The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-17 00:00:00

111/IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM Trig MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
taWe regret to perceive by an account from Canterbury, in
brether column, that four officers of the 13th and 14th Light
to goons, at present stationed at Canterbury, are implicated
thPleceedings which may ultimately prove very injurious to
tkent They are described as Captain Byng Doherty, Cap-
,' John Allgood, Captain Edmund Doherty, and Captain
,qtl Goddard. Captain is a title often given by courtes to
Vattern officers, and we presume that, in the case of at
~st two of these officers, the title has been erroneously
Ltell• On . looking into the new Annual Army
Ct for 1841, published by Mr. Murray, we find
be Henry Edward Doherty, and Charles Edmund Do-
-I,Y, Captains of the 14th, but the only Goddard
4,„% John Hesketh Goddard, a Cornet by purchase
Lre 14th, on the 26th July, 1839 ; and the only Allgood, a
67eelot J. H. Allgood, Cornet by purchase in the 13th, on
Z22d May, 1840. They are all, no doubt, young men,
Zticularly the two cornets. The necessity for the interfe-
IIZ;e of the police at first does not appear to be very clearly
ate out, fur the officers are not described as having done any
thief, either to person or property, but to have been merely
Ole noisy, which in young men returning from dinner at
O
ight is natural enough. But the worst part of the bust-
was the language held by one of the officers, Cornet All-
I, to two privates of the 13th—" Go down to the Prince of
stage, and tell your comrades that their officers are
eu to the station -house." The message was not de-
red in vain. A body of soldiers released the officers
iZa the station-house by force, breaking in the doors, and
trusg violence to the police. This was a serious con-
the len, as the young men will experience to their cost, for
eal are held to bail to the sessions, and it is not likely tint the
itary authorities will overlook an offence which strikes at
Xthe root of all discipline. How can these officers maintain
Zer authority over soldiers whom they have invited to violate
ei
laws on their account ? We confess we are sorry for
~te young men who, step by step, have been led to acts of
ts'Pable indiscretion, which must prove ultimately most ruinous
them. The only thing that can be said for them is, that the
ser who sent for the soldiers must be a mere boy, and it is
etilt to put an old head on a young pair of shoulders.
(From the Morning Herald.)

, The history and mystery of Puseyism is thus satisfactorily
'geed to the logical influenza which has so long pervaded the
thools and quadrangles of Oxford. It never can now become
13/ e i demic at Cambridge, for they are there secured from it
the opposite study of the mathematics. But in days of
when the school logic was taught on the banks of the
and when the disciples of Aristotle and BMW divided
‘st learned university, the Popish tendencies of many of the
Zese tutors is still a matter of record in the annals of lite-
e. The only logic worthy of cultivation is that large,
hkjrehensive, and inductive reasoning —the business of
4tt 441 life—the bustle and activity of social, civil, and po-
v
teiL employments. This is the healthy food of the in-
-4,7746 The real sources of argument are to be found, not in
14;.!totle's Topics, but it-Übe daily exercise of the faculties on
4)id".,l4ll.affairs ; and the best method to detect sophistry is to
`utifehance to the authority of fathers and schoolmen, and to
I,l,:tain the free, independent, and searching spirit of the
11,,,tant reformation. Nor is the example a Pascal as a
to be adduced as any exception to this argument. In
444 Provincial Letters" he reasons with all the wit and free-
aht,. of a Protestant. He was born a mathematician, and he
443 derided the technical methods of the schoolmen. These
gift." should now be republished and adapted to the exigencies
tiatTe present age. How many striking examples might be
en from the 6, Tracts for the Times," and from the wri-
sttl'elf our living Puseyites, to be shown up by his inimitable

(From the Tinges.)
It
Would be affectation in us to deny that we look forward to
te.,u°l contest for Nottingham with the deepest inte-
it;:„ It has happened, by a dispensation which we cannot re-
as otherwise than providential, that at this critical season
sour. the Poor-law is actually upon its trial in Parliament,'
dux.
tt„.. , nag that short interval of breathing time which Minis
,t,i4i_oave allowed to the country before resuming the dis..
th, tot' already commenced, a vacancy has occurred in
ws_rsre,presentation of that very town which, above all
boat's, the friends of the poor would have chosen as the
Not at'Propriate battle-field upon which to test the p e
Isoe feeling. The friends of the poor in Nottingham-
seized the opportunity, and have sent a requisition
these !u" whom even his adversaries must allow to be
Pltblic champion of the cause,—a man whose whole
11 p has been devoted to the interests of the poor--who,
kteCrilaraent and out of Parliament has temperately, reso-
to Y, and without respect of or parties, stood forward
„,7Pose thepersons
sa . Poor-law Amendment Act, and shown himself
ItopilLT sacrifice ambition, influence, self-interest, and class-
Poto-i7l,XLrather than make any compromise upon this cardinal
ties, we speak not of Mr. Walter's personal character,
or
_a lta inments—upon these subjects others may speak
'oak propriety, because, perhaps with more impartiality,
4414 • tves But we claim for him the praise of being pre-
.llll
'lOll. ,t•IZ the friend of the poor, the persevering advocate of
reeholuts, the undaunted and indefatigable foe of the So-
Itot ouss.despo,ism ,• and we feel that this assertion can-
'4l4Bprtt .511'10:1, except by those who, while they must in their
tlt;rn ledge the benevolence of Mr. Walter's intentions,
vie soundness of his jaclpzent.