The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-19 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 19►, IBM

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT or DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge Ordinary.)
CLOWES V. CLOWES AND MORRIS-JUDGMENT.
Sir J. P. Wilde delivered judgment in this case. Ile
said the question which the Court had to consider was,
whether a delay in instituting the suit disentitled the hus-
band, who was the petitioner, to a divorce according to the
31st section of tho Divorce Act, which vested a discretion in
the Court in withholding the relief prayed for, if it thought
fit, on the ground of delay. In this case, the husband had
obtained a decree a mensa et there, which showed that he
was not indifferent or insensible to his wife's misconduct,
and therefore he considered that he was entitled to his
decree nisi, which he accordingly pronounced.
There were no costs asked for.

COURT op BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE TAOS. LLOYD.
This bankrupt was formerly a captain in the army, and
now came up to apply for release from custody on pro-
ducing bail—two sureties in £lOO each.
Mr Sargood opposed. Ho said that as the case properly
belonged to Mr Commissioner Holroyd (new absent on his
vacation), it would be necessary to give an outline of the
facts. The bankrupt first came before the court in July,
1832, in forma pauperis, and got his release from custody,
and the examination meeting was appointed for Septem.
ber, 1862, but the bankrupt had filed no accounts but ob-
tained a further adjournment till January, 1863, when he
was adj ,urned sine die. In June 1863 he filed his accounts,
but there were no assets, and the bankrupt did not apply to
be heard, although he had no protection. He was after-
wards sued by the detaining creditor, who obtained judg-
ment and execution against him, but they did not succeed
in arresting him until May of the present year, when he
applied for his release, to Mr. Commissioner Holroyd for a
second time, but his Honour refused to grant the applica-
tion except in' the ordinary course of bankruptcy, and he
was subsequently ordered to file a cash and deficiency ac-
count, and his release was granted on his giving bail as
above.

On the bail being called for they did not answer, and the
bankrupt said that he did not know who they were—a
friend had got them—but his solicitor Mr Durrand did.
Mr Durrand said he did nor, but he took his instructions
from ➢lr Abbey, an accountant.
Mr Sargood said that in the case of one of the bail the
creditors had found that thero was no such person as de-
scribed ; it was a great injustice to creditors to be harassed
by these applications, and asked for costs.
His Honour doubted his power to award costs in a forma
pauperiy ctse, but he would remand the bankrupt, and
would not hear any further application unless the costs
had been pro viously made.

Naval and Military Intelligence

Field. Marshal the Duke oi Cambridge, attended by Col.
Clifton, aide-de-camp, and accompanied by Sir J. Y. Scar-
lett, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, and Col, the Hon. Percy
Herbert, Deputy Quartemanor-General, visited Alder-
shott camp on Friday, and atepected the division on the
common in rear of the Royal Pavilion.
On the conclusion
of the marching past, which was peatornit:
d with admirable
precision, the troops were distributed w!th t." view to check
the advance of an enemy from the direction 0: Farnham,
over tho bold eminence known as Hungry-lasll, Several
reconnoisances were made, end the enemy was fon:id in
strong force. The cavalry ten returned, and the Neb. vY
Brigade, under command of Col. Griffiths, comprising the
23 Life Guards, the 6th Dragoon Guards, and the Scots
Greys, with the Royal Herm Artillery, formed on the right
of the infantry, while the Light Brigade formed on the left.
In the meantime the infantry was formed into two lines,
with a battery of Royal :Arellery on the flanks of each bri-
gade. The 2d battalion 60th Rifles formed the advance
line, extending in skirmishing order, Gen. Russell's bri-
gade, the second, and General Bates's the third. As a sig-
nal to commence the fight a gun was fired from a hill to the
south, and in quick response the Rifles threw in a well-
sustained fire, aired by the Royal Artillery. While the
disposition of the force was being completed, the infantry
lay down until the enemy chewed himself more conspicu-
ously, when the Rifles ceased their fire, the skirmishers
fell back in good order, and General Russell's brigade came
into action, pouring in a rattling fusillade, aided by a tre•
mendous and continuous fire from the artillery. This
overwhelming attack had the effect of checking the ad-
vance of the enemy, and a change in the position of the
cavalry and infantry was made under cover of the con-
tinuous fire, and the Rifles again extended and advanced to
splendid position of Caesar's camp, on the left, had weak-
ened rhona his right,
and
iemy apparently anxious to secure the
chewed the main body of his troops
against this strong eminence and the centre of our
line, The Duke perceived the error of his antagonist, and
rapidly prepared to take advantage of it. The Heavy Ca-
valry Brigade wheeled round to the left rear of the infantry
and took ground to the eastward with the Light Brigade.
Gen. Russell's brigade retired and took ground to the left
by open column of companies. These movements brought
the whole strength of our trmy to bear on the right flank of
the enemy,
whiley ,
Gen.he cavalryt harassed him by some brilliant
hg
a brigade and the battery of artil-
leryea
rtles,
attached to it directed a sharp attack upon his right.
Gen. Russell's brigade formed on the right of Gen. Bates's,
and a greatly extended front exhibited itself to the half-dis-
comfited enemy. The firing was simultaneously renewed
along the whole line, and soon the confusion of the enemy
became a complete rout, and his broken columns retired in
disorder from the field. The infantry regiments were then
ordered to return to their quarters, which they reeched
about 12 o'clock, together with the Royal Artillery. The
cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery, after advancing on to
Hungry and Bcicksbury Hills, were ordered to return to the
plains by separate routes. Descending the hills from various
pints, the whole deployed into a line, a cloud of skirmishers
covering what was intended to exemplify a slow retreat. In
this order the cavalry and artillery returned to quarters,
which they reached about 2 o'clock, thus terminating the
proceedings of a day more than usually brilliant and inte-
resting. After the field day the Duke of Cambridge visited
the Soldiers' Industrial Exhibition, accompanied by Lieut,-
Gen. Sir J. Pennefather, Sir J., Y. Scarlett, and the mem-
bers of their respective Staffs.
The ships composing the Channel Fleet, under the com-
mand of Rear-Admiral Sidney C. Dacres, C. 8., consisting
Spithead for their coasting cruise
of the Edgar, Warrior, Black Prince, Defence, and Trin-
out under steam by the eastern
caut 11!
pg.unin.b7e
st
esradi eyd, fromgoing
channel.
A trial of armour plates took place at Portsmouth yester-
day, under the superintendence of Capt. A, C. Key, C. 8.,
of her Majesty's ship Excellent. A plate manufactured from
steel by Mr G. Wilson, of Sheffield, of the now minimum
plate thickness of Colin was tested. Two ordinary wrought-
iron plates were also tried, one being of Gin thickness, from
the Millwall Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, and
the other being a thin end plate for the Pallas of 4iin, from
Messrs Beale, of the Parkgate Works, Sheffield. In all
previous trials of steel armour-plates at Portsmouth, they
have hem iably, from their hard brittle nature and want of
fibre, cracked through in all directions under the blow of
the 68-pounder cast-iron shot, and this was especially the
case with some plates that were specially made from steel at
the Elawick Works and cooled in oil under the superin-
tendence of Sir W. Armstrong. In the trial of the steel
plate at Portsmouth yesterday, it was found to be soft,
fibrous, and without any exhibition of cracks beyond the
circumference of the indents made by the shot except in one
instance, and then only to the extent of four. inches. There
was also but a very trifling opening of the lamination at the
edges of the plate, and one shot that struck the plate on its
lower edge spread the metal out considerably without crack-
ing. The specific gravity of the plate was stated to be 7.685,
and its cost from £lO to £l5 per ton in excess of the price
now being paid by the Admiralty for wrought iron plates.
The diameter of the indents produced on it by single shot
was Pin, and the depths of the indents from 2in to 2 8-10 the.
One shot overlapping a former indent sin produced or rather
increased the former indentation tc 4in. In another case the
shot overlapped 3in, and increased the indentation also to
4in. In a third instance of overlapping it reached 6in, and
here it increased the depth of the indent to Bin. The plate
received 11 shots altogether.
The lliiilarail 6in wrought iron plate was one of very
excellent quality, both in material and manufacture,
and was quite equal in any respect to any plate that
has been yet turned out of hand by that firm. It received
12 shots in a comparatively small space in its centre, several
of them overlapping each other without any materialdamage.
The thin 41in plate of Messrs Beale did not, as a matter of
course, owing to its 25 par cent• less thickness of metal,
come out of its trial quite E 0 Victoriously as the Millevell
plate, but it was struck in two places by three shots over-
lapping each other. AlthougL it was necessarily in those
two places brcken through, the shot were destroyed in the
operation, and the plate was shown to have
qualities which
p,
would have rendered the ship practically invuizerable.
The firing took place in the usual manner from 93cwt
8 inch smoothbore gun, with a 161 b charge of powder, and
a 681 b cast iron shot, at 200 yards distance.
The Himalaya, screw troopshi
Capt. E. Lacy, arrived
at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon from Quebec, whence
she sailed on the 16th inst., with the following troops and
invalids on board :-621 Regiment—Lieut.-got. W. L.
Ingall, C. 8., Major M. Rynd, Capta. S. G. Carter, C. N.
S. L. Gwynne, J. Sanderson,
G, Hay, W. B. Davenport,
R. S. Machell, W. M. Tharpgent, Lieui.s. L. G. Dundas,
W. L. R. Scott, M. Hall, J, M. Theobald, C. W. Brown,
A, Lake; Ensigns G. S. Fraser, R. N. Gream, J. Beno.hey,
It . Rogers, M. R. S.
Laws, F. H. Forsyth; Paymaster
W. Dring, Lieutenant and Adjutant A. If, Reade,
Quartermaster L. Gamble, Surgeon Major 3,
hewing-
-668 non-commissioned officers and men, 71 women, 108
children. Ist battalion 17th Regiment—Lieutenant Raven-
hill and H. Kerr—Staff Surg. -Major Barton, in medical
charge of troops—Capt. A. J. S. Griffiths, 65th Regiment—
Lieut. G. V. Boyle and Ensign W. H. Larkin, 47th Regi-
ment—Capts. Birch and Ens. Boyle, 30th Regt., on leave.
M Regiment. Commissariat Depart-
ment—E. Esteridge and Boyle-120 men (invalids), 15
women, and 14 children, from various regiments. The dis-
embarkation will take Place alongside Portsmouth dock yard
to-day, and the 62d regiment will be forwarded on to Alder-
shott by special train on the South-Western Railway, and
the remainder of the troops seat to their respective destina-
tions. The Himalaya left
Portsmouth on the 12th of May
last with naval supernumeraries for the Mee'.it
Melte, after returning to that port from Corfu, sled took on
board, on the Bth of Jet,
e - the Ist battalion 25th foot, for
conveyance to Quebec, where errattean. At
she arrived on the 28th e:
June. She di iembarked them on the following day,
Tho screw steam sloop c ordelia, 11, Commander John B.
Scott, which left Plymouth on Friday, returned to the
Sound yesterday, Monday afternoon,
after
an
unsuccessful
effort to fall in with the homeward-bound transport Copen-
hagen. Commander Scott received unexpected orders to
prepare immediately for foreign
service. He will probably
go to the West Indies. The Paddlewheel steam sloop Bull-
dog, 6, Captain Charles Wake, which returned from Ma-
deira to Plymouth, on Saturday, is also receiving stores
and provisions for foreign service.
The non.comrc,issioned e flicers and men of the Royal En-
gineers employed in making the necessary excavations for
the demolition of the large elifl
which is to be destroyed at
Cuxton, near Rochester, have made considerable progress
in the work, and the first Portion of the undertaking,
the sinking of the shafts,
is
now nearly completed. Each of
the three main shafts excavated into the cliff will be sunk
to a depth of about 60ft, and from the base of each will be
driven the galleries to receive the charges of powder. About
2,0001 b weight of
gunpowder, divided into numerous
charges, will bensed in the destruction of the cliff. It is
probable that some time will elapse before the whole of the
arrangements are completed.
The officers and men of the
Royal Engineers employed be the work are encamped in
field-tents on a space of ground near the operations.
The recent large number of desertions from the
Royal Engineers has directed the attention of the autho-
rities at the Horse Guards to what is
becoming
a serious
evil, the corps having hitherto borne the distinction of
having a less percentage of desertian, than any other in the
service, In order to discover the cause of the evil, as well
as to adopt measures for arresting it, a committee of Royal
Engineer officers has been sitting at the Horse Guards, by
order of the Duke of Cambridge. It is probable that their
deliberations will result in an
almost complete reorganiza-
tion of the corps, so far as relates to the duties, drill, and
discipline of recruits who first join the Royal Engineers, as
it is from this class almost exclusively that desertions have
recently taken place in such unusually large numbers.
Among other recomiresidations by the committee, it is be-
lieved, there is one unfavourable to the plan hitherto
adopted of sending the whole of the Royal Engineer recruits
to head- quarters, Chatham, immediately on joining the ser-
vice, where, instead of following their trade or profession,
as they were led to expect, on their enlistment, they are
at once placed on the fald-works, and employed in exca-
vating earthworks and in other laborious duties of that
kind. Instead of this arrangement it is recommended that
recruits should be received at Woolwich, or some other
station, where, after spending about 12 months in learning
their.dzill, they might be draughted to Chatham to un-

dergo their course of course of instruction in sapping,
mining, pontooning, and the other departments of military
engineering.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. Charles E, Burlton and Lieut. Patrick
J. Murray to the Marlborough ; Lieut. Thomas H. Larcom
and Lieut. Charles S. Harford to the Duncan; William
Fenton (a), assist.-engineer, to the Frederick William ;
George Whitting, assist.-engineer, to the Edgar, for the
Trinculo ; and John It. Bateman, nominated to a naval
cadetship.