The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-26 00:00:00

distressed and discontented. Whenevor she
learns that they are so, we feel confident that
the monopolists will not dare to thwart her ardent
desires to see her throne based on the happiness
of the people.

While Colonel the Earl of CARDIGAN, his
courts-martial and black bottles, are still fresh
in public recollection, a case has occurred in
the Navy, which shows that both services are
alike in the tyranny of the superiors, and the
oppression of the subalterns.

Mr. ELTOR was a midshipman of her Majesty's
ship Cambridge. While lying off Beyrout last
July, a friend of his, Mr. BAQOT CREWE REID,
a gentleman of fortune, travelling-in Syria, came
on board the Cambridge to visit him. By an
over-sight, very common after dinner, the means
of conveying Mr. REID to the shore were over-
looked, and at an advanced period of the evening
it was discovered that no boat had been sent for
him, and he was to leave Beyrout for the interior
on the following morning.

In this dilemma, it happened that a Captain
WILLIAMS, of the Stromboli, with whom Mr.
ELTON had served, was dining on board the
Cambridge, and his vessel was lying between
the Cambridge and the shore. Mr. ELTON ac-
cordingly addressed a respectful note to Cap-
tain WILLIAMS, requesting him to allow his boat,
after putting him on board his own ship, to con-
vey Mr. ELTON'S friend to Beyrout. To this
note Captain WILLIAMS did not deign to return
an answer.

Nettled at this contemptuous treatment, Mr.
ELTON wrote an improper letter to Captain
WILLIAMS, describing his conduct as " un-
courteous and ungentlernatilike," and saying
that " Captain WILLIAMS screened himself un-
der his rank to offer an insult which he would
not dare to do were Mr. ELTON not his junior
officer."

Mr. ELTON soon became sensible of his error,
and on the first opportunity wrote a humble
apology to Captain WILLIAMS. That did not
suffice; he was, in November last, tried by a
Court-martial at Malta, Rear-Admiral Sir JOHN
Louis, President, and was found guilty of treat-
ing his superior officer with disrespect, and of
provoking him to quarrel. He was sentenced to
be dismissed the naval service, and on his arrival
in England to be imprisoned six months in some
one of her Majesty's gaols. Mr. ELTON was
subsequently confined for twenty-five days on
board the Howe, and then sent as a prisoner to
Gibraltar and England. Such are the facts of
the case. They suggest one or two reflections.
The offence was committed by an inferior to
a superior; the Court was wholly composed of
superior officers, There was, at least, suspicion
of partiality. The offence was brought under a
vague article of war, which means whatever
superiors choose to make it mean. Hence a
suspicion of injustice. The punishment is severe,
unusual, and most degrading; whence we infer,
either that insubordination is becoming rife, or
that the CARDIGAN race is multiplying in the
Navy as well as the Army. Of the individuals
who composed the Court-martial we know no-
thing; but the system which banishes a youth
from the service, and sends him to gaol for such
a trifling breach of discipline, which Captain
WILLIAMS might have put in his pocket, and
nobody would have known that it had been com-
mitted—which enables malice and malignity to
find their gratification by the aid of the law, is
thoroughly bad. This case, and that of the Earl
of CARDIGAN, show that the rules and regulations
of both services must be reformed, or they will
breed up nothing but hideous tyrants and de-
crepid slaves.

That most sprightly and most fascinating of
Royal widowers and wooers, the youthful ER-
NEST of Hanover, who so very recently entombed
none of the least fragile of help-mates, is re-
ported in the French papers to have signified his
intention pf .rerinvestiog_ himself with th.silken
bands of Hymen. The fair damsel whose charms
have made a conquest of the susceptible heart of
the " meek-eyed" Monarch of Hanover, is Princess
CAROLINE of the illustrious house of Hesse-Cas-
sel, who, if the Royal almanacks speak true, gra-
ciously deigned to be born on the 23d of April,
1786. The Royal bride-elect is not, therefore
what housewives would call quite a pullet, albeit
sufficiently tender at fifty-six for the embraces
of an amorous swain, who first saw the light on
the sth of June, 1771. Upon such nuptials we
leave the Royal Court chaplains to invoke a
benediction. Its sanctification will be one of
Heaven's greatest miracles.

The French Journals have been duly received.
There was a smart debate in the Chamber of De-
puties, on Saturday, on the right of search ques-
tion, which arose out ofthe following amendment,
upon the fourth paragraph ofthe address, proposed
by M. BILLAULT
The prudence of tho Government ensures to us also
that in the arrangements relative to the suppression of
a guilty traffic, your Government will carefully shelter
from every attack the legitimate interests of our mari-
time commerce, and the complete independence of our flag.
The Hon. Deputy stated that-this amendment
referred to the right of search claimed by Bri-
tish ambition, and in his opinion needlessly and
foolishly guaranteed by a late Treaty. It was,
he said, a fatal blow to French commerce, to
the French navy, and to the national dignity of
France. He was for putting down the Slave-
trade, but certainly not at the expense of the
flag of France. He proceeded to praise the
firmness of the United States Government,
which he maintained would find imitators
were England to presume to treat the French
flag as she did that of Spain. M. GUIzOT
defended the right of mutual search, in-
asmuch as the Slave-trade being piracy, there
was no other way to put it down. M. DUPIN
said that no person in the Chamber was an advo-
cate for the Slave-trade, but France could not,
and would not submit to aright of search which it
was clear would be enforced by England, with a
view to promote her own interests. The discus-
sion, on the motion of M. BOWYER, the Royalist
Deputy, was adjourned over till Monday.
The French journal La Mode was seized at the
post-office on Saturday.
Everybody in Paris is trying to guess what
keeps M. LAMARTINE SO long silent. (Last year
he gave the Chamber no peace on the address
about the Eastern question. This year he leaves
whoever pleases to look after the Holy Land.
How is this ? Even the outcry about the ap-
pointment of a Protestant Bishop to the See of
Jerusalem does not disturb the marvellous re-
pose of the modern Bard of Sion. M. LAMAR-
TINE has been at the Tuileries once or twice this
season, and marvellous, indeed, is the oblivious
potency of the wines imbibed at the Royal table.
We read in the report of Captain Grenot, of the GUa.ti-
mozin, which has arrived in the river of Bordeaux from
Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, from which place he
sailed on the 4th November, the following particulars:—
" I left those unhappy countries more engaged in war
than ever. A few days before I left Buenos Ayres the
troops of Rosas, commanded by Oribes, had routed those
of the provinces commanded by Lamarid. The Dictator
was preparing to send his army into the territory of the
Oriental Republic, in order to besiege Monte Video, and
to reinstate his friend Oribes in the post of President.
There is every reason to believe that Monte Video is ac-
tually besieged by the Argentine army, for the French
thoThGea
would not now take arms to assist the city.
" Each of the two Republics has just added another
ship to its squadron, thus their relative force remains the
same as before."
' imprisonment, and a
fine of 2,000 francs, for giving an unfaithful report of
TzertitbeuAnuallwortf Re itooma
mhaosnLoeem,ne.d the editor, of
one of the sittings of the Tribunal. In the first instance
the condemnation was restricted to 2,000 francs fine.
Tho Court deciding against the appeal of the editor, and
on that of the public prosecutor, a minima added to the
original sentence, a month's imprisonment.—.Comnierce.
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