The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

Yesterday, Colonel E. A. Parker, commandant
of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light
Infantry, received directions for the four companies
of that division under orders to proceed to China
to leave Chatham this morning, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. S. Walsh, and to pro-
coed to Portsmouth, for the purpose of embarking
on board the Itnperatiz, with two companies for the
secolini battalion from the Woolwich division. The
Chatham division will furnish 350 men of all ranks,
with th© following officers—viz , Captain F. B.
Grittan, Captain J. C. D. Morrison, Captain C. J.
Ellis, aptain P. M. C. Croker ; First Lieutenants
R. L. Evans, J. F. Hawkey, and E. Willis ; Se-
cond Lieutenants H. Wolrige, W. J. Btrker, J.
Straghan, and L. Rokeby. First Lieutenant J.
C. Francis has been appointed Adjutant ; and First
Lieutenant C. W. Carrington, Quartermaster to
the first battalion. The Imperatriz will embark
506 men of all ranks.

The following officers and men will proceed from
Chatham garrison this day and embark at Gravesend
on board the Agamemnon for India—viz., 10th
Foot—Capt. Cator, Lieut. Lucas, Lieut. Arm-
strong, and Ensign Ball ; 84th Regiment—Capt.
Du 'Vernet, Lieut. Davidson, and Lieut. Chute,
together with 250 non-commissioned officers and
men of those regiments.
Yesterday the reinforcements for the 64th and
86th regiments, numbering 120 men of all ranks,
left Chatham and embarked at Gravesend on board
the Ghenghis Khan for Calcutta, under the com-
mand of Lieut. T. R. Hamilton and Lieut. V. G.
Coates, 86th Regiment.
Gen. Sir H. D. Ross, Adjutant-General to the
Royal Artillery, accompanied by Col. Bloomfield,
aide-de-camp to the Queen, doing duty as comman-
dant of Woolwich, and attended by the garrison staff
yesterday morning inspected on parade the follow-
ing troops and companies under orders for India
Lieut.-Colonel Turner's troop of Royal Horse Ar-
tillery ; Lieut.-Col. Gordon's company, ordered to
Calcutta ; Major Godby's company, to Madras ;
and. Capt. Palmer's and Capt. Ommanney's com-
panies, for Bombay. They then proceeded to the
cantonment on Woolwich-common, and inspected
Capt. Gibbons's Q battery, Capt. Radcliffe's T
battery, and Capt. Connell's X battery, awaiting a
final order for embarkation. One sergeant and 28
gunners under orders for Hong Kong, to join the
3d company of the 6th battalion of Royal Artillery
there, were also paraded in heavy marching order,
and passed the inspection of the Adjutant-General.
The bead-quarters of the Royal Marine Artillery
about to proceed to China in command of Colonel
Holloway, Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, having
been supplied with a similar equipment to those
used by the Royal Artillery corps—namely, the
short rifle (about two feet shorter than the Enfield
muzket), short sword, and pouch belt, &c.—were
yesterday morning put through a course of artillery
drill by drill-sergeants of the Artillery battalions.
The following general orders have been issued at
Woolwich :

" His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief has been pleased to make the undermentioned ap-
pointments—viz., Lieut.-Col. H. Aylmer, to the com-
mand of the Ist battalion Royal Artillery at Woolwich,
vice Faddy, ordered to India; Lieut.-Col. W. J. Smythe,
to the command of the 9th battalion Royal Artillery at
Woolwich, vice Riddell, ordered to India ; Lieut. C. L.
Tredcroft, to Lieut. Col. Turner's ti 00 )9 of Royal Horse
Artillery, under order for India, vice R .venhill, who has
resigned his appointment in that bri ao'i of the service."
The Pylades, 21, Capt. De Horsey, went into
Portsmouth harbour after the French squadron left,
Osborne yesterday.
The Warrior Queen, freight ship, was at Spit-
head at sunset last night.
The Sarah Sands, steam transport, went into
Poi tsmouth harbour yesterday to prepare for the
embarkation of the 54th Foot on Thursday fir
India.

The Curacoa, 31, steam frigate, Capt. A. Forbes,
anchored at Spithead yesterday from the Mediter-

ran.?an.

The Barracouta, 6, paddlewheel sloop, Comman-
der Forteseue, and the gun boat Stork, Lieut.-
Commander Ward; returned to Spithead (the latter
with the boats of the fleet to Portsmouth harbour)
yt sterday afternoon.
The following promotions have been made, to
Ice it. date th Bth inst.

Commander A. Boyle, Commander Byron Drury,
and Commander W. Morris to be captains ; Lieu-
tenant S. F. Trernl,:tt and Lieut. L. J. Parish, to
be commanders ; Commander A. M`G. Skinner
(1828) to be captain on the reserved list ; Mr. J.
H. King, to he commander on the retired list.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
.Lieut. H. Berkeley, to command the Forward ;
Lieut. J. Murray, to command the Shipjack ; the
Rev. A. Browne, tobe chaplain to the St. Vincent;
J. Roire, mate, to the Mohawk ; W. J. Stevenson,
midshipman, to the Pylades ; G. F. A. Parker,
naval cadet, to the Pylades ; J. E. Charlton, as-
sistant-clerk, to the Chesapeake ; G. J. Gibbon, to
be agent of mails.

THE CAUSES AND CURE OF TEE MUTINY
Is INDIA.

Last night J. H. Stocqueler, Esq., delivered a
lecture in Willis's Rooms, St. James's-street, on
this subject to an attentive and deeply-intereAed
audience of ladies and gentlemen. Having spent
many years in India in the set vice of the company,
and as a journalist, and having altogether, for the
last 30 years, devoted bis attention to Indian sub-
jects, he felt desirous of placing his views before his
fellow-countrymen, at a crisis which Mr. V. Smith,
the President of the Board of Control, had declared
to be one of the most awful in history. Twenty
years ago Mr. Macaulay had drawn a contrast
between the knowledge possessed by the English
people of Clive and. Cortez—of the latter they knew
everything, of the former nothing—though the
cne was a conqueror of mere savages, and the
other the conqueror of populous countries, whose
inhabitants were far advanced in civilisation, in
the arts of luxury, and possessed cities of greater
magnitude and wealth than were to be found in
Spain. That reproach of ignorance had not been
removed. It was only when some such awful
events as those which now engaged the interests and
awakened the sympathies of the masses occurred
that the people paid any atttention to India. Even
now everybody was only anxious that Delhi should
be taken, just as they were for the verdict in the
cases of Palmer and Madeleine Smith, and that
event over, it. was to be feared they would sink
into their old apathy on Indian subjects. To pre-
vent such a result, it was his duty, and that of all
who knew anything of Indian policy, to exert
themselves to the utmost in order to maintain pub-
lic interest in the question until a sufficient altera-
tion was made in the government of India as
would give a reasonable prospect of saving India
to England. Mr. Stocqueler (who greatly as-
sisted his hearers by frequent and apt references
to a large sketch map of India in the course
of his lecture) then proceeded to give a brief, but
striking account of the way we came by India, the
igin of the mutiny, and the remedies he suggested.
lie traced back the severance of fellowship between
the English officer arid the Sepoy to 1824, when
the alteration in the charter of the East India Com-
pany no longer induced the European officer to
look upon India as his home, and the Sepoys as
attached subordinates, whose fidelity depended
upon his own handling of them. Subsequently to
that, the native troops were for the first time
ordered to march into foreign territories, and fight
battles for objects of which they knew nothing.
There were partial mutinies, and•simultaneously
such a relaxation of discipline as tended to encourage
that mutinous spirit. Lord W. Bentinck, one of the
most humane of men, abolished flogging, contrary to
the universal remonstrauceof the of-freers of thearmy,
and the Sepoys found, in many instances, that
simple discharge w. s a premium upon mutiny and
crime. Then, in consequence of the increase of
territory and the demand for men on the staff, en-
gineering, and civil departments, officers were
drafted off from the army in large numbers, and
those who remained with their regiments were
looktehdeuapon by the native soldiery as mere Pariahs.
At
all no time the Indian Government pursued
)11.tb?Iselnsciiste;A course with respect to the religious
;od flincloPo. Vices of the people, both Mussulman
ghaut kiacritice,
aenydaboTished suttee, infanticide, the
y Iti,other sacred observances, while
-Ley cashiered
frolic shot a pe:o3,g
lofficers who in innocence or in
rhisown part he wouldhold
tan
terms whatever wittorTi
either the Mohammedan or
the Hindoo religions,
ycoustituted a gangrene
in the heart of the country,
al were the great
source of the treachery, cruelty, and falsehood
which had characterised hc,thracesfr
t ,al
niorial. The old English rulers knew the /yin:
them hs s —paye timme-
them well, aed flog thermyt o their
heart's content when they needed it. Be was hau' ri
prised to hear Lord Ellenborough and others -
ay
that when this mutiny was quelled we must re-em-
ploy the Sepoy, and treat him kindly, in order to
attach Min tons in future. He had no faith in them,
and front his experience, said there was no need of
thorn. A few of the natives might be employed as a
police force, under direct European inspection and
discipline, but that was all that was needed. The
short and simple remedy for these evils in future
was to take the government of India into the
hands of the people of England—to abolish the
system of double government—to encourage Eng-
li-hmen of education, energy, and enterprise to
enter into the service of the Government—to pro-
tect individual energy and
enterprsa devoted to
industrial and commercial pursuit. ; and be be-
lieved that by thus taking upon ourselves the

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labour and the responsibility of governing a great
empire, we should not only save, but make it more
valuable than ever. The lecture was warmly
applauded.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)

The General Board of Health Continuance Bill and
the Attorney and Solicitors (Colonial Courts) Bill passed
through committee.
The Municipal Corporations Bill also passed through
e)mmittee.
The Superannuation Act Amendment Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The Illicit Distillation (Ireland) Bill, and the Lorin
Societies, the Burial-ground (Scotland) Act (1855)
Amendment Bill, and the Valuation of Land (Scotland)
Aet Amendment Bill, the Summary Proceedings before
Justices of the Peace Bill, went through committee.
The Fraudulent Trustees Bill, and the Trustees Relief
Bill were read a third time and passed.
The Jurisdiction in Siam Bill went through com-
mittee.
14-)rd MONTE AGLE called the attentien of their
lordships to a petition presented by the Earl of Carysfort
on the sth inst., praying for his recognition as a mem-
ber of that house. The noble lord explained the case of
the petitioner to be one in which an Irish representative
peer was prevented from the exercise of hie rights by a
standing order of their Icrdships' house, and suggested
that the said order should be amended, so as to allow of
justice being done in the case of the noble earl to whose
petition he had referred.
Lord REDESDALE deprecated any interference with
the standing order which prevented the recognition of the
petitioner, at that late period of the session, ai.d with so
few of their lordships present. That resolution had been
adopted at a time when there was a full attendance of
Irish peers, and it would not be fair to interfere with it
now.

Lord CAMPBELL supported the proposition of the
noble lord behind him (Lord Mouteagle).
The LORD CHANCELLOR was of opinion that the
case should be met by amending the standing order, and
tbat there was no necessity to wait for another session
of Parliament.

Lord MONTEAGLE postponed the motion, and gave
notice of a motion for to-morrow, for amending the
standing order in question.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition from
the archdeaconry of Bath against the Divorce Bill.
Their lordships then adjourned at 20 minutes to 7
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTBRDAY.)

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVANTS.

Mr. WISE asked the Secretary to the Trea3nry
whether it was intended to abolish the system of deduc-
ii ons being made by certain officials at the Foreign-office
rom the salaries paid to her Majesty's diplomatic consu-
lar servants abroad.

Mr. WILSON said that in point of fact no deduction•
were made. The persons referred to were clerks in the
Foreign-office, who acted as agents for the diplomatic
officers, and were paid these sums in remuneration for
what they did. The Government intended shortly to
alter the system.

OATHS 'TAKEN. BY MEMBERS-REPORT OF
THE SELECT COMMITTEE.

Lord J. RUSSELL brought up the report of the
select committee appointed to inquire whether the 5 and
6 William IV., chap. 52, was applicable to the oaths
taken by members. It was read at the table of the
house, and stated that the committee had considered the
subject, and had came to the conclusion that it was not
applicable to oaths taken by members of that house.
Lord J. RUSSELL said it would be impossible for
him to proceed with the Oaths Validity Act Amend-
ment Bill this session, and he should move that the order
for its second reading should be read and discharged.
It would be necessary for Parliament to consider this
question at the commencement of the next session—
(hear, bear)—and he gave notice that he should bring
it again under the consideration of the house. (Hear.)
The order was then read, and the bill withdrawn.
OATHS, atc., COMMITTEE.
_

On the motion for the house going into Committee of
Supply,
Mr. NEWDEGATE moved for a list giving the name
of every member who has each day attended the com-
mittee on oaths taken by members : and similar list
after sitting of the above committee.—Agreed to.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

Mr. HOPE moved that an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to appoint a
royal commission to consider the site and plans of the
proposed new public offices, and particularly the
Foreign and War Offices, and to report on
the same. He was induced to ask for this
commission in] consequence of the judges having
adopted a block plan of a different character to the ele
vations, the effect of which was that they were not
adapted one to the other, and if attempted to be carried
out would entail an immense expense, and be after
wards found to be a failure. Elealso complained of tLare
being two separate buildings—one for the war and the
other for the foreign-office, instead of one building suffi-
ciently large to accommodate both Departments. The
cost of the site in Downing-street and Charles-
street would be 170,0001. That might be saved, if
Government adopted his suggestion, by building these
two offices on part of the parade ground in St. James's-
park. It would also prevent the demolition and re-
building of the Colonial-office and other public buildings.
His proposal would form part of a great whole, which
would follow, and leave those streets which the Govern
ment proposed to take for the offices to be thrown open
so as to carry St. James's-park down to the river. He
contended that all the buildings should be under one
roof, and should communicate with each other by pas-
sages and telegraphs, and staircases. Upon everyground
he required further inquiry, for there had not been suf
ficient investigation, and the public keew nothing abut
the matter. He concluded by submitting the motion of
which he had given notice.
Col. PENNANT seconded the motion.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
effect of the motion if carried would be to take the subject
out of the hands of Government and to place it in the
hands of a royal commission, that would virtually lave
to decide the sites for the proposed buildings. He mol-
dered it very objectionable to refer the subject to a royal
commission. It left in the hands of the Executive, they
would consider not only the plans with reference to
what was most convenient combined with a reasonably
amount of decoration, hut also the amount of public
money that would be required. A royal commi%ion
would proceed in a different manner. They would con-
sider that the best manner in which the object in efew
could be accomplished would be by deciding on not silly
the best site, but the largest plan, with the greatest
amount of decoration, as conducive to the embellishisent
of the town, without regard to cost. He felt unabl3 to
accede to the motion, on the grounds that it would
either engage the house in a useless and unnecessary
expense in comparison with the object to be attained, or
create another delay by laying before the Government
another set of plans framed on so extravagant a scale as
would lead to their rejection by them (hear, hear). Ile
Government proposed, and all that they wished in
this session of Parliament was to obtain such a want
of public money as would enable them to acquire
a site sufficient for the erection first of a Foreign-
office, and afterwards of one or two offices as cireum•
stances might require. Beyond that the Government
had no desire to go, and he assured the house that the
Government were by no means ambitious of embellishing
the town with extensive elaboratedly decorated public
buildings.

Lord-J. RUSSELL objected to the course pursued by
the hon. member for Maidstone, and complained of the
somewhat strange course adopted by the Government
(hear, hear)—first in asking for plans of buildings of a
handsome description; and after the artists had displayed
their ability, and furnished them, to be informed that
the Government bad no site on which to erect them.
(Hear, hear.) It was not a practical course of proceed-
ing. If the Government only intended to spend a
limited and reasonable sum of money in the erection of
public offices, they should have informed the artists of
it, and the site, and have asked for plans accord.
ingly. He considered that if the Government required
the erection of several offices, it would be better to have
them in one building rather than in distinct erections.
As the Government had determined upon throwing
the plans on one site, he hoped that when they
came to that house for a sum of money, they would be in
a position to state exactly what it was they did want.
When he examined the plans exhibited in Westminster
Hall be considered them very handsome, and that tbey
partook more of the character of palaces than public
offices, and he cautioned the Government against a repe-
tition of the blunder that had been committed in refer-
ence to Buckingham Palace, which had cost the country
nearly a million of money.

After some remarks from Sir D. NORREYS,
Sir B. HALL said that the present Foreign and Gilo-
nial Offices were in a very ruinous state, requiring either
to be rebuilt, or a large sum of money expended on them
to make them secure; and the War-office required a
larger building, so ai to concentrate the six or seven
branches that were scattered about the West-end under
one roof. Last year the committee that sat on public
offices decided it was desirable that the public offices
should be concentrated, and that if it were necessary
to rebuild them, to call in the most competent talent
that the world could produce. In consequence of that
recommendation he waited on the Government, and, ac-
cording to their instructions, he took the necessary steps
for remedying the evils cAnplained of. Oae general plan
was laid down for the building of the offices that would,
if required, form in the end one whole, on which sure
veyors were called on to furnish specifications for laying
out the ground from Downing-street to Richmond-ter-
race on the north, and from Westminster-hall to Great
George-street on the south. Before sending out the spe-
oiillcati?ns he communicated with the Foreign and C,:10-
ual Ministers, and was informed of the number and size
of the rooms required for carrying on the business of
ternplated their°
eaiciotion specified. It waser
their reepeotivdepartments, and the plans sent is con-
o consequencenthe amount
oo
fu
thet o
complaints
space he
thathad
had been made a
architecture and gden.st our public buildings as regarded
tects of the world,
sign that he appealed to the archi-
the manner in which it wac
responded to had been Nv't
be-
lieved bad met with general favour.
by all, and he
Among the designs were several from (Hear, hear )
America. It
would be for the house to consider Wiri:The
that had been selected were too grand and too oothe designs
and ought not to be proceeded with ; but,
at the
time, be begged to remind the house that they Were none'
of them too large for efficiently conducting the business