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

TUE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 18

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge Ordinary.)
CLOWES V. CLOWES AND MORRIS-JUDGMENT.
Sir J. P. Wilde delivered judgmenc in this case. He
said the question which the Court had to consider was,
whether a delay in instituting the suit disentitlod the hus-
band, who was the petitioner, to a divorce according to the
31st section of the 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 thora, 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 be accordingly pronounced.
There were no costs naked for.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
1 RE TSCOS. LLOYD.
This bankrupt was formerly a captain in the army, and
now came up to apply for release from custody on pro-
ducing bail—Zwo sureties in £lOO each.
Mr Sargood opposed. He said that as the case properly
belonged to Mr Commissioner Holroyd (now absent on hie
vacation), it would be necessary to give an outline of the
facts. The bankrupt first came before the court in July,
1862, 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 Jane 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 ho did not know who they were—a
friend had got them—bat his solicitor Mr Durrand did.
Mr Durrand said he did not, but he took his instructions

from Mr Abbey, an accountant.
Mr Sargood said that in the case of one of the bail the
creditors had found that there 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
pauperis case, but he would remand the bankrupt, and
would not hoar ;any further application unless the costs
had been previously made.

Naval and Military Intelligence

Field-Marshal the Duke of 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 Quartermaster-General, visited Alder-
shott camp on Friday, and inspected the division on the
common in rear of the Royal Pavilion. On the conclusion
of the marching past, which was performed with admirable
precision, the troops were distributed with a view to check
the advance of an enemy from the direction of Farnham,
over the bold eminence known as Hungry-hill. Several
reconnoisances were made, and the enemy was found in
strong force. The cavalry then returned, and the Heavy
Brigade, under command of Col. Griffiths, comprising the
2d Life Guards, the Gth Dragoon Guards, and the Scots
Greys, with the Royal Horse 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 !Artillery on the flanks of each bri-
gade. The 2d battalion GOth 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, aided by the Royal Artillery. While the
disposition of the force was being completed, the infantry
lay down until the enemy shoved 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
con-
tinuous fire, and the Rifles again extended and advanced to
cavalry and infantry was made under cover of the
the front. The enemy apparently anxious to secure the
splendid position of Caesar's camp, on the left, had weuk-
ened his right, and shewed the main body of his troops
line, The Duke perceived the error of his antagonist, and
against this strong eminence and the centre of our
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 army to bear on the right flank of
the enemy, and the cavalry harassed him by some brilliant
charges, while Gen. Bates's brigade and the battery of artil-
lery 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 reached
about 12 o'clock, together with the Royal Artillery. The
cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery, after advancing on to
Hungry and Bricksbury 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. I'ennefather, Sir J. Y. Scarlett, and the mem-
bers of their respective Staffs.
Tho ships composing the Channel Fleet, under the com-
mand of Rear-Admiral Sidney C. Dacres, C. 8., consisting
of the Edgar, Warrior, Black Prince, Defence, and Trin-
culo gunboat, sailed from Spithead for their coasting cruise
at 2 p.m. yesterday, going out under steam by the eastern
channel.
A trial of armour pietas took place at Portsmouth yester-
day, under the superirteedence of Capt. A. C. Key, 0.13,,
of her Majesty's ship Excellent. A plate manufactured from
steel by Mr G. Wilson, of Sheffield, of the now minimum
plate thickness of On 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 Parkgato Works, Sheffield. In all
previous trials of steel armour-plates at Portsmouth, they
have invariably, from their hard brittle nature and want of
fibre, cracked through is all directions under the blow of
the 68-pounder case iron shot, and this was especially the
case with some plates that were specially made from steel at
the Elswick 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 arty 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 coat from £lO tc £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 Din, and the depths of the indents from ain to '2 b-eutne.
Ono shot overlapping a former indent 5M produced or rather
increased the former indentation to 4in. In another case the
shot overlapped 3in, and increased the indentation also to
4ia. In o inted instance of overlapping it reached fin, and
hero it increased the depth of the indent to Sin. The plate
received 11 shots altogether.
The Millwall bin 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 mat eriald amagre
The thin 41in plate of Messrs Beale did not, as a matter of
course, owing to its 25 per cent, less thickness of metal,
come out of its trial quite so victoriously as the Millwall
plate, but it was struck in two places by three shots over-
lapping each other. Although it was necessarily in those
two places broken through, the shots were destroyed in the
operation, and the plate was shown to have qualities which
would have rendered the ship practically invulnerable.
The firing took place in the usual manner from incest
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 troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, arrived
at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon from Qaebec, whence
she sailed on the 16th inst. , with the following troops and
invalids on board:-62d Regiment—Lieut.-Col. W. L.
Ingall, C. 8., Alejor M. Rynd, Capts. S. G. Carter, C. M.
Sanderson,
S. L. Gwynne, J. G. Hay, W. B. Davenport,
R. S. Machell,
Tharpgent, Lieuts. L. G. Dundee,
W. L. R. Scott,
Ist. Hall, J. M. Theobald, C. W. Brown,
A, Lake; Ensigns G. S. Fraser, R. N. Grown, J. Boughey,
It. Rogers,
Drin' Lieutenant and Adjutant A. 11. Reade,
M,s. Laws, F. H. Forsyth; Paymaster
Quartermaster L. Gamble, Surgeon Major J. Ewing—
G6Bg non-commissioned officers and men, 71 women, 108
children. let battalion 17th Regiment—Lieutenant Raven-
hill and 11. Kerr—Staff Surg.-Major Barton, in medical
charge of trooPa—Capt. A. J. S. Griffiths, 65th Regiment—
Lieut. G. V. Boyle and Ensign W. 11. Larkin, 47th Regi-
ment—Capts, Birch and Ens. Boyle, 30th Regt., on leave.
Mrs Col. Fans, 25th Regiment. Commissariat Depart-
ment--E. Esteridge and Boyle-126 men (invalids), 1.6
women, and 14 children, from various regiments. The die-
embarkation will take place alongside Portsmouth dockyard
to-day, and the 62d regiment will bo forwarded on to Alder-
shott by special train on the South-Western Railway, and
the remainder of the troops sent to their respective destina-
tions. The Himalaya left Portsmouth on the 12th of May
last supernumeraries f.sr the Mediterranean. At
board, on the Bth of June, the Ist battalion 25th Foot, for
ia t with
after naval
returning
to
that port from Corfu, she took on
conveyance to Quebec, where she arrived on the 28th of
June. She disembarked them on the following day.
The screw steam sloop Cordelia, 11, Commander John B.
Scott, whichyes te r d loft
o
Plymouthuda afternoon, on Friday,
after
an returned
Sound 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-commissioned officers and men of the Royal En-
gineers employed in making the necessary excavations for
the demolition of the large cliff which is to bo 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 bo
driven the galleries to receive the charges of powder. About
2,000:b weight of gunpowder, divided into numerous
charges, will be used 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 in the work are encamped in
field-tents on a space of ground near the operations.
Tho 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 desertion 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 llorse Guards, by
order of the Duke of Cambridge. It ir, 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 suck unusually large numbers.
Among other recommendations 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-qaartera, 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 field-works, and employed in eve-
totting earthworks and in other laborious duties of that
kind. Instead of this arrangement it is recommended that
recruits should be received at Woolwich, or somo other
station, where, after spending about 12 months in learning
their drill, they wight be draughted to Chiithaw to tin-

dergo their course of course of instruction in sapping,
pontooning, and the other departments of military
engineering.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Lieut. Charles E, Buriton and Lieut. Patrick
J. Murray to the Marlborough ; Lieut. Thomas 11. Larcom
and Lieut. Charles S. llarford to the Duncan; William
Fenton (a), assist.-engineer, to the Frederick William ;
George Mating, assist.-engineer, to the Edgar, for the
Trineulo ; and John R. Bateman, nominated to a naval
cadetship.