The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE DAILY PAPERS oF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The dissensions between Lord Cardigan and the
officers of the Eleventh Hussars, with the state of
inefficiency into which that regiment has been brought
by those dissensions, together with the injury they are
ealeul sted to inflict on the character of the service ge-
nerally, were last night brought under discussion in the
House of Commons. It was proper that they should
be noticed in Parliament ; and the occasion selected
was, of all others, the most appropriate. When
calved upon to vote a large sum from the general taxa-
tion of the country in order to provide its means of de-
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to the recorded opinion of Sir J. Macdonall, the Ad-
jutant-General, had reduced an entire regiment,
maintained at a heavy charge on the country, to in-
efficiency, arising out of constantly-recurring disputes
between the Colonel and the other officers ; thus render-
ing it unfit to encounter an enemy, should the exigencies
of the country require its services in the field, and a re-
preach to the service while at home. We, therefore,
cannot sympathise with those Hon. Members who fat
" surprise" and "regret" that such a topic had hem in-
troduced into the discussion of the army estimates.
We should have been much more surprised, and felt
much deeper regret, had the occasion been suffered to
pass over without alluding to the subject. The ground
taken by Mr. Macaulay, in replying to Mr. Hume, by
whom the matter was brought forward is, in our view,
ebony untenable. It may be true that there gas no-
thing in any one of the numerous cases of dissatisfac-
tion and dissension which had occurred in the regi-
meet to call for a court-martial on Lord Cardigan;
sal less for his being placed on hale-pay, which
would have been construed into: an expression
of strong disapprobation from Head Quarters of
his conduct in his command. The former would
have required a distinct, tangible charge, founded on
an alleged violation of the Articles of War ; the latter
would have been to degrade the half-pay list, by using it
as a stigma. It would hive been cowardly on the part of
the Commander•in-Chief, as though he feared to abide
the issue of an inquiry : it would also have been inju•
rious to the service, as inflicting reproach and punishment
upon an officer, without a preliminary investigation.
But there was another course, to which Mr. Ma-
caulay did net find it convenient to allude, but which
appears to us the very. .proceeding which the disturbed
and disorganized state of the regiment required should
be taken. A court of inquiry should have been ap-
pointed—the investigation should have been compre-
hensive and searching. The whole of the Earl of Car-
digan's conduct in his command—whether at the head
of his regiment or presiding at its mess—his tone and
bearing towards his officers in their private intercourse,
as well as in directing their regimental duties—should
have been subjected to the test which, though difficult
to define, is perfectly understood by all whose educa-
tion and habits arc those of gentlemen.
(From the Standard.)
The debate last night upon the Army Estimates ex-
hibited the Conservative party in its proper position—
and that proper position is always one of honour,
always the ground of patriotism. Embroiled as the
foreign relations of the country are—whether by
an unhappy conjuncture, or by the misconduct of
the Government, matters nothing—but embroiled
as the foreign relations of the country are, it would
be easy for an unprincipled Opposition to defeat
any Ministry ; and if such an Opposition were
to raise the cry of economy, there is too much reason
to fear;that that most mischievous and falltaaious cant
would still have influence to ensure them a popular
support. We know how the Whigs have uniformly
acted in such circumstances, and how in such circum-
stances a Whig opposition would act again. What
is the conduct of the Conservative opposition ?
Do they try to embarrass the measures of the Exe-
cutive in vindication of the national honour, and
in making provision for the national safety ? No ;
they are found the firm and sincere supporters
of the Ministers, whenever the Ministers are found
doing their duty by the country—the supporters of
Ministers against the most powerful section of the
party that keep these Ministers in office—indeed, the
only supporters upon whom in such cases the
Ministers can confidently rely. But it is
said that the Conservatives support Ministers
in maintaining the defensive establishments, be-
cause they (the Conservatives) wish for war. Then
it must be confessed that they take a course for
the gratification of their wish such as never was
taken before for the like purpose ; hitherto it has been
thought that preparation for war is the best guarantee
of peace. But let the enemies of the empire be the
witnesses, and the exposition of their sentiments affords
the most unexceptionable testimony. Do they love the
Conservatives? Do they take encouragement from the
language of Conservative speakers and Conservative
writers ? Oh no ! When they would excite rage against
this nation they quote the words of the Whig Ministers
and Whig journalists.
(From the Courier.)
The Irish Poor-law Bill is, it seems, being worked
for the special uses of the O'Connell and Whig factions
in Ireland, a fact which very justly called down the
animadversions of the Duke of We'lington yesterday
in the Lords, and,, upon the case stated by Lord Glen-
gall, was even admitted by Lord Normanby himself
to be an extremely irregular mode of construing the
law. Grave as may, however, be the inculpation and
deserving of all reprobation the Poor-law Commissioners
for Ireland, we are.compellcd to hold the offence as
venial in comparison with that scandalous course of cal-
culated fraud, pitiless oppression, and unmitigated des-
potism, by which the English Peor-law, from its first
concoction, and through all the phases of its adminis-
tration since, has been rendered remarkably notori-
ous. Not one word however escapes their Lordships'
House in condemnation of the abominable princi-
ples on which this unchristian law was constructed, or
the kindred spirit in which carried out in England,
although when the safety of a Tory vote in Ireland be-
comes jeopardised by the one-sided action of a Popish
Poor-law partisan and valuator, great are the griefs
and loud the denunciations about the party damage so
surreptitiously inflicted. It is truly limentable, and a
portentous exemplification of the degeneracy of the
times ;thus to find men of high repute, legislators of
acknowledged eminence and desert in all other regards,
so painfully sensitive on the lesser ill, whilst wilfully
blind and neglectful of the progress of that great run-
ning sore which is fart spreading over the whole
moral and physical face of once bale and happy Eng-
land, engendered by the ruthless application of the new
Poor-':an blister, by which want is inflamed into the
most cardinal of diseases, to be cured and killed only
by swift depleting regimen in those most pestiferous
of gaols known as union workhouses. We might: have
hoi,e,l that the Right Rev. the Bishop of London, so
eloquent in his place about the scandal and indecency
of bats masques and masquerades at Drury-lane, would
have reserved some small measure of the overflowings
of speech and sentiment for those other performances
and enormities perpetrated in union prisons, details of
which, so frequent and loathsome, have almost daily
filled the columns of the press, bet in which the parts,
instead of being cast among French opera artistes and
pro.st:tutes, are distributed among assistant Poor-law
Commissioners, guardians, workhouse masters, and
paupers, the last appearing in the double character of
actors and victims.

PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO THOMAS
SLINOSBY DUNCOMBE, ESQ., FROM A PORTION OF THE
COMPANY OF THE TURATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.—On
Thursday morning a deputation, consisting ef Messrs. S.
Knowles, B. Webster, Strickland, J. Wallack, F. Web-
ster, J. Webster, and F. Vining, waited on T. S. Dun-
combe, Esq , M. P., to express their grateful sense of that
gantlerne.n's exertions in removing certain restrictions on
theatrical performances during Lent. Mr. Knowles
h..ying addressed Mr. Duncombe in an eloquent and ap-
propriate speech, prevented to him, in the names of a por-
tion of the Haymarket company and himself, a beautiful
chased silver cup, cover, and salver, with the Duncombe
arms on one side, on the other the following inscrip ion :
"To Thorras Sliegsby Duncombe, Esq., M P., in gra-
titude for his Patliamentary services in favour of those
theatres which are under the jurisdiction cf tl e Lord
Chamberlain, and which his labours have relieved from
certain painful restrictions limiting their performances
during Lent, this cup i 3 presented by the undersigned
members of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and Mr. James
S. Knowles, on the 4th March, 1841." Then fellow the
subscribers' names. Mr. Duncombe was evidently much
pleased with the testimonial of gratitude, and assured the
deputation he should always be ready to forward the inte-
rest of the drama, and to use every effort in his power to
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redress their grievances.
ThursdayL proprietorsiN aSaTditTneUnTibleorsNsi.—aspielidt
in the th2atre of the London M. lnstituticn,
Southampton-buil sings, Chancery-lane, to receive the
Report of the Committee, and to Sr Insact ether busine,3.
Mr. Reader being ea!led to the chair, the secretary read
the sixty-vinth quarterly Report ;of the Committee. It
appeared that the receipts amounted to 433/ 1 ts. The
actual expenditure was 2431., which, together with the
debt from the previous quarter, amounted to 4054 124 ;
the total liabilities; (including the building debt of 2,3504)
were 2,6331- ss. The Report being adopted, Dr. Birk-
beck was re elce,ed President, and Messrs. Grote, M. P.,
Ewart, M. P., Clutterbuck, and Sir W. Horton, were
elected Vice-Presidents, and Mr. IL Ta)lor Treasurer.
SINGULAR 1)1 SCO VE ItY.—On Wednesday
last, as a man named Garth was employed in removing coals
in a house in
Penn ,-street, he had occasion to break a large
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coal, is the middle of which he discovered a fine full-grown
frog, snugly domic:r.-41 in a very neat circular bed. The
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began to jump about. It was
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then taken to th Lancashire Guardian office by Garth,
and on the following day was removed to the premises of
Natural History Society,
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