The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-09 00:00:00

No. 3.

List of Casualties, by Death, &c., among the European
Commissioned Officers of the Honourable Company's
Army, in consequence of the Mutinies in Northern
India, that have been reported to this Department from
the 26th of January, 1858, up to this date.
10th Regiment Native Infantry—Captain Francis David.
Gordon, killed June 7, 1857. Shot at Jhansie by muti-
neers.

43d Regiment Native Infantry—Ensign Robert Charles
.!Eneaa Stuart, died Jao. 21, 1858, of wounds received
in action on the 20th of Jan., 1853, near the village
" Mandwae' Malligaum.
F. S. GABB, Major,
Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army.
Adjutant-General's Office, Fort St. George,
Feb. 11, 1858.
Nominal Roll of a Man of the Sappers and Miners wounded
at the Relief of Lucknow.
Nov. 19, 1857-201, 2d Corporal Samuel Baillie Brittain,
very severely. F. S. GABB, Major,
Deputy Adjutant-General of the Army.
Adjutant-General's Office, Fort St. George, Feb. 11.

LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 8.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was confirmed
upon Thursday, the let inst., at Windsor Castle, in the
private chapel, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
and in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, and the rest of the Royal
family.

At the Court at Windsor. the 6th day of April, 1858,
present, the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council.
This day the Right Hon. Richard John, Earl of Donough-
more, and the Right Han. John Robert Mowbray, were,
by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places
at the Board accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Hon. William Philip, Earl of Sefton, to be Lord Lieu-
tenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Lancaster,
and the Right Hon. Thomas Charles, Lord Sudeley, to be
Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Montgomery, they this day took the oaths appointed to be
taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal, the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, First Lord
Commissioner of her Majesty's Treasury, the Right Hon.
Henry E lward Stanley (commonly called Lord Stanley),
and the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, two of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; the Right Hon.
Sir John Somerset Paltiogton, Bart., First Lord Commis-
sioner of the Admiralty ; the Right Hon. Benjamin Dis-
raeli, Chancellor end Under Treasurer of her Majesty's
Exchequer ; the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, Pre-
sident of the Committee of Council for Trade; the Right
Mon. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt, President
of the Poor-law Board ; and the Right Hon. Charles
Bowyer Adderley (Vice-President), to be a Committee of
Council to superinted the application of any sums voted by
Parliament for the purpose of Promoting Public Educa-
tion.

Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
the Right Hon, Richard John, Earl of Dononghmore, to be
President of the Committee of Coa,ncil appointed for the
consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign
Plantations, in the absence of the President of the said
Committee for the time being.
CASTLE, P RIL 7.
This day hadWINDSO audience of her Majest Ay
;
The Count de Persigny, Ambassador from his Majesty
the Emperor of the French, to deliver his letter of recall :
To which audience he was introduced by the Earl of
itialmesbury, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 8.
The Queen has baen pleased to approve of M.•Achille
Bischoff as Consul at Melbourne for the Swiss Con-
federation.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 0.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General
Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, Knt., to be Governor and
Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Malta and
Its dependencies.

WHITEHALL, APRIL 0.
The Q4een has been pleawd to appoint Goldwin Smith,
tqq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law, to b 3 Professor of Modern
Riatory io the University of Oxford, in the room of
henry HaHord Vaughan, Eqq., M. A., resigned.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT.

let or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Howard James Barton, Gent., to ba Ensign, vice Worthy,
resigned.
14 Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—
Ensign Charles John Mott to be Lieutenant, vice Talbot,
resigned.
_ _

3d Regiment of King'd Own Staffirdshire
Ilfilitia—
Colonel Charles Bagot, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commandant,
to be Honorary Colonel.
Warwickshire 31ilitia —lst Regiment —Ensign Henry
Jobn Yeatroan to be Lieutenant, vice W. D. Lloyd
Sparrow, 'rosined.

BANK OP ENGLAND.
All Account, pursuant t, the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on We Inesday, the 7th day of April, 1858.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes Issued . . 31,9'34,545

Government debt.. . • 11,015,100
£
Other securities .• 11,019,900
Gold coin and bullion 17,519,545
Silver bullion..., ~

£31,994,545

X 31,994,
MARSIIILL, Chief Cashier.s4s

:Dated the Bth day of April, 185

'ARTMENT.

government securities
nelud4.Dead Weight
Annuity).. • ...... 9,953,978
Other Securities.... • • 16,b20,0 .4
Notes ..... .•• .. • • . 11,849,205
Gold and Silver Coin.. 791,853

X 39,215,040
r, MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

DIPLOMATIC MISHANAGIMENT.

( From the Daity News. )
The " Correspondence respecting the Cagliari"
raises two main questions which it is desirable to
keep distinct. One of these questions relates to the
legality of the seizure ; to the steps taken by the
late Government, under the advice of their law
officers, in reference to the matter ; and to the pre-
sent state of international rights thence arising.
Upon this part of the case, though it is far from
being exhausted, we shall at present only remark in
passing that the opinions of the law officers, as pub-
lished in this Correspondence, contrast most unfa-
vourably in point of legal learning, sound logic, and
completeness of research, not only with the elaborate
arguments of the Sardinian jurists, but with the
very able papers of Dr. Phillimore and Dr. Twiss.
Other opportunities will present themselves of re-
curring to this branch of the subject; what we now
wish to do is to ascertain what light this " Corres-
pondence" throws on the scarcely less important
question, whether our late Secretary for Foreign
Affairs did or did not do all that might fairly be
expected from a British Minister in alleviating the
imprisonment of ti!ese two British subjects, in press-
ing for their release, cr it in'istingon their right, so
loug and so insultingly refused by the Neapolitan
authorities, of having free intercourse with the
British Consul. The importance of this question is
obvious. Lord Clarendon has pretty notoriously
secured the allegiance of the most influential organs
of the ex-Ministry. It is canflilenly calculated
certain quarters that a return of Lord Palmerston
to power as Prime Minister must necessarily involve
the restoration to Lord Clarendon of the seals of the
Foreign-office. Our readers are already in possession
oloursentiments on the mattered Lord Palmerston's
precipitate resumption of Minis erial supremacy.
We should regard such an event as a m'sfortune.
A restoration so rapid and so unconditional would
necessarily increase that sense of indispensability,
and that arrogance of power, which are scarcely com-
patible with the satisfactory working of our consti-
tutional system. A Minister thus brought back to
the helm of affairs, because he alone is thought
competent and ready to grasp it, would be virtually
cone other than a Dictator ; and. Dictators, how-
ever unavoidable in great crises of state emergency,
are, under any other circumstances, decidedly ob-
jectionable. This—combined with the humiliating
I ecollection that Lord Palmerston on a retest oc-
casion degraded the great power with which he was
entrusted into an instrument of base compliances
and intolerable concessions, is the true ground of
the feeling which would regard his premature recall
to the highest office in the State as anything but a
matter of congratulation. But if it would be on
this ground undesirable to have Lord Palmerston
back again, the restoration of Lord Clarendon
would be ten-fold more objectionable.
Lord Clarendon, with all the more dangerous
Ministerial faults of his late chief, has few of his
redeeming qualities. The country has not I,r-
-gotten—the country is not likely to forget—the ex-
hibition made by Lord Clarendon in the IL use of
Lords, as ihe defender of the Walewski manifesto.
The country has felt deeply humiliated by the
facts, that under Lord Clareodon's administration
two British subjects were allowed to languish, from
July to February, in Neapolita❑ dungeons ; that
no effective attempts were made to hasten their
trial, or to mitigate their imprisonment ; and that
it wai literally not till the month of November bad
almost passed away, that the British Foreign Secre-
tary had been able to extort from the insolent
stubbornness of M. °arafe a permission for those
untried and lawlessly detained men to have an in-
tet view with the British Consul.

The " Correspondence" shows how these things
were possible ; the " Correspondence" will enable
the nation to form rn accurate judgment how far
Lord Clarendon is fit t ) be again entrusted with
the charge of the Foreign Ministry of Great Bri-
tain. It will not be necessary to drag our readers
through any length of wearisome detail ; a few of
the more salient points will suffice. The aeneral
spiritlessness and want of dignity betrayed in the
whole course of the transaction, can of course only
be adequately learnt by a continuous perusal ; but
an example here and there will be enough, and
more than enough, to show how far Lord Claren-
don has fallen beneath the dignity of his position,
and the exigency of the occasion.
In two of the earliest despat ches from our Foreign-
Office relating to the affair, those of the 24th of
July and the 14th of August (Nos. 9 and 11), that
very excellent and resolute officer, Mr. Barbar (our
Acting Consul at Naples), is directed to afford Watt
and Park protection, with a view to securing their
proper treatment. In both these communications—
in the first, explicitly; in the second, by reference to
a letter from Park's father which it enclosed—the
ground is taken that both mon were sitnplyengineers
o►► board the Cagliari, that thoy were ignorant of
the objects for which the vessel was used, and had
taken no part in the proceedings that had led to
her seizure. This is important. From this it ar-
pears that Lord Clarendon from the first formed no
other view of the c tse than that which all subse-
quent inquiry tended to corrohorate and confirm—
that these two prisoners were innocent and unoff,nd-
ing men. Let us see what he did for them. By a
despatch from Mr. Barbar, received on the 19th of
August (No. 13), Lord Clarendon was informed of
the refusal by M. Carafa of the Consul's two de-
mands—that the man's clothea should be sent
to them from the ship, and that they might
be allowed an interview. In answer he is
simply told (No. 15, August 25) to go to Salerno
and watch the proceedirigs at the trial ; the
same ground b ing again taken up, "that there
is no reason to doubt that they (Watt and
Park) were merely engaged to act as engineers, and
that they had no knowledge of the intention of
certain individuals who were on board that vessel."
And yet no notice is t then of the insolent refusal
to allow these prisoners—supposed to be, as they
were, without offenc —to have an interview with
their Consul, or of the barbarous refusal to allow
a change of clothing. The day after this (on the
26th of August) inquiries are, properly enough,
sent to Mr. Yates Brown, the late Consul at Genoa,
to ascertain whether Watt and Park had been some
time i❑ the service of the Steamboat Company, or
had only bees engaged on the trip (No. 16). The
answer is (No. 20) that both men had been for more
than two years in the company's service, and had
borne the very highest character.

Aleanwhile, an important episode iu the narrative
had occurred in Sardinia. TLat Government, on
the 31st July, had demanded that the clothes and
effects of the Sardinian crew should be given up to
them. The reply was a refusal from M. Carafe,
of the sth August, couched in terms so insolent
that the Sardinian Government, with prompt spirit,
returned it to its author. This treatment was
attended with the natural results. The offensive
communication was withdrawn and apologised for,
the clothes were re,tored, and all the passengers
on board the Cagliari at the time of her capture
were given up to the Sardinian Goverumes to
nt
the Sir
James Hudson communicated these facts
British Foreign-office in a despatch (No. 18), re-
ceived on the 25th of August. About the same
time infolmation reached them, as the fact was,
that Watt's health was Eeriously, if not dangerously,
impaired by his imprisonment.
Acting under these combined influence?, Lord
Clarendon goes so far as to direct Mr. Hammond,
in his despatch of the Bth of September, t o instruct
Mr. Barbar " to obtain permission to see him
(yatt) immediately, and also to express the
mayghr s , e
ohAfel
ta
treatedhjee tcy Cagliari
aGovernmentinri
thelv have
been,
same tnatlattiaane
nab Wattpubaeerrtsiaet
ees
is manfest that the engineers on
no knowledge of
1.4 vei,sel when at sea," Is

i that language befitting an English Minister? Lord -
.Clarendon knows that the vessel was seized by
insurgents ; he knows that Watt and Park were
her regular engineers—men of the highest cha-
rades ; he feels confident that they could have
had no guilty knowledge of the d-signs of those
who seized the vessel, and, therefore, he instructs
a British Consul to sue with bated breath for per-
mission to see one of these unrighteously impri-
soned men, whose health is giving way under his
confinement. The request was, of course, refused:
in a despatch received the 29th of September,
Mr. Barbar relates the refusal ; and as to the pro-
bable commencement of the trials, states that be
can obt lin nothing more from M. Carafa than the
indefinite assurance that they will take place before
very long (in questi giorni). This intelligence has
the effect of bringing Lord Clarendon in person
upon the field of controversy. The position was no
doubt such as imperatively to call for superior inter-
vention ; but in what shape and with what lan-
guage ? When a god descends upon the scene, the
least he can do is to speak in godlike accents; he is
not there to whisper in the bated breath of humble-
ness, or to complain in the shrill treble of senility.
We do not hesitate to say that, considering the Go-
vernment he represented and the cause he was advo-
cating, it is impossible to conceive anything more
miserable and paltry than Lord Clarendon's de-
spatch of Oct. Bth (No. 24). Instead of insisting on
the instant liberation of these men, his lordship in-
forms Mr. Barbar that "as these persons are stated
to have been actually employed on board the Cag-
liari, while that vessel was engaged in landing
a revolutionary party on the Neapolitan coasts, her
Majesty's Government do not claim to withdraw
them from the fair operation of the Neapolitan
law." Instead of insisting on an immediate per-
mission for an interview with their Consul, his lord-
ship makes the right to demand an interview de-
pendent on the contingency of their being " any
positive and publicly known regulation which pre-
cludes prisoners confined before trial on such a
charge as that brought against these men from
communicating with their Consul." Godlike
(sante these indeed ; the true language of a British
Minister when engaged in the proteutiou of foully
wronged British citizens. The conception of
" roaring as gently as a sucking dove" belongs to
Shakspeare ; the prerogative of talking " aimable
thunder" belongs to Clarendon.
We are really almost ashamed tofollow step bystep
the ignominious narrative. Watt goes frantic and
attempts to commit suicide. Barbar relates the fact
(No. 26), states further instances of peremptory and
positive refusal of an interview, and intimates that
the commencement of the trial is as doubtful as ever.
Park, the father, follows this l y a letter of ego-
nising entreaty (No. 27), earnestly imploring Lord
Clarendon that something should be done. Then
the god appears again. On the 29th of October
(No. 29), Lord Clarendon writes to Mr. Barbar
in these terms :—" I have further to instruct you,
if you are allowed to see Park and Watt in
compliance with the demand you have been
ordered to make, to proceed to Salerno, and to
ask them most particularly about the treatment
they have received, and whether they have in any
way been tortured or subjected to bodily pain or
suffering, and to tell them that the Government
has its eye upon them, and will take care that no
injustice is done them." We have heard of virtue
in an "if ;" but we never knew before its
full capacity for baseness. This is about the
meanest "if," we think, recorded in history. But
the whole letter is inexpressibly base. What l A
British Minister can quie.ly cause inquirit s to be
made whether two British subject 4, whom be
knows to be respectable, whom he firmly believes
to be absolutely void of all offence, have been sub-
jected to torture in the course of their unjust cap-
tivity. He can mock these poor men by instruct-
ing his agent to tell them" that Government has
it eye on them," though for nearly four months
at that very time the " eye of Government," as
that agent has repeatedly informed him, " has
never been allowed to penetrate into their dun-
geon." He can instruct a British Consul to assure
British citizens that the British Government "will
take care that no injustice is dune them ;" and
this in the same breath in which he directs them
to be asked whether they have not been sukject to
bodily torture in their unwarrantable captivity.
Is imprisonment without cause and against right
no injustice ? Is torture while undergoing such
imprisonment no injustice ? And yet can a British
Minister have the face to tell two Englishmen whom
he knows to have been wrongfully imprisoned, and
suspects of having been tortured, that their Go-
vernment will take care that no injustice is done
them ? Surely it cannot be necessary to go further.
Surely, unless the ancient pride and spirit of
Englishmen is cl, an gone for ever we have said
enough, and more than enough, to show that Lord
Clarendon can never ag tin be allowed to represent
as Foreign Minister of this country, the NIA, sty of
England in the presence of the nations of Europe.

Country Alati<eti,

MANCHESTER--AparL 8.

There was a good attendance this morning. English
wheat of good quality was sold at an advance of Is on
last week's prices, and American Id to 2d and French 2d
to 3(1 per 701 b dearer. Flour is to is (id par sack higher
f English ; French sold more readily, at fully late rates.
Oats are fully as dear, and in oatmeal and other articles
no material change from last week.