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proofs of the bad gbvernmeTit of Home , ^ Nap les , and other Italian States , he observed that it vvas the supporters of these tyrannical and oppressive administrations who werereally the promoters of revolutionary conspiracies in that country . Respecting the course which the English ministry-would pursue , he repeated the declaration of Lord J . Bussell that their determination would entirely depend upon the progress and bearing of pending arrangements at Zurich . — The discussion was continued by Mr . Baiixie , Mr . Milnes , and Mr . Wbiteside , who reviewed at much length and with great severity the Italian policy of the Government in 1848 . — Mr . DKuarMOND expatiated upon the power of the
Papacy , and uTged the danger to this cpuntr } r of meddling with questions that did not concern us . — The Chanckllor of the Exchequer , in replying to Mx . 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 . Then * conduct with regard to the congress must depend upon circumstances not yet known or that had even not yet occurred . AH they asked was , that the House should not bind them to any course of proceeding by a . premature expression of legislative opinion . —Mr . Magxtirk eulogised the Government of the present Pope ,. Pius IX . —After a few words from Mr . Urqcthart , 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 . Russeli , "briefly replied upon the general questionv The subject then dropped .
After some remarks from Mr . Kinstaird , 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 .
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IRELAND GovjtRXJiEXT 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 this course- : . At a great public meeting held at Galway last Friday , the Rev . P . Daly furnished a detailed statement of his mission to Lpiidon in the interests , of Gal way as a packet station . . He gave a glowing account of the support which he received from the late Government , and stated that he did not find tJie present Government animated by the same friendly feelirigs . He read a letter which he had received froni 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 Kinsalc . 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 ; Captains Rice , Munroe , and Devere ; Lieutenants O'Donnell and llyan , Surgeon . Nixon , and others .
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LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . Pau : l and Amelia DHCtrzi'Knis - \ rcre charged at Bowstrcct , on remand , witli robbing their lodging's oi pictures and other property to the value of 20 / . The prisoners were committed on throe chai'ges . A detective stated that about three months ago he had the prisoners in custody respecting their possession of a picture which had been stolon from tho Exhibition at Amsterdam . The pieturo "was vulued at 300 O / . The prisoners wcro not sent to prison , nor to Holland , as there was no extradition treaty between this country , and Holland , but tho picture was , sent back to Amsterdam . At tho' Southwark Polico-court a- person named
Clarke , a patent envelopes manufacturer , brought a charge of embozsiloinent against ajJMr . Marshal ! . Tho accused was discharged , as the magistrate considored thoro was no imputation upon his character . AtClerlconwcll amannamcdWoodrow was brought upon a charge of stabbing Mrs . Harriot JSinma Murker with intent to nmrdor hor . Ho ¦ was fully conunittcil for trial , at the Central Criminal Court . Cristofore Buono Core has been again brought up on a charge of attending to poison onu Filipponi , tho firat assuming tho title of " Firo King , " the latter that of ' Emnoror of Fire $ " but a nocessiiry witness not appearing tho prison . Gr was discharged , and Filipponi was then charged with porjury in
making tho accusation . Somo ovidonco was ttikon against him , after which tho prisoner was roinamled . At Guildhall , on Monday , Lyon Goldsmith , a cigurdoaler , of Finsbury-pavcmont , was finally examined on n cnargo of obtaining goods on credit within three months of hie bankruptcy , with a vlow to iloJVtiud his eroditoi's . Mr . Peter Brown , of whom the bankrupt had benight goods , was croon-oxanunod as to his dealings with him , after which tho umgldlrnto ( Alderman Salomons ) said tho evidence justlilod him in Bonding tho case for trial , but ho would uccopt ball for tho bankrupt in two Buretlos of sou / , each , with 48 hours' notice . Tho bankrupt va& conunlttod for trial . An inquest lias boon hold at Jarrow , on tho body
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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 ? The most noticeable feature in tlie Arsenal , ' writes our- 'Marseilles , correspondent , ' is the effort made
to provide rifled ordnance for the navy . The system which appears to be definitively adopted consists of three grooves about three inches broad and an eighth of an inch deep , with a twist of oriesixth . ' 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 Arork , 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 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 iniles 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 would 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 froni Brighton to Portsmouth . Suppose sidings from this railway to lead : to batteries at
con-M 7 ALAND MILITARY . The fracas "which occurred at Keyham 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 Csesar , 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 beenbrought to a successful termination . The extent of tho arsenal at
Toulon has been doubled . Immense works have been completed at Brest , L'Orient , Itooheforfc , Indret , and at every station of tho French navy , so that the extent cf her dockyards and factories at least equals , if it does not oxceod , our own . The modest proposals of the Commission of 1849 t 51 have been extended by at least one-third , nnd it is nowdetermined to have from fifty-five to sixty line-ofbattle ships , from eighty to ninety first-class screw frigates ; and in addition to . this they are rapidly
building a class of iron-plated vessels of a scantling equal to those of the largest line-of-battle ships , and much more expensive , but which the best officers both in the French and English navy believe will bo more than a match for the largest line-of-battle ships now , afloat . Besides those * it is now determined to raise the number of steam transports to seventy-two , ench capable of carrying on an average at least 1 , 0 . 00 men , with their proportionate complement of horses and stores . "
In French military circles it is considered , certain that before long 2 QO , 00 Q w » eri will be discharged on renewable furlough—a plan which gives tho Government the immense advantage of having old , wolltrained soldiws under their hand , who do not draw pay , and the money voted for their keep can , of Qourse , bo more profitably employed , the Emperor having the enviable faculty of employing for tho artny the monies voted for the navy , ana for the navy the raqnies voted for the army . It is to bo hoped that England will not allow herself to be lulled into security by mock disarmaments , and that aho will keep in mind that even on the very ovo of thq commencement of the war , whon another general disarmament was proposed , tho French Government and its organs were loud in their assertions that France , not having armed , could not be called upon to disarm .
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882 THE LEABEB . [ No . 488 . July 30 , 185 & . . ^ ^ . ^ ¦ — «« ¦¦¦ ¦¦ in » i »» J I ulfc lMl ' l ¦ 'ii II 11 uu . 1-uu . j- ni'll . u » iu . ji , i I r I . I . u . n ¦ » ill « i i— -oanscni'iiii ^ I i n « . nin « ogs .-TT- » ir »« -u- ' -iji-rmi-i-irr . a—cjcamcjiji 11 ass ^ a .
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veriient positions along the coast , and the line Of railway itself to be fortified as above proposed , a few hours would suffice to supply gun s , ammunition , and 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 ou * fleet at sea , then our coast batteries , then the line of entrenched railways , and finally the entrenchments round 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 fire 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 with one ship and one frigate . The ship Cressy and two gun-boats have also sailed . Admiral Pelhavn , C . B ., and Capt . Frederick , two of the Lords of the Admiralty , were at Devonport on Tuesday , inspecting ships of war in Hamoaze : They visited the screw steamship lloyal 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 ' B newly-invented hospital tent , one of which , of large size , has been for some time in use by the patients attached to the Garrison Hospital at Chatham . The result is of a satisfactory character . The Athens brings intelligence that tM enty-four men , and the mitte of the watch of H . M . S , Heron , capsized on the 9 th May in a tornado off Sierra Leone , ' were picket ! up by the bark Kleanor , and lauded at Ascension . VOLUNTEEH CORPS . Unless some Immediate and judicious steps are taken by Government to foster this most important national object , there is too ' much reason to fear that with tho cessation of the attraction of novolty , the military spirit will die away . The news which has arrived of the alleged disarmament in France , will , doubtless , betaken advantage of by the peace twad * dlers to throw cold wntor on the scheme , which at one time bid fair to attain universal support . Captain Hicks , commanding the London Rifle Corps , has issued a sensible letter on the organisation of that body , concluding in these words : — " This , the most opulent city in tho world , should , besides being first in commerce , add to its , reputation ' jir imus in armis , ' and it is to be hoped that all its inhabitants who are unablo to join tho corps as effectives , will contribute towards the fund for its maintenance and fuller development , and thus enable the London Brigade to bocomo tho keystone of a movement wulou will do away with , for over , the periodical alarms of foroign invasion . " There is , however , cm impression that this brigade , like many other of tho riHe companies , is got up on so expensive a plan as to prevent working-men or clerks from joining it , and thereby practically refuses the sorviooa of some of tho most athletic and useful young men that could bo obtained in tho kingdom . On the 25 th inst , a numerously nttendod mooting took place at Blnckhoath , on tlio subject of raising a
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 vrere 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 coips . A t Woodbtiry , a village not fur from Exmouth ,. ' 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 conyeno a county meeting for the purpose of strengthening the Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Corps . A I ) orset paper says : —The rifle club agitation has proved a dead letter in almost every one of our Dorset towns , with a single exception . We have heard of only one solitary response to the appeal made in Weyrnouth—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 400 volunteers went 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 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 30, 1859, page 882, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2305/page/6/
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