The Sun. — 1847-11-16 (London, England)

COURT-MARTIAL AT CHATHAM.-- The officers comprising the court of a general court-martial, of which Colonel Charles Menzies, LH., of the Royal Marines, was president, assembled at eleven o'clock, A.M., on Saturday, the 13th inst., at this garrison, for the trial of Private Robert Carter, No. 2,344, Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, for desertion. The president said, Prisoner, you have heard the charge read against you, are you guilty or not? The prisoner hung down his head and refused to answer, when the president told him that if he refused answering he should take it as a plea of guilty. The prisoner commenced sobbing, and pleaded guilty, saying that he had committed a henious offence, and that they might hang him if they liked. The prisoner has been in the corps fifteen months, out of which time he has been in prison seven months ; he is a native of Canterbury, and previous to his enlistment was a shipwright in Woolwich Dockyard. This is the second desertion of the prisoner, and when he found that he was to be tried by a general court martial he made a confession that he was an accessory to the murder of George Clark, one of the metropolitan polices at Dagenham, in Essex, in May, 1846, and that it was he that inflicted the wound in the policeman's skull. The prisoner's confession was laid before Sir George Grey, and, after an examination by the proper authorities, the conclusion is that the prisoner has merely stated that he —honeYhetahs was the murderer to get out of the service. DEPLORABLE SUICIDE .—Yesterday Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, received information of a suicide having been committed in the Red Lion Camberwell-gate,Ready, and It appears that the unfortunate deceased was named e years lived as barman there. On Sunday evening, after taking his tea, he went up stairs, as Was supposed to clean himself for the evening, but shortly afterwards 3 a strange noise was heard to proceed fromhis bedroom. -room. which excited suspicion, and on Mr. Potter goi • room he found the door locked on the insidellge toc haltlecel once or twice without receiving any answer, and on forcing the door a most distressing sight presented itself. The young man was found lying in a pool of blood, with his head dreadfully shattered. A pistol was close by his body, which evidently had been recently discharged. A surgeon was immediately sent for, who, upon his arrival, pronounced life quite extinct. From the examination made by the surgeon, it is quite clear that the deceased must have placed the mouth of the pistol to his left temple, and have fired the contents into  his skull. The Jenny Lind, of and from Prince Edward's Island, Drody, master, arrived at Southampton on Saturday. She reports that she met, on October 28, the barque Amity, of and from Liverpool, from Richebucto, water-logged. Succeeded in saving Captain Allan and eleven of the crew, who had been three days and four nights on the wreck, lashed in the mizen rigging. Six persons were unfortunately drowned :previous to the remainder of the crew being taken on board the Jenny Lind. Six of the seamen cared were afterwards put on board the brig Rebecca, bound for Glasgow.