The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-22 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE Al'

CHALONS.

(Front yesterday's Moniteur.)
CAMP, SEPT. 20; 5.15 F. 31.
His Royal Highness the .Duke of Cambridge Was
present at the manoeuvre which the Emperor our
manded as before. The weather was delightful'
and the movements were well executed. On the
following day, Saturday, at an early hour, there
was.firing at the target for the infantry, and at the
polygon for the artillery. The Emperor and the
Prince went to witness these exercises. In the
afternoon, as the Prince wished to see everything'
he mounted his horse, and, with his aides-de-caulAP'
inspected the camps in all their military and
•
ministrative details.
This day, Sunday, high mass has been celebrate
with great pomp. The service was read by WTI;
seigneur Menjaud, the Emperor's first almole4
The troops, in full uniform, ranged around tt
altar, the cavalry seated on their horses, and tee
artillery-with their guns in harness, presented ;
most imposing sight. After Divine service, tl.l
Imperial Guard defiled before the Emperor and , .
Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge in. the nliuc,
of a large crowd of spectators, attracted to the carne
from Paris and the neighbouring towns.
To-naorrow (Monday) the army corps will still:
their tents, feign a march in advance and bivouac
on the Suippe.

SIR WILLIA.M, HENRY DILLON, AT., 1‘•°'ll;

VICE ADMIRAL OF THE RED.

This distinguished officer was the son of Sir .I°4ll
Talbot Dillon' a baron of the Holy Roman DOI,
and author of "Travels in Spain," and other work;
Paternally he was deScended from Logon Delome, or ""e
-
Valiant, third son of O'Neill, Monarch of Ireland, eti-
through female descent from the house of WingfieZ
being great grandson of Sir Mervyn Wingfield, 5.3.,,d
senior claimant to the barony of Scales. Sir W. a
Dillon entered the navy at a very early period of life, a° ,
cocarneeced his career on board the Alcidee 74, ecll,
mended by Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, He vise
sbipman on board the Thetis, and in 1793 served evi's
Captain Gambier in the Defence, 74, where' be 'if'
stunned by a splinter in Lord Howe's celebrated Actio!'
on June 1, 1794. He accompanied Captain Gambier !13
the Prince George, 98, and as senior midshipman wa° id;
Lord Bridport's action with the French fleet off Ilene
Groin, June 23, 1795. He then served in the Glory, 9;
and in the Thuuderer, 74, under Rear-Admiral Sir dug
Christian, and was at the reduction of St. Lucie in dap'
t
1796, carrying a flag of truce to take possession of Plgetiri
Island. He became acting lieutenant of the Asiadne, n
guns, Captain IT: L. Ball, whence he was removed td,
the Amiable, 32, Captains Main waring and Lobb, anfn
was frequently engaged with the enemy's batteries. "t"
1798 he was in the Glenmore, 36, Captain Duff, and OT.
operated with the army at Wexford d'uring 'the Irish
Rebellion, where he succeeded in arresting the Irish
rebel chief, Skallion. He afterwards served on tb°
Jamaica station, assisted in the capture of the corvettA°
Ei Galgo, in sight of a Spanish line-of-cattle ship 0",
frigate, and also in the takicg of La Diligente, a Free"
national brig, the Lauzenotta, a Spanish armed 0010,4
and several privateers, of which he had the charge.
1801 he was present at the destructien of the Brit° f
`frigate Meleager, which had grounded in the Gulf
Mexico, and he effected an exchange of a part of the Leo
who had been taken prisoners. As senior lieutenant ve
the Africaine, with a flag of truce from Lord Keith tv
the Dutch commodore, Valterbacb, at HelvoetsloP!
he was in 1803 made most unjustifiably a Prev
sonar, handed over to the French, and detained in bra
tivity until Sept., 1807. Toe following year b( „nag bee;
made commander in 1805) he assumed charge on tb
Leith station of an old worn-out-sloop, the Childer,
carrying only 14 121 b. carronades and 65 men, in ertli°,b°!,
on toe coast of Norway, he gallantly engaged and 0"„ n%
mately drove off, after an action with intervals of °Yr
wards of seven hours' duration, a Danish man-of
brig of 60 guns and 200 men. In this service be "0,
severely wounded, and his meritorious conduct wagso,
knowledged by the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's by the Pr
sent of a sword valued at 100 guineas. He also rocs°ed
e
a post commission, and in 1809 was at Wei°ll°lll
where he superiutended the debarkation of a divisioa "f ,
;the army. He was afterwards employed off the coast c'd
Holland, and in Feb., 1811, commanded tee Leopard;
66 guns, in which he took out a battalion of the Gl°
, to-caeiz, served actively on the coast of Portugal 000
Spain, commanded a small squadron for the prote°t'd
of Carthagena, and saved several villages of Murcia °be
Vatenciatrom the ravages of the French army, InlBl4o,
was appointed to the Horatio, 38 guns, in which h° se
moaned until January, 1817, escorting a convoy toe :ocl
foundland, protecting the whale fishery of Green,; of
against the Americans, and cruising off the coast of
France to intercept Bonaparte atter the battle
abs
Wateiloo, and afterwards made voyages to Clittli,,eo
India in the PLECtOI3, and in the Russell, 74, in vehiol`o
rendered much service to the Spanish cause, and The
employed-in the Mediterranean and off Lisbon. ed
Russell was put out of commission in 1839, He obtaa'to
his flag rank Nov. 9, 1846. He was Naval Eqaerrf
0,
11.R.1-1. the Duke of Sussex,nominated KOJI. !,/:39
13, 1855,:knighted in the une following, and in -""de
received the good-service pension. He died on the '0
Sept: 1857, leaving a widow, whom he married in Jalije
1843, the eldest daughter of Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, Were is,
Saville-row, the author of the " Memoirs of Lord Lls
count Nelson," and to whom he has intrusted a
account of his professional career, with particulars rh°;
latieg to the various places, and a description of the
scenes in which he has been engaged, and which r°""
probably be hereafter printed and given to the public'

GENERALENERAL 01.11 JAMES OUTRAM.—The circumstanc- 01
this Soldier of fortune, or fortunate. soldier, being
called to a new and most difficult and delicate sphere vt
o
action in command at Dinapore, may invest with 01124,
interest the following extract _from a letter written w
one who knows'him well, as he did also the other ge11,16 ,
man alluded :—" How much the late William .13094 -
the political commissioner for Guzera", would have ea
joyed the honours that await his friend 'Jemmy ~
ram,' le Chevalier Bayard of the East, as he is calledls
the knight sans pear ei sans reproche. Boyd bad fornore
a correct estimate of Outram as a lad. He used to
lef
the young soldier, in his own happy, humourous
amongst his friends at Poonah and Nassauak.' I tie
persuade that fellow, Outram, of the great talents
at
possesses. If we live to see it, we shall find him 3 ed,
diplomatist, as well as a great general.' Olten did 30101;
when assistant to Sir H. Pottinger, in the social c,!fat,
tae v at
e residency, give out his auguries regarding or
ram, in. which the future Chinese plenipotentiary betirf •
concurred. A good anecdote was told by 13eid °had
rather extraordinary meeting, or almost reneentre, L'e 0
on one occasion with Outran), when the former °ow
of the secretaries to government at Bombay. The bi•
cumetanoe is well known of Outram, who had most ° r,
valrously volunteered to the general fur the hazardous 04
vice,, arriving at Bombay with despatches from the Arliid
after a victory having, dressed as a native, pos.i
throughmans
weeks,hoetile uttirdibeerrirciuninces fact,stan of such peculiar P accomplished a jourae
°•l
and adventure, which, if ever equalled, certainly vie,
„a
ofr-fi
never surpassed. He reached Bombay at midnight) sad
made his way to the abode of Boyd, then secretary
the Persian department. He effected an entrance to 13„11
friends houso, but not. wishing to disturb the householo j
quietly betook himself to the secretary's studio,
nimself up in a tiger's skin, and was soon, poor feller
as may be easily conceived, in a state of oblivion a.-1
the passages, by
' flood and field,' of the previousweeks. The secretary had work to do at an "rlO
hour, and accordingly repaired to his sanctum, whended
and behold ahe mass presented itself to the astoun A
secretary. Few men had shot more tigers than poi."l
and as the heap on the floor presented both ocularly the
orally, ,evident proofs of vitality, the dirk, the rifle, 0,
pistol, all flashed across his mind, as he viewed 111 c,
thing of which quoad the genus tiger theme could lab,
deubt.• Foitunately for the future hero of Shop!
Boyd merely applied his foot, when out rolled the got
walled and unshorn J,muay, Outram.' ”----L4r61.13

Albion. Otaill
Dame Nature bas again prayed Ili a pran this
S-11, a master mariner, aged 73 };ears, re6id k. ing
town, last week out three back teeth,—Fort
Mercury, •