The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-21 00:00:00

MR. CHILDERS.

We regret that we are unable to give so favourable an 1
account of the health of the First Lord of the
Admiralty as on some former occasions. It appears
that Mr. Childers is suffering from a great depression
of nerve-power, rendering any exertion, either of
mind or body, disproportionately exhausting to
him. This has supervened upon two con se cl-
tive attacks of a vertiginous charaCter, the effect
'of over-anxious and long-continuea work. At the
beginning of the past year the right honoiira,ble gentleman
suffered from a temporary renal affection, with much
attendant disorder of health. The heavy pressure of

public duties might alone have prostrated a stronger con-
stitution, but when to these is added the grievous domestic
trial involved in the loss of the Captain, his condition
is very fully explained. His present state is one
imperatively demanding repose and freedom from all the
petty vexations which have been too frequent at the Ad- ,
miralty. His medical attendant, Mr. Robert Ellis, has,
we understand, assigned a period of three months as
essential for the restoration of health. An over-ardent zeal
in the public service, and an insatiable appetite for brain
work cannot be indulged in for long without paying the
penalty of deteriorated and enfeebled health in such a
constitution as that of Mr. Childers.—The Lancet.

MILITARY DISCIPLINE AND THE
VOLUNTEERS.

The volunteers, if they have no sense of what is due to
discipline, and decline to obey the regulation forbidding
them to join public processions without leave from head-
quarters, seem to have at all events a very keen sense of the
necessity of discipline as regards the regular army, if we may
judge by the case of Sergeant Dirkan, of the Royal
Marines, who has just been tried by a court-martial in
consequence of a complaint made by Captain Whitlock,
adjutant of the Bth Administrative Battalion Lancashire
Rifle Volunteers, that the sergeant, who belonged to a
recruiting party at Manchester, had on the 26th of
November pabsed him (Captain Whitlock) in the streets of
Blackburn without saluting him. It seems that when, after
this terrible offence had been committed in broad day-
light, Captain Whitlock met Sergeant Dirkan at the
railway station, and taxed him with its commission, the
miserable man replied that "he neither saw nor knew "
Captain Whitlock and begged his pardon for
having unintentionally omitted to salute him.
This, however, did not satisfy that gallant
officer, who wrote to the Commandant of
Marines on the subject, the result being the trial
by court-martial of Sergeant Dirkan. The sergeant has
been acquitted, and, really, taking into consideration that
the day on which the lamentable occurrence took place is
stated to have been " very gloomy," and that the uniform
of volunteers is so designed that they are supposed to be
invisible at a short distance, it is quite possible Sergeant
Dirkan failed to observe Captain Whitlock.—Pale Mall
Gazette.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the Right Hon. Beaumont Baron Hotham,
of South Dalton Hall, Beverley, Yorkshire, was proved
in London, on the 10th instant, under £5OO 000 personalty,
by his lordship's cousin, Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., her
Majesty's Procurator General, the sole executor, to whom
his lordship has left a legacy of £lO,OOO (free). His lord-
ship was a peer of Ireland and an English baronet, son of
Beaumont Hotham, Esq., and Philadelphia, eldest
daughter of Sir John Dixon Dyke, Bart. He was a
general in her Majesty's army, and had served with
distinction in the Peninsula and at :Waterloo. He was
Deputy Lieutenant for the East Riding of Yorkshire, and
held a seat in Parliament from 1832 to 1868. He died, a
bachelor, at the age of seventy-six, and is succeeded by
his nephew, now the Right Hon. Charles, fourth Baron
Hotham, son of his lordship's late brother, Rear-Admiral
Hotham. The first Baron was the distinguished Admiral
created Lord Hotham in 1797. The will bears date June
25, 1868, with three codieits. The trustees, in conjunction
with Mr. Dyke, are his Lordship's cousins, the Rev.
Henry John Hotham, M.A., and the Rev, Frederick
Harry Hotham M. A. His lordship directs that all his
estates in Yorkshire, as well as the settled estates shallbe
held and enjoyed as one property by the person holding
the title and barony of Ilotham, granted to his great
uncle, William, first Lord Hotham, by letters patent ; and
that there should be set apart an accumulative fund, ex-
tending over a period of twenty-one years, to be produced
from the interest of moneys, securities, and arrears of rent
carrying compound interest, which shall be laid out in
the purchase of land at the discretion of the trustees.
His lordship has devised his estates in Surrey
to his cousin, the said Rev. Henry J. Hotham, and to his
issue male, and has left legacies to his relatives and
friends ; also annuities to a son and daughter of his late
brother, George Frederick Hotham. To his cousin, the
said Rev. Frederick H. Hotham, £7,000; and £l,OOO to
each of his friends undernamed—viz., Admiral the Hon.
A. Duncombe, Admiral W. Hotham, Rear-Admiral
W. Edmonstone, James Chapman. Esq., of St. Paul's,
Cray-hill; Jemes Hall, Esq., of Scorboro' ; the Rev.
E. R. Benyon, M.A., and his Lordship's two chap-
lains, the Revs. T. F. Simmons and R. F. Lefevre,
Blunt. Also legacies to a few other friends and to his
servants. To the Hull Infirmary, £l,OOO. All legacies
to be free of duty. By a codicil, dated July 2fith, 1870,
his Lordship directs that in case the church then being
built at Beswick shall not bp completely finished at the
time of his decease, all expenses attending the completion,
as well as the consecration, shall be defrayed out of his
personal estate.—The will of the Hon. Charles Bertie-
Percy, formerly M.P. for Newport son of the
first Earl of Beverley was proved at Bir-
mingham under £lOO,OOO personalty. He was deputy
lieutenant for the county of Warwick, and assumed the
name of Bertie soon after his marriage with Anne Caro-
line, granddaughter and heiress of B. Bertie Greatheed,
Esq.—The will of S. Blair, Esq., which was proved at
Manchester under £160,000 personalty, contains a be-
quest of £20,000 to establish an hospital.—The
will of Miss Louisa Elizabeth Meynell-Ingram, of Hoar-
Cross, near Rugeley, Staffordshire, and of 66, Hill street,
Berkeley-square, dated February 10th, 1868, was proved
in London, on the 7th instant, under £lOO,OOO. The
testatrix has left the following charitable bequests,
namely :—To the National Lifeboat Institution and the
Governesses' Institution, each £300; to the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Pall-mall) and the
Leeds branch of ditto, the Cancer Hospital, and the
Derby Infirmary, each MO.—lllustrated London News.

Mr. Wyon has had conferred upon him the Order
of the Medjidie of the fourth class, as a mark of the
Sultan's approbation of the medal which was struck to
commemorate his visit to the City.

LOCOMOTIVES ON RAILWAYS.—The following
railway companies each owned more than 100 locomotives
at the close of 1869 :—Great Eastern, 413 ; Great Northern
493 Great Western, 003 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 477;
London and North-Western, 1,549: London and South-
Western, 280; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 256;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 112 ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 270; Midland, 736.; North-Eastern, 899;
South-Eastern, 243 ; Caledonian, 514 ; North British, 396;
Glasgow and South-Western,. 184 ; Great Southem and
Westbrn of Ireland, 121.

•
TRAMWAYS FOR THE METROPOLIS.—The chief
surveyor of St, Pancras, in a report which he has just
presented to the vestry of that district, draws attention to
the fact that although the Metropolitan Board of Works,
as the local authority for London, are empowered to raise
£300,000 for the construction of tramways in various parts
of the metropolis, at present they have taken no action in
the matter, but are allowing the various tramways which
are proposed to be taken in hand and carried out by pri-
vate speculators, contrary to the interests of the public.
He urges that if the Board would construct one uniform
and comprehensive system of tramways for London, and
lease the right of using and working the several routes to
fit and proper persons, they might secure a clear net
annual income equal to the produce of a 6d., rate over the
whole metropolis. He also states that before long, from
the objections to private companies exercising authority
over different routes, all sorts of difficulties and complica-
tions will arise, and that in consequence it
will be found dvisable, if not positively neces-
sary, for the Board to purchase the tramways
and centralise them, much as the Government
has lately done with the telegraphs. Fortunately a clause
was inserted in the Tramways Act passed last Session,
entitled the Purchase Clause, under which ther local au-
thority is entitled, within 21 years, to buy the tramways,
land, buildings, and plant at their actual value, instead of
their prospective value. By this clause it is calculated
that the p,ublic, at a not very distant day, will be saved
upwards of £lOO,OOO for every mile of tramway that they
may desire to purchase.
All the authorities on medical galvanism unite in
recommending the use of Pulvermacher's chain-bands in cases
of neuralgic and rheumatic affections. No matter where the
seat of pairi may be, no matter how it may have baffled
other attempts at its removal, the application of the galvanic
chain-bands results in prompt and continuous success. In a
recently published medical work by G.: D. Powell, M.D.,
L.R.C.5.1., &c., several cases are quoted which illustrate this
success. The author says : —"Miss P. was a great martyr for
five weeks to this painful affection of ' face and `temples. A
Pulvermacher's battery was 'applied for 10 minutes at each
place on the face, 'half-au-hour altogether each time. The pain
entirely left her, and she slept well that night, and has had no
return. Mr. C. travelled up six weeks ago from Cork to Dublin
by night mail, and was imprudent in not guarding his face
from draughts of wind through the railway carriage. He had
been suffering intolerable agony all this time, and the seine
treatment as in the former case proved eminently successful
without any relapse. Another equally remarkable case is
that of a well-known architect in Dublin, who, while travelling
' from Qalway in the same way, was suffering for several weeks,
and was cured by one application of Pulvermacher's chain-
battery," obtained of the inventor and patentee, Mr.
Pulvermaoher, 200, Regent-street, London, from whom a
pamphlet may be had, containing hundreds of letters from
ladies and gentlemen who have been cured by self-apVication.