New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-14
LONDON, Nov. 81, 1863.

yfom Our SPECIAL Correspondent
LONDON, Nov 81, 1863.
This week there has been no topic more
ptomiDent in the minds or more talked about by tie
tongues Of In glshInen than the Crawley Court Mar
tial In plain iron binding Military Club House,
as Ahershot consisting Of center and two wings,
not urliie a mission church IN neglected district
situate on wide tract Of and white sand s.retch'
ing away to the horizon under the dull SKY Of Noyem
Der. batch Of military gentlemen assemble daily 10
Try the great case OF The English People versus The
Horse Guards,or that H. really, just what the cues
ton amounts to. You have heard something Of II be
fore possibly good deal than. with the allen
crossing fact Of the Rebellion present with you, you
found time li-en TO- Yet h the affair worthy Of
little attention. especially from who aspres 10 the
character Of philosophical Observer OF this British
people and Of the nel erpausing struggle between them
snd aristocIaiic privilege, begun centuries ego AT
Runnymcde, % progress through iDnuLlerabie I0r-b
md phases uu;l IL shan assUredly reach conclusions
desperately inimica Ia all c9ste whatever Of which
neither the Carlton Club nor John Bull compacent OF
tbe Illuminated Lion and Unicorn outside. are at all
conscious As one Of these pha8es the trawcy Court
Martial challenges snch notice and comment as hes IN
NY province 10 bestCW upon II.
was think in the early part Of last May, that we
first heard Of the ease the incidents TRANSPORTING In
India year aud two months before. Then and there,
IL appeared that Col Crawey OF the 9th Dragons had
brought The paynasier Of ths regiment 10 trial by court
ynarual al MlOw. charging him with having written
letter invoking the military Oenscs Of iasubOrdinatiOn
falsty and malice. 10 which the accused responded by
proposing 10 subsantste tie contents OF his letter by the
evidence OF three commissioned Oibcers-sergeant
majors. These men we're incOItncntly Srcsted by
Crovley and placed IN confinement, the wife VI ore.
Jiloy sharing bis incarceration IL occurred In the
most torrd heat Of India Summer. when existence
IA barely endurabe under tho slightest Of shelter from
ths burning SUR, with the frcart Of ventilation The
place Of detention bungalow Is described having
bomb proof roof which never became cool; IL
IL the wretched Ley ard his unfortunate wife endured
untold suferings for dreadful month sentinel being
placed iD--nOt Outsidc-tbeiT room. The woman was
Invalid afflicted with chronic diarThea. hence the bru
tally and Ddecency Of the latter order may be imagined
At length Liey died. and, very boon afterward, bis
VIE blowed bin 70 tho grave. THIN the other ser.
gcant majors released VI them having been
rendered raying Iunac FOR life. final instance Of
recording of lleys death occurring from drunken
the brandy prescribed by the doctor for the wife
being attributed 10 the husbands consumption.
Such was the story that home En- gland stir
ring mems blood with Of its intolerable cruelty
and injustice, and producing universal demand for In
vestigatOn very much In the tone that Western rtons
sung in tho days Of James the Odious:
And shah Trelawney def
And sbaIi Trelswney die,
Then twice hve thoufend Cornishpoen
VIII know the reason why.,
anch demand indeed that neither Horse (uayds NOR
(0yernmept could afford 10 ignore though at frst they
tried 20 shift the responsibility. untit became invisible
The narqus OF Harrington One young gentleman
vhoso good taste and nice sense OF Tie prophecies In
ducsd lin 10 display secession badge Ia Kew.York
ballroom two Winners ago., who ~ Parnamsntsry
yssentAtys " tbs WAr Office in the Aouse oiComaols.