The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-28 00:00:00

r.:VIINING- EDITION. COUttT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Lord Lilford bas arrived at the Castle, and has succeeded the Marquis of Head fort, as the Lord in Waiting on her Majesty. The Earl of Erroll and the Hon. Mr. Murray rode out this morning. The Royal dinner party this evening will consist of the same guests as yesterday. Yesterday was the birth-day of the Princess Mary of Cambridge, when her Royal Highness completed her sixth year. Th e D uc h ess of Gloucester gave a de eune and b a ll at Gl oucester H ouse i n h onour o f t h e Ty to a ' , arge party of the juvenile nobility and gentry. he ndke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and ti , •e Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, atter,ded by Baron Knesebeck and Colonel Jones, ar livrAl at half-pa s t t wo o ' c l oc k a t Gloucester House f rom their residence at. Kew. The juveniles arrived about the same time. Her Royal Highness the Prin cess Augusta also joined the party. The Duchess of Gloucester was attended by Lady Georgiana Bathurst and Sir Samuel G. Higgins. When the company had assembled, the Duchess of Gloucester, accompanied by the whole of the visitors, entered the large drawing-room, where a dejeune was served. The party afterwards descended to the din ing-room, which was prepared for dancing ; the walls Were tastefully hung with draperies, ornamented with Wreaths and festoons of laurel and flowers, enclosing the initial letters " P. M." and the words, " Many happy returns of the 27th of November." A Quadrille Band attended. The party broke up shortly bd . °, e seven o'clock, when the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, left for Kew. Among the nobility and gentry present were the fol lowing, with their respective families :—The Danish Minister and Baroness Biome, the Netherlands Minister and Madame Dedel, the Duchess of Buccleuch, Countess of Bathurst and Miss Ponsonby, Countess of Chester field, Lady Burghersh, Lady Augusta Gordon, Lady Louisa Cornwallis, Sir George and Lady Seymour, Lady Stratheden, Sir E. and Lady H. Paget, Lady Barbara Newdigite, Sir E. and Lady Currey, Sir Charles Thornton, Count Esterhazv, Baron Lebzeltern, Mr. and Lady T. Lister, Colonel Keate, Md!le. D'Este, Mrs. Bat%urst, Mr. and Mrs. Warrender, Mrs. Montagu, and Mr. Culling Smith. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was at tended by all the Ministers except Lord Morpeth. The Council sat three hours. Sir John Colborne had an interview with Lord John Russell. yesterday at the Colonial-office. Sir John Guest, Mr. John Shaw Lefevre, and Sir Eardley Wilmot, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Larpent, Mr. Hunter, and Mr. Blyth, bad an interview with Lord John Rus sell At the Colonial-office yesterday. The Marquis of Normanby gave a dinner to the Ca birtet Ministers last evening, at his residence in Hill s'aeet. The Agent for Jamaica had an iuterview with Lor d John Russell at the Colonial Office yesterday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. „ T. he Rev. Sir Nigel Gr es i c y, Bart., at the Burlington r",otel ; Lord and Lady Sefton, at Thomas's Hotel; Lady Elizabeth and the Misses Hope Vere ; the Earl of Cardi gan ; Sir William and Lady Maria Oglander, at Thomas's Hotel ; the Right Hon. Joseph Planta ; Lady Caroline Legge; the Hon. Miss Jerningliam, at the Clarendon Hotel ; Sir Henry and Lady Askew, at the Burlington Hotel ; Mr. and Mrs. Flood and family, from the Down Lodge, near Hastings, to their winter abode, Belle Vue, Chelsea'; Count de Survilliers, at ::..arshall Thompson's t., davendish-square ; Joseph Bonaparte and suite, at ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Lockyeare, at ditto; Lord Tenter °ma and the Hon. Miss Abbott ; the Earl of Pembroke; Lord and Lady Craven; the Earl of Huston; Lord and Lady Harrington; Sir Brook Taylor; the Right Hon. Sir William Alexander ' • Sir Henry Hardingc ; Lord Ripon ; Mr- and Mrs. F. A. Grant, of Grant, at their residence, U lster -terrace, Regent's Park, from Brighti , n ; Mr. and Mrs- Grove and family, at Neret's Hotel, Clifford and C ork -streets, from Sherirton Park; Sir Edward and Lady ° wen, at ditto, from Windlesham ; Mr. Robert Hollond, 1 ‘ ) ,!. P., in S t . J' James's-square, from Paris ; Mr., Mrs., and j'isfi Teed, at Starimore-hail, Middlesex, from Paris. DEPARTURES. Lord Boston and family, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ;I— Solly, Esq., from ditto ; Mr. nnd dirs. Burnett, and fa‘mily, from ditto ; John Richards, E.t.q., from ditto ; Lord John Russell, for Bournemouth, near Poole ; Lord Henry Russell, for Woburn Abbey ; `Su. Charles Grey. for the Oaks, near Epsom; Sir Archi bald Macdonald, for Brighton ; Lady Caroline Thynne, for Wiltshire; Colonel and Mrs. Hamer and family, for Bath ; Capt. Hope, R.N., and Miss Hope. for Brighton ; the Right Hon. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, for Lincolnshire; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Petre, for Cossey Hall ; Lord Wharncliffe; Sir Edward East ; Earl Amherst ; Sir Gore Ouscley ; Lord Bexley ; the Marquis of Salisbury; th e Bishop of Exeter; Lord Ashburton; the Hon. Wil liam and Lady Harriet Bering. The reigning Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg lire expected to arrive on a visit to her Majesty in the " b nth of March. The Duchess is a Princess of the "loyal Family of Wirtemberg. The Duke arrived expr ess at Wiesbaden to meet the Princes Ernest and Albert. We have the pleasure to state that the Duke of Wellington daily improves in health. The Marquis of Bute has returned to Camden hill. Earl Somers will pass the winter at Brighton. De Beriot is now at Vienna, where he is giving a series of concerts. WROXTON ABBEY, NEAR BANBURY.—The Party which was to have assembled on a visit to Colonel and Lady Susan North will not meet until Christmas, in const qaence of the demise of Sir F. Doyle. We observe from the Ayr Advertiser, that the subscription to present a piece of plate to the Earl of glinton, in commemoration of the late Tournament, now exceeds 1,600 guineas. The Adelphi Theatre has been visited, during the last few evenings by the following distinguished vi- Biters, to witness Jack Sheppard and the splendid spec tacle :—The Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince George and Princess Augusta, Prince Napoleon Louis ; Earls and Countesses of Beauchamp, Craven, Pembroke, ilmorey, and Chesterfield ; Earl of March ; Lords outhampton and Strangford, Sir Wm. and Lady De Bathe, Hon. T. Macdonald, Methuen, &c. That 4 , Love" is both agreeable and pleasant to a ll of high and low degree is apparent, from the fact that th e receipts of Covent-garden Theatre for the last week exceeded 2,0001. This augurs well for the fair manageress. , GRESHAM COLLEGE.—The Professor of Mu " concluded the Lectures of the present Term on A looday evening. The subject on this and the previous evenings was the Dramatic Music of England to the "nnencemcnt of the reign of Charles 11. , in the course of which which some curious specimens of the mas q ue music of the reign of James 1., and one of the original songs Shakspeare's plays (the only one known to exist) , w ,ere introduced. Crowded and attentive audie nces mied the theatre of the City of London School every night, and many hundreds went away unable to obtain eornission ; more than 3,000 persons attended the Gresham Lectures during the late Term ; it is to be , hoped that the Gresham Trustees will avail th emselves of th e present state of their affairs to restore to its ori ginal independence and usefulness the princely endow ment of Sir Thomas Gresham ; for this, as the admi nistrators of his will, is their primary duty. We hear t hat they have it in contemplation to purchase Crosby hall for this purpose ; and it would be impossible to find, or even to erect, a building more completely adapted to the accommodation of the public, and better fitted to carry out the enlarged and liberal views of the founder of Gresham College. The piec e Robert o Recorde r , Sir f plate to be presented to our late Committee. i ßolfe, has been selected by t h e wrought handles, W s eian.lii,FhlY chased waiter; with mass ive that it should be exhi weighing 190 ounces. It is intended te t d o to the inhabitants (all of whom, we are sure, desire be in the tribute of respect) at .considered as uniting pace's, inscription has been engraved upo n it a .---Bus soonryPos a Post . the A HINT.—A half-crown piece s: in it' O h singl e within the grains and a half under the half ounce, weighs four . p a o l s e t t a t z e e r can be easily ascertained by this means t weight allowed at the Post - office for a after the sth of next month. The late Lieutenant-General the H o „ . Sir Henry King, K.C.8., was brother to the late Earl o f Kingston, and to General Viscount Lorton, and had seen much service. He received his last step, as Li eu _ tenant-General, at the Coronation brevet last year, and Was Colonel of theilst West India regiment (date of appointment, July 19, 1834), which becomes vacant by his demise. We are enabled positively to state that there is not the slightest foundation for apprehending a renewal of the outrage in Wales. The attempts of certain Tory journals to produce an excitement by publishing in second editions announcements of such apprehensions must prove abortive, when it is found that the reports they put forth are utterly without cause. MR. EwART.—We are enabled to state, al though not on the authority of Mr. Ewart, that he in tends to become a candidate for the honour of repro senting the Dumfries district of Burghs, in the event of a dissolution and the retirement of General Sharpe, of Hoddarn Castle.—Dumfries Courier. COURT MARTIAL AT CHATHAM. —On Sa turday l as t J o h n N e il , a pr i vate i n th e 12th Lancers, tried and convicted at the late General Court-martial at Chatham, for striking a superior officer, and threaten ing to shoot Sergeant-Major Stanner, was brought out orr the parade t o rece i ve t h e sentence o f th e Court, Which was that he be transported as a felon to such Place as her Majesty's Privy pleased Council shall h ' to h appoint for the term of fourteen years. LITERATURE. ZARAFFA. IValsh, Dublin, 1839 There is some talent in this tragedy, but it is throughout too closely modelled on the " Revenge." Zaraffa, the principal character, is an exact copy of Zanga. Both are slaves ; both African princes, proud of their Royal blood, and maddened at the thought of their humiliating servitude ; both have similar—or nearly similar —wrongs to revenge ; and both sct about the task in the same remorseless style. Zaraffa, however, has some little redeeming gentleness in his character, which his swarthy pro totype has not ; and this is the only difference be tween them. With regard Lo the other personages in the play, the most distinctly marked is Escovedo, who is a very fair specimen of the haughty, hot blooded Spanish noble. The language is fre quently vigorous, and occasionally poetical ; but its ' great defect is, that it is too declamatory. Maid servants, mistresses, slaves, pirates, and nobles, all speak the same high-flown language. We subjoin one or two of the most pleasingly written pas- sages : " What music in these words ! How sweet they come Over my agitated bosom, like A lute at midnight, for whose precious sound Some lonely ear is watching." " Hark ! Comes a small footstep, light as creeping breeze Among the flowers at evening." " Our minutes, full, Hold, each within itself, a life of thoughts, Made up of quick sensations." MEMOIRS OF SIR SIDNEY SMITH, 2 Vele. Bentley, London, 1839. Sir Sidney Smith, the subject of these Memoirs, and well-known for his skill and heroism at Acre, where he gave Napoleon the first serious check that great commander ever received, was born in Westminster towards the close of the year 1764. He was—we should rather is, for, we believe, he is still living—of very good family, being " no 'emote relative to the late Lord Chief Baron Sir Sidney Stafford Smithe, and of the Smythe Lord Viscount Strangford." His father was Gentleman Usher to Queen Charlotte, and her " enjoying much of per sonal favour," was enabled to get his son appointed midshipman, before he was twelve years of age. In 1781, young Sidney obtained his Lieutenant's com mission, and took share in the action of Admiral Graves off the Chesapeake. In the following year he participated in Sir George Rodney's glorious victory; and was made Post-Captain in 1783, " at the juvenile age of nineteen, having served as a Commander only one year and five days I" Soon afterwards, " impatient of a life of inactivity," he entered into the naval service of Sweden, and dis- tinguished himself so highly in the war with Russia, that the Swedish Monarch rewarded him with the grand cross of the order of the Sword, and George the Third with the honour of knighthood. In 1793 he served as a volunteer in the Turkish marine, but returned to England when the war broke out with France, and offered his services to Lord Hood to burn the French fleet, magazines, &c., at Toulon. This he succeeded in accomplishing, infinitely to the astonishment of all who knew the perilous cha racter of the achievement. About this period, too, he obtained the command of the Diamond, and while it was in harbour refitting for active service, we are told that " He used frequently to come to London, and mingle in the festivities of the metropolis. Though he had his peculiarities, yet he might justly be denominated a steady man. At this time he was decidedly handsome, and though not tall, of a compact, well-built, symme trical frame, with a dark and somewhat Hebraical coun tenance, and a profusion of jet black curling hair. Not withstanding the fierce bravery of his character, his features were always remarkable for a degree of refine ment not often found in either the pale student or the silken courtier. In his character mind predominated. He had his singularities, and where is the thorough-bred seaman who has not ? He bad himself trained a beau tiful and docile horse into a❑ amusing playmate, as well as a valuable servant. When told to give a prance for King George' he would rear on his hind legs and dance like a well-educated dog. When requested to pay the like compliment to Buonaparte he would take the request as an insult, stiffen out his limbs into an attitude of indignation, and snort indignantly. When mounting his favourite Bucephalus at the door of his hotel, Captain Smith would do it in the most approved style of the fashionable equestrians of the day, and pre serve all the proprieties of equitation until he was fairly clear of the suburbs, then would he fling the stirrups across the back of the horse, settle himself sailor fashion in the saddle, and ride as if he were chasing the wind." Sir Sidney Smith's next expedition was to cut out a French lugger which was lying near the shore off' Havre, but no sooner had he secured this vessel, than it was drifted, together with the boats, a con siderable way up the Seine. The whole party- were, in consequence, captured, and their gallant leader conveyed to Paris, where he was confined in the Temple for the space of two years. After making many abortive efforts, he at length succeeded in effecting his escape, reached London in 1798, where he was welt omed by the universal con gratulations of the people," and a few months after wards was appointed to the command of the Tigre, and made Joint Plenipotentiary to the Turkish Court. The subsequent year saw him at Acre, engaged in the defence of that town, and frustrating all Napoleon's efforts to capture it. As the details of this memorable siege are familiar to all our readers, we shall not dwell on them, but just con tent ourselves with extracting a curious anecdote relating to a British sailor : " The seamen of the squadron took each their turn for the military service on the wails of Acre. One of them, belonging to the Tigre, had observed, in his spell ashore, the body of a French General, splendid in his uniform, that lay exposed in the very centre of the ditch, This dwelt on the mind of the honest, though—the truth must be told—somewhat obtuse-minded tar. In deed, he had never shown himself remarkable either for intellect or activity, and held no higher office in the ship than a waister. Yet, by some unexplained mental process, the fate and the unburied corpse of the French General had fixed themselves so strongly on his imagi nation, that he was determined, at all risks, to give his glittering dead opponent the rights of sepulture. The next day, though out of his turn, he asked and obtained permission to take his spell on the walls, Nothing divided the hostile entrenchments but this same ditch ,' and so closely placed were the foes to each other, that a moderate whisper could be easily heard from one em bankment to the other. Nothing appeared above these embankments but a serried line of bayonets, for if a hat or a head. or anything tangible, appeared on either side, it was saluted with a volley of perforating balls. It was about noon, and the respective hostile lines were preserving a dead silence, anxiously watching for the opportunity of a shot at each other. Our seaman — without informing any one of his intention, had pro vided himself with a spade and pickaxe —suddenly broke the ominous silence by shouting out, in a stento rian voice, Mounseers, a-boy ! 'vast heaving there a bit, will ye? and belay over all with your poppers for a spell.' And then he shoved his broad unmeaning face over the lines. Two hundred muskets were imme diately pointed at him, but seeing him with only the implements of digging, and not exactly understanding his demand for a parley, the French forbore to fire. Jack very leisurely then scrambled over the entrench ment into the ditch, the muzzle of the enemy's muskets still following his every motion. All this did not in the least disturb his sang froid ; but going up to the French General, he took his measure in quite a business-like manner, and dug a very decent grave close alongside the defunct in glory. When this was finished, shaking what was so lately a French General very cordially and affec tionately by the hand, he reverently placed him in his impromptu grave, then shovelled the earth upon and made all smooth above him. When all was properly completed, he made his best sailor's bow and foot-scrape to the French, shouldered his implements of burial, and climbed over into his own quarters with the same im perturbability that had marked his previous appearance. This he did a midst the cheers of both parties." For his skill and courage at Acre, Sir Sidney re ceived the thanks of both House'z of Parliament, and a pension of one thousand pounds per annum, while the city of London presented him with its freedom, accompanied by a sword, valued at one hund re d gu i neas. H e next assisted in landing Sir Ralph previ ous to hi s great v i ctory t here over the French troops, a n d on his return soon af terwards to Abercromby's artillery at Alexandria, j ust Eng land, wa s e l ected Member o f P ar li am ent for Ro chester. Si r s• idney, however, seems to have been soon weary of his pacific duties as a senator, for we find him i n 18 05, in command of an E ng li s h squadron desti ne d f or the defence of Sic il y the machinati ons of King Joseph Bonaparte. against The last expedition o f any ng moment in which he wa s en gaged, was escorti ng the after, Royal f am ily o f Portugal to he w as ma de an Ad miral, and on the clo se of the war, the Duke of Wellington, at Paris, was invested by of Knight Commander of the Bati with the insignia Memoirs of the " Hero of A cre is usually styled—are exceedingly entertaini ng , for they presentabound in anecdote, and romantic incident, t o adi often witnessed in biographical sketches. g s r o ee m not of the despatches, however, especially those whiche relate to Toulon, might, we think, have been omited THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2B, 1839. RECENT AUGMENTATION OF THE ARMY. The following circular letter was issued from the Horse Guards on Tuesday. It refers, as our readers will observe, to the recently fixed establishments of the depot and service companies of infantry regiments of the line (those establi s h e d i n A ustra li a an d th e East Indies excepted), since their late augmentation to 800 rank and file. The whole complement of cominissioned officers attached to ea c h corps o f t hi s d escr i pt i on consists of— one colonel ( a l wa y s a genera l o ff icer, an d, co nsequently, never present), one li eu t enant - co l one l t w o majors, ten captains, twel ve li eutenants, e i g h t ens i gns , o ne paymaster, one adjutant, o ne quartermaster, one surg eon, and two assistant-surgeons. Their distribution is as follows: FOR THE SERVICE COMPANIES ABROAD. —The lieutenant-colonel, one major, six captains, eight lieute nants, four ensigns, the paymaster, the adjutant, the quartermaster, the surgeon, and one a ssistant -surgeon. FOR THE DEPOT COMPANIES AT HOME.—One major, four captains, four lieutenants, four ensigns, and one assistant-surgeon. From the four Lieutenants two are selected to per form the duties of Depot Paymaster and of Depot Ad jutant. It sometimes happens that an Ensign is nomi nated for one or other of these appointments ; but this is a circumstance of rare occurrence, and an alternative which is had recourse to in cases of emergency only, as it is an exception to established regulation. The De pot Paymaster generally retains that situation for a period of three years, and the Depot Adjutant remains in his for a term of two, but both are subject to be sent abroad before the expiration of that time, if their turn come round. The Major usually continues in command for two years, and is then relieved by his brother Major, who returns home from the service companies. A De pot Registry, or what is technically called a " Roster," is kept, which exhibits the progressive liability for fo reign service of every officer attached to the Depot, by describing him in the monthly return as the first, second, third, or fourth of his rank, as the case maybe, for co lonial duty. Those officers who have been longest at home, or such as have never joined the head-quarters of the regiments abroad, are of c ourse the first on the Roster for embarkation, and the others follow in graduated succession according to their seniority of standing on the Roster. The subalterns of "'miner and Rifle corps are styled first and second lieutenants, the latter of whom take precedence in rank of cornets and ensi g ns. The fol lowing are the Fusilier Regiments :—The sth or Nor thumberland Fusiliers, the 7th Royal Fusiliers (in which there are no second lieutenants, all the subal terns being lieutenants,) the 21st, or Royal North British Fusiliers, the 23d, or Royal Welsh Fusileers, and the 87th, or Royal Irish Fusiliers. The Rifle Corps of the Line arc the 60th, or King's Royal Rifle Regiment, and the Rifle Brigade. The Scots Fusilier Guards is an exception to the above rule ; the officers of that regiment enjoy superior army rank to that which they hold in the corps in common with the rest of the Infantry Household Brigade (CIRCULAR.) Horse Guards, Nov. 20th, 1839. MEMORANDUM.—The following is to be the distri bution of the service and depot companies of the re giments of infan try serving on foreign stations, except ing those in the East Indies and New South Wales ; and the General Commanding in Chief directs that the numbera understated be considered as the establish ment of the respective portions of the regiments abroad, and accounted for accordingly in the regimental returns, viz.:— Six Service Companies at 100 Rank and File cach.—(Goo Rank and File.) 7 Staff Sergeants. 24 Sergeants, i. e. four per Company, including Colour- Sergeants. 10 Drummers. 24 Corporals 576 Privates S- 600 Rank and File. Four Depot Companies at 50 Rank and File each.—(2oo with advantage. They only encumber the progress of the narrative, and, as documents, are of little value. We subjoin a curious anecdote, wherein an old Greenwich pensioner being asked to describe Sir Sid ney Smith, did so in the following nautical style : .6 Why, Sir, after we skivcred the mounseers away from Acre, Sir Sidney was looking as taut set up its the mainstay by a new first-lieutenant ; but, for all that, Sir Sidney was a weaselly man,—no hull, Sir,—none ; but all head, like a tadpole. But such a head ! it put you in mind of a flash of lightning rolled up into a ball ; and then his black curly nob—when he shook it, it made every man shake in his shoes." " Was he then handsome ?" " Blest if I can tell! You know, Sir, as how we don't say of an eighteen-pounder, when it strikes the mark at a couple of miles or so, that's handsome, but we sings out beautiful ;' though, arter all, it's nothing but a lump of black iron. You're laughing, Sir. And si you thinks I'm transmogrifying Sir Sidney's head into a round lump of iron shot ! Well, I'm off like one. All I can say is, that he was most handsome when there was the most to do." ARMY PROMOTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I remember the time when your still most valuable and widely circulated Paper was the leading, if not the only one, that advocated and espoused the interests of the army ; at present that advocacy is usurped by one or two self-styled :Alilitary Weekly prints, which no one but military and naval men ever see. This is not as it should be ; the people of England should know what is going on in the Army and Navy. At no former period of the history of this country were the interests of those two professions so shamefully neglected. It is nor, I believe, officially announced that we are very shortly to have a Royal Marriage, and it is to be hoped the occasion will be embraced to give a stimulus to the present drooping spirits of both professions. The last Brevet was a shabby one, disgraceful to the occa sion, and not creditable to those who measured out so pitiful a boon. After a suspension of seven years' promotion, from 1830 to 1837, two Brevets took place, promoting 89 Colonels to the rank of Major-Generals ; but, since the promotio❑ of 1837, no less than 86 Generals have died, so that the Army is now with three Generals more than it had after a seven years suspension: of all promotion, and the grim tyrant will be sure to equalise the numbers long before the end of the present year. The Navy is still in a worse condi.' tion, with reference to',;the age and state of the senior ranks of both services. I consider it no less essential to the interests of the State than to theirs that this subject should be seriously considered. Bath, Nov. 25, 1839. F. W. [F. W. may rest assured that we are as much as ever disposed to advocate and espouse the interests of both professions, when we can do so with effect. Consider able promotion, no doubt, will take place on the occa sion alluded to, but our Correspondent ought to remem ber that Government cannot always carry their wishes into effect. While one party urges them to be mare liberal, another is constantly urging them on in a con trary direction, and exclaiming against the vast expense of a standing army awl needless promotion.--ED. Sun.] REPRIMAND BY LORI) HILL OF COL. THOMAS, MAJOR MACLEAN, CAPT. AINSLIE, AND OTHER OFFICERS. Horse Guards, Nov. 20, 1839. Stn,—By Lord Hill's desire, I have the honour to communicate to you his Lordships sentiments and decision upon a case which has lately occurred in the district under your command, which has occasioned his Lordship the utmost concern, and of which the fol lowing are the facts : Oa Wednesday, the 30th ultimo, a meeting, called the " Conservative Association," was held at Ashton under-Lyne, at which Colonel Thomas, Major Mac lean, and other officers of the 20th Regiment, as well as Captain Ainslie of the Royal Dragoons, were present. _ _ One of the speeches spoken upon that occasion having been reported to have contained expressions in sulting and disrespectful towards her Majesty, Colonel Thomas was required by the General Commanding-ia• Chief to state whether he had heard these expressions, and, if he had, whether he had expressed disapprobation of them. Colonel Thomas positively denies having heard these expressions (as does Captain Ainslie also for himself), but is unable to state what the expressions used by the speaker alluded to really were, or to show that their tenor was respectful towards her Majesty. Major Maclean and the other officers of the 20th Regiment who were present, state that they " cannot vouch for particular expressions used by Mr. Roby upon that occasion." In reference to the above facts, it is most painful to Lord Hill to observe that, upon their own showing, Colonel Thomas and the other officers in question have placed themselves in the mortifying predicament of being obliged to confess that they lent their presence to a meeting of a strong party character, at wnich ex pressions were uttered which they are unprepared to prove tne propriety of towards the person of their Sovereign. In this state of a case, on every a ccount very dis tressing to him, it remains for Lord Hill; but to order that you convey to Colonel Thomas, and to every other officer belonging to the forces now serving under your command, who was present on the above occasion, th e expression of his Lordship's most pointed and decided displeasure, reminding them that, as military servants, they are bound to confine themselves to their military duties ; and that when they thus ventuse to connect themselves with any party association, under any cir cumstances, or upon any pretence whatsoever, th ey incur a heavy responsibility, and expose themselves to the heaviest blame. In Colonel Thomas's first letter to the Adjutant- General upon this unpleasant subject, be states that he was invited by this Conservative Association " as a Member of Parliament." In reference to that part of the Colonel's statement, I have it specially in command to declare that, whilst Lord Hill yields to no one in respect for the privileges of a Member of Parliament, his Lordship will not suffer any officer of the army to build his justification upon them, when he thinks fit to resort to a measure calculated to compromise the cha racter and discipline of bis professsion. Lord Hill thinks it scarcely necessary to add that the prohibition to attend party meetings, in their military capacity (except when on duty and in aid of the civil authorities of the country), applies to the officers of the army at large. His Lordship's final orders aro that you, on receipt hereof, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, without subjecting the public service to injury or inconvenience, proceed to Ashton-under-Lyne, and there assemble the officers of the 20th Regiment, (com manding Captain Ainslie's presence likewise), reading this letter to them, and intimating to them that his Lordship will allow no further discussion on a subject which has already been exhausted by official correspon dence, upon which no new facts can be elicited, and upon which, therefore, his opinions are settled and ins mutable.—l have, &c. (Signed) JOHN MACDONALD, A. G. Major. General Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8., &c. &e., Nottingham. FAMILY OF MEHEMET ALL A correspondent of the Semaphore of Marseilles corrects the erroneous assertion of the European press, that Ibrahim Pasha was not the son of Mehemet Ali, and, in order to settle the point, forwarded to that journal the following genealogy of the Pasha : " Mehemet Ali, born at La Cavale, in Roumelia, in 1760 (the same year which gave birth to the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, and many other distinguiped men), married an innupta female, daughter of one of the notables of the country, aged sixteen, in 1787. The children of that union were-1. Ibrahim Pasha, born at La Cavale, in 1789 ; 2. A daughter (deceased), who married Moharem Bey, the present Governor of Alex andria, son of the former Governor of La Cavale, who left no issue ; 3. Toussoun Pasha (deceased), father of Abbas Pasha ; 4. Ismail Pasha, who:died without issue; 5. A daughter, widow of Mehemet Bey, Deftedar, hav ing no children, and now forty years of age. All these children were born at La Cavale. " In Egypt, Mehemet Ali had forty-three children, of whom are now living-1. Sau Bey, born in 1822 ; 2. A daughter, born in 1824 ; 3. Hussein Bey, in 1825; 4. Halim Bey, in 1829 ; 5. Mehemet Ali Bey, in 1833. Abbas Pasha, son of Toussoun, was born in 1813, and is Governor of Cairo. Ibrahim Pasha has three sons—Abmet Bey, born in 1825 ; Ismail Bey, born in 1830 ; and Mustapha Bey, in 1832. " Nephews of Mehemet Ali—Ahmet Pasha, Go vernor of Mecca, forty years of age ; Ibrahim Pasha, General of Division in the Hedjas, thirty-five years of age ; Ismail Pasha, Governor of Aleppo, thirty-two years of age ; Hussein Bey, forty-two years of age ; and two others much younger." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In the report of the case of the `• Qeeen v. Howard," a magistrate for Cheshire, contained in The Sun paper, it is stated by mistake that the rule was discharged, each paying his own costs. The rule was discharged, on payment of all costs by Mr. Howard, and, therefore, we will thank you to correct the error in your next. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, CHORLTON and HIRBERS. Hyde, Nov. 27, 1839. THIEVES AT CHURCH.--So many bibles and pray e r -books have, within the l as t f or t n i g h t , b een s t o l en frem the parish charch of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, that the Churchwardens have caused printed notices to he circulated, offering rewards for the detection of the thieves. Rank and File.) 16 Sergeants, i. e. four per Company, including Colour. Sergeants. 4 Drummers. 16 Corporals 200 Rank and File. 184 Privates TOTAL ESTABLISHMENT. Staff' Drum- Corpo. Sergts. Sergts. mers. rals. Privates. 6 Service Companies... 7 24 10 24 576 4 Depot Companies ... 0 16 4 16 184 10 Companies. - _ 7 40 14 40 760 k.....,-y-..._.) 800 Rank .& File. It is understood that, although the number of ser geants and corporals allowed to be borne on the estab lishment of the depot companies for the purposes of re cruiting, and of performing the general duties of the depot, is the same proportion as in the service compa nies, yet the regulation forbidding the appointments of sergeants or corporals taking place from the men at the regimental depots is to remain in force, and no de viation is to he made therefrom, except in special cases, which must be reported for the previous approval of the General Commanding in Chief, and (in all instances where it may be possible) after a communication with the officer commanding the service companies abroad. The attention of commanding officers of service as well as of depot companies is particularly directed to the injunctions contained in page 173 of the. General Regulations and Orders for the Army on the subject of the appointment of non-commissioned officers. „By command of the Right Hon. Gen. Lord Hill, Commanding in Chief, JOHN MACDONALD, A.G. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A new and original drama in three acts, entitled Woman's Trials, was produced at this theatre last evening for the first time, but from the reception it rnet with, we think it very doubtful whether a second re presentation of it. will ever take place. This we rather rcgret, because, notwithstanding the piece in its present state merited the reception it met with, yet we think by a judicious use of the pruning knife, and by a softening down of the catastrophe, whieh, as it stands at present, is ridiculously horrible—it might be rendered quite as stageworthy as many a domestic drama which has had a long run. The following is an outline of the story :—Ellen Marchmont (Mrs. Stirling) is secretly betrothed to Frankton (Marston) ; her father, Colonel Marchmont ( Waldron), wishes to see her united to Clement Graylingford (Archer), but consents at length to her union with Frankton. The night before the wedding, Frankton is seized and conveyed on board a smuggling vessel by Robert Ruff (G. Bennett), acting under the direction of Graylingford, who forges docu ments to prove that Frankton has eloped with a village girl, and Ellen, in a fit of desperation, marries Grayling ford. After a lapse of four years, Graylingford, and his wife and child, attended by Ruff, are discovered at Rome. Finding Ruff troublesome, Graylingford hires assassins to kill him, who, however, are overpowered, and betray their employer. Ruff, vowing ven• geance, departs secretly for England, and Gray lingford believes him dead. Frankton meanwhile has discovered the residence of Ellen, and rushes into her room, urging her to fly with him, which she refuses to do. Graylingford discovers him—they fight ; Gray lingford is overcome ; but drawing a pistol, shoots Frankton, and separates himself from his:wife, taking their child with him. In the third act the scene lies in Eng land. Frankton, who has recovered from his wound, is on his way to Ellen's father, to inform him of what had oc curred. Ellen herself also, on her road to her father, is detained at a village inn, at which Ruff arrives, dis guised. Graylingford himself also arrives at the same inn with his child. Ellen during his absence goes to his room to see her child, and while there Ruff enters through a secret panel. She hides behind a screen, and Ruff, drawing the charge from Raylingford's pistols, declares his intention of taking vengeance ; he breaks open Graylingford's desk, and discovers a paper declar ing that he is the right heir of the Graylingford pro perty, and Graylingford, who was his foster brother, is a changeling. Graylingford enters, Ruff taxes him with his baseness and seizing him by the throat strangles him ; he then attempts to seize the child, but the mother, who has seized his pistol, presents it at hini and drives him off ; he retires through the pannel, and she fires to give an alarm, and the shot kills Ruff. At that moment her father and Frankton arrive, and the curta i n f a ll s. M rs . Stirling was excellent as Ellen, and in ninny scenes Ben nett's acting was very powerful, and elicited much ap plause, but nothing could bear up against the absurd horrors of the catastrophe, and the audience would not listen to the conclusion of the piece. HAYMARKET THEATRE. After Bulwer's new play of the Sea Captain, or the Birthright, Sheridan's comedy of the Rivals was per. formed here last night. The . comedy is too well known to require any account of its plot from us ; and so well were all the characters sustained, that it becomes our while Mrs... Lacy, as the romantic, pleasing duty to praise all.. Power,. as Sir Lucius Languish, elicited great applause ; the O'Trigger, performed with his . usual raciness and force ; y, of Strickland, and nor was Phelps, as the fretful, jealous, but loving Faulk land, less effective ; novel-sick, Lydia ould-be-learned Mrs. M A l a prop, were inimitable, and called forth peals p m er r e: G pt l o o r v y er d oagsm. theattc of laughter, interrupted pretty frequently by the thun ders of the gods, and the gentle r clapping bSluir.ndA.e of :he kid covered hands in the boxes.. IN e were rejoiced to find Walter Lacy, as Captain Absolute, perform with taste and judgment, and if he but keep, as he did last night, within the bounds of moderation, he will, b y stu d y an d per severance , a ttain a standingin his profession which his ridiculous attempts to do wond ers would never ga i n him. M rs . Warner's Julia , Miss P. Horton's Lucy, Buckstone's David, and Webster's Ac res , were ent itl e d to, and received, great approbation. The comedy has been revi v ed with the costume of the period of its ori ginal production, and the scenery reflects great credit on the management. HOPS. An Account of the Duty on Hops of tho Growth of the year 1839, distinguishing the districts,. and the old from the new duty:--- Districts. Duty. Barnstaple Bath •••• 6 6 0 Bedford Cambridge 15 1 6 Canterbury Cornwall 3 0 6 Derby Dorset 66 4 10 Egsex Exeter l3 18 cs Gloucester Grantham Hants Hereford 22,574 9. Hertford Isle of Wight ll 9 0 Lincoln Lynn NOrthampton Norwich Oxford 127 3 8 Reading Rochester Salisbury 5,886 18 6 Salop Stourbridge Suffolk 1,!77 14 4 Surrey 33 8 4 Sussex 113,090 8 0 Uxbridge 2 7 10 Wales, Middle Wellington 76 19 0 Worcester £357,456 :6 8 Old Duty, at Id. 12.20 per lib. New Duty, at ;Id. 8.20 per lb. £357,456 16 8 G. A. COTTRELL, Principal General Accountant, Excise Office, London, Nov. 27,1839. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The policy of the Governor-General of India, which, carried into execution by the energy, endurance, and valour of our troops, has issued in the complete estab• lishment of British ascendancy in Affghanistan, deserves ' a more comprehensive consideration than we, or any of our Contemporaries, have yet bestowed upon it ; for the result is far more important than appears upon the surface. It is not merely that our armies ad vanced, upon an adequate emergency, far beyond the frontier of our empire, have triumphed over the diffi culties natural to a mountainous country, inhabited by fierce and warlike tribes, greatly enhanced by the severe privations to which such a service, at a vast distance from their resources, necessarily exposed them, and that they have consummated their glory by planting the standard of England upon the towers of that citadel, from which, more than eight hun dred years before, Mahmood of Ghizni, surnamed the Idol-breaker, led out the wild horsemen of the Steppes of the Caspian to reap the first harvest of Ma homedan spoliation in the rich bazaars and temples of Hindostan : we shall form a very insufficient estimate of the value of these gallant achievements, and of the merit due to the political wisdom which planned them, unless we contemplate the position in which Lord Auckland stood at the time when he formed the high resolve of entering upon the avowedly hazardous course which it has pleased the god of battles to crown with such entire success. We have learned from Lieutenant Co nolly's excellent work, and from other equally authentic sources, the great influence which the Russian Government has of late years acquired, not only in Persia, where that influence has a natural tendency to predominate, but over the tribes which occupy the country to the north and cast of the Caspian. And even where the actual influence of Russia has not ex tended, where her disposition to encroach is feared and hated, as well as where, still further to the south, her ambition excites no apprehension, the most exaggerated notions of her power and means of aggression are uni versally entertained. If she have not exerted herself to spread these notions, and to instil, at the same time, contempt for the relative resources of Great Britain, the rapid growth of both these impressions is marvellously unaccountable. Under either sup position, however, the fact is notorious, that not only to the north of the Indus, but in the heart of our own provinces, and at the seats of the Anglo-Indian Government, the intimation contained in a newspaper published at Moscow, that a treaty capable of binding perfidious England must be dictated in Calcutta, had found an echo ; that the jealous powers upon our eastern and south-eastern frontiers had been taught, or had learned, that they possessed a natural ally in our power ful northern enemy ; and that the more intelligent, at least, of the many discontented spirits which must neces sarily exist in an empire held by such a tenure us that of India, had begun to look fondly for the vanguard of that invincible army, before which their English rulers were to fly in terror to their ships. But duly to appre ciate the issue of the struggle, we must look still more closely at the dark combination of circumstances under the depressing ,gloom of which Lord Auckland was obliged to choose - his course of policy. On the one hand, Persia had been incited first to slight the counsel of our Ambassador ; then grossly to insult him ; and finally, in spite of his remonstrances, to seize upon territory----affording an advanced point d'appui for the intrigues of Russia—in the direction of our north western frontier. On the other side, the Courts of Nepal and Ave, smarting under the humiliation and loss of possessions, to which they were severally sub jected at the close of their former contests with the British power, assumed an extremely threatening aspect. The two were in correspondence ; Nepal, which has always a very considerable national militia under arms, strengthened her frontier posts, and begun to stockade the passes ; and her emissaries were not only intriguing to unite in a league against the British Government those Princes of Hindostan who still re tain a semblance of independence, but were also actively engaged in stirring up disaffection amongst the two most excitable classes of our subjects—the wild chief tains (half Zemindars and half Rajahs) who occupy our borders, and the turbulent Mahomedan population of onr large towns. The latter again, with their millions of brethren throughout the Peninsula, bearing towards their Christian masters the most intense religious ani mosity, exacerbated by the loss of that temporal domi nation over the fair provinces of India which we have wrested from them, were looking impatiently for the corning of the Persian Monarch, with the allied or sub jected Chiefs of Affghanistan (whose differences with us their wishes had already magnified into a contest between the two faiths), to re-establish in pristine splen dour the fading glories of Islam. Generally the most feverish excitement prevailed. Even the sober, monied classes of the Hindoo community began to doubt the stability of the public credit. And the Anglo-Indian Press, always noisy and always ignorant—the authori ties at the India House having most unwisely forbidden their servants from taking any part in conducting it— was employing itself in magnifying the existing danger—in deprecating our means of meeting it— in impressing upon our subjects the enormity of their fiscal grievances —and in endeavouring to taunt the Government into premature rupture with Ava. Such was the crisis, and thus was it met. Whilst the operations which have resulted in the triumphant settlement of the affairs of Affghanistan, and, even tually, in the complete submission of Persia, were pushed on with unintermitting activity, arrangements were made for the assemblage of a strong corps of observation on the frontier of Nepal. That Court was simultaneously informed that all its intrigues had been discovered ; that the British Government was prepared to resent them, and that nothing but the prompt withdrawal of its advanced posts, and the most satisfactory proof that it had altogether abandoned all hostile intentions, could avert the exemplary punishment of its treachery. Its compliance was instantaneous and complete. The land force and flotilla in the southern provinces, ceded by Ave at the close of the last war, were strengthened, in order that the Burmese might he as sured that their hostile movement would be the signal for the immediate occupation of Martaban, Rangoon, and Bussein, their only sea ports ; our position in Ar racan (another of the conquered provinces), was also icinforced by a flotilla, and by raising a strong corps of natives—whose hatred of their former tyrants is heredi tary and intense—under the command of English offi cers. In regard to all internal threatenings of danger, the British Government waited in calm watchfulness for the first overt acts of its enemies. The entire success, as respects the affairs of Affghanistan and Persia, of this bold and sagacious line of policy, by which an in superable barrier has been raised against any ambitious designs on the part of Russia, is already known to the public. This result has been achieved by means of the ordinary revenue of the State without opening a loan ; and the last advices from Calcutta show that the Govern ment was so easy in regard to funds, that it had opened its treasury to make advances upon produce to the extent of a million sterling, as a remittance to meet its charges in this country. It is expected that our differences with Nepal and Ava, intimidated as those courts must be, by our success beyond the Indus, will be settled with out necessity for a recourse to arms : at all events, the conclusion of the war in Affghanistan has left us free to resort to the " :Llama ratio" in either case, or in both cases, without the smallest embar rassment. The manner in which the Mahomedan Powers of the west have quailed before our arms has thoroughly tamed the pride and turbulence of their Indian brethren, who regard she Affghans and Persians, and the intermediate tribes, as the great ori ginals of their race and creed, in whose humiliation they feel their own subjection to our power hoplesalY sealed. Though the last me n ti one d , i t i s not the l eas t important comsideration, that the issue of the campaign has ef fectually and permanently opened the n avigation of the Indus, and the commerce of central Asia, to the enter prise of our merchants. Honour to the statesman who planned, and to the gallant soldiers who effectua ted these measures. Our empire is now, practically, extended to the Indus; its foundations have been laid wide and deep ; it remains to raise a corresponding su perstructure of justice, knowledge, and religion ; est() popetuo. (From the Times.) Within these few days accounts have been circulated, as from Montreal, purporting that Mr. Poulett Thomson had meditated, or 17as meditating, a visit to Upper Ca nada, and assigning the curious reason for this voyage, that, it was the intention of his Excellency to dissolve the existing Parliament of the Upper Province, for the sake of rsseerta i n i ng w h et h er t h e i n h a bit an t s d es i re d to Pave a. responsible Executive Government, as recom me:/ded by Lord Durham. The first characteristic of such an expedition, for such an object, would be, as we think, its needlessness. The natural business of a " Governor-General" of British North America would be to accomplish something, or to prevent something, which no authority inferior to his was competent to effect or frustrate. But the summoning or dissolving of a Legislative body is not one of those rare difficulties which minor hands feel themselves unable to untie ; it is not one of those digni vindice nodi from which some preternatural agency is alone fitted to extricate an heroic performance. Where the thing required is the dissolution of a Colonial house of Assembly, the local Governor, and in Upper Canada, the Lieutenant- Governor, is the proper person to issue the proclama tion whereby the Legislatur e is dissolved—an act which lies completely within his functions, like that of the proclamation whereby a Legislature is summoned. Where, then, is the necessity for a Governor- General being paraded to execute such a purpose? It cannot be simply a dissolution that the Mel bourne Ministry have in view, through this unac customed intermeddling of their late colleague with the regular functions of Sir George Arthur's autho rity. Some coup d'etat is indeed confessedly behind. They want to get rid of the House of Assembly— that House of Assembly which was brought toze ther by Sir Francis Head—that assembly of "loyal and constitutional men, for which he had exchanged an assembly of rank Republicans "—which had so energe tically cooperated with him, and enabled him to put down and crush the spirit of revolt and of forcible sepa ration from the mother country. It is the avowed scheme of Ministers in this measure, if the accounts from Canada be authentic, to disembarrass themselves of that legislative organisation by which the loyalty and British feeling of Upper Canada hare been enabled to act with the efficacy of system and the weight of law in support of the colonial relation with Great Britain, and in hostility to that restless principle of change which, amongst the Canadian rebels, as well as their brethren here, assumes the garb of" liberality." Sir F. Head, by dissolving the M'Kenzie Parliament (M'Kenzic, the traitor, incendiary, and coward, the intimate acquaintance and favoured correspondent of Mr. Jo seph Hume)—Sir F. Head, we say, by dissolving that worthless Parliament, gavo free respiration to the loyal constituency of Upper Canada, and obtained at its hands a House of Assembly devoted to the Crown and people of England, and to a permanent union with both. The dissolution of that latter con stitutional assembly can have no object, and truly none other is pretended, but the resurrection of a rebel de mocracy, and a revival of that whole system of open turbulence and disaffection which, under the guise of seeking a redress of grievances, made perpetual war upon the British Government, its main and only real grievance being the exercise of any semblance of sove reignty by Great Britain. The all but professed de sign of the Melbourne Cabinet is to give life and ac tion to Lord Durham's troubled dreams, and to deprive both mother country and colony of all benefit from his unmanly abdication of the ludicrous dictatorship. It appears that a new House of Assembly is to be summoned, for the ostensible aim of letting the con stituency of Upper Canada express their sentiments on the one great question of having a Govern ment responsible to the "people" or not. There never was a grosser absurdity more insi diously smuggled into public notice than this. It is an appeal to the electors of Upper Canada, whether they choose that England should govern them, or virtually whether they, in spite of England, are to do whatever they like. We say it amounts to this, or nothing. We say, that it opens up the entire question of colony or no colony ; that it attempts to make the colonists of Upper Canada, occupying a valuable territory of Great Britain, sole judges of a case in which Great Britain has a direct and permanent interest ; in which she has heretofore, and rightfully, exercised a sovereign sway ; in which, if the colonists presume to contend with her, they invade her rights, and violate her national domi nion, raising the question, whether the Imperial Par liament or the Provincial Parliament shall be supreme over the other in what concerns the interests of the em pire? It is clear that a repeal of the union with Ireland would in substance be a severance of Ireland from the British Crown. The College-green Parliament would insist on the official advisers of the Sovereign, in all that related to Irish interests, being "responsible to the Parliament of Ireland,"—that is to say, compellable to obey the pleasure of that Parliament on peril of im peachment. But the Ministry of the Crown of Eng land would be responsible, as they now are, to the Bri tish Parliament,—that is to say, compellable to perform acts, and fix thereto the Royal Signature, which acts might be directly is the teeth of those required by the College-green Parliament, and bearing the.official sig nature of the Irish Crown. This, then, is the exact proposition tendered to the people of Upper Canada by the Queen's advisers, if the accounts be true. Under the cloak of askinc , them whether they choose the officers of the Executive Governmeet to be " responsible to them or not," the question propounded is neither more nor less than this—" Do you choose to make yourselves entirclyin dependent of Great Britain ?" for if the public func tionaries are to obey the behests of the Colonial House of Assembly, even should such behests be contradictory to those of the Imperial Crown and Parliament, it is plainly Upper Canada which overrules the councils of Great Britain ; it is not Great Britain which governs her Canadian subjects ; the relation of colony to parent state is utterly thrown aside and abolished. And such is the blessed Ministry on which Queen Victoria leans! Why if, under the tricks and malpractices of the Mi nisterial underlings, a Radical House of Assembly should be once more returned, M'Kenzie might he recalled, with all his incendiary and insurgent col leagues. One demand would tread upon ano:her, all restraint upon crime would become a colonial grie vance, and the result would still be armed rebellion, with means of success multiplied an hundredfold. And why is this paltry Durham quackery to be practised—this prostration before the spirit of democratic turbulence ? For the same reason that has operated upon our patriotic Ministers to roll themselves in the dust under the hoof of Popery. By the former expe dient they secure a dozen or two of Radical votes on this side the Atlantic ; by the latter, twice the amount of Popish ones. No broad or generous policy connects itself with either. Protestant Ireland has been sacri ficed as British America is about to be abandoned, be cause the popular Administration of Lord Melbourne has been reduced to a majority of two ! The fate of the gallant naval officers, Captain Drew and his Lieu tenant, whose service and whose unworthy and cruel treatment by Lord Minto were so strikingly depicted by Sir Francis Head in his letter addressed to the Times of last Monday, affords a fair specimen of what may be expected by loyal and devoted Englishmen when the great offices of the empire are filled by political scamps. (From the Morning Advertiser.) It is but too frequently and too justly that we hear the complaint made in private life, that those who have received the greatest amount of kindness are, generally speaking, the first and worst enemies of their disinte rested benefactors. Indeed, it has become a common proverb, " confer a favour, and you create an enemy ;" and though the adage has unquestionably its excep tions, yet we are afraid that it is but too true in the main. Generous hearts there'are in the world that will sacrifice anything and everything for honour, for friend ship, for principle, for country ; but there is a large mass that is purely selfish—that cares for nothing but self—to whom honour is a by-word—friendship a stepping-stool to treachery and betrayal—principle a thing unknown, and country a place to live in, but not to love, to honour, to fight for, or to die for. This doctrine is an unpalatable one—we wish that it were not true ; but if true, or only partially true in private life, how much more prevalent must it not be expected to be found in public, where the obligations of the former do not exist to coatrol, and the temp tations of the latter are calculated to impel, the baser passions of the human heart ? The history of almost all countries, in fact, tells us that such is the result of the labours and endeavours of the honest and sincere—that property is sacrificed, and blood shed in vain f o r no bl e purposes — t h a t th e patriot but rarely lives to enjoy the desired fruits of his labour, and that it i s b u t too f requ ently his lot to see them either snatched from his grasp, or consigned to ofa whitened the tomb of corruption. Such was the res ult glo rious struggle against the Governmen t o f Charles I. in this c s o p u a n i n t w s e u ch that are e of France not , if misinformed, isinrnr m in aed: is its t a s bo revolutions— and ut tn range itselfto make in ethe anothersa same catalogue—in change u its Representative other words, Govern ment, s o a v b e o r ut . ent which change will amount exactl y , the na mes fear being l Nea changed, to the change of one despot for another. Weerresorry t o announce what we have reason to are likely to prove too true ; for we speak on no mean authority when we announce to our readers that the affairs of Spain have been recently the subject of much diplomatic discussion in Paris—that it is with regard to them that Prince Esterhazy's visit to Paris has been made—and farther, that the late dissolution of the Cortes is merely a preliminary step to getting rid of the Constitution of 1812, and replacing that body by the ancient Cortes of the country ! Acceding to this line of conduct the young Queen of Spain, it is said, will be recognised by the despotic powers, and Don Carlos and his progeny consigned to the same tomb of oblivion which holds the mouldering bones of the Stuarts. Now if this statement be true—and we fear that it is but too true—wh a t an examp l e of R oya l ingra titude does t not present—what a discouragement to EVENING ED IV ION . manly enterprise and loyal attaclunent—what a found. t tion for the most bloody revolution that ever was wit ;- nessed throughout Europe—what a blow to royalty ii s every quarter of the world? Let biut this thing be don. —let but the Queen of Spain, or rather her advisers , throw overboard those who have risked their lives and spent their fortunes in behalf of her claims to the throne, , and there will rise up through all Europe a feeling of contempt, disgust, and hatred at Royal ingratitude and. Royal treachery, which eventually may leave but few cro►ined heads in it. We sax ? let the continental To-- ries beware. They may carat• the point in Spain, for,. as compared with the Liberal Goveromeot, their name is " Legion ;" but let them not dream for a moment that.. England sleeps, or that she will thus see her labours in. behalf of human freedom thrown away. If Canning, in 1827, by merely threatening to let slip the dogs of war upon them, could make the despots tremble upon their thrones, and awe them into the most humiliating submission, to how much greater an extent could not England now, with its reformed institutions, terrify them by unfurling its national standard of independence and free institutions? FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) We yesterday gave a further correspondence be tween the Marquis of Lansdowne and the Bishop of Exeter. The late hour at which we received the Noble Marquis's letter to the Right Reverend Pre late precluded the possibility of accompanying the publication with such comments as certain parts of it seem to claim. This we the less regret, as we are enabled by the interval thus imposed to bestow on these documents a more cool and careful examination, and to pronounce upon the subject matter of the cont r o vers y a more deliberate judgment. The letter of the Right Rev. Prelate is by no means calculated to raise the character of the writer in public esteem. On the con trary, we fear that the absence of candour and disregard. of truth and justice manifested in the attack upon. the Noble Lord by the Right Rev. Prelate will tend to degrade not merely the writer, but (so far as his indivi dual character can affect it) his office, the authority of which is desecrated by being thus pressed into the,,; unhallowed conflict of patty strife. By referring to the eorrespondence it will be seen that the Noble Marqu is triumphantly disposes of the grossly unfair interpreta tions which the Bishop of Exeter has been pleased to give to passages of his Lordship's Speech—first in the Right Rev. Prelate's charge to his clergy, and next in the letter addressed to Lord Lansdowne on the 20th of i l November. The inaccuracies into which the Right Rev. Prelate has fallen respecting the debate in the I House of Lord s on the Ed uca ti on quest i on, are suc h as should at least have inculcated caution when 1 prompted to condemn another for the same trans- ' gression, even were the evidence of its commission be yond dispute. " First plu s sk the beam out of thine own. eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's eye," is nn t unworthy of even a. Bishop's consideration. It is, boss - ever, but too evident that his Lordship of Exeter has but ve.7 indistinct appre hensions of his own fallibility ; and ;:ence the tone adopted in his letter corresponds more closely with that I which prevailed in the Spiritual Courts of Philip the Second, than with the habits of thought and modes of expression which belong to a free and Protestant country. (From the Courier.) The omission of any reference in the late Royal cum munication, to the Protestant Establishment, and of t be assurance of it's maintena nc e unimpaired, if not wit b 1' additional guarantees, to be found in the Royal Union, I according to approved precedent on occasions of such t solemnity, although calculated to awaken uneasiness in the public mind, might yet have been charitably con- I strucl as an unp reme di tate d casua l ty on t h e part o f a Ministry whose graver faults have long accustomed us to overlook their numberless lighter levities and indiscre tions of every-day occurrence. But we are no longer per mated to count it as a venial trespass, if what the Times states be true, as true we fear it is, that, on the repress's tation by a Ministerial adherent of his " astonishment and regret at their omission from the Queen's declara tion of marriage of that reference to and recognition of Protestantism which not only propriety but even prece dent has prescribed," Lord Melbourne should answer —" Well, there is nothing to complain of in that. If we have said nothing about the Protestants, we have said nothing about the Roman Catholics!" According I i to this hasty ebullition of the Premier, it would appear that the Protestant Reformed religion is not the only religion of the State, that the Church as by law estab lished is not the one only Church Establishment re cognised by the Constitution, that is, in the accepter tion of her Majesty's Ministers. Here, indeed, we , have the key, not only to the omission so much depre cated in that Royal address, which was the work of the Ministers, but to the Education scheme so insidi diously contrived in it's details to undermine the secu- rl Tit) , of the national faith in the rising generation. It 1 may have been to prepare the people for the more formal recognition and adoption of Popery as the co-equal, if not supreme Church of these realms, that Roman priests have been officially corresponded with hereto fore and addressed by those usurped and prelatic distinctions conferred by a foreign power, and as \ such, reprobated by the Laws and the Constitution. \ In the saute sense, also, we may now understand the recent selections of the more conspicuous or fiery Pa pists for high offices in the State, for offices command ing the means and the power of moulding public edu tion to their own will and designs. Combined with the new demonstration of levelling doctrines in religion into which Royalty has been treacherously betrayed by its confidential advisers, there would seem to be no longer a question that the Church is really in danger. (From the Standard.) We have ever cautiously avoided disputes with the friends engaged with us in the same cause ; inde pendently of other objections to such disputes, they cause a waste of time, labour, and opportunities, that. I may be better employed against the common enemy. ! Under this conviction we yesterday copied, without commentary, the censure of out excellent Contempo rary the Morning Herald upon some opinions pro- 1 fessed in the Standard of Monday. The Minis terial Journals have, however, thought it not un wise to refer to those opinions, and therefore a i just occasion is opened to us to vindicate ourselves. 1 We have said, that " the law of 1829 destroyed the Protestant character of the Constitution through l, all its branches. Let us not, then, blame the Crown, 1 or the Ministers of the Crown, for an omission rendered inevitable by our own act.'' We stand by these words— 1 the law of 1829 did destroy the Protestant character of the Constitution, and render inevitablethe om i ss i on b y t h e 1 Queen of any allusion to the high claims to Protestant I confidence that might be put forward by the family of her I intended consort. Why should the Queen allude t o 1 their claims ? The House of Commons boasts nothing of its Protestant zeal—it is the last thing of which the present House of Commons could boast. The House of Lords, though still essentially Protestant, does not use the Protestant language of the old aristo crac y. What i right have we, then, to expect such language from the Crown ? It would be hypocrisy in the Crown to use that language ; and hypocrisy tending to create a dange rous delusion. The Crown cannot defend the Protes tant religion in this country—that is now in the keeping of the people—and the more frequently the people arc reminded that the sacred charge rests with them alone, whether the remembrance is express or tacit (as is the case in band), the more safe will that sacred charge remain. THE ROYAL STABLES.—The Sixteenth Re port of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, &c., presented by command to both Houses of Parliament, on the 30th of July last, is printed. The Report contains an abstract of the proceedings of their Lordships for the past year, from which we extract the following memorandum in reference to the grant made by Parliament for building her Majesty's new stables at . Windsor :—" Ay an Act of the present Session of Par— liament there to be a new charge, not exceeding 70,0001., upon this fund or capital,' for the purpose of providing stable offices for her Majesty and the Royal. establishment at Windsor ;' but as that expenditure will probably extend over a period of four or five yiu rs , we have reason to believe it may be provided for by sales of small property not yielding, nor likely to yield, much revenue to the Crown, but advantageous to indi viduals to possess, and which may be sold without greatly diminishing the present capital or future yearly reveamo of the Crown's estate." ALLEGED DEATH FROM STARVATION.- On Monday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, the King's Arms, Tothill-street, Westminster, t lli a a m t t i h l e Y a d n e , c eaagseeddsixty. lodged o l n t T a h pp u e rs a d r a e y d fm o r t' . t h t e h b e o c d v y i d o e f n N e V e i night last at a common lodging-house in Orchard-street, Westminster, for which he paid threepence. On Sa turday night, about half-past twelve, be was found by a police constable lying on the pavement in King-street, Westminster, who picked him up, and told him to go home, when he said he had none, and begged of the police man to take him to the station-house, which was done ; and after being there a short time be was placed. on a stretcher and taken to the workhouse of St. Margaret's. On reaching the door of it his under jaw fell, and he died immediately. Mr. Wright, a surgeon, was called, who said that, from the thin and emaciated appearance of the deceased, he had no doubt he had died of ex haustion, nature having failed him. On searching him 31d. w as found, some sulphur ointment, and a card Died by be longing to the Middlesex Hospital. Verdict, the visitation of God. the large red deer belong ingOn Monday evening, Highlanders, at the new barracks, Li merick, rushed at . a sergeant w him down, and injured him so severely, that he was im mediately removed to the hospital. Fortunately f or the citizens • it bas been confined to barracks for some time past . LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM R. Th e gross a mount for conveyance of pa.sie ee l s , carriages, horses, and mails for the Nov. 16, 1839, was 9,7051. Lis. 7d., foi for the same time, 1,7331. Is. Id. ; ca. total, 11,4411.165. 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