The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

An order having arrived at Chatham for the discharge
of a large number of non-commissioned officers and men
from the establishment, the troops were paraded yester-
day morning, when the names of 105 non-commissioned
Officers and meo, for whose discharge an order bad been
received, were read over by Lieutenant and Adjutant
J. Pope. The men selected for discharge belonged
chiefly to the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 7th
HussarP, 10th Hussars, 4th (King's 0 Nn), 14th, 20th,
23d (Welsh Fusiliers), 31st, 33d (Duke of Wellington's),
38th, 41st Welsh, 42d Highlanders, 44th, 49th, 50th
(Queen's Own), 55th, 56th, 68th Light Infantry, 72d
Highlanders, 77th, 79th Highlanders, 90th Light In-
fantry, and 95th Regiments, with some troops belonging
to the Ripe Brigade. Nearly the whole of these dis-
charged have seen a great deal of service. Each man
has been awarded a pension by the commissioners at
Chatham Ho4pital, and a considerable number wore the
Crimean medal, with three ana four oi.arA.
The troops belonging to the Royal Eogineers at their
head-quarters, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, are making
extensive preparations foragrand night attack which will
shortly take Oltee at Chatham, in which the whole of the
non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal En-
gineers available for duty will take part. A number of
the troops are busily engaged in preparing the explosive
materials and bluelights to be used on the occasion, but
the precise evening on which the attack will take place
has not yet been announced. The operations to be per-
formed will be under the general superintendence of Col.
H. Sandham.

Capt. F. Somerset, of the Royal Engineers, has been
directed to proceed with a number of the junior officers
of the Royal Engineers at Chatham on a tour of inspec-
tion of the principal engineering establishments in this
country, for the purpose of acquiring information con-
nected with the improvements recently made in this de-
partment of practical science, in order that the same
may be introduced into the course of instruction taught
to the corps of Royal Engineers.
Her Majesty's steam-ship Hannibal, 91, Captain J.
C. D. Hay, C 8., is hourly expected at Spithead from
the Mediterranean. She will be surveyed immediately
on arrival, and, if not likely to occupy too much time in
refitting, wi.l return forthwith to the Mediterranean.
Captain Prendergast, of the United States' frigate
Merrimac, paid a visit yesterday morning to Vice-Admi-
ral Sir corge F. Seymour, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, and went on board his flag-ship,
the Victory, in the afternoon, on leaving which he was
honoured with a salute of 11 guns. A number of persons
went, from Portsmouth yesterday to see the Merrimac.
Tne Catharine Harrison barque, Commissariat trans-
port No. 224, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from the East, with stores.

Her Majesty's steam-frigate Shannon, 51, Captain
W. Peel, C. 8., fitting out at Portsmouth, is taking in
her main deck armament, all B.inch (68 pounders.)
Several ships are expected at Portsmouth from the
Thames to embark the volunteers of the Foreign Legions
for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Ct.ear, 90, Capt. J. Robb, from Portsmouth,
arrived off Plymouth Sound, under canvas only, at two
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and having signalled
the screw steamships Exmouth, Capt. 11. Eyres, and
Colossus, SO, Capt. Codrington, which were at anchor
inside the breakwater, they left under royals and joined
the Cmsar. The three lay to for some hours outside, and
sailed in the evening for Lisbon and the Mediterranean.
The Hood, 80, which was cut in half, and half
launched on Tuesday at Chatham dockyard, is to be
lengthened 40 feet, and fitted as a screw steamer. She
is to be completed forthwith.
The Goliath, 80, which has been taken into dock at
Chatham, is ordered to be completed for sea, and fitted
as a screw steamer. Tne Meanee, 80, is also to be fitted
with a screw.

Rear-Admiral Bowles paid an official visit (on behal

of the board of directors of the Seamen's Hospital Insti
tution) to Woolwich Dockyard yesterday, for the pur-
pose of inspecting the progress of the repairs on board
the Caledonia which is in course of preparation for re-
placing the Dreadnought, at Deptford.
The freightship Alacrity, in the East London Docks,
is ordered to be ready to receive ammunition and ord-
nance stores from Woolwich Arsenal, for Cape Town.

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The freightship Wigrams is embarking ammunition in
St. Katharine's Docks from the War Department, Wool-
wich, and will sail in a few days for St. Helena.
The Norman Morris is taking in a cargo of empty
shells from Woolwich, for Barbadces.
The Director is also chartered by Government to convey
military stores, &c., from Woolwich, to the West Indies.
Thu Arabian is shipping war supplies from Woolwich
A rAenal, and will sail shortly for Demarara.
The steam freightship Brandon has embarked a supply
of ordnance stores and ammunition fi• n the War Depart-
ment, at Woolwich, fur Malta.
The Campudown has shipped 800 bns of ammunition
and ordnance stores from Woolwich, for Sydney.
The fdlowing appointments were made yesterday at
Cue Admiralty : Lieut. W. M. Sanctuary, to the Writer-
loo ; D. Lyall, surgeon, to the Royal William.

On Wednesday morning Mrs. Eden, the wife of Col.
W. H. Eden, commandant of Chatham garrison, laid the
foundation stone of a large national school, about to
be erected at Chatham in connection with St. Paul's
district church. Several of the military were preient.
The school will afford accommodation for a number of
children whose parents aro connected with the doe:yard
and garrison.
At is general meeting of the sure' wing officers of the
Royal Naval Brigade, it has been decided to erect a
monument in Kensal•green Cemetery to the memory of
the officers and men;of that force who fell in the trenches
before Sebastopol.
In cons( quence of the large number of the blind and
helpless Crimean soldiers who are to be discharged from
the invalid establishment at Chatham, Brevet-Major S.
G. Bunbury, commanding the depot of the Medical Staff
Corps, has received an order to furnish a large party of
assistant stewards and wardniasters to take charge of
and assist in conveying them in safety to their respective
homes in various parts of the kingdom.

ACCIDENT AT THE ART-TREASURES PALACE, MAN-
CHESTER. —By the fall of some scaffolding used in the
erection of this new building five or six men were
more or less injured, yesterday evening, but none of
them fatally.

Italy who dare entertain the thought of liberating their
native land, so cruelly oppressed. it•ie impossible for
you to imagine what. I suffered with thousands more in
the different prisons from the insects, the scorpions,
hunger and thirst, the suffoca'ing heat, and the fevers
produced by the exhalations from the stagnant waters
which surround Mantua on every side. Notwithstanding
my strong constitution, notwithstanding the firmness of
mind that nature had given me, sometimes my reason
vacillated, and I thought I should have gone mad. It
is not seven months since I was a prisoner prostrated by
fever and hunter. I heard some of my compel ions, who
were confined in a dungeon next to mine, conveyed to
the scaffold. What. I then suffered more than 100 of
our Italian youths are still seffering in that same castle,
and many thousand others throughout the prisons of
Italy. That any man issues from such places and such
sufferings is amazing ; and if he has been able to suffer
many years he is no longer a man as before. As to me,
who had the misfortune to be several times imprisoned,
Providence has singularly favoured me, in not permitting
the utter ruin of my health, or my strength of mind to
abandon me. (Applause.) had accustomed myself to
suffer. Nothing of that kind is new to me, nor alarms
me,ap pbyu
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havegone
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going and
through,at un-
happy
forget,-and lam ever ready to face new trials, so
that I can injure the,: oppressors of my native country.
countrymen
(Immease okseritig.) Although lam nothing—a simple
individual—yet while:Doi grants me my intellect and
physical powers, civir, Vete, always, will I work in the
grin hope of seeing at trait every bloody foot-track of
Austria cancelled from the soil of Italy. While I have
an Italian heart, while the foreigners are overrunning ray
native country, while an Austrian troop is landed on the
western shore of the Adriatic, I will never lay down my
revolutionary attempts or my at ms—never, never, never !
(Loud and protracted cheering) And if, at my latest
breath, I can say that with deeds and not words alone
I have done something for the land which gave me
birth, I shall die contented and happy. (Renewed
applause.) What hours I have myself experienced !
At the time of my first examination before the Imperial
Court of Justice at Mantua, I knew that I should be
irrevocably sentenced to death. Often I thought of
it, and looked towards the door by which I should have
passed t 3 be hanged • and although I bad some time
before ins, still, coolly contemplating the fate which
awaited me horrified me, although my courage failed
not. Although in the field and elsewhere I had seen
death near and seemingly inevitable, yet that idea of
being banged on a gallows often overawed me. (gear,
hear.) These are some of the horrors committed by the
Austrian and Italian governments—horrors which we
cannot escape, because no powerful government will as-
sist us. I was, it was true, enabled to escape these mi-
series, but it it perhaps the only example which has ever
been known under the Austrians, and I am certainly the
only one who has ever escaped from the Castle of Man-
tua. (Tremendous cheering.) But what did it require I
The forced dissimulation of an entire year—the greatest
abrogation, carried even to the point of stifling every
complaint of whatever they did. If I have succeeded I
owe it to the a.sistance of friends, such friends as I never
dreamt to find in human form, having had too often and
too bitterly to lament the deceptions of false friendship.
Now let me speak impartially. Suppose that English-
men were subjected to the same kind of tyranny as Italy,
would they not revolt ? But with what effect if all Eu-
rope were leagued against them as they are against Italy ?
Even England mint then obey the law of the strongest.
God grant this may never be. (Applause.) Is it not an
anomaly that in the civilised Europe of 1856 the most
lovely region of the world should be oppressed by such a
state of things; that the land of Caesar, of Cato, of Dante,
of Michael Angelo, and of Raffaelle, should be cursed
by the worst of tyrannies? that priests and cowled monks,
whose very footmarks render the earth barren as if salt
had been etrewnid.sir it, shl& trample upon the soil of
the arts! Is it nt an abs3leity that the man who calls
himself by the Pagan name " Pontifex Maximus"
should mix up in mundane matters, to the bane of
humanity that h 6 ould issue edicts of proscription
and of the galleyssOaftleath or life, to the ruin and misery

of thousands of-families ? And all this in the name of
God, of the people, and of public order ? Shall Europe
permit such a monstrous thing to defile our land for
ever 1 Liberty to be crushed, humanity to be forgotten,
and Christianity to be scandalised and a most dangerous
apathy put in its place ? But the times are approaching
in which we shall see ;the fall of priestly tyranny ; in
which the free nations by sacred instinct wili aid us, that
we way five. The attitude Of the hherat Eog=
lish people gives us hope that the wished-for time is near.
I bear the name of Italy mentioned with sympathy from
one end of your land to the other. It is a new and cheer-
ing fact for Italians. Seas separate us ; our customs
and language are different, and our governments have
always tried to make the English name hateful in the
I and of Dante ; but the people understand arch other ;
and the proud British i,larrier, who fearlessly rules the
waves wherever his ship can float, begins to reflect on
our country's misery, and his generous heart is moved
towards the classic land which gave Columbus to the
world. The children of that soil whose heroes iu ancient
times were masters of the world, the lords of earth and
sea, shall be allowed to work out their great destinies,
and shall not for ever bo bound by the keys of the Va-
tican and by all the despotic powers of Europe. Signor
Orsini resumed hit seat amidst great cheering.
Mr. W. Cooit, of Gateshead, moved the following re-
solution, which, being seconded by the Rev. J. PRINGLE,
was carried unanimously:—" That the thanks of this
meeting be rendered to Signor Orsini for his able lee-
ture this evening, -and it deplores the evils which his
country suffers from the outrageous tyranny to which it
is subjected. Further, that this meeting recognises the
right of the Ita-ian peop!o to a national existence, and
believes it to be the duty of all nations to aid them in
their struggle to ohtaiu is."

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Mr. Cows ,sf then moved a vote of thanks to Sir J. File
for the cordial and hearty manner in which he had taken
the office of chairman ; and the motion having been se-
condtd by Mr. THOMAS, was carried by acclamation.
Sir JOHN FIFE replied ; and the meeting separated.
The Newcastle Chronicle, from which we derive the
matkr:als of this short report, rays :—" Since his return
to England, Orsini has applied, himself to th 3 study of
the Eoglish language. His lecture on Monday night
was read from the mantycript, and this, of course, made
it; less impressive than au extempore oration would have
been ; but the English was remarkably good, and Sig-
nor Orsini's pronunciation much more distinct and in-
telligible than might have been expected, considering
how short a time he has had to become acquainted with
our language. The lecture was well understood by all,
and went straight to the hearts of those who heard him.
Lhe personal appearance of Orsini c..;rresponds well with
his mental qualities—a firm, vigorous, well-set frame;
a frank, soldier like bearing ; a determined, yet pleasing
countenance, proclaim the man of resolution and action.
The audience received him on his first appearance with
enthusiastic cheering, and the applause throughout the
evening was as hearty as could be wished.