The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

THE ,LANCAS H IRE EOIiIANItY.
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...INr4 gib the following explanation of a circumstance,
Waleh wquoted a short time since from a Manchester
taper, anwhich has been addressed by the Noble writer
10 a Contnporar August 6, 1841.
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" Worsley, Manchester,
"Sir,--11rom a. paragraph in your paper of yesterday,
infer ht remarks have lately appeared in other
Publicatia of extensive circulation, on my recent ac-
ceptance a commission in the Lancashire Yeomanry,
Which atilt a most undue importance and a most erro-
neous cotruction to that proceeding. lam reluctant
troublrour readers or yourself on such a subject ;
but as ti absurdity of the conclusions on which you
have conented is partly attributed to a misconception
of the fin, you will, I am confident, not object to apply
a furthenrrective in the following statement:—
" Sonnionths ago, Colonel Braddyl, the late cora-
mandanif the Duke •of Lancaster's Yeomanry, an-
nounce& intention to retire. The officers of the corps
did me I honour of desiring that I should succeed to
vaev, and with my consent the appointment was
vueetedi the usual course, by. the recommendation of
the LorLientenant to her 'Majesty.. My eldest son at
the samime also received a commission in the corps.
When tllatter appointment was made known in this
aeighbolood, some forty or fifty of my neighbours and
tenants,isolicited on my part, expressed to me a desire
t° form ?,mselves into a troop, in the hope that my son
nitht (Ain the command of it. The present establish-
11C't of e corps, consisting of three troops, being small
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t° ompison with the force in other districts, I should
ha, hi little i;cruple in recommending this pro-
Nat Lobe consideration of her Majesty's Govern-
ram; It believing that the estimate for this branch
of t) pane service had been made up for the year, I
wasintling to trouble the Home-office with an apple-
cult wich could. have no immediate result. I have,
thenr( in fact, neither raised a troop of yeomanry,
nor del any positive step towards the raising one. It
woulapear that these ordinary and most unimportant
°counts have been magnified into a measure for the
ape© Fotecti.an of my own property, or even some
11orejeetiowable purpose. Whether they can reason-
aolytr such a construction the public may judge.
"I not trouble you with any observations in de-
iencethe yeomanry force, or my connexion with it,
Is I cot gather from your observations that the mere
fact, joining it is objected to,lf it were so I
&Woe inclined to leave our de fence to the many
whigntkmen who, much in my opinion to their own
ereditd the: public advantage, and I am confident under
110 abtd or selfish apprehension of danger to their own
ProPes, be commissions in the yeomanry, and take
an act) int' ;rest" iii its efficiency.
":1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
"F. EGERTON."

W 00 LW ICH-MONDAY.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Capin Nedham, Lieutenant Hawery, and 50 non-
e°ll2Wion(,cl officers and men, marched for conveyance
4,,
rormout,h, where they are to embark in the Athol
oop.tip,
slid sail immediately for Jamaica. Gunner
`9q diver Smith, of the 4th battalion, one of the volun-
teers
)r this service, absented himself yesterday, and,
141tlionh two parties were sent in search of him, he
"3tlld of be found. He returned, hoWever, of himself
this taming, when he thought it would be too late, and
71/3 plced in custody, and will be tried by Court-martial
! tl, offe.nce. Another volunteer was soon found in
„75 plce, and the men marched in high spirits for their
7stuatiort. Gunner and driver Smith will, it is said,
erlv be punished for his conduct, but he will be sent
°ta. to arbadoes with the Ist detachment or company
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that station.
iest2rday (Sunday) a distressing accident occurred at
the
Wtolwich Dockyard, which has been the cause of
the detest grief to the family of Mr. Feltham, one of
the
inalectors of the police having charge of the yard.
Their bon a fine boy about ten years of age, while play-
-g Jondthe edge of the New East-dock, which has re-
for","3' been completed, fell into the water, and was un-
"lnately drowned, having remained upwards of a
quarterad of an hour under the water before the body was
a
Every possible means to restore animation was
toctect, but without effect. The melancholy occurrence
Place between three and four in the afternoon.
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THE BATH ELE.CTION.
inThe tumultuary passions aroused bY the late election
to 'flis city among the defeated party having had time
pa„,4bate, it is not unreasonable to inquire why such
one ever became excited.
if those who have so intemperately yielded to them
..ate
feel. 'lone so on any grounds either of reason or right
tng, it must be an advantage to them to have an op-
Portunity of vindicating conduct which, if unexplained,
;Inist be regarded by every reflecting mind as both sense-
ess and disgraceful.
The censure here pronounced may appear itself to
need explanation, and certainly so grave an accusation
demands that the conduct condemned, and the grounds
of condemnation, should both be clearly stated.
Were the intemperance displayed only a sudden ebul-
lition, likely to terminate with the occasion which gave
rise to it, prudence, as well as charity, would pass it over
unnoticed, in the hope that with returning calmness of
temper misconduct so glaring and indefensible would
ue- speedily self-corrected. But the outrage on public
morals is not of this transitory nature, neither is it so
slight as to be contemned for its insignificance. For
specifying the delinquency arraigned it is enough to say,
What none of the accused will venture, or indeed feel clic.
11°sed to deny, for they actually glory in their shame,
mat the trading class of the burgesses have to a large
extent been visited harshly and cruelly with loss of busi-
ness
n account of votes conscientiously given, and that
luelisures are systematically pursued for establishing a
Practice of exclusive dealing ; that the private intercourses
I life have been suspended through the vindictive feeling
engendered; that even friendships which had long endured
have been rudely severed ; and that, so inveterate has been
too hostile feeling generated, as to aim at the demolition
I,'f,a long-established and most respectable society, which
of Bath
for more than half a century supplied to the gentry-
''',_Bath an agreeable medium of social intercourse, and
t°ll, being of no political character, had its harmony
never before disturbed by political contention. Such evils
S the foregoing are neither slight in their nature, transi-
tory in their operations, nor at all of the harmless cha-
racter which would justify their being passed over unno-
ticed or unreproved ; and to the bar of public opinion
are these delinquents now summoned,. to show cause
whY public condemnation should not be pronounced
;rust their misdoings—why their offences should not
visited with public opprobrium. It would be cu-
tjas to see how they who have been guilty of
conduct here reprehended would attempt its
formal vindication. Their aeal must be addressed
either to intellect or moral feeling. If to intellect,
they will find some difficulty in proving that such con-
duet_ as that alleged is consonant with reason ; and if to
oral feelings, the code of morals does not exist which
would afford its sanction to such dereliction of all moral
Principles. But, independently of all scrutiny of overt
act, the primary impulse which could have incited to
their
acts, demands inquiry. Will the parties commence
vindicatory plea with assuming that their political
dews alone are right 9 that their superiority of intellect
and • . •
purity of principle are such, that all who differ
from
them must not only. be wrong, but be so disreputable
In their imputed error, as to merit social degradation ?
or to no less an extreme does the proscription of the in-
t°le_ritnt party tend. If such be the notions of this party
a
• more signal exemplification of folly and arrogance
•Could scarcely be exhibited.
To furnish even a colourable pretext for such high pre-
tensions as have been displayed, they who presume so to
!ssert it ought surely to have some claim to pre-eminence
111 intellectual powers, high cultivation, moral worth,
1111 d exalted station. Do the leaders of the intolerant
partyt belong to this category ? It is fairly presumable
~oat they do not, for those so endowed would be little
likely to suffer the base passions of their animal nature
to to predominate over the intellectual and moral as to
guilty of such outrages as are now impugned. That
taaparties accused are at all distinguished, save by the
acrimony with which they have vented their unruly pas-
sions, is yet to be learned ; and unless they can adduce
some better claim to consideration than their self-estima-
tion furnishes, they will do well to forego their assumed
importance, which, in the display made of it, can procure
them no better return than ridicule and contempt.
Far as they have gone in their wayward misdoings,
they ruay;yet retract, and in pity to themselves they are
exhorted to do so for if they persist in the senseless
career into which they allowed ungoverned temper to be-
tray them, they will in no long time discern that in
yielding to the impulse of turbulent and unrestrained
Passion, they have not only called down
the severe rep on themselvre-
es
the ridicule of the lighter minded, but
hension of all whose judgment and principles are entitled
to respect.--Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.

NEW TRICK.—An ingenious robbery was '
"unfitted on Monday evening, between seven ana eight
o'clock, on Waterloo-bridge. An elderley perstohn over
,
Very
respectable appearance, was sitting in one of
cesses, when, on a sudden, a boy, who was passing
man,
the bridge, threw some dirt at him. The gentle
indignant at the insult, shook a silver-headed cane,
which he had, at the mischievous young rascal, who,
nothing daunted, continued throwing. At length a sort
of " shabby-genteel " looking personage coming up, ex-
pressed his idea of the very improper conduct of the boy
and begged the gentleman to lend him his cane, and he
would soundly chastise the fellow for his impudence.
The cane was given up to the " shabby-genteel," who
ran after the boy, passed the gate on the Surrey side,
and "made a forget" to return. The gentleman, after
"cooling his heels" on the bridge, waiting impatiently
for his cane, which was worth a:sovereign, had the mor-
tification to go home with his clothes, covered with dirt,
and minus his silver-headed cane.
_ APPALLING CARRIAGE ACCIDENT IN
PORTLAND-PLACE.—On Sunday night, about half-past
eleven o'clock, the following dreadful carriage accident
occurred in Portland-place (and which it is feared will
be attended with fatal consequences), to a poor old man
of the name of Thomas Bull, residing at No. 24, Bain-
bridge-street, St. Giles's. It appears that the unfortu-
nate man was returning to his residence ; in crossing
Portland-place he was knocked down by the horses of a
gentleman's carriage, proceeding at a rapid rate, and the
wheels of the carriage passed over his lower extremi-
ties. The screams of the unfortunate sufferer were
dreadful. Assistance being procured he was imme-
diately carried to Middlesex Hospital, enduring excru-
ciating
agonies. On examination by the surgeons of
the
injuries sustained, it was found that the wheels had
basset over the abdomen, and caused a rupture of the
owels. The poor sufferer lies without the remotest
hopes of recovery.
Lord Ashley is now on a tour through the ma.
itufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, with
Qie view of acquiring information as to the actual condi-
tion of the labouring population.—Liverpool Chronicle.