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A correspondent of the Globe, who writes from Dover, gives the fol- lowing account of a lamentable accident which happened off the South Foreland on Thursday morning. " Shortly after six o'clock, the frigate Castor, Captain Lord John Hay, was seen passing di)wii the Channel to the westward, with a favourable breeze; and the Cameleon revenue cutter, commanded by Lieutenant Pratbent, II. N., was lying-to after
her night's cruise, at a short distance off the harbour, with eight of the crew in their berths, and nine persons on the look-out, a portion of whom were then employed reefing the sails. The pennant was hoisted
as a compliment to the frigate ; and a few moments after the cutter was run down, and only four persons, two men and two boys, survive to afford any explanation of this unhappy event. It was remarked as the frigate approached, that no attention was observed on board of the cut- ter being a-head ; and one of the boys said, " We shall certainly be run down." The frigate immediately hove to, and hoisted out the boats ; but all that could be observed was four persons and a handspike. Two of the packet steamers, which were ready for sea, immediately went out to render assistance; but all to no avail. We trust the matter will be duly investigated ; as, in moderate weather and broad daylight, we can but think that if proper precaution had been used, this melancholy event would not have occurred."
Three men were drowned on Wednesday night, by the upsetting of a boat, on her return to Folkestone, after witnessing the regatta at Dover. The men were intoxicated.
The following account of a riot and military outrage at Chatham was sent to us last Saturday evening ; but the circumstances are of to serious a kind, that we declined publishing them without inquiry. The paragraph, however, having been copied from a respectable journal into all the Daily Papers, and no contradiction or explanation having, as far as we know, been given, we suppose the facts are correctly stated, and subjoin the account. "Friday (yesterday week), the town of Chatham was thrown into the utmost confusion, owing to a body of sailors and other persons parading the tow-n armed with bludgeons. This disturbance arose from a serious riot that took place on Chatham Lines the preceding evening (Thursday), a-ben the privates and the non-commissioned officers belonging to the 88th Reghnent advanced in complete battle array towards the booths where the people were enjoying themselves after the races. The soldiers were armed with bayonets, and plunged them indis- criminately into every individual within their reach, thereby wounding about thirty persons. A warrant-officer belonging to his Majesty's ship Tribune now lies at the Royal Navy Hospital, Brornpton, in a very precarious state; James Parr, a stone-mason, received two severe sabre cuts in the head, which nearly proved fatal ; one cut measures five inches, and the other about four. There is also a drummer lying at the Hospital, and no hopes are entertained of bis recovery. The scene on the Lines was terrific ; men, women, and children were trampled and cut about in a most horrid manner. Friday, about five, intimation was conveyed to the soldiers that the sailors were near the Barracks. Accordingly, the privates and non-commissioned officers belonging to the 88t.k sallied out of the Barracks on the l3rompton side, with their arms in their hands. The men were urged on by the sergeants and corporals, by saYulg, Now give it them, my boys !' Several sailors were standing about by the Queen's Head and the Army and Navy Hotel, awl they were most furiously attacked by the soldiers. Several of them were severely wounded, five of whom were conveyed bleeding profusely to the Navy Hospital. One poo.r fellow received a desperate wouud in his head, four inches in length, and ii skull was fractured in a most shocking manner ; no hopes are entertained ot lmmi recovery. About three weeks ago, this town was so disturbed by the same regiment, that the shopkeepers were compelled to close their windows. Several persons were then wounded ; and yet these men are still wear their side-anus, with a perfect knowledge of the disgraceful use they make of them. A public meeting is to take place oa the subject ; a requisition lmi
permitted to
been presented to the High Constable, signed by many respectable inhabi- tants.' -Maidstone Gazette.
In compliance with the requisition, the High Constable appointed Wednesday last for a public meeting; which was tannerously and most respectably attended. The High Constable took the chair. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, all of whom agreed that im- mediate steps should be taken by the parish to prevent in future those disgraceful outrages committed by the soldiers using their side. arms. It was stated, that a memorial signed by some of the inhabitants had been presented to Colonel GreenleeII, commander of the garrison at Chatham, beseeching him to order that the men, when off duty, should not wear their side-arms. This memorial producing no effect, a peti- tion has been sent to the Commander-in-Chief, complaining of the soldiers' brutal conduct. One of the bayonets, belonging to a soldier who was active in the riot on Friday evening, on the Chatham Lines, was produced to the meeting. It was bent completely double. The bayonet was marked with 'neither 17. The meeting was also in- formed, that some of the wouaded men now lying in the Royal Hospital are suffering under very severe wounds, and that several civilians are also lying dangerously ill. Resolutions, moved by Mr. IV. Townsend, were then unanimously agreed to, expressive of the sense of the meet- ing of the impropriety told danger of allowing soldiers to carry anus when not on duty ; and it was te3olved, that as applicatioos to the Commander-in-Chief had reit produced any beneficial effect, a petition be mesented to the Secretary of State for the Home Deli:tr.:meat, praying him to take steps to prevent such fatal ocourrences as tool arisen from allowing soldiers to carry side-arms when off duty. The meeting then separated.
This affair is not the only evidence the week has produced in con &oration of Mr. Ellice's statement respecting the demoralized condi. tion of the Army. On Sunday, James Smith, who belongs to the Royal Artillery, now quartered at Huhne, near Manchester, murdered his wife by shooting her in the throat, while she had one of his children in her tarns. It appears that the woman had been twice married, and was drunken and dissolute. Site had been connected with Smith, after her first husband's death at Woolwich ; and he was compelled by the Magistrates to marry her. Smith committed the act with premedita- tion. His wife's conduct, Ile said, made him wretched so lie first drank freely, and then went home and shot her through a thin partition in his house. The woman died instantaneously, and Smith was taken, sitting quietly on his bed.
Another outrage by a soldier occurred on Wednesday week, at Car- lie. While part of the 15th Regiment were practising with blind:- cartridge in the Cm-tle yard, one of the men named M‘Donald, stuldolv discharged his piece in the face of a lad who was looking on, named Cook, sou of the steeper of the canteen. The lad instantly fell to the ground, and he was found to be so much injured that doubts were at on2 time entertained for his life. He has since considerably recovered. The object of the man appears not to have been to injure the boy ; he says it was done merely for a lark, and that he did not think a blank- cartridge would have hid such an effect. He was instantly ordered into confinement, where he awaits the issue of his insane prank.- Carlisle Jo:!rnal.
On Frid.,y evening, two yintlemen, suppo,..ed to bc Naval officers, at- tempted to leave Southampton with a spirited horse and gig, while under the itiluencerf" liquor. They had not proceeded far before both were thrown out, end picked up in a state of insensibility: one was not much hurt, but the other lies in a state of great suffering.
On Wednesday last, a party went front Bognor to Goodwood, on a pleasure exetmion. Three females incautiously got into a four-wheeled chaise to drive to Molescotnh, when the horse ran away with it, and one of the ladies, mimed Hunt, the widow of a Missionary, was killed by 3umping out. The horse leaped over a gate across a road, and abso- lutely dragged the carriage with the three women over it.
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