The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-28 00:00:00

LAM AND POLICE.

VIVIAN V. VIVIAN AND LORD WATERFORD. —This
case came before the Court of Divorce upon an applica-
tion for an order for the alteration of the marriage settle-
ments. The proposed alterations had been agreed to,
and the Court made an order accordingly.

A DIVORCE SCANDAL. —ln the Divorce Court the
cause of " Eaton v. Eaton and Campbell " was set down
for hearing before Lord Penzance and a special jury.—
The petitioner, who was married at West Kirby, in Lan-
cashire, prayed for a dissolution of his marriage with his
wife, who is the daughter of a canon of Chester Cathedral,
on the ground of her adultery with the co-respondent,
who is a rear-admiral in the navy. Before the jury were
sworn, a consultation took place between the counsel, and
the Solicitor-General informed his lordship that the case
was settled on terms agreed on by the parties. Lord
Penzance subsequently dismissed the petition.

ACTIONS FOB OMNIBUS ACCIDENTS. —Several compen-
sation cases occupied the attention of the Court of Pas-
sage, Liverpool, on Tuesday, and in two of them, the
Liverpool Road and Railway Omnibus Company were the
defendants. In one case they had to pay £2 damages
for injury caused by one of their servants driving a 'bus
into a cab and throwing the driver violently to
the ground. In the other case the company
were mulcted in ten pounds damages because a Mrs.
Bennisson had been thrown down by one of their 'busses
starting off just as she was entering it. In a third com-
pensation case John Mills, in the employ of Messrs. Jas.
Donaldson and Co., was awarded one hundred pounds
damages for injuries which he had sustained through
falling down the shaft of a jigger loft in the warehouse of
Messrs. Deane, the accident being attributrble to a ser-
vant of the warehouse owners.

WHOLESALE ROBBERIES BY A NOBLEMAN'S GROOM.—
On Wednesday mornin at the Richmond Petty Sessions,
Henry Bennett, aged '0,2 groom, said to have been for-
merly in the service of Lord Claud Hamilton, and now
abscending from the service of Sir John Rose, of South
Kensington, was charged with a number of robberies of
gentlemen's clothes, blankets, sheets, &c., and
also with obtaining a portmanteau on false pre-
tences. A large quantity of pawnbrokers'
tickets were produced of property pledged by the prisoner,
which was identified. At the conclusion of the evidence,
the Bench retired for a consultation, and on coming into
court, the chairman said, taking the youth of the prisoner
into consideration, the Bench were willing to give him the
option of having the case settled by them, or going before
a jury.—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and begged to have the
case disposed of, and the Bench sentenced 'him to six
months' imprisonment with hard labour.
SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—
In the Court of Appeal judgment was given in an appeal
from a recent decision of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, in which
the Bank of Liverpool was made liable to a bill of ex-
change for £2,000, it being alleged that that amount was
specifically appropriated by the First National Bank of
New Orleans to meet the bill on its presentation by
Messrs. Thomson and Co., au American mercantile firm,
who possessed an agency in Liverpool. It transpired that the
plaintiffs purchased from the New Orleans Bank a bill of
exchange to be drawn on the Liverpool Bank, upon the
faith of the representations made by the former, that they
had funds at Liverpool, out of which the bill would, be
paid on maturity. Soon after the purchase, however, the
New Orleans Bank, without any proceedings in bank-
ruptcy, suspended payment, whereupon the Liverpool
Bank declined to accept the bill, although they had
ample funds in their possession at the tins?, the refusal
being based on the allegation that the funds in their
hands had not been specifically appropriated to the bill.
The Vice-Chancellor held that the plaintiffs were entitled
to payment, on the ground that where a bill was pur-
chased on the faith of certain representations, the party
who made those representations could not be permitted to
withdraw the fund out of which the payment was promised
to be made, thus defeating his obligations. The Lord
Chancellor said that the Liverpool Bank were merely
agents to the New Orleans Bank, and under ordinary
circumstance their duty was to ' accept bills as
long as the remittances enabled them to do so. The
question, therefore, was, the Bank of New Orleans
having suspended payment, whether the funds in the
hands of the Liverpool Bank had been specifically appro-
priated to meet this particular bill. He was of opinion
that no specific appropriation had taken place, and under
those circumstances the decision of the Vice-Chancellor
must be reversed. Lord Justice James concurred with
the Lord Chancellor.

It is stated, on what is pronounced by an Indian
Paper to be " excellent authority," that the giant deficit
in the Indian revenue had no existence after all, and that
the apparent deficit was due to a blunder in the books.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, G A LWAY.—Wo regret to
learn that failing health has compelled Professor
J. E. Cairnes to send in his resignation of the Chair
of Jurisprudence and Political Economy in this in-
stitution.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland declined to re-
commend a reprieve for the convict Andrew Carr, who is
lying in the prison at Dublin under sentence of death.
The prisoner, who is reported to be penitent and prepared
for his doom, will be hanged this morning.
The restoration of St. Leonard's Church, Shore-
ditch, is being carried on at the expense of a layman—a
non-parishioner—who does not wish his name to tran-
spire.
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The Cambridge Chronicle says that the Bishop of
Worcester left his diocese for the purpose of recording his
vote against the Universities Tests Bill, but was pre-
vented doing so in consequence of the early hour at which
the division took place.

THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.—The
Married Women's Property Bill, as amended by the
Lords, has just been issued among the Parliamentary
papers. It contains the Bill as it originally stood, with
the clauses struck out by the Lords, as well as the words
and clauses inserted by the Upper House, making a sen-
sible difference in the structure of the Bill.

THE SECRET TREATY.—Speaking of the famous
document, published by the Times, the London correspon-
dent of the Scotsman says : —I have heard that the paper was
transmitted through the Prussian Embassy, lately sent by
France to Prussia, which was indeed little more than a
rescript of that dispatched after Sadowa in 1866. In regard
to the Ministerial answers I may remark, that while Mr.
Gladstone was careful to point out that the amount of
information which any Government possessed on such
a matter would depend altogether on the closeness of
their connection with it, and that it was for the French
and Prussian Governments in this instance to offer the
first explanations, neither he nor Lord Granville com-
mitted themselves by saying that they knew nothing of
the proposed treaty, and had heard nothing of it before.
By an odd coincidence, the Telegraph published a letter
from one of their correspondents who had " inter-
viewed " the Emperor at the same time as the Times
printed the " Project of a Treaty." The " Englishman," I
believe, is the Hon. Mr. Lawley, with whose family the
Emperor was well acquainted during his residence
in -lilngland. and with whom he has many sportinr,
sympathies in common. What strikes one in reading the
two accounts is, that while the Emperor, in the inter-
view as reported, attributes to Prussia the design of
seizing Holland, he says not a word about his own
craving for Belgium, while the treaty deals with the case
of Belgium, but ignores Holland, except so far as the
King of Holland is Sovereign of the Duchy of Luxem-
bourg. It may be that the Emperor, knowing that the
secret proposals had reached England, wished to give the
first version of the affair in his own interest, or that he
and Bismarck have been simultaneously playing the
same game, each accusing the other of schemes of aggran-
disement.

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THE WAR.
ANOTHER SKIRMISH.

A slight encounter took place on Tuesday, the 26th
instant„ at the Rheinheim Bridge, between some French
infantry and Bavarian Chasseurs. The French were re-
pulsed, and left one dead on the field. On the German
side two pioneers were wounded.
On the same day a reconnaissance was made in the
neighbourhood of Hagenau by Count Zeppelin, an officer
of the Wurtemburg staff, and three Baden officers, accom-
panied by four dragoons. The object of the reconnais-
sance was fully attained, but near Niederbronn the recon-
noitring party encountered a regiment of French Hussars,
and were dispersed. Up to the present Captain
Count Zeppelin has alone returned. According to the
French accounts one of the officers accompanying
Count Zeppelin was killed, and the others were taken
prisoners.