The Sun. — London, England, 1836-03-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. yesterday Majesti es arrive d in town a quarter before six o ' clock Y afternoon in a travelling chariot and four, escorted C a party o f H ussars, from Windsor Castle. The Duke of amberland received their Majesties at St. James's. The Prince Ferdinand of Portugal held a levee yesterday, at Kensington Palace, when his Royal Highness received an :Ic.ldress from the Po r t uguese residents in London ; after which T s Royal Hi g h ness gave some audiences. Count Lavradio, Baron de M oncorvo, and the rest of his Royal Highness's suite, were present. The D uchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove and walked in the Parks yesterday. Land grav i ne of Hesse Homburg, and the Duchess of Gloucester, took an airing together yesterday in the Parks. Yesterday afternoon Lord Palmerston entertained the Prince of P°r tugal, his ill ustr i ous relatives, and their suites, at dinner. Foreig n A mbassadors and Ministers, and some of the Cabinet The Minist ers were present to meet his Royal Highness. it.,he dinne r was given at his Lordship's official residence in 4/o wning-st reet. ti Th is evenin g t h e D uchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, ine, Pr ince of P ortuga l , the Princes of Saxe Coburg and ir in gen, will b e present at the performance at the K i ng ' s eatre. The Grand Fancy Dress Ball for the benefit of St. John's British Hospital having been , inadvertently . fixed for the same tight as the Duchess of Kent's Evening Party, the Ladies Pa tronesses , ra onth : have postponed the Ball until the middle of next .br. Bonavita, one of his Majesty's Judges at Malta, Cap- Col Ara nearbin, M ess i eurs. O ' Brien, Ball, Marryatt, Ryerson, and , had i nterv i ews yesterday with Lord Glenelg, at the onial Office. Messieurs Wallace, Clive, O'Connell, M. O'Connell, and .44.0ut fifte en ot h er Members of Parliament, had an interview Withthe Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, on the sub tc t a propos e d commun i cat i on b etween D u bli n an d Lon a, via Portdynlly aen , in 12 hours. poTrehigrie Borafzficirelin Minister transacted business yesterday at the VAB HIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. It e - -‘ev• G. Burnaby, Mrs. Burnaby, and Miss Burnaby, I„,tue D emers Hotel, B e rn ers - s t ree t, f rom B e df or d ; the Rev. v Mansfi e ld and Mrs. Mansfield, at ditto, from Nlytton Bryarn, Bedford4ll ; H enry Drummond, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, hrY Park, Surrey ; the Rev. W. Mackreth, at ditto, from ancaster ; the Rev. R. Daly, at ditto, from Dublin ; Le quis de B ar b acena, at Marshall Thom son's Hotel, Cavcn v!e-square ; M . Philip Friell, A. D. C., Ambassador from the g of 0 ude, at ditto ; J. Slack, Esq., at ditto ; Earl of Strad w4e, at th e B runswick Hotel, from Henham Hall, S u ff o lk ; uaren Noleken and Count Rosen, at ditto from the Continent. B. Tyndale DEPARTURES. , Esq and Mrs. Tyndale , from the Berners tiMotel Berners -street, for Hayling Island, Hants; the Rev. H. ad den from ditto, for Tonbridge ; the Rev. Arthur Han from di tto, for Oldficld G range , E ssex; T . T rowers, Hertford Captai n T rowe rs, from ditto, for Bayfordbury, 14'rd; Rev. Samuel Hartopp and Mrs. Hartopp, from M a shall Thomson's Hotel Cavendish-square, for Melton Singlet n, Reynolds Solly, Esq., from ditto; S. W. C. P i g ie ten, Esq., from ditto ; Peter Bourne, Esq., from ditto; t h e Rev. T. Pennant, from ditto ; Miss Chancy, from ditto; b r a ' r ein Andlau, Chamberlain to H. S. H. Duke Charles of me i t swi ck, from the Brunswick Hotel, for Paris ; Viscount e t is countess Lake, from Crawley's Hotel, Albermarle tn, for Aston Clinton, Bucks ; M. Scilliere and M. t2 ls in, from ditto, for Paris; Mr. Standish, High Sheriff of - "caster, to attend his duty at the Assizes. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. dutterold's Zampa, under the title of The Corsair, was pro e .eti at this house last night. The story is founded upon eide nts not dissimilar to those of Don Juan, and the catas tropheit is nearly the same, for a statue carries the hero without Y ti t° " the regions below," the chief difference being, that Vasn.instance he goes upon his journey supperless. The Thu ` si °E the opera was, to say the least of it, as good as the hie ft e deserved : it included Miss Shirreff, Miss H. Cawse, th ey rs • H. Phillips, Templeton, Guibelci, and Duruset, and tatf i n sa ng very faultlessly, considering it was a first represen rdTn ; the y are all so well known that it would be a waste of n s to go over them and their merits with any particularity. not c onclusion exhibiting an eruption of Mount Etna, was 62 40 1 contrived; and, but for this circumstance, the per ivat7ance would have gone off with unmixed applause ; as it n b v i we heard considerable hissing, which was made the more te n „ cis by Cooper, who came forward to state that " in con- Tir e nce of the approbation" the opera would be repeated on lii s „ l2 . rsd aY• This trifling lapsus lingua added laughter to the \v i g, but both were mixed up With considerable applause. sh:, th illk that some of the scenes might be advantageously ~v hr ‘ ened, and part of the music omitted, particularly that in its le,h something necessary to the understanding of the story 4. l eia,t e a ; our English singers Inca generally such beefective attleulation, that hardly one word 13e Q : 4 * We do not know by whom this version of Zampa has r ea r prepared for the stage, but we must own that we never took more common-place rhymes than were inserted in the 4 44 sta i e s° ngs ; the epithets were sometimes ludicrously trite HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. APPEALS.-SCARLETT AND OTHERS V. THE GOVERNORS OF LUCTON SCHOOL. This was an appeal from a decree of the Court of Ex chequer in the time of Chief Baron Alexander. The question relates to the right of the respondents to tithes, which they assert are rectorial and general tithes, but which the appellants, who are occupiers of the lands, alledge are particular tithes, and the respondents only patronists. Mr. BOTELER opened the case for the appellants. Mr. TINNEY had not concluded his argument on behalf of the respondents when the Court rose. The further hearing was adjourned to Friday.—Adjourned accordingly. HODGES ' S DIVORCE BILL. Mr. D. Por-Locx appeared at the bar in support of the petitioner in this case, Edward Hodges, Esq., of Bolton street, Piccadilly, who seeks to obtain a divorce from his wife Clara, on account of an adulterous intercourse carried en between her and T. Walsh, Esq., a Barrister. A witness proved that notice of the second reading was served upon Mrs. Hodges during the present month. She is living on the Continent with Mr. Walsh, at Rotterdam. The marriage was also proved as having taken place at Clapham, on the 28th of February, 1818. The clerk of Mr. Hodges' solicitor produced an office copy of the judgment given in an action brought by Mr. Hodges against Mr. Walsh, and the damages awarded amounted to 1,2001. Lord LYNDHURST—Have those damages been paid ? Yes, my Lord. A person named A ndis, a waiter at the White Hart Inn, Harwich, proved that a gentleman and lady arrived late there in the night of the 12th of October last, or rather early in the morning of the 13th. The family had gone to bed. They arrived, too, in a post-chaise from Colchester. They had some refreshment before retiring to bed. They both occupied one bed-room. It was a double-bedded room. 'Witness spoke to a portmanteau which they brought, having upon it, upon a brass plate, the name of " Hodges," and a lady's trunk with the in►tials " C. H." - Mr. PoLLocx here said that Mrs. Hodges's Christian name was Clara. Witness (in continuation)—The following day, about three o'clock, the lady and gentleman went off to sea in a vessel. I saw them off. Mr. Oakley examined—l am acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Hodges. I have known them for the last eight or ten years. They lived together in the utmost harmony and affection. I know Mr. Walsh, having frequently met him at Mr. Hodges'. By Mr. Hodges' directions I went last October to trace Mr. Walsh and Mrs. Hodges, about ten days after she had eloped. I went over to Rotterdam. I could not find any persons residing there of the name of Walsh, but 1 had letters to the British Consul, and he sent his secretary to assist me in tracing them out. I found them ultimately lodging at a German bookseller's. They were living under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Fre derick Wilson. I found Mr. Walsh down stairs, as well as Mrs. Hodges. She was en dishabille. They were seated at breakfast together. The immediate object of my visit was, to endeavour to persuade her to return to England, where an asylum would be provided for her at her sister's, and a comfortable allowance would be made for her. She refused to comply with these terms. Mr. Walsh and Mrs. Hodges were living there together as man and wife. The apartments they occupied were only one sit ting-room and one bed-room. I entertain no doubt what ever that they were cohabiting together. A conversation then ensued as to the day when it would be most convenient to move the second reading, and the LORD CrtANcELLort appointed Thursday for that purpose, until which day the further hearing was adjourned. lA RTS and LONDON POST-OFFICES r4 tus, NlAacti 17.—The negotiations between the total Post Offices of Paris and London have at length ell a mutual agreement with regard to the articles left nut 4 numb the Convention of 1833. Those articles, four in t,a.rnher, had been at the time proposed by the French and lat e , l te d hY the English Post Office authorities, and re & te the faculty of paying at once the whole postage (a °° the departure or on the arrival of the letter 1 Ttranchissenicnt facultatif), to the security of money o t e b er s , to the diminution of the rate of postage, and t o t f circulation of French newspapers in England, and A--"sh newspapers in France, quite free of postage. The ili,etttel3re,Parliament relative to the Post Office, which has been t 0 exist till 1834, gave no authority to the . English streaster-Gencral to agree to the four articles above ail e d General to, and thence the cause of their being left out of 4 e ?nv enti on signed in 1833. That Act of Parliament 4vi'. "%Feve r , repealed i n 1834, w i t h t h e express v i ew of ar r n the P os t master- G enera l at lib erty to enter i n t o any tiroang er nent with f ore i gn post-offices which might seem to p ow "nduciv e to pu bli c ut ili ty. L or d Granville received Parisrsto sign a new c o n v e nti o n, and Mr. Freeling came to t ict t 0 conduct the negotiations. The parties are, in ti le a greed now on every point, and yet it is impossible for r roar greed sign a new convention, for this very strange and in tie4 a ble reason. In the English Post-Office Act, passed e ) i t is very absurdly provided, that the Postmaster-G i naY, in virtue of an agreement with a foreign State, . 4 Ina +l, 1 newspapers of that foreign State free of postage su c h part of Great Britain, on its being shown that poste are allowed to circulate by post free of and Postage in the country in which they are printed Dos Published. Now, the French newspapers do pay a P ra ta g e, in order to be allowed to circulate by post in (not nee :' it is, to be sure, a mere trifle, of four centimes of t i a c i tl i tte a halfpenny). This charge is made on account Which low rate of the stamp duty on French newspapers, Poin ts is five centimes (one halfpenny.) Mr. Freeling h and to this clause of the English Act, which ties his l'een:' l , n d says to the French authorities that the only di scott s t r' Which the matter may be settled at once is by their I , rating the charge of postage on French newspapers to s i ran ee. The French Post-office authorities are ready %Tle : a new convention, but they declare it shall be only toeiatterein all the points which have been lately under ne anetlll" a re included. They are determined not to sign P est e ft ' Partial agreement. The Director of the French Pon he engages that when the new convention is agreed of four e fix five o'clock as the hour of closing, in lieu veni etl ' w inch is now the latest hour, to the immense incon eorre," and prejudice of all persons carrying on frequent Lond, l3n ndenee on matters of business between Paris and "n--Correspondence of a Contemporary. . oir Robe r t P eel ' s dinner on Saturday evening was von to the following Members :—Lord Pollington, Sir John I:ll4seocrt,e,Tid Captain Gordon, Mr. T. Gladstone, Captain oro o L ' r. P almer, Mr. A. Lefroy, Lieut.-Colonel Rusili e,.., .mr. Finch, Major-General O'Neill, Mr. Dottin, IN r. kr -111 'ng Bruce, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Packe, Mr. Mackinnon, ,rCodrington Mr. Sheppard, and Mr. East. . The Rov l'Palace at Brighton will continue to be l'peeinqieddurlnag the Spring months by Viscount and Viscountess h al f and beet family, Sir Henry healthhavin recommended and strength of th e saline es as conducive to the . agtepildren of his Lordship, who retains a suite Nil etlt °n's Hotel, when his Lordship arrives in 0 of a t p w ar n tm f e ro n m ts 114sor Castle, or Brighton. and essrs• Wallace, Clive, O'Connell, M. O'Connell, viewabout fifteen other Members of Parliament, had d an inter %, With the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesteron the Dublin and 1, 0 ', 1 , 2 _, e t of a proposed communication between tlit2eBo4 via P ortdynllaen in twelve hours. ire7eral Papers have stated the fortune left by M ,,, - ,. Letitia Bonaparte to amount to 5,000,000 francs. be ',,v..: videtttitfirto that it does not exceed 2,000,000 francs, to which ul 7iiki betWeeb six heirs. we have before us letters it .U.'ritloll7,:f a doubt as to what we advance.—Gaze e des tt, Atkletter from Arnheim of the 14th inst. says, that pr, ite la r l Ist of this month M. A. Brummelkamp (dismissed 1 31.,,, n ue ) and some inhabitants of Hattern, Oldebrock, and fine for n had been brought to trial and condemned to pay a 213 holding unauthorized religious meetings of more than - -....tj u t t s c ° l ll , sio, _contrary to articles 291 and 294 of the penal code. A . , a 4- uper. th o d . ° .nd of robbers, in number 120, is now ravaging ,4 oAsteriets of Canischa, in Hungary, under the command of teiv ed e r on half -pay. A lady of great wealth recently . re oa p,i an an letter from the Chief, commanding her, to p e n of assassination and the destruction of her property, th e Pare a repast for 80 persons of distinction. Terrified t at S ppoi o a ce, she complied with the requisition, and at the hour low ed tiled his chief of the band arrived, and was speedily o - t4keti by nlB tnarauding companions. After they . pta.re alielitest d a "Pions meal they retired without izimrnlttlng h 4tnage. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETEB, Minor 19. The Commission was opened at this place on Thursday last. There are twenty-six causes, and sixty-seven prison ers to be tried. Mr. Justice Littledale presides in the Civil Court, and Mr. Baron Bolland in the Crown Court. CROWN COURT.— William Taylor was indicted for hav ing secreted a certain post letter, containing a 101. Bank of England note, and also for having secreted two letters, the postage whereof had been paid. The Jury found him Guilty, relying on his Lordship's promise to respite him, observing that otherwise they should have found a different verdict. William Owcn was charged with stealing fifteen letters from a post-bag. On the 25th of January last, as the post boy between Bampton and Dulverton was driving the mail cart, he let his horse walk before him up the hill, when the prisoner jumped over the hedge, took his seat in the cart, and drove as fast as he could to Dulverton. The boy's friends, seeinc , him there, stopped him, and the whole con tents of the bag ' were found on his person. Guilty.—Sentence postponed. , CIVIL COURT.—IIERBEY V. DEABY AND OTHERS. This was an action of trespass and false imprisonment. The defendants justified under a warrant from the She riff to arrest the plaintiff on an action of debt. A question was raised on the pleadings, which occasioned a long dis cussion. The case altogether lasted from twelve in the morning, until nine at night. It appeared that the officers in making the arrest, broke open the panel of the plain tiff's outer door. The .Tury found a verdict against three of the defendants —Damages 20/. Only four causes have yet been disposed of. SURREY SESSIONS-MONDAY. The Jury having been sworn— The CHAIRMAN said that, although the calendar was a very heavy one, only six weeks having elapsed since the termination of the last sessions, yet-that none of the offences were marked with any peculiar features of atrocity. It was imagined by the promoters of the Bill which passed for the establishment of the Central Criminal Court, that it would have reduced the business of these sessions very materially. Such, however, did not turn out to be the case. The cases tried were of no interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHALL. Thomas Marsh was yesterday charged by Carter, an officer of Marlborough-street, with carrying about un stamped newspapers. The officer saw the prisoner on Ludgate-hill, on Satur day night, carrying a basket. He examined it, and found it contained twenty-seven copies of the Weekly Tines and eighteen of Cleave's Police Gazette. Mr. Alderman WOOD inquired if the defendant was attempting to sell any ? Carter replied in the negative. Mr. Alderman WOOD looked at the statute, and con gratulated himself that others were of his opinion, that the law did not extend where there was no sale or attempt to sell. Nothing on earth should induce him to convict for the mere possession.—The prisoner was discharged. The Act expressly uses the term " carry." BOW-STREET. Yesterday afternoon a man of very respectable appear ance was brought before Sir F. ROE and Mr. HALLS in the custody of George Leadbitter, the officer, on a warrant, charged with having written a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, the Master General of the Ord nance, containinc , threats of personal violence. When the prisoner was asked his name, he replied, " John Allday." Sir,—Twelve months and upwards have you been trifling with me, and denying me justice and restitution. You may bend a stick to a certain point and it will return back again ; but strain it beyond that and it breaks. So it is with the mind of man. The office of Ordnance, of which you are the os tensible head, has disregarded my claims, and would not insti- tute an inquiry. Shak;peare says— 1 " He takes my house when he takes the prop That cloth sustain my house. He takes my Life, when he cloth take the means whereby I live." ( Quoted literally from the letter).—l assure you of my sacred determination to seek revenge, even if it cost me my life.—l am, Sir, with all respect, your obedient servant, " JOHN ALLDAY." Mr. George Handy, a clerk in the Ordnance office, was called to prove the hagdwriting of the prisoner ; but A Solicitor who attended for him said there was no ne cessity for legal proof : the prisoner admitted being the writer of the letter, and Was exceedingly sorry that he had written it. He much regretted that such an occurrence should have taken place. The prisoner, addressing Sir Frederick, said, I am very sorry. I assure you I had no intention to act with hosti lity towards the Right Hon. Gentleman, whom I never saw before, and could not therefore have any angry feeling as regarding him. My object alone was to bring the question between the Board and me to an immediate issue. I have been a sufferer by the Board of Ordnance to the amount of 1,0001., for losses sustained. The solicitor said his client was willing to make every apology and reparation in his power, and hoped the offer would be accepted. Sir F. ROE said the question was, whether, as a magi strate, he would be justified in acceding to such a proposi tion. He (Sir F. Roe) must, under the circumstances, call upon the prisoner for good sureties. Prisoner—l have already been in custody two days, and I hope Sir H. Vivian will look over it. Sir F. ROE —Pray, what situation in life do you hold ? The prisoner was a wireworker at Birmingham, and em ployed twenty men. Sir R. H. Vivian here rose, and said—Although I agree with Sir Frederick Roc, that Mr. Allday has not come for ward and expressed that sort of contrition which,"under the circumstances, be might, or perhaps ought, to liave done ; yet, supposing that he feels more than he expresses, I will, if Sir Frederick will allow me, pass it over. I never THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 18L6. saw Mr. Allday before, and therefore can have no hostile ' feeling. Sir F. ROE—If I consent you are indebted entirely to Sir Hussey Vivian's request, and but for his strongly-ex expressed wish I should have acted very differently. You must enter into your own recognizance of 500/. to keep the peace for twelve months. Mr. Allday did so, and was discharged. James Taylor, of East-street, Lambeth, was charged by Davis with having in his possession on Saturday night a quantity of unstamped publications entitled the Weekly Times, Cleave's Gazette, and the New Weekly True Sun. The officer told the Magistrate that the prisoner kept a shop in Lambeth, and supported himself by selling cheap publications and unstamped newspapers. Mr. HALLS—As he keeps a shop for the purpose of vending such publications, he must be put back until a per son arrives from the Stamp Office. Thomas Clerk, of Stacey-street, was next charged by Shackle with having a quantity of the London Free Press, an unstamped publication, in his possession. He was ordered to be sent to the House of Correction for fifteen days. James .M'Dowall, of Long-lane, Smithfield, was charged by Carter, an officer of Marlborough-street, with having on his person some Numbers of the Sunday Times. Mr. HALLS said, as the prisoner was in the habit of dealing in such publications, he should go for fifteen days to the House of Correction. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Miss Louisa Smithers and Miss Susan Jones, a pair of elderly spinsters, came before the Bench, the first as com plainant and the latter as defendant, on a charge of assault. The parties lodged in the same house, in•Wardour-street, Miss Susan in the two pair baek cultivating the art of stay making, and Miss Louisa in the room above, devoting her energies to the manufacture of straw bonnets. For a length of time they had lived in strict friendship, but a sort of stop was put to it about a month ago by the appearance of one Mr. Samuel Hubble, who came to lodge in the front par lour and room adjacent. A kind of rivalry for the good graces of Mr. Hubble soon arose between the ladies, the one every morninr , supplying him with boiling water from her own tea-kettle, and the other taking charge of his shirt-button and stocking-darning department. The lucky Mr. Hubble, who managed to divide his attentions so equally between the ladies that each thought herself the favoured fair, lived in clover until last Thursday, the day on which the assault occurred. He had promised, it appeared, to make one at a family party with Miss Smithers, but on the very same afternoon he sent his ex cuses, pleading business of a pressing nature. The lynx eyed Miss Smithers guessed that her rival had something to do with the " pressing business," and, on hearing the footsteps of more than one in the room overhead, she went up stairs, as she said, merely to borrow a pair of bellows ; but in reality, as asserted by Miss Jones, to see who was in her apartment. Peeping through the keyhole, the com plainant caught a glimpse of the toasting-fork, with a muffin at one end and the faithless Samuel Hubble at the other. On asking for the bellows the defendant was about to hand them through a chink, when she pushed past, and came full on the dumbfoundered Mr. Hubble, who had vainly hoped to screen himself behind the door. Her first salute was laying hold of the plate of hot buttered muffins, and sensing the greasy missiles full smack at the delinquent. The teapot was about to follow, when.,she was confronted by her rival, Miss Jones, who rushed to the rescue, and in a trice compelled her to decamp, with both sides of her face decorated with etchings from her antagonist's finger nails. This was the assault complained of. A short, pot-bellied personage stepped forward, and said,' " My name is Hubble, your Lordships, and I'm truly grieved that I should have been the unfortunate cause of this serious rumpus ; but though my bran-new silk waist coat was quite spoiled, I will undertake to heal the breaches of these two ladies, if your Worships will grant me leave to retire and meditate' between them both for five minutes." Permission having been given, the little. man gallanted the parties into the passage, In a short time he returned with a mortified air, his " meditation" having not met with the success he expected. " Your Worships," said he, " I beg leave to wash my hands of this affair. I'm sure I can't be accused of being more interesting to one lady than the other, and though I was willing to strain a point or so to accommodate the busi ness, yet I give it up as a bad job." The rivals, however, had apparently come to an under standing between themselves, and the defendant having consented to pay the expensgs, they left the office together, darting looks of scorn at the too gallant Mr. Hubble, whose future prospects as to hot water and shirt buttons appeared from recent c ircumstances to be put in consider able jeopardy. Q UEEN-SQUARE. THE UNSTAMPED.—Yesterday, Mr. William Barber, a stationer and newsvender, residing in Chester-street, Ken nington-lane, was brought up in custody, charged with having a number of unstamped newspapers in his possession, contrary to the Act of Parliament. Robert Hall, one of the officers of the establishment, on the previous day saw the prisoner passing up Bridge-court, Westminster, carryinm a large blue bag. Witness, suspect inc, that it contained unstamped newspapers, stopped him, and on searching the bag discovered a number of Cleave's Weekly Tithes, unstamped ; and also several copies of Hethcrington's Twopenny Dispatch, also unstamped. Wit ness in consequence took him to the station-house. Magistrate—You are committed for two months to the House of Correction. Defendant—l beg, Sir, you will consider my family, and visit my offence with a fine. Magistrate—l have mitigated the sentence upon you one month. The defendant, who appeared shocked at the sentence, was then removed from the bar to the lock-up cell. WORSHIP- STREET. Yesterday John Neville was placed at the bar before Messrs. Brougton and Grove, charged with stealing about ninety yards of silk, valued at about 16/. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday, and said, on leaving the bar, that Mr. Reynolds did not know any of the men ; but it was folly in saying he did not give any money. Mr. Reynolds gave bail. A married man and woman, respectable tradespeople, were placed at the bar at the instance of Mr. Daniel Wood, awl-blade manufacturer, City-gardens, who appeared before the magistrates in that character described by our immor tal bard of putting an enemy in his mouth, On Sunday evening the complainant, not in a very equi poise position, entered the City Arms, in the City-road. As well as he was able he proceeded into the parlour, where, unfortunately for the prisoners, he joined their com pany. Already ripe with his exploits on the bottle, in oppo sition to better advice, he insisted on having another glass, and then ordered a bottle of wine. He not only invited his new friends to take a part ; but offered a glass to the wait ing maid, who of course accepted it. Time flew apace, when, suddenly rising from his seat, he complained of hav ing been robbed of two 10/. notes, and other money, to the amount of 47/, and charged the prisoners with the the rob bery, and who were, in consequence, taken into custody. On his way to the station-house he exclaimed, as if starting from sleep, " Ulloa, what is this ?" and, striking his pocket where his money did lay, observed " It's all right." Rebecca Whatley, the servant girl, said that the com plainant first charged her with having robbed him of 3001. The complainant did not know that he had had any wine. Mr. BROUGHTON said that no jury would listen to such evidence and convict any one. It was evident that the complainant did not know anything he was doing. The prisoners were discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday, a fellow named Gutheridgc, a watch-finisher, living in Savanna-place, Essex-street, Hoxton, was brought before Mr. LAING, by Bugg, the beadle of Clerkenwell, charged with deserting his wife. The wife of the defendant had a babe about two months old in her arms. She is a very clean and respectable young woman in her appearance, and her grief-worn looks excited much sympathy amongst a numerous assemblage of persons that were present during the hearing of the case, from whom also bursts of indignation were vented upon the defendant on his making the following exceedingly cruel and unmanly admissions. The complainant, on being sworn, stated that her hus band had not supported her for the last 14 days. Mr. LAING asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself ? Defendant (smiling)—She left me. Wife—l did not. You beat me, and turned me out of doors. Defendant—She has had some money left her, and she wants to keep it from me. Mr. LAING—Why, what of that ? Defendant—Wha t of that? Why, it is the money I married her for, and not for her looks. Mr. LAING—You are about as unfeeling a fellow as ever I heard of. How dare you stand there and talk so out rageously ? Defendant —If she had been a good wife I might possibly in time have loved her. Mr. LAING—You may depend upon it you shall suffer for this infamous conduct How much do you earn a week ? Defendant—About 9.05. Wife—He earns more than 31. 3s. Mr. LAING (to the defendant)—What do you offer for your wife's support ? Defendant—l have a good home for her to go to. Mr. LAING.—DO you think she is to be compelled to live with such. a fellow as you ? Defendant—l have al ways treated her well. Mr. LAING—Your behaviour to-day convinces me you don't know how to treat a female well. Mr. Hill, the overseer of Clerkenwell, here stated that • the defendant had frequently beaten his wife. Mr. LAING - Oh ! I've no doubt of it. What money is it that his wife is entitled to ? Mr. Hill explained that Mrs. Gutheridge's mother had lately died possessed of 3501., and having left no will behind her, the defendant had taken advantage of the circumstance to stop the payment of that sum to the complainant and her two sisters, because they would not consent to his dividing it as he liked. Mr. Riley, the landlord of the Green Man and Still, in Coppice-row, said he had many times given the complainant refuge in his house, to protect her from the violence of the defendant. He had more than once seen the blood stream ing from the complainant's nose and mouth, which had pro ceeded from the prisoner's ill usage. A solicitor who attended for the defendant, but who had hitherto refrained from making any remark, said he had been instructed to say that, until very lately, the defendant and his wife had lived very happily together. Wife—He has ill-treated me for the last two years. Solicitor—l of course cannot attempt to palliate the con duct of my client here. Mr. LAING-I should think not, indeed ; and as I shall adjourn the case until Thursday next, let me advise you to persuade him to enter into some arrangement with his wife, for he may depend upon it that I won't spare him when he comes before me again, if he has not made some amends to her. Mr. Laing then directed Bugg to ascertain on Thursday the amount of the weekly earnings of the de fendant, who he was determined should contribute pretty handsomely from them to the maintenance of his wife and child. The case was accordingly adjourned. The unfeeling re marks of the defendant seemed to give much pain to his unfortunate wife, who was nearly choking with grief. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. The betting has undergone some important alterations since our last report. Rioter has been backed freely for the Portland, and left off yesterday afternoon as good, if not a better favourite than Birdlime ; Sheet Anchor is also in increased demand, but Scott's two are on the decline. The two Derby favourites have improved three points each, and have been backed jointly at 4 to 1 ; the principal betting, however, has been on the outsiders, many of whom have been backed with considerable spirit. The closing prices yesterday afternoon were as follow : . . THE RIDDLESWORTH, P. P. 6 to 5 agst Ld Jersey's Brother to Nell Gwynne—offered THE PORTLAND HANDICAP, r.r. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Sowerby's Rioter—taken 5 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn s Birdlime—taken 6 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Sheet Anchor, Bro. to Hope—taken 6to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Revenge-7 to I taken 6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea—offered 10 to 1 agst Lord Warwick's Pelops--offered 13 to 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Tiber—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mundig—offered Pelops is expected to arrive at Newmarket to-day or to-morrow ; but we have not heard that Birdlime has commenced the journey southward. THE DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's lot—take 6 to 1 Bto 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy-8i to 1 taken 9 to 1 agst Ld Jersey's Bro. to Nell Gwynne—offered 18 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale'a Bro. to Bamfylde—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Muezzin, Bro. to Beiram—offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Maria—offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Bro. to Emiliana—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Mendizabal—take 21 to 1 33 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Slane—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Delphine colt—take 50 to 1 40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Sepoy—taken freely 1,000 to 25 agst Mr. Forth's Brother to St. Nicholas—taken 1,000 to 20 asst Lord Egremont's Emmelina colt—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Fex's Tipple Cider—taken 5,000 to 100 agst Colonel Peel's Mr. Wags—taken 2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Greville's Cicero—taken 1,000 to 10 agst Mummy winning the Derby and Leger, and Marmalade the Oaks—taken on the 20th. The following horses are on their road to Epsom :—Mr. Allen's Master of the ltolls and Promise, and Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy, Morrison, and Noodle. Mr. Greville's Derby colt, Treadmill, died on Thursday last. LATEST BETTING 5 to 1 agst Jupiter 7 to I agst Usury—taken [5 to 2 agst Red Rover 8 to 1 agst Stockport 8 to 1 agst Billinge [1 to 1 agst The Stag I 1 to 1 agst Tam«•orth I 2 to 1 agst Altamont IN THE COUNTRY. 15 to 1 agst Lady 3loore Carew 15 to 1 aget Turban 20 to 1 agst Jacob Faithful 25 to 1 agst Hectic 25 to 1 agst Tomes's Gelding 25 to I agst Amurath 50 to' a l agst Miss Charlotte HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The King's Stag Hounds meet on Friday, at Maidenhead Thicket. Mr. Codrington s Hounds on Friday at Great Ridge, Heytesbury Riding. The Craven Hounds on Friday at White Hill ; Saturday, at Stoke Cross-10. The Vine Hounds on Friday at Friday at Patworth Round Oak. The Charborough Hounds on Friday at Spetisbury Down ; Wednesday, at the Kennel-hf-p. 10. Sir J. Cope's Hounds on Friday at Hinton Hatch, Ruscomb. The Duke of Beaufort's Hounds on Saturday at Badminton, Bath Lodge. The York and Ainsty Hounds on Saturday at Marton Abbey. The Eddlethorp Hounds on Friday at Settrington Beacon. Lord Harewood's Hounds on Friday at Deightgn Bar-hf-p. 10. The Duke. of Cleveland's Hounds on Friday at Thornton Hall. The Bcdale Hounds on Friday at Scruton-11. The Lambton Hounds on Saturday at Beamish. Sir M. W. Ridley's Hounds on Friday at Middleton Bridge. The Alnwick Hounds on Thursday at New Moor House. The Hayden Hounds on Saturday at Sewing Shields. Sir W. Carew's Hounds on Saturday at Witheridge Moor. The Monmouthshire Hounds on Friday at Wernycwm. The Pembrokeshire Hounds on Thursday at Tregame Bridge. The Cambridgeshire Hounds on Friday at Brampton. Mr. Payne's Hounds on Fi iday at Fox Hall ; Saturday, at Sulby llall-qr. to 11. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Friday at Wolverton Gres: Ground-half-past 10. The Oakley Hunt on Friday at Swine's Head-qr. to 11. Mr. Drake's Hounds on Saturday at Byfield toll-bar-hf-p. 10. The Heythrop Hounds on Thursday at Kidlington Gate. Mr. Errington's Hounds on Friday at LonLangfield Caudwell. The Atherstone Hounds on Thursday at Ilopwas Bridge ; Sa turday, at .Mileham. The Knapton Harriers on Friday at Thurgarton Windmill. '[he Berkshire Hounds on Thursday at Eaton Village; Saturday at Elsford. The Essex and Suffolk on Friday at Tattingstone White Horse. The New Forest Hounds on Saturday at Milleford Bridge. Colonel H. Wyndham's Hounds on Friday at Stopham Bridge Saturday, at Ifold-half-past 10. The Norfolk on Thursday at Elmham ; Saturday, at Milcham. The Wynnstav Hounds on Friday at Knolton-at 11. Mr. Lcche's Hounds on Friday at Boleswortn Castle-lif-p.lO. Mr. Muster's Hounds on Saturday at Foss Road, Stragglethorpe. The Rufford Hounds on Thursday at Church Worsop ; Saturday. at Plafield House-half-past 10. The Sandbeck Hounds on Friday at Ki;eton Park-hf-p. 10. 1 11 r. Mcynell's on Thursday at. Cubbey Toll-gate; Saturday, a' The 11. H.'on Thursday at the Chequers, Ropley; Saturday , a t Preston Oakhills-at . 10. The M. 11. Bounds on Saturday at Fordington Field. Mr. Foljambe's Fox Hounds on Friday at Osberton-hf-p. 10. The Badsworth Fox Hounds on Thursday at Woodall Hall; Sa turday, at Crofton-hf-p. 10. The Thanet Harriers meet on Monday at Monkton Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills ; Friday, at Nash Court Hill-at 10. The Brighton Harriers meet every Monday at Patcham ; Wed nesdays, at the Race Course; Fridays, at the Dyke. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Wed nesdays, at Lewes Race Course ; Fridays, at Telscombe Tye-half past 10. The Cheshire Hounds on Thursday, at the Three Grey Hounds Saturday, at Minshull ; Monday, the 28th, at Miccledale Forest Tuesday, at the Four Lane Ends, Tarporley ; Wednesday, at Dud don Heath ; Saturday, April 2, at the Abbey Arms, Forest. The Marquis of Hastings' Hounds on Wednesday at Burton Guide Post ; Saturday, at Brcedon Village-half-past 10. Sir C. Constable's Hounds on Wednesday at Rise Mill ; Friday, at Halsham-11. Sir R. Sutton's Hounds on Thursday at Langwort Bridge ; Fri day, at North Springswood ; Saturday, at Branston Wood-1 1. The South Wold Houndson Thursday at Tower-on-the-Moor ; Saturday, at Tumby Wood. The Burton Vale Hounds on Friday, at Landshire-lane Gate. The Burton Harriers on Wednesday at Horn Hill ; Saturday, at Wotton- Mr Horlook's Hounds on Wednesday at Beckhampton Inn. The Devizes Harriers on Saturday at Ell Barrow Mr. C. Brock's Hounds on Friday at the Lickey-hf-p. 10. The Warwickshire Hounds on Thursday at Fop Farm ; Saturday, at Eatington-qr. to 11. Mr. Mure's Hounds on Thursday at Worsted Lodge-hf-p. 10. Mr. A. Smythe's Hounds on Thursday at Penton Saturday, at Wilster Wood-hf-past 10. Sir R. Hill's Hounds on Saturday at Bettisford-half-past 10. The Albrighton Hounds on Thursday at Moseley Court ; Satur• day, at Chillington-hf-p. 10. The Cotswold Stag Hounds on Friday at Frog Mill. The Cottesmore Hounds on Thursday at Grimsthorpe. Lord Yarborough's Hounds on Friday, at Brinbrook Hill ; Satur day at RoxtonWood-at 11. The Holderness Hounds on Thursday at Rise Mill ; Saturday, at Gardham-11. Mr. S. Owen's Hounds on Friday at Cressage Village-hf-p. 10. Mr. Wicksted's Hounds on Saturday at Stallington-hf-p. 10. The C. H. on Saturday at Red Post, near Sherborne. Mr. Portman's Hounds on Thursday at Stoke House-10. The East Kent Hounds on Friday at Clamberscrown-hf-p. 10. The Tickham Hounds on Thursday at Long Beach-hf-p. 10. Lord Petre's Hounds on Thursday at Burleigh Wash ; Saturday, at the Dog and Partridge, Stifford. The H am bl e d on H oun d s on Friday at Rumsden Bottom. Mr. Barnard's Hounds on Friday at Chaseley. from his evidence, always punishirg . it by confinement, unless under circumstances of great\aigravation. We have heard of some very remarkable fr4canee B of I nen '' having been reclaimed from this vice by no more severe measure than the considerate remonstrances of 'their officers ; and lest it should be supposed that we are overstating this point, we beg to take the following passage from the Report of the Commissioners : " There are some regiments in the service in which, by the prudence and skill of the Commanding Officer, and by his unremitting attention and kindness to the soldier, the use of corporal punishment has been entirely avoided, and some of those officers speak confidently of being able to Iva nage their regiment by what may be called moral discipline, rather than by severe punishments. We have no doubt that rare instances have occurred of that sort, but it is too much to assume that, in fact, this moral discipline would have been so effectual if there had not been a knowledge, on the part of the men, that, if driven to it, corporal punish ment was within the reach of their officers?' With reference to the last point of this extract, let us hear Sir Octavius Carey, when asked as fol- lows : SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. To ADVERTISERS.—N EWSP APER STAMPS.-- A Return of the number of Stamps issued for all the London Newspapers, by order of the House of Commons, on the mo tion of Mr. Charles Buller, was issued sth October, 1835, in which official document Mr. Clement, the Proprietor of the Observer, had used in one year (the 30th of June, 1834, to the 30th of June, 1835), for his two Weekly Journals only, nearly One Million of Stamps, namely, 971,125, averaging 18,675 each Sunday. Advertisers are interested in bearing this statement in mind, inasmuch as the sale, and consequently the number of readers, of the Observer, are more than equal to half a dozen added together of soma of the Sunday Papers. —Office of the Observer, 170, Strand. Mr. O'Connell has not yet fixed the day for his visit to Nottingham. Preparations are making—the Mayor has granted the use of the Exchange-rooms, which are to be fitted up to dine 400 gentlemen. On each side spacious and subkantial galleries will be erected for the accommodation of 300 ladies, and the rooms will be tastefully decorated, so as to make this the most splendid entertainment ever given in the town of Nottingham.—Review. The hurricane which raged for 48 hours has done great damage in the city and neighbourhood of Brussels. The accounts from the seaports likewise mention many accidents. At the close of some few remarks with which we yesterday entered on the subject of military flogging, as it is represented in the report of the Military Com mission, we expressed ,our thorough conviction that the punishment was more likely to degrade than to reclaim, not only the soldiers subjected to it, but every man belong ing to a body liable to such debasement. We could not refrain from expressing our dissatisfaction, approaching to disgust, at the dereliction of all consistency manifested by the Whigs in reference to this question, and while ap proving of the issuing of a commission by Sir R. Peel, after the course his predecessors had taken, we stated plainly that such a commission, to give entire satisfac tion to the country, should have been constituted so as to include at least a fair proportion of individuals favourable to the abolition of the punishment. A Ministerial print of yesterday evening assures us, with reference to the first point of our complaint, that one eminent Whig, namely, Sir Ronald Ferguson, has undergone no alteration in respect to his horror of flogging, but that there is distinct and positive proof that this gallant officer has very recently exerted him self to get rid of this punishment. The Ministerial print goes on to say, that it " doubts not that the rest of the gentlemen on whom the Times casts a slur are equally misrepresented." In this last remark we are inclined to agree, for all the names we yesterday men tioned are in one and the same predicament, andwe have to apologize to Mr. Spring Rice for not having given him his due place in that list of consistent politicians. But our Ministerial contemporary states that Sir Ro nald Ferguson has very recently exerted himself to get rid of this punishment. When and where were these exertions made ? Certainly not on the occasion of the last division in 1834, by his vote. If it be by his pen, in some pamphlet addressed to the public, or memorial submitted to the Government, how shamefully neg lectful have the morning and evening organs of Whig gery been, to allow the humane exertions of the Gal lant General in the cause for which he has thus re cently " exerted himself " to remain unnoticed ! How ever, as we are given to understand that the Whigs " will be found, when the day of trial comes, the steady advocates of their former opinions," we will not be too inquisitive as to any perplexity of opinion under which they may be now labouring. To return to the Report of the Commission. In the following extract we agree, though not from the same reasons which have, to all appearance, influenced the Commissioners : " There is, however, one suggestion which has been made by those who have a strong feeling against the use of corporal punishment, to which we must advert—namely, that the power of inflicting it should be confined to the army upon actual service, and entirely taken away as re spects the regiments quartered in these islands and the colonies. We cannot recommend the adoption of this sug gestion. If this power be taken away at all, the rule must be universal, and applied to all circumstances equally. The soldier must not be told that that power cannot be per mitted to exist while he remains in a situation where he is called upon for comparatively easy duty without risk, but that from the moment he is required hourly and daily to to undergo the severest hardships and privations, and to risk his life in the service, he is to be subject to that punishment, which you have declared. to be degrading, and calculated to impair and to destroy those moral feel ings upon which you have to depend for the energy and exertions which are the foundations of the military glory of his country, and the success or its arms. To place him in such a position would be both inconsistent and unjust, and cannot be defended." With reference to all such partial schemes of aboli tion as that just indicated, it may be generally remarked that they were proposed by gentlemen who, unable to carry a final repeal of the existing law, were anxious from time to time to weaken the system now in force, in the hope of gradually effecting their original object. Of the policy of' such a line of proceeding we shall here say nothing. But as regards the particular modifica tion noticed by the Commissioners, we must say, that they do not appear to have put their own case so strongly as by the evidence of the Duke of Wellington, taken before them, they might have done. At page 328 of the evidence, as printed by command of his Majesty, the following question is put' to the Noble Duke : " Would it not be exceedingly prejudicial to the discipline of a regiment, if it was known to the soldiers of that regi ment, that during their remaining in Great Britain and Ire land they were not subject to corporal punishment, but, from the moment they set their foot on board ship to proceed either to the colonies or actual service, they would then become subject to a punishment considered so degrading in England as to be abolished ?" His Grace answers— ' I should think so. But there is one thing which should always be borne in mind, that is that in reality the army think little of this punishment. If it was abolished entirely in England, and kept up in the colonies, the effect would be very injurious. Going to the colonies, say what we will, is never very agreeable. We consider and repre sent it a matter of honour—we are going abroad ; and there is among the commanding and other officers of the regiment a desire that it should be reckoned a good thing. But if it was attended by corporal punishment being revived , having been put down in England and in Ireland, I do not mean to say that there might not be an additional motive for feeling an objection to go, and that there might not be some in stances of mutiny and difficulty in getting the soldier abroad from the fear of having, or under the pretext of the fear of having, this punishment inflicted." This answer contains matter to which, in a future stage of this subject, we may perhaps have occasion to recur. Here we only wish to observe, that the Duke of Wellington is of opinion that the retaining the punishment in the colonies or on actual service after its abolition at home, might lead to instances of mutiny and difficulty in getting the soldier abroad. The argu ment is certainly good against a modified abolition of the punishment, and as such we gratefully accept it ; but it does not bear on the only point which the public mind will now entertain—the entire abolition of flog ging in the army. The Commissioners denounce what they term one of the most " common arguments" for the total abolition of flogging—namely, that so long as it is permitted, the officers of the army will not be in duced to use their best exertions to avoid its use. They tell us that the whole tenour of the evidence is contrary to any such hypothesis, and that officers of all ranks speak of it as an evil rendered necessary by the description and - prevailing habits of our soldiers, and more especially the vice of drunkenness. On this point we shall simply say, that we are as incapable of believing that a British officer would from disposition resort to this punishment, as we are from believing that the British soldier should be subjected to it. But if officers in the army entertain; as we are willing to think they do, a strong repugnance to the exer cise of this savage authority—if they have of late years, as we liave all reason to know, so far de ferred to public opinion as to afford practical evidence that, as compared with other times, it may be in a great degree discontinued,—if thus the feelings of all ranks in the service would be con sulted by removing this custom, can it be reasonably retained on the mere ground of the tendency of the soldier to an indulgence, which, as the Commissioners say, pervades the population of the country to a great extent—namely, drunkenness ? That this vice, in the instance of the soldier, as in that of the citizen, is the fruitful source of misconduct of various kinds, no one will be disposed to deny; but we have been given to understand from good authority that a man offending in this respect is often so treated as to lead him to aggravate the circumstances of his original offence. At page 35 of the evidence we find the following question put to an officer examined :—" Are you aware that by far the greater part of the punishments in flicted in the British army arises from offences com mitted by soldiers in a state of drunkenness ?" An swer—" Yes. Insubordination, insolence, and so forth, in nine cases out of ten arise from drunkenness. On t his point, I should wish to mention a very salutary regulation of the French army. Among us, non commissioned officers are not sufficiently cautious about speaking to a man while under the influence of liquor. Nov, in France no one is allowed to speak a word to a man who is drunk, and whatever he him self may say is passed over." But under any view of the case, whether this last expedient be practised or not, surely the insubordination, or, in other words, in solent bearing, of a drunken ,man towards his supe riors, could be adequately punished by confining him under circumstances of severity with reference to diet and labour. And to us it appears that this latter mode of punishment, rigorously enforced, would be the most likely to reclaim the man from his vicious indulgence. Sir Octavius Carey so treated the offence, a s we learn it was well-known in the regiment that in certain cases punishment (flogging) would be inflicted?" Answer—" No, Ido not think it was. I made a point to persuade the men, as far as possible, that I would not punish. The men always knew that I had the power of punishment, but the general principle on which I endea voured to maintain discipline was as much as possible to persuade them that I would not punish—that I did not like the punishment." In the evidence of the Duke of Wellington we have a remarkable instance of the effect of discriminating leniency. A non-commissioned officer had been guilty of a very grave offence, Vut on the ground of his ge neral good character the Duke remitted his sentence, and was subsequently enabled, by the conduct of the man, to give him gradual promotion till at length he became a field-officer. We have no wish to determine so important a question as this upon individual in stances, but when they are so constantly resorted to on the one side, we think ourselves entitled to a similar advantage on the other. Should our space permit, we shall go at length into the whole question of the crimes and punishments in the French service, and in our own, and we hope to show that the result of the comparison is favourable to the abolition of flogging in the army. It is with sincere gratification that we announce that the Sheriffs of the city of London ap peared last evening at the bar of the House of Com mons with a petition from the Mayor and Common Council, praying for the entire abolition of Bogging in the army. As the Easter recess will intervene before this question can be brought forward, on going into committee on the Mutiny Bill, there will be time for very extensive manifestations of the feeling of the country in petitions to Parliament. We hope the op portunity will not be lost.—Times. The Report from the Commissioners for inquiring into the system of Punishments in the Army, will not, we think, give satisfaction to the country. We admit that the question is by no means of such easy solution as many persons seem to think. But the Commis sioners have unnecessarily narrowed it, by assuming that soldiers must always be raised in a certain manner in this country, and that men so raised can only be kept in order by the present system of punishment. " The great body of the recruits (we are told), consists of the inhabitants of the large towns and manufacturing districts, and of agricultural labourers ; which last appear generally to enter the army in consequence of some family difficulty, or some scrape in which they are involved, or from some temporary difficulty of obtaining work, and be come the best and most trust-worthy soldiers, when they have undergone the necessary preparation of the drill. Those who come from the manufacturing districts and large towns, are too frequently the most idle and dissolute, and require all the means in the power of their officers to cor rect the intemperate and vicious habits in which they have indulged, and to teach them that subordination is the first duty of the profession into which they have entered." It bad been suggested by Mr. HUME, in his evi dence, " as the means of inducing the educated sons of individuals, in comfortable situations of life, to enter the army, provided corporal punishment was also abo lished," " that a portion of either one-third, one-half, or two-thirds of the first commissions, as may be de termined upon, should be granted to men who have gone through with credit the gradations of private, corporal, and non-commissioned officer." What do the Commissioners say to this ? That the giving commis sons to non-commissioned officers is by no means un frequent—that the Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsula, was in the habit of frequently ap pointing no n-commissioned officers to the vacant commissions ; but that neither the Duke nor Lord Hill give a very favourable account of the success of these appointments. We are then told that one of the essential requisites hitherto in the army has been that its officers should be of a station and education to fit them for any society in which they may be placed—that all officers in our service are upon an equal footing—that they all meet daily toge ther at the mess table, and that the frequent admission to it " of persons who are of an age to have contracted habits from their former modes of life and the so ciety in which they have lived, would be very likely to destroy the present system of social intercourse alto gether. Now if the object be to draw the line be tween the officer and the soldier so strict that the offi cers and soldiers shall constitute two castes, there may be some force in what the Commissioners say. But the question, as we take it, is not what would be most gratifying to the aristocracy, but whether an efficient army could be maintained without degrading punish ments ? It may be of more importance to gratify the feelings of the Aristocracy than to put an end to degrading punishments. This is a question which we are not now called upon to discuss ; but we contend that the objections of the Commissioners ate wide of the point under consideration. The Com missioners first draw a strict line between the Officers and the common soldiers, which leads necessarily to the confining the latter to the lowest class in society. The habits of an individual accustomed to move in such a class to the middle of life, are certainly not such as to allow him to enter a mess with satisfaction either to the higher bred or to himself. But why may not respectable and well-instructed young men enter the British army as well as other employments ? Were it once understood that the soldier could rise to the highest grades, instead of the low and vicious classes of which our army is now formed, and which, perhaps, being without higher motives of action, must be re strained by severity of punishment, we should see spirited, ambitious, and well-educated young men eagerly entering the army as common soldiers. The habits of these men not being low, they would enter the mess on terms of equality with the others. We never heard that in the army of the Common wealth, one of the most effective that England ever possessed, there was any strict line drawn be tween the Officers and privates. In fact, almost all the Officers of any note were men who bad risen from the ranks. Let us not be misunderstood. We are not discussing the relative advantages of an army officered by an Aristocracy, with the tanks com posed of what the Commissioners term the sweepings of our manufactung towns—and of an army in which the distinction between the officer and soldier should not be impassable, and consequently in which honour would pervade all ranks. All we mean to say .is, that the Commissioners have not put the case fairly, by arguing as an objection to the raising men from the ranks, that the habits of the men now in the ranks un fit them for associating with gentlemen. Only let it be understood that no degradation attaches to entering the army, and the best description of young men will be eager to join its ranks. The military spirit in young men is generally strong, and the disgrace alone of joining a body in which there is little or no hope of promotion, and associating with people of low habits, is often hardly sufficient to repress the spirit. But elsewhere, will fail. half-measures in the army, as If it be wished to dispense w ith corporal punishments, there must be i a revolution the whole o f our mili tart' systein. — i liornino Chronicle. ba n t d u o r t e i ' Notwithstand in g. the confidence with whi c h the pro jectors speak of their success, and the Joca paltry ped we never can wilt ever so tilin; of the Corporations f' i of to rsuade ourlat the Lecr ' Pe insanely lost se to ves all th sense ots is duty as to admit b , e for t he present, at least the entry of railroads and loco motive engines within ,the. streets of the metropolis. Though our objections to such schemes are permanent and exclusive, It is sufficient for the present to resist them on temporary grounds. 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