The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

MODEL GOVERNMENT.

News is constantly arriving of the appearance of miser-
able little revolutionary bands in different parts of Italy.
These insurrectionary movements are very numerous, and
though they make no progress they succeed very well in
setting the authorities at defiance for a time. And they
may well do so. The Government seems utterly incapable
of dealing with the widespread disaffection prevailing in
the Italian dominions. Here is a specimen of its
policy. A few days ago a revolutionary band attempted
to do a little insurrection in the Tuscan Maremma. This
band, headed by a person called Galliani, made its
appearance in the neighbourhood of Volterra, and at-
tempted to gain over a number of miners employed in the
mines of Signor Mayer, the late Mayor of Leghorn. By
some extraordinary jumble of ideas the President of the
Council, Lanza, was led to suppose that Mayer himself
was the instigator of the movement, and announced this
fact to the Chamber of Deputies, which of course felt a
good deal of alarm at the idea of such a rising having
receivel the support of one lately holding the office of
chief magistrate in a great commercial and maritime city.
Well, the mistake was found out, and the President
of the Council made his apology to the Chamber.
The speech in which he did so is so singular
a specimen of eloquence that it may be worth
reading in full :—" I ought to correct a mistake
into which I fell yesterday, when giving to the Chamber
the notice it asked of me, respecting the appearance of a
band in the neighbourhood of Volterra. Speaking of
c document which I said was signed by one of the
chiefs of the band, I happened—l do not know I
think that I pronounced a name
names
seen the report of the sitting, so that I am speaking
from my impressions. Well —as I was saying
I don't know how I don't recollect in short,
I think that I pronounced the name of Signor Mayer, or of
Galliani.—(Cries—" Both the names. ) Both the names ?
—well, I may have done so I think —if I
am not mistaken that I also said that the
document of which I spoke bore the signature of
Signor Mayer. - it was
a mistake
not to have said so but I have no recol-
lection of that. The fact is that if I pronounced
first the name of Galliani and then that of Mayer, I
ought on the contrary first to have said Galliani. If I
first said Mayer, when I afterwards said Galliani, I
ought instead to have said Mayer. The long and short of
the business is, that the document bears only the signature
of Galliani, and I cannot tell how, but a combination of
indications of circumstances led me by mistake
to say that it was signed Mayer." Nor is even this
exemplary muddling the worst of its kind. It seems that
the Minister of the Interior, on hearing of the troubles hi
the neighbourhood of Massa, at once assumed that the
Massa in question was the Massa in the Modenese Pro-
vince of Lunigiana. Troops were put in motion, and
sent to this place, whereas the right locality was Massa
Maritima, in the Tuscan Maremma. Suoh is the style of
conducting government in Italy.

The Presse of Vienna publishes the following in-
telligence from Constantinople on the 17th. According to
orders received from Paris, the French squadron of the
Levant, under the command of Rear-Admiral Chevalier,
will not leave the Piraeus at present.

The death is announced of Sir Norman Macdonald
Lockhart, at the age of 25. He was educated at Eton,
was a Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for Lanarkshire,
and Lord of the Baronies of Lee and Carnwath. He is
succeeded by his brother, now Sir Simon Lockhart, who
was born in 1849.
As Mr. George Tomlinson's assistant, at Kirkham,
was about to kill a cow, a man named Thomas Dowling
went up to him and said, " Before tha kills that cow will
to cut my throat ?" at the same time stretching it out and
offering it to him. The assistant took his knife, and
thinking that he was using the back of the knife, drew
it smartly across his throat • the back proved to be the,
edge, and a considerable gash was the consequence. With
care there is not likely to be much danger of a fatal
result.

Examination by torture is not yet extinct. For
in the late Shoay Dah case no less than six innocent men
were so examined, and will bear the marks thereof for
life. One common mode is to twist fine cord round the
wrists and then to work the bawls over each other,
dropping sand on the cord while doing so. This cuts
through the skin, causing exquisite pain, and the sand
prevents the wounds from closing for many months.
The most ordinary mode, however, is as clumsy as it is
effectual, beating the witness with a thick stick.—Pioneer,
April 22.
AN ASSISTANT TO A Fox.—One morning last
week, a shepherd in the employment of Mr. Mitchell,
Arnisdale, was shocked when on his rounds to find seven
lambs worried, all within a few paces of each other. He
at once set down the fox as the depredator, and despatched
Neil Campbell on the track, having full confidence in his
long experience and great success as a fox-hunter. But
what was Neil's surprise at the end of his search to find,
not a fox, but a wild cat just after drinking the blood of
other three lambs. She bolted immediately to gain her
stronghold in the rock, but Neil, who was never known
to lose the first opportuitY, raised the gun to his ghoulder,
and the next moment the cat raceived the due reward of
her deeds. She measured from nose to tail no less than
3 feet ai inches.—lnverness Courier.

...
AN INDIAN RAID.—The Delhi Gazette has an
account of another raid by a Black Mountain tribe into
the Agra valley. On the 9th of. April it is stated a
strong party of Akazyes came over the crest, surprised
the village of Burcha, slew its head man, burnt some of
the houses, and made off with all the cattle they could
collect. This village, and several others, dot the face of
the slope here and there, and cannot be protected by the
pro in Agra, as there can be no reliable inforthation as
to which is to be the point of attack. Almost every
night troops were posted in the villages at the base of the
hill, but the enemy did not dare to molest them. On the
16th they aain came over and plundered and burnt the
village of 'imbleboote.S The villagers gave up their
arms and goods unconditionally, and, therefore, no lives
were lost ; one woman was wounded. Next day they
plundered another village, and the rest were deserted by
the inhabitants. They have actually driven off every
• inhabitant on the slope of the mountain.
THE ORDER OF THE BATH.—It is customary upon
' her Majesty's birthday to publish in the Gazette a long list
of officers elevated to companionships of the Bath in honour
of the occasion ; and in recognition of their services to the
Sovereign. As the day for the celebration of
the anniversary draws nigh speculation "is rife
as to the officers who are most likely to-receive
Bath honours, and the Army awl Ncwy Gazette publishes
the following list as the result of many conjectures on
that subject :—For G-.C.B's : General Sir George Bowles,
Ist West India Regiment, and General • Sir H. J.
W. Bentinck, 28th Foot and General Lord
Rokeby, 77th Foot. For IC.C.B's : Major-General E.
C. Hodge, General C. M. Carmichael, 20th Hussars ,
Major-General Collingwood Dickson, V.C., Royal Ar-
tillery; Major-General 11. D. White,Major- General R.
T. I'arren; Inspector-General of. Hospitals, J. Mouat,
V.C.; Lieutenant-General J. Alexander, Royal Artil-
lery ; Major-General H. D. Griffith, Major-General
A. Borton, Major-General J. S. Brownrigg. For
Companionships : Colonel E. H. Maxwell, 88th Foot ;
Major and Brevet-Colonel W. Sankey, 9th Foot;
Colonel G. H. L. Milman, Royal Artillery ; Colonel W.
C, Hodgson, 79th Foot; Colonel T. H. Pakenhani3oth Foot Foot ; Colonel H. M. Hamilton, 12th ;
Captaan and Brevet-Colonel Mark Walker, V.C.,
3rd Foot ; - Lieutenant-Colonel A. bunny, Royal
(late Bengal) Artillery ';" Lieutenant-Colonel J. Stokes,
Royal Engineers; Colonel W. Boyle, 89th Foot ;
Colonel C. Adams, 49th Foot ; Colonel V, Biker, 10th
Hussars ; Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel G.
Davis, V.C., Royal Artillery ; Colonel E. T. Gloster,
97th Foot ; Major and Brevet-Colonel A. Bassano, 32nd
Foot; Major and Brevet-Colonel J. C. Gawler, 73rd
Fo,;:, ; Colonel R. J. Eager, 31st Foot ; and Captain and
Brevec Lieutenant-Colonel 'G-. A. Benny, V.C., Royal
"(late Bengal) Artillery.