The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

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The Disturbances in Geneva.

We extract from a S %vise paper, Le Journal de
Geneve, of the 23d, the following account of the dis-
turbances which lately took place. at Geneva :—This
place has been the scene of disgraceful disturbances
attended with bloodshed, which will, we have no
doubt, excite the same indignation throughout all
Switzerland as here. The formation of the commit-
tee for the election of a meelber of the Council of
State gave 17 votes for the Redicels and 10 for the
Independents, the names of the members to form
the committee being always drawn by lot from
among the citizens present at the opening of the
electoral operations. Party spirit ran very high
during the voting, and the electoral place was filled
all day with a compact crowd. Yesterday morn.
lug the counting of the votes was commenced
and watched with the same feverish anxiety
as had accompanied the voting on the pre-
vious day. The total number of valid votes given
was 11,025; of which M. Arthur Cheneviere ob-
tained 5,677, and M. James hazy 5,340. The former
was consequently elected by a majority of 337. As
soon as this result was known several members of
the radical party demanded that the election should
be annulled, and the committee, consisting as above
stated of seventeen radicals and ten independents,
at once decided against its validity, all the radicals
voting in that sense. This abuse of power, which
is justified neither by the letter nor the spirit of
the law, excited -extreme indignation among the
conservatives, and a meeting of 2,000 or 3,000 per-
sons was immediately held on the Place Molard, in
which several speakers advocated the necessity of
protesting against the decision of the committee by
all legal means, and delegates were chosen to lay
the matter before the Council of State, then sitting
at the Hotel de Ville. This was done, and the
Council did not hesitate to acknowledge that the
committee had exceeded its powers, but added that
the law gave it (the Council) no authority over the
decision, and that nothing remained to be done but
to proclaim the numbers of the votes, reserving a
further deliberation of the committee, to be held as
soon as possible. This decision, having been made
known to the /crowd in the environs of the Hotel
de Ville, was received with loud cheering ; and a
commissary of police, attended by drummers and
tipstaffs, proceeded to proclaim the result. An
enormous crowd followed the cortege through the
streets to the Place da Chevelu, on entering which
a shot, fired from the entrance of the Rue du Cen-
drier, struck a citizen in the knee, and caused some
confusion in the cortege, which nevertheless con-
tinued to advance. But, on reaching the Rue du
Chantepoulet, it was received with a volley of 60
or 80 musket shots from the windows and from a
band of armed men at the top of the street. The
crowd thus fired at was totally unarmed, and there-
fore could not have given any provocation. This
volley, fired into a compact crowd, killed eeveral
persons and wounded mauy others. We have not
been able to learn the names of all the sufferers, but
we know that one of them was a young man of 17, the
eldest son of M. Jerome,agent dechange. He was shot
through the thigh and died an hour afterwards. In
presence of this murderous attack on a defenceless
crowd, the column turned back towards the Hotel
de Vile, which from that moment became their
central position. A strong barricade was erected at
each end of the Rue de I'Hotel do Ville ; the win.
dows of the arsenal were forced open, and every
man endeavoured to obtain a musket ; so that the
street became a kind of fortress occupied by men
resolved to sell their lives dearly. We do not know.
what the Council of State, then sitting, was doing
while there events occurred, hut at five o'clock it
sent for a detachmt-at of recruits, a compeny of car-
bineers, and a company of the 20th Regiment,
under Major Armr,ud, and entrusted them with the
guard of certain posts. Two hours later the Coun-
cil issued the following proclamation :
"The Council of State earnestly calls on all citi-
zens of Geneva to join in maintaining order. It
relics on the patriotism of the citizens for the safety
of the country.—lu the name of the Council of State,
" Moisli VAUTIERS."
It is also said that several parleys took place be-
tween the hostile parties, which led to no result.
10 rac—We have only to add that the aggres-
sors, whose exploits we have above described, have
raised several barricades at the approaches of the
bridges over the Rhone, and have placed cannon,
taken frcm the arsenal of Grand-Pre, to command
the principal streets of the quarter St. Gervais A
Despatch from Berne announces the arrival of
Councillor Fornorod, with full power to levy troops
in the cantons of Vaud and Neufchatel. At the
present moment we learn that the night appears
likely to pass off more tranquilly than was ex-
pected, as the barricades are Oerywhere partially
removed, and circulation is again free.
Advices from Berne, dated the 24th, are as fol-
lows :

The official report of Councillor Fornerod states
that yesterday morning passed offquietly in Geneva.
Both parties had, on the urgent representations of
the Councillor of State, replaced the arms and can.
none which they had taken from the arsenals; the
Conservatives having stormed an arsenal as well as
the Radicals, and the people seemed to have re-
turned to a better frame of mind, so that the
Federal Commissioners had resolved on allowing
the Waadtlander battalion to remain on the Gene.
van frontier, and determined to proceed alone to the
disturbed town, accompanied only by a few Waadt•
landre and Geneva❑ officers who had returned from
the officer's fete at Friburg.
Unfortunately the order for the march of the
troops into the town had neverthlcss to be given,
because the radical electoral committee refused to
give the Federal Commissioners any satisfactory
explanation of their proceedings on the previous
Sunday, and the Conservatives, notwithstanding
the warning of Councillor Fornerod, intended to
hold a popular meeting yesterday afternoon, which
it was feared would give rise to fresh conflicts be-
tween the rival parties.

Councillor Fornerod says nothing of the result
of this meeting, but states his belief that ho need
not yet give up the hope of a peaceful solution, as
the Committee of the Genevan Grand Council had
decided upon calling a meeting of the Grand Coun-
cil, and on submitting to it a motion that the elec-
tion of Sunday be investigated by the Federal
Commissioners.

P.S.—The funeral of eight persons killed during
the disturbances takes places this morning. As it
is feared here that this ceremony will be made the
occasion of fresh disturbances, orders have been
given for a second battalion to march into Geneva.
The popular meeting of the Conservative party
does not seem to have taken place yesterday, the
Radicals having threatened to take up arms again
in case the meeting took place, M. J. Fazy re-
turned to Geneva on Saturday from Paris.

Th© Federal Diet has entrusted the Federal ma•
gistrate, M. Duplau-Vcillon, from the canton of
Waadt, and the Berne Councillor of State, M. hligg,
with tho investigation into the occurrences at
Geneva.

THE FATAL CASE OF DROWNING AT SOUTIIEND.
—A correspondent writes :—" In your impression
of the 24th inst you state that on Monday last a gentleman
of the name of Terry was drowned at Southend while
bathing, and that the sea was very rough at the time. But
as I was en eye-witness to this sad occurrence I think it
only right to the public that you should hear my version of
the accident, of which I can vouch for the truth. On Sun-
day afternoon, about 1 o'clock (uot Monday) a Mr Berry
(not Terry) got into No 6 machine, on the west side of the
pier, for the purpose of having a bathe, but not long after
he was missed, and the net being procured, he was dragged
out after 20 minutes had elapsed. Dr Warwick (to whom
all praise is due) was quickly on the spot, but after trying
the usual remedies for more than an hour the poor fellow
was given over as dead; and, as to the sea being rapt, it
was quite the ruvelso, but the tide was (as you have it in
your impression) rising rapidly at the time."

•
Naval and Military Intelll,4ene

The Channel Fleet sailed from Spith 'NI A,
cruise westward yesterday afternoon. At
dense smoke from the funnels of the zeal +cativo
ships told of the preparations making on boar d, and
very shortly afterwards the ships could I .e seen
with wreaths of steam escaping from their , steam..
pipes and cables hove in short, waiting the signal
lo start. At 3.45 p.m. the Edgar screw two-tit cker,
74 guns, Capt. G. P. Hornby, bearing the fia g• of
the Admiral Commanding Rear-Admiral S. C.
Dacres, 0.13., led the way out of Spithead by the
eastern passage for the Channel. :followed in line
by the other ships in the order in which they are
named. Aurora, 35. (unarmonrecl) screw, Capt;. Sir
F. M'Clintoek ; Hector, 24, iron frigate, iim7ew,
,C.ipt. ft W. Preedy, 013. ; Defence, 16, iron fri-
gate, screw, C,tpt. A. Phillimorr ; Warri,w, 40,
iron frigate, screw, (hat. A. A. Cochrane, (LB. ;
Prince Consort, 15, ironeasud frigate, screw, Capt.
G. 0. Welles, C. ; Blaek Prinep, 40, iron fe.gate,
screw, Capt. J. F. B. Wainwlight ; Enterprfise, 4,
iron-cased sloop, Commander C. J. Rowley. The
fleet will he put tlarcugh a series of evolutions under
steam, and sail between Portland and the Coops of
the Channel by Rear-Admiral nacres, and will oc.
casionally, until further Admiralty orders, look in
at Torbay anchorage. Letters for the fleet should.
therefore for the present be directed to Torquay.
The Royal Sovereign, turret ship, Capt.: Sherard
Osborn, 0.8., did not join the Channel Fleet at
Spithead previous to its sailing, as had been pre.
vionsly arranged. Up to sunset last evening sh
remained in Portsmouth harbour.

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Her Majesty's paddle
yachts Victoria and Albert,Capt. H. S. H. the Prince
Leiningen, and the
Alberta,Staff-Commander Welch, sailed from Ports-
mouth yesterday morning,
the former for Graves..
end and the latter for Flushing, both in the service
of the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse.
The Forte, 39, screw frigate, Capt, Arthur Mel•
lish, bearing the flag of Rear-Admire' Laird
Warren, late Commander in Chief of her Majesty's
naval forces on the south east coast of America,
arrived at Spithead yesterday, and on anchoring
exchanged the usual salute with the flagship of the
Admiral in command at Portsmouth. The Forte
sallied from Rio de Janciro on the 30th June, fvosn
Bahia on the 12th of July, and from Fayal on the
9th of August. Light winds were generally exa
perienced throughout the voyage until Monday
last, when a very strong easterly gale was fallen
in with. Off the Start a steamer showing the
Federal American colours was sighted, resembling
the Kearsage in her hull and rig. Admiral Warren
with his family and secretary landed at Portsmouth
yesterday from the Forte, and his flag was hauled
down at sunset. The Forte is ordered to proceed
from Spithead to Sheerness to dismantle and pay
out of commission, and will sail some time during
to-day. Forty naval invalids and supernumera-
ries came home in the ship from vessels on the
station, and were transferred to her Majesty's ship
the Victory and Haslar Naval Hospital yesterday.,
Yesterday Mr. E. C. Nepean, one of the officials
from the War-office, who has been occupied for fho
past week in the inspection of the armoury for land
and sea service, guns, shot, shell, and other War
Department stores, together with the land maga>
zines at Chatham, as well as those for the nary at
Upnor, brought his inspection to a close, and closing
the day left the garrison for Dover, to commence
the inspection at that station. The number of the
smoothbore cast iron ordnance, consisting of 32
pounders, 68 pounders, and 95. cwt. 10 inch guns,
now in store at Chatham is very considerable, and
as these are comparatively useless against armour
plated ships, no further ordnance of the kind will
be stored at Chatham. A large number of the 100
pounder smoothbore guns, for naval service, which
are now in course of manufacture at the Royal gun
factory, will shortly be received at the Gun wharf,
together with the first supply of the Armstrong
300 pounders, for distribution to the ironclad
frigates now under construction at the dockyard.
1113jor,,G(tn. A. J. Taylor, the recently-appointvd
inspector-General of Royal Artillery, accompanied
by Capt. S. Nic'aolson, his aide-de-came, yestLreey
brought to a termination his first annual inspection
of the Royal Artillery forces in the Chatham
district, in which duty he had been engaged for
two die. On the previous day the Inspector-
General was occupied in the inspection of the ist
division of the depot brigade, consisting of five
batteries, under the command of Lieut.-Col. W. K.
Fooks, the forces comprising which were paraded
in marching order on the review ground in the
centre bastion, Sheerness, where the Major-General
was received with the customary "present." After
a close inspection had been made of the clothing,
and accoutrements of the non-commissioned officers
and men, the line broke into open columns of
divisions, right in front, and marched past in slow
and quick time with remarkable steadiness and
precision, considering that the ranks were mainly
composed of young soldiers, the wheeling intervals
being very correctly preserved, and the align.
ment of the divisions well sustained, both in open
and quarter-distance columns. A series of battalion
movements followed, at the termination of which
the parade was dismissed, and the Armstrong rifled
and smoothbore guns commanding the channel ap-
proaches to Chatham harbour manned, when some
excellent practice was made from both descriptions
of ordnance, with shot and shell, the target being
moored to seaward at a distance of 2,000 yards.
Daring this portion of the inspection the officers
and men were closely examined as to their know-
ledge of their various duties pertaining to the use
and management of artillery and the appliances of
guns, sling-carts, parbuckling, and the numerous
modes of shifting and handling heavy ordnance. In
company with Col: C. J. B. Riddell, C. 8., in com-
mand of the Royal Artillery stationed in the Chat•
ham district, Major.. Gen. Taylor subsequently made
an inspection of the offices, barrack.'rooms, married
quarters, hospital, and other buildings, with the
whole of which he expressed himself in generally
satisfactory terms. The afternoon of yesterday was
devoted to an inspection of the mounted field-bats
tery of Royal Artillery, now eocupying the north
square at Brompton Barracks, and the efficiency of
the officers and axon, tested by a series of field
manoeuvres on Chatham lines, where the customary
review movements were gone through in a highly
creditable and efficient manner. The men were also
inspected dismounted in the barrack square, by
Major. General Taylor, who likewise inspected the
Armstrong guns, waggons, horses, stables, &c. The
annual inspection was brought to a termination yea•
terday afternoon, and Major-General Taylor will
this morning proceed to the other Royal Artillery
I stations in the south-eastern district.

In accordance with instructions to that effect
from the Admiralty, the boats, anchors, and cables
for the iron frigate Valiant, 24, SOO•horse power,
have been sent from Chatham and Sheerness dock •
yards to the Victoria Docks, where the Valiant is
being prepared for sea.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut: D. D. Fre-
mantle to the Brisk—Denton H. Speer, master in
command of the Acorn—James B. Haines, master
to the Brisk—Sub.Lieut. J. J. Bell and Sub. Lieut.
Edward A. Liadert to the Brisk—John H. Robin-
son, Chill lea T. Turner, James M. Bence, and Claude
C. do Crespigny, midshipmen to the Brisk—Stephen
H. Thompson, Gcorgo Wilson, and Fitz H. E.
Crowe, naval dadets to the Brisk—W. H. Clytna,
paymaster, to the Brisk—A. G. Young, assist. pays
master, to the Brisk—Edward J. Butler, assist.
surg., to the Hibernia—Arthur J. Ireland, assist.
surg., to the Caradoe—William Redmond, assist.
surg.., to the Itlyal Adelaide—W. Clay, clerk, to
the lirimk—Cliltrles G. E. :be,rteon and G. 11. Sto.lte,
rna:,l r'tz 'lsEistant”, to the Brisk—A Borthwielt and.
W. C. Ili cler, of the Asia, and J. APlntyre, of the
Royal Sovereign, promoted to ho engineers—.J.
Barber, of the Asia, and C. J. Jordan, of the Galas
tea, promoted to be first-class assist. engineers—F.
Pugh, of the Medusa, T. Catchpole, of the Asia, and
G. F. Sutton and I. Finlay, of the Cumberland,
confirmed as first-class assist. engineers—R. Irwin,
of the Wolverene, and William Savage, of the Cum-
berland, confirmed as second-class assist. engineers
„aid Frederick Smiley, assist. engineer to the
Marlborough, es supernumerary.