The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-11 00:00:00

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educated aethe pr‘ate soldier of the British army must gana.
rally be, and in competition with well-taught and instructes
gentlemen, is no doubt a serious question. Still, as there are;
men of extraordinary natural intelligence qualified to undertake-
even the most difficult duties, there should be no prohi-
bition—no insuperable bar to advancement to the highest
honours. ii is not much known beyond military circle
that good soldiers are never flogged, or that the best
soldiers and the best sailors are not so strongly opposed as
many of the public to the continuance of a punishment which
can scarcely be said to affect their individual persons. But
that is not enough. There seems reason to be certain, that if
flogging were prohibited, a superior class of persons might be
induced (small as is the pay compared with that of handicraft
labour) to volunteer into our marching regiments, which of
itself would be a giant step towards the establishment of a
discipline, resting like that of officers, more upon the sense of
shame and the hope of distinction, thon on the abject fear of
the blackhole or the lash; and in that condition of things there
could be no difficulty in finding occasional, perhaps numerous,
qualified candidates among the non-commissiOned officers to fill
such ensigncies as might be left vacant by death. The chief
point, in fine, to which we direct public attention, is the prac-
ticability of rendering reward even more than punishment, a
help to military discipline. No failure, at least, can be
charged against such an experiment, because it has never been
tried.— Times.

The conversation in the House of Lords last night was very
important. Lord 13rougham asked the Duke of Wellington,
if, in the present most important and critical aspect of affairs at
St. Petersburgh, there was any Minister appointed, and he
drew a picture of the person universally admitted to be re-
quired for the occasion—one of fit rank, approved ability, ma-
ture experience, a d tried discretion. The Duke denied that
there was anything extraordinary there. What I when the
Austrian. Emperor is dead, and a person almost without or-
ai.nary faculties succeeds ? What when our fleet is ordered
to abschor before Constantinople to watch Russia? But
let that loss. The Duke then said--and this is most
im-
portant to " marked and inwardly digested"—he said
that "a Noble Lord had been placed in the sitvation
of his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of St. Pe,lerE-
burgh, and that he would go thither whenever the se.-
son permitted permitted him to Pavel." This he said without pro-
tending that the Noblerna.n at all answered Lord Brougharn'q
description. We think Lord. Londonderry will be strangely
fitted to answer that description, and yet he is the man. As
for his going when the weather permits, what keeps him
from going now ? Is he not to be put to the trouble of a
land journey ? Must our affairs wait till the Baltic allows
him, and his lady, and her maids, to go vommodiously by
sea ? The subject of Lord Brougham's suggestion is, if pos-
sible, more important. He called on the Gover►mient to take
the opportunity of the Emperor's death, and of a new reign,
to ask mercy for the illustrious captives of Italy, languishing
for seventeen years in Austrian dungeons—the friends of Pel-
lico I—the Confalonieres and others, who are martyrs to their
love of liberty, and of their country.—Morning Chronicle.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT, S.4Lisßußr, MARcli 9.

The calendar in this place is unusually heavy. It contains
seventy-nine names ; of these one is charged with violating a
female child under ten years, two with arson, three with cut-
ting and maiming, twelve with offences against the game laws
(ten of whom are prosecuted by Lord Bolingbroke), and the
remainder with offences of an ordinary nature. There are
seven causes in the list ; of these six were disposed of before
two o'clock. The seventh is a Special Jury case, respecting
the validity of a will, which it is expected will occupy three
days. Mr. Justice Pattison presides in the Crown Court and
Mr. Baron Gurney in the Civil Court.
Jonas Barhhouse, aged 25, was indicted for having, in July
last, stolen a gelding, the property of Francis Stephen Long.
The Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to be
transported for life.

HOME CIRCUIT, CHELMSFORD, MARCIA' 10.
Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Gaselee arrived here yes-
terday, and opened the Commission for holding the Aesize for
the county of Essex. The former Learned Judge presided in
the Crown Court this morning and charged the Grand Jury.
The calendar is very heavy, both in respect of the number of
prisoners (there being (3S) and the magnitude of their offences.
The business on the Civil Side is also heavy, sixteen causes
being entered, five of which arc Special Juries.