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728 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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THE WINDSOR BARRACKS AFFAIR. A second co...
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CHOLERA. Cholera lias established itself...
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NOTES ON THE WAR. The news of tho war on...
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" Letters from St. Petersburg state that...
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SPAIN. The Queen has issued a proclamati...
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Our Civilisation. Jin. Cakden's V^Ooing ...
parish of Ringsfieid , on the 27 th of June , and Albert G arrod , another gentleman , was 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 the 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 .
728 The Leader. [Saturday,
728 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The Windsor Barracks Affair. A Second Co...
THE WINDSOR BARRACKS AFFAIR . A second court-martial ( the finding of the first has not yet been , ascertained ) has been held on Lieut . Perry : —the military offences charged in this 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 unkindness 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-examinationj , suggest the state of the case : — " Prisoaef : My being palled out of my bed nearly every night , my skirt polled off my back , and myself beaten with an umbrella . Is that the nature of a complaint for a commandingofficer to take notipe of ? " Witness : Certainly .
" Prisoner : Was my being made to get into my tub by a number of efficers of the 4 Gih , 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 ) , the commander of the regiment , if complained of ? " Witness : I think it is of great importance , to prevent ill-will among the officers , by having them brought before the commanding officer ; and . therefore something must be left to the discretion of intermediateofficers 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 said , that is to lieutenant P « rry . ' * Prisoner : Did you . not , after reporting the case of Curteis , call me ' the malefactor ? ' and was not I afterwards called' the malefactor' by my brother officers , and was not 1 shunned by my brother officers in consequence ? " Witness : I did not call you ' malefactor . ' , I have , heard the term malefactor ' used ,- but I am not certain whether it applied to Lieutenant Terry or to another officer who has since left the regiment . I cannot say that his company was positively shunned , but lie was not on such intimate terms with the rest of the officers as others . He has not been under ray command since December , when he was sent on detachment . " Prisoner : Did you not , in the anteroom , sitting over your grog , call me a malefactor before Lieutenant ICnnpp ? " Witness : I have no recollection of it . "
The case went on on Tuesday , Colonel Garrett could not " charge his memory " with anything ; and the 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 aad his brother officers . The major ( Maxwell ) gave evidence to the effect that , on the whole , Lieutenant Perry had made too many complaints on too light grounds . The cross-examination oC Major Maxwell , on Wednesday , elicited some perplexing points : — " In reply to prisoner , witness Baid ho was not awnro that he ( prisoner ) was ever called nnwies , or that his company was studiously avoided , because he complained to the commanding officer . If his company wus avoided , it wua not becauao of this ; nor did witness think his company was studiously avoided .
• ' Prisoner then asked for what liis company was avoided ? if it wore avoided , - whcin ? " Witness replied he did not know , unless it were on account of Ilia general temper and disposition , which were such as did not appear to witness to bo admired . " Prisoner , laughingly , said ho hud no further questions to put to this witness . " Captain Sandwith was the next witness called i Ho doposed that ho was the adjutant of the 4 Gth , when in Dublin , but wnp absent on lonvo for ten or twelve days . " Prisoner ( to witness ) : Do you not know that I was pulled owt of my bed several tiinoa at Wnldus and Knnpp'rt rooms , were turned upside down , that Dunscombo was Illtreated several times , and Hninmond brought down and placed on the mcss-tablo in his shirt at Weedon P " Witness Baid ho was not awuro of Lieutenant Perry having boon pulled out of bod , or of Wuldy mid Knapp ' s rpotntt boing turned upside down . Mr . Dunscornbo complained onco of boing pulled out oi' bed , when tho commanding ofllcer severely rojirlmunded tlio officer complained of , in tho presence of the ollicora ( summoned to bo present on tho
. 41 Tho Court ( Colonel Fordy « o ) s Was Lioutonunt Perry ' s Bociotv Bhunnod , and If ho , why ? " Witness , who spoke with very groat deliberation , mud : Icnnutoto that Mr . X ' arry ' M society wa . i not nought for , Inn dwagroonllo and Hwnggenng inuniior loading pomoua to auppoao hia enormous ( this sentence wua never finished
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 , he 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 pr isoner , ' Do you wish to put this ?' " Prisoner : I do ; but if you think I had 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 , he had kept every letter by him . relating to the money transaction alluded to by witness as dishonourable , and that ho 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 Sandwith . " 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 aifair 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 4 Gth . This was the case the night preceding the trial of Lieutenant Greer , when the officers of the 46 th entertained their brothers of the Blues 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 the Blues were on that Court . What would he 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 :-r" Tliere is one point nioje to which I requestyour 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 , occurtothem that every one of those important witnesses was an officer in that same regiment—that every one of them was at Windsor until after the first court-martial on Lieutenant Perry—that every one of them was subsequently marched off to Turkey by orders from the Horse Guards—and that their colonel and mnj < K have only remained behind for the purpose of the present inquiry ! ' '
Cholera. Cholera Lias Established Itself...
CHOLERA . Cholera lias established itself for the autumn in London . The deaths this week are in excess of the average . The hospitals have prepared 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 lfolaiouth . 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—lulled about 12 , 000—and is arrested . At Genoa the cholera is very bad . Also at Leghorn , Florence , and Naples . The disease has almost disappeared from our crews in the Baltic . It xages , however , among tho ^ French troops in the East . Montreal is suffering severely : so that all its summer pleasure traffic and prosperity is lost;—travellers avoiding 1 it as plague-stricken .
Notes On The War. The News Of Tho War On...
NOTES ON THE WAR . The news of tho war on tho Danube is indeoisive . A great battle is spolccn of at Cjiurgevoon the 23 rd , tho Turks being successful , but this is not well confirmed , though a probable affair : and , while waiting confirmation , wo hesitate to credit the calculation that Onaa . r Pacha , who , had he -won a battle , would have pushed on , is by this time in Bucharest . Tho Russians are , undoubtedly , engaged in backward movements in tho Principalities ; but tho Moniteur confosses that it does not comprehend these movements .
anu moy may only Da stratogotical . Tho hoat ( iO 4 in the shade ) would suggest that both Turks and Russians are , for the present , quiot . The attitude of Austria remains undecided , though she is collecting vast masses of troops along tho frontier of tho Principalities , and it is roportod that tho Emperor lms declared to tho liussian AinbusBador , QortschakofT , that ho intends immediately to plaoo himself nt tho hci \ d of his armies , and , huvi « g done that , will listen to no further diplomucy . Prussia romuina altogether unpronounccd . The King ia at Mumeli " conferring" with several ouher Q « rmnn kings .
Meanwhile an expedition to tho Crlmon Hcoms a nearer probability than before . Certain it Is * that our urmy remains at or near Varna , and 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 . Now or never , therefore . A second bombardment of Bomarsund has been a rumour in the 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 the Aland Isles . Plat-bottomed and gutt-boats are now with the fleet in quite sufficient plenty for an attack on Cronstadt .
" Letters From St. Petersburg State That...
" Letters from St . Petersburg state that they are organising at Gronstadt two battalions of skating infantry , an arm of the service already known in preceding wars . These skaters are intended to operate iu the winter on the ice against the islands occupied by the enemy . Battalions of skaters trill be also formed in the other garrisons . " There is news from Sehamyl . " He is with 30 , 000 horse at some three days' march' from . Tifiis . _ He urges strongly on the Mushir the necessity of advancing , and promises if he will do so to fall upon the enemy ' s rear and effect a junction witli the army of Kars . We have just had news from the outposts- The Kussiaus haveadvanced once step more . They crossed the Arpachai on the 29 th ult ., and pitched their tents between this river and the Karschai , within two hours of our outposts . The reason of this step seems 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 -b <> shamed into advancing . "
COUP D ETATIX DENMARK . " There is too much reason to believe that the popular constitution , won by the people of Denmark in 18-18 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 in advance , issued an edict decreeing a new pplitical organisation for the entire monarchy . A council of the realm is to be formed , and to be composed of fifty notables , who will ^ meet at Copenhagen onee in two yearSj and have a deliberating voice respecting new taxes , but onlv a consultative voice in other matters of finance . The sittings of the body will not be public , and its president will be named by the King . It is not likely that theso arbitrary proceeding ' s of the Government will be tamely submitted " to by tl : e Danes . "
SWEDEN AND THE WKSTEUN POWERS . King Oscar , who has hitherto rejected , the pressing demands of the Western Powers , that he should join them in tho war , or at any rate allow to occupy some point on . hii coasts , has offered them conditions on which he will give up his armed neutrality . They are the payment of subsidies to Sweden during the war , and tho guarantee that Finland shall he restored to Sweden at the close of the war . 'Tho Western Powers have returned no definite answer . —Aachew . Zeituna .
Spain. The Queen Has Issued A Proclamati...
SPAIN . The Queen has issued a proclamation , assuring Spaniards that her"" maternal heart" rejoices iu the revolution , and places -unlimited hopes in Espartero . Espartero arrival in the capital on the 29 th . Previously a new Ministry had declared : Espavtero , Chief ; O'Donnel , War . Narvuez does not yob appear on the scene . . Ifc is as yet unknown what course Espartero will take : it is believed he insists on the constitution of ' 37 , and the immediate election of the Cortes . A correspondent of the Daily News describes K-3-partcro's entrance into Madrid : —
" Tlio wido street ( tho Porto Alcala ) which bovo tli . it name , and which is for tho future to be called tho Oullo del Duipuo do la Victoria , was filled with a compact crowd , and oyory window was ocoupied . A considerable number of citizens , on foot and on horseback , had gone ou * of tins city tom « ot Espartoro , and were mixed up with tho corte a as It , entered . Some wore aa simple spectators , but others were in uniform , intended to represent that of tho National Guard , infitntry and cavalry . Troops of tho lino accompaiik-d tho cqvtege , and General Sau Miguel , on horseback , was by the side of Espartero ' s opon carringc . Thero were also three or four other carriages , iu which wore seated Borne superiorofllcerS j wearing thoir uniforms and docorations ; a deputation ot tho junta , nnd another of tlio municipal council of Madrid . Tina totter body lmd also sent its rnucebonrora in grand costume or crimson velvet , laced with gold , and cap of nimilar volvot and white plumou .
Ahey wore Jour in number , and rodo in an opou carriage . A number of other pnblio officers were also to bo soon mixed up in tho corldye . It was not without groat diilioulty that tholiorHcs and carriages could got through tho immense multitude , particularly near tho Pnerta del Sol , whoro tho street becomes considerably narrower . Tho ftcolamationa in honour of Eopartoro wore deafening . mnJ tho multitudo uocmod to want to tako him from his cuni . igo « ml embrace him . Tlio cries from tho windows were iu « r DH enthusiastic us in tho street . At tho corner of tho 1 ' uVrtii dol Sol , and of tho lino d'Aoula , a number of white niguona woro lot go , ornamented with groan ribbons . In tlio Kuu Minor it was really thought EHpnrtoro would bo HuuVicutod under tho muss of flowers which wore fiung down ou him . Jujpurtoro , standing orcat in tho carriage , ro « pond « d to tlio onthuBinHtio roeoptiou thua given him by opoiiW IiIh iuuih , wwmg to tho right aind lolt , and then oloaiug lu . s mini on ilia heart . JIo looked wo ] l , and did not appear to bo muro
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 5, 1854, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05081854/page/8/
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