The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-28 00:00:00

provoked by the SULTAN. Colonel THOMPSON
says that after the defeat at Nezib, the SULTAN
and his vassal would have made up their quarrel
if England would have let them. No doubt of
it. But in what way ? They would have ex-
changed titles. MAIIMOUD and his heirs would
have been declared the vassals of MEHEmET
ALI. The Viceroy of EGYPT would have pro-
claimed himself the independent Sovereign of all
his vast conquests, and the Osmanlis would
have been suffered, as long as might suit the
pleasure of Russia, to reign monarchs of Con-
stantinople and its vicinity for some twenty miles
on
.the Stamboul shore of the Bosphorus. In
taking the part she did England never once thought
of the obscurity of MEHEMET Am's origin. Whe-
ther he were the son of a " grocer" or the son of a
King made no difference to her ; and indeed the his-
tory of British dominion in the East is not wanting in
proofs that kings' sons have rarely met with more
consideration than the offspring of castes less con-
siderable than the shop-keepers and tax-collectors
of Albania. English statesmen are not such fools
as not to know that ir.t a country where there is no
hereditary aristocracy—where it is office that con-
fers rank, birth has no more to do with royalty
than it has with the motion of the heavenly bodies.
It is the mere cant of our deceiving and self-de-
ceived political astrologers, who assume to them-
selves the cognomen of Radicals par excellence.
Had Colonel THOMPSON undertaken to con-
vince the people of Leicester that it would have
been wiser on the part of our Government to have
allowed MEHEMET ALL to seize the Ottoman
throne, and reign himself in Constantinople, we
would have felt no inclination to quarrel with him.
It may be that the dynasty of the Osmaulis
is worn out, though the fact cannot be supported
by arguments drawn from the conduct of MAHMOUD
and ARD-UL•MEDJID. But even in that case,
the question did not rest for solution with England.
France claims the merit, if such it be, of having
saved Constantinople after the battles of Koniali
and Nezib from the victorious arms of the VIGE-
ROY. Then there was Russia ready to pounce
upon her prey, at the first approach of the PACHA.
England had no choice in the adoption of her
present policy, but either to consent to the division
of Turkey between Russia and the PACHA, by
remaining professedly neutral, or take the part
which she has done. The only error of our Go-
verntnent was in signing the Treaty a little too pre-
cipitately—an error which, in wounding the self-
love of France, mainly contributed to the present
isolated condition and menacing aspect of that
Power. So much for the incorrectness of facts and
views which we should have thought Colonel
THOMPSON wholly incapable of entertaining, did we
not know how apt a set of crochets are to run away
with men's wits on questions much easier of clear
comprehension than the oriental policy of the Four
Powers.

The solitary and chivalrous apologist of Lord
CARDIGAN, with more zeal than discretion, has
this morning given the direct lie to a respectable
Contemporary, the Mighlon Heald, and states, as
if from high authority, that the address of the Ad-
jutant-General to the officers of the 11th Hussars
did not include a censure on the Noble Lord.
We copied, (says the Post,) a few days ago from the
Brighton Herald what purported to be a report of the
address of the Adjutant• General to the officers of the
11th Hussars.

We copied this article in pursuance of our esta-
blished and inflexible rule never to withhold from our
readers anything that bears the semblance of informa-
tion upon an interesting subject. But we thought it
our duty, at the same time, to warn them that some parts
of this report ought to be received with suspicion.
It is now in cur power to say positively and distinctly
that this report of Sir John Macdonald's address, in so
far as it included a censure of Lord Cardigan, was abso-
lutely and entirely false.

The whole of the official document, published by
permission of the Horse Guards, will be found in
another part of The Sun, and our readers, on re-
ferring to it, will be able to judge for themselves,
and say which of the two Journals is really
chargeable with making statements " absolutely
and entirely false." In the official paper, towards
the conclusion, as our Provincial Contemporary as-
serted, Sir JOHN MACDONALD directed his re-
marks to the Commanding Officer, and said, " He
must recollect that it is expected from him not only
to exercise the military command over his regiment,
but to give an example of moderation, temper, anti
discretion ;" and in the next paragraph adds—
" The General Commanding-in-Chief has parti-
cularly directed me to intimate to his Lordship that
this course of conduct (moderation, temper, and
discretion, of course) will lead to a far less fre-
quent reference to his Lordship and the authorities
of the Horse Guards, from the 11th Hussars, than
has been the case in the last months, and
the result will be more creditable to the army."
If this is not censure, we know not what is. Mo-
deration, temper, and discretion, will lead to a far
less frequent reference to the Horse Guards,
and the result be more creditable to the army. But

there have been hosts of complaints and proceed-
ins little creditable to the army. Therefore, ac-
cording to Lord HILL, an example of moderation,
temper, and discretion has not been shown by
Lord CARDIGAN. No syllogism can be more
precise or conclusive. We are quite sure, there-
fore, when our elegant Contemporary studies the
document, he will be at no loss to discover to whom
the phrase " absolutely and entirely false" ought
to apply.
We rejoice that this memorandum has been pub-
lished, because it places on record the conduct of
the Horse Guards throughout the whole of these
extraordinary and arbitrary proceedings. It pro-
claims that the regiment is in a state of disobe-
dience and insubordination, and leaves no doubt to
whom all the melancholy and disgraceful results
are to be attributed. We, therefore, cordially con-
cur with a Tory Contemporary, that the only alter-
native left to the Commanding Officer (not to
screen the authorities at the Horse Guards, for
that is impossible, but for:the discipline of the regi-
ment and his own peace), is to resign at once. With
such a reproof staring him in the regimental orders,
with the stern and ruinous sentence on Capt. REY-
NOLDS, now exciting the country from one end to
the other, and with the triumph that the officers of
the 11th Hussars have now gained over the Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, there can be neither that mutual
respect nor that cordial obedience and friendship
which ought to prevail among the officers of every
° reaiment.
The conduct of the authorities at the Horse
Guards has been so bad throughout that it is
scarcely necessary to add a word in aggravation ;
yet we cannot help referring to a letter in another
et: aroion a
part of 'lle Sun, contrasting the mild and humane
the warm friend and
decisions of the Duke of YORK with that of Lord
HILL in the case of Captain REYNOLDS. The
Illustrious Duke,
ofs an ex-
tenuation Captainprotector
ofjuni or
of
the offence, officers,
admitted
n dpiovn thec at
case
WooD, of the 11th Light Dragoons, the Prince
Regent mitigated the sentence ~ in consideration
of evidence and the previous good character of the
prisoner." But neither the most irreproachable
character, nor the most intolerable provocation,
' would be admitted by Lord HILL, Lord FITZROY
• SOMERSET, and Sir `JOHN MACDONALD, as a
REYNOLDS
plea for mercy to Captain.

inary Express from Paris re-
ceived in Londonwe were enabled to
anticipate the news brought by the ordinary arrival
positive news be wanting,'
By the Extraordinary
taken towards the re-construction of the Cabinet,
as M. GUEZOT only arrived in Paris from London
of Monday's papers•
But yesterday,i
f No
pooasdi
t
between the hours of one and two o'clock on Mon- ,
day afternoon.
the vacuum left by it is..ampl,,
I filled up with the
surmises of Parisian letter-writers. One of these
gentlemen addresses to the Times a jeremiad on the
present prospect of affairs which is charitably in-
tended to prepare us for all sorts of horrors, but at
the same time properly and candidly reminding us
that if we are for war we may now take the start
of France. We quote one paragraph from the
letter of this firebrand:—
And first, let me tell you candidly, if the interest of
Great Britain be to disturb that settlement of European
affairs Which took place so much to her benefit and lustre
in 1815, slightly modified by what took place since 1830
—to risk a general conflagration which will necessarily
end by the complete prostration of France and the still
further aggrandizement“of Russia, or the exaltation of
French democracy—if British councils are not already
aware that the balance of Europe is on the eve of being
I shaken to its foundation, let me tell you candidly that
i the moment is come to cross the Rubicon ! France is
not ready, materially ready ; her army is incomplete,