The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-13 00:00:00

and M'Alister a month a-piece at the treadmill, what.
ever may happen. It would be proper, in the first place,
we should conceive, to constitute them prisoners, and con-
skier Mas ters Jon es and Andrews as prosecutors. The good
of the street service at Windsor requires the substitu-
tion. When this has been effected, Master Jones may
be allowed to prove his case by the evidence of Master
Andrews, and vice versd. The questions should be few

and simple. Master Andrews might be asked—" Do
you upon any occasion remember that Master Jones
put to you, in the High-street of Windsor, the following
question, "Do you remember !' " Master Andrews
might then reply—"l have not the slightest recollection
whatever." It would be then proper to invoke the testi-

mony of a few by-standers—tlie peculiar intimates and
associates of the two friends, who would of course, like
them, "have no recollection whatever." Let the next
question to these witnesses be as to character :—"From
your knowledge of Master Jones, should you say that
he was a young person in the habit of poking fun at the
passers-by in the public streets ?" The stereotyped re-
ply for each and all of the witnesses might run some-
thing as follows :—" From my knowledge of Master
Jones, I am able state with great confidence to this
honourable Court that he never thought of such a thing.
If he has a defect, it is that of over-seriousness and too
anxious attendance at the Sunday school. When some
bad boys endeavoured to teach him the words of the
popular air known as Pop goes the Weasel,' it is a fact
' that Master Jones couldn't be brought to do it to any
other tune than that of the 'Evening Hymn,' when
they wos suddenly conwerted.' " Question from the
Court—" Can you inform us, Master Andrews, why the
young gentlemen of Windsor appear to have taken a.
prejudice against the two prisoners!" Answer from
Master Andrews,—" On account of their forward and
presuming behaviour." In dealing with the evidence
for the defence, it will only be necessary for the magis-
trates to remember that their great care must be to pre-
vent the prisoners from calling any witness who could
be of the slightest use to them ; or, if such an one
should by inadvertence be introduced, the nuisance
must be forthwith abated, by informing him that
his testimony was not wanted. The Court had just
made up their minds only to receive evidence for the
period which began to run from five minutes later than
the occurrence of the fact to .which the troublesome
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conclusion :—" Major Maxwell and Adjutant M'Alister
are found guilty of offence charged—namely, d ago t
foregoneri d o'
mely, of having
been jocularly addressed, but- not otherwise, and are
sentenced accordingly to a month a-piece at the tread-
mill, with recommendation to mercy on account of their
size." This finding must then be sent up to Lord Har-
dinge, and will be soon returned with the note of that
military Minos :—" Approved, but Major Maxwell
allowed the use of slippers and flannel waistcoats while
on the wheel, in consideration of his age and rheuma-
tism." Such would be a specimen of pure Horse Guards'
justice.
But we cannot with a good 1-.. art indulge in mere
joking over the honour and character of the British
officer. Lord Hardinge has chosen his path ; let him
see where it will end. He may be acquainted with the
temper of the British soldier, but be knows little indeed
of the temper of the British people if he presumes that
he has heard thellast of the scandalous business of Mr.
Perry. Can he or anybody be surprised that the officers
of the 46th have become the objects of the gibes and
jeers of the passers-by ? Certainly we do not commend
those who violate or provoke to a violation of the publio
peace. Could we suppose that any words of ours would
be effective to that end, we would entreat the young
women and little boys at Windsor to desist, and leave
the officers of the 46th to the enjoyment of their own
success and the position they have made for themselves.
But we know well, in a case of this kind, that remon-
strance is utterly unavailing, even when the parties are
in the right ; what must it he when they are so pal-
pably in the wrong ? Lord Hardinge cannot direct
Colonel Garrett to turn the bayonets of her Majesty's
46th regiment of infantry against the muffin boys and
orange girls of Windsor. We presume that to crown
the whole proceeding with a street massacre would be a
measure somewhat too strong even for the authorities at
the Horse Guards. Well, then, what is to be done !
Supposing, as in the case of the two officers who seined
the little boys the other day, they persist in the plan of
handing offenders over to the civil authorities ? A seemly
spectacle it will be that the Queen's officers should at
any hour of the day be seen chasing the little varlets
about the streets of Windsor amid shouts of "Do you
remember?" " I have no recollection whatever." Be-
sides, every trial will be duly reported, and each case
will serve as a fresh stimulus to public indignation. If
the officers of the 46th have recourse to open violence,
one blow will bring on another ; there will be a general
row—murder most probably, and Calcraft at the end of
the whole transaction. Lord Hardinge must remember
that every civil magistrate, every police-officer, and
every man, woman, and child iu the Queen's dominions,
with the exception of a few attached to the ruling mili-
tary clique,.look upon the conduct of the officers—not
of the men, who, we believe, have behaved in an exem-
plary manner—of this regiment with just indignation ;
so they have but little assistance or sympathy to expect,
save what must be given them by the strictness of the
law. The opinion, if not the hand, of every Englishman
is against them. The only course really to be adopted
with this notorious regiment—we are speaking only of
the officers—is to keep them closely in barracks until
they can be smuggled off to the East. From the intel-
ligence we publish this day we foresee the probable occur-
rence of events which all men would be anxious to avoid.
We call Lord Hardinge's attention to the matter while
it is yet time, and before the blood of any of the Queen's
subjects has been shed. In the present frame of the
public mind at Windsor a collision between the soldiers
and the people is far indeed from being an improbable
event, and the consequences of such collisions in the pro-
vinces we have bad to record even within the last few
days.—Times.

DREADFUL ATUR,DER OF AN ENGLISH
LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN GREECE.

ATEENS, Sept. I.—Great sensation has been caused
here on receipt of intelligence from Negropont, that
Mr. Henry Leeves and his wife have both been mur-
dered in their house in the village of Castaniotiza, of
which village and a considerable extent of land he was
the proprietor. All that is known here at present is,
that the crime was perpetrated on Sunday, the 28th
ult.; that a forcible entry of the house was effected; that
Mr. Leeves attempted resistance, and wounded one of
the assassins, but was overpowered, and that after the
double murder a quantity of silver plate was carried off.
Mr. Leaves was about 30 years of age, son of a former
chaplain to the British mission at Athens, and married
about 18 months since a young lady whose family reside at
Manchester, who a few months since gave birth to a child,
respecting the fate of which nothing is stated. It
appears that Mr. Leeves held the appointment of British
consular agent, or vice-consul, at Negropont.
Mr. Wyse, British Minister at Athens, on receiving
official intelligence of this shocking affair, instantly
took steps towards instituting the most searching in-
quiry, with the view, if possible, of discovering the
murderers and bringing them to justice. Immediate
orders were sent to the Piraeus, to the commander of her
Alajesty's war-steamer Medina, to get up her steam and
proceed to Negropont ; and Mr. Merlin, British vice-
consul at Athens, and Mr. Locock, attaché to the British
mission, were directed to proceed in the Medina with
the Greek authorities, to make the most rigid investi-
gations on the spot. They left the Piraeus yesterday.
The Rev. Dr. Hill, chaplain to the British mission,
voluntarily accompanied the expedition, as he had been
intimately acquainted with the deceased, and thought he
might be of use in protecting the infant, should it have
escaped the fate of its parents.