The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

General Goldsmid died on Sunday at his resi-
':dence in Park-crescent. The General entered the
army as cornet in the 12th Light Dragoons, and
the following year proceeded on active service
in the Peninsula, where he continued to serve
until the close of the war in 1814. He was pre-
sent at the cavalry affairs of Castrajon, Quintare de
Puerta, and Monasterio, also at the battles of
Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, and Nive, for which
he received the silver medal and four clasps. He
served also during the campaign of 1815, and was
at Waterloo. In June, 1826, he retired from his
regiment on half-pay. His commissions bore date
as follows :—Cornet, 30th of May, 1811 ; Lieut.,
20th of February, 1812; Captain, 22d of February,
1816; Major, 10th of June, 1826; Lieut.-Col., 23d
of November, 1841; Col., 20th of June, 1854 ; and
Major-Gen.., 26th of October, 1858.
A new transport-carriage for the removal of
heavy guns has been forwaided to Portsmouth for
the purpose of testing its powers in the removal of
large class ordnance to and from different parts of
works, and has been found to answer admirably,
contrasting very favourably when compared with
the old sling waggon. The new carriage is very
simple in character, and consists of four parts. A
pole and axle, with two wheels, with a projec-
ting fork and upright pin over the axle ; in fact, a
" roller handspike" mounted on wheels. The pin,
on the pole being raised, fits in a plate in the rear
and under part of the slide of an eight-inch gun
carriage, and by pulling down the pole, precisely
as the handspike is used, the weight of the slide,
carriage, and gun is taken off the ground and thrown
on the fore axle of the transporting carriage. At
the fore and under part of the slide, in a line
with the fore chase of the gun, are fittings to
receive an iron axle, which is clamped into its
place and then fitted with its two wheels. On or-
dinary roads the heaviest ordnance mounted on
their carriage and traversing slides may thus be
transported to any distance.

A court•martial assembled at the Marine bar-
racks, Forton, near Portsmouth, on Monday, for
the trial of Henry Cragg, private Royal Marines,
on the following charges :—" 1. For having, when
arraigned before a garrison court-martial at the
mainguard, Portsmouth, on or about the 10th day
of October, 1860, thrown a stone at Brevet-Lieut.-
Colonel Alexander C. Robertson, of the Ist batta"
lion of the Bth Regiment, the president of the
said court, which struck him on the breast,
while reading the minute of the proceedings
preliminary to the swearing of the members; and
for having, when ordered by the said Lieut.-Col.
Robertson to be removed from the court, resisted
the escort ordered to remove him, and attempting
to snatch from the table a copy of the Mutiny Act,
such conduct being subversive of good order and
military discipline. 2. For conducting himself in
a disrespectful manner and using disgusting lan-
guage when before the Court, &e." The Court
found both charges fully proved against the pri-
soner. His character was also deposed to as being
very bad, and several previous convictions were
proved against him. The Court was composed of
Col. H. C. C. Moore, President ; Lieut.-Col. Payne,
Lieut.-Col. Maxwell, and Lieut.-Col. It. C. Spald-
ing, all of the Royal Marine Light Infantry; Major
Digby, Royal Marine Artillery ; Major Bayley,
Bth Regiment (King's Own) ; Captains Clay, 19th
Regiment; Whiteside, Bth Regiment; Mawby,
Royal Marine Artillery; Stotherd, 21st Regiment ;
and Bolton, Royal!Artillery ; Lieuts. Nurse, Taite,
and Johnson, Bth Regiment Royal Marine Artil-
lery ; Quartermaster Chapman, Royal Marine
Artillery ; and Lieut. and Adjt. F. Lean, as Deputy-
Judge Advocate.

211,E SOUTILIMPT7X7NaNHAR7'LEY INSTI-

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.

Lord Palmerston has this day paid us his pro-
mised visit, and assisted in the ceremonial of laying
the corner•rtone of a noble edifice now erecting in
the High-street, to be hereafter devoted to the en-
nobling pursuits of literature and science.
In the afternoon a dejeuner was given by the
Mayor at the Audit House, his worship occupying
the chair.

The MAYOR proposed "The Health of Lord Pal-
merston," which was received with loud and en-
thusiastic cheering. His worship referred to the
efforts of his lordship in the cause of civil and reli-
giols liberty ; the moral support which his lordship
had given to the struggles for liberty in Italy under
the patriotic Garibaldi; and to his characteristics as
a landlord and a Hampshire man. He congratu-
lated them all on the successful issue of the Chinese
expedition, and on the fact that we were at peace
with all the world, thanks to the efforts of the
Government of which his lordship was the distin-
guished chief.
The toast was drunkewith every demonstration
of welcome.

Lord PALMERSTON, on rising, was received with
loud and prolonged cheers, on the subsidence of
which he said,—Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, I can
assure you that I am not using an ordinary figure
of speech when I say that it is impossible for me to
find words adequately to express my deep feelings
to you, Mr. Mayor, for the kind and too flattering
manner in which you have been pleased to propose
this toast, and to you, gentlemen, for the way in
which you have been kind enough to receive it. To
those who are engaged in official and in Parliamen-
tary duties the occasions are few when they are able
to meet, as it has boon my annd fortunn to do—to
meet their friends and neighbours in convivial
assemblies like this. But in proportion to the
seldomness of those occasions so is the gratification
which they afford, and we regret that it is not
oftener in our power to meet in convivial sociality
those with whom we are neighbours and friends.
(Cheers.) I look upon myself here, gentlemen, as
at home. (Cheers.) It is the more gratifying
when one receives tokens of goodwill and approval
—it is the more gratifying when those tokens pro-
ceed from these who are one's neighbours and
friends, who not only watch one in public life, but
also know one personally in private relations.
(Hear.) As a burgess and an old burgess of South-
ampton, claiming seniority in that capacity over, I
believe, almost all those whom I have the honour
of meeting—(cheers)—as a burgess of Southampton,
therefore, I feel doubly gratified at the cordial
reception with which I have been honoured this
day in the town of Southampton. The occasion,
indeed, is one of deep interest. Those who have
watched the progress of this thriving and prosper-
ous town have seen how rapidly its population, its
commerce, its wealth, its industry, its intelligence
have of late years increased. But hitherto it has
not possessed any of those large public institutions
upon a large scale which have grown up in other
centres of industry, of manufacture, and of com-
merce. I trust that the bequest of which we are
to day commemorating the foundation will place
this town of Southampton upon a par with the other
great communities of the country, and upon a level
in its public condition with the individual and in-
tellectual qualifications which prevail among its
inhabitants. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we have laid
the foundation, and all things must have a begin-
ning; but, as I took leave to say this morning, I am
convinced that the foundation we have laid will be
the foundation of a far greater structure than that
which you contemplate in your proceedings to-day ;
and that when it is found that you have this insti-
tution—those means of instruction and those oppor-
tunities of reciprocal and intellectual intercourse—
that not only your own citizens, but others who

take an interest in your welfare, will be found pro.
gressively, and year after year, to add to those
means which, however they may be sufficient for
your immediate purposes, will, I am persuaded
be inadequate for the future development of the
future intelligence of this town. (Cheers.) I shall
not, gentlemen, presume to enter into any investi-
gation or discussion of the arrangements which
may be best adapted for the purposdfor which this
bequest has been made. In the first place, there
is another toast coming which may furnish
a more appropriate occasion for any hints or
suggestions upon that point. But I see by a
volume which you, Mr. Mayor, haie given me
that you have had opinions from a greater number
of persons who, from their scientific attainments,
as well as from their local position, are well
qualified to give advice, not only as to the struc-
ture you are to raise, but as to the manner in which
you arc to employ it when completed. I most, how-
ever, as a Hampshire man—l must as a burgess of
Southampton—make a friendly criticism upon a
passage which is found in the letter of that most
distinguished, learned, and scientific maa—Dr.
Playfair. He gives you a great deal of important
advice, which he is most competent to give, but in
treating with the question of an observatory he
dissuades you from erecting a scientific observatory
because, he says, it would be nearly useless on ac-
count of the cloudiness of your atmosphere, (Laugh-
ter.) Now, really, gentlemen, when we recollect
that Dr. Playfair writes from Kensington—
(laughter)—from within the verge of those volumes
of coal which keep floating over the metropolis of
the country, and where if there is cloudiness there
it is sure to be found, and when we recollect that
close by is the observatory of Dr. South, I can only
recommend that you would invite him to pass some
days at any period of the year within your town to
Convince him of that which I apprehend is true—
that of all parts of England there is none in which
the sun favours mankind more frequently than it
does in this southern town. (Cheers.) Mr. Mayor,
you have been pleased to advert to some questions
of public policy, and to express that in which I
hope you represent the feeling of the county—
(cheers)—satisfaction with the manner in which
the Government of which I have the honour to be a
member have conducted the matters of which they
had to dispose. (Cheers.) It is truethatthe autumn
which has passed, and the winter which is now
going on have produced three events as remarkable
perhaps, as any that have ever been crowded into
the same space of time, and in three quarters of the
globe. (Hear, hear.) You have. adverted to that
event which has taken place in Asia, I mean the
occupation of the capital of the Chinese empire by
the allied English and French forces. Well, if any
man 20 years ago could have told you that we
could have had English and French troops in Pekin
he would have been laughed at as a visionary. But
it has been accomplished, and I trust it will lead to
those permanent relations of peace and commerce
with China which will be equally advantageous
both to Europe and to the remote portions of Asia.
(Hear.) You have been pleased, Mr. Mayor, to
advert to the complete manner in which that expe-
dition was fitted out. 'Well, great merit on that
account is undoubtedly due, not only to my right
hon. friend, Mr. Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of
State for War, who has devoted the whole energies
of his mind and all the power of his intellect to
further everything connected with the military
service—it is not only due to his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief, who has produced great
improvements in, and is devoted to, the service of
which he is so distinguished a member ; but it is
also due to the energetic administration of Lord
Canning in India, from which country a great part
of our troops were despatched, and all the success is
due to the ability and decision and vigour of our
commanders by sea and by land—(cheers)—to those
distinguished men, General Hope Grant and
Admiral Hope, and to the firmness, decision, and
energy of our negotiator, Lord Elgin. (Cheers.) It
is certainly true that no operation, I think, at-
tempted under such natural difficulties was ever
attended with more complete and more rapid suc-
cess. You have also been pleased to advert, Mr.
Mayor, to those events which are now passing in
Italy. Well, you have said truly that the moral
influence of England has not been without its effect
upon those events, and my noble friend Lord John
Russell, who bas been a useful exponent of the
generous feelings of the country, and an able organ
of the Government of which lie is so distinguished
a member—my noble friend has taken good
care that it should be known in every part} of
Europe what are the wishes and intentions of the
British Government, and what the sympathies and
feelings of the British nation. (Cheers.) That
which is taking place in Italy is one of the most
remarkable—and I think it may be added will be,
in its consequences, one of the most important--
events recorded in European history. We see peo-
ple who, for a long course of centuries, have been
stripped and divided into different small communi-
ties, many of whom have for a long course of years
been the victims of miserably blind and unen-
lightened Governments, we' see them rising with
one common sentiment, determined henceforward to
unite ; and I trust that that union, whatever tem-
porary difficulties it may experience, may at no
long interval of time be converted into an °accom-
plished fact. (Hear, hear.) When we know
.the
great natural resources of that peninsula ; when we
I see the extent of sea coast, the number of excellent
harbours, the natural productions of the soil, and,
above all, when we remember the intelligence of
Ithe people, who, notwithstanding the crushing des-
potism under which many of them have long
laboured, have nevertheless produced a great num-
ber of men distinguished in every branch of intel-
lectual improvement—l say, when we look at these
things, when we refer to what the Italians have
} been at two former periods of history at the time
when the Roman Empire was mistress of the world
and when later it became the cradle of reviving
intelligence, we are justified in hoping and believ-
-1 ing that Italy is destined to play a great part in
the affairs of the world, not as a conquering and
aggressive nation, because circumstances preclude its
falling into those vicious ways, but as a centre of
enlightenment, and as a place where men shall be
cultivated to the almost possibility. (Loud cheers.)
The Italians are about, I trust, to be placed under
that which is the beet possible form of political
Government—l mean a constitutional monarchy.
(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, the third event, which
is, I fear, already not fully accomplished, but
too far advanced, has taken place in another
quarter of the globe—l mean America. We have
much reason to fear that that union which has now
existed net much less than a century, which has
conduced to the peace and prosperity of our kins-
men on the other side of the Atlantic, is likely to
be brown and disrupted. It is not our business to
express in regard to that event any other feeling
than this, that we wish from the bottom of our
hearts that those disputes, whatever they may be,
may be settled by amicable understanding—( hear,
hear)—and that whether that union is destined to
remain unimpaired, or whether those States are
determined to separate into different communities,
our fervent prayer is that the result may be
brought about by amicable means, be it for main-
taing or dissolving the union, and that the world
may be spared the afflicting spectacle of hostile
conflict between brothers and relations. (Cheers.)
His Lordship, referring to the inspection of the
Southampton Volunteers in the afternoon, spoke in
eulogistic terms of the movement, which he termed
the third portion of our national defences,
which the militia had previously failed to supply.
He then again alluded to the literary object of the
gathering, and thanked them for the compliment
paid him. His Lordship resumed his seat amidst .
repeated cheers.
Several other toasts followed, including " Suc•
cess to the Hartley Institution, and the Literary
and Scientific Societies of Southampton," proposed
by the Hon. W. T. Cow PER, M.P. ; the " Mayor,"
proposed by Lord PALMERSTON ; " The Right
Hon. the Viscountess Palmerston and the Ladies
of Hampshire," given by the MAYOR, and acknow-
ledged by the noble Viscount. The remainder of
the toasts were of a local character.
The proceedings, which were very interesting
. throughout, were not concluded till a late hour of
the evening.