The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-10 00:00:00

THE IRISH BRIGADE.

Under this heading the Nation publishes what it
terms a " highly important letter" from Major
Myles O'Reilly, having reference to " the present
position and the future prospects of the Irish Bat-
talion." I make the subjoined extracts from the
communication indicated :
" On arriving at Leghorn with the men I had
accompanied from Spoleto, I was there detained a
few days by the illness of my wife, who had accom-
panied me, and compelled to proceed directly to
Marseilles instead of continuing my route to Genoa.
From Marseilles I at once proceeded to Rome to
report myself and my soldiers to the Minister of
the Holy Father, and await his orders for their dis-
posal. The officers were with few exceptions, bound
by parole not to serve against the Piedmontese
for terms varying according to the capitulation,
The men were free to join the ranks at once; the
same time there was grave reason to mrprehend
that under the existing circumstances OA Pontifical
Government—its finances exhausted on the one
hand, and its authority, on tb
:c other, exercised
over a very small territory, TO:dere foreign interven-
tion at once crippled its B,'ction and rendered mili-
tary defence useless, a !large force might be rather
a burden than an ad'iantage to the Holy Father. I
therefore laid the matter before the Cardinal Secre-
tary of State, cardinal Antonelli, and the Pro-
Minister of :'firms, Monsignor De Merode, assuring
them, on 'the part of the Irish troops that while they
did not wish to draw pay a day longer than they
couli. be of service to the Holy Father, they were
rrAdy freely to imperil their lives, when needful,
for the cause they deemed it an honour to serve ;
and that should the Holy Father in future time need
defenders, they and I would be ready and eager to
serve under his standard.
" From the Cardinal Secretary of State, who
laid the matter before His Holiness, and the Minis-
ter of Arms, I received the answer, That under
existing circumstances the Government of His
Holiness considered it undesirable to retain a
large body of forces, and that, therefore, the men
of the Battalion of St. Patrick would be released
from their engagement, and sent home at the ex-
pence of the Pontifical Government, the officers to
retain their honorary rank. Finally, I was honoured
with an audience of the Holy Father, who re-
peated the same instructions, desired me to convey
to the officers and men his Apostolic benediction,
his thanks for their services, and expressed a wish
that as soon as the restoration of the possessions of
the Church should make it incumbent on him to
provide for their defence, he might have a body of
chosen Irishmen in his service. I assured him
that there would be no difficulty at any time in
having a select body of such men. To the Minister
of Arms, when his Excellency spoke to me on the
subject, I repeated the same assurance, mentioning
at the same time, that in consequence of the ill-
advised attempts which had been made to dena-
tionalise the Battalion of St. Patrick by the intru-
sion of foreign officers, and especially of Swiss
sergeants of indifferent character, and which I had
successfully resisted, I felt it my duty to tell his
Excellency that any attempt to obtain Irish sol-
diers without a distinct and formal understanding
on this head could end only in failure. He assured
me he would correspond with me on the subject
when the occasion would arise.
" The Battalion of St. Patrick is, therefore, for
the present disombodied'—a sufficient number of
officers remaining to constitute a numerous staff
whenever it may again be called into activity.
" As to its re-embodiment, the time and circum-
stances, as appears from what has been stated,
depend on those representing the Government of
the Holy See. Meanwhile, as a nucleus for future
reorg-anisettion, a depot exists in Rome, where
30 men and non-commissioned officers have been
allowed to return, and with the view of being in-
creasedto a company, should the Pontifical Govern-
ment desire it.
" Thus, through the knowledge these men will
have acquired of the Italian language, and the in-
ternal economy of the service, will be obviated in
advance every pretext for the introduction of
foreigners to the future Battalion of St. Patrick
The fol lowing are the official documents indicated
in the foregoing :

" MEMORANDUM.
" Rome Oct. 6,1860.
" Under existing circumstances, which render it
undesirable for the Pontifical Government to retain
the number of troops hitherto employed, the Go-
vernment of his Holiness thanks the officers and
men of the battalion of St. Patrick for their past
services, and releases them from their engagement,
with the following conditions :
" The officers who hold definitive commissions
retain their honorary rank, and shall be recalled to
the service when the battalion is reconstituted.
a4:91,:hra1.1 receive pay for the month of October,
are fr_etirabursed the losses of war. The soldiers
horn:ttiat
~_oem their engagements, and shall be sent
„`,l,l,s_expense of the Pontifical Government.'
s'apEß OF 'THE MINISTER OF ARMS.
At the " Oct. 6, 1860.
the present
relent in which, in consequence of
of the battolionsoti,th of affairs, the brave soldiers
drreSnt. Patrick, who had hastened
hither for the
of the States of the Holy
Church, are about tnclee
oitv.erthe Pontifical army, the
undersigned Minister
liest satisfaction in 1,64 11: experiances the
satisfaction,
to express to those
soldiers his entire
conduct.
and bestowing on
them the highest praise for theei;
sr:lt:od from them.
"'Nothing more could be
sa,t Perugia,
The Battalion of St. Patrick, at
of honour,
the
at Castelfidardo, and in AnconEt'
power of faith united to the sentiment
in the treacherous and unequal contest, ill Wtohr?our,
small number of brave soldiers resisted tol°l a
the last
an entire army of sacrilegious invaders.
" May this recollection never parish from their
hearts. God, who defends his Church, will defend
what they have done.
"' It is not Irishmen who require to be reminded
that we must suffer and persevere in the good fight.
" XAVIER DE MERODE, Minister of Arms.:

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LEICESTERSBIRE AGRACULTGRAL

SOCIETr.

LEICESTER, SATURDAY. •
The annual meeting of the Leicestershire Agri-
cultural Society was held yesterday, and the usual
dinner took place in the evening at, the Bell Hotel.
Lord J< Manners, M.P., presid. d, supported by
Lord Berners, Viscount Curzon, "M.P., Mr. Packe,
M.P., General Sir Archdale Wilson (of Delhi), the
Hon. Colonel Cholmondeley, the Mayor of Leices-

ter, &c.
The noble chairman gave the usual loyal toasts,
together with " The Army and Navy," and " The
Volunteers." .

Sir ARCHDALE WILSON, who was received with
immense applause, returned thanks for the latter
toast. As an old soldier, he considered the Volun-
teer movement the most glorious movement that
ever occurred in this country. (Cheers.) The First
Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers, but if
he could now rise from the dead and see 150,000 or
200,000 of the youth and manhood of England
coming forward voluntarily to enrol themselves for
the defence of their hearths and homes, he would
not now cast that reflection in our teeth. (Cheers.)
It always gratified a soldier when his countrymen
acknowledged his services, and on behalf of the
army and navy he begged to return his hearty
thanks. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the
evening," Success to the Leicestershire Agricultural
Society," referred at some length to local topics
connected with agriculture and the exhibitions of
the day ; and, having observed that the present had
been a season of great anxiety to the farmer,
proceeded to remark that he saw no prospect of
anything being done in his favour in the way of
legislation in the next session of Parliament.
The past session had been chiefly characterised by
the carrying. out of the financial legislation
inaugurated in 1853 ; that was to say, almost
every innocent Custom-house duty, against which
nobody on earth protested, and the evil influence of
which no human being ever felt—except, perhaps,
fine ladies who were tempted to smuggle beauti-
ful silk dresses in coming over from Paris—had
been swept away, although a considerable portion
of our annual revenue had been derived from them.
In order to supply the void thus created in the
Exchequer, duties on stamps had been raised to the
highest possible pitch, and he did not believe there
was a piece of paper now in circulation in the
country which could possibly be made to bear a
stamp that was not stamped at the present moment.
At the same time, the duties on spirits had been
raised so high that it was impossible to look for an
additional sixpence from them; while in Ireland
the greatest doubts
..were entertained whether

smuggling and illicit distillation would not be the
result. Such being the case, then, the common
sense of mankind showed that, unless we could very
greatly reduce our expenditure, there was nothing
looming before us in the future but recourse to that
cruel, and in many instances iniquitous form of
taxation—the income-tax. (Cheers.) He would
venture to warn them, then, against any hope of
reduced taxation, which he believed was a pure
chimera from beginning to end, and if any person
dreamt of such a thing he was merely casting dust
in the eyes of the people. This was a growing
country. Everything connected with it was grow-
ing, consequently expenditure must be growing ;
and, if expenditure were growing, it needed no
prophet to teach us that taxation must grow like-
wise. There was no reason to hope for any reduc-
tion in the cost of our army and navy. Notwith-
standing all that had been done to bring the latter
to its present state of efficiency and strength, great
doubts were now entertained as to whether it would
not have to be constructed afresh, and whether we
might not have to follow the leading of our admi-
rable ally the Emperor of the French, and clothe
the wooden walls of England with that steel-
plated garment which was said to be so efficacious
in resistance to the cannon-balls of an enemy. Under
these circumstances, even if the prospect of foreign
affairs were peaceful, he could not believe we should
witness any reduction of expenditure, and he greatly
feared the income-tax would be found to be the only'
mode of replenishing the exhausted—the unwarrant-
ably exhausted—resources of the Exchequer. But if
we glanced abroad what was it that met our view? The
blaze of bayonets and gleaming of swords. He could
see nothing abroad that spoke of peace ; he saw
everything that spokeiof war—war in the most
frightful, most awful, most gigantic form ; and if
he looked at the conduct of foreign affairs at home
he could see nothing to diminish the apprehensions
that must be felt by those who looked with atten-
tion at the position of the great military Powers of
the continent. After the Emperor of the French
had by a process which he would not describe
annexed the dominions of Savoy and Nice to the
Empire of France, the Foreign Secretary of England
rose in his place in Parliament and said, amid the
cheers of the House of Commons, that it was now
necessary for England to revert to her ancient alli-
ances. It was quite understood that the object for
which we viere to revert to our ancient alliances was
to prevent further annexations to France by the
machinery of universal suffrage, vote by ballot, and
affinity of language. But what had been the more
recent course of the same statesman ? Lord J. Rus-
sell had recently published to the world a document
which, unless it were repudiated, must be supposed
to speak the sentiments of the Government, and
which, stripped of its verbiage about William 111. and
Vattel, meant that any portion of any people had ,
a right to rise against its sovereign, to invoke the
aid of a foreign sovereign, and that the foreign
sovereign so invoked had a perfect right, without
declaring war, to deprive a friendly sovereign of
his crown and place it upon his own head. He
could hardly wonder that, after the publication of
a despatch containing such a doctrine as this and
directed to such an end as this, the representatives
of the Po wen of Europe should abstain from
meeting the writer of it at the civic banquet in the
Guildhall. It was no wonder of course that there
was an exception in the case of the representatives
of the two Powers who had the most to hope for
from the application of that doctrine so ingeni-
ously invented for them by the Foreign Minister
of Great Britain, But if this doctrine of revolu-
tionary annexation were to be admitted—he put
it to them as men of common sense and men of
business—what was likely to be the condition of
Europe during the ensuing year? Could they not
picture to themselves great potentates who would
find little difficulty in applying the doctrine of this
celebrated State paper to the gradual increase of
their dominions by the absortion of smaller and
feebler territories which might lie, as our Irish
friends would say, " mighty eonvanient ?" (Laugh-
ter.) He did not know whether he might not even
proceed further, and ask what would have been the
fortunes of our own country during the last quarter
of a century if this doctrine had been acted upon
by other countries as well as by England. Should
we now have counted among the dominions of
England India, the lonian Islands, and even, in
the years 1843 and 1844, the flourishing kingdom
of Ireland ? On the whole, therefore, whether he
looked abroad or at home, he could see no reason
to hope that expenditure would be diminished, or
that taxation would not take the obnoxious form of
a great war income tax in time of peace. The noble
lord, after a few furthqr observations, concluded by
giving the toast he had-risen to propose, and which
was drunk with three times three.
Mr. PAM? and Lord CURZON severally responded
to " The Members for the County," and, after nume-
rous local toasts had been given, the proceedings
terminated.

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