The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-10 00:00:00

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PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD,

THE ANNEXATION OF SA VO

From Chambery under date of the 7th of Febru-
ary the following appeal to the English people
against the annexation of Savoy to France has been
received. It is signed by 24 of the leading tam of
the capital of Savoy :
" SAVOY TO THE ENGLISU PEOPLE.
" Chambery, Feb. 7.
" During nearly the last six months some indivi-
duals of Savoy, whose petitions, carried from house
to house, have not succeeded in obtaining 20 re-
spectable signatures, have formed the plot t.o make
over Constitutional Savoy to the Imperial Govern-
ment of France.
" The Courrier des A Ipes, which is their property
and their organ, has since then never ceased to pro•
claim the unanimous adhe.ion of Savoy to those
desires of annexation.
"As long as those assertions remained within our
mountain range, our quiet and proud population
treated them with contempt.
" But the Paris press has thought fit to make
itself the echo of these falsehoods; the officious ac-
complice of supposed ambitions, it has endeavoured
to lead opinion astray, and to deceive Europe by
announcing a few isolated wishes to be the expres-
sion of the sentiments of the whole of Savoy.
" Silence and inaction were no longer possible.
" On the 29th of January last an important de-
monstration was made at Chambery, the capital of
Savoy. Nearly 3,000 citizens of every class, rank,
and profession—magistrates, lawyers, officials, doc-
tors, merchants, workmen, nearly all the officers of
the National Guard, responding to the appeal of
the patriotic committee constituted by themselves,
met on the Champ de Mars, whence, with the na-
tional colours flying, they proceeded to the residence
ofithe head of the Government, to declare publicly
their wish to remain free under the Constitutional
Government of Victor Emmanuel IL, the king, the
honest man, and the first soldier of Italian inde-
pendence.

"In this concurrence of citizens, marching in ad-
mirable order and manly dignity to the accomplish-
ment of a great duty, there were, doubtless, many
opinions mingled together; but, putting aside the
distinction of private and political views, all were
united in one common devotion for their country
and for liberty.
" Such a manifestation was of a nature to excite
the anger of the French press, so compliant to
authority ; and we behold lately an incredible
audacity of falsehood and calumnies di.bonouring
the journals of France.
" The demonstration of the 29th January has been
most unworthily misrepresented.
" The English people, accustomed by the free ex-
ercise of freedom not to allow itself to be taken in,
aecustomed also by its well-founded distrust to be
on its guard against perfidy and interested ambi-
tion, will not be deceived by such manoeuvres.
"Threatened in her integrity, in her indepen-
dence, in her liberties, Savoy has counted upon Eng-
land.

" Certainly, we have confidence in the loyalty
and attachment to our country of Victor Emmanuel
11., in the straightforwardness and firmness of his
Government, but we are also aware of the strength
which power misled by error may wield in the
world.

"We come to you, people of England, because
among all people you are great in liberty ; because
your powerful voice, encouraging nations strug-
gling for their independence, can protect them by
raising up insurmountable barriers before them.
"Ia the name of those joint interests which unite
peoples, do not allow that old Allobrogia, which de-
fended its territory and its rights against the
ancient rulers of the world, to become now the
ransom of their descendants ; do not allow a people,
however small it, may be, to be extinguished, to
give liberty to a nation, however great it may
become.
"May your Government, the faithful exponent of
your sovereign orders, inform the world that Savoy,
having become your ward in the hour of supreme
danger, shall not be given up and sacrificed!
" The defence of our liberties is also the defence
of the liberties of the world, which to-morrow, per-
haps, may be compromised by an ambition which a
first success would renter ettonger and more exact-
ing. _ _

"And, should ever a danger threaten the free
soil of England, the ardent and mature devotion of
the people protected and saved by you, by Eng-
land, would afford vou a secret and powerful sup-
port, which, joined to the patriotic energy of your
children, would render you invincible." [Here
follows the signatures.]

MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAMS ON TILE

NATIONAL DEFENCES.

Major-General Williams, of the Royal Engineers,
who wrote upon the national defences in 1853, has
just addressed a pamphlet to Mr. Sidney Herbert,
in which be further developer his ideas on the sub-
ject of the defence of the south and south-eastern
coasts, metropolis, and dockyards of England. The
gist of the gallant officer's proposal is contained in
the following sentences, although, as a whole, and
taken from a military point of view, the pamphlet
is well worth perusing :
" I propose," says Major-General " to
occupy Ileachy Head by an entrenched work,
capable of containing 15,000 men, and consider its
occupation a matter of the highest importance. In
time of war it would be a cover for a frontier garri-
son, ready to repel attack, and a depot for brigades
of artillery for the coast service. If that remark-
able headland were left undefended it might be
seized upon by an enemy, and become a secure base
of operations. Two other works of a similar na-
ture, one on Ashdown•hill, and another on the
north side of Mariscottlill, with the fortifications
' at Chatham, would complete the chain from the
Medway to the English Channel, and,in my humble
opinion, form the best protection fur the metropolis.
Field works,consisting of a ditch and parapet of bold
profile, with sufficient buildings only to contain in
times of peace an adequate garrison for their protec-
tion, are alone intended. In time of alarm the proper
number of troops would be located in each, hutting or
encamping themselves as on any other active ser-
vice; but every summer these posts should be oc-
enpied by several regiments, who, in their drills
and marches, should thoroughly explore all the
country around, and should be instructed in the
best mode of defending it, and of communicating
with the next posts. Stone platforms, sheds for
gun carriages, and magazines must of course be
established in each, and the guns and projectiles
kept there in readiness. These posts should be
connected by railways, and by electric telegraph
cables laid in troughs underground ; by which
means instantaneous communication might be had
at all times, and simultaneous movements concerted.
If this system were further acted upon by the occu-
pation of Shooter's-hill, for the protection of Wool-
wich, and by the construction of entrenched camps
at Brighton and Portsdown-hill, I believe the
kingdom would be perfectly safe." The volunteer
movement is supposed to be regarded with ridicule
by military men. Major-General Williams criticises
it in a very generous spirit. "In my opinion," he
says, " it i■ scarcely possible to overrate the im-
portance of the national ardour and determination
evinced in the formation of volunteer artillery and
rifle corps ; and although military men cannot re-
pose in them the confidence given to regular troops,
it is very ungenerous and impolitic, either in speech
or in writing, to discourage the extension and com-
pletion of this new arm of strength. Such it will
undoubtedly prove to be, if judiciously fostered
and controlled by Government; and it will be well
not to be parsimonious in supplying the wants of
volunteers, who should not be called upon for any
expense beyond their clothing."

[AirivEnTisEmigNT.]—Notice.—ln consequence of 3lessrs.
Lewes and Morton having just commenced Mit) with opposi-
tion similar to that which they previously advanced, and wish-
ieg to do those gentlemen every justice, Mr. Thorley is induced
to enlarge his coining pamphlet, making it 64 pages instead
of 32 showing beyond doubt that their observations on the
so-called " Concentrated Cattle Food," and so-called "feeding
statistics," are without foundation ; that the tiothamsted
experiment was not made with his food, and consequently
that this complete failure must either be through mism mage-
ment or from buying the Condiment at the wrong shop. The
first impression of One Hundred Thousand Copies will be
ready about the first day of March, and may be had post free
on receipt of Three Stumps, on application to.Toseph Thorley,
the Inventor and sole Proprietor of " Thorley'e Food for
Cattle," 77, Newgate-street, London ; 21, Broadway, New I
York, United States; Mr. J. W.llhorley, Melbourne; Vic-
torta Mr. Alfred Burt, Sydney, New South Wales ; and of
.all his agents throughout the Uniied Kingdom.—Feb. 2,1860.
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