The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

TEE LATIII LIEUT.-COLOA EL. CUDDY.

Lieutenant-Colonel Cuddy, who nobly lost his life at
the Redan on the Bth ult., received his first commission
on the 31st of May, 1833, and obtained a red mark at
the Horse Guards fur volunteering immediately to join
his regiment (the 55th), in India, where he served in
different parts uninterruptedly until 1841, when he ac-
companied them to China. He was at Amoy, Chusan,
Chinhae (including repulse of night attack), Chapoo,
Noosing, Shanghai, and Ching-Biang-Foo, where he
led the advanced guard at the escalade of the city, was
the first man to mount the walls, and was severely
wounded. For this he was made Brevet-Major, Nov.
6, 1846, and at the close of the Chinese war came to
England, and, rejoining his regiment on its return,
served with it at home until 1851. The regiment then
embarked for Gibraltar, where it continued until 1854,
when it went to Turkey. On the 14th of September of
the same year Colonel Cuddy landed with the British
army in the Crimea, and was present on the 19th and
at the affair of the Bulgarian; on the 20th at the Battle
of the Alma ; and on the 26th of October at the reA
pulse et the Russian sortie. He was too ill to be in the
ranks at Inkerman, but was exposed to a heavy fire at
the siege of Sebastopol, including the bombardments
of the 17th of October, 1854, and the 9th of April,
1855, when he commanded the guard in the trenches,
right attack,—a duty in which he was also engaged on
the night of the Bth of May, when the enemy was re-
pulsed in his sortie on the right and left boyaus.
Colonel Cuddy was actively engaged in the bombard-
ments of the 7th and 17th of Juue, and in the assault
of the 18th, when the 55th Regiment formed part of
the supporting column of the Second Division, which
was to attack the salient angle of the Redan, and for
that purpose occupied the third parallel.He com-
manded the 55th from November 11, 1854, to June 12,
1855, and for the efficiency and good order of the regi-
ment during that period he received the warm acknow-
ledgments of General Pennefather, who commanded the
Second Division. This experienced and promising offi-
cer was killed while gallantly leading his men (Major
Cure, his senior officer, having been severely wounded
in the right arm) up the open to the face of the Redan,
on the Bth of September, when Sebastopol came into
the possession of the allied Powers. The father of this
gallant officer also fell in the service of his country
while leading his company to the storming of Bergen-
op-Zoom. Lieut.-Colonel Cuddy leaves a widow and
three children.

We regret to announce the death of Colonel Maclean,
of Ardgour, Argyllshire, at the alvanced of ninety-one.
He was the thirteenth Maclean of Ardgour in direct
succession. He was born in 1764, and in 1795 he was
married to Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of the Earl
of Hopetoun.
DEATH OF JOHN HARDY ESQ., Q.C.—Yesterday after-
noon information of the death of this much-respected
and distinguished gentleman was received at the Temple,
when the bell of the Temple church tolled on the occa-
sion. The learned gentleman was a bencher of the Mid-
dle Temple, and was called to the bar on the 7th of June,
1799, but had retired from practice some years. His loss
is deeply deplored by the bar and a numerous circle of
friends.

THE LATE Mrs. GEO. CANNING BAOKHOUSE.—Accounts
have been received at the Foreign office, fully confirm-
ing the tragical death of Mr. G-. C. Thickhouse, at Ha-
vannah. The deceased gentleman was the second son of
the late Mr. J. Backhonse, who was permanent Under-
' Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from April, 1827,
to March, 1842, when the Right Hon. H. U. Adding-
ton succeeded him on his retirement, and brother of Mr.
J. Backhouse, vice-consul at Amoy. He was appointed
to a clerkship in the Foreign-office in April, 1838, and
was attached to the legation at Frankfort for some
mouths during the year 1841. He was appointed by
the Earl of Malmesbury, in December, 1852, the Com-
missary Judge at Havannah. The widow of the unfor-
tunate gentleman only returned to England for her con-
finement about three months back, and has three young
children, who are now rendered fatherless.
I.;' MAJOR KlN&—Accounts have been received from
Major John Hynde King, 47th Regirrent, the eldesti
son of Lady King, Telegraph-house, Yarmouth, who,
on the arrival of the despatch announcing the fall of
Sebastopol, was reported in the list as severely wounded.
He is progressing favourably. This officer has never
been a day absent from his duty since his regiment has
been engaged on the arduous service at Alma, Inker-
man, the trenches, during the whole of the winter, and
lastly at the Redan.

REMINISCENCES OF STRAIZAN, PAUL, AND CO.—The
name of this firm was originally Snow and Walton. It
was one of the oldest banking houses in London, second
only to Child and Co., who date from 1640. At the
period of the Commonwealth, Snow and Co. carried on
the business of pawnbrokers, under the sign of the
" Golden Anchor." The firm about the year 1679 sus-
pended its payments, in common with most of the Lon-
don bankers, owing to the circumstance of the seizure
of their money by that most profligate and unprincipled
monarch, Charles 11. On a recent examination of the
books of Strahan and Co. one was discovered of the
date of 1672, which clearly shows that the mode of
keeping accounts in those days was in decimals. It is
curious to observe the nature and quality of the articles
pledged by our ancestors with this house. They were
of a miscellaneous and somewhat comical character. One
of the entries in the book runs thus:---,' March 10, 1672.
—To fifteen pounds lent to Lady —....___.- on the depo,it of
a golden pot de chambre." The blank might he filled up
with an existing Scotch title. About twelve years ago
Mr. Strahan changed his name from Snow to Strahan,
ju consequence of the then late Queen's printers having
left 180,0001. on condition of his taking that name,
previous to which the title of the firm was Snow, Paul,
and Co.

LATEST NEWS.

BOMBARDMENT OF RIGA.

HAMBURG, 00T. 3.

Six English vessels arrived on the 27th ultimo
before Riga, and bombarded for several hours the
batteries of Dunamunde and Virrage-Boullen.

TRIESTE, OCT. 3.

Accounts have been received from Constanti-
nople to the 24th. 13,000 men of the Anglo-
Turkish contingent have left for Varna, where
they will take up their winter quarters.
The Ottoman Government has not received any
confirmation of the check which the Russians
were reported to have met with near Kars.

Omer Pacha is concentrating 50,000 men near
Chefketie, a fort on the frontier of Asia, which
the Turks took from the Russians at the com-
mencement of the war.

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY EVANING.

It is stated that Austria has, for the present,
renounced the intention of offering her mediation,
considering it would be useless to make proposi-
tions to Russia in the present temper of that Go-
verment.

M. de Budberg, the Russian Ambassador here,
has been ordered to meet the Emperor at War-
saw, where all the Russian representatives at the
German Courts are to assemble.

HAMBURG, Ocr. 3, 9.10 P.M.

An ukase, issued at St. Petersburg on the 28th
of September, ordains the establishment of two
military academies for engineers and artillery.

There is further a confirmation of a decree that
every day's and every year's ser vice of the garri-
son of Sebastopol shall count as twelve.

A telegraphic despatch from Odessa, received
at Berlin yesterday, announces that the Czar has
left Nicolaieff for the Crimea.

MADRID, OCT. 2.

The sitting of the Cortes has been insignificant.
The Junta on tariffs has resolved to admit tissues
mixed with cotton without regard to the number
of threads.

A striking increase has taken place in the cases

of cholera.

Rumours relative to a ministerial crisis are
again current, but they are unfounded.

The following are the exact words of Princc
Gortschakoff's despatch of the 23d, as given in
the Warsaw Gazette :

" The enemy has conveyed to. Eupatoria about
20,000 men, and has so concentrated there about
30,000 troops.
"The enemy daily attacks the left flank of our
positions.

"On the 22d the enemy had. an engagement
with our infantry, after which he withdrew
towards the road leading near Urkousti by the

mountain.
" On the 23d the enemy redescended from the
mountains and forced a passage."

The electric wire is again broken in the Black
Sea, and this is said to account for the absence of
more recent telegraphic despatches.