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SONDON. 84TURD.47, DEC. 4.

x Thennday Shaming, the sucedef December, the
Moutetir ammenend with Ito enetmary glib unar-
ms@ and easy superiority, that the EMPZIOI bad
remitted the senteare of the Correctional Pollee
upon DI MOPTALIXBUT. Shortly after noon

on the same day, M. Di MOII2ALIMA2T,
teen magnificent than the Mositeeer bet
non legal, presented himself at the Registrar'.
office, accompanied by MM. BRMITZI and Dt7atrli,
to lodge an appeal against the sentence which the
Master of the Mowiteur, making a law unto himself,
had, with a splendid negligence of phrase and a
superb indifferent@ to legal forms, remitted in the
early morning.
Can the right of appeal duly exercised within
the delay allowed by law be arrested by a
pardon emanating from the Fountain of Dishonour
itself? That is now the question which, if M. DE
1102,1 TALE K and his counsel win disposed, like
FA '10211.1 VS, the philosophical grammarian, to
decline to argue with a man in command of thirty
legions, would easily be solved according to le lei
du pine fort. But we have good reason to doubt
whether the illestrioss apologist of liberty in these
latter days will be quits so complaisant as the
Pegaa of the second century. " I have appealed,"
he says, " within the term allowed by !As law against
" the sentence pronounced against me. Not:lover nment
" is France has had, op to the present, the right to
" remit a penalty which is sot definitive." The isms
is a very simple one. The cause is still sub jollies,
and the condemnation, pending the appeal, is,
pro tante, null and of no effect. Ustil the time
allowed by the law for an appeal had expired, was
there any floal judgment recorded upon which the
Imperial prerogative could operate? Now that as
appeal is duly lodged there can be so manner of
doubt that the sentence of the lower court is
suspended, and that the defendant is no longer in
law a prisoner. Was he a prisoner at the moment
when the " pardon" appeared, when he had sot yet
appealed, his right of appeal remaining legally ea-
exhausted Tues. are points to exercise the
acutenne of lawyers and to amuse the cariosity of
learned amateurs. The question that trans ends all
technical considerations, the
.question that concerns
us all, is—shall force or law predominate ?

Ora legal reports of Tuesday exhibited the spec-
tacle of a meritorious young military officer narrowly
escaping the Ices of his oommiasion M the Insolvent
Debases Comet. Lieut. Pula xtrx.r., who, although
but twenty-ems years of age, appeared before Mr.
Caminito/met Muirnr decorated with a medal and
two clamps, had been confined in Ipswich Gaol Ise
three months, and, on seeking his discharge, was
mooed by a firm or army tailor,. Had the opposi-
tion been succomfal to the extent of detaining Lima.
PLI;h11111,GE one day Wager. and preventing Ids
appearance at the Hone-Gouda on the following
rooming. hie annmierioa would Mrs been forfeited.

Opposition so persistent as this is usually reserved
for eases of flagrant dishonesty or redden "straw.
germ. Had t►is young gentleman graduated in the
Salmi of Colossi Wacun or his sou-in-law—yd

be kept hi mad of ►are, sad hie Toiler of
ebais• wise—had he dealt largely in bill bus-
astiene. sad noemalmed same Si, debts ef
hemser, we wad have wedereteed the seal ef the
dm who emend his dimebargo. They eight have
felt that la this airbag they wen doing jambes to
their brother trademmarn, and administering •
well-domerved rebuke to renthfel folly sad em
truncates. Liemeneat PLCIIRIDOZ'S was ad
• are of the kind. Hie whole debts amounted,
an to Owosso's. bat a trivial 1401. Of this'
men 901. was oho to his apposing tiredness.
Noe did he seek to evade the paymmut of this
debt : he cared thirty pomade dews, mad the
~ranee by ineteimeate ef bee peso& This was
refined. To ant ems this arrangement tie ping
Liniment seems When made a maiden/Ale s•seYes.
Finn himself bigiesiy involved with dab .
whisk though Whom were yet a heavy twit as
an Meow of one Modred • year, he cornered hem
the tleh Regiment of Foot into the 3rd Wat Lida
Regimeat—os anange not likely to better his
femme prespsat• he ifs ; than entering into • agedss
of military bishhmeat. with a very eemidmahle
risk of beeendeg • victim to yellow ?ever, la sods
to obtain the means of freeing Wawa him the
Wens of his behinds&

The ream alleged foe this extremely rigorous
exertion et the law et debtor and Grecian was, that
Lieutenant Puritan:ion had ineerred the debt of 901
without vensonabie expectatiom of being aide to pap
It. The eppesuig orediten, kowsvor, had allowed
their debt to be Mermaid from fifty to ninety
pounde;witliout refusing to gent hither audit till
their previous debt wee discharged, and winced
making any intents inquiry into the circumetemene
of the debtor. This moot extravagant tailosoe 101
was not incurred for " load" nether ganneats end
math attire, bat fee Owlets Demosarim—for snide@
of military clothing. The gIiNTOWI warmth with
which Mr. Commissioner Mu Iltity lIININd till rola
• yowl/. WA ter aa °Mine so trivial in tmpo-
rine with those generally promoted to him, will
have bean appreciated by all who heard the eass, er
read it as reported. An imprisonment in a COMM
gaol tot thee menthe, rater an homed slier t•

liquidate the demands of the opposing creditors,'
is surely a sufficient punishment for the youthful is.
giserstion of Lieuten►nt PLIIIIIIIDGE.

Oar principal object in referring to this case ham
less, to direct attention to the general position of
Aeon in the Army. Hero we have the nephew ef
a distinguished admiral, a gallant officer, decorated
with medal and clasps, undergoing an imprisonment
for three months for a tailor's bill of ninety pounds.
All he receives from his country is one hundred a
year. Out of this munificent sum he must both
clothe and feed himself. Unfortunately, he can
do neither the one nor the other, with any regard
to :the strict economy required by his slender
income. He must dress according to regulation, and
according to regulation he mart dine. Simple broad-
cloth will not do for his apparel : it must be expensive
in texture and colour; it must be bedizened with paltry
but expensive ornaments, in tinsel, spangles, gold
embroidery, and lace. He mast dine at mess, when
the youngest subaltern must partake of and pay for
the NM° luxurious fare as the colonel and nobles,
perchance, with wham be is associated in his regi-
ment. A year's pay would seemly liquidate Lieu-
tenant PLUXIUDOWII taller's bill for the absolute
necessaries of ea year. Is this fair ? Is this Moldy
to induce mess of bravery, science, and military
ardour, but 111101111, purses, to join the ranks of the
Army as officers P

We have exerted ourselves to the utmost to throw
open the scientific branches of the Army to merit
and competency, rather than to the mare samisen
of eleetioseering statesmen. It is Tall, however, by
this means to seek to regenerate the Service by
raising its standard of efficiency in its most important
arm, if we are to be paralysed by the follies of the

mates-maker. When the tunic was iatrodoced,
the artillery officer was relieved from some of
his superfluous gold lace ; but then a gold em-
broidered pouch and broad gold belt, fit only for a
ball-room ornament, as barbarous in taste as it was
melees, was added to his attire, so that his pocket
was but little relieved. Since then gold braid has
been added here, embroidery there, and ornaments
of 'pane's and tinsel, till the old extravage.nos Is
reached. Why should our gallant officers be bedizened
to their cost till they rival in barbaric splendour
eastern monarehs ? When our gentlemen attire
themselves for the chase, for their manly sports, and
kr their yachts, do they trick themselves out in
geM lam and embroidery ? Why should not the
ordinary and even extraordinary costume of an
officer be made to rival in simplicity that in which
a WELLINGTON and a NAPOLEON fought and won
their greatest victories?
Seth a barbarous mode of personal decoration
would *ever have been allowed to survive so long
were it not that every means seems to be resorted to
to make the officers of the Army an exclusive clam,
to which wealth alone shall obtain admission. The
System of Purchase encourages this. The Army is
regarded not so much as a profession in which a
man is to distinguish himself by his efficiency as a
soldier, as a gentlemanly mode of passing away a
few years. The compulsory mass at which the young
subaltern must dine in a style no moderate income
meld support, the costly attire in which he most
appear, almost neosesarily beget habits of ex-
travagance. Supposing him to be desirous of
distinguishing himself in his profession, he
is surrounded by those anxious only to obtain
distinction by their habits of personal expenditure.
The vulgar attempt, on the part of our young officers,
to display their independence of their profession,
leads to the exchange of their professional attire far
mufti whenever they dare doff their regimentals.
The same thing leads every professional subject to be
carefully tabooed from the men table as shop. We
are not, therefore, to be surprised that extravagant
habits are not only fostered in our officers, but that,
however great their personal bravery, which no one
doubts, so few should arrive at any decent know-
ledge of their profession.
That the purchasing of commissions and the
eoetly life which an officer of the army must lead
are responsible for the condition which we have
described, is manifest from a comparison of
the Army with its sister service, the Navy.
The sailor pays nothing for his commission,
and, though promotion is more dos to political in-
fluence and favour than merit, the sailor is always
professional. Ile is never ashamed of his livery,
and once a sailor, he makes his profession his buli-
mia, not his amusement. The officer who has pur-
ebred his grade by his thousands of pounds, who
has spent more than ten time; his pay, perchance,
in supporting hie artificial politico, and who eta
always meet a return in money for his expenditure
when he chooses to retire, feels that his profession
sits vary lightly upon him. The young rusherss
tared by extravagant examples to launch out far
beyond his means, trust■ too frequently to the sale
of his commission as the cast throw of the die, to
release him from his liabilities. That many a pro-
misiag youth has been shipwrecked on this fatal
shoal of army extravagance is among the saddest
sorrows of many a parent's heart.

Kr. Tataa, was was a aandidata he Banbury at
he hoe dashes, ea Whose he damn ea triday ant,
assampeneed b Mr. B. C. Wbildiarat, dee vlon.preelhat of
he him Beelev.

7hr .11Amish asthma that Mr. I. Mathias Solo-
ma, a =New et he Jeerhh ark lee lam lk hien h
gm INN al the Ihe aeb4ll.tekee et he Mph of BA. la ft.
tharseelty et Lemke—him he het time sea a thin bis
bus am.

Among the works preparing for publioethsa by
Issiisy, Is • voims adWd, " Pumps has ay
Asibblowspbs," by Lsdr Idergre.

71r ibisiiedies to adjudge the Boras prise poem
al as Orris' Paw an aM 7 =BA Ilr. Timm
OW* Is sill le Iwo bus Nm ea los dediril : bb
bie bow via Ns " liedirish."

Weitiaree Celine in to be spited on tits
lab et net nee. The bode eebsebed bowleg proved
beleetree te ereetb be usee tbea 111 l beembeleree en et
Sr lee It wee to luebl le teethe, ea ellbbeel emaler et
11111 buys le le be eibebiel se eee-beedletleme. le eteete et
Os ewe et name et be Amy end et stellar,
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nee folietriag HA eFth• metettinge urine the
ardes week et the P. Oak the Onithleid CNN the
lkoddy d Ada. awl dr Agekultuesi simisty d leghad,
will IN e issoodists Yr air egollealtemd mho :--Keiley,
Iles. I, Labs home Mk 6 pat. Mr. lest ea Ikea
Persehte); pled, viper et Meek et Daher-ebest, • p.n.
Tueley, Wedlanity,Tberedig, end !Mg, 7,1, 11, oil 11,
owe ere. el Drew is Deltswetrog. Wedierdey, S, Awl-
eallseel $s d lid, eseal Sedety et Arts, 8 p.n.
(M,. MY* es boa Cu.)ltar. Trilay, 10, Airleableal
thelety el Issfroal, sees.

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Xi. Fliziow, Pillow et Clare College, Cemblidge,
boo bra "NAM by de rem le dr Preereemiler et
Illetaral Hi.., ei It Ikainv/i4 yeasi by dr dr-
idolorrit for lb. J. O. alma who Groins Pridassas
dip al Orabridlge. Mir. Viable was here Wenaglor fa
1116.

Mr. Moirovs, a fie Royal Aeries, (we Isom
*ma di* 1 dostroild losida Nagy. is sisilig a tall aid pe-
as Ninisies of dr plasm b lbs oreviel mil 4sOsedirs.
Ms. Ilaiirsw inammilde ad Mr. Mad. die sesrobry of
•• Niiisemi Patinas eallery, &soil assonew a aftlsese
WWI& of Wade, priodb of awirat Magda weridoN
mak seiraerimass sot ells mans of mew Wm&
diftly aserind mdlidmm.

Tie Pima swiplar, M. Ural, who hos mested
the drag of MON' dr !Int for dr dal of Chris m&
Ira Iwo restr4 emirs tea dr Doer Is ssessis •
semi Aim el Napalm dr Flat, whiall is is lag Napier
el Imagges4.l6. Sias.