The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-10 00:00:00

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SIIRENVSBITRY RACES, Nov. 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.

A.SPECIAL FAST TRAIN (Ist and 2nd class), by which horses
can be cony-p.-3,0 without change, will leave Paddington, for
Shrewsintry, at 4.30 p.m. Punctually on Sunday, November 18,
.calling at Reading 5.20 p.m., Didcot 5.45, Oxford' 6.5, Banbury
6.40, Leamington 7.10,' Warwick 7.18, Birmingham (Snow-hill)
7.-55, Wolverhampton (low level) B.2s,,Shifnal 8:46, and Welling-
ton 0.0 p.m.
A' PAST • SPECIAL TRAIN will also leave Shrewsbury at
5.0 p.ih: on "Friday, Nov. 18, for London; calling at same stations
as above, and also at Slough, for Windsor. . '
• • J. GIi.I2IISON,- General Manager:.
Paddington, November,

IiORELESS BOYS• OF LONDON.

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T) EFUGES _FOP HOMELESS AND. DES` 1:
'TUTE CIRLDREN and 'OHICiIESTXR TRAINING
SHlP.—Upwards of 500 Boys and Girls are now beiu,g supported.
in these Refuges and Ship.
Owing:to the benevolent and praikworthy. exertions which
have for several months beenmade to aid. the sick and Wounded
in the present' ar, the funds for the support of these Refuges
ati:noedniStilhlini.iia/teha.ay..i3.7.ease,.l o.olisi,der.a.bly,.,,
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~An urgent-aPpeal is therefore Made for assistance to support
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•SLIS will keep a boy or 'a girl for -oiii fear, and £1 is. for a
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Contributions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster: Batik, 214, High Holborn, W:C., and 41, Lothbury,
Ld, ADA bY : . . .
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Kecietary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C..

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ICItITEOTTII ANIUAt, WLNTtiI, EXIII- 1
' . BrrieVof CABINET PICTURES by British and Foreign
Art sts As, now. OPEN, at the FRENCH GALLERY, 120, Pall
:Mall; from half-past ten till five -o'clock: Acbttligliffi,-18. Cata-
logue,

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EATYIErt'S TRUST.—Udder the kanagement
11 of the CLOTIINVOTiKERS' COMPANY.

At a Court to be holden on the 7th December. next this Com-
pa .will DISTRIBUTE to S Poor of ed
housekeepers the AMOUNT divixisible under Widows Decayed
the above Trust
being a out XS to each.
Printed Forms of Application may be obtained at the Com-
pany's Offices, Clothworkers' Hall, Mincing-lane, London.
The applicant must insert therein Particulars relative to her
condition.' and circumstances, and name References from whom
InfOrnaatien may be obtained for verifying the same.
.The Applipation, with Certificate of, her Marriage and. -a certi;
ficate or other proper proof of the death of her husband, must
be left at the Company's Hall previously to the 23rd November
instant, addressed to
Clothworkers' Hall, Nov., 1870

OWEN ROBERTS, Clerk.

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rimIIRD ISSUE OF SHARE- of the UNITED
I LAND COMPANY (LIMITED).—Of the -Third Issue of
5,000 Shares there now remain 2,000 to be allotted. Forms of
application will be duly forwarded. The sum •of £3 per £5
share has been paid on the previous issues.
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNRISEN, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C.

TO THE ELECTORS AND RATEPAYERS OF MARYLEBONE.
GENTLEMEN.; —l.resent myself as a Candidate
for Election to the ondon School Board as one of the
Representatives of Marylebone. I have ißceasantly and actively
advodated a systeM of National Unsectarian Education. For
twenty years I have studied the wants; the claims; the rights of
the people ; and hare all that time been. in the habit of expres-
sing my opinions, as a public journalist;. on the questions which
have arisen. affecting their moral and material well-being:
I have been led to believe that my humble services to the pub-
lic cause will recommend me to the place of honour I seek at the
new Education Council.
rrepresent•no sect, no party, no clique, and am not specially
supported by any organisation. I base my candidature broadly
on My known participation in the PolitiCal progresses of the last
.twenty years, of which the E,lementary Educationßill of 1870 is
the most nnportant. •
Trusting to be favoured with your support on the day
election.,

I remain, Gentlemen, •
Yours, faithfully,
• BLA.NCILARD JERROLD.

Rbforin Clitb, Oot. 17th 1870.

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EU.ROPSAN-ASSVRANCE- SOCIETY,
• Empowefed by Special Acts of Parliament.
iior Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, £300,000.•
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO. •
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. R: M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq.
A. R. Bristow, Esq. - Reginald Read; Esq., M.D.
This Society are now•ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features of these Policies areas folloW :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty. Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years. •
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured

lIENRY B. PARMINTEIL, *anagei.

THE AMERICAN MINISTRY IN ENGLAND.
A correspondent-of the Tones; writing from Philadelphia
on October 26, says Senator Morton has this week
definitively declined, the American mission to London,
He thanks the President in warm language for
the mark of distinguished favour in tendering'
him the London Mission. Again, therefore, this
important post goes a begging, and Mr. Motley is
retained in office. The President has 'not yet sele,cted a
new candidate, nor is anyone indicated for the place with
any, certainty,' The extremely bad positi 911 into which
this English mission has got is clearly traceable to the lack
of any trained diplomatists in this country, and the fact
that Ambassadors are bothappointed and removed with-
out any refeience to their.fitness, but merely forVp,itiian
objects.

- 'MR. LF TGPS CASE. •,,
Xotwithstanding that Lcng's return to Sheffield
had not been 'Made public, he found a large crowd of
friends and admirers awaiting fo-r ,him at the Victoria
StAion at hine o'clock, hn Tuesday 'night, from whom he
received a most cordial .and enthusiastic welcome, which
evidently took him completely- by surprise. He was re-
peitedly . cheered, and many insisted on shaking him
wa;mly by the hand.--;Sheffieid Telegraph.
The Birmingham Gazette says •the whole trial savours a
little of. Persecution4ersecution which everyone must
allOw has fallen considerably short of its phrpose. To
have imprisoned Mr. Leng would have been to affix a stain
on his character for 'life—for nothing -sticks
anyone as-the taunt that he has been in the company of
common felons. - - • - .

THE REMARKABLE CHANCERY SUIT.

THE LORDS JUSTICES' JITDGIVIENT.

In the Court of Appeal Lord Justices James and
Mellish delivered judgment in the- remarkable suit of
" Weston v. Weston," it being an appeal from the deci-
sion of the Master of the Rolls (Lord Romilly) by Mr.
W.,H. P. Weston, a gentleman of large fortune, residing
at Dorchester, who alleged that, in consequence of the
adultery of his wife, the youngest daughter of- Sir John
Lethbridge, with Mr. Andrew Quicke, subsequently to the
execution of a separation deed, she had become disentitled
to an allowance of one thousand pounds per annum.
Lord Justice James delivered an elaborate judgment.
Mr. Weston made *two allegations, first, adultery,
long continued, shameless, open, avowed adultery long be-
fore the separation ; and secondly, adultery after the exe-
cutlon of the separation deed. But the wife declined to
rep y tothe first allegation, -on the ground that it was
irrelavent, as the deed would only become void by sub-,
seqnent adultery ; and she simply contented herself by
giving a general denial to the charge, saying that it was
falsb, and. that her acts had been grossly exaggerated. It
seethed that Mrs. WeitOn had the strongest possible in-
ducement to restrain , her. - passion, if such existed,
She had a pecuniary motive, as £l,OOO a year
depended upon her conduct. It was true that Mrs.
Weston, Mr.-Quicke; and- Miss Quicke, resided together
at Boulogne and Paris, and that at the Grand Hotel in
the latter place she went under the assumed name of
Nucombe. But during that period the husband had his
wife watched by day and, to a great extent,
by night, .by the agents of a very active
person—,a , kind of professional detective. Every
exertion was used, and no expense spared to obtain
evidence by Mr. Pollaky, Preprietor of the private
inqiiry office at Paddington, whose success in his profes-
sion, without casting any imputation upon him, depended
upon the ability he displayed in procuring information
of a description to satisfy his employer. But not a par:
tide of the evidence secured in this way was suffi:
cient to establish adultery in a court of law.
The case,' in truth, rested entirely upon the
evidence of the lady's maid, Elise Lenlitte, who, the
Master of the Rolls had said, was entirely unworthy of
credit. He (his lordship) had arrived at the conclusion
that it would be utterly unsafe for any court of justice
to place the slightest reliance upon the testimony of such
a person. He said nothing about her supposed impro-
priety of conduct, or about the zeal she displayed in try-
ing to get evidence. But she had giuen an account of a
draMatic scene between herself and Mrs. Weston—a scene
in Which, apparently sympathising with the lady, whose
confidante she was, she appealed to her to break off the
intimao with .Mr. Quicke, and endeavoured to extort
from her from her an expression which might he construed
into an adniiision of guilt. Finding that at the tithe she
was going through with this scene; she was in communica-
tion with Mr. Weston or his solicitor, of course utterly
unknown to - the mistress, that scene was in itself
an act of a faithless, treacherous, cunning,
hypocritical, person; and that being the conclusion
he bad arrived at upon. her own description of her con-
duct, he would not pronounce judgment against anybody,
upon any. charge. whatever, upon the faith of her evidence.
Under those circumstances his lordship was of opinion
that thenharge of adultery, subsequently to the separa-
tion had not been substantiated.
tord Justice Mellish concurred, and the decision of Lord
Romilly was consequently affirmed, the appeal being dis-
missed with costs.

A woman, named Ainscough, of Bolton, while
endeavouring to cross the Lancashire and Yorkshire line
at Adlington on Tuesday was knocked down by an express
train, and instantaneously killed. Her body was fearfully
mutilated.

BREECH-LOADERS FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.—
The now old-fashioned muzzle-loading weapons in the
possession of the 19th Surrey (Borough of Lambeth)
Rifle Volunteers have been " called in for conversion."
This corps has lately been recruiting very successfully,
and is now one of the most efficient metropolitan regi-
ments on the south side of the Thames, which is probably
the reason the War Office has selected it as the first in
which this long-desired change will be made.
THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF BRAZIL. Tho
Princess Imperial and Count d'Eu, prevented as yet by
the stase of the Continent from paying their proposed
visit to Germany and going to Italy for the winter, remain
for the present with the Due de Nemours at Twickenham,
and were a few days ago received at breakfast en famille
by the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough
House. The visits of his daughters to Europe will, it is
almost certain, be followed by a visit of the Emperor to
Europe in the course of next year, should public affairs in
Brazil and the state of the Continent permit his Majesty
to indulge his natural wish to see Europe for the first
time.--Brazil and River Plate Mail.

THE WOOL INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES.—
At a meeting of the American Institute, held on the 13th
ult., the Hon. J. L. Hayes, secretary of the National
Association of Wool Manufacturers, read a paper on the
wool interest. From this we gather that the woollen
manufactures of the States are of the annual value of
175,000,000 dols., employing about 120000 operatives, and
using the fleeces of 35,000,000 sheep. The annual value of
the wool of the world is calculated at 600,000,000 dais.,
and of that about 71,000,000 dols. worth is grown in the
States.
CHARLES MATHEWS AT ADELAIDE.—The versa-
tile architect, painter, playwright, comedian, who has so
gaily upheld the honour of the English stage for five and
thirty years, ought to be received with peculiar interest in
this four-and-thirty years' city. Before Adelaide was
founded he had'achieved the position he holds now, and
while Adelaide has been growing the fame of Charles
Mathews has been extending among all English-speaking
communities. It has at last reached us in the flesh, and
- the reproach would be ours if it failed of a hearty, en-
thusiastic recognition.—South Australian Register. Sept.
10th.
DISABILITIES OF DUELLISTS.—A member of the
Virginia Legislature the other day was challenged to fight
a duel. Time was, when such a cartel would have fallen
upon him who received it as a live spark would fall upon a
powder Magazine. But these times are changed. The
receiver of the message happened to be a man in whom
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love of political privileges dominates. He refused to
accept the challenge, not because he had any scruples on
the point of consciousness as a Christian man, but on the
ground that the State Constitution disfranchises duellists.
There is hope for a reconstructed 'South when such a
State as Virginia has such a law on her statute books,
and when there can be found in that State a citizen who is
willing to yield obedience to such an enactment.—American
Paper.

TIM LIDICE ‘l. • DEFEAT AT COLCITESTEL—The
London corrospondent of the Manchester Guardian writes
—The defeat of the Ministerial candidate at Colchester
is ndw known to have been due altogether to the hide-
fatigable exertions of the association for the repeal of the
Contagious Diseases Act. Sir Henry Storks avowed him-
self ;before the committee of inquiry to have origina.ted
the experinaunt-when. governor of Malta; and he ad-
mitted that he was in favour of putting the provisions
of the. act into operation regarding the women of each
regiment—that is to say the wives and female servants of
all classes in barrack or-camp. The Rev. Mr. Rule, a
Disienting, minister, and Mr. Baiter Langley did the
chief part of the speaking against the new 'Under Score-
tarY for War.; though both disclaimed any connection
with or support of Colonel Learmouth, The same writer
sayS Newport seems 'likely' to be lost to the Liberals by
the obstinacy of the competing candidates.