The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-18 00:00:00

LAM AND POLICE.

TILE ALHAMBRA PALACE, LEICESTER-SQUARE.-At the
Middlesex Sessions, soon after the sitting of the court, it
was rumoured that further proceedings would take place
with respect to the refusal of a license to the Alhambra
Palace for dancing. About eleven o'clock Mr. Digby
Seymour (with whom was Mr. Sergeant Sleigh) applied
to the bench to be allowed to-address it, and gave reasons
why it should allow him to apply for a rehearing of the case.
This led to a very long discussion, an 1 finally Mr. Pownall
moved that on Tuesday morning Mr. Digby Seymour
should be heard, which was put and negatived.--A sub-
sequent motion was made by Mr. Donald Nicol that Mr.
Digby Seymour be then heard, which was put and
carried.—Mr. Digby Seymour then addressed the Court,
and urged that the representation given of the dance in
question in the publication was au exaggerated falsehood,
and ought not to have influenced the Bench. He urged
also that the dance complained of had been per-
formed at various theatres, and no objection whatever
had been mged against it. He reviewed the proceedings
which had taken place at the Alhambra for years past,
and trusted that the Bench would allow the case to be
re-heard. Mr. Serjeant Sleigh also addressed the Bench
in support of the application. Mr. Pownall hoped the
Bench would adhere to their former determination, and
moved that the Court do proceed to the next business.
The Chairman put the motion, which was carried unani-
mously.

ASSAULT.—Henry Harrison, a stableman, living at No.
48, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, was brought up
before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough-street Police-court,
charged with being drunk, and assaulting Police-constable
Milsom, 101 C. The constable said he was passing a
stable in Mount street on Saturday afternoon, when,
hearing a female crying, he looked in, and saw the
prisoner striking his mother. He asked the prisoner if he
was not ashamed of himself. The prisoner abused him,
told him he had no right in the place ; and on his taking
hold of him, his mother having given him in charge, he
struck him twice, and in a struggle which took place
between them, kicked him sewral times... A lamplighter
came to-his assistance, and _helped to hold prisoner, and
on another constable coming, he took him to the station.
In reply to Mr. Tyrwhitt the constable said the prisoner's
mother was not present. Mr. Tyrwhitt, after remarking
that it was fortunate for the prisoner that his mother was
not in attendance, fined him 40s. or a month.
ENTICING BOYS FROM THEIR PARENTS.—EmiIy Brown,
a laundress and hawker, aged 36 years, was brought
before the Thames Police-court, upon remand, and Charles

Brown, her husband, for the first time, charged with
being concerned in unlawfully decoying and taking away
from the lawful custody of his father, William Francis
Chesterton, a boy under 14 years of age, and also with
inciting him to rob his parents of three blankets and two
sheets, which the female prisoner pledged. Another
lad, named Myers, who i 3 above 14, was also in-
duced to leave the home of his parents, very re-
spectable people, by the artifices of the prisoners,
and while travelling towards Essex-street, Whitstable,
whither the boys were directed by the female prisoner,
be accidently broke a tradesman's window with a stone
he hurled at some men who stole his apples. For this he
was taken into custody by a police-constable, and sentenced
by a Greenwich police magistrate to 14 days' imprison.
ment. 'This brought the jourey of the two lads to a
standstill, and Chesterton returned to London alone, and
after a variety of adventures, ultimately reached his
parents. The lad Myers confirmed the statement of
Chesterton. Mr. Myers said he had occasion to summon
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the female prisoner to that Court in July last for detain-
ing some linen ho had entrusted her to wash for him, and
it was ordered to be restored. He believed the woman
had enticed his son away from home out of a spirit of
revenge. He carried on business at No. 13, Hereford-
place, Conunercial-road, and Mr. Chesterton and his
family lived in the adjoining house, also numbered 13.
His son was 14 years of age in March. Mr. Chesterton
said his son would be 14 years old on the 28th of next
December. Mr. Paget said one lad was within the
statute, the other was not. He remanded both prisoners
until Friday next.

The prevalence of the foot and mouth disease in
certain parts of north-west Yorkshire has led to the sup-
pression of the fairs. In the North and East Ridings,
adjoining the Dement, the disease has begun to fail.
The outbreak among sheep on the wolds has not spread
at all. The work connected with the inspection of the
farms in Somerset and Dorset has become so heavy that
the county constabulary find it almost impossible to con-
tinue it.
Loss OF FIVE LlVES.—Abant five o'clock on
Thursday morning the inhabitants of Bude were alarmed
at the intelligence that a vessel had gone ashore in the
heavy gale then prevailing. Shortly after the alarm
had been given the coastguard and rocket brigade with
the rocket apparatus arrived at the spot, and three
rockets were fired. The last reached the ship, but
no advantage was taken of it, and shortly afterwards a
man swam to the shore: Ile brought intelligence that the
vessel, which went to pieces by the next tide,
was a French logger, called the Modeste Jeanne,
Jean master, of lltons burthen, belonging to Benin,
near Nantes, and that besides him there were four men
(including the captain) and a boy on board, all of whom
perished.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN A TUNNEL.—An ex-
traordinary accident occurred on Friday night in the
Stanedge Tunnel, on the Manchester and Leeds_
branch of the London and North-Western Railway.
Though, fortunately, no loss of life occurred,
considerable damage was done, and the accident was
of a very alarming character. It appears that a goods
train, with a number of waggons laden with salt, had
left Crewe and was on its way to Leeds when, at eleven
o'clock at night, it reached the tunnel, which is about
midway between Manchester- and Huddersfield. The
tunnel, which is a single one, is the longest in England ;
and when the train had got about the middle of it, an
axle of one of the salt waggons broke, and the waggon
fell on to the line. The result was that those behind,
which were also laden with salt, rushed on, and were,
of course, smashed to pieces. About forty or fifty tons
of salt were thrown into the tunnel, and that circumstance,
with the shattered waggons, effectually blocked up the
line. The delay to mail and passenger trains was con-
siderable.
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CHURCH DispirrE.—The Rev. A. S. Prior, vicar of
St. George's, Wolverhampton, with his churchwarden,
Dr. Collins, applied to the magistrates sitting in petty ses-
sions in that borough for a warrant to eject from the
school-house and premises John Kenney, the parish
s&molmaster. The application was made by the Town
Clerk of the borough, and it was opposed by Mr. Joseph
Underhill, of the Oxford Circuit. The schoolmaster had
taken the popular side in the Ritualistic dispute that has
been for some time raging in the parish, and three months
ago he received notice of 'dismissal, signed by the
vicar and Dr. Collins, who, with the people's warden, are
the trustees of the school. The people's warden was not
present when the resolution was come to, and he joins with
the majority of the pewholders and parishioners, by whom
Mr. Kenny is being defended, for no complaint whatever
has been urged against the schoolmaster, and the school is
admitted to be in a state of efficiency. After a trial
lasting four hours and a half, the ina,gistrates found that
there was a specific contract, and they therefore refused
to grant a warrant of ejectment. Their worships, at the
same time, declined to grant a case. The decision was
received by fe crowded court with prolonged applause.

ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
A meeting of this society was held yesterday, at
Rooms, Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Belcher in the chair.
There were also present Captain J. It. Fittock, Vice-
Admiral Askew, Rear-Admiral E. Barnard,• Commander
T. Wright, J. M. Chase, Esq., (Navy Agent,) Captain
William- Gardener, Pa}•master A. Ellis, and Admiral
Goldsmith. The balance sheet, from Ist July to 30th
September, chews the receipts to be £l,olB 9s. 7d.,
and the expenditure £5OO 15s. Id., leaving a
balance of £517 14s. 6d. The Capital Ac-
count _ was shewn to be stock in 3 per cent. Consols,
£37,664 Bs. ld.; the Northumberland fund, £5,671 195.;
in Exchequer bills, £3OO. Donations to widows and
daughters of deceased naval men were awarded to the
amount of £43o.—Admiral Barnard said they might
express their thankfulness that they had had no applica-
tion from anyone belonging to. the unfortunate
ship Captain. At the same time he might
add that not one of the officers of that
unfortunate ship was a subscriber to this institution.—
Mr. Chase said, although the widows of the men lost in
the Captain would be entitled to increased pensions, it
would be some time before the necessary Admiralty forms
could be gone through iu order to obtain them ; whereas
that institution would afford immediate relief.—The
Chairmain said, in his opinion, it would be improper for
that institution to grant any relief, looking at the lax
manner in which the general fund was being managed.
In some cases two or three mothers, and in
others three or four wives came forward as claimants. if
they came in a clear and tangible shape, so as that
they might be able to distinguish the right claimants, it
would be a different thing. Seeing, however, the pre-
carious manner in which things had been dealt with in
connection with the Captain fund, he would have nothing
to do with it.—The subject then dropped.

MID-SUll REY ELECTION

UNOPPOSED RETURN OF SIR R.
BAG (ALLAY.

The nomination of a knight of the shire for the repre-
sentation of the division of Mid-Surrey in Parliment, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the accession of Mr.
Broderick, one of the late members, to the peerage as
Viscount Middleton, took place yesterday morning, in the
Volunteer Drill Hall, Kingston-on-Thames. Mr.NV. F. Wat-
son, High-Sheriff, presided, and was supported .biseverAl
of the supporters of Sir Richard Baggallay, Q.C., Solicitor
General under the late Con'servative administration ; but
as the hon. Knight was the only candidate in the field,
the attendance of electors was exceedingly limited, and
there was au entire absence of excitement.

Mr. Penhryn, in nominating Sir it-Bac-gallay, regretted
than an election had been rendered necessary, believing
that the period during which their late member had repre-
sented them was too short, both for his credit and their
advantage. Questions of great moment were before the
country at, the present time, questions concerning the
peace of Europe and questions concerning the defences of
England. It was important, therefore, to send men to
Parliament who, without factiously opposing the Govern-
ment, should take care to strictly watch the proceedings
of those into whose hands such vast interests were committed.
They had recently had two ministerial utterances relative
to the present positicn of affairs : they had hack a very
able logical treatise from the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and an excellent historical essay from the War Secretary ;
but he ventured to find fault both with the logic and the
history, inasmuch as the logic had failed in what was its
important element—to carry conviction with it ; and the
Secretary of SI ate, while proving conclusively enough for
his own satisfaction that the defensive forces were
bufficiently strong to protect England against any invasion.
contemplated by one country, seemed to have forgotten a
Plge-in recent history, and to have ignored the existence.
of the Bismarck-Benedetti treaty. (Applause.) The
present war on the continent was a disgrace to civilization
in the nineteenth century; and as they could be
hardly satisfied with the declaration of the Go-
vernment, they ought to be represented, as he
believed they would be by Sir lt. Baggallay, by a
man of boldness and ability, whose special care should be
to see that all the requirements for the safety of the
country should be amply met. (Applause).
Mr. Cazenove seconded the nomination, remarking that
an exaggerated ConserVative was an unmitigated Tory,
but that was a class which was happily extinct. (Hear,
hear and laughter).

Sir R. Baggallay having received the belt and sword,
and having been declared duly elected, was loudly ap-
plauded. He said his first duty was to express his cordial
thanks for the honour they had conferred upon him, for
he could not imagine any honour more grateful to the
heart of an Englishman than to be called upon to serve as
one of the representatives in Parliament, the county in
which he was born, and in which he had resided for the best
part of fifty years. They had passed in that country
during the last three or four years through periods of
great political controversy, vast questions affecting the
interests of England, Scotland, and Ireland had been
from time to time before the public mind, and had caused
great agitation. Happily, those questions were now, if
not set at rest altogether, at any rate settled for a time.
He believed that opportunities would be afforded
during the next two or three years of dealing with ques-
tions of great domestic importance. It was almost a dis-
grace to their present state of civilisation that so little
was known regarding the best method of carrying into
effect the sanitary requirements of the population. The
unequal manner in which rates pressed upon the several
portions of the community would also require the con-
sideration of Parliament, and he believed he was right in
stating that it was the intention of the Legislature to intro-
duce a measure with the object of removing the
existing inequalities. But there was another sub-
ject which had been ventilated, hertofore, and was
deserving of every attention. They were aware of the
great extent to which their poor-rates had of late increased,
and he believed there was no greater evil in the country at
the present day than the large number of idle and
mischievous poor throughout the length and breadth of
the land, no greater cm s• 3 upon the honest working man
than the operations of this class of individuals. (Applause.)
That was a question which must receive the full atten-
tion of Parliament at art early period. He . would
only add that he accepted the offer to come forward as a
candidate with the full determination to do his duty in
the position to which they had elected him.

On the motion of Sir R. Baggallay, a unanimous vote
of thanks was awarded the high sheriff, and the proceed-
ings then terminated, having lasted scarcely au hour,
and been of the most quiet de-cription throughout.

An authoritative denial is given by the Home
Office to the statement made in a report addressed to the
Emperor of the French by the Director-General of the
Secret Police of the Empire, that an agent of that body in.
London belonged to the Metropolitan Police.
THE SIEGE OF PARIS AND THE WORKING CLASS.
—The Anglo-French Intervention Committee met for the
Purpose of taking steps to carry out a resolution previously
come to, "that a torchlight public meeting should be held
to intimate -that on the bombardment of Paris another
meeting should be held in Palace-yard, which would pko-•
ceed to Mr. Gladstone's housa, to remonstrate against the
delay of the Government in protesting against the bom-
bardment." There was considerable discussion as to the
place of meeting, whether it should be wiLhin the railings
of New Palace-yard, or the open space in Old Palace-
yard. Several speakers advocated meeting in Trafalgar-
square, but ultimately it was decided that the gathering
should be at eight o'clock p.m. in Old Palace-yard.
TEE CHANCELLORSIIIp LIP DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—
The appointment of another scion of the same plwerful
Whig connection to the Chancellorship of the Queen's
University in Ireland has formed the theme of cavil with
certain Tory journals'. The Marquis of Kildare has been
described as having no other claim to the exalted trust
confided to him than the fact of his being the heir of his
Grace of Leinster•. But this is not so. For many years
he has been an indefatigable member of the Board
of National Education which he has helped to vindicate
against its numerous assailants with great good sense and
temper. Lord Kildare is besides well read in national
antiquities, to which he has devoted a great deal of time
and cost, and of every species of art in Ireland he is
known to be a sympathetic and discriminating friend. I
only wish that any dozen of his order hi that country
could be named who made as good a use of the oppor-
tunities of wealth and station. His wife is the sister of
the Duchess of Argyll.—London Correspondent of the Man-
chester Guardian..

The representative body of the Church of Ireland have
issued a report on the subject of commutation and com-
pounding by clergymen. They express their conviction
of the safety of commutation to the clergy, while at the
same time they believe that its resulting benefits will be
rather moral than material ; and they see in its
general adoption the only means of saving the Church
from sinking into a purely congregational system. They
estimate the value of a general commutation at 51
which will produce, at 4 pc?r cent., an annual revenue of
£230,000, half the, actual amount of clerical income. The
other half must be supplied by donations and subscription.
Theßepreswi tad ye Body will consent to commutation in any
diocese three-fourths of the clergy of which shall signify
their to adopt it. Commuting clergy.,
men shall have the privilege of compounding, on
the terms of receiving, if sixty-five years of a..7•e, two-
thirds of the commutation money, one ninetieth of the sum
being deduCted for every year below sixty-five ; this
privilege being, however, contingent on the clergyman's
life being insurable at ordinary rates. The claims
of stipendiary curates and other exceptional cases
will be considered en their merits. Four tables;
calculated by the Govei nment actuary, Mr. Fin-
laison, are appended to the report, by which the clergy cab
ascertain the value of their life interests and the relative
advantages of the different courses open to them. At the
last meeting of the Representative Body it was announced
that the nations promised to the susteutation fund
amount to £273,350, and the annual subscriptions to
£18,650, of which there has been lodged in bank £145,700.