26 NOVEMBER 1853, Page 8

Our attention has been directed to the following correction of

our sur- mise, last week, on the subject of the Brevet: it occurs at the close of a letter by Colonel Thompson, in the Morning _Advertiser- " The respected editor of the Spectator appears to have fallen into a mis- conception, natural to one who does not readily assume the existence of evil. The complaint was not that a Brevet was made to stop invidiously at a cer- tain officer, but the much more substantial thing, that he was the first on the list of, in round numbers, a hundred and forty officers whose turn had come for promotion' and was left out. There is all the difference between stopping at the end of the first chapter of Genesis, and reading the second chapter with the omission of the first verse."