the conduct of officers in each rank, as well as the
discipline of the regiment, must depend upon the actual
diligence and supervision of the commanding officer. If,
therefore, youths in the lower ranks of regiments are
allowed to practise every sort of riot, drunkenness, and
debauchery, and no notice taken of it by their
commander, are they to be made the victims, and he to be
let off scot free, when, by his own culpable negligence,
he has been the sole cause of it?—for such is the case
with Colonel Garrett. Was there ever such a disgraceful
state of any British regiment brought to light as that of
the forty-sixth, in the late proceedings at Windsor?
What, therefore, does surprise me is this, that they (the
court) should make no report as to the conduct of
Colonel Garrett. Is it, I will ask, the opinion of any
man, civil or military, that such an officer should
continue in command of a regiment which he has
publicly disgraced? And yet I have never heard
of his being ordered to quit the regiment, or of his
being allowed to retire from the service by the sale of
his commission."

Mr. Benjamin Sloman, machinist of Drury Lane
Theatre, was charged at Bow Street Police Office, on
the 30th ult., with Wilful Perjury. On the night of
Saturday, the 26th, at half-past eleven o'clock, Madame
Caradori, the singer, was arrested, taken to a sponging-
house, and kept there till next night, and only liberated
on paying £30 for an alleged debt and costs. This
treatment arose from Mr. Sloman making an affidavit
that the lady owed him £22, and that she had informed
him that she was about to leave England; on the latter
statement Mr. Baron Martin granted an order for
Madame Caradori's arrest. She swore on Wednesday
that she had never made such an intimation to Sloman;
and she showed that she not only intended to stop in
England for some months, but that she had applied for
letters of naturalisation. As to the debt, she owed Mr.
Sloman nothing. It would seem that she had been
announced by others to sing on Monday, but that she
did not intend to appear in London that night. The
ground on which Mr. Sloman claimed the £22 appeared
to be that he considered Madame Caradori as one of
those persons at whose risk the theatre was to be carried
on. Signor Pavesi, another singer, was also arrested
under circumstances similar to those of Madame Caradori.
After two adjournments, Mr. Sloman, on the 8th
inst., was committed for trial. It appeared from the
evidence for the defence that the affidavit on which the
arrests had taken place was false in its allegations.
Neither Madame Caradori nor Signor Pavesi ever said
that they were about to quit England; and evidence
was adduced to show that they were, on the contrary,
making arrangements for a longer stay. The affidavit
was obtained without any notice of the claim for the
debt; and one of the witnesses, Levy, an attorney mixed
up in the matter, said that it was not uncommon to
obtain warrants on affidavit without previous notice of
claim. In deciding to send the case to the Sessions, the
magistrate declined to offer any opinion to prejudice it.
"I will merely express a hope," he said, "that one
effect of this prosecution will be to make persons more
cautious how they swear to affidavits, and attorneys
more cautious how they use such affidavits to obtain a
judge's order for the arrest of a person upon whom no
previous claim had been made." Mr. Sloman's trial
took place at the Central Criminal Court, on the 21st
inst. As it appeared from the evidence that he really
believed, from the information he had received, that
Madame Caradori did intend to leave England; that it
was not clear that he knew the precise terms of the
affidavit drawn up in his name; and that for the money
due to him he had no one to look to but the principal
singers, who were carrying on the theatre,—the jury, as
directed by Justice Erle, returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

A Man Murdered by his Wife and Son. The
murdered man, David Napper, resided at
Trowbridge. On the 5th inst., his son, James Napper,
quarrelled with another brother who had lately returned
from transportation. The father interfered to separate
them, and incurred the displeasure of his son James by
striking him. On the following evening they were all
drinking together at a public house, when a second
altercation took place. James Napper struck his father,
knocked him down, and kicked him severely. The wife
then fell upon her husband, taking hold of him by the
hair and repeatedly striking his head on the ground,
swearing she would murder him. They all three then
left the inn and went towards home. What occurred
afterwards was related by the landlord in his evidence
before the Coroner. He said, that all the outrage took
place in so short a space of time that he had no opportunity
to interfere. The son came into the taproom some
time afterwards, when he did not appear to be intoxicated.
Witness remonstrated with him on his conduct, but he
only replied that, "It served the old—right," and that
if he was not dead already, he would not care about
subjecting him to similar treatment again. This statement
was corroborated by James Brown, a clothworker,
who said he was passing when he saw the deceased on
the ground, and saw his wife catch hold of him by the
hair, and thump his head on the ground, saying, "By
G—, I'll murder thee!" The deceased was then in a
state of insensibility, and the son afterwards took him by
the shoulders and threw him backwards on the ground
with all his might. Witness lifted the deceased on his
knee, but the son still attempted to strike him, and
said he would give any one who took his part
"a—good hiding." The wife and son then left,
but, after they had gone a short distance, turned round
and said, if the deceased came home that night, they
would "finish him off." The deceased, however, was
shortly after taken to his house, where he soon died.
The wife and son have been committed to Devizes gaol
for trial.

A great number of intending Emigrants to Australia
have been reduced to great distress by the bankruptcy
of Newcombe and Griffiths, the emigration brokers.
On the 5th instant, Captain Maclean, the government
emigration agent, and several poor people who had
paid to the bankrupts their passage on board the Jane
Green, being present, Sir R. Carden, who was on the
bench, made the following statement: "I went yesterday,
accompanied by Captain Lean, to inspect the vessel
lying in the docks, and to ascertain in what condition
the ship and the unfortunate persons, who expected to
be by this a considerable way on their voyage to
Australia, were. A more respectable or patient multitude
I have never seen. There are from 190 to 200
individuals on board the Jane Green, who have the
most unquestionable claims upon the public sympathy.
The amount they have paid upon the faith of the brokers
is about £3,300, all of which money was the produce of
their earnings by laborious exertions during periods
varying from ten to twenty years, and of all of which
they have been deprived by relying upon the integrity
of the brokers, who aggravated the sufferings of the
victims by assurances that the vessel would certainly
sail within a stated time, and by notices to be punctually
on board according to the appointed regulations. They
were faithful in observing the stipulations, but they
were doomed to the most heart-rending disappointment,
and the men and their wives and children were thrown
destitute upon the world, and must have been at this
moment starving if they had not found friends amongst
those who are always ready in this metropolis to mitigate
undeserved suffering. From the time of the issue of
the fiat of bankruptcy against the brokers they have
had an allowance of half rations up to Saturday last, by
order of the commissioners, whose powers were no doubt
limited to a certain amount, and to a certain period, as
to that allowance; but after Saturday they had not the
value of a farthing amongst them, and their condition
would have been extreme if it were not for the humane
liberality of a creditor of the very men who were the
cause of their adversity, who supplied them with bread,
meat, tea, and coffee, sufficient to sustain nature. My
inquiries have been most strict and circumstantial; and
I find, from testimonials on which I have the most
perfect reliance, that the public sympathy cannot be
more humanely directed than to the object of enabling
them to proceed to the place where they expect a reward
for their industry."

At the Middlesex Sessions on the 13th, Andrew
Hepburn, a respectable looking person, was tried for
Disturbing a Congregation of Mormons. He had entered