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into existence comprises Hereford , Bridgnorth , Monmouth , Redcar , Castle Howard , Ashburton , West Kilbrick , Bakewell , Tanbridge Wells , Dalkeith , Chatham , Dronfield , Durham , Grimsby , St . Andrew ' s , Tredegar , and many others . At Norwich , on Monday night , the members of the companies formed there had a long and animated discussion with reference to the appointment of a commanding officer for the whole corps . Captain Middleton , deputy-mayor , presided , and stated that , as four companies had been organised in Norwich , it was the wish of the Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk that they should now be formed into a battalion , and that a major-commandant should be appointed . It was then resolved that Major Brett , a retired military officer , should fill the post .
An instance of public spirit at Liverpool is worthy of honour and imitation . The ex-mayor , Mr . Preston , who has taken considerable interest in this movement from the commencement , has given orders for two silver goblets to be prepared , value . £ 100 , which he intends to present as prizes next summer to the best shots among the artillery and riflemen . In forming a corps at Newtovn , Montgomeryshire , another patriotic gentleman , Mr . J . Pryce Drew , of Milford-house , made the munificent offer of fully equipping 50 volunteers in the most efficient manner at his own charge . ' In consequence of . such offer a public meeting of the inhabitants of Newtown was called . on Saturday , which was most numerously and respectably attended , and was very enthusiastic . The volunteers will in a few days be increased to about 200 .
In the metropolis new corps have this week been founded in St . Pancras and the Tower Hamlets , and are going on with spirit . A Whitehall company of the Civil Service Rifle Corps is about to be formed , under the sanction of the Government , to be composed of volunteers from the various public offices in the vicinity of Whitehall . The enrolled members of this corps amount now to upwards of 400 , not less than 100 having been added within the last week . They are divided into
five companies , and the drill proceeds daily With great spirit in the open air regardless of weather . The name of Mr . Justice Willes is inscribed on the roll of the fifth company , but whether as a working Or merely an ornamental member of the corps , remains to be seen . Mr . Justice Crowder , now no more , had also enrolled himself as a volunteer . Two sons of the -Lord Chancellor have given in their adhesion , and now , with the rest , daily turn their backs for a time on the dry study of legal lore to take a turn with the drill-sergeant .
This is all very satisfactory , no doubt , and shows gTeat spirit and patriotism : but it is also very gratifying to observe , that the danger of making these corps too exclusive is at length appreciated , and artisan companies are daily on the increase . The artisans employed at the Woolwich Carriage Department having expressed their anxiety to commence the formation of a rifle corps , to be composed exclusively of Government workmen , an intimation to that effect was given to Colonel Tulloh , who approved the project . About 250 men have given in their names . The artists and artisans in the Royal Porcelain Works , Worcester , have formed a company among themselves .
About ninety of the studonts of the Working Men ' s College , in Great Ormond-streot , have formed themselves into a corps , and fresh accessions Are made to tho number daily . They are drilled on four or five nights of tho week , in a commodious piece of ground behind the institution , lighted with gas . Mr . Thomas I-Jughes , the author of " Tom Brown ' s Schooldays , " has been chiefly instrumental in organising this small force of working-men , which will probably become the nucleus of a largo foody enrolled from tho saino class of the population .
Messrs . Truman , Hanbury , Buxtan , and Co . have agroed to pay the oxpensos of a rifle corps formed in their establishment , tho number to be at first limited to 100 . The persons employed at tho King ' s-cross Station of the Groat Northern Railway have evinced such an interest in tho voluntoor movement , that 800 of them have sent in their names to tho Chairman ( Mr . R Denlson ) as ready to form themselves into corps . The servants of the Eastern Counties Railway have volunteered to tho number of 000 .
A meeting was hold dt the Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , this week , at which tho Marquis of Donegal presided , for tho purpose of organising a London Irtoh Volunteer Rifle Corps . Bevoral resolutions in favour' of tho movement wore carried unanimously , notwithstanding the interruption of flooao two or throe , no doubt , warm-hearted Hibernians , who opposed the objeots of the mooting . The speech of tho chairman , it will be soon , was one omtoaolng many points of interest .
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[ IRELAND . At Waterford there has been a great Sunday demonstration on the part of those who sympathise with the Pope , held in the Cathedral . Speeches were delivered of an exciting character , which quite as much turned upon the defence of the faith as upon the question of upholding Pope Pius in his temporal authority . Eight thousand persons are reported to have been present , who unanimously adopted the resolutions submitted to them . There was also held , at the same time , at the Carmelite Clvurch , Dublin , a crowded meetmg of different religious fraternities in support of the same object . This is the continuation of an agitation likely to be extended to every part of Ireland in the course of the present winter . It is to be observed that many Roman Catholic noblemen and gentlemen have declined to take any part in the movement , not from any wish they mayhave to see the temporal separated from the spiritual power , but simply because they do not think their religion will be served by such demonstrations . An inquest was held at Athlone on Monday , on the body of Laurence Kelly , who was brutally murdered in his own house on Saturday last . The body presented a frightful appearance ; the skull being literally torn open by the slugs . Some witnesses were examined , when a verdict of " "Wilful Murder " against some persons unknown was returned by the jury . The deceased had taken a small farm ( under ten acres ) from which some persons had been dispossessed , and had only lately entered into possession . This was , unfortunately , quite sufficient to make him a marked man in his locality , where the atrocious Ribbon system prevails to a fearful extent . It appears that a male servant was in the house at the time of the murder , as well as the woman who gave the deceased Ms dinner just before the shot was fired . Neither of thes £ persons looked , out or made any exertiqn to discover the assassin . The constabulary were quickly in attendance , and four persons were in custody yesterdaj' on suspicion , awaiting the inquest . One " of those was a brother of the deceased , who was arrested because the police found in his house a gun which had been very lately discharged . There was no evidenee , however , to implicate any of these persons , and they were discharged after the inquest had terminated . The deceased was unmarried ; and a man in tlirivihg circumstances .
Two murders are also reported from Dungarinon , one of which was committed by a constable upon his superior officer , who he fancied had injured him , another in Kerry , and one near Thorley . Anketell Moutray , Esq ., a gentleman of large property in Tyrone , received a Ribbon notice several days ago . He has written to the local journal to say , " Immediately on receipt of the letter it was read by the bailiff to a number of the labourers and tradesmen in my employment , and my brother , with declared that notice to quit
niy approval , openly should be served on all the Roman Catholic tenants in two townlands , and probably on other parts of my property , if any violence were offered to the bailiff , Richard Currans . " The time allowed by the iUbbonmen for the dismissal of Currans having expired , and no violence having been done to him or Mr . Moutray , the inference is that tho threat of retaliation , described in the above extract , has had the desired effect . Tho Ribbon system is as remarkable for cowardice as treachery and ferocity .
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LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . In- regard to tho case of Dr . Smethurst , a contemporary Says : —" The offence of bigamy , us the law nt present stands , amounts to felony , and any person convicted of it immediately loses all claim to any property of which ho may be possessed , or be entitled to in reversion , at the time of his conviction . Miss Bankes , only two days before her death , mado n will , at the request of tho prisoner , umigr which Dr . Smethurst was made sole executor , and would havo become possessed of tho wholo of her property . If the pardon had closed the proceedings , and no further steps had boon taken in roferenoe to the
charge of bigamy , he would , in all probability , nave put the will in force ; and as it is doubtful whether tho relatives of the deceased could , uudor the cirrnBtancea under which tho will was oxoouted , apparently with tho full knowleclgo and consent of the deceased lady , have resisted it , Dr . Smethurst would have come into possession of the whole of tho property of Miss Bankos , which ia said to amount to several thousand pounds . The effect of his conviction , however , precludes him from obtaining a single farthing under tho will , and as those upon whom tlio right devolves to take possession of his property are not likely to interfere , Miss Bankes will probably bo considered as dying intestate , and the property mil
rovert to her family . .. . A correspondent of tho Vaily News draws attention to a flagrant and disgraceful abusg , in tho following terms :-- ?• Last Wednesday I wont to the uxa Bailey , to hoar tho trial of Dr . Smethurst for bigamy ,
and on arriving there I repaired to the galleryentrance to the'Old Court , and asked admission But here I was doomed to disappointment , for he sternly denied me -without I paid him his fee of 2 s . 6 d . This charge I as sternly refused ; but finding ! could not get in without paying I tried another of these money-making functionaries , and handed him a smaller coin , which he immediately took , and politely gave me admission . " Some important cases have been brought before SirC . Cresswell ' scourt ; amongothersthe suit of Bell
v . Bell and the Marquis of Anglesey- It was a case for a dissolution of marriage , by reason of adultery . The petitioner was the son of a merchant and stockbroker , and the lady the daughter of Mr . Barnard , also a stockbroker of eminence in the city . The parties were married in 1851 , previous to which certain settlements were made upon the wife , to the extent of £ 5 , 000 , and it was in consequence of the doubtful state of the law upon that point that Mr . Bell felt it necessary to askf for damages to meet that contingency . The fact of the adultery was clearly proved ; and the jury returned a verdict that the adultery had been committed , assessing the corespondent in . £ 10 , 000 damages . The Court decreed dissolution of the marriage .
The : case of Allen v . Allen and D'Arcy , which was a suit for a dissolution of marriage by reason of adultery of the wife with the co-respondent , and which had occupied the whole of Friday and Saturday , has also been resumed . Mr . Justice Hill summed up the evidence at great length to the jury , explaining the law as to connivance and condonation , and left six questions to the jury , who , after a deliberation of twenty minutes , replied to them as follows : —That the responpent had committed adultery with Robert D'Arcy , or some other person .
That the petitioner , Thomas Allen , had connived at such adultery : The jury were of opinion the adultery was not condoned . That Thomas Allen , had committed adultery with Mrs . Claverton . That the petitioner had not committed legal cruelty . That the respondent had condoned the cruelty . Mr . Justice Cresswell said the Court hail no difficulty in decreeing judgment , the jury having found that the petitioner had connived at the adultery of the wife ; and , having stated the law as to connivance and collusion , dismissed the petition with costs . has been de
In the Divorce Court , judgment - livered in the case Yelverton v . Yelverton , which was argued some time ago . This was a petition by the wife for the restitution of conj ugal rights , Major Yelverton having left her at Bordeaux , in 1858 . But as the marriage had been celebrated first in Scotland and afterwards in Ireland , and as this court had authority only in England , the petition was dismissed on the ground of want of j urisdiction . A decree of judicial separation was also pronounced at the petition of White u . White , the husband against the wife , on the grouud that his life was in danger from her violent temper . A most distressing case has been brought to light this week at the Middlesex Sessions . One Sarah Dver nleaded cuiltv to having robbed Messrs . numb
Shoolbred , of Tottenham-court-road , oi a er of small articles . This trial excited the deepest feelings in all who heard it . The prisoner was a dressmaker , and a widow , with one child , a boy , apprenticed to a tailor . Sho had worked incessantly morning , noon , and night , for many years , to support herself and . son , but , from tho extreme distress in which she was plunged by her customers' delay in paying her charges , was induced to commit tne offence with which sho was ch arged . Tho sttitoment of hor counsel , Mr . Sleigh , was fully made out , and Mr . Bodkin , the assistant judge , said tha * m this case he should pass no sentence , but order Tier tojjo discharged , which was done , on which she thanked tho judge on her knoes . It was stated that the ^ 'k ^ ss ^^ s ^ s ° s . £ Kffi ssrb" ss&ys ? - ' « Krt Court subscribed £ 2 for her . «
....,.,. „„ , " RoboTt Davis , a olork , has boon oq . iv toted of omboJSing several sums of . money from his employers andoi how . Ho had boon ton years lu his « "jfj £ BorvJeo , mid tho reason that was given for the commission of tho offence was tho extravagance o a woman whom ho had married , which , however , the wSdenied , and attributed it to pwwft ** - Sentence , e ghtoen months' hard labour . —Felix Nowu an ' plo . Sod guilty to stealing a ^ V ^ lC ™ talnine X 232 , from Thornton Mooru . Mrs . Moore sow tho prisoner take the box , and tried to detain hiViK !"" ruggled with such violence to escape that ho broke onei of Mrs . Mooro ' s ribs , ana eventuallyho got away . The cash-box and its contents wori recofored ; The police asked for time to learn flTniething more of tho prisoner , and sen enco was /» of
rififnrrGtl -- A man named James jliqukbou , wwm ** - veffer , w ^ Charged with robbing mAoII a watch and money . Ho ran away with prosecutor ' s wife , who took tbbe property with her , but as it did not
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JsTo . 507 . Dec . 10 , 1859 . ] THE LEAPEB . 1339
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 1339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2324/page/7/
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