The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-20 00:00:00

RI RTES.

On the 14th inst., at West Rownton Rectory, Yorkshire,
the wife of Captain Henry Buckley J. Wynyard, of a son.
Qn the 15th inst., at Kensington, the lady of Thomas
Tilleard, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Hammersmith, the wife of Mr. F.
Lambert, of a still-born child.
On the 15th inst., at St. Ann's: Villa, Notting-hill, Mrs.
Isaac James, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at Casteluau Vi'tam, Barnes, the wife of
Mr. Richard Stonnill, of a son.

On the 16th inst., at Earl's-terrace, Kensington, the wife
of Edward Bladon, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., at Bayswater-terrace, Mrs. Charles
Andrews, of a son.

MARRIED.

On the 16th inat , at Marylebone Church, hue Wykeham
Dickenson, Esq., of Newry, Ireland, to Caroline Barker,
youngest daughter of tke late G. Barker, Egg., of Springfield.

DIED.

On the 8d of January last, at Surinam, Theodore John
Burchman, Esq.
On the 10th inst., at Charlton, near Dover, Joshua Platt,
Esq., aged 84.
On the 15th inst., at Sandleford Priory, Newbury, Anne,
wife of W. Chatteris,
On the 16th inst., at Dudley-place, Paddington-green,
Mrs. Shepherd, aged G 9.
On the 16th inst., in Great Stanhope-street, Sir Richard
Hunter, Knight, M.D., aged 65.
On the lith inst., Mr. John Griffiths, proprietor of the
Cross Keys, St. John-street, London, aged 41.

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EAST INDIA HOUSE, Maus 15, 1848.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY, do hereby give notice,
Thstt a Proprietor of East India Stock has given notice, that at
the held at
General Court of the said Company, appointed to be
Id at their house in Leadeuhali-stiect, on WEDNESDAY, the 22d
Lastant, he will submit the following motion, viz.
That adverting to the dispatch to the Bengal Government,
transmitted fourteen years since by the Court of Directors, and
dated 20th February, 1833, declaring their determined withdrawal
Ilenceforth from all connexion with, and abatement of, the idolatrous
~nrem and ceremonies of India ; and further adverting to the last
"ear'S Correspondence of the Court with its Bengal Government,
~ 'Tiered to be laid on the table of this Court, demonstrating that no
pledge, direct or indirect, was ever given for the support of the
Temple of Juggernaut, and also adverting to the continued annual
14°,15Y-paynieut of 35,000 rupees, still made by the local Govern-
tut for the support of that temple, its priests and prostitutes, under
supposed obligation of some fiscal connnutatiou, in consequence
". Which paykieut, it was proved at the September Court, that the
abominations of this temple, and destruction of human life, still eon-
linue, precisely as if the said dispatch had never been issued. This
Court is of opinion that the local Government is maid estly exceeding
42 commission, and that the time is Hilly arrived when it becomes the ,
roPerative duty of this ::curt, to Christianity and the country, to
,_4llterpoae, and to declare that all such support of heathenism shall
Lave an immediate end."
That a proprietor has given nctice, that at the said Quarterly
General Court he will submit the following motion, viz.:-
Ist. "That the following declaration, mate by Major Carpenter
(the Governor-General's agent at Benares, in charge of the late
.Raja of Sattara), in his letter to the Government of Inila, dated the
25th of May, 1846, namely, "net after bavieg carefully studied the
while of the voluminous documents connected with his (the late
Raja's) case the result was a belief in his innocence, and that belief
had been confirmed beyond a doubt by subsequent disclosures, and by
nIS (the late Raja's) pledging himself to prove it, if permitted to do
20. in his letter to Sir Henry Ilardinge, of the 12th of December,
1244, forwarded through him, and which pledge lie (Major Carpen-
ter) was fully persuaded the Raja was able to redeem, does, in the
opinion of this Court. render it the imperative duty of the British
'Government to institute an 'wiry into the late Raja's case, with
a view to ascertain the truth or falsehood of the charges of certain
alleged treasonable practices, on which he was deposed, deprived of
his property; driven into banishment, add confined as a state pri-
soner at litenares until his death.
2d. " That in the opinion of this Court such inquiry into the case
Of the late Baja of Sattara is further rendered necessary, in order
that if his innocence should be estalslished, the title, territory, and
Property which lie held under the treaty of the 25th of September,
1819,and which, by the said treaty, were and are secured to his fa.
.2411 Y, as a perpetual provison and Inheritance, may be restored
1,0 girth family, in the person of of the late Raja's adopted son, Trim-
buckiee Rajey Slsoday Bhoslay, who is the only son and heir of the
naJa's deceased cousin, the late Balla Sahib only
That a Proprietor has given notice that, at the said Quarterly
General Court, he will " call attention to the conduct of Sir James
Weir Hogg, late 'Chairman of the Court of Directors, in
the Re xi
of
With the suppression of certain papers in the case of ja
8 attara."
That another Proprietor has given notica that, at the said Quar-
terly General Court, he will submit the following motion, viz.:—
" That as it appears from the printed papers laid before the Court
Of Proprietors, and from other authentic sources, that there is no act
Of the British Government by which its reputation for good faith and
clemency has been more deeply sullied, than by the unprovoked in-
vasion of the principality of Sinde, foPowed by the dethronement and
expatriation of its hereditary rulers, it is the opinion of this Court
that every constitutional means should be persevered is, with the
view of obtaining for those deeply injured and still exiled Princes
that indemnity to which their unmerited sufferings, sod the valuable
aid which they so tong rendered to the British Government iu the
Beason of distress, so justly entitle them."
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

for COALS for the ROYAL
N—/ MARINE BAHRA.CKS and INFIRMARIES.
Department of th Comptroler fer Victalling and Transport
Services, Somerset-lplace, March 16, 1848.
The Commissioners for exceutlng the Office of Lord High Admiral
or, the tf tilted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
notice, that en THUUSDAY, the 23d instant, at One o'clock, they will
be ready to treat whit such Percons as may be willing to Contract
ter supplying the Royal Marine Barracks at Deptford, and the Royal
Uarine Barracks and Infirmaries at Woolwich, Uhatham, Ports-
Mouth, and Plymouth, with all such
COALS
of one or ether of the following sorts, as shall from time to time be
demanded, between the Ist of April next and the 31st of March, 1848.
Deptford, Woolwich, and Chatham —Lanibton's, or Stewart's, or
/bitten's, or Russel's Hetton's Wallsend.
Portsmouth—Lambton's, or Stewart's, or Iletten's Wallsend.
Plymouth—Ruseel's High Main, or Stobart's Wallsend, or Spring-
Vreli's Wallsend, or IJsworth's Main Coals.
Persons tendering must stale what sorts they intend to supply.
The conditions of the Controcts may be seen at tho said Office,
or on application to the Barrackmaster at the respective ports.
Xe render wil be received after One o'clock es tile day of treaty,
Dor any noticed, nnleet,the party attends, or an agent for lihn,
duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left hand corner the words "Tender for
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a
letter signed by -a responsible person, engaging to become bound
With the person tendering, in the sum of 2001. for the dne perform-
ance of each of the Contracts for Deptford and Woolwich, and in the
stun of 4001. for each of the other places.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for Orpha and Necessitous Children, Wanstead.
PATRON—n 11 RM. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE.
PRESIDENT—J. MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P.
Notice is hereby given, that a Quarterly General Court of the Go-
vernors of this Institution will be held at the London Tavern, Bi-
shopsgate-street, in the city of London, on TUESDAY, the 28th day of
March instant, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, for
the purpose of receiving the Quartorly Reports from the Board
of Management and the Auditors • to dec,de as to the eligi-
bility •f the case of the Child 'E. B. Cross ; to entertain,
discuss, and determine Mr. Gunton's motion, of which due
notice has been given, and which may be seen, on application at the
Offices ; and all such other questions and matters as may be autho-
rised and required by the rules of the Institution to be brought before
the Court.
The personal attendance of all Governors is
SU particularly requested.
IS. NA, Secretary.

Offices, 60, Broad-street, Cheapside.

CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE COMPANY.
TENDERS FOR LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
The Directors of this Company are prepared to receive TENDERS
of LOANS on DEBENTURES, in sums not less than 1001., for
Three, Five, or Seven years, bearing interest at the rate of five per
Cent. per Annum, interest thereon payable haf-yearly at the Bankers
of the Company, secured under the previsions of the Company's Act
of Parliament 6th and 7th Wm. IV., chap. 133.
Tenders to be addressed to this Ogle s, No. 9, Villiers-street, Strand.
By order,
RIC /lARD LAWRENCE, Secretary.
Charing-crosi Bridge Office, No. 9, Villiers-street, Strand,
March 15, 1848.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
FIFTH CALL, 51. per Share ; making 231. paid.
NOTICE is lIEREBT GIVEN, that pursuant to a Resolution of
the Board of Directors, the l'roprietors of Shares in this Company
are required to PAT the SLITII INSTALMENT of Si. per share,
nn or before the '6th day of April next, to any of the under. men
tloned Bankers :
London • • ••. . • • Messrs. Glyn, lallifax, Mills, and CO.
Liverpool .... . • The Bank •f Liverpool.
2danchester ........Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co.
Gloucester ........ The Gloucestershire Banking Company.
73ristol and Exeter.. The West of England and South Wales Bank.
Cardiff ............ The National Provincial Bank of England.
Carmarthen.. • • • ... Messrs. David Morris and Sons.
Swansea • • • • •• .... The Glamorganshire Banking Company.
All Calls not paid on or before the 6th of April next will be
charged with interest at the rate ef 5 per cent. per annum ; and no
Interest shall be payable to any proprietor upon any amounts which
be may have paid up, or which may have been pall up en any
abares, so long as any call shall remain unpaid upon any shares held
by him.

lily order, N. .1111.31STR.ONG, Secrotary.
South Wales I=ailway Office, 449, West Strand, London.

S N 11ARCH 20, 1848,
9

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

[PR ICE SD.

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.
The muse, methinks, will need no coaxing wheedle,
When asked to sing of Cleopatra's Needle ;
A subject like this celebrated pillar,
With various musings very soon must fill her.
This wondrous relic of the bygone ages,
Stands boldly forth on antiquarian pages ;
And none who witness it attempt to garble
The warm accounts et this Egyptian marble.
But if the public prints have rightly written,
'This porphyry monument's to cone to Britain;
And many having heard about its landing,
Begin to talk upon its place of standing.
Oae mentions this—another that proposes,
But I've a word to say for Messrs. MOSES.
What site more fit for Cleopatra's Needle
Than right in view of Aldgate's parish beadle?
Let Cleopatra's Needle show the people
What MOSES do in front of Aldgate steeple ;
There let the Needle stand, in triumph showing,
A monument to needles made for sewing.
MOSES and SON with needles have effected
What none can rival, and what none expected.
Their Trousers, Coats, and Vests, without a question,
Are such as loudly call for this suggestion.
There's not an article but what discloses
The skliftll work of needles used by MOSES.
LUICEIi.
BEADY YAM

BUM TftelOni •• •• •• •• •• •• •••••••••• •• •• from £0 9 0
Chesterfield and Codringten's, and every
descriptiez of Over-coat, handsomely
trimmed.. • • . • ••
•• • 1 5 0
The racha Coat ••..••••• • • • • • .. • •• . .. • 1 8 0
The Fullmer, especially adapted for snowy and
wet weather. •••••• • . • • • ........... ....... 1 0 0
The PTSlllier •••• • • • • • • .. •• • . 0 15 0
Boy's Winter Coats, in every style ........ 06 0
Men's Do. Trousers, lined .. ••••• • • • • . .. • • 0 4 0
Doeskin •••••• • • • • .• ............ 0 12 6
Dress Coats.. ••.•.• • • • . 1 I 0
Double-breasted Winter Tests.— •••••• • • • • • • • . 0 2 0
801 l cellar ..
Boy? Buss= and Dude suits • • • • 016 6
NADI TO mkasusx.
Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand-
somely trimmed •.••••.•••••• • • • • . • • .. • • from 1 6 0
Milled cloth Over-coats, velvet cellar and cuffs .. 2 4 0
Tweed Wripper.. •• ..... ..
Doeskin Trous.wrs • ......... ••••• • • • •• 1 2 0
Best. or Dress.. . ..... •• • • ..... • • .•• .. 1 6 0
Dress Cast •••• • • • •,.." "• • ••••• • •• •• 112 3
Best qua,: ty .•••• • • . • • 215 0
Frock do..
Best quality .isade •••••• • • • • • • 3 3 0
CA/11MM Vests ..•• •• •• •• • • • 8 6
Satins, or Fancy
Boy's Hussar and Tunic Sults -••••••• • • • • • • • • 1 6 0
Great coat.. ••• • • • •••• • • • • •• • • 016 0
ASnit of Clothes complete.. • • ........ ..... • 1 16 0
;Mourning to any extent at rive Minutes notice.
Obeervo.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to men+
sore, if not approved of, will be • mehanged, or if preferred, the
money returned. -
B. 3108138 and SON, Tailors; We drapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
Baden, Farriers, Boot and Sheens/ k , and General Outfitters, for
Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, a t 156, 157 Miseries, and 83,
64, 85, and 86 Aldgate. Clty.-Londo
Cautt9a.—E. Moses and Son rear t being obliged to guard the
publie against impostors, but ,lave 1 irked that the =tradesman-
Ilke falsehood of being eenneeted wi* them, or it's the same ooncers,
' hen been resorted to in many itlitant .as, and for obvious reasons.
They have no counaxiou with an otia cc hews in or out of Loudon;
and them wlie desire genuine and p clothing, &0., should call at,
or send to, Minories and Aldgate, 4,111 r, London.
IsTotice.—Xo business transacted 4 this establishment from sun-
set Friday, till sunset Saturday. 14taa La3O3eSS is resumed till twelve
o'clock.

of the gaiters. Gqit,,r. ,:f trian
black cloth, with flat black
leather buttons."

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ON THE CONCEALED CAU SE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS ~ '31.16 DURATION OF HUMAN
LIFE.
ILLUSTRATED WIT'S NEMER( WS COLOURED ENLAVINGS,
Just Published, in a Sealed I. alvelope, pr ice 2es.O 6i., or free
C
by post , 3s. 6d.
ONTROUL OF TH E PASSIONS: a Popular
Inquiry into the Ceicealci i Cause of its premature Decline,
with Instructions for its Ccmplete Restoratioi. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive con aoquinees of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervot is Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigestion, and Cons amption. Including a comprehen-
sive Dissertation en MAIULI) LO&, Incontinence, and Celibacy.
Illustrated with Coloured Engr aviugs, explanatory of the varleas
Cases, See.
By C. J. LUCAS and Cot, Cons *lilting Surgeons, Ne. 68, Norman-
Street, Oxford -street, Londe'.
Member if the London C tilage of Medicine, lko. &c,
CONTENTS 0 r Tun WORK,
Chap. I.—Bodily • and Mental ..2x kaustion induced lry inordinate
sduigence of the Passions, inner at ted with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful, Results of a Sect 4t Tice on the Mind aid Body,
evidenced in the prediction of CI asimption, Epilepsy, and ether
convulsive diseases, Insanity, idloq f, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, stricture, Impotence, and Stet ility, with °Wet-rations en the
Duties of Married Life, and on the a *happiness caused by 'Unfruitful
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Ear taustion of the principal Taal
FalletiOTlS, the nature and treatment e if Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the M* tal act, caused byt he practice
Of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Com 0 acea, its symptoms, cempllea-
time Auld treatment, Gloct, Striett an , and disease of the Prostate.
'lop. i.—'syphilis, and its attends.) rti•maladics and treatment. Cases,
dpid ooncliding observations, Plates i Ito.
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Sineet ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street,'] 'iondop ; Winkel, 7%, High-street,
Ilitrraingham; Whitmore, MI, Marl vr-effeet, Manchester • Howell,
54, Church-street, Liverpool ; Heat .1. Broad -street, Bristol; Ro-
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.askew ; Powell, 10, Westmorc -Street, Dublin ; end all
Sooksellers.
Persons desirous of obtaining the ve work, and not wishing to
apply to a bookseller for the same, t y, to insure secrecy, have it
*yet Item the Authors, by enclosing s. 6d., or Postage Stamps.
Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be co ;tilted from Ten till Two, and
from Five till Eight in the evenin , at their residence, No. 60,
Newman-street, Oxford -street, Lond n, and country patients may
be meoesonilly treated, on minutely di scribing their ease, and enclos-
ag Um usual focof 11, for adlico.

I think this is quittienough on the item of uniforms
The Rifles who had been thus tastefully set up by the
Court, rendered themselves eminent by their assiduous
and successful practice. One would have hoped that the
whole corps had been proud of them, but it was otherwise,
the " public taste" wr.s to be yet more openly despised,
anti at the coronation of his Majesty NVil. IV., a new uni-
form was again issued, and the whole corps dressed in
scarlet, and thus travestied, the Artillery Division and the
Rifle Company appeared, for the first time since they had
been formed, as part of the line drawn up at Westmin-
ster to salute their King, which they had had the honour
of doing to his predecessor in the blue and green now
disallowed by the Court of Assistants to be worn, even
on detached service! The Artillery and Rifles were
disgusted; the favourite colours totally withdrawn from
vt lint may be termed the enlisting class, and the triumph
of an ignorant and envious majority in the Court of As-
sistants, was completed!
Happily, since that period, better and more practical
dispositions have grown up in the Court. Already, in
1838.39, six Captains, men of the day, and advocates for
improvement, succeeded to the seats of an equal number
amusing
an and latterly
byby g and popping at
the boiling"
of old officers who had, in their way, for so many years
ben
the Artillery
Division!
In 1843 the corps was honoured by her Majesty in
appointing her Royal Consort Prince Albert Captain.
General and Colonel. This in itself was hailed by the
barn
Rifles,
members as the " Auspicion rnelioris cevi," and I trust
this earnest and dutiful expectation may yet be fully
realised!
In 1845 the Major and Lieutenant-Colonel resigned.
These estimable officers, although naturally attached to
old habits and associations, had been in the corps for
nearly half a century, they had successively been
elected, by the members, to all the ranks, including those -
of field officers, in which they were also confirmed by
the Crown, in 1842. As volunteer, officers their
acquirements were most respectable, and their atten-
tion to the interest of the corps unceasing, while
their amenity to the members of all ranks won
for them the esteem of the whole company! They
assigned as the grounds for their retirement, that the
discipline and ardour of the corps was in such a promising
condition, that they felt it desirable now to vacate their
appointments in order that the Crown, by the nomination
of younger men, might give further scope to the capabi-
lities of the Artillery Company. The hope of the speedy
realiation of this further development tended much to
reconcile the corps to the loss of its old and valued field
officers.
On Sir James Graham, as the Home Minister of that
day, devolved the responsibility of advising the Crown
on the appointment of the new field officers; and my
next, and concluding letter, will show how that duty
has been performed, and its influence on the best inte-
rests of the Artillery Company, whose reorganisation,
as the centre of a metropolitan volunteer system, I shall
then endeavour to explain.—l remain, SOL ir, your obedient
VOL servant,

THE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY
COMPANY.
" Arms pads fulcra."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE UNITED SERVICE CAZET7E.
Sir,--In fulfilment of the promise I made in your last
number, I now resume the subject of the senior Volunteer
Corps of this country. Events of the utmost political
moment have, since then, thoroughly awoke the " British
Lion;" the wand of the mesmerisers and peace empirics
is snapped asunder, and our " Lion" ought now to
assume a noble attitude, equal to all the possible
exigencies of " National Defence!"
Thus I take up the theme of my former letter, to
show how existing machinery may be extended and
applied as preferable to novel and expensive schemes,
and so proceed with the modern history of the Artillery
Company.
The internal economy of this corps must be viewed
in connexion with its " Rules and Orders," orignally
made in 1658, and severally revised and amended up to
the year 1842, when they were sanctioned by the war-
rant of her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, by which
all the "immemorial rights and usages of the Company
to make laws for its own government," as confirmed by
her Royal predecessors, were granted, with the exception
of the heretofore exercised right of annually electing
the Field Officers and Adjutant, which, thenceafter was
to be exchanged for the nomination by " the Crown."
The existing "rights and usages" thus sanctioned by
the royal warrant, consist in the annual election, by
the holy at large, of all the Staff (Adjutant excepted)
Captains, Lieutenants, Sergeants, and civil servants.
Also of 24 members (of all ranks indiscriminately) to
serve on the, "Court of Assistants" which is the general
governing body of the Artillery Company.
To this Court of Assistants the " exclusive cognizance"
-pf all civil and military Offences belongs. Also any
alterations in the uniforms can only take place, " with
the approbation of the Court of Assistants, upon the
recommendation of the Military Committee."
Then again, it is provided, " That the Military affairs
of the Company be regulated by a Committee consisting
of the Field Officers and Adjutant."
The revenue of the company is derived from freehold
property and houses, and the annual subscription of the
members at present only IL Is. each.
The operation of the foregoing heads results in a
battalion of six companies, two flank companies (Grena-
dier and Light Infantry), a rifle company, and an artil-
lery division.
There are drills and field exercises all the year round,
on each Thursday. Salutes fired from the field-pieces
(two 6 and two 3-pounders) on public days, and oc-
casional musters of the whole corps on national anniversa-
ries, such as the Coronation, birthday, &c.
The company's officers, commissioned as well as non-
commissioned, are elected, without any military qualifi-
cation, by the free choice of the members of their own
sempanies. In consequence it has often occurred that
in the case of skeleton companies (six or seven at most)
officers have annually re-elected themselves. To this
evil, as I 511.11 show hereafter, the inanity of the com-
pany, since the termination f the war, is chiefly at-
tributable.
It will be perceived from what I have just described,
that the "Rules and Orders" are based upon the free
exercise of the principles of self-government; and, how-
ever inconsistent such popular freedom may appear to
the purely military eye, it is, nevertheless, well adapted
to the average intelligence of a volunteer association ;
and when considered as applied to a self-sustaining body,
wholly unsupported by the revenues of the State, its
fitness must be admitted. At all events, I feel assured
that the permanence of the Artillery Company is mainly
attributable to the popular spirit ef its constitution.
The proof of this was, at all events, satisfactorily evi-
dent in the year 1804, when, as mentioned in my last
letter, the company was able to take the field with an
Artillery Division, and 4 brass guns, a finely--a quit ped
Rifle Company, and a regularly organised. infantry bat-
talion, collectively, 1,000 strong. From this period I
take up its progn si and modern history.
Similarly to other metropolitan corps, it entered with
spirit into the sham fights at Hampstead, Nurwood, and
Woolwich, which, in the palmy days of volunteering
were most agreeable as excursions to the citizen, and
at the same time eminently instructive to the soldier.
But, as the chances of foreign invasion diminished, a
corresponding decline in the numbers of the corps took
place, and in 1811, at the review on Wimbledon Common,
their strength was under 400.
In 1813, the Court of Assistants put forth to the citi-
zens an address, in the shape of a pamphlet, detailing
all the advantages of the company, and exhorting them
to join its ranks. Volunteering, however, was now not
only discountenanced, but even ridiculed within the walls
of Parliament itself, and ungratefully so indeed, when in
the hour of extreme peril it had been hailed as the palla-
dium of the nation !
Napoleon at least felt it to be so 1
But now both citizens and senate could view at a dis-
tance the approaching close of the great European mili-
tary drama. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at
that the appeal of the Court of Assistants was not re-
sponded to. In 1814, at the review in Hyde-park, the
field return showed further decrease in numbers.
Several well-intentioned, but misdirected, efforts
were made by the Court about this period to encourage
the musters, as well as the recruiting; even medals were
awarded to such members as had attended a certain
number of the field days, but all without success
This state of things was, however, by no means with-
out a remedy, but the Court of Assistants, composed
as it then was of a great majority of the battalion, still
continued to struggle on with a skeleton corps, and did
so because unable to see that, although public excite-
ment was gone, there yet remained the public taste to
draw upon; of this the efficient state of their numerous
and splendidly equipped Rifle Company was a glaring
proof I
Battalion officers, with but a handful of men, could not
very well go through a field day, and so they used their
majority on the Court to compel the Artillery and Rifle
divisions to form part of the Line, and enture the sick-
ening monotony of a few battalion mancevres, while the
exercise of their own peculiar arms was neglected 1 Can
it be a matter of surprise that the " Blues" and the
" Greens" should have fallen off from these musters, and
that the latter should prefer their morning's ball prac-
tice at " Chalk-farnr,', and consider their efficiency as
rifle shots of the first importance to the welfare of the
corps at large ? The Rifle company was at this time
commanded by the same enterprising officer who origi-
nally formed it, by order of the Court of Assistants, in
ISO 3, when the complement of men was fixed at 100.
No personal sacrifice was ever wanting to bring their
skill as marksmen, and their general equipment, as near
as possible to perfection. He infused into them un-
bounded confidence when cn duty, and an esprit de corps
quite unatainable by any other company.
Their practice was almost unremitting, and although
they never sent challenges to other corps, the Rifles of
the Artillery company accepted several, and beat their
competitors. In 1810 some gentlemen at Stamford ima-
gined themselves to be unapproachable in this arm, and
challenged, by advertisement, in the daily papers, the
Rifles of England generally; those of the Artillery at
once took up the glove, travelled down to Nottingham-
shire, and returned to London, bearing off the prize, an
elegant gold medal, which remains among them to this
day; it is to be found described in the Illustrated News
of the 26th August, 1843.
But, as a specimen of effective skill, the practice at
Woolwich of this spirited company was, probably, never
surpassed. It took place on the 15th October, 1823.
The target was 5 feet 6 inches high, and 15 feet long,
which is nearly the space that nine men would occupy
in line; nine men were stationed at 250 yards, and eight
at 200 yards from the target. Cartridges were net used,
every men loaded with tootle powder and ball. 'The
period allowed for firing was 30 minutes, during which
580 bal:s struck the target, and were well distributed
over its surface.
The idea was to show the efficacy of a small detach-
ment of It fles to check an attacking column advancing
over a bridge, or through a The rest only proves
dexterity iu handling their arms, as it is not likely that
in other situations the enemy would allow the head of
his column to be peppered at for more than a few mi-
nutes, without extending or retreating.
I have dwelt thus much on the Rifles because it is
the arm which all military men now consider to be best
suited, in war, to volunteer troops; while in times of
profound peace even the practice forms an agreeable
pastime, and the emulative feeling is nourished by
shooting for prizes, &c , added to which, the uniform is
gentlemanly and inexpensive.
In 1817, the Duke of Sussex bad been proposed in
the usual form, by some members of this company, and
being elected by the Court of Assistants as Colonel,
vice Curtis, resigned, his Royal Highness remained in
that rank subject to the annual election of officers,
agreeably to the rules explained in the early part of
this letter, until 1831, when William IV., in granting a
new warrant, nominated and confirmed him as Colonel.
The numbers of the company, under the blind
fatuity of the Court of Assistants to prop up their
" scarlet abomination" at al hazards, continued to de-
cline, until, iu 1820, they stood below 200, when for-
tunately the great novelty of a coronation, that of
George IV., and the promise of an honourable post being
assigned to the corps, brought an augmentation of some
50 members. New uniforms were supplied to the corps.
The 19th July, 1821, found the Artillery Company in
line near the Abbey on duty, on that interesting and to
the Goverment) somewhat anxious occasion.
Their services were afterwards suitably acknowledged
by the Secretary of State. The preponderance of the
blue and green uniforms on that day (the Rifles, alone,
mustering at least 50) could not please the battalion
officers; at least, from that time the idea was actively
pursued to reduce their numbers. Accordingly, in
August following, the Court of Assistants decreed that
each company of the battalion should be complete at 30
men (on the Muster Roll), the Artillery Division at 40,
and the Rifles also 40. Now, as the latter had already
about 70, it followed that 29 men must die off, or resigrt,
before they could enlist one single recruit! This sense-
less attack upon the most effective arm of the corps,
appears almost incredible ! The battalion companies
were then mere skeletons, averaging 10 at the very
most : the artillery division was under 40; so the crush
of this wanton act fell exclusively upon the Rifles !
They were the company for choice with the public ;
the Court, when the battalion was full, had made them
as attractive as possible; and how could any young man
hesistate between the two regulation dresses, which I

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
S;r,— On Wednesday, the 15• h, an opposition was
made to the issue of a new writ for Harwich. It is a
borough with about 340 electors, who send the same
number of Members to Parliament as Marylebone
with its 17,000; making the proportion of 50 to 1.
And as well has Harwich fulfilled the objects ex-
pected from it. It has in all time been the seat of
a continuous bribery, which a Tory Member de-
scribed as conducted by " insensible perspiration ;"
and it was stated without contradiction, that there
are more Harwich people holding Government ap-
pointments, than voters in the constituency. It
is of no- use to create these carrion boroughs,
and then set Committees to count the blue-bottle
flies. Those who will the cause, will the consequences;
or, more correctly, they will the cause for the sake cf
the consequences. A legislation based on such
arithmetical absurdities, cannot stand long in the
present times. In the immediate case, proceedings
were postponed till the evidence before the last
Committee should be in the hands of Members.
After this, came another question connected .with
elections, and remarkable for the puzzle it led to in
the House. The question itself was one on which
it-was not easy to take a side. The recognizances
required by law from petitioners against a Member's
seat, are referred to a certain officer to pronounce on
their sufficiency. The recognizances in seven peti-
tions were so referred, and certified as sufficient,
and afterwards proof was advanced that the decision
of the officer was wrong ; the defect being understood
to be, that the parties had been bound for sepal-
fragments of the sum required by law instead of being
all made responsible for the whole, the effect of which
was urged to be the diminution of the security in-
tended. A Bill had been read a first time, to allow
the petitioners to amend their recognizances. The
interested parties therefore stood thus. On one side
were the' Members petitioned against, who naturally
pleaded that statutes must be construed strictly, and
that a flaw having been discovered, they had a right
to have the benefit of it, and to escape the expense
and trouble of defending their seats. On the other
side the petitioners urged, that if they were in
error they had been led into it by the public
officer, and if he had told them they were
wrong, they were perfectly prepared to have amended
their recognizances. Among those who were to be
the judges, the opposing arguments were these : on
one side, the dangerous tendency of ex post facto law ;
on the other, the feet that all which was concerned
was examination, and the apparent harmlessness of
setting this upon its legs. It was difficult to come
to a determination ; and I believe the argument
which finally weighd with myself and many others,
was that in doubtful cases the safest way is to leave
things as they are found.
But all this was nothing, compared to the per-
plexity vihich afterwards arose. The original ques-
tion was, that the Bill be now read a second time.
On which Mr. Spooner moved an amendment to leave
out from the words " that the," in order to add words
to the effect that no further proceedings should be
had on the Bodmin petition. Ilow then
were Members to vote, whose object was to throw out
the Bill ? Upon division, the floor of the House was
a scene of confusion, Members running to and fro
and at their wit's end, and the active parties in the
question pressing their friends to go two ways at
once, on the assurance that each was the way which
said friend wanted to go. The result is supposed to
have seen, that as many Members found themselves
in the wrong lobby as in the one they wished. On
counting, it was found that Mr. Spooner's amend-
ment was carried by 12G against 124 ; nearly half
of these as afterwards appeared, and among
whom I was one, voting for the amend•
anent under an impression, not warranted on
examination, that to give a majority on the other
side, would be to carry the second reading of the
Bill. But as soon as this was over, the Speaker put
the new question, that the words of the amendment
should be added to the Bill; and then the intention
of the House broke out, in the shape of negativing
it by 165 against 78. So that the Bill now stops at
the words "'That the ;" and some fifty Members,
among whom I was one, stand in the odd situation
of having voted for an amendment, and five minutes
afterwards voted against the amendment being in-
serted in the Bill.
On inquiring how all this arose, the answer seems
to be, that if on any given occasion it was desired to
do it again, the way would be by introducing what
may be called an illusory amendment, or one so
framed as not to answer the ends of those who want
to throw out the original motion. In this manner
something is produced like a triangular duel, with
one of the parties behind a hedge. In ordinary cases,
the remedy is in the fact that there is another vote to
come. But it is possible to imagine a case, where
the vote should be the last. An illusory amendment
therefore is a weapon which might be made a bad
use of by the ill-disposed.
On Thursday the order for proceeding on the B;'


LATER FROM AMERICA.
We have received New York papers to the 29th
ult. inclusive. The following are extracts from the
New York Herald of that date :
" Our telegraphic summary to-day will be found in-
teresting and important.
" The intelligence from Washington, respecting the
treaty with Mexico, renders the prospect of the ratifica-
tion of that instrument, in its present shape, by the
American authorities, more doubtful than ever. Much
of the • favour with which it was, at the _first blush,
regarded, has disappeared upon a careful conaidi ration
of its provisinns, and, to judge from our latest informa-
tion from the seat of Government, peace with Mexico
may yet be more distant than many suppose."
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIUENCE.
"WASHINGTON, FEB. 28-12 M.—The Scnatc will go
into executive session to-day at one o'clock.
" The opposition to the treaty has wonderfully in-
creased since its provisions have become better known,
and I have now the best reason to believe that it will not
be ratified. I have this from a source which is entirely
reliable, and yet such a one as does not permit me to be,
at present, more explicit.
"I think I can say with confidence that the treaty will
not be confirmed.
THREE STEAM-BOATS BURNED.
"CINCINNATI, FEB. 28.—The steamboats Hendrik
Hudson and Circassian, lying at the wharf at Maysville,
fully freighted for New Orleans, were entirely destroyed
by fire. The Maysville wharf-boat was also burned.
The fire broke out at midnight, 27th, and so rapid was
the progress of the conflagration that four persons were
unable to escape, and perished in the flames. The boats
and cargoes are a total loss."
REMOVAL OF THE WILMOT PROVISO IN
CONGRESS.

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ior amending the recognizance; was readand dis-
charged ; so it may be presumed there is an end. The
like fate befell the order for resuming the debate on
the Treaty of Adrianople ; so that the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs no longer gets up with a crick in his
neck.
It is to be desired that slave traders would not
exhale their supernumerary piety in the names of
their vessels. I thought the Speaker hesitated, in
reading the concernments of the captain and crew of
Her Majesty's ship Acorn, with the slave-vessel
" Jehovah." This must have been the property of
some of the Southern churches.
On Friday came on in Committee Sir Benjamin
Hall's motion for extending the income-tax to Ire-
land. It was a question where there was a good deal
to be said on both sides. The Irish Members repre-
sented, that it was an unhappy time for taxing Ire-
land ; that nobody who had voted against the income-
tax for England on the ground of its being unequal
and oppressive, could vote for the extension of so bad
a tax to Ireland ; that if Irish Members had voted
for the imposition of the income-tax on England, this
did not form an excuse for voting it on Ireland ; that
even though the tax was only to fall upon the rich,
the expenditure of the money would be taken away
from Ireland; and finally, which appeared to be rather
a suicidal argument, that the tax ought not to bei,
extended to Ireland, because there would be nothing
for it to take. On the other side was urged, that an
income-tax, above all others, would not be a tax upon
Irish poverty but upon Irish wealth ; that if there
was nothing that would be touched by it, this would
be proof that the tax was exactly adapted to Ireland's
case ; that it was eminently hard that a widow in
England with 150/. a year should pay three per
cent., while an Irish landlord with 10,0001. a year
was to pay nothing ; that, though the expenditure of
the money might be taken away from Ireland, the ex-
penditure of public money in Ireland was already
greater than in proportion to the taxes raised there ; that
English Members would not vote for the extension of
the tax to Ireland because it was bad, but because it
was fair that the people of both countries should row
in the seine boat; and, which was the sweeping aigu-
ment, that since the great majority (eight-ninths) of
Irish Members had been for saddling Eugland with
the income-tax without alteration for three years,
there was no method of preventing a possible combi-
nation ef Irish Members with the Ministry for voting
any imaginable taxes upon England as the condition
of their not being extended to Ireland, except raising
the standard of equalization between the two coun
tries. Which was accordingly done, to the extent of
getting up a minority of 138 against 218 ; and the
country will have time to think of it, against another
opportunity.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, 20th March, 1848.

" The most interesting incident attending the probable
confirmation of the new treaty in the Senate, is the
sudden revival of the Wilmot proviso in that body, and
soon, also, to take place in the other house, with the
probable belief that the discussion will produce great
excitement the remaining portion of the session.
"This question, hitherto in prospect, has already rent
asunder the democratic party in New York, and, to less
extent, the same party in the other states. There is
every probability of its performirg the same surgical
operations on the Whig party. There wilt be a tremen-
dous contest on this point in both houses of Congress,
and the growing excitement will be increased, also, upon
the prospect of the Presidency. in fact, everything
looks towards a complete revolution and disorganization
of the old parties, and the reconstruction of something
new and better, growing out of the Mexican war and the
treaty."

MONEY MARKET.
" MoNn.aY, FEB. 28, 6 r.m.—There was no material
change in the stock market to-day; prices were firm for
the opening of the week. At the first board Farmers'
Loan advanced per cent.; Harlem, A; Pennsylvania
Fives, -.41; Treasury Notes, 4; Illinois Sixes, I. Morris
Canal fell off a per cent.; Norwich and Worcester, i;
Reading Railroad, 4; all others closed firm at prices
current en Saturday.
" At the second board the transactions were only to a
limited extent, at prices a shade lower than those ruling
in the morning.
" The money market is slowly but steadily improv-
ing. The banks discount freely, and the rate of interest
iu the street ranges from 7 to 9 per cent. for the best
business paper afloat. The steamer from Liverpool has
been at sea nearly seventeen days, and is fully due; she
will bring fourteen days later intelligence, and the gene-
ral impression is that the news will be highly favourable
in a financial point of view."

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, MARCH 19.—The Penin-
sular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Montrose, Captain Bowen, arrived here oa Saturday at
midnight, with the usual Spanish and Portugese mails,
in charge of Lieutenant Rainer, R.N., Admiralty agent.
Her dates are—Gibraltar, March 9; Cadiz, 10; Lisbon,
13; Vigo, 15. In consequence of the boisterous state ,
of the weather no communication with Oporto was at-
tempted. The Montrose has the following cargo :-90
chests of oranges, 22 barrels of dates. II cases of saffron,
11 casks of wine, 12 orange trees, 34 boxes of hams,
two oxen, four bales of bacon, 11 cases of eggs, 22
packages of specie (value 17,0001.), and 40 packages of
general merchandise. The French war steamer Solon,
1 Captain Liston, arrived at Lisbon on the 11th, havinge,
on board the Prince de Joinville, Du
immediately
ke d'Aumal
families, and suite. Their Highnesses
landed and paid a visit to the Queen of Portugal, and
embarked again on the 12th. The Solon left Lisbon at
daybreak of the 12th for England, but returned on the
morning of the 13th, the gale lacing very heavy. She
sailed again on the 13th, but was at anchor in Cascaces
Bay when the Montrose passed. On the 11th instant
the Montrose spoke the Madrid, at eight 1.M., is lat. 40
20 N., long. 9 18 W., and saw the Jupiter at four P.M.,
in lat. 41 8 N., long. 910 W. The Hon. Hector Loring,
Commander of her Majesty's ship Howe, died at Lisbon
on the 7th inst. His health had been in a declining
state for some considerable time.
MONMOUTH COUNTY ELFCTION.—We understand
that the election for the county of Mcnmouth, in the
room of Lord Granville Somerset, will not pass off with-
out a contest, and that, too, a very close one; a requisi-
tion having been got up by the partizans of the late Lord
Granville Somerset, to Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., of
, Tredegar Park, which it is said he has accepted.

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