The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST `29, 1857.

THE IRISH MILITIA REGIMENTS to be embodied,
observes the Saunders's Letter, though probably de-
cided upon by the Government, have not yet bean
officially announced; but from the statements made
by Lord Palmerston and Sir J. Ramsden, that the
most efficient and strongest on disembodiment would
be first selected, it is almost certain that the Antrim
Rifles, South Cork, South Mayo Rifles, and Limerick
County, will be among the first, they having been
strongest of the Irish militia when disembodied, and
each having performed a tour of garrison and camp
duty.
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THE FARM now cultivated by Mr. Alan Pollock in
the west of Ireland consists of 20,000 acres. There
are at present under turnips 2,000 acres ; oatq, 3,000 ;
wheat, 1,200; potatoes, 400. He has 1,000 head of
cattle for stall feeding, 400 working horses, and pays
4,0001. monthly in wages. There have been erected
on it 30 miles of stone wall fences.

Mr. William Wiley, LL.D., is reported to have been
appointed to the office of registrar of the New Court
of Probate and Administration in Ireland. Tne
salary will be 10001. per annum.

gabi an Volta.

ANTONIO DE SITS', tried and convicted last
Friday at the Central Criminal Court, and sen-
tenced to fifteen years penal servitude, on the
charge of wounding with intent to kiil Mr. Robert-
son, in the Queen's Bench Prison, on the Bth of July
last, appears certain to meet with a severer punish-
ment, Mr. Robertson having died on Saturday
evening. A coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday
in the prison, when Mr. Waken, the surgeon of the
prison, stated, in addition to the testimony that has
previously appeared, that the deceased died on
Saturday evening, and on the following morning he
made a post-mortem examination

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All the wounds the unfortunate man had received had
entirely healed externally, and he only considered it
necessary to make a minute examination of the one at the
nape of the neck, in which he had always believed the
broken portion of the knife still remained. He ascertained
that the spinal cord had been divided, and discovered
about two inches of the pointed portion of the blade of a
knife imbedded in one of the neck bones, and it had
entered to such an extent as to require considerable force
to remove it. The cause of death was paralysis, produced
by the division of the spinal cord, and the consequent
exhaustion that followed upon an injury of this de-
scription.
Mr. Wakem produced the portion of the spine that
he had removed, preserved in spirits, and with the
broken blade of the knife still remaining in the place
where he discovered it. The point of the knife was
subsequently removed and compared with the
weapon that was picked up at the time of the occur-
rence, and they were found to correspond exactly.
After several other witnesses had been examined,
and who entered at length into all those details
which have already appeared, the jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder " against Salvi.

A CURIOUS CASE OF EITIUDFLENT ENLISTMENT
was brought before Mr. Seeker, at the Woolwich
Police•court, on Tuesday. William Masters, an
athletic young man, was charged with fraudulently
enlisting into the regiment of Royal Artillery, under
the following circumstances :—From the evidence of
Sergeant-Major Kinnear, R.A., it appeared that
about a fortnight since the prisoner enlisted at
Ipswich, and on being attested, stated, in reply to
the usual questions, that he had never served in the
army or navy. On arriving at head-quarters the
prisoner was recognised as having been discharged
from the Royal Artillery in January, 1834, for not
being able to learn his dutie.s. The prisoner now
admitted the truth of this statement, hut urged that
he ought not to have been discharged, as he wished
to die an artilleryman, and hearing that the Queen
wanted soldiers to go to India he thought there was
no harm in enlisting again.
Mr. SECKER: But the Queen does not want men to enter
the service by means of taking a false oath. It is now my
duty to sentence you under the Mutiny Act to two months'
hard labour.

Prisoner: lam sorry for that. I would sooner go to
India and fight for the Queen.
The prisoner was committed for two months.
ANOTHER REFRESHING CASE of commercial mo-
rality has come to light. The Royal Surrey Gardens
Company, consisting of Mr. Beale, Mr. Chappell,
Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wyld, and the illustrious Mr. Cop•
pock, formed with a capital of 40,0001., and starting
with 32,5601. actually in hand, has come to a sudden

and mysterious stop. It appears that the gardens
belonged to a Mr. Tyler, and that to him, in the first
instance, 14,0001. was stated to have been paid as the
purchase-money for ground, with only a lease of twelve
years to run, and which had been previously offered
to and refused by M. Jullien for 10,0001. It is not
quite clear to whom these 14,0001. found their way.