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Globe, Volume II, Issue 196, 25 January 1875, Page 4

The Brisbane lelegraph of the 23rd December states that Queensland is “ not to be left out in the cold ” as regards the release of notorious criminals, it having been determined to remit the unexpired portion of the sentence of James Macpherson, alias the “ Wild Scotchman,” a highwayman once well-known in the western districts of that colony. Flogging (the Army and Navy Gazette says) is abolished in the army, but it still flourishes in the navy. Five naval cadets in the Britannia were flogged recently on the bare back for “ bullying and fagging.” That these boys had been very naughty boys we have no manner of doubt’ but that “flogging them on the bare back ” was the best remedy for making them good for the future we very much question. A thorough sound caning would probably not have be>n much amiss ; but to degrade young gentlemen by exposing them to a coarser description of punishment was unwise. It is now about thirty years since that the youngest admiral now on the list flogged a midshipman, and such an outcry was raised at the time which it was supposed would for ever have prevented the recurrence of such an act ; but history has repeated itself with a vengeance, and five families instead of one will be “ down ” on the Admiralty.

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