The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-13 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., Field-
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, paid an official visit
to Chatham garrison, for the purpose of inspecting
the troops in that district. His Royal Highness,
who was accompanied by Major-General Lord W.
Panlet, K.C.8., Adjt.-Gen. of the Forces
Gen. Sir J. Hope Grant., G.C.8., QuartermasteLime.
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Gen. ; Col. J. F. M. Brown, C. 8., Assist.-Adj t.-
Gen., Royal Engineers ; Col. T. 11. Clifton, aide-
de-camp, and other officers of the Staff, arrived at
the railway station shortly before noon, where he was
received by Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding
the district, under a salute of 21 guns from the Spur
Battery, and on alighting rode direct to Chatham
great lines, where the whole force of the garrison
was drawn up. It consisted of the mounted A troop
of the Royal Engineer Train, the corps of Royal
Engineers, under the command of Colonel J. L. A.
Simmons, C. 8., Director of the Royal Engineer
establishment ; the Ist Depot Battalion, under the
command of Col. J. W. S. Smith, C. 8., consisting
of the depots of the Ist and 2d battalions of the Ist
Royals, Ist and 2d battalions of the 15th Regiment,
2d battalion of the 17th Regiment, 50th (Queen's
Own) Regiment, and the 109th Regiment of Bom-
bay Light Infantry ; the 2d Depot Battalion, com-
manded by Colonel W. Rickman, consisting of the
depots of the Ist battalion of the 2d Royals, Ist and
second battalions of the Bth Regiment, 29th Regi-
ment, 30th Regiment, 82d Regiment, and 106th
Bombay Light Infantry ; the 3d Depot Battalion,
under the command of Col. the Hon. J. J. Bourke,
including the depots of the Ist and 2d battalions of
the 10th Foot; 2d battalion of the 14th Regiment,
Ist and 2d battalions of the 22d Regiment, 34th
Regiment, and 45th Regiment, together with the
Chatham division of Royal Marine Light infantry,
under the command of Col. G. Lambric, aide-de-
camp to the Queen. The troops were formed on
the 'summit of the Chatham lines at 11 o'clock, in
ci!,tatrins of companies, the mounted Royal Engineer
Train and the Royal Engineers, on the right, the
battalions of infantry in the centre, and the Royal
Marines on the left flank. Notwithstanding the in-
tense heat of the day the whole of the men carried
their knapsacks, as well as their entire equipment.
On the arrival of the Field-Marshal Commanding-
in-Chief on the ground he was received with the
customary Royal salute, with colours lowered, the
bands in the. rear playing the National Anthem.
Commencing at the right his Royal Highness rode
up and down the front and rear of the columns, and
inspected the officers and men of each corps, the line
extending to a distance of upwards of half a mile.
After inspecting the battalions his Royal Highness
rode to the flagstaff, at which, to prevent crowding,
a considerable space had been roped off, the whole
of the bands being massed in front. The whole
force then marched past in columns of grand divi-
sions at quick time, led by the Royal Engineer
Train, with their pontoon waggons and the whole of
their engineering equipment, after which they coun-
termarched past in columns of companies at quick
time, followed by the entire force marching past in
contiguous columns of companies. This marching
past by grand divisions and battalions was effected
in excellent style, although the intense heat affected
a few of the men so much as to necessitate their
falling out of the ranks. The programme of the
day's operations included the repelling of the attack
of a force marching on the garrison from his base
near St. Mary's Creek, for which purpose the whole
of the troops had been supplied with 20 rounds of
the Snider blank cartridge, this being the first oc-
casion of the review of the forces at Chatham by
the Duke of Cambridge since they have been sup-
plied with the new breech-loading rifle. The opera-
tions commenced by the moving forward of a strong
body of skirmishers from the Royal Marines, the
line being formed of the Royal Marines and infantry
with a sufficient number of the latter in reserve. On
the skirmishers being driven in to their supports, the
lines advanced and poured in a sharp fire of mus-
ketry. After moving in echelon the force changed
front to meet the attack of the enemy on the right
flank, the entire fore.; on the ground being engaged.
A series of interesting manceavres followed, the
whole of which were directed by the Duke of Cam-
bridge. Considerable interest was felt to know the
manner in which the troops would use their Snider
cartridges. The result showed that in future com-
manding officers will require to prevent their firing
too rapidly. After advancing by battalions and salut-
ing, commanding officers were ordered to the front
and addressed by the Duke of Cambridge, who, in
'the course of his observations to General Murray,
criticised the manner in which the troops had gone
through some of the manceuvres. Alluding to
the new Snider rifle, he remarked that commanding
officers must give the greatest attention to the in-
_ struction of their corps in volley firing. With
regard to the skirmishing, particular care should be
given to prevent the troops firing too rapidly, which
they were likely to do with the Snider rifle, while
with the ordinary Enfield the difficulty was to in-
duce them to fire quickly. In conclusion, his Royal
Highness expressed his satisfaction at the manner
in which both officers and men had acquitted them-
selves. At the termination of the review the Duke
and Staff proceeded to the lower lines and inspected
the encampment formed in the interval after his ar-
rival by the Royal Engineer Train, the teats for
several hundred men having been pitched, the horses
picketed, and the pontoon -waggons made ready for
unloading. After riding round the encampment his
Royal Highness proceeded to the Royal Engineer
field-works to witness some escalading operations by
the Royal Engineers, previous to which he inspected
a portion of the batteries, parallels, and other works
thrown up by the Royal Engineers during the sum-
mer. In order to give practical effect to the opera-
tions of the Royal Engineers for exploding concealed
batteries in the ground to be traversed by opposing
troops the ascent to the glacis of the trenches was
honeycombed by mines, the exact position of each of
• which was indicated by conspicuous marks. Small
charges of powder were inserted in each, and on the
passage of the troops over them they were fired by
means of the voltaic battery, wires from the garrison
communicating with each of them. After an attack
on the bastion at the back of Brompton-barracks
by the Royal Engineers, who were concealed behind
the breastworks thrown up, the advance was sounded,
when the attacking force swarmed out with their
ladders and other implements for the purpose of
• scaling the trenches separating the portion of the
garrison to be captured. During theaveration of
fixing the ladders a sharp fire was kept up by a party
of Royal Engineers, under cover of which in about
a couple of minutes the trenches were scaled, the
Royal Engineers swarming up the ladders and
mounting the glacis. About five minutes served
to enable the entire force of several hundred men
to enter the garrison, when the Duke of Cam-
bridge ordered the retreat to be sounded. Imme-
diately on this the Royal Engineers slid down the
parapet of the works, and having regained their
ladders under cover of a party of riflemen the trench
was recrossed, and their escalading laders dragged up
after them, the whole operation not lasting longer
than a quarter of an hour. The Duke of Cambridge
then rode through the Hut-barracks and inspected
some other portions of the works drawn up by the
Royal Engineers, after which he proceeded from
Brornpton-barracks, where the whole of the recruits
in the garrison, amounting to several hundreds, be-
longing to the varipus branches of the service, were
drawn up and inspected by him. His Royal High-
ness brought his official visit to a close by the in-
spection of the Soldiers' Institute, one of the most
complete establishments of its kind in this country.
After partaking of luncheon at Government-house,
the official residence of Gen. Freeman Murray, his
Royal Highness left the garrison shortly before 4,
the guns at the Spur battery firing a Royal salute
as he took his departure.
Her Majesty's screw ironclad steamships the
Minotaur (flagship of Rear-Admiral F. Warden),
Achilles, Lord Clyde, Bellerophon, and despatch
screw steam vessel Ilelicon sailed from Portland
harbour early yesterday morning for the westward,
'where they are to cruise for a short period, the ren-
dezvous being near the Scilly Islands. The Helicon
subsequently returned to her anchorage to await
despatches before proceeding to join the squadron
The United States' ship of war Minnesota, 43,
Commodore Alden, 17 days from New York, ar-

rived yesterday in Plymouth Sound. Shehas a com-
plement of 622 men, with 27 officers and 46 mid-
shipmen, and is bound for Cherbourg and other
ports.
The screw steamship Lion, 60, Capt. John M.
Hayes, C. 8., was hauledinto thebasin at Devonport
yesterday (Monday), preparatory to being docked.

Miscellaneous Foreign News•

from time to time, to resume the subject. The

justifications of the Lord ought not to pass unno-
ticed by those who revere His moral government
of His own world. We invite from our readers
the communication of any similar facts of which
they may be cognisant. The Bill of Rattazzi for
secularising the conventual property was brought
in during the autumn of 1854. It passed the Senate,
but the debate upon it in the Representative Cham-
ber had hardly commenced when, on the 9th Jan.,
1855, the King's mother, the Queen Dowager, was
smitten down with sudden and fatal illness, of which
she expired on the afternoon of the third day after
her seizure. Her interment took place on the 16th,
and the Royal family had scarcely returned from
the funeral when it became necessary that Maria
Adelaide, the Queen Consort, should receive the
last Sacraments. She died at daybreak on the
20th. On the same day the Duke of Genoa, the
King's only brother, aged 33, was smitten down
with sudden and fatal illness. Notwithstanding
the best efforts of medical skill, he expired on
the evening of the 10th of February, on which
very day Count Cavour had resumed in the Repre-
sentative Chamber the debate on the Convents
Confiscation Bill. On the 17th of May, the Infant
Prince, who had been born on the Bth of January,
followed his mother to an untimely grave. Pre-
viously, in March, 1856, there had died the Couut
Giacinto di Collegno, Senator. It was he who had
originated the project of law against the Religious
Corporations, the iniquitous measure that has given
legislative effect in the Bill of Rattazzi. His illness
was unintelligible to the faculty : he was still in the
prime of life. Before his death, he sent for his
parish priest, and made, before competent wit-
nesses, a solemn retractation of the share he had
borne in the law of conventual spoliation. On the
29th of October in the same year died Count Joseph
Siccardi, aged 53. He had suffered intensely for
a year. He sent for the parish priest, but was
unable to do more than answer with the word
" yes," when asked if he retracted the hostile
speeches against the Church which he was the first
man to make in the Piedmontese Senate. About
the same time another Senator, the Baron Mar-
gharita, made a similar retractation, and died.
On the 4th of April, 1860, the President of the
Representative Chamber of Turin, General Quaglia,
read out the names of the deputies of Bologna
and Ravenna, just elected to serve in the " Italian"
Parliament from the usurped Papal territory. No
sooner had the President pronounced the names
of the traitors than he was smitten with apo-
plexy ; he was carried home and died within forty-
eight hours. Bianchi Giovini, editor of a blasphe-
mous and revolutionary Turin paper, called the
Unione, commenced to write a popular history of
the Papacy, which it was designed to blacken and
vilify. He had published the first three chapters,
and had written and put to press the fourth ; but
before its appearance the impious author was
struck with paralysis, and disabled from further
abuse of his literary talents. In the same year
there died also Cornero, a Deputy, who had brought
in a law against the Church. In addition to what
is stated in the article we have quoted above about
Count Cavour, it is well known that he was seized
with his mortal illness on the Ist or 2nd of June,
1860, the day on which the national festival of
the unification of Italy was appointed to be held ;
that he received the last Sacraments (without
retractation, and, therefore, it is to be feared,
invalidly ; for which the monk who communicated
him was severely reprehended at Rome) on the feast
of Corpus Christi (then for the first time dishon-
oured by being ignored by the State), and he died
on the following morning. To the account given
of Farini, it should be added that his madness was
caused by the fixed idea that he was haunted by
the ghost of Anviti, whom he had caused to be
torn to pieces by the ferocious revolutionary mob
of Parma. His shrieks from the horror of this
bloody vision are said to have been terrible. About
Fanti it may be truly added, that his savage order
of the day, at which even the Liberal press cried
out shame, will not soon be forgotten in Italy.
In
the year 1865, there died Massimo d'Azeglio, noble-
man, diplomatist, author, and statesman, a promi-
nent abettor of the Revolution. Ile was cut off in
the midst of his career, and in the flower of his
age ; also Brofferio, Deputy, and a popular writer,
noted for his scurrilous attacks on religion ; the
Deputies Varese, Boggio, Chiassi, and Cassinis ; the
last committed suicide. In 1865, also, five deputies
were forced by ill-health to retire from their Par-
liamentary duties. About the same time there also
died a remarkable number of other noted revolu-
tionist partisans, all men in the prime of life.
Amongst them were Gioca, Manna, Pareto, Pivio,
Valerio, Ztambianchi, Roberto d'Azeglio, Pinelli, and
MOntanelli. Millontone was smitten down by para-
lysis as he was returning from the council, where
he had proposed the nullification of the Concordat
and the persecution of the Catholics, and the Coun-
cillor of State and Vice-President of the Chamber,
Da Farina, a Sicilian, and subject of the Kingdom
of Naples. He was the first who planned the
iniquitous and traitorous invasion of the Neapolitan
territory. Avignone, a revolutionary priest of Milan,
notorious for his persecution of the vicar-gene-
ral and clergy who remained faithful to the Holy
See, died also. He was struck down suddenly.
One more solemn fact has to be added to the pre-
sent enumeration ; it is the most striking and
mournful of all, for it relates to the defection of
a Prelate of the Church—one of those " who
seemed to be pillars," whose function it was not
only to walk in the way of truth themselves, but
to strengthen their brethren therein. Monsignor
Caputo, Bishop of Arcano, in violation of his
duty to his rightful King, publicly recognised the
usurpation of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel.
He is reported to have said that he hoped to
sing High Mass at St. Peter's to celebrate the
fall of the Papacy! He became grand almoner
to Victor Emmanuel. Ile died on the 6th De-
cember, 1862, after his own vicar-general and the
clergy of the Chapter had been compelled, on
account of his impenitence, to refuse him the last
Sacraments, which he ultimately received from the
hands of an interdicted priest, one of the Garibal-
dian crew. He shared the treason and the untimely
fate of the Count of Syracuse, uncle to the young
King of Naples, who was cut off in the midst of
his days, after he had joined in a base alliance
with the enemies of the nation and of the royal race
to which he belonged. Men must be blind—nay,
besotted—who refuse to recognize in these events
something more than the dispensation of blind
chance :--‘' How IT FARES WITH THE POPE'S ENEMIES.
—ln the awful drama which was played in 1860 in
Italy, when the Marches and Umbria were invaded,
the principal characters were enacted by five per-
sons, whom we may call the heroes of the drama.
They were-Ist, Count Cavour, who, on September
7, 1860, sent to. Cardinal Antonelli his famous
ultimatum; 2d, Manfredo Fanti, Minister of War,
Commander-in-Chief of the Troops on the Fron-
tiers," as he signed himself in his order of the day ;
3d, Carlo Luigi Farini, who countersigned the
celebrated proclamation to the Italians on October
in which he said : I have caused my soldiers to
enter the Marches and Umbria, putting to flight
that gathering of all nations, and of all tongues,
which had assembled there ;" 4th, Carlo Persano,
who bombarded Ancona, and who boasted of having
hurled against the Pontifical city in less than three
hours more than 1,600 shots ; and lastly, Enrico
Cialdini, who, in his order of the day of 11th Sep-
tember, called the brave and noble defenders of the
Pope ' a troop of drunken foreigners' (ten masn
di briachi stranieri); and said to his troops, Figh,
against and destroy without pity . those hireling
assassins.' Now, what was the end of the first four?
The bare thought
ear of it makes
sed whenela one shudder Count
with
horror. Not a y had
p
Cavour, while smoking a, cigar after dinner, was
stricken to the earth with a sudden mortal blow of
sickness, and in a few days he died a wretched
death ; and that too, just within the time which he
had appointed for his entry into Rome. Soon
after, Fanti was attacked by a mysterious disease,
which for two years kept him just within the con-
fines of life and death, and, after having caused
him the most exquisite tortures in every way, ended
by bringing him to a premature grave. He was
followed by Carlo Farini, who, having reached the
rank of Prime Minister, went mad, and was reduced
to the most wretched of all states to which man
can be brought. But there is more to tell—a more
striking fate, if possible, than that of the other three
has already fallen upon the fourth hero. On the
15th of April Carlo Persano, the hero of Ancona,
was condemned to that state of degradation men-
tioned in our last—condemned in a most severe
sentence by the Senate of the Kingdom, presided
over by that very Senator Marzucchi, who., in
October, 1860, proposed to the senators an order
of the day in honour of Persano, the bombarder
of Ancona. Of the five, there only remains unhurt
Enrico Cialdini, and, whilst we are far from re-
joicing at the unhappy fate which has attended
the first four, we wish a happy and long life to the
fifth. But for four out of five to come to such
lamentable ends is a large proportion, and gives
matter for serious consideration ; and so much the
more when we remember the remonstrance ad-
dressed on May 27th, 1860, by Guiseppe Ferrari,
publicly in the House of Representatives, to
Cavour, Fanti, Farini, Persano, and Cialdini, who
were present. Ferrari said •.—" The Papacy which
you believe to be dead, or almost dead, I, who am
not suspected of extravagant veneration for it,
Most firmly believe to be full of life ; and I see
that the many people who attack it most warmly
comprehend it most." la hthoseh her
words
t e o so tehhe
for
happy men laughed. TheyAtg
four of them have verified the words of the speaker,
and have proved by_the misery which has befallen
them how " ill they understood " the strength of

the Papacy. Their fate recalls to our mind the
case of the Deicide Jews nineteen centuries ago.
How true it is that history repeats itself. Let us
pray for these unhappy people in the words of
Manzoni

Oh gran Padre ! per Lui cho s'immola
Taccia alfine quell'ira tremonda,
E de' ciechi I'insana parola
Volgi in meglio, piotoso Signor.
(Father Almighty ; for His sake who gave Himself
in sacrifice ; let Thy dread wrath now cease at
length ; and, 0 merciful Lord ! change to the
better the insane words of the blind.)"

THE GOLD FIELDS OF NOVA SCOTIA.

The Money Market Review of the 3rd instant, in
an article on the production of gold, refers to the
area over which the gold-bearing quartz of this

province extends ; and states that in some of the
districts gold mining operations were making an
almost fabulous return. Lamenting the apparent
apathy of English capitalists in neglecting these
gold-fields, which may be said to lie at our very
doors, Mr. Hamilton, the Chief Commissioner of
Mines at llalif ax, observes that " The Americans
are gradually settling here, and are picking up all
our best things ; " and we revert to this subject
just now in consequence of the appearance of a
joint-stock company just advertised which proposes
to work one of the grants made by the Crown at
the Ovens promontory, in the county of Lunen-
burg.
In calling the attention of English capitalists to
the reports of the Government Commissioner of
Mines in Nova Scotia, we shall not be supposed to
aaVocate the interests of any company in particu-
lar, but we would observe that at a moment
when so much distress prevails among the hardy
and industrious miners of Cornwall, it seems only
reasonable that some attempt should be made to
turn the mining skill and judgment of these men to
a practical account, and we know of no field where
their enterprizing character aud capability could
be better brought to bear than the gold fields of
Nova Scotia. It is true that just now there is great
dearth of speculation in the English money mar -
ket, but little doubt can be entertained that a very
few weeks will reanimate the small speculators in
mining undertakings, and that capital associated
for Joint Stock enterprise, will readily be sub-
scribed' for bond fide companies whose proceed-'
ings will bear such investigation as the experi-
ence of the last twelve months has rendered
necessary to be made into every project newly in-
troduced to public notice. Nor imust it be for-
gotten that economy and prudence in the manage-
ment are the main ingredients for producing satis-
factory results to those whose capital has been
invested.
We are expecting further intelligence by the
next mail from Halifax, and shall continue in our
next publication the news from the gold districts
of this British province, towards which we would
earnestly direct the attention of English capitalists.
gestminster Gazette.