The Sun. — London, England, 1840-10-29 00:00:00

F,VEN'iNG EDITiONL THE COKIT-MARTIAL ON 1 JOHN HENTY. SHEERNESS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. :23.—The sitting of the Court recommenced this morning at nine o'clock. The Court was occupied the v;hole day in examining three witnesses, but their evidence is utterly destitute of interest. Indeed it would be difficult to point out any examination of witnesses carried to such a length, in which so many words were used about nothing, or next to nothing ; our readers will, therefore, be grateful for an abstract. James P. Peake, the first witness called, said—l am foreman of her Majesty's Dock-yard at Sheerness. I was early on board the Camperdown after the alarm of fire was given. I went to the after ladder-way, leading to the after cockpit. I there hailed " What is the matter ?" twice, and roceived no answer. I went down the ladder, and at the foot of it again called out " What is the matter ?" I received an answer then from Mr. Henty, whom I could not see, " The ship has been on fire, but I have put it out ; but the man is still in the ship, as I heard him fall down the fore ladder." I re mained at the foot of the ladder to prevent the people from coming down, the hatchways being open, and many of the parties ignorant of that fact. My object was to prevent accidents. Mr. Henty having said that the man was still in the ship, I took the precaution to send trust-worthy men to each hatchway on the lower deck, with directions to detain any man and every man whomight come up, and I know from personal know-, ledge that the order was attended to, as they detained me. When lights were brought, Hcnty had on his left cheek What looked like a smut of burnt charcoal, and he showed me one side of his trowsers, which was satu rated with water. He toll me that in carrying the first bucket of water to the fire he had stumbled, and the water had gone over him. Mr. Richmond Easto was next examined, and re peated the numerous statements previously made about the alarm of fire, the smoke, the oakum, the smell of burning, the matches, and the cock-pit. In answer to the question, Were you told any tbing by Henty about the fire ? said, When I arrived in the cockpit he stated that the place " was quite in a blaze." He then stated that when he discovered the fire he ran to the tire-tub and drew a bucket of water. On proceeding to the midshipmen's berth he fell down with it. He then gave the alarm of fire. After this, he stated to use that he had heard a man going through the tier on the larboard side. He apparently had on hob-nailed shoes, and he heard him as far as the fore cockpit ladder, and apparently stumbled either down or over the ladder. I asked him if he could identify the man, and he answered, " Yes, I could swear to him." That is all the conversation I remember to have had with My. Henty. Mr. Wiliam Elgecombe was next called—l reside at Sheerness. I am a general shipping agent, and a correspondent of the Shipping Gazelle newspaper. I have seen the prisoner before ; I saw him on the 3d of October at the dockyard gate, and afterwards at his house, in High-street, Mill-town. " Narrate what then occurred:' The witness requested to be permitted to refer to certain minutes which h,e had made at the time of the conversation, which was allowed by the Court to be used by him. He then proceeded to say that he had some conversation also with Mr. Henty, which had enabled him to write an article, containing further particulars, for the Shipping Gazelle, of which he had made no minutes. He then proceeded to read from the minutes of conversation which lie had with Henty, and the ac count of the fire given by the prisoner. The details have already been given in the papers. Having read the document, the following examination took plike : Did you observe that his face was injured ?--1 did not at first, but he called my attention to a mark on his Fp. I then saw, on the right side of his face— on the lower lip—a sore place, apparently about a quarter of an inch in diameter. He told me he thought he had received it in falling with the bucket. I told him I had better not put that in the Gazette, as I knew it would be read by persons in this place, who would think that I had been making a false report of injuries which he had received. Did you make any remark to the prisoner as to the extent of the fire ?—I did. When he stated to me t 1 it the flames were up the deck, I inquired in what ,insition the hay was ; whether it hung over the shelf or was placed on it, and whether it was wholly de stroyed or partly so ? He answered that it was not destroyed at all. I expressed my surprise at the hay not being burned, if the flames had been as high as the deck or beam. He then said perhaps the flames were not quite so high, and stated that it was likely the in jury on his face had been received when he threw the water into the locker, by some of the brimstone fly ing out on his face. Did anything pass between you and Henty respect ing his prrnnotion in the service ?—I informed him that from his having detected tho fire, and put it out, if he had not obtained the height of his ambition (moaning the office of carpenter of a first rate, which I supposed him to bold), he would get some promotion for his act. He answered he was a carpenter of a first-rate, and said he was a supernumery carpenter, borne upon the Ocean's hooks. I then said there was little doubt that he would get his promotion and appointment to the Catoperclovn„ He replied, "If they give me my choice I should prefer the Monarch, as that would be the same pay." I suggested that no doubt Mr. Baines and Mr. Peake, having assisted him, they would partici pate in the advantages from his act. He answered, " Oh, no 1 . They did not assist me, I put the fire out myself. No person saw the fire but myself, it being all out before they arrived." Did he request you to make any alterations in tha statement he had made ?—He wished me to insert the affair of the hay being found in Gregg's house, cor responding with that found in the Camperdown. This was in consequence of my requesting to know whether he was confident that the hay did correspond. He said he was not confident, and I had better not insert it. President—ls the Court to understand that your only object was to obtain intelligence to publish in the Gazelle I—Yes. Cross-examined—l was introduced to Henty by Lieutenant Wise, Director of Police, for the purpose of my obtaining intelligence. The paper I have pro duced is that which I wrote at Henty's house. I wrote the whole of it myself. I made some additions to his statement, but only from the conversations which I had with him. I made no additions to the memo randa. I read my memoranda to the Court precisely as I wrote it. Being the Correspondent of the Shipping Gazette, I endeavoured to obtain the best intormation upon the subject. I saw Lieutenant Wi,e, who declined to give me any information, but referred me to Mr. Henty, who just then came in sight. life introduced me to him, and I walked with him from the dock-yard to the corner of the wall leading to Blue Town, during which time I informed him that I was the corresponding agent of the Shipping Gazette for this port, and requested he would name the most convenient time to himself to meet me during the evening. We arranged that I should go to his house between seven and eight, which I did, and it was there that I took the particulars which I have read. The paper which I read has never been out of my possession. I sent no part of my memoranda, taken in Mr. Henty's house, to London. I do not generally preserve notes of this description ; but this note was laid amongst other rough paper, and when called upon to produce it, I found it. It is written partly in pencil, and partly in ink, for on my visiting Mr. Henty that evening 1 had one of Mordan's pencils, the lead of which failed. Henty then provided me with ink, and I wrote with a pen which I took from my pocket. I was first called upon to produce the paper on Wednesday, 11th October ; when I asked Linty for a rough state ment only of the transaction, and I wrote it as he gave it me. I advised Henty not to make the statement he gave me like teat he had sent to Sir John Hill. I re. quested him to be careful not to get himself in trouble by giving me an exact copy, as all I required would be the leading facts of the case. My reason for so doing wa s the secrecy which had been enjoined upon the of ficers of the dockyard in reference to the matter ; and I feared if a verbatim copy was given, Mr. Henty would gst into some difficulties in consequence. In making my memoranda I may have used expressions of my own instead of those employed by Mr. Henty, but not in substance. I could not have improved upon his words, and so altered their sense. I have not omitted words used by himwhich are substanti a l. I n speaking of the tlamn as having risen to the deck above head, he did not say that they " appeared to do so. His expression was that the fire " was blazing up to the deck, and it was only at the surprise which I expressed at the hay net being burned that ho afterwards retracted and said that they might have peen ne ar l y up to the deck. The conversation with respect to his promotion originated with r'e. lam sure that Henty informed me of Gregg's house having been searched. I inquled of him whether he was confident that the hay correspon d ed, stating if he was not confidentit had better not go be fore the public, as it would be such str ong ev id ence against the man, and I abstained from reporting that fact. I did not say that I obtained the information upon this point om the dockyard. I was called upon by Captain S erintendent Sir .1. Hill on the 14th Octo ber, and I was asked whether I had not taken a state ment from Mr. Henty for insertion in the Shipping Gazette. I answered in the affirmative, and was asked whether I had the document in my possession, and I said I had not, but thought it likely I could find . it at the office. I returned to the office, and found it. I then went into the dock-yard, and read the statement Oyer as I have now done, commenting on the conversa tion held with Mr. Henty at the time. The Court then adjourned. We understand her Majesty the Queen teas been graciously pleased to stand sponsor of the infant daughter 01 Mr. and Lady Lauiaa Cotes, daughter of the Earl of I iverpool. The christening is expected to take place in the course of next month, at Walcot, Shropshire, when the Earl of Liverp oo l, Selina Viscountess Milton, Col. and Lady Katherine Harcourt, and a large family party will be ',resent. Lady Katherine Harcourt will have the honour ti represent her Majesty on the interesting occasion. SPAIN. MADRID, OCT. '2.o.—Perfect tranquillity prevails. Queen Isabella and the Regency of Ministers will be here on the night of the 27th. The Cortes is con voked, as you will see by the decree below, for March 19, 1841. The Junta has just received the following communication : '` MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Your Excellency—l have the honour to announce to you that in compliance with the arrangements pre viously adopted by the Provisional Regency of the kingdom, in concert with her Majesty the Queen Mo ther, the departure of that Princess for Grao will take place to-day, at half-past six, in an open caleche, by the Royal gate adjoining the Palace which she inhabits. Maria Christina was accompanied by the Council of the Regency and its attendants, and the Ayuntatniento of Valencia. " The troops were drawn out in echelon from the ahove.mentioned gate to the port of Grao, where her Majesty embarked in a shalop, steered by the Captai❑ of the Port. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess de la Vittoria and the Marchioness de Valverde, and by the Ministers of Marine and Foreign Affairs. " Her Majesty received during the passage and on her arrival in harbour the customary honours and sa lutes. At half-past seven her Majesty went on board the Spanish steamer El Mercurio, which left immedi ately for Port Vendres, where her Majesty will disem bark. From the tine weather that prevails there is every reason to hope that it will be a good passage. " I have the honour to transmit to ,ou, &c., " JOAQUIN MARIA DE FERRER. " Valencia, Oct. 17, 1840." CONVOCATION OF THE CORTES. (From the Madrid Gazette of October 20.) " The Regency, in conformity with the arguments adduced in the address which it has received from the Minister of the Interior, has ordained that the new Cortes shall assemble on the 19th of March, 1841, re serving to itself the right of dictating in due course the regulations which it may deem proper to establish is order to give effect to the electoral law. (Signed) " VICTORIA, FERRER, GOIVET, CHACO:4, CORTINA, FRIAS, " Valencia, Oct. 14, 1840." " The situation of the country," says the Minister of the Interior, in his resume, " demands that the period for the meeting of the Chambers should rather exceed the limits prescribed by the constitution of the State ; but the renewal of the provincial deputations required that the convocation of the Chambers should be de layed but for a trifling time. The provincial deputa tions are not to be assembled before the Ist of January, 1841. It will be necessary to find the requisite time for proceeding with the elections ; the Deputies will be able to assemble in the capital on the 19th of March, a favourable period for the opening of the Cortes, and from which body the country expects such important results. It is in consequence of the motives adduced by Senor Don Manuel Cortina that the Regency issued the decree for the convocation of the Cortes on the 19th of March." THE PROVISIONAL JUNTAS. (From the Madrid Gazette of October .2.0.) DECREE OF THE REGENCY. Art. 1. The Juntas created in the capitals of pro vinces will continue to sit until a further resolution has been adopted, only as auxiliaries of the Government. They will have to put in force all that the Govern ment may deem proper to confide to them. Conse quently, all the authorities are to resume the exercise of their rsspectivo functions. Art. 2. The Juntas established in all the other towns of the monarchy will cease to exist on the receipt of this decree. Art. 3. All those Juntas will send a detailed account of the measures they adopted, of the employes that ware dispensed with, and of the appointments (each of the departments of the Secretaries of State is to receive a special copy of those said Acts ; to those appointments are to be added detailed lists of the services rendered by the different candidates, in order that the Govern ment, whilst it ratifies and respects the intentions dic tated by justice, may repair inimical acts, which the honour and probity of the said Juntas demand). Art. 4. The administrative authorities of the pro vinces will examine the accounts rendered by those Juntas. If, contrary to expectation, Any irregularities should be discovered, they are to be banded over to the department of the Minister of Finance, in order that the necessary rectifications may be made. Art. 5. The acts which have emanated from the Juntas shall be transmitted to the Juntas of capitals, who will take care of them until the expiration of their being in power, after which they will be appropriated according to circumstances. The following is a summary of the motives which precede this last decree :—The necessity in which the nation was placed to oppose itself to the confiscation of its rights and to the violation of the Constitution, main tained at the price of so many sacrifices, had given rise, not only in the capitals of provinces, but also in other towns of the second class, for the formation of Juntas, which have efficiently contributed to maintain public order, in the midst of a violent crisis, and to rersuade the whole world that Spain knew how to undertake and bring to issue important enterprises with dignity and nobleness, without allowing those excesses which have always attended the political oscillations of other nations. Necessity alone could only authorise the adoption of such a measure. That necessity being at an end, that measure must cease to have effect. Unity and ceutralisation, well understood, are absolutely indispensable in order to govern, and the present situa tion would lead us to a complete dissolution, the conse quences of which would very soon be deplored by those very men who by error would now think that they ought to prolong it. It is not possible, nevertheless, for all the Juntas to be absolutely at an cud, and it is ne cessary that certain ones should continue to exist, but with an entire distinct character from that which they have hitherto had, in order to inform the Government of their acts, and render it all other services which cir cumstances might require. It is iterative on all to give an account of their administration ; nothing, in short, can more contribute to dispel the accusations that they may be the object of than the justification of the disinterestedness and pureness with which they have expended the public money. For these motives the Provisional Regency has adopted the decree of which we published the text, in five articles. Letters from Barcelona of the 20th instant announce the arrest at Alcora of Senor San Milian, former Minis• ter of Finance, and of another personage, whose name is not mentioned. On the 19th, 2,090 muskets were distributed to the newly organized National Guard of Barcelona. M. Matnieu de la Redone, the French Ambassador, left that city for Madrid on the 17th. Senor Osca, who was deputed by the Junta of Alcira to compliment the Duke of Victory at Valencia, re ceived from the Duke the following reply : " I do not hesitate an instant to support the grand manifestation of the people, who were naturally alarmed for their independence and rights, conquered at the price of so much blood. As a recompense for that which my companions and I have shed on the fiell of battle, all I desire, after resigning all my honours, is to be allowed to retire to Logrono, where my mother possesses some land, which I mean to cultivate (for I have lost my patrimony during the war, and my sole ambition would be to fill the humble station of alcade of that town, and to merit the confidence of my fellow- citizens. All that, how ever, can only take place on the day, now not far dis tant, when all obstacles to the consolidation of our in stitutions shall have been entirely removed. The work we have commenced will terminate in a satisfactory manner; and I am determined not to replace my sword in its scabbard until the independence and liberties of the nation shall have been solidly secured." THE FRENCH MINISTRY. (From Galignani's Messenger.) M. Guizot, immediately on his arrival yesterday, waited on M. Thiers, by whom his presence in Paris was announced to the King. In the course of the afternoon M. Guizot had i n terviews with Marshal Soult, the Duke de Broglie, and M. Duchatel. At nine o'clock M. Guizot was received by the King, and re mained in conference with his Majesty upwards of two hours. The result of this audience has not transpired. (From the Constitutionncl.) Although a report was spread ye s terday . evening that M. Guizot had accepted the portfolio of Foreign Af fairs, under the Presidency of Marshal Soult, we do not learn that the honourable hesitation of our Ambassador to the Court of London has been overcome. M. Guizot was to wait upon the King in the course of the evening. It is stated that Marshal Soult, who appears definitively to have undertaken the task of composing a new Cabinet, has been actively en gaged. If we are to believe report, he has overcome the resistance of M. Dufaure, who wished to have the portfolio of the Interior. He is said also to have ap plied to one of the leading members of the Conserva tive party, M. de Larnartine, who, after some objec tions, re s i gne d hi mse lf t o t a ke his share in the burden of public affairs. The following are mentioned as likely to form part of the new Cabinet :—Messrs. Duchatel, Pussy, Martin (du Nord), Villemain, and Teste ; for the latter a ministry of Public Worship would be cre ated, the seals being given to Martin (du Nord). Be fore the arrival of M. Guizot, and in the doubt of his accepting office, means were thought of for substituting another person, an d i n th i s case it was proposed to give the portfoli o of FrFooretigne Tenzps.) Affairsto M. Villemain. It was rumoured last night that an arrangement was thought of which would give M. Guizot a lace in the days Ali Ministry i satgar ago, ,dm o s f iuncuhs,, March iptewr ha l as , pag r ; e so - e c nr o to n e re-constituted t tw u w t oo e u d lodf a bi s tes it was eig . h mem berst the solution of the present crisis. (From the Courrier Francais.) The Russian Embassy contradict s f orma ll y the ac count which we have given of the departure of the Rus sian fleet. If we are correctly informed, M. de Pahlen has acknowledged that the Imperial Government is or. ganizing the Baltic squadron, and getting it ready for sea ; but this squadron will pass the winter at Revel, where it will not be affected by the ice. The Journal des Debats and the Pressc continue to defend the conduct of the King in the difference with M. Thiers on the subject of the speech from the throne. (From the Presse.) The Ministerial Journals pretend that France was excluded from the Conference. The diplomatic docu ments, which were so long kept back, show that she with drew from it of her own accord. If she was excluded, there was insult, serious insult, which we are bound to avenge a tout prix. If she withdrew, there was merely difference of opinion, which was not of sufficient import ance to warrant a war, in which France would be alone, against all Europe. It was for the Chambers to say which of the two versions was the true one. We never bad a doubt in our minds as to the real state of the case, and we have less doubt now, if possible, than ever, for we cannot allow the assertions of the Ministe rial Journals to weigh against official documents ; but the national susceptibility has been so much excited, and public opinion so much wrought upon, that the vote of the two Chambers was anything but certain. In this state of things was not the King right in desiring that the Speech from the Throne should not com promise the future, and leave the country at liberty to pronounce upon a subject, in which it is far from being proved that the Powers who signed the Treaty of London had intended to wound France in her honour, or to attack the equilibrium of Eu rope ; and which, in short, involves the question of a war, in which France has everything to lose and nothing to gain ? Where, then, would have been the inconve nience of a speech, the vague terms of which would have given full latitude to the Chambers? and can it be made a ground of just complaint that the King would not consent to allow words to be put into his mouth, which the Ministry would not have failed to have laid hold of, to influence and mislead the Chambers ? It the Chambers have ground of complaint, it is not of the Crown, but of the Parliamentary Ministry ; for the Crown, in desiring that the speech should not prejudice the question, left the Parliament the supreme arbitra tor on the question of the national honour. Who desired that the case should be otherwise? The Par liamentary Ministry 2" The Debars asks why M. Thiers was desirous of men. tioning new armaments in the Speech from the Throne, and says-- " The situation of things did not require such a de claration. If, indeed, a week previously there had been any decision, any aggressive act on the part of the Four Powers, we should conceive that new armaments might have been spoken of from the Throne, and we do not hesitate to think that if, in the interval which must oc cur before the opening of the Session, any news of this kind were to arrive, the King's speech must announce that France is about to arm anew, no matter how the Ministry may be composed. But we are not aware that any news has been received by the Ministry. It is not, then, the state of our foreign relations that requires the announcement of new armaments in the King's speech. Is it the state of the interior ? Armaments, however, are not to be made merely for the purpose of gratifying the turbulent impatience of the singers of the Mar seillaise.' The armaments announced by the Throne are serious and expensive things." OLYMPIC THEATRE, Success does not make the lessee of this pleasant little snuggery careless. He last night produced two new pieces, both of which were most decided bits. The first was an admirable one act drollery, entitled A Slight Mistake, the hero of which, Mr. Timothy Toddle (Mr. S. Roxbv), citizen and umbrella-maker, is not only guilty of mistakes himself, but is also the cause of a series of most ludicrous mistakes in others—the mistake par ex cellence consisting of the mistaking by certain per sons at a country inn of the said Timothy for a lunatic, on his way to an asylum, and the placing Tom Stubble, a one-eyed boots, admirably acted by Ross, to guard him. Roxby and Ross acted well up to each other, and when the curtain fell it was decidedly no mistake, as Roxby gave out the piece for repetition every evening, amidst the loud applause of a crowded house. It would be in justice not to mention in terms of the hi t 'l►est praise, the admirable acting of Mrs. Garrick in this burletta; she was the representative of Miss Tom kins, a lady of questionable age, in search of a hus band, who at length, as a pis aller accepts the worthy umbrella-maker, who thereunon determines that umbrellas may cut their sticks. The other novelty was a one act burletta entitled. A Last Day. Frederick Facile (Mr. Baker) is left a large property by his uncle, on condition that he marries before he is six and twenty. Fund of gaiety he defers his marriage until the very last day, in order to enjoy to the utmost the pleasures of the town. He has been to a masquerade over night, and his faithful servant, Tom Brisk (Balls), is forced to smuggle him into his house, to avoid certain importunate creditors who are waiting for hint at the door. On his arrival he finds a letter from the father of his betrothed, stating that he had heard of his vaera ries, more particularly of the occasion of his ab sence from his house on the previous evening, and that, therefore, the match must be considered as at an end. At the same time he is arrested, and then determines to put an end to his existence by poison ; which Tom Brisk, after many entreaties, reluctantly engages to procure for him. He swal lows it, and immediately afterwards his betrothed bride and her father enter the room, the latter in forming him that the letter had been merely intended to frighten him, to bring him to his senses, and that every thing is prepared for his marriage ; he is forced to confess that he has taken poison, and all are in despair until the faithful Tom comes forward and declares that he had only consented to execute the commission, in order to substitute an innoxious draught for the poison, and all of course ends hap pily. The acting of Baker was admirable, the little touches of pathos, with which his part is in terspersed, were most effectively given, and told well with the audience. The Tom Brisk of Balls was brilliant, sparkling, effervescing as Champagne. His imitation of Facile's old uncle was first-rate. There is a comic underplot of the loves of Brisk and Fanny (Miss Shearsmith), the servant in a lodg ing house, on whose heart Brisk suspects Sam (the siavey of the house (Mr. S. Roxby), to have a design, but is at length pacified by the assurance that all Sam's designs are confined to the head, lie having been, as Fanny phrases it, phrenzylogically mad, ever since he attended a course of lectures on phrenology. Miss Shearsinith is a most promising actress ; she made the most of the part of Fanny, by the naivete and archness which she threw into it. Roxby's development of the phrenzyoloyist was superb. We know not what the phrenologists will say to it—it is one of the hardest hits they have yet received. At the fall of the curtain Balls announced the piece for repetition every evening, with the unanimous cons ent of all present. The house was a bumper. THE' sITN I LONDON, THURsDAY, OCTOBER 29 181 u. COU LAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing in the Park this afternoon, accom panied by a large party from the Castle, including the CounteSs of Sandwich, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister, Earl of Listowel, Earl of Aboyne, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir Frederick Stovin, and Colonel Wylde. Tip.! Royal party returned to the Castle from their drive soon after tour o'clock. Es Royal Highness Prince Albert inspected the First Regiment of Life Guards, this morning, attended by Colonel Wylec and Captain Seymour. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, left town on Tuesday, on a visit to Lord Montagu, at BeauliQu. The Duke of Northumberland arrived at his resi dence, Northumberland House, yesterday afternoon. Mr. NV. C. Ross, A.R A., left town yesterday morn ing fur Brussels, by command of her Majesty, to paint two large miniatures of the King and Queen of the Belgians. TORY MAGISTRATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—Tlic Sun of yesterday brougia, us the melan choly intelligence of the death of Lord Holland at the very moment when we were discussing almost the last act of his political life, as connected with the Duchy of Lancaster. It is an old and oft repeated adage, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," and which, in many cases, ought to be respected—a complete and slavish submission to the injunction would, however, be deeply injurious to all political morality. There is now a much greater neces sity for a strict attention to the ethics of politicians than there has ever been before. As a public journalist you have been instrumental in effecting much on this point, and your labours have been highly appreciated by the country. May they long continue to be so appreciated. The act to which reference has been just made is that of appointing an additional Tory County Magistrate. The news of this reached us here by a private source, on the very day when we were struggling in the registra tion Court against the crooked and encqual decisions of Tory Barristers, paid by a professedly Liberal Administration. While we were struggling against the corruption, bribery, and intimidation of the Tory party here, who will stick at nothing for the accomplishment of party purposes, you can easily conceive how we felt disgusted on being told that the very man who had proposed, or seconded Kearsley, the brewer, as a fit and proper person to re present the borough of Wigan in Parliament, had been placed upon the Commission of the Peace for the county. No men have made more sacrifices for the purpose of supporting the present Administration than the Libe rals of Wigan have done, and they felt it as an act of in justice when they heard it announced that a Tory resi dent in the borough had been placed upon the roll. Well they might feel indignant, when it is recollected that the Tory County Magistrates, to a man, are en couragers of the hole and corner system of dispensing justice to the poor of the district ; whereas the Liberal Magistrates sit in open court—in the broad light of day —surrounded by masses of the population, who have an opportunity thus afforded of seeing that justice is exe cuted as it ought to be, without fear, favour, or partiality. That is as it .ought to be. The Magis trates on the Liberal side manifest no apprehension for public opinion ; they court its influence upon every judi cial act. How different is the owl and bat system pur sued here by those on the Tory side. The closed room in the torifi,!(l attorne's-office—the exclusion of the public and the influence of the press from such places, have an excellent tendency to increase the prejudice of the lower classes—that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor : I May I ask the men at head quarters, were there no gentlemen on the Liberal side in this district qualified to be placed upon the county roll without having recourse to that side which supplies opponents to the administration and enemies to the people ? To many of the friends of Liberal principles here, it will be at least satisfactory to see this act of mistaken policy exposed in the columns of The Sun. Before closing, I may tell you, that acting upon Sir Robert Peel's maxim, we have given the Tories a most consummate cutting-up in the Registration Court during last week. When an election comes, if either of the brewers venture to offer themselves for this borough, it will be for the alone purpose of getting well plucked by their legal Tory friends, who will be anxious to forward their interests. I am, Sir, your's truly, Wigan, October 23, 1840. OBSERVANS.. SUGAR DUTIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - SIR--The " Merchant," whose letteron the Sugar Mo nopoly" appears in your Paper of the 20th inst., will, I hope, he glad to be set right upon several points, on which, through want of better information, he labours under the same erroneous impression as many others on a subject so important,as he justly remarks, to the com fort of our own population. I quite agree with the Merchant," that the age of monopoly is past, and that a Company soliciting Royal patronage in the present day, would solicit what it would not be proper to grant, nor very likely for any Company to obtain. A Cotton Company, or Sugar Company can have no stronger claim than a Joint-stock Bank to Royal patronage or exclusive privileges. lam not aware that any Company has been formed with such absurd expectations. But the " Merchant" seems to carry his jealousy of Companies far beyond this ; and his regard for the " small planters" of Brazil would lead him to deprecate the beneficial employment of capital in the most legiti mate enterprise, undertaken upon the joint-stock " A Company," he says, " is, in other words, an odious monopoly." This is a strange assertion, at a time when Companies of all descriptions are competing with each other, and, by their operation, destroying mo nopoly in almost every branch of commercial specula tion. The private banker may, like the " Merchant," call all joint-stock companies that interfere with his in dividual interests, odious monopolies ; but the public view them in a different light. The " Merchant' asks, " If the East Indies cannot produce an adequate quantity of Sugar, under the pre sent unrestricted system, and with an open market, does any sane person suppose that it will be obtained by the mere incorporation of a Company ?" I will put the question into other words. If the East Indies cannot produce an adequate quantity, with the present very limited capital employed in agriculture, does any sane person suppose that the quantity will be increased by the employment of more capital ? To which the proper reply would be :—Can any sane person ask such a question ? But the " Merchant" ought to know that the present system is not unrestricted—that the market is not open —that the equalization of the duties on West India and East India produce is only beginning to take effect, while the concession is partly frustrated by the still re maining restrictions. There is no question that India is adequate to produce a supply equal to the demand of all Europe, the only limit to the supply being the want of capital ; which capital can be beneficially em ployed on a scale commensurate to the opening pre sented only by means of companies. India and Free Labour ask for no restrictions, no monopoly. The sooner all restrictions upon slave labour produce can be removed the better for India, and all who engage in British India Companies, whether for the cultivation of sugar, of cotton, or of other pro duce. The West India monopoly has been hitherto the chief obstacle to the advancement of the prosperity of India, having powerfully concurred with the narrow mercantile policy of Leadenhall-street and Calcutta, to discourage the employment of British capital in Indian enterprise. The best and most direct means of abolishing slavery in Brazil and the United States— which the " Merchant" must forgive us for most de voutly desiring—is to encourage the cultivation of cot ton and sugar by freelabour in our own possessions, so as to enable us to undersell the produce of slave-labour in the open markets of the world. Of the result there can be no doubt. The shrewd American planters an ticipate that what has taken place with regard to in digo, may, and probably will, be the case with cotton, when we set about the cultivation of it in earnest. One word about Brazil. No doubt the existing re strictions are very vexatious. The sooner they can be got rid of the better. But there is no restriction even now upon its c otton ; in regard to which it has had to compete only with the United States. Why c mnot Brazil furnish more cotton ? Why should Bra zilians cease to be our customers, while we continue to take their cottons, and almost all sorts of other produce ? Did the United States cease to he our customers when we found we could grow indigo in Bengal cheaper than the planters of the Carolinas could afford to sell it us? But as regards our own manufactures, without under -rating the present importance of our Brazilian customers, what is the market of Brazil, if we could secur e it to ourselves , with its four or five millions of inhabitants, compared to that of India, with its hun dred and twenty millions of inhabitants, when that aa m arket shall be fairly opened to our m means , y i nc reasing its exportable produce, by whnicuhfcture i ts millions of cultivators can be come consumer manufacturers, only our manufactures ? We refus e th e India piece cools, e cotto n and silk, or at least di scourage them by unequal duties ; and we hear of no comp l a i nts on this head from the advocates of Free Trade with Brazil. How is this ? I am, Si r , Your obedient Servant, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. JOSIAH CONDER. Oct.2lst, 1840. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, on leaving Achnacar Castle, Inverness-shire, proceeded to Gordon Castle, Fochabers, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and have since gone to Yester House, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Tweed_ dale. The Noble Marquis and Marchioness will visit the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, at Dalhousie Castle, slid Lothian, on leaving Yester House. Lord and Lady Jemima Eliot, on leaving Sir R. and Lady Peel's seat in Staffordshire, went to Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall, where his Lordship and Lady are now staying until the assembling of Parliament, RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. The frequent and the increasing number of accidents on railroads, show more and more forcibly the necessity of adopting some plans to prevent their recurrence. We have on former occasions remonstrated against trusting the lives of several hundreds of passengers to the care of such men as are now appointed to manage , and " drive," as it is termed, the locomotive engines. We are aware that an alteration in this respect must require time, for the proper class of men have yet to be educated and fitted for the employment ; but in the meanwhile many arrangements might be made to give increased security, and greatly to diminish the danger which late experience proves attends this means of conveyance. These arrangements may be dividedinto those relating to the machinery of railways, and those more immediately connected with the management. The prevention of collisions, of which accidents we have recently had some fatal examples, comes more es pecially within the province of the management, and to these we shall, ut present, confine our remarks and suggestions. We would, in the first place, recommend that every train of carriages should be placed under the command of a trustworthy and intelligent conductor, or guard ; whose duty it should be to keep a look-out, and give his commands to the engineer to regulate or stop the motion of the engines. At present the duties of the " engine driver" are greater than he can properly exe cute. He has not only to attend to the working of the engine, but his attention should be constantly directed to the road to see if all be clear, and whether there be any circumstances that require him to slacken the speed. Whilst his attention is withdrawn for one mo ment to the machinery, dangers may arise requiring im mediate action to avoid ; and it sometimes happens, that the danger presents itself so suddenly, as to deprive the engine-driver of presence of mind, and prevent him from acting with promptitude and effect. Some serious accidents have arisen entirely from this cause. Now, if a guard were appointed, from whom the engineer should receive all his orders, in the same manner as the engineers on steam-boats do from the captain or pilot, ' and a constant and uninterrupted look-out could be maintained, the engineer would be ready at the instant to obey the orders of his commanding officer, without having his attention divided between the road and the engine. On the Belgian railroads, which are much better conducted than most of those in this country, a guard is appointed, who regulates the starting and stopping of the trains by the sound of a bugle. He does not, indeed, exercise an absolute command in conducting the train, similar to that we now recommend, but he occupies a position on the first carriage, which en ables him to assist the engineer in looking out for dangers. The evidence at the Coroner's Inquests lately held in this country on the persons killed by railway accidents, shows that the guards, who accom pany our railway trains, consider themselves in no way responsible for the safety of the passengers. In some cases we find it stated, that the guards were sitting with their backs to the engines ; at others they were engaged taking the tickets from the passengers, or seated inside the carriages. If a proper trustworthy guard were employed, as we recommend, to take the whole responsibility of giving orders to the engineer, we are persuaded that many of the accidents which occur would be avoided. There is another regulation with regard to signals which might be advantageously and easily adopted with out any additional trouble. Instead of the temporary signals now made by means of white or red flags, held up by the policemen on the line, we would recommend that a permanent signal of danger should be hoisted, to be replaced only by the signal of safety, at the times the trains were approaching, provided the road was clear and free from danger. By this means all risk arising from the temporary absence of the men from their posts would be avoided ; for if by neglect on their parts the danger signal was not removed when no danger existed, the only inconvenience would be the short delay, whilst the man would be punished for his neglect, and kept to his duty, without any risk having been incurred. These suggestions are made with a sincere desire to promote any improvement that may diminish the risk of railway travelling, and in the hope that railway direc tors may be induced to adopt either these or some simi lar plans for that purpose, without regard to the compa ratively insignificant consideration of additional expense. —lnventor's Advocate. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. The meeting now on at Newmarket promised such a ca pital dish of sport, that many of our leading speculators left to " wind-up" the racing season in the south. Notwith standing this, the Cambridgeshire Stakes were all the rage, and continued so until late last night, being rather spirit edly betted upon. The range of speculation was confined to four or five horses,—Ruler, the Dey of Algiers, Diderot, and Clarion, being in the highest request. The result in favour of the Irish representative, Roscius, is another glo rious " turn-up" for the fieldsmen; certainly, it was as little expected by the backers of horses, as Little Wonder's victory on Epsom Downs, probably less so. Such odds as 50 to 1, we have no doubt, would have been laid, had any flat coma out as another Roscius. The defeat of Camelion for the Criterion Stakes was also (giving him a start) little expected, and will be productive of a very " open Derby." We should think the odds will now be 12 to 1 on the field, when 8 to 1 was the top offer on Camelion yesterday, and 6 to 1 taken on Col. Peel's lot at noon ; also 20 to 1 on Sir We have not seen a bet offered on the Derby since Roscius' performance was known. ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—We re• gret to have to announce that another of those fearful ac cidents, so common in this district, occurred a little after midnight on Friday morning. It took place at a new colliery, a short distance from Gateshead, and immediately adjoining the Ravensworth estate. The pit is known by the name of Farnacres Colliery. The banksman heard a irush, somewhat resembling thunder, and in not more than two minutes and a half the water was at the top of the s h a ft. From the sudden manner in which the pit was filled, it would appear the water had come from some old working. The engine is of fifty horse power, and pumps not more than sixty gallons per minute, but with no effect on the increasing water ; however, a six feet stroke is to be added to it. which will considerably increase the power of lifting. From the locality of the place we fear there will be much difficulty in getting the water out, and in keeping it out afterwards. There were five men in the pit at the time, all of whom, we regret to say, have perished. Their names are :--James Renkey, sinker, aged 0 leaving a wife and five children ; James Heslop, sinker, aged 40, leavin g a w ife and one child ; William h e wer, aged 28, a w id ower w i t h one c hild ; 4 Wilkinson, an d Willi a m Wetherby and Andrew Evans, single men, each aged about 25. Tyne Mercury. The Earl and Countess of Falmouth, with Lord Boscawen and Baroness Le Despencer, are now at Tre gothnan, Cornwall, where they purpose remaining until after Christmas. LITERATURE. THE DUWAGER-3 Vo Ls. -- "khn' r frrr;•,. Bentley, London, 1840. Mrs. Gore's are almost the only novels of mo dern fashionable life that we can endure to read with patience, for there is no aristocratic assump tion in them—no sickly, fine-lady sensibility—no pampering to the prejudices of the West-end, by depreciating and turning into ridicule all who do not happen to be members of its various coteries. Mrs. Gore has too Catholic a spirit thus to hedge in her genius, or to degrade it by applying it to such paltry purposes. She writes for the public at large, not for that emalt frivolous section of it who haunt the neighbourhood of Hyde Park, and think that there is no world beyond it worth knowing. Rank and fashion, in this lady's clever novels, go for just as much as they are worth, and no more. Hence we read her works with pleasure ; and this, not only because she metes out an equal measure of jus tice to all classes ; but because also the charac ters she undertakes to pourtray, are such as we can conceive without an effort to be direct transcripts from the life. Her present tale, the " Dowager," the scene of which is laid almost exclu sively at the West-end, abounds in sketches which have all the vividness of reality. Morison Langley, the staid, intelligent County Member, whose strong good sense has caused him to be regarded as a sort of oracle in the House o f Commons ; the old Dowager, who is never so much in her element as when cooking up a piquant dish of scandal ; the bland, fashionable physician, Sir Lucius Flimsey ; the stiff, formal, but highly honourable veteran, General Maxwell ; and the amiable and somewhat pedantic governess, Mrs. Bennet ; these are portraits which must have been drawn from living originals, for by no mere effort of the fancy could the authoress have touched them off with such felicitous minuteness, or with such singu lar ease and freedom of colouring. Though among the most brilliant novelists of the day, Mrs. Gore is never brilliant at the expense of good taste. Her wit and humour—and she has a great deal of both—are always within the pale of the proprieties. She is wanting however, in the art—a more rare one, than is gene rally supposed—of concocting and unravelling a plot ; and is to be admired chiefly for the truth and spirit of her portraits, and the unstrained vivacity of her dialogues. Her " Dowager," though not the best, is among the best of her stories. FINE ARTS. LORD STRAFFORD GOING TO EXE. CUTION. Molten°, London, 1840. A passage in Southey's Book of the Church has furnished the subject of this picture, which re presents Lord Strafford halting on his way to execu tion in order to receive the last prayers and blessings of his friend, Archbishop Laud. The figure of the Earl, who is drawn in a kneeling attitude, is very graceful, and there is a settled melancholy in his countenance, which at once attracts notice. The original paint ing is by Delaroche, and has been cleverly engraved by Saunders. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Arrived on Sunday from Woolwich, her Majesty's steamer Hecate, Commander Ward, on her way to the M e diterranean, with detach. ments of Royal Artillery and Sappers and Miners, for service in Syria. She also brought round an im_ mense quantity of the munitions of war, which have been em:mrked on board the Howe and Britannia, 120 gun ships. These powerful ships will leave Spit head on Wednesday (being fully manned), to join Sir R. Stopford's fleet. The following three-decked ships are ordered to be commissioned immediately :—The Caledonia, 120, and Impregnable, 104, both at Plymouth, the former as port flag. ship of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, and the latter for service in the Mediterranean, to be com manded by Captain Thomas Forrest. The Camper down, 104, is also ordered for commission at Sheer rites for the same quarter. 'file Calcutta, 84, Captain Sir Samuel Riberts. has left Plymouth, f' , r the Mediterranean, via Cork and Gib raltar. The Inconstant frigate, Captain Pring, has also left Plyniouth for Dublin, for volunteer seamen. It is confidently rumoured that the Queen, 104, flag ship at this port, will he .'et,t out to the Mediterranean as soon as her internal fitments are completed ; and that the St. Vincent, 120, will supply her place. A large number of 50 gun-ships arc in c ourse of pre , partition for the pendant, amounting to ten sail. The Indus and Vengeance,B4 gun -ships, will be com missioned at this port about the 10th November. Great dispatch is used in their equipment for the pendant. The Rhadamanthus steamer, C to fi be p e d , has passed off at Woolwich. by thisport from the Commander V e Mediterranean, George l A n t S yacht, cb e ho a to d : . HcQhoot:eae and Hecate d ce r ct i toaartn)o, steamers,i a E , l lt 2 c O e ii g e u p n ta, n s ai h t i opflysaa. flagl tenders. THE LATE COURT-MARTIAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Notvithstunding the many letters that you have received rcspectinv the case of that noble-minded, gallant, but injured officer, Captain Reynolds, I can not allow the present opportunity to pass without re cording my opinion of this transaction through the me dium of your valuable Journal. , I find that a subscription is proposed to be made to reimburse Captain Reynolds for the loss that he has sustained by the verdict of the late Court-partial at Brighton. I know no method that would show the feeling of the public in this affair more fully than by raising a sum of money tantamount to the value of the commission that he has been sa unjustly deprived of. It is one thing for men in power to allow them selves to be carried away by high notions of their rank and wealth, and it is another thing to allow the same to operate to the injury of others. Now all those per sons who have watched the proceedings in the affair of Captain Reynolds, must bring their minds to the con viction that he has I),?en most unfairly and tyrannically treated by the Earl of Cardigan. I should like to know where we are to find gentle men at all disposed to enter the army if the irritability, caprice, and imperious minds of commanding officers, is to be allowed to render the commission of an officer insecure. 1 hope, ere long, that a meeting will take place at one of our principal taverns in favour of that ornament of the British army, Captain 13eynold3. I for one would most willingly attend and subscribe my mite in such a cause, and I know many others who would do the same thing. The public must feel much indebted to you for the readiness that you have manifested to make known the prevailing opinion in this transaction. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Carter street, Walworth, G. B. Oct. 27, 1840. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln your paper of yesterday I observe that a Correspondent, signing himself " Camillus," has dis puted your assertion that the result of the recent Court martial is universally regarded by the army with feel ings of pain and surprise. The statement in question must not be suffered to pass unnoticed. It would im ply that the officers of the British army do not partake of that horror of oppression which so honourably cha racterises their countrymen. It might mislead some into the belief that the army have so far lost the spirit of freemen as to witness and bear unmoved that system of tyranny, at the mere mention of which, the just in dignation of the country is aroused. A moment's re flection must satisfy your readers that " Camillus' is in error. Military discipline may do much, but it cannot subdue the mind. Although soldiers, we are still men, and, as such, we feel deeply indebted to our fellow subjects for the warm interest with which they have espoused the cause of London, 0ct.27, 1840. A SOLDIER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have troubled you with some remarks* on the trial of Captain Reynolds, because I think that in Captain Reynolds' case the spirit which ought to regu late a Court-martial has been departed from, and be cause this departure may have an influence ❑ot yet noticed. There is, however, another spirit in which this case is viewed. Captain Reynolds is, by the public in ge neral, considered a most ill-used man. Derogatory ex pressions were applied to him, and because he ventured to request an explanation, he was ordered to hold his tongue, to refrain from addressing (I will not say his calumniator, nor even his traducer, but) his Com mander, except on official business. Now, I may put it to any Englishman, could a course more likely to irritate and inflame be adopted ? think not. Let every one recollect that the first of fensive expressions proceeded not from Captain Rey nolds, but from Lord Cardigan ; and that those expres sions had no relation whatever to military matters. If Lord Cardigan in private society chooses to cast reflections on any officer in his regiment he does so in his private character, and at his personal risk. He cannot with justice talk as the private individual, and act as the officer. I know that this case is extensively felt to be a case pregnant with evil, especially to our army, and an instance of truculent and unmitigated oppression. A few individuals meeting at the Peacock Inn, Wol verhampton, (who by the bye have not Lord Cardigan's aversion to black bottles,) have heard with satisfaction that it is in contemplation to raise a subscription for Capt. Reynolds, and they have requested this letter to be addressed to you (knowing your readiness to resist tyranny in all shapes), in support of the attempt, not meaning to confine themselves to a mere verbal expres sion of their feelings towards Captain Reynolds, but to remit a check for the amount of their subscriptions to any authorised party that may be fixed upon. May the subscriptions prosper, and may the haughty, ill-tem pered, and overbearing in high places be made to know, that although they may appear to depress their victim, they can never rob him of the support and sympathy of Englishmen—that Englishmen, in cases like the pre sent, will say, " Lord Cardigan shall not ruin Captain Reynolds." I am, Sir, your's most obediently, A WOLVERHANIPTON MAN. We have omitted the remarks alluded to, as their ob ject was to prove that Captain Reynolds had not had a fair trial—a conclusion to which all (except those whom no facts will convince) had come to for some time. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—An error having crept into your Paper of yesterday, I feel convinced that you will do me the kindness of correcting it. The name of Lighthead is inserted instead of Broadhead, of the Coldstream Guards, as one of the Field Officers on that highly dis tinguished Court-martial. Now, Sir, as I happily re tired from the service in its brighter days, and have no wish to be placed in Lieut.-Colonel Broadhead's unen viable position, I am - particularly anxious that this mis nomer may be speedily rectified, or, as public feeling now exists, I verily believe I should bring upon me the odium of those neighbours who now form the solace of any declining ears. This feeling against the Court martial is based on tne following grounds :—First, the unprecedented number of Field Officers of Lord Car digan's rank (ten), and the unfair disproportion of Capt. Reynolds' rank (four), to try the accused. Secondly, the refusal of this Court to allow Captain R. his right to prove previous oppression, this right being founded on precedent, as in the case cited of the 9th Lancers in 1817, when Colonel Morland brought one of his officers to a Court-martial. Thirdly. the endeavour of the Court (by their comments on the evidence produced) to intimidate future officers from giving their evidence freely and honourably ; and lastly, by their treating with silent contempt the high and unexampled charac ter given to Captain R. by a number of the oldest and most distinguished officers in her Majesty's service. I can only in addition say, that as soon as ever Mr. Harvey, or any other individual, will point out where subscriptions will be received, towards making up the sum of Captain Reynolds' commission, I will have great pleasure in forwarding my contribution, as a proof of my utter detestation of anything like undue severity or oppression.—l have the honour to be, Your obedient servant, J. LUSHINGTON LIGHTHEAD. Royston, Hull, Oct. 28. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—Do you consider it right for an accused felon# to have command of a regiment during the period his own life is at stake ? I should say, for the security of the public at large his sword ought to he taken away from him till the result of his trial he made known. JUSTICE. a The individual to whom we believe our Correa. pondent alludes, is not an accused felon, but simply ac cused of felony. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-1 have read with much satisfaction the obser vations you have given publicity to in your invaluable and impartial journal respecting the military efficiency of the Earl of Cardigan, and more particularly his line of conduct which led to the unfortunate court-martial la•ely held on Captain R. A. Reynolds, of the 11 th Hussars. After you have already allotted so much space in your widely circulating journal to this subject I am reluctant to trespass further, but I cannot refrain from remarking that it appears one material part of the find ing of the Court-martial has been passed over without comment—namely, when the Court finds Captain Rey nolds guilty " of conduct unbecoming an officur and a gentleman." I defy any one to show, nor is it attempted to be shown before the Court, that Captain Reynolds' con duct throughout fifteen years of service, had been any thing but that of a most amiable, honourable, and gen tlemanly man ; and surely the act for which he has suffered cannot, from the most severe, bear an ungen tlemanly construction ? No one acquainted with the strict code that neces sarily regulates the service but felt from the first that Captain Reynolds had (alas !) seriously committed him self in a military point of view by wilting his second letter, and had thereby subjected himself to the stern letter of the military law ; but they had hoped that, from the extenuating circumstances in his favour, mercy might in the end be extended to him from the higher powers, as we have so many brilliant instances during the command-in-chief of his Royal lliglinc%s the Duke of York and his Grace the Duke of Wellington, in cases where much more serious infringements of dis cipline had taken place. I may instance the case that occurred in the G en regiment then commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel (now eral) Sleigh, where a subaltern officer was tried for conduct the most violent, insulting, and insubordinate to his commanding officer, yet was thought deserving of his Royal Highness's clemency, and was allowed to retire on half-pay, Officers dismissed from her Majesty's service with the stigma of " conduct unbecoming that of a gentleman," become virtually excluded from the society of gentle- EVENtNG 1 4 7, DITION men, and mere particularly •from that of office rs still connected with the service. Btu in what one point has Captain Reynolds forfeited the eeem and respect of g gentlemen or of ofii:rers of the army ? I have no hesitation in pronouncing that there is but one general feeling pervading the army or society at l arge of cordial sympathy' towards Captain Reynold!, and that there is not one individual in the service that would not heartily grasp him by the hand, and trium phantly testify to the world, that though he was impru dent in this one case, yet that his honour and character e ver as a gentleman remain as unimpeachable as t he y did during a period of fifteen years of service. Had it not been for the curse of the re-infliction on the service of the Earl of Cardigan, who had giv en such evident proofs of his total unfitness for comma nd, and of d e we have well-founded reasons to believe Lord Hill was fully aware, a young and promising officer wo uld have continued an ornament to that profession which he had graced daring fifteen years. What has my Lord Cardigan to exh ibit during his holiday career ? He, forsooth, once left the c ountry t o e proceed to India, to have the honour of bringing h our ° 1:13 the regiment he now, unfortunately for the service, mends, fully knowing that, as the regiment was und er orders for " home," his absence wou ld be b u t a fe w months. A n d thi s is the man that presumes to allude to officers that have served in India with a conteinnt°lll sneer. There is in the service a corps that yield to 0 008 1 : efficiency, commanded by a n officer known t° ' whole cavalry, and probably by the army generally, one of the most promising officers our c avalry P s i sesses—talented—gifted with the instinct of comina.a._ — an d w h o will (should the country ever require bit services in the field) find that every man and ofie.; in his regiment will repose that confidence in be which leads to victory, and which our Noble Dukel?!,^ so well how to inspire into all ranks of his invinin: army. In this regiment, my Lord Cardigan, but true, served till he arrived at the rank oft ajor ; what opportunity lad he of acquiring twiny of a regiment, or following the bright es°ff i P b eat (be exhibited to him and every officer in that regi His n 3 the talented individual at the head of it ? was then Lord Brudenell) presence with the regimes, was like " angels' visits," few and far between ; f Par °l4 was in Parliament, he availed himself of bis a consid.etro liamentary duties to absent himself during able portion of the time he ought to have devoted the interior ecol; learning the duties, feelings, and what has to be sou nutted to by an officer in the subordinate ranks. Me! and interest pushed him on ; he purchased promotioonthoe the unattached, and changed back on full paY 10t • e g regiment again by paying the difference, thus ate over the heads of officers previously s enior to h im; a ity, eventually, having pushed himself up Thepe majority to l o i n e e a o va f i t le h d e t h w im o s m el a f jo o r f s the a p e e a r r m a i l s r s y ion r , e to ac r the unattached lieutenant-colonelc ! ge ar., S All this took place in the short space of X period during which very few, under the Incli t' oo ol, able circumstances, with the command of interest, In . 11 or . having distinguished themselves, arrive at efc_ majority ; in fact, it is known that six years' servic%i established before which an officer cannot beeped ro rnot " a to be Major. The Earl of Cardigan en r t as sel D Co e r e n e e m t b M er a f y i, 6 1 , 8 1 3 8 , 3 . 4, w H a e s IperftomaootyetdhioLgieutenont'C° ° A * '- idea behind him of his qualities for co m b m ut an a d f3id"tu rb r e bre re lu. giment in which he first served, the Bth 1 10 " ars• ma°Y gimenta,llowe cent is an anecdote respecting him perhaps known to t . og in the service, but which has left a laughable and 1 ' 6 . 1 0 , 4 i w m h p e r n ess t i h o e n roefgliimimentin wasthe regiment. d On one ° ect i : l , - .. quarters, if I remember rightly, at D i i g t i nd i quarters at Armagh (but the names of the stations.a,,, indifferent, the fact related being otherwise substanto.') correct), the Lieutenant-Colonel, the Hon. G• 13 ' ce, lyneux, had gone on temporary leave of OW. whereby the command devolved on the Sen;or gaPr' who was then present at head-quarters. a to The senior Major, while in command, !laPP ee rev' suffer from a slight indisposition, areikla,nad,od eldri; dered it advisable for him to ken his roomthi thong r itta f t e l; days, in no ways incapacitated him from ca rryings l iz v duties and official business of the regiment. Tbif t sh;o) indisposition happening to reach th e cars of mY k be Lord Brudenell, who commanded at out-quartersci to took it into his head that he was thereby instifieadd quit his detachment without leave or author proceed at once to headquarters to assume the eithereu mend of the regiment. The officer in commaadi t or from a wish to humour Lord Brudenell's pencheil,:gd from a want of sufficient firmness, permitted hi s of ship to indulge himself in a " field-day," at the r r the year when all that have served in the cava'Ar'lioa cognise the injurious effects on the coats and eelw„lout. of" the troopers" of unnecessarily knocking thee' That field-day will long be remembered in the l'OP,c t is while an officer or man then in it remains ; butt L or d notqwcuiatarhrdt without eugrttasl Cardigan eopa wascuyi e r a p i h o mo purpose. e. The . error in judgment °I t ti p aie r u e te s h u oom m rim i t n ya g ,nad t n o dof le ct a hoi v rne e irne h gg is imo d ep e n t i .o el l:o l e, : a o When the efficieat Lieutenant-Colonel, wh o 1". t at distinguished the headof p th os e t r ) eg r i e m t e u n rn t e ( daut d o lo re n s g um ma e y h h is e c i:_ appo d ; _ t o_ his surprise and indignation may be conceived, hit', 00 faithfully described. Suffice it to say, he inflict e `.,o Lord Brudenell a reprimand that ought ° of itself to o f been a sufficient check upon his fallacious judgrae dt ;i r the rest of his military career, and despatched wit h back to his detachment (to use a homely phrase) a flea in his ear." I cannot close this letter without expressing th e P i t i l i s e sure I, and many that I have conversed with 0° sub ject, feel at noticing a disposition to no tif y by ',be scriptions for a testimonial to Captain ReY o°lds ' bY sympathy of the public in his misfortune. a nd th erc hr to show that the world at least consider him still as nourable man and a gentleman. When 1 learn that a Committee (or any recogoisileat board of management), has been appointed for r ai t s' :ind collecting subscriptions for the above °big ri shall with much satisfaction give my pecunia r y cc)nt hution thereto. I am, Sir, your obedient, humble servant, rs," A RETIRED HUSSAR AND AN " °LP 8 Junior United Service Club, Oct. 28. THE CORN-LAWS• TO THE THE ° and ill? ting yolaßstOF partiality l in be i g ns t e o r you for your ; _ have - fault to find with your commentlesttthere.rekoil:::::"'ds as Yl'°:/: state o, I ought to publish a list of my constitueuts!os : forward you the names of the Gentlemen I' o°ll Mt Board of General Purposes, and to assure 91 0 of this x Board is solely established for the Poq lie rting every energy in endeavouring to obis% dis peal of the Corn-laws. We are not " enculie: mod e guise," l neither are we established as a r1 : 1 0, o 'raising the wind," or as a Stock jobbing e °l3c-r I am, Sir, your hum'ile servo nt,, Secre tary. S. BYNu, d Anti-Corn-l aw B oar d, 29, T o ken H°use-Ydr Messrs tall; 19, Messrs. ; 1 15 , 0 A F I . I D Evans,oF H E R N e E d n A L L i 0 nr_Ht:lhraoriS. r B e . T. Grip Coligg r hill;_., Daniel Howe, 13, Cloak-lane ; Joao jonchside 13 4 1 . -h ,, opsgate-street ; George Miner, 77, Gl'vethvv, , -'-, —ca-en..all-street ; Job" " .e Two. 12,i K new man 3 - 2 1, d h \\,,4,ludge-row ; gato..Dock gate bill; Robert Hatbway, 5,4 e, Wiliiam Todd, Dow . Ilia, 17 , Poultry ; J. J. Flather, 17, D° w g a James Seater, Qucenhithe. Oct, 28,1840. Y . IS ......„.......,•01.! D A ) LLO YD'S SH EPPING—(TFL broog t 0 , b ' - -ND", OCT. ,` , .9.—There h as been much rain t coo, out the night, with the wind f rom the eastward, fromaa the tnues to day with a moderate variable t b re eze same quarter, with occasional l i g ht squalls. iea t" / st. DeAL, OCT. 28. --Wi n d Y . from a( Wind S. W. squall"— Arr Euphrates, Wilson, from C alcutta ---sailed c,pe Helena , 7th ult. ; James Gibson, Stevvart, from k th° Good Hope; Stately, Nagle, Quebec. Put back Isabella, for Demerara . start LIVERPOOL, OCT. 08.--Wind S.--Arrivecl o°oooo from Matte Video, sailed 6 th Au g . ; Irt, Ludlow,: h u lt. °' ; sailed 6th ult. ; Mary , Ne lson, Demerara, sailed dsobi Leo, Cliff, Miramichi ; George, Picton ; Marthe,o,getie, Sailed the Aden , Pons onlo y ,' e ;, ,t, Firy for Singapor ,I Shi e lds, and Hesperus, Kelly , for Calcutta ; u °111. " sou r e 4 Ne ° lay, .I,,reaica ; George, Hav annah ; sort York ; Cornhill, Collins, Newfoundland k ; El i e z3 neti e f dt!rs, Bully, Consta ntino p le. Put bac,b t Od e Black, Jones, for Rio Grande. Hills, from I PorasstorTH, OCT. 28.—The Vere, osiste bee, which was on shore on Hamilton's Bank. We g ,„a to b e off to-day, and towed into the harbour, and is sta te d very much strained. , charlott,et: YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, OCT. 28.--T' e ,l, - ~ PM'" Smith, bound to Portsmouth, in coming. uP `"- A iaiab Channel, got on the shingles, but cameo ff' after roll h a lf an hour, and p roceeded. arrive d e RAMSGATE, Om 28.—The Johan, De Joug,k, and h ere to-day from Stettin , bound to Havre, is Ica-:' must discharge part of cargo to stop the leak from D O VER, OCT. 28 .—O ff port 0 Hero, Ryan, Sydney, New South Wale,. d {toll' SALA:OM/3F • . , „0M26 Arrived the Active, fie w a r ' R iga. Baltimore; Amazon, Buttershall, Quebec; Di ° 11' "" ' e I n ' PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.-Wind N. W.--Arrived t h e dustry, Gilpin, from Miramiehi ; Wave. Carter, Peilesh b FALMOUTII, OCT. 27.—Wind N. \:_ • : foto breezes and squally.— Arrived the Pandora pie", To.• the \Vest Indies, sailed fr,m Ba..badoes 31st Augas',llob. bago T 2d ult , Trinidad 9th, Grenada 10th, St. Kott'! ' an d C urtola, 17th, St. Thomas 18th, Porto Rico Ott , r. Cape Henry 22d, with $70,000 ; Nlargaret, Labrado r. ----- - - -1,- -• . ~,,,e• -------- CI arli lt . lURCII-RATES.—A placard w ith the 1°7:...- ing , heading has been widely circu lated in the P e i;e ' St, George, Middlesex, Church -rates--to su w ° ll i r ont Thorogood is in prison ! and you r beds to be PP k . " ~,te, under you." A Vestry was held this morning to fix a e ( is when a poll was demanded. The crowd w as ielra en , s v oi correspondent informs us). The porch of the chill ceoved, at first barricaded, but the obstruction was 8 00° re T, n t. and the police were of no avail in keeping the Pe'Pr-ity of According to the latest accounts there was a 1 04 0 200 to 45 against the rate.