The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The military invalids brought home from the Mauritius
in the Shannon freight-ship, as reported in Vie Sun of
yesterday, were transferred by a Government steamer at an
early hour yesterday morning to the Royal Victoria Mili-
tary Hospital at Netley. At 4 p.m. the ship sailed from
Sp!thead for London, with the wind at S.S.E.
Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, K.C.8., yesterday
commenced his inspection of the troops and garrison quar-
ters under his command in order to draw up his final report
for the information of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief on resigning his command of the Woolwich district
at the close of the present month. General Dacres will then
be succeeded, as already announced, by Col, B C. Warde,
C. 8., who, it is expected, will be promoted to the rank of
Major-General.

A timepiece has been presented at Warley Barracks, near
Brentwood, to Sergeant J. Marley, late president of the
Garrison Temperance Society, on his retirement from the
service.

Lieut.-Col. Shaw's newly invented gun carriage and gun,
from which the trunnions have been removed, were on
Wednesday convoyed to Shoeburyness from Woolwich, for
the purpose of undergoing a course of experiments, which
were ordered to be commenced this morning. The gun was
fired at Woolwich in the presence of the Ordnance Select
Committee, and fully realised the advantages anticipated.
Cul. Shaw is now about to propose a design for the con-
struction of a gun carriage upon a somewhat similar method
for sea seryiec.in ironclad and cupola shins, so as to afford
greiter protection to the gunners curing a navat engagemen,.
This system, if successful, will obviate the necessity of run-
ning the guns outside the portholes, which will be reduced
considerably in sin.

The Primrose-hill Garibaldi Meeting,
A special meeting of the Working Men's Garibaldi Com-
mittee was held last night at the Whittington Club, Strand,
Mr. Nieass in the chair. There was a large attendance of
delegates. Messrs. Beales and Nicholay were also present
as a deputation from the City committee.
The secretary reported that the sub-committee had made
their arrangements for holding the adjourned meeting on
Primrose-hill on Saturday evening next. Mr. Beales had
consented again to take the chair, and several influential
members of the City committee and members of Parliament
were expected to be present. There was every reason for
believing that the meeting would not on this occasion be in
any way interfered with by the police, but at all events the
committee were resolved on maintaining the right of the
people peaceably to meat in the parks, if they thought proper,
to discuss their grievances. He had been in communication
with Mr. Cowper, Her Majesty's Commissioner of Public
Works, during the last few days upon the point; among other

matters he had asked him whether he would give a clear
and distinct reply to the following questions:—First, whe-
ther he, as First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works,
claimed the I:ght or power of preventing, with the aid of
the police, the holding of a meeting by the people on Prim-
rose-hill, or in any of the parka, for legal and constitutional
objects ? Secondly, if he claimed such right and power, then
upon what grounds, under what act of Parliament, or by
what construction of law he claimed that right and power,
either on the part of himself or the Commissioner of Police.
He had also asked Mr Cowper to receive a deputation to dis-
cuss the question. Mr Cowper, however, had declined to
answer those questions, or to receive the deputation, saying
in reply. " That he could not admit that it would be proper
or expedient for him to enter into discussion with any de-
putation upon the legal questions put to him." The com-
mittee had now carried the matter to this point, and it
would be for the meeting on Saturday to decide what fur-

ther steps should be taken.
Mr BEALES said that he considered the way in which Sir
G. Grey and Mr Cowper had evaded a direct answer to a
direct question tantamount to an acknowledgment that they
were not justified in law in exercising the right and power
they claimed, and he should consider the meeting on Satur-
day next bound to assume as much. The matter could not,
however, rest in this unsatisfactory state, and the metropo-
litan members must be asked to bring the question formally
before Parliament, and compel both Sir G. grey and Mr
Cowper to justify the right they claimed, or give it up. He
for one would not rest satisfied until the question was settled
beyond a doubt. The police, by their unjustifiable conduct
at the former meeting, had raised the question, and it was
now in the hands of the people to have it settled. The com-
mittee he was addressing had received praise from all par-
ties for the dignified way in which they had acted under the
gross provocation they had received, and he felt the matter
might safely be left in their hands.
Mr NICHOLAY supported the view taken by Mr Beales,
and should feel it his duty to attend and take part in the
meeting on Saturday.
It was then resolved that the resolutions respecting the
forced departure of Garibaldi on the plea of ill-health, but
in reality to serve the political purposes of the Government,
as proved by documents in the possession of the committee,
and demanding from the Government a full explanation of
the intrigue, intended to be moved at the suppressed meeting
on the 23d ult., should be submitted to the forthcoming
meeting for adoption, subject to such alteration as the new
facts which had come before the committee should warrant.
It was also resolved that the following resolution should be
moved on the conduct of the police :—" That this meeting
declares the conduct of the police in interfering with a
peaceable and orderly public meeting on the 23d of April
last to have been wholly unjustifiable, illegal, and unconsti-
tutional, and deserving of the serious attention of all mem-
bers of Parliament interested in the preservation and pro-
tection of popular rights."
The Finance Committee then brought up a report of the
receipts and expenses incurred by this committee as their
share of the demonstration on the entry of Garibaldi into
London, from which it appeared that £5l had been receiv4d,
and £5O 19s expended. The subscriptions received since
that account had been made up, and all future subscriptions,
would go towards the testimonial fund, and be paid through
this committee to the City Committee.
The SECRETARY stated that the testimonial fund being
raised by the City and Working Men's Committee was the
only fund recognised by Garibaldi. It was stated by the
intimate friends of Garibaldi that he would not accept the
annuity proposes by the Stafford-house Committee, fearing
his independence. N-vould be thereby compromised.
Soma routine business having been transacted, the
committee adjourned, to meet at Primrose-hill on Saturday
next.

EARLY POTATOES.—Vwenty bushels of new po•
tatoes have been taken up at i'enzance, and forwarded to
the London markets, where they' have realised 2s per lb.
The potato crop generally in the west of Cornwall is for-
ward and looking very healthy,

In the French Senate on Friday last, the 29th of
April, a debate took place upon the subject—not a
very exciting one it might have been thought—of
the establishment of a line of steamers between the
port of Granville and Jersey. The eccentric Mar-
quis de Boissy, however, in speaking tpcin this
subject, denounced the Prince of Wales for visiting
Garibaldi, and employed such very intemperate
expressions that the Paris papers wcro requested, it
is :aid, by the " black man" to take no notice of
them. A report of the speech appeared neverthe-
less in the Monzteur of Saturday, the 30th April,
and the following is a translation of it :
Everybody knows what has lately passed at the other
side of the Channel; it is what I call a happy example; for
whatever evil is done on the other side of the water, what-
ever presages revolution, I applaud with all my heart. If
some persons have been grieved and deeply afflicted at
seeing the social head of a great country debase himself as
he has done; if we have seen—oh ! shame of our epoch I
shame for a certain country, not for us—if we have seen
the heir to a crown shake hands with a filibuster—(hear,
hear)—for my part, my heart overflows with joy, for its
revolution—revolution invoked by those who will be its
first victims. Let not this imprudent prince deceive him-
self—(murmurs)—the revolution never pardons—(increas-
ing tumult)—it takes advantage—(explosion of murmurs ;
interruption). lam told that lam wrong in speaking
thus. I admit one thing—that lam not quite master at
this moment ; but it is none the less true that princes who
offer the hand to revolution are always its victims. (Agita-
tion.) Enough on this point,
It seems that the Marquis de Boissy is not satis-
fied with this report, for in Tuesday's sitting
of the Senate, as we learn by the Moniteur of
yesterday, he complained that it was inaccurate,
and had been curtailed. He said—
I will proceed as usual in very measured terms. lam
made to use language which is quite opposed to my habits,
language unworthy of the senate; for if I had used it it
would have been timid and unworthy of a senator. I did
not say, as the Moniteur makes me say (for I do not wish
to quarrel with all the heirs presumptive to the European
crowns) " the heir presumptive of a crown," but I said
" the heir presumptive of the crown of England." Other
lines follow against which I have nothing to say. Three
lines come after, and in those three lines there are as many
falsehoods of the ltioniteur as words. lam sorry that the
Moniteur, which bears the title of Moniteur Officiel, and
sole official, should be thus the Lying Moniteur under the
authorisation of the Government.
At this the President, M. Troplong, rose, called
the marquis to order, and told him that his words
had been textually reproduced by the Moniteur,
but that some of them had been suppressed. The
President added that this had been done by his
authority. M. de Boissy, in reply, again main-
tained that the Moniteuee report was inaccurate,
asserted that there had been no tumulte, as stated
in that report, and denied the right of the Presi-
dent, or of anyone else, to change or to suppress the
official accounts of the proceedings in the Senate.
"I conclude," he added, " and I sum up by declar-
ing that I have been made to say what I did not say,
and that the Moniteur is no longer exact, but is
nothing more than a novel in numbers, instead of a
faithful history." In replying to this, M. Troplong
said:—

You have just propounded a theory which is quite wrong
when you maintain that the report ought to reproduce
exactly and without any restriction every word which falls
from the mouth of a senator. If you imagine that the ob-
jectionable words which escape from a speaker when he does
not know how to contain himself, ought all to bereproduced
in the Miniteur and in the report, you commit a profound
error; they ought on the contrary to be suppressed, and
that has several times happened under circumstances which
you ought to be acquainted with. In jurisprudence there
are acts in which words contrary to law, public order, and
gcod manners are considered as unwritten. It ought to be
the same in assemblies. The words which outrage all pro-
priety ought to be considered as unspoken. The tribune
is a sanctuary for politics expressed with decency;
but it is not a vehicle of publicity for politics
which resort to invective, violence, and menace. (Hear,
.4eLiterd)i or:felnetnequanss&M uie4Sillfigtial?
I did not hear those words, but they wore repeated to me.
The Marquis—Shall I read them to you
The President—lf you do they will not be reproduced in
the Moniteur.
The Marquis—l have sent them to foreign papers.
The President—You address yourself to foreigners be-
cause you feel that you are not powerful enough here to
cause any scandal.

The Marquis (warmly)—l am not in the habit of allow-
ing myself to be insulted by anybody.
The President—Sit down; you are not in order, M. de
Boissy.

The Marquis—By anybody, understand. Your office is
to preside with dignity, not to insult. (Protestations, great
uproar, and cries of "Order, order.")
_ _

The President—lt is also my duty to maintain order in
the Assembly, and as you are disturbing it I call you to
order.

Ultimately M. de Boissy was silenced by the Pre-
sident explaining that the Senatus Consultum of
the 2d of February, 1861, and the Constitution,
gave him entire authority over the reports of the
Senate, and that on the 25th of February, 1862, he
had exercised this authority by suppressing certain
"coarse and indecent words" uttered by M. de
Boissy himself.