The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-07 00:00:00

TEE ARMY. ,

The whole of the available troops in Portsmouth
garrison, including the Royal Marine Light Infan-
try from Forton, were brigaded yesterday on
Southsea-common by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet,
C. 8., commanding the South-West District.
The military and naval invalids on board the
Megmra, screw transport, disembarked yesterday
alongside Portsmouth Dockyard. The military
were taken charge of by the authorities and for-
warded on to their destination, and the naval were
sent on board her Majesty's ship Victory and to
Hasler Hospital.
Capt. Schultz and the officers of his Danish Ma-
jesty's corvette Heindal were yesterday and the day
previous engaged in visiting the dockyard, Royal
Clarence Victualling-yard, the gunboat-yard at
Haslar, the shipping in the harbour, and other
points of interest at Portsmouth. Last evening
Capt. Schultz and his officers were entertained by
Admiral H. W. Bruce at the Admiralty-house in
the dockyard. This morning the Heindal sails
from Spithead for Brest and the Mediterranean.
The preparations for the destruction of the large
cliff at Cuxton by the Sappers and Miners of the
Royal Engineers having been completed, the at-
tempt was made yesterday afternoon to remove it
by several immense charges of gunpowder. The
operations for igniting the powder were at first
totally unsuccessful, and continued so, in spite of
all that could be done, for more than two hours.
Not discouraged by repeated failures, the officers
and men of the Royal Engineers continued their
attempts to explode the charges, which after some
time they succeeded in accomplishing, and a consi-
derable portion of the cliff, estimated at several
thousand tons, was blown down. The several gal-
leries were fired by means of the voltaic battery,
which, at the commencement of the operations, was
fixed about a quarter of a mile from the mines.
Subsequently, however, the battery was removed
to within about 50 yards of the shafts, and at this
distance the several charges were successfully
ignited, and the galleries in the large shaft being
exploded first, and in about a quarter of an hour
afterwards those in the second shaft, the effects 'of
the explosions were very grand. The Ear). of
Darnley, General Eyre, General Sandham, and a
number of other officers were present at th,c blow-
ing up of the cliff, having remained until the ex-
plosions were effected.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. C. G. M'Grigor, to
the Formidable; William Barrett, master, to the
Sansparell ; and John Snell, second-class assistant-
engineer, to the Colossus.

HOUSE DUTY AND THE REFRESHMENT ART.--
A meeting of a few of the committee of the Coffee wad Eat-
ing-houseeeper's Association, held by solicitation, of some
members of the trade, took place the other evening to con-
sider the best means of getting relief from the unjust and
obnoxious tax that is imposed on the trade by being charged
ninepence in the pound, when all other trades are only
charged sixpence. A few years ago the tax was resisted
by a few of the trade, but being unsuccessful the tax has
ever since been paid. The new Refreshment Act now
coming in force has raised a stir in the trade, and they con-
sider now, if obliged to take a license to carry on their trade,
they are certainly exempt from paying the extra 3d. in the
pound on the house duty. The Act of Parliament expressly
says, where any person in trade exposes to sale goods, wares,
or merchandise in any shop or warehouse, and on the
ground or basement thereof. Now, coffee and eating-house-
keepers do expose their goods for sale, and carry their trade
on the ground floor or basement thereof. A letter was
read by one of the members present which he had received
from the Chancellor of the Exchequer in answer from one
he sent, that unless a wine licence was taken the coffee
and eating-housekeepers were still liable to the ninepepee
in the pound. This meeting being merely a preliminary
one, to consider the matter, it was the unanimous opinion
I that the whole of the trade should in a short time be called
together. Amongst those present were Mr. R. Lockyer,
president; Mr. Hay, vice-president; Mr. Shei•wood,
treasurer ; Mr. Rogers, secretary ; Messrs. Eldred, Law-
son, and Harding, past presidents ' • Messrs. Vialls, Pitt,
Mayen, Beanham, Banks, Hamson, Langston, &c., &c.
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Haus and injurious imitations
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of £s,o'oo,tigainst
high Court of Chancery under a penalty
Alfred IP•oper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences
that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du
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Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article must t
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