The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1858.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The lamented death of Sir Henry Havelock will
create a vacancy in the list of General officers, and
render a new appointment to the colonelcy of the
3d Buffs necessary in the room of Gen. Wodehouse.
Col. T. Wood, of the Grenadier Guards, becomes a
Major-General ; Lieut.-Col. Jas. M'Queen, lately
commanding a cavalry depot, a Colonel ; and Major
E. Wodehouse, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army.
Col. Eden, Commandant at Chatham, is now the
senior Colonel. By Col. Wood's promotion a step
will go without purchase, causing the promotion of
Col. C. W. Ridley to be regimental Lieut.-Colonel ;
Col. Lewis, to be Major ; Brevet-Major Tipping,
to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel ; and Lieut.
Thynne, to be Lieutenant and Captain.
The following General Order has been issued
from the Horse Guards for the guidance and infor-
mation of all commanding officers of regiments and
depots at home and abroad :
"1. All extracts of general, district, and garrison
courts-martial entered in the court-martial book are to
be verified by the signature of the officers commanding
depot battalions, and the officers commanding depots to
which the court-martial book belongs.
"2. Two-company depots are to keep all the books
laid down by regulatio❑ for four-company depots.
"3. Officers are to be sent from the depots to the ser-
vice companies strictly according to roster, whether the
re4iment is in the united kingdom or on foreign service.
This order is not intended to alter the regulations already
laid down regarding the commanding officers of depots
and the musketry instructions.

" 4. In cases where there are only two captains doing
duty with a four-company depot, neither of them can be
permitted to go on leave of absence. With a two-com-
pany depot it is only required that one captain shall be
present during the leave season."
Captain C. R. Mure, 43d Light Infantry, with
eight men of that corps, has been directed to em-
bark at Gravesend on board the York with those
troops -under orders to proceed from Chatham gar-
rison, to embark for Madras. Staff Assistant-Sur-
geon W. H. Price has received directions to embark
on board. the United Service steamship, in medical
charge of troops proceeding to India.
Captain T. P. Casey, in command of the Royal
Marines serving on board the Renown, 91, screw
steamer, made an attempt on his life on Wednes-
day night by cutting his throat with a razor. On
Laing discovered he was still alive, he was at once
taken on board a al earner which landed him at Chat-
ham Dockyard, when he was conveyed to Melville
Hospital ; but from the injuries ha has inflicted on
himself it is not expected that he will recover.
Col. Bell, Inspecting Field Officer at Liverpool,
approved and sent off to join their respective corps
4,000 men within the last three months, exclusive
of great numbers forwarded direct to head-quarters
from out-stations in the district.

Sir James Fellows' M.D., F.R.S., L. and E.,
Inspector-General of Military Hospitals, died a
few days ago at Langston Cottage, near Ports-
mouth, the residence of his son, Captain Fellowes,
in his BGth year. The deceased served on the con-
tinent in 1794 ; was at the sieue of Cadiz, and at
the battle of Barossa under Gen. Graham, after-
wards Lord Lynedoch, and received the Peninsu-
lar war medal and clasp for Barossa, ' • he was
knighted by George 111. for his general services,
especially at Gibraltar during the pestilential fever
in 1804-5. He was one of the English who were
confined in the Temple during the revolutionary
period in Paris. On his retirement from the ser-
vice he was honourably mentioned by the Lords
of the Treasury in a minute dated March 3, 1815.
He was Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Phy-
sicians, and a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant
of the county of Hants. Sir James was elder
brother of Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes, who died
in 1853.

The Vulcan, G, Commander John Seacombe, ar-
rived at Portsmouth from the westward on Wed-
nesday evening to await further orders. She went
into Portsmouth Harbour yesterday afternoon.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid, having completed
repairs at Woolwich, is ordered to proceed on a
trial trip of her machinery at the measured mile
to-day, prior to entering on spe3ial service.
The steam storeship Doe, Master-Commander
Pullen, arrived yesterday at Woolwich from the
west, having encountered a severe gale of wind in
the Channel.

The store transport Buffalo was yesterday docked
at Woolwich, to be fitted with Griffith's patent
screw propeller.
The freightship Garder arrived at Woolwich yes-
terday from Scotland, laden with 300 tons of pig
iron for the Royal Arsenal.

never once alluded to the-passing events. He adverted
to our proposed diplomatic intercourse with Rome, to
the difficulty of receiving a priest at St. James's in full
canonicals, told a story of the Archbishop of Narbonne,
who, in the da)s of his emigration, had got over the dif•
culty by going to George 111. in Court dress with a
sword.

because I found afterwards that the
" I only allude to the.se trivial subjects of conversation
King, bad been
studying effect to the last, and that he had sail to those
as if he had
to whom Isiaotn4aheedswponkheLimormdeNdioartmelyanabfytetrow-nairgt,wi I am very
been speaking to me of the passing concerns of the mo-
ment, and I had approved the course of his Government.'
The upshot was that, as Lord Normanby alleges,
there was not a man in France who continued to
put -the slightest trust iu the King. M. Duvergier
d'Hauranne was one of the Ministers employed in
the revolutionary crisis to appease the people with
the announcement of a new Ministry and of po-
pular reforms. Even he is represented as stating
that in the part of the town where he was person-
ally known the people, at his bidding, demolished
the barricades ; but many added, " You will, see,
sir, the old man will deceive you, as he has every
one else that has had anything to do with him."
The account of the " old plan's" fall and flight
contains one or two particulars which we do not
remember to have seen elsewhere :
" The King and Queen arrived at Rouen, embarked on
board the river boat, they then re-descended in it to
Havre, but had to make a short step from one quay to
the other to get on board the English steamer. And
here it was that the King was very near betraying him-
self by overactink the part of an English bourgeois
anxious to return home. It was evidently of the utmost
importance that in a place where he was baa likely to be
personally known ho should keep himself quiet, and
endeavour to escape observation. Instead of which, I
hear, ho was bustling about exclaiming loudly, " Where
is Mrs. Smith ? Where is my old woman ? Come here,
my dear.' He was, in point of facer, recognised by a
fishwife on the.quay, who screamed out, "Tis the King,
who is making his escape.' But it was too late to stop
him ; he was already under the protection of the Eng-
lish flag—the ladder was at once loosened from the quay,
and the vessel, with all her steam well up, pursued her
course at full speed.
"It is .to be remarked that the Provisional Govern-
ment (as I have good reason to know) were very desirous
he should make his escape. His Majesty's only danger,
therefore, was from popular frenzy, which there might
not be power on the spot to resist.

"On his arrival in England where, be was received
with every demonstration of sympathy and respect, he
astonished those who cause out to 'met him, by the
levity of his department. All who have ever. been
brought into social contact with his Majesty are aware
of a remarkable deficiency in hia nature ; he never had
the slightest sentiment of personal dignity, and upon
this occasion the most extraordinary circumstance in the
history of this extraordinary man is that in quitting the
throne he seemed to have lost all feeling of identity or
moral connexion with the individual who had ceased to
occupy it. He seemed to consider the whole merely as
a drama, in which he had ceased to play his accustomed
part, and to believe that he could separate himself
completely from the character he bail formerly assumed,
and discuss it with all the freedom of a bystander."
The nomination of M. Cremieux as ono of the
members of the Provisional Government was, ac-
cordint, to Lord Normanby, owing to his own adroit
impudence. When the mob invaded the Chamber
M. Marie first proposed the names of Lamartine,
Ledru Rollin, Arago, Gamier Pages, and himself,
as a Provisional Government, and Lamartine added
at the head of the list that of M. Dupont de l'Eurs,
whose patriarchal experience in revolutions hadgiven
to his respected name a pre-eminence which his years
prevented fr©m being more than nominal. M. La-
martine proposed also that Dupont de l'Eure should
occupy the President's chair, and urged him topro-
claim a Provisional Government, handing him for
the purpo3o the six names aforesaid ; but it is said
that, amid the deafening tumult, the names writton
down by Lamartine could not be heard when read
from the President's chair by poor old Dupont
do l'Eure. The latter then transferred to the list
to the person standing next to him, who having
a weak voice, was equally inaudible, and as it was
impossible that no time should ba lost, these names
were then given to M. Crenaieux, who had the lungs
of Stentor, and he added his name, which was,
amid all the confusion, adopted with the others.
" Thus was appropriated, for the moment, one
seventh of absolute dominion over 35,000,000 of
people." A friend of Lord Normanby's, to whom
he afterwards mentioned this anecdote, and who
was at the time in office, corroborated it by adding
that ho himself was the nrin with. the weak voice,
and that the anecdote was true.

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mixed themselves with the others ; the adjutant of
secretaries was then omitted, and they came to have
a consultative voice with those first named. M. do
Lamartine could not explain the stages in this
usurpation, but, according to Lord Normandy, they
occurred in this succession. The first proclamation
of the Gouvernement Provisoire stated that—
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would have given it temporary strength, and would also
have confirmed the chances of its continuance."

At this point the situation was well described by
a French statesman as one in which " while every
month showed a Republic to be more and more
impossible, it still remained less impossible than
anything else." Such a situation was most trying,
not only to the French Government, but to all who
had relations with it, and who wore desirous, to
give it their fair support. Under such circum-
stances it is no slight credit to Lord Normanby
himself that, however instructed, he was in the
main succ3ssful.

In conclusion, we extract an account of the atro-
cities committed in the insurrection of June, and
which appears to be more authentic than any we
have seen elsewhere
" I inquired of M. Bastide whether it was ascertained
what amount of truth there was in the reports of cruel-
ties said to have been committed by the insurgents.
He replied he regretted to believe that there had been
no exaggeration on that point. It was quite true that
to many of the balls bad been attached poisoned linen,
which had caused death in many cases where the wound
itself was not mortal. The balls were also formtd to
make the worst possible wounds ;: sometimes with a
pieta of pointed brass stuck into them.

"The decoizipoition of the bodies was also unusually
rapid. A bundle of poisoned lint was taken to one of
the hospitals ; it was only upon seeing the agony it
occasioned that it was examined by the surgeons, and
found to have been steeped in some corrosive liquid. A
pump was seized behind the Barriere Roohelionard, the
reservoir of which was half-full of oil of vitriol, which
these ruffians pumped in the faces of the attacking
party. The story of the poisoned brandy, sold by the
cantiniers, was not confirmed ; bat it had not been at
once contradicted, from authority, as it was calculated
to prevent so much drunkenness at a moment when so
many men from various parts are collected in Paris. All
that has been said of the cruelties practised on the
Garde Mobile is true. In one place they took four or
five of these children, who had surrendered as prisoners,
auck a pike through their throats under the chin, tied
their bands down, and, placing them in front of a win-
dow, fired between their legs, thinking the soldiers
would not return the fire when they saw the Mobiles.
They cut also off a head from one, filled the mouth with
pitch, lighted a match in it, and danced round to the
tune of 'Les Larapions.' Having surprised a small
corps do garde filled with Mobiles, they killed them all
in cold blood ; and some female monsters amused them
selves with cutting out their tongues and stringing them
upon a cord."
These facts may account for some of our critics
of the French Press expressing such a faint abhor-
rence of the atrocities of the sepoys.—Times.

THE CROWN JE WELS.

(From the Times.)

The jewels aro to be sent back to Hanover. The
arbiters—Lord Wensleydale, Sir Page Wood, and
Sir Laurence Peel—compelled to act according to
the strict law of the case, have decided that the
patriotic feelings of George 11., George 111., and
old Queen Charlotte must be indulged, and the
jewels, consequently, be given up. Let us be
thankful it is no worse. Could the desires of these
royal personages, for whom England and the Eng-
lish people had done so little, have been fulfilled,
every cupboard in Windsor Castle would have been
swept out, and the sweepings despatched to Hano-
ver, for fear of mistakes. We ought to be duly
grateful for what we have received. The advantages
of the union between that lovely Electorate and
the Three Kingdoms were so obviously on our side
that we must not grumble if our departed bene-
factors hold us to the letter of the bond. Bat for
the assistance which Hanover so lavishly afforded
to us during our continental wars it might have
fared but badly with the English flag. During the
reigns of the first two Georges the interest of the
Electorate were kept strictly subservient to the in-
terests of Great Britain. Our fathers wet e never
embroiled in hostilities for the benefit of Hanover.
All our military operations in the north of Ger-
many wore conducted with an entire disregard of
what might befal the hereditary dominions of the
House of Brunswick. No adventurers from that
interesting part of the world ever found grace or
favour in the sight of English Sovereigns to the pre-
judice of their adopted. subjects. The en-
deavour seems always to have been to bestow
the most anxious care upon the interests of
the country which had called them to the
barren honours of an inglorious throne, while
their own native subjects Hanoveriatis born
and bred—were dismissed by their own Electors
from their presence with unnatural indifference.
Every student of English history is well aware of
the extraordinary difficulties against which every
English Minister from 1714 to 1760 had to contend
when it was necessary to persuade either the First
or Second George to avert his anxious gaze for a
while from English policy, and to bestow one pass-
ing glance upon the important destinies of his own
people. They could scarcely be persuaded to visit
Hanover. For our good they had come among us,
and they ,would not—however their hearts might
be inwardly wrung—spend one hour in Hanover
which they could possibly avoid. George 111.,
again, gloried in the name of Briton, and while he
remained a responsible agent never bestowed a
thought upon Hanover which England might have
claimed. Of that Sovereign, however, we would
say but little ; when so heavy a calamity as he was
afflicted with has fallen upon any man, pity bids us
stand aside and refrain from criticism which might
be construed as a reflection upon his memory.
Queen Charlotte, however, knew very well what she
was about, and, like other previous members of the
family into which she had married, was careful in
all things to dissociate things English from things
German. To so high a point did the Consort of
George 111. push this excellent principle, that
when she was dead it was found that the very
clothes with which she had been furnished when
she came among us had been packed up in various
trunks, and were directed by her will to be re-
turned to Germany. She would not insult us with
any of her leavings,—a Royal and a gracious
thought. What wonder, then, that the jewels
which she had purchased out of the savings of her
income—and from what sources that income was
derived we need not say—were also assigned to
follow in the wake of the rejected garments ?
England had done so little for her husband,
her sons, and herself. The change was so incon-
siderable from that glorious Principality which
had the honour of her birth to the English thron e
that indeed there was no great reason why she
should have been particularly chary in the matter.
For half a century, or thereabouts, she discharged
the painful duties of an English Queen; so, clearly,
the obligation was not on her side. Besides, various
members of her family must from time to time have
given her many an anxious thought, and, as the
British Parliament invariably refused all requests
to clear theta from the consequences of their extra-
vagance, the Royal matron was compelled to draw
upon her private resources, which she frequently
did, as is sufficiently notorious, and with no spar-
ing hand. Let us, then, console ourselves for the
loss of these jewels ; we had no right to expect that
either George 11. or Queen Charlotte should do
anything for the ungrateful nation which had done
so little for them. The matter, as we before re-
marked, might have been worse. Had these illus-
trious personages possessed the power, as they had
the will, no doubt all the Regalia of England would
many years back have been safely lodgtd in the
Green Vaults of one or other of those powerful
States which gave them birth. We may, however,
disabuse the English public of any such apprehen-
sion. The Regalia of England are intact. Neither
the earlier Georges nor Queen Charlotte, happily,
could lay their hands upon them. The jewels of
which we are about to be deprived are not those
old historical ornaments in the Tower of London,
which it would have been shameful to us as a na-
tion to resign. The Hanoverian " loot" is of the
value of about 100,0001. The jewels of which it
consists are those which are worn upon half-
State occasions. They can be easily replaced, for
no historic value attaches to them other than
their connexion with Hanover and Queen Char-
lotte. Painful as it is to disconnect ourselves from
associations such as these, the trial must be borne.
To speak seriously for a moment, we would
say that there is not an Englishman who
will not hear with the highest satisfaction that
this trumpery has been packed off to Hanover,
and with it the last bond which united us to that
famous Principality. We have done with Hanover
and things Hanoverian. So let us he glad, and re-
joice that we English people can henceforth have
our insignificant country to ourselves, and let us
leave all German Principalities to the grandeur
they have inherited and the jewels they have won.
A Hanoverian Potentate has put Colonel Blood to
gain by his successful
shame—much good may he
foray.

THE LEVIATHAN.—The launching of the monster was
continued as usual throughout yesterday. At the close
of the day the result was an advance of 12 feet 8 inches
aft, and 11 feet forward. Beyond this bare fact nothing
worthy of mention took place, except, perhaps, that the
vibration of the earth consequent upon each shp of the
vessel was more violent and more continuous than has
ever been experienced at the yard hitherto.