The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

TILE ARM'.

General Col&mid died on Sunday at his resi-
dence in Park- ere. scent. The General entered the
army as cornet in the 12th Light Dragoons, end
the following year' proceeded on active service
in the Peninsula, \NT:Jere he continued to serve
until the close of the Far in 1814. He was pre-
sent at the cavalry affairs of Castrajon, Quintere de
i7lso at the battles .cf
Puerta, and Monasterio,
Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle,. and Nive, for which
he received the silver medal ant! four clasps. He
served also during the campaign of 1815, and wns
at Waterloo. In June, 1826, he retired from his
regiment on half-pay. His commissions bore da...te
as follows :—Cornet, 30th of May, 1811 ; Lieu.t.,
20th of February, 1812 ; Captain, 22d of P:ebruary,
1816; Major, 10th of June, 1826; Lieut.-Cal., 23d
of November, 1841; Col., 20th of June, 1854 ; and
Major-Gen., 26th of October, 1858.
A new transport-carriage for the removal of
heavy guns has been forwarded to Portsmouth ror
ltahregpeuczosseorodanfntestciengto its powers in the removal of
and from different parts of
works, and has been found to answer admirably,.
contrasting very favourably when compared with
the old sling waggon. The .new carriage is very
simple in character, and consists of four parts. A
pole wail axle, with two wheels, with a projec-
ting fork and upright pin over the axle ; in fact, a
" roller handspike" mounted on wheels.. The pin,
on the pole being raised, fits in a plate in the rear
and under part of the slide of an eight.inch gun
carriage, and by pulling down the pole, precfNely
as the handspike is used, the weight of the Bildt',
carriage, and gun is taken off the ground and thrown
on the fore axle of the transporting carriage. At
the fore and under part of the slide, in a line
with the fore chase of the gun, are fittings to
receive an iron axle, which is clamped into its
place and then fitted with its two wheels. On or-
dinary roads th 4 heaviest ordnance mounted on
their carriage and traversing slides may thus be
transported to any distance.
A courtmartial assembled at the Marine bar-
racks, Forton, near Portsmouth, on Monday, for
the trial of Henry Cragg, private Royal Marines,
on the following charges :—" 1. For having, when
arraigned before a garrison court-martial at the
mainguard, Portsmouth, on or about the 10th day
of October, 1860, thrown a stone at Brevet-Lieut.-
Colonel Alexander C. Robertson, of the Ist batta.

lion of the Bth Regiment, the president of the
said court, which struck him on the breast,
while reading the minute of the proceedings
preliminary to the swearing of the members; and
for having, when ordered by the said Lieut.-Col.
Robertson to be removed from the court, resisted
the escort ordered to remove him, and attempting
to snatch from the table a copy of the Mutiny Act,
such conduct being subversive of good order and
military discipline. 2. For conducting himself in
a disrespectful manner and using disgusting lan-
guage when before the Court, &c." The Court
found both charges fully proved against the pri-
soner. His character was also deposed to as being
very bad, and several previous convictions were
proved against him. The Court was composed of
Col. H. C. C. Moore, President ; Lieut.-Col. Payne,
Lieut.-Col. Maxwell, and Lieut.-Col. R. C. Spald-
ing, all of the Royal Marine Light Infantry ; Major
Digby, Royal Marine Artillery ; Major Bayley,
Bth Regiment (King's Own) ; Captains Clay, 19th
Regiment; Whiteside, Bth Regiment; Mawby,
Royal Marine Artillery ; Stotherd, 21st Regiment ;
and Bolton, Royal!Artillery ; Lieuts. Nurse, Taite,
and Johnson, Bth Regiment Royal Marine Artil-
lery; Quartermaster Chapman, Royal Marine
Artillery ; and. Lieut. and Adjt. F. Lean, as Deputy-
Judge Advocate.

IHE SOUTHAMPTON HABTLBY 1117 TI

TUTION.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.
Lord Palmerston has this day paid us his pro-
mised visit, and assisted in the ceremonial of laying

the corner-stone of a noble edifice now erecting in

the High-street, to be hereafter devoted to the en-
nobling pursuits of literature and science.
In the afternoon a dejeuner was given by the
Mayor at the Audit House, his worship occupying

the chair.
The MAYOR proposed " The Health of Lord Pal-
merston," which was received with loud and en-
thusiastic cheering. His worship referred to the
efforts of his lordship in the cause of civil and reli-
gious liberty ; the moral support which his lordship
had given to the struggles for liberty in Italy under
the patriotic Garibaldi; and to his characteristics as
a landlord and a Hampshire man. He congratu-
lated them all on the successful issue of the Chinese
expedition, and on the fact that we were at peace
with all the world, thanks to the efforts of the
Government of which his lordship was the distin-
guished chief.
The toast was drunk with every demonstration
of welcome. _ •

Lord PALMICRSTON, on rising, was received with

loud and prolonged cheers, on the subsidence of
which he said,—Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, I can
assure you that I am not using an ordinary figure
of speech when I say that it is impossible for me to
find words adequately to express my deep feelings
to you, Mr. Mayer, for the kind and too flattering
manner in which you have been pleased to propose
this toast, and to you, gentlemen, for the way in
which you have been kind enough to receive it. To
those who are engaged,in official and in Parliamen-
tary duties the occasions are few when they are able
to meet, as it has been my good fortune to do—to
meet their friends and neighbours in convivial
assemblies like this. But in proportion to the
seldomness of those occasions so is the gratification
which they afford, and we regret that it is not
oftener in our power to meet in convivial sociality
those with whom we are neighbours and friends.
(Cheers.) I look upon myself here, gentlemen, as
at home. (Cheers.) It is the more gratifying
when one receives tokens of goodwill and approval
—it is the more gratifying when those tokens pro-
ceed from these who are one's neighbours and
friends, who not only watch one in public life, but
also know one personally in private relations.
(Hear.) As a burgess and an old burgess of South-
ampton, claiming seniority in that capacity over, I
believe, almost all those whom I have the honour
of ineeting—(cheers)—as a burgess of Southampton,
therefore, I feel doubly gratified at the cordial
reception with which I have been honoured this
day in the town of Southampton. The occasion,
indeed, is one of deep interest. Those who have
t • its
watched the progress of this thriving and prosper-
ous town have seen how rapidly its populae
ri
commerce, its wealth, its industry, its intelligence
have of late years increased. But
hitherto it has
not possessed any of those large public institutions
upon a large scale which have grown up in other
centres of industry, of manufacture, and of com-
merce. I trust that the bequest of which we are
to day commemorating the foundation will place
this town of Southampton upon a par with the other
great communities of the country, and upon a level
in its public condition with the individual and in-
tellectual qualifications which prevail among its
inhabitants. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we have laid
the foundation, and all things must have a begin-
ning ; but, as I took leave to say this morning, I am
convinced that the foundation we have laid will be
the foundation of a far greater structure than that
which
you contemplate in your proceedings to-day ;
and that when it is found that you have this insti-
tution—those means of instruction and those oppor-
tunities of reciprocal and intellectual intercourse—
, that not only your own citizens, but others who