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    The Volunteeks

    for the use of the corps-, none of which are under 100 strong . The Queen has accepted the services of : three companies of volunteer rifles in-the Isle of Wightviz ., at Byde two companies ( Nos . 1 and 2 ) , and at Ne wport one company ( No- 3 ); and additional companies and subdivisions will shortly he formed at Sa ndown , Ventnor , and elsewhere in the island . ¦ At a large meeting at Kirriemuir , in Scotland , the Earl of Airlie presided , and said : — " present state of things as regards the relations between this country and the great military monarchies of Europe is one which cannot be contemplated without giving rise to very serious reflections . How is it to be dealt with ? I think the people of this country have given a very practical answer to that question . They know that they can

    scarcely combine with their free institutions that rapid and sammary mode of action to which despotic Governments have recourse . They have , therefore , sought for their weapons in the armoury of freedom , They have endeavoured to find in their free institutions , in their habits of local self-government , in their municipal organisation , some force which might countervail that of the great centralised military monarchies . And they have found it . They have had recourse to means which are in perfect accordance witli the spirit of the constitution . Each town , each district , each community * great or small , has become the centre of an association for the defence of the country . And this organisation has been perfectly spontaneous . It does not owe its existence to the fostering care of the Government . "

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    corrupt purpose , aud charged the Admiralty with appointing spies , assailing them for such a practice . The defendant is remanded . A traveller , named Robert Pluckwell , who had been fourteen years in the service of Mr . Penson , of Snow-hill , was charged , at the Guildhall Policecourt , yesterday * with embezzlement , amounting to between £ 200 and £ 300 . Evidence being adduced , Alderman Finnis committed the prisoner for trial .

    on account of goods being found on the coasts of England and France that had formed part of the cargo of that unfortunate vessel .

    A Dorsetshire farmer sends us the . record of the conviction of a brother farmer for putting a trapped pheasant into his pocket . The defendant and his father have been in the occupation of the farm on which this occurred for twenty-two years , and are highly respectable individuals . The farmer ' s son had nothing to do with the laying of the trap , but was spied out by Lord Sandwich ' s gamekeeper , as he killed it . He gave the pheasant up to the gamekeeper .

    The foreman and ten of the jury who convicted the Rev . Mr . Hatch on a charge of indecent assault , have signed a memorial to the Queen , representing that if the facts now stated by the prisoner in a petition to the Queeri * had been proved before them , they would have acquitted him . They therefore pray that these facts should be investigated . The twelfth juror is reported as •* unable to attend . " Mr . Traill , the Greenwich magistrate , who , with Captain Harris as nautical assessor * lately held an

    official inquiry into the loss of the steamship Paramatta , has just made his official report to the Board of Trade . . The , Paramatta was one of the Royal Mail Company ' s ships , and was wrecked on her first voyage on the Horse-shoe Reef , near St . Thomas ' s . It is considered by the Commissioners , as stated in their report , that Captain Baynton , who commanded the vessel at the time of the wreck , did not exercise a proper degree of caution under the circumstances , and in consequence his certificate is suspended for twelve months .

    LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . In the Divorce Court , on Saturday , SirC . Cress well gave judgment in the case " Sopwith v . Sopwith . " This was a petition on the part of the wife for divorce , on the ground of her husband ' s adultery The evidence showed a very discreditable course pursued by the petitioner and her friends to get up evidence . His lordship gave it as his op inion that gross perjury had been committed , besides that there were glaring inconsistencies and discrepancies in the statements of the petitioner ' s witnesses ; he believed there was no substantial proof in support of this charge ; he therefore dismissed the petition , and decreed that the respondent should be indemnified in costs .

    That dirty business , the case of the Hon Hugh Rowley , was again the subject of investigation this week , but with great judgment the magistrate , Mr . Paynter , rebuked the further unnecessary exposure that has been made of it , and condemned Rowley for making an additional show of himself . Mr . Paynter has formally adjourned the inquiry for a week in the hope that he and the public may hear nothing more about it . It therefore rests with the unfaithful and divorced husband to drop the matter . If he does not do so , there will have to be a grand jury indictment , ¦ which is not likely after what the magistrate has said .

    Complaint has been made to Mr . Selfe , at the Thames Police-court , against Robert Weir , late captain of the brig Cuba , now lying in the West India Dock , that'he refused to deliver up the certificate of the ship ' s registry , incurring thereby a penalty of £ 100 . As Weir was out of the way and could not be found , orders were given for the grant of a new certificate . A man , named William Betts , was charged at Worship-street Police-court , before Mr . HammiU , with forging a namo to procure a marriage . It was urged in extenuation that the act was comnutted for the purpose of saving his sister from disgrace . The prisoner was remanded , ana bail

    refused . , . ^ A person named Henry Albert Ball was placed at the bar of Guildhall police-court , charged with forgery and fraud . It was stated that the prisoner had been employed to procure advertisements for a now work , ond had brought in one . whioh was subsequently repudiated , and the order pronounced to bo a forgery . Ho had likewise received the commission allowed for the advertisement . Alderman Salomons remanded the case for further inquiry Henry Paul , foreman to a printer and publlshor of St . Martin ' s-lane , in whose service ho had been & rten years , was charged before Mr . Henry at Bowstreet police-court with stealing a quantity of boolts from his master ' s warehouse . The prisoner was committed for trial .

    At the Mansion House , on Thursday , there was a charge of attempting » o bribe a Government ouloial . TCho Lords of tho Admiralty complain that ono Mr . John A . Salmon attempted to bribe Mr . Miller of the ^ Portsmouth dockyard , so that this ofllpml might give his certificate allowing certain sums of money -claimed for work dono , The sura alleged to have been , thus offered was £ ti , sent to Mr . Miller in two envelopes . Mr . Sleigh , tor tho defence , denied a

    A special report has been printed of a trial at Liverpool on the 9 th inst . involving a question as to the right of masters of vessels to retain commissions , gratuities , or passage money . Mr . Benson , captain of the ship Pomona , had retained , on his return ; trom Calcutta , certain sums which had been handed to him by persons at that port whom he had employed to execute work upon the vessel , ' and "which he had received as commissions or gratuities . He was also charged with having appropriated to his own use two sums respectively of £ 15 and £ 45 , received from passengers . A verdict of acquittal as regards embezzlement was rendered in each case , but it is important to observe that the bench and the jury concurred in expressing distinct condemnation of that

    the course that had been pursued , and a hope the disclosures made would operate as a warning . " Whether they used the term gratuities , or presents , or discounts , " observed the Deputy Recorder , " nothing could be more monstrous than to suppose that a captain , who had under his charge his employer ' s interest , should take money from the tradesmen with whom he dealt , with whom he made bargains , and over whose conduct he was the only person who really exercised any control . " At the close of the case the Court advised Captain Benson to account to his owners for the money which was defaulting , intimating that , although he had been acquitted on tho criminal action , it was still open to them to take such civil proceedings as they might think fit . m

    _ , , The Coroner ' s inquiry into the late lamentable fire in George-street , Westminster , has been brought to a termination . The jury returned a verdict to the effect that there was not sufficient evidence to show how the fire originated , and while declaring that ' there is no evidence to show that the slightest blame attached to any ono , they express regret the parish engine was not sent for . It appeared , however , in evidence that this engine was not of any great use . . m , Two lamentable shipwrecks are announced . 1 no most serious is that of tho Blervie Castle , bound for Australia , which is supposed to have been lost

    soraowhere in tho Channel , tho evidence ot it being a number of cases bearing hor name which have been picked up at Calais and at other points of tho French coast . Tho other ship whioh has been lost is the Lady Franklin , a vessel engaged in the South American trade . It is believed that all on board have perished excepting one of tho crew . * rom additional particulars recoived respecting the loss of the Blervio Castle in the Channel , on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning in last week , there is little reason to doubt that that vessel came into collision with another , ' and the consequence was that

    the Blervio Castle was lost , with all hor passengers , and perhaps tho other vessel was lost also , for ¦ bouio doubt is entertained whether a wreck wlnoii nos been observed floating in the Channel was the Blervio Castle , as its appearance does not , as , far as could be ascertained , correspond with that of tiwj vessel . That tho Blervio Castle was lost at tho time stated thero is but too good reason to welievo ,

    General Home News.

    GENERAL HOME NEWS .

    The Court.—The Queen And Royal Family Ar...

    The Court . —The Queen and royal family are spending the Christmas at Windsor in the usual style ; and are all in good health . Her Majesty and her daughters walk and ride , daily in the grounds near the Castle , while the Prince of Wales and his father occasionally shoot in the royal preserves . The Prince Consort has this week been in town for the purpose of transacting business at the South Kensington Museum and the Horticultural Society . Among the visitors at Windsor we find the names of the Duchess of Kent , Duke Pelissier , Count de Liavradio , the Prince of Leiningen , and Sir Charles Eastlake , P . R . A . The Gaze tie contains an announcement that there will be a presentation of the Victoria Cross at Windsor Castle on the 4 th of next month . Pitblic Health . —The Registrar-General , in his last weekly statement , observes that the cold weather has produced a great Increase of mortality , and asserts that in London 278 persons died who would have survived had the weather been less severe . The number of births was 1 , 768 . The New First Commissioner . —The Tipperary Free Press says-. — "It is rumoured here that the post of First Commissioner of Public Works , vacant by the death of the Riglit Hon . H . Fitzroy , will be conferred on Ralph Osborne , Esq ., M . P .

    Mr . C . Gii-pix , M . P . —This gentleman remains in a very precarious state . He hits' returned to town after a stay of some weeks at Folkestone , from which , however , he derived little or no benefit . The .-nature of his disorder being , such as to prevent his swallowing more than the smallest possible quantity of nourishment , his strength is of course much reduced . His attention to business of any kind- whatever is strictly forbidden by Sir B . Brodie , and his other medical advisers . Under the most favourable circumstances his recovery must be a most protracted one . There has this wefci

    Revisiot . of the Lituegt . — * : been held a meeting of distinguished laity of the Church of England , which is somewhat remarkable . It is a movement commenced to resist aggressions upon the Church of England . Lord Nelson was in the chair , and speeches were made by Mr . Henry Hoare , Mr . T . Erskine , Mr . Beresford Hope , and Mr . Hubbard , M . P . The language of these gentlemen is wordy and unpointed , yet it is pretty plain that the object intended is that of putting up the motto of Sans changer , over every parish church in the kingdom . The Prayer Book must not be changed , nor the laws for the repair of churches , nor any other thing which forms what is known as high and orthodox English Churchiam .

    Charitable Contributions . —The appeals made on behalf of the starving and destitute this Christmas , through the columns of the public journals , have produced an enormous sum . The Bishop of London writes to the editor of the Tivies . — " I beg to thank you fo * having called attention to the claims of the Metropolitan Relief Association through the publication of my letter . Allow me , in proof of the valuable service thus rendered , to acknowledge various important donations since received , and especially one of a thousand guineas , sent anonymously to the secretary , with a note addressed to me . " The

    Death op Mr . Wright . — once popular comedian , Mr . Edward Wright , diod , after a protracted illness , at Boulogne , on Wednesday evening last Ho was born in 1813 , and was , therefore , in his forty-sixth year . Ho first appeared on the staffo in 1834 , and fulfilled his last engagement at the Adelphi Theatre in March last . The peculiar talent possessed by Mr . Wright noods little recommendation at this-moment 5 his most successful achievements are still frosh in the minds of the public , who will hear with sincere regret of the loss sustained by the profession at a poriod at which it can but ill afford the deprivation .

    Anti-Slavish * Mkbtino in EoiNnuiia « .--Tho movement on bohalf of Dr . Chcever , of New York , requires notice . Among the clergymen of New York that eminent divine stands foremost , as the advocate of anti-slavory principles . The greatest efforts havo , in conaoquenoo , been put forth by the pro " lavery party to drivo him from the pulpit whioh he fills with so much honour und success . In tills they have not succeeded , but they have so far diminished the pecuniary resources of the Church that Dr . Choover ia constrained to appoal to me iswiihIi brethren for sympathy and assistance .

    One result of Che appeal has boon the baldingI ff a groat mooting at Edinburgh , at which Dr . OancUiah delivered an admirable speech . Tub WAuanmoLD iNQumr . —On Saturday , tho commission again assembled at Wakofleld to inquire

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 31, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31121859/page/7/