The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

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Latter might consider most conducive to their interests.
After some discussion, on tho motion of Mr. Leaf,
secoaded by Mr. 113 vis, it was resolved without any
dissentient voice,

"That Messrs. Dennoch, Twentyman, and Rigg'e
estate be ri.alised under inspection in accordance with
their proposal, that Messrs. Durant, H. W Eaton, J.
P. Foster, and David Evans, of London, and Samuel
Thorp, of Manchester, be inspectors, and that it be left
tothoso gentlemen to decide on behalf of the creditors
upon the-terms of the deed of inspection, including those
•upon which Messrs. Bennoch, Twentyinan, and Rigg
are to obtain their release. The assent of creditors to
this resolution is to be without prejudice to their claims
against third parties, or to any eecurities they held, and
to be subj,!ct to the consent of third patties (when nem-
ears) being obtained."
The meeting then separated.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Intelligence has been received at the invalid
depot, Chatham, that upwards of 1,000 sick and
wounded British troops are now on their passage
home from India, and may shortly be expected to
arrive at that establishment, where every arrange-
ment has been made for their reception. The
invalid troops employed in the Persian and China
expeditions are also daily expected at St. Mary's
Barrack, Chatham.

The Leopold screw steamship, Captain Luning,
arrived at- Splthead from Woolwich yesterday, and
embarked the V Field Battery of Royal Artillery,
which marched down from Hilsea Barracks to
Portsmouth Dockyard, headed by their own brass
band ; also a detachment of the 38th Regiment,
from Shorncliffe. She was to proceed to Cork
yesterday evening or this morning to fill up her
complement from the 94th Regiment. .
Detachments from the depots of the 30th and
50th Regiments, at Parkhurst, proceeded to relieve
detachments of the 96t5,_at Portland, yesterday,
when the 96th rejoined at the depot-at aglckwat,
on the way to Aldershott, to join the service com-
panies.

- The depot of the.3lst Regiment, at Winchester,
is held in readiness td proceed to. Pembroke:
The 55th depot, first division, embarked yester•
day from Parkhurst, on board the sto,Fer South-
Western for Jersey.
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The Juno, • 26, Captain Freeman tle, went into
Portsmouth Harbour on Thursday evening to dis-
mantle and be paid off.

The funeral of the Rev. Sandford. Connor, late
assistant chaplain to the Royal Artillery at Wool-
wich, who died from an attack of cerebral apoplexy,
on Sunday last, took place yesterday in that garri-
son. Notwithstanding its importance as a military
station, the event of an officer's funeral has not
occurred there for some years, consequently every
avenue leading to the Artillery-barracks,-as well as
the entire line of road, extending to St.. Luke's
Church, Charlton (the place of interment), was
thronged with spectators. The solemn cortege was
composed of 1 captain, 1 subaltern, and 100 rank
and file from every corps in garrison, which, toge-
ther with volunteers, consisted. of about 800 -men.
The officers of the garrison having been invited
generally to attend assembled in a considerable
body, numbering about 100, together with the
entire official staff. General Williams was unable
to be present in consequence of an attack of in-
fluenza, which has confined him to his quarters.
Precisely at 2 o'clock the coffin, borne on the
shoulders of six gunners of the Artillery, was placed.
on a 9-pounder gun with six black horses attached.
A line of Artillery stationed on either side presented
arms, and reversed muskets, when a long, and
gradual rolled of the muffled drums rung through
the length of the parade. The mournful procession
then commenced its march, and the coffin having
been carried into the church the funeral service
was performed by the Rev. Mr. Delamere.
Same samples of rope received at Woolwich from
various foreign manufactories were yeaterday tested
with a view of securing an effectual means of firing
rockets and convoying assistance to ships in distress.
A piece of 1 inch Italian rope has a strain of 154
cwt. ; a picco of 1 inches broke at 14 cwt._,-
another sample from the same manufactory of inch
gave way at 9 cwt. ; do. 1 inch, 104 cwt. A
innh Italian sample was then tested, and bore 104
cwt. A Neapolitan sample of # inch yielded at
10i cwt. ; a 1-inch Italian at 124 cwt. ; a 1-ineh
New Zealand at 71 cwt. ; and a inch at 54 cwt.
Sixty gunners, forming No. 4 Company; 2d Bat-
talion Royal Artillery, under command of Major
Champion; left Plymouth on Tuesday for Wool-
wich, where they will be strengthened. to 150, when
it is expected they will go with four other companies
for service in China.

Arrangements are in progress for sending out a
large number of orderlies, wardmasters, andstewards
of the medical staffs corps at Chatham to India,
where they will be employed in attending on the
sick and wounded troops, and in the general hos-
pital duties performed by the orderlies of that corps.
A number of orderlies are also to be stationed at
Alexandria to assist the officers and troops proceed-
ing to and from India by the overland route.
Vice-Admiral E. Collier is to have the retired
service pension, rendered vacant by the death of
Vice-Admiral. W. F. Owen.

Vice-Admiral Collier, C. 8., whose removal
.from the active list is consequent uponhis accept-
ance of the service pension, is 74 years of age.. He
entered the navy in February, 1796, and his first
sea service was as acting lieutenant of the Teign-
mouth, brig, against the pirates of Guzzarat, in
1803, on which occasion, after the hazardous de-
struction of thirty of the enemy's vessels, he headed
a division of seamen and marines in an attack made
on one of their forts, where the British were com-
pletely repulsed, with a loss of 40 men killed and
wounded. Mr. Collier was confirmed a lieutenant
June 17, 1803 ; was in the St. Fiorenzo, 36, in her
desperate conflict of several hours, and the capture
on Feb. 14, 1805, of the French 32 gun frigate, La
Psyche, after a loss to the former of 12 men killed
and 36 wounded, and to her opponent of 67 killed
and 70 wounded. As first lieutenant of the
Thames, 32, he commanded the boats of that ship
and the Pilot, brig, at the capture and destruction
of a large and well protected convoy near Aman-
thea, July 25, 1810, which procured him his pro-
motion. Obtaining command, Oct- 27, 1812, of
she Manly brig, Captain Collier proceeded to the
Scheldt, and thence sailed with convoy for New-
foundland, whence he afterwards went to Halifax,
where the Manly was driven high and dry on shore
during a heavy gale, Nov. 13, 1813, and only got
off after an incessant labour of three weeks. In May,
1814, having volunteered with the whole of his ship's
company to co-oporate with Sir James L. Yeo on the
Canadian lakes, Captain Collier gallantly assisted,
with the gun boats under his orders, in the attack
on Oswego. After bearing a part in many other
arduous enterprises he was officially advanced,
Nov. 18 following, to the command of the Princess
Charlotte, 42. He subsequently, from Sept. 8,
1811, until Nov. 30, 1821, commanded the Mersey
26, on the Halifax station. On April 3, 1837, joined
the Castor, 36, commanded her during the Syrian
campaign, and in tho bombardment of St. Jean
d'Acre, had the misfortune to have his leg severely
fractured, and received other hurts of a slighter
description. Capt. Collier was nominated a C.B.
Dec. 18, 1840, and paid off the Castor in 1841. Hia
last active service was in command of the Rodney,
92, in the experimental squadron, under the orders
of Rear Admirals Hyde Parker and Sir Samuel
Pym. Capt. Collier is deputy lieutenant of the
county of Worcester. Admiral Collier obtained
his flag rank, Oct., 1850.
Sir James Hallway Plumridge, K.C.8., super-
intendent of Devonport Dockyard, is now the
senior Rear-Admiral
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
Vice-Admiral E. Collier to the good-service pension,
rendered vacant by the death of Admiral Owen.
Captains—The Hon. G. F. Hastings to thi}Blenheim,
vice Pelham ; F. Scott to the Meander, vice Hastings.
Lieutenants—W. H. Beake to the Cambrian ; A. H.
Gilmore to the Renown ; E. B. H. Franklin to the C.
racoa; S. F. Douglas to the Renown.
Master—Valentine G. Roberts to the Renown.

Clerks—C. W. Roache, to the Magicienne ; H. H.
Mg/ Grant, to the Victory ; Bertram Mitford, to the
Cambrian.

AM.
Captain HENasTtiSn.
gs,
the C.B. (1845),
as we anticipated, has been appointed to succeed
Captain Pelham in the command o
60, screw ship, at Portsmouth,
and
inthef the Blenheim,
t the steam reserve at
endenca ofthat su
Port.pjarint:
Hastings, who is the second son of the late Earl
Huntingdon (who was a caP taiu in the navy), en-
tered the service in 1824, was made a lieutenant in
Jan., 1833, and commander in 1838. He com-
manded the Hark quin, on the coast of China, and
led the boats of that sloop and those of the an-
derer 'and Dido in the attack on the piratical
towns of Murdoo and Qualloo Batto, in the island
of Sumatra, for which he received the public
thanks of the CommAnder-in-Chief. As a captain
he commanded the Cyclops, 6, paddle, on the coast
of Africa, and the Curacoa, 21, screw, in the Black
Sea ; and since May last he has been . ;
n command
of the Mwandcr, coast-guard ship, Portland Roads.