The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-28 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Aug. 25.—Her Majesty's ship Marl-
borough, 131 guns (bearing the flag of Vice-Admi-
ral Sir W. Faushawe Martin, K.C.8.), Captain
Houston W. Stewart, C. 8., left port on the after-
noon of the 19th inst., in tow of the Terrible, 21,
Capt. F. H. H. Glasse, C. 8., for Naples, whither
she had been preceded by several line of battle
ships and smaller vessels of the Mediterranean fleet.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. J.
Seccombe, with the third Brigade of Royal Artil-
lery, for Malta and Corfu, arrived on the 19th inst.
from Gravesend and Gibraltar. She brought for
this garrison Col. Maclean, 28 officers, and 638 men,
and for Corfu, Col. Wright, 17 officers, and 348
men, besides women and children. Two days pre-
viously the Malta division of the sixth brigade,
which is to go home in the Himalaya on her return
from Corfu,
was placed under cmvasi to make room
for the division of the third bri;ade which is to re-
lieve it. The Himalaya, after landing the troops
for Malta, left on the 21st inst. for Corfu. She also
took up with her several officers who (lad been
awaiting passage. Her Majesty's gunboat Mohawk,
4, Commander E. H. Howard, came in or. the 19th
inst. from Beyrout, and the Renown, 91, Capt. A.
Forbes, left on the following evenipg,for England,
taking with her invalids, &c., from the 'sfation and
the remainder of Capt. Drake's company of Royal
Engineers, in all amounting to 445 persons, includ-
ing women and children. TheFrenchlmperial yacht
La Reine Hortense, having on board the Count and
Countess of Montebello, left on the 19th instant
for Constantinople, and the Russian screw frigate
Gromoboi, took her departure on the following day
on her return to Beyrout. The only men-of-war in
port are the Hibernia, receiving ship, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C.B. ; the
Medina, 4; the Recruit, 6 ; the Mohawk, 4 ; and
the Hearty tug."
Instructions were received at Chatham dockyard
yesterday that the iron mail-clad steam frigate De-
fence, 22, will leave the Tyne for Chatham on the
7th Sept., and may therefore be expected to arrive
in the Medway on the following or the succeeding
day. Immediately on her arrival she will be docked
and fitted in order that she may be got ready for sea
with the least possible delay. Her armament has
already arrived from Woolwich, the following being
the number of Armstrong guns she is intended to
mount :—Main deck, 16 100-pounders, and 4 40-
pounders; upper deck, 2 100-pounders, pivot guns.
The Defence, on her arrival at Chatham, will be
commissioned by Capt. R. A. Powell, C.B. (1855),
late of the Boscawen, 70. Capt. Powell is known to
be a most zealous and persevering officer, and his
appointment to the Defence has given very general
satisfaction.

Intelligence has been received at Chatham of the
loss, off Shoeburyness, of the Admiralty transport
Dove, which struck on the sands and immediately
went down. The Dove had arrived at Chatham
with a portion of the stores taken out of the Hussar,
44, which was sat on fire by the Armstrong shells
off Shoeburyness. Immediately on the intelligence
being received a number of hands were despatched
from Chatham and Sheerness dockyards to render
assistance and to endeavour to raise her.

THE ARMY.

The following General Order has just been issued
from the Recruiting Department to Cavalry Regi-
ments at home and abroad :

"Horse Guards, S.W., Aug., 17.
Her Majesty having been pleased to approve of
the Cavalry being reorganized and classified as be-
low, and the standard of recruits for this branch of
this service revised, his Royal Highness the General
Commanding in Chief directs that the foilowing
regulations be strictly adhered to until further
orders, viz. :—Heavy.--4th and sth Dragoon
Guards, and Ist and 2d Dragoons; from 5 feet 8
inches to 5 feet 11 inches. Medium.-Ist, 2d, 3d,
6th, and 7th Dragoon Guards, sth Lancers, 6th
Dragoons, 9th, 12th, 16th, and 17th Lancers; from
5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches. Light.-3d, 4th,
13th and 14th Hussars (late Light Dragoons), 7th,
Bth, 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st
Hussars ; from 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches.
Age, not under 18 nor exceeding 25 years.
" By command of his Royal Highness the Gene-
ral Commanding in Chief,
" JAMES YORKE SCARLETT,
"Adjutant-General."
The 58th Regiment is about to leave Sheffield for
Scarborough, to be relieved by the 16th Regiment.
Lieut.-Col. Hood and the officers of the 58th were

entertained a few days since at dinner by Lieut.-
Col. Lord Wharncliffe and the officers of the Hal-
lamshire Rifle Corps at the Angel Hotel, Sheffield,

On Monday the depot of the 37th Regiment left
the Camp at Colchester en route for Pembroke.

In consequence of several reports having been
made to the authorities at the Horse Guards of offi-
cers of Royal Engineers having neglected to dis-
charge their accounts for rent of quarters before
quitting the stations to which they may have
been attached, an order has been issued from the
office of the Deputy-Adjutant-General, by direc-
tion of the Duke of Cambridge, to the effect that
under no circumstances is an officer of Engineers
to leave the station to which he belongs without
first paying the rent for his quarters. Com-
manding officers of Royal Engineers will be held
responsible that this order is carried out,

The depot of the 73d Regiment, which has been

quartered at Chatham for some time, left that gar-
rison yesterday and proceeded to Chichester, in
order to allow of the depot of the 2d battalion of the
4th (King's Own) being removed from Chichester
to Chatham, in accordance with the arrangements

decided on by the Duke of Cambridge, to concen-
trate, as far as practicable, the depot companies of
the Ist and 2d battalions of regiments at the same
stations. The 73d depot left Chatham under the
command of Capt. A. H. Godfrey.
On Monday evening, while some men were en-
gaged in one of the small detached rocket factories
in the Plumstead-marsh, adjoining Woolwich
Arsenal, a young man named Pickering was in the
act of punching holes in one of the rocket metal
cases, when it suddenly exploded with the report of
a 12-pounder gun, shattering the unfortunate man's
left hand in a shocking manner, and rendering ampu-
tation of the fore-arm immediately necessary.
Another of his companions was seriously injured and
scorched about the face and body. About 37 years
ago an uncle of the injured man met with his death
from an accident caused in a precisely similar man-
ner. It is to be regretted that means have not been
suggested to remedy the necessity of this danger.
ous operation.
The coroner's jury in the case of Jas. Bradshaw,
the private in the Royal Marines, shot by a Volun-
teer at the Plumstead-marshes while acting as a
marker, have found that his death was purely ac-
cidental. In giving their verdict to that effect, the
jury begged the coroner would notify to the War
Department their impression that the main cause
of the accident was the unprotected form of the
mantlet, or small iron sheds for the protection of
the markers. They strongly recommended that
the form now in use should be discontinued. It
appears that the mantlet in which the man was
struck with the bullet was four yards out of the
straight line of firing, and 15 yards in rear of the
target, which conveys the idea that some reckless
or awkward firing must have been practised at the
time. The poor fellow who has met with his un-
timely death was within 10 months of his super-
annuation, and as the facts are so intimately known
to the members of the jury, they urged the coroner
in his official capacity to lay the distressed condi-
tion of the widow and family before the authorities
at the Admiralty, in the hope of obtaining some
consideration for them.

Lord Robert Montagu has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the editor of the Tinies: —Sir,—lt
has always been considered a most un-English pro-
.xeding to mule an attack when the victim is pre-
cluded from reply. lam not aware that the limes
has ever been guilty of such a mean and cowardly
act. I cannot, therefore, believe that you will now,
for the first time, stoop to such dastardly conduct.
In your impression of Thursday,
Aug. 22—which I
have only just seen—you have dono me the honour
of taking into consideration a letter which 1 wrote
to Mr. Rawnsley, in answer to a very pressing
request to attend a meeting which was to be con-
vened by the Mayor of Leeds. In the article on
this subject which you printed on Thursday you
have laboured to connect what I wrote to Mr.
Rawnsley concerning "counting the House," with
that which I spoke in the House of Commons on
the Danish succession. Your object, perhaps, was,
sir, to induce your readers to imagine that the letter
which I wrote was merely the result of private

pique, and had been prompted only by spite. You
could not, I suppose, refute my assertions, or you
would not have been content with merely exciting
in people's minds a prejudice against me by means
of a fallacy of which Archbishop Whately has
treated under the name of Argumentum ad inn%
dianz. If in the substantial statement itself you
had found weak arguments to answer or false asser-
tions to expose you would not have contented your-
self with setting up a hypothetical and question-
able insinuation in order to obscure, by a great
cloud of dust, the actual question under considera-
tion. In my letter to Mr. Rawnsley I did not
allude, either directly or by implication, to the time
when I was "deserted and counted out." In that
instance "the most important of all the data" was
not " one of his (my) own speeches." In that por-
tion of my letter which you did me the honour to
publish there is not the smallest 'ground or justifi-
cation for such an assumption on your part. I
wrote simply and sincerely concerning a matter
which seemed to touch the Constitution in a vital
point. I thought that such a power might (to say
the least) be used by some unscrupulous Minister
to the injury of British liberty and the fettering of
free discussion. 0

Sir, you-have ehOSoll' that pointsitr-atiack wzrrai
you deem the most unfavourable to my case ; you
have selected the weapons which give me the Nv orst
possible chance. I am content to meet you on your
own ground, and with these odds against me I will
take up the weapons which you have selected. I fully
admit all you say concerning my speech on the
Danish succession ; it was as stupid, as dull, as un-
convincing as you choose to think it. Let that be
granted for argument's sake. But when all this
has been admitted, does it follow that all Counts-out
are merely the result of stupid speeches ? Does it
even prove that this single instance of a Count-
out was the natural consequence of a stupid speech ?
_Non sequitur. No conclusion of the kind can be
legitimately drawn. What were, moreover, the
actual facts of this particular case ? Lord Derby
had told a friend of mine, before I began to speak,
that it had already been arranged that the house
should be counted out. A distinguished member of
the House of Commons also told me that Disraeli
had taken measures with his own followers to pro-
cure this same result. Lord Derby and Disraeli
were aware of all the facts and arguments which
I was about to lay before the house, for I told them
some days beforehand. In this particular instance,
then, which you, sir, have selected, the Count-out
had been previously concocted and arranged, and
was not a result of the speech.

Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell (as you justly
observe) were present at the time, and heard me re-
hearse charges of the gravest nature, which had
been brought against Lord Palmerston. If these
charges had been imagined by me alone, he could
not even then have afforded to ignore them ; he must
have felt that his character was at stake, that his
honour was impugned, that his reputation would
be injured unless he repelled every insinuation,
rebutted every accusation, and used his superior
information to crush his reckless accuser. With
no greater support than my assertion, he could
Not have passed them by. I did not, however,
bring forward any charges on my own responsi-
bility; these charges had been made by distin-
guished German statesmen, were backed up by
a great authority, and were supported by a clear and
unmistakeable coincidence of facts. Why, then, did
he shrink from meeting the accusations which;
were ringing in his ears ? Can a stupid speech
clear the House when a keen and cunning Prime
Minister desires to vindicate his character, and
when a powerful Government wishes to support
the reputation of its leader and dr molish a carping
antagonist ? Then, how did it happen that when I
produced the original draught of the secret article,
and when I held up the original notes taken at the
conferences (which Lord Palmerston had asserted,
in great, strongly asseverating sentences, had never
sat at all)—how was it that when I read the note
of entry among the archives of a foreigh metropolis
(which was endorsed on the back of it), that when
I asked the writer of these notes and minutes id he
recognised the handwriting—how was it that then
the Government supporters, who had been herded
behind the Treasury bench, suddenly began to
troop out in line after their bell-wether—the Trea-
sury whip? A man of honour would have desired
to drag such insinuations to the light ; Lord Pal-
merston " loved the darkness rather than the
light," and screened himself behind a Count-out.
Now, sir, I have tried to meet you on the ground
most unfavourable to myself and most prejudicial to
my case. But let every man consider the real
meaning of " Countsnut" in general, irrespectively
of this one wretched instance ; let him look at the
Parliamentary Bernenzbrancer, where this system,
and many others of a like tendency, have been most
ably exposed. And, above, let every one remember
that it is a crime of the most flagitious character
for a citizen of a free country—for the inheritor of
the great institutions of this people—for an heir to
the bulwarks of British liberty, to sit down quietly
and acquiesce in ignorance as to whether those
grand institutions are being secretly sapped and.
mined at their foundations. Institutions which
were sown in primitive wisdom, watered by
blood, and maintained against the terrora of
oppression and the artful seductions of cunning
Cabals—are these to be now abandoned ira lazy
indifference and careless love of personal cane to the
safe keeping of a Cabinet which, for the. sake of
ease, desires to acquire power, and from a fear
of having to render up an account of its
stewardship seeks to defraud its clients of that
which they confided to its guardianship ? Re Who
does not trouble himself to investigate these matters
for himself, and is careless about assuring himself
upon this point, does not merit the name of Eng-
lishman. He is infected by the spirit of faction,
perhaps, but he is not ennobled by the love of his.
country, and so he deserves to be traeked and haunted.
by the avenging spirits of his forefathers, until he
finds a short respite in an inglorious tomb.