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No. 21,485.

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THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S
" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex-
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus•
ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive,
intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully,
examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."

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Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d.,
ON SPERMATORRIICEA,
By P. B. COURTENAT, Iit.R.C.S.E.,
And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the
Cure of Strictures of the Urethra.
" The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view
of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this
Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional
Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of
Quackery n
by which thehave been surrounded to the
destructio of the health andhithert happineo ss of thousands., These
objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical
manner."—Medical Circular.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1861.

Surg. William Fletcher. The officers are Capts.
Blosse, Greville, and Price ; Lieuts. Trench, Bond,
Hamilton, Prior, and Warry ; and Captain and
Adjutant Collington. Besides the troops the Me-
gmra brought Mrs. Shuttleworth, Mrs. Collington,
Capt. Tupper, Bth Regiment ; Lieuts. Wollsley
and Protheroe, of the Gth ; the Rev. C. Moore,
chaplain to the forces at Gibraltar, and family ;
Mrs. Martelli and family, wife of the Military
Storekeeper at Gibraltar ; two Sappers and Miners ;
one private, 100th Regiment; fi,ur discharged pri-
vates, 25th, and one woman of the 7th. She left
at Gibraltar the screw steam brig Ariadne, 24,
Capt. Edward W. Vansittart, and the gunboats
Procris and Cockatrice, on duty in the Bay. The
Argus, from Madeira, arrived at Gibraltar with
mails too late for the homeward-bound packet, and
therefore left for Cadiz on the 4th of May.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, 4.c.

ethe present
A public meeting was held in Edinburgh on
Thursday evening for the purpose of hearing an
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who in the course of a lengthened address said,—
" I heard yesterday a circumstance that illustrates
the state of matters in America. There is an
episcopal clergyman in NeW York, or in one of
the largest towns of America, who has four sons.
Two of them are in the South, in the ranks of
the Southerners. His other two sons—his Joseph
and Benjamin—armed to the teeth, are off to
fight the Southerners ; and perchance these brothers
may meet foot to foot and sword to sword in that
shocking battle. Think of the state of that
father. Whom is he to pray for P For which
side is he to ask the victory ? A bullet from a
brother's rifle strikes a brother's heart. Which-
ever side may gain, that father loses. A civil
war is, of all calamities that can befall a country,
the most dreadful; and what aggravates the state
of matters in America is this—the wretched cause
of this war and the terrible spirit of vengeance
which men are carrying into it. How does the
haughty pride of both parties flare out, glare out,
in the answer given by President Lincoln's secre-
tary to a letter sent by tile Governor of Mary-
land, who, deprecating this dreadful bloodshed,
and anxious for a peaceful settlement, proposes
to the -President of the United States that the
matter should be referred to our Ambassador,
Lord Lyons, and that he should be asked to
arbitrate between the contending parties—a most
Christianlike proposal ! How is it received ? Re-
sented, and resented with: a fling at Monarchy.
The President's secretary writes back and asks how
any man could propose that the matter should be
referred to the arbitrament of a European
Monarchy ! Monarchy! What is the Monarchy
to which the Governor proposes to refer? Un•
questionably it is not the Monarchy of Russia, not
the Monarchy of King Bomba, or King Bomba's
son—(laughter)—it is the Monarchy of their own
mother, and surely it is a mother's part to step in
between her sons, when, knife in hand, they are
about to plunge them into each other's breasts. A
European Monarchy, forsooth! I am very much
mistaken, if many in the United States at this
moment would not be glad to be in a European
Monarchy, and if they would not be thankful for
the motherly patronage of our good Queen Vic-
toria. lam very much mistaken if they would not
be thankful to be under a Monarchy where there
is a Sovereign, but no slave—where every honest
man can sell his work to the highest bidder, and
go to work when he likes—ay, and strike when he
likes—where we have markets for the sale of
cattle, but not of men or women. Monarchy, for-
sooth ! I must say to my friend, Dr. Cheever,
that the pride of his people seems to be unex-

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THE AMERICAN CRISIS.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War-office.—Mr. C. T.
Fearon has been appointed conveyancing clerk in
the Solicitor's-office, London ; Deputy-Assistant
Commissary-General L. W. Blacker (Commissariat
Department) has been promoted to be Assistant-
Commissary-General, vice T. F. Moore, placed upon
half-pay. Home-office—Mr. J. K. Thornton has
been appointed a clerk in the Census-office, London,
and passed his examination ; Mr. W. Lane has been
appointed a clerk in the Census-office, London, and
passed his examination ; Mr. W. A. Andoe has
been appointed a clerk in the Census-office, London,
and passed his examination. Public Record-office—
An assistant-keepership in the Public Record-office
has become vacant by the death of Mr. J. Hunter,
first-class assistant-keeper. British Museum—Mr.
J. T. Taylor has been appointed an assistant in the
principal librarian's office, and passed his exami-
nation ; Mr. F. Mooney has been appointed. an
attendant, and passed his examination. The Ad-
miralty.—Mr. Henry Hinde has been appointed a
clerk in Somerset-house, and passed his examina-
tion ; Mr. John Conroy Hutcheson has been ap-
pointed a clerk in Somerset-house, and passed his
examination; Mr. S, Walters has been appointed
first class inspector of shipwrights Devonport
Dockyard, vice Lumpen, superannuated. Customs.
—Mr. Richard Allerton, first class clerk in the East
and West India Docks, has been promoted to be
principal clerk ; Mr. William Warburton, second
class clerk in the East and West India Docks, has
been promoted to be first class clerk ; Mr. Richard
Partridge, third class clerk in the East and West
India Docks, has been pro-Moted to be second class
clerk ; Mr. Francis Moisny, fourth class clerk in
the East and West India Docks, has been promoted
to be third class clerk ; Mr. Joseph W. Culling,
fifth class clerk in the East and West India Docks,
has been promoted to be fourth class clerk.
Inland Revenue Department. Stamps and Taxes
Branch.—Mr. M. Kelly, surveyor of taxes, has been
promoted from Norwich second district to Mon-
mouth district; Mr. E. Borkhardt, supernumerary
surveyor, has been
.promoted to be a surveyor, and
appointed to Norwich second district; Mr. W. H.
Last, second class supernumerary surveyor, has
been promoted to the first class. Excise Branch.
—Mr. J. Dockeray, supervisor of Sheffield second
district, Sheffield collection, has been appointed to
Wakefield first district, Leeds collection ; Mr. E. J.
Lanyon, officer of Millbank first division, London
south Cbllection, has been appointed to artmouth
division, Plymouth collection ; Mr. John Davy, offi-
cer of Dartmouth division, Plymouth collection, has
been appointed to Millbank first division, London
south collection. East Indies—Mr. G. C. Barnes,
C. 8., has been appointed to officiate as secretary to
the Government of India in the Foreign Depart-
ment ; Mr. S. G. Wyatt has been appointed to offi-
ciate as first assistant to the Auditor-General for
India, and secretary to the Board of Audit; Mr. H.
Hudson has been appointed to officiate as fourth
assistant to the Auditor-General for India; Mr. H.
Woodrow, inspector of schools for SoUth Bengal,
has been appointed to officiate also as an inspector
of schools for South-west Bengal; the Hon. H. B.
Devereux has been appointed a magistrate and
collector of the first grade in Patna, but to con-
tinue to officiate as Junior Secretary to the Board
of Revenue • Mr. G. A. C. Plowden has been ap-
pointed to Officiate as commissioner of revenue and
circuit of the Burdwan division ; Mr. E. E. Lowis
has been appointed to officiate as joint magistrate
and deputy-collector of Moorshedabad ; Mr. A. R.
Gordon has been appointed a deputy-collector of
the first grade, and posted to the district of
Allahabad, and placed in charge of the Treasury
at that station, vice Mr. P. B. Reid, retired on a
good service pension ; Mr. S. M. Moens, 8.A.,
assistant-magistrate and collector of Bareilly, has
been appointed to officiate as assistant-secretary to
Government North-west Provinces. The undermen-
tioned officers have been appointed to officiate as
joint magistrates and deputy-collectors :—Messrs.
H. A. Harrison, 'assistant to the magistrate and
collector of Azimghur ; J. Cs Colvin, assistant to
the magistrate and collector of Moradabad ; A. C.
Syall, assistant to the magistrate and collector of
Bareilly; C. W. Moore, assistant to the magis-
trate and collector of Ghazepore ; P. Wigram,
assistant to the magistrate and collector of
liumeerporc ; W. Oldham, assistant to the
magistrate and collector of Banda ; C. Robin-
son, assistant to the magistrate and collector of
Furruckabad ; J. Sladen, assistant to the magis-
trate and collector of Moradabad ; and C. H.
Crossthwaitc, assistant to the magistrate and col-
lector of Bareilly. Mr. J Clarke, deputy-collector
of Barcilly, has been transferred to Morada-
bad, as deputy-collector, and placed in charge
of the treasury of that district. Captain
H. P. 13aLb..ge assistant commisionner, has been
transferred from the Rawal Pindee to Pind Dadun
Khan, in the Jhelum district ; Mr. W. B. Jones,
assistant-commissioner, has been transferred from
the Goojranwalla to the Rawul Pindee, district,
and posted to Attock ; Gen. H. C. Van Cortlandt,
C. 8., deputy commissioner of Hissar, has been de-
puted on special duty to Cashmere ; Mr. J. D. Sim
has been appointed Secretary to Government in the
Revenue and Public Works Department, Madras ;
Mr, W. lludlestone has been appointed secretary
to the Board of Revenue, Madras; Mr. G. Vans
Agnew has been appointed sub-collector and joint
magistrate of Tinnevelly ; Mr. 3. A. Baumbach has
been appointed director of the Government savings
bank, Bombay, in the room of Mr. M. C. Wilkin
son, resigned,— Civil Service Gazette.

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tinguishable—sneering at a Monarchy when their
own Republic, like an old house, is tumbling down
about their ears, slavery being the dry-rot, the
untempered mortar, that is fatal to the whole
building." He concluded by expressing the hope
that the time would soon come when the signs of
true repentance would be shown by the people of
America, when in their solemn fast they would
" undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go
free," when they would join in saying, like Joseph's
brethren, " We have been verily guilty concerning
our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul when he besought us, and we would.not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us."

WAGES Q UESTION IN LANCA-
SHIRE.

THE MYSTERIOUS POISONING CASE

AT HOXTOIV:

COLLIERS' STRIKE.—Great uneasiness is at pre-
sent manifesting itself among the coal miners in
the neighbourhood of Ashton, owing to the dis-
putes at present existing between them and their
employers. Yesterday morning, the miners em-
ployed at Limehurst Colliery, near Ashton, refused
to go to work, in consequence of their masters
offering a reduction of one penny in the shilling.
ASHTON.—It is in contemplation by several of
the millowners in the Ashton district to commence
working short time. Whether it will become
general or not remains yet to be ascertained.
Messrs. Leech and Co., Bardsley Mills, near Ash-
ton, have given notice to their workpeople that
they will begin to run four days a week after the
present week. We learn that Water-street Mill,
Staleybridge is stopped for a month.
BOLTON.-2A deputation from the self-acting-
minders of the Bolton district, now on strike
against the proposed reduction of five per cent.,
had an interview, yesterday, with a deputation of
masters from the Cotton Spinners' Association. The
deputation from the men produced a new list of
prices, which they said was calculated on the prin-
ciple of a five per cent. reduction ; but the masters,
on examining the list, found that on many of the
sorts the prices, so far from being five per cent less,
were actually higher than the amount now paid. It
appeared that No. 50's was taken as the basis of
calculation, and that as they advanced above that
number or fell below it, the prices varied, the old
list being arranged on a different principle. The
masters, therefore, objected to the list; and the depu-
tation from the men then proposed that hands should
resume work at a reduction of 21- per cent., and
continue at that rate until a more satisfactory
list could be prepared, and agreed to by both par-
ties. The masters replied that the Association had
resolved upon a reduction of five per cent., and that
if the men returned to work at a reduction of only
21 per cent. the probable result would be the delay
or rejection of a new list, based ona reduction. of
fivep
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list satisfactory to both
from the operatives said they were not authorised
to negotiate upon these terms, and the interview
terminated, leaving the dispute in the same position
as before. .

On Saturday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys
,he coroner for East Middlesex, resumed the ad-

journed inquiry, for the fourth time, at the Brid-
port Arms publichouse, Bridport-place, New North-
road, Hoxton, respecting the death of Mary Ann
Harker, aged 17, and her female infant, who died
from the effects of poison under the following
mysterious circumstances : .

It will be remembered that the deceased was a
single woman, residing with her aunt at No. 118,
Bridport.place. She had been keeping company
with a young man named Woodman, the son of a
tradesman living in the Kingsland-road. Woodman
had been paying his addresses to her, and had pia-
mised to marry her. In March last he was invited
to tea at the deceased's residence, and reached there
about five o'clock in the afternoon, when deceased
was quite well and cheerful. They remained toge-
ther for some hours, when the deceased was seized
with alarming illness and violent vomiting. The
aunt was called, and when the deceased was about

to retire to bed 'the young man (Woodman) left the
house. The.deceased continued to get worse, when
a medical gentleman was called in, who pronounced
the deceased to be -suffering under the effects of
some powerful irritant. Antidotes were adminis-
tered, but the deceased became unconscious, and
expired on the following morning. Shortly after
death the deceased was delivered of a dead
child. The room was searched, but nothing
of a deleterious character could be found. The
vomit had been thrown away by her aunt, but
the coroner ordered a post mortem examination of
the body, when the medical gentleman secured the
contents of the stomach and intestines, which were
sent to Dr. Letheby, of the London ospital, for
analysis. After a very searching and minute
microscopic test for various mineral and vegetable
poisons, he discovered traces of mercury and sul-
phate of zinc. The stomach and intestines exhi-
bited unusually red patches of irritation of the in-
ternal surfaces, indicating the recent presence of
some powerful irritant, which had been thrown up
by frequent vomiting. He was of opinion that the
deceased had died from the effects of poison taken
into the stomach.

Mr. Baker, Mr. Atkins, and other medical gen-
tlemen were examined by the coroner, and cross-
questioned by the solicitor and jury, and they agreed
with the opinion expressed by Dr. Letheby.
On the previous inquiry the young man, Wood-
man, was present, and, after being cautioned by the
coroner, said that he knew the deceased was en-
ceinte, and ho acknowledged that he had seduced
her. He had promised to marry the deceased; and,
in reply to Mr. Beard, he said that if a report had
been circulated round the neighbourhood to the
effect that he had seduced five girls, it was untrue.
The coroner said they had exhausted all the tes-
timony that could be obtained in the case, which
was fraught with great suspicion ; and he would
further adjourn the inquiry if there was any chance
of getting additional evidence to unravel the
mystery which surrounded the death, or the inves-
tigation could be closed with an open opinion of the
jury.
After some further discussion, the jury returned._i
the following verdict :—" That the deceaseq,
jurors
from the effects of a certain poison ; and
othe Ju"
do further say under what circumstances
poison was taken they had no evidence pthroevsea.'i'd
The proceedings, which excited unenseuinal resumeds
were then terminated, but will be _ g
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COLNE.—As we have before stated, the strike
terminated last Wednesday week, and since
that time a considerable number of operatives
have resumed work. There will be from 250
to 280 weavers and tenters who will have
to seek employment elsewhere, as the total
number of hands imported during the forty-nine
weeks which the strike has lasted is 233. It seems
that there are at present employed in the mills at
which the weavers struck work last May about 775
weavers with their proportion of tenters, twisters,
beamers, and drawers-in; and that out of 3,845
looms contained in the same mills, there were, yes-
terday, about 2,240 running, the rest being let to
weavers and in course of preparation for work ; but
it will be from a fortnight to three weeks before
the whole can be got into full operation, although
some will be re-commenced every day. A few
words as to the cost of the strike may not be out of
place on this occasion. it is estimated that from
£30,000 to £32,000 have been paid in contributions
by the operatives in work for the support of the
turn-outs, who have sacrificed in the way of wages
from £60,000 to £6s,ooo—making an aggregate
loss to the operatives of about £95,000. The
masters' loss must also have been very,
great. In reference to the charge of cruelty, men-
tioned in the Strike IReport for this week,
we have the' authority of the various masters to
state that they have engaged weavers.
minately for the vacant looms si.nce. the t
the
order
ended, giving them to all who applied,
of their application, and that theY
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above -£l,OOO
£3'ooo,
year. to £115,987.
and the Rev. Robert Moore £7,990 a
gistrar above
AA from the compensation, which we believe is
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year. Ju"
the largest ever granted, the work done by this rev gentle-
n,hould have stupendous. The salaries and ex-
penses been
of the new Court of Probate in London, and of the
'London registry, amount to nearly £40,000 a year, and the
entire charge for the Courts of Probate in London and
Dublin (including these compensations) reached £180,144
in the year 1860. The fees received in those courts
amounted to £61,903, leaving a deficiency of £118,241. It
seems that this may be reduced by the fees in the country
district registries exceeding the salaries and expenses/ but
the deficiency appears to be still about £100)000 6 year't o
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A series of despatches, &C., occupying upwards
of 50 pages, respecting the above case, were issued
on Friday. On the Bth of October, last year, Mr.
W. D. Irvine, her Majesty's charge d'affaires at
Washington,transmitted to the Foreign-office a note
from Gen. Cass, requesting hdr Majesty's Govern-
ment to issue a warrant " to deliver up the person
of a man of colour named John Anderson, who has
been -charged with the commission of murder in the
State of Missouri, and who has fled to Canada, and
has now been arrested and confined in the jail of the
gt huen extradition ei.
town of Brantford." Our foreign Minister at once
ptin
ender
the necessary steps to be taken for comply-
ing with this application, "should there be no ob-
jection thereto." Before January in the present year
the whole facts of the case had become known
through the legal proceedings at Toronto, and the
Duke of Newcastle seat immediate notice to the
officer administering the Government of Canada,
that the extradition could only take place by a
warrantle
the han du andntil sheearl
Majesty's j
ol ftel
si y Governor,Govern
and that in any case he was to abstain from com-
ment had had further opportunity of considering
the question, and, if necessary, conferring with the
Government of the United States on the subject."
The judgments in the Court of Queen's Bench and
in the Court of Common Pleas at Toronto are Printed
entire. Respecting the writ of habeas corpus
issued
by the Court of Queen's Bench in .England, the
Duke of Newcastle writes to "the officer adminis-
tering the government of Canada :"—‘, The writ is
supposed to be directed to the sheriff or gaoler in
whose custody Anderson at present is, and it is,
therefore, possible that you may not be called on to
take any action in the matter. But in the event of
your being called upon to do 80, I think it advisable
to instruct you that you are at liberty to follow
such advice as you may receive from your law ad-
visers atter full consultation with them.
Lord Lyons, writing to Lord J. Russell from
Washington on the Bth ult., says, "When I de.
spatched the requisition for the surrender to Canada
I was not aware that John Anderson had been a
slave, or that there were any peculiar circumstances
in the case. If, however, I had been aware of all
the facts, I could not, of course, have done other-
wise than forward the requisition to be dealt with
by the proper authorities in Canada."
Meanwhile the prisoner had been liberated " on the
ground," writes Lieut.-General Sir W. Williams,
"of a technical informality in the earlier stages of
the process before the committing magistrate."
The following despatch from Mr. Dallas, late
American Minister in London, to a member of his
own Government, is the only other document of
general interest :

"Legation of the United States,
London, Jan. 16, 1861.
" Sir,—Since the acknowledgment made in my
note of the 20th December last, of No. 291, I have
had the honour to receive from the department the
despatches numbered 292, 293, 294, and 295. The
claim made by the United States upon the Govern-
ment of Canada for the extradition of one -- An-
derson, a fugitive slave, charged with the crime of
murder, committed in Missouri, has awakened, as of
course, so much interest in this country, and has in-
voked so much professional astuteness to defeat the
operation of the 10th Article of the Treaty of 1845,
that I have thought it expedient to place in the pos-
session of the department the annexed papers relat-
ing to that subject. It is scarcely necessary for me
to remark on the pungent and uncompromising
hostility to social bondage which prevails through-
out this country; that, as it has already led to giv-
ing by statute to the American slave who deserts his
ship a discriminating immunity over the freemen,
so it cannot be expected to shrink from another ma-
nifestation in the interpretation of an international
convention for the mutual surrender of culprits. In
truth, it may be said generally, that in British
opinion the status of slavery incapacitates the indi-
vidual for contract or crime. You will notice that
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, of the Queen's Bench,
has with surprising celerity' allowed a writ of
habeas corpus, addressed to the jailer in Canada, to
issue ; and that Anderson will thereupon be brought
here, notwithstanding the very full and deliberate
decision of the Colonial Court of Queen's Bench,
ordering him to be delivered up. The learned
judge appears to have stated, among the reasons
for his decision, that the case ' affects
the construction of a treaty which is
matter of imperial concern.' It may perhaps be
thought expedient that on the argument of the
question, the interpretation given T our Govern-
ment should, in some form, be distinctly commu-
nicated. I beg to add that, to_ avoid delay, the
ample report of the shorthand writers is forwarded
without having been first copied in this legation.—
I have, &c., (Signed) "G. M. DALLAS.
" Hon. S. J. Black, Secretary of State."

ALLEGED FAVO&RITISM.

It is just a year since it was our most disagree-
able duty to call the attention of the public to
the appointment of an offer to the colonelcy of
a distinguished regiment whose main qualification
consisted in the fact that he had for several years
filled with credit a civil office near the person of
the Prince Consort. As a soldier his claims were
not to be mentioned beside those of many other
officers of his rank before whom he was preferred,
and the whole transaction created a painful feel-
ling in the public mind, which reached its highest
point when the Secretary of State for War said
in his placo in Parliament that it would be a
" mean and cowardly" thing to pass over this
Court soldier iu favour of the many camp soldiers
who were his seniors in the service, and who had
fought and suffered in the field. Of the appoint-
ments made since thin to regimental colonelcies,
some have been good and some indifferent. The
Gazette of last night, however, contains one so ut-
terly unjustifiable, so incomprehensibly bad, that
we are almost forced to the conclusion that his
Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief,
at a loss to decide between conflicting claims, must
have put the names of all the Generals on the
list into a lottery, and drawn that of Major-
General Morton Eden, to his own and that officer's
intense astonisnment. By no other means can we
imagine such an appointment to be suggested ; and
when Mr. Baring comes to justify it in the Nouse
of Commons, we shall be curious to know for what
reason he will say it would be "mean and cowardly"
to avoid such a selection. Major-General George
Morton Eden entered the service in 1822, and his
military career has been one of uninterrupted
peace. He was promoted from the Scots Fusilier
Guards when the regiment was on its waysto the
Crimea, and since then has held the command of
the western district. This is in one word his history,
and this his claim to the first-class reward for distin-
guished services, which the colonelcy of a regiment
admittedly is. There have been appointments of
men without any claims on the grounds of active
service, which were yet not wholly unaccountable;
but General Eden's nomination to the 50th Regiment
is incomprehensible to a most perplexing extent.
It is to be accounted for on no principle as yet
accepted, or even propounded, with reference to
these matters. We exhaust every species of claim
to such a reward when we enumerate the grounds
upon which colonelcies have hitherto been bestowed.
They are-1. Seniority on the list ; 2. Seniority in
the army; 3. Distinguished service in the field; 4:
Meritorious and efficient service in time of peace or
in the colonies. If General Eden has been selected
s
for the first reason, a mean and cowardly act.
_bncsi
been done in passing over 21 generals wh "I
a very small "ice:o
saa
:rt
ri
Generalo
nn
more o
ht hims e me
n ta !T., th° ho.
before him. If he has been selected for thte
it is a mean and -cowardly act to nee]
.eecwas, not
oo ijc
int dis'
generals who were in the army before
been
when he was yet in his nurse's irhdbiefarevheneae soldierss
has
di to prefer hint
Waterloo medal, and
a most mean and cowardoliP '
ceived this substantial prize
rofor
_e_.ng
his General Elliott, with
si Thomas Franks or Sir
his Indian serlce---1°
both fresh from rendering able
Edward Lugt.ir, ,
as well as gallant service
five e Pweilnlinssauylar claspedr
and substantiti
af. General Napper
Jackson, with
ashraevr7eed
hlnisdtieaa—tcolaspsßell, or General Mac-
battlefield, and
climate a who bear honourable
"non their breasts. scars ...r_ lf General Eden has
gained this reward for the fourth reason, meritori-
ous service, it is mean
and cowardly to neglect for
him the 58 Generals on the good-service list, for
which he does not seem to h h n thought eligi-
ble, although he is considereadvea fit recipient of the
pherson,
nodr some
superior reward of a regiment; We shall even sug-
gest a fifth reason, and suppose that it was thought
right to give the Guards a turn, and appoint a
General from that service to a colonelcy. But even
here we arc still perplexed; for if this were the
actuating motive, it was mean and cowardly to pass
ever Lieut.-Gen. Colville, Lieut.-Gen. Stanhope,
and Major-General - Angerstein, who are all before
General The more we turn the thing round,
the more Eewr e.
x amine it in yarious lights, the more
we are puzzled to guess how on earth such an ap-
pointment could come to be made. About one
thing, however, there is no uncertainty. This act,
coupled with a few more a somewhat similar,
though perhaps of a less unpardonable character,
will have struck a final blow at the present adminis-
tration of military patronage. The Duke of Cam-
bridge's term of office expires on the 15th of Slily
next. If he were anxious to get up a storm among
those who constitute public opinion aga.instansrf
appointment, he could hardly have devised_ ,, ,
ii mote
ea
1
efficacious means than this selection of General
Edo.--Nrirmy and Navy Gaptfr,