The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-26 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

BRIBING THE 1111LITARY. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Edward Bishop, a private in the 2d Battalion Coldstream
Guards, was charged with stealing a coat and trousers,
value £5 55., the property of Mr. Charles Warner, a gentle-
man residing at 12, Grosvenor-road, South Norwood.

Prosecutor said ho had been in the army, and on the pre-
vious night he was in the Bridge-road, Westminster, and
saw a young soldier in custody of the picket, and, having
had great experience, he did not like to see him in trouble,
and begged of the corporal in charge to let him go, offering
a sum of money, which the corporal accepted.
Mr. Selfe asked if the name of the corporal was known ?
A woman in Court said his name was Gfobs.

The witness went on to say that he went to a public-
house with the corporal, and eventually he asked to get him
a bed, which he did in a house in Westminster. The pri-
soner was in the house at the time, and when the corporal
awoke in the morning his clothes were missing. They were
afterwards found in the prisoner's possession, who was ap-
prehended in Cannon-row.
Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial.

THE ASSASSINATION IN A FRENCH
RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

The body of M. Lubanski, found dead in a railway
carriage, near Montainart, bore marks of forty-seven
wounds, which appeared to have been made with a
dinner-knife. The head was covered with blows, but
the mortal wound appears to have been delivered in the
region of the heart. A sum of 300 francs which the
victim is believed to have had in his pocket is missing,
but his watch and chain were on the body. The assassin,
who is named Gillaume Bayon, is a young man. Con-
victed of theft at Privas, he was condemned to five years'
imprisonment in Corsica. He was taken in the following
manner. A peasant, on Monday last, pass-
ing near a thicket, saw a blackman, who
shook the branches of a tree. He ran to the
gendarmerie, where he found but one soldier, who threw
himself upon the man, and made him prisoner. Bayon
declares that having attempted to leave the train while in
motion, he was wounded on the hands and the head.
A pool of blood marked the place where he
fell. Then he fainted. When he regained con-
sciousness he wandered to the place where he
was taken. He says that Lubanski put his feet upon
the cushions by his side, which was disagreeable to him,
that a dispute followed, when Lubanski struck him.
Then they fought. Seized by the throat, Bayon says he
was obliged to use his knife. Lubanski then sank against
the door, which Bayon opened, to let him fall upon the
road. As for the money, he had little upon him, and said,
when asked about that of Lubanski, "Look elsewhere
for it."

A public meeting was held at Kildare yesterday to
protest against the contemplated eviction of 42 families on
the Duke of Leinster's property.
The representative of the King of Butmah in
England visited the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, yesterday,
and went over several of the departments. He has ob-
tained the consent of the authorities at the War Office to
continue his visits to that establishment for the next six
months, in order to obtain an insight into, and of becoming
acquainted with, the mode of conducting the business of the
manrfacturing departments in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
NECROLOGY.—WiIIiam Egley, one of the most
highly esteemed miniature painters, and the painter par ex-
cellence of aristocratic beauty, passed away from this life on
Saturday, 19th March, at an advanced age, after having
borne with the most philosophical calmness the cruel
sufferings occasioned by the ossification of one of his feet,
a disease which, like the gout, attacks those especially
who lead a sedentary life. William Egley has endowed
the artistic world with a number of little chefs d'oeuvre.
Some years since the miniature of the Countess of War-
wick caused quite a sensation. At the time of the gene-
era' Exhibition, he sent to Paris a portrait of Daniel Home,
of spirit-rapping celebrity, a miniature of large dimen-
sions, which attracted great attention. Mr. Egley's
tcon-
versationm was interesting and agreeable, and shortened the
and not oaf
_iesseespleasantly to those who sat to him for their like-
nesses. It was the wit of a Voltaire, united to the
Ipelnisthe
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a Lafontaine. Mr. Egley leaves mans friends
Academy n enemy. At the last exhibition of the Royal
eruy a miniature and most faithful likeness of the ta-
ist,
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politeness recalled
wwil,osse loss we deplore, painted by his accom-
plished
gentleman of the
universally admired. Egley's courteous
last century.
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intimationd as to
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trict courts of bankruptcy have had no
their pensions. The Law Times underin
that all the ex-commissioners are to enjoy theirs full sala-
ries for life, and that the same liberality will be shown
other officers of the old courts who had held ofice t°
for
fifteen years. •
Major-General Lindsay, who is .prodeeding to
Canada to organise a colonial force, has left Wigan for
Liverpool, to embark in the Peruvian. Another passenger
is Sir Clinton Murdoch commissioner of emigration, who
goes out for the purpose of making arrangements con-
nected with emigration from this country to the United
States. - • 2-• ' •