particularities, -tosee him, to hear him speak, to observe
his simple pleasures, he was the last man in England you
would have supposed to be likely to grasp at enormous
wealth by enormous crime and fraud, if all that has been
said be true. But if he be the Rowland Stephenson, the
London banker, whom, years ago, I met and beard of in
sporting excursions in Suffolk and on the borders of Nor-
folk, amongst the American Indians, in the back settle-
ments of the United States, lie will find himself quite at
home and at ease.—Morning Paper.