The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-24 00:00:00

(From the Globe.)

It is honourable to the English Press, that only cue
Daily Journal, assuming to represent any section of pub-
lic opinion, has a word to say in favour of the Horse
Guards, and of Lord Cardigan. That Journal (the
Post), snatching at straws to prop its position, pretends
to find in the Globe some countenance to its otherwise
unsupported conclusions. "By a momentary lapse,"
says the Post, " into a right way of thinking, it
(the Globe) describes the sentence as " not over-
stepping military principles of judgment, and then
avers its concurrence with those who object to the
principles acted on at the Horse Guards.' " Our
readers are aware that we declined either to im-
pugn or affirm the principles of military judgment
upon which the sentence proceeded. What we said
was, that the "reprobation" cast by those principles on
self-redress, in case of personal insult by a superior
officer, could not be maintained (consistently with the
honour of British officers) in conjunction with the
inquiry-stiffing principles acted on at the Horse
Guards. We adhere to this opinion ; and we think
this point of view the moat serious. There may be
something about military principles, and society, as
peculiar as you will ; but every society, in demand-
ing obedience, must, in returd, afford protection—if
the one is withheld, the other is not to be looked for.
Protection to life and limb is the rudest requisite in
every community. Protection to that honour, which is
" the breath of their nostrils," is essential to military
men above all others. The requirements of the military
character must be duly regarded, as well as the require-
ments of military discipline. Or rather, the life of the
one depends• on maintaining the other intact. The
" principles by which all armies are governed" would
be destructive of their spirit, if they turned al
their subjects into mere automatons, insensible to
Tama—as callous to insult and ignominy. This can-
not be the temper which officers are intended to adopt
with their new uniforms ; and therefore we say that the
principles of the sentence of the Court-martial, and of
the conduct of the Horse Guards, cannot both be
adhered 'to without ruin to the character of the
British officer, or the discipline of the British service.
Tkiis subject must not be allowed to drop_ without
farther inquiry. We rejoice that the contributions
brought by our columns to the materials for judgment
have had the eff:ct, with these recent proceedings, of
awakening public attention to the whole matter. The
Post affects to believe that the publicity given to the
charges against Lord Cardigan must be answerable for the
unpleasant consequences to that Nobleman—not to men-
tion others. We submit that, if the charges were true, the
temper and character which they indicate are sufficient
to account for any conceivable amount of mischief. If
they were false—if all that has been imputed to Lord
Cardigan latterly has no more foundation than he af-
firms of the offensive ( xpressions towards Captain Rep
golds—then no man is so deeply interested as his Lord-
&lip himself in a full, searching, and impartial inquiry
into all these transactions.
(From the Courier.)
There is no domestic question which engages more
interest at the present moment among the higher and
educated orders than the singular contest now carrying
on for the election of High Steward to the University of
Cambridge. We say, singular, inasmuch as it is a contest,
not between individuals as representing or identified
each with one or other of the two leading parties in the
State, the result of which therefore would be invested
only with the special feature of the ascendancy of one
or other class of opinion in one of the most learned
and enlightened bodies in the world, and in so fer
a party triumph—a point in itself algae, however,
the importance of which cermet be overrated—but one '
between two distinguished parties holding the same po•
points only, on which the very
litical faith in common, or, when at all, differing upon
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first men its the State and the country, the men wile
give the tone to °patio!), have themselves, as we may
very
yated and less material
say, agreed to differ. The question therefore is not one
latter parties arc as completely out of Court, and as
for the two
beyond
the precincts of Downing-street and never beard
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