The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-01 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF VOLUNTEER CORPS.

YEOMANRY CAVALRY AND MOUNTED RIFLE VOLE
Sir R. T. Gerard, Bart., Commandioss
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Lancashire Hussars and; ist. Lancashire Mounted
Rifle
Volunteers-200. •
ARTILLERY BRIGADE.-Lieutenant-Colonel James
Bourne, 4th L.A.V., commanding; Major Chambers,
major of brigade :-Commanders, Capt. H. H.Hoornb)
4th, Liverpool; Captain Clay, Bth, Liverpool. Total.
strength, 63.-Ist battalion, commanded by Lieut.-
Colonel Brown. Corps-lst, Liverpool ; 2nd, Crosby ;
6th, 7th, Bth, 13th, 14th, and 20th Lancashire,
head-quarters, Liverpool. Total strength, 583.-2nd
battalion, commanded by gajor lack3o4. Corps--sth
s
Lancashire, head-quarters, Blackburn ; 9th, Liverpool ;
10th, Kirkham ; 12th and 17th, Liverpool. Total
strength, 450.-3rd battalion, commanded by Lieut.-
Colonel Maclver. Corps-41th Lancashire, head-qu.ar-
ters, Liverpool ; 15th, Garston, Total strength, 450.
-4th battalion, commanded by Major Walter. Corps
-4th Lancashire, head-quarters, Liverpool. Total
strength, 585 grand total, 2,068.
RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.
FIRST BRIGADE.-Colonel Wilbraham, C. 8., com-
manding; Captain Eteson, major of brigade :--Ist bat-
talion, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Bousfield. Corps
-Ist, 22nd, 66th, and 69th Lancashire, head-quarters,
Liverpool; 38th, Fairfield; 45th, Liverpool. Total
strength, 581.-2nd battalion, commanded by Major
Bourne. Corps-45th, 25th, 51st, and 63rd Lancashire,
head-quarters, Liverpool. Total strength, 491.-L-3;cl bat-
talion, commanded by Captain Greenall. Corps-9th
Lancashire, head-quarters, Warringtou ; 13th, South-
port; 32nd and 41st, Liverpool ; 54th, Ormskirk ; 64th,
Liverpool; 72nd, Old Swan; 74th, Liverpool. Total
strength, 535.-4th battalion, caminanded by Lieut.-
Colonel Gladstone. Corps-sth, 14th, 19th, 39th, 42nd,
68th, and 71st Lancashire, head-quarters, Liverpool.
Total strength, 600. grand total, 2,207.
SECOND BRIGADE.-Colonel Crofton, commanding •
Ist battalion, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Viscount
Grey de Wilton. Corps_6th Lancashire, headquar-
ters, Manchester. Total strength, 670.-2nd battalion,
commanded by Major Cunliffe. Corps-33rd
Lanca-
shire, head-quarters, Ardwick ; 56th, Salford. Total
strength, 556.-3rd battalion, commanded by Lieut.-Col.
the Hon. A. Egerton. Corps-40th Lancashire, head-
quarters, Manchester. Total strength, 460.-4th bat-
talion, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Dakin.
Corps-
28th Lancashire, head-quarters, Manchester. Total
strength, 581: grand total, 2,267.
THIRD BuroADE.-Lieut.-Colonel Lightfoot, C. 8.,
commanding; Lieutenant Wheatlsy, 84th Regiment,
major of brigade :-Ist battalion, commanded by Lieut.-
Colonel Gamble. Corps-47th Lancashire, head-quar-
ters, St. Helens; 48th, Prescot. Total strength, 448.-
2nd battalion, commanded by Major the Marquis of
Hartington. Corps-10th Lancashire, head-quarters,
Lancaster; 37th, Ulverston. Total strength, 420.-
3rd battalion, commanded by Major Pedder. Corps-
4th Lancashire, head-quarters, Rossendale ; 11th, Pres-
ton ; 29th, Lytham ; 65th, Rossall. Total strength,
388.-4th battalion, commanded by Captain Eckersley.
Corps-21st Lancashire, head-quarters, Wigan ; 26th,
Haigh; 44th, Longton 61st, Chorley ; 59th, Leyland,
Total strength, 444: grand total, 1,70 U•

FOURTH BRIGADE. -Lieut.-Col. lion. M. Tai

bot, commanding ;-eapt. the Hon. AV. H. Herbert, 84th
Regiment, major of brigade :-Ist battalion, commanded
by Major Gray. Corps-27th Lancashire, head-quar-
ters, Bolton; 49th, Newton; 55th, Leigh; 60th, Ather-
ton. Total strength, 403.-2nd battalion, commanded
by Major Graham. Corps-2nd Lancashire, head-
quarters, Blackburn ; 7th, Accrington ; 17th, Burnley ;
36th, Accrington ; 62nd, Clitheroe. Total strength,
478.-3rd battalion, commanded by Captain Slin'sby.
Bth Lancashire, head-quarters, bury ; 24th, Rochdale ;
43rd, Fallowfield ; 70th, Drovlesden ; 73rd, Newton ;
31st, Oldham. Total strength, 454.-Ith battalion,
cotataand.ed by Captain Lees. Corps-23rd Lancashire,
head-quarters, Ashton-ander-LyU'e viiaton ;
67th, WorsleY; nth, Farnwoith. Total, 473 . grand
total, 1,808.
Total of Volunteers, 10,313 The boys of the Col-
legiate Institution will be present, (300 strong) attached
to the battalion under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
139110 id) 144)1g 4 gr.fol4 t9t4t of 10,613,

THE LATE MANSLAUGHTER BY A

SCHOOLMASTER.

Mr. Hopley, recently sentenced to four years' penal
servitude for beating the boy Cancellor to death, has
published an elaborate defence of his conduct. The
following are some of the most remarkable passages :
,6 I was full of affliction for the boy, and keenly alive

to my own painful position. I knew that every stroke
could be heard by the servant in the adjoining room ; I
knew that every stroke could be heard by my neighbours,
separated from me only by a thin wall ; and what must
they think of this going on in a bedroom at a time when
all should be at rest ? But I felt also that every stroke
might briug him to himself, and that the lesson would
be such that probably as long as he lived the boy would
never be obstinate again. And I felt also that if I
succumbed to him then, the boy would be ruined for
life. I felt most strongly that as nobody had ever, so
nobody would ever, take such sincere and persevering
pains to benefit him at the sacrifice of so much time and
feeling and energy. So I punished him again
It was at this period that I saw a smear of blood upon the
.floor. I was anxious to see whence the blood came. I
could nut possibly imagine, nor have I been able to
imagine since, how my mode of punishment could have
drawn blood. I found what seemed to be a scrape
towards the lower part of the leg, and close to it a
wound. It Ir4s of no serious moment—but of this
presently. I went to my wife's room for a piece of
court plaster. She had just retired to bed. She made
some natural inquiries about the poor boy, to which I
replied, telling her of his having become good, and
having expressed his sorrow. I then (for of course she
had felt deeply both for her husband and the boy) bade
her cease to be troubled and go quietly to sleep,
saying that T had some little matters to look to, and
would come to her presently

I attended to the leg, using the boy's bath sponge and
bath water. The water being thus discoloured, I sub-
sequently emptied away, and brought a fresh supply for
his morning's use. Meanwhile he had composed him-
self for sleep. I then left the chamber for my dressing
room, taking with me various articles which had been
stained with the blood. I did not like my servants to
be able to say next day that the boy was punished till
he bled. I did not like my washerwoman to be able to
comment ou such things. I did not like neighbours to
be be able to point and say, ' That was the youth who
was so severely beaten ; ' and so I rinsed out the stains
from the articles of apparel. I experienced no sensation
of shame or guilt whili! thus employed. My conscience
told me that I had been striving hard to do my best,
and that all had been done in love, not in anger. Still
I wished to conceal the severity, for I knew that none
coul4 kkidge fairly of my conduct unless they should
become acquainted with the whole facts of the case; and
as this was impossible, I rinsed out the stains and hung
the articles about my dressing-room.
"About half-past six (being then partially dressed)

went no to the nursery (according to my common cus-
tom) to see my 009. The boys roorU adjoined the
nursery. His door was ajar. Ido not doubt but I had
myself left it so the night previously. I entered his
room with the idea of telling him that, as he had retired
to .ed yery late, he need not get up so early as usual
that morning. lie was lying in nearly the 44Te position
as when I left him over night. I thought at first that
he was asleep ; but on looking at his eyes, which were
slightly open, the lids being somewhat relaxed, it crept
upon me that he was dead. His features were calm and
t:Ornposed. I pat 14y Land upon Lis brow ; it was very
cold. I felt his hand and hi 4 lower limbs ; they were
cold. I felt other parts of his body ; they were slightly
warm ; it was growing rigid. He had been dead some
time. I tried to bend his body. I stood a brief space
motionless, looking down upon the body. All my senses
were most keenly strung, yet I felt that I must be asleep.

I straightwaryalked down stairs into the dining-roam.
I don't kiow what ied me there. I stood upon the
hearth rug. Whether I spake the following aloud or
to myself I know not •—' That's the window. There
are our aquariums. There's the large perch swimming
about. That's the door. There hang the likenesses of
my various pupils. This is the mantel-piece. There's
where I sat busy with my model plans. Here's the
remains of supper.' I forthwith went upstairs again.
-Then I re-Entered his room I do not think I chould
have felt any surprise had I found him quietly dressing.
And I might have said, Well, Reginald, my boy, lam
glad to see you getting up. Do you know I have had a
frightful dream about you ?' But he was dead. I claim
as a right to pass over the anguish of the hour that fol-
lowed the discovery. Reader, may you never know
what it is to look upon one you loved in life, discoloured
in his death-form by marks of your own creating. But
anguish shook the frame, the conscience suffered
not one pang. I searched 444 searched, and searched
among the deepest secrets pf my soul, and I colild not
blame myself. Perhaps it WO in mercy God would not
let me suddenly know that my conduct had hastened the
death of the deceased; but I felt then, and for days and
days afterwards, that I could look up tranquilly into the
face of Heaven, who know me to bP not guilty,"