The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION,

--- 1 WOOLIVICIL—
MONDAY.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Novelty is the order of the day t?.t, this theatre, 1
GENERAL oRDER, OCT. 30.
and triuiri succeeds to triumph with the greatest
Lieutenant Co'oncl E. T. Mitchell, of the Royal
tepidity. This is, indeed, the dramatic " Railroad
Artillery, having been ordered to proceed from Spain to
Stalion," and, as the play-bills justly
boast, not a i the coast of Syria, her Majesty has been pleased to ap-
single accident has taken place on any of the ti point him to the local rank of Briielier-General on a
trains. The novelty of last evening consisted, in i particular service. Dated Oct.2.i, 1640.
two acts, of English Etiquette, from the pen of I H. D. ROSS, Colonel, Deputy Adjutant-General..
that prince of farce writers, Oxenford. The piece The detachment of Purfloet have been relieved by
deotna,chments of Captain Hornsby's company, Ist batta-
turns on the adventures of M. Achille Townsend
and Major Rayne's 'ld battalion. Captain
(Mr. St. John Horton), a Frenchman, born of "
linrosby and Lieutenant Talbot proceeded with the
English parents, who takes Mr. Handel Hibbsdetachment.
(Balls), a general agent,_ i. e. a quack, a puff- Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., has
writer, a sort of a Lord /ow everything, as his joined from leave, and resumed the command of the
Chesterfield and his Johnson, and is by him ini- garrison at Woolwich.
tiated into all the idioms of the English language, Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Jones, the Assistant Deputy
and all the mysteries of English etiquette. The Adjutant-General, has also joined from leave.
. is full of fun, hustle, piece and incident, and the The non-commissioned officers off duty. . received in-
eontre temps which arise in consequence of the structions at the Royal Military Repository during the
doings of these worthies, are some of the most lu-
Past week.
i
dicrous we ever witnessed. The house was in a
Recruiting parties are ordered to be detached four
times a month from the companies in Great Britain and
roar during the whole of the piece, and the ai - Ire!aad for the purpose of attending fairs, &c., the re•
plause at the fall of the curtain was long, loud, and giment being much in want of men.
hearty. Balls, as Handel Hibbs, was cool impu- M..jor Sinclair's company, Bth battalion, relieved Cap-
dence personified. The perfect sell possession tain Kendal's company, 4th battalion, on Saturday, and
w iLil which he extricates himself from the the latter company have rejoined the 4th battalion.
scrapes into which the Frenchman's literal obc- REGIMENTAL ORDER, OCT. 30.
thence to his injunctions puts them, was rich ex- The Commandant has had great pleasure in receiving
ceedingly. the followin, report from Colonel Cleaveland on the
efficiency and good conduct of B. Field Battery ; it is
`(lr.-St. John Horton has shewn by his adunr- a report most creditable to the officers, non-commis-
able personification of Achille, that he is decidedly , i in. d officers, and gunners and drivers of Captain Ken-
and without zornparison the best Frenchman on the dall's company, and an example which the Commandant
stage. Since Matthews, we have seen no one to I hopes to see followed by their successors :
be compared to him. His is no vulgar over-acted " Field Battery-office, Oct. 30.
caricature. It is a carefully studied, and judiciously " SIR,—In obedience to your_ .or.d,ers, I have the
elaborated iece of acting. Never, for one instant,
honour to report that Captain Kendall s company of the
p
was he tem field batteries, commanded by Captain Mcc, arc suffi-
pted b y the roars of laughter which he
cientlY advanced in their field exercises to enable them
elicited, to forget that he was a gentleman—never
to embark at any moment for foreign-service. Captain
did he, during the whole course of the piece, once Mce, with his officers, non-commissioned officers, and
" o'erstep the modesty of nature ;" he is a most men, has been most attentive, and the conduct of the
judicious 'actor, and must inevitably take a high men has been most praiseworthy.
rank in his profession. Balls was called for at the fall " Your obedient servant,
of the curtain, and announced the piece for repetition " It. F.
F CLEAVELAND, Colonel.
every evening ; the announcement was received with " Colonel Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.8."
Captain SriH. Chamberlain, Burt., has been or-
repeat, d rounds of applause. The call for Mr. St.
dered to Aberdeen to recruit for the regiment, Cap-
John Horton then became loud and general, and
lain Pickering having left to join Major Gray's Coln-
after a short time he came forward, and was greeted parry in Dublin.
With that loud cheering which his excellent acting NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
had so well deserved. The house was crowded. The William and Mary yacht, Captain Phipps
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OLYMPIC THEATRE.

In compliance with the general wish expressed
at the dams, a gallery waslast night opened at this
theatre for the first time.

Hornby returned to Woolwich from Sheerness on Sun-
day afternoon. She was towed by the Firebrand steam-
vessel, Master S. B. Cook.
The workmen in the Royal Arsenal are actively em-
ployed in finishing guns for the Caledonia, 120-gun
ship, commissioned at Plymouth, on Monday last by
Captain Henry Eden. 36 handsome 32-pounders have
already b 'en labelled, and the others are in a forward
state. 15 of the 32-pounder guns for the Indus, 84.
gun ship, have also been labelled. and with the others
will be completed with all possible dispatch. The de-
mand for guns from the Royal Arsenal is very great,
and fortunately the supply is sufficient to meet any
emergency, as the stock on hand is considerable, the
country being well prepared in that respect.
It is to be hoped that the memorandum which abo-
lishes the regulations by which out-pensioners of Green-
wich Hospital were deprived of their hard-earned pen-
sions wizen serving in the Royal Navy, and grants both
of pay and pension, will be followed by an order grant-
ing a small bdunty to induce seamen to enter the ser-
vice, as the following ships have bean brought forward
for commission by the undernamed officers :
The Indus, 84 guns, at Portsmouth ; Captain, Sir
James Stirling (1818).
The Monarch, 84 guns, at Sheerness ; Captain, S.
Chambers (1812).
The Vernon, 50 guns, at Sheerness ; Captain, Wil-
liam Walpole (1819).
The Eadyrnion, 38 guns, at Plymouth ; Captain,
the Hon. Frederick W. Grey (1828).
Time Iris, 28 guns, at Chatham ; Captain, Hugh
Nurse (1837).
The Pelican, 16 guns, at Chatham ; Commander,
Charles George Elers Napier (1838). This officer is
the adopted son of Commodore Napier. Lord .Minto,
in conveying the information to this young officer's
mother, at Merchistoun Hall, near Horndean, took the
opportunity of expressing his own, and also of conveying
his Sovereign's high approbation of the gallant bearing
of her husband on the coast of Syria, as lately exemp.i-
fied by the operations in that quarter.
The Tweed, 20 guns, at Portsmouth ; Commander,
H. D. Cameron Douglas (1827).

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Times)
The expressions If respect and confidence applied by
all the organs of public opinion in England to M.
Guizot on his leaving our shores have actually been
converted by the perversity and bad taste of some of
the French papers into a ground of attack upon him.
lc is iesinuated that a Minister who has acquired the
unanimous esteem of the nation to which he was sent
c scarcely des rye well of the nation by which he was
accredited ; anti that we hope by this means to flatter
M. Guizot into making unworthy concessions to the
other Powers. There is nothing in the character of
the people of England to warrant the suppOsition that
their esteem is to be earned by unbecoming compliance
on the put even of their opponents : there is nothing,
cei tainly, in the character of M. Guizot to support the
unfounded notion that he would have sought or accepted
the esteem of the people of England on such terms.
Vie applaud him freely, because he represented his
country wirele. We support Lim with our best hopes,
because he avid govern his country well. Whilst he was
amongst us he was a stranger to none of those interests
of peace and civilization which ought ever to prevail
over the ferocity of ruinous and wanton war. He exhi-
Lited those qualities on wit ch we set the highest store ;
for the plain virtues of truth, integrity, and
straightforwardness are held amongst us to be the
fairest ornaments of a complete statesman ; and we wil-
lingly acknowledged in his character and conduct tl.e
image of those robust and temperate minds of other ages,
b, t of English growth, which his own pen had eloquently
pourtrayetl. The severest sarcasm which could he
aimed at the writers of the Movement party in France is
implied by their own efforts to disavow the moderation
and conciliatory bearing of their late Ambassador. In
the meantime the dangers which we have already more
than once pointed out appear to increase rather than
diminish. The promptitude with which Marshal
Soult issued his proclamation to the army betrays
the secret anxiety of the new Cabinet in that quar-
ter. The Parliamentary Opposition has already
assumed a formidable appearance. A meeting, at-
tended by titS deputies, took place on Friday at M.
Wilton Barroes house, where it was resolved that the
support given by that party to M. 'Tiers should be
withdrawn from M. Guizot, and that the members
present would in future support no Government not
founded upon their own principles. In short, the
existence of the Ministry depends on the adherence of
the more moderate fraction of the late Ministerial party,
including probably that of M. Thicrs himself. On the
other hand, the arrival of Baron Bulow and Prince
Esterhazy in London will introduce new elements, and
we trust new means, for securing the peace of Europe.
It will be impossible to conceal behind any flimsy pre-
tences the sinister motives that can alone stand in the
way of an arrangement to which Austria, Prussia, and
every rational man in England arc perfectly ready to
agree. To admit that the Emperor of Russia has a
vets on measures so essential to the public tranquillity,
is to make Lim the arbiter of the fate of Europe ; and
it is high time that those Powers which are most inte-
rested in conciliating Pracce, and putting an end to the
dangers and suspense of the crisis, should decide the
question, if neoessary, for themselves.
(From the Morning Chronicle.) . .

THE GREEK CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—Having felt a great interest in reading a let-
ter from .' A. Member of the Greek Church," inserted
in your Journal, I am induced to offer a few observa-
tions that have suggested themselves to my mind in
consequence.

At t time when the Puscyites and Percivals, &c.,
are putting forward high pretensions for the Apostolical
authority of what is called the Church of England, and
some are hastily led, in consequence, to run off to
Rome, it is refreshing to be able to turn to the Greek
Church, which can really boast of the Apostle's plant-
ing and a true Apostolical succession.
I would just point out one circumstance in which the
Greeks are more correct than either those of Rome or the
Protestants—l mean as to the marriage of their clergy.
The Greeks following herein the example of Peter and
the other Apostles, permit their priests to have been
married. In this they are so far more correct, and
follow more closely apostolic usage than the Catholics.
On the other hand they properly, and according to all
apostolic tranition, do not `permit their priests to marry
after they have entered into holy orders, which is so
customary among Protestant clergy, who as soon as
tiwy get a living, or a chapel, look about for a wife.
Nothing is more disgusting to one who has well studied
this subject than to see the announcements—" married,
Rev. so and so."

A great injustice has certainly been perpetrated in
the sacrifice of Captain R. A. Reynolds. The glo-
rious erigerness with which our countrymen have rushed
forward to the rescue, from all parts of the empire,
cannot have been without its influence on the Horse
Guards. From every quarter we receive announce-
tneuts of meetings, in which all classes participate.
Yezeerday we received from one place, Glasgow, 20/.
horn four individuals, The lesson cannot be thrown
away. The army will see that they are not lost
sight of by their fellow-citizens, who, though un-
willing to interfere unnecessarily, from a sense of what
is -due to discipline, are not the less ready to come for-
ward when they find tyraany and oppression counte-
nanced in high places, because united with rank and
wealth. The services of Courts-martial constituted
like that which excluded evidence in extenuation, in the
case of Captain Reynolds, and promulgated a dictum
repudiated by every honest nature, will be less in re-
quest hereafter. 'the generous sympathy of the British
public will insure a more liberal and gentlemanly treat-
ment to their gallant defenders. The Cardigans will
shrink into their proper dimensions.
(From the Morning Post.)
Supposing the line of foreign policy determined upon
by M. 'Tiers, and recorded in the documents of his
office, to be substantialy the same as that which M.
Guizot has resolved to act upon, there is yet this dif-
ference to be observed between the position of the late
and that of the present French Administration. The
Administration of M. 'Tiers had a given line of policy
with a tendency towards a revolutionary and violent
means of carrying it out. The •loult-Guizot Adminis-
tration may adopt the same line of policy, with a ten-
dency towards Conservative and conciliatory means of
carrying it out. Upon such a difference as this niay
depend the whole question of peace or war in Europe.
We still entertain the opinion that it will so influence
this great question as to determine it in favour of peace.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The warlike disposition of the people of France must
lave been greatly exaggerated if a Ministry so com-
posed as that of which we gave on Saturday the com-
ponent parts can have influence enough on the Chambers,
and in the country, to ensure the preservation of peace.
At the head of the new Administration is an old Ge-
neral of the Empire—a man of unquestioned mili-
tary talent, but whose former efforts to achieve reputa-
tion and inspire confidence as a statesman had no
p
fortunate result. When the questioa is one of camps
and not of calktiets, Marshal Soult, though fast aies,
pr ()aching that period of life when the responsibilities-
of active exertion ought to cease, may yet be capable
of rendering service to his country ;
but to
twhieelwdinthdes
baton of that political supremacy which stills
and waves of political excitement, and restores tran-
quillity and confidence to a State heaving with the
elements of political commotion, is a task beyond his
strength —a task to which he never yet was equal.
Soult has never obeyed the suggestions of political am-
bition, but to show that he wanted the genius for civil
command. But the zealous admirers of another mem-
ber of the new Gthinet will, perhaps, tell us that it is
not on the political talents of Seult they rest their hopes
of a successful i•eue to the present ministerial combina-
tion, but on tho•iP of M. Guizot, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs. We shad soon see whether their
Ligh expcctatio;:s of his political capacity and courage
rest nn su e foundation.

Now, Sir, it was always held, till the days of Luther
and Calvin, that a priest's marriage, after he had en-
tered into orderti, was in tact a virtual deposition of
himself from the priesthood. The marriage of a priest
is sacrilege—his second marriage monstrous. What
then are we to think of Cranmer importing
a wife from Germany in a barrel ? And what becomes
of the claims of the Percivals, Puseyites, &c., to Apos-
tolic succession, since the marriage of the clergy of the
Church of England has long ago broken the link ?
It may be interesting to know that the successor of
St. Augustine, the monk, in the see of Canterbury, was
a Greek. A favourable opportunity of restoring the
unity of the Church snapped asunder by Roman ty-
ranny, or dissolved by Protestant latitudinarianism,
might perhaps be afforded through the Greeks. Were
their zeal equal to their claims, their undoubted Episco-
pacy would probably triumph.--lam, Sir,

Your obedient servant,
SIGMA.

Oct. 31, 1840.

BAPTISM AND BURIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sta,—The circumstances narrated in your paper of
Friday last, of a cicrg) man refusing to bury a child, be-
cause baptised by a Wesleyan Methodist Minister, is
somewhat similar to the celebrated case of Kemp v.
Wickes, Clerk, but which, however, came to a trial in
the Arches' Court, before Sir John Nichol!, who decided
that such a baptism was efficient and legal, to all
Christian and civil purposes.
This case has happily settled the civil law on that
subject, howsoever intolerant Ecclesiastics may rage, to
whatsoever extent High Church prejudices may forbid,
and how furiously soever that hybrid faction, the Pu-
se3ite party, may oppose with their Papist and un-Pro-
testant-like principles.
For the sake of illustration, suppose that a Dissenter
or Wesleyan Methodist's baptism be invalid, see to
what consequences this very opposing party is exposed,
and to what absurdity they reduce themselves if their
principles be carried out, ignorance of which, for their
own sakes, can only be pleaded in their defence.
Seeker, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the son
of a Dissenting minister, born 1693, and baptised after
the form of that Church, studied at three Dissenting
schools successively, until nineteen years of age, when
he entered the communion of the Church of England.
He in 1732 nominated one of the chaplains of the
King ; in 1733 was appointed Rector of St. James's ;
1734, was elevated to.the bishopric of Bristol ; to that
of Oxford in 1737 ; in 1750 exchanged the prebend of
Durham and rectory of St. James's for the deanery of
St. Paul's ; and in 1758 was named and confirmed to
the archbishopric of Canterbury. He officiated at
the funeral of George the Second ; and at the
proclamation of George the Third, whom he had
baptised when Rector of St. James, and whom
with his Queen he married and crowned, 1761 ; and
September 8, 1762, he baptised the Prince of Wales,
hies brptim nothing :
were of hisno
and afterwards several of their Majesties' children. We
ta
evercrhhiajiianng,
efficient,
been re-baptize,
bapl-
tiim, consequent!f
y he could not bap tise or confer orders,
eallow
baptism te
hut he did both. Now, were we to h anti-
!
Christian and dangerous doctrine, that no
either efficient br legal but that which is conferredb is
Popish priest, or a clergyman of the Church of 3'Eng-
land, then these monstrosities and abominations would
follow. George 111. was no Christian, forbew asba
tiesd by a person who was never himself baptised, and
be was no rightful Sovereign, for he was consecrated by a
man who was no Christian and added to all this, the
true succession in the Church is interrupted and broken
for all the baptisms and ordinations of Archbishop'
Seeker, not only while presiding in the see of Canter-
he was a country
bury, but also while clergyman,. and
Bristol and Oxford, were rd
successively Bishop ofinvalid
and anti-Christian, and all the ecclesiastics and High
Church dignitaries which have descended through that

Fix, il
ciennzc II CA VAL RY. —A letter from Valen-
" sa ).—" The prohibition of the German Govern-
ments against th
here. After being exportation of horses will he sensibly felt
received on Tuegsondtgayoseveral days without any arrivals we
sixty horses, and are informed that
500 have been
us ; but after this we are the frontier, and will soon reach
thenare not to expect any more. In
insteadtliis case f weth
the
shalls ,o haveoo
C received only 1,000 and odd,
promised. We are told,
however, that the draught were
of this part of France,
destined for thz: artillery, wiliriZ
brought from the Ar-
dennes and the neighbourhood to Valenciennes, and re-
ceived
by the Committee for the remount, with General
Pant!! e, its President.