The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-18 00:00:00

interest. Mr. Gladstone, the Tory candidate for Wal-
sall, is thus introduced and strongly recommended :

" The name of Gladstone is identified with almost every
quality which can adorn the man or the statesman; and it
also furnishes an unexceptionable guarantee for a perfect ac-
quaintance with those commercial interests upon which
the prosperity of such a constituency as that of Walsall
depends. Mr. Gladstone's personal qualifications, there-
fore, would have led us to take a deep interest in his suc.
cess, whoever might have been his opponent."
We think that this is carrying relationship a little too
far. For, although the Member for Newark may have
"almost every quality which can adorn the man or
the statesman," one family seldom produces two such
prodigies ; nor do we see any reason for supposing that
the commercial interests of Walsall are better under-
stood at Liverpool than at Manchester. There are
some points on which the name of Gladstone would cer-
tainly carry more weight than that of Smith. For in-
stance : the number of bows a priest should make at the
altar, and the precise shape of a deacon's hood. Did
the electors of Walsall require a Member peculiarly
versed in the mysteries of the slave trade, " the name
of Gladstone" would be a recommendation ; and on a
scheme for the supply of pure water, it would be irre-
sistible ! But we believe the electors of Walsall look
upon cheap bread as more important than dear sugar ;
and that, though friendly to the Church, they
have no leaning towards Puseyism. We also
look forward to the result of the contest with
considerable hope, partly from the favourable reports
we have received, and still more from the anger
of the Times at the activity of the Anti-Corn-law
League.—" It may be a question fit for the Legislature
to consider, whether individuals shall be permitted to
combine in an organized society for the purpose of in-
fluencing elections in so shameless and unconstitutional
a manner as this." The leaguers can interfere by advice
only. They are combined for the unholy purpose of
cheap bread I All their influences must be open and
direct. They have no power, by doing what they will
with their own, to turn those who vote against their can-
didate out of doors. This makes their influence, in the
eyes of the limes, " shameless and unconstitutional,"
in contradistinction from the constitutional and modest
practices at Newark and Carlow.
(From the Standard.)

The Conservatives of North Leicestershire held

their annual festival at Ashby-de-la-Zouch on Thurs-
day. Many excellent speeches were delivered upon
the occasion, which our readers will find in the report,
borrowed from the Times, in our first page. Among
these speeches that of Mr. Gough will be found to
hold a distinguished place : and one passage of it bears
so directly upon considerations that have lately engaged
our attention, that we cannot forego the pleasure of
quoting it :
" He was not the advocate of a blind and slavish homage
to party or persons ; much less did he admire the servile
worshippers of every political rising sun. He cared not
whether Sir Robert Peel or Lord Melbourne were Prime
Minister, provided the Noble Lord did not promote and
support measures which he believed not only dangerous
but fatal to the best interests of the country. His unal-
terable conviction was, that a Protestant Monarchy and a
Whig Government could not amalgamate or long co-exist.
—(Cheers.) He considered modern Whiggery to be a
compound of absolute tyranny, democracy, and Popery,
alike fatal to a Protestant Monarchy and the welfare and
I happiness of a Protestant community.—( Cheers. )'i
This expresses faithfully and eloquently the sense of
the great body of the Conservatives of England. They
hate and dread the present Government, as threaten-
ing danger to the Monarchy and to the Protestant in-
terest ; but they are indifferent to a change, until they
have an assurance that the succeeding Government will
be more firmly devoted to the preservation of those ob-
jects of their care. The present state of parties in
Parliament is this. We have, on one side, a Ministry
feebly supported, and willing to do anything or to sub-
mit to anything, for the sake of retaining their offices
—perhaps naturally disposed to evil, but restrained from
the indulgence of their natural bad disposition by a
powerful Conservative opposition—we have, on the
other side, that opposition, the great body of it animated.
by the best spirit, and the whole acting admirably
as an opposition, and effectually controlling the ill
tendencies of the Government, and the worse designs
of the Government supporters. This surely is not
an unsatisfactory position of affairs to men who look
for nothing beyond the safety of the Constitution
in Church and State, displeasing as it may be to the
hunters after office. Let us see, on the other hand,
what a change might bring. It might lead to a
compromising, under the name of a Conserva-
tive Government, to a Government possessed with
the feeling of Lord Ellenborough, who would rather
sacrifice the Protestant Church. or the Reformation
itself, than encounter another " Catholic question ;" to
a Government, in short, which has blit one tactic in the
face of an opponent—retreat or surrender. Would the
prospects of those who, with Mr. Gough, bestow their
first care on the safety of a Protestant Monarchy and
the welfare of a Protestant community," be improved
by such a change ? We say that they would be made
a great deal worse.

CAPTAIN JOHN REYNOLDS OF
THE ELEVENTH HUSSARS AND THE
HORSE-GUARDS.

(From the Alligator of Saturday.)
Captain J. Reynolds sent in his resignation, and
requested permission to sell out. After his papers
had been a fortnight or three weeks at the Horse-
Guards, a letter was sent by Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set to Captain Basil Hall, requesting an inter•
view with that gentleman, as his Lordship was de•
sirous of consulting him previously to accepting his
nephew's resignation. After a week's delay, an
appointment was made for a Saturday. On the day
appointed, it was understood Lord Fitzroy Somerset was
to remain at the Horse Guards after four o'clock, for
the purpose of an interview with Captain Basil Hall.
An accident, however, happened to the mail, which pre-
vented Captain Basil Hall from arriving in town in time,
and the interview was postponed until the next day
(Sunday) at his Lorship's private residence.
After matters of indifference had been talked over,
his Lordship alluded to the position in which Capt. J.
Reynolds was placed, and inquired if the cause of his
sending in his resignation arose from his intended mar-
riage ; for if it did, although it was an understood rule
in some regiments, that an officer, on his marriame,
should leave the corps, yet in the present case it might
be so arranged as not to require Captain J. Reynolds
to sell out. His Lordship was then told that that was
not the cause of the resignation ; the clear and distinct
cause was the overbearing and tyrannical conduct of
the Earl of Cardigan—that Captain J. Reynolds felt that
the value of his commission was not secure for even one
day whilst under the Earl's command ; and that the
Earl's conduct was overbearing, and his language abusive.
On hearinr, this, Lord F. Somerset inquired if the
Earl was in the habit of swearing at the officers ; and
had the satisfaction of having it explained to h;m, by
Captain B. Hall, that u commanding-officer might be
abusive without resorting to oaths. The result was,
that Lord F. Somerset promised to communicate
with the Adjutant-General ; and Captain John Reynolds
was forthwith ordered up from Chichester to attend at
the Horse Guards, and thus allow of a personal soli-
citation on the part of Lord F. Somerset, that he
would withdraw his resignation. Captain John Rey-
nolds arrived in London, and had an interview with the
Adjutant-General, when the terms agreed to, upon which
he consented to withdraw his resignation, were a re-
cantation of the censure given by General Sleigh on
the black bottle affair ; six months' leave of absence
(which had been previously refused by the Earl of Car-
digan), two years at the senior department of the Mili-
tary College, and a distinct and express understanding
that Captain John Reynolds should never again be re-
quired to serve for a single day under the Earl of
Cardigan.

MAJOR MORSE COOPER AND THE
HORSE GUARDS.
(From the same.)
Major Morse Cooper has made two applications to
the Horse Guards to be allowed to exchange from half.
pay to the active duties of his profession ; and in those
applications named the officers who were willing to ex-
change with him. In consequence of the refusal of both
these applications, Major Morse Cooper addressed a let-
ter to Lord Hill, in justification of his conduct. In
this letter, Major Morse Cooper explains the position
in which he has been placed, by the Horse Guards
sheltering the Earl of Cardigan under the very acts for
which they were censuring him ; he tells the Horse
Guards that he is folly prepared to prove every asser-
tion he had made relative to the Earl, and complains
of the illegality
which sat on Captain A. Reynolds, for quoting his,
and injustice of the Court-martial
Major Cooper's, words, in the censure attached to
the finding and sentence of that Court-martial, when
such evidence was given upon oath. Major Cooper
requested Lord Hill, should it not be his Lord-
ship's intention to allow him to resume the active duties
of his profession, to accept of his twenty-seven years'
service as a gratuity to the country, and allow him to
receive the money he had actually paid for his commis-
sions. In reply, Lord Hill regrets the asperity of tone
which prevailed throughout the Major's letter, and is
astonished to find him justifying himself in op-
position to the Court-martial, and assures the Major he
is not warranted in the conclusion he has arrived at, in
supposing that it was Lord Hill's intention to prevent
his resuming the active duties of his profession.

THE EARL OF CARDIGAN AND THE
HORSE GUARDS.

(From the same.)
Above we have given two cases, in which the Horse
ards, to shelter the Earl of Cardigan, has been
to succumb, in a very unprecedented manner,
to two junior officers in the service. We hope, on
the meeting of Parliament, that Major M. Coo-
per's letter to the Horse Guards, and Lord Hill's
reply, will be read to the House by some Honourable
Member after moving for their production. We feel
confident if that were only done, that it would require
nol evidence to prove how utterly the authori-
ties of the Vorse Guards have lost that high tone so
necessary for command, in a vain endeavour to uphold

one whose conduct from the beginning to the end has
been so indefensible.

It would appear, from a country paper, that there has
been a rumour of Lord Hill's intended resignation
from ill health ; but that journal remarks, that they are
happy to hear his Lordship is in good health; and,
therefore, doubts the truth of the rumour. Perhaps
the circumstances we narrated in our first number, and
those we now disclose, may more easily account for the
rumoured resignation.

It seems to us that the result of this commotion
must be either the resignation of Lord Hill, or of the
Earl of Cardigan. Between these two, who can hesitate
as to the services which have been the most valuable to
the country ?
[An old military officer suggests that Lord Fitzroy
Somerset, perhaps, will feel bound to follow Lord
Hill's resignation, should the rumour be founded on
truth, as he, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, has, personally,
much interfered on behalf of his friend the Earl of
Cardigan.]