The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WE DNESDA EV.ENIN G, I‘OVEMI3ER 20, 1864.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH THIS DAY.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury)
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF RIGHT OF FEATHER

V. THE QUEEN,
In this case the petitioner was-the inventor and patentee
of an improvement which he complained had been infringed
by the Admiralty, and he presented his petition claiming
compensation in damages for such infringement.
On the case being called on this morning, by consent of
the petitioner and the Cruwn a verdict was returned by the
jur, for the petitioner, damages £lO,OOO, subject to the
terms of an order of Mr Justice Crompton, and the case
being heard before the full court on demurrer.

COURT OF PhOBATE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury )
MARSH AND OTHERS Y. CORRY.

Tho plaintiffs, the Iy3v. Mr Marsh, Mr Woodbridge, a
solicit r, and others, as the executors, propound the will
and codicils of the testa'rix, an elderly lady named Gel,
and the widow of the late Mr Gull, many years coroner for
the city of Westminster and Puchy cf Lancaster. The will
and codicils aro opposed by the defendant, as one of the
nephews and next of kin of testatrix, on the several
grounds of want of competency, undue influence, and
various other grounds.

The testatrix, who resided for many years at Hickenden,
near Uxbridge, had by her win and codicils lett the whole
of the property, upwards of £BO,OOO, to trustees mainly for
charitable purposes, to the excicsion of her relations. I

Mr Kerslake, Q.C., Mr Coleridge, Q C., and Mr Ray-
mond appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr Bovill, Q C.,
Mr Field, Q.C., and Dr Spinks for the defendants.
The case is expected to occupy several days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH.STREET.

SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH ROBBING A SAILOR.—Two
Privates of the 2d battalion of Scots FUsilier Guards, named
Janes Holder and Thomas Reynolds, were charged before
Mr Tyrwhitt with stealing two sovereigns from Frederick
Lampert, a seaman, gunner on board her Majesty's ship
Warrior, but at present on sick leave.
The, prosecutor said—Last night I went into the Crystal
Palace public-house, Castle-street, St. Martin's, to have a
glass with a friend. Some soldiers came in. My friend was
looking at a piece of tobacco I had given him, and one
of the prisoners said, " I should like a piece of that tobacco."
I handed him my pouch, at the bottom of which there were
two sovereigns, and he handed the pouch to the other pri-
soner, and after they had both filled their. pipes, Reynolds
handed me the pouch back, when I missed my two sove-
reigns, which I am certain were in it when I handed it to
Holder, as lam very careful of my money. I asked them
for the money, and they said they had not got it, and I went
for a constable and gave them in charge. They were not
searched at the public-house, but were at the station, but
the money was not found upon them.
II Aden—The sailor gave me the pouch, and after I had
filled my pipe I handed it to my comrade and ho handed it
back to the sailor.

Mr Tyrwhitt—How long did the handing the pouch
backwards and forwards take ?

Prosecutor : About three minutes.

A constable proved taking the prisoners to the station
and searching them, but said no money mos found upon
them.

Thomas Hussy, formerly a sailor, but now employed as
a porter at Messrs Cramer and Beale's, Regent-street, said
—1 was looking at a piece of tabacco given to me by my
friend the prosecutor, when the soldiers said they should
like some of the tobacco, and the prosecutor handed the
pouch to the soldiers, and when it was returned prosecutor
said he missed two sovereigns.

Mr Tyrwhitt—llow many soldiers were present?
Witness—l think four besides the prisoners.
Mr Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoners, and
ftke their own recognisances to appear.

London and Provincial Turkish Bath Com-
pany (Limited).

The following is the report of the directors pre.
sented to the shareholders at their last half-yearly
meeting :
The directors have to report the continued prosperity of
the company. The past six months include the slack period
of the year, and during the months of August, September,
and October, London has been unusually empty in conse-
quence of the prolonged fine season. The bath receipts,
however, are £I7 in excess of the corresponding period last
year. The debt of the company has been entirely liquidated,
and there are now no outstanding liabilities whatsover.
Several alterations and additions have been effected, of
which explanation is given in an appended letter of the
managing director. The directors propose a dividend at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, amounting to £SS6 Sa. 81.
It is proposal than the privilege of free admission to the
bath conceded to holders of 40 shares and upwards, subject
to revocation a: a general meeting, be cot fined to actual
holders of 40 shares, and that hereafter it shall be only
granted to holders of 100 shares and upwards, subject to
revocation at a general meeting. Is being the turn of Mr
Percy Smith and of Mr Rolland to retire from the direc-
tion, they beg t) offer themselves for re• election. It is
proposed that Charles Bryce, E-q., M,D , and H. T.
Wrenfordsley, EL q., barrister, be added to the list of
directors. It is proposed that Mr Glover be re-elected
auditor for the ensuing year. It is most desirable that an
alteration in the nominal capital of the company be effected,
so as to render its shares quotable in the Stock Market,
For this purpose, a special meeting is requisite, of which
due notice will be given.

GENEVA, Nov. 6, 1864.
Sir,—The vatious works which have been undettaken
during the last six months having been submitted before-
hand to the Board for approval, the estimate having been in
like manner submitted and approved of in both cases with
entire unanimity, it is not necessary for me to enter into
any general statement upon the subject. which statement,
to be complete, would be of very fatiguing extent.
Still I am desirous of offering an outline, with the view
of discriminating between charges imposed by faulty con-
struction, those necessitated by the insufficiency of the
building for the purposes in view from want of funds at the
time of erection, and those the amount of which might be
greater or loss according to the estimate which each per-
son might form of the style in which the work had to be
executed

This expenditure had to be incurred. and was delayed
only until funds came in. It bears upon eight objects, which
I shall treat separately.
Ist. Reparation of the Roof.—The means of communi-
cation were defective mad moat dangerous. Two serious
accidents had already occurred ; one man had just missed
being precipitated through the sky-light, on which he had
fallen, into the washing-room below ; another just escaped
a similar fate by the breaking off of one of the iron etaun-
chions, The expense under this head was a matter of
absolute nece sity.
2d, Alteration of the Gas-fittings.—The lighting of the
bath from within, instead of from the domes, was grounded
in the first instance on the economy resulting therefrom,
and secondly and principally from the peril involved in the
repeated ascents to the roof and crossings over it. This
expense carries with it a saving of some £2O a year.
3d. Upholstery.—The heat of the hottest chambers
rendering contact with the substance of the building im-
possible, coverings and comfortable couches had to be sup-
plied. Up to this time, from a deficiency of funds, they
had not been supplied ; and the stock in this respect is a
necessary part of the building. In the original estimate
£5OO had been allotted to this object, but the money had not
been forthcoming.
4th. New Floorings, and Reparation of the two Hot
Rooms.—ln the right hand hot room two accidents had
already, occurred from the breaking of the marble, fortu •
nately without loss to life or limb. These accidents were
owing to faults of structure, committed in defiance of every
endeavour on my part, and in contradiction to the plan
which I had adopted for my bath at Riverside, the accepted
model for that of Jermyn-street.
The supports were at three times the distance at which
they were placed at Riverside; marble having also been
used in spite of my remonstranw.s, in places too hot for
marble to be touched, where it was consequently useless as
marble, and further subject to be calcined in course of time.
Moreover, the flues, on being opened, were found half
choked up with dry dust. The changes therefore involved
in equalising the level, in substituting slate for marble,
and in raising the flues, cannot be considered as optional,
but necessary. Against the expenditure so incurred, has to
be placed marble to the value of £l5O, which has been
withdrawn from these rooms, and remains available for
the new hall to the southward, when undertaken.

s:h. The Covering in of the Left...hand Court.--The want
of money at the time of erection forced the completion of the
building without there being the middle apartment (Svouk
Havll4) of the Turkish Bath, as also without the apartment
required for the shampooers, and the general service of the
Lath.._. 'Mai. ha. kitia...ia-oistall...l iswooss-rs,nirmoo•

To which has to be added that the service of washing the
linen is hero performed in the bath, instead of being sent
out, as in Turkey. The covering in of the court extends
the accommodation in these respects, and is a step towards
)btaining the ventilation by suction from below. Without
this chango also the sweating-room could not have been
erected, as the only place formerly available for the washing
of the linen is now cccupied by the sweating-room. The
saving by washing the linen in the bath amounts to about
£3OO a-year.

6th. The new Sweating-room.—To obtain this, I may
say, necessary appendage was a matter at once of the deepest
concern, and of the greatest difficulty. It involved digging
out space below, underpinning of the tank, and a new
sinking of the drains. My forced absence from England
has postponed the realisation of this object. lam ready
to return in reference to it, should my last letters of in-
struction fail to obtain the end. The failure up to the
present moment is consequent on disregard of the instruc-
tions I gave on leaving England as to the floor above,
and also as to the stove. In both respects the evil might
have been repaired in a day. It is disheartening that the
loss of this important experience should be thus needlessly
prolonged. My only consolation is that trouble and vexa-
tion must be entailed in the introduction of new methods.
I subjoin an extract from a letter which I have received
from Dr Sheppard, manager of the lunatic asylum at Col-
ney Hatch, who was present at the first opening of the.
sweating .room.
7th. The Changes in the Office.

Bth. The Coffee Room.—This is the only point on which
I conceive that any question can arise,namely, whether £256
15s was too large a sum to devote to decorating and en•
larging it; out of which sum £76 15s has been expended in
mirrors, which are objects of permanent value. The coffee
room in its former state was disreputable. The Board en-
tirely concurred with me as to the judiciousness of the ex-
penditure to obtain as handsome a room as possible, both
as regards the service of the bath and the attraction of the
hotel.

There remains a prospective change—the water closets.
This is one of the defects of original construction against
which I have striven in vain. In the Turkish bath these
are placed at a lower level than the washing rooms, and,
consequently, the dirty water flows through them and
cleanses them. This plan is indicated besides by the very
nature of things, and requires no model to guide us. This
was the plan of Riverside, and in every bath which I have
built where there was no artist to interfere. This was alto
the plan as originally settled for Jermyn-street. They were
to be in the court on the left-hand side, at a lower level, so
that the whole of the water from that court (which was to
have been a washing room) would have flowed through
them. Subsequently the plans were altered, without my
cognisance, as to the two washing rooms, which the architect
insisted upon leaving as open courts. On finding the work
considerably advanced in this form (having been for seve-
ral days prevented by illness from visiting Jermyn-street),
which, if so completed, would have entirely ruined the
objects of the building, I insisted on having the one
court restored as a washing r00m.., but only on the condi-
tion of surrendering the other court to the views of the
architect. In attempting a modification of his plan for
the water closets, so as to lower their level, I was met
by such a determined resistance on his part, that it be-
came a question of yielding to him, or losing hia services.
I preferred the former course, as at the moment the,resig-
nation of the architect would have been fatal to the com-
pany, and also. as the services of the architect in all re-
spects not involving that special knowledge which he did
not, and could not possess, wore invaluable. I abstained
at the time from any communication of my troubles and
anxieties to the board; but you, sir, were placed in full
possession of them. In reference to the water closets,
the refusal of the architect to admit of my modifica-
tion was summed up in the woods—" My professional re-
putation is at stake; of a bad smell every one, however,
ignorant, can judge, and if there is a bad smell it will be
laid, not on your shoulders, but on mine."
By the time you receive this letter the evil may have
been remedied by the instructions I have sent; if not, it
will suffice to carry out the plan already settled before my
departure from England.
When the company was formed, and I undertook the
building and management, it was on the express condition
that I should have the entire disposal of matters, not

financial. I stand, therefore, as responsible in all respects.
But, in truth, I have not had my hands free. The implied

condition on which ray services were rendered, was, of
course, that there should be a building containing all the
parts requisite to constitute a Hammam. For this pur-
pose the originally subscribed sum was insufficient to the

amount of £5,000 or £6,000. Thence has been further en-
tailed extra expenditure and debt. The company has

now indeed redeemed itself from debt; it has lived through
the great inconveniences and increased charges. The

principal errors of construction from the above causes
have been repaired, and if from these combined causes the

taste for and practice of the bath has been delayed in their

expansion, still, after two years a steady increase of
returns has been established, showing that the new habit

has taken root; the spurious imitations are passing out of
existence. If no other benefit had been the result, the

shareholders may congratulate themselves on having been
the means of introducing into the great establishments of

the realm, for the cure and alleviation of bodily infirmities
and mental aberration, the most powerful of the agencies
of nature {for the solace of afflicted man.—Your obedient
servant,

S. S. Roland, Esq., Chairman.

D. IJRQUIIART.

DR SHEDPA7ID TO AIR URQUHART.
Colney Hatch, Oct. 13, 1864.
We have made the great experiment of the Hammam.
Mr Johnson was good enough to invite Mr Wood (our
engineer) and myself to try the perils or delights (as the
case might be) of your mom heated purely by radiation. It
was a great success. The room was at a temperature of 205
deg when we entered, and felt much less oppressive than
the hot room (of transmission) upstairs, at a temperature of
170 deg.

This is a very striking circumstance, and was equally
noted by Dr Gooldea (who fortunately happened to be
present) and Mr Wood.-

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Weduc,day Morning.
Arrived —Tre Gebroders, from Gothenburg—Two
Emmas, from Riga—Porter, from
.Cronstadt—liarvest,
from Danz c--Punch, from Bjorneborg— Rescue, from
Cronstadt—Sir Thomas Mansey. from Terceira—Mies
Nightingale, from Singapore.
Sailed—Concordia, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived and passed off Dungeness, Nov. 28.—Durea,
from Belsize, for London.

Passed Nov. 29.—Lardina, from Bahia, for London.
Anchored in Downs, Nov. 29.—Wild flowers, from
Shields, for Lisbon. _

Passed.—Eastern Province, screw steamer, from the
west, for Landon.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mine pm., an d
the short exchange on London is 26.221 per .£1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 1-I(th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By advicca from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 storlin_
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, theref c re, about
7-I,_ the per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London tor bills at
60 days' sight is ab_ut 20 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 141 per cent. At these rates there is a small profit
on the importation of go d fr,ni the United States.

THE GAY NATlON.—According to several French
papers a new club, to be called the "Silent Club," is abut
to be established in Paris. The members may eat, drink,
read, write, or smoke, but they must not speak, nor wear
creaking boots, nor play at dominoes, nor "rattle the
bones," nor, in short. make any no'so whatever. The floors
will be covered with thick carpets, and the doors will open
and shut without noise.
THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A NEW-
CASTLE TRADESMEN.—The mystery which surrounded this
affair has been very fortunately cleared up by the return of
Mr Elliott to his wife and family on Sunday. It appears
that Mr Elliott on Tuesday evening was called away sud-
denly to the south of England, and his message intim ting
this miscarried; hence the employment of the police and
the alarm which was caused in the public mind by his ab-
seuee.

GIFTS FROM HER MAJESTY.—Canadian papers
acknowledge recent gifts from her Majesty of " The Prin-
cipal Speeches and Addresses of his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, presented to the Library of the University
of Victoria College, Coburg, and to two other Canadian
libraries. The volumes were forwarded by Mr Cardwell,
and contain the follow'ng inscription :—" Presented in
memory of her great and good Husband by his broken-
hearted Widow, Victoria R. 1864."
RIFLE CONTEST; —A friendly match took place
on Friday, at,Stanmore, between 20 of the Victoria
Rifles and 20 of the 2d battalion of the Queen's Westmin-
stars. The ranges were 200, 600, and 600 yards, 6 shots at
each range, Wimbledon 1864 targets and marking. The
match resulted in favour of the Viotorias, by 46 marks,
they having scored 686 marks, against 643 made by the
Queen's representatives—one of the conditions of the match
being that the losing side should provide three tankards, to
be given to the three highest scores of the winners. They
were won by Ensign Paley, 47 marks—Sergeant Holland.
43 marks—and Private J. H. Doe, 42 marks. The highest
scores on the side of the Queen's were made by Corporal
Leete, 43 marks—and Sergeant Baines, 41 marks. Captain
Hawkins, of the St. George's, kindly acted as umpire on
the occasion.

THE BRITISH AMERICAN CONFEDERATION.—The
Toronto Globe, which is an authority on the subject, says of
the long sketch of the Confederation plan lately republished
in this country from the Quebec Journal as an official report
of the matter :—" Whatever correctness the sketch may
claim, it does not ewe it to official inspiration, nor does it
supply the scheme of the conference."
THE KING OF PRUSSIA,-0.1 Friday last the
Kit= ci Prussia visited Minden, accompanied by several
Prussian princes, and inspected the 13th Division of his
troops on their return from the Duchies. After the inspec-
tion there was a lunch, to which all the staff officers of the
division, others who had distinguished themselves, and the
chief civil authorities were invited. His Majesty proposed
the first toast—" To the brave Prussian army, and parti-
cularly the 13th Division ;" and immediately afterwards
Prince Frederick Charles proposed a cheer for the King,
and concluded his Fpecch as follows :—" For snob a King
one fights cheerfully—for such a King one bleeds cheer.
fully—and for such a King, if necessary, one also dies
cheerfully."

Loss OF THREE VESSELS.—Three vessels were
lost off the Suffolk coast on Monday. The brigs
Marianna Bond and Curlew, Webster, both of mad from
Shields, for London, with coal, in bearing up struck upon
the south part of the Newcombe Sand, and shortly after
sunk; crew saved by a Lowestoft harbour tug, and landed
at that port. The brig Devonport, Bell, of and from Shields,
for London, with coal, in bearing up struck in Pakefield
Gat and sunk; crew saved by the Kessingland lifeboat and
landed at Lowestoft.

SPARROWS IN AIISTRALIA.---The gold and silver
fish at the Botanical Gardens may now be counted
by dozens. The keeper of the aviary informs us that he
has set at liberty several of the Java sparrows, and all but
a pair of the English sparrows. It was found that, so long
as these latter pugnacious little creatures were permitted to
be within the aviary, they assaulted every other bird in the
place, and prevented any but themselves building nests.
Since their liberation several have built nests in the spouts
of the Bank of Australasia, but others have returned to the
garden, and in some mysterious way contrived to wriggle
themselves fut.() the aviary again. The keeper says that
where a mouse can gain admission an English span-ow will.
It is presumed they have returned for the sake of the good
feeding they experienced at the outset of their acclimatisa-
tional existence. The pheasants look healthy and plume, as
do the quail ; but neither will permanently thrive. build,
or breed so long as they are kept along with so many other
smaller birds, and in such otherwise very usuitable quar-
ters.--Ballarat k tan

The project al the construction of a railway from
Orleans to Rouen is now occupying the attention of the
principal manufacturers of Elbeuf and Louviers, who are
anxious to have the line pass through or near those towns.
The Chamber of Commeree of the former place has held a
meeting on the subject, in which the advantages which
would be derived from the line were forcibly pointed out.
THE FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY CASE AT BIB•
MINGHAM.—APPREHENSION OF THE ABSCONDED.
—The police, who have for some we,.ks been on the alert
for the purpose of apprehending Morris Levi, who is
charged under the Bankruptcy Act with removing goods
fur the purpose of defrauding his creditors, have now
been successful, and have apprehended the principal
and two accomplices, the whole of whom are now in cus-
tody. Morris Levi was apprehended at a late hour on
Saturday night by Inspector Manton at Droitwich. As
the whole of the charges against the three prisoner's relate
to the same transaction, it was deemed expedient that they
should all be tried at the same time.—Birmingham Gazette,
JUST OUT OF HOSPITAL.—The poor man, al.
though by nature garrulous, seems to be aware that on
that long line of beds in the same ward there are others
whose cases are at least as serious as his own, and which
require to be stated at some length ; and ho often makes
some attempt to condenao what he has to say, although that
is a feat by no means easy to him. He is a patient, too, in
the best sense ; submitting to all that is proposed. because
he is codvinced that the very best is being done for him
to the extent of our ability, as God forbid it should not be
done. Whereas my fich friends sometime seem to consider,
conscious of having paid their guinea, and that time is
money, that a shilling a mindte is a good deal to pay for
enlarging, not only upon their particular calamity, but
upon various other matter(' scarcely within my province.—
Chamber s's Journal.

The Giornale diNapoli of the 21st states that a
band of 60 mounted brigands under Coppolne and Capuo•

°lndio entered the province of Terra d'Otranto a few days
ago, and after separating into three gangs committed im•
mense depredations at several farms, and caused the pro-
prietor of one of them to follow them. His body was sub-
sequently found horribly mangled in a neighbouring forest,
The halt-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
the Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada,
was held to•day. The statement of accounts for the
six months ending the 30th September, showed that
the net profits made duringthis period amounted to
£14,402 7s, which added to the sum brought for-
ward from March, gave a balance at credit of re-
venue of £14,706 162. Si. The directors recomi.
mended that out of this balance a dividend at the
rate of 81 per cent, per annum, less income-tax, be
declared on the capital, that one half of the surplus
profits over 6 per cent, per annum, and the usual
charge for interest, amounting together to £3,964
25., be carried to the reserve fund ; and that £250
be applied to the redemption of preliminary ex-
pauses.