The Press. — London, England, 1856-11-08 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 8, 1856. but as the chimney narrowed more every foot, he only became more tightly fixed, and by the time the oiu woman had lighted the straw was in as fair a position for being roasted alive as ever a man was. He bore the heat and smoke for some time, but at length he gave in, and his cries soon attracted the attention of the neighbours, who ultimately rescued him out of that frying-pan into the arms of a couple of constables. THE FIRST MEETING IN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT for proof of debts and choice of assignees in the case of the Royal British Bank was held on Thursday before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd. The Commis sioner said it would be most respectful to the Court of Chancery to take no proceedings until the decision of the Vice-Chancellor was made known, which would be in a few days. Ultimately Mr. J. Wyld, Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. H. Mitchell, Mr. J. Burke, and Mr. J. Bell, of Finsbury-square, were then chosen assignee:, and accepted the trust, and the next meeting was fixed for December sth at eleven o'clock. A RULE NISI in the case of " Mather v. Lord Maid stone," was granted on Tuesday at the Court of Queen's Bench by Mr. Justice Cresswell. ajabal an THE TROOPS encamped at Aldershott were yesterday reviewed by her Majesty the Queen. His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief was present. CAPTAIN H. W. BAYFIELD, of the Boacawen, flag ship, West Indies, has this week obtained his flag as Rear-Admiral of the Blue, by the retirement to the half-pay reserved list of Vice-Admiral W. B. Mends. Cu. - rani Cuss Les EDEN, the present Controller- General of the Coastguard, is selected to command the Coastguard under the new system. A SECOND COURSE OF SIEGE OPERATIONS BY NIGHT was carried out at Chatham between seven and twelve o'clock on Tuesday night, in the presence of several thousand spectators. The plan of th e operations intended to be carried out consisted of an attack on the Spur Battery, the King's Bastion, Prince of Wales's Bastion, and Prince Edward's Bastion, together with tracing parallels, and the ri construction of battees, the latter of ich con• sisted of sunken, half-sunken, and elevated, by the attacking party, together with the other siege opera tions usually performed by an army in an attack on a strongly-fortified position, the works of attack and defence being undertaken by the troops selected from the Royal and East India Company's Engi neers, the troops of the line, and the Royal Marines, the entire force being under the general superinten dence of Colonel H. Sandham. The whole force employed in the operations was calculated at 1,200 men. The defence of the garrison was intrusted to Captain G. E. L. Walker, R.E. ' the attack to Major F. C. Hassard, R.E. Each of the troops employed in the attack and defence was furnished with several rounds of blank cartridge, and a number of field. pieces and guns were placed inside the garrison to open fire on the besieging party. On the assembling o!' the troops on the parade ground of Brompton Barracks, at seven p.m., they were soon told off for their respective duties. The troops comprising the right attack were formed into fourteen parties, con sisting of men to be engaged in tracing the parallels, a strong party to make the necessary excavations, another to trace the batteries, six parties to occupy the batteries when formed, pickets, patrols, blue lights, and covering parties, those of the right attack being under the superintendence of Major C. H. Sedley, R.E. The left attack was formed into similar divisions and parties, of which Lieutenant G. R. Lempriere took the superintendence. The working parties were provided with shovels and pick• axes, for the purpose of making the necessary excavations. As soon as each division had been toll off the whole body of troops forming the attacking party marched from Brompton Barracks over the drawbridges to the Great Lines. The night being very dark, and the men marching in silence, their movements were not observed by the besieged party within the garrison. On reaching the lines the attacking party scaled the fences, and commenced tracing the parallels for the purpose of forming the trenches and batteries to enable them to attack the Spur Battery. In this occupation they were en gaged about an hour, the length of the parallel traced extending about three-quarters of a mile, the troops engaged being defended by a covering party of soldiers of the line. During the tracing of the parallels the besieged party within the garrison dis covered the position of the besiegers, and imme• diately made preparations for sending out a sortie party to drive them from their works. A patrol from the garrison first issued from the fortifications, and on falling in with the enemy' s a d v anced pickets a skirmishing ensued which lasted for some time. The party from the garrison were at length driven back, neither party having yet opened fire. On retiring they burnt a number of lights and fireballs, for the pur pose of discovering to those inside the works the THE PRESS. position of the attacking party, so as to enable them to direct their fire. As soon as the party making the sortie had reached the garrison, the whole line of the defence was suddenly and most brilliantly illuminated by a number of blue lights and fire• balls, which had the effect of plainly revealing the exact position of the enemy. In the darkness of the night this illumination had a strikingly beautiful effect, the whole extent of the Lines and the country for some distance round being lighted up in a most brilliant manner, and to a spectator viewing it from a distance presenting the appearance of an immense line of fire. The alarm was immediately sounded along the ranks of the attacking party, when each man stood to his arms, and immediately the whole line poured in a tremendous fire on the garrison. The appearance of about 1,000 trool:s firing at night, in a line extending nearly three quarters of a mile, had a very grand effect. The party within the garrison also opened a terrible fire at the same instant with their rifles and field-pieces, which both parties continued for some time, those within the fortifications mounting the glacis and di recting a sharp and continuous fire on their assail. ants. The attacking party having at length re pulsed the sortie, and silenced the guns from the garrison, discontinued firing, and were permitted to continue their siege operations unmolested. The attack and siege operations lasted about four hours, at the end of which time the troops were marched off the ground to their barracks, the whole of the operations having been performed by all the troops engaged in a most efficient manner, so as to give the greatest gratification to the commanding officer and also to the large number of persons present to wit ness the novel and interesting sight of siege opera tions carried on at night. lIER MAJEsry's SHIP Shannon, (51), Captain William Peel, C. 8., went out of Portsmouth harbour on Monday afternoon under steam to Spithead to await sailing orders. Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., Commander-in Chief, Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., of the steamflaet in re serve ; Captain Boyd, RN.; Commander Hore, R.N.; and several other officers and visitors, went out in her. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP Hannibal is to be paid off all standing previous to a recommission. ituarg. SIR JOHN nitro, Lord Chief Justice of the Com • mon Pleas, died on Saturday from atrophy brought on by asthma. The deceased judge was the second .on of the late Mr. Thomas Jervis, M.P. and Q.C., and a member of the family of the celebrated admiral, Viscnt. St. Vincent. Sir John entered the army early in life, but shortly afterwards relinquished that profession for the bar, of which he became a member in 1824 at the Middle Temple. As an advocate he was re• markable for his quickness and dexterity, and having meantime become a Queen's Counsel, he was, on the formation of Lord John Russell's Government, in 1840. made Attorney-General—Sir Thomas Wilde, who had just been nominated to that office, having succeeded to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, before he had taken out his patent as Attor ney General. From 1840 to 1850 Mr. Jervis dis charged the duties of Attorney-General, and in the latter year, upon Sir Thomas Wilde's appointment as Lord Chancellor, Mr. Attorney-General Jervis was named as his successor as Chief Justice. THE EARL OF BANDON died suddenly last week from apoplexy, at his seat, Castle Bernard, Bandon. His lordship was born in 1785, and had attained his seventy-second year. He was son of the first peer who was created (in the peerage of Ireland' Viscount Bandon in 1795, and Earl of Bandon in 1800. He is succeeded in these honours by his eldest son, Viscount Bernard, born in 1810. The deceased earl was a representative peer of Ire land, and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cork. Da. HAGGARD, D.C.L., Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester, died at Brighton on Friday week, in the sixty third year of his age. Dr. Haggard was educated at Trinity-hall, Cambridge, of which college he was a fellow, and he proceeded to the degree et' LL.B. in 1813. He was appointed chancellor of Lincoln by Dr. Kaye, the late learned and excellent bishop of that diocese. In 1845 he was nominated chancellor of the diocese of Winchester by the pre sent bishop, and in 1847 commissary for Surrey in the same diocese. In the same year, 1847, he re ceived the appointment of chancellor of Manchester from the present and first bishop of this diocese. As an editor Dr. Haggard rendered eminent services to the literature of civil and ecclesiastical law. PAUL DELAROCHE, the great French painter, died suddenly of disease of the heart on Monday last. Though he has long been suffering, his death seems to have been quite unexpected. During the day he had been conversing with M. Horace Vernet, his father-iu law, with M. Goupil, and with one of his medical attendants. Having just desired his servant to take back to his tailor some article of dress to be altered, he was sitting in his arm-chair ; suddenly, 1067 without the slightest movement, without a sigh, he bent his head, and expired. Paul Delaroche was born in Paris in 1797. He studied bar I, and in 1822 attracted the attention of the public by his "Joas," now in the Luxembourg. From that time he rose in the estimati on o f the artistic world. He gained a prize in the exhibition of 1824, and it amp became a subject of remark that he was displaying a freedom from conventionalities which marked inde pendence and individuality. " The Death of Anni bale Caracc;" in 1826, and " The Death of Queen Elizabeth" in 1827, displayed these qualities in a still stronger light. He continued to augment his reputation by successive works always carefully painted, always true to the principles he had adopted, and almost always displaying marks of progression. In 1835 appeared " The Murder of the Duc de Guise," a cabinet picture, and considered by many persons his masterpiece. But the pictures by which he is best known in England are " The Sons of Edward IV. in the Tower," " Lord Strafford on his way to Execution," " Charles I. insulted in the Guard-room," and " Cromwell Contemplating the Body of Charles I." The death of Delaroche is a great loss to the French school, though since 1837 he had exhibited nothing, and latterly had retired altogether from the world to the circle of his rela tions, lived with his two children and his most inti mate friends, and devoted to his art whatever time the incurable disease with which he was afflicted allowed him. Yet during this period of seclusion he produced works which we are assured equal, if they do not surpass, those which have attained to noto riety. Among these are mentioned, " Marie Antoi nette before the Revolutionary Tribunal," a " Descent from the Cross," and " The Last Banquet of the Girondins." LORD MIDDLETON died at Wollaton-hall, Notts, on the sth instant. The deceased peer, Digby Wil. loughby, was a Captain in the Royal Navy ; lie was born in 1769, and had attained the advanced age of eighty seven years. The death without issue of his cousin, the sixth peer, placed him in possession of the family honours, which now devolve upon his cousin, Mr. Henry Willoughby, of Birdsall and Let trington, Yorkshire, born in 1817, and married, in 1843, to Julia Louisa, daughter of the late Alexander Bosville, Esq., of Thorpe, by whom he has several children. glisallantotts. THE CONSECRATION of the Bishop (elect) of London will not take place, as stated by some of the papers, on Sunday, the 16th instant, at Westminster Abbey, but will take place at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on Sunday, the 23rd inst. _ .. THE RETIREMENT of the Bishop of Norwich is an thoritatively denied. __ _ THE PROPOSED CRIMEAN MONUMENT AT SLIEEPTELD has given occasion to a communication with Aims Nightingale. Miss Shore, of Meersbrook-hall, Shef field, requesting on behalf of the committee appointed to carry out the project that she would consent to lay the foundation-stone, Miss Nightingale replied as follows : Lea Hurst, Matlock, Oct. 23, 1856. My dear Lydia,—The purpose mentioned to me in yoar letter has my deepest sympathy. It would have been most congenial with my feelings, on my return from the death. beds of so many brave men, to take a part in it. I shall be with the men of Sheffield in spirit whenever they execute their proposed plan. It is with real pain that I feel com pelled to decline the privilege which they offer to me, of laying the first stone. But I believe I shall best honour the cause of those brave dead by abstaining from appear ing to court that publicity which I consider to have been my greatest impediment in the work f have been engaged in for their sakes, impeding it by arousing in some minds care for worldly distinctions. I will ask you to give this letter to Mr. Overend, and I should be glad that Mr. Overend should make known to those who had expressed a desire that I should lay the first stone my reasons and my sorrow for not doing so : and should say also that I feel an especial regret in declining this at Sheffield, from old and dear family recollections connected with the place. I must apologise for so late an answer, as I have only just returned home.—Pray believe me, my dear Lydia, every truly yours, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. Miss Shore, Meerabrook. Miss Nightingale has also sent a cheque of 201. towards the object. PROTESTANTISM IN TURKEY, Colonel Sir H. Rawlin son observed, the other day, at a meeting in Exeter hall, was unknown twenty years ago. On one occa sion a Jew presented himself to the Resident at Bagdad, and claimed British protection, alleging that he bad come from Jerusalem. He was informed by the consul-general that according to international law he was not entitled to protection. He then said that he was a Protestant, and was informed that, if such were the fact, it could not constitute a title to the protection he sought. The consul-general, however, wishing to know what the man's idea of Protestan tism was, interrcgat3l him on the doctrines of his adopted faith, and he replied—" I eat pork, I drink wine, and I do not believe in God." This was the correct idea of Protestantism in Turkey at that time.