The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-04 00:00:00

THE NEW LORD JUSTICES.

It will be remembered that in consequence of a desire
on the part of the present Government to effect an economy
with respect to the administration of the law, one Lord
Justice, instead of two as hitherto, transacted for a time
all the business coming before that branch of the Court of
Chancery. After the appointment of Lord Justice
James the arrears of business were found to be so great
that it became necessary to revert to the original system,
and the selection of the Government fell upon
Mr. Mellish, Q.C., a prominent member of the
Common Law bar. This occurred just prior to the Long
Vacation, during which the gentleman selected was
knighted, and yesterday Sir E. Mellish took his seat for
the first time, in conjunction with Lord Justice James.
The first cause heard by their lordships was an appeal
motion of the proprietors of the Norfolk Estuary Com-
pany, which lasted throughout the day.

EXPULSION OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP-
BROKER FROM LLOYD'S.

In the Rolls' Court, an important case was inves-
tigated affecting the management of Lloyd's Under-
writers' Association, it being a motion made on behalf of
Mr. A. B. Forwood, a merchant and shipbroker, carrying
on business at Liverpool, Manchester, and London, to
restrain the Right Hon. J. Goschen, M.P., and the com-
mittee from expelling him from the association. The
allegation was that the plaintiff had improperly
effected an insurance on a ship called the Ve-
nezuelan, in which be, as manager of the West
India and Pacific Steamship Company, was
interested, withholding certain information respecting the
safety of the vessel which he had received from the cap-
tain, and which he ought to have communicated to Lloyds.
In consequence of this the plaintiff was expelled, but he
now contended that that was an illegal act, the defen-
dants having no power whatever to pass a special bye-law
to apply in any particular emergency. The defendants
argued that the governing. body at Lloyds had power to
repress anything which might be disagreeable to its mem-
bers. The Master of the Rolls thought the expulsion
Monstrous, and granted an interim injunction.

COMMITTAL OF AN ENGINEER FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTER.—At the Birmingham Police-court on Wed-
nesday, John Bettley, engineer, Wolverhampton, was
charged on a coroner's warrant with having caused the
death of Thomas Baker, West Bromwich, mill furnace-
man, employed at Messrs. Naish and Co.'s Minerva
Ironworks, Smethwick. The prisoner had charge
of the engine at Messrs. Naish and Co.'s. On
the morning of the 19th ult.' at about twenty minutes
to six o'clock, the tube of the boiler exploded. The
deceased Baker was found immediately afterwards by a
fellow-workman, "with a cut across his forehead and a
hole in his skull." He died the same day. The engine
was examined by Mr. Thomas Jushaw, a practical en-
gineer, who found that the "fire end "of the tube which
burst had been heated red hot." The cause, he said, could
only have been an insufficiency of water to cover th e
tubes. The prisoner was committed to the assizes for
trial on a charge of manslaughter.
INSUBORDINATION AT SEA.—At the Gospo rt
Police-court, on Tuesday, 23 seamen belonging to the
Tweed, of London, were brought up on a charge of re-
fusing to obey the lawful commands of the master, Wil-
liam Stuart. On Sunday night, while the vessel, which
left London on the 25th ult. for Bombay, was off Start
Point, in the English Channel, the master ordered the
crew to take in sail, which the prisoners refused to do,
stating that the ship was making water and was unsea-
worthy. Having a steam winch on board, the captain and
remainder of the crew succeeded in shortening sail and
put her head to sea, and as the prisoners continued to re-
fuse to perform duty, the captain was compelled to put
back to Spithead. The ship was surveyed by . Lloyds in
London in September, and pronounced to be in excellent
condition, and classed " A I;,' and both captain and car-
penter, who had sailed in her before, stated that she was
a good, safe, and sound ship. Twenty-one of the prisoners
were convicted, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment
with hard labour. The other two men were discharged.
THE TRIAL TRIP OF THE KMESTALL.—OR Wed-
nesday, the Kirkstall, anew screw steamer, built by Messrs.
Allibon, Noyes, and Co., of the Rosherville Iron Works,
Northfleet, made her trial trip to the Nore and back. She
is intended for the coasting trade between London and
Goole ; her burden is 500 tons ; and her principal dimen-
sions—length 175 feet, beam 24 feet 6 inches, and depth
14 feet 6 inches. Her principal peculiarity lies in her
engines and boilers, which are of remarkable simplicity,
economy, and strength of construction. She is fitted
with a pair of Mr. Allibon's compound engines, which by
means of a special arrangement of cylinders, utilise both
the high and the low pressure steam ; and though nomi-
nally only 70-horse power, can work up to 350. The
boilers, too are constructed according to a patent
of Mr. Allibon's, and secure a great economy of
fuel. On Wednesday with a consumption of only
a pound and a half of coal per hour, the Kirkstall, with
her screw half way out of the water, made (upon the
measured mile) an average speed of eight miles and a half
an hour. Properly submerged she would no doubt have
made ten or ten and a half. A lthough mainly intended
for goods traffic, she has good accommodation for a small
number of passengers in the after cabin.

CACIAOINE.—Co.coa nibs on the removal of the oil fall
nto powder, and this powder is caaoine. Cacioine contains
neither sugar nor any other admixture whatever. Cacaoine makes
one of the lightest, thinnest of warns drinks, and is the most de
sirable of all for use in the later hours of the day. Caaoine, by
reason of the ingenious method by which the oil is removed, pre-
serves all the line natural flavour of cacao nibs.—Prepared only
by James Epps and Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, 112, Great Rus-
sell-street ; 170, Piccadilly ; and 48, Threadneedle•street ; at their
Works for Dietetic Preparations, Euston-road.—ADvT.