The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

NEW THANES YACHT CLUB.

The new club launched its first match yesterday from Erith
to the Note and hare, with the advantages of a great list of first
class clatters, and a line t•tpaatl breeze. The interest of the race
was enhanced by the circtunstance that the result wes to deride
• double event—the claim to two pi ifes of g Meier the winner
and XS:tier the second vessel, given by the New Thames Yacht
club and the disputed victory of the Floyd London Yacht Club
race on Saturday. It will he remembered that owing to the
distance becoming lesaened for some of the yachts by the
steamers driving up in their match on Saturday, the sailing corn.
mines had detertained that the race sin old be resulted, and as
all four of the vessels—Nlobe, Sphinx, Pftryne, an I Fiona—were
all entered for yesterday's contest, It was agreed that the race
we are now about to record should decide both. liesidea the
first class tv which we have already Winged, there was an ad-
Wilmot race by second class cutters for • prize of £35.

The race ftuished as Minas: K. s.
Fiona 7 13 10
Phryne 7 16 10
Sphinx
Niobe
After computing the time allowance, the Sphiut was the *loser
by two minutes 25 seconds, the Phryne winning the aucond prize
by 10 seconds.
In the second class race the boats cam:. In some time before
the others. the Luna was first ber owner giving the time as
3 min. 1 see. before the Eudora, the owner of the latter only
making it min. 4,i sec. This prize la held iv abeyance, owing
to Mr. Iwycroas disputing that his %eseel reaches the measure-
meat given loft by the club.

Mr." Lee, the like-commodore, presented the prima to Mr.
Earle and Mr. Groves, jun.. with appropriate ramtrits. The
arrangements throughout the day acre eery good, and the coin.
Miliaria& department by Mr. 6.Boncey a Ai highly commended.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

PORTSMOUTH. Joirs 1.

ADNERAL PABLIY. —Sir Thomas S. Pealey, Bart ,
pertadmiral at Portsmouth, sailed yesterday on his
annual visit to the Channel Wands is the Ara Quoin
Meant yacht, Staff Ornamander Frederick W. Pant The
Sprightly steam vessel, Navigating Lieutenant George
Allen, accompanied the Fire Queen.
The left wing of the Wth Regiment arrived at this port
to-day, in the Lady Wodebonae steamer, from Dublin.
Captain Thomas Cochrane took up his appointment to-
' day as captain of her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington,
vim Hancock.

The Terrible, paddle-wheel frigate, Captain Coode, went
ost of harbour this morning, and anchored at Spithead
to receive ammucition. On leaving port she sainted the
flag of Admiral Paaley.
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain his Serene
Highness Prince Leiningen, sailed for the Baltic this after-
noon.

Supernumeraries for the Channel squidron will sail to
join Rear-Admiral Warden, in her Majesty's ship Ilene-
rophon, tomorrow.

THE FORTHOOMING VOLUNTEER REVIEW BY THE
Qcitzw. —Her Majesty the Queen having fixed the 20th
instant for the review of Volunteers in Windsor-park, com-
mending officers of corps which are desirous of being pre-
sent on the occasion are reminded that their applications
for permission to attend the review must, if not already

made, be transmitted through the lords-lieutenant of
their respective counties in sufficient time to admit of the
receipt of the applications at this office on or before Mon-
day, the Bth instant, after which date no further applica-
tions will be received. The troops will be formed on the
review ground at 4 p.m. Further instructions will be
issued when the number of Volunteers intending to be pre-
sent has been ascertained.—War-office, June I.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE PPOINTMENDA. —Staff
Commanders: Chas. Bawden, additional, to the Indus ;
George B. F. Swain, to the Media in command ; lleaja-
min B. Stuart, to the Indus for dack Prince. Lieute-
nants : John W. Jones, to the Rapid ; and Philip H. W.
Mason, to the Eclipse.

Yesterday morning the 3rd Hussars left Houn-
slow station by special train on the South Western and
Brighton line for Chichester, where they arrived about
noon. The 3rd Hussars Will be relieved by the 17th
Lancers, commanded by Colonel Lowe, from Brighton, a
part of which regiment left the latter place in order to
take possession of Hounslow barracks, vacated by the 3rd
Hussars.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1868.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP QUICKN'S =NCR. —Joan 1.
Sittings in Banca.—{Before the Lord Chief Justice sad
hulloes Blsokbarn, Mellor, and Lash.)

U PAM MUM ♦IID OTXW r ATIU.II.-" /ICBM

Feox etre mune."
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., applied on the poet of Colonel
Shute, Captain Jl'Dornelf, and Lieutenant Ifarratio, three
office= of the 4th Dragoon Guards, for • rule galling upon
Mr. Wyman, the printer and publisher of • newspaper
called 'echoes front the Clubs, to show cause why a orimioal
information should not be eshibited against him. He
would read at once the two articles complained of, from
which the court would the better understand his applioa- I
than. The articles complain= of were published on the
Bth and 15th of April last. The first was as follows :
"Oh ! Quo Jaime lee Militaires.—Nice points of ho-
nour as well as nice points of folly have disappeared with
duelling. It is as wall not to lose nicety of anything, one
would think ; but in these levelling days let us be very
careful not to sacrifice principle in carrying out the
modern code of honour. Of all professions in the world
the army and the navy were the nicest of any as
regards honour. In the old days men were shot for • silly
exaggeration or • madcap boast, but they died like
honourable men and principled gentlemen. Now, here is
a nineteenth century story. It deals with military men
and with a profession, still, one would fain hope, as
honourable as say in the world. Just listen to the story,
which passes from lip to lip over club fires, over fashion-
able dinner tables—anywhere where military men wander
this strange story of nineteenth century honour is told.
There exists a cavalry regiment with an ugly name. It
has already been somewhat too much before the public,
and folks fight shy of it. Fierce war raged in the famous
royalty regiment. It was a house divided against itself,
sad the band of every *Meer in it was on his brother
officers' throat. There was just one peacemaker in the
oorpe—a man with an evenly-balanced mind—who
contrived to be friendly with all sides. Quern
dens volt perdere prius dementat '—and this kindly-
hearted peaoemaker, in the heat of the regimental
battle, died. With one of the officers of the
unfortunate regiment he had been on terms of the warmest
, and cloeeet intimacy during their brotherhood in arms,
and when his friend left the corps he kept him ' posted'
in all that was going on at head-quarters. Such a cor-
respondence as this was naturally of the most delicate and
confidential nature, seeing that In it private matters were
freely discussed as between friend and friend. What
was written was intended for one man alone, and had there
been a suspicion of a third person what was written would
never have been penned. So matters stood when
the cheery writer of regimental gossip died, leaving
behind him in the enemy's camp the answer
he had received from his absent friend. The
enemy was not slow in taking advantage of its
position. The deceased officer left behind him •
widow, and upon her feelings the bitterest enemy of the
deceased officer's friend played with insinuating deceit.
He implored the widow, in whose house he had boarded,
to hand over to him the unfortunate letters. The artless
widow gave up the packet, and the recipient of it retired
into • sly corner, to gloat over it with other officers as un-
principled as himself. Now these letters were marked
private,' confidential,' and 'to be destroyed,' and
yet the " officers and gentlemen"— heaven save the mark—
these men of honour and principle—these members of a
splendid profession—read every word of every letter, and
acted on their purloined information. These body-snatchers,
it is reported, did tbia unmanly thing, and they still strut
about unabashed. Thismatter is too scandalous to remain
lurking in club smoking rooms. It must be dragged into
the light, and at once. If it is not true, the purveyors of
such sensation scandals are infamous in the extreme. If
it is true, the perpetrator of such infamy should have
' their swords ripped from their sides and be held up to
the obloquy of the public, and brought to condign punish-
ment by the general commanding-in chief. Such men as
these would not have come out in the old days on Worm-
wood Scrub*. It is useless to think of Calais Sand hills."
That he (the learned counsel) took to be about as high-
spiced a piece of writing and libel as could be well con-
ceived. The second article complained of was as follows ; I
" Encore, qua j aime les militaires. On the !Bth of
March there was an article in the Army and Nary Garette '
commenting on a correspondence between Captain Rin-
toul, late of the 4th Dragoon Guards, but now an officer
on half pay. and Lieutenant-General Forster, military
secretary to the Horse Guards. From this cor-
respondence it appeared that the authorities having
threatened to try Captain Rintoul by court-martial on
some vague charge of insubordination, or to recommend
her Majesty to remove him summarily from the army, and,
having subsequently admitted that these charges could
not be substantiated, refused to make the " nmende hono-
rable" by putting the admission on paper. The public will
naturally ask what circumstances led to this attack on
Captain Rintotil, and we happen to be in a position to give
the answer. Captain Rintoul was a witness in the cele-
brated Robertson court-martial, and the evidence he gave
was adverse to his commanding officer. By this he in-
curred Colonel Shute's bitter displeasure, and he was con-
sequently subjected to such • persecution that he was
compelled to retire on half-pay. Subsequently Rintoul's
friend and correspondent, Quertermaster Drake, died,
and Colonel Shute and his allies persuaded the widow to
submit to them the letters which had passed between the
two friends ; these were marked private, confidential, and
to be destroyed, but were nevertheless reed, and
their contents divulged by Rintoul's enemies. We
alluded to this scandal in our last number. When
shall we see the last of such specimens of military
generosity." Putting the two articles together, the
reasons given in the second article being applied to the
first. they both made a direct attack on these gentlemen.
It appeared that in 1862 Colonel Shute was appointed
commanding officer of the 4th Dragoon Guards, and from
that time up to the publication of these articles, Colonel
Shute swore on his affidavit that the condition of the
regiment was most friendly, and he was not aware of any
scandal existing in the regiment. He therefore entirely
and completely negatived the introductory part of the
first article, and the gallant colonel further swore that he
was appointed to the command of the 4th Dragoon Guards
long subsequently to the Robertson court-martial case.
The circumstances out of which this matter had arisen
were these. In 1854, about 5j years before Colonel Shute
bad anything to do with the regiment, Mr. Drake
was at that time quarter-master of the regiment, and a
gentleman named Goldney wished to exchange from the
Dragoon Guards into another regiment. He had borrowed
6001. of Mr. Drake, and had undertaken to exchange into
an infantry regiment, and by the deferential payment to
repay the 6001. he had borrowed from Mr. Drake. Matters
went on, but Mr. Goldney was unable to effect ouch an
exchange, but he did with Captain Renton!, in the 12th
Lancers, then serving in India. Mr. Drake did not, in
copsequence, get his 6001., and it was in his power to have
stopped the exchange at any moment, but Captain Rintoul
undertook to pay the 6001., and Mr. Drake made no ob-
jection to the exchange. In 1867 Captain Rintoul had to
retire, but into that and the correspondence that took
place upon it Colonel Shute declined to enter, otherwise
than to state that in 1867 Captain Rintoni retired on half-
pay, on the ground of ill health. On leaving he repaid
4691. to Mr. Drake, leaving a balance due to him
of 1311. Shortly after Mr. Drake fell ill and died. Lieu-
tenant Hamm, his intimate friend, attended on him, and
he died in his friend's arms ; but before his death, having
the greatest respect for Lieutenant Herren, he expressed
his opinion that he could leave his wife and children safe
in the hands and under Lieutenant Harran's protection.
After his death Mrs. Drake and her brother requested
Lieutenant Harr= to sort her deceased husband's letters
and papers, and hand over all official and regimental docu-
ments. Lieutenant Haman accordingly did so, and he
found a number of private letters, which he did not read,
and a memorandum of an account showing that
1311, was still due from Captain Rintoul to
Mr. Drake. He handed these papers to Mrs.
Drake and her husband's brother, and they showed the
memorandum to Captain M'Donnell, the senior captain,
and consulted him what had better be done, and he re-
commended a reference to Colonel Shute, the commanding
officer, which was proper and usual under the circum-
stances. The consequence was that a communication was
made to Captain Rintoul. Colonel Shute, in his affidavit,
stated that be never directly or indirectly saw the letters
until it was necessary for him to do so in order to move for
this rule. The statements in the newspaper, he stated, were
abeolutelynntrue, and were an'abominable slander on these
gentlemen and the honour of the regiment. He had only
discharged his duty in conking forward and moving for
this rule.

The I:Ord Chief Justice—Take a rule.
Rule granted.

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Lady Lothian, the Hon. Mrs. Pew,. the Hon. Mrs. Mostyn,
Mn. Masotti, Mrs. A. Donne, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Horn.
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presided at the refreshment counter.
MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVNEINT. —The institu-
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work by holding 1:100U0SS in the mast frequented districts
of the metropolis. Two have been held recently—one on
the 30th April in the Strand, at which 60 poor girls were
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These meetings have been pwellsteltivo of much good in
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