The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-21 00:00:00

THE ELEVENTH HUsSARS.

TO THE EDITO1? OF THE SUN.
St n,—
Itis moat deeply to be regretted, for the sake
of the army at larp, that such persons as the Earl of
Cardigan should be allowed to retain the command of
any regiment in the service._

One might have naturally expected that, after what
happened in his former regiment, his Lordship would
have behaved in the manner /coat likely to bring his
conduct in an odious light again before the notice of
the public.
In England, generally speaking, those not personally
concerned in the military profession, interest themselves
little about army questions, or army aquabbles ; but to
the service itself, it cannot but be a matter of disgust
to see a person, who formerly was forced to quit his
regiment from the fact of having embroiled himself
with all the officers in it ; not only put at the bead of
another cavalry regiment, but to see that this person
unfortunately so completely gains the ear of the Com-
mander in-Chief, as to get him to condemn (unheard,
and upon his own cx parte statements) the officers of his
iliew regiment, who are again obliged to appeal against
unwarrantable abuse of power, as a commanding
officer.
It must operate as anything but an incentive to good
conduct and unanimity of feeling in the service, to see
a superior officer not only supported and upheld in his
arbitrary conduct, but even favoured and caressed ; who
has been the means of creating more ill-blood in his two
regiments, than any other who • has served much longer
than himself, •
Thu Commander-in-Chief should consider that there
are other requisites fora
good commanding officer of a
cavalry regiment than the being either a good judge of
uniform, or even a good parade-drill ; two qualities of
which no one wishes to deny the possession by the
Noble`Lord. But it seems that the other very serious
dis-qualifications for such a command arc completely
overlooked by the Commander-in-Chief.
It surely must be as much the duty of the latter to
protect the junior braches of the service over which
he presides, from any
arbitrary conduct of their supe-
riors, as it is to uphold proper•discipline• by supporting
on every fair occasion, the legitimate authority of a com-
manding officer. " B. Z.'
Itaangate, Sept. 20, 1840.

ri,..I,FICEW
INDIAN
into the Atlantic. This language
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orders from Napoleontab se i‘r:gsucipaoryiaGcetn,
General"
that
when 111assena was sent against Sir Arthur Wellesley, his
and others? Above all,
Lord Harr is, reirSit o dirti vies
was natural and not
inappropriate in an enemy but it comes with very bad
grace from an officer. What were Lord Clive, Lord Lake,
what was the Duke
of Wellington?
THE A RmY.—The left wing of the 19th Regi-
ment, under the command of iMaj(7r Hodgson, embarked
at Cork on the 16 h instant in her , Niajcsty's ship Rodney,
They will touch at Lisbon and Gibraltar, and finally dis-
embark at Malta, should their services not be required on
the coast of Syria.
EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT. —A few days
ago the daughter of a respectable farmer in East Lothian
was induced by one of her father's shearers, a disreputable
character, who, has been already twice convicted of theft,
to elope with him. Before leaving the house he broke
open a strong chest belonging to her father, in which was
contained bank receipts to the amount of 234/ , and c-ish
to the amount of 121. In the course of a few hours the ,
police succeeded in discovering the fellow and his unhappy
dupe in a low loiging.house in the Nungate, Haddington,
where they had just arrived. The money was recovered, ,
with the exception of about twenty shillings, with, which.
the male prisoner had purchased a sccon:;-gaud ,u it of
clothes, and the nest day the bank receiptf, were found in
a field near the scene of the elopement. Both parties i
have been committed for trial.— Caledonian Mercury. i