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THE INDIAN ARMY.* The writer of a recent...
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THE NATIONAL GALLERY. (To the Editor of ...
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TWINKLE - CRAFTS. (Zb the Editor of ike ...
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An Irritable Spaniard.—The anniversary o...
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Progress Of Police Rule. When Mr. Arnold...
p laefe at th * spot , and that the words which he lined were , "I deny having taken out my staff at all . " It is reuaarkable , however , that he s & ould have made any allusions to his staff at the moment ; and whether the man has been identified or not , there appears to be no doubfc that the young lady was struck in a dastardly manner , without the slightest warrant or necessity , man of the police force . t
It is very difficult to idenify a man among a troop dressed in uniform and drawn up in a formal attitude . It is nearly as difficult for the unpractised eye to detect a common soldier in line as it is to identify a particular sheep in a flock ; although the sergeant or the shepherd may know every individual apart . There seems much reason to suppose that the officers and comrades of the police do not afford all the facilities for idenification in eases of the kind . Some time previously , two gentlemen were roughly handled by the police in Blackfriars-road , under circumstances which made it difficult for the
gentlemen to prosecute redress ; and the case was suffered to drop . We have heard of other instances in which people have been injured , but have failed in identifying their assailant . It is possible that further evidence may be produced in the present case ; but the magistrate at Bow-street office , instead of adjourning the inquiry , dismissed the case on account of the incomplete state of the evidence . This appears to be a very hasty decision .
It will be remembered that Mr . AunoI / d ' s published pamphlet was mainly intended to show that the stipendiary magistrates of the metropolis , who are really judges , depend for their position on the Home Secretary . Two members of the police bench have been dismissed ; and we are not aware that any public explanation of that dismissal has been given . It is possible , that the Executive may become prosecutor before one of these judges , who depends for his rank and stipend upon that same Executive , and who can be removed without address from Parliament . In the recent instance the Executive , in the person of the policeman , was the defendant ; and a primd facie case was dismissed because the evidence
at the first hearing was incomplete . Ihe injury to the subject , the arbitrary and tyrannical conduct of the police , are as remarkable as the haste of the magistrate in this
deci-. Among the objects of the bill to reform the City of London , is the substitution of Stipendiary magistrates in that important district for Aldermen . The purport of that bill , therefore , is to extend the system in which the magistracy administering police justice are dependent upon the Homo Office .
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The Indian Army.* The Writer Of A Recent...
THE INDIAN ARMY . * The writer of a recent pamphlet on the new rules for promotion in the Indian Army , comments not too dispassionately on certain changes lately introduced into the Company ' s military system , partly in accordance with the system now obtaining in the Hoyal Army . That he and his clients have some cause for complaint , may at onco be allowed ; but wo
cannot say that his statement of their grievances is either clearly put , or discussed - with the needful calmness . Beginning with a fierce onslaught on the Court of Directors , he goes on to . show that they have had very little to do "with the mischievous results of which lae -complains so bitterly . They , for their part , ordered all for the best : their good intentions being really balked by tho Governor General , who seems to have some-** Review of the New Rules for Promotion in tho * ndian Army . Madras : Athonuoum Press .
times misread , sometimes narrowed , the purport of the orders sent out from home . The main grievance lies in the rule making promotion to a Colonelcy depend on actual service as a Regimental Lieutenant-Coionel ; three years being the term of that service , exclusive of absence in Europe on sick leave or furlough . The Iiieutenant-Colonel must have served for that time either with his
regiment or on some command equivalent to regimental duty . This rule falls hard on a large number of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonels , and on officers disabled by sickness , or absent at the critical time from duties which they had been faithfully discharging for years before . If specified service be a needful passport to promotion in the higher ranks , it
should be limited to no particular period . And officers who have won their way to brevet rank should not be superseded at a time when rank becomes most precious by those who have risen in the usual way . It is true the brevet Lieutenant Colonels may rise a step after six years' service ; but even that is a difference of three years too much .
So far we cannot but agree with the writer , and we trust that the Court of Directors will rectify a blunder for which there was no warrant in the example of the Horse Guards . To another of their new rules we have less objection to offer ; none at all on the ground taken by the pamphleteer . A rule that limits the holding of staff appointments to five years , with power to reconfer them on the part of the local government , seems fair enough , as long as the Stqffi ' remains undetachedfrom the Regimental Roster . The injustice here lies , not in giving all officers a fairer chance than
before of staff service , but in keeping regiments at half strength to supply a service which should be as separate as the Artillery or the Commissariat . Both the Hegiment and the Staff would be bettered by a severance of the ties which now link them as fatally as the two brothers were linked in the story , of whom each in his turn was sure to be suffering when the other was well and prosperous . Meanwhile the five years' limit will enable the Government to get rid of bad bargains and retain the good ; a power which it has hitherto been chary of wielding .
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EflRATA . —In . last week ' s paper , p . 414 , ool . ! i , lino 4 , for " tho Protocols" read "this Protocol" ( i . e ., No . 22 , April 8 th , mentioned just before ) . —In the account of " Tho Public Proclamation of Peace in London , " the part in small type should have been acknowledged as quoted from , tho 'Nmes .
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There is no learned man bub will confess he hath much profited b y reading controversies , hia senses awakened , and his judgment sharpenod . If , then , it be profitable for him to rend , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hia adversary to write . —Mii / tom
The National Gallery. (To The Editor Of ...
THE NATIONAL GALLERY . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ' ) Kemp torn . SiK )—it is to be desired that tho authorities at tho National Gallery will apply unwontedly mild treatment to their fragment of " wall painting" by Giotto ; as , a day or two before the salo of Mr . Rogers'a pictures took place , I was informed , by one of the attendants in the auction-room , that it -was safely deposited in a dark corner , and could not bo moved , because it was "falling to pieces I " From this I infer , that the beautiful picture of Puck . — Shakspearo illustrated by Reynolds—is not , as yet , in a sufficiently mellow condition for the connoisseurs at fho National Gallery . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , WlLMAM CONINQHAM .
Twinkle - Crafts. (Zb The Editor Of Ike ...
TWINKLE - CRAFTS . ( Zb the Editor of ike Leader . '} May 3 , J . 856 . Sir , —Moore has preserved , and ( in your last number ) you have advertised , by quotation , a fair mot for which Canning has tho credit . When asked what was German for astronomy , he answered twinklecraft—not knowing the language . I agree with you that this ignorance of the language is the beauty of the thing . Archdeacon Hare ( I believe ) translated penetrability of matter into thorougfyaresomeness of stuff - —Germanizing . But then he did know German . The answer of Canning is no specimen of his ingenuity at all . On the contrary , read Henshawe for Miller , and it is a Jo . of that ilk . The Rev . James Henshawe , of Brazennose College , was fond of showing liis Anglo-Saxon learning , of which we are able to judge , at the present moment , by his edition of the Durham Book . In this , the Anglo-Saxon for the Magi is tunglu-crceftige . Upon this text Mr . Henshawe was fond of enlarging , and got , from his love of doing so , the nickname of twinkle-crafty , or twinkle-craft , inasmuch as he always spoke of Magi , the Wise Men of the East , and Astronomers in general , as the Twinkle-crafty Men . This nickname of Mr . H . was known all over Oxford when Canning was an under-graduate . The same Mr . Henshawe invented the obstando promoves corkscrew . He is an historical character and attacked Home Tooke on his deficiencies in Anglo-Saxon . T ,.
An Irritable Spaniard.—The Anniversary O...
An Irritable Spaniard . —The anniversary of the insurrection of Madrid against the French on the 2 nd of May , 1808 , was celebrated as usual on the preceding day . A deplorable incident occurred during the ceremony . As the 3 rd battalion of the National Guard was defiling , one of the men , having fallen out of the rank ? , was told by hia lieutenant to resume his place . The man , instead of obeying , turned on the oificer , and wounded him . with his bayonet . A captain of the stall " , witnessing the scene , rode up to the National Guard , who menaced him with hia bayonet , and ran it into the horse's breast . Some of his comrades then rushed upon him , and left him for dead on the spot . The Queen ' s Visit to Southampton Water . —The town clerk of Southampton has received official notice that the visit of her Majesty to Southampton Water , to lay the foundation stone of the new military hospital near Netley Abbey , is postponed until the 14 th or 19 th instant , in consequence of the inclemency of the weather , and because the preparations for laying the foundation stone are not in a sufficiently forward state . The Wellington College . —Monday , the 2 nd of June , has been definitively fixed , by command of her Majesty , for the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Wellington College , aud for the subsequent military review , which were to have taken place on the 3 rd inst ., and that tho programme of the ceremony will , in all its principal points , be the same as that which has already been published . Exjkter Refuses to Rejoice . — The Mayer and Corporation of Exeter have resolved without one dissentient voice to let tho 29 th pass without taking / my notice of it whatever . A National Holiday . —It is asserted that her Majesty's Government are about to bring bofore l ' arliaraont a , special act , providing that the 29 th inat . )> o observed aa a public holiday . Tho act at present in forcv limits public holidays to days appointed for public thanksgiving and humiliation—neither term applying to a simple holiday such aa that now contemplatod . The Last Cambiudok Election . —The Exchequer Chamber has been occupied for several tcnn . s with considering an appeal of Mr . Slado , Q . C ., against a condemnation in another court . Mr . Slade , together with Lord Maidstone , was returned for Cambridge at the last election . Ho was afterwards sued for certuiu penalties of 100 / . each , for promising money to one Carter , an doctor of the borough , that ho might vot e for linn sincl Lord Maidstone , and for having paid eight shilling * , tnc railway fure of tho voter from Huntingdon , when ) m resided , to Cambridge , to vote . Tho verdict wort giv «» againut Mr . Slado ; but Mr . Baron Alderson yesterday revoraed tho decision . All tho Exchequer Huron * iigreen with this reversal , excepting Mr . Justice William- - LAaos . —Tho natives at Lagos have attacked uio merchants and emigrants . The exporting Hlavo-trm « having been put an end to , tho natives comp lain wai fchey ore without tho means of life . . , Tub Emuahsy at St . PicvmtHuiniu . - Lord >>«'• * house is appointed Minister Pleni potentiary nt Ruaslun Court . ..., / . e Tiiib 1 ' ottT or Livjchpool , - — The Liverp ool Juu Entry , published by the CuBtom ' u authorities , Htatiw \ . the value of duty-freo goods imported into tlmi during tho first throe iiioiUhh of tho prcHcni ) amounted to 10 , 447 , 810 / .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10051856/page/14/
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