The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

M I!CrHE.;-TISP, JOLT 10.—The market wu flnn theta ;tont the
day, tnil eloae,l with steadiness. Leeds, 100—Trunks. 7—Dovera,
:I.lo—Mbitind, 118I—Thantea and Mersey. I p.-41reat West-
ern, ;01.—Crtat Ship Coenmuy, ISs —London and South WeAtrn,
esi_Abefead, 41t—Canada. 10;—Manchester Aranreare, 4} p.—
Bank ot Manchester. 2 p.
BIRMINGHAM, Jutr le.—Midland 44 per Cent. Preference were
and lanulnahani Canal, at 9.5. South Stafford' were
ne7aldrlCietllo4loi., lea. S.I. to lot Ilia Pd., and Crystal Palace. 14 to 11.
Market eery quiet, and little doing.

THE FLOGGING SCHOOL AT WOOLWICH.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRE.s.M.

Sne,—The Riding School attaches' to these bar-
racks was at half•past six o'clock this morning made the
theatre of another of those exhibitioes which the voice
of public opinion hail endeavoured to obliterate from the
records of the British seivice.
A driver named George Hyde, belonging to the depot of
the Royal Horse Artillery, was senteeted by a garrison
court-martial to receive fifty 'Ashes, and be imprisoned for
112 days and branded with the letter D, for a second desertion
sue for re-enlisting into and receiving a bounty from
another corp..
When a square was formed around the " triangle," a fair
and comely looking youth, apparently about 17 or 18 years
of age stood with au escort in the enclosure to hear hie
sentence read. As a parade at that hour gave Lim an
intimation of the punishment he wits to receive, I shall not
soon forgot the m.pearauce of utter degradation that seemed
to take possession of his young end handsome countenance
as he bared his hack to the gaze of his comrades ; the cum-
premed lip and singular paler of the face as he cast a keen
and anxious look around on the three or four hundred faces
that ware turned towards him, gave him a look of consi-
derable intelligent*, and he walked with a firm step to be
tied up.
At perhaps a chance of giving pain to your readers I will
give you • short deocriptiou r—His wrists were enctiserl in
two iron rings, and a rope attached to each was run through
holes in two legs of the triangle, higher than he could reach,
which, when braced up pulley-fashion, 'babied him tohia full
length sad admitted his toes only to touch the ground ; hrs
thighs and aucles were then made fast, and a spar being
fix,sl across ou which to rest his chin, he was spread fork-
like to receive the lash.
The full puniahment wax inflicted without the utterance
of a single grain or other indication. of suffering, except a
sudden jerk on one occasion when the Issli caught him
across the right ear : but the convulsed starting of the eves
and spasmodic twitching' of his features at every stroke
were unmistakeable indications of the agony he.tried to
wuc'ethCi lt i taken down his hack presented a shockint appear-
ance as the deep red and purple stripes lacerated
and angry : and he was sent to hospital to be cured.
1 will make no remerks upon the eery questionable lega-
lity (according to the true interpretation spirit of the
late order of the commander-in-chief) of the i-entence -
tiietANl on this young soldier, who I sin given tot nelergtand
Lea been about Iwo sears in the ,rvice. and who
it is stated lias hid • fair ch.trost,r among
his associates ; but• *a,her generation of Englishmen
will say that their 'lMers at heist lived In strange
times, when a people Maiming to lead the 'civilised
world permitted theme:Wee to be peneweed that an
adhereace to such a law wax neoestswy as • preservative
of discipline in an army ot volouteem, and that such •
loathsome aml disgusting mrliiiiition as I have endeavour,'
to describe could occur within di.hoon shot of the British
House of Contemns. -I am, dr.;
'"! VERAX.
These rute,b,,,euta are hecoinirkagain very frequent in
this garrison-three or four c..ses per week.