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of God should be forgotten. And well does it know how
difficult it is to restore the dominion of society when once
it has been extinguished. She calls on you to aid her in
this great work. She shows you the nature of the rules
by which she is governed; her voice comes to you, and
her voice sounding from her agents in this country is like-
wise a voice that comes across every sea that compasses
the four quarters of the globe; it is the voice of the settlers
who live in the colonies, your children, your brothers, your
greatest and your dearest friends ; it is the voice of that
devoted ministry which is now discharging all the spiritual
duties in the British colonies, in such a manner as, with-
out the smallest desire to create an invidious comparison,
I would say draws down upon them the respect and the
admiration of all among whom they live. It is the voice—
in some cases we may add, it is the voice of the dead, who
having freely and deliberately, and not without counting
the cost, given up all in order to be enrolled among the
sol.liers of the Cross, have been early called to their re-
ward ; not too early for themselves—not too early we may,
perhaps, in faith believe even for us, because it is our prin-
ciple to hope that their bright example will continually
draw more warriors into the field, and that the great masses
of God will multiply under its beneficent influence. Do
not, I bessech you, remain indifferent to a cause like this—
do not hesitate to examine the claims, the history, the
cause of this society. She wants nothing, lam convinced,
except to bring the claims of that history, and of the firm-
tieing which she has charge of, home to every heart, every
fireside iu England.
'['he right hon. gentleman shortly concluded his
speech amid loud applause.

THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND COLONEL
BUCK, M.P.
A CORRESPONDENCE has ensued lately between the
noble earl and the member for Barnstaple with
reference to certain expressions reported in the daily
papers as having been uttered by Colonel Buck at a
dinner lately given at Torrington to Colonel Morris,
of the 17th Lancers. Colonel Buck was reported to
have said :

Their gallant guest was not placed in the same position
as Lord Cardigan, who, it was said, had paid 40,0011. for
the present position he held in the army, and who, when
he met his friends at Leeds the other day, was obliged to
" try back " and first explain his conduct in the charge of
lialaklava. There had been nothing in the conduct of their
gallant guest so equivocal as to require such an explana•
tion about the duties of cavalry officers as that made by
Earl Cardigan at Leeds.

Lord Cardigan upon this, on the 18th ult., called
upon Colonel Buck fur an explanation. Colonel
Buck replied :
Hartland Abbey, Sept. 20.
My Lord,—ln reply to your letter received last evening,
containing an extract from the Daily News paper, reporting
a speech made by me at Torrington, I have the honour to
inform your lordship that the Daily Ncws' version of the
speech is very incorrect. I referred to your lordship's
public speech at Leeds, which I simply stated was unsatis•
factory to me. I gave no reason fur my opinion, nor did I
mention anything about " trying back,' or " Balaklava," or
" equivocal conduct." I alluded to what I understood to
have been the ease, that your lordship's commission had
cost between 30,00 W. and 40,0001.-1 remain, my lord,
your lordship's obedient servant,

GEORGE STANLEY BUCK.

The Earl of Cardigan.
Lord Cardigan replies to Colonel Buck's explana-
tion in the following terms:—

Dublin, Sept. 20.
Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 20th inst. in reply to mine of the 18th inst., and I
regret to have to observe that nothing can be more unsatis-
factory, more unatraightforward, or evasive, than your
reply. And as I conclude you acknowledge the correct-
ness of the report of your speech in the Daily News, with
the exceptions you have referred to in your letter of the
20th inst., I have only to state that you thereby justify
every expression with regard to your conduct which 1
adopted in my letter of the 18th inat. With respect to
the commencement of your unwarrantable allusion to
myself, stating that I had given 40,0001, for my commis-
sions, while your guest, Colonel Morris (to whom you
were very properly doing honour on that occasion ), obtained
his through merit alone, I must admit that the manner in
which Colonel Morris has been promoted since the charge
of the light cavalry brigade at Balaklava is certainly a
much more agreeable way of obtaining promotion than by
paying 40,0001., supposing that statement to be true
Colonel Morris, as senior captain of the 17th Lancers, led
them in the attack at Balaklava, and for his services has
since been made a brevet-major and Companion of the Bath,
a brevet lieutenant.colonel, colonel in the Turkish Contin-
gent ; also has held an appointment in the Adjutant-
General's office, London ; a staff appointment at Scutari ;
the post of Assistant-Quartermaster-General in the Turkish
Contingent ; and is now Assistant-Adjutant•General in the
camp on the Curragh. This proves that officers in our
service do not obtain promotion by money alone. As to
the comparison you draw between Colonel Morris and
myself, viz., " that there was no necessity for him to ex-
plain his conduct like Lord Cardigan at Leeds," it is clear
that he, never having been attacked by anonymous libel,
had no ground fur entering into any defence of his conduct.
With regard to the charge of the light cavalry brigade at
Balaklava, as you appear to be ignorant of what occurred
there, and as I have hitherto, in returning thanks on
several occasions for honours conferred upon me by my
fellow-countrymen, only spoken of the brigade generally, I
must now afford some information as to the part all the
officers took in that affair. Colonel Morris told you in his
speech, in returning thanks, that I put myself at the head