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      The National Defences. Two Veteran Offic...

      ana trlittle more indulgence while the ship is in port . He' suggests thtft'm order to form an effective reserve tfitebofimity plan should be combined with the contitfttous service system ; that the men who have served ten years , " instead of receiving a pension at once ; as at present , should'enter the reserve with certain privileges , and after serving ten years be entitled to their pay , and a substantial pension for the remainder of their days ; With respect to the contingency of sudden war , he says , keep a respectable Channel fleet of some 10 sail of the line . Man all these vessels thoroughly with able seamen * and reduce by one-half their complements of marines , so

      that the proportion of blue-jackets may be even , in excess . On the outbreak of war turn half of each ship ' s crew over to another ship of the same rate , and fill up all with marines . This would instantly give us 20 sail of the line instead of 10 , and so double our available force , independentl y of the reserve , without the loss of a minute . The marines could be drawn from the garrisons of our seaports , and their places taken by the militia , which , " protected by the fleet , would have ample time to be disciplined , and thus in one month the country would be armed to the teeth , and ready to fight any two nations that thought proper to attack us . '»

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      Ireland. Dk. M'Haxe, Archbishop Of Tuam,...

      IRELAND . Dk . M'Haxe , Archbishop of Tuam , has addressed a letter to Lord Palmerstoh , the burden of which is the reverence which the Irish Roman Catholics have for the Roman Pontiff . The Irish are ready to defend his spiritual authority over the entire world- They consider the Pope ' s temporal power essential to his spiritual authority , and Ireland will not be content to see the Holy Father placed in a subordinate position . Not only , continuesjpr . M'Hale , will the rock of eternal power upon which the Pope reposes be unshaken , but his , the oldest dynasty in Europe , will remain intact , shielded by the Providence that created it . :

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      of his life . I think this gentleman deserves the highest praise for his noble and independent conduct , which so few of his brethren have had courage to imitate . Several of them have said to me , " We do not wholly approve of these revivals , but we are in the hands of our people , and must do as they desire us . " The Presbyterian minister ' s income , I need hardly say * is derived from the " stipend" paid him by the members of his congregation , and depends on their pleasure .

      The Dublin News announces that'the entire of the Roman Catholic hierarchy were to meet on Wednesday , to consider the reply of the Government to the resolution ' submitted to it after the recent synod of the prelates . It is added that it would be one of the most important meetings , in its results , ever held by the heads of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland . Much interest is excited in Ireland by the reply which Mr . Cardwell has written in answer to the demand of the Roman Catholic clergy respecting national education . The version of it which has found its way into some circles will not please the Roman Catholics , as it only points to the removal of certain officials whose conduct has not

      given satisfaction . The answer of Mr . Cardwell derives importance from this circumstance , that Upon' that reply the question seems to hinge as to Whether the Palmerston Government will receive the support of the Irish members of Parliament . The JLimerick Chronicle says that Gort church has become a source of attraction lately , in . consequence of the constant attendance on every Sunday of Mr . Carden , who still follows Miss Arbuthnot wherever he can get a sight of her . The young lady resides with her brother-in-law , the Hon . Captain Gougb , at Loughcooter Castle , near Gort , and Mr . Carden resides at Forest's Royal Hotel , Gort .

      On the subject of the revivals in Ireland , a clergyman , writing to the Daily News , says : —A woman , worked up to a pitch of religious frenzy by attending the nightly meetings which are now the rage , and following literally the allegorical language of Scripture , deliberately plucked out her right eye , begging her husband to follow her example , and thus enter the kingdom of heaven . "Far from doing so ; he very properly placed her under the care of the infirmary doctor , who remonstrated with her on her folly , but to no effect , as she declared " there was nothing she woiild not do to win Christ , " and two days afterwards was found ( all dangerous weapons having been removed ) biting off her right hand .

      She did not , as you may imagine , fully succeed in this , but inflicted such a : wound on the tendons of the thumb , that lock-jaw supervened , and she died four days afterwards . The extravagances of the old Anabaptist and Fifth Monarchy men could not be outdone by this , and I have no hesitation in saying that that poor woman ' s death lies at the door of those foolish and infatuated persons who are now exciting ottr ignorant and impulsive peasantry in the name of religion . Another case is that of a poor Kirl who now lies in such a state of prostration

      that she faints if raised in her bed , and yet refuses to take any nourishment ; , saying she has qbon'tpld that she is bettor to die now that the spirit Watlvbeen freshly poured * out upon her than she ever WSbevagain . and'therefore will not strive to live . pmd ^ n ^ isntion the case of the Presbyteri an minister ^ JSS ^^ ' ^' ' ?^ ' *' ' ** e' ** gentleman ji advanced ^ IWPW ' i'iWPA education , and mature' intellect , ¦ " $ 2 VM & KwWmffl BfttJlBfy hliuseir ^ to the . dqsir-Jl ^^ f ^ n ' tb ^ riiglhtf' tflese jmiflerfcWc delusions mrnmg-ftw people ; haaliad the moral « oufago from

      Law, Police, Ant> Casualties. Ok Monday ...

      LAW , POLICE , ANT > CASUALTIES . Ok Monday the case of the robbery from Mr . W . Griffiths of upwards of . £ 400 in notes and cheques , came before the recorder at Manchester . The examination lasted the whole day . Some of the notes were for a large amount , and were " discounted" by two men , M'Guinness and Walmsley . Walmsley was discharged , but M'Guinness , Sparks , and a woman named M'Kinsey were found guilty , and were sentenced , the former to seven years , and the latter two to four years each of penal servitude . Mr . Serjeant Payne has concluded an ^ inquiry , at the Guildhall , into the cause of the fire at the Paraffin Light Company ' s premises in Bueklersbury .

      Evidence having been taken at some length as to the origin and progress of the fire , and the nature of paraffin oil , the jury returned the following verdict : — ' ? That the fire was accidental , and the jury are of opinion there was great neglect aqd a thorough absence of the necessary precautions . The jury are further of opinion that paraffin oil , when stored in such large quantities , is of a character dangerous to the immediate neighbourhood . " Mr . T . Atkinson said the suggestion of the jury would be attended to . In future the company would only keep small quantities upon the premises for immediate use or supply .

      The news from Jersey recall an event of 1855 , namely , that act of arbitrary power , so hostile to the spirit of English institutions , by which Victor Hugo and other French , proscrits were expelled from that island . It appears that recently one , of the expelled returned to the island , and was arrested by a Centenier and sent by the Judge of the Correctional Poljpe-court before the Royal Court . M . Collin , the individual to whom we allude , was

      charged with having returned- to the island without permission . A spirited speech was made for the defendant by Mr , Advocate Godfrey . The Attorney-General defended the indictment , but the Court decided that M . Collin should be discharged , on the ground that the Centenier had no legal order of arrest . There " was loud applause on the delivery of this verdict , and the Attorney-General demanded an appeal , but the Court refused to entertain it .

      John Silvester , a cigar maker of Commercialroad , was committed for trial by Mr . Selfe , at the Thames Police-court , on the charge of stabbing with intent to murder a police constable , who was about to take him into custody for assaulting a woman with a poker . At the Thames Police-court a man named Warklett was charged with having wilfully set fire to his master ' s premises , in Limehouse-causeway . The singular feature of the case was the prisoner ' s confession of the act , from which he appears to have been influenced by no malicious motive , but simply by a desire , as he thought , to relieve his master from difficulty , that individual

      having become liable for two sums of money which the prisoner thought he was unable to pay . The prisoner was committed for trial . Hughes / the bankrupt solicitor , has again been examined at the Guildhall Police court . The case investigated on this occasion related to the sale of certain property , heavily mortgaged at the time of the transaction , but which was represented to the purchaser to be quite , unencumbered . A remand tor a week was again granted , when the solicitor for the prosecution says he will bring forward another

      father , and working in an adjoining shop , in a back street off Brick-kiInT street ,. Wolverbampton was found dead on the floor of his shop under very ex . traordinary circumstances , his hands being in his pockets and his head pushed under his work bench and lying with the face in a boxy the edge of which ' pressing upon the mouth of the windpipe , and causing suffocation , had , in the opinion of the medical men who examined the body , been the occasion of death . There was also the mark of a blow on the left temple of deceased . On Monday morning last the coroner ' s jury assembled for the fourth time . Many witnesses bore testimony to the excessive cruelty with which the deceased , who was a

      quiet , well-conducted , and very pious young man had been treated by his father . The woman who laid out the deceased's body , and found several marks upon it not observed by the surgeons , stated that the mother of the deceased had come to her and begged her not to hang her husband . A man named Baker , who works in the next shop to that of the deceased , spoke to hearing sounds as of quarrelling in the shop shortly before the body was found , and -other sounds ; and an old man named Wootton , to having seen the elder Kilby run out of the shop shortly before the body was found : the father denying altogether that he had been in the shop at all during that day . The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the father .

      Among the police news of the week we may notice a church-rate case upon which the Lord Mayor had to come to a decision at the Mansion House . The peculiarity of the case is this , that the Lord Mayor , although a Dissenter , is , according to his . own view , in such a position that he cannot listen to a " conscientious objection . " The defendant remarked that there was a power within a man above the whole power of the State . To which the Lord Mayor responded- — "I have nothing to do with that . "

      At the Middlesex Sessions , Charles Eobinson was convicted of breaking into a dwelling-house , and stealing property therein .- He was caught with the property upon him , and was dressed in a manner that gave him the appearance of a clergyman . The prisoner was proved , to be a returned convict , and was well known to the police . The learned judge said there was but one course to take in such a case , which was to sentence the prisoner to eight years ' penal servitude . —Two bills having been presented to the grand jury against John Peterson for creating disturbances among the religious congregation of St . George ' s-in-the-East , they found one of them a true bill and ignored the other .

      In a eharge of using threatening language , preferred against two men , named William Port and William Ward , before Mr . Paynter at Westminster Police-court , the magistrate committed the prisoners for trial . This is another case arising out of the builders' strike , and illustrates the kind of arguments employed by a portion of the society men to induce the uninitiated to enrol themselves in their free and independent body . The inquiry into the accident which happened to the Express Jersey steamer has resulted in a verdict of censure upon the captain . attended

      An accident , which might have been with serious consequences , occurred on Tuesday to the three o ' clock express from Holyhend , and delayed its arrival in town more than an hour nnd a half . By some inadvertence on the part of the engine driver , the train overran the Conway station , and dashed into a train of empty carriages which were being shunted across the line . The shock was rather severe , and two or three of the empty carriages were broken and thrown off the line . Some one or two of the passengers in the exprcsB were cut and bruised , nnd others a good deul shukon , though none , we believe , so much as to prevent their continuing their routo when the line was cleared ot tne broken carriages , after a delay of nearly an hour . Just as the express was resuming its journey it was found that one of the carriages was so much injurea in its axlethat

      s they were getting reu »«* , » """ - necessitated another stoppage till the enrnugo wns removed and replaced by another . . . Some frauds havo lately boon attempted , witn regard to which the public may as woll be put upon their guard , although tho details are rather potty . Some unprincipled persons , having obtained w . oliequebook from tho London Joint Stock Bunk by simulating a customer ' s signature to an order , nayo succeeded in victimising somo of tho advertising agents in the following manner : Lot us suppose tna » John Smith , an auctioneer , is in tho habit of adver--fctshm in a London paper . Tho advortisemoiit ia out out , and purporting to bear John Smith ' s order xor its insertion in some other journal , is cameu to »» advertising agent , who is paid on the spot by meniiB n-Pn . nk » . ill > | A < « Un T ^ n ' ^ ^ r . T /> lnf «« TWllf HlllUC . XIW

      VA Ml VIIVMUV VAA VhAV VMVA 1 UUU 1 / VA »« V r * rvww « - ~ - Aim object of the ingenious swindler is to euouro wo amount of tho change . On presentation 01 «»« oheque at the bank , the answer is returned that tu « signature-ionot known .

      - charge of a different description . There has been another disgraceful trade outrage in Sheffield ! A man , who for some time past has been in fear of his life , was . working at ) a glazingwheel when some sparks falling on gunpowder Placed' there , produced a terrible explosion . The malignant intentions of the miscreants who plotted the man ' s life have , however , been frustrated . Is it a legitimate fruit of these trade combinations to turn "Working menihto dastardly assassins p Abouta fbrtalghtago ayoung man named George Kilby , a screw 'wrotioh maker / residing' with his

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101859/page/6/