The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-17 00:00:00

ARMY REFORM.
To The Rditor.

Sir,—Will you kiaily publish the following for tho
benefit of the army and the country A treat deal has
been written and said shout flogging and army reform
etc., ac. Having studied the army for over 63 years, I
will defy any man or any dn., of to n to know what ksi d
of reform is required, ludo a he or they have become •
perfect soldier by going thr ugh all the degrees of a
arrack and barrwk-room ltf.. Kinines, is better than
thii cat. When I joined the 6.12 Innidkilling Dragoon, in
1827 the drill, the tryanny, and the flogging that was
carried on all the year round warn unbear ; min were
dogged for very small offence., or, I iniAt say, for no
offence. I was in the regiment icily three days when I
was obliged to witness two as good aoldiets as there were
in the regiment tied up and receive 200 lashes each, for no
crime. I might say the sergeant that confined the two
men swore a down-right lit on them at the court-martial.
After that disgraceful sight I resolved in my mind, if
poasilde, to become a parfait soldier, and ill ever became
a sergeant, to try and see if I ceuld not manage men
ender my control without (logging. I soon became a
sergeant, and was sent to E troop, formerly commanded
in Captain Portman, then commaudid by the late Colonel
More. The t-o.ip had got into such a state that it was a

Isgr C. Li the regiment, and tolilir no I ea, I was co,
oil red the only inan in the regiment 11l to manage them.
T .e first t %so m.qn that I put in their proper places was my
troop sergeant-major and my comrade tergean,. I te-a
bound th:st the whole fault of the troop being in such a
had et sto ly with tieon. My troop sergeant-major w
reduced to a sergeant and frees that to a priest., the
-ergeant took his discharge. Good sample, sttictntr..,
kindnest, justice, and mercy Won hroo,iht the troop to 1.•
the heat behaved troop in the regiment. It 1831.
on the troop leaving K linhurit h for Sheffield. the coosman,l •
trig Alger told the men for their good e •ndloet Is would
give the troop 12 months at out-iiiert
b hayed tlvinattives he would give them looe•er, if pos-thle.
Dun ig the time We were at tihefBTl,l unit h eke out in
It., town that was likely to end like the Brist..l riot. My
••fliesrs were at a boll at the Etrl Yozwilliams's. 6 miles
from Sheffield; my troop aergeant-major was ill: 1 to It
the rueponobility on myself, anr: took the troop to the
town, led them through showers; of brick hats .dol stoops
to the scene of the riot, and with the aid f th.• pohcr,
captured the whole of the ringlets lent eed .teccl the t,wn

from desuuclion, without • maxi. trati. or an neVer. N A
• eingle person was hurt, except some a oure..ivce front
the bricks and stoma. For my &indite% •oid tho conduct
of the troop u•der my coromand, • .t .r.t prim-.
°nicer, got 11 eprimand fri.m the iordi •chief
. .

(.1. leaving the barrack without en oilier. For our gores
conduet we got an extra 12 ru lithe t • o years out in the
niece of sae. We returned to bra !old rs in April,
with the stole good character ai we lei! Etiblear.h,
without any tt •gging. If men were pr merit* ii alleged and
properly treated there would be ho c ,•s• in f-r shooting
or flogging men at home or on to c . (I ',era] Ball
commanded a regiment for 11 ye .•••• I 0 .t. o.gging
captains hive commanded ships with -or ro
could all commanders if they liked. I . flare, ..nd not-
commissioned others wire to follow toy en •: ii. 4 strive
to do to others as I would that they elooll I do to roe, II
th •y did their duty in a straightforward honeat lay, is
I did urine, they woul•I not be troubled with inut'uy or
insubordination, or desertion. and very 1. • • •'ruekennese
if any. I could always get duty dove w.rhout treub e
when I had got good remilile officere to 4.17,1 with.
Officers and non-commissioned officers must be r. ors
whose conduct, bearing, and manner ensure respect, they
isu the just and firm, yet kind amt merciful; 'key ought
to be thorough musters of their profes.i on. With rs evict to
mutiny, insubordinetion, and desertion. I c tr. confidently
aesert that it is forced upon the men by fe.d trienegemeer
and by the tyranny of ,fficer• and none!oromisal fueil
officers; in the first place non-cornmissimie 4 offie•re are to
blame, particularly young corporals ; in the next place
officers are to blame, In not looking prop••rla rafter the np.n
under their command. The generality of noc-commissioned
officers have got too much of th, It oen way, troop
sergeant-majors in particular. The greatest part of the
drunkenness that takes pl Ant is owing v bid neenagenient,
the authorities take the wrong steps to redeem drunkards,
or to prs vent it, in short., they rather eecourage it with
the present regulation.. If the authorities mean to have
a better class of men in the army, and to keep them in
the army, flogging touch be abolished. No good officer
or non-commlmioned officer wishes to have • man flogged
let his character be ever no bad. There muet be • different
mode of management than at the present. The petty
tyranny that is carried on in regiments roust be removed;
no increase of pay or those fine promises held out to
deserving rutin will get them; recruits may be got, treat
them as they ought to be treated; then, and then only,
will they gat plenty of good men. Go xl soldiers do not
e ant to be made officers, as roma people fancy. I was
°Here 1 • cemueis.ion if I would rem on in the regiment.
I told any commanding eilic••r by giving • poor men like
myself a oimmiesion it even be a curse to me, it would
make • beggar of mmn the place of a grztlemen. Men of
my class are 011 t waited for duty eel es in oar army, our
bodliers do not in einem' re-pect offi ere that rise tram ,
the reeks, let them be ever so good or kin-'. Let us have
gentlemen that will treat men wit', reepect. kirojesse,
puttee, end mercy. Comrnanding-efil err amee a mat
mistake in hay ng so much and 1.11,11 king drills whin
men once know their arm. When General Sir Charles '
Dalleac iron •cted the Inuiskilling Dragoons at Dundalk,
in 1829. he t ild Color el Keane that so much drill ens
enough to break menu heart*, and to make them hate the
service. Men ste uld be encouraged as much as 'venial*,
and to be instructed to practice self-drill and self-ex .mina-
tion in a room for the purpose. I learnt the greatest •
pirt of toy drill and duty in my own room I will give
three init•nces out of many why It igging should he
abolished :—I knew • soldier that belonged to the old 23rd
Light Dragooes gat 300 lashes for getting • drink of eater
from a woman clone to my father's door, when tire
regiment warn returning from Biecornbe Downs to
Railipole Barracks, after • long field-day, early in 1828.
Colonel Keane ordered a eruct-martial on a corporal ands
private ; he was doterinined to nettle the corp rut to the
ranks, and to give tiri private 900 lashes" The president
and other members of the court knew that the men were
innocent, and their verdict was "not guilty." The oolonel
sent these beck throe times to reconsider t heir venlice when
they told the colonel that they shou'l not alter thcir
verdict, and he was obliged to rebuts.: the men. On the
11th of March. 18E. 30 disrnounted ii, in left Nottingham
Barracks for Ipswich Barrack., wow- re wider the charge '
of a mourited corporal. VI o • it well in) t I we arrived at
the balf-way-house, while he was getting acme refresh-
meta the major arrived with the head-quarter tro•irs.
The corporal had disobeyed the orders he received on
leaving the barracks, aunt to save himsra he told the
major • lie, he reported 95 of us to the mai r for dis-
obedience of order.; we were all mtrobe I prisoners into •
Melton Mowbray,
_there were five good old coldiers with
us, they were locked up for the night, arid us young
—ddiers got • severe r•pritnand. When we arrived at
Ipswich the live old soldiers were sentenced to carry the
whole of thtir kit, b. Its, and arms for 21 days in Ore
noddle of the barrack-yard. I attempted ta def. nil myself
and the test, but w t rid to hold my tongue or sire I should
get • flogging. If we bad been on service and had come
under the Reovo-marshall, nothing would hare sovcd our
Poor backs from 300 lashes each; we were as intro Cot as •
child unborn, Minty a good man has been priniabed when
innocent. I base known many a good soldier severely
punished through brutes of homes. No amount of money
or honour would have kept me In the serVlos, t i be
tyrannised over by °filmes that did not know their duty.
Ti was • young man to-morrow I would not join the
army on the present rules and regulations for any amount
of money or honour. The Liberal Government ought to
have abolished flogging wh•-n they were in office, and if
the present Government do nit abolish flogging let the
voters do it at the general election, and let them take the
Compulsory V•ccina'ion Act In hand to get it abolished.
My character and ability has been well-known to some
members of the lion-, r f Lords and Commons, as well as
different yeomanry cavalry regimente in Scotland.
Stigma CflOelt•it,
IR, Park street, Weymouth.
Formals Samar elk In.il.bllliegDragoons.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
(From "ma.)

Tag Cos:sup:gam 01, nig enStri.--Chairman of Home
Rule Meeting. "'The chair' will not dispute the point
with Misther O'Puniniel—" The riquittuel. " The
chair' bath bett-r not. oulesa he loikes to st:p out. and take
his coat off !!"—[Confusion--eseunt fighting].
Aitcniasto's DOR AND Suttmo.—Genentl ercalock—as
we learn from Archibald Forbes's scathing article in the
Ninefsentk Ceillis,y of Lord CheMndor de conduct of the
Zulu campaign— wss always writing to the commissariat
for" pepper." Ile, like his Chief, Lord Clielmsfonl, lias
got it now from our own correspondent, whatever he may
have done from the commissariat . .

QUITE Ink nuarr rum —How the United States
representatives " extended the courtesy of their house to
Mr. Parnell.—By staying out of it—Ale if when they
had got him to the house, they could have kept him
there

wa.c.c, •
AIR. Pcicll's notice of motion (ss soon as possible).—
"To ask Mr. Parnell bow much he would take to stop
where he is!"
IDEA OF AN ADVANCED RITUALIST of a social turn and
confirmed smoking habite—Cigar-sahes for Ash—Wednes-

da-4.LTITE UNIMPORTANT —Thompson (interrogatively, to
beaqteous but haughty Damsel, whom he has just helped
to alight). " I be your pardon t"—lleughty Damsel.
" I did net speak !"—Thompson. o oh—l thought you
said 'Thanks I"

AN APPEAL TO JOHN BULL'S IMAGINATION.
" Mr. Gladstone has never addressed himself to the
imagination of the British people, only to their interesta."
—Petals.
John Bull, you are but a Ikeotian chap.
Beery and bovine. bashful, blunt, bucolic;
Shackled by moral figments, and the map,
You scarce appreciate Fancy free and frolic.
Her rapt outpourings, which you call clap.trap.
Though couched in language high and hyperbolic,
You're apt to flout with foolish indignation ;
In short, dear John, you lack imagination.
But now 'tis time the little that you have
Should be stirred up—l'd rather not say tickled.
Too long you've funked the Conqueror's bloody glides,
And for pretence of right and justice 'tickled.
Prosy punctilio by which the Slav
Will ne'er be, as he should be, soundly pickled.
Kick out your fogeyish monitor, Morality,
And try a little loom-laced Ideality I
Imagine, John, your simple, solid self
A sort of Anglo-Saxon Alexander,
Lord o' the world, supreme in power and pelf.
Of all good mundane markets solo commander
" Imagirustion is a tricksy elf,
And you mistrust her " I —Don't be such a gander!
If you don't shout your claims in language strident,
You might as well go pawn Britannia's trident.
There's hardly any station one can name,
In any lattiude with shore or sea to it,
But is important to your world-wide game,
Forming, if not your gate, at least • key to it.
Each key's essential to your power and fame—
' A plain truth, though the world may not agree to It—
Until of keys you're getting such a stock,
The World must dread • general dead-lock.
Take any given spot. You're planted there,
Or may, er can, or will be, some fine day;
In all roads leading thither you must share:
You might, could, should, would wish to pass that way.
For WI contingencies you must prepare;
And so, should other peoples dare to stray
Across, or near, or round about such places,
Of course you must smash those intrusive races.
A glorious prospect, John! Does it not fire
Your patriotic and imperial feelings?
What "Seems to involve some things of which you tire,
Insolent snatching, and insidious stealing,"?
Pooh-pooh! You re civilised, and don't require
High moral sanction for despotic dealings;
And if on other races you make ravages,
It matters little—they are mostly savages.
Don't grovel. John, in sentimental slime,
Spread o'er low fiats by those who fain would humble
Your proper pride. You are supreme, sublime,
And not a poor parochial village Bumble.
Appeal to conscience, charge of cheat or crime—
These are mere crafty trap., to make yen stumble.
If you to moral foes, like Gladstone, truckle !
Imagine how your many foes will chuckle.
Tariereds the man to teach you how to dream,
Referring you to Fancy's magic mirror,
Seen in whom many faces interests seem
Innumerable as the shapes of error.
Truth—Gladstone's favourite glass with clear cold

gleam,
Chilh pride, and conscience strikes with thrills of
terror. . .

To counteract with coward trepidation,
Cut Truth, dear John, and try—lmagination:

GUNS AND GOVERNMENT.
" Mr. Sullivan said he was prepared to substantiate 611
these five charges against the party now in power."—
Daily Paper.

" Two charges burst an Eighty Ton,"
Shouts Sullivan, "then, look alive;
The Government's a bigger gun,—
Here goes t. blow 'ero up with firs !"

(From Fun.)

N F.% ER THOUGHT or IT I—Ladirta 144 many
valentines this morning. John r John :—" Na. ma, young
holies. not me ; 'speck per forgot to send 'ern to me this
toime."

Ou the Caspian omit the inhabitants conveyed large
quantities of corn and bay in their lugger' to the Russian
camp at Tchikislar.
The two journalists who were imprisoned for having
published particulars of the oppression in Armenia, have
been set at liberty on the protestation of the Armenian
_ _

The cattle plague is increasing in Cyprus, and in the
Famagusta district, owing to the dearth of forage, the
cattle are dying of starvation. The seed barley distributed
by the Government is being sold by the peasantry to pay
the taxes

Tug Lo OF THI BORUSSIA.. —Tbe court was of opinion
that no blame could Ile thrown on the owners, although it
wu not prepared I. say that the vessel was perfectly
seaworthy. Nothing could have been better than the
conduct of the captain nd officers
Servia has leen trying to form a Balkan League, to
counter-balance the growing iiitluenceof Austria-Hungary,
but Montenegro has steadily refused to join.

The leading Republican organ in France urges the
necessity of putting a stop to the antagonism existing
nearly everywhere in the &iig, between the consular agitate
of England and France.

_
An official Chilien report of the impagemeat at T
states the Chilian loss at 508 killed and 258 woundeaMe
war is suspended until the autumn_

It is said the Chinese Government is not likely to ratify
the Treaty lately negotiated at St Petersburg relinquishing
a portion of the province of Kuldja, in Central Asia, to
Russia. Some doubt is entertained as to the fate of the
ambassador who concluded the treaty.
GLYCLAINI JUJUS= —CAUTION —Them effective
and agreeable confections are sold by most chemists. By
others, however, attempts are of ten made at substitution,
we therefore deem it necessary to caution Um public that
they can only be obtained laboxes, gd. .at is.; labelled
JAMLI Errs I omeopathic Chemists, is, Thread.
needle-street and C0.,170, Picadilly, Leaden.

WAR:ONO!. Ricarrr. 's Pains BLua. The marked
euperiority of this laundry blue over sll others, and the
quick appreciation of it. merits by the public, have been
attended by the usual results, via, a flood of imitations;
the merit of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity
exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape, but
making the general appearance of the wrappers resemble
that of the genuine article. The manufacturers beg
therefore to caution all buyers to see " Reckitt's Paris
Blue" on each packet.
Foa Rurroaas rag ALLCOCK'S POROUS PLarrzas, far
superior to the torturing truss. In chillblains their use
tiled relief at once ; and, as a strengthening platter, they
have no equal As many spurious imitations of these
plasters are being offered for sale, the public are strongly
cautioned against buying, unless the words "Thus.
Allock é Co. Porous Plaster" is on the stamp of each
plaster. Sold by all dealers in medicine, by the single
plaster or by the yard.
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G or VIA., Asir to its originsl colour, without leaving
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he hair charmingly beautiful, aa well as promoting the
growth of the hair on bald spot., where the glands are not
decayed. Ask your Chemist for "Tot Helmut HAIR
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street London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers every-
where at la Si, per bottle
Tar TOUR Witiour I—Hydroleine (Hydrated Oil) bag
proved of the Whoa value as a food in consumption and
all wasting diseases, invariably producing inerease in flea
and weight. This preparation of Hydrated Cod Liver Oil
Is tonic, digestive, and ten times more nourishing, as well
se far more pleasant to taste, than plain cod liver oil
Hydrolaine will nourish and malice increase of weight in
those cases where oils or fat, not m treated, are difficult or
impossible to digest. All tendency to emaciation and loss
of weight is arrested by the use of Ilydroisine. Of all
chemists, 4.. GA—Address, " Hydroleine Company," 493,
Oxford Street, London. Pamphlet free. _

TuitoAT APFECT• lONS AND fIeADAILNBAS.—AII siiffering
from irritation of the threat and hoareenem will be
agree-
ably surprised at the almost immediate relief eff by
the use of "Browse Bronchial Trochee." There famous
" lozenges" are now sold by moat respectable chemists is
this country at la. lid per box. People troubled with a
" hacking cough," a " slight cold," or bronchial affections,
cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed
to program, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic
affections. See that the words "Browns Bronchial
Troches" are on the Government Stamp around each box.
—Manufactured by JOHN 1. Ilitowg and Soks, Boston,
United States. Depot, 493, Oxford-street, London

FLOW LINZ I —FOS VIZ METH MID BRIATH .—A few drops
of the liqui4" Floriline" sprinkled on awed toothbrush pro-
duce a pleasant lather, wkkh thoroughly cleanses the teeth
from all parasites or impurities. hardens the gums. Pr/matte
tarter, stops decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar whiWasen
and • delightful fragrance to the breath. It remorse all
unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth or tobacco
smoke. "The Fragrant Floriline." being oomposed in part
of honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to the taste and the
greatest toilet discovery of the age. Price Ss lki, of all
Chemist and perfumers. Prepared by ILIKILY 0. GALIXP.
azt Oxford street. London.

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a sick child suffering with the paid of cutting teethl Go at
once to a chemist and get a bottle of Msg. Wtorst.ow's
SOOTHING Sraup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immedi-
ately. It is perfectly harmless end pleasant to taste, it
produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes "at baght ass button."
It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain,
relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known
remedy for dysentery anl diarri (ea, whether arisin.: from
teething or other causes. Mrs. Winkloses Soothing.
Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers ev,ry where at Is. 114
per bottle. Manufactured in New York, and at 44
Oxford-street, London.