The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1861.

PURSUANT to a Decice of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause of " RUMBOLD against
CAVENDISH, ' the Creditors of Ferdinand Baron de Del-
mar, late of the Avenue de Nlarig,ny, No. 13, in the City of
Paris, in the Empire of France, who died on the '7tll day of
November, 155•,, are, by their solicitors, on or before the sixth
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,
to come in and prove their Claims at the chambers of the
`'ice-Chancellor Kindersley, at No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lin-
coln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be
peiempzorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree.
Thursday, the ninth day of .January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the
said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating
upon the claims.
Dated this first day of November, 1561.
W. M. WILKINSON, 44, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
Plaintiff's Sol ici or.
CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk.

firing party, consisting of 12 artillerymen, whose
carbines had been previously loaded, 6 with ball and
6 with blank cartridge, advanced within 10 paces of
of the prisoner, who was resting on his right knee
with his face towards them. At prcconeertcd sig-
nals they raised their carbines and discharged them

at the culprit. Death Ecemed instantancous,but that
no doubt should exist• the Provost-Marshal, accord-

ing to custom, discharged a pistol at the body. The
whole of the troops in this command proceeded on
Monday last to the Bay of Marsascirocco, for the
purpose of preventing the landingqiof a supposed
enemy. On this occasion the troops were in full
marching order, and presented a splendid appear-
ance. Eight guns accompanied the different brigades,
six 9-pounders and two 6 pounders, and were drawn
by the mules of the Commissariat Train. The troops

were distributed over a front of several miles. At 1

o'clock a shell was fired from the fort on the shores
of the bay as a signal for the general engagement to
begin. This fort then opened its heavy guns,
which it continued to fire for an hour and a half.
At half-past one the field-pieces opened a rapid fire
on the advancing enemy, who were supposed to have
effected a landing, while the small arms kept up a
well-sustained fusillade until two o'clock, when the

troops, still fighting, fell back on their supports. At
half-past two the supposed enemy were compelled
to retire to their ships. A great number of car-
riages and pedestrians of all sorts followed the
troops, giving the scene more the character of a re-

turn from the Derby then a field-day. Her Majesty's
ship Marlborough, 131, left port on Friday morning
last to try her Armstrong guns, and returned on
the following day. The Foxhourid, 4, Commander

the Hon. A. C. Hobart, goes out to-day fur the same
purpose. The Growler, 3, Lieut.-Commander H.
E. Crozier, returned from Sulina on the 18th inst.,
having been relieved there by the Cockatrice. The
Aboukir, 89, Capt. Shadwell, left port for Gibraltar
on the 18th inst. The Megmra, steam troopship,
Commander Henderson, which had received orders

to proceed home under sail, afterwards received
counter-orders to remain here, to have her broken
intermediate shaft patched up by the artircers of
the dockyard. This accordingly having been done,
she left on Saturday last for England. She took
with her the following passengers :—Mr. Eldridge
end family ; Captain Cardew, 23 soldiers, 6 women,
and 11 children; Mrs. Pring, Mrs. Weld, and son,
and invalids from Corfu. The Megrera conveyed a
detachment of the 4th Regiment from Corfu to
Zante, and took back to Corfu from Zante a detach-
ment of the 9th. The exchange of the detachment
of the 9th Regt. at Cephalonia was prevented, by
the accident to her shaft. ller Majesty's ships at
Corfu, by last accounts, were the London, 89 ; the
Victor Emmanuel, 89; and the Scylla, 22. Her
Majesty's ship Neptune, Captain Hornby, arrived
at Malta yesterday from Syracuse. Her Majesty's
ships in port are the Marlborough, 131 (flag-
ship of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, K.C.8.) ;
the Hibernia, receiving ship (flagship of Rear-Ad-
miral H. J. Codrington, C.B. ; the Neptune, 89; the
James Watt, 89; the Medina, surveying vessel ; the
Firefly, ditto; the Wanderer, 4; the Foxhound, 4;
the Growler, 3 ; and the Hearty, tug. Advices from
Gibraltar to the 17th instant announce the arrival
of the Amphion, 36, from Sicily; the Racoon, 22,
from Malta; the Alacrity, 4, from Malta ; the Liffey,
51, from Palermo; the Firebrand, 6, from Malta;
the Algiers, 89, from Malta; and the Queen, 80,
also from Malta. There were besides on that sta-
tion the Procris, 3, and the Cuckoo, 3. The Racoon

continued on her way to England on the 14th inst.
The Liffey was to proceed in a day or two to Hali-
fax, Nova t•_'cotia. The Algiers was to remain for
the present at Gibraltar, and hoist, it is said, the
flag of Pear. Admiral Dieres, C.B. The Queen, it
was reported, was to proceed to Bermuda."
A ponderous machine, weighing nearly 20 tons,
has to-day been received at Chatham dockyard, from
the eminent engineers Messrs. Westwood, Baillie,
Campbell and Co. It is intended to be used for the
purpose of he.,:ding the immeroua armour plates
which are to be used in the construction of the
Achilles and the Royal Oak, and of course of other
vessels of the same class which may hereafter be
built at this establishment. Some idea of the enor-

mous strength required in this machine may be
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formed from the fact that the sheets of iron with
which the sides of these vessels will be covered will
be about four and a half inches in thickness.

The fine steam transports St. Andrew, Capt.
Dutton, belonging to the Montreal Mail Packet
Company, and the Calcutta, No. 8, Capt. Wright,
chartered for the conveyance of troops and war
stores to British North America, took up berths
alongside the T-pier at Woolwich, on Saturday,
from Glasgow and Deptford, and were officially in-
spected by Major Field, Deputy-Assist Quarter-
master Gen. Royal Artillery. The Calcutta has been
thoroughly fitted at Deptford, and both vessels
afford excellent and roomy accommodation. The
nominal burden of each vessel is 2,000 and 1,500
tons. The Victoria and Adelaide, vessels of a simi- ,
lar class, laden with victualling stores and munitions
of war, were towed down to Greenhithe from Dept-
ford on Saturday to be swung, preparatory to their
departure. The Calcutta, the first for sea, yesterday
embarked No. 8 battery of the fourth field brigade
Royal Artillery, lately arrived at Woolwich from
Aldershot, consisting of Capt. H. A, Smyth, Capt.
W. J. Hall ; Lieuts E. H. Wickham, A. H. Maclean,
and E: Clayton; Assist.-Surg. A. S. K. Prescott;
Vet.-Surg. Meyrack, and 262 non-commissioned
officers and men. The battery assembled on parade
yesterday morning soon after 8 o'clock for inspec-
tion, and, having been addressed as to the nature of
the expedition on which they were about to depart
by Gen. Sir Richard Dacres, they marched onboard
at 9, in readiness to sail by the early tide this morn-
ing. Since the death of the Prince Consort the
bands have ceased attending the embarkation of the
troops. In addition to the abovfnamed battery of
Royal Artillery, Mr. Bagnall, Mr. Greigg, and four
sergeant conductors of stores, belonging to the
storekeeper's department at Woolwich, and a num-
ber of non-commissioned officers, appointed to drill
the Canadian Militia, took passage in the Calcutta.
The storekeeper's department was engaged during
the whole of yesterday in shipping the residue of her
freight, consisting of 120 tons of Armstrong shot,
the 12-pounder battery of rifled guns and their ap-
purtenances. There was also embarked an ample
provision of warm military clothing, consisting of
for each man two pairs of woollen drawers,
one sheepskin overcoat, one pair of sealskin mits,
one pair of Canadian boots, two pairs of worsted
stockings, one sealskin cap with ear mufflers, one
chamois leather waistcoat, one comforter, one jer.
sey, and two merino under vests.

Major Foster's company, No. 7, will change quar-
ters from the Citadel to the Raglan Barracks.

The garrison at Sheerness is ordered to be aug-
mented by an addition of 200 men of the Royal
Artillery, with a proportionate number of officers,
who arc to be despatched from the headquarters of
the Third Division on Wednesday nest, orders to
that effect having been received at Wurley, from
the office of the Deputy Adjutant General, by Col.
It. P. Radcliffe. The facilities for instructing the
officers and men in the theoretical and practical
branches connected with the Royal Artillery which
exists at Sheerness, coupled with its contiguity to
Shoeburyness, have induced the authorities at the
Horse Guards to materially increase the number of
troops at that station, and all the available barrack
accommodation is fully occupied.
On Saturday a detachment of 130 men of the
Chatham Division,of Royal Marines Light Infan-
try, who have been for some time past performing
duty at Deptford, rejoined headquarters, to be in
readiness for embarkation on board any of the ves-
sels now fitting for sea in which they may be re-
quired. Lieuts. W. J. Barker and C. S. C. Webb
arrived at Chatham with the detachment.

Staff-Surg. Lewin, of the 9th Depot Battalion,
has succeeded Dr. Innes (who has left for Canada)
in the chief medical superintendence of troops in the
camp at Colchester. Staff-Assist.-Surg. Ramsbot-
ham has been attached to the 9th Battalion, in the
room of Staff-Sur, Mackinnon, who has also been
ordered to Canada. Lieut.-Col. O'Connell has entered
upon the command of the force of Royal Artillery,
in the room of Lieut.-Cal. Gibbon, who, it is under-
stood, has been appointed to the command of a bri-
gade of Artillery in Canada. Major Westhead
has left the camp at Colchester for Canada, and
Major Swaffield has been attacted to the 9th Depot
Battalion in his stead.