The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-18 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A general order has been issued from the Horse
Guards, directing that the new pattern cartridges
lately adopted in the army be discontinued by the
troops, in consequence of its having been discovered
that they are a little too small for the bore of the
new rifles, which they do not fit air-tight.
The f4th (Ca pt. Gordon's) company of Royal En-
gineers, ordered to proceed from Chatham to Shorn-
cliffe, has been raised to its full number by draughts
from the detachments of Royal Engineers now at
head-quarters. The stores and baggage of the com-
pany will be despatched to Shorncliffe to-morrow,
and the officers and men will proceed from Chat-
ham on Monday.
The Urgent, screw troopship, Commander E. Hire,
arrived at Spithead yesterday, from Kingstown,with
the 2d Royal Lanark Militia on board, under the
command of Major Tattnall, consisting of 20 officers,
679 non-commissioned officers and men, 231 women
and children, and 6 horses. The heavy baggage
was landed yesterday by steam-tugs, and the troops
will be landed this morning by the same means.
The Urgent, according to orders at present, will not
moVe into harbour until Monday, when she will be
placed in dock for the purpose of examination, pre-
paratory for service at the Cape and China. The
Urgent made the passage from Spithead to Kings-
town in 30 haurs, and the return passage would
have been made in equally short time but for the
dense fogs which prevailed.
The Simoom, screw troopship, Commander I.
Cook, was surveyed by the audiorities yesterday at
Portsinouth, and wilt embark on Saturday, for China,
the following officers, troops, &c. :—Military Train.
—Major Cooper; Capts. Grey, Goodall, and Horn-
by ; Lieuts. Fletcher, Bruce, Sewell, Jervis, Applin,
and Williams ; Ensigns M'Kenzie and M'Mabon ;
Paymaster Reeve, Adj. Briggs, Quartermaster Lam-
bert, Slug. I)'Arcy, Assist.-Surg. Fleming, and 272
non-commissioned officers and men. Royal Artil-
lery.—Capt. Illackiston, Lieuts. Morrison and Tot-
tenham, Assist.-Surg. Argent, and 143 non-commis-
sioned officers and men. Royal Engineers.—Lieut.
Clements and 38 non-oommissioned officers and men.
Medical Department.—Surgs Lewins and Gal-
braith ; Staff Assist.-Suirgs. M'Kenzie and Hale;
Drs. Fraser, Rattray, Maher, White, Page, and.
Carter; DispenSer Davis. Rev. F. Abbott. Pur-
veyors' Clerks, Johnstone and Bungay ; Store Clerks,
Lloyd, Gordon, and Crawford; six sergeant con-
ductors and three sergeant armourers.
The kit at present in use by the different regi-
ments of Militia Artillery is to be assimilated to
that uscdby the regular dismounted Artillery.
The. Antrim Rifles left Aldershott yesterday for
Bristol.

Si ORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY RACES.--TuunsDA.m

The Column Handicap of 50 sons, added to a sweepstakes
of 10 soya each ; the second to receive 20 soya ; allow-
ances and penalties. About a mile and a quarter.
Mr. Howard's Donizetti, 3 yrs, Est 31b (inc. 71b extra)
(Edwards') 1
Mr. Higgins' Timandra, 3 yrs, 6st (inc. 91b extra)
(Grimshaw) 2
Lord Coventry's Wanderer, 4 yrs, Sat 71b (Saddler) 3
Betting-6 to 4 agst Timandra, 3to 1 agst Donizetti, 6to
1 agst Wanderer. Won by a head, bad third.
The Longleate Handicap of 5 soya each; the second horse
to save his stake. About three furlongs and a quarter.
Capt. Christie's Miss Julia, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b.. (Fordham) 1
Mr. Capel's Raven, 5 yrs, Oat 61b (Bottom) 2
Mr. T. Cliff's Vigo, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Challoner) 3
Betting-2 to 1 agst Fusee, 6to 1 each agst Juliet and
Miss Julia, 8 to 1 each agst Vigo, Maradan, and Rayon.
Miss Julia, making the best of a good start, won by two
lengths, bad third.
The Copeland Nursery Handicap of 5 soya each, with 50
added, for 2-yr-olds; the second to save his stake. About

one mile.
Mr. Dawson's Sir William, 7st 51b
Mr. Mundy's Actress, 6st 121 b (Edwards) 2
Mr. Barber's Ben Webster, sst 101 b (Entwistle) 3
Betting-3 to 1 agst Sir William, 7to 2 agst Btn Web-
ster, sto 1 agst Spring-well, 6to 1 each agat Little Poll and
Actress. Mr. Dawson declared to win with Gaylad. Won
by half a length; a length between second and third.
A Handicap Plate of N sous, for two-yr-olds and up-
wards. One mile.

Mr. Hughes' The Brewer, 6 yrs, Sat (D. Hughes) 1
Captain Christie's Codicil, 2 yrs, Sat 91b...... (Saddler) 2
Mr. T. Cliff's Lustre, 3 yrs, bat 91b. (Gardiner) 3
Betting-6 to 4 agst The Brewer, 7to 2 agst Codicil, 4to
1 agst Lustre. Won by half a length, a length between
second and third.
The Scurry Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 20 added. Optional
selling weights, &c.
,The last horse pays the second's
stake. About half a mile.
Mr Blanton's Fusee 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Edwards 1
Mr. G. Beaufort's Miss Eleanor 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Challoner 3
Mr. Hughes's Marwell, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b. (Bray 3
Betting-6 to 4 agst Marwell, sto 2 agst Fusee, 3to 1
agst Miss Eleanor, and 4to 1 agst Marmalade. Won by
a length ; a head between the second and third ; and a
length between third and fourth.
The Monkmoor Handicap of 3 sous each, added to a piece
of plate value 25 soya ; the second to save his stake.
The winner to be sold for 50 sovs. Half a mile.
Mr. Halford's Gwellyon, 2 yrs (allowed 31b), 4st 111 b
(Parsons) 1
Major Price na Wallace, 2 yrs, Sat 111 b (Madden) 2
Mr. Cliff's The Creeper (allowed 31b), 2 yrs, is
(Taylor) 3

Betting-6 to 4 agst Wallace, 3to 1 each agst Gwellyon
and Babbler, sto 1 agst Why Not. Won by a short head.
An objection was lodged agst Gwellyon on the ground of a

Cross.

1,1
The Grand Annual Steeplechase of 50 sovs, added to a han-
dicap sweepstakes of 10 soya each ; the second to save
his stake.
Lord Coventry's Longford, aged (inc. 71b ext.), lOst
(Kendall) 1
Mr. Capel's Chance, aged (allowed 31b), 9st .. (Thomas) 2
Mr. J. Merry's Escape, aged, lOst 111 b (Page) 3
Betting--7 to 4 agst Longford, sto 2 agst Chance, 4to 1
agst the Friar of Apshall. Won by a neck, three lengths
between the second and third. Mama fell in the firstround.
A Selling Hurdle Race was won by Mr. T. Cliff's Caliph
beating six others.

) TILE ITALIAN Q

7141«,
(From the Times.) \,."...,
If Italy saves her independence it Ai Ali by
fire. The nomination of M. Buoncompagni to the
Regency of the Italian States has not passed with-
out a strong remonstrance from the French Govern-
ment. Indeed, this word is not strong enough, for
it is plain that the Emperor has almost commanded
Victor Emmanuel to annul the act of his relative,
the Prince de Carignan. From the tone of the
French semi-official press, and from the indignation
of the clerical party, we may judge how much im-
portance is attached to the nomination, which has
been fitly described as an acceptance by the King
of the sovereignty of Central Italy. Of the future
'we have no power to speak. The fate of Central
Italy is still hidden under clouds, and no one can
say whether six months hence content and tem-
pered freedom will reign there, or Pope and priest,
Duke and commandant, be once more installed,
with deceitful promises of amendment, but with all
their old power and more than all their old perver-
sity. Mau cannot dispose of these events. All that
we can do is to watch the stream and direct it as

best we may. No one will suspect an English
Government of anything but sympathy for the
condition of the Italian populations, and a fervent
wish to see them in possession of the first step to
liberty—national independence. But there must
evidently be a long and obstinate strife. The
Italians are firm, the French and Austrian interests
do not conceal their irritation, and the epithets of
" headstrong," " ungrateful," " impracticable,"
and "turbulent," are freely applied to the people
whom Peince Napoleon Jerome was lately sent to
revolutionise. The late events are, we will not say
a defiance to France, but a proclamation that Italy
is not dependent on other States for the settlement
of its internal affairs. It puts in question the
whole right of the French and Austrian Govern-
ments to restore the rulers of countries which do
not belong to them; and whenever Europe is ap-
pealed to by means of a Congress it will be to de-
cide, not what Government shall be given to Central
Italy, but whether the Government which it has
given to itself shall be destroyed by foreign force.
On the other hand, the French Emperor seems
determined to carry his point. This may not be to
restore the former state of things, or even to esta-
blish the faintly improved system sketched out in
his late letter. But it is to give Italy the institu-
tions and the rulers that he pleases. The Treaty-
of Zurich contains conditions which followed neces-
sarily from the arrangements made at Villafranca.
The Emperor may not be desirous of having these
carried out to the letter; but, as they have his as-
sent, and as he has arrogated to himself the right
of arranging Italian affairs, without the advice of
his ally or the consent of fe people, he seems de-
termined that any change in the conditions shall be
proposed by himself, and sanctioned by him and his
late adversary.
This great battle must be fought out in the Con-
gress, which seems at last likely to meet. The result
we do not pretend to foresee; but the course of Eng-
land is clear, since our sympathies and the maxims
of international law all lead in the same direction.
The declaration of Lord John Russell, that England
will take no part in a Congress unless the right of
the Italians to settle their affairs without the armed
intervention of foreigners is recognised, should be
the principle of British action in this matter. This
being once settled, everything will depend on the
Italians themselves. They must be aware that
the fate of their country lies in their own hands,
and that France and Austria, the two great
military Powers which aspire to rule them, cannot
be thwarted by England, or Prussia, or Russia, or
all Europe united, unless the Italians by a firm de-
meanour give the neutral Powers a basis for their
representations or remonstrances. Assuming, how-
ever, that Italy still persists in asserting her inde-
pendence, and that Victor Emmanuel is not tempted
to restrain M. Buoncompagni, we have no doubt
that the public opinion of Europe will support them.
All the French arguments arc based on the assump-
tion that a Congress alone can settle the affairs of
Italy and legalise any act done at Florence or
Bologna. Now, this claim would be too absurd for
contradiction, if it did not come front the masters of

half a million troops. That an Assembly of Euro-
pean
States has any right to dispose of the people
of Italy or of any other country is a proposition
both new and dangerous. It is against both rea-
son and practice. If adopted, it would place every
small State at the mercy of a combination of three
out of five Powers, and would be a matter of no
small importance even to a nation like our own.
We have seen that in 1836 M. Walewski thought
fit, while discussing the Turco-Russian qutstion, to
call the attention of the Plenipotentiaries to the
press of Belgium. This is only a simple of what
way be expected if these claims of the assembly
called a CLnigress be allowid. The government of
Ireland, or India, or the lonian Islands may as well
be regulated by a majority of the Five Powers as
the government of Tuscany or the Legations. We
can never admit that any number of States, how-
ever powerful or enlightened, may encroach on the
independence of a neighbour. As we have before
remarked, the States represented in the Congress can
only meet for the regulation of their own affairs—
that is, their own relations to the Italian Peninsula.
The independence of this latter cannot be inter-
fered with by the Congress ; no act done by the
Italians can be ignored, no decision reversed ;
all the Plenipotentiaries will have a right to do is
to take accomplished facts, and then consider how
their respective States ought to behave in the face
of these facts. This is the theory of the matter,
and it is strictly in accordance with practice. In
the present generation nations have over and over
again changed their rulers without the preliminary
assent of any general international council: 'Where
is tke Congress which has consented to the transfer
of Milan from Austria to France, and from France
to Sardinia? . Can it be said that this great Euro-
pean change requires the assent of the five Powers,
or that M. Walewski would listen to a Plenipoten-

tiary who declared that the ratification of England,
or Russia, or Prussia was necessary ? And how are
the deposition of the Tuscan Grand Duke and the
overthrow of the Papal tyranny in the Romagna
less accomplished facts than the cession of Lom-
bardy ? If we go into Congress we must place
all on the same level, and declare that Tuscany
and the Romagna have as much right to cede them-
selves to Sardinia as Francis Joseph or Napoleon
had to transfer the Government of Lombariy.

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