The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER RIFLE MOVEMENT.

NORTH Loetrnat.—lt We anticipated that a lug*
memo of this mope wall tar plow yeeleasy, the 26th
lest., to maks a het appeeremee 11 palls by a march
has the Ardligreml to the pestles nags, he the Seven
fitatne-reed. Uallootoo•sly lie weather was anything bat
replacer, sad the eliding rai, hiensized et frequent in-
tonate with amp shreent—whke weal have extinguished
oilogoura a lose wird awes of poisilollook than that din
aged by vanities • mil by the North London
=in teener of gimping martial ardour
Wean. thereeks. Uperorisal 430mthesitors, '
helPrien saw tsks.th.eathdsAsglaaa bases trod
the local megfierstes, News. J. B. Chapman sod A. Ng-
leades, preerfied through Lhanton. Holloway, &0., hernia
by a rad dine= sad fifes, sad retersed about two o'cieok
to trarreares. If the mom who paraded yesterday may be
tam es a mesas a what the North London corps is Sobs
when its five companies an completed end its fall comple-
ment of 400 mat obtained. 'Winger' and the northers dis-
tricts will soon b. able to boost or se soldiorlike and efikitent
• body of volunteers se any round London.
RDUDIUROH LETTERPRESS AND LITHOGRAPHIC.
• *calor Ira been issued proposing sn early met* of the
letherpreee and lithographic trades with • view to the forma-
ties of a company of the " Edinburgh Volueree Artillery."
fib. Thomas Constable, it is expected, will mar the esp-
Weer, and there is every prosper of Wmem d the
"MNRCRGIT ARTISAN ARTILLIRT.—At a gsas&
easeftg of the proposed 2nd company of the City of Rake-
blush ArMery Tolonteero, held in Bachman's Hotel, the
sea` reading the minutes of the farmer meeting,
ha Woro do members the revised tam and regulotkos
with It the committee of mon.gemeat had drawn up Is,
the squirrel id the company. The roll was then called,
sad ersrel iddilisesl volunteers were enrolled ea menthe;
and, wirer s vets ("thanks to the chairman sod committee of
management, dr mestieg separated. On Tuesday, s mafil-
elentnpaiber cirlanteers came forward to make up the

establishment of this company to eighty, which is notionly
visiting for acceptance at headquarters,

Bncravaaa ABSTA

Saturday evening

• weft el lie newehers of the British Tempera-ace Leant;
wee Yid In emir tral, for the pupae of taking rem to form
• Me volenneer onmpany. The meeting wee largely attradrd,
sod Mr. his Lye was called to the chair. The chairmen,
rid Capella lined, of the Artisan Company, haring tautly
sellnenned the msitlag, resolutions were adopted to the effect
that see •hatateend Volunteer Rifle Company should be
hem/ In conanzion with the Edinburgh Me Reiturl. the
enoisey to cowing od enrolled end own et the
=being pewee who genie bens giving or
in sirs ben er Ammo el drift tobacco,
sidin." IS was aim inwilesi that seek member should
care mina imam Ilwt•onies anbecription
be it In add be &Owing as amiss of the com-
ps,. • senteary woe thee appointed to mike the necessary
owsdoennato„ and the nesting separated.

SOLDIERING AT TIN C.APE.—The recent muster
of the Volunteer aide Corps seems to have passed off very
well at Wyeburg. learn the following report it will be sees
that some bleed w abed. On the Friday manias the
forme bum to astir on the geld of battle. There ware the
rides, artillery, and cavalry from Cape Town, but not the
and misses, who are mill unprovided with
Therewere the ertillery and ortz frocc:Vyti.
bog and iimooro Tows, booths the
el Ifeben,'.lll•llsaboach, Pearl, Malmesbury, amt.:Tart:
TIM voltottams altogether must have numbered
about et: loodred, and the comonne of spots-
tore. frees Cape Town and surrounding onnatry,
maid not haw bean Irse than four test egad. Colossi BSI
Wok the ommeand is stionel-in-chisf, and under him the
swim sobs disobotiol their respective functions adadrably,
The 'swim oommentill at 11 sic, wow continued till half,
ous
t I!, swemod asstmil excluded at 3 p.m. The caw
eveindene mimes= through with oonaiderablii
but the ism Ilitht, towards the clots of the day's
pecostlego, woo soullsolei with great spirit. Rather too
ass& of it, indeed. The salient horseman wore as bent on
dawn, end the defetders of tits guns were so ow
Nobel to threat book the cavaliers, that more lbws
use unhappy charger was mode to fed the taste of
mid steel unphoosaily enough. One they horse, ridden
by as equally liwy detrain, advaamd w far that it
was deemed impedient to give him six inches of a baymet to
mom hie maim The harse t 11, of cons., and bird to
dads The An volunteered to sntetribe sufficient is reim-
burse the rivalry man for hie lwe ; be would not hear of aay-
thing of the sort. He had lost his bone by the mishaps of
war, mid waned to apply for oompensation. Everything
woe serried us in the bast possible spirit; end at the class,
the foram" mere drawn up in a Ilse, and Colonel Bill
addressed Rim is Menem to their perforate:es. All of
the. mired to theism the abundant title prepared fur them;
'be oompesy hake up by drinking a closing bumper to their
sent merry meeting. On Saturday, the shooting match for
Ike George Grey's rifle came off, in the neightituboad of
D'Hrban.--ffirehlas's Tans Jostrisett.

PAALIAIIiatTAZT RIPRIIIINTATION OF 711 Z UNl-
vsgsmse.—Leed slgfa modell • deputation from the
Glasgow Aerial= of Graduates se Friday, when QM
subject was brae& weer hfe kodeihWe crowideratioo. The
dspostisecoseisted of the Her. 11. Cochrane, Dr. Bryce,
Bar. A. Y. DEAlless, Boy. Tema Logan, Dr. Corbett,
Dr. coat, Kr. George Blair, Mr. R. Bleck, sad Mr. J.
Csiewou. The views of the graduates on the justice of
ow Pug to the hoorah Usieweities perliamentety pis:-
buss tits ems with those already pawned by the nava.
sites Megifsui end belted, and the oartain advantages
wirick wail sante to the universities by the adoption of
such a mum were brought forward by the Ray. M.
Cochrane, whoa remarks were enforced by Dr. Bryce in
some Warmed, as to the relative number of antiwar* la
the various uelveraities. His lordship received the deputa-
tion in the nest cow :ewe manner, and expressed Ids pr-
am:y.l sympathy with this object, and hie v.llingsmen to
receive a miseerial embodying all the facto of the owe,
THIAIIIIIIICAX POSTY ASTER-0 EliEltAL.—A NOMA
THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. Wu *in NIL iam . b Holt, Postmaster-General the
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linlietiirtatro, colas :decision of a question th intereetthr
es it is novel. A !ashen'', who lord been sepsata from his
• *.fa, demanded that hie village postman mould deliver bee
lams to hint, and threatened a mit at law If hie demand Wse
not treephid with. The wife, on the other hand, ferabadathe
delivery of her lettere to the linabend. Ia these Swale
stances the postmaster solvated to Mr. Holt for Isetruotlon.
That gewleman procoonci a the claim advenr id by the hue
tad too Imposts. atia to be seriously related ; indeed, he
any. It is abhorrent to law a. It is to the Chrletiszt civilisa-
tion tithe rye. Ur. Holt's letter day. :—" It has long MINS
las adj‘died, both la Mislead and Scotland, that .ten
SUR lease ham i ;ached the power= of those to whom
they are directed, their writer hth sill such a in
themes will amiable bias to maintain an le pre
teat Ow* publication. A tartars, does interest exist
whoa the lam, hka stoces area, considered:too, are as trete
sift. rieeip'e Lesvos to be declared In the Act of Con-
gas. wl"ch requires that all non.delivered letters, contalaing
valuables, shell, with their contents, be returned to the
writers, whose proprietorship in them could acereeiy thereafter
Th. department, both In the treneportstioa
tad &limy et letters, was se the agent of their writers, from
whom weirent of attorney, as hound in the saperecripthe
spa them, saber the nor the command of the
Mamma, nor anybody else—ander inch circumstances ea
Sr. here proomitod —oral yeasty a departure.
The hothead la this ease enema to bath supposed he hes the
mane property is the thoughts lied sympathies of hie wife—
=it.. no yes member of his horeaold—and of her
that he hes la her Foods and chattels. This tilted
month& power might well Sod a place in the code of the
Grand Tart, and would possibly be sthatitted to in hie karst%
Mattis apeman& to the teaching of AnieritaaJarlepradence."
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