The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

It is understood that, the department of the Ad-
jutant• General of Royal Engineers will be shortly
removed from Chatham to Whitehall.

The 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment, sta-
tioned at Gosport, have received orders to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed to Aldershot in
about 14 days.
Brevet-Major Palmer's Ist battery, Ist brigade,
garrison Artillery, yesterday left Woolwich for
Shoeburyness, to relieve Brevet-Major Clifford's
7th battery, 2d brigade, ordered to proceed to
Dover. Two additional batteries are about to be
added to the depot at Woolwich, to be named the
9th and 10th batteries, for the purpose of embody-
ing the corps of non-effective men employed in the
garrison, such a 3 officers' servants, and men who,
under ordinary eircumitanees, are not subject to
parade and drill.
Since the disuse of corporal punishment, which
has been unknown at Woolwich for many months
past, it is stated that the crime of desertion is of
less frequent. occurrence, as verified by the official
returns from the corps of Royal Artillery and
Royal Marines, as well as the other divisions of the,
army stationed at Woolwich. This is accounted
for by the known fact of numaers of desertions
having been induced solely by the terror of the
lash, which, up to the
moment when corporal run-
ishment was ordered to be held in abeyance, was
resorted to, in some weeks, every day except Sa-
turday and Sunday.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—A fatal accident occurred
on Sunday from the capsizing of a boat which was leaving
this leviathan ship, and the foreman of, the carpenters who
are at work on board was unfortunately drowned. There
were five or six other persons in the boat, but they were
saved, the unfortunate carpenter being the only person
drowned.

.P 2 DUKE OF MODEN.,
•
- The nif, noona's..PipT?st
'lick-at ion of si 'tit es to Piekirna;
Francis V.; Afehelukti !of
3yal of , of
nr Madam, Miraw....
Orrara,_Guas•talla_,
The fitioLl toyvzrds the earl of Aprl.l4:-
1859, in the.G4.-and DOehyof Toseauy, an.i tlieattit
-thole of Sardinia, gro
.more.h,ostila at thatt;n2e
tOwards-ns,• having compelled-us- to earl tell trate ol;c
triilawforces, -by removing them li'om INA part
of th qh.k-i,k that is contiguous to those two Stat6,j.'
we prot;sitti on. the 14th of May, 1859, against the
' unjust usurpation of those provinces, which the}!
Piedmontese Government, immediately after OA
departure of our troops, did not delay efft-eting.
The events of the war in Lombardy, the YUCUIU-
t ion already consummated at Parma, the iinininencu
that of the Legation's, the violation by the French
troops of our territory on the side ot the Tir-con;.
frontier, obliged us to retire, with the greater
part-of our troops, from the remainder efour•sl:,tc::,
convinced as we were of the impossibility of in t1:11-
fain ing ourselves therein as an independent. saN7`.-
lifign relative to enemies immensely Superior
numbers and means. •
The revolutionary faetion, directed and supported;
in every way by the Sardinian Governinent,
ceeded in overthrowing the regency we had ap-
pointed by the decree of June .11, 1859; and -
Piedmontese eounnissiotaer immediately seized
power and put himself at tLe head of the revolt. -.
\Ve then addressed from Villafianca, on the •22d
June, 1859, a second protest. wherein declaring"'
the spoliations committed by the Government of
Sardinia to the prejudice of our sovereign
rights we referred to the declar4tions
already made respecting the illegality of
the acts, which. every.. Government or power
net proceeding from us might or should have ,pro-
claimed in our states, and we thereupon appealed ';-
to the friendly and allied coluts.
The armistice of Villafranea b'r'ing put a stop to
hostilities between Austria and Prance, the DOH-
gerent powers drew up the, preliminaries of
peace, that were s•absequently raised by the treaty
of Zurich to the height of solemn stipulations, and
both-in the tw•o'fortner as' in the latter the're•rstu.-
blishrnent of our sovereignty was openly and in-
contestably covenanted in such a way that our
rights received from them a signal and additional
sanction. --
Everyone knows how
.the French Government
hindered by its acts acts and interpretations the
possilaility .of our restoration; and how the Sar-
dinian Government, though it also signed the treaty
of Zurich, continued disloyally through its organs
and repieSentatives, or whatever their titles may
have been, to dispose as a master of our state, and
to assimilate it to its own.

The'recent decree of annexation, which they'lake
pains Vo. exhibit as the consequence of the votes by
. a supposed universal suffrage,•antl which in being
extended to the Emilia, includes ,also our states,
completes the series of unjust and illegal acts by
which they-have succeeded in depriving.us of the
sovereignty that we had inherited from our ances-
tors, after they had exercised it for many centuries
—a sovereignty which, at the close of events analo-
gous to the present ones, was by the treaty of
Vienna in -.1815, acknowledged -and restored in
favour of our family by the whole .of Europe, for-
tunately at that time united by coalition, and trium-
phant over the revolution.
We believe then that we are fulfillinn. a 'most
sacred-duty by protesting, as we herewith do pro-
test, once more in the face' of Europe against a
similar act that is an infraction of ail our-rights,
after it had been based on • violence, and after the
victories of a powerful ally had been turned to ac-
count in order 16 'Obtain an aggrandisement long
coveted and long prepared by fraudulent and trea•
cherous means; against an act. that is, based on a
principle opposed to everylyuastie system ; against
an act, in short, that in its execution is devoid of
every guarantee derived from good faith, having
keen conceived, followed un, and controlled by those
very persons who had excluded the voting in favour
of the legitimate and pre-existing power; by those
very persons, we say, who, relying on a strong
armed force constantly maintained in our states,
et iploy deceit and intimidation for the purpose of
exercising an overwhelming pressure upon the po-
pular vote.

The faithful troops by whom we have been ac-
companied into the territory of his Majesty the
Emperor of Austria, and who received them so
generously and hospitably—these troops who in-
cessantly preserve for us an unshakeable fidelity and
devotedness; the number of the distinguishedpersons
who by their voluntary emigration protested against
the change of rule effected in our states ; the still
greater number of those who underwent imprison- ,
' ment, persecutions of every kind, and the loss of
their situations, or who spontaneouslY resigned the
public offices they filled, e3:posing themselves in
many instances to privations rather than abjure
their principles or fail in their duty as loyal
sultjt.cts; the avoidance of all participa-
tion in the present state of things on the
part of the great wajority of the upper classes in
Modena and of the clergy; lastly, the frequent
manifestations of fidelity that broke out in the
rural districts; notwithstanding the most active
vigilance, and although immediately suppressed—
all these are so many proofs that this pretended
universal suffrage, from which the Sardinian usur-
pation derives an appearance of legality, is merely
the result of that perfidy and wrong that from the
outset distinguished the conduct of the Piedmontese
Government and of its adepts.
This solemn declaration, that we also make for
our successors, has chiefly foi its object to pretest
against all prejudice against the rights of soverignty
appertaining to us in virtue of descent, and sanc-
tioned as well as guaraeteed by the European
powers. We protest likewise against the spoliat ions
committed, against the usurpations consummated,
against the universal suffrage adopted or simulated
to that behoof, against the losses we have endured
therefrom, and against those we may still have to
endure, against the losses and prejudices, in short,
to which, in consequence of these unjust and illegal
acts, the faithful part of our subjects may be ex-
posed.

- We wish to have recourse, and we again appeal
for support to the powers that guaranteed the trea-
ties, being certain on our part that they will never
admit the right of the strongest, or the theory of
the supposed universal suffrage, since such a prin-
ciple, though applied at present to one of the small
states, whose rights nevertheless are quite as sacred
as those of the largest, might hereafter, by the
analogy of reason, be extended to all the other
states, and so attack the existence of every Euro-
pean monarchy.
Penetrated with the sentiments of our duty to-
wards our faithful subjects, we declare, finally, that
adversity shall never force us to renounce our rights
of sovereignty over our States ; and being convinced
that We are thus fulfilling the trusts reposed in us
by Divine Providence, we shall await future events
with the firm hope that the justice of God will put
a limit to the machinations, from which States and
peoples are the victims, by securing one day the
triumph of the good cause.
(Signed) FRANCIS.
Vienna, March 22, 1860.

CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.-The result of
the examination of 40 candidates for 12 third-class clerkships
in the War-office has just been made known. The names of
the gentlemen who have thus succeeded in obtaining an
emolument of £lOO a-year are as follows:—C. L. Sutherland,
J. Young, R. H. Granville, H. G. Platt, T. Briant, D. F.
F. Richardson, C.'Morton, S. C. Roehat, E. B. Falwasser,
D. Pigott, A. A'Beckett, and J. P. IPmkes.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—The adjourned inquiry into the cause of the
death of George Alexander Falconer,
who expired on the
11th of March from injuries sustained by the accident at
Tottenham on the 20th of February, was resumed yesterday
afternoon before Mr. Humphrey`, in the Sir John Cass
Tavern, Victoria-road, South Hackney. Mr. Sergeant
Ballantine appeared for the Eastern Counties Railway
Company, and Mr. Humphreys (of Humphrey, Morgan,
and Co.) for the widow of the deceased. The greater num-
ber of the scientific gentlemen connected with railways and
the manufacture of iron who gave evidence at the Totf en-
ham inquiry were also present. '1 he only new evidence of
a scientific kind which was produced, was that which wag
given by Sir Charles Fox. In answer to questions by Mr.
I ilrdue
PhreYs'Sir Charles stated that he had examined with
the tire which had broken and occasioned the cc-
The fracture had been occasioned by a weld which
eg eannti t
care
had never been perfect, but he was of opinion that if the
tiro of the wheel had been properly blocked it would have
given certain indications which would have informed a care-
ful workman that a defect existed. In cross-examination by
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Sir Charles said that very small
defects in tires might remain undetected by the system of
blocking he had referred to, but he thought the defect which
caused the accident was originally too large not to have given
indications of its existence. Mr. Harrison, an engineer,
Mr. Fenton, the manager of the Low Moor ironworks, and
Mr. 'Beattie engineer of the South-Western Railway, were
then called by Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and each of them
gave an opinion disagreeing with that of Sir Charles Fox-
The coroner having carefully summed up, the jury re-
turned the following verdict :—" That Getrge Alexander
Falconer died on the 11th day of March, told that his
death arose from the upsetting of a certain le,comotive en-
gine on the Eastern Counties Railway, and 'that the upset-
ting of the said locomotive engine was car tied by a wheel
being used whereon was a defective tire."

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