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to-the sums of money paid for your advancement in the army . Considering your Lordship and Colonel Morris to be types of the two differing systems of promotion in tlie English army- —your Lordship representing that of advancement by money without distinguished merit ; Colonel Morris , on the other hand , illustrating that of advancement by distinguished merit in the field before the enemy in India and In the Crimea-r-I congratulated Colonel Morris upon having achieved by merit what it ¦ was reported your Lordship had attained at the cost of between 80 , 000 ? . and 4 . 0 , 0001 . My attention was called to this matter by a return -which was circulated among members of the House of Commons , giving tlie dates of promotion of every staff officer who had served , or was then serving , in the Crimea . Your Lordship's promotion , without any distinguished or , I believe , foreign service , was by far the most rapid of any officer . In May , 182-1 , your Lordship was a cornet ; in December , 1830 , you obtained your lieutenant-colonelcy . Your Lordship was subsequently removed from the command of your regiment for organizing a system of esjnonnage in your orderly room , by which you gathered matter for a court-martial upon Captain Wathen , a distinguished officer . Captain Wathen was acquitted of the charges preferred by your Lordship , aiul you were removed from the command of your regiment . Notwithstanding this , your promotion went on , and in 1846 3-ou obtained your co ] onel ' s
commission . I confess , upon looking over this return , I endeavoured to ascertain from those acquainted with the Horse Guards' machinery hoAv 3 * our Lordship had attained such rapid promotion . I failed in understanding the process , l ) ut I was informed your Lordship ' s advancement had cost you 34 , 000 ? . If 3 'our Lordship to secure your advancement was compelled to expend so large a sum , ' the inference can only he that an officer without ' such resources would fail in his . advancement in the British army , and that money—not merit—decides ; the destiny of her officers . I shall be happy to join ultra-Radicals , or any other class of politicians , during the next session of Parliament , in securing for the army a more just and efficient system of promotion . "
The Gbeat Wrought-ikon Gcjx . —Some experiments made at Shoeburyness with , the monster wroughtiron gun manufactured by the Mersey Steel and Iron Company , have been very successful . The trial was conducted under the direction of Colonel Mitchell , in the presence pf a select committee of Artillery oincers from Woolwich . A VESs-Eii ox Fire ix the Tvxe . —The Nymph , Captain Brewer ,, for Arbroath from Sumlerland , was brought into the Tyne on the morning of Friday weak , on fire . Her cargo was lithe , ' and this had ignited while the vessel was off Shields bar . On being brought into the Tyne , she was scuttled on the Dortwick sands . She Las been greatly injured by the lire .
Loss ov an Old British Miuiciiaxtmax . —A letter has been received from Mr . II . England , an agent sent out by the Tyne Insurance clubs to the island of Gottland , who states that the old Liberty and Property of South Shields , which was stranded on that island , ^ a total wreck , and that her stores will be sold for the Tuenefit of the underwriters . The Liberty and Property was among the oldest , if she was not the very oldest , merchant vessel in England ,. having been built in the year 1750 at Whitby . She was well known to the seafaring population on the north-east coast , having been engaged in the coal and Baltic trade and the transport service during the whole of her long reign . She was a strange , old-fashioned looking craft , and generally nttracted a good deal of attention .
REGiiiJujTAt . Bauds . —A circular has been issued to the commanding officers of regiments , whioh commences thus : — "His Royal Highness the General Coininandingin-Chief , with a view to relieve regiments from the grent expense now consequent upon the necessity of employing professed musicians—civilians—as masters of bands , has it in contemplation to recommend the establishment ; of a large musical class , as park ' of the education of boys sent to the Royal Military Asylum , and for the instruction of persons sent from regiments to qualify for buylc-miijors , trumpet-m : ijors , and band-masters , And whose training ; would require especial time and attention . " The Duke therefore desires to have the opinion of the commanding officers on the subject . Stkolmno Puteus in Mii-itaky Sciiooi-uooms .
deals . In the course of the voyage , thick and bad weather was experienced , aad the crew were exhausted by constant labour at the pumps . Shortly after the vessel struck on the sand , part of her deck cargo was washed away , the stern was broken in , and the poop was gutted . The mate and some of the crew got on board the Falcon schooner , and the master ( Captain Anderson ) and the remainder of the crew were saved in a fishing smack . Shumvkeck on the Mexican Station . —The Royal Mail Company ' s steamer Tay has been wrecked on the Mexican station . The accident took place three miles south of Cape Koxo , it is supposed on the route from V era Cruz toTampico . All onboard were safely landed , except two of the crew , who were drowned from the swamping of a boat . The mails were saved . The cargo included live hundred bottles of quicksilver , which worn lost .
A Military Handbook by Felicb Onsixi .- —Signor Felice Orsini is engaged upon a " Military Field Handbook for officers and non-commissioned officers of all arms , and for officers oil the general and divisional stair " , " embracing a complete course of military studies , upon an original plan . English military readers will look with much . interest for the appearance of this manual by a foreign officer possessing the experience and reputation of Orsini . Mir-ITAKY ScAxdals . —The Fourth Light Dragoons , stationed at Brighton , have been distinguishing themselves by freaks of the same disgraceful nature as those which were played off about two years ago on Lieutenant Perrv- In consequence of a report of these matters to
the Horse Guards , General Lawrenson , the General of Brigade , has gone down to Brighton , and the followingofficers have been ordered under close arrest :- — Lord Ernest Yane Tempest , Captain ¦ Curt , and Cornet AVinstanley . Their swords , moreover , have been taken from them . A strict investigation Avill be made . —QuartermasteT-Sergeant Edward Harris , paymaster of the D troop of Royal Horse Artillery , lias absconded with a large sum of money . Major ILL . Gardner , the commanding officer of the troo ]) , has recently been on leave of absence , arid prior to his departure he arranged with
another officer to sign , cheques for Harris in case money was wanted . Harris availuil himself of this opportunity to obtain cheques to the amount of 200 / ., and , in addition to this sum , he has gone oil' with 200 / . in . gold and ten 51 . Bank of England note ? , -making-a total of 4007 . Threa other paymasters of companies of the Royal Artillery are to be tried by couvt-inartial for similar offences , , On Wednesday week , in pursuance of a sentence confirmed by tlie " War-office , a : non-commissioned oflicer received thu punishment of the la * h , and is to undergo -. twelve months' imprisonment , and be reduced to the r . inks , for forcing bills , &c .
Collisions at Sea . —The Yeoman ,- a merehant-. ship of Liverpool , lias conic into collision with the Helen Ileilgers , another . merchantman belonging to the same port , in consequence of which both vessels have sunk , and the captain and all the crew of the Yeoman , except three men , have been drowned . The last-named ship was 011 her passage to Custine , in British America , witli a cargo of salt , and the Helen Ileilger . s was homuwardbouucl from Calcutta , with ji niisccllancotiri cargo valued at upwards of 20 , 000 / . " When the two shins had- reached
a point situated between linllycotton and lusknr Rock , they came into collision with each other , and the Yeoman sank eight minutes after the occurrence . The captain and eighteen oflicers went down with her and perished . Three of her crew were saved by clinging to the bowsprit rigging of the Helen lleilgers . Although much injured oy the shock , the latter vessel , ' by dint of incessant hard working at the pumps , was kept nilosit until a boat was sent to her aid , when the captain and all the crew , together with the three men of the Yeoman , were rescued . About two hours afterwards the HuK-n
Hungers sunk . —Acollision between two-ships has taken pliico near ik > lyhcad . Tlie Bonita recently sailed on her outward-bound voyage from the river Mersey . On arriving at that port she came in contact with tlie Cambria , from Moulnioiu , and lost her cat-head and jibboom . Tlio other nli ' ip had only her quarter injured . The Uonita was obliged to put back to port for repairs . No lives appear to have Leon lost . LusuTKNANT Massky on Hi ; KO-Wonsmi \ — Lieutenant Massey having taken on ' enee at hoiiio remarks in tlie Globe , accusing him of regarding hi instil f as a hem , of receiving < l preposterously fulsome addresses , " and of grumbling at " the cold shudo of aristocracy , " has written to our evening contemporary , denying the
charges , repudiating' all claim to be considered a hero , asserting that the one address offered to him was not " fulsome , " and acknowledging great kindness and favour on the part of those high in ollice . Tlio lieutenant then proceeds in a . etruiu which , as far as selfcxziltation goerf , is a very strong confirmation of the charge brought ngainst him . lie remarks : — " Sir , you do not know the miseries of bring a huro . l'unny-uliners arrest your . servants as they go of errands and « sk where you were born , where you were brought up , who was your grandfather , and who was j r our schoolmaster ; and sonic day you see a hideous biographical caricature of yourself . " Lieutenant Mussey proceeds in the samo strain through the whole of a loiiy paragraph .
¦—A general order has been issued from the Horse Guards , by direction of the Duko of Cambridge , the Genornl Coinmanditig-in-Chiel ' , strictly forbidding that permission bo given , to strolling performers to exhibit in military schoolrooms . There is no objectidn to schoolrooms being used by soldiers under proper restrictions . Tine Lost Founw . —After several days of anxiety and fear , the owner and friends of the crew of the brig Excavator , of North Shields , received a telegraphic message on Friday . week , stating that that vessel had urrived in safety in a port in Holland , where aha had nought shelter . She had sailed iifteeu dayd , aiul had been long ovorrhift .
Siui > vkeok on the Noun-owe CoA . ST . ~ -In the course ¦ of the recent heavy equinoctial gales , the bark CorormuKlul , COO tons , was wrecked on the llidgo Sand , near \\ intorton , Norfolk . The ship sailed from Archangel for London on the 13 th of August , and was laden with
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¦ Mon ' B WoJiicjf Suicu > es . —A young Irishwoman . attempted a few-nights ago . to droivn herself by leaping from London-bridge . A constable hud been watching her for sonic time , and , just as she was scrambling over the parapet-wall , he seized hold of her , and dragged her back . When brought before . Alderman Wire ' ' at the Mansion House , she said she had no home to go to ; that she had not been able to get into service ; and that they had refused to take her in at the Whitcchanel workhouse , and had told her she ought to go to Ireland . The Alderman directed an officer of tlie court to take her to some friends . she had mentioned , and to ascertain whether they were willing to receive her . —Two young women were charged at How-street 011 Monday , the one w ith attempting to jump off Waterloo Bridge , the other with throwing liiM'self into the river at the foot of Westminster Bridge . The first was a dress-inttker , the other a servant ; and the former was intoxicated at the tiino of the attempted act . Both were remanded , as they refused toy give uny reasons for what they had done . —A young woman , dressed in black ,, was charged at Cjuildhull , 011 the same day , with endeavouring to kill herself by swallowing a large ([ iiantity of laudanum . She was found sitting on the steps of tlie Scotch chapel in Forostruct , and . said , in answer to a policeman , that she liad taken poison . She appeared to be very thirsty , and kept putting her tongue out ; and she yuve tlio constable a bottle labelled " Laudanum , " from which aho said she had drunk three pennyworth of the drug . When
brought before the Alderman , she refused to give any account of herself , and was remanded . —A sickly-looking girl , between sixteen nnd seven toon ye . ir . s of ager , named Rosina Ray , was charged at thu Thames police court with swallowing oxalic acid . She obtained twopennyworth of . this poison from a chemist and druggist , who asked no questions as to what . she wanted with it . She was taken to the London Hospital , where tho stomach pump was cm ployed , and the poi . sun dislodged . The wretched creature had buen on tho town , and was ill . A City Missionary had seen her , and « hu had expro . s . S ' d great contrition , and had intimated that she desired to leave hur recent mode of life . When asked by . Mr . Ynrdley , the mugistrutc , whether sho was sorry for tlio act she had committed , she replied , after several repetitions of tho nueslion , that aho would not do so
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A SCOTCH HUB-DEB . -. JA > n : s IH'Maxus , a labourer at the Castleliill Iroaworks , Xanaricshh-D , has boon tried at the Glasgow Circuit Court of Justiciary for the murder of Henry M'Lavey , a workman in the same establishment . The circumstances are rather peculiar . M'Lavey seems to have been an irritable and violent man . One of the witnesses said ' ¦ ' he was ve r 3 ' quiet if you did not ' fash * him , but if you did he was very quick in the temper ;" another stated that he was often u in bad bread with his neiyhbonrs , and quarrelled with most of them . " M'Mailus was- described as " a very peaceable man . On
the 12 th of last August , the deceased fastened a quarrel on a fellow-workman , an Irishman named Patrick Dinnan . This person , being not so strong a man as M'Lavey , and being afraid . of . him , went away , but was followed by the other , ; who asked him to light . The challenge being declined ,: M ' Lavey seized hold of Dinnan ; and shook him violently . This was in the presence of several persons . Suddenly , in the midst of the shaking-, M'Lavey fell down as if in a fit— - '" like tlie clap of a hand , " as Dinnan stated at the trial . Blood was seen , on his head , but no one had spoken to him , nor had ho spoken to any one . JDinnan seems to have been-paralysed ; by this sudden event ; for he . kept looking at the 'prostrate man , and , though he observed an .
iron . bar . lying ' . oil'the ground beside the body , he did not perceive the presence of any third party . At that moment , however , the voice of the foreman of the works ivas . heard to exclaim , " You cruel wretch ! you have murdered the man ; " and the workmen observed M'Maniis walking away from the body . The foreman , also , had seen him strike the blow , which he did with his two hands grasping the iron bar . He was followed and brought hack / without making any attempt at . resistance . Being asked his motive , he said there was " an old spleen" between him and M'Lavev , and that
" he bad revenged himself that day . llii stated furthermore that , when M'Lavey lodged with him , he went about slandering him , and was- " . a ' foul-mouthed beast , " and that , the day before , he ( M'Lavey ) had threatened to knock out both his ( jM'Manus's ) eyes . Tie had me ? dita ' tcdthe ' . attaokj he said , for four or live months ; hut lie now expressed regret for . having done it , and to some one \ vlio observed that perhaps thc ' -ailair would not turn out . so bad as was at lirst tliought ; lie replied that ho would not have said so if he had seen the wound . M'Luvey died in the course of the samedajv
At . the trial , M'Manus -pleaded- ' Guilty of culpable homicide , and said he did not mean- to kill the man . The jury found hiiii Guilty of murder , but . recommended him to mercy on the ground that he did not intend to kill . Ho was sentenced to death , and was assisted from , the doL'lc , apparently overwhelmed with anguish . . ..- _ , j
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 967, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2162/page/7/
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