The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

CAPTAIN SMITH.—We are glad to perceive by the
London Gazette of last night that Captain Smith, of
the 27th Regiment, has been promoted to a brevet
majority for his gallant and successful resistance and
ultimate defeat of the rebel Boers at Port Natal. This
appropriate and well-timed reward is, we are assured,
the Duke of Wellington's spontaneous and unsolicited
act. The promptitude with which his Grace has con-
ferred this well-merited mark of distinction upon
Captain Smith, and the spirited and exemplary con-
duct which it is intended to reward, are alike ho-
nourable to the donor and the recipient. It may not,
perhaps, be generally known to our readers that Cap-
tain Smith commenoed his professional career in the
navy, from which he transferred his services to the
27th Regiment in June, 1813. At that period his
father was surgeon in that corps, and his sister, Mrs.
Tucker, married one of its captains, circumstances
which no doubt had its full weight in determining
Captain Smith to exchange his blue for a red jacket.
The ship in which he last served was the Sapphire. lie
has had his share of hard fighting, both in the Penin-
sula and at Waterloo, since he has belonged to the
military branch of the service.
LORD lIILL'S lintvaTt Sneartany.—We are by
no means surprised, although certainly very much
gratified, at the promotion to an unattached Lieute-
nant-Colonelcy of Colonel Egerton, late Aide-de-Camp
and Private Secretary to Lord llill. The Colonel's
zeal, activity, and attention to the onerous duties of
the responsible appointment which he held with so
much credit to himself and advantage to the service,
during the period of his Lordship's command of the
army, are well deserving the recompense which has
been bestowed upon them, and which will, we under-`
stand, he still further rewarded by an annual pecu-
niary grant as one of the full Colonels coming within
the meaning and intent of one of the provisions em-
bodied in the Report of the late Naval and Military
Commission.

WEST INDIA AND MEDITERRANEAfir Dritkett-
MENTS.—The usual perleditel detaannents have been
placed -under orders for- Jattlaita, the West and
the Mediterranean: Their igonkbined strength is to
consist of about 4 Bell-officers, t 1 eaptainS, 16 lieu.
tenants, 24 ensigns, 20 sergeants, 4 detiriiniOrli, and
580 rank and file, who will be Aeiteted from the re-
spective depots in the kinWityg priziportient :—For
the West ItialeSl ntie 6eVBll Captains,
eight liotiteilafitti, l 8 eilsigns, 12 sergeants, four drum-
-1112!*, anti 340 rank and file, to be taken from the 33d,
46th, 47th, 59th, 77th, and 92d Regiments% For Ja-
maica, one captain, one lleateharlt3 three
three sergeants., atia 10 faiiii Alin Mel Nit% the 4th
Foot and ow ad battalion GOth Rifles. For Gihral-
tst‘ t.V.;>O field officers, four lieutenants, two ensigns,
four sergeants, and 100 rank and file, from the Ist
battalion of the Royals, the 7th Fusiliers, and the 79th
Highlanders. For Malta, one ea tale, me lieute-
nant, two ensigns, one sorgtant, and ao rank and file,
from the 88th, Connaught Rangers; and for the
lonian Islands, one field officer, two captains, two
ensigns, one sergeant; and -15 rank and file, from the
19th, 38th, and the 97th Regiments, and the Ist bat-
talion Rifle Brigade. These drafts are ofclusiVe Of
the reserve battalions of the 42d, 43th, and Otth Regi-
ments, which are to proeeed separately to Malta,
Gibraltar, and Corfu. The corps which they are. to
relieve are specified in our distribution of the army.
No tonnage has yet been provided for the convey-
ance of any of these officers and men ; but arrange-
ments are in active progress for insuring their early
departure from this country.
The 53d, 88th, and fllst Regiments. are to be; aug-,
mented to 1,200 rank and file each, and to be formed
into two battalion corps.

Sir H. Bold Itoghton and family, and Captain
Gourlay, arrived in London yesterday
burgh, passengers by the Gbileral Steam Navigation
Company's new steam-ship Trident, Captain Sharp.
Lady Raffles, W. Scott, Esq., and J. Nicholson,
were among the passengers that landed at London-
bridge Wharf on Sunday (tom tint tinnerai Steam
Navigation Company's racket Sir Edward Banks,
Capt. D. Robinsnn, from Ostend

The new tariff is beginning already to make itS ins
fluences felt on the value of cattle, ti VOW Le
Spanish cattle were last week sold et
111 ithfield at a
good profit to the importott," is a fact over I\l9-thi
Post groans and grumbles. That itillAft Ad and
Mr. Gladstone were wrong iNheii they expressed their
belief that " not a ti0:•;k t would ever cross the Bay
0: Biscay,'' @v eit With a free trade in cattle,
lea Y4f
course by tins very fact been
, ,
proveth Mit Wliat
hen 1' If the , poorer else 0E Shall
be able to obtain felt* nltit at a MAO Ch64PO
iute, that inettkA ois being clepiVed 4 i
;LI qiffial
food from month to *MN wiii be able to
purchase it %Witt ti Witt, or even once, who will
regret that tllaclstone uttered a false prediction, or
that Ott bevy tariff of Sir Robert Peel has effected
even more good than he hoped for ? That the profits
of the English grazier are small, we admit. But
why are they so ? Because the rents of the land on
which he grazes them are too high. The Post knows
well where the shoe pinches ; and so it undertakes to
run down Spanish beef. But the real secret is this—
that to obtain good and cheap English beef, the rents
must come down, and the supporters of the Post
must diminish their luxuries to contribute to pro-
ving for other people's necessities. This neither suits
it nor them, and therefore a cry is heard of, " The
tariff of Sir Robert is injurious to the graziers." But
if it bring good beef, and plenty of it, to the poor
?nun's cottage, who will not rejoice to raise another
cry of " liuzza for the Tariff? '

SLAVERY IN TURKEY.
The following dispatch appears in " the Cor.
respondence with Foreign Powers relative to the Slave
Trade '."—
" VISCOUNT PONSONBT TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
" Therapia, Dec. 27. 1840.
"My Lord,—l have paid the greatest attention to
your Lordship's several instructions on the subject of
slavery in Turkey, with the hopes of arriving at some
result that would afford a chance of obtaining in any
degree the object your Lordship so earnestly desires
to accomplish. I have mentioned the subject, and I
have been heard with extreme astonishment, accom-
panied with a smile, at a proposition for destroying an
institution closely interwoven with the frame of so-
ciety in this country, and intimately connected with
the law and with the habits, and even the religion, of
al daises of the-people, from the Sultan himself down
to the lowest peasant.
" The Sultans, for some centuries past, have never
married, and the imperial race is perpetuated by
mothers who are sleiVes.

" In all other families slaves may be, and often are,
the mothers of legitimatised children, who are in all
respects as much esteemed tts those of legal wives.
" The admirals, the generals, the Ministers of State,
in gent psrt have been originally slaves. In most fa-
milies a slave elijoyt the highest degree of confidence
and influence with the head of the house.

execu-
tion It will be necessary to limit the law .of
" To carry what your Lordship desires into
to the etovVii and alter the policy that has so long
guided the Sultans in that respect, and also to change
fundamentally the political and civil institution' and
succession
laws and the domestic arrangements of the people.
Universal confusiOn would perhaps be the consequence
of such violent changes, and probably those person§
intended to be most benefited by them would be the
greatest sufferers.
" The slaves are generally well protected against
ill treatment by custom and the habits of the Turks,
and by the interests of masters and their religious
duty, and perhapt slaves in Turkey are not to be con-
sidered worse off than then everywhere else who are
placed by circumstances in a dependent situation;
whilst, on the other hand, they may attain, and con-
stantly do enjoy, the highest dignities, the greatest
poWer, and largest share of wealth of any persons in
the empire.
"I think that all attempts to effect your Lordship's
purpose will fail, and I fear they might give offence if
urged forwdrd with importunity. I was asked, What
would the English Govcrnment think of the Sublime
iloftti it it 'mai to call 1117011 the Sovereign of England
andlav
and
I°t Nolo Of trigland W alter the fundamental
fletheir country, and change its domestic habits
Gusto as in order to please the tastes of the Turks?'
~ ll could perceive, in spite of the good-humoured
olifibio§§ With iwhieh this question was asked, that
there was something Hite wounded feeling in the
speaker. •
he , " The Turks may believe us to be their superiors in
linilgarot:tr, and in arms; but they are very
wisdom or our morality greater
ft
ti Pram
sciences, in
ti
than their own.-4 have, &c.
"raNsosßY.
" The Rierht Hon. Viscount Palmerston, G.C,af

Isteottfilfol-Or VONlitig GRAIN. During yes-
terday and Satiirdayi eleati reuse's, some of them of
bit* tonnage, arrived in the river with cargoes of
wheat, loo„frotil (iriciti, halts; )Marseilles, Ancona,
Trieste, &c.-0/asgent eithltiOsi.
ti
The Society fur Promoting Christian Nfitiiiiedge
will hold their first monthly m6cti"' for the setigtP
to ,day, when the fly,:i Colonial liSliop recently I
Consecrated are etpected to take their leave.
At the Itito session of the Central Criminal Court,
a trial took places which tis particularly deserting of
notice; on ftenottrit of theluaicial leave to COMpetittliSs
with whidh 1 kterrniridte i beNirig Ldtii. *as indicted
for stealing fifty yards of woollen cipth, *Atm 4j./.,
the property of Nicholas Wrenolds, in his d.„Atilig:
house, The Jury convicted the prisoner. In Answer
to a question from the Court the prosecutor said the
loss would be very hurtful to him as he was a young
tradesman, The Common Sergeant then sentenced
here we ought to
the prisoner to ten years' transportation beyond the
seas. " But this I -will do," said the Judge,if poor
man, cause the property to be returned to this p
man, or the value of it, or any portion of it, I will ex-
ercise my poWer to procure a very considerable miti-
gation of your sentence; your modicum of punish-
ment, therefore, rests with yourself; for I cannot
help considering.that while §itting
entlf".alt9ur tQ 91)ti1111 riNtit%itiolli as Welt aki to mild
punishment"
• ,
LONDON AND P(M3I4 BAildWAY.'"It halt frequently
fallen td 'dilf ldt to feecifcl Sees of extortion, and
iii.diS iTlltiuttitly iilsiaficeg di`vetation and annoyance
by landthinierS against Railway Companies ; it isl
ti refdie; *jut pepnliar satiedetiOn tea notice AU
gt di' ,it sip difrefUni gliAfilSei On the Pia Of Sir
Enwarci Cholnaeley Dering, of Surrenden Dering,
lent. The Dover Railway Company found, on the
Opening of their line to Headcorn, that a material
difficulty would arise in enabling the Dover and
Ashford coaches to communicate with the station, in 1
consequence of the narrowness and bad state of a
parish road connecting the turnpike roads. The
difficulty could not be met either by sending the
traffic a considerable distance round, or by passing
through Surrenden Park. Sir Edward, on a repre-
sentation of the matter, most liberally granted per-
mission for the coaches to pass through his avenue
and park. It was a concession of no ordinary
character, as the road passes for upwards of a mile
through •the beautifully ornamented grounds, and
close to the ancient family mansion. This public
spirit is beyond all praise, and the name of Sir
Edward Dering will long be held in honourable re-
membrance for the noble example which he has set.
4 —Railway Times.