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remor , by civilians . Colonel Tulloeh is mentioned as the future Governor , at a salary of 26001 . per annum . Two courts-martial have been held at Sheerness on Dfficers of H . M . steani-sloop Alecto , for alleged insolence- to Commander James Hunt . The first case was that of the ship ' s surgeon , Dr . M ' Shahe , against whom it was alleged that "he did , on the 14 th day of August , 1858 , on board the said sloop , act in an insolent manner towards Commander James Hunt , by stating to him that if he had not got awnings he had better get them —such statement having reference to a representation made by the said Charles M'Shane to the said com- , znander that sickness would occur on board the said sloop if awnings were not kept spread ; and by turning
his back in the face of the commander while the latter was addressing him . " Dr . M'Shane ' s defence stated that lie w , as only actuated by zeal for the service , to preserve the health of the crew and officers ; the disrespectful conduct he denied . The decision of the Court was that the charges were proved ; but , "in consequence of his excellent testimonials , and the high character given him by his present commander , the Court do only adjudge the prisoner to be reprimanded , and he is hereby reprimanded accordingly . " Charles Frederick Puckett , late master of the vessel , was tried for using insubordinate
language to Commander Hunt , by stating that he would make him prove his words with reference to a statement that he thought the said sloop was at the time thirty miles out of her position , contrary to the directions given by the said commander to the said C . F . Puckett ; and by the said C . F . Puckett stating to the said commander that he the said commander gave him no course , which statement was untrue . The decision was that both charges were fully proved , and the prisoner was sentenced to lose six months' time , and to be severely reprimanded , and admonished to be more careful in future .
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PASSING FOR A COKSET . There was a young gallant , of strong martial bent , A juvenilehero , on glory intent ; ¦ The blood of a warrior ran hot in his veins ; - A full heart was his , but he bore empty brains . This herd that would be , since now some twelve moons , A Cornetcy sought in a troop of dragoons ; But he first had an examination to pass , For now a horse-regiment can't let in an ass . So what did our hero in such a hard strait , Impassable quite with his ill-furnished pate ? He just went and borrowed another man ' s head , A substitute hiring to pass in his stead .
The substitute stood the ordeal at once , And passed in the name of our valiant young dunce , Who obtained thus by proxy a first-class degree ; His commission he bought , and gazetted was he . The knave he had been fool enough to suborn Soon fixed in the young dragoon ' s saddle a thorn ; The threat of exposure hard bought off , and then Renewed , and bought off * and repeated again . Ten months of this life the bold stupid youth bore , Until he could , buy off the rascal no more , Who , his avarice now sopped no longer with pay , Peached forthwith on the dupe that had ceased to yield prey .
From head-qviartera down word of question prompt speeds ; Fact can't be denied , and , dismissal succeeds . The price of Commission escheats to the Crown , And the red coat is doffed , and the wearer done brown . Oh , gallants , whose valour your wit doth excel , There ' s no longer a chance for a dense dashing swell ; You must now learn and labour to furnish your brains , Before you can have them blown out for your pains . In the eating ' s the proof of the pudding , 'tis said ; Some think fighting the proof of your good pudding head ; Thq , head that reflects like the pudding , when hot , And is fit to supply food for powder and shot .
But trust we that boobies do not fight the best , And scholars won ' t fail when they come to the tost ; And though , ere in war they can venture their luck , They must take a degree , will show no want of pluck
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ . : ' FRANCE . " .. ' ¦ ' . Asr Imperial decree , dated Dee . 18 , ordains that the Abbey of Str-Denis shall be the burying-place of the Emperors of the French . It is known to be the wish of the Emperor to remove the remains of his uncle from the Invalided to St . Denis ; he thinks it would be more " dynastic " that his family should be buried among the ancient kings of France . The Presse has reason to know that nothing has yet been decided with regard to a new meeting of the Paris Conference . . Galignani states that upwards of three thousand persons paid their respects to the Emperor and Empress at the Tuileries on New Year ' s-day .
No' English paper , save the Leader , was seized on Sunday last . Count Sercey , a ; retired staff colonel , has gone to Egypt on a secret mission . . The Independance says that the insurrectional movement in Algeria , which ' led to the sudden departure of General MacMahon , is more considerable than any that has taken p lace in that country for a long while . The most profound secrecy is observed in official circles as to the origin of this agitation . The Shah of Persia has , banished his late Sadr Azam , Mirza Aga Khan , from the . Persian territory , with liberty to choose a residence in Western Europe . He has consequently chosen France for his residence . The , French Government is preparing to send magnificent presents to Foev-Tsigo , the new Emperor of
Japan . An attache * of the Minister of Foreign . Affairs has left Paris for Servia on , a special mission . There has been an extraordinary panic at the Bourse , inconsequence of a rumour of something said by the Emperor to M . de Hubner on New Year ' s-day , from which it is inferred that the relations between France and Austria are in a very critical , not to say alarming , state . Some have suggested a similitude _ between that incident and the famous interview between the First
Consul and Lord Whitworth in 18 Q 3 , just previous the rupture of the peace of Amiens . In the Constitutionnel , however , we find what purports to be the exact text of the words employed by the Emperov to M . Hubner , namely : —" I regret that our relations with your Government are not so good as they were , but I request you to tell the Emperor that my personal feelings for him are not changed . " The Paris correspondent of the Daily Netos writes : — " The " impression that we are on the eve of a general war gains ground immensely . A few days ago it was said—and said truly—in a Belgian journal that warwas not believed in except in baiTacks . That exception had , perhaps , for importance than was generally attributed that what
to it . I can now assure you beyond a doubt , - ever turn events may subsequently take , the French " army of Italy" is at this moment ready to march " paper . " The ' commander-in-chief , the generals , the aides-de-cam ' p , the staff , the regiments , the artillery , the engineering corps , are all fixed upon , and the telegraph might in half an hour send them on their way across the Alps to-morrow . Bo well assured that I do not say this lightly . Notwithstanding all those symptoms ,, a groat war is scarcely upon the cards . The Emperor is not strong enough internally to ri 3 k the tremendous discontent which would be engendered in France by the catastrophes , the desolation , which would be produced by a war of any long duration . "
AUSTRIA . The official Oeslerreichische Corresponded , of Wednesday , announces that reinforcements will go from Vienna to" the army in the Lombardo-Vonetiari kingdom . It is expressly said that the troops are sent for the protection of the peaceful inhabitants of the kingdom against the revolutionary party . People at Vienna are no loss persuaded of an approaching war than at Turin . At Vienna they think the recent occurrences in Servia wore brought about through the instigation of France , with a viow to compromise Austria . It has also been reported at Vienna that a conspiracy has boon discovered at Cracow , and that forty porsons had been arrested , some of whom were Russian agents .
Disturbances took place on the 27 th at Modeno , which were directed against the lottery , because the lottery is one of the sources of the public revenue . On tho 2 nd the Duko of Modona left for Vienna , it is not said on what errand . Tho Austrian general ofilcors of Italy are holding a military congress nt Vicnnn , in which the commander of the troops in Parma takes a part . A Milan correspondent of the D ^ ily News says-: —• ' At Venice and Milan , as also in the provinces , tho agitation la great , with a strong mixture of prudence and common sense in it notwithstanding . They are willing enough to have the affair of 1648 over again , but no more pMorilifcios , hootoring , and swaggering \ no more silly braggadocio . They are organising themselves quietly ami steadily , but solidly « ud with a will , Tho
Austrians seem bewildered , and are taking measures never heard of before , and which some think perfectly absurd . In 184 : 8 you would meet with scores of people that upheld Austria ' s good right and her virtuous intentions , but you would not find now half a dozen in the whole Lombardo-Venetian kingdom . Every pue is now convinced that if the Austrians were only once out of Italy , the King of Naples , the Pope , and all the petty princes of . the peninsula would soon change their tone , and that a lasting peace might then become a possibility . No one dreams of . a republic , no one hints at socialism . What Italians desire is , to have Italy governed rationally by native prinGes and native laws . "
The Patrie publishes a letter from Milan of the 1 st inst ., which contains a statement to the effect that some bodies of the people passing by the barracks crying " Viva I'Italia , " were responded to by the soldiers 'within the barracks with a similar cry . General 'Gy . ulai had returned to Milan . . ¦ '
SERVIA . The petition of the National Assembly that the Sultan will be pleased to instal Prince Milosch as Hereditary Prince of Servia , is already on its way to Constantinople . Milosch . has arrived at Cernitz , in Wallachia , and there met the deputation sent to offer him the crowii . He lias accepted it for himself , and not for his son Michael . The Porte does not require that Prince Alexander ' should be restored . On the contrary , it is willing that the executive authority should repose-in a magisterial eoimcil , composed of those who are Ministers . Then , this done , the election of a new Prince would proceed according to the wishes of the Servians , and in the way it was done at the fall of Prince Milosch in 183 'J .
SPAIN . The committee of the Deputies had made its report on the authorisation , demanded by the Government to levy and lay out the public revenue from January 1 , 1859 j according to the estimates . The report was favourable to the Government . An amendment on the bill was . proposed by M . de la Vega , but it was rejected by 162 to 13 . It appears that the Spanish debt amounts to the enormous sum of 14 , 000 , 000 , 000 reals . The Spanish Government and Legislature have taken great offence at the way President Buchanan alluded , in his Message , to the probable purchase of Cuba . The supposition that Spain would sell Cuba is protested against as offensive . A resolution proposed to Congress in support of this declaration was agreed to .
The Spanish Government has been informed officially that complete satisfaction ' has been granted to Spain for the exactions of which the Spaniards had beeii the victims at Tampico , in conformity with the demands of the authorities of Cuba .
SARDINIA , There is no relaxation in those preparations which , seem to indicate the proximity of war . Besides extraordinary efforts for supplying tho army with requisites , the workshops of the military arsenal are busy getting ready new field-batteries . General Garribaldi has boen summoned to Turin to bo questioned upon two points : —First , how , in case of war , he would set to work to organise and mobilise a national guard ? Secondly , how and in what space of timo he could raise bodies of volunteers , so as to have ten thousand men ready for tho field ? Garribaldi has already returned to Nice , whore ho usually resides , and where he will wait for fresh orders .
THE rRINCIPAWTIKS . Tho immense majority of the electors just chosen iu Moldavia for exorcising tho trust of electing tho liospodar , are Conservatives in the Austro-Turkiah weuso ; and , consequently , Michel Stourdza , tho candidate of that party for tho Ilospodariutc , has tho greatest chance to becomo tho future ruler .
NAFLJCS . Lord Stratford has left Naples for Rome Hid long visit has been solely in consequence of Lady Stratibrd ' d weak state of health . Lord Stratford has not muddled with the question of politics , and , loast of all , with tho politics of Naples , and ho has scrupulously avoided any intercourse . which could give riao to suoh an idea . The Grand-Duko Constantino has left tho Sardinian territories for Palermo . Tho French journalo contain some further communication a . Tho King of Naples ii said to have flatly refused tho roquost to erect a coaling station nt Brindisi , on tho ground that Rua /» ia is in friendship with Piodinont . His Mujoaty cannot understand how anybody can bo his friond and tho frioud of Viotor Emmanuel at tho same time .
,. The reply to tho discourse from the throno has boon passed by tho Chamber of Doputios , and is now under discussion in the Uppor House . Tho chiof topic of interest has boon that of tho Charlos-ot-Guorgua . 'ilia proceedings of tho English Parliament nru anxiously awaited in Lisbon . . The Count do Yltahum has boon delegated , by tho King of Saxony to negotiate tho preliminaries of the . marriage botwooa the Infanta Donna Maria Anna ana Princo Uoprgo .
The accounts of tho l « to vintage aro vary satisfactory , ami the yield of wine has boon ovon moro abundant than wa « i at first anticipated .
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Thb Omwibus OrroswroN Nuisawoe . —The disputes between the London General and Saloon Omnibus Convpanies are now likely soon to reach a termination . At tho last hearing of the ohargo of conspiracy at tho "Westminster police-court , on Thursday , the 2 3 rd ult ., tho case was adjourned until the 12 th instant . Since that tjme a more amicable spirit has Arisen between the representatives of oaoh company , and Mr . Vlnlnff , the solicitor for tho Saloon Company , drew up a draft of the proposed-iorms of reference , which lias boon submitted to , and , with slight alterations , approved of , by Messrs . Wilkinson and Slovens , the solicitors of tho others , it "boing Agreed that tho question ah ould bo roforrod to Mr . Barstow , of the common law bar , his doolslon and award to bo final . „ ""
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2276/page/6/
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