Penny Newsman (Newspaper) - November 24, 1861, London, Middlesex REGISTERED FOR TRANSMISSION AND MAIL AND PUBLISHING SALISBURY FLEET ONE NOVEMBER MILITARY CAUSE AND crimes which have recently disgraced Pres and Corfu garrisons have pro righteous indignation against their but they have provoked still more righteous indignation against the system which corrodes soldiers into the public justly de mands that if the be promptly the together with its defenders and administrators who made him not be allowed to pass unscathed by public even if no other punishment be There can be no necessity for us to declare our abhorrence of the shedding of weie the provocation never so to prevent the remarks about to be offered from being construed into a palliation of the or into the expression of sympathy with the Although no advocates for capital pun and unwilling to interpose the slightest obstacle to the supreme vindication of the bloody and prompt as it may we venture to insist upon the equally prompt of the disease which gangrenes British the system which reduces man to below the level of a dumb and deprives the British soldier during peace of the rights and privileges of a British There is nothing of which English men are so impatient lis the inability to obtain re of grievances and when a man dons the uniform he does not doff his English Our fathers sacrificed many things and the Crown re fused to redress their What they did their children will no matter at what Civilians can hardly picture to themselves the suf ferings to which soldiers are and which amount to mental torture of the most excruciating kind where the men have been The to the day of his taking the probably enjoyed the large individual freedom of an English Enlistment reduces him from a citizen to the slave of a hundred for he is liable to be upbraided and punished by one of his superiors in his regiment from the corporal iip to his It is bad enough to a and liable to the illwill and caprices of but to be the victim of tyrants entails an amount of human suffering which the gloomiest mind never Where the superiors are desi lous of exhibiting their and impressed with the awful necessity of maintaining the regiment is the lowest depth of hell upon If any doubt this let them peruse the memoirs of of the Scotch Sergeant who served in the and of One who whistled at the To the galling tyranny exercised by officers must be added the annoyance and old sol who having passed through the process of disci and been reduced to take pleasure in aggravating the sufferings of their therein displaying that infirmity of humanity accord ing to L render a friends sorrow a source of So great has been the annoy ance inflicted by old soldiers that one of the wit nesses examined before the Commission on re the recommended great care be to keep young from old What constitutes an offence in military life would often not call for a rebuke from If a man is not on well set if any part of his apparel exhibit unfair wear and if his aims happen to be tarnished by acci if a button or if he fail to be respectful his which after a mere matter of he is visited with heavy His frame is exhausted by repeated drillings in heavy marching his few and scanty comforts and his pay escheated often through the rascality of or through the faults of It be lost sight that offended the one whose declaration establishes the and who often awards the while in society it is held monstrous for a man to be judge in his own rule which prevails in the Suppose the soldier should have been pun ished through the caprices of his or for with artificial or for unintentional ninetynine out of one hundred no chance ot obtaining re To whom is he to and from whom is he to ask for justice His colonel is the man who in or authorised the and who counte or committed the so it would be worse than Useless to appeal to forit would unfailingly ensure an augmentation of In there is no appeal drunk with passion or despotic power to sobered by a sense of responsibility and of the duty from man to According to military the wronged soldier must and without murmur submit unjust never once allowing it to transpire that he K not satisfied of the justice of his punishment until the annual inspection of his after the has looked through the and is impatient to get away to lunch with the the soldier during the best part of a has been brooding over the injustice inflicted upon may step out of the ranks and make public his British grenadiers are bold men they will charge a Hue of leap into a battery vomiting a deadly hail of iron and and receive charge of a but the boldest among them would lose breath if asked to make a complaint against his Men will not do They will suffer in silence seek revenge after their own the boldest man in her service tu pluck up to complain to the inspecting officer what redress would conic of it No one ever a private obtaining redress against his Tic in the first place not be disposed to him much His would be regarded as convincing proof of Ms insubordinate and the oftener he been the victim of unjust punishments the more would he bo held to have merited Then what will be the position of the soldier after he has com without redress the reader may Hie superior docs not act those who desire to curry favour with him will bo ever on the watch to faults inthe complainant aud to magnify He will be spied by toadies and shunned by tin He will be marked as He with every offence whose author may not be and his will come to be one ut indescribable What wonder if morbid passions spring up or the dome of reason crack 1 absurd notion prevalent among military discipline is the root of theevil and the chief cause of Obedience to command is i the handling of an but that is no reason why its internal economy should be con ducted in violation of the rules of common and against the teachings of experience of huma through all The army a re model of possessing the same vices and To gorern its members are not degraded into nor are they made amenable to artificial notions of right or They are not denied the redress of grievances on the con the access to obtain redress is facilitated as much as possible and be the grievance fancied or it is sure to meet with patient It is nothing to say the army is recruited from among the worst as a general it is a it con tains no more worst characters than society at The ranks contain more and welleducated men than is We have seen a country a medical and a barrister sitting on Rochester bridge at the same time by in the uniform of a marching The late one of brilliant cavalry rose from the ranks and if we could obtain the baptismal certificates of the we should be surprised at the large proportion of country clergy mens sons among assuming the army to be recruited from bad ought we not to strive to educate so that they may be governed as men rather than be coerced as brutes 1 There can be no harm in trying a for the system has broken and discipline has proved useless to prevent military In the Continental where the most rigid discipline violent deaths of officers occur most fre An Austrian colonel has been seen to gallop over the parade ground at Milan with through his that had been fired from a musket in which it had been left by and no one could prove it was Detachments of French infantry were heard to declare when on the road to the that they should wait for the first engagement to pay off old A captain of French artillery never went out during the Italian war except in greater fear of his men the foe and it was noticed during the officers were and not faultfinding with their men and it was impos sible to refuse crediting the assertion that of the foreign officers who fell in battle all were not slain by the at home and dis as officers interpret the has not pre vented military Let the sake of humanity to officers and try another Let us treat soldiers as not as Let us by all means remove from their reach the means of gratifying drunken passion or sudden But let us primarily continue to the British soldier his rights as a British at least during peace and let while punishing the try the effect of treating his regiment as one that has fallen into insubordination through the faults of the and strike from each of them a year or twos time that count for When officers find their chances of promotion damaged by the tion of their they will promptly discover a mode of making them and of effectually preventing military murders PLAIN SERIOUS CHARGE OF FORGERY AND Alexander a merchant at present residing at and William Oliver described as an of were brought up on Wednesday at the Guild hall having been arrested by Bull and two City detective upon warrants charg ing them with having feloniously forged and uttered cer tain bills of one representing 10 casks of value and 26 casks of value with intent to defraud Lister and mer of Biggs said I am a on busi ness in partnership with Isaac Solly I know the younger He was in business with his brother as alkali manufacturers at We acted as the agents in London for the firm of Gray They were in the habit of sending alkali to us for and the bills of lading were in some instances sent direct to but almost invariably through the West of Eng land and South Wales District Bank and the Glamor Banking They were the prisoners but they also knew They advanced on our We received letters of advice with each I know the handwriting of the father of the two as I have seen it and often acted upon The letter of advice and of lading produced are in the handwriting of the elder Sleigh Do you word in the of lading to be in the elder Grays hand writing 1 Biggs I The elder Gray Excuse me for interrupting as you have made statements not in ac cordance with and as I have only just been ar and had no time to consult my legal I wish to ask the magistrate to grant an as case at present is merely ex and I do not desire it to be heard in that I shall be able to re fute Sleighs Alderman Allen As far as the case has the evidence certainly bears out Sleighs At all the learned counsel is quite in order in making an opening statement of the of the and I can not therefore interfere with The younger Gray I wish to ask Biggs if he did or did not oppose my passing the Insolvent Court at Swansea on the ground of these bills of lading being and whether believing me did or did not withdraw the opposition to allow me to pass for he knew I had had nothing to do with the business for a long time and at the time of my passing the court ne condoned the matter by receiving Biggs If a remand be I shall be in a position to establish these charges against the prisoners The elder Gray The whole matter is one of debt be tween Biggs and The latter has a every of AUerman Allen And one of has been produced but there is a difference of six casks between i The elder Gray The duplicates I refer to are exact copies of the bills of Tiie copy produced is not the copy of the of lading as not only the i number of casks is but the marks and numbers j Sleigh That is easily accounted as the marks and numbers have been as well as the I to produce as much confusion as I Alderman Allen I will accept the prisoners in and two sureties of each ibr I each i The prisoner were then anil ultimately re I moved in the prison van to committed in default ACCIDENT FROM i An inquest was held on Thursday at Thomass to inquire into the circumstances 1 attending the death of George aged who died at the above hospital on It appears that the I deceased lad was employed at Boswells machine i biscuit in and that on the i previous Monday he accidentally got bis arm entangled i in some part of the anf although his piercing cries speedily brought and the machinery was at once he was not rescued till arm was terribly and had to be immediately amputated The poor fellow was taken to Thomass but gradually sank till he The poor lad Jived with hb at Steers A verdict in accordance the evidence was FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN A fearful murder was perpetrated on Wednesday morn ing in the No South at the rear of by a man named John the victims being his two infant The his and two children lived in the top front room of the Until recently he was a waiter in the Shelbourne He left that situation on the 14th of September and since been and hia who ia a servant being out of they were reduced to the greatest distress and being obliged to pawn their clothes and furniture in order to procure On Wednesday after ten his sister a young woman named Isabella called to see her object being to tell she had not suc in pawning some shirt collars which he gave ber for the When she told Molloy this he flew into a violent and seizing the struck her a severe the She opened the door and rushed and man then ran at his wife and assaulted the same She re several heavy which cat her head in dif ferent places and although her to lock she also succeeded in and met upon the stairs a woman named who lived in the same house and bad been alarmed by This woman brought to establishment in where she remained in order to have her head Dempsey then went for a and meeting Sergeant 117 told him of what had Sergeant Walsh at once proceeded to the and when he got to tbe top of the stairs saw the prisoner standing in the door of his own room half with his hands and shirt smeared with aud crying loudly for The sergeant ran the and saw the two infant respectively two and three lying upon the with their throats and near them an old black handled table knife with The younger named was quite the named was still The wretched father came np to the and stooping over the child Arthur Can you do anything for him and then said Im Sergeant Walsh having secured the immediately sent for and arrival of left him of the prisoner and the dead and brought the elder who was still to assisted by Surgeon of Westland made every effort to resuscitate the but in aud the poor little sufferer was brought to Jervis where he expired at two Meanwhile a great crowd of hearing of the terrible had collected door of the house in which Molloy and at 11 oclock the prisoner was brought to from which he was removed to the Head where he was In he was about to make a until cautioned by Inspector Con At he seemed greatly but on being brought back to station he relapsed into a state of sullen His who is badly and her are at present in The despair into which was driven by destitution is alleged to have been tbe cause of bis committing this fearful murder persons who live in say that he is HIS Layard addressed the electors of Southwark on Thursday night at Taylors Georges The room was crowded to excess in every and some hundreds of electors were excluded for want of The fruitless endeavours of these to gain admis interrupted the business several times during the With trifling and unimportant Layard reviewed the business of the past session and the home and foreign policy of the Government which he is a member altogether giving a very favour able account of bis stewardship of the interests confided to his He complained of what had been termed the of a Liberal Government in forwarding the cause of reform butthe gentleman retorted on the general public as it had always laid with the people to force Parliament to grant necessary so it now lay with them to use the poWer in their Let the people at the next general election declare that measures of reform shall be and no doubt the electoral franchise would be He referred to of opinion already given by his consti and stated his conviction that had other consti spoken out as plainly and boldly they would not now have to taunt as had latterly been Let them as had been done at was simply an expression of popular opinion and and reform would be A most interesting part of speech was in reference to noninterference in the quarrels of other na said to those people who wish to have a constitution similar to our all pur moral and we go far in aiding them in achieving their In answer to an Layard said that interference in Hungary and Poland would ne the raising of tbe to hi the The was most and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to TERRIFIC GAIE AND IOSS OF SHIPPING IN THE NORTH The heavy gales which swept the northeast coast on Wednesday and Thursday appear to have raged with the most destructive tbe whole range of coast of the north of The havoc amongst the shipping was greater than experienced on the English and it was only on Monday that the fact known that the storm had proved so truly disastrous on the opposite Telegrams have been received in the City from and other announcing some sad casualties during the It appears to have burst forth on and to have raged with the force of a Among the more serious of the many wrecks were reported is the total loss of the Lion trading between Hull which took place near on the Island of in the She was one of the many steamers which were ordered out of Cronstadt on Thurs in consequence of winter setting and all of them had to make quick work in getting up steam and taking their The telegram states that the ship is a total but the crew were The Hull has also been lost on her passage from On the coast near Texel and Schelling some fifteen A large Norwegian called the Captain bound to Antwerp from was stranded near and the only one on board who was saved was the The whole of the crew were and the ship and cargo totally A large Russian called the bound to London from was having been blown ashore by the The crew were A Prussian called the laden with bound to was and several of the un fortunate crew were The ship are telegraphed to be Among the other vessels which are reported to have been blown ashore by the storm in tbe same vicinity of the coast are schooner from Dieppe for Newcastle the Danish schooner from Horsen for Gibraltar Emma Elisa from Dublin for A catalogue of disasters has been communicated from and other places near the month of the where the weather is described to have been very The schooner bound to totally lost on near Diep and the Prussian schooner from Limerick for was stranded at a point called The crew were fortunately The telegraphic advices from tbe also furnish a long list of casual ties resulting from the recent severe Several ships are stated to have been The Blue Captain from Antwerp to which was blown up by the went and two or three of the crew are stated to have Similar accounts have been received from more and it feared that the full extent of mischief oc MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM On Thursday morning the held a long and painful inquiry on the body of aged the wife of a living at John Pike said that the deceased was bis On last he went from home at nine and returned at the same His wife was in bed when he went and on his return be heard a gurgling noise by the He examined and found that she was He called her sister and went for of the That gentleman and applied the stomach but was The deceased had before for the purpose of destroying once when she was after losing her and again after she was when Sewell re stored Upon his return from Sheas he saw a cup on the block of a turnup He had no know ledge that she was possessed of the summoning said that the him that there was poison in the and he it in that pointing He searched the box and found the two bottles One bad contained the essence and the other oil bitter The man was at the time drunk when he so told Pike replied that be had no recollection of telling the officer anything of the and added that on she prepared and partook of some herself He could not tell whether she had any as he gave her He only took on Saturday and e bought a shoulder of which he took home for Shea proved that he attended and tried the stomach but without and it was possible she died from the effects of the oil of bitter Several members of the family were who deposed to the fact of insanity raging in others one had committed anil the father of his mind for fourteen and was be They also gave the husband of deceased a character for being a confirmed drunkard J he would never work when he could get a shilling to spend in drink that he neglected his wife kept her without the common necessaries of life and had it not been for the assistance of her friends she would long since have been On the day of she made tbe remark to her brother that she could not work any and the only prospect before her was the and if she died first her beast of a husband would die in the The learned coroner having summed the jury re turned a verdict that deceased destroyed her own life whilst in an unsound state of On the verdict being the coroner severely reprimanded the husband for the dissipated manner in which be remarking that although not legally he was morally re sponsible for his wifes The proceedings then TRAGEDIES IN The New York Times of a German was recently found floating in the near Applegates New It bore marks which left no doubt that be had been mur Fellner had only just arrived in and it was ascertained that on the passage over he was on very friendly Marks and her Miss Albertina two Polish On their arrival in New to the Prescott and tbe ladies to a boarding East Shortly the two ladies called upon Fellner at the Prescott and during the interview charged him with improper conduct towards her and demanded of him with a dagger in her Immediately after this Fellner consulted a named and by his advice he removed his quarters from the Prescott House to Onthe 22nd disappeared from the boardinghouse in in company with arid no more was seen of him until his body was found in the waters of New was known to be of a large amount of gold and and it is believed by the police that with the had murdered and afterwards cast bis body into the waters on the Jersey in the hope that it would float out into the seen Harks and her sister were taken into custody as important witnesses in the and the soon after being placed in the cell committed had not been appre hended on the 3rd Another tragic quite in its character as the but as yet enshrouded in mystery as to the or was brought to light some weeks ago at on the Hudson The victim in the present case is Philip Augustus son of Daniel president of Atlantic The body of young Embury was found near Meyers at having evidently dropped where the fatal blow had been It is supposed that the who arrived at Fishkill on the previous evening in the railroad had started on foot to proceed to the upper and was waylaid while passing along a narrow path between the hotel and the As yet the cause of the melancholy or anything which may lead to the detection of the has not The unimpeachable character of the young who was of strictly temperate and of a nature so genial and kind as to cause all who knew him to love dispels any thought of enmity towards The it was in the habit of visiting friends at arriving usually by the evening and was by them met at the depot with a carriage but upon the occasion in question his friends did not anticipate his on account of tbe and it is supposed he started to walk to his place of desti The terrible deed was evidently committed with either a long bowie knife or a which was thrust in at his left penetrating through the and breaking off at the which was left protruding at the There was found upon the body his gold about twentyfive dollars in and a diamond breastpin of considerable Embury was about twentyfive years of THE LONDON UNION A very influentially attended meeting of the members of this association was held on Thursday evening last at John of the Middle took the In of the entire reconstruction of the the appointment of officers was the business first proceeded This being a lengthened conversation ensued in re ference to the action about to be taken by the Trades Unions in the above and it was unanimously resolved earnestly to cooperate with The meeting terminated with the following resolution this meeting has heard with deep regret of the sudden death of Thomas Slingsby and desires to record without delay its high sense of his and faithful public devotion to the liberties of tbe religious as well as especially his indefatigable in the most unfavourable for the cause of Parliamentary Reform the basis of manhood Aud that this meeting recommends the working classes of the and particularly of the to take effectual measures to honour the memory of this distinguished champion of their political The formation of branches in the various postal dis of the metropolis was discussed and decided CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION OF AH AMERICAN SHIP AT THE MOUTH OF THE B A CONFEDERATE WAB A steamer of war belonging to the Southera jiving no but late the came into the Southampton river on Thursday with the Confederate tag flying and pennant at the She was bouni rom Bremen for England for and on Tuesday astr in she fell in with American ship Harvey from Havre for New in She boarded and took out all the and put them in and then burnt the Jhe capture took place in 75 fathoms steamer in the and tkc crew awl all heir effects were landed in the The isin a very ted The Harvey Birch was a rigged tons American measure commanded by Captain The mate states lie steamer opened her port and ordered to leave haul down lier American and on Captain Nelson went audt loon returned with orders from the captain of tbe ille to get all their things as they wera going to the They were allowed about and got out part of their The rew took a large quantity of provisions nd the ships some of ier and allowed Captain Nelson to have his wn but lie has lost some or dollars worth of personal They then set fire to the ship fore and nd the steamer left her The three masts were seen to go over the The crew of the 3ircJi consists in all of 29 including the two two and 20 They are all cast hores to do the best they can for No Southern Commissioners have arrived by ther There on board a Peyton appears to have some commission o The crew consists of English and were compelled to sign other he whole of the crew of the Harvey with the exception of Captain Nelson and his two were in irons until arriving at Captain egram endeavoured Co make Captain Nelson and his rew take an oath of allegiance to the Confederate Go Captain Pegram has communicated with one of the Southern Commissioners now in jondon j Captain Nelson and crew immediately under the protection of the American is the report Commander Pegram On the morning of the at eight sighted 1 he packet ship Harvey of New Immedi ately bore down upon and when near enough hailed having unlimbered guns and decks for spoke the and ordered the captain to haul down his colours and bring bis papers ou The tars and stripes immediately went down and Captain Nelson and his crew came on board the Nash Captain Pegram then informed him he demanded an but all private effects would je The crew were then brought with the exception of Captain his two and a placed in The captain and mates were allowed to retain their but put upon parole a lew provisions were then brought on and the Harvey Birch committed to the Before Nashville left her the three masts were seen the entire vessel was enveloped in Captain Pegram states that the burning of bbe ship and hauling down of her flag was the most painful act of his laving for a period of 32 years fought and served under the United States The Nashville brought as orders of Honourable the Secretary of tbe Colonel Pey on and Colonel Peyton is on special duty for the state of North Carolina the length of the and the heavy out her which carried away portion of her all are in The Colonel md Commander Pegram proceeded by express Tain Peyton says that bales of cotton of the old and over four millions of bales of he new and fifty millions worth of dollars and naval also ready for The Colonel adds that Mason and tbe Southern left Charles town on the 12th in the steamer passing through the blockading at Their safe arrival repotted at before the left Charleston oh the 26th and they are expected the West India steamer La Captain is an officer of the United States and bore a in the Mexican in the Paraguay and Japan andj during the war waged by the English aud French For his distinguished his native staie of Virginia voted by the unanimous voice of the General sembly of the a splendid The numerous statements which been received in this through the papers of the United of the scarcity of pro visions at the want of clothing in the are said to be without The country is and the satisfied of their ability to achieve their The esprit de corps of the army is President instead of being is the en fine health and as are the Generals Beauregard and reported Captain Pegram indignantly a statement made by Captain that held no commission from the Confederate States of aad has a copy of Ms commission the Confederate FUNERAL OP THOMAS SLINGSBY Tbe funeral of Duncombs took place on at His remains were from where the late member had been residing for the benefit of his on to towi The funeral consisting of a hearse and four with two carriages and left the house of the deceased shortly after eleven and arrived at the Kensal green Cemetery at twelve The funeral was strictly though a large of persons had A PRISONER FOR DEBT FOR William a prisoner for debt for fifty examined ou Thursday by Registrar attended the debtor in his ora rooms in the Bench The prisoner been sworn said he into the prison in the year 1814 He was arrested on the 3rd He carried on business as a carpenter and general He was no He owed to the man who There was no sheriffs name attached to the ment on which he was arrested there no pro in any court He had never petitioned the Bankruptcy cr Insolvent he owed no man He a ia some house not received the rents since he had been He had sisters who were poor His mother was alive when was but had died His sisters not receive the He did not know who received The only money Tie re from them was from one who sent him time to time On being asked whether he wag willing to be made a he said be could as he owed no man and he was not be made The matter waa On Friday Registrar Winslow gave In this case I determined adjudicate thia man a as I have come to the conclusion he is not a person to the commencement of this was liable to the Laws as a I mut hold in as other that the lying in prison hi the case of a be two months after of If Miller wished to be adjudged and to be I regret that I could not do so as he does not possible w can see no reason to doubt the regularity of the ings under which he was committed to this prison and if he had he might long a release from his
