The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1856.

ti, e-locked were nothing but cesspools, and of a most
injurious character. The sewage ought always to be in
constant motion. The hon. member, on the grounds
stated, moved that the report be rejected.
Mr. DENNIS seconded the motion. Their engineer's
report had never tppeared twice in the same form. He
had always opposed the plan as being at the same time
an expensive and extravagant scheme, and one that
would never answer the purpose. He remained of opi-
nion that the sewage ought to be carried down to Sea
Reach. No one could for a moment believe that the
Government would allow this immense nuisance to stop
at the point fixed by this plan Be. The board ought to
strike out a bold scheme, regardless of expense, and one
that would bear inspection by the whole world.
After a few words from Major LYON, the motion was
put, and, on a division, was negatived, 4 voting for it
and 23 against it.
Mr. CARPMAEL then rose to move that the resolution
of the board of the 22d of October last, which adopted
the engineer's plan marked B in his report, be revoked,
for the purpose of moving that the report of the engineer
in respect of the outfalls at Be, suggested in Captain
Burstal's report, and approved by Sir B. Hall, be
adopted, when an objection was taken that sufficient
notice of the motion had not been given.
The CHAIRMAN held the objection to be good, and the
motion was postponed till Tuesday, next.
The board then adjourned.

Naval and Military Inteiligence.

The following circular has been forwarded from the

Horse Guards to the commanding officers of those regi-
ments and depots which are now undergoing a course of

rifle instruction :

"In consequence of it having been found that the
practice of snapping ' (which was ordered by the circh-

iar memorandum of September 25, 1t355, to be discon-
tinued on account of the injury caused thereby to the
firelock) is of the utmost importance to the effectual
carrying out of the position drill as prescribed by the
Instruction of Musketry, the late Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief, in concurrence with the Secretary of
State for War, decided upon the adoption of snap-caps

. . . .
of a pattern which has been for some time under trial at
the School of Musketry without any brelkage of either
cock, swivel, or any other parts of the rifles with which
they have been issued. A number of these new snap-

caps beibg now ready, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge has entered into an arrangement with the
War Department for their being issued to every regiment

and dopot at home and abroad, according to their esta-
blishment, and without the necessity of separate requi-

sttioni from commanding officers. The snap-caps wilt be
attached to the musket by a small chain, or elastic band,
and with every fresh issue extra leathers, in the propor-
tion of 20 per company, will be supplied for the purpose
of being fitted into the metal frame in lieu of others as
they become worn out, an operation attended with no
difficulty, and one which it is stated can be effected by
any handy man in a company. In the event of a soldier
losing his snap-cap, either wilfully or through neglect,
the coat thereof, as fixed by the War Department— viz.,
3d. each, will have to be wade good by him at his own
expense.—By command.
G. A. WITHERALL, Adjutant-General.
A letter from Bombay, dated the 3d ult., gives the
following particulars of the naval part of the expedition
to Persia, in addition to those we have already pub-
lished :—" When I last wrote to you I was not aware
who was to command the expedition to the Persian Gull.
It is now decided, and the Governor-General and
the Government have accepted the services of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir H. Leeke, the commander-in-chief of their en-

tire navy; the result we all look to as most likely to prove
anti-Napier if the war should be a reality ; he will hoist
his broad pendant in the Assaye steam-frigate. The first
division for the 64th Queen's Regiment and the 20th Na-
tive Infantry was started yesterday. The second and
third divisions of men-of-war and transports to take up
the 2d Eeropean Regiment, the 3d Light Cavalry, and
two batteries of artillery and Belooch battalion, go oft
te-morrow (Nov. 4th and sth) ; and the last division, a
very large one, with three batteries of artillery, the siege
train, the mountain train, the 4th Rifles (Native), the
Poonab Irregular Horse, making 5,000 men and 4,500
camp followers, will start on the 11th, under the Com-
mander-in-Chief (Sir H. Leeke) in person. The first ren-
dezvous will be Bundur Abbas, a bay at the entrance of
the Persian Gulf right of N.N. W.; thence the expedition
wilt run for Bushire, and if the north-westers do not blow
it back, they hope to arriveabout the day you receive this
tthe 30th of November or the Ist December). There are
48 sail in all, 17 of them are very fine ships, 10 of them
mounted •..ith from eight to ten 68-pounders, shell guns;
all are well manned with the war complement of Euro•
peens and Matins Artillery; there are four small steamer s
drawing but little water, eight heavy gunboats, and all
the snips' boats also armed. We shall take the island of
Karrack for a depot. Nothing has been spared to make
the expedition complete, and if the gallant Commodore
only has the chance of displaying the same vigour in its
command as he has in its outfit and equipment, there
will be more laurels reaped by the blue jackets in the
east than by those engaged in the late war in the north."
By the death of Rear-Admiral of the White Fred.
Win. Beechey, recorded in our obituary yesterday, the
fallowing promotions take place :—Rear-Admiral of the
!glue P. Richards, C. 8., Fourth Lord of the Admiralty,
to be Rear-Admiral of the White; Capt. the Most Hon.
the Marquis Townshend, Aide-de-camp to her Majesty,
to be Rear-Admiral on the Reserved List ; Captain the
Hon. A. buncombe to be Rear-Admiral on the Reserved
List ; Capt. Sir J. C. Ross to be Rear-Admiral of the
Blue. By the promotion of the latter officer a good ser-
vice pension falls in to the gift of the First Lord of the
Admiralty, who also has the patronage of the Aide-de-
campship to the Queen, vacant by the promotion of the
Marquis Townshend.
H.M. sloop Plumper, 11, Commander Harwell,
steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon,
to be paid off.
The Emerald, 51, new screw steamtrigate of 600-
horse power, has had her fittings completed at Sheer-
ness. She is now receiving her seagoing chain cables,
So., preparatory to her being placed in the steam re-
serve squadron at Sheerness.
The Melampus, 42, storeship, was taken into No. 3
dry-dock at Sheerness, yesterday, to be overhauled pre-
paratory to her being commissioned for active service.
The Wellington remains in No. 1 dry-dock at Sheer-
ness, receiving her stores, kc., preparatory to being com-
missioned for the Coastguard service on the Hull station.
The Hermes, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, 220-horse
power, Commander William E A. Gordon, remains in
No. 2 dry-dock at Sheerness, to be fitted for further
active service.
The Vestal, 26, Captain T. P. Thompson (1853), has
arrived at Chatham from the West India station, where
she was attached to the squadron of Rear-Admiral
Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief at that
station. She has been in commission about four years,
during which time she has been employed principally in
the islands in the Carribean Sea, and en the coast of
Cuba, in the suppression of the slave trade, in which
she has been very successful, having captured severe'
slavers. She was afterwards ordered to Greytown, to
watch over the interests of the British residents there,
on the occasion of the hostile demonstration made by
the vessels of war of the United States. The
Vestal has been very healthy during the time she
has been in the West Indies, the deaths on board
having been but few. She is to be paid off at Chatham
as soon as her stores and fittings have been removed.
The Meanee, 80, built in the East Indies, but for some
time lying in ordinary at Chatham, has been ordered to
be removed to Sheerness to be fitted as a screw steamer.
The transports Clarissa and Clarendon, having landed
their cargoes at Woolwich, were yesterday morning paid
out of the Government employ. The whole of the trans-
port fleet of ships engaged in the conveyance of returned
stores from the East to Woolwich have now arrived, con-
sequently the distinct branch of the shipping department
there and elsewhere is ordered to be abolished. It is
understood that the authorities intend to make a most
liberal allowance to the clerks and others employed in
that establishment, and who are now to be nischarged,
by granting to those who have served during the period
of the war !rem the commencement to the close a bounty
equivalent to six months' pay, and to those who have
served half that tern a sum equal to three months' pay.
The freight ship Agnes, Uapt. Lewis, arrived at Wool-
wich on Monday night fur the purpose of receiving 579
quarter barrels of gunpowder for Barbadoes, and 150
quarter barrels for Trinidad. She will sail immediately
o Gravesend.
The iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel Antelope has com-
pleted her repairs in Woolwich dockyard, and is ready
for commission.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, to the Meaander ;
Capt. E. P. Charlewood, to the Southampton ; Capt.
R. A. Powell, to the Corn wallis (commissioned as guard-
ship of the Coastguard and Naval Coast Volunteers).

Sporting Intelligence.

THE STEEPLECHASE MATCH FOR £5OO
ASIDE.

It was reported in London that a match for 500/.
aside between Lord Strathmore's Abd-el-Kader and the
lion. W. Craven's The Clown was to take place at Mel-
ton Mowbray on Monday last. The announcement of
the "fixture" in all the weekly spurring journals occa-
sioned much interest and curiosity. We are informed,
however, that it was never intended that the match
should take plafle on the Monday, but that, weather per-
mitting, it will come off on Saturday next, the orig►nal
and only appointment. The distance to be traversed is
four miles, and the line of country comprises several
stiffish fences and two big brooks. The route, we believe,
is the same that was selected some ten years ago by Mr.
Crawford and Mr. Leslie.

EASTERN COUNTIES' STEEPLECHASES.—In consequence
of the continued severity of the weather these steeple-
chases have been again postponed. They are now fixed
for Wednesday, the 10th inst.
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.
NEWMARKET, Tuesday Night. - The coursing is put
off from day to day until Friday next, when, if the pre-
sent severe weather continues, it will be postponed for a
fortnight.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
During the morning and afternoon many of the sub-
scribErs called in at the rooms, afternoon s
few investments
were nude upon the Chester Cup and the Derby. 100
to 1, with a few exceptions for the former event, con-
tinues to be the current odds—more than 60 to 1 could
not be obtained against Alice Wentworth, Melissa, Tas-
mania, Polestar, Gemma di Vergy, and St. Giles, all the
book ma)-.ers having laid their sums at long odds, and
nothing, bat short prices will tempt them to commence
making fresh books, particularly during this season of
the rear, when so few backers of horses are in the mar-
ket. For the Derby, 12 to 1 was currently offered agst
Blink Bonny, 100 to 7 would have been taken-20 to
Ito " pony" would have been taken about Tourna-
m4,nt
" hedging" bet of 1,000 to 40 was laid agst
Mil, 22 to 1 was the market odds-500 to 10 was
o..keu ab(,ut Latnbourn, and 700 to 20 was taken about
Saunterer. ; this ber, seemed to indicate symptoms of the
horse declining in the betting, and an offer was made
by way a
"feeler," to take 4,000 to 100 about him,
wham aLe highest offer became 1,000 to 30. 25 to 1
was off( red agst Goldfinch, and 40 to 1 against Aram,.
Closing :prices :

DERBY.
to 1 agst Blink Bonny (take 100 to 7)
11 ito 1 agst Tournament (take 20 to 1)
2 to 1 agst M.D. (take 25 to 1 freely)
:1 sto 1 agst Goldfinch (offered)
11)0 0 to 30 agst Saunterer (offered)
•40 to 1 agst Anton (take 50 to 1)
£0 to 1 agst Lambourn (taken)

N.( rr GONE YET.—The Melbourne Leader announces
that toe theatrical forces of the colony would be recruite'!
by Pel .eral artists from England. We are told that Mr.
Jamei , Wallauk, Miss Cleveland, and Mr. Vincent were
to lex ve London for Australia on the 6th July; Mica
Brno% a Fitzpatrick and Mr. Leigh Murray on the 6th
Octot er ; Mdlle. Antoine, and a full ballet troupe on the
6th N ovember • and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dillon, on the
6th J; ►nuary. It is doubtful when the ship which is
cony( y this batch of talent will sail for Australia.

LA VP I 111 TELLIGENCE.—Dec. 2

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commi,sioner Evans.)
IN RE STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES-JUDGMENT.
His Honour delivered the following decision in this
matter, which was fully arcued on Saturday :—This was
a petition requiring the Court to decide whether a cer-
tain sum of money, now in the hands of the assignees,
should be considered to belong to the separate estate of
Strahan or to the joint estates. It appears that a large

sum of money was borrowed by the three partners on
the joint account. Strahan deposited securities belong-
ing to himself as security for the amounts ; there were
also joint securities deposited. The debt remained undis-
charged at the time of the bankruptcy. The assignees
had the management of the business, and they sold the
securities of Strahan, and with the produce, and also t e
Produce of part of the joint securities, discharged the
debt. The sum now in question was the produoe of the
residue of the joint securities. It is clear that in the case
of bankruptcy the as-ignees are bound to keep separate
accounts of the joint and separate estates, and that the
joint creditors must prove on the joint estate, and the
separate creditors on the separate estate, and that the
joint and separate estates are entitled respectively to the
property belonging to them. This separate property of
Strahan thus deposited still continued to be the property
of the separate estate, in my judgment, and I think the
assignees were bound to use the partnership securities
previous to taking any part of the separate property, and
that, consequently, the sum in question must go to the
separate estate.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

--
The Gazette contains the Speaker's writ for the elootion
of a Member of Pal liame,,t, within fourteen dads, for the
Eastern Division of the County of Suffolk, it, the room of
the late Sir Edward Sherlock Goooh, Bart.

At the Court at Windsor, Nov. 28, present the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty in Caincil.—This day the Right
Hon. and ll,;ght Rev. Archibald Campbell, Bishop of Lon-
don, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place
at the Board accordingly.
COUNCIL-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, NOV. 28.
Notice is hereby given that a petition has been presented
to her Majesty in Council from the inhabitant householders
of the town of Wrexham, in the county of Denbigh, pray-
ing, under the Acts 5 and 6 Will. IV., c 7G, and of I Vic.,
c. 78, the grant of a Charter of Incorporation to the said
town ; and notice is hereby further given, that her Majes. y
has been pleased, by he Order in Council of this day's date,
to order that the said petition be taken into consideration
by a Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho-
nourable Privy Council on the sth day of January next.
WM. L BATHURST.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour
of Knighthood upon William Henry Watson, Esq., one of
the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Emehequer.
WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 28.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Rowland Macdonald Stephenson, Esq.,
Civil Engineer, of Gloucester terrace, Hyde-park, and late
of Calcutta.

BOARD OF TRADE, wHITEEIALL, DEC. 2.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
fixing, as follows, the import duties on wools combed and
dyed :—Combed, in French ships, 70f.; in foreign ships,
80f., per 100 kilos. Dyed of all kinas, in French ships,
100 f.; in foreign ships, 115 f., per 100 kilos.
ADIIRALTY, DEC. 1.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. George Alfred
Crofton has been appointed to receive a pension of 1501.
a-year, as provided for by her Majesty's Order in Council
of June 25, 18 vacant by the death of Admiral Fre-
derick Watkins, and the name of Vice-Admiral the Hon.
George Alfred Crofton has been removed to the Reserved
Half-pay List accordingly; and, in consequence of this
removal, the following promotions, dated from the 12th
ult., have this day taken il,ce :
Rear-Admiral Sir David Dunn, K. C.FI., on the Reserved
Half-pay List, to be Vice-Admiral on the same List.
Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Fairfax Mores.3y, K C. 8.,
' to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
Rear-Admiral of the White Wm. Fanshawe Martin to
be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Thomas Bennett to be Rear-
Admiral of the White.
Captain the Hon. George Grey to be Rear-Admiral of
the Blue.
Captain William Townsend Dance has also been pro-
moted to be a Retired Rear-Admiral, on the terms propose 1
in the London Gazette of Ist September, 1843, but without
increase of pay.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Stafford—Joseph Bennitt,.Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.
[The following Appointment is substituted for that which
appeared in the Gazette of Tth November last.]
East Kent Regiment of Militia—George Ed ward Arthur
Holdsworth, Gent., to Le Ensign, vice Waller, resigned.
JULY 8, 1856.
The Supreme Court of New South W ,les has appointed
Samuel Heath, of No. 1, Church-court, Clements-lane, in
the city of London, Solicitor, a Commissioner of that
Court, for taking affidavits and examining witnesses, at
law or in equity, in the city of London, or elsewhere in
England.

BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Perry, confectioner, High street, Southwark, to
surrender, Dec. ii, at eleven, and Jan. 15, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street ; Richardson and Sadler, Old Jewry
Chambers.
Edgar Adams, laceman, Brighton, Dec. 13, at twelve,
and Jan. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee ; Langley and Gibbon, Great
James-street.
George Octavio' Manton, surgeon, Bourne, Lincoln-
shire, Dec. 16 and Jan. 6, at half past ten, at the Shire-
hall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham;
Andrews, Bourne; Knight, Birmingham.
Edward Smith, baker, Isleworth, Middlesex, Dec. 16,
at two, aad Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ;
tiilleary, Fenehurch-buildings, City.
Leopold Redpath, dealer in ahares, Chester-terrace,
Regent's•park, Dec. 15, at half-past one, and Jan. 19, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Wootton and Son, Tok enhouse-yard
Lawrence, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
John Murray, coal-merchant, Middle-wharf, Great
Scotland-yard, Dec. 12 and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Ba-
singhall-street ; Slee and Robinson, Parish-street, South-
wark.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.WiIIiam Cathrae, slate merchant, Wilton-grove, near
Hawick.
Angus Clark, tinsmith, Old Wynd, Glasgow.
James Howie, farmer, Midton, Craigie, Ayr.
John Anderson, draper, Stewarton, Ayrshire.
James Young, grocer, Douglashall, Carluke, now de-
ceased.
William Binnie, baker, Rawyards, near Airdrie, now
deceased.