The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-03 00:00:00

To Havelock and his band I

Nay, they need no such glory,
They need no triumph arch ;
Their fame lives in their story—
Lives in their desperate march.

The ancient British spirit
Still keeps its lofty place;
Our warriors inherit
The valour of their race.

Climate and toil may tire,
And sickness do its part,
But cannot quench tho firo
Of a truo British heart.

On, on they pressed together,
The tropic suu o'erhead,
As if their Scottish heather
Were 'neath their martial tread.

None needed to remind them
Their labours were not o'er ;
Nine victories behind them,
Yet foemen still before.

And what though thrice outnumbered,
Though every step a grave,
Their spirit never slumbered,
Urged by the hope to save.

And to each bravo defender
Let us give honour due ;
'Worthy the aid they render,
Those gallant hearts and true.

But yet a grateful nation
Its debt of tears shall pay,
And thoughts of lamentation
Must mar cur joy to-day.

Remember, 'midst our mourning,
They fell as heroes fall ;
Duty their beacon burning,
While Glory wove their pall.

Nor in the hour of triumph
Leave we their names untold,
The martyrs' noble army
Has gathered to its fold.

For coming generations
Shall toll of what has been,
And tears of many nations
Shall keep their memories green.

Their due award then giving,
Crown each devoted head
With laurel for the living,
And amaranth for the dead.

And Britain, 'midst her weeping
For those that come no more,
Joys that her sons are keeping
The place she won of yore.

And, half in consolation
For all her noble ones,
She calls on every nation
To greet her warrior sons,

Some praises may be louder—
Some chaplets be more gay;
But few wear laurels prouder
Than Britain gives to-day.

THE WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLAND.

GLASGOW, DEC. 2.

The meeting of the shareholders of the Western Bank
was held to-day—Mr. James Dunlop, the senior director,
in the chair. About 400 were present from all parts of
the country. It was resolved to register the company
under the Joint-Stock Banking Companies Act of 1857.
The CHAIRMAN said that the best endeavours of the
directors had been thwarted by the late manager, who
disregarded their express instructions and gave great
advnucers to unworthy persons. The directors in their
report said their chances of resuming business were
lessened by the provincial agents going over to the Edin-
burgh banks. The agents who had already seceded re
present 2,000,000 of deposits, and agents representing
1,000,000 more were in the act of seceding.
The Interim MANAGER read a financial statement,
showing that on the 9th of Nov. last the assets were
10,627,8241. ; the liabilities were 8,911,2321., leaving
an apparent surplus of 1,715,8921, Up to that time
the known and undoubted losses were 800,0001. It
would depend upon the course to be taken in the
realising and the commercial state of the country to
determine what additional losses might accrue.
A. committee of shareholders was appointed to go over
the books along with the directors, and report to an
aajourned meeting on the 17th of De,cember.
A proposal was made to resuscitate the bank, hut
it could not, in the meantime, be entertained.

REPRESENTATION OF PAISLEY.—Mr. Leveson Gower
.and Mr. Lamont are not to be left to carry on a two-
.banded contest, it would appear. A. movement was got
-up on Monday in Paisley for the purpose of electing
_Mr. Crum Ewieg in his absence, and his friends speak
-with confidence of a successful issue to their agitation.
L'ANGELIER.-Mr. A. Pringle transmitted last week
'the sum of 891 9s. U. to Madame L'Angelier at Jtraey,
being the proceeds of a subscription raised to make good,
so far, the pecuniary loss sustained by her from the
'death of her son, who was in the habit of contributing
to her support from his salary.— Glasgow Herald.

THE LATE COURT MARTIAL AT

PORTSMOUTH.

A. Court Martial was last week held at Ports-
mouth, which painfully recalls to recollection the
wry worst periods of our naval service. The facts
of the case are, as usual on such occasions., some-
what imperfectly reported, but enough appears to
show that a great and scandalous wrong has been
done, which ought not to be permitted to r: st where
the Admiralty has left it, in the simple pirate re-
primand of the offender.
Ti:e poisoner was Mr. Hugo Beaumont Burnaby,
Frat Lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Juno, which
tras recently !dinned from the. Pacific and Aus-
tralia, and the prosecutor was Captain S. C. Fre-
mantle, his commanding officer. The ohm gei on
which Lieutenant Burnlby was brought by Cap 7
tain Fremantle to trial were :

1. For having on the 27th of March,lBs6.
liiinself with contempt to-,vgids Captain S. C. Fremantle
Li commanding officer, by performing an impertinent
and provoking action atter receiving from Lis command-
ing officer instructions relative to certain visitors then
on board the Enid chip, and by procrastinating the de-
parture of the said vimitors, he having been previously
warned and perfect-y aware uf his commanding officer's
at xiety tn have the chip cleared of strangers and pre-
pared for the duties of the ftllo wing morning.
2. For havintr,- on or about the 2nd of June, 1856,
behaved himself with disrespect to-wards his command-
ing, officer by going iota his cabin with a frivolous
grievance, and attempting to enter into altercation with,
and to criticise the conduct of his commanding officer in
a manner unbecoming a junior officer, with reference to
a I ainted handkerchief, and to his own duties as a
senior lieutenant of the ship.

3. For having, on or about the 11th of January,
1857, behaved in a wanner uubecomiug the charaett r of
an oifictr by breaking hie patrol.

_ .
4. For hiving, on or about the 15th of January,
1857, acted iu violation of the general printed instruc-
tions and the cuitotu of the service by forwarding to his
c urtmanding officer a retnonstrance upon urjustifiable
grounds, addressed to the Commander-in-Cnief in a
covering letter unnecessarily hasty and dictatorial.
The occasion out of which the first charge arose
seems to have been one of those entertainments oa
board the Juno, by which British officers endeavour
to repay the courtesies and civilities they rec,:ive
from British colonists when in colonial ports. The
Juno's visitors, among whom were several ladies,
were being regaled by a nautical theatrical repre-
sentation, when the evening's amtpements were
cut short by Captain -Fremantle ordering the ship
t 3 be cleared. Lieut. Burnaby executed this ex-
traordinaryand sudden order with all the speed that
attention and consideration for the ladies permitted
—so ratioli so, that there is no imputation against
him that the Captain's directions in this respect,
however unnecessary and disagreeable, were not
obeyed as became the first lieutenant of the ship.
The order wa3 given by Captain Fremantle in his
own cabin, when only himself and Lieut. Burnaby
were present ; and Captain Fremantle charges the
lieutenant with contempt towards his commanding
officer " by performing an impertinent and provok-
ing argon." What the alleged action was, is
neither state 1, nor did it appear on the trial.
Lieut. Burnaby, however, pledged his honour as
an officer and a gentleman to the court martial
that he committed no act of impropriety ; and he
is, we shall see, entitled to full credence.
'This occurrence took place on the 27th March,
1856. On this pretence Captain Fremantle imme-
diately placed his first lieutenant under arrest;
and in arrest Lieut. Burnaby remained until the
234 November, 1857, when he appeared a prisoner
before the court martial assembled on board the
St. Vincent,- in Portsmouth harbour. During
these eighteen month, when Liebt. Burnaby was
suspended from the performance of his duties, held
up to the odium of his ship and brother officers,
and deprived of personal freedom, Captain Fre-
mantle' managed to get up three other charges
against h:m, all of a frivolous and vexatious kind ;
and on these four charges he was brought to trial.
Of course Captain Fremantle was, or. ought to
have been, the principal witness. Ho had preferred
the charges, and presented himself as prosecutor
before the court martial. On being directed by the
President to state to the Court what he knew about
the charges, the following extraordinary and pain-
ful scene took place

Captain Fremantle —I know nothing. I am prepared,
sir, with your perm4sion, to abandon this prosecution. I
am prepared to indemnify the prisoner by " corporeal
pains."
The Court at this point stopped the prosecutor and
eleared the cabin. On its being re-opened,
The President said—The Court bas been cleared to
give you time to consider. Yoil have been sworn, &o.
The prosecutor replied— I feel myself totally unable at
the present time to collect my ideas to give the required
evidence as to matters which transpired so long ago ; I
feel so impressed that my views of the service have been
mistaken and wrong.
President—Captain Fremantle, you are there as a
witness and must answer a plain question.

Captain Fremantle—There is a confusion in my head,
and I cannot proceed.
President—Respecting what has been said about the
views ?

Captain Fremantle—l feel so confused that I cannot
attempt to recount upon oath with any degree of fidelity,
and agreeably to the words of the oath, what transpired
so long ago. I request the president will allow me to
sit down.

The Court hero informed Captain Fremantle that in
consequence of his statement of his inability to give evi-
dence he might retire and give evidence " by and by,"
when the Court had examined the other witnesses.
The ewe proceeded, other witnesses were called,
but the anticipated "by and by" did not come
rcund, Captain Fremantle preserved the silence
he thus inaugurated, and Lieut. Burnaby was com-
pelled to make his defence without hearing the pro-
secutor utter one word against him. He made it
with complete success, and, so far as it was possible,
he supported his own personal statement with evi-
dence. The result was the following finding by the
Court Martial :

The Ciurt acquits the prisoner, and further expresses
its opirlion that the evidence before it doss not show
sufficieat grounds for preferring such charges against
the 2AI Lieutenant, some of which are of so serious a
nature.
And this was all !

Out of the Juno, under Captain Fremantle's
command, two other Courts Martial have been hold
" on officers," the report stated, " who had long
Leen imprisoned iu their cabins, as it were, and
suspended front all duty, and nearly from inter-
course with their messmates." One of those charges
also came to nothing, and the other ended only in a
reprimand. " But," added the reporter representing
the naval feeling and experience of Portsmouth, "it
is questionable whether the captain, whois so power-
fully connected, will receive any censure from the A-
dm iial ty." No doubt powerful conne,:t oits have great'
influence at the Admiralty, as when, for example,
the Honourable Captain Pelham was the other day
made a Lord of that precious Board, he was in-
stantly succeeded in the command of the Blenheim
by the Honourable Captain Hastings—but there is
a decency which not even " powerful connections"
can venture to trespass ; and in the case of Captain
Fiemantle, which outrivals any of the deeds de-
scribed by Smollett in "Roderick Random," the
Admiralty has actually ventured to " reprimand"
this mut. of '' powerful connections."
The public, with whom such connections have no
influence, will probtbly think that for such an
offence as Captain Fremantle committed a repri-
mand is a wholly insufficient punishment ; and the
public in so thinking will come to a perfectly sound
conclusion. Because of his family influence the
command of one of her Majesty's ships on a dis-
tant station was entrusted to Captain Fremantle,
and knowing how powerful at the Admiralty that
influence was, he appears to have very grossly
abused the power and authority confided to him.
He appears to have rendered the lives of his officers
insupportable by a long course of vexatious tyranny;
for a -period of eighteen months he degraded,
insulted, confined, and punished his First Lieute-
nant ; at the end of that period he brought
charges against him which, if substantiated,
might have led to his dismissal from the Queen's
service in a manner that would have consigned
that officer to disgrace, if not ruin and destruction ;
finally, when called on to prove those charges, he
was paralysed by a sense of his utter inability to
do so, his spirit sunk within him, and his tongue
clove to the roof of his mouth. There, before ea
court of officers of rank and reputation, stood Cap-
tain Fremantle, when called on to establish his
case, unable to say one word in support of his own
accusation ; admitting and confessing that he could
not prove one tittl of the imputations lie had
framed, and on whichhealsfkeodufvoircateCdocilarlt;Mmnartiaitaolr!
and, in the agony of ase-c
offering, with abject and incoherent humiliation,
prisonerin t
the
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there
ever before,the
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course paninasval';
history, anything half so bad ? Can there possibly
be anything worse ? Yet for this unparalleled
offence, commit ed by a man who has " powerful
connections," all the punishment that the Admi-
ralty—all that Sir Cuarles Wood, at the head of
the naval service of this great maritime country—
has thought proper to inflict, is a "reprimand,"
and even that "reprimand" is privately, almost
secretly administered to Capt. Fremantle. This,
we undertake to tell the Admiralty, is not justice,
or anything like justice ; and the public will only
see in it another and a more audacious example of
that detestable spirit of favouritism at the Admi-
ralty which disgusts a noble profession and injures
the British Navy.—Daily News.

Am_ngst the passengers on board the steam( r Tamar
which is now on her voya,oe to Southampton from
Alexandria with the gold and mails taken to Suez from
Australia by the steamer Simla, is Sir William Beckett,
late Chief Justice of Melbourne, and Lady Beckett.

THE CONSPIRACY AT GENOA.

The indictment or statement of facts alleged
against the persons accused of participation in the
conspiracy and attack upon the Diamante fort at
Genoa on the night of the 29th of Juno has just
been published, and their trial will commence im-
mediately.the The Chamber of Accusations in
Genoa Court of Appeal having examined the evi-
dence tendered by Signor Galiani, the
Deputy-
Advocate Fiscal, in support of the prosecution,ol Code,
Penal has
found true bills, under article 185 of the ea
Giovanni
Prina, 40 persons in custody, including Francesco
Savi, the editor of the Italia del Popolo ;
Prina, Agostino Marchese, Franc escoor Bartolomeo
Denaartini, FerdinandoDeoberti, and others, as well
as against 21 persons termed "con tumacious" because
they have not surrendered, amongst whom are
Giuseppe or Giacomo Mazzini, Antonio Mosti,
Luigo Stallo, Francesco Daneri, Angelo Mangini,
Giambattista Armellino, Luigi Roggero, Lastrico,
Pittaluga, Tassaro, Cssareto, and others. They are
charged- with " having, by their direction and insti-
gegen, as well as by overt acts, taken part in the
conspiracy which was attempted to be carried into
effect on the night of the 29th of June last in this
city, and having with that object held secret con-
Eultations and meetings, prepared arms and muni-
tions of war, and formed bands of armed men, some
of whom invaded the Diamante fort, barbarously
slaying the sergeant in charge of that post, the aim
of which attempt was to alter and destroy the legiti-
mate government of the state, and to constitute
another government iu its stead."
The narrative comprised in the atto d'accusa is of
great length, and details eery minutely the events
which were made sufficiently notorious at the time.
The indictment begins by observing that the "re-
volutionary party, which has since 1848 made such
obstinate and deplorable efforts to overturn all
existing thrones and to disturb all social institutions
and authorities, still persist in its designs, does not
believe in the constitutions granted by kings, and
declares that monarchy is impotent, and that the
republic is necessary to realise Italian independence,
freedom, and unity. By the influence of these
principles, which have for some time been set
forth in almost every sheet of the journal Italia del
Popolo, and repeatedly asserted in the meetings
of the national rifle clubs, and the working men's
associations, the conspiracy was got up, which by
the vigilance of the authorities, was repressed
in its very first outbreak, on tee night of
the 29th June." Some unusual movements bad
been noticed during that day. In the evening
people collected together in the quarter of Pre, in
the passage leading to the Treasury, and in the
street of Vallechiara. At half-past. ten o'clock the
electric telegraph wire between Genoa and Turin
was cut asunder. Several persons of suspicious
appearance, armed with daggers and cartridges,
were arrested in the night. Towards two in the
morning, arms and munitions of war were dis-
covered, stored in three magazines, in the street of
Vallechiara, and traces of a meeting having re-
cently been held there were observed at these places.
The same night an attempt was made to invade the
Sperone fort ; the Diamante fort was invaded, and
the sergeant in command there was killed. On the
following days other seizures of arms and warlike
stores were made at different spots in Genoa and
the neighbourhood. Some houses were searched,
-and various persons apprehended who had been
-pointed out as participating in this design.
" Giuseppe Mazzini, whose name figures in every
conspiracy in Italy for some years past, is indicated
as the chief of the insurrectionary party, the prin-
cipal seat of which is in London, and the affiliated
members of which are distinguished by the name of
Mazzinians. That he excited and directed the con-
spiracy, or rather the attempt in question," says
the indictment, " results from various letters of his,
and from the articles published by h:m in the
Italia del Popolo, in July, August, and Septem-
ber, 1857, entitled, The Situation.' It is clear,
moreover, that he was at Genoa six months
previous to the events above narrated, and again on
the very day they occurred, and also at other
periods in June and July last." He was at
Genoa, it appears, as late as the 28th of July,
and it was he who really conducted the
Italia del Popolo, the editor, Savi, being merely his
agent. Tee indictment further alleges that, on the
26th of April, Savi and Mosto attended a meeting
of the National Rifle Club at Serravalle, where
acclamations were bestowed on "Mazzini and the
European Republic," and it was urged that " the
hour of conflict was approaching, and that they
should not despise the use of the dagger, since every
means was lawful for the liberation of the country."
Speeches were delivered at similar meetings in the
Teatro Diurno at Genoa, and at Chiavari, of the
same purport. The working men's associations as
well as the rifle clubs were used to gain proselytes
for the insurrectionary party ; and at the meetings
of these associations, especially those held in the
Strada della Maddalena, the neces-ity of setting up
the republic was openly spoken of. "Preceded,''
says the indictment, "by the prodigal encomiums
of the Italia del Popolo, a young Englishwoman
bail arrived at Genoa from London. She st 'tett
eerself to have come to Italy for literary studied,
and she surrounded herself, meantime, with work-
men and the leading members of this association,
while she lodged in the house of the hetttr, Luigi
Roggero, who was one of them. She was intro-
duced at the banquet held by the workmen at the
villa Montebruuo, in Marassi ; she repeatedly went
to the above-mentioned place of meeting in the
Strada della Maddalena, and there spoke expressly
of a republic." A letter writlen by Mangini to
Miss Jessie Merl! on White, which was found in
the house of Carlo Pisacane, is relied upon as evi-
dencethat even after the unsuccessful attempt of the
29th ofJune, " the party" did not forego their de-
signs ; but the contents of this letters do not appear.
It is stated that Mi-s White received money on ac-
count of the subscription opened by Savi to purchase
10,000 muskets to be supplied to the first Italian
State which should rise in insurrection ; and on the
9th Juno the accused Luigi Stallo paid her 1,000
lire on this account. It is alleged that this fund,
together with the monthly subscriptions paid by
the initiated, was really employed in providing
arms and warlike stores ; that an apartment was
hired at Albaro, near the city, where bullets were
cast secretly ; that Luigi Stallo was employed in
purchasing muskets, and that the other prisoners
on several occasions iu April, May, and J une, as-
sisted to convey them by sea and land them at cer-
tain points along the coast. A minute account is
given of the stores di-covered in a coach-house oc-
cupied by Luigi Steno, and at several other places
in the city, and in a cave on Monte Porro6no.
There were a great number of muskets and rifles,
pistols, bayonets, daggers, and cartridges; quanti-
ties ofgunpowder, shot and shell ; pickaxes, ham-
mers, and other tools. Together with these, in a
house in the suburb of Pre, was found the paper on
which • was written the following :—" Courage !
The first houses and families which you are to plun
der inthe street of Pre wll be those of the Peregallo
. family, being the r:cheet proprietors, spies and
cruel enemies of liberty. Sack and fire ! Courage ?"
One of the places where these things were found
was a hou.sishired by Demartini, on behalf of Man-
gini, adjoining the prison of St. Andrea, to which,
it is alleged, the conspirators might easily
have gained access by means of the mattocks and
other instruments found there. Powder was found
in sufficient quantities to blow open the gates
of the public buildings or even to blow them up.
The indictment then specifies sever:il places in the
ci y where the conspirators on the evening of the .
20th June, met and were mustered by their leaders.
At one place in Santa Brigida there were more than
200 persons assembled at 10 o'clock ; the door was
kept by an armed man, who e ould not let any one
go out : and they were told that they wers to at-
fade the artillery quarters at the Spirit° Santo.
Marchese and Capurre invited some other men into
a beershop in the Piazza delt'Acquaverde, where
they were treated with liquor and promised they
should be taken to a house of entertainment. The
men however, discovering that they were not al-
lowed to go away, complained to Marchese, who
tee told them thet they were wanted to fight, and
that daggers should be given them. About 100
persons met iu the ware- own adjoining the shop
of Luigi Roggero, the hatter, (in whose house
-Abuxea nna White lodged). There were some chests or
cent lining arms there. They had food and
w'ne"iven than • a man with a poniard. watched at
the d'oor, and they were told that the insurrection
was imminent that the signal wou'd be given
by the explosi'oncazoal(elitaztine. About m dnight they
were taken to
;but this
the dis
of arms commenced
r their tributton
divras intertuted sud-
denly by an order f,
ideTetr,seion. Ina house at ean Panteleo, just out
wards the Sperone fert, abeet the
city walls, to-
whoeda abbleoerldsl
issued forth, leaving piece& of meneleah
and dag,.:
their feet, armed with guns, sal Tes,
and carrying laddersand rope-ladders, with which
they came close under the walls of the fort, but
upon being hailed by a sentinel inst Intly took flight
S .me pieces of wood, forming ladders suitable for
climbing the walls of the fi:,rt, were next day found
under a quantity of hay in the house of San Pan-
ttleo jast allu-Jed to, which had bsen hired by the
prisoner Tessa: o, a sad iler. Papers were found,
showing him to have been in conference with Maz-
eini, inelsondon as early as eept.,
sail to have been 1855, and he is
one of the most intimate associates
of the Euglish
made the ladderi
lady. Armellino is alleged to have
intended for this assault on the
Sperone fort. The att
fort viat otherwise contrived.
tdto surprise Diamante
The two brothers
Pittaluga, Casareto, and Lvast• rico, had struck up
an acquaintance, some time before, with the keeper
of the guardhouse at that fortress, and were fre-
quently in the habit of chatting with him and the