The Sun.
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LONDON, SA CURDAY, .APRIL 18, 1840.

To the Ministers and Office-bearers of the Wesleyan Me.
thodist Societies in Manchester, Mr. O'Connell's Letter.
To CORRESrONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
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the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledges
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors ; or
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity as it is possible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."—
The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem-
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18th, and 25th, ISM The Sun, December 27, 1838, Feb. 5,
1839.
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WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 17, 1840.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Cornet H. Ross,
(Ensign on half-pay of the 59th Foot) to be Cornet, vice
Ryder, promoted; G. J. Brown, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Ross, who retires, April 17.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Battalion-
Surgeon J. Johnson to be Surgeon-Major, vice J. Harrison,
who retires, April 17.
13th Regiment of Foot—Ensign G. Newsom, from half-pay
of the Ist Greek Light Infantry Regiment, to be Ensign, vice
Curcton, appointed to the 16th Light Dragoons ; Allen Mont-
gomery, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Newsom, who
retires, April 17.

20th Foot—Major W. H. Cadogan, from half-pay Unat-
tached, to be Major, vice J. Maclean, who exchanges ; Capt. F.
Croat! so be Major, by purchase, vice Cadogan, who retires;
1.,.ut. J. C. W. Vivian to be Captain,
by purchase, vice
Croad ; Ensign G. Stevens to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Vivian ; G. F. W. Paley, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Stevens, April 17.
3:kth Foot—J. V. H. Montagu, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Piper, promoted, April 17.
49th Foot—G. Weir, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hely, appointed to the 7th Light Dragoons, April 17.
65th Foot—Captain C. Wise, to be Major, by purchase,
vice Walker, who retires; Lieutenant J.*L. Smith to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Wise ; Ensign P. Wolfe to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Smith; T. G. Knox, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Wolfe, April 17.
69th Foot—H. V. Mundell, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice F. Mundell, promoted in the Ist West India
Reg.:ment, April 17.
74th Foot--Ensign 0. Willington, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Hemphill, who retires, April 17 ; J. T. Nash,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Willington, April 17.
Ist West India Regiment—Ensign F. Mundell, from the
69th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Reade, de-
ceased, April 17.

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Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry.
—G. Storer, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice E. Percy, re-
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Holmepierepont Troop.—R. Bromley, Esq., to be Captain,
April 10.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
Derby and Chaddesden Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.—E. S.
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April 11.

The following places have been duly registered for solemniz-
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William I% . , chap. 85 :
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The I ndependent Chapel, Marden, Kent.

LITERATURE.

LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MILITARY

LIFE-2 VoLs.
Colburn, London, 1840.

The first of these two volumes is a translation from
the French of Count Alfred De Vigny, who commenced
his military career just after the abdication of Napoleon
at Fontainebleau ; and the second is a translation from
a work by M. Elzear Blaze, also a soldier; who joined
the French army soon after the battle of Eylau, and
continued with it till the conclusion of the general
peace. Both volumes, as might be expected, refer to
military matters, and consist of curious and romantic
reminiscences of their respective authors, divided into
separate chapters, to most of which the editor, Sir
Charles Napier, has attached such explanatory and cri-
tical comments as they seemed to him to require. Re-
marking on one of Count Alfred de Vigny's observations
that " France was beginning to be cured of her passion
for military glory," the editor says :—" I have lately
spent two years in France, and though I admit that the
Count ought to be a better judge than myself, yet I
saw no symptom of that country being cured of the
desire for military glory. I think that young France
teems with it, and only wants a leader, to blaze
forth in all the wildness of war. The love of military
glory is a strong disease in all countries, but an in
curable one in the heart of a Frenchman." This re-
mark deserves attention, as coming from an acute and
practised observer. In answer to another of the Count's
assertions that many of the superior French officers
are remarkable for their formality of manner and pro-
digious assumption of importance, Sir C. Napier ob-
serves, " this is not peculiar to the French army ; I
have often noticed it in some of our own officers ;" and
he then proceeds, as follows, to enumerate several
eminent military men who were distinguished by frank-
-fleas and simplicity of character :
" Wolfe (as I was told by a friend of his, who was
also a captain in his regiment) used to amuse himself with
his officers as if he were an ensign. Sir Ralph Aber-
crombie, too—there was no affectation in that great soldier.
Neither was there in Lord Cornwallis, a man remarkable
for the noble simplicity of his character. Sir John Moore
was equally destitute of affected dignity. He entered
into the society of those under his command as their equal,
confident that his vast superiority as a man would, at all
times, raise him more above them than even his high rank
could do : he required no external aid. There was,
among his officers, an awe of him; but it was not inspired
by any reserve or haughtiness of manner on his part;
though I have seen him put down pert and self-sufficient
men by a degree of sarcasm which few could withstand ;
those who could were not likely to provoke it. His
mariners were extremely polished and agreeable, cheerful,
and, at times, even playful. I recollect once standing in
the street at Lisbon, looking at a very pretty woman who
was at a window, when some one gently laid hold of both
my ears, saying in a joking tone, "Ah ! caitiff ! have I
caught you ?—what right have you to look at such an ugly
old woman as that ? I will put you under arrest." Turn-
ing round, I saw that it was the commander-in-chief !
" I will thank you for the punishment, sir," said I, " it
you will place the ugly old woman over me as sentry."
Another time, when going from his quarters in the village
of Sandgate to the evening parade, on the heights of
Shorncliff, the ascent being steep, Moore said to six or
eight officers who were with him, " Now for a race to
the top of the hill !" and away we all started. Neil
Campbell (afterwards with Napoleon at Elba) beat us
all, and Moore was second. These are trifling matters,
but they mark the unaffected and social feelings of a great
man, and, as such, the reader will, perhaps, pardon them.
Regard, admiration, and; in very many instances, gratitude
for the deep interest he took in their welfare, were the
feelings which were entertained for Moore by those who
served under his command."

The first of these volumes is the best, because it is
the most varied in its nature, containing, besides the
author's own personal reminiscences which teem with
incidents, two or three narratives, one of which, sup-
posed to be related by an old chef de bataillon, is full
of deep, tragic interest.