The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-21 00:00:00

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her
intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross
on the undermentioned soldiers of her Majesty's army,
whose claims to the same have been submitted for her
Majesty's approval, on acconnt of acts of bravery
performed by them in India, as recorded against their
several names—viz. :

9th Lancers.—Pensioned Sergeant H. Hartigan—for
daring and distinguished gallantry in the following
instances :—At the battle of Budle-ke-Serai, near Delhi,
on the Bth of June, 1857, in going to the assistance of
Sergeant H. Helstone, who was wounded, dismounted,
and surrounded by the enemy, and, at the risk of his
own life, carrying him to the rear. On the 10th of
October, 1857, at Agra, in having run unarmed to the
assistance of Sergeant Crews, who was attacked by four
rebels. Hartigan caught a tulwar from one of them
with his right hand, and with the other hit him on the
mouth, disarm©d him, and then defended himself against
the other three killing one and wounding two, when he
was himself disabled from further service by severe and
dangerous wounds.

Ist Battalion, sth Regiment.--Sergeant Robert Ewart
—For conspicuous devotion at Alumbagh, on the 24th
September, 1857, in proceeding under a heavy and
galling fire to save the life of Private E. Deveney,
whose leg had been shot away, and eventually carrying
him safe into camp, with the assistance of the late
Lieutenant Brown and some comrades.

Ist Battalion, sth Regiment.—Private Patk. APTIale
—For conspicuous bravery at Lucknow on the 2d October,
1857, When he was first maa at the capture of one of the
guns at the Cawnpore Battery; and again, on the 22d
December, 1857, when, by a bold rush, he was the first to
take possession of one of the enemy's guns, which had sent
several rounds of grape through his company, which was
skirmishing up to it. On every occasion of attack
Private Wilale has been the first to meet the foe,
amongst whom he caused such consternation by the
boldness of his rush, as tb leave little work for those who
followed to his support. By his habitual coolness and
daring and sustained bravery in action his name has
become a household word for gallantry among his
comrades.

" Those are the seasons of the year for suicides," said
Voltaire, "when the East "Wind is constantly blowing.
That wind is the evil genius of our island. The very
beasts suffer from it, and hang their heads in despair.
Those who are sufficiently robust to preserve their
health duping the prevalence of this accursed wind, at
least lose their temper. Everybody wears a sullen face ;
and the minds of men aro predisposed to the most des-
perate resolutions. It is au absolute fact, that it was
during an east wind that Charles I. was decapitated, and
James 11. dethroned. If you have any favour to ask
at Court," ho added, in my ear, "never try your luck,
except when the wind is in the west or in the south."
nee a Week.

LORD GIIESTERFIELD AND HIS LETTERS. Lord
Chesterfield, when lord-lieutenant of Ireland, being
asked one day whom he thought the greatest man of
his time, said : "The last man who arrived from
England, be he who he might." Lord C. is supposed to
have had Johnson in his thoughts, in his description of
a very awkward literary man, in ono of his letters to
his son. When Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his
Son" were published, Dr. J. said they inculcated the
morals of a strumpet and the manners of a dancing-
master. Some other wit has not unhappily called
them the " Scoundrel's Primer." After all, these
"Letters" have been, I think, unreasonably decried;
for supposing a young man to be properly .guarded
against the base principles of dissimulation, &c.,
which they enforce, he may derive much advantage
from the many minute directions which they contain,
that other instructors and even parents don't think it
worth while to mention. In this, and almost everything
else, the world generally seizes on two or three obviously
ridiculous circumstances, talks a great deal about them,
and passes over all the valuable parts that may still be
found in the work, or in the character they are criticising,
I have heard persons laugh at the noble writer's laying
weight upon such trifling matters as paring nails, or
opening a dirty pocket handkerchief in company. Yet,
trifling as these instructions are, I have observed these
very people greatly negligent in those very particulars.
Lord Chesterfield, however, by his perpetual attention
to propriety, decorum, biense'ance, &c., had so veneered
his manners, that though ho lived on good terms with
all the world, he had not a single friend.—Prior's
" Life of Malone."
ACTION AGAINST A HUDDERSFIELD TRADESMAN FOR
SLANDER.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, the
case of Brierley v. Hurst was tried. This was an action
brought by the plaintiff, a widow, who keeps the Acorn
Inn, at Huddersfield, against the defendant, a flock
dealer, of the same place, for slanderous words, imputing
to her unchastity. The case for the plaintiff was, that
the defendant came into her house on the 4th of April
last, being then a little the worse for liquor, and got
into a dispute with a customer, who left the house in
consequence. She remonstrated with him, and they
laid down 10s. on a bet, that did not come off, that the
customer had left in consequence of the defendant'ssed
conduct. A dispute arose, and then the defendant used
u
the words complained of, " I know Y
have heard you talked about. I know:teu trfarilietnpid of mine
mr
who has had intercourse with y
es." A
person named Marshall met the defendant several
the following
and morning, and asked him if he
consequence of t
e arecollecte couldd
prove it. what he had
said, when he repliedhis m
f n didillhepoutition on her character the
weekly receipts had
off £4 or £5 a week, and her
barmaid had left. The
defence was that the defendant
had said the plaintiff was a discreditable woman in
reference to her remarksh about the bet ; but that he had
to e rthatshe had had any improper in ter-
never imPutcd
him. The defendant, however, ad •
n" with • mated he
eo-- e
h d he knew something about her, and would tell,
only Ri sit would implicate some one else. His Lordship,
in
summing up, said that the plaintiff had fully vindicated
her character, and there was not the slightest justification
for the slander. The jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff--damages 440.

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CAVALRY AND MODERN ARMS OF

PRECISION.

It is no secret, we believe, in British military circles
that the French have devised, and are carrying into
practice, a totally new system of cavalry tactics. The
system has been devised to the intent of solving the
problem so often set of late, and more easily propounded
than answered—How are cavalry to be made useful in
future ? The difficulty is of a kind that can be appre-
hended by non-professional people. It may be simply
stated : Ever since the period when Frederick the Great
abolished the cavalry system—if system it could be called—
of horsemen drawing up in line to fire volleys, and taught
cavalry to rely on the power of cold steel rather than on
powder and lead, cavalry have been of little use against
any but broken troops. The exigencies of modern war-
fare, since the Prussian military revolution up to the gene-
ral adoption of rifled small arms and rifled cannon, have
required that cavalry should be massed out of harm's way
until the accomplishment of sufficient disorganisation
in the enemy's ranks should give promise of a suc-
cessful swoop. Starting with this assumption--one
almost self-evident—military tacticians have pretty
accurately calculated the distances at which cavalry
might consider themselves to be out of harm's way
under the, contingencies of warfare. To indicate those
distances precisely would lead us too ankh bite
detail ; nor is it necessary for the purpose *0 have
in view. Suffice it to state that the distances have
been proved compatible with giving effect to the
crowning effort of cavalry. It has been proved
that cavalry can—or rather could—be massed far
enough away to be tolerably out of danger, yet still ,
not so far away but they could pour down and charge
before broken troops could rally. With the introduction
of modern arms of precision circumstances have altered,
Of course it is competent, even in those days of long
range guns, large and small, to place cave*. at
distances beyond the power of war missiles to harm theta,
This is possible, but then where would the protected
cavalry be ? Not on the field of hattle, assuredly,
except that field were one of very exaggerated dimen-
sions—not sufficiently near the enemy to take advantage
of his wavering and disorganisation.
One has been accustomed to laugh and make merry
at the expense of the Arab style of warfare.. Clouds of
horsemen dashing about, discharging their pieces at full
gallop—such k the Bedouin style of cavalry taeties.
European military men have treated of it with no little
scorn—the French not less than others. Nevertheless,
to this Bedouin mode of warfare the French cavalry
are now accommodating themselves. = Practically, it
seems assumed that heavy cavalry aro te disappear, as
being incompetent to perform the, rapid evolutions
now deemed necessary. Leaving to our professional
contemporaries the task of discussing to how little or
how great an extent they consider the new French
system available, we may now state that the system, for .
good or for ill, seems bound up with the destinies of
some really good breech-loading carbine. The French
have devised one. Now, on this side of the Channel
the point has been taken for granted that the cartridges
are too expensive for employment in_ warfare.
The idea of using them, consequently, has never entered
the brains of our military men. They have been
tabooed altogether. Now, cartridges of this 'sort
are intended to be fired from the new French car-
bine. They are copper-cased, exactly , like the
cartridges for some time employed in connection wits
one variety of our sporting breech-loaders—Lancaster's:
With suck a carbine loading is very rapid. Foaling
never occurs, so to speak, and practice is satisfactory.
Whether troops can make good shooting whilst gallop-
ing rapidly remains to be seen. The idea is revolu-
tionary and bold. Horsemen perpetually isa motion,
and single, will puzzle even modern arms of precision_
But these are matters for professional debate, as wet
have stated. Our intention was to indicate the fact of
a new system inaugurated, and to describe the weapon'
by the aid of which the system has been renderedi
possible.—Notating Post.

The total cost of printing reports and papers, pre—
sented by command during the session of 1859, was-
L 19,706. This is exclusive of the printing ordered by:
the two Houses of Parliament.

POLITICAL FEELING IN BELFAST.—The Radical&
have no hope in Belfast. The Conservatives apieired.
on the hustings on Friday without an opponent. Efforts.
had been made to divide the Conservatives of Belfast on.
sectarian grounds. It was alleged that the Episcopalians.
laboured to exclude Presbyterians from the representa—
tion. But the attempt at division has utterly failed,
Dublin Daily Express.

THE SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS.—The bicentenary .
celebration of the formation of the gallant regiMent was•
commemorated by a grand banquet on Tuesday evening,. 4.
at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's,
.at which.
the Duke of Cambridge and a host of gallant spirits.
formerly and now connected with the regiment assisted.
The sergeant-majors belonging to the regiment lined the
staircase and approaches to the banquet-room, which
was tastefully decorated by the well-worn colours of
the famed corps. General his Royal. Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., 8.P., G.C.8., as
Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards, presided on T
the occasion, supported on each side by some of
the most distinguished officers in the service. The :1
Duke of Cambridge having proposed "The Heath
of her Majesty the Queen," which was drunk with due goy
applause, the Duke's health was proposed by Colonel ~v
Ridley. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
in reply, gave, in an eloquent address, a recapituhition • /LI
of the great services the regiment of Scots Fasilise
Guards had rendered, when called upon, to their Sove-
reign and country; and pronounced the regiment to be
second to none in the military annals of the country.
The Duke, during his speech, was repeatedly cheered.
" The Prince Consort," formerly colonel of the regiment;
" His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the
rest of the Royal Family," followed. Other routine•
toasts succeeded, and shortly before twelve the company
broke up. The non-commissioned officers and men of
the regiment would celebrate the event yesterday, at, the
Crystal Palace, through the liberality of the officers of
the regiment.
MURDER OF A' FRENCH MILITARY STUDENT.—A
frightful crime was committed a few days ago by one of
the pupils of the Military Cadet College at Toledo. At
daybreak all the cadets went to the excursion grounds to
practise firing, and, according to custom, they were
accompanied by the surgeon and some of the hospital
men, among whom was a sergeant and a corporal.
After going through several movements the pupils were
drawn up in line for firing, the surgeon and the hospital
men standing at some little distance in front. The
cadets loaded their muskets, and at the word of corn-
mend fired a volley, which was followed immediately by
a loud shriek, and the corporal abovementioned- was:
seen lying on the ground writhing as if in the agonies. .
of death, having received a severe wound. in
.the.
abdomen. Immediately after the discharge, one of
the officers heard a cadet exclaim, "Poor fellow, it was 40
not you I aimed at." He was put under arrest, and
when the pupils had been marched back to the college, '6'
was brought before a court-martial composed of the
superior officers of the establishment, and underwent an
examination. He admitted that his intention was to
kill the sergeant, but obstinately refused to state what
were his motives for such an act. He said that he had
taken a good aim at his man, but that at the moment of
his firing his arm had trembled from a sudden emotion..
In consequence of this avowal he was conducted into
the court-yard, where the pupils had been drawn up,
and in their presence formally expelled from the college,
and handed over to the police authorities,, who 'placed
him in prison. He is a young man of seventeen, and,
like all the cadets, belongs to one of the first families in
the country. The corporal is &dared to have no chance
of recovery. The musket had been loaded with a stone

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