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plgq © , « fcfche spatjjHwl that the words which heM ^ ea-were , "I deny having taken out nay staff afc . jOJ . " tIt is , remarkable , however , that he . should -have made any allusions to his staff , at the . moment ;; > and whether the man has been ^ identified or not , there appears to be > no doubt , that the young lady was struck in , a dastardly manner , without the slightest warrant or necessity , by a man of the police force .
It is very fttfficult . to identify 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 sheqp in a . flock ; althoug h 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 cases of the kind . Some time pre-. viously , 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 . 4 j * noi . i > '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 J It is possible rthat the Executive ; may become prosecutor before one of these judges , who depends for his rank and stipend upon tbafcsame Executive ,. and who can be removed without address from Parliament . In the recent
instance ^ the 33 xecutive , fin the rperson of the policeman , was the defendant ; and aprimd facie case was dismissed because the evidence at the first hearing was incomplete . The . injury to the subject , the arbitrary and tyrannical conduct of the police , are as remarkable as the haste of the magistrate in this
decision , i Among the objects of the bill to reform the City of Jjondon , iB the substitution of Stipendiary magistrates . in that important district for Aldermen . The purport of that , till , therefore , is ito . extend the system in ' which , the magistracy administering police justice'are dependent upon the Home-Office .
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THE INDIAN ARM ! . * The writer of a recent s pamphlet on the new rules ifor promotion in the Indian Army , comments not too dispassionately on certain ; changes lately introducediinto ithe Company ' s , military system , partly in accordance with the ( System now obtaining in the Boyal . Army . lUhat he and his clientB have some cause for . complaint , may at once be allowed ; but we
cannot say tthat / his statement -of their grievances is either dearly put , or discussed twith ithe needful calmness . Beginning with a netroe'onahiught on-tho Court of Directors , 'ho team on . ito show ; tbat ijhey have had very littLa . to > do ( with tthe . mischievous results of "which the ( complain * mo bitterly . They , for vfcheir panfc , pvoored d ) l for . the best : their 'good intentions 'being leally balked by the H&tavevnarrGteneiraVwho scorns to have ,
sometimes misread , sometimes narrowed , the purport of the orders sent out from ihome . The main grievance lies in the rule making promotion to a Colonelcy depend on actual service as a Eegimental ^ Lieutenant-Colonel ; three years being the term of that service , exclusive of absence in Europe on sick leave or furlough . The ^ Lieutenant-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 JJieutenant-Oolonels ,
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 he 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 whichjthere was jio 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 reconter them on the part of the local government , seems fair enough , as long as the Staff ' remains undetached f rom the ^ Regimental Hosier . 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 ias the Artillery , or the Commissariat . Both the Kegiment 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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* Bwiow of the New Rules for Promotion In tho I ndian Army . Madras : Athenaeum Press .
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Ebjoata . —In last week's paper , p . 414 , col . 3 , lino 4 , for " tho Protocols" read "thia Protocol" { i . e ., No . 22 , April 8 th , mentioned just before ) . —In the . account of " The , Public Proclamation of Peace in London , " the part in small type should havo been acknowledged as quoted from the denies .
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There ia no learned , man but "will coiifesB he hath ¦ much profited by reading controversies , hia senses awakened , and hia judgment sharpened . If , then ., it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , betolerable for hia adversary to yvxi te . —Miltoai
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THE NATIONAL GALLERY / . ¦( To the JSditor of < the Leatkr . ) Kemptom . 'Bin , — -It ie 'to be < desired that tho authorities at the National Gallery will apply unwonteilly mild treatment to thoir fragment : of" wall painting" by Giotto ; os , a day or two before > tlie sale of Mr . Kogere ' s . piaturoa took place ,. ! was informed , / by one of the attendants in the . auctiomroom , that it . was safely deposited in a dark i cor nor , and could not bo moved , because it was " Jailingttopieces /" From this I infer , that the beautiful picture iof OPuok—Shakspearo illustrated iby ( Reynolds— -is not , as yet , in a aufflcientlymello-w condition for tho connoissoura at the National'Gallery . 1 am , Bir , your obedient servant , William Coninqham .
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TWINKLE - CRAFTS . ( Tof the 'Editor of the Leader $ . MayS , 1856 . Sib , —Moore has preserved , and ( in ; your last number ) you have advertised , by quotation , a fair mot for which Canning has the 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 thoroughfaresomeness 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 his Anglo-Saxon learning , of which we are able to judge , at the present moment , by Ids edition of the Durham Book . In this , the Anglo-Saxon for the Jiifagi is tunghi-crceftige . Upon this text Mr . Henshawe was fond of enlarging , and got , from Iris 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 genera ] , 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 Horne Tooke on his deficiencies in Anglo-Saxon . L .
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An Irritable Spaniard . —The anniversary of the insurrection of Madrid againatithejFrenchon the 2 nd of May , 1808 , was celebrated as usual , o& . 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 ranks , was told by his lieutenant to resume . his place . The man , instead of obeying , turned on the officer , and wounded him with bis bayonet . A captain of the staff , witnessing the scene , rode up to the National Guard , who menaced him with bis ' bayonet , and ran it into tho 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 , and for the . subsequent military review , which were to have taken place on the 3 rd iust ., and that tho programme of the ceremony will , in all its principal points , be the same as that which has already been published .
Exotbr Refuses , xo Rejoice . — The Mayor and Corporation of Exet « r havo resolved without one dissentient voice to let tho 29 th pass without taking- any notice of it whatever . A National Holiday . —It is asserted that her Majesty ' s Government are about to bring , before iParliament a special act > i providing that the 29 th inat . be observed as a public holiday . The act . at present in force limita public holidays to days appointed for public thanksgiving and 'humiliation—neither term applying to a simple holiday such as that < iiow contemplated . The Last Cambbidob Election . —The Exchequer Chamber has been occupied for several terms with
considering an appeal of Mr . Slade , Q . C ., against a condemnation in another court . Mr . Slado , together with Lord Maidstone , was returned for Cambridge at tho lost election . He woa afterwards » u « d for certain penulties of 100 / . each , for promising money to ono Carter , an elector of tho borough , that ho might vote for him and Lord Maidetone , and for having paid eight shillings , the railway fare < rf the voter from Hunting don , whero he resided , to Cambridge , to vote . Tho vordict was given against Mr . Slade , ; but Mr . liarou Ald « rson yesterday reverseditho decision . All tho Exchequer Barons agreed with this . reversal , excepting Mr . Justice Williams . ( attacked the
Laoob . —The natives at Lagos have merchants and . emigrants . Tho exporting alave-tmilo having been put an end > to , the native * complum tlmt they aro without . the moans of life . The Emuabhy at St . Pbteksbuuci . — Lord >> 0 ' 10 " house is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary nt tne Russian Court . ... f The PonT of Liverpool . — The Liverpool lull < h Entry , published by the Custom ' s authorities , states tnia tho value of duty-freo goods imported into that io >> during the first three months df tho present ) "u amounted to 10 , 447 , 840 / .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1856, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2140/page/14/
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