The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-23 00:00:00

DISBANDING THE GERMAN LEGION

The disbandment of the Legion is now beiag carried
into effect. Eighteen officers of the different regiments
have received their discharge, dated from the 15th inst..
and it was expected that 60 others would get their
discharge in the course of the past week. There have
also been selected from the different regiments about
1,200 men, partly unfit for further service from illness,
and partly in consequence of misconduct whilst serving
in the Legion. It is now, however, to be understood that
every man discharged from the British German
Legion belongs to either of the above number, as com-
manding officers have authority to discharge men who
have proper reasons for claiming it. The discharged sol-
diers get bills drawn on the consuls of the different ports
where they disembark, and their travelling expenses on
reaching home. It lies in the power of officers commanding
regiments to allow ouch non-commissioned officers and
soldiers to stay in England as they think proper, and like-
wise to pay them their gratuity. Such men, however, are
not to be allowed travelling expenses, The gratuity for a
private on disbandment is £lB 5s ; a corporal, £24 6s
8d; a sergeant, £33 2s 93. The men get their year's
pay without the penny per day allowed them for beer
money. General Stutterheim is daily expected with the
new act and stipulations for enlistment to the Cape of
Good Hope. It is said the men are favourably disposed
towards the project; and as many of the continental
governments have refused to receive back as their subjects
men who have enlisted in the service cf a foreign power,
they have, in fact, hardly any alternative. From the
whole of the Legion (including those stationed at Alder,
shott and Browndown), it is believed that from 6,000 to
7,000 volunteers will be obtained. After the disbanding
of the German Legion the barracks will be occupied by
twelve depots of infantry regiments ; these will be con-
solidated into three regiments of about 1000 each, to be com-
manded by a colonel, major, and the usual number of
officers. The general staff will be somewhat reduced,
and will consist of a major-general, brigade-major, and
aide-de-camp. The purchase of Middlewick Farm is, we
hear, all but completed, and is well adapted both for
.
training ground, and the formation, if required, of a
canvas encampment. Colonel Herbert, deputy adjutant-
general, has, we understand, received a similar appoint-
ment at Corfu, and will leave Colchester on the breaking
up of the German Legion.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN AND HER PRESENT

ADVISERS

We read in the Madrid correspondence of the Indepen •
dence Beige, that when the proposed modifications of the
Constitution were submitted to Queen Isabella for her
sanction, on the 12th inst, she eagerly asked whether any
resolution had been taken about the law for the seculari-
sation of ecclesiastical property ; to which O'Donnell replied
that the ministry could not undertake to alter such a law as
that, voted by the Cortes, sanctioned by the crown, and
formally promulgated, and which had already been put in
execution, with very beneficial results. The Queen
answered that she could not approve of leaving their work
incomplete ; and that it was necessary, if not to repeal that
law, to suspend its operation, at least until the new
Cortes should have re-considered the matter. She
handed back to her ministers the documents which
they had brought her, and desired them to reflect
seriously upon what she had told them, O'Donnell called
his colleagues together the same evening, and informed
them of her Majesty's will, but declared that be would not
yield to it. • The ministers were all much disconcerted at
the embarrassing situation in which the Queen's pertinaoity
threatened to place them ; but O'Donnell himself was the
most irritated, and is said to have exclaimed, in a fit of ill
humour, "With that little woman it is impossible that
government can be carri:d on." It was rumoured, upon
this difference between the Queen and her ministers
becoming known, that she had made up her mind to scud
for Count Yumury, formerly the commandant of Cuba, who
was often seen about the court.

OMNIBUS SPECULATION AT SJUTRAMPTON.— A few
ago there was omnibus accommodation between Southamp-
ton and the populous suburb of Shirley, about six times
daily. Some gentlemen in the neighblurh)od formed a
joint stock company, and started first rate omnibuses and
horses at a uniform and low charge, and there is now
omnibus communication to and from the above named
places thirty-six times a day. Almost every time the
vehicles are crowded. From Southampton docks to the
extreme point of Shirley the charge is only three pence.
The success of this has induced other gentlemen to start
omnibuses to Portsweol, another growing suburb of
Southampton. This speculation is also very prosperous.

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CLEyER EScAM—On Thursday moiningscuopßeient..i.thaeotanuisnas
Gledhill, a returned convict, with a ticket-of-leave, es-
caped from one of the cells beneath Bradford Court-house,
in a very adroit manner. He had been apprehended by
Mr. Lottey, the superintendent of the Shipley police, on
a*charge of fowl-stealing, and on Monday was remanded
by the West Riding justices, in order to afford the officers
an opportunity of discovering the owners of the fowls.
He was safe in the cell on Weduesday night when his
supper was taken to him. At half-past eight o'clock on
Thursday morning, on Mr. Ingham, the superintendent
ing the daring character of his prisoner), going to his cell
constable of the division (who alone wAacieteesds onw
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the exception of his t
ronscrs and stockings, ho left the
whole of his
clothes behind him—boots, waiscoat, coat,
bolt, and even his shirt convicted of
fowl-stealing and flannel. He was
at the West Riding quarter-sessions, at
Wakefield on the 2nd of March, 1853, and sentenced to be
transported for seven years, but received a ticket-of-leave
on the 2nd of May in the present year.