The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-06 00:00:00

can ; Lieutenant H. Boy e, 22d Native Infantry, was
appointed an Assistant in the Deccan Survey, under
Lieut. Nash; Capt. G. S. Brown, 16th Native Infantry,
•is appointed Commissariat Agent at Bhooj ; Col. Sir
George Arthur, Bart., K.C.H., has been appointed by •
the Hon. Court of Directors to the office of Governor of
Bombay and its Dependencies; Capt. Frederick L.
Arther, her Majesty's 4th, or King's Own Regiment, to
be Military Secretary; Capt. the Hon. Charles West,
21st Fusiliers, and Lieut. C. C. Domvile, her Majesty's
85th Light Infantry, to be Aides-de-Camp; Lieut. George
D'Arcy, her •Majesty's 94th Regiment, to be Acting
Aide-de-Camp; Assistant-Surgeon T. Young is attached
to do duty with the 2d battalion of Artillery; Assistant-
Surgeon H. Glasse, Vaccinator in the Deccan; Assistant-
-Surgeon Jephson, M.D., Civil Surgeon at Broach ;
Lieut. E. B. Eastwick has been placed at the disposal
of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief for military
duty ; Ensign G. 0. M'Neill, at present. doing; duty
with the 19th Native Infantry, is removed to do duty
with the 23d Native Light Infantry.
RANKED AND POSTED.—James Richard Swinton, rank
as Ensign, and appointed to the 34 Native Infantry;
John.Deen Simson, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the
Gth Native Infantry; Lieut. R. Douglas is posted to the
2d Troop Horse Brigade; Anthony Charles Romer, rank
as Second Lieutenant, and appointed to the Regiment of
Artillery; Murray Haig, rank as Ensign, and appointed
to the 24th Native Infantry; David Irving, rank as En-
sign, and appointed to the 17th NaLive Infantry ; Mi-
chael George Head, rank as Ensign, and appointed to
the 24th Native Infantry; Robert Palmer Warden, rank
as Ensign, and appointed to the 16th Native Infantry ;
John Cruickshank, rank as Ensign, and appointed to the
2d European Light Infantry.
ATTACllED—Assistant-SUrgeon W. Campbell, M.D.,
is attached to the 2d Battalion, Artillery, in Fort
George Barracks ; Assistant-Surgeon J. Behan is at-
tached to the left wing of the 2d European Light In-
fantry, at Colabah ; Cadet C. T. Patin is attached to
2d Grenadier Native Infantry ; Cadet G. 0. M'Neill,
ditto, to 19th Native Infantry ; Cadet W. M. S. Bolton,
ditto, to 2d Grenadier Native Infantry ; Cadet Soppitt,
ditto, to Ist European Regiment.
RESIGNATIONS—Capt. H. Bart,
,6th Native Infantry ;
Captain R. Farquhar, ditto ; Lieut. C. Podmore, ditto ;
Lieut. B. H. Combe, sth Light Cavalry.
CASUALTIES—Lieut. H. P. H. Hockin, 6th Native In-
fantry, died. Lieut. G. Skottowe, 3d Native Infantry,
ditto. Lieut. 'l'. G. M'l)onnell, Artillery, ditto, on oth
May. Capt. Knipe, 17th Native Infantry, ditto, on ditto.
Lieut. Stone, 24th Native Infantry, ditto, on 12th ditto.
Bt. Capt. Dallas, 2d Light Infantry, ditto, on 18th ditto.
Ensign Raikes, 16th Native Infantry, ditto, on 21st ditto.
Ensign Madden, 2d European Light Infantry, ditto, on
30th ditto. Lieut. W. Baird, her Majesty's 17th ditto,
on 29th ditto.

FURLOUGH—Ensign F. Levien, 15th Native Infantry,
for three years to London ; Assistant-Surgeon W. W.
Pigou, for one year, to proceed to sea.

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.

THURSDAY.— The writ arrived on Tuesday afternoon,
and was immediately proclaimed. The_ nomination is
fixed for Saturday, and the polling for Monday next.
The Tory candidates, Mr. Humphrey, Sir John Mild-
may, and Mr. Hope, the expelled from Weymouth, com-
menced their canvass on Tuesday afternoon. They have
not met the electors publicly, nor do they intend to do
so. Mr. G. Thompson arrived on Tuesday evening, and
addressed a very crowded meeting at Andrew's Bazaar
immediately afterwards. He was received with the
greatest enthusiasm, and a resolution, pledging the meet-
ing to support him as a candidate on the Liberal interest,
was carried by acclamation. Mr. Thompson commenced
his canvass yesterday morning.
Lord Nugent, the second Liberal candidate, arrived
by the six o'clock train last evening, accompanied by Sir
John Easthope, 'Bart. An announcement was imme-
diately made that both candidates would address the
inhabitants from the window of their Committee-room at
seven o'clock. An immense crowd speedily assembled.
Sir J. EASTHOPE presented himself at the window, and
was loudly cheered. He said he had now the pleasure
of introducing to them, as one of the candidates for the
borough, his Noble Friend, Lord Nugent—a man whom
he had long known, a man known to the world as the
friend ofliberty, and the hater of corruption—(Cheers)—
no friend to taxation, no tool of the Government, but one
admirably adapted to represent the town of Southamp-
ton. He could not do better than introduce to their no-
tice his Noble Friend, Lord Nugent.—(Cheers.)
Lord NUGENT 'then came forward, and was received
with cheering. He said, by a deputation which arrived
that morning in London, he had been encouraged to
stand forward amongst them, not for the purpose of so-
liciting their support on his own behalf, but of claiming
i: because of those principles which he had always held.-
—(Cheers.) He was the irreconcileable enemy of cor-
ruption, of intimidation, and of anything that trenched
on those principles, under the guidance of which the
British constitution had vested the representation of the
people in the people's hands.—(Cheers.) He entered
Parliament during one great struggle in behalf of reli-
gious liberty—the struggle for the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts—which was succeeded by the repeal
of the laws affecting the Roman Catholics. He
contended that man had nothing politically to do
with the manner in which his fellow man ap-
proaches the throne of the Creator.—(Hear, hear.)
He did not say that the Reform Bill of Lardl Grey
was to be the be-all and end-all of Parliamentary
i representation.—(Cheers,) Ile had always been the
enemy of monopoly and the friend of free trade. His
Lordship expressed his opinions on this subject at seine
length, and then continued—Now, the evening was
coining on, and were lie to detail the conduct of his pest
life, and the hopes of the future, it would detain them
much longer than he sho.dd be in any way justified in
doing. Besides, in such a large a-sulubly he could not
answer questions so fully as he would wish to do, and he
would wake it his business to see as many of the elec-
tors as the time between that and tae day of election
would allow, and answer whatever questions they might
propose to him, when he should be able to descend from
generalities to particulars. If they should approve of
the principles he proposed, he hoped they would give
him their support, and if they disapproved of them, then
let them give their votes to some one whose principle
they agreed with.—(Cheers.)
Mr. YOUNG, a Chartist, then asked the Noble Lord if
he 4vould support the six points of the Charter ?
Lord NUGENT, in reply to the question put, said he
was for a very considerable further extension of the
suffrage ; he was for household suffrage, but he was not,
as society is at present composed, for universal suffrage.
He would support the ballot, as he had done for many
years.—(Cheers.) He was for considerably shortening
the duration of Parliaments ; he would vote far triennial
Parliaments ; but he was against annual Parliaments.
He was decidedly opposed to the property qualification
of Members of .Parliament, because he believed it to be
a very imperfect test either of wisdom or integrity. He
had not any objection to Members of Parliament being
paid for their fair services, but not in the way of hire or
corruption.—(Cheers.) And lastly, he saw no sort of
objection to equal electoral districts, but he held that to
be a question of arrangement and detail, subservient to
the great one of fair and equal representation ; he would
give no pledge on the subject, but would go the
straightest way, in his opinion, that might be proposed,
to the great object he had in view—full, fair, equal, and
pure representation.—(Cheers.)
A CHARTIST in the crowd nut some further questions
relative to the views of the Noble Lord on Universal
Suffrage, in reply to which his Lordship said he would
take the payment of direct taxes as a test of qualification
for the franchise, because at present he knew no better.
GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., then presented himself at
the window, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheering.
He-regretted that it was not in his power to address that
audience as fully as the importance of the subject de-
manded. The circumstances of their town at this mo-
ment yere most peculiar. There had never devolved on
an English constituency a more solemn duty than that of
the electors of Southampton at the present crisis.—
(Hear, hear.) They had a character to redeem, an ex
ample to set, a great crime to bring under public execra-
tion. They had their owse sins to atone for—(Cheers)—
and they were called on how, in the language of the
Baptist, "to bring forth fruits meet for repentance." It
was a doctrine of his that it was never too soon to leave
eff doing wrong, and the best way was to leave off alto-
gether. Therefore he was determined, if they had any-
thing to do with him, that they should have nothing to
do with corruption—that he would nut spend a penny
beyond the legal and necessary expenses of that election
that he would not give away a drop or beer, not a dr.')
of ardent spirits, nor a morsel of bread, as an induce-
ment to obtain the votes of the inhabitants of this town.
—(Cheers.) He offered them neither meat, drink, silver,
nor gold, but he set before them great principles, and
gave them an opportunity of approving, adopting, and
carrying them into practice. He had told them by what
motives alone he was influenced in asking them to send
him to the House of Commons; and that if lie were re-
turned lie should express not merely the opinions of the
particular number of men by whose votes he got there,
nor the opinions merely of the inhabitants of the town he
represented, but the public opinion of this country on
those measures vital to the prosperity of the country.
This was his only claim to their consideration. He told
them that lie was the enemy of all monopoly, eccle-
siastical monopoly, the monopoly of political power,
monopoly in commerce and trade, and above all, the mo-
nopoly of the land of this country and of its fruits. Ile
execrated the Corn-laws, and he believed the existence
of those laws was the greatest impediment in the way of
the extension of the suffrage.—(Cheers.) He was
happy- that he did not stand alone as , a candidate for
their suffrages.—(Cheers.) He was delighted with the
address of the Noble Lord. They should accept with
thanks what the Noble Lord was willing to labour to ob-
tain fur them. In the peculiar circumstances of their
town, they should not reject one whose heart inclined to
give them full justice, whose understanding was free from
prejudice, whose motives were clear from corruption,
who was the friend of the people, and who, though one
of a class of society above them, yet had cern° down to
link himself with the people, to make common cause with
them, and determined to fight their battle.—(Cheers.)
He was less anxious about the result of this election than
the character of the electors. He conjured them, as they
loved their interests, and desired to witness their tri-
umph, to determine that this election on their side should
be distinguished by peacefulness, intelligence, forbear-
ance, and forgiveness, while at the same time they abated
not one jot pr tittle of their principles, to court the
smile or win the gold of any one who might be in the
town.' He would indulge in no personalities towards
his opponents, but he was glad that there was this dif-
ference between them—that while they courted atten-
tion, and provoked as it were the electors to catechise
them, studied silence, almost invisibility, attached to their
opponents, and it was impossible to come at their spe-
cific views.—(Cheers.) After some further avowal of
his sentiments on the Corn monopoly, Mr. Thompson
retired amidst great cheering.
Sir JOHN EASTHOPE then again addressed the crowd,
and called on them to be firm and determined in the