The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

him the premiun, a gold medal, offered by the
Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.

The Monthly Review. John Mitchell.—Pursues
its round, the fields of lite:Ature. Fminne, and
art, and presents the reader with the fruits of ltB
researe), on which it discourses generally wisely,
if not with superior brilliancy—a characteristic
hardly to be expected at the price. A review of
Spanger's "Life of Mohammed," and Freeman's
" History and Conquests of the Saracens," will re-
pay perusal. Tho imposture and the impostor be-
ing ably dealt with by one who seems u4embar-
rassed by mock candour, and unprepared to sacri-
fice truth. Emerson's "English Traits" meets with
but little of that reverence the disciples of the
American philosopher may be supposed to deside-
rate. Actually the author is recognised as the
great new Gulliver, and his discoveries as contra-
dictory, and mostly inventions. Ferrier's "Cara-
van Journeys" furnish materials for an enter-
taining descriptive paper, which is followed by a
discriminating review of "Life's a Dream (from
the Spanish of Calderon), with an Essay on his
Life and Genius," by Richard Chenevex French.
Among the remaining papers may be noticed those
respectively, headed "Les Mariages de Paris
and " Washington."

Oxford and Cambridge.—The study in Shak-
spere for the month—we suppose the writer means
to go through the principal plays—is " Twelfth
Night, or What you Will," supposed to be the
thirty-fourth and last written of Shakspere's
plays. " The serene yet warm light shed- over this
drama," it is said, "may be likened to the golden
summer afternoon sunshine, whose beams lie wide
on the green sward of some far-extending common
—slope upward on the branches and foliage of the
oaks with which it is here and there bestudded,
glance on the tall feathery ferns, glow on the fox-
gloves and heath, nor forget to penetrate with pure
light the transparent cup of the delicate, slightly
trembling blue-bell." The writer proceeds to
search out Shakspere's Principles of Love, as
shown to us in this his latter, if indoed it be not
his last, writing," and displays a good deal of deli-
cacy and discernment.

The Commercial Travellers' Magazine. Kent
and Ca.—Another new serial—its promoters rightly
judging that this intelligent and enterprising body
are entitled to a magazine of their own. While
"party politics " are to be avoided, the large class
of political subjects of a national or social character
are to be treated in an impartial manner, and mat-
ters of especial interest to commercial travellers
are promised due attention. The present number
contains a variety of the usual magazine literature,
and promises fairly for the future.

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soldier now feels himself able to take his place with those
of his rank and condition in life, and if you will go into
any of our barrack-yards you will find them now with
schools of instruction, with reading-rooms for -n'en-com-
tnissiened oflicrs a”cl soldiers, with plaits for recreation
an 1 exercise, a7i.l"'77Tii- will rind them leading a life of
Christian usefulness, lam proud to say—for religion
has developed itself wonderfully in the ranks of the
army—a life of which we may any of us be proud, and
in which we may not be ashamed or afraid to trust our own
little ones. _ But other matters of politics have of course
engaged my attention, of various descriptions. .I.lnon these
I will not at present touch, but I may remark that
I have returned to find this county still, as ever, repro -
sented by those whose object it is to advance constitutional
liberty and to go on increasing instead ofdiminishing t he
political powers which are disseminated among the great
body of the people. (Cheers.) I have always been one of
those who have never been afraid of trusting the people
with political power. I have always thought the more
confidence you put in a man or in a body of men the more
you will find them responding to that confidence, and
using the power with which you entrust them well. I
have lived to see changes take place which I have heard
cried down as revolutionary, and which even now the most
squeamish Conservative has brought himself to call con-
stitutional. (Cheers.) I see in this county three gentle-
men representing it—my noble friend Lord Duncan, the
county member; my friend Mr. George Duncan, the mem-
ber for Dundee ; and my friend Mr. George Baxter, the
member for the Montrose burghs. The records of the ses-
sion tellyou how these gentlemen have attended to their
public duty, and I think we may congratulate ourselves
that f
g honesty, for high public in-
tegrity, of three better men thin does
n talent,o for
county
boastssterl in
the county of Forfar. (Cheers.) But I confess I
have been somewhit surprised—and I take this oppor-
tunity, not principally of addressing your ears, but
of addressing those " chiels" who I See
"are takin
notes, and faith they'll prent thest"--(laughter)—upon a
point which my friend Mr. Baxter has alluded to very
much in some of his public orations in this county; and
I do it not to quarrel with my excellent friend Mr. Bax-
ter, but rather to point out, as a member of her Majesty's
Government, and somewhat interested in the judgment
which is passed upon their measures, how a man may de-
cry and give a wrong colouring to the acts of the Govern.
ment, and so bring into discredit a Government which
otherwise it is his object to sustain. The point to which I
especially allude are the remarks which my friend Mr.
Baxter has made upon the English Police Act. The reason
why I am tender upon that subject—perhaps Mr. Baxter
does not know it—is because that happens to be a child of
my own. (Laughter.) If anybody is in fault for having
brought that measure forward—a measure fall of all the
vices of centralisation—l am afraid I must plead guilty to
that fact, because in 1839 and 1840, when I was Under-
Secretary of State for the Home Department, I passed
that measure through the House of Commons. It was
then brought forward as a measure optional upon the
counties for which it was passed, in order to induce
these counties to look to their own interests in the
way of the restriction of crime, instead of doing
that which was the universal practice of these times to do
—making the British army the police of the country, a pur-
pose for which the British army was never intended. In
the year 1839 and 1840 we took the first steps to better
'uch a state of things, and that Police Bill enabled every
county to institute a police for itself. It was only per-
missive, but so far from considering it an unconstitutional
measure, rather more than one-half of all England and
Wales voluntarily adopted that which Mr. Baxter has
condemned. And this year, upon the principle that whore
the half of England had undertaken to destroy' all the
vicious vermin in the different counties—upon the prin-
ciple that these vermin all fled to the place where there
were no police set up at all, those parts of England which
had adopted the Police Act loudly and very properly de-
manded that the measure should be compulsory over all
England instead of being merely voluntary. Nothing
could be more reasonable than that ; but in what consists
the centralisation—for that is the point upon which my
friend Mr. Baxter is so very loud ? He says he voted
against it because of its centralising qualities. Now,
the only centralisation that exists in that act is this
—that if the police in a county is kept up in an efficient
state, and reported to be such by Government in-
spectors, one-fourth of the expenses of that police are to
bo paid from the Treasury ; and in order to ascertain
that the payment of that one-fourth is merited, surely it
is right that the Government, acting for the rate-payers of
this country, should be assured in the first instance that
they are paying for a good article, and not for a bad one.
Now, that is the only centralisation that exists in that act,
and I have the satisfaction to tell my friend Mr. Baxter
that if ho had the opportunity of voting against that mea-
sure as applied to England this year, I suspect most
strongly he will have the opportunity of voting against
it as applied to Scotland next year. As I stated before"
I am sorry to have troubled you with this subject here,
but I have made these remarks in no hostile spirit to Mr.
William Baxter, but merely to show that a measure of a
Government may be traduced upon grounds which really
do not exist. Having said this much, I will now again
refer to my private connection with you all here present.
Whatever I may be, and however I may disappoint in
some cases, this I will say for myself, that you shall never
find me inaccessible to any one of you, be he the chief
I tenant of the estate or the poorest and humblest cotter
that bolds from me. (Cheers.) And the reception that I
have met from you this day convinces me that the more I
know you the better I shall like you, and I hope I may
add also the reverse, that the more you know ine the better
you will like me. (Cheers.) I wish to drink all your
good healths, and pray that God may bless you in all
your interest, both civil and religious, so long as we are
spared to live together. (Cheers.)

THE LATE LORD HARDINGE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR, —ln the series of letters you have been good
enough to publish far me, an important one is omitted,
and as there seems no reason, I fear that by some over•
sight it was not sent ; it is my reply to the note from
the Editor of the Times.
Permit me also to remark that the Editor's note to me
was not in answer to my first note to him, but in answer
to my statement about Albuera, which he returned.—
I remain, &c., W. NAPIER, Lieut.• General.
Oct. 3, 1856.

(Copy--No. 4.)
Sir William Napier presents his compliments to the
Editor of the Times' whoever he may be, and begs to
inform him that he has mistaken his position.
S r WfllMin Napier did not ask for the help of the
Times to sustain his statement of the part taken by the
late L•,rd Harding° in the battle of Albuera.
The.Tintes, in almost direct terms, called for Sir Wm.
Napier's help to sustain its own statement of Lord
Hardinge's conduct. It was given, and the refusing of
it is a matter of indifference to Sir William Napier.
The tone of the refusal indicates a very low sense of
selt•respect in the anonymous writer, and whether it
shall be accepted as a private communication will depend
upon circumstances.
Salado llouse, September 30, 1856.
To the Editor of the Times. •

.ABEIWROMBIE'S BRIGADE AT

ALB UERA.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—At the crisis when all looked adverse at the
battle of Albuera, Abercrombie's brigade was ordered
from the extreme left of the line to advance in open
column and double quick time to the point of struggle.
It did so advance for more than a mile, on level ground,
ruder a fire of forty pieces of artillery, right well served.
It was my lot, as senior lieutenant (Claktain Wyatt hav-
ing been seriously wounded), to command the Grenadiers
of the leading regiment, the gallant 34th. When we
reached the rise of ground from whence the Spaniards
were slowly retiring in some confusion, and so soon as
they passed by our right flank, a column of lorench bear-
skins appeared immediately in our front ; and w12,0,.3
within about thirty yards of them we delivered a won,,
directed volley, gave the well known cheer, and charged,
when the column instantly went to the right abooa:anS
fast as they could for about the distance of ono ha_
yards, and then reformed, and looked as fresh
as 1 on us
ing had happened. Eight of their guns openedrds ; the
t .t noth-
ing
grape at a distance of about six hundred cards a
Polish Lancers advanced at a smart trot fro '
vistration to
small swell of ground, and made a der_ao_'l_,
rain had
charge us, but thought better of it. The bunegpv:wder
had
the French, which
now ceased, and the smoke of burntth
find charge ;
cleared away ; two other columns offon
seeing
evergreen oaks, from
their ad-
were advancing en echdlon, halted
the
vanced column routed. This W
Bbrigade that they were
the
ditat ei moment by the urgent
enemy now retired in skirmishifeags,
voerr:r across the Al-
buera stream into the foreest_now_
of morning.
It
was
which they issued Wore t
the general report throughorit
ordered to advance at the en.,,,,iiinge.
entreaties of the late Lord l'"`
client servant
lam Sir your 0 b 43,„.,,, ii t P
3-O.liN NORTON (!ate Capt. 311 Regt).
Roshcrville, Oct. 1, 18

SIR Jowl 011/4J/PTON.--.T.,..e
elevation of Sir John
(3raoton to be " Knight Commander of the Bath
/,;markt; very dis6na'4 the approval of the Government
of which that geLtlou-‘cm fulfilled hiS duties
as ttetv;;Y ul
rc,sentativo of her Majwity at Washington.
ROYAL Trions Y &CRT CLUB.—At the laA meeting
of the foove distinguished club, tzt the Bedford
hotel,C. vent-t-Tad! n, his Royal Ilighreis Prince 0;,.c•
of S.raden having announced his de re to be enrolled
a ruom.b.ir the7Royal Thames Yacht Club, was ele
by acc.arnation.
ARREST or
SW-1N IRn

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