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      Volunteer Corps. An Article In The Daily...

      a nd the manly spirit of sixty years ago mnrthe looked for in vain as far as London is concerned . At Sheffield a corps is drilling which musters 240 men The great town of Leeds has produced _ 63 volunteers ; W Colchester boasts 60 , Cambridge can show 56 . Bridport has subscribed 1 , 000 ? and musters 100 men as the 1 st company of the D SS i a great -stake has been committed in fixing upon uniforms and ^ - »<»^ ° P *? these corps , which place them quite beyond the means of working men and clerks : and if it . should SS be found necessary to look to the volunteers for ^ defence of the country , a vast alteration mus be made in the reguiaMpns , to bring together efficient men in sufficient number .

      Murderthe Murder To Drsinethursthaving A...

      the murder to DrSinethurstHaving assumed ¦ . ¦ , ' ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ i . — . No . 492 . Acs . 27 . 1859-1 THE LEADEB . 977

      Hands Of The Two Nephews, But We Have A ...

      hands of the two nephews , but we have a third nephew , Mr . Henry Dawson , who governs the affairs of the company at Glasgow , and a cousin , Mr ; Thomas Crossthwaite , who does the same at Liverpool , while the uncle ' s brother , Mr . Henry Stainton , was agent at London . Suspicion having been aroused by some means , Colonel Dundas Maclean , a former shareholder , brings an action against the company , which seems to be only one of a series of accusations that affect the management , all of which may have to be investigated . The colonel says that the managers did systematically , and for a long number of years , falsify their balance sheets so that the profits of the company might appear to be much less than

      LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . An enormous system of fraud extending ov ^ r many years is alleged to have been discovered in the Carron Iron Company . This company was established eighty years ago under special charter , and has done a very large business in manufacturing iron . One Joseph Stainton was manager of the company from 1786 till his death in 1825 . He was succeeded by Ms nephew , Mr . Joseph Dawson , while another nephew , Mr . William Dawson , became managing clerk . Joseph Dawson died in 1850 , and William became the head of the company . The managers of the company are also partners and form a family party for if we take Mr . Joseph Stainton , the / first manager , to be the uncle , we not only find the central administration at CarrOn falling into the

      on suspicion of having been concerned in the murder of Mr . Broughton near Leeds . The man was brought before the magistrates , and identified as one of two seen in the field about the time of the murder ; and , which is of much more importance , it is shown that he pawned the watch of the murdered man shortly after the crime had been committed . The Queen , has been pleased to commute the death penalty in the case of Ellen Rutter , the woman who murdered her husband under the excitement of his exasperating conduct . The jury who tried her have been anxious that she should escape the penalty of death . atGuildhall

      A very serious charge was preferred . against a man named Barlow , an organist living at Blackfriars . Some disturbance had arisen , and a mob collected , when the prisoner attacked several persons with a formidable life preserver , having a blade fixed in one end of it . One woman especially received a stab in the chest extending to nearly six inches in depth . The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next , and bail refused . , ¦ .,, ¦¦ An old man named Panniier , and described as a clerk and schoolmaster , was committed for trial at Marlborough-street , on a charge of forgery . The document alleged to be forged was a cheque for 317 . 16 s . 8 d . on the London and Westminster Bank , taken from the vestry-room of St . Ann ' s , Soho .

      . . that he was the murderer , they interpreted all his acts in the light of that assumption . It is said he wanted her money . I answer that he had her money ' already , and there was no necessity that he should murder'her to . get possession of it . He had all the woman was possessed of . The last dividend due to her was paid to his credit in the hank . He actually sacrificed 150 ? . annually by her deaths and in the event of the death of her sister , probably 300 ? . annually . He got the woman to make her will a very short time before her death , as thousands of men guiltless of murder would have done . The very fact of the will being postponed to so late a period tells in his before she taken ill it

      favour . Had she done so was would have looked black . But " he got a lawyer to come to the dying woman ' s bed "—as thousands of innocent men have done before . " He induced the dying woman to sign her maiden name , and so to perjure herself ;"—why , the document would not have been legal with any other nanie . " He gave the afflicted woman her medicine , food , & c . ;" and why ? Because there was no one there to do it for him . " After he was taken into custody some of the food and medicine taken were not ejected by the dying woman . On the eve of dissolution this is very frequently the case , as there is not sufficient muscular power left to eject the contents of the stomach . " Memorials against the sentence have been printed and largely distributed about the metropolis , and have received

      numerous signatures . Intelligence has been received of the lamentable death of an English clergyman , last week , in the Pyrenees . He attempted to ascend to the summit of the Col du Port de Venasque , refusing to allow the friends who were with him to accompany him in his perilous ascent , to which they reluctantly consented , and waited for him below , but he never returned , and on Monday last his body was found in a dreadfully mutilated condition at the bottom of an abyss into which he must have fallen . A guard on the train between Liverpool and Manchester has met a shocking death . Having been missed at one of the stations search was made , when the poor fellow was found dead on the top of a carriage . His head had evidently come into contact with the arch of a bridge .

      The last Indian mail brings intelligence of the loss of the ship Lady Rawlinson , bound from Rangoon to Calcutta . She experienced very severe weather after proceeding to sea , and capsized . She now lies stranded on the eastern bank at the mouth of the Eangoon river . The captain , his wife and child , the mate , and ten Lascars , with a native passenger , were picked up by a pilot schooner and brought to town on Saturday evening ; but twenty-two of the crew , who put off in a boat , have never since been heard of . The wreck , with her cargo of teak timber * amounting to about 300 tons , and 610 bags of cutch , ¦ was sold by auction for Rs . 6 , 100 . The vessel was insured for 8 , 000 ? ., and the cargo at about 3 , 000 ? .

      On Wednesday a poulterer was examined before the Lord Mayor on a charge of selling black game out of season ; but as sufficient proof of the sale was not forthcoming the summons was dismissed . A gentleman in court stated that any person who purchased game from a street hawker was liable to a fine of five pounds . The lady whose piteous complaint as to the loss of herhusbandi " the nobleman , " was poured into the ears of Mr . Norton last week , has recovered him by the aid of the police , but only to lose him again , as he is claimed by another dame . We read that a very limp and dirty individual , of Shabby-genteel appearance , was placed in the dock , charged with his William Denbigh

      bigamy . He gave name as Sloper Harrison . The lady who made the application the other day , and the other wife of the prisoner were both present . Their marriage certificates were handed to the magist rate , and from them it appeared that the prisoner , who gave the name of William Denbigh Sloper Marshall , described himself as late captain in the army , bachelor , and son to Francis Marshall , shipowner , had been married at Paddington Church to Sophia Frost Dawson , widow , on the 3 rd of July , 1858 , and that on the 28 th of June in the present year he was married at St . George ' s , Hanover- square , to Jane Hayes , widow , in the name of William Denbigh Sloper Harrison , described as a bachelor , and captain , in the army , son of Francis Harrison Lord Denbigh , shipowner . the double

      Being asked whether he acknowledged marriage , he meekly replied , I do , sir . I know it was very wicked . . Inspector Emmerson , said his real name was Sloper , and not Marshall , nor Harrison , and that lie was the illegitimate child of a woman who subsequently married a man named Marshall . This person was a dealer in bottles , and on one occasion the ' prisoner went with his stepfather to bottle some ale at the house of a nobleman , and became so intimate with one of the young ladies that an elopement was arranged , and would , in all probability have succeeded had not one of the letters of the lady fallen into the hands of the prisoner ' s grandfather , who forwarded it to the nobleman , her father . It is suspected that this distinguished individual lias a wife or two more . Ho was remanded . The result of the trial of Dr . TUomas Smethurst has produced a most extraordinary excitement ; a great number of people considering that ho has been convicted on insufficient evidence . His friends have commenced proceedings for the purpose of obtaining the remission of the sentence . His' brother is the only person who has visited him since hi ^ conviction , Mr . Humphreys , who acted as the solicitor of Dr . Smethurat , being of opinion that the conviction was not justified by the evidence , intends to embrace the whole case in a memorial to the Secretary of State , Sir Georgo CornowaU Lewis . Smothurst strongly protests his innocence , and , though evidently depressedbelieves his sentence will not bo carried

      , into effect . Tuesday in tho week after next is the day fixed for tho execution . The daily journals aro orowded with letters on tho subject , principally in defence of tho convict , and some go so far as to demand his unconditional pardon . One of the ablest of these aays : "Bear in mind that no attempt wi \ s made to prove that Isabella Bankes was murdered . No instrument of murder was found in her remains . But it was supposed by tho doctors that she died from tno effeotu of poispn . It has hitherto been considered essential to first prove that a murder has been committed , and from the murdered person to trace tho murderer . But in thia cane it was first suspected and then assumed that a murder was committed , and from that assumption the prosecution traced

      they really Avere , and that in consequence ot this falsification he sold to the managers twenty shares belonging to himself for U , 0 OoJ ., a price greatly below their real value . On this account he demands restitution , and names 20 , 000 / ., with legal interest , as the sum which the company should pay to him . Other individuals Lave similar claims arising from similar proceedings , and it is held that Mr . Joseph Dawson , the deceased manager , and Mr . Henry Stainton , the London manager , now also dead , and Mr . William Dawsbn , the present manager , conspired to promote these frauds , and managed , among themselves , to conceal and misrepresent the true state of in order to out

      the affairs of the company , carry their design of acquiring for themselves and relatives tho shares of the other partners , at sums far below their real value . Sir . J , G . Craig , the lawyer of the company , declared in 184 G that the debts of the company were overstated to the amount of £ \ 30 , 000 , while the assets were understated to a larger amount . It is said that letters have come to light from one manager to another which prove these allegations . It seems also that after the death of Mr . Joseph Dawson , a dissension arose between the Staintons and the Dawsons , and the company gained a sum of , £ 9 ( 5 , 000 by this quarrel , for it brought out the fact that there was a " Secret Reserve Fund , " to

      that extent , of which the company know nothing and which was fed from two corrupt channels . Colonel Maclean says that in ten years tho profits kept back from the shareholders amounted to at least £ l 75 , 000 . Tho case is now before the Scottish Court of Session . At tho Court of Bankruptcy adjudication of bankruptcy has been made against John Edward Bullcr , iv solicitor and scrivener , carrvinij on business at 50 , Lincoln ' s-inn-fielda , and residing at Enfleld . His liabilities aro stated at about 100 , 000 / ., of which it appears that 00 , 000 / . are in respect of breaches of trust , but this , it is supposed , is only a portion of tho bankrupt's delinquencies . The assets tire at present ; unascertained . A warrant has since been granted for his apprehension .

      At tho Surrey Sessions tho chairman said that tho number of prisoners for trial this session was leas than half what is usual , and for tho past year the number did not exceed sovon hundred , whereas for former years the average wan' a thousand . Some part of this reduction , however , is attributable to tho working of the new Criminal Justice Act , which empowers magistrates to convict in certain cases . Still , ( ho diminution of Qritno in the district , as shown by tho calendar , is considerable . A man named Walter Beardon lias been arrested

      Ireland. The Deliberations And Decisions...

      IRELAND . The deliberations and decisions of the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy on the question of education have at length been given authoritatively to the world . The mixed system is condemned entirely , and a claim is put in for a separate grant to Catholic Schools , as in England . Intermediate mixed education is also condemned by anticipation , and tho Queen ' s Colleges aro put in the black list . This decision has already borne fruits . The Catholic members of the Board of National Education aro withdrawing from it , and it is beyond doubt that tno whole influence of the Catholic clergy in Ireland will be directed to the withdrawal of the children ot their communion from the national schools .

      General Home News.

      GENERAL HOME NEWS .

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      ^^ ^ ss ^ sjf ^ jrz ^ SoSi sss ^ sfa ^^^ s «^ S . 'fcffiSSSR . r « n '! oT : n ? The royal party returned to , Osborno on Tuesday evening , discount PalnWou ana thoWuko of Nomours have boon visitors to her Majesty this weX Tho Queen , and tho rest of the royal family , at nrcsont ivt Osborno , will leave London for Balmoral on Monday . Her Majesty and court will procce I to Edinburgh via tho Groat , Northern Railway the directors of which have rcceivod instructions to lmvo a sneclivl train in readiness to leave King ' sc das station at 9 p . m ., so that the royal journey will bo mad 6 by night . ' This has been arranged to avoid tho long journey in tho boat of the day . Po » mo HbIj / tu . — Tho report of tho Reglstrar-Gonoral shows the health of London is improving , bolng below the average . Tho deaths during the

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1859, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27081859/page/5/