The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-25 00:00:00

SUNDAY PAPERS.

The Examiner, in a leading article on the Corn.laws,
and the recent debates thereon, says, " The Legislature has
refused to listen to the evidence tendered against the Corn_
laws. This resolve will produce great exasperation, and
aggravate the sense of injury and wrong. The general
impression will be, that if the case had been heard, the
truths of it would have been made so manifest to the public
as to have raised an irresistible demand for the redress of
the grievance. We have doubts as to this effect. We
distrust the attention of the public to a mass of evidence,
perplexed by either pointless or artfully misleading exami-
nation." Our Contemporary then proceeds to comment on
Lord Brougham's speech in the House of Lords, which,
he observes, "rather disappointed expectation." How so ?
It was nervous, argumentative, straightforward, so much so
as to extort the unqualified approbation of those most inti-
mate with the question, and who have publicly recorded
their opinion that it was "unanswerable." The small, pert
cavils of the Examiner will weigh but little against this
testimony.

The Spectator, in its notice of the late debate on the
Corn-laws in the Commons, observes—" the most ela-
borate opposition to the motion came from Sir Robert
Peel ; who had fortified himself with many figures. He
argued on this ground, that it was absurd to attribute de-
cline of foreign commerce to the Corn-laws, for there was
no decline. He stopped there ;he ventured not to assert
that there was no prospect—no certainty of a decline.
But the certainty of this result, under the existing system
of prohibition, Mr. Villiers desired to demonstrate by
evidence."

The Weekly True Sun has an excellent leading article
on the subject of the late Corn-law debates in Parliament,
from which we quote the following effective passage :
" The Corn-law question has been thrown aback, and its
delegates may carry home the information which
they brought to the metropolis for the instruction
of their rulers. The discursive eloquence, and
varied knowledge, and powerful reasoning of Lord
Brougham, in the House of Lords ; and the clear
statements and simple earnestness of Mr. Vil-
liers, in the House of Commons, aliked failed of making
the least impression. Both Houses have refused, not
merely to grant the prayer of the petitioners for the Repeal
of the Bread Tax, but even to hear the evidence of the.pe-
titioners. It has often been repeated that, by the constitu-
tion, for every wrong there is a remedy,' but the two
Houses have agreed in this case, that it is not in them, and
the petitioners may go seek it elsewhere. They will best
find it in their own determinatio►► to promote that thorough
reform of the representative system, which shall be in itself
a security that the Hereditary House shall not long conti-
nue unreformed either. In the House of Lords, Lord
Brougham's speech was a masterly specimen of tact, bold-
ness, and power. He placed the question► upon the right
grounds, and corrected the exaggerated hopes, and more
exaggerated fears (real or pretended) of the opponents
and adherents of the Corn-laws."
The John Bull has a leading article, in which he rejoices
in the result of the late Corn-law discussions; and another
on Lord Normanby's departure, in which he puts forth the
following would-be important hint :—" The consummation
of the whole affair would be, to see the bethrcatened and
beleaguered—the proscribed and interdicted Lord Durham,
my Lord Normanby's successor as Lord Lieutenant, and
strange as it may sound, stranger things have happened."

THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS

(BLUES).

A few days since a paragraph went the round of the pa-
pers, stating that Captains the Hon. Cecil Forrester and
Hanmer had fought a duel, and fired three shots. up to
the period of the duel, however extraordinary might bet e
h
circumstances of the case, it was simply a personal quarrel
between two officers, and in which the public had no con-
cern ; but the affair, and the circumstances attending it,
have since the duel, been brought under the cognizance of
Lord Hill, and it has now assumed altogether another
character. It is no longer a personal question, it is
even more than a regimental one —it must be re-
garded as a precedent for all other officers in the service,
showing to them how the General Commanding in-Chief
treats such conduct as that complained of in his own regi-
ment. It may be well, although they arc already generally
known, to state shortly the circumstances which preceded
the duel, in order that i he whole case may he the bettor un-
derstood. They are as follow :—Captain Hanmer re-
ceived so gross an insult from Captain Forrester at the
mess-table of the Royal Horse-Guards (the Blues), in
which distinguished regiment both these gentlemen have
troops, that he instantly quitted the room and sent his
friend, Capt. Conroy, of the Coldstream Guards, to Caet•
Forrester, for the purpose of arranging a meeting. This'
when proposed by Captain Conroy, was declined by Car
tail Forrester, who refused to fight Captain Hanmer unless
he was accompanied by a brother officer (of the Blues).
Upon this Captain Hanmer assaulted Captain Forrestner
in Pall-mall, and struck him a blow with a stick. In co-
sequence of this, Captain the Hon. James Macdonald, en
the part of Captain Forrester, challenged Captain an'
mer, and the meeting took place, at. which the three shots
were fired. So far it seemed a mere private quarrel.
It appears, however, that Captain Hamner. on returning
to his regiment at Windsor, after the duel, found his
society avoided by all his brother officers, and, having
reason to believe in the existence of a conspiracy, having
for its object to force him out of the corps, he addressed it'
letter, through his Lieutenant- Colonel, to Lord Hit"
requesting that his. Lordship might be pleased to order
that a Court of Inquiry should be assembled forabe
purpose of examining all the circumstances of the sucte!
and deciding whether his (Captain Hanmer's) cond
had been such as to justify the system of exclusion
pactised towards him. His Lordship, instead of corgi).-
ng with this request, ordered all the officers of the Blue`
i
to wait upon him at the Horse Guards, where he receive
them, dressed in full uniform, as Colonel of the Regimnt'
His Lordship commenced by asking whether Lieutenant'
Colonel Richardson, or any of the other officers, had dyer,
thing to complain of in the conduct of Captain Hamner,'
any fault to allege against him ; and his Lordship desire°,
that if such were the case, the officers would immediately Po'
coed to lay the complaint before him. Upon no answer bell/
returned, Lord Hill produced a paper, on which he states
he had written down the substance of the address he ws,
about to make, in order that it might serve as a record();
the steps he had taken, should the case come again bef°rt
him. lie then proceeded to censure, in the stronge°
terms, the course pursued by the officers in regard to Car
tain Hanmer, which his Lordship designated as one un;
worthy of their character as gentlemen, setting the we
_
example to other regiments, and highly detrimental to t
service. He concluded with a command that a tot_B,
change of conduct should be adopted, and with the e;
pression of his earnest wish that he might not be egal
called upon to notice a recurrence of what bad pass°,,,d'
What has been the result of this parade at the Po- e
Guards? The result is that the orders of Lord Hill bacj,
been of no avail ; the system of exclusion is still continueuj
for it is notorious that Captain Har.mer is never addrese(l,
by any of the officers, and is barely answered when he speak:,
We need scarcely say that this subject is much can,
sassed among military men, and that impartial officers 0",
demo that system of exclusion practised by the Blues ft';
one totally subversive of all proper discipline in a regirnelios
and among its many evils they recognise the fact that it b
placed an honourable and high-minded gentleman, sued
as Capt. Forrester most assuredly is, in the position__
having wilfully insulted a person to whom he was not Tye
pared to give immediate and ample satisfaction.
►eason assigned by him for his refusal is only an eggs; •
Lion of the fact, for how was Captain Hammer to ge art
brother officer to be his second when all had taken ip
against him and in favour of Captain Forrester. 1° °ea
elusion, we have to assure Lord Hill that military °lsle
are drawing a comparison between what he wouldi,htu,
done if such things as these had happened in any unl„riag
nate regiment of the line, and what he is now 14"
in his OWN aristocratic corps.—Observer.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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