The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

THE HORSE GUARDS CRISIS.

The crisis at the Horse Guards still exists ; nor
does any one acquainted with all the circumstances
see how it is possible that it can end without the
resignation of Lord Hardinge. We mentioned,
last week, some of the annoyances which Sir George
Brown received at the hands of the Commander-in-
Chief, which imposed upon him the necessity of
tendering his resignation. There was one, to which
General Brown attached importance, and which
precipitated a resignation all but before resolved
on, which we omitted to mention. The General
had been on a Commission with Lord Seaton and
several other general officers, and the report of that
Commission, as a matter of right, ought to have
been drawn up by him in virtue of his office as
Adjutant-General. ; but Lord Hardinge requested
—perhaps commanded would be a more appropriate
term—that the report should be prepared by Lord
Seaton. This was, of course, accordingly done,
and General Brown was thereby induced to tender
a resignation at once, on which he might be said
to have before resolved in consequence of previous
annoyances.—Morning Advertiser.

Once bring a good cause into public notice, and
it must gain increasing support. Its merits while
undiscussed are but partially known even to its
friends. Its enemies at the commencement seem
to have all their own way. Coventry is first tried,
then the pillory, then the solemn arguments and
dicta of " those who ought to know ;" and even
after something in the shape of reasoning is felt to be
necessary, it is treated till the twelfth hour is ready
to strike as the mere dream of ardent theorisers;
to bestow a few off-hand sentences upon it is a
kind of oratorical or editorial condescension. Still,
after the eleventh hour has really come, its friends
begin to discover a concealed earnestness in the
opposition arguments which assure them that their
own are really telling, and ever and anon some
striking and indisputable fact flashes like a police-
man's lan tern in the face of the sophistry by which
it is assailed. Just such is the present position of
the Ballot. To the general public it was first
made' fully known by the Parliamentary and plat-
form efforts of the greatest modern historian of
Greece, and ever since, amidst the sneers of the
presciat Leader of the House of Commons, the
graver arguments of Lords PAN MURE and
BROUGHAM, and the contempt of the Whig, Tory,
and Coalition press, it has been fortifying its po-
sition irresistibly in argument, and gathering tes-
timony to its efficiency as the remedy for bribery '
and turbulence at elections from every quarter.
From America, and from France, at times of
unparalleled excitement, its virtues as an instru-
ment of quiet and independent voting have been
undeniably attested. For, notwithstanding the
suspicions at the time, few now doubt that even
in the last French elections the votes deposited
represented, in nearly every instance, what the
voter at the time deemed best. The evidence of Mr.
COPFOCK again, though but that of an individual,
is, as we have already shown, of more weight than
the opinions of all her MAJESTY'S Privy Council
taken together ; inasmuch as he is the one man on
the liberal side, who knows the tactics, not of this
or that locality merely, but of every borough and
county constituency in the kingdom. But the
last, and by no means the least interesting, testi-
mony to the working of the Ballot is from GE-
NEVA. From that small republic, distinguished
indeed intellectually and ecclesiastically, but
riuMerically not larger than a third or fourth rate
English town, a most interesting communication
from a highly intelligent English gentle- NARROW ESCAPE OF THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS.
man residing there, has just been given A letter from Eisenach of the 2d inst., in the Journal de
to the public, in a local journal (the Norfolk Francfort, states that the Duchess of Orleans on the
l.
t accident.h
News), and we can assure the Cabinet Committee Previous.. 7
x.i d i dayo in
a sledge
serie
on the Reform Bill, and the whole Cabinet flle
, that ran off and'overturne(l the he
shaftsthe vehicle, but
broke,foarntunatelyortshees
it is well worthy their impartial consideration. Duchess received no injury beyond a severe fright.
It appears that there has been a Coalition The Duchess of Sutherland and the Duchess of
there too. A coalition of Electors, of the Con- Arr
Staffordshire.il ' '
tnda family
ha
servative party and the Democratical party, to The Duke and Duchess of Leinster have returned to
eject from office the Radical party, who had re- Carton-house from London. The Marchioness of Kil-
tained possession of it for .seven years. " The dare and infant are going on favourably at Kilkea-
Great Council," as it is called, or House of Com- hoThe Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are
mons, and the "State Council," a Cabinet of , expected to leave Hatfield-house to-day, where the
seven, who are the Executive, are each elected , Christmas festivities have closed, on a visit to the Queen
arild
hPerinmcearAulb.ert a
ancti Windsor Castle until Friday.
satofpColrtanurrnicuaardec,asurtlheo,
biennially in alternate years. Consequently the
have been qpassing the holidloaynses
people are appealed ,to in one of these modes
annually. On the 14th of last November the I intend to return to London the week after next, for. the
- season.
sion and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, and
present State Council was elected ; it was an occa
sion of the greatest political excitement. An able
Ministry of seven years' standin was to be dis-
their youthful family, have arrived in Carlton-terrace
g
from Arundel Castle.
placed if possible ; the suffrage was universal, the LORD CARDIGAN. —An absurd story is going the
i:o.ueontds-Coofltohneelperoovinciald. press,
sanhaiung theu 11thth Light.Dragfoo:is
to the effect that the
vote was by ballot, the largest party was to be
vanquished and vanquished by the combination 1 Lieut.-Colonel
pressed her Majesmtym'
being her partner at a dance at
of the wealthiest and the poorest, of the aristo- 1
upon
ViceolegiaolnPalace,
crats and the democrats. The Coalition withheld ,in Ireland. We need not say it is a fabrication. What-
their list of names till the election eve itself ; and , heveraoLdorhdo Ceavredrisgeane'rsefhaults of temper and caprice may
it may well be supposed that great numbers of
' well-brede awgentiemvan, tiosodwiscliplinary system, he is too
prepoestlevreorused in the usages of
ardent partisans did not sleep very soundly : courts, to be guilty of the sgaucherse ascribed
that night. It was known, too, that the pol- to him.—United Service Gazette.
ling would run very close ; nor had there Dr. Collmyeorr,utihne..ermionuendta congregational minister, died
been any lack of all the most exciting stimulants ye.FstßerEdraßyßa,
U JAN. 1. Thyo),Aarteahnbiandvaneed ae.
a op has suspended
which the press in all its forms supplies in the from their functions six curates who had disobeyed his
most strenuously contested English election. The orders.
election morning comes. Our Englishman, not a 1 Dr. D. B.
,Puhteillitpos,Cl3o nit Constantinople, has arrived at
b
United navy, bearer of
little apprehensive of the results of so many "
a -t-
-j the Imperial
lesen 7.
Hotel, Dublin.
tacks, defences, accusations, recriminations, in- ; AL ARMING ILLNESS OF BARON PENNEVATHER. We
sinuations, rumours, intrigues, handbills, and I learn from Dublin that Baron Pennefather had been
squibs in poetryand prose—in short, all the powder attacked by, very severe illness, and is not expected to
. survive. The the learned baron would create a
and shot to which we are accustomed in political
vacancy on thebench.
warfare"—walks off to the church in which the TIE GREAT NUGGET VEIN COMPANY. --The London
polling is taken. The town at least is quiet, only agents of the Great Nuggetbd Vein Company have re-
a few more pedestrians in the streets. The church, the
eivredet advisurns es r fromthe
and SepotffiemcebeartufS(hdeney, giving
s
although converted into a polling booth (what of Mr. Spence, August
the manager of the Colonial Goopledracom.
would CHARLES JA MES LONDON say to this ?), is pany, by whom the mine is worked, subject to the pay-
quiet too ; much quieter than at certain vestry ment of a portion of the profits of the Great Nugget
meetings since the Lords decided the Braintree
washings
The machinery is e nrrot
ertonin
oafctiohn,ehbut alluvial
case. A stream of voters enters by one aisle, re- of meanwhilethasu.a.rgeetve
inCompany was 381. forw August, the share
ceives from a clerk at its further extremity his 66/. for September. It is added,—" Private accounts,
voting ticket, termed a bulletin ; inscribes on it ''as' Well as official, continue. to hold oukprospeets of
great. success. The energy and management of the
the names he wishes, or asks some one, the clerk; superintendent of the Colonial
.Gold Company are
himself, perhaps, to do it for him ; passes on to highly spoken of, and he continues to write in good
two urns watched by two scarlet-robed function- ! spirits."

COBURG INFLUENCES AT COURT.

The country will learn with pleasure, that one
of the most spirited and independent members of
the House of Commons has intimated to his friends
his intention of bringing the whole question of the
CobUrg influences at the Court of Queen Victoria.
before Parliament, immediately on its re-assem-
bling. The subject could not have fallen into bet-
ter hands, provided the state of the hon. gentle-
man's health will be such as to admit of his going
fully, and with his wonted fearlessness, into it.
For the sake of Constitutional principles, and for
the sake of the honour and interests of England, it
is devoutly to be hoped that the hon. member's
physical strength may be adequate to the impor-
tant occasion.—Morning Advertiser.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 9.

The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoin-
ing the castle this morning. His Royal Highness after-
wards rode out on horseback, attended by Col. Bouverie.
Lord George Lennox has succeeded Lieut.-Colonel F.
Seymour in attendance on the Prince.

Mr. George Brand, R.N., her Majesty's vice-consul
at Loanda, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen
yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Aberdeen left town yesterday for Wind-
sor Castle.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday from the governors of New Zealand and the
West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent yesterday
to the governors of the Australian colonies.