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Politics.] THE LEADER. 761
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VOLUNTEER CORPS. The Oxford University R...
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Politics.] The Leader. 761
Politics . ] THE LEADER . 761
Volunteer Corps. The Oxford University R...
VOLUNTEER CORPS . The Oxford University Rifle Corps have fixed upon a site for their rifle ground , and the Government have proinised to lend the club 250 muskets and several sergeants to begin their drill--with .-. At a meeting of the Bradford Volunteer Bifle Corps Committee , at which deputations were present from Xqeds , Halifax , Wakefield , and Itotherham , it was determined that the arm of the several corps shall be the short Enfield rifle , with sword bayonet .
going to work in earnest ; at Halifax the corpa meets for drill twice every day , there are but eighty - four members at present , but we hope soon to hear that that number is increased tenfold .
Already upwards of 100 persons have entered their names as volunteers for the Bradford corps , and it is expected that four companies of 100 men each will be easily raised at present , being increased ultimately to 500 or 600 . At Wakefield , 32 persons Lave enrolled their names as volunteers to form a rifle corps there , and drilling rrill be continued every Tuesday , Thursday and Saturday . A subscription , has been set on foot to assist other volunteers to join . In some of the other large towns of the AVest Riding the movement is making progress .
Some further progress has been made during the week with regard to the proposed Marylebone corps , which ought to be a very numerous one , and we hope will turn out to be so . Colonel North , M . P ., has presided at Putney at a meeting for organising a corps for Wimbledon , Wands worth , Roehampton , and Putney . Appropriate resolutions were unanimously passed for the formation of such corps , and committees and an honorary secretary and treasurer appointed .
Many of the corps in the country are drilling two or three times a week . On Friday the members of the Ipswich Rifle Corps mustered for their first drill in the grounds attached to the militia depot . Earl Ducie is taking great interest in the progress of the Bristol corps towards efficiency , and has expressed his intention of giving the sum of 50 / . to be apportioned in two prizes of 30 / . and 20 / . each for the first and second best shots in the different corps or companies which may be established in the county of Gloucester . ¦ -. ' -. .
On Tuesday a requisition was submitted to the Lord ¦ Chancellor ' "by the Attorney-General , signed by nearly 150 " of the most distinguished members of the bar , urging upon his Lordship the expediency-of calling a meeting of the members of the four inns of court with the view to the formation of a volunteer rifle corps . Should the Lord Chancellor ( Lord Campbell ) comply with the wishes of the requisitionists , it is expected the whole bar will unite in forming a corps . At a Court of Lieutenancy held in the Guildhall on Thursday , in reference to requisitions received by the Lord Mayor , to call a public meeting for the purpose of initiating a rifle corps , it was agreed to postpone any measures until his lordship had had an
interview with the Secretary for War on the subject . Some discussion arose , in the course of which some novel opinions on the subject were enunciated . One deputy thought , that if rifle corps Ay ; ere encouraged there would be nobody left to mind the shops . Another city senator evidently thinks the rifle corps are a kind of special constables ; and considered that the artillery company and the militia were sufficient to " keep the peace of the city . " On Wednesday a meeting of the benchers and members of the Inner nnd Middle Temple was held for the purpose of taking preliminary steps for the formation of a rifle corps . A resolution was curried to thedqsiretl effect , as also two others for conferring with Gray ' s Inn and Lincoln ' s Inn , and for further consideration of the subject after a meeting of the
four Inns . On Thursday the assembly of the members of the four Inns of Court was held at Lincoln ' s Inn , to consider the propriety of forming a rillo corps . About 300 members attended . There were present Vice-Chancellor Kindorsley , Sir Richard Bethell , M . P ., Attorney-General , and many other distinguished lawyers . Vicc-Chancollor Kindersloy occupied the ohair , in the unavoidable absence , ot the Lord Chancellor . Sir Richard Bethell entered Into to
the reasons which should induce the assembly form a rifle corps , not no much from the actual tear of imminent invasion , but becaueo it was desirable that Englishmen at the present day should be as well accustomed to the use of arms as wore their ancestors , and concluded by moving ' , * ' That it is expedient that a rifle corps should be formed by the mombors oUUo Inns of Court . " The proposition was socondod by Mr . Butt , Q . C . The motion was carried , and a committee was appointed to organise the corps , and ' utter a vote of thanks to the Chairman , the meeting
separated . ' About sixty young , monJiavojoinou the Exeter Company this week , and it Is poepcetod that a groat niuuy more will speedily enrol themselves . On Monday evening tho corps was drilled for tlio first thno in the Castle-yard . In Devonshire , corps are to be formed at JUluotora and Barnstaplo , nnd in Yorkshire the riflemen ore
Ireland. Lord Eglixtoux's Levee Is Annou...
IRELAND . Lord Eglixtoux ' s levee is announced for Monday , immediately after which it is supposed his Excellency will take his departure from Ireland . As long as the phantom of an Irish Court is held to be indispensable towards the good government of this branch of the United Kingdom , it would be difficult to find a Viceroy better fitted to keep in check the angry passions of two great contending parties than the nobleman now about to leave us . His was the only Irish appointment made by the Derby Cabinet that commanded a fair word from political opponents .
Yice-Chamberlain And Treasurer Of The Ho...
Yice-Chamberlain and Treasurer of the Household * The Right Hon . Maziere Brady has been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland , by which that , gentlc-^ man ' s pension of 4 , 000 Z . per annum as ex-Chancellor iv-ill be Saved to the public . The Chancellor of the Exchequer has appointed Mr . C . L . Ryan , of the Treasury , to be his private secretary . Mr . J . M . Maynard , of the War Office , has been appointed private secretary to Mr . Sidney Herbert ; and Mr . B . Seton , of the War Office , private secretary to the Earl of Ripon .
The Conservatives . —On Tuesday , we are informed , a meeting of the Conservative party was held at Lord Derby ' s residence in St . James ' s-square , for the purpose of hearing from the noble earl a statement relative to recent Ministerial changes and the present position of affairs . It is rumoured that Lord Derby intimated his intention never again to accept the responsibilities of office . The BAr , r . oT Society . —The weekly meeting was held on Tuesday . The committee were engaged during a long sitting in concerting measures to be taken at the re-election of the new Ministers , for calling their attention to the increased need for the ballot , as shown by the bribery and intimidation notoriously prevalent at the late elections .
GENERAL HOME NEWS . The Court . —Her Majesty has been much engaged this week with the ministerial changes , taking leave of one set and going through the " kissing of hands " with the new comers . On Tuesday , the Queen and her family returned to Buckingham Palace , from Windsor , and in the evening went to see Mo-thews at the Haymarket . The next day there was a court , at which there were sundry other ministers sworn in ; and in the course , of the day , old King Leopld made his appearance from Belgium , accompanied by his son , the Count of Flanders ; they intend to stay a fortnight , and were just in time to assist at her Majesty ' concert , to which a party of 360 were invited to hear Mesdames Tit ien- Novello .
Pyne , Didiee / and Meyer ; Signori Gardoni , Reeves , Belletti , Zelger , and Ronconi . On Thursday there was another court , at which was much kissing of hands arid doing of homage , on entering office . The Queen then held a dinner party . The company included the King of the Belgians , the Princess Alice , the Count of Flanders ; the Prince of Leiningen , M .. and Madame Van de Weyei" , the Earl of St . Germains , Viscount arid Viscountess Palmerston , and Lord John Russell . It is expected that her Majesty and the Prince Consort will visit the troops at Aldershott Camp to-day . The Queen will sleep at"the Royal Pavilion to-night and Sunday , and return on Monday . The Duchess of Kent is still at Frogmore . Her health is much improved , and she takes drives daily in Windsor Park .
The New Ministry .- —In addition to the appointments which we announced last week , the following have been made : —Solicitor-General , Sir H . Keating ; Civil Lord of the Admiralty , Mr . W hi thread ; Judge-Advocate-General , Mr . Headlam ; Vice-President of the Privy Council for Education , Mr . ! Lowe ; Vice-President of the Board of Trade , Mr . James Wilson ; Under-Secretaries of State—for the Home Department , Mr . G . Clive ; for War , Lord Ripon ; and for India , Mr . Thos . G . Baring . Lords of the Treasury , Mr . Hugessen , M > . Cogan , and Sir W . Dunbar . In the Royal Household : —Lord Steward , Lord St . Germains ; Master of the Horse , Marquis of Ailesburyj Master of the Buckhounds , Earl of Bessborough ; and Mistress of the Robes , the Duchess of Sutherland . Mr . Cardwell is to be Secretary for Ireland , not X ^ Lrst Commissioner of Works as at first stated . The office of Secretary to the Poor Law Board has been offered to i \ Ir . O . Gilpin .
Ministerial Ai'vointmen'i sj —Lord John Russell has appointed the Hon . George Elliot and Mr . George Russell to be his private secretaries . Mr . Villiers Lister lias been appointed precis writer . Mr . Cogan has declined tho Irish Lordship of thcTreasury . Lord Palmerston has appointed tho Hon . Evelyn Ashley and Mr . Charles George Barrington , of tho Treasury , to be his private secretaries . Mr . Maurice Drummond , of the Treasury , has been appointed Private Secretary to the Home Secretary , Sir G . Corncwall Lewis . Mr . C . W . Fremantlo , of the Treasury , will bo Private Secretary to Mr . Brand . The Times announces that Sir Alexander Cockburn has been appointed Chief Justice of England in tho place of Lord Chancellor Campbell . Tho Right Hon . Henry Fitzroy will become first Commissioner
of Public Works , and Mr . Massoy , late Under Secretary of tho Homo Department , will succeed Mr . Fitzroy as Chairman of Committees . It is said , but wo can scarcely credit it , that Mr . Laing , M . P . for Wick , late Chaimmn of tho Brighton Railway Company , and of tho Crystal Palace Company , and intimately connected with several commercial undertakings , is to bo financial Secretary of the Treasury . Lord Alfred Pagot resumes his old office at the Court as Clerk Marshal . Lord Palmerstou has appointed tho lion . Evelyn Ashley und Mr . Charles George Harrington , of the Treasury , to bo his . privuto secretaries , Mr . Maurice Druiumond , of tho Treasury , has boon unnolntod private secretary to tho Homo Secretary , Sir G . Cornowall Lewis . Viscount Sidney la the now Lord Cluuriborlain , and Lord Castlorossc and Lord Proby will respectively fill tho offices of
Parliament art Reform Committee . —A meeting was held on Wednesday at Fendall ' s Hotel , Mr . Arthur J . Otway , in the chair , at which the following resolution , moved by Mr . Coningliam , M . P ., seconded by Mr . Roupell , M . P " ., was unanimously agreed to : — " That this committee , believing that they have reason to complain of the inadequate representation of the Independent Liberals in the Cabinet , await with anxiety the fulfilment of Lord John . Russell ' s promise of an early mtroductfioii of a substantial measure of Parliamentary Reform , and are of opinion that the support of Independent Liberals , both within and without the House of Commons , should depend upon the character of the measures submitted by the new Administration . "
The Order or the Bath . —The Queen has appointed General Sir Thomas M ' -Malion , Bart ., K . C . B ., General the Earl _ of Cathcart , K . C . B . * General Sir William Maynard Gomm , K . C . B ., and General Sir Robert William Gardiner , K . C . B ., to be Knights Grand Cross of the Order ; and General Henry Wyndham and Lieutenant-General John Aitchison to . be Knights Commanders . The Victoria Cross . —This much prized decoration has been conferred upon Lieut . Francis Edward Henry Farquharson , 42 nd Regiment ; Lieut . William George Cubitt , 13 th Bengal Native Infantry ; Lieut . Hanson Chambers Taylor Jarrctt , 26 th Bengal Native Infantry ; Private John M'Govern , 1 st Bengal Fusiliers ; and Privates Walter Cook and Duncan Millar , 42 nd Regiment .
Convocation . — Both houses of Convocation ot Canterbury met at Westminster , when subjects of considerable importance were brought under discussion . The Lower House was much occupied on Thursday with discussions upon questions of Church and State policy . Archdeacon Dcnjson made sonic vigorous efforts "to get the address to the Queen so amended that the condemnation of the Church would be pronounced upon the House of Commons for admitting Jews to legislate , for altering the inarrlngo laws , and for voting bills to repeal Church rates . It was only in respect to the last question that Convocation appeared to think he was partly in tho right .
DlNNKR TO TUB BlSUOI'S AND CUSROV . — On Tuesday evening the Lord Mayor entertained the bishops and clergy of tho Church of England in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion-house . Tlie banquet was given to commemorate the anniversary of the Society for tho Propagation of the Gospel in Forotgn Parts , tho usual sermon in aid of its nusHions having boon preached earlier in the day , utfcst . 1 aul s Cathedral , by the Bishop of Bath nnd Wei s , and having been attended by tho Lord Miiyor and other civic dignitaries . The guests included tho Arch-Suinnertho UJhIiod
bishop of Canterbury and Miss , of London nnd Mrs . Taifc , the Bishop at Durlmuiand the Hon . Mrs . Longley , the Bishop of V liieliwrtor , the Bishop of JUchfiold » nd Miss LoubcIuIo , tho Bishop of Landa / f and Mrs . Olivant , the JJiSh <» i > ol Bath and Wells and La ly Auckland , the Uisliopof Brisbane tho JUlshop ofKodor and Man ; the JK-nn oi bt . Paul ' s and Mrs . MUmnn , tho Dean oi W oslminBttr and Mrs . Trench ; Archdeacon Jfule and Mrn . lialot Arolicloiieon Koblnson ; Rev . Dr . Whowcll Mastor of Trinity College , Cambridge , und Lndy Affleck ; liov . Dr . Cnrtmell . Master of Christ ' s College , Cambridge , and Mrs . C ' nrtmoll ; Rev . Canon Dale , and a host of minor dignitaries .
Sue John Lawkhnck . — ¦ An adilross wuh prosonted to'Sir John Lawrence by the Hjsliop of London , at Willis ' s Rooms yesterday . Tho address lias been Biunt'd by a largo body of poors , blshontt , and members of JLVUiMHOiit , ft 8 well as by about 7 , u » o persons .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 25, 1859, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25061859/page/5/
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