The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-03 00:00:00

BANBURY, FEB. 1.

TO 7'llE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—ln your report of the proceedings in the Rolls
Court on Thursday last, you have fallen into an error
which I -shall feel obliged if you will correct, in tho ease
" Gardner v. Howard," which was an application for an
injunction of the Court to restrain the defendant from
further making and selling certain machines for cutting
turni )s infringing my patent. You describe the de-
ft nda.nt as an ironmonger living at Brentford ; it should
have been put Bedford, not Brcntford. You also
state the defendant was making and selling ma
chines in every respect similar to those patented by me. It
was stated to the Court by my counsel, that the defendant
was making and selling machines, the knives or cutters of
which separately and in the series were similar to those
for which my patent was obtained, but instead of affixing
them upotr a rotary drum as made by me, the defendant,
it was stated, affixed them upon a rotary plate. The
Court, regarding it as a decided caso of infringement,
granted the Injut ction.

1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES GARDNER.

VICTORIATHEA4RE.

s new drama, Few Tree Ruins, continues to
drawilinacero'wded houses at this theatre every evening. The
spirited lessee, however, does not rest on his oars, but seems in-
defatigable in securing all the talent in market for the gra-
tification
71 actraoeysf:s, ant! was
rnnaetplc.,
of his patrons. That enchanting
rce,
commenced a short engagement he're.
turously received. She appeared in a short°llldd
s Frhao
written expressly for her, entitled The lt'
lics, in
which she acts the part of hlrs. General Mapleton,
anxious to get rid of a crowd of obnoxious suitors.
acts, fences, fires at targets, and is in fact " every theinSigni"sy,
turns, and nothing long," to the great dismay of the au""
who one and all declare off. Her naivete and archness are
admirable, and the curtain fell amidst thunders of applause.
She sang the song of " When at your feet a lover kneels," e
x..
quisitely, and, as a matter of course, was called on to repeat it;
she also sang the finale to Luccia di Lammermoor in a style
which elicited shouts of laughter and applause. As a burlesque
imitation of the exaggerated style of singing and acting of the
Griai school, it was one of the best performances we ever wit-
nessed, and it had this great merit, it never degenerated into
mere vulgar caricature. We kail the return of Mrs. Honey
to the metropolitan boards with unmingled satisfaction, and
hope that she will not again leave us for such a length of time
as she has done recently.

THE SULTAN AND THE QUEEN.—The young
Sultan Ab lul Medjid has addressed a " letter of fe-
licitation" to her Nl;j:ssty the Queen, on the occasion of
:be birth of the Princess Royal. The letter is about
three feet in length by four or five inches in width. It is
'written in very beautiful characters, small, but extremely
diviner, and evidently done with great care. In the mar.
gin is the autograph of the Sultan, with an enumeration
of all the titles of " the Most High and very Powerful
Seigneur" which have appertained to his Highness's pre-
decessors from time immemorial. The paper is of fine
quality, resembling but superior to vellum, and with a fine
enamel on its curf,co. The letter was enclosed in an en-
velope, and sealed with the armorial bearings of the Sul
tan. The whole was enclosed in a rich sachet (or small
hag, similar to a lady's reticule) of crimson satin, elabo-
rately embroidered with silk and gold, and to which were
attached a cord and tassel of bullion of the most recherche
manufacture.

Another Mernher of National Convention,
Bouchercau, cited on the 26th ult., at Chauny, iu the
86th year of his age.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It will be seen, from our account of the proceedings at
die nomination at Walsall yesterday, that the show of
hands was completely in fsvour of Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith
had not only the hands but the heads irr his favour, for even
the gentleman who proposed Mr. Gladstone durst not
meet the great principle which is at issue in this election.
Mr. Forster said, " Is reference to the Corn-lavis, if they
could be proved to be injurious to the trede of the country,
they ought to be repealed forthwith." But he durst not
state that they were not injurious. Mr. Mills, the gentle-
man who seconded the nomination of Mr. Smith, said,
"He should like to know from Mr. Forster what he
really thought was detrimental to the town. Did
he not think that there must be something detri-
mental when he saw hundreds around him in the
most wretched destitution? He asked Mr. Forster
if he had not seen, as a guardian, hundreds around
hint in the most wretched destitution ? Had he
not seen, as a guardian, hundreds of men applying for
leave to do the work of horses far fifteen pence i..er day ?
He (Mr. Mills) sat at the board with Mr. Forster, and
they both knew that they had been compelled to put num-
bers of these poor creatures upon three days of this de-
scription of work in toe week. I: was folly to deny the
existing distress; it was still greater folly to deny the
cause, because by so doing they prevented a remedy."
The people of Walsall seem fully impressed with the im-
portance of the contest which they are to decide. The
utmost enthusiasm prevailed in favour of the Asiti-Curn-
law candidate. From what was said by Mr. Cottrell, it
would appear that bribery has been resorted to by the
Tory candidate. But the people were confident that the
cause of free trade would be victorious. Out of the enor-
mous multitude, not more than about a dozen individuals
were adherents of the Tory candid 4te. From all these
symptoms we augur favourably for Mr. Smith.
(From the 'fitnes.)
The factious rnainisr in which, for political ends, the
" Liberal" journals arc constantly assailing the Horse
Guards, has naturally operated as a restraint upon any
expression of our feelings and opinions in a matter on
which there is, we believe, among Englishmen uncon-
nected with the parties, but one, and that a very strong
opinion. We owe to the distinguished nobleraan at the
bead of the army, not merely respect, but the warmest
I gratitude, for services only eclipsed by those of one,
whose fame seises into comparative obscurity achievements
which in other days would have placed their authors
among the wonders of their time. To be next alter Wel-
lington is surely a higher rank than belongs to any corn--
mender since the days of Marlborough. Nor does it reflect
any slight honour on Lord Hill to have commanded the
whole British army for now nearly fifteen years, with so
generally unimpeachable a character as that which he has
succeeded in sustaining. It is from a mingled feeling of
regard for the past and apprehension for the future
that we now venture, once more, to approach that
vexata questio—the predicament of the Priece Consort's
regiment of Hussars. One of the chief uses f the Press
is to give a tongue to public discontent. Aed this is the
difference between a Loyal and a disloyal Press :—The
latter, as in the present case, exhibits the greatest avidity
in exc,tieg the public mind against all lawful authorities
and established institutions. The former, desiring rather
to allay than to irritate the evil, speaks only when it is ne-
cessary ; when it appears but too probable that the public
feeling is not understood or appreciated by those to whom
it is a misfortune to misunderstand or to be misunderstood
by the people. From the uncertainty and hesitation which
still exists, we cannot but fear that this is the case with re-
spect to the position of the Horse Guards as to the affair of
the 1I th Hussars and their commander. Universally con-
demned abroad, and no: defended even at head-quarters, as is
the conduct of Lord Cardigan, still no decisive step is telt, n.
()freer alter officer falls a victim to the want of temper
and stlf-contrel dibl.lsyed by the Lieutenant-Col. nel ; the
public mind, irritated by these things, displays its dis-
content on every fittiraos or unfitting occasion, but still the
main cause of all this ill-blood continues to c xist, and the
moral feeling and sense of justice which arc innate in, and
natural to, Englishmen in general, arc outraged by b..h.old-
ing the wronged still without redress, and the wrong-doer
still without check or pun:shrnent. The good sense of
tie people has been abundantly visible in this affair.
they are aware that discipline must be preserved, and
insubordination firmly repressed, if the army is to le
kept in a state of effectiveness. The sentence, there-
fore, on Captain R. A. Reynolds was submitted to,
severe as it undoubtedly was. Nay, more, a respect-
ful silence was preserved in order that Lord Car-
digan's resignation, expected by every one as inevit-
able, might have the grace of a voluntary, and not
an enforced act of repentance. But in this pa.
tience and moderation of the public mind there is no
atom of doubt or indecision. The feeling of ninety-
nine men out of every hundred (we speak only of educated
men, and competent judges) is, that Captain R. A. Rey-
nolds, while he had clearly exposed himself to the sentence
which he received, was at the same time a man who
had suffered cruel provocation, upon whom technical
justice inflicted real injustice, and in whose favour,
therefore, mercy ought to be brought into exercise at the
earliest fitting moment ; while, on the other hand, Lord
Cardigan, both in this, and in various other instances, bad
shown such a want of proper feeling and temper as
clearly rendered him unfit for a post of command, and
made it a public duty incumbent on hit • superiors to with-
draw him, as quickly as possible, from a position in which
he was doing constant and widely-extended mis-
chief. These opinions, as we have said, are general
throughout society ; and, as they involve personal wrongs,
and positive injuries, still unredressed, they are not likely
to grow weaker, or to die away. " Let justice be done,"
is a motto perhaps of all others most congenial to an Eng-
lish mind. Bat justice has not yet been done in the case
above alluded to. Hence the matter festers and rankles
in the heart of the public. They can wait; but patience
will have its limit. We trust that there is no intention a
the Horse Guards of blinking the question, or of trying
the extent of the public endurance. We still hope that
arrangements are only delayed which may rectify what at
present requires it, and may remove the heartburning
which continues to exist. Much is this to be desired ;
both that " justice may be done" to the injured parties, and
that those who are constantly carping at the Horse Guards
system, from factious and party motives, may not have the
support which they are at present deriving from a widely-
spread conviction that wrong has been done, and remains
unredressed ; while the wrong-doer maintains his state, and
continues his course with impunity.
(From the Globe.)
The Times and Herald, each in its peculiar way,
have given us samples of what may be expected while
the Bill for continuing the Poor-law Commission is be-
fore Parliament. It would exclude from our columns
matter far more worthy of public regard, were we t.o
notice all the unproved and disproved assertions of the
one, and the insane garrulities of the other. This is,
however, unnecessary ; for, though they occupy much
space, they contain but little that is new. The Herald
asks, " Is not the law which Lard John Russell seeks to
have renewed and perpetuated, a law to prolong the
agonies of hunger—to convert public relief into refined
torture—to brand the destitute with worse than the
felon's sentence and then, answering the questions in
the affirmative, proceeds to vindicate the Conservatives

from any share in passing the Poor-law Amendment
Act. Now, though we wish the Whigs had the exclu-
sive merit of originating a measure which we believe
has preserved the country from universal pauperism,
and the tendency of which is no less beneficial to the
poor than to the rich, on referring to the Report of the
first Poor-law Commission on which the existing Act is
founded, we find the three first signatures arc—" C. J.
London," " J. B. Chester," and " W. Sturges Bourne."
The Conservative party in bath houses have acted with

fairness on this qUesti-. Indeed, whe❑ the Duke of
Wellington and Sir 8.. Peel gave their unqualified sup-
port and approbation to the Bill, their followers could
hardly dissent. Whatever opposition the measure en-
countered was from the Radical Members ; the Con-
servatives who dissented being the most insignificant of
their class. But we object strongly to the dishonest
use which has been made of the Anti-Poor-law clamour

by Tories out of Parliament, who have been glad to
t4ce the benefit, and throw upon the Whigs the odium
of the Bill.

(From the Courier.)
Some curious rumours have been afloat within the last
few days, touching the passage of certain ill-tempered
notes of late betwixt the English and French Cabinets,
or rather all the ill blood was in the diplomacy
from this side and the cool courtuy from the
other. The subject concerned the unvillingness
of the French Government to resume the nego-
tiations for the settlement of that new commercial

convention between the two countries,
pro-
gress and promise of which has been the staple sub-
stance for the last two years of most that has been
said in Parliament, and sung in ;Ministerial leading
articles out of doors, in praise of the perfection of
foreign policy. Lord Palmerston, if report may be be-
lieved, put out of humour by the civil dismissal of Mr.
Porter from Paris on occasion of the July note and our
Egyptian warfare, and stung more still by the polite in-
difference with which M. Guizot has since consigned to
utter oblivion the commercial discussions and conclusions
arrived at, has taken it upon him to recall the attention
of that Minister to the business, and to inquire what
might be his intentions ; to which the glacial rejoinder,
in most smooth phrase, is said to have been to the effect,
that as it was•a matter of no importance, there was 30
need to waste more words about it. This sort of cut gen-
teel only made the Foreign Secretary more petulant,
and he is understood to have replied, with much tarts
ness, substantially or in meaning, that, as all cause of
quarrel and jealousy had now been removed by the
ictorious career of the British arms on the coasts of
Syria, and by the success of British diplomacy at Alex.
andria, it was idle of France to persist in conceiving her-
self humiliated, to cherish feelings of resentment, and
dream of reprisals or vengeance. He is said to have in-
sisted besides that, as the commercial .negotiations had
wanted
en.
proceeded so far as actually to have been embodied, or
ready to embody,
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which
should
be
titledno nothing
ng bu
to construe the non.agreement for signature and
ratification now, taken in conjunction with the vast war-
like preparations simultaneously carrying on in that
country, as evidence of hostile dispositions in the French
Government, if not actually constituting a cases
What the smart return of M. Guizot may he, or hare
been, to these home thrusts, we do not profess to have
hoard. We give the rumours only to the extent and in
the order in which they have reached us.
(From the Stamitrd.)
The trial of tht E-trl of-G4rifig.,,p is properly a sub.
j,ct of great interest. Tile case is one of the first
iul-
presaion, to borrow the technical phrase; no prole-