The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-27 00:00:00

TE GENERAL ORDER FROM THE
HORSE GUARDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN
SIR--I observe that an older has been recently is.
sued from the Horse-Guards, professing, " with the
View to do the fullest justice to individuals who may
have distinguished themselves in action with the
"flenly;" but as the wording of this mark of his Ma-
j esty's gracious favour has been probably left to some
underling who has never been in action with the
nave,
and consequently, if not jealous of those who
nave, can certainly have no sympathy with them
I.bermit me to draw your attention to it, in order that
_Each an egregious absurdity as therein appears may,
fbypublicity, reach the authority that has the power to
revise it, and have it so express A, as to give effect to
what is doubtless the Royal will and pleasure.
In enumerating the particulars, which the account
'directed to be made by Mr. Cannon shall contain, you
will perceive that one most essential Return is wholly
omitted, for, in reference to officers, a statement of
the names of those only tvho have received medals,
j&c., is to be made, " with the view to do the fullest
ustice tr, individuals !" par example—those very in-
dividual s having already had the interest to get ho-
nours Heaped upon them for their services ; while the
("col:s who have not been so noticed, and for whose
BPee ial and distinguished bravery division or general
ord ztrs can testify (poor devils ! their sole regard), are
sb ut out from the possibility of being included in, and
010taining the tardy act of justice which this order pro-
lesses to confer ; and this is the more palpable as it
calls for the names all such non-commissioned 91=
Seers and privates who may have especially signalized
themselves in action.
den will not 'believe that this proceeds from the acci-
"'ltal. error of the word "officers" before " non-corn-
111issioned officers and privates" being omitted, as
this 'alsidious crafty subversion of the Royal will has
before occurred in another boon, professing to reward
tn'2 old and meritorious Lieutenants who may have
B',lved during the war, but which has been unjustly
applied to gentlemen who have been kicking their
heels at watering-places, but have luckily been borne
On the strength of the country for some 15 or 18
Years of peace ; while the old subalterns, who have
served during 10 or 12 years of active war, but who
have unfortunately been shelved by reduction, or in
'ndignation, have pitched their exclusive honours and
service to the devil—these men, I say, are not con-
-Bidered entitled to the notice which the spirit of the
order implies.
The Military Secretary is too old and too good a
soldier knowingly to sanction such a scandalous eva-
aion of purpose ; nay more, to be so unfaithful a ser-
vant to his Royal Master as•to attempt to render his
taiesty unpopular, by meanly counteracting the jus-
te he would mete, and the impartial favours he
WouldA bestow.
"Werville, Oct. 1835.

IZ. M. N.

PiUBLIC MEETING AT LIMERICK.

POOR LAWS-MR. O'CONNELL.

On Wednesday a public meeticg was held for the pur-
t°se of taking into consideration the necessity of a Poor
Law for this country. The room was crowded to excess.
Mr. O'Connell entered at two o'clock, accompanied by
Our City Representatives, and his appearance was greeted
with the loudest applause.
The Chairman, WILLIAM RocuE, Esq., M.P., stated
the object of the meeting. Mlttr which,
lir. O'CONNELL said he had come there to advocate a
Provision for the poor. The present state of the poor in
Ireland was terrible, not only to behold, but even to con-
template.—(Hear, hear.) He believed every one in that
voWould do him the justice to say that he was :.n ad-
it for the poor, and if he objected to the poor laws,
Was because he had seen in England the finest feelings of
two anity trampled under foot, in consequence of the evil
w° rking of the system by which a legal provision is offered
Ir, that country to the poor.—(Hear, hear.) Though
there may have been a great evil under the English system,
he was ready to adopt one for Ireland, and to effect great
good even at the risk of some evil.—(Hear, hear.) in
!his neglected country the poor were thrown on the
Irious classes for relief la their wretchedness. He had a
Poor law of his own, a.e repeal of the Union, and if he had
~ an Irish Parliament that would best know the wants of
'rug country and remedy it by the employment that would
Inaturally result c.rom the bringing back of the absentees, there
vould be no necessity of a poor law then ; that measure (Rez
Peal he had adjourned, in the hope of getting justice ll'om
in °gland, brAt he was not at liberty to adjourn the peer law, as
• thethe intf2rim many a widow and orphan wotllid be added to
nuno.,ner of those who have hitherto died from hunger.
eou 111i7.ch a state of things could not stand any longer ; we
fiel not remain in our present position ; something
,st be speedily done.--( Hear.) He had for a long time
4liberateci upon the systrAn of legal provision, and his pre-
sent plan was that the tax for such a purpose should fall
ght on the resident who gave employment. It should be
laced on the absentee who drew away the resources which
Should be expended here, and heaviest of all on those un-
feeling landed proprietors, who for their own purposes
0l eared their estates. He was sorry to say that in the list
°PPressive landlords in Ireland, the county of Lime-
lee' occupied a conspicuous place, as seven-eighths, or at
:tst three-fourths were animated by feelings of political
red, and religious rancour against their neighbours.
let under Providence, and as a better state of things is
113nt to take place, such a national disgrace must cease to
..4t. Let no man calumniate him as an invader of the
i:Rhts of property—that he regarded as much as any man,
4t what cared be if such men as Lord Limerick got no
tent; so as the poor be prevented from dying of hunger
thousands.—(Hear,Y hear.) But he regarded the rights
th Property as much as any man, and he would provide
at those reduced to distress by their profligacy and idle-
s should not be a burthen to the rich.—(Hear, hear.)
1411 eh people of Ireland of all other people preferred to live
their own labour ; the misfortune was, that no employ-
the ent vvas had for them.—(Hear.) If this would take from
rich, in a short time they would have no rich at all, and
Poor country, of all other things, is the most despised
4 he would never consent to support the idle at the
expense of the rich.—(Hear, and cheers.) His system
thtittld only embrace the sick, the aged, the infirm, and
It, °Se who could get no employment for the labour they
oere
no to bestow—the tax for that purpose should
o ole out of the rents, and not be allowed to fall on the
t;:tPitYiinong tenant. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman
Zneluded by proposing that a committee be appointed and
prepared to be presented at the commencement
the next session. He sat down amid loud cheers.
ef 14r• DAVID ROCHE said that he fully agreed in the plan
ne
Poor Laws laid down by Mr. O'Connell, as they would
geenly be a source of comfort to the poor, but of great be.
to the agricultural portion of the community.
~eThe Rev. Mr. ENRAGHT, who has been curate for 18
eeriflrs, in a most miserable parish, gave an affecting account
e deplorable destitution to which the people on the
4'l of Lord Limerick were reduced, who, said the Rev.
4entleman prevents relief by legislative enactment, at the
ri.,e time 'declines relieving them himself. In the course
111ois address, Mr. Enraght said, that such was the extreme
.„etehedness there, that he had at times advised persons to
I"; the body of their deceased friend in the street, when it
1,7! Petrifying in the house, because the miserable inmates
il7 not wherewith to purchase a coffin ; such a state of
-thengs should not be permitted to exist, otherwise neither
bill Property nor the life of any person was safe ; hunger
t1:0 e"'Pel men to the commission of crimes, at which in
other state they would shudder. It was the duty of
teetse who Possessed property and valued morality to pro-
therthe one and encourage and promote the other. Nei-
of these objects could be obtained without a legal pro-
)47 for the poor ; a starved multitude will not be over nice
eriminating between right and wrong.
COmmittee was then formed.
th Atse
°'CONNELL said that he had one word to say before
144 toeeting separated. In the very excellent report of the
lishelldight's dinner, and which had been so expeditiously pub-
o,e they had forgotten to state how emphatically he (Mr.
the "nell) had stated, that he was determined to try
vxperiment of giving up the Repeal question as long
aediti!, Government continued to do justice to Ireland,
t/lo to now again declared his determination to give to
'
to_ sh Parliament and Government a full, free, and
.4„Plete trial._( Hear, hear.)
Bep4 vote of thanks was then carried, and the meeting
d.

°P A MARRIAGE RING.—Lag week a gold
kir, th°Tr-age rim). was picked up in a ploughed field close by
P.l34.°llll,,io'3perfect preservation,- and bearing the initials
/"14% a"
13. G., and the date 29th June, 1742. ' This it
taa,,,ctretured must have been the ring of Mrs. Banner-
tefe,r e wife of the former incumbent. The record being
trix to, it was found that Patrick Bannerman and Bea-
thldie were married on the 29th day of June, 1742.
ie.sfrrieß has thus, in all likelihood, been tossed about for
'
,ie o;i'reat,er Part of a century, and is now found unharmed
a I,- ,(1' the most exposed situations imaginable. There
kill 1`)1" Scotland, that if the marriage ring be lost there
"444 a n° family thereafter. Mrs. Bannerman and her
'4 were childless.—Perth Constitutional.