The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-14 00:00:00

:THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1861.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHEAP EXCURSION to the SEA-SIDE.—On SA-
TURDAY, Aug. 17, an Excursion Train will leave PAD-
DINGTON at 2.15 p.m., and READING at 3.20 p.m. for
Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, and Frome (10s. and Os.),
Bruton, Castle Carey, and Yeovil (11s. and 75.), Maiden New-
ton, Bridport, Dorchester, and Weymouth (12s. and Bs.), re-
turning from Weymouth on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 4.15 p.m.,
as per bills.

CREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
On SUNDAY, August 18, an EXCURSION TRAIN will
leave Paddington at 7.45 a.m., and Reading at 8.60 a.m., for
CHIPPENHAM and BATH (Fares, 9s. and 55.), and BRIS-
TOL (105. and 65.), returning the same day.

6'IREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
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HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of
this COMPANY will be held, pursuant to Act of rarliament,
in Loudon, at the Paddington Station, on FRIDAY, the 16th
day of August next, for the general purposes cf business.
The chair will be taken at 1 o'clock precisely. .
SHELBURNE, Chairman.
BARRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.

The Transfer Books will be Closed on the of August,
and will not be opened until after the said Half-yearly Gene-
ral Meeting on the 16th August.
London Terminus, Paddington, July 18, 1861.

AYLESBURY AND BUCKINGHAM RAIL-
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next ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE-
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August instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the pur-
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BUCKINGHAM & CHAN DOS, Chairman.
J. G. ROWE, Secretary.
Aylesbury, 13th August, 1861.

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THE INDIAN A.RIIIY.

(From the Gazette of lazt nig7a.)
NOTICE.
INDIA-OFFICE, AUG. 12.

In the general Order of the Governor-General of India,*
dated the 10th of April last, republished in the London
Gazette of the 28th of May, 1861, it was stated that the posi-
tion and claims of the Field-officers of the Indian armies
now unemployed, or for whom it may be difficult to find
suitable employment under the new system, were under
consideration.

It has now been determined by the Secretary of State for
India in Council that annuities, at the following rates, shall
be offered on retirement to the Lieutenant-Colonels and
Majors as they stand regimentally in the cavalry and in-
fantry of the three Presidencies, in addition to the pensions
to which they may be entitled under the regulations of the
service, viz, :
CAVALRY.—LiEurENANT-COLONELS.
BENGAL.—Per Annum.
Ist .. £550 sth £3OO Bth £250

2d .. 450 6th .. 280 9th .. 250
3d .. 400 7th .. 260 10th .. 250
4th .. 350
MADRAs.—Per Annum.
Ist .. £550 4th .. £3OO 7th .. £250

2d .. 450 sth .. 280 Bth .. 250
3d .. 350 6th .. 250
BOMBAY.—Per Annum. _

Ist .. £5OO

.. £3OO

3d .. £250

Any number of Lieutenant-Colonels in excess of the
establishment, in consequence of the promotion of Lieu-
tenant-Colonels to be Major-Generals, will receive the pen-
sion of the junior in the above list.
The Regimental Lieutenant-Colonels of Infantry will
be divided into groups, as shown in the following table ; an
annuity of the same amount being allotted to every officer
of each group :
INFANTRY.—LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.

Number
of
Group.

Number In
each Group
for
Bengal.

Number in
each Group
for
Madras.

Number in
each Group
for
Bombay.

Amount
per
Annum.

The groups have been formed with reference to the esta-
blished number of Lieut.-Colonels of Infantry in the
several Presidencies, as they stand for succession to Colonel's
allowance.

Any number of Lieut.-Colonels in excess of that esta-
blishment in consequence of the promotion of Lieut.-
Colonels to be Major-Generals, will receive the pension of
the last group.
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the list until his death, or until a casualty shall occur among
the regimental Colonels, in either of which cases his name
will be removed, no promotion being made in his room. On
another casualty occurring among the regimental Colonels,
should the name then at the head of the list of Lieutenant-
Colonels be that of an officer who has not accepted the an-
nuity, he will succeed, as usual, to the Colonel's allowance,
and promotions will be made in succession.
The promotion in succession to the Lieut.-Colonels who
retire under this scheme will be made in the proportion of
one to every two of such retirements ; on the other hand,
every vacancy created among the Majors will be followed
by promotion in the usual course.

Should the number of Regimental Field-officers retiring
on these terms fall short of 300 in the three Presidencies,
the Government of India will be authorized to offer an-
nuities of £l2O per annum, in addition to the pensions to
which they may be entitled, to so many of the Regimental
Captains of the three Presidencies as may suffice to make
up that number, the offer to them to be madelin succession
according to length of service, reckoning from the date of
the first commission, and to be confined to those of or above
25 years' service.

The Regimental Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors of the
Cavalry and Infantry who have elected for service with the
new Line Regiments or in the Staff Corps will have the
option of retiring upon the terms now offered.

It is to be distinctly understood that this is a final alTange
ment, and that no further proposals connected with schemes
for the retirement of officers of the Indian Service will be
entertained.

Officers of the Indian Armies on furlough in this coun-
try desirous of retiring from the service on the terms now
offered should address their applications to the Secretary to
Government, in the Military Department, of the Presi-
dency to which they belong.

NOTICE.
INDIA-OFFICE, AUGUST 12.

In consequence of some misapprehensions being under-
stood
to exist as to the interpretation of tlie 98tliparagraph
of the'General Order' of the Governor-General of India,
dated 10th April last, quoted in the margin,t it is notified,
for general information, that, upon a reconsideration of the
order, and of the instructions upon which it was based, her
Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council has pointed
out to the Government of India that all officers whom that
Government may not consider fit for employment are to be
dealt with under clause 7 of the Staff Corps Warrant, but
that another rule must be laid down and followed in the case
of officers who are perfectly fit for employment, but who,
from circumstances of one kind or another, may be out of
employment; for example, those who, in consequence of
having overstayed the prescribed limit of absence, with re-
tention of appointment, may find themselves on their return
to India out of employment.
Such officers, on their return to India, will be placed on
the rate of pay specified for their respective ranks in the
Staff Warrant, for officers while required to remain in India
—and they will retain this rate of pay for a year, before the
expiration of which period it is expected an opportunity will
have arisen for placing them in some suitable appointment.
Should no opportunity occur within the year of placing a
perfectly qualified officer, returning from furlough, in a
situation suited to him, the Governments in India will be
authorised to continue the Indian rate of pay until a suit-
able opening can be found for his employment.
Officers will not be placed on half-pay except under the
operation of one or other of the two clauses 7 and 10 of the
Staff Corps Warrant.

The Government of India have been directed to modify
the 98th paragraph of the General Order accordingly.

Officers of the Staff Corps under the rank of Major-Gene-
ral whom the Governments of India may not see fit to employ
in any capacity, will not be allowed to draw pay for more
than four years, of which one year may be on the Indian
scale, and three years on the scale fixed for officers " out of
India," after which period they will be plated on half-pay,
or on pension, according to the scale of their rank, if entitled
thereto.

veritable exponent of the conscience of the nation ;
and that his enterprise was based on solid founda-
tions, as his death itself has proved. The country,
the Parliament, and the Goverament, in receiving
as a great calamity the news of the death of this
illustrious statesman, felt at the same time the ne-
cessity of uniting themselves more closely, in order
not to allow their forces to be scattered, and Italy
deprived, though only just created, of one of her
firmest defenders, displayed all her vigorous vitality
by supporting the dolorous trial without any dis-
couragement.

And if you will be kind enough to remark that
the greatest part of the legislative measures of the
Parliament has been accomplished since the death
of that eminent statesman—if you will beside con-
sider the object of the principal bills voted, and the
immense majority of the suffrages which approved
of them, you will easily understand that we can
affirm that his intentions have been efficaciously
carried out by the accord of the Parliament and the
Government.

At certain moments, since the commencement
of Parliamentary labours, incidents, it is true, may
have arisen which seemed not in accord with a calm
and moderate discussion of the different bills pro-
pesed by the King's Government, of the wants and
wishes of the country, and of the principles of in-
ternational policy. But in such a great and rapid
change of things and destinies, and in the con-
course of such different elements in the accomplish-
ment of the deliverance of the country; in the
midst of the fears awakened by foreign intrigues
which fomented and still foment the most brutal
and violent passions in certain provinces; with
the fact before our eyes of foreign ciecupation,
which still weighs as a threat on one of the most
tormented and glorious provinces of the peninsula,
we must not be surprised that some minds more
ardent and less initiated into the rules of political
life have sometimes allowed themselves to be carried
away by counsels which were neither prudent nor
expedient.
Nevertheless, these incidents, the natural but
transitory effect of a transitory state of things, have
never been sufficiently powerful to shake the confi-
dence of the citizens in their government, either
within the Chamber or elsewhere, and they never
have ended in dangerous resolutions. The proof of
these reflections we have touched upon becomes
evident from the series of parliamentary acts and
the 83 laws voted during the first period of the
legislative session—laws the principal of which it
may not be useless to mention here.
The deputies of the nation have considered it their
first duty and first thought solemnly to confirm the
plebiscite of the people by awarding the crown of
Italy to the august prince whose loyalty and mili-
tary courage had so powerfully contributed to secure
universal sympathy to the destinies of our country,
and to produce the happy events which have made
Italy what she now is. In unanimously voting the
law by which Victor Emmanuel assumes the title
of King of Italy, the parliament has given a guaran-
tee to monarchical Europe, and enabled the govern-
ment to assume among civilised nations the place
which is due to Italy, by notifying to foreign cabi-
nets the formation of the new kingdom, and succes-
sively obtaining from them the recognition of that
kingdom.

The laws relative to the arming of the nation have
been equally fruitful in political results. Beside the
measures relating to the levies of land and sea forces,
the parliament has, in the law which extends the
institution of the active National Guard, sanctioned
one of the most efficacious arguments for the defence
of the country and the preservation of order at
home.

The Italians have not forgotten the solemn
words which our august and generous ally ad-
dressed to them on touching the soil of liberated
Lombardy : "Be all soldiers to-day, that yon
may to-morrow be the free citizens of a great
nation." For military service forms citizens to
temperance and discipline, gives them the conscious-
ness of their own dignity and strength, and ren-
ders them familiar with all those manly and austere
virtues which are necessary to the exercise and
preservation of liberty. Moreover, if good armies
are indispensable for the defence of the precious
acquisitions of the nation, by the confidence with
which a well-armed people inspires its friends, and
the respect which it imposes upon enemies, they
are also a powerful means of obtaining pacific
triumphs; or else, when, notwithstanding our en-
deavours, peace is disturbed, these armies serve to
render a perturbation, which we would not have
provoked, less durable and less fatal to the general
interests of Europe.

The laws relating to the unification of thc• public
debt belong as much to the political as to the eco-
nomical order of things. To unify the various sys-
tems of debts which we have inherited from the
small states into which, unfortunately, the penin-
sula has, until now, been divided ; to attract the
interests of the creditors of the state towards the
centre of national life, and provide for the future
of the nation while respecting individual rights,
have been the object which Parliament had in view
in adopting the financial measures proposed by the
King's Government. The spectacle of the ardour
of Italian and foreign capitalists in offering the
means of realising the loans voted by the Cham-
bers sufficiently proves that this object has been
attained.

You know, sir, that though only 764,000,000 lire
were demanded by the Government, more than
1,000,000,000 lire were offered, and the result of
the public subscription is not yet known. That
is a fact to which I, with pleasure, tali the atten-
tion of the King's ministers abroad. It proves that
the kingdom of Italy has been able to create itself
credit for the future, by respecting, with the most
rigorous justice, the obligations contracted in the
past. It is the most splendid proof that could be
given that the events which have just taken place
in Italy are more than a revolution—that they are
the restoration of regular and normal order.
The Parliament has also provided for the develop-
ment of the economic resources of the country by
giving its sanction to the bills presented by the
Ministry of Public Works relative to the prompt
execution of a vast network of railways. To promote
among all classes of society, by the stimulant of
labour, wealth, and public morality ; to excite the
augmentation of national capital by the powerful
co-operation of foreign capital ; to remove the ob-
stacles which distance and the configuration of the
Peninsula oppose to the rapid fraternisation of all
the inhabitants—such are the results which the
Government hopes to be able to obtain in a short
time by the energetic impulsion given to public
works.

In order clearly to understand the importance of
this subject, it will be sufficient to say that in addi-
tion to the works of the arsenal of La Spezzia,
2,700 kilometres of railway (the kilometre is five-
eighths of a mile) have been concluded; that they
are to be completed in from a year and a half to
eight years; and that the execution of them will
cost about 750,000,000 lire, of which about
290,000,000 lire are to be supplied by the Govern-
ment, in addition to the guarantee accorded by the
contract.

This summary exposition will suffice to make
known that the Parliament, in the first part of the
present session, has not only provided for the most
urgent wants, but also for the most important and
most fruitful interests of the country.
And now, if we cast a glance on the path in which
we have hitherto walked, and if we measure it with
the grandeur of events, it seems to me that we have
the right to feel great satisfaction. But if we cast
our eyes on the road we have still to go, we see that
it is rough, difficult, full of snares and perils. We
are not, however, alarmed at it, and we venture to
repeat with just pride that Italy has been made
one. Yes, Italy is created, although part of Italy
is still under the power of the foreigner ; for we are
certain that Europe, see* us well organised, well

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armed, and s trong, will be convinced of our right
to possess all riogether our territory, and will find a
guarantee o f repose and peace by favouring the
restoration c if the part which is wanting to us ;
for we are convinced that Europe, in learn-
ing to know us better, will become persuaded that
we, a people essentially catholic, understand better
than any of ;her the true interests of the Church
when we as k her to divest herself of the feudal
rights which a barbarous age gave her, and which
are incompatible with civilisation, offering her in
exchange ini lependence and full and entire liberty
in the exerci Be of her holy ministry, and the grati-
tude and rest )ect of a regenerated nation. We well
know that ol A Europe still looks upon us with a
distrustful ey 4), and that she reproaches us with the
disturbances which sadden the southern provinces,
and the uno eainty of our internal organisation.
But Europe I mows the old origin of those disturb-
ances ; she ha a, in the Congress of Paris, stigmatised
the depraved system which corrupted and debased
that'people. We are now sure that in the sun of
liberty their generous instinct will assume new
vigour, and I hat Italy will derive her most reliable
support pree isely from those facts which now con-
stitute our ; rreatest internal dangers. We will
neither atten Ipt to conceal or affect to diminish their
importance; but we beg that the old causes which
produced the m, and the present instigations which
perpetuate them by misusing a generous protection
granted for the noblest purposes, may be taken into
consideration. ; we wish it to be remarked that no
nation has ever seen four different systems of go-
vernment fall, and constituted its unity with fewer
commotions in so short a time.

4,l4rdithificactunpl es of civil wisdom and virtue given
by the Parliament are a pledge of the political ma-
turity of the 'nation, of which it is the legitimate and
faithful representative, and must inspire a just and
entire confidemce in the regular process of national
institutions. What now remains to be done is, that
the parts now united in a whole may form a well-
organised and well-constituted body, in which life,
proceeding from a powerful and unique impulsion,
spreads through all the members in an equal man-
ner, so as to give them movement and vigour. The
Government is preparing for this important work
so as to be in a position, in the next session, to call
for the counsel and the authority of the Parlia-
ment therein. Meanwhile credit has supplied
ample aliment for the necessary vitality ; but we
must now take advantage of it to revive the
sources of national wealth, and establish by an
equitable system of taxation the indispensable ba-
lance of the income and expenditure of the State.
Italy must be completed, and no sacrifice for that
end will appear too great for Italians.
The spectacle of our nation, of the marvellous
moderation of that people, which has just risen
to an independent life of its own, must persuade
every impartial mind that Italy, left to herself,
freed from all the external dangers which still
threaten her, put in possession of all the conditions
necessary for her existence, will be, as our august
King expressed his conviction in opening the first
Italian Parliament, a guarantee of order and peace
for Europe, a powerful agent of universal civilisa-
tion.

I authorise you, sir, to make of this despatch
whatever use you may think moat likely to benefit
our country. _

RICASOLI,
President of the Council of Ministers and
Minister of Foreign Affairs.