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      1 The Essex MiiaTiA . — "A Militiaman " writes to the TVrtwja to say that the- Rev . Mr . Wilson has lately preached at Chelmsford a very violent sermon against the West Essex Militia , The text was taken from the Book df Corinthians , whereon the rev . gentleman thus expressed himself ( Word for word ) : — " Now , the people of the city of Corinth were exceedingly wicked people , for . they were idolators , and indulged in evil and idle sports '; and the people of Chelmsford would be equally as wicked as the people of the city of Corinth , if they ( tire people of Chelmsford ) were all like the Militia . "

      The following is another elegant extract from the sermon : — " That the people of Chelmsford were tired and disgusted with the Militia , and that they ( the Militia ) were a perfect pest to the town ; that the people of Chelmsford wished them away ; that the Militia Were going headlong to Hell—nay , every day deeper and deeper . "—Surely there should be some limit to , the licence which clergymen conceive themselves entitled to in the pulpit . In consequence of these floWers of rhetoric , the people of Chelmsford have insulted the officers and men of the Militia in the street , at the

      same time quoting choice morsels from the sermon . Mb . Bakbweli . ' s request for a court of inquiry has been refused . " ' Wbeck okthb SftiF Dasiel Grant . —The Daniel Grant , Brown , while on her voyage from Shanghai to Liverpool , was wrecked on Helene Reef , China Seas , May 16 ; crew and passengers saved . Failure or Nasottth ' s Monster Gun . — We regret to learn that MriNasmyth ' s wrought-iron gun has proved a complete failure . The welding ao large a mass of iron renders it brittle and liable to burst .

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      Obituary. Mn. Feargus O'Connor Died On T...

      OBITUARY . Mn . Feargus O'Connor died on Thursday week of paralysis . . For the last . two years and a half , he had been under the care of Dr . Tuke , at Chiswick ; but about a week before his death he was removed by his sister . Mr . O'Connor was a member of an ancient Irish family , which , has been for many years settled at Fftrt Robert , in , tjke « punty of Cork . He was born in 1 Y-96 | sat forCork county from 1832 to 1835 , being unseated in the . latter year on petition after the general election ; was returned' for Oldham in the same year ,

      and for Nottingham , in , 1847 . The latter city he conr tinned to represent , until his lamentable aberration of mindjn 1852-3 . He suffered at least a dozen Government prosecutions for seditious speaking ; and his Kennington-coramon vagaries in the year of revolutions , 3 , 848 , will be fresh in ihe recollection of our readers . — An inquest h » 3 been held on the body , in consequence of . assertions by . Miss . O'Connor and a nephew of the cf ^ eased that he ha <^ been ijl-used , and , among other ^ hfngs , stupified with , Whigky and brandy . No proof of ill-usage , however , was produced ; and the jury thereifore returned a verdict of " Natural death . "

      ,. The Hon . , Abbott Lawrence , for several years A merican aiinjater at our court , died at Boston on the 18 th ult ., in the'jnxty-fourth year of hia age . Major-General Sir Robert Nickle , Commander of the Forces at Melbourne , died in the course of last ^ 8 Iay .. He was nearly seventy yeara of age , and had peeved in America , in Spain , at Toulouse ( where ho was | fcajdgerously wounded ) , " and in Canada during the insurrc ^ tlon . He wqs present during the riots at . the gold Riggings , last December ; and his exertions in the hot gup brought on an illness which has terminated fatally .

      Mr. Carlyle's Testimony To Mr. Duffy. {I...

      MR . CARLYLE'S TESTIMONY TO MR . DUFFY . { It is with great pleasure that wo avail ourselves of he permission which we have received to publish the following' letter ' from Mr . Carlylo to n friend , convoying , the testimony of the former to the high and Chivalrous character of the late , member for New Ross . Such testimony coming from one whose name is identified with honesty' and manliness , and whose opinion mast always be received as the expression of a veritable belief , and not a coloured " sham , " will go far to reacuo Mr . Duffy from tho thoughtless aspersions of some of our contemporaries . Wo too , like Mr . Cnrlyle , have . Absented from many of Mr . Duffy ' s thoorioa ; but wo are always glad to rccogniso his moral excellence and Courage . ] Soptombor 5 , 1855 . Dkau ¦¦ , —Somo short time ago I received a

      circular , with Mr . Whitty ' s signature , . on the same subject as your note , and Was well pleased to learn that such a project was in ag itation oh behalf of Duffy , to which I wished all success very sincerely , though myself unable to take part in it . I have a real regard , and even affection , for Duffy , whose fine * truthful intellect , and ardent , humane character were always recognisable to me in the worst tumult of Irish confusions . His course then , which I never could applaud for wisdom , nor rebuke without pity and respect , has all along seemed to me one of the most tragical ; and surely it has been troublous enough , tumbling in the wake of that monster of blarney , Big O . and his "justice for Ireland" ( the ugliest impostor generated in my time ); and , alas , it end * in a sufficiently monrnful manner , though in a

      manful and pathetic one on my poor friend Duffy ' s part ! I would gladly go and testify these feelings on his behalf whenever it might be useful or suitable ; biit , on the other hand , I can perceive that this dinner will not be the place for me to do it , but for others differently related to it than I , and who , probably , have somewhat other feelings to express . In short , there are multifarious reasons admonishing absence on my part , —two reasons were there no other : Permanent wish to steer clear to windward of O'Connellism , and of Anti-Ditto in all their branches ; and secondly , the horror and misery I undergo in all " public dinners" whatsoever ! I pray you , therefore , let me be excused , and be believed , at the same time , to wish the enterprise heartily well , as I do . Yours , ever truly , T . Carltle .

      Miscellaneous. The Queen's Visit To Scot...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen ' s Visit to Scotland . —The Queen , Prince Albert , and the royal family , left Buckingham Palace about half-past seven o'clock on Thursday morning , and arrived at Edinburgh at thirty-eight minutes after six in the evening . Suicide in a Railway Carriage . —A young gentleman named Payne , son of Dr . Payne of Nottingham , has hung himself in a second class carriage on the Nottingham and Derby Railway . He suspended himself by his neck-handkerchief from the ventilator at the top of the carriage door . The act must have been performed with great quickness , as he was not alone more than ten minutes . A Short Poem—one of the many which Frances Browne has contributed to the pages of a contemporary— ja it Come ? printed in No . 1451 of the Athenoeum , having attracted the attention of the Marquis of Lanadowne , his lordship applied to the editor for some information regarding its author . On learning the difficulties which have so long beset her , the noble marquis requested the editor to . say that he would be happy to place 1007 . at Miss Browne ' s disposal ; and it gratifies us to add that this generous tribute to unfriended genius was accepted in the spirit in which it was offered .

      The Land Transport Corps . —With reference to the case of the poor woman who alleged she could not get her husband ' s pay from the office of the Land Transport Corps , a Mr . Kirby , who represented that he had been sent by Lord Panmure , appeared before Mr . Arnold at Westminster , and denied the statement . The next day , the woman again attended , reiterated her story , and produced a letter from her husband , in which the writer told his wife that he was unable to send her any money , because all he had received from the authorities since he left England was 6 s . 3 d . Mr . Arnold gave the poor woman his card , and directed her to go to the War Office , and show tho letter to Mr . Kirby . This being done , Mr . Kirby first of all asserted that her husband

      was receiving his pay daily , or at leaat weekly , but afterwards said that , if he were not so paid , it was because his account was not yet cleared up , and the authorities did not rightly know what was duo to him . At the same time he promised to inquire into tho matter , and to communicate with the Coinmauder-in-Cliief by tho next post . Mr . Arnold , who thought tho telegraph would have been a readier way , gave the poor woman ten shillings from the poor-box . —Mr . Kirby has since written to Mr . Arnold , to say that his remark with rcferenco to the inability to come to a settlement for want of sufficient information , had reference , not to tho woman ' s husband's case , but to the case of soldiers returned from the Crimea .

      Turn Ikisii in America . — Another—unless it be tho same— 'Irish Roman Catholic prioat has written from America , imploring hia countrymen not to go to that land , where they are demoralised and worked to death ; telling them that , if tho ships in which they were convoyed were to founder with all on board , thuy would have a bettor chance of salvation ; and adding— " Wore Almighty God to give mo tho power of building a wall of nro round Ireland to prevent its peoplo from leaving it , it should bo built before tho ink with which I write this line would dry . "

      America . —The Know-nothing movement has been met by nn Anti-Know-nothing movement ; at a mooting of tho supporters of which , at Charleston , a resolution was passed with tho utmost unanimity , decluring , in accordance with previous expressions of opinion on thu part of tho people of Georgia and Louisiana , that South Carolina " will and ought to resist , even ( as a Iuwt ro-Bort ) to a disruption of every tie which binds hor to tho

      Union , any action of Congress on- the subject of slavery " which may interfere between the slave-owner and the slave , or tend to the abolition of the slave-trade and the political rights of the slave-holding states . A bill of a very stringent character , in relation to Abolitionists , has been brought before the Kansas Legislature . It provides that every person who shall be convicted of causing a rebellion of slaves , free negroes , or mulattoes , or of doing any act in furtherance thereof , shall suffer death . — -At Baltimore , a desperate encounter had taken place between several rival fire companies of that city . During the fight , not fewer than fifty pistol shots were heardbut loss of

      , no life is reported . Yellow fever is raging at New Orleans , and at Norfolk and Portsmouth , in Virginia . There are evidences of a revival of trade all over the Union ; but there has been no increase in the demand for money . —An auxiliary force of United States citizens is at present planning in Texas a movement in favour of the revolution in Mexico . Captain Henry , the commander-in-chief , has issued an address to his countrymen , in which he talks of bringing Mexico under the protection of the American eagle ; but another document , in which he addresses the Mexicans themselves , only speaks of helping them to establish an independent and powerful government .

      Mr . and Mrs . Bracebridge , who have been interesting themselves in the state of our military hospitals in the East , and have done great service to our suffering countrymen , have just returned to England . Their entry into Atherstone , Warwickshire , where they reside , was attended with great public rejoicings . Arrests for Murder in Ireland . — A Wexford paper announces that the whole of the circumstances connected with the murder , so far back as the 17 th of June , 1853 , of Mr . John Robinson , will shortly be brought to light . Evidence had to be sought for in America , and the result has been the arrest of James Robinson ( the illegitimate nephew of the murdered man ) and " jo . farmer named Michael Whitty , who have been committed for trial . Intimidation is being again resorted to in Ireland .

      The State of Trade in the great manufacturing towns continues satisfactory ; but there are no specialities of general interest . From Birmingham , we learn that the affairs of Mr . Thomas Spencer , the iron-master who recently failed , have at length been arranged by a composition of 2 s . 6 d in the pound , payable in four months , on liabilities to the extent of 100 , 000 / . The Boy ¦ with the Tail . —The child who was recently born in the North of England with a tail has been relieved of that awkward appendage by a skilful surgeon .

      Alleged Misconduct of the Police . —An inquest has been held in Walworth , on the body of Mr . E . B . Groom , who was ^ thrown from his gig in a state of intoxication , and , though insensible , was placed in a cell , and left without medical assistance for twelve hours . The coroner conceived that the constable who took Mr-Groom to the station-house was much to blame in neglecting him ; but the jury refrained from making an addendum , in the hope that no such case would occur again . Sir Charles Wood , First Lord of the Admiralty , Sir M . Berkeley , Second Lord , and Mr . T . G . Baring , Private Secretary , accompanied by Sir George Grey , hive been visiting tho port of Queenstown and Spike Island , for the purpose of inspecting the condition of the Government naval stores there . They have since visited the dockyard at Pembroke .

      Mr . Duffy has refused to receive a testimonial which it was proposed to give to him . A letter from Mr . Carlyle , with reference to this gentleman and his claims to consideration , will be found in another column . A Church-Rate has been rejected at Hackney by a large majority . The parishioners then passed a resolution declaring that they wished to press upon tho attention of Government the injustice of these rates . The Bournemouth Sanitarium . —In support of this institution for consumptive patients , Colonel Wnugh ( at whose house at Kensington , Mr . Dickens , Mr . Mark Lemon , and others , recently played Mr . Wilkie Collins ' drama of The Lighthouse , has opened a bazaar at hia marine residence , Brankuoa Cqatlc , Poolc .

      Education among the Colliers . —A meeting has been held at Newcastle-on-Tync , of gentlemen connected for the moat part with the collieries , to consider a scheme proposed by tho Hon . and Rev . J . Grey for promoting education in tho mining and manufacturing districts-Tho chief features of this scheme were thus stated to the meeting by tho Rev . G . R . Moncrieff , Government Inspector of School * : —" In tho first instance , a prizo of 1 / . was proposed to be given to every boy and girl under ten years of ago ( this limit buing only fixed for tho thnt

      present ) , who should bring certificates nhowiug no had attended school for two year .- ? , and certificates of ffoou character , and who should bo ablo to pass satiafaoto ruy an examination , which would bo of a very woderato amount of difficulty indeed , only incliicliiiff '" Wj ***™ the ordinary elementary character . Alone wiM ^ tins prizo would 1 , 0 given a card or ticko , «» J kln < l ™ testimon y to the ,,..,, 11 ' - good «««»* ' *« £ ' 7 ™ ^ & - &?&&&& Bchool , rain proaont theawrivw f « r a larger prize , on

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08091855/page/9/