A Court-martial assembled on the 9th instant, on board her
Majesty's ship Britannia, to try Mr. W. B. 1'. Rider, Second Lieutenant of the Royal 3Iarines, of the Madagascar frigate, on charges of unoffieerlike and uegentlemanly conduct. The sentence of the Court was, that the prieaer be placed at the bottom of the list of Second Lieutenants of MaoHln•iuex, and severely reprimanded. A Court-martial on Mr. W. Penny, gunner of her Majesty's ship Lily, was also held on board the Britannia; the charges being neglect of duty and drunkenness. In consequence of his former good character and long services, lie was sentenced only to be dismissed his ship and to lose three mouths' pay.
At a meeting of Croydon Magistrates, on Monday, the proprietors of the Vivid, Brighton coach, were fined 10s. and costs for furious driving through Croydon ; and the proprietors of the Regent, also a Brighton coach, were ordered to pay costs for a similar offence.
A chest, containing a quantity of plate and other valuable articles, sent by a van front London to Salisbury for the Bishop of Salisbury, was stolen, and its contents carried off. The chest was found lying empty in the road.
Two attempts were made, one on Saturday morning and the other on Sunday night, to burn a factory belonging to Mr. Adam Kay, in Bolton. Both fires were extinguished before any very considerable damage had been effected. Cotton saturated with oil of turpentine was found in the will.
Five or six persons have been killed by another explosion at the Dartford gunpowder-mills. The shock was felt at Rochester and Maidstone.
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