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are practising musketry , and , by the aid of our oreanized niilitia and new volunteer corps , we are bringing a knowledge of arms to the population ge TThe Lords of the Admiralty have this week paid their official visit to Portsmouth Dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the different establishments and the ships building or fitting there . At the rifrnn" - store a deputation of the riggers of the dockyard waited , upon their lordships to lay before them their claims for increased pay , &c , and were understood to receive a favourable reception . The seaman rigger urges that the pay arid allowance of the seaman serving afloat having -been increased , the seaman rigger hat an equal right to an advance . Every ship now fitted out in our dockyards is fitted from deck to truck by these men , who , from the work-they , have x perform , must be the very best of their profession . _ .... . . with the
Four seamen , charged being ringleaders in the late outbreak at Castelmare , on board the Marl borough were tried by a court-martial which assembled on board her Majesty ' s ship Hibernia in Valetta liarbour on the 25 th of August . The charge was held not to be made out to the extent expected . Three were condemned to receive 50 lushes and two years' imprisonment for mutinous conduct , and the fourth to one year ' s imprisonment . These four seemed to have been picked out from some 300 . or 400 , and ' identified ' chiefly' by their voices , as the decks were in . darkness from the closing of flic ports . The 18 th company of Royal Engineers have completed the erection of a stioiig 3-gun lmtter . y , which commands the entrance to Weymouth harbour . They have since commenced the formation of a battery of . large dimensions to sweep the entire coast between Weymouth and Portland . This battery will ' mount 50 Armstrong cannon . ,
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IRELAND . Stki'S have boon ulreudv taken to convene a mooting of the Irish Liberal members on an curly day in Dublin , for the purpoao of promoting the policy enunciated by the Catholic prelates in their pastoral mldroBB . Meanwhile fresh thunderbolt * are being forffed by the bishops , to be launched at the Queen » Colleges in Cork and Gulwuy , ' with tho Intent ol ' battering those institutions to tho ground as dungorous in the oyos of tho Sovereign I ' onUIT and his delegate In Ireland . In the ensuing month of Ootobor , says tho Times , some freah work will be . cut out for the now Irish Secretory . Mr . Richard O'Gorrnan , juu ., 1 » ub left Dublin on
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LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . In the matter of Dr . Smethurst ' s Conviction the publicare still left in uncertainty as to whether the sentence will be carried out or not . Three of the medical witnesses for the defence , B . W . Richardson , M . D ., J . L . W . Thudicum , M . D ., and Francis C . Webb , have addressed a letter to the Home secretary , stating their view of the case in a scientific point of view , leaving circumstantial evidence entirely aside . Thoy come to the following conclusion : — " That the symptoms and pathology of Isabella Bankes were consistent with dysentery occurring in a pregnant and previously unhealthy woman , and her death is fairly ascribable to such producing cause . The symptoms and pathology of Isabella Bankes are not
consistent with the hypothesis of poisoning by arsenic , by antimony , or by both these poisons , nor is death fairly ascribable to theni ; and that there is no chemical proof whatever that either antimony , arsenic , or any other irritant poison , was ever feloniously administered to Isabella Bankes . " SirG . Lewis is understood to have consulted with his colleagues ; and he has also had a long interview on the subject of the trial , with the Lord Chief Baron , but the result is not known . Mr . II . B . Sheridan , M . P ., attended on Thursday at the Home-office with a petition to the Queen , signed by Mary Smethurst , tho prisoner ' s wife . Mr . Sheridan urged upon Sir
G . Lewis the deficiency of evidence against and numerous arguments in favour of the prisoner ; and Mr . Sheridan then introduced the wife of the prisoner , Mary Smethurst , and Mrs . Smith , the mistress of the boarding-house at Bayswater in which the three parties resided . The ' statement ' s which these two ladies mails were listened to with the greatest attention and patience by the Secretary of State , and various . points ' were cleared up and explained which had been left in mystery at the trial . Mr . Sheridan urged upon Sir George Lewis his opinion , founded upon the public feeling , that a reprieve was positively necessary ,, if only to afford an opportunity far further investigation . .
A woman named Zipporah Wright died at Poplar lately under circumstances of a suspicious character . Slic had recently given birth to a child , the father of which was a man named Royal , and she complained that the coffee , &c , which . he gave her made her ill . After an illness of a very distressing character , she died , and on her body being subjected to a post mortem examination , a quantity of poison , called caVit . haridos . was ' dis"ove . red . On the morning befvro she died her paramour absconded , and so strongly did suspicion point to him that the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of wilful murder . The prisoner lias just been apprehended , and undergone his- first examination at the Thames
Police-. At Canterbury , private Patrick Tierney , has been tried by court-martial for severely wounding Sergeant Brady , ( Uth rogiment , with his bayonet . The prisoner appears to have committed the crime when under the influence of liquor , as it was shown by Stuff Assistant-Surgeon Page that he was , after being arrested , in a state bordering upon delirium tremens . The prisoner in defence stated that lie had been drinking too freely , and that he was in a state of delirium . lie also urged that the injury inflicted and the place chosen for the purpose wore not such as a man " would have done or selected who intended to commit murder , that no malice had been proved against him , and concluded by throwing himself on the mercy of the court . The result of the inquiry will not be known until it has been submitted to the Horse Guards .
A man named Georgo Cox , of Steeple Ashton , Wilts , had a quarrel with his sister , Hannah Cox , a few days ago , respecting a watch belonging to their brother , now in Australia . In his passion tho brute struck his sister several times violently on tho head , from the offucts of which she has died this week . He has been committed on a ( jjnarge of manslaughter . At Lydnay , near Gloucester , a retired physician , named Pownall , lias been residing in the house of a surgeon there , having been about three •\ yceks previously discharged from a lunatic asylum as cured . On Tuesday morning this unfortunate niun hud a return of his malady , and murdered one of tho servant girls , by ousting her throat , before any help could be interposed to save her . He lias been committed to Gloucester gaol .
Jnmos Turner , a labourer , and a man named Koel ' o , wore charged before Mr . lilliott , at Lambeth Police-court , with attempting to poison Honora Turner , wife of the first-named prisoner . According to tho evidence , a quantity of sugar of lead hud been mixed with some beer , a portion of which was drunk by tho woman Turnor and another woman , both oi' whom wore taken ill . A remand was ordered fpr further investigation . A case of hideous brutality was investigated at Clerkenwoll Police-court on Monday , in which a mother seems to have . divested herself , not > only ol
her woman ' s , nature , but even of her human nature . . The charge against her was that she had pulled her daughter , dying of consumption , out of bed , and dragged her about the room by the hair of the head . From the evidence it further appears that the poor girl expired in a few minutes after this treatment . Meantime the woman is committed to prison for an assault upon a neighbour who interfered to protect her victim . A lad named Henry Williams , who had been clerk in the service of Mr . White , West India merchant , was committed for trial at the Mansion House on a charge of theft . It was stated that the prisoner had cashed several cheques , amounting to upwards of £ 150 , and applied the proceeds to his
own use . . A case was yesterday brought under the notice of Mr . Dayman , at Westminster Police-court , involving the question of whether certain coal delivered to order were " Silkstones , " and so whether a breach of the Coal Act had been committed . There b-.-inp r some hiatus in the . evidence , however , it was found necessary to withdraw the prosecution . Some persons have removed the cups from , an . I otherwise injured , the drinking fountain in Endellstreet . The gentleman who erected it called upo : i Mr . Henry at Bow-street , and expressed a hope that the police would be on the alert to prevent similar depredations for'the future . We . hope so , too . Mr . Yardley has fined a man , named Robert Jacob , . £ 20 , ' who was charged before him at the Thames Police-court , with attempting to in . luce a rnan-ofwar s-iuan to desert from the royal n . iyy , and enter the American merchant service .
Intelligence reached Dublin on Thursday , of the loss of Lord Drogheda ' s schooner Fancy , 140 tons , off the coast of Sligo . Lord and Lady . 'Dragheda , and Major Foster , Aide-de Camp to the Lord-Lieutenant , and crew , have all fortunately been saved ; but a vast amount of valuable property has gone down with the vessel . The Crystal Palace steamboat pier , at Battersea , was o : i Thursday carried away by the strength of the tide and firmly fixed under the arches of Vauxhall bridge . On Tuesday an accident occurred in the Sound , on board H . M . screw steam sloop Pioneer , Commander Reilly . She was getting up steam , when , the main steam-pipe burst , close to the communication . John Dunn , leading stoker , was on the point of opening the valve , and suffered severely ; seven other m ? ri were much sonlde 1 , especially in their
faces . Mr . J . A . Leicester , second class engineer , prudently shut off the communication ; he escaped uninjured . The-ship was speedily enveloped in steam , but as-there was a smart south-west breeze , its effects were most detrimental aft . Boats from the ships of war , with their surgeons , were soon alongside , iui-1 the wounded taken in cots to the naval hospital . Tho ship Plantagenet was destroyed by lire at Demerara on the 27 th July . She bad on board at the time 550 libels , of sugar and . ' 157 puncheons of rum . The whole of the latter was destroyed , but a
portion of the sugar was taken from tho wreck in a very damaged state . In the face of some suspicious circumstances it is almost impossible to avoid coming to the conclusion that the fire was caused by an incendinry . On Wednesday the river steamer , Bride , struck on a sunken barge at London Bridge , and filling with water went down almost iininodi . itely . Fortunately the passengers were not ninny in number , nnd got safely conveyed on shore . The barge had sunk tho same morning , and tho captain of the luckless steamer had not received notification of the fact .
Tho wife of a bricklayer named Davis , at Mnidstone , was found on Thursday with her infant daughter suspended from the bud rail , both bung dead . The act must have been that ol' tho mother , who hnd for some time been in a desponding state An escape has boon made from tho Artillery prison , at Woolwich , of five men , who were awaiting sentences for various offences of which they had been convicted . Four of the prisoners were subsequently captured in a very clover manner , but the fifth is still at hirgb " .
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THE VOLUNTEER- CORPS . Upon * this important topic ; we find the following excellent observations in '• the columns of a contemporary : — "It is probable that The attitude hitherto assumed'by the Government towards the rifle corps may hereafter have to be modified to meet the requirements of the occasion ; nnd , amongst other points , it wilL . become a serious question whether some distinct encouragement . might not be afforded tr > the formation of chilis . If would , of . course , be impossible for thy Government to j ; r . uit aid except under uniform and rigid conditions ; but it is to be hoped that no spirit of pedantry will lead to those conditions being unnecessarily burthensome or exelusive in their operation . The present is no
moment for a too scrupulous nicet 3 r . Wo must beware lest military etiquette and official routine rob us of the services of men who , if reluctant to submit to the minute regularity of rigid discipline , still possess all the great essentials of good soldiers , and would be entirely reliable in the moment of danger . It would bo a great misfortune if the Government should give the country any ground for supposing that it regards rifle clubs with dislike or suspicion ; and though its chief and most direct support will of course be given to the bodies in more immediate . connexion with itself , it would be very desirable that the public should be made to understand , in tho most distinct and unmistakable manner , that the formation of
rifle clubs is viewed with no unfavourable eye by the highest authorities . "—There nro some indications of heartiness in the reports of tho various corps this week . The London Rifle Brigade have determined to apply at once for the rifles which' have been promised by tho Government ( in the proportion of twoniy-flvo per- cent . ) , so as to bo able to commence practice forthwith . —At Birkenhead four corps ,, have boon formed , which are enrolled as tho first four companies of tho Cheshire Rifles . Mr . George Harrison , of Birkenhead ,. who employs a large number of men at the Canada works , isabout to establish an artillery corps at his own expense—The Liverpool Rifle Companies go on satisfactorily . —Tim most patriotic spirit has boon evinced throughout Cornwall , and no difficulty is likely to
bo experienced in obtaining a sufficient force along tho vholo of the eaast . —At Bristol upwards of ( 500 men nro enrolled . — In various parts of Essex and Norfolk small companies have been formed , —At Kiny ' s Lynn , it was stntod , at a mooting held on rhursklny , that thirty-six members have been onrollod wno would provide their own outfit , and that twenty more would join , but could not defray that expense . The committee have determined not to reeommon ;! any gentlemen as officers who have not seen Borvlue . — -Surrey has produced one or two cornpunJos . —The first company of tho Devon Volunteer Artillery Corps , numbering sixty men , recolvod from her Majesty ' s Government , on Thursliist , twp new guns , top field or battery , as well as an ammunition waggon , which arrived at Topshum in charge of a sergeant , a corporal , and two gunners .
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No 493 . Sept . 3 , 1859 ] THE LEADER , 1001
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1859, page 1001, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2310/page/5/
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