The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, Ikag. 5.
Her Majesty and her Royal Highness Princess
Beatrice drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold yesterday
laid the first stone of the Royal Albert infirmary
at Bishop's Waltham.
His Royal Highness crossed to Southampton in
the Fairy, accompanied by prirea Louis of Hesse,
and attended by Lieutenant General the Hoa. G'
Grey and Mr. Buff.
Captain von Westerweller was in attendance on
Prince Louis.
Earl Granville also accompanied the Princes.
Their Royal Highnesses were received at the
Bishop's Waltham Station by the chairman the
y
provisional committee, the treasurer, snd the bon*
of the Royal Albert Infirmary, the
secretar
stewards of the Festival Committee, the BishoP of
of
the Diocese, the Dean of Winchester, the It,eter
Bishop's Waltham, and the Mayors of Winchester,
Portsmouth, and Southampton, and passed directly
to the place appointed for the laying of the feecde.
tion-stone.
After the ceremony the Princes drove to the
terClaY,
Works, and thence through the town to the
erected in the grounds of the ruined palace of
tee
Bishop pre-
of Winchester, where luncheon was
pared for 500 persons.
After luncheon their Royal Highnesses returned
by special train to Southampton.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prieee°
of Wales, Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prince
William of Prussia Embarked in the Elfin, and Nv--
present at Cowes regatta.
Prince Leopold and Prince Louis of neese 615,n°
went on board the Elfin on their return ire—

Bishop's Waltham. vier:
The ladies and gentlemen in attendance
the lion Mrs Stonor, Baroness Dobeneck, Baron"
de Grancey, Lieutenant General the Hon. C. Gre/t'
Lieutenant Colonel Da Plat, Major Teesdale; C$P
von Wester, weller, and Mr. Buff.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland lu
tend to remain at Sion House, Isieworth, till the 29t4
and then go to Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, for '—
winter.
The Duke of Leinster left town yesterday for
eralclP
Dover, on a - isit to Lord and Lady Gerald Fit be
before his grace goes to his seat in Ireland, which
after the 12th inst. Gwendolinf
The Duchess of Somerset and Lady
St. Maur have left the Admiralty for Bulstrodela"'

Bucks.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian has':
arrived
at liewbattle Abbey, from Alontevigt, near le
burgh.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanrinarde left
town last evening to pass a few weeks at Homburg.
ry,
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesb:
entertained a select party at dinner yesterday everll3- 5
their mansion in Pall-mall. ted
The Earl and Countess of Lincoln are e%Pec-
-1.13 ightoyne;
to return to town early in the ensuing week from
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord
left the noble earl's seat, Port Eliot, in Cornwall'
The Earl Spencer, as colonel of the NortLeOP:
corps E't.
tonshire Rifle Volunteers, is now entertaining that
Althorp. The men are encamped in the park in tents, each
affording accommodation for five men. TheY ara t°
"under canvas" for a week.
Count de Blome has arrived at the Clarend°3
Hotel from Paris.
Lord Schomberg Kerr left town yesesterdel fir
Elliot tla
Scotland, to visit the Marquis and Marchion of Lth'ani
previous to resuming his official duties at Frankfort. 0
Baron and Baroness Lionel Roteschi.d and MIS
Rothschild aro expected to leave town the week after
next for a tour in Germany.

Miss Longworth or las. Yelverton I

(From the Law Times of To-day.)
A majority
to h., lawhily married to Major Yelverton according te tilt
of one has pronounced Miss Longworth list
law of Scotland. Both sides have assigned their ree°73f
for their strangely oppoeite conclusions. The question cl,
fact will doubtless divide the judgment of the public as i
has divided the Law Lords ; but, although looking i°l.
diversity where meanings were to be given to equivciaf'd
passages in a long correspondence, we were not PreP,s,re,
for the very wide severance between the views of the Jal-S
as to what constitutes a Scotch marriage. In corara°l3WA-,
the greater portion of the profession, we had alwayearr—ra-
stood that in Scotland a public acknowledgment that
it
woman was a wife, accompanied with cohabitation, -at,
s,dtehceisiinontentocf
evidence of an intention to marry which leCa reWa*
oultdhenot majoritye
r r
e su m
cent
permitted to impugn. According to t"" ef:
Lonrd Lapdog
tation and acknowledgement ; or, rather, the presu , past t
thence arising
the facts were sufficient to rebut the presumption, is 5 Poe i
on which there are, and will continue to be great ditrgertia i
of opinion, and in the absence of the evidence of the Padat i
themselves it is almost impossible to arrive at a Sati6ta-tbel
verdict. But this may be taken now as settled law.
necessary
to perfect a Scotch marriage something more is tbs de"
than for a man to call a woman his Wife. So far
ja`ily the
of
froth': thileloeheabi...
s'sion is to be welcomed with pleasure, for " ParterlY tile'
tricts within very much narrower limits rilahubirtut of, e'rei 1
liberty of marriage which the Scotch eon:lac- encourage-
in-6l the face of the frauds which it promotes II gored co t
meat to and the misery it makes by a
facilitY °
the foolish or the c • y a, cunning. e the bee t
The Lord Chancellor certainly appears to have
_t oat. f
of the argument, and the force of his reasonivg is 1:1°..,„_,;0 A
to be lost upon the Court of Session, when the aPPI7:010
is made to them to order that judicial examination.
tol• to
parties which ought to have preceded the appeal the
Lords. Our readers are not aware, PerbaPs9
advent,
question lately decided was not raised on a final ju
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the
but on an interlocutory proceeding. Itis 86--
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°A
I °II'
he law r
Scotch court to go on with the case, taking ta. 1.5 for
the House of Lords; but it may require further Proof
~.e
the satisfaction or its own conscience before pronotl7o
final judgment, and these proofs may lead them to deed;
that the case is not within the law as now deterettio.di;
then, from this decision also it raight go again to the
_]-4 r
i).,
to be reviewed by them with the added light affordevi. ,''4,
the evidence of the parties, ~© importance of 0
.°L.O,
will be at once recognised by all who read the eittrac 1.',u00
Major Yelverton's evidence at the trial in Ireland, vin.1_,..8
altogether the prose
we published a fortnight ago. A • dhi ,1
if no other lesson is learned
is extremely clumsy, and dwith the f°ll/'
impresse y
.0
the public mind will be strongly
the criminality, of maintaining in eo small a territor_:.
that of the United Kingdom three different forms of
re;)
riage, and one of them eo ill-defined that the Say. 0,
Tribunal of the land cannot agree as to what are
stncsoita.
cessary ingredients of each a marriage. The 201 i Ws
eels Miss Longworth to withdraw from the Colltcst%,, tO
cannot think she would wisely do so, if there is °Pft-cipg
her such a means of purauin,g it as she alleges. 13s1:111001
herself to be a lawful wife, womanly spirit would c- oreis
her to maintain her right to the title by every rue3rl
6.-
s iovel
to her. Acquiescence in the degradation would be
an admission that it was deaeived.
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SALMON FISHERY CONTICTIOINS,--The 13- ore
sentfishing season is now drawing to a close. Vie prey
season is one of the best ever experienced
.0 to
recollection on the Severn, as is shown by the reduActit le.
the price of salmon, which has been selling ateprayo
per lb. The strictest watch is being kept
illegal fishing, and to enforce the observance 4. ths
weekly fence time. The United Association for 4 ite
Protection of the Fisheries of the Severn s.,,iest
tributaries have just obtained two conviction One cote
fishermen at Glocester for infraction of the laW• ter, a:/•4°
was against Henry Spiers, of Elmore, near Otocca at to
was charged before the Gloc2stershire magistrateeito o 0
Shire-hall, Glocester, with attempting to titke 63
et°oll
the Severn with a drift net in such manner as to Prc'diolen-
diminish the meshes of the nets used to fee4tbe 1.0111.
sinus than those authorised by law and against 5.110 easii
section of the Salmon Fisheries Act of 1861 WV
Griffin, of
was proved by the acting conservator, John ~ a net
found the defendant fishing on the ISth ult. 'Pt' to tbi4
from 80ft. to 20ft. long. There were three Porri°l'ne; islacb•
net, and they were all used together, the efticr of tli°
nosh,. i °be a°
was practically to diminish the size of the
centre net. The magistrates said there ccuisstiat, first
doubt this was an evaiion of the Act, but, as it was edaci;
case that had been brought before them,
theY sb7eolol eau;
the fine to £2, the net to be forfeited. John Id°_ well' 13,
William Morefield, of Sandhurst, near Glocest.erteloo tiin.."
the same time charged with breaking the vveekLY..doi n°°r!
by fishing in the Severn with a net between ,9).:.1,,n, of Jul):
and Monday morning—to wit, on Sunday, the been
It appeared that the conservator, Griffin, a
baoldhurst' watched
in company with Policeman Bradley a. S
o,_. to hini,
....
William Morefied passed them. Bradley spoke a Paddle
which he ran away to a boat and struck, it v
.Orefield wo, bee .
three times, immediately whereupon anofhhae
to emerge from the river bank with Jo. M tel
a net, and t..%0 ,
another man in it. They were drawing
thein t._..k.
fia.l_,
crossed the river and pulled the net ando __l:,,,7icr
e u.d
magistrates fined John /4/Orefield ,I, 2,
o,lii ;001.
who was a mere boy, 7e only, On account /