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with them

a reversionar

,een maimed in his last

I the stubborn pride

us. His bequest has remained
ation of an entirely new, and, 1

I by. an oft:shoot from his famil

—yet no descendant of his ;—the sons of those
raus whom he intended to reward, fighting side by
the sons of those against whom he meant to

s of those

former antagonists being now a contention of honourable
rivalry and chivalric emulation, their efforts being directed
to the support, not to the extermination of each other.
Surely so unlooked-for a combination of striking events is
an unmistakeable proof that

There is a Providence above which fashions all our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

...,eenth day of the second court-martial on Lieu-
..ant PERRY, and in reality of his third trial, closed with
his defence. A defence, which, coupled with the compli-
cated and protracted inquiries, must leave upon every un-
prejudiced mind the strongest possible conviction that in
the 40th regiment there existed, and to all appearance
still does exist, among the officers, a course of conduct sys-
....,:eally pursued which would reflect indellible disgrace
upon an establishment of schoolboys, and which, when
reported of a society of gentlemen, is so monstrous as to
exceed belief. From the evidence adduced, chiefly wit-
nesses called to convict Lieutenant PERRY, the officers'
quarters were little better than a bear-garden as regards
the peace of its inmates ; and infinitely worse than a can-
teen tap-room as respected their morals. Broken furni-
ture, tattered upholstery, and demolished doors ; over-
turned water vessels, and inundated passages ; a barrack-
yard strewn with ejected bedding and torn bedclothes,
bore incontestible witness of the vulgarity and wantonness
of riot which prevailed, and which, it could be no wonder
to find, eventuated in a brawl in which one of the partici-
pators felled another to the earth. So much for the ge-
neral system which has been established as the prevailing
one among the gallant officers of the 46th regiment, and
which, apart from the guilt or innocence of Lieutenant
PERRY, is such as reflects infamy on all who quietly
winked at, or were voluntary participators in it. I say
voluntary participators, for it would appear that several
of the junior officers were singled out as objects of that
kind of persecution which found vent. in

• --- uumerous
s and ruffianly practical jokes as those referred to.
deuce, however, does more than merely unfold the
)s of the general system. It proves that Lieuten-
tßY was obnoxious to the dislike of his brother.

dislike ; for no one will be silly enough to

_ believe that it arose from a high tone of moral or religious
feeling—inducing them to shun him as one guilty of
moral turpitude. On the contrary, he was not accused of
any departure from moral rectitude which was not ad-
mittedly shared in to au equal extent by his accusers.
What then was or could have been his real crime ? The
inexpiable offence which he committed seems to have
been one of race—he was of plebeian origin. His father, it
appears, rose from the ranks to be a paymaster; nay, fur-
it is said young PEERY had his commission given
)f his father's long and faithful sex
lged

him' in c,onsidera tic

His coun

_ j acanowlea, . its obligations to tit
evincing willingness to advance the interest of
son; the brother-officers of that son deemed such ser-
vices best repaid by contumely and insult. He is not of
.nand must be persecuted: and this young gentle-
nan is accordingly made the victim of a series! of outrages
uch Is-- sd, 1 4

their ord

—,,a. as no man can luear ; any. ~cr being subjected to petu-
lance of behaviour which would be utterly inexcusable in
riotous and umannerly boys, he has been made the object of
judicial proceedings so anomalous and oppressive as would
have crushed and broken any spirit not firm as adamant
and true as steel. Well might he complain, in rising to
make his defence on Thursday, that he had been borne
down by fatigue and anxiety, against which nothing but
conscious innocence could have supported him : and
at the termination of that ratiocinatory, yet bold and
uncompromising defence, well might the court ring
withwt the approving plaudits of the auditors. In
them : a better course
whatever military result to Lieutenant PERRY these in-
vestigations may end oof
*gwdiplimneus,
behavioursat l c:astcome
moralsoutof
must replace those whichd
40th Regiment and it is at present predominate in the
sides. Public Regiment, to be feared in other corps be-
fall easily
aristocratic exclusiveness of thei important subject. The
plained of ; one or two more such army has been long com-
with Lieutenant PERRY will, h _
they
take place, shake theexposes as that connected
system to its centre.
The theatres, like St. Stephen's, are
nearly
The Adelphi, the Princess's, and the Olympicll shut up.
thave closed
their doors. Mr. Sims REEVES took the
field on Wed-
nesday with a series, of operatic performances at the
Lyceum, when BAIZE S favourite opera of the " Bohemian
Girl " was produced to a crowded and applauding audience.
On making his appearance, Mr. REEVES was received with
warm enthusiasm. The Haymarket, with the aid of the
Spanish dancers,. continues open_ and attractive. At the
Strand a dramatic version of Dickens new tale, " Hard
Times," has been produced, and bids fair for popularity.
It makes a more effective drama than it was popular as a
tale. It has been well put uPou thy litlige, 4134 was well
acted throughout,

THE LIVERPOOL

Sri' A

IC(
aintiff is

COMPENSATION FOR A RAILWAI
Lancaster and others.—The
empl

are - the managing pa
Mining Company, and

the K

covery ot damages for injuries sustai
—On the 3d of F

guard-van

miles from ilanchest3r, at the desire o

Joseph Crompton, 1
Kirkless-hall Comps,'
to the pointsman bei:

amputat

number of pointsmen on the lin,

that th

were si

having received permi

of about two hour

accompa:

The jur

company for the absence of the requisit
the station where the accident occurred
A PA TBNT DZSSICATING APPARAI
Wright and others.—Thomas Briggs, of

manufacturer, was the p laintiff ; the I
Apparatus Company were the defend=
was brought under the following circun

sigh degr
te with I

the plaintiff was manufacturing-a
descript
called elastics, which required a very h
He had found himself unable to cc

?it Sta

au iu t.

a the r

rers of the same_ kind of goof

11 Cm:

the action
In 1851

oil-cloths
e of heat.
anufactu-

• w., mg LUC. 17.1V1w11b more cum :many
than by his own process. Hearing of the patent dessicat-
ing apparatus, he applied to Mr. Read, their agent in Man-
chester, who referred him to the works of Mr. Schofield,
dyer, at Manchester, for whom the company had erected
an apparatus, on their principle, and which, he found on
inspection, worked extremely well, producing a heat of
200 degrees, and capable of still greater heat. A enntrnof

a enter

plaiutiff with a simila

and some time in the

.nt to the plaintiff's

to sup'

was, howeve
t.--

)parattts was

lir had seen at Schofield's,

inenify fixed

truction to the one

er of heat ob

atus was much less than what he had

he plaintiff, subject t

ct Mad

sed fo:

I that Mr. John Graves is a
ad the defendants, Messrs.
Feb., 1852.

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