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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 549, 6 February 1858, Page 5

For some time past rumours have been invented by the " Morning Advertiser " of a great secession to Borne, bended by certain well-known clergymen from Oxford and elsewhere. Then it was announced that te» would take the step the following week. The time arrived, and the " Advorfciser " was in a position to annouuce that four had done so, under the training of Dr. Manning and Mr. Lockhart, of Ivingsland —vise., the following : 1. Rev. 11. N. Oxenham, M. A., Cuvate to the llev. Mr. Denton,Victir of St. Bartholo-

mew's, Cripplegate, and very distinguished at Oxford. 2. Rev. D. Nicolls, curate of Christ Church, Albany Street, formerly the church of the Rev. Mr. Dodsworth, now a Roman Catholic. 3. Rev. Walter Richards, ot" St. Mary's, Oxford, well known as a Tractarian at Oxford. 4. Mr. Brown. It was a pity the number had not been swelled with a Smith, Jones, and Robinson; anyhow the statement as to Mr. Oxenham is declaimed by him in the daily papers the next day to be " utterly untrue." The " Union " has also authority to say the same for Mr. Nicolls and Mr. Richards, but it is at a loss how to identify the name of " Mr. Brown " in the Clergy list The- calumny has, however, had its effect. Repeated by the " Record," which simply quotes Mr. Oxenham's denial, without the slightest allusion.to the others, it obtained a general circulation, underlined as from " a morning paper;" and we see no. prospect of stopping these calumnies except by indicting their authors and abettors for slander.— -Guardian. The following paragraph shows prominently the value the'lrish people, even in far Connaught, set upon the advice given by the Sepoy organs here respecting the sacred duty of non-enlist-ment at this crisis of England's difficulty. As to Ireland's opportunity, the spirited Roscomm on Militia only ask permission to show how they can best help the mother country to tide over the shoals which now beset her:— " At the muster parade on last Wednesday the Roscommon regiment of militia, to a man, volunteered for India. On the appearance of their commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Caulfield, upon parade, the cry of ' Volunteer, volunteer,' ran through the ranks. The gallant colonel then addressed them, and said he was glad to hear that cry-—it was music to his heart—and he should lose no time in communicating with the Secretary at War upon the subject. He was then informed by his officers, who all came forward, that, though the men of the Roscommon. were ready to go to any one of Her Majesty's colonies upon foreign service, yet that they wished it to be distinctly understood that they had volunteered for India. Again ran through the ranks the cry of ' Volunteer, volunteer, volunteer,' ' India, India.' Every shako and cap was lifted high above those gallant fellows heads, and for several minutes the cheering was vociferously kept up."— Times,