The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-09 00:00:00

THE ARmi,

The
garrison
police at
Chatham,sucocersasanoifseathse military
agoometime
by Major Gen.
Eyre, has been so great that the force has been con-
siderably augmented, and now includes not
only
the troops of the Line, of whom it was formerly
exclusively composed, but also men of good charac-
ter selected from the Royal Engineers and the Royal
Marines. The force, which is under the direction
of a superior non• commissioned officer, who receives
his orders direct from Major-Gen. Eyre, numbers
rather more than 100 men, who are distinguished
from the other troops by wearing a numbered badge
on the arm, when on police duty. To any one ac-
quainted with the riotous and uproarious scenes
frequently, enacted by the military at Chatham a
short time since the improvement which has re-
cently taken place is most striking. Although there
are often as many as 5,000 and 6,000 troops taking
their exercise in the streets of Chatham during the
evening, so excellent are the arrangements that a
military brawl or disturbance is now almost un-
known, the slightest disorder on the part of any of
the troops subjecting the offenders to be immedi-
ately apprehended and taken to the guardroom.
The beerhousgs which abound in the purlieus of the
garrison, where most of the riotous behaviour on the
part of the:military had its origin, are now placed
under the surveillance of the police, who visit them
at frequent intervals during the day and night, in
order to ascertainF that no drunken soldiers are har-
boured in them after the hour at which they are
bound to be in barracks. The result of the measures
has been that drunkenness, absence, and other mili-
tary offences are steadily on the decrease in the
garrison, while the most serious of military crimes
—that of desertion—also shows a diminution. The
officers of the garrison are alive to the importance
of providing rational and elevating amusements for
the troops. A gymnasium is in course of erection,
and an American bowling-green has also been
opened at the barracks.
The 2d (Queen's) Regiment, under the command
of Col. Addison, were inspected on Southsca-com-
mon yesterday by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C.B.
The regiment received the Major-General in line,
afterwards breaking into open column right in
front, and opening out to double distance for inspec-
tion. The regiment then marched past in slow and
quick time, reformed line on its original alignment,
and went through the manual, platoon, and review
exercises, followed by a series of battalion move-
ments, all performed with great precision and steadi-
ness. At the close of the proceedings Lord Paulet
addressed the regiment at some length, and said, in
conclusion, " I am proud to have you under my
command. You are certainly the most efficient re-
giment I have seen." The regiment paraded eight
companies, each upwards of 60 rank and file. The
uniformity in size of the men, and their steadiness
and freedom of movement in marching past, excited
much favourable comment from the spectators, mili-
tary and civil, on the ground.
The corps of Royal Marines Light Infantry being
several hundred men below its original complement,
recruiting for that branch of the service is being
vigorously carried out, and numbers of fine young
men are almost daily arriving at the head quarters
of the respective divisions, sent up from various
parts of the country. After being finally approved
they are despatched to the Royal Marine battalion
at Deal, to undergo their required course of train-
ing before being attached to head quarters. The
following officers have been detached from duty at
the several stations to superintend recruiting for
the Royal Marines, at the stations named :
Lieut.-Col. W. C. P. Elliot, Pontefra4)
Col, W. S. Aslett, Wolvzrhampton ;

IR. Parke, Bath ; Major W. F. Foote,
Bradford ; Major F. G. Pym, Derby; Captain
H. H. Good, Aylesbury; Capt. E. IL Cox, Bedford ;
Capt. B. B. Herrick, Cipping Norton ; Capt. E. C.
Darnville, Exeter ; Capt. IT. G. J. Davies, Liver-
pool ; Capt. C. Louis, London ; Capt. G. Naylor
Ludlow; Capt. J. A. Stewart, Manchester; Capt
J. Poore, St. Alban's ; Capt. R. S. Harrison, Salis-
bury; and Capt. N. W. de Courcy, Sheffield.
It appears that the force of artillery now col-
lected at Warley, near Brentwood, is about 700
strong. Good conduct medals have just been pre-
sented by Major-General Sir R. Dacres, com-
mandant at Woolwich, to Gunners Summers and
White, the former having been in the service 21
and the latter 20 years. A gymnasium is now iu
course of erection at the barracks, 1,000 having
been appropriated for the purpose. It appears
from plans produced to Gen. llacres on his recent
visit by Capt. Clarke, R.E., that other new build-
ings are proposed, which will consist of a canteen,
boys and girls' schools, men's schoolrooms, school-
master's and mistress's quarters, sergeants' reading-
room and mess-room, lecture-room, and a magazine.
General Dacres approved the plans, which involve
an outlay of £6,000.
A circular was yesterday received at Woolwich
from the Horse Guards, directing three non-com-
missioned officers of the Royal Artillery to be de•
spatched to Melbourne, to instruct the Militia
Artillery in the use of the Armstrong guns.

APPREHENSION OF A RAILWAY
DEFAULTEB.

In February, 1860, the Eastern Counties Rail-
way authorities at London announced that Algernon
Sydney Lumby, a clerk in their employ, had ab-
sconded; and in the warrant issued for his appren-
sion he was charged with taking with him £lOO,
the property of his employers. From the very
earnest manner in which he has been hunted up
and looked for by the company's police-superinten-
dent, Mr. Kent, it is thought that the amount
appropriated is more than £lOO. Mr: Kent has
visited the continent in:search of his man ; and after
full many a fruitless journey in this country, having
travelled "some thousands of miles"—his own
expression—during the period of a year and nearly
eight months, in which Lumby has been at large,
ho has at length succeeded in apprehending the
missing defaulter at the fashionable watering place
of Scarborough, where he has been resident during
the summer season. He is a musical man, and at
an early part of the summer he took an engagement
as pianist at a music room attached to the Old Spa
Inn, and known as the St. George's Hall. He was
announced in the bills as " Mr. Sydney Staples,
pupil of Professor Sterndale Bennett." The com-
pany of performers with whom he was associated
have been chiefly bufth singers and dancers, rather
above the vulgar stamp of similar artists. While in
Scarborough he has been liying in a quiet, orderly,
respectable manner, his wife residing with him in a
cottage in the upper part of the town. His appre-
hension was Drought about as folloWs :—A fow days
ago, a gentleman who was personoy acquainted
with Lumby, and was acquainted with the fact
of his having absconded, was visiting Sea: borough ;
and amongst other " lions" of the place, he went to
the Casino or music-room above-named, for an even-
ing's entertainment. He was at once struck with
the resemblance the pianist bore to the missing
clerk, Lumby. The only difference appeared to be,
that really Lumby's forehead was rather bald, but
the pianist's cranium was covered all over. Hein;
ever, on his return home, he saw Mr. Kent,
(tilu.
officer above named, and mentioned his suspiciln .
Mr. Kent at once came down to Scarborough,
Mr.d
on Saturday evening last, in company "
force,
Roberts, superintendent of the Scarborough_
went to the scene of Lumbytsimysitc
secured his
satisfying himself that he d
Ihi ma(at the end of one
game, Mr. Kent went up to
the audience), and
not to disturb
of the songs, so as
funiliar but respectful man-
introduced himself
.in a llalsatbours. After
Mr. Kefi
nt told him he had " come
night he was
very cordially.
atalate hourh.
hands together apparently
for him ;" and
no:, the two
thoughsii2la he allowed him to finish the
sight of im,
evening'slostlipoeoiliin-cseeu:oenffirdacye
1 taken to Landon, in the custody of Mr. Kent.
Lumby was, we understwnd, one of the wages clerks
of the Eastern Counties Railway
.Company, and con-
sequently would have frequent opportunities for
embezzling the money of theonSaturdaywasbroughtperformance, company.—Leeds

LAST NIGHT, BUT THREE OP

A LFRED MELLON'S PROMENADE
CONCERTS.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Miss Julia Woolf 's Benefit This Evening.

Beethoven's Battle Piece, and the Comic Orchestral Fantasia

" Three Blind Mice," every Evening."
Thr Proatamme this evening will be Miscellaneous, and
include Beethoven's Pianforte Concerto in E flat and Schu-
ttra• Fantasia on Bohemian Airs, performed by Miss Julia
I.°°i•'—Grand Selection from II Trovatore—Grand Duet for
tanororte and Violin, Miss Julia Woolf and Mr. Viotti
; Collins—gongs by Mdlle. Parepa, Mme. Laura Baxter, and
. ontanier.—Solos—Overture, Ruy Blas—Dance Music,
er.o.

Commence at 8. Promenade, is.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
TO-MORROW (Thursday), Roe 4ini's STABAT MATER.
Fri day, a MONSTER CONCERT, commencing at 7, and
On Saturday (the last night of the Concerts) for the Bene-
fit of Mr. Alfred Mellon.

Imo' 0 YAL F7N 07---------
ISH OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.
Undor the management of IttiliB Louisa pyre and Mr. Wm.
Harrison.
wii I OPEN for the Sixth Operatic Season on MONDAY when will be presented (firstimite)jyanDette.l;
October 21st,
new Opera, by Howard Glover, to be entitled
Full particulars in future advertisements.

britEAT -ItU Y AL, HAy:-_prir,
Lesqee. Mr. J. B. Backston, T •
'NI IS EVENING, the nerformance. will commence with
principal Am fiver-
A NIIV7 WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Gilell- ---
revh, Mr. Edwin Booth (from the
theatres); supported by the company. e can
After which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL
Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Wilkins.
To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER.
Commence a 7.

oy A Less P Gee and a..EerSm.Sr'SA.
Harris.
THEATRE,--.
'PHIS EVENING, .TEANE UTE'S WEDDING. Miss M.
17arria and Mr. H. Virlddicomb.
Alter whirl,: a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ-
ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE;
characters by Mr. John Brougham (his 10th appearance)r.
Ryder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (of the principal
theft tr€ f 4 of the United States, his 10th appearance in Eng-
land), :Kiss C. Lelciercq, and Mrs. Weston.
With. THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS.

IC►YAL LYCEUM THEATRE•
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
Tin 3 EVENING, A MIDSUMMER'S EVE.

Alter : which, at- Eight o'clock, the new and sucCess-
tut con tedv of WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
tal'araci X ribyoßlessrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin.
a. Robi as, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Bib ts L
Ydia Thomson. /
which
c unclune with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
°II I 'ill" Lydia Thompson will dance a New Volunteer
Quick k ttell,

LONDON, !WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 1861.

Vanity of vanity—even Royal pleasures are
vanity—come to-day and gone to-morrow. Not for
forty-eight hours could the visited and visitors at
CompQgne enjoy each other's society. From Sun-
day evening to Tuesday noon must suffice to shake
hands, to banquet together, to chat over all the
affairs of Europe, the pamphlet on the Vistula and
the Rhine included, and to shake hands again, and
—farewell. A nice pleasant little trip for his
Majesty of PRUSSIA-a pretty little reciprocation
of the Imperial visit to the German KING ; and
that is all say some. The Germans have a
proverb—

"Es flog ein Ginzehen fiber den Rhein,
Und kam ein Giinzehen wieder helm,"

Which, as nearly as we can give it at the moment,
may be rendered-
6, A little goose flew over the river,
And came back as much of a goose as ever I"
____

Whether the loyal Prussians will find the Royal
flight to Paris, and back, an occasion for humming
over their proverb, we cannot tell. We have little
doubt, however, that the King of PRUSSIA has
returned about as wise as he was before, so far as
regards the real purposes of his host. Indeed, if
we may believe Count CATOIIR, and no man could
measure the EMPEROR better, it is by no means
certain that he knows his own mind long together,
He only knows he will do what he can for his
dynasty, but what that may be he cannot tell. He
will wait on events, and whithersoever Glory to
France, and, therefore, Glory and Stability to the
Dynasty lead, thither he will go—be it to Poland,
to Hungary, to Turkey, to Montenegro, to Cochin
China, to Mexico,—or---just a little nearer home—
say to Landau, or Sarrolouis, ono of " which we
fortified, and the other of which we built," on the
left bank of the Rhine.

All we can say is that we wish Lotis NAPO-
LEON joy of his new ally, and King WILLIAM of
his. Why should they not be as good friends as they
can be ? They are near neighbours, and they ought
to have a good many business transactions with each
other. One has great power to annoy the other;
and the other, though its straggling dominions
might tempt a glory hunter to break off as it were
a claw from the lobster, would yet give the meddler
a terrible gripe for making the attempt. Prussia
and France ought to keep the peace with each
other ; and if they could but have an understand-
ing in which both could confide, they might cer-
tainly save themselves each at least the cost of
100,000 soldiers. Possibly, however, they do not
wish to do that. A large army is large patronage
everywhere. And Russia and Austria, helpless as
they are except against the disarmed, would be pre-
text enough for both monarchs to retain their pre-
sent means of gratifying their ambition of military
greatness.

England can have no kind of interest in seeing
Prussia and France mutually suspicious. They
can never well be allied against us, and if they were
the German Kingdom's hostility would be net of
the slightest consequence to us. The German fleet
is not built yet, and when that great curiosity does
come into existence, any more pleasant fun for our
tars could hardly bo imagined, than a game at balls
on the high seas with the land-lubbers who should
man the ships of a commerce-less country. No—it is
of no more consequence to us that France should
form even an offensive alliance with Prussia, tha❑
her forming one with the new King of MADAGASCAR.
We are not quite sure whether it is even of so much
importance, for we believe one of our neighbourißg
colonies still eats a great deal of Madagascar beef.
With our views, therefore, of the importance of
Prussia to us, we cordially wish the King of
PRUSSIA a happy homeward crossing of the Rhine ;
and if he has not a treaty in his pocket, a very safe
and good understanding—with France, we mean—
in his head.

We have to rely upon the Romans for the early
history of our country, but without going beyond
authentic authority, London is, with the exception
of Bristol, the oldest city in this country. It is not
to be expected that when the old city was bounded
by stone walls, and Charing and Westminster were
remote hamlets, that its founders had any thought
about drainage, or that the river which supplied
them with water and carried off their sewage would
eventually become the source of disease and death.
Thanks to a few hot seasons, public opinion has
been roused, and money has been provided by local
boards, which in other countries would have necessi.
' tated a foreign loan ; and within a few years the
Thames will resume its prestine brightness above
London-bridge, and the Cockney may visit Cremorne
or Greenwich without fear of a headache or low
fever. The Board of Works may be remiss some-
times, and before now we remarked upon the sub-
ject ; but as regards the intercepting sewerage,
thanks to the energy of the chairman (Mr.
THWAITES), the general engineers who have
designed the works, and the ability and resources
of the contractors, the public can find little fault
with them now. We yesterday, in company of the
Board, inspected the works completed and in pro-
gress on both banks of the river. Much difficulty
has been experienced in croEsing the marshes,
but steam power and determination have carried
the day; and although much remains to be done,
we may look upon the healthy drainage of Lon-

don as vn fait aecompli, The magnitude of these
works (which we have noticed in another column)
can he best comprehended if the reader will fancy
a railway tunnel 50 miles in length, with branches
for a few hundred miles as connections, resting in
many places on 20 feet of concrete, and at others
on brick ashes.

The engine power required to lift daily some two
million cubio feet of sewerage to the low levels will
Bb immense, those at Deptford Creek are to be of
iiithds of six hundred horsepower, and yet this
e first step in the right direction. Bark-

ouligllk is too near London to be a permanent
let for our sewerage, the population is increasing
the metropolis extending. We shall never be
setriire until the German Ocean receive our sewerage
six fathoms below its surface. Although we wish
to see the work carried out on a complete scale,
nevertheless we cannot pay the just tribute to the
members of the Board of Works their engineers and
contractors, and as a proof that first-rate material
has been insisted upon, the price of bricks of first
quality has risen five and twenty per cent. since
the commencement of the works. It would
be invidious to call attention to any particular
contract, all being executed in a sub-
stantial form, and when we mention that
the names of Messrs. BRASSEY and BAZALGETTE
are amongst the number, it is a guarantee of ability.
Mr. DawAius in placing the keystone in the arch
of the south outlet, although taken by surprise, de-
livered a short speech expressing the satisfaction of
the Board with the general conduct of the works.
In conclusion we feel great pleasure in acknowledg-
ing the attention paid to us, and the information
furnished by Mr. BAZALGETTE, the engineer of the
works, who is evidently heart and soul in the
business.

"Europe will be either Cossack or Republican."
Who does not remember the famous prediction ?
Not ono emanating from the oracular pen of ZAD-
KIEL, nor yet from the Delphic mouth of Dr. CUM-
MING ! But the utterance, after a life's experience
—and such a life's experience !—of the Prisoner of
St. Helena.
It has recurred to the recollection of the states-
men of Western Europe repeatedly since the time
when NAPOLEON first uttered it. The prophecy
has often since then sounded ominously to those
who think and watch. Occasionally it has almost
seemed upon the eve of its realisation. Things ap-
peared to verge towards its fulfilment, for example,
only seven years ago—when an alliance between
France and England alone hurled back the auda-
cious hordes of the Muscovites within the limits of
their own frontiers. Looking back to that epoch
of the commencement of the Crimean War—it
almost seems a hundred years off instead of but
little more than a single lustre. And yet at the
same moment one cannot but recollect vividly
enough, too, how very threatening was the aspect
of affairs at the abrupt outbreak of that formidable
conflict between the colossal power of the Russian
Autocrat on the one hand, and, upon the other,
the combined armaments of the two most ener-
getic and civilised races upon the face of the
globe.

There were two memorable predictions then,
that appeared in awful combination to warn
Europe that the hour for its being finally over-
whelmed by the advancing forces of Russia had i
already struck.
There was the St. Helena prophecy—" In Fifty
Years, Europe will be either Cossack or Republi-
can." The Republican enthusiasm of 1848 had by
that time exhausted itself in Christendom. There
had long since sprung a very powerful reaction.
In the rolling on of the Wheel of Fortune for
Europe, its bias, consequently, appeared to lead it
towards the Autocratic rather than towards the
Democratic branch of the alternative.

And then—in addition to this—there wag that
ancient prediction familiar to the Turks during
Four Centuries ! The prediction that when the
power of the Osmanli race should have lasted in
Europe for precisely that period of time, namely,
for exactly 400 years—that then the period would
arrive when the Turk must recross the Bosphorus

into Asia.
The daring advance of the Cossacks across the
Pruth, the insolent mission of Prince NIENSCIIIKOFF
to Constantinople, the diabolical outrage perpe-
trated by the Russian Navy in the Black Sea at
Sinope—all seemed together to announce in a voice
of thunder, and in characters of blood and flame►
that the hour had indeed arrived for the fulfilment
of the one or the other of those two renowned and

formidable predictions—it might even be, of both !

The Turk, who is essentially a Fatalist, prepared
for the new Hegira. He seemed to behold the
index-finger of Destiny pointing his way back
inexorably across the boundary-line of the Bos-
phorus. There was a curious coincidence of time,
moreover, that startled him into a momentary be-
lief that the period had in truth been reached
when he must per force quit the scene of
his four hundred years domination upon
the very borders of Christendom. The mysterious
epoch of four centuries had in effect just then ex-
pired, or rather was just then expiring, when the
Czar NICHOLAS, in 1854, gave that sudden indica-
tion to the world of his fixed determination at

length to advance in the direction of Constantinople.
The Turk remembered the one prediction, Western
Europe remembered the other—that is, the St.
Helena prophecy, that before another half oentury
should have elapsed Europe herself would be either
Cossack or Republican. A very considerable por-
tion of that half century had already glided by,
and here the threatened peril appeared to impend
imminently over Europe.
As we have said—it was only under Heaven, by
means of the sudden alliance, offensive and defen-
sive, of the two most powerful and civilised nations
of Western Europe, nay, for that matter, of the
whole earth—it was only by this unexpected combi-
nation on the part of France and England that the
Danger was Repelled.

Russia, at the close of the war which then took
place, was not only prevented from advancing—she
was, happily, as the event proved, compelled even
to recede a little, to contract the boundary line of
her European dominion, that line which but a brief
interval before then had threatened to expand so
very alarmingly.

How, however, since those events, which appear
somehow to have happened so very long ago, and
which, nevertheless, in reality occurred so very re-
cently—Row, since then, has Russia endeavoured
to console herself ? Nay, wo will not simply say
How has she "endeavoured" to console herself—
How has she consoled herself ? The question is as
easily answered as it is asked. Russia has consoled
herself during those last few years very effectually
indeed—THUS ! By adding to her already stupen-
dop empire a new territory, as vast in its dimen-
sions as all Italy and France put together ! That

—since the close of the Crimean war—is Russia's
consolation and compensation. Well, in truth,
did M. DE LAMARTINE, years and years ago,
write in regard to Russia, that her slope
is towards the East ! For—baffied in her
daring designs upon
Turkey, and through
Turkey upon Western Europe—Russia has con-
trived (in the manner we have indicated) to gravi-

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