The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1860.

APUBLIC MEETING will be held at the
THATCHED HOUSE TAVERN, on SiTURDAY,
the I Ith of February, at Two o'clock, with a view to establish
PRELIMINARY DRILL at Public Schools, in connection
with the Volunteer Movement. Lord ELCIIO, MX, will
take the Chair.

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THE ARMY.

The subjoined circular memorandum, addressed
to officers commanding Royal Artillery, Royal
Engineers, regiments, and depots of cavalry and
infantry serving at home, has been issued :
" Horse Guards, S.W., Jan. 24.
" The appointment of an Instructor in Military
History at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,
having been authorised by the Secretary of State
for War, his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding-in-Chief desires that commanding officers
will send to this department, not later than the
10th proximo, the application of such officers as
feel themselves qualified for the situati m. Each
application should be accompanied by a statement
of the course of the candidate's reading in military
history, and a detailed description of any one im-
portant campaign, with a full explanation of the
military topography of the country and its bearing
on the operations.
" In forwarding an application, the commanding
officer should state his opinion of the character of
the candidate, both personally and as an officer.
" The salary attached to this Instructorship is
£35 per annum (inclusive of military pay), with
quarters ; or, in case quarters should not be pro-
vided, an allowance in lieu thereof such as is ac-
corded to a field officer.
" Ti.e appointment will be probationary for the
first year.
" The successful candidate will be expected to
join the college without delay, and to express his
intention of continuing to fulfil the, duties of his
appointment for a period of at last three years.—
By command,

“ G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-Gewiral.”
Nearly 500 recruits have arrived during the last
few weeks at the Indian depots stationed in the
camp at Colchester.
Ihe paddle steamer Preussischer Adler and the
screw steamer Dodo have been taken up to convey
the Royal Limerick County Militia from Ports-
mouth to Queenstown prior to their disembodiment.
The Preussischer Adler is reported to be ready to
embark the first portion of the regiment, consist-
ing 20 officers and 550 men, with their proportion
of women and children, on the 10th inst.; the
Dodo to embark the remainder of the regiment on
the 17th inst.

The present rifle-range in Stokes Bay, near
Portsmouth, for the practice of the troops ia that
garrison, having only a range of 900 yards, it has
been deemed advisable to extend the length of
range to about 1,250 yards, and for this pur-
pose negotiations have for some time been
carried on between the military authorities
and the proprietor for the purchase of a piece
of waste ground at the western extremity of, and
adjoining, the present range. This has at length
been brought to a close by the authorities refusing
to purchase on the terms offered.
On account of the vast number of recruits who
have been accepted in the Regiment of Royal Ar-
tillery, the strength of the depot at Woolwteh has
far outgrown the present barrack accommodation.
It has been found necessary, in consequence, to
make a division of the brigade, to be stationed in
separate quarters. Major Bolton's and Major
Lukin's Nos. 1 and 2 batteries, amounting to be-
tween 500 and 300 men each, aro expected to leave
head quarters, Woolwich, during the week, for the
encampment at Shorncliffe.
About 125 of the soldiers discharged from the
East India Company's service who arrived at Ply-
mouth in the Maha Ranee from Calcutta have been
disembarked:iti .the Sound. Thirty were trans-
ferred on Saturday afternoon to a passenger steamer
bound for Cork, and the remainder were landed at
the Barbican for the purpose of proceeding to-day
(Monday) in another passenger steamer to Dublin.
Those men entitled to prize-money will not be paid
until they arrive at their homes. Those soldiers
on board the Maha Ranee will probably proceed in
her up Channel.

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF A

DL'AID BODY.

CARLISLE, Saturday Evening.—An inquest was
opened to-day by Mr. Carrick, at the police-office
here, upon the body of a person unknown, which
was discovered on Thursday, at the Bush hotel,
under the following mysterious circumstances :
About 12 months since a long deal box was left
at the Bush Hotel, in this city, by one of the por-
ters of the Caledonian Railway Company. On the
top or lid of the box was the following address,
written in an illiterate hand—" This side up. Mrs.
London, Bush hottel, Carlisle." The box remained
in the hotel for some time, butno one came to claim
it, and it was at length removed to the " market
room" of the house to be out of the way, and up to
last Thursday had stood in that room unasked for
and untouched. A few days since Mr. Cowx, the
father of the landlord of the hotel, happened to be
at a sale in the neighbourhood of Carlisle, and the
locality reminding him that an old lady bearing
the name of the address on the box resided a short
way off, he sent a lad to inform her that there was
a box with her name on it, which had been at the
Bush for many months without having been claimed
and suggesting that it might possibly be intended
for her. Upon hearing this, Mrs. London sent her
niece, Mrs. Margaret Dixon, to the hotel, who, on
being shown and examining the address on the
box, came to the conclusion that it was not for her
aunt; but at the same time suggested that it might
be opened to see if the contents could give any clue
to the owner. Mr. Cowx assented to this, and the
box was opened, What was the astonishment of
those who looked into it to find a coffin containing
the body of a child ! Mr. Bent, the superintendent
of the city police, was immediately sent for. He
came, and on inquiry ascertained from Mary Bishop,
waiting-maid at the hotel, that the box had been
delivered at the hotel on the 21st of March, last
year, by a railway porter, for the carriage of which
she paid 25., and signed the book produced by the
porter to certify its safe delivery. It was kept at
hand in the expectation of the owner calling for it,
but, as has
already been stated, no claimant appear-
ing,it was subsequently removed to the market-
room. On inquiry at the booking-office of the
gods department at the Citadel Station, Mr. Bent
ascertained that the box bad been booked at Paisley
for Carlisle on the 18th of March, three daysbefore
its delivery. This was all that; could be learnt at
the moment. Mr. Bent, however, caused the box
to be removed to the police office, where a closer
examination was made of the contents, in the hope
of finding some clue to the sender. The search was
made in the presence of Dr. Elliot, Mr. Temperley,
Mr. Bowman, and Mr. T. Nanson (borough magis-
trate). Within the deal box, which was about 4f!.
in length, a coffin was packed in wood shavings ; it
was painted black, rather handsomely embellished
with white metal furnishings, and had white cotton
cord tassels attached to the handles (six in all) at
the sides and ends. There was a metal shield upon
the lid, but without an inscription ; below the shield
was a vase of flowers ; above it the figure of an
angel—all in white metal. The coffin measured
43in. in length, 131 in. in breadth, and 10in. deep.
Within was found the corpse of a child, shrouded in
white calico—at least it had once been white, but
was now much discoloured by the decomposition of
the body, which was very far advanced. The limbs
and body were partially clothed in a pair of white
stockings, a shirt, and night-cap. The body had
been packed in sawdust, and measured on removal
from the coffin 35in. in length; the legs, however,
were rather drawn up, and the head turned to one
side, for which probably tin. more might be allowed.
Whether originally laid in the coffin in that posi-
tion of course it would be impossiole to say. The
trunk measured 16in. in length. The face was so
much disfigured (whether by violence or deoayit
could not be ascertained), that it was not recognis-
able. The hair was light or flaxen, quite
abundant, and about three inches in length.
The medical :gentlemen called in made a pest
mortem examination. On close inspection, the
remains of both a night-gown and a shift were
found adhering to the body, which had the ap-
pearance of a mummy, and was so decayed
that the medical men could come to no conclusion
us to the sex of the child. The presumption, how-
ever, was that it is the body of a female, four or
five years of age. Ten teeth were observed in the
upper jaw, six in the lower, the three front teeth
being gone ; the back teeth had begun to appear.
The general appearance led to the conclusion that
the remains were those of a well-formed and once
stout active child. It has been hinted, from the
position of the body, that it may have been put
into the box whilst still alive; but this is mere
surmise.

The above facts having been deposed to, the in-
quiry—which has caused the deepest sensation here
—was adjourned.

The articles contributed by Lord Macaulay to the
"Encyclopedia Britannica" are to be republished in a
separate form with, it is said, a preface by Mr. Adam Black,
explaining the circumstances under which they were con-
tributed—circumstances honourable alike to the publisher
and the author, but of which a ♦ersion not altogether cor-
rect has been circulated.

FRANCE 'IAD N.IVOY.

Never in the whole course of ancient and modern
history has a spectacle more extraordinary pre-
sented itself than that which is now offered by the
I province of Savoy. Since the period of our Norman
Conquest the mountaineers of this Alpine region
have been under the rule of the Royal House which
is now represented by King Victor Emmanuel. To
those monarchs the Savoyards have always clung
with a desperate fidelity, which neither persecution,
tyranny, nor adversity has been able to shake. The
connexion of the House or Hapsburg with it here-
ditary dominions in Austria Proper is modern com-
p ired with the relations which bind Savoy with its
Ducal House, and England alone, among the coun-
tries of Europe, can show a Royal line equally
ancient and equally illustrious. The Government
of Savoy and Piedmont is at profound peace with
the Government of France, the families are linked
together by matrimonial alliance, and their armies
have fought side by side in the most glorious fields
of modern military history. The Savoyards have
little to complain of; they have given a Royal
House to Piedmont ; they possess a gallant and
patriotic nobility, and a constitution which gives to
every msn freedom of speech, of writing and of ac-
tion. Suddenly there arises in the midst of this
apparently contented and happy country a move-
ment for annexation to France ; meetings are held,
demonstrations are male, articles are written, the
whole machinery of popular agitation is set to
work, not by the Government, for that appears
to disapprove the agitation, but either by some
caprice of the popular mind or by some influence
from without. Dark rumours are afloat of treaties
by which this first inheritance of the House of
Savoy is to be handed over to France in consi-
deration for Lombardy and Venetia, and insinua-
tions on the one part that Piedmont is wanting in
good faith in not surrendering the equivalent for
what she received, and en the other that France has

not fully performed the condition which required
Venetia as well as Lombardy in exchange for Savoy
and Nice. These rumours are on both sides offi-
cially contradicted, and, of course, so much the
more pertinaciously believed.
Meanwhile a circumstance that any one might
have reasonably expected occurs. The town of
Chambery gets up a very influential demonstration,
but, strange to say, the object of this demonstration
was not to advocate union with Imperial France,
but adherence to that noble House with whose for-
tunes the destiny of Savoy has been connected for
the last eight hundred years. Nothing can exceed
the virtuous indignation of the French press at this
occurrence. One would suppose that the good
people of Chambery had:been dealing with the
affairs of others, instead of with a matter which
one would be apt to think was most peculiarly
their own. The Patrie stigmatises this meeting
in terms which a Protestant might have em-
ployed who had discovered, a week before its
perpetration, the plans for the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew. " The demonstration was no iso-
lated event, but the result of a deliberate plan
to impose on the public as to the sentiments of
Savoy and Nice." " Emissaries are scattered
over the whole country to organise similar scenes
in every part of it." The accounts furnished to

the Patric are so accurate and so precise that they
leave no doubt on the subject. Nay, the authori-
ties appear to sanction the movement, and, in
fact, there are actually people in Savoy and Nice
who prefer to be the free citizens of a small, rather
than the over-governed subjects of a large State.
" I; is time that the authorities of Turin .-,hould
learn that they cannot have two weights and
two balances, that the people of Savoy and Nice
have the same right to dispose of themselves as
the people of the Duchies. The sympathies of
Savoy for- France are a centffry old, and the
Government which seeks to repress them ought
to desist from any such effort, and to leave them t•
dispose of themselves." lire have quoted this article
which will be found at length elsewhere, because
we have read nothing like it since the time when
the first Napoleon denounced the Spaniards as
brigands for attempting to resist an invasion which
he had not troubled himself to clothe with the
faintest semblance of legality. We maintain, in
opposition to the Patric, that the people of Chain.
bery, of Annecy, of Oneglia, and St. Remo have
just as good a right to meet and declare their wish
to remain united to Piedmont as to be allotted to
France. When the union has taken place we grant
they will have forfeited the right of meeting and
speaking freely, but till that event they ought not to
be put down, even though they say and do things
not strictly in accordance with modern French
policy.
England must naturally disapprove the annexa-
tion of Savoy to France, whether it is believed that
France contracted with Piedmont to despoil Austria
in order to provide her with an equivalent to Savoy,
or whether we think that the movement is a span-

taneous effort of the people. But, though she-may
disapprove, England has no interest sufficiently
strong to justify her in doing more than express her
disapprobation. She can afford to look on ; but we
doubt if the Emperor of the French can so well
afford to see it done. Tie has a vast deal at stake.
He has men and money, ships and artillery, all that
makes a formidable power by land and sea, but he
has not attained, and at this rate never will attain,
the sincere and heartfelt confidence of Europe. lie
had told us that the empire was peace, but he inter-
rupted that peace by a sanguinary war. The con-
fidence of his subjects was shaken, and he seeks to
restore it by the adoption of the most enlightened
principles of commerce. But, in the midst of these
peaceful discussions, we are startled by the harsh
tone of menace and rebuke adopted towards the
people and Government of a neighbouring State, be-
cause they show some unwillingness to sever their an-
cient allegiance in order to bestow on him two new
provinces. We were told that the Emperor
" makes war for an idea," but we are now suddenly
informed that France gives nothing for nothing,
and that in exchange for the spoils of Austria she
has stipulated for the hereditary dominions of the
House of Savoy. She may take them, for there is
no Continental Power at this moment able to op-
pose her, and England is too remotely interested
to do more than express regret. But history has
taught in vain if 41ear-bougkt experience has not
impressed on France the wisdom of remaining con-
tent within her present ample boundaries. In these
days of credit she cannot hope to play both parts,
—that of an ambitious conqueror and of a success-
ful trader. Commercial prosperity is a jealous
deity, and allows no divided worship. The Empe-
ror may, if he will, abandon with the same facility
with which he has obtained it the reputation for
noble motives and disinterested heroism, but he
I must still wish to retain confidence sufficient for
his commercial adventure, and a first element of that
confidence is the convietion that his desire is rather
to improve than to extend his present magnificent
empire.—Times.

,4 THELLUSON WILL BEFORE THEL-

LUSON.

The Dutch ;rapers are discussing an extra-
ordinary will, made at Amsterdam 150 years
ago by an exceedingly wealthy Mynheer, an
Israelite, named Jacob Pereya. Out of theim-
mense wealth left by him he only allowed 20,000
guilders annually to his widow and children.
The remainder, consisting of Dutch East India
Bonds and other securities, then considered as safe
as valuable, he left in trust to the wardens of his
synagogue, who, after 150 years, were to convene,
by advertisements in the papers, all his descendants;
and after rendering them an account of their steward-
ship before the judges, were to devote 100,000 guil-
ders to the endowment of a certain charity, and
then to divide the remainder in equal proportions
between the heirs. The 150 years will expire in
February, 1861. Meanwhile, the descendants of
Pereyra are summoned to appear before the Lords
Judges in the chamber of justice at Amsterdam, on
the 7th of June next, at 11 o'clock in the morning
precisely, there to receive a full and faithful render-
ing of the trust. The formalities of the law are of
course complied with ; but it is well known, as in the
Thelluson case, a sad disappointment awaits the
sanguine heirs. The accumulation of the immense
wealth of Pereyra will hardly be sufficient to meet
the first charge of the endowment. The greater
portion of the securities, which for more than fifty
years after his death paid 40 per cent., have d windled
down into almost worthless paper. The bankruptcy
of the East India Company in 1775, the revolution
and French invasion in 1795, the loss of colonies
and trade, the war taxes, and the disastrous annexa-
tions to France, have done their work. The satle-
ment of the national debt at the Restoration in
1813 completed the ruin wrought by, the previous
calamities. The wealth of Pereyra, instead of at-
taining in 150 years the colossal dimensions ex-
pected by the testator, have shrunk into a mere
nothing ; thus pointing once more the moral so im-
pressively taught by the Thelluson will.—Jewish
Chronicle.

BANK OF ENGLAND.—The amount of dividends
due and net demanded in the four quarters of the year 1869
was respectively £1,129,669 (April) ; £1,026,989 (July) ;
£1,014,987 (October); and £1,027,361 (January, 1860).