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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,

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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 estimation of 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.