The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

dition may present disadvantages, but it presents ad-
vantages also. In other times greedy demagogues
might deceive the public, perhaps sometimes
deceive themselves as to the utter sordidness of
their motives. Men might imagine that there
was no necessary connexion between proud am-
bition and sneaking avarice, and that the as-
pirant to popularity, and through popularity to
office, thought merely of the glory of being useful
to his country without the least regard to the
quarterly intimations of national gratitude, annexed
to the coveted station—formerly men might think
in this way, but our commercial age presents much
truer and more practical views. The patriot of
the nineteenth century despises the delicate cir-
cuitousness with which his predecessors fleeced
the silly public. He knows that bribes
and fraud-money always lose something in
the way, by a process similar to that
of friction in mechanics ; he, therefore, takes his bribe
or fraud-money directly in integro, and without cere-
mony. Now this is, in our opinion, a great advantage
of our commercial age, for it enables all the intelligent
part of the public to estimate, within a fraction of
the truth, the value of political quacks and of their
drugs; and, sometimes, as in Mr. O'Connell's case, to
strike a balance between the demagogues and their
dupes.

'TIE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, OCT. 21, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Earl of
Glasgow to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the
shire of Renfrew, in the room of Alexander Spiers,
Esq., deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, OCT. 22.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Assistant-Surgeon T.
Tardrew, from 80th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Colelough, deceased, Oct. 22.
11th Regiment of Foot—Major J. C. Harold, from
74th Foot, to be Major, vice Fordyce, who exchanges,
Oct. 22.

23d Foot—Captain C. Crutchley to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Seymour, who retires ; Lieutenant W. C.
C. Baker to be Captain, by purchase, vice Crutchley ;
Second Lieutenant F. T. Brock to be First Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Baker ; C. G. Sutton, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brock, Oct. 22.
9th Foot—Lieut. B. M'Kenzie, from 40th Foot, to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Durbin, deceased, June
26 ; Lieut. E. Croker to be Adjutant, vice Munro, pro-
moted in 86th Foot, July 2.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign S. G.
Newport, vice Croker, appointed Adjutant, July 2 ;
Ensign 11. D. Gaynor, vice Newport, whose promotion,
on the 2d of August, 1844, has been cancelled, Aug. 2 ;
Ensign L. Farrington, vice Gaynor, whose promotion on
the 27th September, 1844, has been cancelled, Sept. 27.
To be Ensign—J. Agnew, Gent. vice Farrington,
Oct. 22.

40th Foot—Ensign W. C. O'Brien to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice M'Kenzie, promoted in 29th Foot,
June 26; Serjeant H. Baxter to be Ensign, vice O'Brien,
Oct. 1844.

44th Foot—Lieut. B. Fenwick, from the Ceylon Rifle
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Bradley, who exchanges,
Oct. 22.

45th Foot—Lieut. D. W. Tench to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Lewis, deceased ; Ensign G. A. C.
Kippen to be Lieutenant, vice Tench, Oct. 1 ; Sergeant•
Major J. Morley to be Ensign, vice Kippen, Oct. 22.
74th Foot—Major J. Fordyce, from 11th Foot, to be
Major, vice Harold, who exchanges, Oct. 22.
86th Foot—Lieutenant W. Munro, from 39th Foot, to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Halliday, deceased,
July 2.

92d Foot—Lieut. C. E. S. Gleig to be Adjutant, vice
Mackenzie, promoted, Oct. 22.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Lieut. J. Bradley, from 44th
Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice B. Fenwick, who ex-
changes, Oct. 22.
MENORANDUM.—The Christian names of Lieutenant
Parker, of the 78th Foot, are William Buck Carthew
Augustus. The commission of Lieutenant Thackwell,
as Adjutant to the 22d Foot, has been antedated to the
23d February, 1844.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Southampton.
North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet W. T.
Grceme to be Lieutenant, vice W. Tayler, resigned ; T.
G. Baring, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Grceme, promoted,
Oct. 8.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
The Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeo-
manry—R. Berkeley, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Williams,
resigned ; R. Clive, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Bolton, de-
ceased ; T. Galton, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Hunt,
G. H. Biggs, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Robeson, re-
signed, Oct. 16.