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Pembroke Dockyard . The most important vessel on the stocks is the Howe , a magnificent threedecker of 121 guns . She is over 4 , 000 tons in burden , and is to replace her namesake broken up some years ago at Sheerness . This fine vessel , is rapidly approaching completion * ar id could be got afloat at a very short notice . The Defiance and Zealous , two of the new class 91 % are building . There are also three first-class frigates—viz ., Immortalite , Aurora , and Tweed ,--each mounting 51 guns , in course of construction , of which the two first are . far advanced . The smaller vessels are five in number , some of which are progressing rapidly .
Vice-Admiral John Brenton died at Hyde on Saturday , in the 7 7 th year of his age . The deceased Admiral was mate of the Csesjar in the actions fought off Algesiras and in the Straits in 1801 . He became Captain in 1822 , Rear-Admiral in 1852 , and Vice-Admiral ( Retired ) January , 1858 . Rear-Admiral Lewis Tobias Jones , C . B ., has been appointed second in command on the East India and China station . He entered the navy at an early age , and commanded the Princess Charlotte at the bombardment of St . Jean d'Acre . He was appointed to the Sampson in December , 1850 , and commanded the expedition at the destruction of Lagos in 1851 . He commanded the same vessel at the bombardment of Odessa , and at the attack on Sebastopol , for which services he was repeatedly thanked by Admirals Dundas and the late Lord Lyons , and was likewise created a Companion of the Bath .
Corporal Burrell , Royal Artillery , having being convicted at Woolwich of fraudulently appropriating the sum of £ 2 Is . 8 d ., underwent the degrading punishment of being publicly reduced from . his position as non-commissioned officer . The battery assembled on parade sit two o ' clock , when the corporal , under the charge of an armed escort , advanced to the front , and having heard the judgment of the courtmartial , was ordered to retire to the ranks , and stoppages to be made in his pay until the sum should be repaid in full . .
The extraordinary efforts which Prance is making in her naval armaments ( says the observant correspondent of a daily contemporarj' ) point to an expected forthcoming struggle with some great maritime Power . Now , there are in Europe but three maritime Powers of any importance—England , France * and Russia , which rank in the order in which I have placed their names . The , second of those Powers seems now to be labouring actively « oto increase her aggressive capabilities as to be enabled at a given moment to occupy , the first place . There have lately been various reports in the newspapers concerning French naval armaments , frigates that were ordered to be built , and
others that were to be blindies , or provided with the steel protective plating . Without examining how far these reports were consistent with the truth , exaggerations , or , repetitions of each other , I will confine myself to information that has reached me from purely French sources , and on which I cannot but rely . All the better if it should be proved that I am misinformed . I am assured that there are now building , or under orders to be built , in the French dockyards twenty ships-of-the-line , ten of the largest size , the other ten of an inferior calibre , The Magenta , of which I the other day informed you that the keel had been laid down at Brest , and which will be the largest vessel in the French navy , is one of the former class , and is to have a companion ship to be called the Solferino . The hulls of four of these vesBelB are nearly or quite completed ; others arc in
vanoxis stages of forwardness j some aro not yet cpmmeneed , but only planned or ordered ; but it is eatimated that the whole of them will assuredly be completed ( barring counter-orders ) within eighteen months from this time . All these ships arc strictly visaeaux de combat , fighting ships , steel-plated , and provided with iron beaks or prows . The vast establishment , of Creuzot ( forges , cannon foundries , and great ironworks ) , in the department of the fJadne et Loire , and that of Guerigny , in the department of the Niovro , are hard at work , executing , I understand ( especially the latter ) , immonso orders for the blindage , or steel plates , and other ironwork required for this formidable fleet , now in embryo , but which , owing to the rapid operations of modern science , will bo soon be fit to take the soa . "
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THE VOLUNTEER CORPS . In tho metropolis we learn that , tho St . George ' s nfle corps is drilling assiduously at Burlington-Uouse , and that Mr . Lancaster , tho gunmakor , has undertaken the instruction in shooting . Tho tailoring and outfitting element in this , as in most of the metropolitan corps is offensively prominent in tho reports of their proceedings , and a " neat uniform " appears to be the . desideratum—a first-rate shot is a secondary matter . Of the Kensington corps wo have no buttons or braid at present to admire or laugh at , since thoir report saya ; " For the first year no uniform will be required s and as the Government ;
will supply 25 per cent , of rifles , members not wishing to purchase their own will always find a rifle in the armoury at their disposal . " This is as it should be , and looks well for the future prosperity of the cprps . The Highgate corps has mustered on their parade ground at Swain ' s-lane , Highgate-rise , for drill , twice a week , on Mondays and Fridays , ever since the 1 st of July last , and has attained considerable proficiency in light infantry movements . They will commence ball practice at Horasey-wood-house next week . The corps already numbers between sixty and seventy effective members . A sub-division at Sydenham numbers nearly forty efficient members , with a most suitable practice ground situated close to the Forest-hill station . Mr . Charles Morrison , of the firm of Morrison , Dillon , and Co ., has offered to equip a large body of young men in his employ for the London Rifles or the Scottish Volunteer Corps , at his own charge .
The movement keeps alive in this country . The King ' s Lynn company is now styled the " Fifth , " the Norfolk regiment , and numbers seventy-one effectives . —At Windsor thirty-six have joined ; at Maidstone over 130 are rapidly attaining proficiency . —At Wclverhanrpton , Leeds , and other country towns , some spirit is shown . —At Glasgow the _ artisans have taken a prominent share in the business , and out of five companies three are formed entirely of workmen ; these are more than a hundred strong each , and conspicuous for their soldier-like bearing and good practice . It is said they will form the guard of honour at the Queen ' s visit to Glasgow .
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LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . At the Central Criminal Court this week among the cases tried was that of William Denbigh Sloper Marshall , who was charged with bigamy ; he was found guilty , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude ^—Alfred C ooper surrendered to take his trial upon several indictments charging him with embezzling money from the churchwardens and overseers of Cainberwell parish . He pleaded not guilty . Two cases were tried , and the prisoner was acquitted on both . It is the intention of the prosecution to proceed with the other indictments . — The trials of Charles Annois , a Portuguese , charged with the murder of Philip Barker , and of George Frederick Royal , accused of poisoning a young woman with . whom he cohabited at Poplar , were postponed until nextjsession . —Thomas Goodfellow , a boy , ten years of age , was found guilty of stealing a letter containing a bill of exchange , and sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour , and five years' confinement in a reformatory ; and Henry Ford was indicted for stabbing Sarah Thompson with intent to murder her ; a second count charged the intent to be to do grievous bodily harm , and on this last count he was found guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for four years . Just before the closing of the cburt the judge increased the sentence passed on young Goodfellow from fourteen clays to six weeks ' imprisonment in Newgate , and afterwards to be sent to a reformatory for five years .
At the Middlesex Sessions * Thomas Thompson was put on his trial and convicted of stealing fixtures from a dwelling-house . He was one of a gang who got possession of houses by false references , and immediately stripped them of everything that could be taken away . Hie was also shown to have been guilty of other offences , and the court sentenced him to eighteen months' hard labour . —John White was convicted of assaulting and robbing William Payne . He had been ' repeatedly convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment , and on one occasion was . condemned to , four years' penal servitude . The learned judge said this was another instance of old and known thieves getting off by pleadincr guilty at police-offices , and being
summarily convicted . He was now sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . —Charlotte Morris , a married woman , was indicted for attempting , to commit suicide . She had bee , rx taken into custody for drunkenness , and while locked up she twice attempted to strangle herself . She pleaded guilty ; and was sentenced to six months' hard labour , on which she said she would do it yet . —Thomas Suter , a baker , but well known as tho " Thieves' Lawyer , " and Thomas Leo , a returned convict , known us tho " Rabbit , ! ' from hie dexterity at thieving , pleaded guilty to robbing Charlotte Yoates . A long list of convictions against Suter was put in , extending over fourteen years , and he had served one sentence of four years' penal servitude . Suter was now sontenooa to six , and Lee to throe years' penal
eorvi-At the last Lottorbroon ( county Fermanagh ) Petty Sessions , Hoad-constablo M'Kinloy charged the Rev . Charles Jones , of Bolcoo , with violating tho law , by digging potatoes in a fiold at Bolcoo , on Sunday , tho 14 th of August , 18 / 50 , in view of tho public streets . Mr . Jones said , " I submit to tho ohargo and my defence is that it wae a work of necessity ' I had not enough of potatoes for my dinner
and for a large number of fowl that j have . Works of necessity were permitted in the days of the Apostles . " Head-constable— " And you , as a minster of the gospel , quote Scripture to justifya breach of the Sabbath . " Mr . Jones— " The Apostles pulled ears of corn on the Sabbath-day . " Head-constable— " They never dug potatoes to feed their hens and ducks on the Sabbath day . " The magistrate read the 7 th of Will . HL , cap , 17 , which states that that no labourer , artisan , &c , shall follow his trade or calling , &c ; , on the Lord ' s day . His worship was of opinion thatas the Rev . Mr . Jones was not
, following his trade or calling on Sunday , liis digging potatoes did not come under the statute , and that he therefore , was not guilty of a breach of the Sabbath . The constable then , with the greatest impudence , lecturedthe magistrate upon the impropriety of his decision , throwing in a few observations upon the different law administered to peasants and parsons . The magistrate replied , " I think people have as good a right to dig their potatoes on Sunday as they have to carry their water ; and if people have oats fit for reaping I do not see the harm in their doing so . I therefore dismiss this case withowt prejudice . ' Hereford
A disgraceful outrage has occurred at , where a brute of a labourer has thrown some vitriol over a ' young girl simply becaxise she declined to marry him . . __ . John Edward Jenkins , clerk to the Foreign Vineyard Association , was examined at the Mansion House on a charge of forging a cheque for 101 l . 4 s . &d . The prisoner , who had been apprehended at Broadstairs , was remanded for further evidence . At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday John Nicoll surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging him with converting to his own use a bill of lading for a cargo of coals which he held as
bailee , without having the consent of the owner . He was charged under the Bailee Act . After evidence had been given in the case , the judge ( Bylesj summed up , and closed by saying , it would be ^ a material question forj the jury , whether the only object of the prosecution was to obtain the price of the coals , and if the money had been paid whether the prosecution would have been heard of ? The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty . The foreman of the jury said they thought if such prosecutions as the present were to be sanctioned , any person dealing with bills of lading might at any moment be taken up and charged with felony . The
prisoner was discharged . At the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday the convicted forger , John Lbckhart Morton , formerly » merchant , of 8 , Finch-lane , Cornhill , but now a resident of Newgate , was brought up in custody to attend an examination sitting upon accounts filed , disclosing debts and liabilities to the extent of £ 120 , 000 . The sittingjwas adjourned until the 24 th of October next , at twelve o ' clock , for the arrival of accounts from Norway , upon which it is desired to examine the bankrupt . Mr . David Hughes , lately carrying on business as an attorney in the city , who absconded from his creditors in July , 1858 , leaving behind him liabilities to the extent of about 200 , 000 * ., was brought up at in
Guildhall , on a warrant , having been captured Australia , by Brett , a sergeant of the City force , and placed at the bar for examination , before Alderman Lawrence , tho presiding magistrate , charged with non-surrender to the fiat issued against him in bankruptcy . The prisoner was remanded for a week . At the Court of Bankruptcy the choice of assignees was arranged in the caso of John Edward Bullor . the fraudulent bankrupt , solicitor and money scriviner , of Lincoln ' a-inn-flelds , whoso debts and liabilities amount to upwards of 100 > . / - . ;* * JJ bankrupt has absconded , having , it is said , "inictod severe injury , if not utter ruin , upon many persons bv whom ho was trusted in his confidential character aoiaueu
of solicitor . One very gross case was yostorday , in which the -bankrupt " approbated to his own purposes 10 , 000 / . of trust inon o ^; a"d , ^ ° perty of a widow lady . The total amount of debts proved yesterday was about 13 , 000 / . or H , 00 < K . Thomas Barnes , a maste r bricklayer ,. luui boon charged at Marlborough-streot l ' ° l "» - ? 0 U B r * l * fZ Mr . Bingham , with publishing a malicious libol defamatory of Mr . Ilonry Criissirollor , ironmonger , Wolbeck-streot . Evidence for tho prospoution having boon henrd , tho prisoner waa committed for trial , and in dofault of bail sent to prison . vnrAtnt . Tho Wovmouth iurv have found thoir vonuct roai
rolative to tho disaster that occurred to the UEastern , and it amounts to " Aocldontul J- > eath . Tho jury state that tho deceased ciuno by tlioir deaths in coneoquonco of tho bursting of a jacket bollor , by tho closing of a tup connected with tho siphon of tho jacket . They say that tltore was na ovidonco to show by whom this tan wae shut olJ , but they make two statements . First , that hucI * taps are highly dangerous ; ami , second , that the engineers ha , d not employed eullloiont caution .. xms consuro may apply to Mr . Scott KubsoII , Mr . Dixan ,
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No . 496 / Sept , 24 , 1859 . THE LEADER . 1075
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 24, 1859, page 1075, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2313/page/7/
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