The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, ,LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1840.

80,0001., as stated at the last half-yearly meeting,
beyond the amount which the present Acts of Parlia-
ment empower the Company to raise, will be sufficient
fully to complete the undertaking.
" The traffic for the half-year ending 30th June,
having yielded a profit of 35,154/. 16s. 2d., the Di-
rectors propose therewith to pay a dividend of one pound
per share, which will require the sum of 35,124/. The
proprietors will be aware that this profit arose upon the
line only partially opened to Southampton, from Ist
January to 11 th May, and upo❑ the entire line from
the 11th May to 30th June, being fifty days. This
dividend of one pound per share somewhat exceeds the
rate of five per cent. per annum on the money actually
received from the proprietors. The gross traffic for the
six months from the Ist January to 30th June, was
87,157/. 6s. 2d., being 478/. 17s. Bd. per diem. The
gross traffic for 58 days, from the 30th June to Thurs-
day last the 27th instant, was 59,484/. 15s. 4d., being
1,025/. 12s. per diem, which view of the Company's
finances fully justified the prospect of a still greatly in-
creased future dividend."

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.

On Saturday evening, at six o'clock, Mr. C. C. Lewis,
tha Coroner ; Mr. John Sidey Cayley, the Foreman ;
and Messrs. Taylor, Zurhorot, Moss, Mayhew, S. W.
Brown, Phillips, Scott, Winter, Eagles, E. Wallis, Ben-
son, and B. Bacon, the Jury empanelled on the bodies
of Mr. George Richard Ebsworth, William Austin,
John Eastman, and George Foster, the four unfortunate
persons who lost their lives by the recent appalling ca-
tastrophe, assembled, pursuant to adjournment from
Wednesday last, at the White Hart inn, Brentwood,
fur the purpose of signing the inquisition and verdict in
the above cases.

On the Coroner taking his seat,
The Foreman called his attention and that of his
brother Jurors, to the species of animadversion which
the Eastern Counties Railway Company had cast upon
them, in consequence of the verdict they bad come to in
the conscientious discharge of their duty. All he could
say about the matter was, that if it had not satisfied the
Eastern Counties Railway Company it had the public.
He had not met with an individual who had not consi-
dered it a proper verdict.
A juror said he had heard that it was the intention of
the Company not to pay a shilling of the deodand, but
he hoped there was a way to compel them to do so. The
line between Brentwood and Romford was not in a fit
state to be opened to the public, and it was proper some
notice should be taken of it ; but. a few days since two
trains coming down the one line in opposite directions
had nearly ran into one another, and if they had done so
the loss of life must have been frightful. The result was
that the London trains had to return, causing a delay of
nearly two hours.
Another juror inquired how many accidents happened
on the line between Brentwood and Romford before the
P-
•.esent• It was stated there had been twelve or thir-
teen; terminating fatally, on the last four miles alone.
A juror inquired what would become of the deodand
in the event of its being paid. He had beard that C. T.
Towers, Esq., the Lord of the Manor, and High Sheriff
of the County, bad set up his right to it, and had inti-
mated his intention, should he be able to support it, to
divide it amongst the widows of the sufferers, Austin,
Eastman, and Foster.
The Coroner remarked, that it would be his duty
as Coroner to make a return of the deodand being
:evied to the Crown, and it would, he believed, be found
that Mr. Towers would have to make his claim there.
The Coroner here proceeded to read the forms of
the several inquisitions, which were signed by the jury,
and the court was dissolved.
From inquiries made, the reporter ascertained that
Mr. Pearson, whose skull was fractured, and who was
otherwise seriously injured, up to a late hour on Friday
remained in a very dangerous state, so much so that it
was deemed advisable to call in the aid of Mr. Bransby
Cooper, of London, and who attended a consulta-
tion on Saturday with Drs. Butler, Richardson, and other
eminent physicians, upon his case. The unfortunate
gentleman resided at Bury St. Edmunds, and he is a stu-
dent attached to Guy's Hospital. Mr. Corbould, the son
of Mr. Corbould, the eminent engraver, also remains at the
Fleece Inn, in a very precarious position, from the fright-
ful scalds and burns he has received. Mr. Tozer, of
Bishopsgate-street, who was lying at the White Hart
Inn, was sufficiently recovered to be enabled to lease
Brentwood on Saturday afternoon for his residence
at Hackney, in an invalid carriage. Mr. Moss, who
was confined at the Spread Eagle, in Gracechurch-
street, is reported to be much better.
The carriages and broken engine still remain in the
position in which they fell on running off the line, co-
vered with sailcloth, but a body of workmen will he
employed on Monday to remove them.
Mr. Towers, who is Lord of the Manor of South
Weeld, in which the accident took place, founds his
claim upon privileges granted to it by the Crown in
the reign of Queen Mary, who is stated to have lived
there for some period, making the manor.house her
palace, and thereby making it a Royal demesne.
It is understood to be the determination of the Rai-
way Company not to pay the deodand levied upon
them, but., as in the case of the sinking of the Tyiian,
to appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench.

Table refer

Stations
ordered
and the

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THE VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT
TO THE GUILDHALL, ON THE DAY OF
THE PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM
OF THE CITY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.

That Prince Albert felt great regret at not being
able to dine with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house,
after the reception which his Royal Highness met in the
Guildhall, the following letter, which repeats the senti-
ments which we heard his Royal Highness deliver to
the Lord Mayor in the Council-Chamber, strongly testi-
fies. His Lordship received the letter on the night of
the day of the presentation of the freedom :
Buckingham Palace, Aug. 28, 1840.
My dear Lord,-1 have received the command of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to repeat to you the
very great regret with which he felt himself compelled
to decline your hospitality this day, and begs you to
appreciate the true motives of delicacy, which he felt
imperatively bound to yield to, and to give up what,
under other circumstances, would have given him so
much pleasure.
As his Royal Highness had hoped once more, at
that dinner, to have had an opportunity of expressing
the gratification which he had derived from his visit to
the City, he has commanded me to take this means of
conveying it to you, and through you to others ; and
his Royal Highness trusts that, at some future time,
he may have that pleasure which he was this day obliged
to forego.-1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord,
your's very faithfully, GEO. ANSON.

THE ARMY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Some days ago a paragraph appeared in The
Sun, giving an account of the intended movements of
certain Regiments of the Line ; I confess to you that
the contents of that paragraph struck ma as so extraor-
diaary and improbable that 1 gave no credence to it ;
I nevertheless made inquiries at the Horse Guards, and,
to my astonishment—to my indignant astonishment, I find
that your information is perfectly correct. Suffer me
then now, Sir, to expose to the public, through your
excellent Journal, one of the most outrageous acts of
injustice that has ever been perpetrated, and to make
this appear more plainly, I refer you to the two tables
attached to the foot of this letter.
You will perceive that the 42d, 79th, 88th, 97th, and
2d battalion of Rifles, are to proceed to the Mediterra-
nean, to relieve the 33d, 47th, 59th, 92d, and 2d batta-
lion of the 60th, which corps are ordered to the W'KST
INDIES !!! Now, Sir, will you, or the public believe,
that the former foreign stations of these five unfortu-
nate corps, was either in the EAsT or WEST INDIES 1! !
The 33d, 92d, and 2d battalion of 60th had each their
ten or eleven years of West India service, and were, I
believe, twice or thrice recruited both in officers and men,
owing to the diseases of that dread lid climate. The two
other corps, the 47th and 59th, had also each upwards
of TWENTY YEARS' service in the Bengal Presidency,
and returned to Europe with little else than the mere
name of regiments.
Let us now inquire into the former stationsf the
corps which are to relieve these hapless regiments. The
last station of the 97th was Ceylon, and of
but course
42d that
corps is now entitled to a good quarter ; the ,
88th, and 2d battalion of Rifles last served—where ?
at ,Jamaica. St. Lucia, Berbice ? No ; but at CoitFu ! ! !
and the 79th in NORTH AMERICA. Hence in all
equity these are the regiments which ought now to go
direct to the West Indies as reliefs to the corps ordered
from thence to Canada. But, Sir, there happen to be
four corps which are known in the service as PET
REGIMENTS—corps in which the Aristocracy and men
of money are serving, and it would be a great shame
to send such fine gentlemen to such vile stations
as the East or West Indies. I may be told this is the
rotation plan—whatever it be, it is merely the carrying
out of that disgraceful system of partiality and favoritism
which has now grown to such an enormity, that the ser-
vice never expects to receive fair play from the potters
that be. If anything were required to prove that mili-
tary men, when in authority, are the worst foes the ser-
vice have to contend against, the late Military Com-
mission would afford abundant evidence. Had that
commission been composed of civilians, they would not
have deemed the wages they give then butlers a suf-
ficent reward for the services of gentlemen, who peril
their lives in all quarters of the globe.
But to return to the immediate subject of this let,
ter. Allow me to ask you, Sir, can you be surprised
that in regiments who are treated with this crying in-
justice, discipline is lax, punishments frequent, deser•
tions constant ? Sir, I am an old soldier, and I know
of no better method of disorganizing, a corps than to
treat it with injustice. Its officers soon become dispi-
rited, and its soldiers reckless. The British army is
composed of reasonable men, and I tell Major Tulloh
and my Lord Howick, that their rotation system is any,
boon to the service, It is unpopular, be,
net only put the country to

thing buy.
cause these eonstani.....

immense expense, but are also ruinous, in this respect,
to individuals. We know that there are unhealthy
climates and colonies which must be garrisoned,
and from this duty which our country demands
of us, we do not shrink ; all we ask is, let every corps
in the service have fair phy—kt not the Commander-
in-Chief, the Quartermaster-General, or the Adjutant-
Generai, or the Secretary at War, abuse their power to
gratify their favourites by their partiality. Let not
such corps as the 9th, 14th, 05th, 33d, 47th, 50th,
59th, 92d, 2d battalion of the 60th, be doomed to serve
perpetually in the unwholesome climate of the East or
West Indies, while regiments who happen to have in
their ranks the relatives of officials, and the scions of
the nobility, such as the Hills, the Fitzroys, the Bayles,
the Thurlorvs, the Pakcnhanis, the Lennox, the Arbuth-
nols, as is the case in the 7th, Vd, 43d, 53d, 60th,
71st, 72d (the cape Guards), 79th, 85th, 88th, which
regiments are always indulged with the balmy clime of
he Mediterranean, the Cape of Good Hope, or the not
ess salubrious one of North America.
I remain, Sir,

-- •--~

An Old Soldier who has never been indulged with
a good station in 25 years' service.
United Service Club, Aug. 07, IS4O.

TABLE 11

Table referred to in the above, showing the last foreign
statio❑ and the period there served by the corps now
under orders for the MEDITERRANEAN.

Last Period of Service in
Regiments' Foreign Station. j last Foreign Station. Remarks.
From To
4'2d Corfu ...... ....... 1823 1836
79th North America. 1825 1836
88th
cCor four
f. u
1837 1
. ...... 1825 1836
2tl
I Never even
1826 •
,in I rel and I.
Ba
Riflest tal.io n

TABLE 11.
red to in the above, showing the last Foreign
and the Date of Return of Five Regiments
o the WEST INDIES, also their present Quarters,
Date of their Arrival :-
1 Last

Station. ,return
Last 1 Year 'I
Present of ar-
Date
Regiments. Foreign ofßemarks.
, Station.
rival.
'I
331 Jamaica. 1832 Gibraltar 1837
47th Bengal... 1829 Malta ... 1834
59th Bengal... 1829 Corfu .... 1834
2d Bt. 60th Berbice.. 1829 lon. Isles 1835
92d Jamaica 1827 Malta ... 1834

FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND THE
EASTERN QUESTION.

Generally speaking, the tone of the Paris journals is
still more pacific than it was a few days ago, but those
persons who should infer from this comparative calm
that all ill-feeling is at an end, would be as much in
error as those who, from the tone of the journals, when
the news of the treaty of London first arrived, inferred
that there could be no other result than war. The
Constitutionnel, as if for the purpose of checking over
confidence as to peace, still contemplates the possibility
of war ; but nothing has appeared in the official journals
since the declaration of their belief that the eventualities
of the present question would be pacific, to justify fresh
alarm. The Constitutionna, in answer to the call which
has been made upon the Ministry toreply to the question,
" Shall we have peace or war ?" says—" The French
Government must wait to see what the foreign powers
will do. If it engaged in a dispute which it did not pro-
voke, and which it has done all in its power to prevent,
it is not the less in need of all its strength—that is to
say, of the cool and sympathetic support of the whole
nation. To obtain this powerful support, it must merit
it by the justice of its cause and the moderation of its
conduct. If the French Government were to become
the provoking party, all the calamities of war would be
ascribed to its imprudence, and public disapprobation
would weaken its resources for war. So long as the
treaty is merely on paper, the Government can reply to
it by notes. But as the parties who signed it may pro-
ceed to acts, the Government was bound to provide for
such a result. This is what it has done. It does not
know for a certainty whether there will be peace or
war, and in this uncertainty it must be prepared. It
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This
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does prepare, and it would expose itself to just re-
proachesen ntlioahnsesaelr
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trhiietoon,w'te:leeel vrceeharari,
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having lowered
be proved by facts."
re-
proaches the Ministry with its voice,
and placed itself in a humiliating attitude. It says—
" No more is heard of armaments ;" but the above
article of the CynOtutionnel is a reply by
anticipation to this assertion. The Debuts, like
Courrier Francais, sees in the resumption,, .of
the negations for. a commercial' treaty 'be-
tween England and France a strong sign of recon-
ciliation. The fact is, indeed, an important one ; for,
if the two Governments did not really believe, as both
have declared, that the probabilities are for peace,
the resumption of these negotiations at such a moment
would be worse than mockery. To commercial men
the constant dread of war is almost as injurious as war
itself, for it unhinges all those arrangements and provi-
sions which are the soul of trade. The Debuts, after
stating that the only point now to be settled in the
treaty (the English Government having given way on
those points which remain in dispute when Mr. Porter
left Paris) is the estimation of the specific duties which
are to represent the ad valorem duties fixed by the Con-
vention, and which, it says, is a mere matter of detail
which can give rise to no dispute, adds--" This treaty
is, in a political sense, a good omen for the maintenance
of an honourable alliance between the two nations.
The true national interest of England, that which do-
minates, is its commercial interest. Whatever dif-
ferences may arise in politics, so long as the
commercial interests are not implicated, the ma-
jority will remain comparatively indifferent, but it
is not so when the interests of the great mer-
chants and manufacturers, who, in England, are at the
head of affairs, are assailed. It is evident that in Eng-
land the wealthy and enlightened reject with as much
envy as the mass the idea of a war with France. The
treaty of commerce once concluded between the two
nations will be a new ground of hope for those who are
at this moment anxious for peace. We see in the re-
turn of the English commissioner a marked disposition
on the part of the British Government towards a policy
more in harmony with that of France and with the in-
terests of Europe."
The memorandum which the Augsburg Gazette has
published, as a textual copy of what was presented by
Lord Palmerston to M. Guizot, excites considerable
interest. Most of the journals believe that if it is not
textually correct it is correct in spirit, and some of them
reason upon it as if it were official. If the copy given
by the Augsburg Gazette be a faithful one, it can only
have been procured by one of those official larcenies
which are so common, and which it is perhaps difficult
to prevent. It is probable, however, that the cox.-
munication was made by a person who had read the
paper or heard it read more than once, and who by
making notes of it at the time, was able at length to give
to
something very much like the original. The Conslitu-
/ionize/ says :—" We have reason
incorrect in more than one point ; but whatever that it
is
the
truth may be as to the spirit of the article, the French
public will remark that most of the allegatiron! of Lord
Palmerston have been officially denied. Things have
not passed as the memorandum pretends, and if a con-
troversy were to arise on this point, the M. inistry, we
are convinced, would only have to publish in explana-
tion of its conduct the energetic protests which” followed
the communication of this diplomatic note.
The Quotidienne has the following :7" If the asser-
tions of Lord Palmerston be true ; if it be true that
the four powers offered to adopt an arrangement founded
on the views which the French Ambassador in London
had expressed towards the end of last year ; if, in fact'
the French Government repeatedly declared that it
for t.he., purpose of obtaining
bad nothing to object to in the arrangement which the
Lyn,oonwd,o nb ?
four powers wished to mak.e. Mehemet Ali accept,
provided he should consent ; if, finally, it promised that,
in any case, France would not oppose the measures
which the four powers, accord with the Sultan,
necessarycha of Egypt ;
all this be
shouldter
certain,
on judgesae
un dt
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rt l
ea
p spa,
proved, how are we compre-
initnsimate impatience of the public. We
compre-
hend the warlike manifestations of M. Thieurst
'We will
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which cannot be
will wait
frnotoerfutshge
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to
ux furtherptlha enaltei
go
must, however, remark that the Ministerial question only
learn-
ing the signature of
utohfuert
utrereeflai
is raised by the menierandlii!z. If the Powers have
really received the most pacific assurances from the
French Government, the treaty of London is not on
that account in harm
harmony with the interests of France.
llt is only the more clearly shown that the just demands
of national honour have been neglected by an ignorant
and guilty policy."
The Courrier Francais says, " It will be remarked
that this pretended memorandum bears the same date as
the treaty of London. It is certain, however, that the
interview in which Lord Palmerston gave the true me-
morandum to M. Guizot only took place on the 17th,
two days after the signature off the treaty, The
person
who arranged the version of the Augsburg Gazette is
a clever man, but the alterations from the official
text, although trifling in extent, are
of great impor-
tance in fact We do not believe that Lord Palmerston
.
alluded in his memorandum to a proposition which
France is said to have put forward under the Ministry of
May 1", or that any proposition addressed by that
Ministry to the four Pow ers obtained their assent.
Lord Palmerston endeavoured to lay hold of a kind of
tacit consent said to have been given. by France to the
views of the Powers ; but this falsehood, for it is one,
is, we understand, expressed in more general terms. It
is indeed true that Lord
.Palmerston, in announcing to
the French Ambassador in London the insult which
he had just put upon us, presumed to invite our Go-
vernment to interpose its moral influence with Mehemet
Ali in order to bring about a cowardly submission ;
but it is not true that this audacious request ever
assumed the form of a summons, or that a demand has
been made upon us to do what it was well known we
should refuse,"