The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1846.

Now ready at all the Libraries, ties;" and terminates with the laconic, but sublime
3/IRS. M ABERLY'S " LEONTINE• "
watchwords " GOD and Liberty !" Before the de-
Iu 3 vols., post Bvo.
" A story of the deepest interest, wrought out with an ability and parture of the Caledonia, it would appear that
skill which we have rarely seen surpassed.—Observer.
"By far the most delightful romance of its class that we have for rumours were prevalent of the arrival of the re-
a long time encountered."--Naval and Military Gazette.
nowned SANTA ANNA, and his former Ministers of
henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboreagh-street.
State, in Mexico. Whether he had already actually
reached the insurgent troops or not, there is an abso-
lute certainty of his speedily availing himself of the
opportunity thus thrown in his way by the mutations
of fortune.
By rashly invading the Mexican dominions, and
bringing the military and political authority of
PAREDES into contempt, the men of the United
States have, as it were, melted a substratum of snow,
and caused an avalanche to totter over their heads.
In rousing the national passions of any community,
however enervated and slothful that community may
be, in goading them on to a simultaneous outburst
by unjustifiable incursions, but especially by concen-
trating the patriotic sentiments of a whole people
upon one man, and that man a man of powerful
and comprehensive genius, the Americans have
acted foolishly foolishly, at least, as far as
they themselves are concerned. In other particu-
lars, and with an eye to ulterior consequences, we can-
not but conceive that such occurrences as the recent
invasion of armies from the United States may en-
kindle such a spirit in the torpid bosoms of the
Mexicans as will in time transform them from an
enervated race to an active, enterprising, and useful
community of freemen. Mr. MACAULAY has some-
where written that the licentiousness, cruelties,
and butcheries which have generally signalised those
revolutions of which the realisation of liberty was the
object, have been absurdly employed as an argument
against struggling for national freedom. He illus-
trates this view of the question by one of hisJuminous
comparisons, observing that the destruction of
despotism is like the exorcism of an evil
spirit, and that though that devil rend his
victim with terrific throes and excruciating
torments on being expelled, his expulsion is
not the less desirable. As well, he exclaims,
might the fool in the Grecian fable declare,
after a narrow escape from drowning, that he would
never enter the water again until he had learnt to
swim, as a tyrannised nation await the time
when it could welcome its emancipation with-
out any evidence of brutality in struggling for
its attainment. The same reasoning may be applied
to a nation degraded by slothfulness as to a nation
reduced to the degradation of vassalage. Some
violence must arise whenever either seeks its own
elevation. The wand of CIRCE may be re-
garded as no inapt emblem of the sceptre
of despotism changing those who yield
to its allurements to swine. The cup of CoMus may
in like manner be taken as no extravagant image of
the draughts of pleasure offered by Indolence, the
swallowing of which transformed the " human form
divine" into bestial shapes. With this shameful
aggression on the part of the United States, and the
consequent exposure of the dangers resulting from
the national torpor which pervades Mexican society,
the latter may be aroused from their protracted
lethargy, and one of the foremost nations in the
march of civilisation may spring from the debris
of one of the rearmost. Of this great movement
on the part of Mexico, SANTA ANNA appears
to have naturally assumed the direction. The repul-
sion of the American invaders should never be
regarded by him as his ultimate design—he should
consider it as merely one step towards the at-
tainment of the regeneration of his coun-
try. By the recent incursion and the
rapid successes of the invaders, it is mani-
fest that some alteration must be made in the
social condition of the Mexicans, otherwise they will
be always liable to become the conquests of any un-
principled neighbour. Until that alteration be made,
the political existence of the republic will continue
most precarious. By the natural richness of its soil,
by the vastness of its dimensions, and by its central
position in the western hemisphere, Mexico is exactly
calculated to consolidate itself into a gigantic and
flourishing community. SANTA ANNA is now sum-
moned by national acclamation to the head of
affairs : let him rightly seize the emergency, and he
may become the Mexican BomvAß.

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THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.

First Week of a New Comic Drama. The New Grand Fairy Bur-
lesque Extravaganza, entitled " The Magic Born," having been,
on each occasion of its representation, received throughout with
the most cordial marks of approbation and delight by crowded and
fashionable audiences, is, in consequence, respectfully announced
for repetition every Evening till farther notice.
THIS EVENING •

The performances will commence with a New Comic Drama,
TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Principal characters by
Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, and Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Mrs. A.
Wigan, Miss Hicks, Miss Turner, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a New Grand Operatic, Melodramatic, Romantic,
Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, founded on the Opera ;of "Oberon,"
entitled THE MAGIC HORN. Principal characters by Messrs.
F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Kinlecb, Collier, Yarnold, Bender, Silver,
Richards, and Keeley; Miss Keeley, Miss Viliars, Miss Fairbrother,
Mrs. Wooßidge, Miss Arden, Miss Forster, Miss Laidlaw, Miss
Bromley, Miss Howard, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
Will be presented the popular Drama, entitled ST. MARY'S
EVE ; or, A Story of the Solway. The principal characters by
Messrs. Wrrell, Wright, 0. Smith, Lambert, Cullenford, Braid,
Waye ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Madame Celeste, &c.
After which (by desire), the powerful Drama of THE CABIN
BOY. In which Messrs. 0. Smith, Braid, Lambert, Munyard,
Paul Bedford ; Madame Celeste, &c. will perform.
To be followed by a Mythological Burlesque Extravaganza, de-
nominated THE JUDGMENT OF PAHIS ; or, The Pas de Pip-
pins. The characters personated by Messrs. Selby, 0. Smith, Glen-
nalre, Lindon, Waye, Butler, Williamson, Aldridge, Mitchenson,
Alderson, Ryan, Wright, Paul Bedford ; Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss
Taylor, Miss Harrison, 21 iss Simpson, Mrs. F. Matthews, &c.
To conclude with the langliab'.e Farce of THE IRISM 'TUTOR;
Dr. O'Toole, Mr. Redmond Ryan ; Mr, Tilwell, Mr. Cullenford ;
Dr. Flail, Mr. Lambert ; Charles, Mr. Worrell; Beadle, Mr. Sanders.
Mary, Miss E. Chaplin ; Rose, Miss Harding.

The intelligence which reached us by the last mail
from India is, in a military point of view, truly
gratifying. It furnished us with a document from
the East India directors to their Government, dated
April 22, 1846, by which they announced their re-
solution to promote to the rank of ensign such
European warrant and non-commissioned officers of
their service as had, or might hereafter, distin-
guish themselves in action with the enemy, and
be considered by the Commander-in-Chief and
the Government of India eminently deserv-
ing of this reward. In conformity with this
authority, Viscount HARDINGE has already
cordially congratulated six ensigns (who have been
thus elevated from the rank of sergeant-major), and
the army at large, upon the public recognition of the
principle, that henceforth the rank of a commissioned
officer will be within the reach of every man serving
in the ranks ; and we rejoice that his Lordship, so
distinguished himself in the military annals of his
country, has declared that he will be most happy to
give the fullest effect to the liberal intentions of the
Court of Directors. The commissions of the new
ensigns have been very properly dated from
the 10th of February last, the day of the victory
of Sobraon ; and the outfit of each has been
aided by a grant of a thousand rupees. Such
is the nature of the intelligence received. We honour
the East India Board for their justice and genero-
sity. The importance of the principle on which they
have acted cannot be overrated. What the directors
have done will diffuse heartfelt joy in the breasts of
thousands upon thousands in this country, as well as
in India. The example that has thus been set in the
Hon. Company's service must, we should think, be
immediately followed, if it has not already, by the
Commander-in-Chief of the English army. Indeed,
it is impossible it can be otherwise, without doing
violence to every generous sentiment. The principle
of promotion from the ranks, which has at length been
publicly avowed and honourably conceded, is what
the British soldier has long aspired after in vain. It
is now sanctioned in a way that will speedily put the
English army on the same chivalrous footing with its
European rivals. The towering military genius of
NAPOLEON constituted his legions with the most con-
summate wisdom. He made the avenues to distinc-
tion broad and open, and his humblest follower in
the ranks felt there was no reward he might not gain
with requisite talent, unaided, though it might be, by
the adventitious adjuncts of fortune or social con-
nexion. Hence even a throne itself was occupied by
one of his famous marshals, who started in life as the
son of an innkeeper. It was, however, by virtue of
the excellent education, which is so essential a part of
the military system of France, that the great heroes,
who figured so conspicuously in the wars of the mo-
dern HANNIBAL, were enabled to fill the high stations
with becoming dignity, to which they had been raised
by their daring prowess in war. And it is because
we are convinced that sound policy and humanity
will alike combine to enforce the neccessitv
of our imparting a liberal education to all
who shall hereafter enlist in our service,
now that the epaulette is to grace the
shoulders of those who serve our SOVEREIGN with
faith, honour, ard distinction, in a subordinate, as
well as in a superior capacity, that we hail with de-
light the tribute that has been recently paid to the
hardy defenders of our vast Oriental possessions.
Parents, who have hitherto been pained on learning
that their thoughtless sons had enlisted, and who have
frequently made every effort to raise a sufficient sum
of money to redeem them from what they consider an
;11-requited condition, tantamount to slavery with its
degrading punishments, will now exult whenever
their offspring embrace a profession where
their minds w ill be cultivated and the
wreaths of fame may entwine their brows.