The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

rying through the uneven lanes and thickets to the ►
open where they could deploy. Spite of the ex
ceedingty difficult nature of the advance, they swept
rapidly on at the double, and just as they reached
the plain deployed in line, taking ground rapidly
to the left so as to outflank Gen. Russell's force in
such a manner as left it no option but to make a
slowly retiring fight of it to avoid annihilation. And
now the plan fast developed itself. To save the out-
flanked and hard-pressed right wing of his force
Gen. Russell hurried corps after corps from his
left to strengthen his right, and to stop their rein-
forcement the feint attack on his left was now
really pressed, and the fight then seemed to rage
fast and furious. The cannonade and file fire was
terrific ; the smoke lay thick and heavy among the
heather, just gently curling up as if the plain was
on fire, while, as the keen wind lifted it now and
then, the hurry of the troops to reinforce the right
wing could be seen, with the attacking forces still
pouring out into the pain, and outflanking them
more and more every minute. The result of such an
attack became a matter of military certainty. The
troops outflanking were on the spot they threatened
—those to protect it had to come at least a mile, so
that three corps were deployed by the assailants for
one that came to the rescue, and before half-an-hour
elapsed, during all which time the battle seemed to
rage with awful din upon the right, the attacking
force on the left outflanked the defenders by nearly
half a mile, and outnumbered them by at least one
third. In such a position there was no help for it
but an orderly retreat, and the whole line of General
Russell's force fell back—the guns covering the
movement—the infantry in echelon. As they did so
General Rumley pushed forward, still continuing
as he advanced to outflank his antagonists, till at
last the two armies, if we may so call them, stood
nearly face to face, extending in line nearly a
mile, on every foot of which the firing from guns
and rifles was going forwards on both sides as
fast as the pieces, large and small, could be
loaded and discharged. What followed after this
was a mere repetition of the same manceavres,
the defenders retiring as the assailants advanced,
and so on till the former were forced back nearly a
mil 9, and the engagement was brought to a close
amid such a general discharge of musketry and
cannon as probably never before woke the echoes
on the hills round Guildford. Once in the open,
where the movements between the intervals of
smoke could be distinguished, and it became evident
that the corps, in spite of the rough nature of the
ground, were all doing their work quickly and well.
The marching, considering the difficulties of the
advance, was really admirable. The file firing was
as good as the average of Line Regiments, though
the volleys were scarcely up to the same standard.
The City of London Rifle Brigade, the London
Scottish, the 19th Middlesex, the 2d, 11th, and 40th
Middlesex corps, with the sth, 19th, 23d, and 10th
Surrey, were remarkable for the rapidity and solidity
of their movements. There were very few corps on
the ground, in fact, of whom the same could not be
said, but those we have mentioned were especially
worthy of notice, and the artillery of all the corps
in the field managed their guns from first to last in
the most eoldierlike style. At a little before four
o'clock the mancouvres were brought to a close,
or rather the firing ceased, for the movements had
ceased some time before, and the troops were
formed up in columns of companies for marching
past. The ground over which they had to step was
little less uneven, and quite as thickly overgrown
with heather as any part of the common. Under
all the circumstances, and after such an exhausting
day, this was rather a trying ordeal, but, neverthe-
less, all went through it with great credit, and
some in such a manner as to elicit deserved applause.
We regret to say that the day did not pass over
without three rather serious accidents. Many got
heavy falls over the stumps of broom and gorse
which lurked among the heather, and in two cases
these unfortunately resulted in broken legs. The
third accident happened to a civilian, who was shot
in the groin by a ramrod and badly injured. In
all cases the sufferers were immediately removed to
the hospital-marquee, erected in rear of the grand•
stand and specially sent over for this duty from
Aldershot. Beyond these three most unfortunate
mishaps no other accident up to the time of march
ing past took place.
The railway arrangements both on the South-
Western and South-Eastern line were admirably
carried out, though the crowd of visitors very con-
siderably overtaxed the slender resources of the
Chilworth station. It will need considerable en-
largement if these displays are to be of annual re-
currence at Guildford

Dreadful Boiler Explosion and Loss of Life.

At about a quarter to 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the
inhabitants of the centre of Greenock were startled by a
loud explosion, which was soon found to proceed from the
bursting of a boiler on board the iron screw steam lighter
Ruby, of Renfrew, lying at the Mid Quay.
The following are the particulars:—The Ruby had a
high-pressure engine of about 8 horse power, which was
supplied with steam by a common flue boiler, placed per-
pendicularly. She belongs to Messrs. Henderson and Cold-
burn, Renfrew. Shortly before 3 o'clock she arrived in the
West Harbour, laden with coal, and having on board Win.
Crornbio, the master, Richard Linn, the mate, both belong-
ing to Glasgow, Robert Gilchrist, engine keeper, belonging
to Kilsyth, and a number of labourers who had come down
for the purpose of discharging the cargo. When the Ruby
came into the harbour she passed up the west side of the
Mid Quay, outside of a lighter named the Brownie, belong-
ing to D. Nicoll, coal agent here, which in the early part of
the day had been discharging coals on board the ship Mar-
garet Kerr, at the West Quay, but when partially dis-
charged had shifted alongside of a brig lying in the same
harbour. The Ruby ran against the Brownie, the Ruby's
anchor piercing the hull of the Brownie under water on the
starboard side about the waist, making a hole in her. The
Brownie began to fill with water, and it was immediately
deemed advisable that she should be run round to the bank
opposite to the Tar Pots, on the east side of the Mid Quay.
Accordingly, for this purpose, the Brownie's warps were
thrown off, and the Ruby, with her anchor still sticking in
her side, took her in tow, and both were run round near to
the Tar Pots. There the Brownie began to settle, down,
and her crew were hurrying to get on shore, collecting to-
gether their clothing for this purpose. Just as the men of
the sinking Brownie were about to step on board the Ruby,
the boiler of the latter burst with a fearful explosion, send-
ing up a cloud of steam which for a few minutes con-
cealed the real position of affairs in immediate proximity
to the accident. When it bad cleared away men were run-
ning from the place suffering from injuries. It was found
that Robert Gilchrist, the enginoman of the Ruby, had been
cut about the head, and that David Hunter, the mate of the
Brownie, was missing. He had last been seen standing aft
on board his vessel, about to get into the Ruby, and it is
supposed that he had been struck by a portion of the boiler
and knocked into the water. The after-part of the Ruby
had been blown out ; she had filled with water and settled
down on the ground, the water reaching to about the deck.
It was high water at the time. The top portion of the boiler,
weighing about 3cwt, had been projected over a number of
high buildings, alighting on the pavement at the north-
west corner of Williara-street and Dalrymple-street. A
second portion of the boiler, not quite so large, fell on the
Breast, between the weighing machine and the corner of
William-street. A third portion of the boiler was blown
out into the harbour. A steam pipe was blown through ono
of the second floor windows of Mr. Warren's boarding-
house. The man-hole door was projected over the houses
at the Breast, alighting in shay?, street, at the foot of Long-
well-close. The engine grating was thrown over a tenement,
alighting on the top of some cellars, and a man's coat or
jacket was thrown on the roof of a high house. A large
portion of the lighter's deck alighted at the East. quay-
lane. The most of the windows of the houses and shops in
the district, extending from opposite to the Fish-market on
the west to about Shannon• close on the east, were com-
pletely demolished by the concussion. Especially were the
panes of plate-glass in shops along the Breast, up a portion
of William-street, and in Shaw-street, some of them very
large, completely smashed. Shopkeepers were running to
their doors to look on the ruin which had suddenly over-
taken them without being able to account for the cause of
it, and great consternation prevailed—some attributing the
devastation to the shock of an earthquake. The streets
were strewed with broken glass, and several persons were
injured by fragments of it falling on them.—Greenock
Telegraph.

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