The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-23 00:00:00

A SMOKE NUISANCE.—George Muller, a German pork

butcher and sausage maker, of 38, High-street, Bow, was
charged at the Thames Police court with having a fur-
nace
on his premises so constructed as not to burn or
consume its own smoke. Mr. Sandison, the Government
inspector, had inspected the defendant's machine for
chopping up meat intended to be converted into sausages,
saveloys, Germans, small and large, polonies, And other
mysterious delicacies, and there was no apparatus attached
to the furnace to consume the smoke. The consequence
was that dense volumes of black smoke issued from the
defendant's chimney shaft, to the annoyance of the in-
habitants. The defendant was fined Gs. 3d., and
allowed three weeks to make the required alteration in
his furnace.

THE DIVORCE COURT.—Lord Penzance decided an
portant point in giving his •judgment as to whether the V•
petitioner in the cause of " Borhain v. Borham and
Brown," should be allowed to add fresh charges to his
petition. The ~.ase was originally tried by a jury, who
failed to arrive at a discison. The petitioner now asked
to be allowed to . add fresh charges of adultery
which' he alleged had_ • taken -place since the
filing of the petition. His Lordship said that
Sir Cresswell Cresswell decided in the cause of " Body
and Body" that such fresh charges might lie added. He •
(Lord Penzance), acting on that decision, would give the
petitioner leave to amend his petition ; but at the same
time lie very much doubted if such a course would be
allowed in a court of appeal. The best plan would be for
the petitioner to withdraw his present petition, and
file another containing these fresh allegations. —A
curious point arose in this Court which clears the
point as to whether damages can be admitted as a
debt against a bankrupt. In the cause of " Patterson
v. Patterson and Graham," the petitioner obtained a
decree nisi for a dissolution of his marriage, on the ground
of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, who was
ordered to pay £5OO damages. Graham became bankrupt
and the petitioner wished to prove this £5OO 'as a debt,
but the Bankruptcy court would not allow him to do so.
—Lord Penzance said that as a rule the court either
ordered damages to be paid into the court, to the children,
or to the petitioner. In this case it would order them to
be paid to Mr. Patterson, and that would place him in a
betttr position as to proving the debt.

THE CHARGE OF FORGING THE MARE OF THE GOLD-
SMITHS' COMPANY.-At the Old Bailey sessions John
Noel, 50, gold chain maker, was charged with forging the
mark of the Goldsmiths' Company to some chains,
and also with having a forged die in his
possession.—Mr. Besley, who appeared for the prisoner,
said he would plead guilty to the charge, as he could not
deny that the die so closely resembled that of the Com-
pany as to be a forgery. The prisoner had a wife and ten
children. The chains in question were within a few shil-
lings of the value they, purported to be, as they were 15
carat gold, and the prisoner did not commence the system
of marking his chains until he was led to suppose the
company would not attach their mark to any chain
weighing less than five ounces. The Goldsmiths' Com-
pany were bound to prottot the public, and stop
these, practices, but he thought the judge would see
that it was not quite the ordinary style of forgery.—
Mr. Metcalfe said the system was largely practised, and
was very difficult to detect. Prisoner declared he should
not have stamped the chains unless he thought the gold
was 18 carat. The Commissioner sentenced the prisoner
to 18 months' hard labour,
THE ALLEGED BREACH OF THE NEUTRALITY
LAWS.—At the Central Criminal Court the grand jury
returned a true bill against Joseph Patrick McDonnell,
who is charged with a breach of the neutrality laws,
by inducing persons to go abroad for military service in
France. The case is known as the " Irish Ambulance
Case," and we understand that application will be made
to remove it by writ of certiorari from this Court to the
`Court of Queen's Bench on the ground that important
points of international law will be raised, and that it is a
case which demands the investigation of a special
jury.

ALLEGED FRAUDS UPON BANKERS.—Robert D'Anrai,
a well-dressed man, was indicted at the Central Criminal
Court for forging a bill of exchange for £382. He was
also charged with feloniously uttering the same. Mr.
Poland and Mr. Straight appeared for the prosecution ;
and Mr. Besley and Mr. Howell Brown for the defence.
The case was one of a remarkable character. It appeared
that in the month of August a person of the name of
Leopold. Wright, who was supposed to be the prisoner,
went to the hank of Messrs. Haywood, in Liverpool,
and 'attained two drafts—one in favour of Charles
Rocher for £26, and the other in favour of Mr.
Gant for £3 14s. 4d., and both were payable at
Messrs.-Barclay, Bevan, and Co.'s bank in London. On
August 13th the prisoner went to the Midland Bank at
Sheffield, and he there cashed the £26 draft, writing the
name Charles Itocher on the back of it, Subsequently the
same person, in the name of Leopold Wright, went again
to Messrs. Maywood's, at Liverpool, and obtained a draft
for £382 in favour of Charles Roche; payable at Barclay,
Bevan, and Co,, London, and he immediately went and
cashed a fac ;mite of this draft at the Midland Bank at
Sheffield, the 'genuine draft being presented at Barclay,
Bevan and CLI,'S in London on the following day, and
paid over, the counter before the arrival' of the forged
document.' The forged draft was obtained in a very
ingenious. way. It has been already stated that there
was issued a small draft for £3l4s. 44, This draft, it
appeared, was never cashed, and by some chemical pro-
cess the figures on. it were obliterated, and £382 substi-
tuted. After he had obtained payment of these bills, the
prisoner, it was;alleged, opened a deposit account at the
Union Bank for £3OO, in the hame of Charles Arnold,
and he was at this time, it was said, living at- an hotel in
Norfolk-street, Strand, in the name of Spinelli, and in his
Portmanteau there were found materials for obliterating
ink. There are further indictments against him for simi-
lar frauds upon other bankers. The case is not con-
cluded.
WARNING TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS,-At the llow-
street Police-court, Emily Burgess was brought up before
Mr. Vaughan, charged with robbery at the Charing-cross
Railway Station under the following circumstances :—She
was seen to run from a second class waiting room with a
silk umbrella, and on being questioned admitted having
wearing. Detective
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Dowde said the
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second-class waiting room, where there was no attendant,
and in the momentary absence of passengers made off
with any property that came in her way. Nineteen
duplicates of tickets for yawned property were found in
her possession. The prisoner begged for mercy as this
was the first *nee. Itis lordship said she must mean
the nineteenth% Dindiseat 'WV to prison for six months.

AMY ROBSART.—Misa VICTORIA VOKES.
In consequence of this lady's great success in the above
character on Wednesday evening, Nov. 9, Mr. Chattertou begs
to announce that Miss Yokes will REPEAT the IMPERSONA,
TION on WEDNESDAY MORNING, Nov. 23.
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.

WS NEILSON will appear in th© character
of AMY ROBSART, in the Drama of that name,
THIS EVENING, Nov. 33.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA.NE.

R. T. 0. KING will appear in the character of
IVA VARNEY, in tho new Drama, entitle,' AMY ROBSART,
Ting EVENING, Nov.2.3.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.

1)110BUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated
VOICES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS
EVENING, Nov. U.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.

AMY ROBSART; a new Historical Romantic
Drama, written by Andrew Halliday; founded on Sir
Walter Scott's celebrated novel "Kenilworth," with new and
charaoteristie scenery by William Beverbr, at a Quarter to Eight
o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov. 23—THEATRE ROYAL DRI7RY-
LANE.

AMY ROBSART; new drama: Characters by
miss NEILSON, Misses Fanny Addison, Jesse Yokes,
Kemp, J. Martin, and Rosisla Yokes, at a Quarter to Eight
o'clock THIS EVENING, Nov, 23—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-
LANE.
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AMY ROBSART; New Drama, characters by
Messrs. T. C. KING, Morton, Tavares, J. B. Howard,
Britten Wright, F. Moreland, F. Charles, J. Neville, Fawdon,
Votes, F. Stanforth,ll. Naylor, and Fred. Yokes THIS EVEN-
ING, Nov. 23.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.

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A MY ROBSART; Now Drama. The Overture and
J--1 Incidental Music selected and composed by W. C. Levey,
exeonted by an increased Orchestra and numerous Chorus.
The Ballet and Grouping of Crowds arranged by Mr. John Cor-
nea. The whole prodneed under the direction of Mr. Edward
Atirling at a Quarter to Bight THUS EVENING, Nov, 23.
THEATRE ROYAL, DB.UItY-LANE,

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1870,

ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by
Martin Becher, at Eleven o'clock THIS ETENINO,Noy. 23.
—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.

GARIBALDI, in a red shirt and sombrero, leading,
sword in hand, his free lances on to battle against
enormous odds, is a heroic spectacle, a spectacle that
has, time and again, before now, captivated the
popular imagination. But GARIBALDI, leading
into France, in the name of the Universal Re-
public, through a Sort of aoliclarite of European
democracies, a band of lawless tatterdemallions,
guilty of all kinds of outrages upon the very people
whose independence they have nominally come to
vindicate—that is surely a falling off of a moot
deplorable charaoter. The well-authenticated
accounts of what has just now been taking place at
Autun furnish a record of another outrage to
Fair France and another poignant humiliation.
An outrage and a humiliation for which the people of
Autun are indebted, not to the German invaders,
but to the nominal defenders and champions of the
Republican Government. Thus at Autun the
the Garibaldians were offered the accommodation
of the inns for themselves and for their
horses. No I they would have none of them.
They insisted upon stalling their chargers in the
cathedral by preference. They summarily turned the
Jesuit Fathers out of their College. They arrested
the priests and the civil functionaries. They tried
one of the priests by drum-head court-martial. They
condemned him to death, and were summarily about
to carry the sentence into execution when M.
GAMBETTA, in the very nick of time, like a
Deus ex Machind, saved the poor priest
from lynching. More than this, a band of these law-
less ruffians bursting into the Bishop's palace,
breaking even into the prelate's sleeping chamber,
searched, sword in band, cupboard and wardrobe,
nook and corner, avowedly in quest of Prussian
spies or compromising papers, but, appa-
rently, in point of fact, with an eye to
the plate awl the cash box. For, when the

A DELPHI THEATRE ROXAL.—SoIe Pro-
prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER • Managers, Mr. B.
*NESTER and Mr. F. B. Cif arranToN.—TlklS EVENING, at 7,
TUE FLOWERS OF TUE FOREST. Madame Celeste, Mrs. A.
Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss M. Cooper, Mr. Billington, Mr.
Ashley, Mr, C. Bennet, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Wilmot Mr. C. H.
Stephenson, and Mr. R. Romer. To conclude with TWICE
KILLED. Mr. Crabb (his first appearance here), /fSrs. A Mellon,
Miss IC. Barnett, and Miss. M. Cooper.

,'-`4.„n T. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Lessee and
Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD.—This Evening at 7.45 great
play, FERNANDE, Messrs. Farron, Leeson, Lin Rayne Murray,
and L. Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie
iiroug/4
_Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30.
At 7, To OBLIGE BENSON, by Tom Taylor, Esq, Messrs.
many Cox, Grainger, Mervin ; Misses Marian Inch and 11.
irerard, At 7.45, FERNANDE, At 10.30, CHRISTMAS EVE,
by C. S. Cheltnman, Esq. Messrs. Harry Cox, Dan Leeson, and
Lionel Brough.—Boz-oftlee Uto 6. No tees,

ItOYAL STAA.ND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH.
s Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE.
Messrs. Crouch, Turner; Mesdames Ada Swanhorough,
E. Bufton, and F. Rughes. The New Iturly-Burly-Esque,
"THE IDLE TRENTict " Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton,
and Tamer ; Mesdames 'Amy Sheridan, E. Button, Bantiey,
Lee, Goodall, &c.

VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.-
Lessees— Messrs. If. 3. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne.
THIS EVENING, at 7, TWO ROSES (144th night), by James
Albert' . After which, at 9.30, ELIZABETH ; or, The Don, the
Duck, the Drake, and the Invisible Armada. A grand, new,
original. and profoundly historical Burlesqne, by F. C. •
nand, EMI. Esq. Conclude with CHISELLING. Supported by
Messrs. H. 3. Montague, David James. Irving, George
Honey, W. H. Stephens, and Thomas Thorne to. ; Mesdamea
Nelly Power, A. Iv ewton, Hetty Tracy, R. Evelyn, T, Lavin,
and Amy Fawsitt, &e. Doors open 0.00 ; commence at 7.

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SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1876.

marauders have vanished there have vanished too
with them the Bishops gold watch, his silver and,
jewelled crozier, and together with watch and crozier
the seal of his bishopric. Acts like these on the
part of the Wribaldians rare not simply
indefensible, they are detestable and atrocious
to the last possible degree. They cover
with infamy, a name so often before associated with
heroism. They outrage all sense of decency. They
degrade the very- cause the perpetrators are there to
uphold and to defend. And, as it happens,
they cannot possibly disassociate these acts
from the leader himself, imputing them solely
to his followers. For GARIBAIig has clearly

A s to baiiig bound by the treaty, neither we nor any
other nation, says Mr. Freeman, are in the habit of
carrying out treaties.

L011:11 RINSF,LL ON TUE MILITIA.

Lord Russell thinks that whatever course 1
Government may adopt to support Lord Granville's
Unanswerable reply to Prince Gortechakoff's note,
one measure is indispensable. Last year his lordship
urged that the Crown ought to be armed
with more authority to call out and embody
the Militia, but the Ministry cavilled, he
says, about the terms of his bill, consenting
however to take power to embody the militia in case
of emergency. Lord Russell confesses that he does
not know the legal meaning attachei to the word
emergency, but it seems to him that when the
minister of a great power assumes on behalf of his
Sovereign to set aside and abrogate a treaty which
binds seven of the chief states of Europe, an emer-
gency exists. It is said, his Lordship observes, at
St. Petersburg that Russia has 500,000 men in
arms, and at Cologne the number is talked of
as 000,000. It is notorious that troops have
for some months been moving from the north of
Russia towards the frontier of Turkey. His Lord-
ship is of opinion that whether our voice be for
peace or for war, 100,000 men of the militia, in ad-
dition to the militia reserve, should be embodied,
and that we should thus obtain the means
of filling with flesh and blood the skeletons of our
attenuated regiments.

upon him a craze against the priesthood—a
craze which has been the main incentive to these
villainous proceedings at Autun on the part of the
red-shirted rabble of the Garibaldians. On entering
Autun, GARIBALDI himself addressed a numerous
body of " ladies and women," as he called them—
French mothers and daughters—denouncing the
priests to them as foes and traitors. Insomuch that one
of the fair audience was constrained to stand forth in
defence of their pastors from the charges directed
against them by their scarcely heroic traducer. As
a sequel to this audacious denunciation of the priest-
hood by GAMBALDI, the ecclesiastics and the sacred
edifices of Autun were given over to the power of the
Garibaldians to be dealt with summarily by thorn
according to their pleasure. Truly all this is a most
wanton trailing in the dust of a heroic reputation
Surely all this is for France herself one of the last,
and not one of the least of her many agonizing
humiliations !

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

A CHANGE.

"The hour is perhaps not far off, the hour is
perhaps already come, when the fate of Frances is to
be decided in a supreme battle. Terrible anxiety is
in the air; for some time tast it has been felt that
a decisive event is preparing. Everybody is silent.
Parties cease their discords. Social anarchy, revo-
lutionary enterprises, Btragglo of every kiwi, give
way to a grand struggle, the issue of which so
nearly affects our safety. Is it not neces-
sary that the present war should have
an end ? Can we pass our lives in buying muskets,
in organising armies of freeshooters, in seeing new
costumes sprung up every day ? We must give
battle, and have done with it." These are the intro-
ductory words of an eloquent article in which the
Constitutionnel gives its readers to understand that
the hour of their country is at hand. In two months
the Government has succeeded in gathering a great
army on the Loire, composed of excellent troops, and
well provided with munitions of war. If it succeed,
the territory of France will remain intact. And
though the tme is past when we buoyed ourselves with
foolish hopes, yet, says the Constitutionne/, we hope it
will succeed. The number of our battalions nor the
abundance of our engines of war does not suffice to
give us that hope. The success at Orleans
must not be over-estimated. But recent efforts
have awakened in our soldiers a spirit of abne-
gation and patriotism, a certain Christian cou-
rage which will make French valour what it
once was and recall the time when we were
invincible. The Conetitutionnel was the first
paper which announced the declaration of war with
the words, " Prussia has insulted us; let us cross
the Rhine." The spirit of moderation which in this,
as in almOst all the French journals, has replaced
the folly of July reflects the altered spirit of the
people. Misfortunes do not come in vain.

SUPREME MOMENT.

There is reason for thinking that the antici-
pation of the Constituttonnel is well founded. All
the news from the country between Paris and
the Loire tends to the conclusion that the
French leaders project a great battle or series of
battles, a perfect Armageddon, to the west of Paris.
The Germans are perfectly alive to the gravity of
the crisis, for, instead of despatching their troops to
subjugate the provinces, they have drawn almost all
their force round the capital. If the French succeed
the triumph will be well earned. if
they fail, they may well, as the Tours paper
suggests, "have done with it." The nation has
earned the respect of the world; the Government has
deserved well of the nation. It is difficult to ima-
gine that any people could put forth greater efforts
in such a space of time, or that any Ministry could
utilise them more effectually. The capitulation of
Sedan took place on September 4 ; since then
500,000 respectable troops have been put in line,
besides the National Guards in and out of Paris. If
these efforts produce no result, the conclusion is that
the conditions of resistance left no hope.

machinery will doubtless secure the attention of the
Imperial legislature.

THE IRISH CLERGY,

Great curiosity prevails as to the course which the
Irish clergy will pursue in respect to commutation.
With the exception of Cork, the general feeling of
the clergy seemed to be against commutation at the
last meeting of the Convention. Some change of
opinion seems to have taken place since then, however,
and the clergy of Ardagh have expressed their wil-
lingness to adopt this course. The expectation of
the liberal assistance of England in regard to the
Sustentation Fund, has, it is supposed, produced a
revival of confidence. Great results are hoped from
the movement of the Archbishops of York and
Canterbury, and those who a short time
ago were unwilling to receive assistance are now
anxious that an appeal should be made to English
Churchmen. Another list of fresh subscriptions will
be shortly published by the Church Body. The plan
upon which the subscription is now conducted will
enable the middle an'l lower classes to contribute
their portion instead of confining the affair to the
richer members of the community. The representa-
tive body have purchased Lord Chief Baron Pigot's
mansion in St. Stephen's-green as a Synod House,