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    882 THE LEADER. [No. 488. July 3gj_185&.

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    NAVAL. AND MILITARY. The fracas which oc...

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    volunteer rifle corps for that locality,...

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    IRELAND Government have withdrawn from t...

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    LAW, POLICE, AND CASUALTIES. Paul and Am...

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    Imperial Parliament. Monday, Jtdy 25. Lo...

    proofs . p , f the bad government of Rome , Naples , and ether Italian States , he observed that it was the supporters of these tyrannical and oppressive administrations who were really the promoters of revolutionary conspiracies in that country . Respecting the course which the English ministry would pursue , lie repeated the declaration of Lord J . Russell that their determination -would entirely depend upon the progress and bearing of pending arrangements at Zurich . — - The discussion was continued by Mr . Baillie , Mr . Milnes * and Mr . Whiteside , who reviewed at much length and with great , seveaaty . the Italian policy of the Government in 1848 . — Mr . Dk'jmmoxd expatiated upon the power of the

    Papacy , and urged the danger to this country of meddling with questions that did not concern us . — The Chancellor of the Exchequer , in replying to Mr , "Whiteside , examined with great minuteness a statement made by him that , in 1848 , Austria had offered to Lord Palmerston , then Minister of Foreign Affairs , if the British Government would intervene to restore peace , that Lombardy should be made entirely independent , and "Venetia should receive a free constitution—a proposal which Sardinia had , he said , accepted . He showed that this statement was the result of a complete mistake on the part of Mr . "Whiteside . Adverting to the present position of affairs , he observed that the Government

    were fully alive to the gravity of the situation and the necessity of caution and circumspection . Their conduct with regard to the congress must depend upon circumstances not yet known or that had even not yet occurred . All they asked was > that the House should not bind them to any course of proceeding by a premature expression of legislative opinion . —Mr . Maguire eulogised the Government of the present Pope , Pius IX . —rAfter a feur words from Mr . Urquiiart , Lord C . Hamilton read passages from the Blue-book of 1848 , defending the allegation brought forward by Mr . Whiteside , and replying to Mr . Gladstone . —Lord John Russell briefly replied upon the general question . The subject then dropped .

    After some remarks from Mr . Kinnaikd , the formal motion that the papers brought up should lie on the table being agreed to , The remaining business , was disposed of , and the House adjourned at a quarter-past two o ' clock .

    882 The Leader. [No. 488. July 3gj_185&.

    882 THE LEADER . [ No . 488 . July 3 gj _ 185 & .

    Naval. And Military. The Fracas Which Oc...

    NAVAL . AND MILITARY . The fracas which occurred at Koyliam on the 14 th , on carrying out the sentence of the court-martial on Stephenson , has been settled by Burnay , the leading man of shipwrights , being suspended for one week , and Bewley ,. the shipwright ' s apprentice , who was more-violent and used improper language to some of the officers of the Caesar , being-mulct of six months ' time . A writer in the Quarterly Review thus states , according to official documents , the kind of work that has been going on in France for the last six years : —? ' During that time the great works in the arsenal at Cherbourg have been brought to a successful termination . The extent of the arsenal at Tbulon has been doubled . Immense works have been completed at Brest , L'Orient , Jtoohefort , Indrefc , and at every station of the French navy , so

    The Times says : —" The Armstrong gun will , no doubt , be an astonishing weapon but as yet we have only one or two specimens of it , and the utmost we are promised is a hundred Armstrong guns by the end of the year . On the other hand , thousands of Armstrong guns will be required for our ships , our fortresses , and for service in the field . In the meantime , what is going on across the Channel ? c The most noticeable feature in the Arsenal , ' writes our Marseilles correspondent , ' is the effort made

    to provide rifled ordnance for the navy . The system which aj > pears to be definitively adopted consists of three grooves about three inches broad and an eighth of an inch deep , with a twist of onesixth . ' These guns are being supplied rapidly to the French line-of-battle ships . There are , we believe , no less than 7 , 000 smooth-bored guns now lying at'Woolwich Arsenal . To rifle a part of these would be an easy and , comparatively , an inexpensive work , and by the end of the year large numbers of rifled guns might be fit for use .

    An able letter on the national defences appears in the Times , in which the writer alludes to the necessity of an efficient means of defending London against an invading army . He shows that a railway for thirty miles round the metropolis might be effectually fortified at a comparatively small expense , while the traffic would soon repay the outlay . He adds : — -Such a , railway might start from Woolwich , and , as it would connect every one of the railways radiating from the metropolis , it Avould place the whole of the coast defences in connexion with the national arsenal . The principle is equally applicable to the coast defences . Take for instance the line of

    railway from Brighton to Portsmouth . Suppose sidings from this-railway , to lead to batteries at convenient positions along the coast , and the line of railway itself to be fortified as above proposed , a few hours would suffice to supply guns ammunition ,-. arid men , from Woolwich on one side and from Portsmouth on the other , to the batteries on the coast and to the field works along the line of rail . The enemy would then have to encounter , —first our fleet at sea , then our coast batteries , then the line of entrenched railways , and finally the entrenchments Tound London .. One great advantage of such a system of defence would be that in the event of invasion such lines of defence as the railways would form ramparts behind which every man who could fh-e a musket would be of use . They would give unity of purpose , and almost the effect of discipline to our brave but untrained agricultural population .

    According to advices from Malta , Admiral Fanshawe left on the 18 th inst . for Naples , with five men of war and one frigate . Vice-Admiral Mundy has left witli one ship and one frigate . The ship Cressy and two gun-boats have also sailed . Admiral Pelham , C . B ., and Capt . Frederick , two of the Lords of the Admiralty , were at Devonport on Tuesday , inspecting ships of war in Hamoazo . They visited the screw steamship Royal George , 102 , and several gunboats attached to the steam reserve . .

    By direction of the Medical Department a report has been prepared of the result of the trial of Major Rhodes ' s newly-invented hospital tent , one of -which , of large size , has been for some time in use by the patients attached to the Gnrrison Hospital at Chatham . Tho result is of a satisfactory charaoter . The Athens brings intelligence that twenty-four men , and tho mate of the watch of H . M . S . Heron , capsized on the 9 th May in a tornado off Sierra Leono , were picked up by tho bark Eleanor , and landed at Ascension .

    that the extent cf her dockyards and factories at least equals , if it does hot exceed , our own . The modest proposals of the Commission of 1849-51 havo been extended by at least one-third , and it . is now determined to have from fifty-five to sixty liuc-ofbattld ships , from eighty to ninety flrst-clasa screw frigates , and in addition to this they aro rapidly building a class of iron-plated vessels of a scantling equal to those of the largest lino-of-battle ships ,. and muck more expensive , but which the liest officers both in ? tho French and English navy believe will be more than a match for the largest lino-of-battle ships now afloat . Besides these it is now determined to raise tho number of steam transports to seventy-two , each capable of carrying on an average at lonat 1 , 000 men , with their proportionate complement of horsoa and stores . "

    In French military circles it is considered certain that before long 200 , 000 men will be discharged on renewable furlough—a plan which gives tho Government the immense advantage of having old , welltrained soldiers under their nand , who do not draw pay , and tho monqy voted for their keep can , of course , bo more profitably employed , tho Emperor having tho enviable faculty of employing for tho army tho monies voted for tho navy , ana for tho navy the monies voted for the army . It is to bo hoped that England will not allow lioreolf to bo lulled Into security by mode disarmaments , nnd that sho will keep in mind , that even on tho very eve of tho commencement of tho war , when another general disarmament was proposed , tho French Government ana its organs wore loud in tlneir assertions that Franco , not having armed , could not bo called upon to disarm .

    Volunteer Rifle Corps For That Locality,...

    volunteer rifle corps for that locality , when it was unanimously determined that a corps should be forthwith raised ; and after the appointment- of a committee , 40 names were at once entered on the list of effective members . In many of the small towns and villages of Devonshire efforts are making to raise volunteer corps . At Woodbury , a village not far from Kxmouth , an artillery corps is being formed . At Lympston a public meeting was held last week , at : which it was resolved to raise a rifle corps . It has been resolved to request the lord lieutenant to convene a county meeting for the purpose of strengthening the Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Corps .

    A Dorset paper says : —The rifle club agitation has proved a dead letter in almost every one of our Dorset towns , with a single exception . AVe have heard of only one solitary response to the appeal made in Woymouth—of none at all to that made in Dorchester — and hardly know what to think of ourselves as next ' neighbours to Cherbourg . At Bristol a very different account is given . At the last parade upwards of 40 O volunteers vent through a variety of evolutions , -with very creditable precision , and Major Bush , the Lieutenant-Colonel , congratulated the corps on the increase which had taken place in their numbers since their last public parade , and stated that he hoped they would very shortly be in a position to be embodied as a regiment .

    VOLUNTEER CORPS . Unless some immediate and judicious stops arc taken by Government to foster this most important national object , thei'G is too much reason to fpcir that ¦ with tho cessation of the attraction of novojty , tho military spirit will die away . Tho news which has arrived of tho'tilleged disarmament in Franco , will , doubtless , be taken advantago of by tho peaoo twaddlers to throw cold water on tho schoinc , which at one time bid fair to attain imivorsal support . Captain Hicks , commanding the London Rifle Corps , has issued a sensible lotjtcr on tho organisation of that body , concluding in those words : — "This , tho most opulent city in the world , should ,

    besides being first in commerco , add to its reputation ' primus in arinia , ' audit is to bo hoped that all its inhabitants who are unablo to join tho corps as off ' octlves , will contribute towards the fund for its maintenance and fuller development , and thus enable tho London Brigade to bocomo tho koystono of a movement which will do away with , for ever , the periodical alarms , of foreign Invasion . " Thoro is , however , an impression that this brigade , like many other of tho rllle companies , is got up on so oxpenelvo a plan as to prevent working-men or clerics from joining ib , and thereby practically refuses the services of some of the most athletic and useful young men that could bo obtained in tho kingdom . On tho 2 flth inst . a numerously attondod mooting took ltluco at UliK'khoath , on tho subjoct of raising a

    Ireland Government Have Withdrawn From T...

    IRELAND Government have withdrawn from the prosecution of the Phoenix Club conspirators . They pleaded guilty , and the Attorney-General consented that they should be liberated on their own ' recognisances , to come up for judgment when called for . Mr . Justice Keogh gave his cordial assent to tins course . At a great public meeting held at Gal way last Friday , the . Rev . P . Daly furnished a detailed statement of his mission to London in the interests of Galway as a packet station . He gave a glowing account of the support which he received from t ! ulate Government , and stated that he did not find the present Government animated by the same friendly feelings / He- read a letter- which he had received from the Treasury , to the effect that the Government could not at present Undertake the expense of the great improvements which were sought for in the harbour of Galway . Two . investigations- have taken place into the circumstances connected with the late riot at Kinsale . That conducted before the local magistrates is closed , but their decision has not yet been declared . A military inquiry was opened at Cork last week before Colonel Grant . There were also present Lord Massereene , colonel of the Antrim Militia ; Capttvins Rice , Munroe , and Devero j Lieutenants O'DonfiWl and Byan , Surgeon Nixon , and others .

    Law, Police, And Casualties. Paul And Am...

    LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . Paul and AmeliaDkcvzviiwz were charged at Bovstreet , on remand , with-robbing their lodgings -ot pictures and other property to . the value of 20 / . , Thc prisoners were committed on thrco charges . A detective stated that about thrco months ago he Imd tho prisoners in custody respecting their possession of a picture which had been stolen from the JCxhibition at Amsterdam . The picture was valued at 3000 / . Tho prisoners were not sent to prison , nor to Holland , as there was no extradition treaty between this country and Holland , but tho picture Avas sent back to Amsterdam .

    At the South war 1 c Police-court a person name Clarke , a patent envelope manufacturer , brought n charge of embezzlement against a ? Mr . Marshall . Tho accused was discharged , as tho magistrate c < insidorod thoro was no imputation upon his character . At Clerkcnwellainan named Wood row was broug ht upon . a charge of stabbing Mrs . Harriot Kmma Marker with intont to murder her . Ho was fully coiuiuitte ¦ . ! for trial ut tho Central Criminal Court . Cristoforo Buono Coro has boon again brought up on a chai'go of attcihpting to poison one Filippniii , tho first assuming tho title of "Firo King / ' the latter that of" Emperor of Firo ; " but a necessary witness not appearing tho prisoner was dlHyhurgfoil , in

    and Filipponi was then charged with perjury making tho accusation . Somo evklonoo wan ttiHon against him , aftor wliioh tho prisoner wu . 8 remanded . At Guildhall , on Monday , Lyon Goldsmith , ncigurdealer , of Finsbury-pavomowt , was finally i . xiinimc ! on a charge of obtaining goods on credit within three mouths of his bankruptcy , with a view to ilol ' nuul Ins creditors , Mr . I ' qtor Brown , o whom the bankrupt had bought goods , was crosu-oxumlnud as to his dealings with him , aftor winch tho magistrate ( Alderman Salomons ) said tho ovldoneo justiileu him in sonding tho case for trial , but ho would accept bail for tho -bankrupt in two sureties of ( H > w . each , with 48 hours' notice . Tho bankrupt v-iv & committed for triul , An inquest has boon hold at Jnrrow , on the bo'ly

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), July 30, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30071859/page/6/