The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

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which, all things considered, will be a better and
cheaper one round the well known old Cape.
The mutiny of the ten thousand men of the
local army, who turned their backs on what we
must think.-to be their duty, in India, may have
t been exaggerated, but we can hardly think so.
We cannot believe that regiments of the Line,
could they have been in the same circumstances,

would have communicated with the Sikhs, with the

view of driving out the QUEEN'S army and consti-
tuting themselves the sole army of India ; and that

to laxity of discipline, to generate the feeling of
loyalty to the land of their adoption rather than
that of loyalty to the land of their fathers—
perhay s, we should rather say of selfish
disregard of their relation to the mother country.
It is indeed alleged that, by s3lf-banishment to
India, our soldiers and their officers become more
considerate of the tastes and habits of the natives;
and in a certain sense this may be true. We know
too well that they have in former times purchased
their goodwill by sharing with them in the most
debasing and degrading of their heathen vices. But
we cannot think that Englishmen generally would
be wanting in that consideration and friendly
feeling towards a subject race which they would be
both taught as a part of their duty, and their own
good feelings would suggest. The sentiments
engendered by the Sepoy atrocities in the late
mutiny, could not be. expected to subside all at
once, but it is fast becoming apparent, that those
were right who regarded the mutiny as a military
one, and as in great part due to the extreme igno-
rance in which we had intentionally kept the
Sepoys, combined with the way in which we had
petted them and pampered their prejudices. A
better feeling between Europeans and natives is,
we are happy to observe, gaining ground, and we
have little doubt that if we prove the benefactors
to the country in legislation, and public works,
and commerce, which it seems now certain
we shall be, the disturbing memory of the past

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with, of course, the awful result of their becoming

;he Praetorians of India. There must be a tendency,

in the double effects of complete separation from

he mother country, anti of a climate which tends

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will soon pass away.
As to all the difficulties raised respecting finding
a supply of the requisite ability for officers for the
Indian Service, we cannot believe it. This is not
the day for the love of featherbed service to spread.
Our middle and upper classes are roused to emulate
in general education, but especially in professional
education, their compeers in foreign armies. We
do not think they have ever been really
inferior—but, even if they have, young
men will enter the army now more and
more with the idea of qualifying themselves for
any required service. If to know an Indian lan-
guage were the desideratum, we trust they would
show in six months that they could give any order
or make any inquiry in it, which the service re-
quired. Why we cannot take up a book on Indian
field sports, without seeing that to enjoy them
thoroughly an officer must be able to make his
native guides and servants understand his meaning.
The patronage question depends on public opinion
and watchfulness. There is, however, much less
danger of its being unfairly exercised in regard to
India, than in regard to home service. Practically,
however, it will always depend much on the Indian
Administration. The Governor - General, and
his chief military coadjutor in India, will be almost
sure to have in their own hands the rewarding of
merit in Indian service ; and in first appointments,
we are told, there is now little scope for favour.

Again we have the painfully interesting ques•
tion about Harbours of Refuge, about Shelter for
Shipping—as the phrase is—ventilated. Literally
and very recently we have had this done in a
frightful manner along a terrible extent of our
coast line, through the resistless agency of the late
tremendous gales or hurricanes. But the indict-
ment thus brougl-.t directly against the Admiralty
and Trinity Board authorities by the elements
themselves was last evening referred to explicitly
in the House of Lords by the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE. And if in reviving this subject for
the reconsideration of the imperial Legislature the
noble lord failed to adorn a more than thrice-told
tale, he certainly contrived to point the moral of
the late disasters consequent upon our perverse and
protracted negligence or procrastination. It is
true that Lord CLANRICARDE was constrained in
the end, in compliance hardly less with the dictates '
of common sense than with tie suggestions of his
Grace the Duke of SOMERSET, to withdraw the
motion last evening submitted to the House of
Peers, the notice of which had been duly given in ,
the Parliamentary papers— the motion, in point of
fact, for a Committee of Inquiry ! As if any addi-
tional light were required to be thrown upon a
grievance that glares, year by year , with more appal-
ling vividness upon the national recognition ! As
if we needed to learn nowadays whether or not it
may to advisable to put an end, if possible, or, at
any rate, to strive to put an end, to a peril that
swallows up periodically in the remorseless deep
hundreds and thousands of lives, and millions upon
millions of money!! No, it may be safely and con-
fidently asserted that no new ray of light what
ever is requisite in this direction. At the same
time, however, that we should be disposed to depre-
cate, as earnestly as the Duke of SOMERSET did
last evening in the House of Lords, the notion of
any further committee of inquiry being appointed
to investigate anew the blackness of this blot upon
the national escutcheon--regarding every such in-
vestigation as altogether superfluous—we are for
that very reason all the more disposed to commend
to any one who, upon any plea whatever, at any
period of the session, in either House of Parliament,
under any conceiveable circumstance, undertakes
to recall to the remembrance of our legislators the
need there is of some attempt at its

obliteration. This good service it was that
was only yesterday once more performed
in the interest of all those " who go down to the
sea in ships," by the Marquis of CLANRICARDE.
And for the doing of this good service we heartily
commend the noble lord—what though the motion
submitted by him to the Upper House was, as
we have intimated, of a character that could only
be mooted, to be withdrawn immediately aftel.
wards.

The acknowledgment made during the course
of last night's discussion by his Grace the First
Lord of the Admiralty was of itself of a character
sufficient to compensate Lord CLANRICARDE for
the subsequent withdrawal of the motion—as to
the success of which he may be presumed (from
mistaken motives) to have been somewhat, and to a
certain extent, naturally solicitous. No amount of
expenditure, his Grace frankly avowed, would, in
his opinion, be refused by Parliament, when the
object was to secure protection for the lives and
property of our mariners. Added to this, the Duke
of SOMERSET, while requesting from the Marquis
of CLANRICARDE the withdrawal of his motion for
a committee of inquiry, manfully proposed that the
responsibility of the matter in regard to those har-
bours of refuge, should devolve upon, or rather
sheoutl, rest entirely with her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment. As many as fourteen distinct plans, it
should certainly be borne in recollection, have been

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laid by various engineers under the consideration
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of successive Governments. Every one of these

plans being, as a matter of course, costly—that, it
is manifest upon the face of it, however, must

remain to the last inevitable, from the mere mtg.

nitude of the proposed undertaking. But, in a.ddi-

tion to the costliness of these different schemes,
the schemes themselves were so diversified in
character as to bewilder the various committees
of inquiry that have already sat at diffe-
rent times to solve the problem involved
in these solemn and reiterated investigations. In-
somuch has this been the state of the case in regard
to the whole question, that the first Lord of the
Admiralty actually went the length yesterday of
declaring that the more the evidence of the matter
was scrutinised the more perplexing the whole
subject appeared to become ! Against the sweep-
ing objections raised by the Marquis of CLAN-
RTCARDE against all harbours and breakwaters
built of solid masonry, the Duke of SOMERSET (and
with reason) protested as against an utter extrava-
gance. And assuredly, to recognise the utter ex-
travagance of these objections, it is only ne-
cessary to bear in recollection the wonders al-
ready effected, and others in course of being
effected, by harbours and breakwaters constructed

LATEST

.N E W .

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

VIENNA, JUNE 28.

The Marquis de Moustier remitted yesterday to
Count Rechberg a note from M. Thouvenel, dated
21st inst., and of which a copy has been simul-
taneously addressed to all the Powers who signed
the final Act of Vienna, in order to claim from
them the official recognition of the accomplished
annexation of Savoy and Nice to the French
empire.

Not only from this note, but from verbal ex-
planations added by the Marquis de Moustier, it
results that France maintains, without variation,
the programme arranged by her about two months
ago. She accepts a European conference, in order
to examine, in common, the modus of reconciling
Article 92 of the final Act of Vienna with the
Treaty of Turin. At the same time the Marquis
de Moustier stated that the French Government
would be opposed to any cession of territory of
Savoy. +

NAPLES, JUNE 28.
The new Ministry is formed as follows :
Commander Spinelli President of the Council
Commander de Martino . Foreign Affairs.
Signor Del Re Interior.
Signor Manna Finances.
Prince Torello Ecclesiastical Affairs.
Signor Morella . Public Works.
Signor Lestucci War.
Admiral Garofalo . Marine.

of solid masonry. The superior advantages 1
arising from the adoption of the substitute pro-
posed
by Admiral TAYLOR and others, namely, the
substitute of floating breakwaters—have yet, to say
the least of it, to be demonstrated. But while we
arc yet waiting for this demonstration, we cannot
possibly do other than acknowledge the reason-
ableness of the Duke of SOMERSET'S anticipatory
rejection of this vaunted substitute, when his
Grace remarked, that floating batteries were open
to this serious drawback, that in the event of any
casualty the consequence must be most disastrous to
any vessels riding in harbour under shelter of those
same floating breakwaters. Besides which there
was:actually that floating breakwater (of Admiral
TAYLOR'S own construction) off Brighton, that upon
the occasion of a severe gale coolly went ashore!
Remembering the liability of all floating break-
waters, to which disastrous kind of manoeuvre we
can only desire to note the more and more rapid
advance towards completion of the noble har-
bours and breakwaters of solid masonry now
in course of construction. We are sanguine,
with the Duke of SOMERSET, that the objections
to the harbour at Dover will cease when the pier
there has been carried out a little further into the
channel. While we rest perfectly satisfied that the
giant structure now being built off the Isle of Port-
land under the guidance of the engineering genius
of Mr. COODE will, upon its completion, be num-
bered amongst the noblest achievements of the
present generation.

Government.

The tricolour flag has been hoisted at the Royal
Castle and by the Neapolitan men-of-war, and has
been saluted by the guns of the foreign men-of-war

,n the Bay.
An iliumination took place in the evening.

NAPLES, JUNE 27 (EVENING).

On the occesion of the mission of the Com-
mander de Martino to France no interchange of
autograph letters took place between the King of
Naples and the Emperor of the French.
In order to give a motive for his mission, the
Commander de Martino was instructed to recall
that, when the Court of the Two Sicilies was, in
1852, the first to recognise the re-establishment of
the empire in France, Napoleon 111. declared that
he would never forget the friendly step of the
King of Naples.
In execution of the orders of the King, the con-
stitutional Neapolitan tricolour flag has been
hoisted at Fort St. Elmo, and was saluted by the
whole artillery of the forts.

PARIS, JUNE 28,

Despatches from Naples, dated yesterday, the
27th inst., state that deplorable events had occurred
there. The French Ambassador, Baron Brenier,
while passing through the Strada di Toledo, where
much agitation was prevailing, received several
blows on the head from a loaded cane. He fell
senseless, and was carried to the palace of the
Legation, where he received the necessary atten-
tion.

Baron Brenier having counselled liberal reforms,
the attempt on his life was attributed to the anti-
reform party. It was hoped that his wounds
would not prove serious.

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, JETIM 29, 1860.

spends whole hours alone with the King, or in con-
ference with Sir James Hudson and the French

The Neapolitan Government, convinced that the
capture of the two vessels was illegal, intimates its
disposition to restore them and their passengers
but, with characteristic dislike of performing an act
of justice, it is striving to turn the restoration to
its own profit, by making it conditional on its re-
ceiving some antirevolutionary aid from us. If I
am well informed the Sardinian Government has re-
plied that it is not concerned one way or the other
with the revolution that has broken out in Sicily,
and may break out at Naples ; and if volunteers go
from our territory, they go also from Trieste and
from Naples itself to serve under De Merode and
Lamoriciere ; let -there be equal liberty of going
and coming for all—only let maritime law be re-
spected. The Sardinian Government knows that
Austrian men-of-war have carried Austrian sub-
jects to Messina ; whereas no vessel belonging to

:he Sardinian Government has carried volunteers

to Sicily, much less Sardinian soldiers. Therefore
the restitution of the captured vessels and their
passengers must not be made conditional on any
concession or equivalent on the part cif the Sardi-
nian Government.

Contributions in aid of Garibaldi's enterprise are
pouring in on all sides. Of the generous help it
has received ft om England I need not speak ;
France, Belgium, and Switzerland are sending
money and arms. A Swedish foundry has sent six
cannon, and America sends many more. In Italy
millions are being subscribed, and there are about
30,000 volunteers anxiousto join. I believe that in
a few days a regular line of steamers will run be-
tween Genoa and Sicily. The undertaking is pro-
jected by a company consisting partly of French
and partly of Genoese.
Count Dann, one of the very few Hungarians
who have ranged themselves on the side of abso-
lutism, has just shot himself at Viterbo. He was
there organising a regiment of cavalry out of
Austrian soldiers who had been discharged or sent
there. The ridicule which has been thrown upon
these soldiers of the Pope has already driven away
many officers ; others are on the point of taking
themselves off; and the few who remain through
punctilio or necessity are so constantly meeting
with annyances and disappointments, that they
lose heart and spirit ; so it is no wonder if one of
them has committed suicide. To serve the Pore
voluntarily is at this time of day a sort of moral
suicide, and that is only a step removed from ma-

ter:al suicide.
Garibaldi has issued two proclamations, one to Lis
cacciatori, urging them to prepare for fresh com-
bats, which may point equally to an attack on
Messina or a disembarkation on the mainland ; and
the other to the bands of Sicilian peasants, thank-
ing them, commending them, and setting them at
liberty to follow their ordinary pursuits. The fact
is, these bands are no longer of any use to him.
For this kind of extempore warfare, so to speak,
town volunteers are much better.