The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1863.

QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.

correctness of the accounts which had been placed betore
the shareholders. (Loud applause.)
Mr. SAMUEL STITT moved—" Dist the thanks of this
meeting be presented to the directors in Loudon, Glasgow,
Montreal, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Manchester,
and Bristol, and to the officers of the various branches, and
to the agents at home and abroad, for their past services."
(Applause.)

119 r. PATRICK HUNTER seconded the resolution. The
directors and agents, both at home and abroad, had worked
aEsiduously and zealously, and deserved the warmest thanks
of the shareholders.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. BRUCE, chairman of the London board, acknow-
ledged the vote.
The CHAIRMAN moved—" That the thanks of this meet-
ing be presented to the manager and actuary, sub. manager,
and the medical and legal officers of the company, for their
past services." He said he was glad to be able to give his
testimony to the very great zeal and the very great ability
with which Mr. Wilson, the manager, and Mr. Leyland, the
sub-manager, had acted in the interest of the company.
(Applause.) And he might also add, that their thanks
were due to Mr. Turnbull for the close attention he had paid
to his duties, Mr. Wilson and Mr, Leyland were unwearied
in their labours to promote the prosperity of the company;
and the gratifying way in which the officers generally had
worked afforded to the directors the greatest satisfaction.
(Applause.)

Mr. BRUCE seconded the resolution, and said he did not
think there were two men in the kingdom who could do
more or show a more hearty zeal in the management of the
affairs of an insurance company, than Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Leyland. (Applause.)

The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. WILSON having briefly acknowledged the compli-
ment that had been paid to himself and to his fellow officers,
said that, from the sub-manager, Mr. Leyland, the greatest
possible assistance had always, and in every way, been re-
ceived. Mr. Leyland was an admirable officer : and although
he regretted that that gentleman was being removed from
Liverpool, yet it was satisfactory to know that he was going
to the London management of the " Queen "—a policy that
lie believed would very largely increase the business of the
company in London.

Mr. FOWLER, of London, moved a vote of thanks to the
chairman for presiding.
The CHAIRMAN having briefly acknowledged the compli-
ment, constituted the meeting into an extraordinary one, for
the purpose of carrying out certain alterations in the deed
of settlement, which, after a long investigation by various
committees of the board, had been found necessary.
The alterations, after an explanation from Mr. Haigh,
the solicitor, were unanimously approved.
This terminated the proceedings.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The iron frigate Recruit, 6, 150-horse power, in dock at
Chatham, has been taken in hand by the mechanics and
shipwrights to make good her defects prior to being de-
spatched on any service for which she may be intended. In
consequence of the unfavourable reports made to the Admi-
ralty on her steaming and sailing capabilities on the occa.
sion of her late trial trip, arising chiefly from the vast
quantity of stores on board and her unnecessarily heavy
armament, directions have been received at the dockyard
for her armament to be reduced by two 32-pounders--one
from the fore sponson on the starboard side, and the other
from the after sponson on the port side. A considerable por-
tion of her stores have also been removed into the dockyard,
by which her trim will be very much improved. It was pro-
posed by the Admiralty to employ the Recruit as a tender
to convey the officials and workmen to and from Chatham
dockyard to the harbour's mouth while the Achilles was
fitting for sea, but from the reports since made to their
lordships it seems improbable that she will be employed on
that service.

The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 39, Capt. R, Lam-
bert, which left the Mersey on Sunday, at noon, arrived
yesterday at Plymouth. She experienced strong winds from
the south-west with very heavy weather. Her defects are
slight, but she will probably be docked. The Liverpool
is one of the Channel squadron. There is some expectation
of her being sent to reinforce the fleet on the North Ame-
rican station.

The Columbine, 6, screw gun vessel, Commander J. L.
H. Ward, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to
the anchorage at Spithead, on the completion of her re-
pairs and outfit for service in the Pacific.

The new long dock in Devonport Dockyard proper, con-
structed on the sites of dooks No. 1 and 2, which were one
inside the other, was occupied yesterday for the first time
by the iron screw steam frigate Black Prince, 41, Captain
James F. B. Wainwright, of 6,109 tons. At present she
draws 24ft. Gin, forward and 26ft. 10in, aft, and, although
two days only have elapsed since the lowest neap tides at
Plymouth, there was a depth of water in the dock yester-
day, at 12.30 a,m., of 30ft. Rear-Admiral Thomas M. C.
Symonds, C. 8., the Superintendent of the yard, and the
principal officers were in attendance. Among the spectators
was the Archbishop of Canterbury, now on a visit to
the west of England. The Black Prince has all her guns
and stores on board. The first British ship which entered
a dock similarly equipped was the Prince Regent, 78 guns,
2,762 tons, at Sheerness, in 1863. She went in when the
tides were at the full. It is expected that the new long dock
at Devonport will hereafter be called the Prince's Dock.
The paddle-wheel steam surveying vessel Hydra sailed
yesterday from Plymouth for the Mediterranean.

which the whole of the establishment is supplied with water,
and by which every precaution is provided against fire.
Preparations are in progress in Woolwich dockyard for
carrying out the designs of the Admiralty to prepare at that
yard, with as much expedition as possible, the whole of the
armour-casing intended for the Enterprise, Favourite, and
Pallas, as well as the future ships on Mr. Reed's design to
be built at Woolwich and Deptford. Various kinds of ma-
chinery have been received, and are in course of erection,
for that purpose, from Messrs. Smith, Beacock, and Tan-
rett, of Leeds, and Glascow of Manchester, namely, bend-
ing, planing, and slotting machines. The old shed is to be
lengthened by a couple of spacious wings, capable of afford-
ing room for double the amount of machinery employed in
preparing the plates for the Caledonia, and all the avail-
able
space adjoining the shed has been taken up and en-
closed.

The Late Field-Marshal Lord Clyde,

On Wednesday afternoon a public meeting of the noble-
men and gentlemen of the county of Lanark, and of the
merchants, bankers, and other citizens of Glasgow, was
held in the Merchants'-hall, for the purpose of taking steps
with a view to the erection in Glasgow of a monument to
the late Field-Marshal Lord Clyde. Amongst those present
were the Right Hon. Lord Belhaven, Sir Archibald Alison,
Sir James Fergusson, Sir James Campbell, Mr. Walter
Buchanan, M.P., the Lord Provost, Colonel Alison, the
Lord Dean of Guild, &c.

The Loub PROVOST, who was called to the chair, said
they had not met under the idea that any monumental
statue was necessary to perpetuate the memory of Lord
Clyde, for he believed that history would do the memory of
the departed hero that justice to which he was so well en-
titled. But, considering that the departed soldier was] a
citizen of Glasgow, it would indeed be strange if those of
his own time should not leave to posterity some lasting me-
morial showing the estimation in which they held the many
great and gallant services of his lordship—services which
commenced with his early years. (Applause.) The Lord
Provost also mentioned that, in endeavouring to raise a
monument to Lord Clyde, it was not intended to ask large
sums. The desire rather was that the subscriptions should
be extensive in number, and while the maximum subscrip-
tion was of a limited character, it was hoped that a large
number of small contributions would be received. The feel-
ing of the committee was that the whole community of
Glasgow should aid in the effort to erect some monument
to Lord Clyde worthy of his name.
Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON then addressed the meeting as
follows :--My Lord Provost and gentlemen, &c.—l am sure
1 express the unanimous opinion of all who hear me, when I
say that the country owes your lordship a debt of gratitude
for the trouble you have taken in giving it, by this meeting,
an opportunity of expressing the feelings with which all
are ani mEatnedgltanow hasd ds the late
taktaken lamented
theFleiaedldo-nlAtahriss subject;halLord
a committee has been formed in London, having at its head
tChleycifier'st in rank and the first in station, to promote the erec-
tion of a suitable memorial to his memory in the metropolis
of the empire; and the unanimous voice of the nation has
procured a last resting-place for his remains in that time-
honoured fare where the poets, the philosophers, and the
statesmen of England

Sleep with her Kings, and dignify the scene."
It is not fitting at such a time that Scotland should be un-
mindful of one of the most illustrious of her sons—that
Glasgow, his birthplace, should be without a monument to
his memory, Such a testimonial is wanted, not to do honour
to the dead so much as to testify the feelings of the living—
not to record his deeds, but to evince our sense of their im-
portance, and to excite the emulation of our children by
giving to it a suitable expression, I shall not attempt, at
this time and
in this place, to give any summary of the
deeds of the lamented Field-Marshal, from the time when
he joined the British army in 1808, amidst the wooded cliffs
of Portugal, on the eve of the battle of Vimiera, to that
when he closed his long career, by trampling under foot the
last embers of the Sepoy insurrection on the banks of the
foaming Raptee, beneath the shadow of the mountains of
Nepaul. I will not speak of the young hero who led the
forlorn hope at the first assault of St. Sebastian, or of the
" thinlred line" at Bslaklava, which has become a house-
hold word over the whole civilised world. I shall men-
tion only four circumstances which demonstrate in what
estimation, when danger threatened and it became indispen-
sable to bring real merit to the front, he was held by those
under whom he served. When victory on the banks of the
Alma quivered in the balance, and the noble regiment of the
Fusilier Guards was crushed by the Russian fire from the
Great Redoubt, it was Sir Colin Campbell, at the head of
the Highland Brigade, who made the decisive charge, and,
in conjunction with the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards,
under the immediate orders of the Duke of Cambridge,
drove the enemy from their formidable stronghold and won
the fight. (Applause.) When the long and dreary winter
set in, and it had become essential to preserve at all hazards
our connexion with Baltiklava—the magazine of the army
—it was to Sir Colin and his hardy Highlanders, in con-
junction with an equally brave body of Frenchmen, under
General Vinoy, that the duty of defending the communica-
tion was assigned—the post of honour as the post of dan-
ger. When the British were repulsed from the Redan, it
was to Sir Colin Campbell and the same Highland division
that the task was intrusted of renewing the assault, an
assault prevented only by the retreat of the enemy. And
when Rindostan was involved in the horrors of the Sepoy
revolt, and our Indian dominion rocked to its foundation, it
was to Sir Colin Campbell that Lord Palmerston applied to
"restore a falling cause and a sinking empire ;" and then it
was that, when asked when he could set out, he gave the
memorable reply, "To .morrow morning." And well and
nobly did he discharge that, the last and most important,
duty intrusted to him by his country. Without going into
details with which all are familiar, suffice it to say that
when he advanced in November, 1857, from Cawnpore. to
effect the deliverance of the long-beleaguered garrison' of
Lucknow, he bore the fate of India on his sword's point,
for he was marching with 6,000 men---our last reserve—to
assail 60,000, intrenched to the teeth in the capital of Oude,
with 15,000 victorious rebels threatening his rear and com-
munications. If he had failed in his enterprise, India for
the time was lost, and the renown of the British name for
ever dimmed; for had our Eastern poseessions been torn
from us by our own troops, . where would have been our
prestige as a great, our security as an independent, Power ?
I will not seek to magnify his victory by dwelling on the
immensity of the interest then at issue; it is enough to
say that never in British story was contest engaged in
where the stakes were heavier or the victory more nobly
wen. (Applause) I would rather linger, in a few words,
over his private character, known to a narrower circle than
his public exploits, but not less deserving of interest
and admiration. His mind was simplicity itself;
he never harboured a thought which did not belong to the
heroic character. Heart and soul were wrapped up in his
public duty. He was ambitious, but it was for his country,
not himself. Like the Roman General whom Tacitus has
immortalised, he " sought rather to be than to appear great,
and thus the more he shunned praise the more was he de-
serving of glory." Too noble to be envious, too simple to
be ostentatious, he was ever ready to bestow praise on
others, and desired only to conceal from observation his own
great exploits. He was alike superior to the love of gain,
the first impulse of ordinary, and the thirst for praise, the
" last infirmity of noble minds." His modesty was such
that it amounted to a fault, for it often exposed him to mis-
construction, and made him appear what he was not, in-
different to the gratitude of his country. The thought of
being the object of admiration in public assemblies, so often
coveted by eminent men, was so painful to him that he
would do anything to avoid it. After the sword had been
presented to him at Glasgow in 1856, he said to me, "I
would rather have stormed the Redan." And when about
to embark from India, on his return to Europe in ISGO, he
wrote to me, imploring in the most earnest terms that I
would endeavour, if possible, to have him spared the agony
of any public reception in Glasgow. And if it be true that
the "ruling passion is strong in death," we may well say
that this was his ruling passion, for he left an express
injunction on his executors that no mention should in any
posthumous memoir be made of his actions, except in the
simplest terms and without eulogy of any kind. He was
avaricious, but it was only of the blood of his soldiers; he
was prodigal, but it was of his own life alone. Re never
would owe to force what he could gain by skill, and his first
thought in every combination was how it could be
strike accom-
plished with the least loss to his men. Profoundly versed
in strategy his plans were generally successful, and thef de-
sired end attained with a surprisingly small
But when the decisive moment arrived, and it was naec
heavierY
to strike with an iron gauntlet, no one couldloss oessar life.
blow, and no oneever preceded him in the
fens delivering
it.
it. He rode with the foremost skirintshte
ehrs
cineruihme
sdel-in-
anttaek, on
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the Russian redoubt on the Alma, and
Chief in India resumed his old post of leader of the forlorn
hope on the assault of the Shah Nujeef Mosque at Lucknow.
No general was ever more solicitous for the welfare of his
soldiers, or exceeded him in the eloquence with which in
moments' of danger he animated their courage. He was too
generous to be wealthy—too independent to be early pros-
perous. The rank which he attained--.the peerage, the field
marshal's baton, wore all earned by his right arm ; and the
fortune which he left was the reward of his public services,
not
u r earned
hisprivate exertions. what he gave away
dwould have made a handsome competence for
n his
life
an ordinary rnan. In a word, he was, to use the expression
of the Roman annalist! " a man of ancient virtue, in all the
duties of life most admirable." (Loud applause.) Sir Archi-
bald concluded by moving the following resolution :
« That this public meeting, deeply impressed with the
loss which the country has sustained in the death of Colin
Campbell, Lord Clyde, and anxious to testily their high ad-
nlirallOn of his military talents, and gratitude for his illus-