The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

haps they exaggerate a little the positive bard-
,hips and privations to which the meditated re-
'friction would expose them ; or, from a percep-
,ion somewhat too acute of the loss with which
they have been threatened, rather underrate the
Advantages that would still remain. But symp-
toms of disgust or alienation—not to speak of
" mutiny" or " declarations of independence"

—we can no where find. And we venture,
with a much stronger confidence than our
own judgment could have inspired, to
pronounce that no such symptoms are to be
found in any of the memorials, because the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Lord Combermere, has not
merely permitted them to pass unrebuked, but
has given them the highest and most unequi-
vocal sanction by recommending them to the fa-
vourable consideration of the Indian Govern-
ment. Nor is this all ; for the Governor-
General of India in Council utters no syllable of
reproof upon the language in which these re-
monstrances are expressed, or the temper which
they exhibit ; but, on the contrary, annomres
his intention to transmit them to the Court of
Directors, and adds to this communication that
it will afford him sincere gratification if the Ho-
nourable Court shall see fit to re-consider its or-
der. We thus see the highest Authorities in
India giving their sanction to the Memorials ;
strong evidence certainly that the complaints they
contain are not unreasonable, but stronger evi-
dence still that they are not urged in a threaten.
ing manner, and are unconnected with any dan
gerous feelings. The idea of British Officers in
India, even if they were subjected to grievances
the most serious and unjust, becoming posiiively
directly, and intentionally dangerous to the au-

thority of Government, is evidently absurd.—
They must always have the strong motive of self-
preservation, although every other were with-
drawn, for desiring to maintain unbroken and
unimpaired the coherency and union of British
interests, of which military subordination is the
most essential part. Sound and prudent policy
requires, no doubt, that no occasion should ever
be afforded to the natives of India of supposing
this essential coherency and union liable even
to so much as an accidental and temporary
interruption. On this account we regret that British
Office's should have assumed or been reduced to

the position of remonstrants against a meditated
measure of the Government, directly affect-
ing their individual and professional inte-
rests, and eln have no hesitation in expressing
our opinion that the present is a state of things
that ought -to be put an end to without a mo-
ment of unnecessary delay. As to the manner
in which the question between the Court of Di-
recrors and the Officers in India may best be de-
cided, probably there arc few persons in this
country qualified to express an opinion, and we
certainly do not pretend to be of the number.
Both authorities and arguments are divided if
not balanced ; for with all our disposition to
allow the greater weight to those -to whom law
has assigned the ultimate decision, we cannot
think lightly of that of the. Governor-Ge-
neral and Commander in Chief of India ; nor
can we be insensible to the manifest hardship,
however paramount the considerations of a po-
litical nature by which it may be vindicated, of
altering, to the prejudice of Officers now in the
service, regulations which were in force at the
period when they entered it, and the permanency
of which may have entered into their calculations.
—Morning Post.
The following paragraph has found its way
into the Press:—

" Tbere has been considerable talk within the last
two or three days respecting the probability of Mr.
Huskisson rejoining the Cabinet, from which he seceded
during the first months of its existence. He is now on a
visit to the MAiquis of Hertford, at Sudbourn Hall,
where, also, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, the Duke of Wel-
lington, and a select party, are staying on a shooting
excursion. It is alleged that the present Chancellor of
the Exchequer is to give way to Mr. Huskisson, and
that the Leadership of the House of Commons is the bait
held out. Mr, Peel,it is added, will be elevated to the
peerage." •
This is not the first or second of the experi-
mental paragraph::: relative to the apostle of
" free trade," v% hick have appeared in the " libe-
ral" Papers since the Cabinet. of Great Britain
lost the benefit of its valuable services. The
writer of this prophetic intimation of a great
event, has discovered that the very unceremoni-
ous dismissal which Mr. Huskisson received
from the Duke of Wellington was merely a
" secession from the Cabinet during the first
months of its existence." If the political eco-
nomists had not made such strange work with
language, that the original meaning of words
bends to their despotic " philosophy" we should
have supposed that secession implied a voluntary
withdrawal, and not a compulsory ejectment froth
office. Perhaps the Duke of Wellington, who
so inexorably resisted all the pathetic appeals
of Mr. Huskisson, to' be allowed to stay
in after it was declared that he must go out,
now begins to think that the discardedcMinis-
ter has undergone a sufficient penance for his
juvenile offence ; but we suspect he does not
mean to take him back unless he leaves his prin-
ciples behind him. It is true that there is not
at present any Finance Committee to be blown
up by a spank from the angry collision of Messrs.
Huskisson and Herries, but, as it is pretty cer-
tain that the distresses of the country, and the
causes in which they have originated, must be-
come a prominent subject of discussion in the
next Session of Parliament, we suspect his
Grace does not imagine that the confidence of
the nation, in the wisdom of his policy, would
be increased by the renewal of his political al-
liance with the man to whose rash and mis-

chievous theories public opinion attribute the
poignant aggravation of those distresses, unless
the re-admission into office should be accompa-
nied by an expedient recantation of his political
creed ; but we are told the " leadership of the

House of Commons is to be the bait"—only
think-, gentle reader! what an expert angler the
Duke of Wellington must be to know precisely
what bait beyond a few thousands of additional
salary is necessary to hook Mr. Huskisscri once
more into office. " Philosophers" of his class
are so insensible to the vulgar attractions Of.
golden bait, that it requires extraordinary skill in
a Prime Minister to draw one of them into the
band of power from the still waters of obscurity.
—Morning Herald.

On examining a large block of elm, which had
just been sawn through, in Messrs. DIKES and Guises's
yard, on Monday morning, it was discovered that the tool
had laid open a recess in the heart of the tree, in which
was deposited a bird's nest containing eight or nine eggs.
The nest was formed of moss and the other usual materials
of such constructions, and the eggs apparently those of the
titmouse. The surface of the cavity in which the nest in
placed is in a rotten state, but the surrounding wood is
perfectly sound, and there is not the slightest trace of any
fissure affording a communication with the external air.
At whatever period, and. under •whatever circumstances,
the little artist had built her nest, the passage affording
ingress to it had grown up, an operation of nature which
must have required at least a touter of a esrcury to effe,;t
Packet.