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we have not adverted ence of civil life arrounded with magi thority, and military life, particularly abro it is supposed the men are liberated fro trol except that of their immodiste officer: considerations we cannot now, though i unprepared, disenes--We shall have acc all we propose, if we encourage the publ and particularly or representatives wi connected either with the aimy or s aside the trams of professional auth insist, for good reasons derived from pin versal life, that Rogging is the main hin recruting our army, and that obediens preserved without it.--Economist, Augus: :

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Here has boon & gallant British regi Into a fire too murderous for troops to b lo. About the moment when it had PASSE the fiery ordeal, when it had left the bet its numbers on the ground, and when dash might have placed it beyond per position of triumph, it is recalled by the de immediate command. The general of the d.. sits down to write his despatches. He is a the fact of the regiment's having retrograde 7 last cause he should have suspected or admitted the courage of his soldiers; and a due inqu even hastily mada, must have informed him the movement was not the fault of the rogin esa,

Nevertheless, General Lane* but of one officer. determines at once to brand the regiment w cowardice; and he does so to the whole emp and to Europe-for foreign journals carefully re posted the reproach, which they certainly will take no pains to remove,

country, and is familiar to vall. On every railroad there is absolutely a regiment or army of officers and servants, who are as punctual and regular as the machinery they serve. There are common porters, clerks. ebeck takers, point placers, signal men, guarde engine men, stokers, inspectors, super- Intendent, secretaries directors, &c. &c., The per coal of an arm all of whom are ever in due time at their stations and perform their peculiar parts of the great erster with as much regularly and mare mention of these circuniSASK

obedience as are ever required of the best disciplined allot once to produce the conviction that a host of con-

troops. Without perfect obedience destruction and deration, not connected with military discipline, The con- such as the babits of soling, The modes of thinking, would ensue, such as never arose probably from the grants, the different being of a civilian population have a disobedience of troops; the destruction of sailway red pron influence on the character af soldiery, Those travelling brought about by a great loss of life, who are from infancy suffected, asserts, to be Now, in our railway system, dogging is never

THE SIXTY-SECOND REGIMEN noted, are not degraded by being knoated as sol-thought of, and would not be tolerated as a means

The whole affair of the 62nd regimen dier To some extent, too, the dissipline of the of preserving obedience and order.

series of blunders from beginning to en Without further multiplying instances to confirm stick still prevails in the domestic life of the Pros sian, and therefore it may be tolerated in their ar- the statement, it is plain that there exists through naturally enough, could not be conclud soe blundering official letter, in har mies, while whipping, having been almost suppres out civil life, in has various professions and depart-

menis, a system of perfect obedience, which feallthat the entire proceedings. Colonel täranı L ad in England as too-disgraceful and degrading & panishment, even for the most diereputable felonies, can be required in military life. Massss of labour-ed the world with such a document,

ers go through great toils, and submail to great hard singular good nature of being most ind noral prosperity: envied the may be wholly unsuited to the character of an En

the gross militery faults committed by allotments, and determined to glishman, and therefore fail in ite misty object, ships, for very small rewards, which is all that the which was not theirs, actual Order, regularily, method, and obedience, in the state or the commander of the army can require officers, and by S John Littler Bimself."

indulgent to these, and even sequiting the inte by a Bible

simple stretch of pre-workshop, add in every department of civil life, ac soldiers. In all bose departments of industry not

gentlemen of blame, it anathematises p urse Government corried its point: companied in general with a strong sense of duty, hing like fogging or brutalizing personal chastise.

ment is known or tolerated. Wherever indeed, it emphasis the superlative crime of appeal beon absurd, for in the case are much more characteristic of the English than' might makes right. But it is dif the French. The officers, too, of the former army, comes into eperation, as there no cases of indi. public press. ve how such a deed could have been are more likely, from their training, to eat a goodvidual brutality, such as boys knocked down by a ated. The only theory we can example to their men, and to enforce, by their con billy.toller, or punched almost to death by the Lonation of it is, bat, having already duct, respect for the rights of any people amongst handle of a pick, disorder and confusion casue; lo regard to a former act of Captain whom they may be engaging in war, than those of whence we may at once conjecture that in the mi- authorities thought

thought that the ice was the latter. It is, therefore, more the consequence litary system it is the brutal system of flogging itself they might do it again. The unim. of the babite of the two people,rder prevail, than of which is repugnant to order, and provocative of the were again put up to auction and a very flogging, that pillage and diso army. The less in disobedience it is meant to check.

to all civil employments, the great means of en. novel expedient was resorted to, to imenre compet the English than in the French as civilians. effects,

Securities and deposits were dispersed with, we conclude, of military pusishmoat, depend on cir suring obedience is the power of dismissal. All the all and sand were allowed to bid whether they had cumstances, which are not military, and of them people employed, as the rule, need the emply ment, the means of paying for their purchases or not. civilians are at least as good judgesne soldier officers. and dismissal is tantamount to a sentence of poverty, We will say nothing of other armies being go hunger, and death The great fountain of order There was no penalty for defaleation, in that case

and submission is the necessity to labour orderly the lands simply reverted to the Crown. With such verned without flogging, though that is so we con-

fine ourselves to our own population. Are there and submissively, one to another, in order to live. unlimited facilities for speculation, prices mounted to an extravagant height and bona fide purchasers un services, po labors, no duties as irksome, as dan The whole wealth of the world is appropriated, and be who would have a share of it must buy it by ore obliged to buy and pay for their lots at rates far gerous as those of suldiere, where obedience to a above their value. To add to the hardship of their system is required and enforced without any p nish-submitting to, and acting in cojuction with, bis fel ment similar to flogging? Those who werkt in our lows. Except in the army, and perhaps in the CERE they were then, for the first time, given to

factories are exposed to greater dangers from the nary, voluntary obedience is a universal rule. It understand that they were to hold their land notio

holds good even with ministers and sovereigns, freehold, but leasehold, for a period of 75 years. machinery than a soldier runs in a time of peace.

Boilers blow up, fly wheels break, and every man. who must study the wishes of their subjects to retain their power; as well as with factory workmen and works surrounded by perils. His tabou 100 is sc. vere and continuous. He must rigidly abey the excavators, who must labour for their daily bread. directions prescribed by the millowner. The bands There is always an abundance of individuals re. employed in one mill very often exceed in number quiring the employment or the custom which other's those of a regiment, and yet in all the factories of can bestow; and if one will not take it on the terms the country system of order, more or less rigid, of obedience, another will, and so order is rigidly according to the temper and disposition of each milk observed, and obedience maintained. orner is established and enforced by comparatively gentle meurs Far from there being mutiny amongst the factory workers, they are in general all obedi- enco, and happy when they are well employed.

The same observation is true of miners, who, marsballed into companies at one place under a captein, inte gangs at another under an undertaker of an over man, perform all the work required of In considering this now popular and always im them, descend regularly and daily to their under portant question, we shall take for granted that our ground toils in holes which men "unused to those labours abudder to think of come up in numbers at readers are acquainted with all the sickening details which hare heen forced on public attention by the stated times, are exposed to death from falling, amissal from the latter is almost synonomasis with Inqueal at Hounslow. We shall not, therefore dilate to be killed by having mosses of earth fall on the death; dismissed from the former is life and liberty. The press it was that fully exculpated the 63rd on cals double knotted, on little pieces of flesh del. who brave fire damp year of after year, though From the army, a man bugs his discharge; the Regiment; aided by the communication of officers iberately whipped from the body, on blood streaming scores and scores of them are continually burned factory he quits with the utmost reluctance. When and eye-witnesses, eager to establish truth and dosen the back, on bruized and ruptured muscles, and suffocated-their sufferings, and the number he leaves the army, he is said to regain his froodon; repel calumny. Yet what is the moral which Ad- conveying their own agonised infusion to the who perish, far exceeding the consualities of ang when be is dismissed from the factory or the work-juta-General Grant draws from the occurrenc»? heart through all the surrounding fissars, causing army, and yet miners are always to be got ia mband shop, he is in danger of hecoming a paper or a Verily it is, that the press is a very vile Liang, disease and death on the stoical indifference of the Ance, are patient at their toile, and orderly in pursu- felon. The army, then, is a service of slavery. to hold communication with which is perfectly

They and their fundies are so eager to victim, or the still more extraordinary indifference g them.

Ought it be so That is the question for public heinous of officers who looked on and never cried hold engage in these tasks that the state has had to in eqnderation; and the members of the army, like never oven fell his pulse to ascertain if he could bear terefore to restrain them, restricting the labour of jaundiced den, tainted with the general disease, are

not the persons to decide it. another lesh while the men in the ranks were faint the young and prohibiting the labour of females. fog at the horrors they were compelled to witness This is a strong case, for not long ago, at least in we shall not dilate on such subjects, however po. Scotland, the rainers were serfs, exposed to the most werful would be their effect in exciting the sympathy severe puoishment and the most degrading treat and the zeal of every kindly and reflecting man, Dient Amongst the whole of our miners and col. believing them to be already known to our readers, lets at presem, their numbers prbably being not who are already fully convinced of the desirableness, less than 50,000 in the united empireo there is main practicable, of wholly abolishing the punishment tained withou Bogging a syrem of order and regul- of flogging. Its torturing and brutalising character arity to which each man is almost perfectly obedient, are too well known to require illustration. The in- We will quale one more example, which seeins quest proves that if it debases the mem, ita tendency peculiarly instructive. Our ruilroade, the most is to corrupt the minds of the officers. We shall inagnificent and extensive works with which the take it for granted, 100, that our readers have learnt hand of man has ever dignified and adorned the from the daily journals the various case of degrada. surface of the earth-compared to which Chinese tion, rain, and death from flogging, which the inquest walls and Egyptian pyramids, and all those things el Hounslow has induced several writers to quote that we are taught at school were the wonders of from books or supply from their own experience; the world, are trifling and worthless-have, as the We do not pretend to give one line of information, rate, been made by men of the lowest classes, gaths or make one single remark, that shall strengthened together promiscuously from all parts of the the irrepressible disgustard indignation which have for the last few weeks bern exrited in every part of the empire. They exist in power sufficient to in duce the Ministers, as an act of immediate duty, to Interfere; they require no enforcing; and we shall

The improved lote-those built on were return- ed to the original holders, at former rates, but on three new terms. This condition was peculiarly hard in their case, for instead of having erected un- substantial buiklings, as is usual in such cases, with view to the termination of the lease they had built palaces it to stand for centuries.

Thus far, it will be admitted, the China inerchants met with but indifferent treatment. These grier- saces, however, have been eclipsed by a complete series of tyrannical and oppressive acte which have marked the whole administration of the present Go. rernor. Glasgow Constitutional, August 22.

CAN THE ARMY BE GOVERNED WITHOUT FLOGGING!

chaine our remarks to showing that to act alings of benevolence and Kindliness would be as publicly beneficial as it is honourable to individuals. We are told that civilians cannot judge on this mubject, but it is not a question only of armies-it

repro, Than the army of excavators, who bave literally, within a few years, overrun the land, a ruder a stranger set of men were scarcely ever gath- ered together. The Sussex boor, the Somersetshire clown, the Yorkshire tyke, the flighland and the Lowland Scot the peppery Walshman, the prompt and volatile Insiunan, have all worked together to construct our railways. It may be and this is a strong part of the case that cullections of these rudo mga have often been the terror of the neigh concerns die rule and order of society. We assume

bourhood in which they hare wurked, even they that we are at well qualified to give ani opinion on have been kept submissive without fogging, and, I na taikiary nien: We object, in truth, to their to obedience to their contradiore and overseers, their

possessing exclusive information; for conduct has in general been free from reproach knowledge is peculiar Ons or two instances we do remember of their rising heir experience confined to armes up against those who employed them be that was —we ought not to rely because they had been 10 treated and defrauded, n_which

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In the army this rule is reversed. There obedi ence is constrained. The reason is obvious. Too may men more tlian can he culisted-ever press 1 serve. Far From dismissing those who have entered, as a purishment, they are retained in ser vice as a punishment, and the state is so unreason. ably terrified att lusing a few men that it will not even accept their services for a limited period-it will have therm for their whole lives. So far as our subject is concerned, that is the roun distiction between the military and all other servicies.

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The whole question of the necessity of Bogging, turns on the disposition of the bulk of the population to serve in the army, making dismissal from that aaa employment or profession, with all its con sequences, the minst to be avoided of all punishments, or making the dismissal an advantage and a benefit, and even a coreted blessing, with a return to the tools and obedience of civil life. It is at once plain that the use of flogging in the army, after if bas been almost banished from the gaol, and employed to make the soldier submit, rather to the caprice of inividual officers, then to a well-devised system of order, is the chief and mala circumstance why service in the army is abhorred by the bulk of the population.

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This infamous calumny on the courage of a gol fant regiment, and of honourable men, is of course discovered for what it is worth; and after a sing a kind of reparation is maile by the order of the Commander-in-Chief But This reparation by no incans explains or enters into the circumstances. It is left to be supposed that the regiment, however inuy hara behared has been treat with leniency, and restored to the respect of the miliary chief

le this sufatent to restore the regiment to the respect of the public? By no mente, Military dispatches cast a slur that military dispatches can not remove. But there is a power which anderta- hes the thak. That power is the public press: which carefully chronicled every account, eray inct, every circumstance, and made the pranku ac- - quainted with all the details of those battles, with muuteness and fidelity that made the work fo miliar with each scene of action.

It is no doubt one of the articles of wear, that

military history is only to be registered in official despatches, and that these, in order to be geruimd." and respected, must not be communicated to the press. Here, then, is a sample of the serocity of military despatches. A Commander-in-Chief salts that a certain regiment stormed a battery, which, in reality, it never approached. Its more immede commander, writes another despatch, stating that so far from storming the battery, the regument an away, or gave way, in panic. It happens dry both the accounts of both these high omborre, though contradictory to each other agree in being both equally untrue; and since that time there have been despatches and counter-despatches," which strave to set half right what was whomewroug The calumnies were made public; yeaves ex- peated that the correction of them shout ba kay We do not ray this is the sole circumstance. In secret with regimental etiquette The tommunity of which every member is struggling the 62nd would not submit to such injustice to get up in the world, to obtain more wages, more

written reparation found its pay to the presen fees, higher salaries, greater rewards and honours, Sir John Littler's anger at this speaks ill by 4 wltere on active pursuit of wealth is the great na. 11 is a worse symptom than bis precipitamy k tional characteristic, to expect that the bulk of the condemning a gallant regiment. If Sir John population shall have any affection for a service, in the highest chivalric feeling, we will not say which the utmost reward, without a chance of in- soldier, but of an Englishmat, he would have been creasing it by a man's own exertion, is about is a ready to sacrifice any litle portion of his own day, with a pension of Gd or 9d, ofter he is worn out, character for prudence in the more sacred duly of is wholly irracional, Seldom nsilmay happen, the making full reparation to a regiment on which be labourer has some he of being he farmer, the spin. had infiicted a cruel wrong. Instead of complai ner tooks forward to becoming, like many others,ing of publicity, be ought to have fagured at a rich mill owner himself; to all classes of anciety, through ratious grades and professions, a road is There are few professions now a days whot opened of making money, and attaining that mo claim to reputation, and whose reward therein, mo finted respectability which all thirst for only in the act be made through the press. Of all professions

army ate all, or nearly all (and, until very lately the military one is most beholden to hit who pu at the cuperior places approp ated to one, clase,licly chronicles and freely criticises. And nothin and the rest bate no prospect, but to toll on with- can be more puerile and absurd then that affect out hope or reward, exposed to this degrading sys-herror which some military men profete for 1 tem of corporal punishmen broad and at home, press, or the rancorous hostility which race cor

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