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

CAPTAIN RE YN OLDS.

The general sympathy excited by the oppressive sen-
tence upon Captain Reynolds is almost unparalleled
We never remember a case of an individual becoming
in so short a time, the object of such general interest.
With the feeling now existing in his favour, it is im-
possible that the affair can stop where i tnow is. To
the House of Commons the people will look for jus-
tice. No other power in this country has the right of
removing or punishing an unjust Juke, and it is to
our own representatives that we shall have to turn
for satisfaction in this matter. Lord Hll, we hope
and trust, will receive at their hands the mercy he
has dealt to others. While we admit that it may
have been the duty of the Court-martial, in some
way, to punish Captain Reynolds for his hasty epistle
to his Commanding-officer, we entirely repudiate
the ungentlemanlike and un-English doctrine pro-
mulgated in their postscript. We maintain, that in
many cases a soldier is not only excused, but justified,
in resenting, in a proper manner, the conduct of his
superior officer. With our opinions on the subject of
duelling, we blame Captain Reynolds for having written
a challenge at all, but we blame more the spirit in
which that challenge was written. The sum and sub-
stance of his guilt, in the public eye, is, that, under high
provocation, and smarting under a sense of injury, he
did not pen precisely such a letter as a cool observer
would have dictated for him ; and for this he has been
degraded from his rank, and fined to an amount
which, if he be a poor man, may ruin his prospects
for ever. And Lord Cardigan, the origin of all
this evil, the aristocratic gentleman who gives the lie
to his subordinate gentlemen, and then commands
them to have no communication with him, esees)t offi-
cially, what was been the measure of justice accorded
to him ? He has been gently admonished ; told that
all this could not have happened without some fault on
his part ; and left free to break a few more Captains
and ruin a few more families who have no hereditary
claims of sympathy from the Commander-in-Chief.
The Memorandum of Lord Hill, now officially pub-
lished, is bad altogether. The forced admission of the
culpability of the Lieutenant-Colonel is a peculiarly
bad accompaniment to the assurance, that no complaints
of his conduct will be heard. It shows more and more
strongly the resolution of Lord Hill to maintain the
Earl of Cardigan through good or evil report. Rank
covers a :multitude of sins at the Horse Guards.—
Liverpool Albion.

We are informed that an impostor has anew been
endeavouring to levy contributions on the philanthrepic and
credulous by representing himself as the son of Mr. Cham-
bers, the banker. That the soi-disant kinsman of this un-
fortunate gentleman was in a late attempt, and which has
only just reached us, wholly unsuccessful, we have every
reason to believe, and a description of his person, which
ay
lead, if not to
hishas
discovery,
ibseceonv forwardedery7to a
t least t o thethe police, m
non-renewal
of this truly im-
pudent imposture.
On Monday the second inst. a General Assem-
bly of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy
onchfiAratrd R
sinTedrgafr.ialvgea, and Mr. Thomas Webster, were electedr-square, when Mr. Charles Barry, Mr.
Associates of that Institution.

ARRIVALS.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, in Belgravc-
square, from Buchanan Castle, N. B. ; Lord and Lady
Pau Lyndhurst, in George-street, Hanover-square, from Get.
many ; his Excellency Baron Bulow, in Lower Berkeley_
street, from Berlin ; Sir Brooke Taylor, at the Burling-
ton Hotel, Cork-street, from a tour; the Earl of Sandwich,
at ditto, from liinchinlsrook, Huntingdonshire; the Hon.
Mr.C. O'Callaghan, M. P. at ditto, from Ireland ; the Hon.
Pa; the Ongley, from Cambridgeshire; Sir W. Follett, from
milton Park, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from their
seat in Hants ; Mr. Round,
Dowager Lady Beauchamp ; Mr. and Mrs. Ha_
51 P., and Mrs. Round, at
dßerkeley •tto, from a continental tour ; Viscount Villiers, M.P., in
square, from Cambridgeshire; Baron and 13i.r0.
ness Dimsdale and Mrs. Henry Manning, at Mivart's Hotel,
from Camfield-place, Berts ; Sir Sandford Graham, Bart.,
and Lady Graham, in Portland-p'ace, from the Continent ;
Lord Clifford and the lion. Hugh Clifford, from Devon-
shire ; Mr. and Mrs. Mart n, in Whitehall-gardens, from
a tour ; Lord Mu k from Cheltenham
Countess of Mount Edcumbe, from Buxton. Derbyshire ;
Deal Castle, Kent; Colonel and Lady
Captain Clifford, from America; Lord Lyttelton, from his
s erry, ; the Earl and
Maryborough, at
scat in Worcestershire ; Sir Charles Bagot, Bart., in Ea-
ton-square,Arlington-street, from Wroxton Abbey, Oxon.Susan North, in
DEPARTURES.
Lord and Lady Farnham, from Mivart's Hotel, Brook-
for Livermere, near Bury St. Edmund's; Viscount Conti-
street, for their seat in Ireland ; Lady Le Despencer,
from ditto ; Captain and Hon. Mrs. Ramsden, from ditto,
lupe, from Grosvenor-street, for Buckhurst Park, Sus-
sex ; the Earl and Countess of Sefton, from Arlington_
street, for Croxteth, Lancashire; the Right Hon. C.
D'Eyncourt, from the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, for
Lincolnshire • Mr. liolford, from ditto, for Rendlesham
Hall, Suffolk% Lady Webster and Mr. Webster, from
ditto, for New Battle Abbey, Sussex ; the Hon. Judge
Ball, from ditto, for Ireland; the Viec-Chancellor of Cam-
bi idge University, and deputation, from ditto, for Cam-
bridge; Lord and Lady Kinnaird, from ditto, for Salt-
hill ; the Hon. Mr. Corry, from ditto, on a tour ; Mar-
guise de Nadaillae, from Charles.strect. Berkeley-square,
for Paris.

Lord de Tabley arrived, on Sunday,
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Hotel, from Genoa, where his Lordship left her Lady ship
and family, in excellent health. at Mivart's
The Marquis St, Angelo and suite have arrived
at Mivart's Hotel, from Naples, with the intention of stay-
ing some time in this country, it being the Noble Mar-
quis's first visit.
The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, accom-
panied by Master and Miss Talbot, arrived at Mivart's
Hotel on Saturday last, from Alton Towers, Stafford-
shire, on their way to Rome, where they intend to pass the
winter.

The Earl and Countess of Verulain have re-
turned to Gorhambury, Herts,
Grimston, AL P., and family. accompanied by Viscount