The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.

The subjoined circular memorandum has be
addressed to general or other officers comman
at foreign stations, and to civil governors of

flies :

Horse Guards, W.S., Sept. 12, 1857.

Donbts having sometimes ar's-n between the gover-
nor of a colony holding the couiroi‘sion of Governor and
Commander-in-Chief, and the officer commanding the
troops, as to their relative authority an powers, it is to
distinctly understood that the tale of Commander-in-
Chief with which a civil governor of a c•llrny is invested,
gives him no power or authority over the Queen's troops
or the military chest ; but that it undoubtedly belongs
to the governor of a colony to call out or organise any
body or bodies of men whom, in the exercise of any
general or special authority lawfully ve,ted in him, he
tray judge it necessary or right to utnmon for the de-
fence of the colony against aggression, or for the preser-
vasion of public tranquillity.
The officers who may be selected to command these
bodies can only be commissioned by the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief, in the name and in behalf cf the

Queen.
The clothing, arms, ratiene, and pay of the officers
and men must be subject to such provision as may be
made by the colony, in pursuance of any legislative
enec'enent passed or to bo passed for this purpose. if
the colonial treasury should be unable to meet such ex-
penditure recourse must be had to the military chest,
and it is the duty of the officer commanding her Ma-
jesty's forces to authorise his warrant, upon the requisi-
tion of the governor, the issue of such advances as may
be considered necessary for the purphees in question.
If such local force, or any portion of it, becomes em-
bodied with the Queen's troops, either in envision'', bri-
gades, or detachments, the selection of officers for the
command of snob a mixed force rests with the officer
commanding the Queen's troops.
As it is indispensably necessary that the governor of
a co'ony should upon all occasions receire the earliest in-
telligence of the movements of the troops, a! d of every
(recurrence which falls within their observation, it is the
duty of the officer commanding any detac' e 1 force or
post to send to the governor of the c l) y eirect copies
of al reports which he may from time to time receive.
In the event of active military operations teleing place
in a colony, it exclusively belongs to th governor to
state and explain to the officer commanding the troops
the policy of her Majesty's Governmi nf, and the mili-
tary measures by which that policy is to be obtained ;
but it rests with the officer commanding the troops of ne
to direct the execution of those measures.
Officers commanding at the several foreign stations
will be pleased to give directlons that the above in-
structions be officially recorded at the elation's under
their command, as contemplated at j acre 344 of the
Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army.—By
command,
W. F. FORSTER, Deputy-Adjutant-General.

"TR PI TIMES" AND THE STN: STING 0'
THE EMPERORS AT STUTTGARO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER.

Sir,—An article appears in the Times of this
morning, evidently written to order. This article
refers to the proposed meeting of the despots
Alexander and Napoleon at S .ti'tgard. The Timee
gives the go-by to the real object of the meeting,
and would fain make it appear,_ according to tha
new light which it has recently obtained as to the
views and character of Louis Napoleon, that the
French Emperor has no other object than to secure
the peace of Europe.
I have just returned from Paris, and have heard
the subject frequentlydiscussed, priVately, of course,
among liberal Frenchmen ; and with your permis-
sion, I will give you their unanimous opinion of
the objects of the proposed meeting. I shall trans
late a conversation I bad with a distinguished
member of the late National Assembly, as his
sentiments were those of a'l the others with whom
I conversed : _ _

" Louis Napoleon," said my friend, " detests
your country and Englishmen, however much his
policy may force him to pretend the contrary.
Your free institutions and your great prosperity,
resulting from those free institutions, are a stand-
ing censure upon his own Government, and the
infamous means by which he obtained his present
position. He perceives that as long as England
maintains her liberty his own power is in peril ;
for we all look to England as our model in self-
government, and are continually making compa-
risons betwixt your state and ours. At the pre-
sent time Louis Napoleon is obliged to court the
English Alliance, for he knows that just Low a war
with England would destroy him. He knows vvel
that England has only to supply the malcontents
in France with arms, and to lend the refugee Ge-
nerals and others the aid of your ships, in order
to upset him, and this almost without striking a
blow yourselves. He is now quite aware that he
is detested by the great majority of the French
people, at least by the great majority of the
Parisians, and by every man of the slightest pre-
tension to education and liberality.
" It is on this account that this accomplished
hypocrite seeks the alliance of England at present,
and professes the utmost attachment to your coun-
try, in the same way as he dc&ared, when President,
his love for the Republic, and that he would be the
niost dithonourable of men if he forgot his oath, and
did anything to upset a form of GovernMent to
which he owed everything. All these declarations
were made to gain time. But, as soon as the pear
was ripe' he made his famous coup d'etat, and
lauvhed to scorn his former professions.
" Depend upon it he reserves a coup d'etat for
you, and this meeting with the Emperor of Russia
is a preparation for it. He orders his organs,
French and English, to declare that his only ob-
ject is to propose a general disarmament among the
armies of Europe. .This is all fudge. The large
armamtnt in France is not kept up for the defence
of our frontiers. It is kept up for the protection,
against the people, of the Emperor, who knows
well that if the immense garrison of Paris were dis-
banded, he would not remain a week on the throne.
The real object of the interview betwixt the trio
despots is the promotion of another Holy Alliance,
which Austria and Prussia will afterwards be in
vited to join. This alliance will hive for its object,
by joint action, and by the mutual co-operation of
each other's armies, to crush the least attempt on
the part of the respective nations over which they
rule to throw off the yoke of tyranny, or to obtain
liberal institutions. When this alliance has been
once formed and firmly consolidated, then gale a
eons, Messieurs lcs Anglais. Our Emperor will
then think himself sufficiently strong to throw off
the rnarde and show himself in his true colours
He will take advantage of your Indian disasters,
and every other disaster, and dictate, or attempt to
dictate to you, under the joint name of the affiance
of despots. Ho will issue his orders to you, as he
has already done to Belgium, to alter your laws
with respect to the press and the asylum given in
England to political refugees. Or otherwise he will
threaten you with invasion.
" I don't believe he will ever attempt to add
England to France. This would be too dangerous,
and he recollects the fall of his uncle. Ie will
confine himself to the attempt to force you to
alter your institutions, so as to be more in con-
formity with those he has octroyed to France.
And your Queen and Prince Albert will be invited
to lend their co-operation. Your Sovereign will
be told by the alliance of despots—' We do not
wish to unseat you, quite the contrary. We only
wish to improve your position and your dignity,
and to make your Government more in unison
with ours.' And perhaps, as is natural, such a
proposition may find a responsive chord in the
breasts of your Queen, of Prince Albert, and of a
great part of your aristocracy."
Such, sir, is a free translation of what was said
to me by my friend in Paris, whose name, of course,
I cannot mention, as this would expose him to
persecutim, perhaps to transportation to Guiana
by the man of whom the Times has now become,
the eulogist, but who, I can assure you, has the
character of having been one of the most distin
guished liberal and honest members of the last
Republican Assembly.
Reform Club, Sept. 25.

J. A.

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