The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

THE GREY

AND PALMERSTON

QUESTION.
We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter,
addressed by a personal friend of Lord Grey to a gentle-
man of this town, which throws some light upon the late
movement among the leaders of the Whigs, and from
which the following is an abstract. The statements may
be implicitly relied upon :
" I wonder how the late unfortunate break-up of Lord
John's staff has affected Liverpool. I don't call it unfor-
tunate as regards Lord John's probable tenure of office,
for I think it likely that the luke-warm support whi▪
ch he
would have had from Peel, would have been withdrawn
after the settlement of the corn-law question, and he
would have found himself too weak to carry on the Go-
vernment, which then would have been seized, wi▪ th re-
morseless triumph, by the Tories ; but, it is very unfor-
tunate, as regards the future agreement of the Whig
party. Lord Grey is blamed and abused—but, I think,
very unjustly, for, it is not true, as stated, that Lord Pal-
merston would have taken any post to preserve unani-
mity, and that Lord Grey would do nothing that was to
include Lord Palmerston in the Council. The fact
is, that Lord Pahnerston;declared he would have the Fo-
reign-office
.or none—that Lord Grey offered to relin-
quish that intended for him to Lord Palmerston, and,
if it would smooth matters, to place Lord Palmerston in
the Lords and give him the Leadership there—that he,
Lord Grey, would most willingly follow him and co-
operate in any way whatever; but, that his opinion (and
it is not his opinion only, but a very general one) was,
that such was the feeling, with respect to Lord Palmer-
ston by some foreign powers, with whom it is essential
that we should be on terms of amity, and such the want
of cordiality between him and the whole corps thp.lo-
matique in this country—that the chances of being in-
volved in war were too great to warrant his appointment
to the Foreign-office. Lord Palmerston would accept of
no other ; upon which, Lord Grey declined to take the
responsibility of office, on announcing which Lord
John immediately broke up the whole thing. Feeling
the injustice of the accusations brought against Lord
Grey, and depending most implicitly on the statemenlof
the proceedings, which I had from himself the day after
the break up, I place the facts in your hands in order
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THE ARMY.
The following are the terms referred to in articles 28, 34,
and 43 of the Army Warrant, the substance of which ap •
peared in our paper a few days since, by which soldiers are
now enabled to obtain free discharges :
Cavalry. Infantry.
Under 5 years' actual service £3O £2o
After 5 years' actual service, with one dis-
tinguishing mark 25 18
After 7 years' actual service, with one dis-
15
tinguishing mark lO
After
1 Oyea
years' actual
marks;
o r with two
distinguishing
......
Afdteisrtiln2guyiseiin
airs'gancltaurakl service, with one 10 5
Afdteisrtila2g3:ieisahrisn'gamctauraklsse; service, with two
After 14 years' service, with one dis- 5 ...... Free.
yingrs' s m arekrvice, with two dis- Free, with the
Afttienrgul4ishea
tinguishing marks; or
right of registry
After 16 years service, with one dis- for deferred pen-
tinguishing mark........... ........... sion of 4d. a day.
After 15 years' actual service, •with Free, with the
three distinguishing marks; or right of registry
After 16 years' actual service, with two for deferred pen-
distinguishing marks, having possessed sion of sixpence
the second at least____t_7_elve a-day.

-UDDEN EATHS.—Wednesday Mr. Bedford held
ovo inquests on persons who had died in a sudden manner.
The first inquest was held at the Golden Lion, Dean-street,
Soho, on the body of Caroline Saunderson, aged 23 years. It
appeared by the evidence that, on Wednesday evening last,
the deceased had been at a Christmas party; she then ap-
peared in her usual health and cheerfulness; the next day
she complained of pain in the chest. She was attended by
Mr. Marshall, a surgeon, but she died on Friday morning.
From a post mortem examination it was found that there had
been an ulcer in the stomach, which bursting, had cawed
death. It might have been accelerated by dancing or other
extertion. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." The second
inquest was held at the Plough, Carey-street, on Jonathan
Stockam Ingram, aged 51, a licensed waterman at the
Spotted Dog, Strand, who was found on Saturday morning
lying in bed quite dead; a medical gentleman said from an
attack of apoplexy. Verdict accordingly,
A FATHER'S FEELING.—The Thames has been
rising for several days past. We are sure it must be in in-
dignation against Lord Ellenborough
Lard of the Admiralty—Punch.'s appointment as First