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a the manly spirit of sixty years ago must be looked for in vain , as far as London is concerned . _ At Sheffield a corps is drilling which musters 240 men . The great town of Leeds has produced 63 volunteers ; and Colchester boasts 60 ; Cambridge can show 56 . Bridport has subscribed 1 . 0 OOZ and musters 100 men as the 1 st company ot the Dorset Volunteers . , It is evident that a great mistake has been committed in fixing upon uniforms and subscriptions to these corps , which place them quite beyond the means of working men and clerks : and if it should ever be found necessary to look to the volunteers for the defence of the country , a vast alteration must be made in the reguJ ^ ipns , to bring together efficient men in sufficient number .
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LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . An enormous system of fraud extending over many years is alleged to have been discovered in the Carron Iron Company . This company was established eighty years ago under special charter , and has done a very large business in manufacturing iron . One Joseph Stainton was manager of the company from 1786 till his death in 1825 . He was succeeded by his nephew , Mr , Joseph Dawson , while another nephew , Mr . William Dawson , became managing clerk . Joseph DawsOn died in 1850 , and William became the head of the company . The managers of the company are also partners and form a family party for if we take Mr . Joseph Stainton , the first manager , to-be the uncle , we not only find the central administration at Carron falling into the hands of the two nephews , but we have a third nephew , Mr . Henry Dawson , who governs the affairs of the company at Glasgow , and a cousin , Mr . Thomas Crossthwaite , who does the same at Liverpool , while the uncle ' s brother , Mr . Henry Stainton , was agent at London . Suspicion having been aroused by some mean s , Colonel 3 ) undas Maclean , a former shareholder , brings an action against the company , which seems to be only one of a series of accusations that aflect the management , all of which may have to be investigated . The colonel says that the managers did systematically , and for a long number of years , falsify their balance sheets so that the profits of the company might appear to be much less than
they really were , and that in consequence ol this : falsification he sold to the managers twenty shares belonging to himself for 14 , 00 OJ ., a price greatly below their real value . On this account he demands restitution , and names 20 , 000 / ., with legal interest , as the sum which the company should pay to him . Other individuals have similar claims arising from similar proceedings ,. and it is held that Mr . Joseph Dawson , the deceased manager , and Mr . Henry Stainton , the London manager , now also dead , and Mr . William Dawson , the present manager , conspired to promote these frauds , and managed , among themselves , to conceal and misrepresent the true state of out
the affairs of the company , m order to carry their design of acquiring for themselves and relatives the shares of the other partners , at sums far below their real value . Sir . J , G . Craig , the lawyer of the company , declared in 184 G that the debts of the company were overstated to the amount of vfi ' l 30 , 000 , while the assets were understated to a larger amount . It is said that letters have come to light from one malinger to another which prove these allegations . It seems also that after the death of JSlr . Joseph Dawson , a dissension arose between the Staihtons and the Dawsons , and the company gained tor it out
a sum of 4 : 96 , by s quarr , orouguc the fact that there was a " Secret Ucscrvc Fund , " to that extent , qi which the company knew nothing and which was fed from two corrupt channels . Colonel Maclean says that in ten years the profits kept back from the shareholders amounted to at least £ 175 , 000 . The eusc is how before the Scottish Court of Session . ' At the Court of Bankruptcy adjudication of bankruptcy has been made against John 'Edward Bullcr , a solicitor and scrivener , carrying on business at 50 , Lincoln ' o-inn-fields , and residing at Enfold . Hie liabilities are stated at about 100 , 000 / ., of which it appears-that 50 , 000 / . live in respect of broaches of trust , but this , it is supposed , is only a
on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr . Broughton near Leeds . The man was brought before the magistrates , and identified as one of two seen in the field about the time of the murder ; and , which is of much more importance , it is shown that he pawned the watch of the murdered man shortly after the crime had been committed . The Queen has been pleased to commute the death penalty in the case of Ellea Rutter , the woman who murdered her husband under the excitement of his exasperating conduct . The jury who tried her have been anxious that she should escape the penalty of death . d at Guildhall
A very serious charge was preferre against a man named Barlow , ah organist living at Blackfriars . Some disturbance had arisen , and a mob collected , when the prisoner attacked several persons with a formidable life preserver , having a blade fixed in one end of it . One woman especially received a stab in the chest extending to nearly six inches in depth . The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next , and bail refused . An old man nanfed Panmier , and described as a clerk and schoolmaster , was committed for trial at Marlborough-street , oh a charge of forgery . The document alleged to be forged was a cheque for 31 Z . 16 s . 8 d . on the London and Westminster Bank , taken from the vestry-room of St . Ann ' s , Soho .
On Wednesday a poulterer was examined before the Lord Mayor on a charge of selling black game out of season ; but as sufficient proof of the sale was not forthcoming the summons was dismissed . A gentleman in court stated that" any person who purchased game from a street hawker was liable to a fine of five pounds . The lady whose piteous complaint as to the loss of her husband , " the nobleman , " was poured into the ears of Mr . Norton last week , has recovered him by the aid of the police , but only to lose him again , as lie is claimed by another dame . We read that a very limp and dirty individual , of shabby-genteel appearance , was placed in the dock , charged with , bigamy . He gave his name as William Denbigh
Sloper Harrison . The lady who made the application the other day , andthe other wife of the prisoner were both present . Their marriage certificates were handed to the magistrate , and from them it appeared that the prisoner , who gave the name of William Denbigh Sloper Marshall , described himself as late Captain in the army , bachelor , and son to Francis Marshall , shipowner , had been married at Paddington Church to Sophia Frost Dawson , widow , on the 3 rd of July , 1858 , and that on the 28 th of June in the present year he was married at St . George ' s , Hanover-square , to Jane Hayes , widow , in the name of William Denbigh Sloper Harrison , described as a bachelor , and captain in the army , son of Francis Harrison Lord Denbigh , shipowner . thdouble
Being asked whether he acknowledged e marriage , he meekly replied , I do , sir . I know it was very wicked . Inspector Emmerson , said his real name was Sloper , and not Marshall , nor Harrison , and that he was the illegitimate child of a woman who subsequently married a man named Marshall . This person was a dealer in bottles , and on one occasion the prisoner went with his stepfather to bottle some ale at the house of a nobleman , and became so intimate with one of the yodng ladies that an elopement was arranged , and would , in all probability have succeeded had not one of the letters of the lady fallen Into the hands of the prisoner ' s grandfather , who forwarded it to the nobleman , her father . It is suspected that this distinguished individual has a wife or tAvo more . He was remanded .
The result of the trial of Dr . Thomas Smethurst has produced a most extraordinary excitement ; a great number of people considering that he has been convicted on insufficient evidoncq . His friends have commenced proceedings for the purpose of obtaining tho romission of the sentence , His brother is the only person who has visited him since his conviction . Mr . Humphreys , who acted as the solicitor of Dr . Smethurst , being of opinion that the conviction was not justified by the evidence , intends to ombrace the whole case in a memorial to the Secretary of State , Sir George Cornowall Lewis , Smothurst strongly protests his innocence , and , though evidently depressed , bolioves his sentences will not bo carried Into effect . , Tuesday in the week after next is the
day fixed for the execution . The daily journals are crowded with letters on tho subject , principally in dofenqe of the convict , and some go bo fat as to demand his unconditional pardon . One of tho ablest of these says : " Bear in mind that no attempt was mado to prove that Isabella Bankos was murdered . No instrument of murder was found in her remains . But it was supposed by the doctors that she died from the effects of poison . It hna hitherto been considered essential to first prove that a murder has been committed , and from the murdered person to trace the murderer . But in this case it was first suspected and then assumed that a murder wus , committed , and from that assumption the prosecution traced
portion of the bankrupt's delinquencies . Tlio assets are at present unascertained . A warrant has since been granted for his apprehension . At the Surrey Sessions the chairman said that tho numbor of prisoners for trial this sosslou was less than half what is usual , and for the past year tho number did not exceed seven hundred , whereas for former years the average wa * a thousand . Some part of this reduction , however , is attributable to the working , of tho now Criminal Justice Act , which empowers magistrates to convict in certain cases . Still , the diminution of crimo in the dietrict , as shown by tho calendar , is considerable A man named Walter Beardon has been arrested
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IRELAND . The deliberations and decisions of the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy on the question , of education have at length been given authoritatively to the world . The mixed system is condemned entirely , and a claim is put in for a separate grant to Catholic Schools , as in England . Intermediate mixed educar tion is also condemned by anticipation , and the Queen ' s Colleges are put in the black list . This decision , has already borne fruits . The Catholic members of the Board of National Education are withdrawing from it , and it is beyond doubt that the whole influence of tho Catholic clergy in Ireland will be directed to tho withdrawal of tho children ot their communion from the national schools .
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GENERAL HOME NEWS . Tub CouitT . —The Quoon , accompanied by tho Prince Consort , Prince Alfred , and the Princesses Louisa , and Helena , spent Monday and Tuesday at iUdJithott , and witnessed some military operations by the troops there . The Queen gave a dMinor to the Principal officers at the Pavilion on Monday . The Sill party returned to Osborno on Tuesday evening . Viscount Palmerston and the Duke of Noinours have been visitors to her Majesty this week Tl o Quoon , and the rest of tho royal famrfy , at present at Osborne , will leave London for Balmoral on Monday . Her M « josty and court will pro-SSSto WtabSgh via tho ( Wt Northern ltailway the directors of which have received instructions to have a special train in read ness to leave Klntfscross station at 9 p . m ., w that the royal journey will bo made by night . This ha ^ b een arranged to avoid tho long journey in tho heat of the day . Pobmo IlHAr / m . ~ Tho report of the Rogistrar-Gencral shows tho health of London is improving , being bolow tho average . Tho deaths during the
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the murder to Dr . Smethurst . Having assumed that he was the murderer , they interpreted all his acts in the light of that assumption . It is said he wanted her money . I answer that he had her money already , and there was no necessity that he should murder her to get possession of it . He had all the woman was possessed of . The last dividend due to her was paid to his credit in the bank . He actually sacrificed 1501 . annually by her death , and in the event of the death of her sister , probably 300 / . annually . He got the woman to make her will a very short time before her death , as thousands of men guiltless of inujfder would have done . The very fact of the will being postponed to so late a period tells in his before she taken ill it
favour . Had she done so was would have looked black . But " he got a lawyer to come to the dying woman ' s bed "—as thousands of innocent men have done before . "He induced the dying woman to sign her maiden name , and so to perjure herself ;"—why , the document would not have been legal with any other name . " He gave the afilicted woman her medicine , food , &c . ;" and why ? Because there was no one there to do it for him . " After he was taken into custody some of the food and medicine taken were not ejected by the dying woman . On the eve of dissolution this is very frequently the case , as there is not sufficient muscular power left to eject the contents of the stomach . " Memorials against the sentence have been printed and largely distributed about , the metropolis , and have received
numerous signatures . Intelligence has been received of the lamentable death of an English clergyman , last week , in the Pj'renees . He attempted to ascend to the summit of the Col du Port de "Venasque , refusing to allow the friends who were with him to accompany him in his perilous ascent , to which they reluctantly consented , and waited for him below , but he never returned , and on Monday last his body was found in a dreadfully mutilated- condition at the bottom of an abyss into which he must have fallen ; A guard on the train between Liverpool and Manchester has met a shocking death . Having been missed at one of the stations search was made , when the poor fellow was found dead on the top of a carriage ; His head had evidently come into contact with the arch of a bridge . __ ' ¦ , ¦
. . ... , The last Indian mail brings intelligence of the loss of the ship Lady Kawlinson , bound from Rangoon to Calcutta . She experienced very severe weather after proceeding to sea , and capsized . She . now'lies stranded on the eastern bank at the mouth of the Rangoon river . The captain , his wife and child , the mate , and ten Lascars , with a native passenger , were picked up by a pilot schooner and brought to town on Saturday evening ; but twenty-two of the crew , who put off in a boat , have never since been heard of . The wreck , with her cargo of teaktimber , amounting to about 300 tons , and 610 bags of cutch , was sold by auction for Es . 6 , 100 . I he vessel was insured for 8 , O 0 OZ ., and the cargo at about 3 , 0 O 0 Z .
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TJn . 402 . Aug . 27 . 1859-1 T H E L E A P E R . 977
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1859, page 977, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2309/page/5/
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