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London, England, 1871-01-25 00:00:00

THE SITN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1871.

pOYALTY T EIEATRE.-TO-NIGIIT,
January 25.—Thirteenth time of an original Comedietta, by
R. Reece, in Two Acts, entitled DORA'S DEVICE. At 7.30,
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND ; at 8.15, DORA'S DEVICE ; concluding
w ith WHITTINGTON JUNIOR and his SENSATION CAT.

which will be justified by common sense and the calm
wisdom of impartial minds, but Mr. Motley's errors
were not serious. They were on the side of patriotism
and popular feeling. A single plain, common-sense
letter of Mr. Fish would have corrected them. `Vl►y
did he not write it ? The truth is the natural
" incompatibility " of Grant and Fish, and not Mr.
Sumner's opposition, was the cause of Mr. Motley'3
reca

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apdly disappearing from Dorsetshire.
DitAIIA.TIC REPRESENTATIONS IN MUSIC HALLS.

A case of some importance to the proprietors of
mtsic halls has been brought before the Bail Court.
The defendant was the proprietor of the music ball in
the Commercial-road. He had no license for dancing ;
et. it was complained that he had brought out a
bal!et divertissement. Some of tho performers went
through movements to appropriate music, which
resembled dancing. There was, moreover, a gorgeous
It was contended that the act

scene.

un ler which the penalty was sought to be en-
forced did not apply to the modern music hall,
and that if it did apply the defendant was not liable.
He had a license for music, and the dancing com-

plained of was not a substantial part of the entertain-
ment, but ancillary to the music. The Judge re-
served the points of law, but left the jury to decide
two questions—as to whether the dancing "was
ancillary to the music, and if the ballet was part of a
regular entertainment. The jury having answered
the questions in the affirmative, the verdict was
entered for the defendant.

ff:NDELSSOIIN AT BUCKINGIIAM PALACE,
The following extracts from an interesting letter by
Mendelssohn which has just been published by his son
in a German periodical will be found peculiarly interesting
to English readers : _ _ _

Frankfort, July 19, 1842,

MANSION HOUSE FRENCH RELIEF FUND. ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
7he first meeting of the committee appointed last week, l A ice-Chancellor Bacon has had before him a case on
to raise subscriptions to relieve the suffering. French • the decision of which other similar cases, arising out of
people in the various districts throughout France, was the winding up of the Albert Life Assurance C6mpany de-
held at the Mansion House, on Tuesday afternoon. mewled, naniefy, an application on behalf of the official
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and the liquidator to sue General Parlby for the recovery of a loan
metting was largely and most influentially attended. It of £250, without allowing any deduction in respect of his
was announced that up to the 24th January subscriptions claim for damages against the company, on a life policy
had been received at the Mansion House and the various for £l,OOO which the Company had issued to him some •
batiks amounting to £1,739 12s. 10d., independent years before the date of the loan, and which he had de-
of the sum received by the proprietors of the posited with them by wq.y of security for repayment of the
Daily Telegraph.' Mr. Levy announced that the loan with interest at £3 per cent. M.. E. E. Kay and Mr.
sum received at that office up to the morning was £3,764 Hemming were for the official liquidator ; Mr.lF•ry and Mr.
15s. 3d. The Lord Mayor added that various sums had Bevir, for General Parlby, contended that he was entitled
been promised, but not yet received, and they had not to set off whatever damages were due to 'him in respect
therefore been accounted for. His lordship then said it of the Company's inability to perform their contract •
would be desirable to give the greatest publicity as to the policy for £l,OOO against the CoMpany's
to the movement, and for this purpose they would have claim in respect of their advance of £250. The Vice-
to periodically advertise the objects of the fund, and the Chancellor said that nothing could he clearer than the
names of the committee. It was most essential, indeed it right of the company to bring an action for the recovery
was necessary in order to ensure success, that the subscrip- of the loan at any time after it was effected. The corn-
tions should be regularly published. The necessary arrange- pony, at the risk of its capital, had expended a large
meats for carrying out these suggestions having been amount in loans of this sort, and upon any emergency
made, several new members were added to the committee, which required them to replace money thus expended;
including the Duice of Devonshire and the Marquis of they were entitled .to bring actions for the recovery of
Salisbury. that money ; and on the other hand, if General
A discussion then ensued as to the best mode of admi- Parlby thought that 5 per cent. was too large interest'
nistering the fund. Ultimately £750 .in money was for- for him to pay, it was open to him at any time to pay off
warded to Versailles. A long discussion then ensued the loan. As to the question of set-off, this was not
relative to the hest means of neutralising any stores or a case to which the principle of set-off could he applied.
food which may be sent out, the object of the committee If, upon the principle of Bell's case, General Parlby were
being to provide a depot near Paris from which to be compensated in respect of his claim under the policy
to supply the wants of the inhabitants. for £l,OOO, how could the court or anybody say what
immediately upon the capitulation of the city. The amount this company would have to pay to enable General
result was that the Lord Mayor undertook to see Lord Parlby to reinsure his life for£l,ooo in another substantial
Granville upon the subject, and, after hearing what his company ? The application of the official liquidator must
Irdship suggested, calling upon Count Bernstoff in order, be granted.
lssible, to obtain the Prussian sanction to the move-

PRESIDENT LOPEZ'S WILL.

In the Probate Court the will of the late President
Lopez came befiwe Lord Penzance, under extraordinary
circumstances.—The Solicitor-General, with whom was
Sir Travers Twiss, Q.C. (the Queen's Advocate-General),
said he had to move that a grant of administration should
be granted to Madame Lynch.—The learned counsel said
that the case had been before his Lordship on a previous
occasion, and that Lord Penzance said he was
desirous in the interest of all parties that more details
should be given in reference to the execution of the will.
He had several affidavits which he believed would con-
vince the judge. Lord Penzance said that notice had
been sent to the registrar of the day, stating that a caveat
had been entered. If so, the court could make no order
that would override the caveat. A learned
counsel for a Mr. Abbott said that his
client had practically agreed to withdraw. Sir
Travers Twiss said that no second caveat had been
entered.—Sir John Coleridge went on to say that one of
his affidavits spoke as to the 12th of January. The per-
son making it said that on the 23rd of December he saw
Marshal Lopez sign a document, which he believed to be

his will. That document was signed in the open
air, and the deponent, who was one of the
staff, had every reason to believe that it
was a will. There was also an affidavit of Major-
General McMahon, the Minister for the United States in
Paraguay. He stated that he held that position from
June, 1868, to June, 1869, when he was recalled. The
deponent believed that in December, 1868, the deceased
made his will. In that month the deceased gave
it to witness to deposit in the American Legation.
When General MacMahon left Paraguay, he left the will
with Marshal Lopez. Dr. W. Stewart was one of the
attesting witnesses to the will. The learned counsel
went on to read from Captain' Burton's book on the late
war in Paraguay, where the correspondence of Lopez to
MacMahon was published. In that Lopez very much
wished that the will should take effect, and that Madame
Lynch should have the whole of his property—LordPenzance
said that on the positive evidence of General MacMahon
he must make the grant to Madame Lynch, subject of
course as to whether there was a caveat entered. The will
was a military one, and they had the evidence of an expert
that the'will was executed according to the law of Paraguay.
—The counsel for Mr. Abbott said he should like the Solid-

tor-General to tell him if Madame Lynch was really a
married woman.—Sir John Coleridge ; I will communi-
cate everything I know to my friend. If he can tell me
whether she is a married woman ; it is more than I can.

(Laughter).—Lord Penzance : It might be something like
a Scotch marriage. (Great laughter).

FRAUDULENT TRADESMEN.

At the Clerkenwell Sessions House the justices have
been engaged in trying effenders charged with using
fraudulent weights and measures, and some " curious
frauds," we are told, were brought to light. Weights
were discovered in the possession of tradesmen ingeniously
constructed of very light wood or cork covered with a thin
external shell of iron, by the use of which unfortunate
purchasers have been defrauded to an enormous ex-
tent. A Mr. Thomas Freed, stall-keeper, of Whitecross-
street, has been in the habit of weighing his customers'
purchases with a so-called pound weight of 5 oz., two
half-pounds of 3 oz. 2dr., and a light quarter of a pound
weight. The weights of Mr. Thomas Vaughan, stall
keeper, of the Caledonian-road, are of still more modest
pretensions. His pounds only weigh 3 oz. 11 dr. and
3 oz. 1 dr. ; his half-pound. 2 oz. ; and two quarter-
pounds, 1 oz. and 3 oz. respectively. The court held
that it should ill discharge its duty to the
public if it did not mark its sense of the
conduct of the defendants, and inflicted a fine
of £5, or hard labour for one month. Fortunately
for the inhabitants of Whitecross-street and the Cale-
donian-road the defendants were unable to pay the fine
and were sent to prison ; but it must evidently be a rare
occurrence for people in receipt of the large profits:
which Messrs. Freed and Vaughan should earn by their
business to be unable to raise a £5 fine, and it is of course
possible that their imprisonment may be only a temporary
inconvenience, from which they will be relieved on
communicating with their families. In cases, how-
ever, where the fine is forthcoming, the discharge
of such delinquents as these cannot be a very
edifying sight for the unhappy wretch who is sent to gaol
without an alternative for taking a loaf of bread under
pressure of starvation, perhaps from the counter of the
very tradesman who in happier times has defrauded him
of his poor earnings, and whom he now sees escaping with
comparative impunity from the hands of justice. Some
day, perhaps, we shall be ashamed of the platitudes
about the equality of all men before the law with which►
we are in the habit of flattering our vanity, and shall
really set to work to bring about that equality in fact.
And one step to it will be to punish the thief behind the
counter with the same severity as the, thief before it.

The barometer having again risen on all our coasts,
readings have become high generally, and are rather
uniform ; that at Ardrossan exceeding by only 0.3 inches
that at Dover. Temperature has fallen somewhat both
in the south-west and north-east of our islands, and 15
rather low generally. Light westerly airs and calms con-
tinue on our northern coasts, but throughout England and
the south of Ireland easterly and north-easterly winds
are general—blowing a fresh gale at Yarmouth, but
moderate to light elsewhere, Slight rain has fallen in
places.
THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS Loursr.---
Workmen are now employed in excavating the ground be
tween the arched gateway leading to the grand flight of
steps at the west entrance of the cathedral, in order to forts
the new roadway, which must be completedbefore the nisr-
riage day. To do this a roadway will have to be formedfroni
a spot within the Castle-yard, opposite the north side
of Henry the Eight's gateway to the Horse-shoe Cloisters,
and so on to the foot of the steps. -From the archwaYa's
the cloisters a covered way, it is understood, will be in
right up to the west door of St. George's Chapel, for the
use of such of the guests as may use this I:6r
of the building as a place of arrival on tb".,
wedding-day. Thus, while some of the guests
Arrive at the west end, others will enter the cathedral 1:4
the south door and the cloisters—the Albert Alenaorl
Chapel being reserved for the use of the members a the
Royal Family and more distinguished visitors. Since se
last Royal marriage at St. George's Chapel—that of tu
Prince and Princess of Wales—a most interesting add/0°
to the adornments of the cathedral has been the erection ft,
the splendid new alabaster reredos at the eastern end of%
choir, and which is overlooked by the Queen's closet. .„
opposite this new altar-piece that the marriege cereraonl!,
be performed, and around this spot accommodation f
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Royal family and the members of the House of Argo;
will be provided, while the rest of the choir and the ,
of the Knights of the Garter and lay clerks Will
theb re-
served for the company invited to be present at
riage. The lay clerks and choristers, under the superVl
vile
of Dr. Elvey, organist of the cathedral, will occuPcoi,
organ loft over the west entrance to the choir. The
! die
of the arrangements will come under the control et
Lord Chamberlain's department. repro
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