The Morning Advertiser gives voice to some disappointment at the
in- definite postponement of a brevet promotion in the Army. The allusion seems to intimate more than meets the eye ; at all events it reminds us, that on the occasion of a former brevet, the promotion stopped short at a point which seemed to teach the lesson, that an officer in the Army, who bad the misfortune to be a Member of the House of Commons, must exer- cise an independent vote at his own peril and cost. .And the injustice of that day, the disgrace of a Whig Government, never yet repaired, is still to remain.
"Announced in our journal, while doubts still hung over the subject, the Brevet is put off sine die. This to many military men will be a severe dis- appointment; but they must refer the result to the right causes. If the military department insists on making a display of independence, of the civil administration, and lays itself open to the charge of avenging votes in Par- liament opposed to the peculiar conservatism of its conductors, it is not to be wondered that the civil portion of the Government should do as our fathers did with arbitrary power in the hands of Kings, and make use of the power of the purse when they have it. If military men, who are the suffer- ers on the present occasion, would calculate what from the beginning was likely to be gained and lost by such a process, they would hardly be found among the partisans of what has led to the present misfortune."
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