The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

LORD HILL AND THE ARMY.

We believe we can now state that the arrangements to
which we alluded last December, in respect to the retire-
ment of Lord Hill from the Horse Guards, and which
were contradicted by some Contemporaries, are on the
eve of being completed, and that the Gallant and esteemed
Nobleman will, shortly after Easter, resign his office
into the hands of Lieut.-General Sir George Murray;
Lieut.-General Sir Henry Hardinge will probably re-
move to the Ordnance Office. 14-i3,rranourcd that Lord
Fitzroy Somerset will succeed Sir Edward Blakeney in
the Command of the Troops in Ireland, or be appointed
Secretary-at-War, and Sir Broke Vere be Military Se-
oretary to the new Commander-in-Chief.

NuMerous other arrangements .are in contemplation,
including, we expect, the abolition of the Depot System.
To the Staff Appointments and Changes, given. with
our Military Intelhgence, we have to add that Major-
Generals Sir James Hope and Sir Richard Armstrong
are to be appointed to tho Staff in Canada.
Four regiments and the two battalions of Foot Guards
are ordered home from Canada.

The 29th and 86th Regiments will be replaced in
Ireland by, it is supposed, the Depots of the 75th, 77th,
and 95th Regiments, whose places at Chatham and
Sheerness will be temporarily taken by the corps ordered
for Foreign Service.—Narai and Military Gazette.

FARMERS AND THE INCOME-TAX

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
return you my thanks for the able and
fearless expression of your opinions respecting the
infamous plans of the present reckless Government of
our country, so fraught with design to upset and
destroy all that remains of the credit and indepen-
dence of the industrious millions of the middle classes
of society. I have no doubt, Sir,' a great majority of
those who were instrumental in carrying our worthy
representatives (Messrs. Wodehouse and Burrough,)
triumphantly to their seats in the House of Com-
mons, never doubted their integrity to maintain and
defend the interests of the farmers, the major part of
whom now shelter themselves beneath the odious
curse of being obliged to vote for their landlords, and
not for their own convictions of moral justice to
themselves or others. I believe, Mr. Editor, we have
scarcely a farmer (Whig, Tory, or Radical) who
does not repudiate the measures proposed by Sir
Robert Peel, as those calculated to do them serious
injury, without doing one atom of-good to those of
our countrymen, clamorous for repeal. Nor is there
scarcely one who does not exclaim for free trade, or
a fixed duty, that they may rest upon some certainty
and have a little idea of the extent to which they
may be rewarded for their capital, skill, and industry.
With regard to the proposed iniquitous, inquisitorial,
unfair, and abominable income tax, some foregoing
remarks may apply—we cordially hate the very sound
of it. I do not hesitate to say the inhabitants of
Norfolk are willing to be taxed in all due proportion
to uphold the dignity and st ttion of the British em-
pire. But the income tax is the last tax to which we
should resort to make up deficiency, unless in case of
direct necessity ; it is a tax hateful and loathsome.
John Bull is a tolerable quiet fool, who will bear
almost any imposition, but tax his independence, ex-
pose his circumstances, injure that which is dear to
him, his respectability and credit, and you make him
an inveterate enemy.
And what can we think of the worthy Members
who with such cool effrontery, betake themselves to
the iniscalled Peoples' House—sit, hear, mark, and
should learn the wise measures propounded for the
benefit of a great nation, in all the wisdom, in all the
magnanimity, and importance of place marching, arm
in arm, out of the House, without condescending to
vote either one way or other, ,or defending the
deluded fools who sent them there.
I would ask what proof dicl one Member give of
his superior knowledge and qualification to represent
a county, when, after twenty years' eicperience, he
proved himself unacquainted with the forms of the
House ? What splepdid proof did hs give of judg-
ment, when he moved for 2s. advance of duty upon
barley in defence of his dear friends, the farmers of
NOrfolk, dwindling his motion into—" That the Chair-
man do report progress, and obtain leave to sit again."
We must, Mr. Editor, take wider views of affairs,
we must return better men, banish the accursed name
of party, and unite in bonds of good fellowship, and_
truth, and justice, for the benefit of mankind generally
—we must strive to be " Great, glorious, and free."
Trade and commerce must be unshackled, but not at
the cost of utter ruin to the agriculturists. They
must first be freed, they mast have those bonds
and fetters broken in which they voted at the last
election for monopoly, taxation, and intolerance, then
will they show their natural independence, and shout
for free trade, still watchful over their own stations
and interests, and being fully pereuaded of acting for
the benefit of all, upholding themselves "A nation's
pride." In conclusion, I beg to express a lively hope.
that you will continue, unflinchingly (through the
medium of your valuable Journal), to expose the
treachery and deceit of those who so cruelly misre-
present and betray us. I am,. Sir, yours, &c.,
A CONSTANT READER.
Harleston, Norfolk, March 20, 1842.

THE CAPTAIN'S BOAT.

" Tell it to the Marines." &c.

Captain Berkeley says that Mr. Elton, in asking
Captain Williams for his boat, took upon himself to
do that which all naval officers (qy. captains) knew to
be one of the greatest pieces of impertinence that
could be' committed. Again, the Gallant Captain
says, the captain's boat was as much to him as the
Duke of Wellington's charger was standing at the
door—( a laugh, and well might they laugh)—and it
would. be just, as allowable for an officer of the army
to ask the Duke for the loan of his charger, as for
the mid to ask for the captain's boat. Be it, there-
fore, known that captains see things through a dif-
ferent medium to other people, and I am one of those
naval officers who presume (being on half-pay, not to
acquiesce in the similitude of the Gallant Captain.
For these reasons the captain's boat is like all the
other ships boats, the property of the Crown ; they
are repaired and painted by the. Crown, and in the
event of the boat being rendered' useless by becom-
ing leaky or worn out, another is supplied by the
dockyard on demand by the captain. Again—How
often does the captain lend his boat to his own im-
mediate friends, for hours together, so that they may
visit the ships of war, yachts, dockyard, gunwharf,
and the other naval establishments, lending, of course,
the boat's crew, and generally a mid, who are kept for
the greater part of the day pulling them about the
harbour. Is the Duke's charger ever employed in
like manner? Again, the captain's boat is daily
despatched to bring the captain's soft-back-milk,
butter, and eggs for breakfast, and divers other ser-
vices, which I could easily enumerate, not always
of so reputable a nature. It is well known that the
moment a captain is appointed to command a ship, his
mouth is ever full of my ship—my lieutenants—my
doctor—my purser—my marine officer—my mid-
shipmen—but not my master ; for he is styled, par
excellence, the master of the Victory. I have been in
the navy upwards of thirty-five years, and, thank
God, have sailed with captains who have never hesi-
tated to allow their officers occasionally to take a pas-
sage in their boat when going to or from the ship,
and again others who thought it highly derogatory to'
them to allow any one beneath that rank to have a
seat in her. How often have I seen the boat return
to the ship, and on one of the officers wishing to get
off to the ship, and obliged to hire a shore-boat, cost-
_ ing him nearly a days pay, to get on board. After
reading the dignified speeches of the Captains B. and
R. on the case of Mr. Elton, I; cannot help being re-
minded of the old story of the cook, who, when he
was about-being tried by a court-martial, was asked
what he thought his sentence would be ? he. replied,
" I don't know ; but if I was tried. by-elury of cooks
I know very well what it would be. Query. What
would have been the sentence of Mr.' Elton had he
been tried by the mids. ? Your constant reader,
BLUE JACKET'.
o-Alan's-Land, 20th March, 1842.