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      Volunteer Coups. Within The Last Week An...

      into existence comprises Hereford , Bridgnorth , Monmouth , Redcar , Castle Howard , Ashburton , West Kilbriclc , Bakewell , Tunbridge Wells , Dalkeith , Chatham , Dronfield , Durham , Grimsby , St . Andrew ' s , Tredegar , and many others . At iforwich , 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-cpmmandant 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 jEIOO , which he intends to present as prizes next summer to the best shots among the artillery and riflemen . In forming a corps at Newtown , 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 6 ivil Service Rifle Corps is about to be formed , under the sanction of the Government , to be composed of volunteers from the various public offices v in the vicinity of Whitehall . The enrolled members of this corps amountnow to upwards of 400 , riot 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 oh 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 great 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 tocammence 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 RoyaJ Porcelain Works , Worcester , have formed a company among themselves .

      About ninety of the studontu of the Working Men s College , in Groat Ormond-street , have formed themselves into a corps , and fresh accessions arc made to the number daily . They aro drilled on four or five nights of the week , in a commodious piece of ground behind the institution , lighted with gas . Mr . Thomas Hughes , tho author of " Tom Brown ' s Schooldays , " has been chiefly instrumental in organising tins small force of working-men , which will probably become the nucleus of a large body enrolled from tho same class of the population . Messrs . Truman , Han bury , Buxton , and Co . have agrood to pay the expenses of a rifle corps formed in their establishment , the number to be ( it fleet limited

      to 100 . Tho persons employed at tho King ' s-oross Station of the Great Northern Railway have evinced such an interest in the volunteer movement , that 800 of them have sent in thoir names to tho Chairman ( Mr . E . Deniaon ) as roady to form thomse vos into corps . The servants of the Eastern Counties Hallway have volunteered to tho number of 600 . A meeting was hold at tho Freemasons' Tavern , Great Quoon-stroot , this week , at which the Marquis of Donegal presided , for tho purpose of organising a London Irish Volunteer Rifle Corps . Several resolutions in favour of the movement were carried uaanirnoualy , notwithstanding the interruption of some two or throe , no doubt , warm-hearted Hibernians , who opposed the objects of the meeting . Tho speqoh of the chairman , it will be seen , was ona eu > bracing many points of interest .

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      JSTo . 5 Q 7 . Dec / 10 , 1859 ] THE LEADEE . 1339

      Ireland. At Waterford There Has Been A G...

      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 Church , Dublin ,

      a crowded meeting of different religious fraternities in support of the same object . ' This is the continuation of ail 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 may have 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 Ribbou system prevails to a fearful extent . It in the house at the

      appears that a male servant was time of the murder , as well as the woman who gave the deceased his dinner just before the shot was fired . Neither of these persons looked out or made any exertion to discover the assxssih . The constabulary were quickly in attendance , and four persons were in custody yesterday oil suspicion , awaiting the inquest . One of those was a brother of the deceased , who w . 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 , arid they were discharged after the inquest had terminated . The deceased was unmarriedand a man in thriving circumstances .

      , Two murders are also reported from Dungannoh , 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 Kibbon 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

      my 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 . " Tho time allowed by the Ribbonmen for the dismissal of Currans having expired , and no violence having been done to him or Mr Moutray , the inference is that tho threat ot retaliation , described in the above extract , has had the desired effect . Tho Ribbon system is as remarkable for cowardice as treachery and ferocity .

      And On Arriving There I Repaired To The ...

      and on arriving there I repaired to the gallery entrance 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 oi 2 s . 6 d . This charger I as sternly refused ; but finding I 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 ' s court ; among others the suit of Bell v . Bell and the Marquis of Anglesey . It was a cast 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 . Th < parties were married in 1851 , previous to which cer tain settlements were made upon the wife , to th < 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 ask for damages to mee that contingency . The fact of the adultery wai clearly proved ; and the jury returned . a verdict thai the adultery had been committed , assessing the co respondent in £ 10 , 000 damages . The Court decreec dissolutionof the marriage .

      , . The case of Allen v . Allen and D'Arcy , whicl 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 anc Saturday , has also been resumed . Mr . Justice Hil 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 , bad 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 tho . cruelty . Mr , Justice Cresswell said the Court had 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 conmvaace 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 conjugal 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 urisdigtion ., A decree of j udicial separation was also pronounced at the petition of White v . White , the husband against the wife , on the grouud that his life was in danger from her violent temper . boen ht to light

      A most distressing case has broug this week at the Middlesex Sessions . One Sarah Dyer pleaded guilty to having robbed Messrs . Shoolbred , of Tottenham-court-road , of a number of email 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 . She had worked incessantly morning , noon , and night , for many years , to support herself and son , but , from the extreme distress in which she was plunged by her ° ™* ° mGV * Jetoy ** uavintr her charges , was induced to commit ; tne fficf with which she was chare d . The statement of her counsel , Mr . Sleigh , was fully made out and Mr . Bodkin , the assistant judge , said that in tins case he should pass no sentence , but order hex ¦ to be discharged , whicl . was done , on which she thank a * the iudiro on her knees . It was stated that tne ladies whose elegant costumes had been provided by th % poor crofturo ' s agonising to 1 , aro highly rpsnootable " residing in such localities as ltussellsau aro and Hhjhbury-nlace . The barristers in

      LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . In regard to tho case of . Dr . Smothurst , a contemporary says : —" The offence of bigamy , as the law at present stands , amounts to felony , and any person convicted of it immediately loses all claim to any property of which he may bo possessed , or be entitled to , in reversion , at the timo of his conviction . Miss Bankes , only two days beforo her death , made a will , at the request of tho prisoner , under which Dr . Smethurst was made sole executor , and would have become ppssessed of tho whole of her property . If tho pardon had closed the proceedings , and no further steps had been taken in reference to tho charge of bigamy , he would , in all probability , havo put the will in force ; and as it is doubtful whethor the relatives of the deceased could , under the cirnastances under which tho will was excoutod , apparently with the full knowledge and consent ot tho deceased lady , have resisted it , Dr . Smothurst would have oome into possession of the wholo of tlio property of'Miss Bankes , which is said to amount to several thousand pounds , Tho offoct of his conviction , however , precludes him from obtaining a smgio farthing under the will , and as those upon whom tho right devolves to take possession of his property arc not likely to interfere , Miss Bankes will probably bo considered as dying intestate , and tho property wui re Co ? ro ? poSnr 0 f tho Daily News draws attention to a flagrant and disgraceful abuse ,, n the tollowiiiff tonuu : —" Last Wednesday 1 went to the Old Bailey , to hoar tho trial of Dr . Smothurst for bigamy ,

      "TtS fSXVcX ££ ' boon convicted of ombozzUng several sums of money from lus employers anu o hers lie had been ton years in Ins employer ' s service ad the reason that was given for tho commission of tlie offence was the extravagance oj a woman whom he had married , which , however , tho w ? fci den ed , and attributed it to gaming , etc . Sontonce eighteen months' hard labour . — HqIxx Newman Plofflguiltv to stealing a cash-box con-S ^ SSsfeS 52 ssS that ho broke one of Mrs . Moore ' s ribs , and eventaSllv ho ftot away . T » e eash-box and its contents were rocovovoT The police asked for time to learn sTmethlug more of the prisoner , «« d sentence was Sred " - % ««« named James Hodgson , town traveUor was eharged with robbing Mr . Tioli of a watch and money . He raa away with Prosecutor ' si wife , who took the property with her , but as it did not

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10121859/page/7/