The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following officers, non-commissioned officers,
and men belonging to the staff of the 12th garrison
brigade Royal Artillery were to leave Woolwich
this morning for Southampton, to embark on board
the mail packet on the 12th for Alexandria, and
proceed by the overland route to the Mauritius—
namely, Captain and Adjutant Downs, Quartermas-
ter Keating, 1 trumpet-major, 1 armoury-sergeant,
1 orderly-room clerk, and 5 gunners and drivers.
Her Majesty's screw steam troopship Urgent,
Commander W. E. Hire, arrived in Cork harbour
on Friday ni ;lit with the 10 companies of the 2d
battalion of the 24th Regiment which had been
engaged in the affray with the Tower Hamlets
Militia at Aldershott Camp. They had a more than
usually protracted voyage, nearly six days having
been consumed in the run from Portsmouth to
Cork. On Sunday the troops were brought up
by river steamers and landed at Penrose's-quay,
from which they ma ched to the barracks, where
they will remain, it is understood, until an oppor-
tunity offers of sending them on foreign service.
The men on landing looked in anything but good
condition after their long voyage, of which they
loudly and bitterly complained.

ANOTHER INDIAN COURT MARTIAL'

Lord Clyde has had to administer another casti-
gation to the officers composing a court-martial. The
proceedings are recorded as follows :

- Head-quarters, Camp Futtehgurh,
Nov. 14, 1859.
At a general court-martial, re-assembled at
Cawnpore, on Friday, the 23d of September, 1859,
Lieutenant George Cortlandt Buller Taylor, of her
Majesty's Ist Regiment of Bengal European Light
Cavalry, was arraiuged on the following charge :
Charge—With conduct unbecoming the cha-
racter of an officer and to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline, on the following in-
stances :

Ist Instance—ln having, at Cawnpore, shortly
before 12 o'clock on the night of the 18th of
August, 1859, entered into an unseemly altercation,
on the public road, with Sergeant-Maj n• G. H.
Fleury, of the Cawnpore Depot, who, by his (Lieu-
tenant Taylor's) order, was taken a prisoner to. the
main guard of the Ist Light Cavalry, and there
handcuffed and leg-ironed, the leg-irons being re-
moved in about an hour, and the sergeant-major,
still handcuffed, then placed in confinement in one
of the regimental cells, and kept there till about 11
o'clock on the morning of the 19th of August ; he,
Sergeant-Major Fleury, having done nothing what-
ever to justify the indignities to which he was
thus subjected by Lieutenant Taylor.
2d Instance—ln having at Cawnpore, shortly
before twelve o'clock on the night of the 18th
of August, 1859, entered into an unseemly alter-
cition on the public road with Mr. J. Wilson,
engine driver of the East Indian Railway,
who by his (Lieutenant Taylor's) order, was taken a
prisoner to the main guard of the Ist Light Cavalry
and there leg ironed, the leg-irons being removed
in about an hour, and Mr. Wilson then placed in
confinement in one of the regimental cells, and
kept there till about eleven o'clock on the morning
of the 19th August, he, Mr. Wilson, having done
nothing whatever to justify the indignities to which
he was thus subjected by Lieutenan Taylor.
Finding—The court find the prisoner, Lieut.
George Cortlandt Buller Taylor, of her Majesty's
Ist Regiment of Bengal European Light Cavalry,
guilty of the charge brought against him •, and on
the Ist instance of the charge guilty, with the ex-
ception of having entered into an unseemly alterca-
tion on the public road with Sergeant-Major
Fleury, of the Cawn pore Depot, of which he (the
prisoner) is n A guilty, and is acquitted ; and on the
2d instance of the charge guilty, with the exceptioi
of having entered into an unseemly altercation on
the public road with Mr. J. Wilson, engine driver
of the East Indian Railway, of which he (the pri-
soner) is not guilty, and is acquitted.
Sentence—The coui t sentences the prisoner,
Lieutenant George Cortlandt Buller Taylor, of her
Majesty's Ist Regiment of Bengal European Light
Cavalry, to be reprimanded in such way as his Ex-
cellency the Commander-in-Chief may direct.
Revised Sentence—The court respectfully ad-
Jaeres to its original sentence.
" The finding is approved, but the sentence is not
eon firmed."

(Signed) CLYDE,
General, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.
Lucknow, Oct. 27, 1839.

REMARKS BY TIIE COMMANDER•IN-CHIEF IN

INDIA.
The sentence is, in Lord Clyde's opinion, quite
inadequate to the very serious offence of which
Lieutenant Taylor has been correctly convicted. It
is true that this officer has expressed his, deep sor-
row for what has occurred, pleading youth and in-
experience for his improper conduct, which he
allows that he cannot, for an instant, attempt to
defend. He also states, that on becoming aware of
the impropriety of his behaviour, he endeavoured to
atone for the outrage he had committed, by doing
everything in his power to appease the wounded
feelings of the aggrieved parties, but that his
endeavours were unsuccessful ; and Lieutenant
Taylor adds that he is threatened with an action in
the Supreme Court, at the instance of Mr. Wilson,
unless the matter is compromised by the immediate
payment of 5,000 rupees.
The Court, it may be presumed, had these cir-
cumstances under their consideration when they
awarded punishment; but a sentence of simple
reprimand is so manifestly insufficient under the
mildest view of the case, that the Commander-in-
Chief is unable to sanction it in any way, and de-
clines to order its infliction.
The Court having had the opportunity of re-
considering its sentence, has now the full respon-
sibility of the result of this trial.
It is by such inadequate proceedings that the re-
putation of military tribunals is lowered in the eyes
of the public, to the prejudice of discipline, and the
good name of her Majesty's forces.
Lieutenant Taylor is to be released from arrest,
and directed to return to his duty.
By order of the Bight Hon. the Commander-in-
Chief.

D. M. STEWART, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army.

Major-General Cameron, C. 8., who has resigned
the Vice-Presidency of the Council of Army Education for
the command of a brigade at Aldershot, will in all probabi-
lity be succeeded in the former office by Major-General
Rumley, who now commands a brigade at Gibraltar.—
Army and Navy Gazette.

Mr. Cardwell, M.P., intends (says the Oxford
Chronisle) sojourning at St. Leonard's-on-Sea until the
meeting of Parliament, for the purpose of reemiting his
health,

Private letters from Vienna furnish us with the
minutest details of the recruitings going on in
Vienna, under the eyes of the Austrian Government,
for the Pontifical army. An Austrian general
directs the operations ; they choose the best soldiers
disbanded on account of the reducing of their own
army, and the most able officers whose services are
now available, in Consequence of the peace. It is
just as if they had formed an auxiliary corps of the
elite of their veteran troops, and transformed them
by a mere change of uniform into an army of the
Pope.
In publishing this news, we have pointed out the
flagrant disloyalty of the Government of Vienna,
which violates without even regarding appearances
the first condition accepted by Austria at Villa-
franca, that of abstaining from all armed interven-
tion.

A despatch from Leghorn, mentioned below, in
confirming this intelligence, adds that these troops
raised in Austria are passing from •the frontier
by
,whole battalions, and are going to join the ban-
ners of the Papal army. Italy is moved by
it, and the news that the King Victor Emmanuel
has protested formally against this proceeding,
which is too clever by half, and threatened to oc-
cupy the Legations with Piedmontese troops, is not
at all improbable.
We can only see in Austria's conduct an open
violation of the engagements she contracted towards
France at Villafranca.
The conduct of the Cabinet of Vienna on this
occasion is not merely disloyal ; it entails serious
dangers on the peace and on Austria herself. By
breaking her word Austria tears up the prelimi-
naries of Villafrauca and the treaty of Zurich, and
in her turn frees France from the engagements
entered into by the Emperor Napoleon respecting
the restoration of the dispossessed Dukes and their
reserved rights.
We hold up to general reprobation this new act
of Austrian policy, and believe that neither France
nor England will tolerate this strange mode of
interpreting the treaties.
We now give the despatch alluded to above :
(Private service of Lis Nord.)
"Leghorn, Jan. 6.
"It is an asserted fact that the Austrians, dis-
guised as Papal soldiers, arc passing the frontier
by whole battalions to join the Pontifical army.
"It is also affirmed that at Trieste and Vienna
recruiting for Rome is organised on a great scale,
under the direction of an Austrian General.

"We see in this fact an open violation of the
engagements of non-intervention that Austria
entered into with France."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.
THE POPE AND THE EMPEROR.

The tide of priestly wrath continues to flow un-
interruptedly against the French Emperor. At the
Dundalk " pronoucement!' for the Pope which came
off yestel clay, the Very Rev. Dean Kieran, who
was the Alpha and the Omega of the meeting,
piped to this tune

The Emperor of France and the statesmen of
England denounce Pius IX. to the reprobation
of Europe, because he is, they say, the oppressor
of his subjects. If they were anxious to suc-
cour the oppressed nationalities of Europe, how
did it happen that they forgot Poland, and that,
too, at a time when they had a word to
say for the half-savage population of Monte-
negro, and could even assert for the Sultan the
power to oppress his Christian subjects? There
never was a more favourable time to speak for poor
Poland. Her oppressor was the Congress, and the
public voice of Europe had declared she was en-
titled to representative government and national
institutions. (Cheers.) But, even if this damning
fact never existed against these men, I deny their
competence to sit in judgment on Pius IX. Who
has given them the power of sitting in judgment
on the Sovereigns of the earth ? What is there iu
the antecedents of the French Emperor to justify +
him in the course he is taking ? Is it not notorious
that in his own kingdom be has destroyed repre-
sentative government,—that he has gagged the
press—and only the other day suppressed the pas-
torals of the Bishops of France ? (Hear.) Is this
a man to sit in judgment on the Pope, and read
lectures to him on the way in which he should go-
vern his subjects ? ("No, no !") From the Empe-
ror of Franco I turn to the statesmen of England,
and I put to them the same question. They have
assisted to do the work of revolution in Italy.
(Hear, hear.) When Lord Ellenborough proposed
a subscription to buy arms for Garibaldi he struck
a chord to which the heart of England vibrated ;
and, let them deny it as they may, their complicity
with the rebels of Bologna is as patent as the exis-
tence of the sun. (Cheers.) They sent their
Mintos to fraternize withrebels—they sent their
incendiaries to work on the inflammable passions
of an excited people—they sent their g aid and
their intriguers, not to consolidate the liberties of
Italy, but to gratify their hatred of the Pope, and
try and pull down his spiritual and temporal power.
(Hear, hear.) Is this a nation from which a jury
can be fairly selected to sit in judgment on Pius
IX. ? Lord Palmerston has declared that Rome
was better governed by Garibaldi, Mazzini, and the
dagger-men than by Pius IX. Lord Derby has
declared that the States of the Pope are the plague
spots of Europe. Lord J. Russell his declared
that the government of the Pope is an abomina-
tion. Are these men to interfere in the affairs of
Italy, to set them right, and to decide as to the Pope ?
(Cries of No, no !') Let them, if they like, sanc-
tion the rebellion in Italy, and thus practically tell
us that, as we too have grievances, we too should
rise against our oppressors when it suits our con-
venience. (Cheers.) Let them lecture the Pope
by all means, to reform his oppressions, while they
arc upholding in Ireland an establishment de-
nounced by many Protestants as the greatest curse
that ever fell upon any country, and which has
been drinking for centuries the blood of an impo-
verished people: (Loud cheers.) Let them by all
means sympathise with the farmers of the }Emilia,
while at the same time they are laughing to scorn
the rights and claims of the Irish tenantry.
(Cheers.) Let them by all means open their doors
and their ears to the sacrilegious robbers whose
palms are itching for the gold and silver vessels in
the Italian churches; but let them know, at the
same time, that if they condemn the Pops so surely
will the Catholic world receive their sentence with
a shout of derision—(loud cheers)— and trample it
under foot as a mockery and a nullity." (Renewed
cheers.)
It is right, however, that his Imperial Majesty
should know that he is not left without a single ally
in the Irish Church. Bishop Cantwell still swears
6y him, and will not believe him faithless. At the
Mullingar gathering yesterday the most noisy of
prelates thus unburdened his mind .

" Where were his hopes fixed ? First, on the
Emperor of Austria, one of the best Catholics living.
There was not any person on earth in power who
would make such sacrifices as Joseph of Austria
had proposed to do. (Immense applause.) There
was another on whom depended everything in
Congress. He did not give credit to England for
much influence in it. They were sure of Austria
—(great cheers)—they were sure of France. (Pro-
longed applause.) Some doubted of it, but he could
not bring himself to do so. When Pius IX. went
into exile at Gaeta glorious France sent 30,000 of
her bravest troops to the walls of Rome, chased
away Mazzini, Garibaldi, and their followers, and
brought the Pope back in triumph. (Great cheer-
ing.) It was said Napoleon 111. was not to be
trusted. He (Dr. Cantwell) was far from distrust-
ing him. (Applause.) The world gave him credit
for no ordinary talent, and there was a lesson in
his own family which he could not and would not
forget. (Applause.) Napoleon 1., who struck the
Rock of Peter, died a prisoner on the island rock
of St. Helena. Did they think Napoleon 111.
would forget that ? He would never be the man
to lay a profane hand on the Head of the Church."
(Great applause.)