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fifty gun-boats are to be dispatched , and that a great number are in perfect order on the covered slip at Chatham . The gun-boats , Havoc , Hardy , Swinger , Grasshopper , Jackall , Flying Fish , Firefly , Locust , Seagull , Skipjack , Cockchafer , Weasel , Bouncer , and Snap have been ordered to prepare . The first of the squadron sailed on the 22 nd inst ., and is appropriately called the Pioneer , Commander Reilly . The Pioneer was put in commission for service on the West Coast of Africa , but , having received counter instructions from the Admiralty , was got ready within twenty-four hours for her present duty . This is a spice of smartness , which shovrs our Lords of the Admiralty capable of meeting emergencies .
The army of Paris having been considerably reduced by the recent leaves of absence and releases from service granted to large classes of the soldiers , it is intended , in order to keep up ifcs strength , to increase it by a division . There is talk of making each one of the great French ports the seat of a military division , in order to render the action of the naval and military commanders more prompt and efficient at any given
moment . , The Undaunted , target frigate , has been brought down to Portsmouth harbour , and placed alongside the sheer jetty , where she is having some iron and steel plates affixed to her port side for gunnery experiments . Three of the plates are the manufacture of Messrs . Palmer Brothers , of Newcastle , and are of the respective thicknesses of four , three and a half , and three inches . A number of the wounded and invalid troops who arrived at Chatham from India on Wednesday last are suffering from ophthalmia , some having entirely lost the sight of one eye . The Worst cases are under treatment in Fort Pitt Hospital .
The following fresh details are since given by a Paris journal respecting the projected expedition to China . Three generals are , it is said , proposed for the command of the expedition— -General de Martimprey , Commander-in-. Chief of the forces in Algeria , General Trochu , and General Wiinpfen . The . number of troops appears to be -fixed at 12 , 000 chosen from the best men of every corps , and to be formed into marching regiments . It is evident that tor so distant an expedition all the men of a regiment are not equally capable of supporting the sea voyage and the influence of the climate . A depot is to be formed in one of the stations nearest to Hong Kong or Shanghai to replace the deficiencies in the effective force . Inconsequence of the preparations to be made the departure cannot take place until the first fortnight in November . It is , moreover , ' the most favourable 6 eason , in consequence of the monsoon .
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THE VOLUNTEER CORPS . This great national movement is now we are happy to say showing signs of health and vigour ; and we trust is slowly but surely advancing to a solid and permanent establishment . One authority gives us to understand that the enrolled members now amount to nearly 40 , 000 in different parts of the kingdom , and though this is -but a paltry force considering our population and resources , and forms a poor contrast to the half million of volunteers which the commencement of the century witnessed , still we hope that the national spirit is now awakened , and that the towns which now merely boast their sections and companies will soon raise them to regiments and battalions .
The metropolis cannot be said to have taken the lead in this patriotic measure , and the results published do small credit to the spirit of the young men , of London . The London Rifle Brigade appears to have c 6 Uected large suras of money , and to be continuing that laudable process , but wo hear of no volunteers in this corps except the colonel and the "^ council . " It would be gratifying < to know * what is to be the disposition of the funds . Are the council going to erect a lecture hall for the purpose of enlightening the citizens upon the properties of gunpowder , and the political duties of free Englishmen , or do they intend it for the purchase of collections of curious ancient armour and mediroval
weapons P Not the least sign of any military tendency has yet appeared in the London Rifle Brigade , with the exception of the tailoring department ; but even that wo fear will be so much ardour thrown away if no recruits appoar to be olothed in the pattern uniform . The Marylebeme Volunteers are to devote their funds to equippingrauch of the , ir comrades as cannot afford the expense ) this corps is increasing to a respeotable number in consequence . jBfarnet , Highgate , I-Iorn eey , Pjaokhajcn , and Sydenhara , have each companies trfwnewenty or eighty men drilling and practising . mo hope noon to have to record as many hundreds ii } llfl fiF 0 ** 1 < My as there are now single volunteers . ( UUejcity pf Bristol has put the metropolis tcr the oiush 5 it has a regiment fully equipped of 000 men ,
which a very few days will swell to 1 , 000 . Their drill and practice are pronounced by the inspecting officers to be admirable . The Nottingham Rifle Corps , now numbers nearly 500 strong , there being five companies , viz ., the Castle , Clinton , Park , Wellington , and the . Forest . A sub-division is forming for the village of Lenton , and efforts are being made to raise one for the village of Chilwell , to unite with the Lenton , so as to form a company . The attendance of members at drill is regular . Two companies , to be called the 2 nd and 3 rd Lancashire Volunteer Rifles , have been formed at Blackburn . Af Falmouth a canvass has been made by some of the committee , who have succeeded in enrolling 100 rifle volunteers . At Cbarlestown it is intended at
once to put the battery in repair , and to mount it with large guns . An artillery company is in the course of formation for working them , and already from 50 to 60 men have volunteered . The officers selected by the King ' s Lynn Rifle Company have been approved by the Lord-Lieutenant , and have received their commissions . The company has been declared the fifth in the Norfolk corps , and is to consist , like the others , of a captain , lieutenant , and ensign , and 100 of all ranks . Companies of from sixty to eighty men have been formed at Southport , Colchester , Bridport , Doncaster , Wisbeach , Whittlesea , and Malvern ; and meetings to form corps have been organised at Bungay , Rochester , and Reading .
In Scotland the old national spirit appears to be awakened ; in Edinburgh a regiment of 1 , 000 men is organised . The greater part of this regiment is now in uniform and fully equipped , and the several companies are at daily drill . Her Majesty ' s sanction has been received to the formation of a company belonging to the Civil service , and this company which musters 70 or 80 , is to form the 1 lth company of the Edinburgh Regiment . A meeting of gentlemen residing in the south-western suburbs of Glasgow , was
called for yesterday evening to form a corps for that district ; so that with the corps in the eastern district . of the city , recently formed , there will soon be between 2 , 000 and 3 , 000 volunteers in Glasgow . As all of them are now hard at drill , it is evident that very soon a body of men will be resident here that wiH be ready to meet any foe . Greenoek , Perth , and Stirling have all done their part , and the latter corps is to form a guard , of honor to the Queen , at the opening of the Loch Katrine Waterworks , on the 14 th inst .
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IRELAND . Some landed proprietors in Ireland are adopting a very different course with their tenantry to that which Lord Derby is pursuing , and one much more likely to promote good feeling . Lord Castierosse , for example , is earning golden opinions for raising the wages of labourers in his employ as much as 3 s . a week , and for his proposal to build comfortable cottages for the people . At the annual entertainment which the Marchioness pf Londonderry gives to her tenantry , this good and kind hearted woman , as her custom is , not only appeared at the entertainment herself , but amid immense cheering addressed those who were . present in a womanly and business speech . Her ladyship did not fail to make reference to many improvements in the condition of those
upon her estates , and the religious public will be glad to hear the testimony She gave of the good effected by the revival movements . ' One result , " said she , " has been the closing of public houses and the establishment of greater sobriety and temperance . " The Evangelical Alliance is now sitting in conference at Belfast , and has its attention naturally directed to the revival movement of the north of Ireland . Some speeches have been mado on this subject , which wilt be read carefully by the -religious public . The Evangelical Alliance has distinguished itself for its opposition to Roman Catholic doctrine ; how far the revival excitement will modify or increase their hostility we may hereafter have an opportunity of judging .
The Northern Whig produces some curipus facts , fortified by dull and plodding statistics , to disprove the allegation of the Revivalists , that the " Cause of morality has been signally strengthened ; that drunkenness has altogether dwindled into insignificance ; and that peace , joy , and social love were the indwellers of every poor family , and the preeminent glory of happy Ulster . " So far from this being the case , the Whig maintains that the
millennium is as remote aa ever \ that the revivals , instead of giving an impetus to religion and morality , have acted with a distinctly opposite effect , ana have increased to * a very considerable extent the ratio of drunkenness , criminal offences , and personal misconduct . Those nro startling assertions , but the evidence to support them seems to bo of a very simple and matter-of-fact nature , A ' ? vary enthusiastic " meeting , hold at Waterford , lias resolved to talco stona to secure a froo
enough tried—counsel for the prisoner is heard , and oftentimes a kind act cited on these occasions has been the means of letting him off * with " a good beating , " " a live sod " put in the thatch , as signs of an especial Riband surveillance . If the man is found guilty , however , he is carefully condemned to be shot . Subscription lists are opened , treasurers appointed—a mere hint is sufficient—all the neighbours subscribe , the £ 5 or . £ 6 necessary to pay the chosen assassin is soon collected in the district — mark this — I repeat the money is collected in the district , and especially on the estate , where the tyranny of the victim is alone felt . A threatening letter is now written , and unless
pardon for the rebel , Thomas Meagher , who will be remembered a . 3 the advocate of vitriol throwing in the cause of patriotism , and . who made his escape from the penal colony , and went to the United States . "An Irish Justice of the Peace" writes to a contemporary on the subject of Riband clubs and evictions as follows : — "A Ribandman is one who has been duly elected a member of a kind of club , common in , though I believe peculiar to , Ireland . This club has its branches , where periodical meetings are held in the lodges for the purpose of reading newspapers , hearing complaints , trying landlords , or agents , or strangers recently become tenants for vacant land in their district . The cases are fairlv
the marked man leaves the country , he is probably shot down on the . high road , with the sun shining , and the people passing to and from the adjoining market . They look calmly on , they have got the value for their money , no one dare be the good Samaritan f in truth , the omnipotent power attributed to the Inquisition of old can alone be compared to that secret organisation which reigns supreme throughout the length and breadth of this unhappy land . The law is useless ; the police still more so . The priests disclaim all power of intervention , and the assassin boldly walks in public , secure and sheltered by the shield of public sympathy . There is yet a remedy—the landlord is legally , though the of the land
perhaps in no other sense , owner . He may object to have these men upon his land * may object to the means of supporting murderers and accessories to murder—he may choose to have orderly respectable tenants , instead of a class who would see him shot down any day with the greatest composure . This is ' the remedy which is proposedthe substitution of a respectable tenantry for the present occupiers of the land . An indiscriminate clearance may be worse than , -useless , but the principle is just . Let calmness and moderation be used , but a landlord cannot be justified either morally or socially in allowing his estate to become a harbour and an asylum for murderers . "
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LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . Faoai Scotland we have the particulars of a trial tor murder at Inverness . One David Ross was charged with poisoning his uncle , a carrier , in order , as supposed , to obtain possession of a small amount of property of wldch he was heir . The jury have acquit tea the prisoner , or virtually so , by the verdict ot ' JNot Proven , " and this the jury seem to have done by a majority of one , that being a legal way of proceeding under Scotch law . The verdict of " Not rroven , which was returned in the celebrated Madeline Smith case , does not permit the detention ot tne prisoner , as Smethurst is detained , but sets mm free conditionally , with a kind of mark , so that him
society may be on their guard against . The Home Office has not yet arrived at any decision as to the ultimate fate of Dr . Smethurst , and all is still doubt and uncertainty as to what determination will be come to . The delay that has taken place is most unusual in such cases ; as ,, »» the ordinary course , a notification of the sentence to be carried out is given almost simultaneously wu » the respite of the capital sentence . . .. . A charg « of embezzlement has been profwrod « "J week against several persons employed in the onico of the Scottish Northeastern Railway at MoiiUoM anA Ar . Vwrr . n * li nnA in flio rrrtnGrnl OffiCC ntJ . JUlltH . Ui
and the following persons have already been »» wgtca by the Montroso police , and lodged in gaol s w »» J » Matthew , ticket-clerk , James Anderson , anouior clerk , Joseph Brown , audit clerk , Cms . Sm 1 U 1 , c «" at Aberdeen , James Whitton and Aloxamlur RoW > w , guards . JJrom Brown ' s position in tho offko m Dundee , all- tho tickets being given into ' »» "JfJ ! for audit , lie had frequent opportunities of ™ nuinff back numbers of tickets to the clork at * to"f ™* ° '™ Z re-issued them as frosh tickets , and ^ "lonoy drawn for such re-iasuo had been aP ^ P " ^ } ^ Jid parties concerned in the offence . This is fWJJ * to have boon carried on for a considerable time vhu
out being detected . , „ ,... . In . the now Act f « to make further JP ™ ? i ° " 2 l corning the Court for Divorce and Mu rSmonua Oauflqs , " there is a clauso wbloU will shovtly ° oroo into operation . Tho court will sit before torrn , » ju then , In imy petition preaontoa by a wlf" prn }» B
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1 0 Qg THE LEADEU [ Ko . 497 . Oct . 1 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1859, page 1098, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2314/page/6/
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