The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-07 00:00:00

A CHANNEL PASSAGE.

A special meeting of the Folkestone Town Council was
held last night, the Mayor, Alderman Thomas Caister, in
the chair, to hear the report of a deputation appointed to
wait on the directors of the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany, and on the member for the borough, on the subject
of the channel passage. The Town Clerk said the directors
informed them that up to the beginning of May they in
tended to oppose the Fowler Ferryboat scheme in connec-
tion with the Great Northern of France, but that the
company made terms with the Fowler advocates. The
South-Eastern Company being taken by surprise dropped
their opposition in the Commons; but reserved their
right to oppose in the Lords, where they hoped
to upset the scheme, and bring forward a plan for pro-
curing all the advantages of that scheme at agreeably
lessened expense. This they meant to do by ext ending
the harbour of Folkestone, and building boats shailar to
those on the Holyhead service, to make the passage in one
hour, or the journey between London and Paris in eight
nours. Baron Rothschild, the member for the borough.
promised to oppose the Fowler scheme to th,3
Ues9lutions were vassed, after a short discussion by the
lbw•u Council, pledging themselves to support the
South Eastern directors in their exertiong to retain the
Oac'.zet service there, and calling on Baron llotilsc:hild to
support the Company. A deputation was appointed to
wait on the Maire and n unicipality of Boulogne asking
their co-operation. It was also decided to convene a
lublic meeting on the subject.

The Great Eastern arrived at Falmouth yesterday
morning, and is now lying at anchor near Pendennis
Castle.
At the Leicester Town-hall, yesterday, Mary Thompson,
keeper of a house of ill-fame in an extensive way, was
fined in the full penalty of £2O for selling champagne.
She was also fined in the unmitigated penalty of
£5O for selling a glass of brandy without a license
to Thomas Langdale, who visited her house under
instructions from the Inland Revenue officers, on Sunday
night May 15. The mayor, George Stevenson, Esq., and
the other magistrates on the bench, were so disgusted
with the facts revealed that they decided not to recom-
mend the reduction of the fines, which were immediately
paid.
The Western Morning News of to-day states that on
Sunday, at St. Veep (Cornwall) parish church, the Rev.
George Flext was reading the Epistle when an alarm was
given that an adjacent farm was burning. The rector
promptly stopped the service and heading the congregation
they repaired en masse to the scene of disaster, where the
active efforts of the parson, and the people extinguished
the fire. They then returned to church, resumed the ser-
vice, and in place of the previously prepared sermon an
extemporaneous address was given having reference to the
incident, in which the congregation had unitedly just
taken part.

YACHTING.
NEW THAMES YACHT CLUB.
A provision having been made in the regulation for the
schooner race that should there not be sufficient entries
for the second-class, the vessel or vessels entered should
compete in the first class, rating at not less than 100 tons
—both class prizes being given (2160 and £50.) Count
Batthyany's Flying Cloud, the only vessel entered for the
second class, will necessarily be included amongst the
competitors on Friday, the list being as follows :
Yachts. Tons. Owners.
Cambria lB6 ... Mr J. Ashbury
Egeria
Goriana
l FlFlying Cloud

On Sunday morning part of the upper stone work of the
Tunstall Town Hall fell, and mortally injured a ' man
Bebbington. There was no apparent reason for the de-
tachment. The building has been unaltered for several
years.

HONEYMOON IN GAOL.—A young woman named
Hams was married the other morning in West Hartlepool.
The same day she was apprehended for stealing a quantity
of household linen and wearing apparel belonging to her
late master, in whose service she had been up to within a
short time of her marriage ; consequently, she is spending
her honeymoon in gaol.
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