The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

THE GERMAN LEGION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--I read with much pleasure your admirable
article in last evening's paper on " Military Colonisa-
tion," and quite concur in your views " that the offer
ought first to have been made to Englishmen," for even
had they declined it the Government could then have
had recourse to the Foreign Legions ; but from my ex-
perience I am certain there would have been no difficulty
in obtaining plenty of men equally " trained to arms"
as the German oprps, who would have been glad to have
embraced the opportunity. I refer to the regiments of
disembodied militia, for on the arrival of the order for
disembodiment of the regiment I served in I inquired
of a number of men how they liked the prospect of being
again thrown on their own resources, but the majority
replied that "now they had once adopted a military life
they would rather continue it even though it were on
foreign service."
most
Apo
obelogdientisingly, for troubling you —I remain, sir, yours

A MILITIA OFFICER,
London, 3d October, 1856.

WALTER SAVAGE LAND OR ON TYRANNICIDE,

TO J. I!ERITON WHITE.
At the present time I have only 1001. of ready money
at my disposal, and am never likely to have so much in
future. Of this I transmit to you five, towards " the
acquisition of 10,000 muskets to be given to the first
Italian province which shall rise." The remaining 95/.
I reserve for the family of the first patriot who asserts
the dignity and performs the duty of tyrannicide. Abject
men have cried out against me for my commendation of
this virtue, the highest of which a man is capable, and
now the most imperative. Is it not an absurdity to re-
mind us that usurpers will rise up afresh Do not all
transgressors And must we therefore lay aside the
terrors of chastisement, or give a ticket of leave to the
most atrocious criminal Shall one enslave millions ?
Shall the laws be subverted, and we be told that we act
against them or without their sanction when none are
left us, and when, guided by eternal justice, we smite
down the subvertor ? Three or four blows, instantane-
ous and simultaneous, may save tire world many years of
war and degradation. If it is unsafe to rob a citizen,
shall it be safe to rob a people In what country is not
every schoolboy taught, even by the priests who are
ordinarily his instructors—here impelled unconsciously
by a hand invisible—to applaud the self-devoted vindi-
cator The ferule strikes the desk, and the boy rises
at once into the man.

WALTXR SAVAGE LANDOR.

ART GOSSIP.

MONUMENT TO THE BRIGADE OF GUARDS.—The officers
of the brigade of Guards ,propose to raise a monument
to the officers and men of the brigade who have fallen in
the late struggle. According to the terms of the meeting
at which the project was discussed, the monument is
likely to be on a grand scale. The officers have already
appointed a committee to see it carried out, with Sir
Alexander Woodford at its head.

Mr. HOLTORD'S HOUSE in Park lane is completed
exteriorly. Its palatial grandeur and perfect harmony
of parts reflect great credit to its owner and to its archi-
tect, Mr. Vulliamy, while it worthily adorns the site it
occupies. Its interior decorations are, we are happy to
hear, to be entrusted to an Englishman—tha talented
Mr. Stevens "of Kensington."
MONUMENT TO SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The Mayor
and Corporation of Lincoln are taking measures to erect
a monument to Sir John Franklin, the hero and chief
victim in the dreary Arctic episode of our day.
MONUMENT TO LORD ORMONDE.—Mr. Richardson
has just completed an elaborate and beautiful tomb and
recumbent statue to be erected to the memory of the late
Lord Ornionde. It will be placed in the family vault in
the Cathedral Church, Kilkenny.
A STATUE OF LAGRANGE, the celebrated mathemati-
cian, is about to be erected at Turin, where he was born
in 176 G.

Lord Ellesmere has recently placed a slab of marble
inlaid with brass to mark the spot in the north aisle of
Henry the Seventh's Chapel where Addison has been
sleeping for a hundred years.