The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-01 00:00:00

FLOGGING IN NEWCASTLE BARRACKS.

Its again our painful duty. says the Newcastle
°wordiest, to record another awe of this brutalising punish-
meat is our town. On Tuesday last, about men, Peter
Zwast, erml_2B, a private in the 2Gth Camerealeas, at pee.
sent intniseed here, underwent the sentence a a am*
monde], teseivia;laossilftes by the eat-o'-uise•talla, br
theedien, using d ul and threatening language to
kb =past, sad tee several wee of theft. At the
this flipiassd Ise lis posishosat the troops in garrison
patsisd Is die seem mai ewe marched down to the hoe-
Pitals *MIS ig a publea hassedlately in front of it. The
mem. aller Wel utrined, we tied up to the triangles
by the gad lew, Midis tbe eiljutsat stood by to count
each ilea* ne MUM/a the pewee& arms of the drum-
mer, siesta teen sesseast otiose he kis aptitude in what
is salsa " dew tins raiassest et cruelty only knowa
to the billeted. _ _

Aa dinner of *a ems that ensued thus describes it :
"I MI expect* a bawdy mane, bat the reality far an•
medal ail I had eves dreamed of in human torture. At
the illiketroke of the lash the lash rose up on the nair-
er's bmit, the welts thicker thaw wrist; sad the writ*.
of the body showed the ho esdured. As mamma.
sic kik fell os the and bleadlog bait. ale hlMl
flow* about es ail manni. Atas the MN* hit
been inflicted, he was =tied, mad after staggering *kw
pose, All hating, whim Mas removed to the NOW,
mad placed node, the diary of tbs medical *icor.'•
Be has yet to sissies the samoisive et his punishment—
namely, 10t days' nary smieumat.
In jambs to tin Man of tho Ma, we ham heard it
stated that they wen averse to flirt in this eve, but
ywere overruled a recently arri h military meths.
:By, well hoer' as a " sunhat." We should think that
each troatateat of the British soldier would set Mhos
each a rapid augmentation of the &nay so Is at Isom*
called for. Is a corps like the Casualties% Momid abeam
et raw awaits, desertion is aunties *aft isovitaNg both
result of Tuesday's exhibition—tads*, behro them bean
had elapsed after the punishment a desertios took plass,
most Wcely in tarorof some day noshing a similar military
lesson.

We think it is exceedingly unfortunate, at the present
moment, that it should be deemed aeueeary to resent to a
punishment which is deservedly odious, both in the eyes of
soldiers and civilians, and which, as we have often con-
tended, while it lacerates the body brutalises the mind.
Bowan we impact :straits to enter the ranks of the army
when they lad that by doing so they render themselves
liable to castigation by an instrument which the British
parliament indignantly struck from the hand et the slave-
owner? If we would make the service popular, we most
reform the military penal code, sad substitute for coarse
end revolting torture rational and reformatory penalties.

SUNDERLAND.— FLOGGING • SOLDIER.— Math
C lic was sashed by the aims that a soldier had
ia the bursae hoe en Tuesday last, and
urea tide wa Mod to be teas. It somas that •
sgo mpg um, a betihneeker at Southwick,
bed ealidedia the 110* ben, but lisessiart DM of the
avesteelles dell. he at last losiiket4 ehtew kis Reaket
41." *Pm the gsweed. d the Vide limy, hen its
bead. the Queen. dem to no recruit. • 111.1111.
martial
towas seermucl at Tisk. Nig the mations sew
teased resales Illy huh% usi mimes a tees et shi
swaths' *rip baffle'. The Om pert et the tes-
tes'' was cardsd wet outmode', soil She issued Wm ere
this be acne ea with.

WHAT DOES TIN MAN P—A yew froin
Vii. the Meissen' thwurt EWING
thietioe to the hare
with the Peale will eeseewess eswee the Le
Seamy 140theloistieegle. Take peeffieeithos d Mee
bellows the yet pewee IPS the thief thou. end
kb thawed thee they will eth =With tag peas etpe-
Sims as the pert elTeeksy."

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