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

PROFESSOR WILSON.

In our last we inserted an advertisement of the anni-
versary dinner of the Glasgow Renfrewshire Society,
mentioning that the members would dine in the
Trades' Hall, and that Professor Wilson, of Edin-
burgh, would preside on the occasion. Were we to
allow such an announcement to pass without a
word of comment, we would be doing ourselves a
gross injustice, and suppressing those warm emotion
of the heart we never fail to feel when the very name
of that great man, who has so often delighted and
enraptured us by his writings, is mentioned. Well
du we remember him abriut 1805, when just returned
from Oxford !—and what days and hours of delight has
he not afforded all Europe betwixt and that period !
Who can ever forget the chastened and classical beauty
of his Isle of Palms f \Vho can ever forget the rap-
ture with which they have pored over the sublime poetry
of the Nooses Ambrosianso, when Christopher North,
in the meridian of his greatness, and rioting in his un-
quenchable genius, shouldered his deathless crutch !
So far as we recollect, our townsmen never
had an opportun.ty of listening before to the Learned
Professor, and there is no man in Great Britain
we would rather see and hear in Glasgow, unless it
be, indeed, the immortal Wellington ;--The Reafren-
shire gentlemen have done themselves infinite honour
by their selection of a Chairman, and they deserve the
warmed thanks of the community for being instru-
mental in affording us so rich a treat, as we predict the
ensuing meeting will prove, Our rising and clever
friend, Mr. Maxwell, younger, of Dargavel, is to do
the duties of croupier, and we know he will perform
his part with gusto, recollecting always that—
" 'Tia right for good wine-bibbing people,
Not to let the jug pace round the board like a cripple ;
But gaily to chat while discussing their tipple !"
—Glasgow Constitutional.

TII E A Pl' RO AC II ING FESTIVAL.—The ap-
proaching meeting of the Leeds Parliamentary Reform
Association will be cne of the greatest in-door meeting's
that has ever been held in England, or perhaps in the
world. Eight thouaand people will be comfortably seated
together within the most spacious building that the
hands and the ingenuity of man have erected, for purposes
of manufacturing industry. And fur what purpose is this
immense host cf people to be assembled. What attraction is
there to draw them together ? And what objects have they
to accomplish ? The purpose for which they meet is that of
social and political movement and progression ; the attrac-
tion which brings them together is that of common sympa-
thy and common interest; the object which they have to
accomplish is the elevation of the industrious and now
unenfrarrchised classes to the rank of citizens and free men.
To secure representation to the poor as well as to the rich;
to the working-class man as well as to the upper and the
middle class man, In short, the grand and catholic ob-
ject of the Leeds Association is iogtlue—in the words of
their motto, " Justice to eacl,,, and 'to all."—Leeds Times.
COMMISSION (Xi LUNACY. On Friday a
commission lea- executed at the Rose and Crown lan, Slid-
bury, bolo:. i'rancis King Eagle and Wm. Woods
Hum-
ttrey, Esqrs., and C. D. Leech, gent.,
to inquire wne-
ther Mr. Jeremiah Hart, of Newton, Suffolk, gent., was
shortly stated tho
Ciruutt, on behalf of the pettioners,
Innatie or of sound mind. 11 fr. Ryland, of the Home
i
case, observing that the delusion under which the alleged
lunatic was labouring consisted in two paints—money and
matrimony. Upon the first seWeet he would talk of mil.
lions, and nfgiving away thousands ; and upon the second
aubjeet, though about eighty years of age, he
_would talk,
of marrying young ladies who were not above fifteenll' and who would
a
teen. He had been seen by Dr. AP Lean other gen-
t(tiNeiirr. I;ia.;,padpl;i,? ha
wa
t ld "
s
in and
a state of
mind as, to, Te.n4or I.i.a incapable of
t llel m
state en
whom
tlia t in e
managing his own af-
i;::,vs, —.After hearing evidence, the Jury returned the fol_
lowing verdict We agree in opinion that Jteerniah
Hart was of unsound mind from the 10th
of I.'ehruary,
1840, and that he ought to lie nlap
vq,A voador some whole-
some restraint."

c.-19,rux4tce ior the English subscription for
sut:tierers by the inundation at Lyons has just paid over
to•his Excellency the French Ambassador the sum of
2,E69 francs, being the amount of the subscriptions which
it has received,

MAJOR MORSE COOPER AND THE
HORSE GUARDS.
(From the same.)
Major Morse Cooper has made two ppii ea tions
to
the Horse Guards to be allowed to Q.:gelling, from La-
pay to the active duties of his profestion ; 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 itcts for
which they were eem:uring him ; he tells the Horse
Guards that he is filly prepared to prove every asser-
tion he had made relative to the Earl, and complains
of the illegality and injustice of the Court-martial
which sat on Captain A Reynolds, for quoting hie:.
Major Coopet's, wi rJs, in the censure attached
the In ling qrd sentcmco of that Court-martial, whets
ve.l evi00,,c.2 I,lls ;:iven upo ► oa.h. Major Cooper
requested Lord Ili:I, should it not he his Lord-
ship's iuter.tion to allow him to resume the active duties
of his profession, to accept of his twenty-seven years!.
service. as a gratril to the country, and allow him is
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 hint justifying himsalf in op-
position to the Court-martial, and assures the Major WI
is not warranted in the conclusion he has arrived et, in
supposing that it was Lord Hill's intention to prevent
his resun.ing 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
Guards, to shelter the Earl of Cardicon, has been
obliged to succum'), in a very unprecedented manner,
to two junior oilieers in the service. We hope, on
the meeting of Padiainent, that Major M. Coo-
per's Ica( r to the hors;; Guards, and Lord Hill's
reply, will be read to the House by some Honourable
Metohcr after moving for their production. W 0 teel
confident if that were only done, that it would require
no evich oce '0 e: how uttt r 1) II utheti:—
tics of the ilorsu Guards have lust that high tune atm
neeessaQ 10 ocutima6,l, in a vain endeavour to uphord
o e whose uonduct from the beginning to the ent 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 hoalt6 ; but that journal remarks, that they are
happy to hear his Lordship is in good health; and,
theroforo, doubts the truth of the rumour. Perll,ips
the circumstances we narrated in our first number, and
those we now disclose, may more easily account for the
rumoured resignation.
It seen:; 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„
Trawl interfered on behalf of his friend the Earl of
Cardigan.]

RELIEF OF. TROOPS ABROAD.

7 0 7'HE EDI7'O-1{ OF THE SUN.

Six,--From the character your Paper lies hitherto
possessed, I feel sure XOl would not admit into your
columns ans thing which would tend to create dissatr
faction in the Army, if you did not believe there were
grounds for the complaint. Allow me, therefore, to assure
roil that the assertions made by " Hector Counterscarp,
in your Paper of this date, are contrary to fact, as the
following extract from the Army mud Navy Register
will show ; and I have only to add, that having wit-
nessed the sailinz of the troops alluded to, I am correct
as to dates, which you can further sati:fy yJurselt to be
true by referring to the columns of The Jen, the move.
ments haying been copied into your Paper from com-
muuleations made by me to the Press at the time :-
79th (Cameron llighlanders)—One hundred men be-
longing to this gallant corps, embarked at Deptford, in
the Abercrombie Robinson, transport ship, for a passage:
to Gibraltar, on the 16th November. The remainder of
the regiment were stationed stout four weeks at Weedon,
and then proceeded by railway to Euston square, on the
29th December, and marched to Deptford on the same
slay, where they embarked, and sailed on the 31st for their
destination."

How the hbove agrees with the statement of "
Hte-
tor Countersaarp," that " the 79th are still at home,'
and " the convenient detachment of 100 have only
sailed within the last ten days," I leave the Army to
judge, and whether facts known to thousands are not
better than arguments. There are two other regiments.
viewed as " Pets" at the Horse Guards, the 7Stia
(Highland), and the 92d (Highland) Regiments, aaa
yet it is well known the former served a long peri,x/ is
the East, and the latter in the West Indies.
1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
THE EDITOR OF TILE ARMY AND NAVY REGISTER.
Woolwich, Jan. 13, 1841.

[Countcrscarp may possibly not be so correct us to
dates as the writer of this letter, but that circumstance
does not affect the grievance of which he complains.
Aware of the extensive warlike operations in the East,
the military authorities at home must have known gnat
more troops would be wanted in that quarter, An
d tt
was therefore their duty to keep those regiments ia
readiness to take their turn, and not send them out of
the way but a few Kceks b2fore, as they knew to a
&linty there would be a demand for them. The othar
two regiments, the 78th and 9.2 d, arc not alluded to in
Counterscarp's letter.]

pulpit of the mosque, and thus addressed
A TtinKr sit ntEActfEß.—One day Nasir-ed-
din
oongrefintien :—" 0, true believers 1 do you know'
what lam going to say to you ?" " No," responded the
reectavulasetidagessr.neY time
frtmi
the
on
such an ignorant set ;" so saying,
ascended
congregation. Well, then," replied he, " there is no
pulpit. lie went to preach a
second time, and asked the congregation, " 0, true be-
tierce's !) do you know what 1 amgoing to say to you ?"
" We know,"
replied,the audience. " Then there is no
use in me telling you," said Nasir.ed-din, and again he
descended frhtu the pulpit. When next he came to preach,,
and askrd the usual question, the congregration resolved
to have a trial of his powers, answered, " Some of us know
and some of us do not know." "0 !" said Nasir-ed-din.
let those vtlol kttow tell those who do not know, and I
shall be allured the trouble of preaching." So saying, he
came down front the pulpit Turkish Jest Book.
ilitisToL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 13.—. Nye
cannot quote any improvement iu the demand fur British
Plantation Sugars this week, the trade operating with ex-
treme caution, and the refiners being only partially at
remain pretty s'ationary at 705,.
wtoork7. PI-ls however,
Is.
far rkbrown. fair brown, 725. to 738.;
755. to 765. ; good bright, ; and very fine,
::urns are quite neglected at present.—Bristol Ga.
e low dark
zette.
THE GRIAT FIRE AT DUNDEE.—The loss.
by the destruction of the three churches in Dundee is es-
timated at 35,000/. The Corporation have instituted am
inquiry into the origin of the fire, and it appears to have
resultLti from flues. The library destroyed contained up-
wards of 5,000 volumes of valuable works. The churches
were insured in the Scottish Fire-ollice only to the extent.
of 3,0001,

Y-

MORNING_

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