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      Istavai/And Military. A Sudden Order Has...

      extract from a Calcutta letter deserves attention : — ^ SS l £ eT ^ 1 § n ?^ aut ' the " streets in toffi ' acSy star ^ ingTand gettf cig -themadgs into gaol for the sake of some rice a ^ d ^ * ' , - ™ $ have been discharged from the Naval Brigade , and cannot obtain employment . "

      No. 490. -W-M-'-Tmttt The Leader 931

      No . 490 . -W-m- ' -TMttT THE LEADER 931

      Volunteer Corps. ^ The London Riae Briga...

      VOLUNTEER CORPS . ^ The London Riae Brigade ^ . rapidly enroJhnff members . To its funds the Worshipful Company of Salters have transmitted 20 / . Messrs . Glyn , Messrs Morrison , Dillon , & Co ., Messrs . Hernes & Co ., and the Recorder of London are among the recent contributors . ,, „ . , . „ The Freemasons' Lodge at Whitehaven , m Cumberland , have formed a rifle company of sixty men , armed and equipped at their own expense , who have already attained efficiency in drill , and as marksmen . The Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery Corps has been recognised by the Government , and will be immediately enrolled . ^ They will be trained to work the large guns at Tynemouth and Clifford ' s Fort , which comprise the defences of the Tyne . The Northumberland Artillery Militia are now stationed at Tynemouth garrison , and the whole of the defences of the south-eastern coast of that country are now intrusted to Northumberland * men .

      Irel And. About Half-Past 10 O'Clock On ...

      IREL AND . About half-past 10 o ' clock on Saturday morning an explosion of gunpowder occurred at the Ballincolig I * owder-mills , which was attended with the death of five workmen . As to the dusting-house or refihing-house at which the catastrophe occurred , not so much as a stone of it remains , even from the foundation ; for the very ground on which it stood has been blown up and rooted away as if a mine had exploded beneath it . On the other side of the river ^ by the roadsideyare four or five small slated houses ;' the roofs of these were shattered and knocked away by the mass of stone from the exploded refininghouse . One workman is missing , but the five are probably the only sufferers . The Dublin Evening Mail says that the judgesliip vacant by the death of the Hon . Patrick Plunkett has been conferred upon Mr . David Lynch , Q . C . The appointment is likely to be popular . Mr . Lynch is a Roman catholic , but has never taken a prominent part in politics .

      Law, Police, And Casualties

      mitted by a man called Joseph Castle , who , on Tuesday , had gone to Lutbn , to the house of his mother-in-law , for the purpose of inducing his wife to return to her home , which she had been obliged to leave on account of his ill treatment . Yielding to his entreaties , the unfortunate woman accompanied him , when it would appear the man must have attacked her with a knife , as she was found in a field with her throat cut , and her hands dreadfully lacerated , showing the deadly struggle she had maintained with the assassin . Castle was soon after apprehended .

      was cut in two , sinking immediately , and carrying to the bottom with her four out of the nine persons on board .

      An English sailor , named Gallagher , serving on board an American ship in Rouen harbour , was tried there on Monday for stabbing a messmate named Hayter , who was killed on the spot . The jury found him guilty , with extenuating circumstances ; sentence , eight years' hard labour . A person named Hebb , described as a commercial traveller , was charged at the Mansion House with forging a transfer of 5001 . Three Per Cent . Consols , and committed for trial . The prisoner was apprehended at Birmingham the same morning .

      At "Warwick , one Bateman , a surveyor , sued Mr . Edwards-Wood for 901 . under peculiar circumstances . Bateman ' s suit was conducted by Mr . Wellington , one of the most respectable lawyers in the county . Fearing that the money was in jeopardy , Wellington arrested Wood ( who is said to be a man of wealth and position ) but offered to let him go and take his cheque for the debt if he will pay \ 0 l . extra for expenses . This was refused , and the debtor locked up ; it should be mentioned that money had been transmitted by Wood in payment of the debt , but , by the carelessness of his agent , it had not reached Wellington ' s hands . It was alleged that in insisting upon the payment of the 10 Z . Mr

      Wallington had been guilty of extortion . On the trial at the last assizes some months . ago , in which Mr . Edwards-Wood sued his attorneys for neglect in not paying Bateman , Lord Campbell , who tried the cause , at once denounced this seeming attempt to extort money , saying : — "I must say Mr . Edwards-Wood has acted with perfect propriety in all he did * and I think Mr . Wallington has disgraced himself and his profession . It is most disgraceful conduct . " Mr . Edwards-Wood did not fail to talce advantage of the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice . He published a pamphlet , with an account of the proceedings , and " disclosing , " as its title alleged , " the EdwardsWood

      disgraceful arrest of the plaintiff ( - ) ; the judge ' s flagellation of E . A . Wallington , solicitor ; and other flagrant particulars . " Mr . Wallington thereupon ' brought an action against Mr Edwards-Wood for a libel . This was tried the other day , at Warwick , Chief Justice Erie presiding . After two days' investigation the jury came to the conclusions that the allegations of Wood were malicious libels , and that Wallington , in sending Wood to prison , had been actuated by no vindictive motives . Chief Justice Erie declared that had he been in Mr Wellington ' s position he would have followed precisely the same course . The result is that Mr . Edwards-Wood has been condemned to pay 750 / . by

      LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . At the Liverpool Court of Passage , on Saturday , a commercial traveller , named Robert Simpson , recovered £ 150 damages from the London and North Western Rail way Company , he having been run over in Liverpool by one of the Company ' s parcel vans . He had been confined to his bed for thirteen weeks , and received various permanent injuries . The neighbourhood of Leeds witnessed a coldblooded murder on Saturday . An old man , named Mr . Richard Broughton , on his way to town for the purpose of transacting some business , was attacked by two ruffians armed with bludgeons , and so beaten that he died next day . The murderers are not in custody , but a reward is offered for their apprehension . The man Riley , who had been found guilty of the murder of his wife at Hull , was hung at York on Saturday , in the presence of 7 , 000 or 8 , 000 spectators . In the case of Worsey , also found . guilty of murdering his wife at the Staffordshire Assizes , we learn that sentence has been commuted . He was recommended to mercy by the . jury who tried him . John Benjamin Haynes , who was left for execution at Winchester , and respited last week , has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life . The report of the medical inspector as to his state of mind , and the absence of motive or premeditation , decided the Secretary of State in considering him a fit subject for the exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy . In the Oxford circuit Matthew Francis , a tailor and hawker , has boon tried for the murder of his wife , Sarah Francis , at Newport . The prisoner was found guilty , and sentence of death was passed upon him . During this trial the Court was densely crowded , and among tho crowd , as is too common on such occasions , there were a great many ladies , many of thorn very young . Notwithstanding tho narrowing nature of tho scene , which sometimes shook tho nerves even of strong-minded men , those ladies kept their places till the last , and only lofttlio court when the distressing scene was over . . In the Court of Bankruptcy , Mr . G . W . Jones , of * inch-lane , Hammersmith , has been appointed trade liquidator under the order lately granted for windme up the » flUir « of tho Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company . Another domestic murder has just boon

      cornway of damages . The trial of Dr . Smethurst , for the murder of Isabella Bankes , at Richmond , will be resumed on Monday next . During the interval which has elapsed since tho last trial the solicitors for the prisoner have been untiring in their exertions to get up medical evidence in opposition to that of Dr . Taylor , and they express themselves confident that they shall be able to demonstrate the fallacy of Dr , Taylor ' s theory on which Dr . Smothurst was committed .

      Another man , Henry Williams , or Hudson , has been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the late daring robbery and attempted murder in Shoe-lane . The prisoner underwent a preliminary examination before Sir R . Carden , at tho Guildhall , when it was stated that a quantity of plated goods , supposed to bo the proceeds of a robbery , was found at the house whore he was taken . Joseph Warm ington , a . journeyman bootmaker , was examined on his own confession , at Guildhall , relative to having absconded with a cheque and

      bank-notes to the value of 470 , the property of his master , Mr . Lloyd , of Nowgato-stroet . The prisoner was committed for trial . A shocking murder and suicide took place on Tuesday , near Huddcrsfleld . A poor girl , from dread of the bittor pangs of poverty , killed her illegitimate child and herself . M . do Montmusard , a French gentleman residing at Sheflleld , has committed suicide . Ho was in very comfortable oirouinstancoa , but he had boon labouring under mental depression , caused by real or imaginary calamities . Ho destroyed himself with a

      razor . , A sad occurrence took placo in tho Channel , off the North Foreland , on Sunday morning . The steam packet Ondino and tho collier brig Robert Garden oamo into oollision during a fogr , when tho collier

      Genekal Home News.

      GENEKAL HOME NEWS .

      The Coubt.—Her Majesty And The Prince Co...

      The Coubt . —Her Majesty and the Prince Consort , accompanied by th * e younger members of the royal family , intend to remain at Osborne until Monday , the 29 th , when they go to Balmoral , to pass three weeks or a month in the Highlands . The Grand Duke Constantine who is over here inspecting our arsenals and our navy without sailors , has been exchanging visits with the Prince Consort , and has been invited to dine at Osborne . Among other visitors , we note little Toussoun Pacha , who has been taken to pay his respects to her Majesty by Sir Moses Montefiore ; the Earls of Granville and Clarendon , Sir George Lewis and some German serene highnesses . The Queen and the Prince Consort embarked yesterday evening on board the Victoria and Albert royal yacht for an excursion for a few days at sea . In all probability her Majesty will , during the cruise , visit the Channel Islands .

      Election Committees . —The Huddersfield Committee have decided , that Mr . E . A . Leatham was duly elected member for that borough . At the same time , the Committee mention the names of individuals who were bribed to vote for Mr . Leatham , but they acquit the hon . member of having any knowledge of such transactions . When the Beverley Committee met it was announced that the petition of Mr . Auchmuty Glover was withdrawn , but evidence was gone into in support of another petition . The Preston Committee decided that Mr . Grenfeli had been duly elected . Dr . Michell , the memberfor Bodmin , has obtained the Chiltern .. Hundreds , and a new writ has been moved for to supply the vacancy . . ,,. ¦¦ „ ., _ Pontefract the committee

      In the compromise case , , under the chairmanship of Mr . Spencer Walpole , were to agree to their report yesterday . They have examined Mr . Childers and Mr . Overend , the two gentlemen who contested the seat , and their agents . Enough has been revealed to show that the head agents of the Liberal and Conservative parties ia London are in the habit of making a complete traffic of the seats of members of Parliament . A commission under the great seal will be issued to inquire , under the Corrupt Practices Act , into the late election for Wakefield . Mercantile Marine Association . —A numerously-attended meeting of the Association took place on Thursday , at which it was resolved to persevere in the attempt now being made to obtain an Act of Incorporation .

      Distinction of Bain . — " The annual rainfall is diminishing , and it is stated that the deficiency in the last five years is equal to the average fall of one year—viz ., 25 inches . — -Quarterly Report of Registrar-General . —'" From a careful examination of the fall of rain from the year 1815 , it would seem that the annual fall is becoming smaller , and that there is but little probability that this large deficiency will Jse made up by excesses in future years . —Mr . Glaislier ' s Report on the Weather in the above b ' oard or Tbadb . —The Vice-Presidency of the Board , vacated by Mr . James Wilson , lias been offered to Mr . More O'Ferrall , but wo understand that tUe right honourable gentleman has declined the offer . — Globe . ' ... satisfaction

      Public Healtu . —We have the to find that the return of the Registrar General for last week exhibits a further reduction in the mortality of the metropolis , the deaths being 1 , 337 ,, while in the two previous weeks they were 1 , 605 ^ and 1 , 419 . There was a corresponding decrease of deaths irom diarrhoea . The births registered last week were 171 ft ' Tub Archaeological Institute . — This body has terminated its meeting at Carlisle . The papersread included one by Mr . Cory oh the churches of Cumberland a lecture by Mr ? Newton on the discovencs at BoudrSun ; a pa / r by Mr . Hugh M'KUo on ancient ? omainS , & c . discovere " d in the « J « " / OariWj . one on Holme Cultran Abbey , by Rev . J . Siropaou , and several others . Excursions were made to Aydon Castle , near Cordridgo , to Corby Castle , the seat of Mr . P . H . Howard , wlio entorta nod the company with " signal grace and a hoarty spirit , " and to Brougham-hall , near Penrith . The ADVBRTisma Column Nuisance . —Mr . Cowpor ' s bill to put down thoae , nuisancesi has beou printed . Clause one is in those words ;— "No advertisement , placard , or notice shall bo affixed to . or exhibited on any post , column , or lamp in any highway , or on any otlior erection whatever in the orossinff of any carriage-way in the metropolitan , police district j and « vny porson affixing or oxhibitinfif nny suoh advertisement , placard , or notice , contrary to this provision , shall bo liable to a penalty or no more than 40 elullingB > and all the provisions ofi

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 13, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13081859/page/7/