MILITARY OtrraaGE.—On Monday morning, the inhabitants of Pine Apple Place,
Edgware Road, were alarmed by the shrieks of a woman, carried by at a.hand-gallop on a charger, which she was unable to hold in. By her side, almost incapable of keeping his seat, rode a soldier of the Life Guards. The woman was mounted on a man's
saddle of another troop-horse. In less time than that occupied by this description, the woman fell to the ground, and lay as if much Imo. Another trooper then rode up, and immediately afterwards followed a third on foot, whose horse the woman had rode. Persons collected about the woman, and the soldier who had ridden by her side, drew his sword and cut at her several times. Another woman interfered to prevent him, and he cut at her too, but was too drunk to use his sword with an effect corresponding with his fury. The bystanders then elc- pressed their abhorrence, and he brandished his sword among them, and pushed his horse on the foot-path in pursuit of one person, who was obliged to take shelter within the gate of a gentleman's house, to escape the sword of this hero. The master of the house, a gentleman of the highest respectability, was also struck at by him. He tried to force the gate, and to cut at the objects of his rage through it. All this was accompanied with the most ferocious and filthy language. One.of the troopers, who, we are told, is a corporal, affected to interfere, but did not really restrain the brute. The third took no part. Represen- - talons of this shameful outrage were immediately made to Maryle- bone Police-office, and to the Commander of the Life Guards, by whom, we understand, the complaint was not very graciously received. Is the public to be at the mercy of such ruffians as those whose conduct we have described ?-2Iii»wing Chronicle.
In communicating the result of a Court-martial to the 3d Battalion of Grenadier Guards on Saturday, Colonel Lambert addressed the men on the subject of reports of the proceedings of Courts-martial having been furnished to the newspapers, in contravention of positive injunctions to the contrary. He impressed on them the necessity of using every exertion to find out who among them it was that had be,en guilty of so gross a contempt of orders. When did Colonel Lambert find out that a Court-martial was not an open court? Will he try the penny-a-line men by a Court-martial for reporting his proceedings ?
John Barrett, aged twenty-four, who pleaded guilty to two indict- ments, and was found guilty on a third for stealing letters containing; notes to nearly 3,0004 in amount, underwent the extreme sentence of the law on Monday morning, a few minutes after eight o'clock. He behaved with the most philosophic composure on the occasion. He bid his wife and children farewell, on the previous evening, without the least appearance of emotion ; supped heartily, slept soundly for eight or nine hours ; and breakfasted, with a good appetite, only an hour be- fore he was conducted to the scaffold.
Our readers will recollect an account of the putting down and burning of an anatomical theatre at Aberdeen about two months. ago. The people were excited to violence by a disgusting discovery of some hu- man viscera, which had been scraped up by a dog, in a piece of waste ground in the rear of the theatre. A young man, named Alexander Allan, was brought up to Bow Street on Wednesday, charged as one of the:rioters. He was sent to Scotland on Lord Gillies's warrant.
A fire broke out at six o'clock on Thursday morning in the house of Mr. Bright, Chemist, South Audley Street ; and so rapid were the flames that the inmates had but sufficient time to effect their escape.
Last week, a woman named Taylor, of great strength and most abandoned habits, being refused liquor at the Griffin's Head, Half- Moon Street, seized the landlady, a respectable, middle-aged woman, and threw her down with such violence as to fracture her skull. She died on Saturday. A verdict of " Manslaughter" has been returned against Taylor.
A fatal case of hydrophobia occurred at Hampstead on Friday, lost week. The surer was bitten so far back as the 20th December.
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