The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-23 00:00:00

EVENING _EDITION.

Patch is not written to please the Priests and the
Tories.

We fixed public attention yesterday to a bad
Principle which is followed at the Horse Guards in
el'ntnisterin«• the government of the Army. The
80-callcd high-minded men who preside there listen
It) tales, encourage slander and backbiting, and
act °'' anv stories a Noble Colonel may choose
to convey to them. We have now to notice its
application.

We hold it to be utterly impossible, had the
Earl of CARDIGAN, in the first instance, told the
whole truth—provided Captain REYNOLDS' state-
me" be accurate—that Lord HILL should have
interfered in the trifling, ridiculous matter at all, or,
if he had interfered, it would have been to ad-
monish the Earl of CARDIGAN not to insult his
r,
7cets about thins which in nowise concerned the
discipline of the regiment, or the honour of the
41.m}'• It is impossible that Lord HILL, an old
Officer, and a kindly officer—as Sir IZ owlkm)
HILL' no man in the Army was more respected
the beloved—had he been correctly informed of
circumstances, should not have said, Pugh,
Pug'', nonsense ; tell CARDIGAN he should not
have sent such a message ; and tell him the Com-
riltnitier:in•Chief has something else to do besides
auer,dio g
to such tattle ; and tell him to reconcile
b
'lniself with his officers, to treat them in a gentle-
manly manner, and that I shall be very sorry to be
I:Ilde officially acquainted with the subject. By
HILL taking a totally different course, we
aortielyfintakingelled to conclude that he was informed
half the story, and, after he had become
ornfPlie4fed in a bad course, by listening to the Eari
o '4lthlGAN's. tale, he had not moral courage
°Ugh to acknowledge that he had committed an
act°f injustice.
Sl:e W unprovoked aggressor in the whole matter
I,is Lie Earl of CARDIGAN. Of what consequence
Cosi it to him, or how did it concern his duty as
poti°llel of the Regiment, to notice that an officer
did
-re4 Moselle wine out of a black bottle? He
i,n°it drink out of the bottle by putting it to his
If°h"tit' as some expressions might lead to suppose.
oiler:hati even committed that breach of good man-
of "I' the Colonel midit have safely left the correction
But
the Earl of CARDIGAN, unnecessarily and un-
Nc'it.'skedly, interfered, and most wantonly sent an in-
to eng message, or one was delivered in his name,
his alnain REYNOLDS. The fault was altogether
to He He was excessively impertinent ; and if such
e 4 "et Were submitted to, and by submission
Tricctraged, it would be impossible for any gentle-
to 01 any man possessing a sense of self-respect,
tiffs!r" in the Army. If that origin of the whole
a' had been duly reported to Lord HILL, from
011
kn°wledge of the veteran we believe that he
hl°uld as soon have bitten his finger off as made
PaT" subservient to the Earl of CARDIGAN'S
kiarY spite. But he was made subservient to that ;
for we conclude, from Ins known character, there-
Cr that the information given to the Horse
innards, was, as all such backbiting information is,
gr:lnplete and false. The Horse Guards is dis-
-4 complete
by acting at any time on private and
tsauthenticated stories, and it is degraded into the
~trnatent of private malice when it is shown that
eetunplaints on which it acts are partial and false.
Lord CARDIGAN'S conduct must direct, and fix
6reinion on the proceedings of the Horse Guards.
lit
of his improper appointment, and his very im-
t
iir()Per conduct, it is to he hoped that a reform in
government of the Army may come:

i„st le prietits and their friends are extremely busy
ti 4t present, with plans to improve the educa-
e4
of the clergy, and secure for them
a control
ber the education of the people. Their journals
with letters and accounts of meetings on
other'.-
„‘;'ltts.. Because the Jesuits, and some
c'eties, succeeded in old times by discipline,
our present
the same Parsons imagine they will succeed by
filethod. Let us remind them that the
I;°rnidi believed the Jesuits to be sincere. Their
t°l,ll--Lers Proved, their sincerity by the privations
!Y submitted to. But the world knows thateach
Pi:tests are not si.ricere ; and as long asi they preach
will
,o_‘'erty while they grasp at wealth,l
41.er
the general distrust. Unless they tdhisecyiplcianier
Illecltilra the confidence of the people,
le , it will
44} ma the lives of the priests miserable •
trhy.er give them power. They have no fulcrum on
'di to move the moral world.
As
for their education, what can they learn ?
riitlce, for them,
nut be confined to the T trt y-
io-tt " Articles. It they wander out of them they go
ttii', forbidden paths, and cannot tell into
'"wil regions of thought they
may arrive. The
.
1111
cprovement which can be made in the edu-
p4rt.°ln of the priests is to make them more accom-
WITI IlYpocrites, with this misfortune, that they
deceive nobody but themselves.
" fervid Apostles, and the early Christian mi-
-4elonl4ties' with a holy zeal, were the means
TODI ft
by rtes
nations to Christianity ; and our present
cab °I. Priests and their friends suppose that t
Z:11 aecc"Plish a similar object. They want the.
P4u' :they want the fervid conviction ; and their
,Mitations of old plans under different circum-
Ap"" °list end in disappointment. Besides, the
tit:l4les had something new to announce-
-oall
,14iests have told us, over and over again,
I)4v ne have to tell. They have tried too, and
fYa;iled• We look on their diocesan schools,
juarst,,letr Plan of national education in con-
fer. with the Church, and on their scheme
false tier drilling the priesthood, as founded onh
tlestrl a,:',4l()gies, as being poor imitations of t
the tier of a once living spirit, totally foreign to
41)(1 r)t,re.'er't Circumstances and habits of society,
Ward lerefore sure to fail. The world will go for-
'o
sPite of their efforts to turn it back.
The •
()tiler • 'Tadrid Papers of the 14th instant, among
countilltQlligence of importance, contain the official
'iern, Of the proceedings of the Piovisional Go-
-41/a474, which we published yesterday from the
Portar,4 Gazelle- This is a document of great im-
fiieti-ee, as it shows that the Junta place no con-
iltiheri 41 the QUEEN REGENT, and are deter-
ti eo 4° maintain their present independent posi.-
Plea -tit MiniStry in accordance with their princt-
Mter appointed. Her MAJESTY'S advisers,
girtu
the
letter of EsPAnTEno,
e
evidently made a
l'iheralofec.essity, and appointed a sort of mixed
etiou abinet, taking care to infuse into it just
Spec r cif the elements of discord to secure its
in 6 Y , dissolution. The Provisional Junta know-
111ar`iiii.e character of the parties who form the Ca-
Such 1, flud seeing no hopes of security from
1),), incongruous :Ministry, have acted with
to
tilling firmness
and resolution, and declared
(I,le,,rueriQiiltueErahe
cNI REGENT and their fellow-subjects
idetermination in these words :
1 ,
'Junta
44'4 have resolved not to lay down their
till theguar, Y see the national will satisfied by such
hie, :Nees as render any re-action for ever impossi-
paurenPretatinir.isearltleditsinforce and conditions the pro-
rlstant the exposition of the 4th
bporl
theiriaddressed to the QUEEN, and insist anew
Nnzine b
nalterable determination of that pro-
amore clog carried into full effect ; upon which
ev::unta, having received the no communication what-
withwhat-
witherea
above-named individuals retired, taking
►,theril each the letters which had been deli-
to them."
At Madrid the new Cabinet is said to have been