The Sun. — 1862-05-22 (London, England)

CAMBRIDGE. During the rule of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE at the Horse Guards it has become a simple matter of fact  that, for the most part, her MAJESTY'S Forces have been thoroughly reorganised. In almost every department a more judicious system has been introduced, Infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, commissariat—all ranks and sections of  the army have been subjected to a searching scrutiny and a resolute revision. It has been thus simply  from sheer forne. of rirnnwotauves, Tho age required it. The frightful calamities that befell our army during the last great war demonstrated its absolute necessity. But, granting all this, it is to  the credit of his Royal Highness that, from first to  last, he hasTstrentioasly endeavoured to forward,  instead of (as many in his place would probably have done) retarding this vast reformatory move ment throughout every portion of our military  system.  Strange to say, however, while all this has been happily accomplished—while the Army has, in a manner, been reconstructed throughout—there have been startling incidents of a very deplorable kind of late years, incidents evidencing in a lamentable manner a very serious and, at the same time, a very mysterious relaxation or violation of discipline.  Frightful murders here and there in the barrackyards. Disgraceful scenes of insult and time and again in the officers' quarters. Incidents these, of course restricted to two or three strangely illstarred regiments. But incidents that—while, of course, exceptional themselves—have dismayed the community at large, particularly of  late by th 9 frequency of their occurrence. The attention of the Legislature, in fact, became imperatively directed at last to the subject of the Military Murders, with a view if possible to the discovery of some more effectual means for their prevention than those already supplied by the law. The attention of the General Commanding -inChief, of the Judge Advocate-General, of the QUEEN herself, has each in turn, have all simultaneously, been directed on the other hand—particularly of late—to the recurrence among the officers, now in this regiment, now in that, of contentions resulting in conduct more or less unbecoming the position of the offenders in society as Officers and as Gentlemen. There was that monster court-mar tial recently in regard to Captain ROBERTSON and his brother (!) officers in the 4th Dragoons. A oourt-martial upon which we have commented at length before now in the columns of The Sun, and which court-martial, it will ho remembered, trine() only the other day so very satisfactorily. Well, and now Again there is another courtmartial which began sitting only yesterday (also, like the last, at Dublin), in respect to the con(het of an officer in the Eleventh Hussars. The charges in the instance here referred to being directed against Mr. PAUL ANTHONY, the veterin ary surgeon of that regiment in the words subjoined :  "For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, and to the prejudice of good order and disc'pline, in the following instances:— " Firat Instance.—ln having grossly and publicly insulted Cornet Delacour, of the 11th Hussars, on the night of the 29th April, by calling him ' a liar and a cur,' or words to that effect.  " Second Instance.—ln having, at or about the same time and place abeve mentioned, grossly and publicly insulted Cornet Delacour, of the 11th Hussars, by striking him a blow on the face.  Whatever else may come of this new inquiry, we may rest satisfied at once that the individual affected by it will have dealt out to him a full meed of justice. The sentence of the court will be duly revised by H.R.H. the General Commanding-inChief, and will be finally submitted by the Judge Advocate to the QUEEN for her MAJESTY'S approval and confirmation. For the meting out of that jastice, however, we certainly cannot but wish that there were fewer opportunities.  Since we took the liberty to recommend Mr. GLADSToNE's moral eloquence at Manchester to the sermons seems to have attraeted no little newspaper notice of our parish sermon makers, the subject of _ attention, We do not wonder at it. To hear one  his most strenuous effort to bend, to the required tension for the sinewy cord, the giant bow of