The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-07-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CRIME IN THE ARMY.---The Royal Commission on Court-Mart ials have obtained returns for the years 1865, 1866, and 1867, showing the amount of crime in the army. The number of soldiers tried by courtsmartial on charges of habitual drunkenness or drunkenness on duty was 8,656 in 1865, 10,857 in 1866, and 10,823 in 1867; but it most be remembered that since 1866 the charge for habitual drunkenness has been made imperative on the commission of the fourth offence. The trials for insubordination were 6.4 per 1,000 of strength in 1865, 6.1 in 1866, 6.0 in 1867, but 7,4 in 5868; in some of our military prisons the punishment now inflicted is quite inadequate to the repression of the crime of insubordination, and some central military prison is needed in which stricter discipline can be exercised than is possible in some of the present places of confinement. The returns' so far as they are as yet complete, show that in 1865 198,048 men were imprisoned by sentence of courts martial for an aggregate of 1,144,745 days • in 1866, 190,919 men for 1,121,757 days; in 1867, 189,781 men for 1,134,058 days. It is to be hoped this serious loss of service may be lessened by stricter prison discipline and the new system of fines for drunkenness. 601 soldiers were flogged in 1865, 610 in 1866, 150 in 1867. In 1865, 1,562 soldiers were marked with the letter D., 74 with 8.C., and 106 were discharged with ignominy; in 1866, the numbers were 1,464, 120, and 122 respectively; in 1867, 1,615, 190, and 184. It is supposed by many that branding is done in some painful and cruel manner. This mode of marking is attended with so little pain that both in the military and naval service it is a common occurrence for men to nuuk themselves in a similar manner for the purpose of recording events in their lives, the attachments which they have formed, or the ships and regiments to which they belong. Tim object of mark. big is not punishment, but the protection of the pub. lic against the reroulistuent of bad men.  A statist estimable that America consumes 3411,621 Legs of gunpowder in getting through the "Fourth."  The Chyrrh Review states that the proposal to pro. se-nte the Hey. Mr. Lowder has fallen to the grouud. Cholera has appeared amongst the troops at Vas. seeruhal, and also amongst those at Agra, but not very seriously. The honour of knighthood will, we believe, be shortly eonforred on Mr. U. W. F. Bolekow, M.P. for Middlesbro'.—The Echo.  The ei mperdown Wiles am to form the subject o, a &in.] shortly, as a compromise is not likely to be c-fectel with the claimant.  Mr. :remelt O'Dowtl, of the English bar, hag been appointed Deputy :lodge Advocate General. The commencing saltu7 ill £l,OOO a year. The Chester Chronicle says "there is residing at rdley a perron named Elisabeth Howell, who has this month entered on the hundredth year of her age."  Daring the peat week 42 wreoes have been repot tea, Waking for the present year 1,840. • woman named Jobbin has been sentenced to SO days' imprisonment at Glasgow, for exposing and deserting her child, aged four months. Juan Florende, who was apprehended some date since on the eharge of stabbing Samuel Simmons, who has sines died, stands ooramitted for trial on the charge of wilful murder.