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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 ptesented his petition claiming
compensation in damages for such infringement.
On the case being called on this morning, by consent of
the petitioner and the Cr, wn a verdict was returned by the
jury 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.

COUAT, OF PROBATE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.)
MARSH AND OTHERS V. CORRY.

The plaintiff 4, the Rev. Mr Marsh, Mr Woodbridge, a
solicit r, and others, as the executors, propound the will
and codicils of the testatrix, an elderly lady named Gel,
and the widow of the late Mr Gell, many years coroner for
the city of 'Westminster and Duchy of Lancaster. The will
and codicils are 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 will and codicils left 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 Soots Fusilier Guards, named
James 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.
Holden—The sailor gave me the pouch, and after I had
filled my pipe I handed it to my comrade and he 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 vas found upon
them.

Thomas Hussy, formerly a sailor, but now employed as
a porter at Messrs Cramer and Beafele, 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—How many soldiers were present ?
Witness—l think four besides the prisoners.
Mr Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoners, and
take their own recognisances to appear.

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 StlN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENII\ 0, TNOVEIVIBER 30, 1864.

London and Provincial Turkish Bath Corn-
pally (Limited),

The following is the report of the directors pre•
seated 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 £l7 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 (fleeted, 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 £586 Bs. 8
It is proposed that the privilege of free admission to the
bath conceded to holders of 40 shares and upwards, subject
to revocation at a general meeting, be confined 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. It being the turn of Mr
Percy Smith and of Mr Rolland to retire from the direc-
tion, they beg to offer themselves for re, election. It is
proposed that Charles Biyco, E.q , M.D , and 11. T.
Wrenfordsley, Etq., barrister, be added to the list of
directors. It is proposed that Mr Glover bo re-elected
auditor for the ensuing year. It is most desirable that an
alteration in the nominal capital of the company be effected,
sa 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. 5, 1864.
Sir,—Tho various works which have been undertaken
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 bo 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 less 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 and most dangerous. Two serious
accidents had already occurred ; one man had just missed
being precipitated througk 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 staun-
chions, The expense under this head was a matter of
absolute new 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 remonstranc2s, 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 incurs ed, 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.
sth. 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 (&t.oftlc
Havlut) of the Turkish Bath, as also without the apartment
required for the shampooers, and the general service of the
bath. This has hitherto entailed the greatest inconvenience.
To which has to be added that the service of washing the
linen is here performed in the bath, instead of being sent

out, us In Tutirey. The covering in of the court extends
the accommodation in these respects, and is a step towards
obtaining the ventilation by suction from below. Without
this change 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 1256
15s was too large a sum to devote to decorating and en•
larging it ; out of which sum 176 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 temains 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 room, 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 his 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, were 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 ono, 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 my 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 .0,000 or £6,000. Thence has been further en-