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in childishness ; or whether,

he is planning a new cons
ently admitted to his cc

WAR MINISTER, unskilled in
donned the habiliments and assumed the .bravery of
a Militia Colonel, and went with Prince ALBERT to

the duties of his office

in hope of picking up some

of " the art

Sir JAMES GRAHAM

g himself into a belief of duty done by a
m of the Dock-yards, where he found
sad surprise him. Among the

Dt a little both to de

3 with

ast acquainted in thus,

C it is

abuses of

'er cut

the Knight of Netherby was

greatly surprised to find most of them swarming with
land and water rats of the unmistakeable Cumberland-

gray SD,

I most of them sounding the Carlisle not

sness which quite disgusted

the First Lord ! Puzzled to account for the singular
invasion, and chagrined at its magnitude, the " bold
borderer" has betaken himself to inditing impertinent
notes in answer to intrusive correspondents, who, believing
that the Right Hon. Baronet is better acquainted with
other subjects than those which are wont to constitute
the commercial toast of this favoured land, " Ships,
Colonies, and Commerce," favour him with an intimation
as to how ship-building is carried on in Russia. In these
notes he is understood to emulate the pithy tartness of those

received, and P

Y is cashiered, but al

) allowed to re-

taro the money value of his commission. Let me

inverted pyramid of punishment and

make sure it does not topple

PERRY

hich the man he says he wrote it to says he
—therefore PERRY has told a falsehood,
I the service ; GREER has been convicted

aever received•

Indnct which the COMMANDER-IN-CIIIEF stilt

his power of maintainin

'son who does not shrink from ti

age is unfit to pre

social equality in a reg'

sent among his bro

and for deporting himself in a manner to warrant these
strong terms of reprobation, he is advised to sell his
says Lord

commission and quit the service

WALDN

Lppears to be a weak

of the clat

of a rigid adherence to

In another place his 1

of this subaltern, says, "As a witness on oath, before the
t-Martial, he denied or forgets that he had written

a letter," adding, " even if he did forget, h

man of weak and gossiping habits, and of insensibility to

the duty of adhering to truth, is to be " severely repri-
manded, and cautioned, for the rest of his life, to adhere
strictly to the truth." From this, it appears clearly
enough, that the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, whether he
believe that the Ethiopean cannot change his skin, or the
leopard his spots, or not, has a large credulity in reference
to the mendacious habits of Lieutenant WALDY ! The
gentlemen composing Courts-Martial as well as the Com-
MANDEE-IN-CHIEF, and most of the officers of the 46th
regiment, seem deeply imbued with a belief in respect of
military peccadilloes, that

In such a time as this. it is not meet
That every nice offence should bear its comment

The nicety of the offence consisting in the use of language
" disgusting and disgraceful," and the adoption towards
each other of practices more disgraceful and more disgust-
ing. 7, After all, however, it is possible that I may have
entirely misapprehended the meaning of Lord HARDINGE,
and that that gallant and noble veteran may mean
to imply that the severest punishment he could inflict
on the " weak gossipping young man," insensible
to the duty of adhering to truth, was to continue

his associations with those officers whose conveni-
ence of memory will be a perpetual foil to his in-
sensibility ; and whose grossness of behaviour may
be a continual reproach of that squeamishness which led
to WALDT'S adoption of a " lie with a circumstance," in-
stead of falling back upon the paltry equivocation. From
one end of the country to the other, society denounces the
practices unfolded by that inquiry, and condemns the pro-
ceedings as contradictory of the first principles of justice,
and subversive of the laws of social order. For the first
time in our military history, the conduct proved to have
been general among the officers of the 46th, has compelled
the public to admit that there may be a wide difference
between the conduct of an officer, and that of a gentleman.
Such a stigma cannot be permitted to remain in connex-
ion with the service—the military profession owes it to
itself to:wipe out so foul a stain ; and without doubt the
earliest opportunity will be seized on by its members to
set themselves right by a searching Parliamentary inves-
tigation. As the matter now stands, it is established that
a sublaltern, if insulted in the grossest manner, can have