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parish of Ringsiield , on the 27 th . of June , and Albert Garrod , another gentleman , - « as also indicted for feloniously aiding , abetting , and assisting the above " William Meen to commit the said felony . " Both were found guilty ( we cannot find the evidence in any journal ) , and tlie judge said ^ that the offence had been aggravated by the attempts made by the prisoners to obtain a suppression or perversion of the evidence- The sentence of the court was that Meen be transported for fifteen years , and Garrod to two years' imprisonment with hard labour .
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THE WINDSOR BARRACKS AFFAIR . A secoxd court-martial ( the finding of the first has not yet been ascertained ) has been held on Lieut . Perry : —the military offences charged in tins instance not being very intelligible to civilians . Conduct unbecoming an officer , in complaining to his colonel of the ill-treatment he received from his brother officers , and in complaining to the president of the court-martial of the unldndness of his colonel , seems to be the crime . The charges were clearly made out : —appearing to be a " mild" man , Lieut . Perry was constantly bullied , and was incessantly stating his grievances . These questions put by Lieut . Perry to Colonel Garrett , in cross-examination , suggest tlie state of the case : —
" Prisoner : My being pulled out of my bed nearly every tight , my shirt julled off my back , and myself beaten with an umbrella . Is that the nature of a complaint for a commanding officer to take notice of ? " Witness : C « rtaiuly . " Prisoner : Was my being made to get into my tub by a number of officeis of the 46 th , and in their presence to be laughed at , my door burst in , although my servant and myself endeavoured to prevent the intrusion by holding the door against them- —was this not a proper matter to be reported by the senior officers to you ( Colonel Garrett ) j the commander of tlie regiment , if complained of ? " Witness : I think it is of great importance , to prevent ill-will among the officers , by having tnem brought before tbe Commanding officer , and therefore something must be left to the discretion of intermediate officers to settle matters without referring them to the commanding officer .
'' Prisoner : When I . complained to you of the treatment from Curteis and others , did you not call me a d d fool for bothering you , and said I was like a child just escaped from his mother's apron strings ? " Witness : Certainly not . I am sure I should have recollected it if I had so ssdd , that is to Lieutenant Perry . " Prisoner : Did . you not , after reporting tho case of Curteis , call me ' the malefactor ? ' and was not I afterwards called' the malefactor' by my brother officers , and was not I slranned by my brother officers in consequence ? " Witness : I did not call you ' malefactor . ' I have heard tlie terra ' malefactor' used , but I am not certain whether it applied to Lieutenant Perry or to another officer who has smce left the regiment , I cannot say that his company was positively shunned , but he was not on such intimate terms ¦ wit h the rest of tho officers as others . He lias not been under my command since December , when ho was sent on detachment .
' Prisoner : Did you not , in the anteroom , sitling over your grog , call me a malefactor before Lieutenant Ktmpp ? " "Witness : I have no recollection of it . " The case ivenfc on on Tuesday , Colonel Garrett could not " charge his memory " with anything ; and tlie prisoner appealed to the court whether that sort of evidence could substantiate the charge made , that he ( Perry ) had made false charges against the colonel and his brother officers . The major ( Maxwell ) gave evidence to the effect that , on the whole , lAeutenant Perry had made too many complaints on too light grounds . The cross-examination of Major Maxwell , on "Wednesday , elicited some perplexing points : —
" In reply to prisoner , witness snid ho was not aware that he ( prisoner ) was ever culled names , or that hia company was studiously avoided , because ho complained to the commanding oniocr . If his company was avoided , it wua not fcecauso of thisj nor did witness think his company was studiously avoided . a Prisoner tlien asked for what his company was avoidod ? if it were avoided , when ? " Witness replied ho did not know , unless it woro on account of his general temper and disposition , which were such as did not appoar to witness to to admired . u Prisoner , laughingly , said ho had no further questions to put to this 'witness . " Captain Sandwith was tho next witness called : Ho
deposed that Ijo -wns tho adjutant of tho 46 th , when in Dublin , out was absent on leave tor ton or twelve days . " Prisoner ( to witness ) : Do you not Unow tliat I waa pulled out of my bed several times at Waldua and Knapp'a looms , were turned upaido down , that Dunscombe was illtroated several times , and Hammond brought down and placed on tho wesa . tablo in his shirt at Weedon ? " Witness said lio was not nwuro of Lioutonnnt Perry having been pulled out of bod , or of Wtildy nnd Knapp ' a xooma being turned up « ido down . Mr . Dunscombo compluinod once of being pulled out of bed , when tho ooininanding ofllcor Bovercly reprimanded tho orticer complained of , in tho presence oi the ollicora mimmoncd to ho present on tho occauion .
'_ ' Tho Court ( Colonel Fordyco ) : Waa Lioutonnnt Porry ' a Booioty shunned , nnd if ao , why ? " WitnesB . 'who spoko with vciry groat dolibomtion , said ; 1 can state tunt Mr . Porry ' a Hoeiuty waa not Bought for , hia dlangrooablo and swaggering innnnor loading portions to auppoao Juo enormous ( this sentence wna never iiniahed
by the witness ); his apparent contempt for everything military and regimental ; his supposed debauched habits ; and latterly , from ill-conduct in a money transaction . " Prisoner ( whose face was flushed with indignation ) handed in a question to the Court , which , with its permission , be would wish to have put to the witness upon this attack on his ( prisoner ' s ) character . " The President read the question attentively , and said to prisoner , 'Do you wish to put this ?' " Prisoner : I do ; but if you think I liad better not , I will withdraw it , and take other steps to redeem , myself from the charge of ill-conduct about money , and other matters . " The President thought this would be the better way , and regretted that these personal matters had been brought before the Court .
" The prisoner then said that the question might be withdrawn , and added that , fortunately , lie had kept every letter by him relating to the money transaction alluded to by witness as dishonourable , and that he should be able to put himself straight with the public on this and the other imputations attempted to be cast upon his character by Captain Sandwilh . " Great sensation was caused by the deliberate manner in which the witness preferred this very grave charge against the prisoner . " A . correspondent of the Morning Advertiser superadds to the scandal of the whole affair this fact ;—" I have also been informed , and , I believe , from , good authority , that on one or more occasions officers engaged on the Court have been known to dine at the mess with the colonel and the officers of the 46 th . This was the case the
nignt preceding ^ . , wnen - ficers of the 4 Gth entertained thoir brothers of the Bines at a banquet ,. the festivities of which were kept . up till about three o'clock in the morning , aud you will find on reference to your journal no less than three officers of tbe Blues were on that Court . What would be said if the prosecutor in a cause at the Old Bailey were to invite the judge and jury to a banquet the night before the trial coming on ?" A correspondent of the Times says : — " There is one point more to which I request your attention in connexion with the absence of some of the ' prisoner ' s . ' Witnesses . When the President sneered and the Court ' laughed' at the statement that those witnesses were 'in Turkey , 'it did not , perhaps , occur to them that every one of those important witnesses was an officer in that same regiment—that everyone of them was at Windsor until after the first court-martial on Lieutenant Perry : —that every one of them waa . subsequently inarched offto Turkey by orders from the Horse Guards—and that their colonel and major have only remained behind for the pux-posc of the present inquiry ! ' '
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CHOLERA . Cholera has established itself for the autumn in London . The deaths this week are in excess of the average . The hospitals have prepfvred cholera-wards . "Authorities" and " medical officers" are recom - mending caution and cleanliness to the population . In the great towns the disease is flitting about in isolated cases and groups . On Monday the Lord Auckland , transport ship , crowded with troops , put back into the Sound , cholera having broken out . The deaths have been numerous . The Lima , an emigrant ship , put back to lfalmouth , her whole crew and passengers in a panic at the cholera . The bad water had caused it . There , also , deaths have occurred numerously . At New York , Philadelphia , and Boston , the cholera is raging fearfully . Also at Chicago .
At Barbadoes it' has done its worst—killed about 12 , 000—and is arrested . At Genoa the cholera is A ery bad . Also nt Leghorn , Florence , and Naples . The disease has almost disappeared from out crews in the Baltic . It rages , however , among the French troops in tho East . Montreal is suffering severely : so that all its summer pleasure traffic and prosperity is lost;—travellers avoiding it as plague-stricken .
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NOTES ON THE WAR . The newa of tho war on tho Danube is indecisive , A great battle is spolcen of at Giurgevo on tho 23 rd , the Turks being successful , but this is not well confirmed , though a probable affair : and , while waiting- confirmation , wo hesitate to credit tho calculation that Omar Pacha , who . had ho won a battle , would have pushed , on , is by this time in Bucharest . Tho Russians are , undoubtedly , engaged in backward movements in the Principalities ; but tho Moniteur confesses that it does not comprehend these movements , and they may only be strategotienl . Tho heat ( 104 in tlie sliado ) would suggest that fcoth Turks and Russians arc , for tho present , quiet .
Tho attitude of Austria rcmaias undecided , though she is collecting vast masses of troops along tho frontier of tho Principalities , aud it is reported that tho Emperor has declared to tho Russian Ambassador , Gortschakoir , that ho intends immediately to phico himself at tho head pf hia armies , and , huvhig dono that , will listen to no further diplomacy . Prussia remains altogether unpronouncod . The King- is at Munich " conferring" with soverul other Gerninn kings . Mcjftnwhilo an expedition to tho Crimea acorns a nearer- probability than before . Certain it is that our army jromaina nt or near Varna , nnd that the French
are also quiescent at or near Gallipoli . The Marshal St . Arnaud is to head the expedition , which is to consist of 25 , 000 men , of both armies . The fleets in the Black Sea are awaiting this expedition . The letters home from the ships speak of the profound disgust of the officers at all the delay and * ' humbug . " In the north , Baraguay D'Hilliers has joined his troops , and the whole of the ships are now together , under Napier ' s command . Novr or never , therefore . A second bombardment of Bomarsund has been a rumour In tlie morning papers during the week : but the fact is left in doubt . The sailors and officers have no faith in the usefulness of an occupation of tho Aland Isles . Flat-bottomed and gun-boats are now with the fleet in quite sufficient plenty for an attack on Croiistadt .
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" Letters from St . Petersburg state that they are organising at Cronstadt two battalions of skating infantry , an arm of the service already known in preceding wars . These skaters are intended "to operate hi the winter on tlie ice against the islands occupied by the enemy . Battalions of skaters will be also formed in the other garrisons . " There is news from Schamyl . " He is with 30 , 000 horse at some three days' march from Tiflis . He urges strongly on the Nlushir the necessity or ' advancing , and promises if he will do so to "fall upon the enemy ' s rear and effect a junction -with the army of Kars We have just had news from the outposts . The Russians have advanced once step more . They crossed the Arpachai on the 29 th ult , and pitched their tents between this river and the Karsehai , within two hours of our outposts . Tho reason of this step stems ; to be the scarcity of forage on their side . Everybody now hopes that they will come a little further still , so that the Turkish generals will ba shamed into advancing . "
COUr Jj ' iiTAT II ? DENMARK . " There is too much reason to believe that the popular constitution , won by the people of Denmark in 1848 and 1849 , lias disappeared by a stroke of the pen . A telegraphic despatch announces that on the 29 th ult . the King , assuming that autocratic power against which the Diet has frequently protested hi advance , Issued an edict decreeing a new political organisation for tlie entire monarchy . A council of the realm is to be formed , and to be composed of fifty notables , who will meet at Copenhagen once in two years , and have a deliberating voice respecting new taxes , but only a consultative voice in other matters of finance . The sittings of " the body mil not be public , and its president will be named by the King . . It is not likely that these arbitrary , proceedings of the Government mil be tamely submitted to by tlie Danes . " .
SWEDEN AND THE WESTERN POWERS . King Oscar , who has hitherto rejected the pressing demands of the Western Powers , that he should join them in the war , or at any rate allow to occupy somo point on his coasts , has offered them conditions on which he will give u . jp his armed neutrality . They aro the payment of subsidies to Sweden during tho war , and the guarantee that Finlaii i shall . lie restored to Sweden at tho close of the war . The Western Powers have returned no definite answer . —Aachenci Zcilung ,
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SPAIN . The Queen has issued a proclamation , assurin-g Spaniards that her " maternal heart" rejoices in the revolution , and places unlimited hopes inEspartero . Espartero arrived in the capital on the 29 th . Previously a new Ministry had declared : Eapartero , Chief ; O'Donnel , War . Narvaez does not yet appear on the scene . It is as yet unknown what course Espartero will take : it is believed lie insists on tlie constitution of ' 37 , and tho immediate election of the Cortes .
A correspondent of the Daily JNavos describes Kspartcro ' s entrance into Madrid : — " The wide street ( the Porto Alcala ) which boro that name , and which is for tho future to bo called tho Callc del Du < iue do la Victoria , was filled with a compact crowd , and oyory window was occupied- A considerable number ot citizens , on foot and on horseback , had gone oufc of tho city to meet Espartoro , nnd were mixed up with tho cortege as it entorecl . Soino were as simplo spectators , but others wore in uniform , intended to represent that of tho National Guard , mWntry and cuvalry- Troops of tho lino accompanied tho cortege , and General San Miguol , on horseback , was by tho sjdo of Espartero ' s open carringo . There were also tlireo or four other carringes , in whioh woro seated some superior oflicers j wearing thoir uniforms and decorations ; n doputnt L ° 1 * ot , 'i 10 J ^ K « n otll 0 r of tho municipal council of Madrid . Tins Utter body had also aent its xnncebenrors in grand ooatumo of crimson velvet , laced witli
cold , and cup of similar velvet and whito plumes . Alley wero four in numbor , nnd rodo in nn open carnage . A numbor of other public offlcora woro also lo bo soon , rnixcd up in tho cortdge . It was not without groat , uiflioiuty that tlio lioraos and carriages could got throuifli tho immonso multitude , particularly near tho 1 ' uorta del Sol , where tlio utrcot hecoinoa conaidorably narrower . Tlio uoolnmationt ) in honour of Eupartoro woro deafening , ami tho multitude ! Hooinod to want to tnko him from Iiih can i . iuc and embrace him . Tho crioa from tho windows wero juat . as onthuHiuatio no in tho atreot . At tho corner of tlio 1 ' uVrta dd feol , and of the It no d'Acnla , a numbor of wliite pi ^ nvi woro lot go , ornamented with Rroon ribbona . In tlio Ituo Minor it wuu roallj thought Eapartoro would bo min ' ucaicul undor tho miisB of ( lowers whioh woro flung dovvn <> u him . lfiBpartoro , atandinc ; oroofc in tlio carriage , responded to ilio entlmBinBUo reception thus ulvcn him by opening hi « nrnm , bowing to tlio rig lit nnd left , nnd then clewing Iiih hiiiu on his heart , lio looked wull , and did nut appear to bo nnro
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 5, 1854, page 728, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2050/page/8/
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