The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ANOTHER ROBBERY AT TWICKENHAM.—A sixth bur-
glary during the year has been committed at Twicken-
ham. The victim this time is Mr. Roffey, of Colne
House. A quantity of plate and other valuable articles
were stolen. and the thieves, as in the case of the bur-
glary at Mr. Bohn's, appear to have retired to a sum-
mer-house on a neighbouring estate. There they se-
lected the most valuable portion of the property that
had been carried away, leaving the rest behind. A dress-
ing-case was found with other articles, its silver mount-
ings having been wrenched off. From the similarity of
the mode of procedure in each of these burglaries, it is
probable that all the robberies have been perpetrated by
the,same gang.

FENIAN- PRISONERS. —The commission appointed to
inquire into the condition of the Fenian prisoners have
been engaged at Chatham during the last few days. The
principal witness examined has been Dr. J. J. Burns, the
chief medical officer of the convict establishment, who has
given some important evidence which entirely negatives
the charge of the Fenian prisoners having been impro-
perly treated during their imprisonment at Chatham.
Mrs. Rossa, the wife O'Donovan Rossa, one of the Fenian
convicts, whose alleged ill-treatment was brought before
Parliament, has been permitted to be present duting the
inquiry.

THE DEFAULTING BANK OFFICIALS AT HEREFORD.—
Mr. Greenhow, the manager, and Mr. Bellamy, the
cashier, of the Hereford branch of the West of England
Bank, have been examined on charges of embezzling
sums of £965 and £3,647, and committed for trial at the
assizes.

IMPORTANT POINT IN DIVORCE LAW.—During the
hearing of the cause of Babbage v. Babbage, Manning,
and Holmes, a point of great importance arose. The
petitioner was being examined by Mr. M. Chambers,
Q.C., when he was asked by that person questions which
if answered in the affirmative, would prove adultery dur-
ing the life of his first wife. Dr. Spinks argued that
such an interrogatory could not be put.—Mr. Chambers
held that it could, as it did not take place during the time
of the second marriage, of which the petitioner now
prayed a dissolution.--Lord Penzance read the Act of last
session, which authorised the examination of the parties in
a suit, but he was of opinion that unless a party was
called to disprove his or her adultery, he or she could not
be asked questions touchily, their adultery at any time.
Mr. Chambers asked his lordship to take a note of his
having tendered the question, and the learned judge said
he would do so.

RETURN OF THE BISHOPS FROM ROME.—TI 1 0
Archbishop of Westminster arrived in London on Wed-
nesday. The Bishops of Beverley, Birmingham, Hex.
ham, and Plymouth passed through London this week on
their way to their respective dioceses.

The Government have consented to propose a vote
for £l5O in favour of the Irish Acadamy of Music for this
year. Sir John Esmonde, M.P., had, therefore, the
best reason for not putting the question of which he had
given notice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is
hoped that the progress of the Academy will convert
the vote into an annual one.—lrish, Tinter.

Mr. Mittll has given notice that early next session
he will move for a committee of the whole House for the
purpose of laying before it resolutions preliminary to the
extension to the Church of- England of the policy of dis-
establishment and disendowment carried into effect by the
Irish Church Act of 1869.

It is a curious fact that the three leading prelates
of the English Church who were expected to visit their
clergy, and to deliver charges in the course of the autumn,
have been obliged to defer doing so on acconnt of illness.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York,
and the Bishop .of London, have all, under medical ad-
vice, been compelled to postpone their visitations and
charges until next year.

The Lancet has heard with gratification that the
Prime Minister has granted a pension of £lOO a year
from the civil list to Dr. Gavin Milroy, in recognition of
his public services as a sanitarian and his many contribu-
tions to our knowledge of epidemic disease. Dr. Milroy
was one of the medical inspectors attached to the General
Board of Health in 1849-55; he held the post of Govern-
ment medical inspector in Jamaica in 1851, and was a
member of the Crimean Sanitary Commission in 1855-SG.
SIR R. P. COLLIER AND THE RECORDERSHIP OF
BRISTOL—The Western Morning News says :—" It is
thought probable that the Attorney-General, Sir Robert
Collier, will take the Bristol recordership, which is the
second best in England, Manchester, the best, being
worth £BOO a year. The Bristol recordership became
vacant when Chief Justice Cockburn was Attorney-
General, and he at once took it. Had he declined it the
post would have been filled by Lori Westbury, the then
Solicitor-General."

SAFE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER GERMAN STEAMER.
—The Hamburg and New York mail steamer Silesia,
2,400 tons, arrived at Leith yesterday from New York,
having come by the way of the Pentland Firth, in order
to avoid the French cruisers. She brings about 200 pas-
sengers, 153 mail bags, and about £40,000 in specie. The
majority of the passengers were forwarded by a Lieth
steamer to Rotterdam, at the expense of the company ;
but others preferred to be landed. The captain has tele-
graphed to Hamburg for orders.
REMARKABLE SUICIDE.—A woman drowned her-
self in the Regent's Canal the other day. The body was
recovered the-next morning by a policeman, who found
that the deceased had a heavy weight of iron, made in the
form of a pincushion, and weighing about 101 b., tied by a
piece of strong sash-line round her neck. She had a beer
jug in her hand ; and on searching the clothes, her pockets
were found filled with stones. The woman was 60 years
of age, and, according to her h"sband's story, was in no
want of food.

THE " MARSEILLAISE " AT LIVERPOOL.---A rather
curious incident occurred at the Liverpool Amphitheatre
on Thursday evening, which shews how strongly the
minds of all classes are at present occupied by the ques-
tion of war between France and Prussia. It so happened
that on the evening in question the band of the theatre
played a sort of pot-pourri, in the course of which the
celebrated French national air of the " Marseillaise "
was introduced. The air was hissed by some of the
audience—Germans, it is supposed, and their marks of
disapproval led immediately to a counter manifestation, a
portion of the audience promptly rising and cheering with
great enthusiasm.
GOLD CASKET FOR M. pit, LESSEPS.—This cas-
ket, the manufacture of which was entrusted to J. W.
Benson, of 75, Old Bond-street, is of purely Egyptian
design, and the whole is of fine gold, enriched with
enamel and wreaths of laurel. It is surmounted by the
City Arms, and supported by six lion's claws, upon each
of which is a column bearing a Sphinx head. In front of
the casket on a raised medallion is the arms of M. de Les-
seps, beautifully executed in enamel, and on the reverse is
the inscription. Six of the orders awarded to M. de Les-
seps, viz. :—The Medijee, St. Maurice and Lamm, the
Star of India, the Legion of Honour, Francis Joseph, and
St. Stanilaus, are enamelled in blue on the columns.
The presentation takes place this morning at the Guild-
hall.

" THU FATHER OF THE ROYAL HIJNT."-Mr.
Henry Hickman, of Colnbrook, died on Friday lust, aged
75 years. The deceased had been a gentleman farmer for
many years—a true Conservative in principle, an old
English sportsman, having followed the Queen's hounds
for fifty-e_ biolt years, and described recently by Lord Col-
ville as " Father of her Majesty's Hunt." On one occasion
he rode his horse from Colnbrook to the meet at Farnham,
from thence to St, Alban's, and returned to his residence
at night. Deceased was churchwarden of St. Thomas's
Church, and was buried there on Wednesday. For fifty
years he had been a true tiriend to the church choir. The
service at the-funeral was choral, the Rev. W. Grieve and
the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson taking part. A vast concourse
of persona attended the funeral, including most of the
tradesmen of the town, who alsb partially closed their
shops during the day for their very old friend and neigh;
bour.