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that the Government took the correct view of the matter
in forcing the company to make this application; and that
there was reasonable and proper cause for the detention
of the ship and cargo. Ite should therefore no order
as to the damages and costs.
Sir J. Karslake asked for permission to appeal on
the subject of damages and costs, if it was considered
necessary, and the judge consented.

SIR MINT° W. T. FARQUI-lA.R'S
BANKRUPTCY.

Tuesuay was appointed for the public examination of
Sir Minto Walter Townsend Farquhar, before Mr.
Registrar Roche (sitting for the Chief Judge). The bank,
rupt was described as of 5, Colherne-road, Earl's•court-
Brompton, The amount of his debts were
set down at between £20,000 and £30,000 ; the
ass3ts being uuascertained. Mr. Rooker appeared
for the trustees, and Mr. Philp for the bankrupt. On
being called, and not appearing., Mr. Philp read a letter
from him, stating that lie was most anxious to conform to

the orders of the court, but was suffering so seriously
from congestion of both lungs, that he believed if he
were to go out it would kill him. His medical man had
been called suddenly out of town, and on his return a cer-
tificate should be sent shewing the serious nature of his
(the bankrupt's) illness. Under these circumstances Mr.
Philp applied for an adjournment, stating that the bank-
rupt had given every information to the trustees, and that
the accounts were nearly ready. Adjourned accor-
dingly,

LA.W AND POLICE.
THE GODRICH DIVORCE CASE.—lmportant proceedings

took place in this well-known cause before Lord Penzance
in Chambers. His Lordship, a few weeks ago, made an

order for Mr. Godrich, in the case in which he is
petitioner, to state the issues, and when they were settled,

;o pay an amount into court sufficient to defray the costs

Mrs. Godrich now applied for a peremptory order to corn

pel her husband to conform to his Lordship's order.—Mrs.
Godrich's proctor said the issues had not been settled, as
the witnesses could not be got at. Tug well, against whom
Mrs. Godrich obtained a warrant for perjury was to be
found nowhere. In the present state of the case he (the
Proctor) did not feel justified in bringing it into court, as
the petition would be sure to be dismissed.—Mrs. Godrich
said that all the other side wanted was delay. After a
short conversation it was agreed that if Mr. Godrich did

not settle his issues within fourteen days his petition
should be dismissed, Lord Penzance thinking that such an
arrangement was an equitable one.
THE TAILOR AND HIS RIFLES.—The case of Haslett
V. Mappin, again came before the Court of Queen's Bench,
on Monday. The plaintiff in this case, a tailor in the
City, contracted on the 9th September last to pur-
chase from the defendant 800 Snider rifles at 60s.
each, and also 40 cases for the same same. Ire
paid a deposit of £6O, and the balance of the purchase
money, which Altogether amounted to £2,429, was to
be paid by four o'clock the next day, or the deposit
was to be forfeited. The action was to recover back the
£6O, and also damages for non-delivery of the rifles, and
at the trial the verdict was for the plaintiff for £220. The
rifles, it was stated, were intended to be sold to the
French Government. Mr. Clark moved for a rule for a
new trial on the grounds of surprise and excess of damage,
but the Court refused to disturb the verdict.
SINGULAR CASE OF ARSON.—At Bow-street Police-
court, Ellen Bowles, a domestic servant, was charged with
arson. It appeared she was in the service of Mr. Nash, a
surveyor, and a few evening ago, whilst sitting in the
parlour, lie smelt fire, and found a bed-room full of
smoke. The bed was in flames. He thought it could
not be by accident, as this was the fifth fire that
had taken place during the last ten days. The
prisoner at first denied having caused the fire, but subse-
quently admitted it. She said that all the other fires
had been caused by lucifer matches. The first fire was
on Thursday week when prosecutor discovered a bed in
which one of the children was sleeping in flames.
He could assign no reason for the prisoner's conduct.
She had been a very, good servant, and there had
been no complaint against her whatever.—She was re-
manded.
FRAUDS ON THE CHARITABLE.—Mary Andrews was
charged with fraud at the Marlborough-street Police-court.
Lady Duff Gordon stated that on the 23rd ult. the pri-
soner called on her, and stated that her. son was very
ill, and that she wished for a ticket for the Westminster
Hospital. She gave the prisoner a ticket, and
Also a shilling. The prisoner returned between
nine and ten the same evening with the ticket,
stating her son was dead. She appeared in
great distress, and sobbed very much, and she
then gave her half-a-crown. On the Monday or Tuesday
following she sent the" prisoner a coal ticket by post. A
few days afterwards the woman again came, and a lied
whether she could do anything more, as her son was going
to be buried. Inquiries were then instituted, and it was
found that her child was not dead, and that she had ob-
tained the money by false pretences.—The prisoner was
proved to be an imposter, and she was sent to prison for
six weeks.
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THE SOLDIER'S STORY.—Daniel Collins, a discharged
soldier, formerly in the 33rd Regiment, was brought up
at the 'Westminster Police-court charged with felony. The
man told a pitiable story of his sufferings, and asserted
that, after he had served for nearly seventeen years in
India and Abyssinia, and had dislocated his shoulder in
road-making, he was discharged with a pension of only six-
pence a day for six months. Necessity drove him to crime.
Mr. Woolrych, the magistrate, read a letter from the
secretary of Chelsea Hospital to the effect that the pri-
soner had been a soldier some time, and had been in-
ured, not in field service in Abyssinia, as he had stated,
but in some other employment in India. It would appear,
he said, that desertion and drunkenness had reduced his
service to two years, and in consequence of his disable-
ment a pension had been granted to him out of compassion.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty to the offence, was sent
to prison for a month.
SHOCKING CASE OF ABDUCTION.—At the Clerkenwell
Police-court, Thomas Henry Gibbs, aged 25, of
68, Shakespeare-road, ti,toke Newington ; Eliza Ste-
venson, aged 35, having no occupation ' • and John
Casemore, aged 30, a house decorator, both living at
2, Smith's-terrace Hornsey road, were charged before
Mr. Cooke, with being concerned in enticing
Grace Taylor from her home on the 17th of
October last, she not being sixteen years of age ;
and, further, with receiving £lB from her, well-
knowing the same to be stolen.—The unfortunate girl
in her evidence, said she became acquainted with the pri-
soners by their coining to her father's shop. She first
became acquainted with Stevenson, and then with Gibbs,
and very shortly after the latter told her if she got £2O lie
would marry her. She was induced to rob her father
of the amount, and finally quitted her home with
Gibbs. Stevenson on some occasions received portions
of the money, and very shortly after she left she was
deserted by Gibbs, and finally turned into the streets at
Lee, in Kent, entirely destitute. Gibbs, she said, per-
sonally took a portion of the money of which she robbed
her fatter. All three prisoners were remanded.
THE PARAGUAYAN CASE.—The case of Madame
Lynch against Dr. Stewart, has been before Lord Ormi-
dale in the Court of Sessions, Edinburgh. An application
was made to prolong the time for lodging revised defences
on the ground that it had been discovered that Madame
Lynch had been married to M. Quatrefages, a surgeon in
the French army, now residing at Bordeaux. It was
admitted that an informal marriage had been contracted,
and a power of attorney was produced which had been
granted by M. Quartrefages in favour of Madame Lynch
for the puspose of enabling her to prosecute any case in
the Scotch courts. Lord Ormidale granted a fortnights
delay in order that inquiries might be instituted. The
case of " Gelot v. Stewart" came before the Second
; Division of the Court on the same day, when a commis-
sion and diligence were granted to recover certain corres-
pondence between Dr. Stewart and his brother, Robert
Stewart.

A MOBILE GUARD'S EXPERIENCE.—The following
is an extract from a letter by a Guard Mobile in the army
of General Chanzy, dated the 29th December :—" For
seven days we marched from morning to night, without
halting even to eat a bit of teeth-breaking biscuit. Ido
not know where we were, but we were always in mud up
to the knees. I lost my shoes twice, and was then forced
to march in my socks, which were soon gone, and I was
barefooted. I found a boot on the road, and after-
wards picked up a sabot on a farm. We reached Ven-
dome, and were waiting for the Prussians under torrents
of rain. At length we saw the enemy, and expected he
would charge us ; but no—always cannon. We replied
with grape, and the game began. From noon to night it
went on wits- at ceasing, and in the morning no one was
opposed tr js ! At last we reached Le Maus, and there
had to rt,,i on the bare ground. It was so cold under the
tents that we preferred to remain standing by the fires as
long as we were allowed to do so."
GERMAN GOVERNMENT IN LORRAINE.—The
Moniteur oXciel of the (German) General Government
of Lorraine, published at Nancy, contains in its impres-
sion of Thursday last the following order :- " We,
William, King of Prussia, order the following for the Ge-
neral Government of Alsace and Lorraine: Art. 1. Who-
ever shall join the French armies will be punished by con-
fiscation of his present and future property and banishment
for ten years. Art. 2. The sentence follows upon the order
of our Governor-General, which three days after it has
been published in the official portion of the Gazette of the
Governor-General will have all the effect of a legal
decision, and is to be carried into execution by the civil
and military authorities. Art. 3. Every payment and
transfer which shall afterwards be made to the con-
demned will be considered void. Art. 4. Every disposi-
tion of his property or of portions of the same, whether
to come into effect during his lifetime or after death,
which= the condemned shall make after the issue
of this decree is null and void. Art. 5. Who-
ever shall desire to leave his place of residence must
obtain a written permit from the Prefect, to whom he
mast give notice of object. Whoever shall absent himself
from his dwelling for more than eight days will be legally
considered to have joined the French armies. This
supposition will be sufficient for his condemnation. Art.
6. The Prefects are to adopt means for keeping and con-
trolling a list of all males. Art. 7. The receipts from the
confiscation are to be paid into the account of the General
Government. Art. 8. Returning from banishment is
punishable in accordance with the penalty laid down by
Art. 33 of the Penal Code. Art. 9. This order comes into
force on the day of its publication.