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APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI-
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THE NEW PLAY, in FIVE ACTS,
MASTER CLARKE,
By T. J. SERLE, Esq.
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POST.—The want of confidence observable amongst
the jobbers is attributed to the uncertainty which many
persons persist in believing to hang over the affairs of
the East ; these feelings of anxiety having been much
increased by the publication of a third edition of that
manufacturer of gorgons and chimeras dire, the Times,
who, in the course of the afternoon, has caused Com-
modore Napier to have captured Beyrout. Of course
this announcement will be contradicted to-morrow
morning ; but the intelligence has affected the weaker
minded of the capitalists, and caused considerable sales
of Consols, which closed about = per cent. lower than
the quotations of last night. The better informed of
the jobbers have not been alarmed by the capture of
Beyrout, for, in addition to the great improbability of
any such intelligence having been received by the Times,
there are persons who appear to think that the price of
Consols is too low to be even affected by any " unto-
ward event."
The depression in the foreign exchanges on the last
post clay has now been accounted for by the operations
of the leading Hebrew firm, whose opinions being
favourable to the preservation of the peace of Europe,
have induced these capitalists to speculate very largely
in the French Rentes, in the expectation that the former
prices will be regained upon the final passing away of
the rumours of war. Remittances for this purpose
have enabled this Hebrew firm to take all the bills
which were offered on Tuesday afternoon, and thence
the depression in the rates of exchange, but which may
not extend to the ensuing foreign post day. The ex-
changes are, moreover, affected more readily than in
ordinary times, since many of the continental bankers
have countermanded the drawing credits of their Lon-
don correspondents, in consequence of the prevailing
vague apprehensions of a general war, from the opera-
tion of which cause the supplies of bills have been greatly
reduced within the last few weeks. As affecting the
Bank of England and the general probabilities of the
money market there is probably nothing in the present
state of the exchanges which will not yield to the
certainty that Europe is not to be involved in a
general war.

CHRONICLE.—Money is tight to-clay in Lom-
bard-street at 5 per cent. The unfavourable state of
the Foreign Exchanges has given rise again to rumours
that the Directors of the Bank of England are about
to use restrictive measures on the circulation by selling
a proportion of their securities. If the exchanges do
not speedily assume a more healthy aspect, the Bank
parlour wilt, no doubt, find it necessary to adopt mea-
sures of self-preservation to provide against a possible
drain of bullion. We have always complained
that they have postponed the adoption of a
prudent policy until the last moment ; so that
when they did begin to apply " the screw,"
it was requisite to use it with so much force that great
embarrassment was produced by a sudden contraction of
the currency. On this principle we hoped that the late
reported sale of a part of the " dead weight" securities
was no fiction, and were disappointed to hear the state-
ment contradicted at the last general meeting of the
partners, because if the Directors had begun to con-
tract their circulation at a time when money was com-
paratively easy, the operation could have been effected
gradually and with little inconvenience.
The following circular hasbeen issued to the customers
of the late firm of Messrs. Hammersley and Co.:—
" Sir,—lt becomes my painful duty to inform you of
the sudden death, from a complaint of the heart, of Mr.
Hammersley, the surviving partner of the late firm of
Messrs. Hammersley and Co., on Saturday last ; and
that in consequence, there being no person to assume
the responsibility of carrying on the business, it is ne-
cessarily brought to a close ; and I am desired at the
same time to state, that a further communication will
be made to yon as early as possible.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
" M. PYI3US,
" Principal Clerk of the late Messrs. Hammerley.
" Pall Mall, Sept. 21, 1840."
The expenses incurred by the French Government
by their late ordinances begin to direct the attention of
the Parisian ,mpitalists and speculators to the subject of
loans. We have seen letters from Paris of the 22d
instant, in which it is asserted that notice of proposals
for a loan, of a considerable amount in a 3 per Cent.
Stock will speedily appear.

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This day is published, No. 39, Vol. IV., price 6d. Stamped,
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half-past nine o'cloek, received
MADAME LAFFARGE.—A letter
-- from
Tulle,
dated Sunday mornings
by estafette, says, " The registrar went to the gaol,
at
t
half-past eleven last night, r
o_ ead to Madame Laffarge
the judgment rendered by h
e Uourr, but we are assured
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counsel are preparing an aypeal to the Court of Cassa-
tion, and it is believed that it
may be well.grounded on
some irregularities in the proceedings. The requisitory of
the Advocate-General and the judgment of the Court were
made known to her this morning.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—One meriting this
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. omparied by a she
sing a turnip-field, ace _ sheep-dog, a very
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Once large adders, two of which he succeeded in destroy-
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The Frankfort ,Journal states than an arrange-
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sions. Other persons compromised in the recent troubles
are to be brought before the competent tribunals.

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FROM THE HORNING FAFEEs OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We are absolutely inundated with letters on the
subject of the disputes between the Earl of Cardigan
and the officers of his regiment, and the inconsistency
of the course pursued by the Horse Guards. The
public seem generally to be of opinion that Lord Hill
is as much upon his trial as the Earl of Cardigan or
Captain Richard Anthony Reynolds. Lord Hill was
popular in the army, and the belief is that he would not
of himself do a harsh thing ; but then, however brave
he may have been in the field, he is evidently without
that moral courage, firmness, and self-reliance which are
acquired in a Commander-in-Chief. Severity, when all
are made equally to feel it, may be supportable ; but
partiality is revolting. " Accursed is he" says the
Scripture, " who deals with two measures?' In the
case of Captain J. W. Reynolds, as we have already
more than once observed, there are not two opinions.
In every society, the message delivered from Lord
Cardigan to Captain J. IV. Reynolds is consi-
dered insulting. To reproach him with being an
Indian officer implies more: than mere want of
sense. Where should we have been in the beginning
of the Peninsular war, had we not had Indian
(!lliccrs ? In India men are constantly obliged to
struggle with difficulties, and arc thrown on their own
resources. It is only necessary to read the letters of
Sir Tnomas Monro, the despatches of the Duke of
Wellington, and other genuine materials of history, to
understand how officers formed in India must, by the
force of circumstances, be greatly superior to officers
who strut about parades in England, and have every
want immediately supplied without exertion. The
Duke of Wellington never could have acquired in
Europe the extraordinary acquaintance with all that is
necessary to the efficiency of an army, which is so
conspicuous in all his despatches. By universal ad-
mission the weak point of an English army is its help-
lessness in situations where the regularity of supplies
of all kinds to which it has been accustomed ie England
no longer exists : but the very men to remedy this de-
fect are Indian officers. " I think," says the Duke of
Wellington, modestly, " I know something of feeding
men." His attention in India had been turned to
something besides black battles on a mess table. His
Indian experience enabled him to convert an English
army, little better than a militia, into the best in
Europe. With respect to Captain Richard Anthony
Reynolds, whose trial comes on this day at Brighton,
there is no doubt that he has offended against the rules
of the service in challenging a superior officer. What
will weigh, too, against him, with many persons disposed
to overlook the breach of the rules of the service is the
tone of the second letter to Lord Cardigan, which is
bad. However much another may forget what is due
to him, a man ought never to forget what he owes to
himself, propriety of manner. But if it should turn
out that this unfelt tunate gentleman has been, as we
are informed is the case, fifteen years in the service,
and never, until Lord Cardigan became Colonel of
the regiment, had any difference with any of his supe-
rior officers,—not even occasion to write an official
letter,—while he has been insulted again and again by
Lord Cardigan, and could obtain no redress from the
Horse-Guards,—some allowance must be made for him.
It is in the power of the Colonel of a regiment to make
the officers under him very miserable, and this truth
seems to have been forcibly impressed on all who
have had the misfortune of coming in contact with
Lord Cardigan. We say at once that where any man
is found in constant collision with all who approach
him, he must possess qualities which unfit him for com-
mand. A quarrelsome man is usually sent to Coven-
try ; but unfortunately for subalterns a Colonel cannot
be sent by them to Coventry. Lord Hill having been
connected in the case of the Earl of Cardigan, seems
to consider him tabooed. Well! A Court•martial has
been appointed to try Captain R. A. Reynolds for
challenging his superior officer. Is it customary for
Lord Hill to proceed thus in similar cases ? We think
we can mention a case in Lord Hill's own regiment,
the Blues, when Lord Hill conveniently forgot to en-
force the rules of the service. Our readers may re-
member something of a fracas which took place be-
tween two officers of that regiment. A blow was
struck, a junior officer challenged a senior officer for
improper conduct. Did Lord Hill order a Court-
martial to assemble ? No. Was either of the officers
dismissed the service? No. Did the officers im-
mediately obey Lord Hill's personal orders—that a
reconciliation must take place not only between them,
but among all the officers of the Blues ? No. We
have been reminded of these circumstances by a
correspondent who subscribes himself " An Officer,"
and who concludes his letter thus :—" I ask the public,
then—l Irk the army—is Lord Hill's conduct in re-
gard to this affair of the Earl of Cardigan and Captain
Reynolds without favour, partiality, or affection,' to
the former ?—No. It is necessary to insert this, that
the army may judge of the Commander-in-Chief's con-
duct—when Peers and Peers' sons are concerned,—or
when an officer of little interest." The allusion to
Peers' sons will be understood, when we mention that
one of the officers of the Blues implicated was the Ho- I
pourable Cecil Forrester, a Member of the House of
Commons. With respect to the composition of the j
Court-martial on Captain Richard A. Reynolds, there
are only four captains in it, all the rest being command-
ing officers ; whereas we are informed that it has been
usual to name about half of the rank of the officer to
be tried. With respect, too, to the rules of the service,
may they not receive too great an extension when they
are applied to matters not connected with the service?
Does an officer, on entering the army, renounce all right
to the treatment which is due from one gentleman to
another in private life ? It is admitted, that where the
service is concerned, the orders of the superior must be im-
plicitly obeyed; but in social life may the superior outrage
the interior with impunity ? Suppose Lord Cardigan
had in society given Captain R. A. Reynolds the lie
direct, would he have been obliged to pocket the affront ?
Was he entitled in a society in which the latter was not
present to speak of him in terms conveying an imputa-
tion against his character? We leave these points to
he settled by gentlemen of the army, though we suspect
there are kw who will venture to lay it down, without
qualification, that in social life a superior officer may
affront an inferior in every conceivable way. Let us
put another case which we dare to say has occasionally
occurred. As a sergeant of to-day is often a private to-
morrow, and the private takes the place of the sergeant,
they are not so distant in rank as to decline the society
of each other. The private is liable to punishment for
refusing to obey the orders of the sergeant. But should
the sergeant and private be carousing together in a pot-
house, the sergeant to speak insultingly to the private,
and the latter to give his superior a sound thrashing,
would the private in such a case be punished? Or
SUN.—The Belgian Government, it appears, intends would it be said that the sergeant was rightly served, as he
raising part of a loan of 800,0001., say 200,000/, in the had by his foul tongue brought the thrashing on himself ?
London Money Market. Setting aside all considerations Is there one rule for an Earl and another for the min-
as to the general impolicy of foreign loans, we should commissioned officer ? May the Earl go out of his way
be glad to find, seeing the critical position of affairs, to insult an officer, while the sergeant must put up with
and the apprehended exportation of the precious metals his thrashing ? However, we will not enlarge further
from this country, that the loan was not taken here at on these matters. The great point.after all, is the con-
all, although unquestionably Belgian credit stands as duct of Lord Hill, whose weakness and want of consis-
well as could be desired. tency has involved him in difficulties from which he will
The Funds were dull all day, and late in the after- hardly be able to extricate himself with credit.
noon received their quietus by the arrival of the express (From the Times.)
from Paris with the rumour that Beyrout had been The second in rank, as to difficulty of attainment,
captured by Admiral Napier, and that hostilities had
generally commenced in Egypt. Although scarcely ere- amongst all the instruments of national defence and
security, is a fleet of unrivalled strength. The first
tilted, the effect of the intelligence was to occasion a fall
in rank is a system for giving stability to such prepon-
of ;per cent. on the previously-heavy quotations of
derance. The former may be effected through a sud-
Consols, or from 88-i to 88* to 88 to 87i for money,
den and single effort of extraordinary energy, often, in
and from 881 to 88 to 87-;,4 to 88 for the Account, the
the nature of things, productive of no permanent good.
market closing with a heavy appearance. Exchequer
The latter, namely, the establishment and maintenance
Bills remained at 6s. to Bs. prem., and India Bends
of a system for perpetuating such superiority, must be
improved to 3s. dis. The New "Three-and-a• Half per , ,
of
Cents. declined to 97,i to 97. the work years ; wrought out by a circumspect spirit
of combination—by skill, wisdom, steady resolution—.
A great deal of speculative business was transacted in
anxious and patriotic vigilance, never sleeping—above
the Spanish Active Bonds to-day in consequence of the
all, by a prompt seizure of circumstances as they arise,
advices received respecting the appointment of Esp 's-
tern by the Queen Regent, to form a new Administra- inagdeqeurrateergemoceya.ns of
Afterre-
tion. The fluctuation in prices was from 2'2 to '23 forregion of the
nsytdi astn:aicoeg vigoroustwo
treasuresr e ach applicationo forthcoming
uponoomf
every
Money. and from 21;1 to 23i for the Account ; Penn -
earth, and mixing her best blood with die waters of
geese New Five per Cents. were marked at 32; to 329 ;
every ocean, England, by the help of Providence, pos-
and the Three per Cents, for time 2.1,k to 21;c:- ; Colom -
cCd herself of both the above great prizes. She
bian Six per Cents, were dull at 2;:ti ; and Mexican
sensed
acquired the most formidable fleet that ever ex-
Six per Cents. at 25 ; French Five per Cents. dropped
sated in the world, and had established and matured
to 105 f. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. to 50.
system for the support of it unequalled by anything
Belgian Bonds feel the influence of the new loan, being .
in, the records of practical administration. She had
2 per cent. lower, cr 97 ; Austrian Five per Cents. de- them : but sheholds them not. The marine of England in
dined to 104, but rallied subsequently to 106. its attributesof efficiency and supremacy is actually at this
In the Railway Shares there was very little passing,
moment superseded by the more commanding armaments
and a further decline occurred in prices, the current
of a hostile Power, and that country on the face of the
ones being—Great Western 19 to 16 ; New, 6 ; North
globe which has the greatest number of helpless colonies
Midland, New, 2 ; and South Western, 13 premium.
to defend, and the most immense and incalculable body
Brighton dropped to 11 Bleckwall to ; Midland Easter lof commercial interests to foster—that empire of which
si-1 ;
Counties to 191! ; North Midland to 17 ; n ; the parts, widely
ho separatedneriso
rbaol unionyfo
nature,
o pp
b can be no
force
The Government navy provision contract was taken
s
to-day as follows :
withi a m
a
other-
Counties to 12.1 ; and South Eastern to 171 discount.
links
kteopgteoitonhrieporog chain, and secures as b
political or
utety a b
hemispheresyfloating bridge
12,500 tierces of Pork by Messrs. Allen and Antler'
; the peaceful and profitable intercourse of their respective
son, of London, for their friends—John Russell, Esq.,
inhabitants—the British empire, maritime
of' Limerick, Mess-s. Burke, Brothers, and Robert ;and when no longer omnipotent On in its essence,
Henan and Co., of Cork, at 6/. 15s. 3d. per tierce.
fire no longer, is actually now,
both the ocean an em-
'a 500 tierces by Messrs. Bell, Brothers, of London,abroad and at home,
at the mercy of more than one assailant, who would
at 6/. 15s. 2d. per tierce.find our few un ;
,7 3 5 hams meet ships cos y prey, and
Beef, 3,000 trs by Allen and Henderson, at •••.' could invade anygiven
▪ 2,900 .•• J. and J. Nesbitt ............... 7 0 10
with im unit portion of the United Kingdom
... 6,800 ••• R. Barnewall and 50n5....•• 7 3 10
to London, 16' desolating. every seaport, from Glasgow
300 ... Barclay and Friend ......•••••• 2 8
.0 , owing to pieces every dockyard, from
Pembroke to Chatham, de •
stroving or capturing every
man-of-war within our waters, inflicting upon us losses
which a century would not repair, and a disgrace coth-
ing less than immortal. The only squadron now at sea
in the service of Great Britain is that in the Mediter-

EVENING EDITION. LT
ranean under Sir Robert Stopford. It coedits alto.
gether of nine vessels, called, though some of theta e-r,
calumniously, ships of the line. In the first place, these
ships, much smaller, more lightly framed, and more j
feebly armed than those of France. have irs,
to their guns and tonnaze a cempiernent ocitl-Thfrieb" ts'
inferior to that of the Freer+ vessels. As a proof of
it, an SO or S 4 gun British ship (the Vanguard, for in-
stance), of 2,609 tons, has a crew compoaed of 435
officers and men, 60 boys, and 150 marines, eitogether
615 in number for a ship which in scantling-. masts, and
spars, is as heavy, within seven tons, as the Britannia of
of PO guns ; while a French wan-of-mar of similar er-
mament and tonnage has not less than 800 men. Now
let us ask, can it be expected by the krimiralty or the
country that a crew of such scanty materials, with so
large a portion of it consisting of you
can
st,o
longrlo
equal work with 800 men, or n
and fierce a combat ? Is it not physically certain
stand a' dboY
that such a crew must be o' erwhelmed and worn
out, even by the handling and ril3i COO ringin the
ship, when brought into the presence of a foreign man-
of-war, having on board 800 non, opposition to
650, of whom a tenth are boys? Is it possible that
the English crew can work their guns with so much
else or advantage as an enemy stronger by at least
150 ? It is said that the crews in numerical strength
do not much differ, if at all, from their muster-roll
during the war. That is untrue. The establi&.meet
for ships of the line was from 40 to 60 hands greater
than at present. It is false in another sense, for now,
by an Admiralty regulation, a considerable proportion
of each ship's company consists of mere boys, without
muscular strength or knowledge of seamanship, whereas
formerly there was no such delusion practised on thi
service. The crews, more numerous than at present,
were all arrived at manhood. But if it were true, which
it is not, that in physical force and numbers the exist/
ing complements were equal to those of former periods,
there is an another gross fallacy behind. For herr.
toforc the weight of metal which formed the ship's
armament was incomparably less than under
the present regulations. Until within these twu
or three last years, guns of many different
ttf-
tures or calibres were used on board our men-of-war.
3.2'5, 24's, 18's, 12's, and sometimes evtn on the quer!
ter-deck or forecastle 9 pounders, were held to be ads
missible upon the batteries. But how is it at present ?
Why, nothing less than 32-pounders ere henceforth to
be employed, and will any reasonable person allege that
the same number of hands can work a two.and-thirty
that may prove quite masters of an 18 pound gun ?
The Benbow, of 72 guns, which, as a " ship of the
line," is bound to encounter the heaviest Frerreh man-
of- war that offers, though carrying 120 guns, and manned
with 1,100 seamen, carries but 862 officers and men,
53 boys, arid 125 marines—in all, 540 hands I Is that
fair to the lives and reputations of our seamen ? Is it
less than enormous and ejsgraceful inhumanity
The effect of it-Acting such hardships on the men, by
enders-Dennis); the Queen's ships so unmercifully, iy
visible in the repugnance of British sailors to enter on
board the fleet. The service has become odious, and
able seamen almost unattainable. It is a fact that
the Vanguard, one of the finest slips that ever
swam, was lately full four months in com-
mission, and lay considerably more than three
months at Spithead, without being able to
get a ship's company together. Nor could she
have gone to sea at all but for a draught of 100 men
front the guard-hip, who were reelaced on board the
Britannia by an equal body of pensioners. It was
said, indeed, that the Vanguard was peculiarly unlucky
—that a certain officer (not the captain, who is an ex-
cellent tnan and well liked, but that a certain other
officer), on whose superintendence tee discipline of the
ship depends, and on his temper the comfort or misery
of all on board it, had among the seamen the character
of harshness and caprice. So the Vanguard, but tor
the guardship and the ordinary, might have been at
anchor till doomsday. The Britannia, of I'2o guns,
is now commissioned and under sailing orders. Tire
same dearth of hands which paralyzed the Vanguard
would now have rendered motionless the noble three-
decker, but that another man-of-war, the Donegal, has
been brought home from Portugal and turned into a hulk
for her equipment. And thus a mere shlt of complement
from one vessel to another stands instead of a reinforce-
' merit, which the Minto board finds to be beyond its
grasp. What, then, becomes of Sir Robert Stopford in
such a grievous exigency: With a squadron of nine
sail—dispersed from Alexandria along the whole coast
of Syria and Beyrout, and exposed piecemeal to the at-
tacks of a superior enemy—what, we say, is to become
of Sir Robert Stopford ? The rumours of the Admi-
ralty give us a catalogue of six or seven men of war ut
home, who are commissioned, or ready for commission.
Mighty well ; but where will Lord Minto find seamen ?
What are the grandest men-of-war in our dockyards
but torpid masses of wood and copper, without tars to
animate and move them? What do our naval arsenals
now present ? Not defences against au enemy, but
enticements to attack them. What are long ranges of
masts and yards, and canvass, heaps of shot, and hues
of disemunted cannon, but so many prizes to the
first aggressor, not obstacles or dangers in ltis
path ? Is it not possible that at this rno-
meet any three foreign sail of the line might, with
the help of a solitary pilot make their way mire-
! listed into all our harbours in succession, carry off,
without so much as a single broadside, our so-called
guardships from Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Sheer-
ness, load them at their leisure with naval stores, set
fire to the slips, the houses and materials for ship-
building, leave every arsenal a heap of ruins, and steer
away for Brest with a broom at the maintop-gallant
masthead ?! Yes, such is the condition to which the
maritime supremacy of Great Britain has been actually
reduced. No effective reinforcement to our single
squadron abroad—no dream of a Channel fleet of even
ten sail of the line—not one semblance of a manned
and armed guardship fit for sea—not so much as one
stout frigate ready ; not so much as one armed
steamer ready ; a vote for 2,000 seamen at the close
of the Session lying inoperative and useless ; a demand
for 20,000, and not 500 to be found. Vs as ever a
tenth rate maritime power in a state of such utter
helplessness and desolation ? Was ever the safety of a
mighty realm committed to such rotten keeping ? But
we arc not done yet.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
We have seen a document of great value as affect-
ing Mr. Alderman Harmer. It is the speech of Sir James
Mackintosh, on bringing up the Report of the Com-
mittee on the Criminal Code, on July 6, 1819. Sir
James Nlackintosli is dead. The fever of faction has
long ceased to warp men's opinions as to his character.
All men honour him—Whig, Tory, and Radical. One
of his most successful disciples was the present Sir
Robert Peel, who carried out his views in the amelio-
rations he effected by his justly celebrated Five Acts.
The testimony of Sir James Mackintosh, therefore,
must be of great weight with men of all parties. And
what was that testimony ? Why, in bringing up this
Report he declared that of all the witnesses examined
Mr. Harmer, in soundness of views, in knowledge of
facts, in ability, and in humanity, surpassed all others,
'Phis eulogium, delivered in the House of Commons,
was perhaps the proudest that any witness ever received.
We give it very tamely, because we write from memory,
but the Times, if it pleases, or the Standard, or the
Post, or the Herald know where to find it. Let them read
that testimony, and, connecting it with the unblamed and
unblanseable conduct of Mr. Alderman Harmer in all
the civic offices he has filled, let them, if they have the
hardihood to do it, still continue to assert that lie is an
unfit man to be the Chief Magistrate of this great city,
and that some one else is better able to protect property
by detecting those engaged in its plunder. The general
opinion, however, is, that the Alderman's election is
perfectly safe. The notorious and decided failure of the
" declaration," which, by having a majority of the names
of the Livery, was to send him back to Ingress Abbey
without an election at all, is now certain and palpable.
Not one man in twenty of the Livery has signed it, and
not one in ten ever will. Politics or personalities, warm
though they be, will not blind masses as to facts.
People cannot help seeing the reports in the Times of
the conduct of Alderman Harmer as a Magistrate, the
criHmaertniiie3rnisanlyesosthzeeraltokulds,eormr
alnesosreT,lcaigeinst.
same as they see that of every other Alderman in the
same Paper—nothing appears in those reports to show
ask themselves, therefore, the simple
t he twill
i ;Ai hmeonrei
itt Magis-
trate. p. r e AldermansTs niegy
flNi n 1
o"r, , NV
andha tw
differentilslytoSlllllotaliktle%hVti!lntlli encourage
is
s.
gLuoersd-
crime than he does now ?" The whole question is in a
nutshell.

the( From
why
Morning
tv e Herald.)
iave
have,
A askscorrespondentsaid nothing of
that eminent " di •
scipunarian" Lord Cardigan, • 1 this
condu •ct by which he has lately obtained
d:
nt ary rather than an enviable decree ot.cel
ttibnrietxyt raoirlie-
ict. is, another distinguished public character—Lord
Palmerston.—has given us so much to do by the disas-
trous consequences of his fantastically mischievous
diplomacy, which has disturb.d all Europe from one
end to the other, that we have had little leisure to at-
tend to matters of minor importance, and so Lord Car-
digaa and " the discipline of his wars" have not had as
much of our attention as thee world otherwise have re-
-1 ceived. Bnt to the merits of the Noble Earl, who is in
the actual command of Prince Albert's regiment of
hussars, we have not been altogether indifferent ; and,
as far as we are concerned, those merits shall have
justice done to them. Let us observe, however, that
some of our Contemporaries have been confounding
two of the episodes in the history of Lord Cardigan's
recent " military career." That mistake arose from
' to the matter too hastily, and w
plunging in ,'th
out ascer-
taning that there are two Captain Iteynoldses in the
with both of whom the noble Lieuten
; regiment, ant-Co-
-1 lonel has quarrelled. But there having been a Court-
' martial ordered in one of those cases, we shall leave
' the merits to be developed by judicial inquiry. In
the other case a Court-martial has been
I vain, and of course the publicen asked for in
are '
i Opinion upon the published co free to form their
statement of facts by the rrespondence, and the
complainant, which
remains uncontradicted. so
a disciplinarian is Lord exact and severe
Cardizdn, that we find
him one day sendinir
an officer a most of.