The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-24 00:00:00

THE SIEGE OPERATIONS AT CHATHAM.

A considerable number of the troops in the
Ggarrison at Chatham, including the detachments of the
renadier and Coldstream Guards, and the 6th, 12th, and
67th Foot, and the Rifle Brigade, at present under a course
f instruction in upping and mining, and the construction
of field works, and under the command of Major Trott-
bridge of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, usembh d at 10 o'clock
esterday in front of Prince Henry's bastion. Major-Gen.
J.
Simpson, commandant at Chatham, accompanied by
Brigade-Major Wood ; Colonel Harry Jones, director of the
engineering department ; Captain Superintendent Peter
Richards, C. 8., of Chatham Dockyard, and a number of
officers of the army and navy, assembled at the same time
to receive his royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, who
had signified his intention of witnessing the siege opera-
tions carried on by the corps in the garrison.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at
11 o'clock, attended by Captain Clifton, on the staff, of the
7th Princess Royal Dragoon Guards, and the operations im-
mediately commenced by the detachmentsC of guards and
line regiments advancing with the escalading ladders on
their shoulders, the 67th Foot and the Rifle Brigade being
thrown out in advance as skirmishers, Captain Ord, of
the Royal Engineers, having the superintendence of the
escalading party. The Wien were put down and the men
descended quickly, mad placed them on the opposite aide,
and run up them with pest rapidity, and on reaching the
top lay down and otninagneeil firing on the Sappers and
Miners who were dehardag the garrison. The Sappers re-
turned the fire, end at the salsa time a thirty-two pounder
gun was brought to her om the escalading party, and the
retreated iesmaiing the hiders, and re-aseending, and
scathed sae they sempied their original ground,
pal
the dtheders y repulsed them.
Some other siege having been gone through by
the party his ro al then inspected a two gun bat-
tery oa Blade on the left of the lines near
St. Ides" whisk lad bill approached by mining, and
three hope of powder, sash containing 1001 b. weight,
and one of 761 b. weight, and wires laid to them from a
voltaic battery. lie royal highness also visited a strong
stockade formed of massive timber of the hardest descrip-
tion, about 16 inches square and about 12 feet aboveground.
against which a bag coutaining 110Ib. weight of gun.
powder was placed ; and be then crossed the bridge at St.
Mary e guard-hour and wane- sed the troops throwing hand
grenades from the wrists on to the glade, where they
nvariably built tesamiliately after falling on the ground.
His royal highness subsequently occupied a position on an
elevated pert if theannineates, and had a most commanding
view gee theheedia of the two gun battery, which was
most completely iameliehed, the whole of the works being
thrown in one mass into the air by the simultaneous action
of the wage of the voltaic batter superintended by Capt.
Bent, RM., and Ensign French, 11.E.1.C.R. with Sergeant-
Mohr Allen, of the Royal Sappers and Miners. The slow
match having been laid to the bag of gunpowder at the
stockade, under the superintendence of Captain Lovell,
RA., with Lieutenant Townsend, R.E. and Ensign
Brownlow, H.E.1.C.E., them officers retired to positions,
protected by sandbags, and the destruction of the stockade
was truly grand, the 140 lbe. of powder throwing up the
fragments of the timber high into the air, rending the logs
into thousands of fragments, and scattering them in all
directions to a considerable distance.

Hu ro7;i hisknew returned to town soon alter three
o'clock.

HOPE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE AND
HONESTY GUARANTEE SOCIETY.

An extraordinary general meeting of this society
was bald at the Society's offices, 4, Princes-street, Bank, on
Wednesday last, Henry Morgan Vane Eeq., in the chair.
me Genera Manager and Secretary,
. H. C. Eiffe, Esq.,
having veal ths adveenmenent convening the meeting,
The Crammer said that the business before the meeting
wee Is esimider the propriety of adding two directors to the
proud heard. The seehty had bees formed upon certain
emailillene, My stated awl set forth in the company's deed
et 11.16eassit, drawn up by able beads, and duly approved
by the registrar ander the Jelat.litesk Companies Act, 7th
and Mk Viet., o. 110. Me then read the Slut clause, which
limits the number of Abeam to ten, and proceeded to say
that his brother dinette% the general manager and himself,
einenered in the epithet that this clause required alteration.
The pewee of altming the deed, even in the least degree,
reels entirely with the diersholders and proprietors, the
asperity of whom moat and voting must decide the
question submitted to thew The question to be submitted
fa, to canna the Kepolety of adding two directors to the
present saber. He woad now mention how this ques-
tion had arhem Ammo* the list of shareholders who
have duly pall the Si, per elan into the bankers' hands,
and whisk emesemle to upwards of 6,0001. so paid in, they,
ars flarbsnMe men* to number two gentlemen—one Mr.
,folikurP. Mope, elle had sediseribed for 200 shares, end the
. Dr. Wheelwright, for 160 shares. These
pentismen had Wien a great interest in the undertaking,
and it bed mask hie brother directors and himself, and he
basted the prepthehey would agree with them, that, by
adding them two eneen to the direction, they would
atraigthem their pressed position with the public, and im-
p'''a their invesftents* He would aft detain them a
sheet am to make a statement of the Malmo already
trammeled, and to show the state of the society's dances.
It was Ass many preliminary ateetimp, held an the eve
of the lest end immememeement of the gement year, OM they
bag spewing the
thenee; Ind is lothAipspolosigZe•-
line was etheled. based. ban *ea ted,
hell their that smalieg aa Se rd lam, a meted M
snip them imeithe. iambi& the following are the results.
They hall_eppeinted 111 thee elms medical advisers over the
Veiled Moslem of Great Britain and Ireloaroodu.ghr
had selabi lied bid Meal and provincial agents, ownore
of Wielder& whose elmmeten have been thoroughly la-
es, of wham had identified themselves with
tee =et the by • uring their own lives
and berm* atesabeem They had been favoured with 191
=Orr ennuease, thrums amounting to 28,9601., of
have been seindly essepleted, and the remainder
ere either new wellies ear moideration or for further in-
broaden. In the hemelien of the establishment they paid
the eiriseeet attenths te aim maw ; all matters required for
it lumina been sentaeled hr mdse competition. la conclu-
des. be mewed dna the SIM abase be altered, and that the
mintree of &Mem be twelve, and that we add the
maw of iewq MOM Sem, Seq., and Dr. Wheelwright
to the lhl of thememe, end we leave it to you to decide
whether
moss t
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Dr. JANIS WY. )[nun, LLD., mooaded the rmadution,
whisk was this tarried unaaintously.
la answer Is. gushes frees a Shareholder,
The CLUBILAM stated, that the call of 11. per share upon
4036 had has actually paid Into the hands of the society's
hasher; that the ;greater part of that sum had been em
fiord in the maw of India bonds, which now remained
iiss 1111 beilkenr etwisdy, as appeared by their letters lying
ma the Mlle. That the interest, at 6i. per cent., would be
tided** up to the 26th December next, and that the
'handrails:a would realm es the Ist of January neat, bat
that hr the fatale It weld be calculated up to 24th June
and 96th Desmaliar, mid be payable on the Ist July and Ist
Janney is each peer.
The preeeediarp Membiated with Totes of thanks to the
directors, the gamed manager, and the chairman.

Aro=muse BALL—Num of pathos= who
pared their examindsa In the alum eal pasties of
inedisiss, and resolved mrtilleates to poetise, ea nun-
day, July 22, 1862:—John William Howaid, Jun., Wil-
liam Aston Lewis, Alderley ; Hanson Eason, Hall ; En-
cino Burks Durham, Liverpool ; Edmund Shaw, Thatolmin,
Berko; Henry Ayliffe, Adelaide, &nth Australia ; An- 1
petal Edward Davis., Beads, North Wake.