The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-21 00:00:00

MILITARY TRIDr-VALS.

(Prom the tlmit•i Service Gesetti.)
The Chatham authorities have discovehd, at last,
that a onset-sisetist le ma open court offsence. Tnts, boo-
mer, to their antipathy to publicity, they have endeavoured
to nederthe term ~.g.e.irtwiny a misnomer. We shall
gee how long this maistance to constitutional pounce will be
seared to mealseas.
Them has been, as owe readers know, and as we have
regretted to rowed, is outrage perpetrated at Chatham by
some soldiers. As useml, the public reap magnified
the °limos. It is Mews • popular thing in mare towns
to paint the soldiers • very deep black. The Miendere
being semirigid brine a court-misettal, it became a
leaner of impormaos to is that the evidence should be re-
ported with gnat ears, that the public might WNW or bear
be made gear Mrs of the truth. Aomedingly, our reporter at
Chatham mode his sersegonente—entored the court, and was
allowed to regatta ; but Lieutenant Colonel Robert Phillips,
of the provident' tottalicm the peskiest of the court, put a
veto upon kis takiag now— that antrelising, sake is pm-
dbis, the utility of his pomace. In fact, the court was to
be open bat nendnelly. You might go mad bear sad sea—
bat you were to write dews nothing.
Now, we look upon this as a stretch of authority
marcel; lees arbitrary sad unserhosble than that which
decreed the exit of the reporter on • keine ocession. The
predawn, or whosoever directed his moosedings, deter-
mining to keep on the safe side of the kw, avoided the
swank that would ham been comprehended la the forcible
apuldon, sad decreed a coulee of seamy.
We bare *heady Wanted thst it is quite competent
to a pesident to forbid the publication of evident
dining a teiml, sad the inetancee are rare In which the
ceeducion et • agerepper would Ay la the face of is
laJtoodca for whist thin may have beta wand
mesons, sad wkkh the civil law wastsks. Beyond this,
happily, the law doge not methods, a court-mardsl to
p ; end the prodded who oversteps the limits of his power
la tide rupee may many be rendered amenable to the mem
rior coons. The suppeedon of the reenter of evidence is a
ebriag pion of ingoience, most dmilieraell to public liberty,
and most witted towards the soldier. It will be me duty to
oppose this growing mdeavour to establkh • mooed kph&
tics, or a court-meettel will become an ketrament of mili-
tary tyranny sad opperadoa. Publicity Is the cal, ado-
pted alike of the soldier and the tellow—the cagy that
open imicesam, Irregularity and kinelice. Ws see quite
WS that R.R.H. the commender-in-Aid is no party to this
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sadmneYomuly. Ingssaosocas; lb, would mat the ray idea of •
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Tnz larnnwronz Tzeznionial..—A preliminary
meetbeg of the Lvpool Mesa Aasocastios wu held at
the adieu, Rultimge-e, yesterday etteraeoa, tu
o the
of =aft sneageseate kw • gassed mottle(
rueo:dder the beet roam giviag eugenics to the
approtistlon of the Inhabitantsot of this coaustadty at the
ztNukes rendered to commerce sad the ones of re-
by the Rev. Dr. Liviagstate by his Atrium
time. A catuoittee wee applaud who will report to
mestiag.
CRYSTAL PALACE. -r ONE SHILLING DAT.
FINNAN, Yea. 20.—Adageskete ea must, 684; ditto,
by Nam ticket's 270 j tote', 964.