The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-21 00:00:00

The Adelaide steam transport, Capt. Bourn,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Waterford
with the 2d Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish on
board. The regimental baggage, horses, &c., were
landed alongside the dockyard yesterday, and the
troops will land this evening and proceed by special
train to Aldershott. The following are the names
of the officers and number of the troops,:-
1 Major Armstrong, in command: Major 0. B.
D'Arey • Capts. Inman, Bishopp, King, Haydock,
and Hailowes ; Lieuts. Noblett, Wray, Hall, Mac-
gregor, Home, and Briggs ; Ensigns Marsland,
Little, Marryatt, Meredith, Butler, Cornish, and
Herbert ; Adjt. and Lieut. Dawson ; Quartermas-
ter Godfrey; Srrg. Peake ; Assist.-Surgs. Spencer
and Coglan ; two ladies, 13 children, 852 rank and
file, 62 women, 72 children, and six horses.
The newly-invented tents which have been
patented by Mr. Turner, two of which have been
erected within the Spur battery at Chatham, and
occupied by the troops selected from the Ist Batta-
lion, arc found to answer their intended purp3ses
so admirably that orders have been given directing
that they shall be given over for the use of the men
attached to the 3d Battalion, a portion of whom arc
to occupy the tents each night. The number of
men who can sleep in the smallest of the two tents
is 18, each man having a hammock to himself.
There is also a stove in the cents e of each tent to
warm the interior during the night in order to keep
up an equal temperature for the troops occupying
them.
Arrangements are in progress, and will probably
shortly be carried into effect, for formino. the Royer al
Engineer detachments now at heal-quarts,
Chatham, into four separate depot companies.
This will greatly facilitate the arrangements for
the organisation of the corps, as the detachment of
recruits at Brompton Barracks now numbers 500
men, On the formation of the proposed four depots

On Tuesday last the 78th Highlanders, who so
greatly distinguished themselves in India during
the mutiny, especially at Cawnpore and Lucknow,
were honoured with a public reception and a ban-
quet at Nairn. At half-past 12 the train from the
west brought the regiment, about 800 strong, and
they were drawn up on the road adjoining the
Nairn Railway Station, adjacent to which was. a
triumphal arch, surmounted by a floral crown, and
bearing the inscription in large letters formed of
holyhoek blossoms and spanning the roadway,
" Welcome to Nairn, 78th !" From two lofty flag-
staffs, decorated with ivy, floated the Union Jacks
on the one side on a large banner of blue ground,
and on the other of crimson. The command having
been given the soldiers marched in companies,
headed by the sergeants of their respective corps,
in close column. The road from the railway station
to the west end of the town, on both sides, was
lined with well-dressed persons of both sexes, and
every eminence near was crowded with occupants,
anxious to catch a glimpse of the gallant fellows as
they passed along. The cheering was enthusiastic,
and the progress a complete ovation till they
reached another triumphal arch at the Royalty,
nearly opposite to the Provost's house. Here was
a magnificent erection, composed of evergreens and
flowers, surmounted by a colossal crown, and bear-
ing underneath the inscription—" Honour to the
brave."
Here a halt was called, and Provost Findlay stood
forward to present the freedom of the town to the
commanding officer, which he did in the following
terms :—" Colonel M'lntyre—ln thus doing myself
the honour of addressing you, I can assure you, it
is with no ordinary degree of pride and pleasure
that I appear here, accompanied by the corporation
of the town of Nairn, to give you and your gallant
regiment a most hearty welcome ,to our ancient
burgh. The town council, cordially approving of
the banquet to which the regiment has been invited,
and sincerely sympathising in the sentiments in
which it was originated, have voted to you the free-
dom of this burgh—the highest civic honour we can
rotifer. My brother magistrates and councillors are
here met to present to you, through me, the act of
admission on the entrance of your regiment to the
burgh. (Cheers.) I may here add that our interest
in the regiment is, if possible, the more enhanced
by the consideration that the gallant 78th will enter
our royal burgh under the command of a brave and
gallant officer whom we hail as a fellow citizen. We
wish to express our high admiration of the services
of your brave and distinguished regiment in India
during the late calamitous mutiny, more particularly
of the indomitable courage, the unswerving discip-
line, and the irresistible prowess with which they,
under the great and good General Havelock, and the
renowned Campbell, in the days of their country's
need, and in the face of fearful odds, advanced
so successfully to the ever memorable recapture of
Cawnpore, and the relief and rescue of the brave
and interesting garrison of Lucknow. We are
all grateful for these and the many other distin-
guished services of the_ 78th, and proud are we of
the heroes who achieved them. Time will not
permit of my entering more into detail on this
occasion ; I therefore-hope you will believe me to be
sincere when I assure you, on behalf of the spirited
corporation; and community over which I have the
honour to preside, that we feel proud in doing
honour to the brave. I myself, as an old soldier,
feel the deepest interest in the services and renown
of the gallant 78th—the corps in which my own
lamented father carried the colours when your
regiment fought and nobly conquered at Maida.
(Cheering.)
The clerk read the burgess ticket and presented
it to Col. Wlntyre:
Col. WINTYRE, in returning thanks, said it was
not to anything he had done, but the heroic deeds
of the gallant fellows in the ranks, to which the
success which had crowned their efforts must be
ascribed. He highly valued the honour now con-
ferred, and should ever cherish a grateful remem-
brance of it. (Cheers.)
Deafening cheers succeeded, and the regiment,
at the word of command, moved forward, passing
along High-street on their way to the Links, where
the banquet w. s awaiting them in an immense tent
or marquee, within the walls of the Bathing-house
grounds, capable of containing 2,000 guests.
The chair was taken at half-past two by Mr.
Wm. Brodie, of Brodie, lord-lientenant of the
county of Nairn.
Among the visitors present were Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of Richmond and a
distinguished party from Gordon Castle ; Lady
Gordon Cumming, of Altyre, and the Master of
Altyre ; the lady of the lamented Capt. Creswell,
and a number of the landed proprietors of the neigh-
bouring counties, with their ladies and families.
The substantial part of the banquet having been
concluded,
The usual loyal and' patriotic toasts were pro-
posed from the chair, and responded to with the
liveliest enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN then, addressing the guests of
the evening, said-78th Highlanders! I am de-
lighted to see you here. Wo give this banquet to
testify our admiration Of your gallant and efficient
military services, particularly in India since the
unexpected revolt of 1857, to verify as far as our
limited liability will
permit the prediction of the
immortal Havelock, that the victory won, " your
labour, your sufferings, and your valour
be forgotten by a grateful country."our would not
conquest of India—the gradual extension e original
and
con-
solidation of the Anglo-Indian Empire—its mild
and prosperous administration for 100 years—these
were confessedly among the most striking achieve-
ments of modern times. Owing to the unexpected
outbreak of a s% ide-spread and ferocious mutiny on
the part of the Indian soldiery, whom we had our-
selves trained to arms, and trusted after they had
long shown themselves quiet and faithful, that great
empire was, in 1857, shaken to its centre, and all but
lost. England then required strong arms and stout
hearts to aid in the re-establishment of her lost power
and in avenging the previously unheard-of atroci-
ties of the rebellious' mutineers, Nobly was Eng-
land's call for aid responded to, and by none more
conspicuously than by the 78th Highlanders. To
retrieve the disaster appeared even more difficult
than the original conquest. We had lost our pres-
tige—our foes had possessed themselves of Delhi,
our Indian arsenal and our treasury. Flushed with
success, they were also more numerous, better
trained, and better organised than they had ever
been before, yet India, thanks to our admirable
mLitaiy and civil service, was reorganised and the
rebels dispersed in less than two years! Time
would fail were I to attempt noticing in detail the
many distinguished services which were rendered
by the 78th during this arduous struggle. But I
cannot forbear a special allusion to the more im-
portant results—to their intrepid, and at length
successful advances, under the noble, ever-to-be
lamented Havelock, and the celebrated Lord Clyde,
to the wonderful recapture of Cawnpore, and the
glorious relief and rescue of the resolute and in-
teresting Lucknow garrison—its heroes and its
heroimes. It was honourable to the 78th that such
a man as Havelock should have foretold before that
superior training and discipline on their part—that
in his own words he should have " long and
anxiously waited the opportunity of developing
their powers." It was glorious for them and credi-
table to his discrimination that when the oppor-
tunity arrived they were more than valiant—in
somuch as to make him claim the regiment as
his
own, and call them " the Saviours of India,testify that their delebrated charge, which
the battle of Cawnpore, stood unsurpassed by even
de"ciadnedd
Maida and Assaye. Soldiers, let it ever be upper-
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its formal development in the treaty of Zurich.
Europe has expected this document without great
impatience, and the parties most nearly interested
could have tolerated much longer delays, and a still
more deliberate course of negotiation. The fact is
that all present diplomacy must necessarily be ad-
verse to Italian interests. Negotiation upon the
basis of the arrangement at Villafranca cannot but
be hostile to the status quo in Italy. Nothing can
be so satisfactory to the Italians as that status quo.
Italy is at this moment free, orderly, and, in arms.
Let her alone, and she will work out Italian unity
in her own way. She fears nothing but her greatfriend and her great enemy on the other side of the
Alps..
.Congr!sses are to her what a consultation of
physicians might be
to a healthy man. Take an
English country squire just as he is mountinc, his
hack to ride to the cover side for a little cub Bunt-
ing, carry him back into a warm room, and present
him with a supply of physic anda code of dietary
rules, all fresh prescribed by eminent doctors con-
vened by his neighbours. Then listen to the nature
of his remarks upon this interference. You will
have a free translation of the ejaculations that will
pervade the great cities of Northern Italy when
this Treaty of Zurich comes to be read in their
streets.
However, hero the treaty is, or at least what
purports to lie an analysis of it, as the text in et-
tense cannot be published before it is ratified. Here
the treaty is, and we must deal with it It declares
the will of the two Emperors, and that united will
is fate to Italy, if it should take the form of united
action. Lombardy, now exulting in her liberty and
in the mild protection of her faithful Zouaves, is to
undertake a liability as a ransom for her freedom of
£10,000,0000 to Austria, and a compensation of
£2,500,000 to her deliverer. Moreover, to check
any outburst of her too exuberant spirits, she is to
lie in her fat, unprotected, plains at the feet of the
great fortresses of Peschiera and Mantua. The
Treaty of
.Zurich presents to Lombardy a heavy
bill for present payment, and a heavy menace for
the future. That there shall be no lack of signifi-
cancy in the menace, the Austrians are ostenta-
tiously increasing the strength of Peschicra, and
cutting down the mulberry and olive trees to a safe
distance from the lines. Even Milan will scarcely
find another excuse for an illumination in the
treaty which fixes her obligations. Milan, how-
ever, is the only city the present freedom of which
is acknowledged by the treaty of Zurich. " The
rights of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Duke of
Modena, and the Duke of Parma are expressly re-
served." The "tranquillity of the Church and the
power of the Holy Father" are to be insured, not by
recognising the present Government in the Lega-
tions, but by the hopeful expedient of reforms to be
advised by the Emperors of Austria and France,
and to be carried out by the Pope. There is no
recognition of the Italy of to-day ;no admission of
any knowledge of those well-constituted Govern-
ments which aro administering justice and protect-
ing order; the Zurich Plenipotentaries see nothing
but the old upholstery of the Italy of the Grand
Dukes, and bow with diplomatic politeness to the
empty chairs of state now removed to various lum-
ber rooms. According to this programme, Italy is
to resume her old position, with some slight modi-
fications. The people of the Romagna are to return
to their allegiance, and to dwell under the reformed
administration of the Holy Father, under Imperial
advice. Florence, and Mantua, and Parma are to
welcome back their Dukes. Then shall arise, under
the auspices of the two Emperors, the great Con-
federation of all the States of Italy. There will be
the King of Sardinia at one end and the King of
Naples at the other, and the Pope in the middle.
There will be Austria faithfully representing the
sentiments of the citizens of Venice, and the three
Grand Dukes voting with equal fidelity the exact
sentiments of their Italian subjects. There will be
a federal army "to watch over the defence of the
interior and exterior of Italy," to which the King
of Naples will, no doubt, send his Swiss mercena-
ries, and the Pope will perhaps spare a contingent,
with " Perugia" written upon their colours, to which
the Dukes will contribute recruits drawn from their
Hungarian estates, and Austria will despatch levies,
at the departure of which Venice will be glad.
These elements of a Federal Italian Army will mix
well with the Sardinians, who may have met sense
of them before at Palestro and Solferino; and they
will be admirably adapted, in the glowing words of
the Zurich Plenipotentiaries, to " preserve the inde-
pendence and integrity of Italy, and to insure the
development of its moral and material interests."
In more household English, the Federal Army will
be either a mixture of foreign mercenaries and na-
tive Italians, or an army of native Italians. In the
former case they will destroy each other ; in the
latter they will destroy this Italian Confederation.
The Italian Confederacy will be a Congress of
States inhabited by a freedom-loving people, but a
Congress :n which free institutions will be repre-
sented by a minority of one. How the Confederacy
and the army will work together time only can
show. If the army can be relied, upon to do the
bidding of the Confederacy, we shall hear no more
of Italian liberty ; and if the Confederacy should
find itself oppressed by the army the result would
be scarcely more satisfactory. An Italian Confe-
deracy, with the exiled Princes, is a wild notion,
more wild than any that Plato or Sir Thomas More
conceived. It bears relationship rather to the
crotchets of the time of the French Revolution, for
it requires a certain perfectibility of human nature
even to set it at work. Before it can have a fair
trial it will be indispensable that the Grand Dukes
should become good governors and their subjects
frank and enlightened enough to discover and con-
fess the change; that the Pope, and the king of
Naples, and the Emperor of Austria should all be-
come converted to free institutions, and quite friendly
to popular rights; that France and Austria should
thoroughly agree as to the amount of freedom that
can be safely administered to the Romans, and the
m in
Venice of oppression that would be necessary n
Venice ; that the Italians should all pull smoothly
together, and should forget that they ever suffered
wrongs or fostered jealousies in past times. When
all this happens, and Sardinia works out of the debt
which is just hung round her neck, we may, per-
haps, see a united Italy flourishing according. to
the programme written out in the Treaty of Zurich.
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favour the objects denoted by the moral suasion, in
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wickedness to be perpetrated at the cost of human
slaughter, let us take care how we touch it. We
are not about to fight for " Italian unity ;" that is
abundantly understood. We do not, as the French
Emperor says of us, go to war for an idea. All we
can do, then, apart from our influence upon the
public opinion of the world, is to avoid any act
which can give the sanction of England to any
interference with Italy in her attempts to work out
her own freedom. We do not believe that the
Emperor of the French will, standing alone, or with
Austria only by his side, restore these Italian

THE GREAT EASTERN.—Saunders' News Letter
of yesterday says :—Circumstances having occurred to in-
duce the belief that the directors of the Great Ship Company
would be favourable to wintering the Great Eastern in Cork
harbour, a deputation, consisting of Sir Edward M'Donnel,
chairman of tho Great Southern and Western Railway
Company; Sir John Benson, engineer of this harbour :
Captain O'Brien, harbour-master of Queenstown; and Mr.
M. J. Barry, secretary to the Port-of-Call Committee, left
Dublin on Sunday for Holyhead, to put themselves in corn-
municaticn with the directors of the Great Ship Company.
The following is from the chairman of the Great Eastern :
"Great Eastern, October 16, 1859.—My dear T.,—We sail
for America 29th of this, month. For the present we must
abandon Cork, bdt likely at no distant date to give you a
look in, and interest will be in nowise diminished by a
trip to America. The Queen has to get to Windsor on
Monday, and it will fatigue her too much to come here.
The Prince we expect in the morning, and a grand banquet
is to be given us here on Wednesday next.—Believe me
yours faithfully, R.1.R.C."
SHOCKING RESULTS OF A TIGHT•ROPE PER-
FORMANCE.-110 Boston Courier of the 3d inst. says :
" On Wednesday afternoon a frightful accident occurred at
Albion, New York. It appears that a large crowd had as-
sembled to see a young man cross the canal upon a
.tight-
rope. An iron bridge near the rope was covered with
people and carriages, as that furnished the best position for
the spectators. IV.lien the performer was just walking out
the bridge fell with a sudden crash, carrying with it hun •
dreds of .men, women, and children, and several heavy
teams and carriages. The scene which followed was awful,
indeed. Horses, persons, timbers, iron fragment were all
hurled in a promiscuous heap into the water. It is feared
that at least 20 were killed, while a large number were very
seriously injured. In this connexion we may mention that
the mountebank, De Lave, on Thursday, attempted to
carry a man upon his shoulders by his rope across the
Genessee Falls ; when near the middle he tottered and fell,
but both he and the man he carried were saved by ca tching
the rope with their hands."
SUPPOSED Loss OF A STEAMER IN THE CHAN-
NEL.—For several days much anxiety has prevailed respect-
ing some wreck which has been cast up on the Cornish coast,
and which is believed to have formed part of a large steamer
which has blown up. The schooner Devonport, Captain
Ferguson, on a voyage from the Thames to Plymouth last
week, fell in with some wreck off the Bolt Head, and being
a, light wind, a boat was sent to examine the timbers, build,
&c. It was found to be part of the main deck of a large
vessel, and from appearances it was judged to have be-
- longod to some foreign steamer. The deck had been cap-
sized, and the deck beams and under part of the deck were
exposed and were painted white throughout. The beams
were of largo scantling, and the deck was composed of 4
or 41 inch plank, the metal spikes of which are evidently of
foreign make. Lashed to the under side of the deck was
an iron tiller (spare one) of nearly 5 cwt., which was
brought off by the crew of the schooner ; a piece of copper
or metal pipe of ten feet long and three to four inches dia-
meter, with a short length of cenvas hose attached to ono
end, was also brought away. A large hole, supposed to be
that for the funnel, was visible, and the under
part of the
deck in the neighbourhood had been lined with tin, as if to
preeerve the wood from the heat. It had all the appear-
ance of being but recently in the water, no grass or weed or
slime being about it, and the paint was quite fresh. On the
following day the wreck was washed ashore at Pentewan,
and Capt. Eden, R.N., of the Plymouth De.-kyard, pro-
ceeded to inspect it, and from his report, which has been
forwarded to Lloyd's, it appears that he is of opinion that
the wreck is the remains of some steamboat which appa-
rently had blown up ; that it is of foreign build, and had
not been long in the water.
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