The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING,

JANUARY 12, 1852,

as yet he has only served in subordinate ca-
pacities, ho has seen " the great war that makes
ambition virtue," under captains and circumstances that
have not—as his writings show —been thrown away
upon him. There are, therefore, no objections to Major-
General Cathcart as Commander-in-Chief of the Queen's
forces at the Cape. It is a selection in which there is
hope, ability, theoretical experience and coriparative
maturity to justify it; and if the gallant officer's com-
mission be confined strictly to that which his profes-
sional merits entitled him, we should recognise in the
choice a better spirit than those which sent Sir John
Grey, in his arm chair, to Bombay, or Sir Richard
Armstrong to Madras. But it is not—if the Observer
is correct--to be so limited. The civil government of
tho Cape, as well as the command of the army there, has,
it is announced, been conferred on General Cathcart.
Now, there is nothing in the gallant officer's past career
to justify the confiding of the civil administration of the
Cape to him; and there is in the present state of
politics in that colony every reason for placing at
its head a person of large experience of civil govern-
ment—of well known liberal views—and of extensive
knowledge of colonial society. Instead of such a man,
Lord Grey intends to send out an aide-de-camp of the
Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate Parliamentary go-
vernment in the Cape. By such a choice he confirms
the supremacy'in civil affairs, which the present Secretary
of the Government, Mr. John Montague, has acquired at
the Cape; and to which supremacy the colonists ascribe
their present plight. For as General Cathcart's imme-
diate mission will be on the frontiers—there to conduct
a harassing war—the whole weight of civil affairs must
remain on the shoulders which now bear it.

What the Cape required under this state of things
was a division of the civil and military authority_a
governor comp tent successfully to introduce a Parlia-
mentary system, and a general with abilities to triumph
over a race of savages. In their stead, Lord Grey, in
choosing General Cathcart, has risked the constitution
without acquiring the certainty of military success.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LINCOLN SPRING MEETING, 1852.
The Hurdle Race Handicap.
Seaman, list 101b—Ccgia, list 7,b—Combatant,
list fib —Abd-el-Kader, list 41b—Little Queen,
I Is:, 21b—Chorister, 1 ls:—!Melford, lOst 101b—Vet.ture,
lOst loft—Strong Beer, lOst 91b—Warwick, 10,t 91b--
Bullfinch, lOst 21b—Ace of Trumps, lost 81b—Joan of
Arc, 1 Ost 81b—Bedford, lOst 81b—The General, lOst 71b
—Timothy, lOst 51b—Cosachia, lOst 51b—Ormsby,
lOst 51b—Maria Monk, lOst 41b—Duchess, lOst 21b—
View Holloa, 10st lib—Forest Lad, lOst
lOst llb—Duddington, lOst—Hinton, lOst—Finance,
lOst—A. Y., 9st 91b—Secret, 9st 51b—Drayton colt,
9st 41b—Gaylad, 9st.
Handicap of 10 soya. each. One Mile.
Rhesus, 9st—Hungerford, Bst 121b—Iantbe, Bst 10lb—
Killiquade, Bst 71b—Lady Jersey, Bst Gib—Eliza Mid-
dleton, Bst 61b—Abdallah, Bst 41b—May Day, Bst 21b—
Warwick, Bst 21b—Clown, Bst—Master Friday, 7st Sib—
Miss Flareaway, 7st 71b—Red Deer colt, 7st 51b—Eng-
land's Glory, ist 51b—View Holloa, bat 101b—Diana,
6st 101b—Lady Agnes, 6st 91b—Emma, Est 91b—Equal,
Gst—Lizzy, Est 41b.
Handicap for the Grand Annual Steeplechase of 15
soya. each.
British Yeoman, llst 71b—Peter Simple, I Ist 51b—
Abd• el-Kader, llst 31b—Vain Hope, list 31b—Lucy
Neal, 1 Ist Ilb—Chieftain, lOst 121b—Hardwick, lOst 91b
—Ace of Trumps, lOst 71b—Joan of Arc, lOst 51b—
Venture, 10st 51b—Bourton, lOst 51b—Ringdove, lOst
41b—Little Queen, lOst 21b—Come-again, 10st Ilb—
Abbot Lawrence, lOst—Miss Mowbray, 9 st 131b—Forest
Lad, Ost 1 lib—Johnny Barrio, 9st 111b—Carrig, 9st 1 Ilb
—A. Y., 9st 101b—Maria Monk, gat 91b—The Cripple,
9st 51b.