The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

everything relating to his profession, and who has put
forward the soundest view's ith singular ability.
Sir CHARLES JAMES NAPIER says—" There ought to
be a military code for peace and a military code for
war. There is a peace establishment and a war esta-
blishment for most of the branches forming the mili-
tary system, and ki by not for military law." And
again—" If the objects to be gained by military law
in time of peace are, as I have said, different from
those demanded in time of war, and if they are also
of a gentler nature, and more approximate to those
sought for by social law, and if the soldier's life is in
peace very similar to the life led by a citizen, is it
not natural to abate that rigour of the law which in
war is necessary to attain the more urgent objects of
obedience and sanguinary results ? I think reason
tells us that this is both natural and wise."

We shall for the present rest on the opinion of
those eminent persons. We trust most sincerely
that what we have said is sufficient to direct the
public attention to a thorough investigation of the
subject, and that the force of public opinion, when
once fully awakened, will have the same deference
paid to it by the military authorities, and will be as
productive of a beneficial mitigation of this severity
of the code, as it has recently been in respect to cor-
poral punishment.

The following account of the revolution in Geneva
appears in the Journal des Daats :

"On the evening of the 6th the inhabitants of the
faubourg St. Gervais assembled and raised barricades at
the bridges. In the morning the militia, with the deter-
mination of destroying them, fired about 200 cannon shot,
which accomplished the desired obj-ct. After this the
soldiery made attempts at two different points to enter
and occupy the faubourg, but were received with a gall-
ing fire from almost every window. Each of the com-
mandants marched at the head of his regiment, and as
nearly all of them were wounded, the retreat was beat,
and the troops re-crossed the bridges. Still they re
mained in possession cf the lower town and the course of
the Rhone, and the insurrection was confined to the fau-
bourg. In the night, however, the insurgents set fire to
the bridges, and the inhabitants of the lower town, find-
ing that their safety was compromised, rose in
their turn. At the same tine the Radical auxiliaries
of the canton of Vaud came in great force to the aid of
the insurgents. The militia, thus threatened on all
sides, began to waver, and at length yielded, and the
Council of State gave in its resignation. By the even-
ing the arsenal and the principal public establishments
were in the hands of the insurgents, who formed a Pro-
visional Government. The courage with which the
colonels of the militia were the first to meet danger was
fatal to them. The families of the highest consideration
of Geneva have to deplore losses; among these are
Colonel Chateauvieux, an old officer of the Royal Guard,
and M. Ravie. The militia has lost several men killed,
and many wounded. The loss of their opponents is not
yet known, but it is believed that it cannot be very
great, as they were well protected by their barricades.
Whilst the battle was going on between the Government
troops and the insurgents, 2,000 men were marching
from the canton of Vaud to the assistance of the latter;
but the affair having ended in the triumph of the in-
surgents, a messenger was dispatched to stop their
ads ance."