The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-22 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCII.

The following General Order, addressed to the
army at home and abroad has been issued from the
Horse Guards :

"His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief
directs that when prisoners sentenced by court-martial are
temporarily placed in garrison or barrack cells to wait ad-
mission into a military prison, they are not, 'while thus
coulitied„ to be deprived of their beds, or to be subjected to
sny punishment beyoud imprisonment.
• • By commend, •
. : G. A. WETHICIA.LL, Adjutant-General."

It is understood that Col. H. Eyre, commanding
the depot battalion et ationed at Walmer, will suc-
ceed Major-General W. H. Eden in the command
of Chatham Garrison on the Ist proximo.
O'a Saturday the whole of Ile, troupe attached to
the isteand 2d battalions of infantry at Chatham,
to the number of about 3,000 men of all ranks, as
sembled on the general parade ground at Chatham
barracks in heavy marching Order, when the East
India depots attached to those battalions under-
went an inspec:ion by Col. H. Jervis and Col. R.
N. Phillips, the respective commandants. Although
the majority of the troeps are very young soldiers
the result of the inspection was considered satisfac-
tory.
Her Majesty's troopship Vulcan, 6, Commander
J. Seccombe, arrived in Portsmouth harbour from
Malta on
_Saturday, af; er a tedious passage caused
by strong heed winds the whole distance, and a
gale of wind, except the last two days, from Gib-
raltar. She was 15 days on the passage altogether
having stoppedt o days at Gibraltar. She brought
home Commander Cockrafr, RN., from her Ma-
jesty's ship Princess Royal ; Captain Tomkinson,
Royal Artillery, from Gibraltar ; Lieut. M'Cormac
of the 28th, from Malta : Mr. Cristian an i family
and Mrs. Malta ; Lieut. G. S. Nares,
R.N.; Et" f
Dr. To. Cunningham, om
with 20 invalids of ;altl hceleßsseevs. nF,I.
stores. She arrived at Spitheed
raynd steamed into Portsmouth har
2Goenosl°luFtettr:Ondnes'aS'°Yafillittgrrita: morning. She towed her Majesty's
ship Lynx through the Girt of Gibraltar, bound to
Sierra Leona. On the 17th inst., in the Bay of
Biscay the exchanged colours with the steamship
Anacron ; on the 18th, 60 miles southof the Lizard,
spoke the Orinoco, West India mail packet, out-
ward bound.
dettchmenti of troops are ordered
to
Walmer, Canterbury, Chatham,
CoTchhoeecseteed f
Colchester, following) in
Arberdeen, Stirling, and Formoy, and
to embark on board the Peeiusular and Oriental
Seam Navigation Company's ship*Ripon, at
lSouth-
ampton, on the 26nthinst
~ofroure pass
Elliot agei and ll ek
toAlxanlriia
anda,
°llt
menway to In lie :_c t
of tile 3d Dragoon Guards ; Cornet De
Winton an t 15 men of the Bth Hussars ; Cornets
Hard
lingi Macgregor, Scott, and King, and 15 men
of the t:i .Lancers ;31 men of the 18th Foot ;
Captain Keurick and 25 men of the 33d ; Ensign
Chambers and 66 men of the 51st ; 23 men of the
6 Ensign K one and 33 men of the 71st ; En-
ssigtah ;
Tanner and 27 men of the 72d ; 29 men of the
ged
' - Captain Adams of the 86th ; Ensigns Seeley
end War ,urton arid 39 men of the 89th ; Lieut.
Hunton and 20 men of the 92d ; 49 men of the
95th ; Assistant-Surge, n Mackay in medical charge.
Total, 16 officers and 407 men.
The Marlborough, 131, Captain Lord F. H.
K-rr, 'flag of- Vice-Admiral Fanehawe, C. 8., for
the Me iiterraneen command, has not more than
eibout 550 men of her complement of 1,100, and of
those about 200 are Marines. The Itcnown 91,
Captain Forbes, which has been in commission ever
since tee 19th of Nov. last, is still 100 or more
short of her complement of M. The Racoon, 21,
Captain Paynter, is the only vessel that is manned
of those fitting out at Portsmouth.
Ono hundred men of the depot of the 224 Regi-
ment, from Parkhurst, will cross over to Ports-
mouth this day, and proceed to Sheffield to join
the regiment.

One company
Cum-
berland this d
Brigade will
ay.
Capt. the 4th Battalion of the Rifle
move from Chichester to Fort Cu-
Capt. the Hon. Jos. Denman is to be Aide-de-
Camp to her Majesty, vice Capt.' the Hon. F. T.
Pelham prom'ited to flag rank.
The screw steamship Russell, 60, which arrived
at Plynaou'h from Portsmouth on Tuesd ty, sailed
on Saturday for Coastguard service at Falmouth.
Tte screw steamship Ajax, Captain J. M. N.
thyd, has comp!etod her ri:fit at Plymouth, and
sailed on Thursday evening, accompanied by the
steam gunboat Badger, for Coastguard service iu
Kii:gstown, Ireland.
Letters received in Plymouth from Bahia, Feb.
3, state that the crow of the paddlewheel steam
sloop Virago, 6, Commander H. V. Haggan, were
all well, and daily expecting orders for England.
She will be sent to Keyham steatnya,rd for rep lir.
Letters from Sierra Leone, February 13, inform
us that, although the wea.her was exceedingly hot,
only one of the Boscawen, 70, Capt. R. A. Powell,
was in the sick bay.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at-4 he-AdmirdltY
W. Prowse, naval cadet, to the Marl-
borough ; R. C. Drew, second master, to the Firm;
T. • Warr, second muter, to the Watchful ; G.
Robinson, second master, to the Actaeon ; and M.
Edertg, 40CM1 ut:l'3 tt) the OrerisYl

AMBASS4DORS,AIV.D,ENVO=

Never at any pericd during the present. con iry
was it more necessary oFriaportitit toThave
temperate, and passionless men as Ambassadors and
as Envoys than at this moment. Though we live
in an age of civilisation and refinement, and are in
En!,land and France mere instructed and enlight-
ened than our neighbours, yet the experience
of the last month or six weeks would serve
to prove that these are questions ou which
the most gentle and un&monstra.tive of men,
whether English or French, may be as susceptible
and impressible as vivacious And al usians or
haughty Castilians of a century and a-half ago.
Under such circumstances arguments, discussions,
and dissertations are misplaced. The better plan is
to fold one's arms and to remain tranquil ; for there
are between nations as between indiviilutls, as be-
tween even husband and wife, times and occasions
when wise men will not listen to reason, or discreet
men to the moat obvious suggestions of common
sense.

While awaiting the " better time coming" ac-
cording to the words of the song, we may remark,
that, if the diplomatic world has during the last
two or three weeks been somewhat fluttered a ,d
flurried by an exchange of notes, is will be to-day
pleasingly excited by the return ef a diplomatic
functionary who nnwidingly lett these shores seme
four years ago, and who again returns on the ,
10th March, 1858, to pertorm those functions,
the duties of which he so ably fulfided ante-
cedently to the war with Russia. The Baron
Brunnow (for it is of him we speak) is no I
stranger to England, It is now nearly tbirty-
eight years ago since he first set foot. on the English
soil as Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Lon-
don. He was then a young man, being scarcely
more than twenty-three ye irs of age; but the solidity
of his attainments, the gravity of his character, his
judgment and good sense, pointed him out to his
superiors as a person fitting to be attached to a
first-rate Embassy. He had then but two years'
experience in any Russian Chancery. But the
aptitude he exhibited at the Congress of Aix-la-
Chapelle secured him the friendship of M. de
Stourdza, a Greek Councillor of State in the Russian
service, and this gentleman pointed him out to
MM. Nesselrode and Capo d'latrias as one most
fitting to be employed in the Russian Foreign-
office. His first labour there was on a code for
Bessarabia, and having subsequently attended the
Congresses of Troppau and Laybach, he was imme-
diately afterwards appointed Secretary to the Rus-
sian. Mission in this great metropolis. In Loudon
he remained for a year, and although all the lead-
ing English and almost all foreign statesmen of
that epoch are gathered to their fathers, still there
are those living now in high places in this town
who remember the diplomatic debut in our capi-
Val of the laborious and pains taking young
diplomatist who, nearly two scores of years
ago, exhibited a German's predilection for our
habit., manners, and system of government.
From London M. Brunnow was despatched to
the Congress of Verona in a subordinate capa-
city, and there he had an opportunity of wit-
nessing the skill and sagacity of Mr. Canning's ple-
nipotentiary, the late Duke of Wellington, and the
rising ability of his secretary, who has since played
an importent part at St. Peterburg, and now most
worthily fills, as Sir George Seymour, the place of
Plenipotentiary at the Imperial Court of Vienna.
F.rom Verona Baron Brunnow was again transferred
to St. Petersburg. His laborious habits and admi-
nistrative abilities, sound judgment, and accurate
knowledge of treaty law and history stood in
good stead at a Court where leading diplomatists
were German either by descent or by educa-
tion. It was not until 1827, we believe, that he
was attached to the Count Woronzoff, then Go-
vernor of Odessa, and one of the most influential
of the Russian functionaries. The edueatiou of
the Count had been in a great degree Euglish. He
had a mania for everything savouring of our coun-
try, and serving with such a man it was natural
that M. Brunnow's early and favourable ideas con-
cerning England should be extended and fortified.
From the side of M. de Woronzeff he proceeded
to Turkey, and in 1828 and 1829, whilst Diebitch
was crossing the Balkan, M. Brunnow was e:n-
ployed in a civil capacity at the head-quarters of
die army. The qualities he exhibited on this
Arduous occasion caused his nomination as a
Russian Councillor of State. At the close of the
war he was transferred to the private cabinet of
Nesselrode, and exercised by the side of that
statesman functions not different from those per-
formed at Vienna by M. Gentx. The principal
Rassian State papers, between 1830 and 1839, were
drawn up by M. Brunnow, and the luAdity and
logical force by which they are distinguished prove
him to be a dialectician of no mean order. Services
of this nature are speedily rewarded at Imperial
Courts. M. Brunnow was named, in 1839, Russian
Minister to Stuttgardt, and, in 1840, was entrusted
, with a special mission to London on the Eastern
question'. To him, indeed, is chiefly duo the treaty
of the 15th July, 1840, and the success of this
strument gained him his permanent position
' of the firsc, class a, the Court of St. James's.
• He had for eight years enjoyed that position
with credit to himself and wi li advent age to
,is country, when he negotiated w.th L )rd Pal-
merston the Commercial Treaty of 1849. From
that epoch; fir nearly five years, he conciliated
the esteem of official and commercial men in this
country, and for seven or eight 'months antecedent
to the war made every effort that an honourable
and honest man could make to prevent an open rup-
ture. But 'the obstinacy and blind and headstrong
wilfulnes of the late Emperor Niehotas-were not
to be conquered, and M. Brunnow, to his regret as a
private iudividual, and with sincere sorrow, if
not with some sense of humiliation as a public
man, left these shores, where were spent thir-
teen or fourteen of the happiest years of his not
uneventful life. The esteem of all good and intel-
ligent men followed him to the small Court in Ger-
many to which, by the displeasure of Nicholas, he
was relegated. Since his departure from Belgravia
four or five eventful seasons have elapsed, great
battles have been lost and won, a powerful Em-
peror is dead, and a peace, folloWed by a Coegre,s,
has been chronicled in all the gaze' fes of Europe.
" Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds," however,
for Alexander is not Nicholas. The one was war-
like and aggressive ; the other is peaceful and con-
ciliatory. The new Emperor being in the latter
category, and appreciating M. Brunnow's past Fee-
vices and efforts in the cause of peace, sends him
back now to his old Embassy, whera he will be
received kindly and cordially by Court, Cabinet,
and People ; first, because he represents
an honourable and powerful Prince and
a great empire, with whom we desire to be in rola-
tons of amity and commerce ; and secondly, be-
cause of his own proper merits and virtues. For
English statesmen, politicians, and public men re-
member that the Baron Brunnow did_ all
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lover of his species trusts may endure for a genera-
tion beyond our own.—Morning Post.

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