The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-23 00:00:00

;.‘ U', LONDON, TI USDA Y MORNING, J U E 23, 1870.

LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The suga
merket has ruled flat, and values have tended down-
wards. St. Lucia bought in at 245. to 255. 6d. ;
low brown Penang, 19s. Egyptian, 38s. per cwt. The tea auc-
tions are passing off without much spirit, but prices have been
supported. The coffee market has ruled steady, and full terms
have been paid by public sale. The Dutch sales have gone off at
extreme rates. Rice afloat has been less animated.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The supplies of
hops have been moderate. The trade has been quiet, but prices
have ruled firm. From the plantations the accounts are very
favourable. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 125.: Weald of
Kents, £6 to £8 ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 12s. ; Bavarians, £6 6s.
to £9 ; French, £5 to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 ss. to £6 ; and
yearlings, £1 10s. to £3 15s. per cwt.

MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. —• This
market to-day assumes, if anything, a quieter tone than it did
yesterday, although prices are nominally the same. The in-
creased sale in Liverpool on Monday failed to make any appreci-
able change in the quotations here either yesterday or to-day,
buyers being content to supply only their immediate require-
ments. This being the case, the amount of business done is
small. Yarns remain quiet as before, especially those for
shipping.

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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—This market
opens steady on the spot, and rather easier for arrivals. The
sales will probably reach 10,000 or 12,000 bales.
LEEDS CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The number of
beasts in our market to-day was 513 ; sheep and lambs, 3,230.
Large fat beasts met a slow sale, while small neat cutters made
full rates. The prices were : Prime, 74d. to Bd. per pound ;
second quality, 61 to 7d. Sheep from 7d. to 7/. Lambs Pd. per
pound.

SOUTHALL CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The trade
was dull at this market to-day in consequence of the extreme
heat of the weather. Best Hereford and Devon beasts made ss.
4d. per stone of 81b. Prime Down wether sheep, ss. 4d. per stone
of 81b. sinking the offal.
WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The num-
ber of cattle at this market to-day were as follows :—Fat cattle,
975. Sheep and lambs, 6,030. Pigs, 2,000. Lean stock, 60. A
heavy trade pervades the market throughout. Prices as follows
—Beef, Bs. 6d. to 9s. 3d. per 141 b.. Mutton, 7d. to 7id. per lb.
Lamb, 9d. to 9d. per lb.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—This market
opened to-day, at 60s. 6d. cash, receded to 60s. 3d., and then
rallied to 60s. sd. and 60s. 9d. in a month.

EDINBURGH CORN MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The supplies
of wheat at this market to-day were fair, but the sales were slow,
at ls. per quarter decline. Barley met with a dull sale, at last
week's prices. Oats were in good demand at ls. per quarter
advance. Beans also met with a ready sale at is. per quarter
advance.

EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—There wei •
about 1,000 more fat sheep in this market to-day than last week,
and prices receded somewhat. Extreme top, 81d. per lb., cur-
rent, Bd. lb., inferior, 7d. to 71d. per lb. Lambs also were duller!
tops, from 30s. to 325. each. Fat cattle made better prices, with
a quicker sale. Extreme top, 9s. 6d. per stone, current, 9s. 2d.
per stone : secondary, from 7s. to Bs. per stone. Store cattle
were very difficult to sell ; the only quotations obtainable were
for a prime lot at £lO 105. each, and another at £8 Bs.. Ayrshire
and short-horn cows were about the same as last week in price,
with a brisker sale, Pigs were much the same as last week, but
the dealing was slow.

LAW AND POLICE,

ACTION BY MR. TENNYSON.—An action hae been raised
in the Court of Session, at the instance of Mr. Tennyson
and his publishers, the Messrs. Strahan, against a Glas-
gow bookseller named Robert Forrester, in which
£550 is sought to be recovered as damages for the illegal
sale by the defender of pirated copies of the Poet-
Laureate's works.

DOGS AND SERVANTS. —Serjeant Wheeler, judge of the
Liverpool County Court, has had a curious case before him.
A servant, who had gone on a month's trial, objected to
the presence of two dogs in the kitchen. The lady
declined to assign the animals any other, local habitation,
and the maid left, and sued for two months' wages. His
Honour gave her a verdict in full, as he held that the
kitchen was not the proper place for dogs, and a servant
had a perfect right to require all unclean animals to be
removed.

THE TRENT AND HUMBER SHIPBUILDING COMPANY.—
An application has been made in Vice-Chancellor James's
chambers for a final certificate as to the winding-up of
.this company. It seemed that all the assets, amounting
to nearly £13,000, had been gathered in, excepting a sum
of £9O, which was owing by four shareholders, who, being
in pecuniary difficulties were unable to pay. There was
a balance of £6O in the bank. The Chief Clerk said there
was a difficulty in the way of granting the certificate, in-
asmuch as until the money from the four shareholders in
question was known to be past all recovery, the affairs of
the company could not be said to be completely wound
up. Another difficulty arose with respect to the balance
at the bank, and until that was ordered to be disposed of
by the official liquidator he must decline to grant the
final certificate.

AN ABSCONDING SOLICITOR.—A first sitting has taken
place at the Court of Bankruptcy before Mr. Registrar
Roche, in the matter of William Henry Cotterill, solicitor,
of 32, Throgmorton-street, City. He absconded about
thee months ago, leaving liabilities, it is said, of not less
than £150,000, consisting chiefly of money which
had been placed in his hands by various
clients for the purpose of investment, but which
he had appropriated. There are no assets. A petition
for adjudication was presented in April last by M. Emile
Boudonneaux, photographer, of Regent-street, a creditor
for £B2, and the adjudication was made on the 2nd inst.—
Mr. Linklater now appeared to represent the creditors.
Debts of between £15,000 and £200,000 were proved, and
Mr. Waddell, accountant, of Poultry Chambers, was
chosen trustee, and two creditorswere named as inspectors.

THE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY AGAINST
A SURGEON.—Francis Horne Scaife, 31, described as a
surgeon, was brought up on remand before the Richmond
bench of magistrates, charged with embezzling the sum
of £sl3s. 6d. and a cheque for £7 10s. 6d., the property
of doctors Anderson and Hassall, his late employers of
Richmond. The prisoner was arrested in Liverpool on the
11th inst., by police-constable Heath and on his portmanteau
being searched forged cheques for £323 7s. and £2BO were
found, purporting to have been signed by William
Anderson, M.D., and payable to Francis Scaife, or bearer,
and a counterfoil, No. 26. for £370. on the back of which
were figures shewing £1,718 7s. 9d. Mr. Smith, solicitor
of Richmond, appeared for the prosecution, and stated
that his clients had received a letter from the prisoner ex-
pressing his regret, and entreating them not to press the
charge. The letter was read, as was also another from the
Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, stating that the
prisoner's name did not appear, on their register as a
surgeon. The bench retired for consultation, and after-
wards committed the accused for trial.

LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKS.-At the County Police-court,
Strangeways, a young man of respectable appearance,
named John Brewer, was charged with breaking into a
house in which his sweetheart, Alice Ann Chappel, re-
sided, at 134, Ashton New-road, Bradford, and
threatening her with personal violence. The com-
plainant and the defendant had known each
other for some time. Ultimately the complainant
told the defendant that he must cease visiting her. Things
passed on satisfactorily until last week, when the com-
plainant went with her brother and sister to the
Prince's Theatre, On returning home the complainant was
surprised to find the house in a state of great disorder, and
the defendant sitting in the parlour. Upon an explanation
of his conduct being demanded, he threatened to squeeze
her to death," and to "smash her to pieces" unless she
immediately restored his presents, and some property be-
longing to him. She was so terrified that she ran up
stairs to escape him, and, upon being pursued, threw up
the bedroom window and leapt out into the street, but
fortunately escaped without serious injury. The defen-
dant was bound over to keep the peace for six months,
himself in £2O and two sureties in £lO each.

A SINGULAR CASE.—A man, named Burke, was tried
at the Middlesex Sessions, for stealing several articles
valued at £3O, as well as several sums of money, the
property of Morris Pinto. It appeared that the prose-
cutor was a commercial traveller, and the prisoner and
his wife were fellow lodgers. The prosecutor's wife had
some conversation with the prisoner about the rates,
which she had received a summons to pay within fourteen
days. The prisoner told her she was very foolish to have
acknowledged that she owed them, but she replied that as
her landlady, who had promised to pay them, had not
given her a written paper, she was liable. However, tie
prisoner advised her, as a means of security, to put some
of her things in his room, telling her that if the rate-
collector saw only a few things in the house he would be
more likely to give her time to pay. The prosecutor's
wife, believing this, put a number of articles into the pri-
soner's room, and he afterwards persuaded her to put
there a bag containing money, a box, with a watch and
earrings, &c. A day or two after the woman saw the
prisoner bring a van to the door, and then with the
assistance of several Irishmen put her goods into
it. She went to ask him the reason, but he told her not
to interfere, and went on removing them. His corn
panions knocked her down, and tore away the goods she
tried to stop. They drove off fast with the van, and she
could not follow. She informed the police. The prisoner,
against whom several previous convictions were proved,
was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude.

RUFFIANISM AT KINGSTON.-At the Kingston-on-
Thames borough sessions, a young man, respectably
dressed, was charged with assaulting Mr. F. Gould,
an alderman and justice of the peace for that borough.
On Saturday night Alderman Gould was riding along by the
promenade when he saw a number of young men surrounding
a man and woman. Seeing a, blow aimed at the woman he rode
up and found that she was receiving a blow intended for
her husband, whom she was shielding in consequence of
some of the ruffians having said they would make a
corpse of him." Alderman Gould interposed to protect
the man and his wife, and immediately was set upon and
violent nttempts were made to unhorse him. Stones were
picked up, and two of the men tied their handkerchiefs
together and tried to throw Mr. Gould's horse with a j erk. At
last the cowards made off, finding that they could not suc-
ceed in their endeavours ; but one of the ringleaders was
followed and tracked from place to place, and in spite Of
his efforts to escape, Alderman Gould succeeded in hand-
ing him over to the police. He was fined 40s. and 6s. 6d.
costs, which was paid by his friends. Neither the man
nor his wife came forward ; it is said they feared to pro-
secute.

IS A WIFE'S NEPHEW HER HUSBAND'S NEPHEW ?
An extraordinary will case has been argued before the
Court of Error on appeal from the Court of Common
Pleas. John Grant, a marine store dealer at Rugby, left
certain premises to a person described in his will as "my
nephew, Joseph Grant," The testator had married his
own cousin, and had adopted his wife's nephew,
Joseph Grant, who assisted him in his business. It
was not disputed that it was the testator's intention to
leave the property to this young man,as he had said so to
the solicitor who drew up the will ; and it appeared that
up to the time of his death he was not aware that his
eldest brother, William Grant, had a son named Joseph.
The latter, however, as the son of the heir-at-law, con-
tended that he was `entitled to the property, being the
legal nephew of John Grant, and he brought an action
of ejectment against the other " Joseph," which
the Court of Common Pleas decided in favour of the
present holder. The Court of Probate had also decided
in his favour. The question now was whether the will
was to be construed according to the testator's ascertained
intention, or was to be strictly interpreted in its limited
meaning of " the son of a brother or bister." Other be-
quests to nieces and a nephew, daughters and son
of another brother of the testator were relied
upon as giving colour to this interpretation. It was
contended that the plaintiff was the only " nephew
Joseph " of the testator, accordino, to the strict interpre-
tation of the will. Mr, Quain, (S.C., cited three cases as
being analogous ; but in none of them was the status of a
nephew defined. The court, without calling upon the defen-
dant's counsel to reply, unanimouslyupheld the decision of
the court below, holding , that the ordinary and popular signi-
fication of the word nephew " included the son of a
wife's brother or sister, and thus it was competent to
admit evidence shewing the testator's intention of making
the devise.

The St. Paul, Minnesota, Press's Pembina corre-
spondent, of the 30th ult., says :—" Indians are concen-
trating in the vicinity of Lake of the Woods for the pur-
pose of giving fight to the Canadians when they penetrate
the swamps. Riel's picket line extends from Lake of the
Woods to Pembina Mountain."

On the night of the sth of June the Black Ball
packet ship William F. Storer took fire as she lay at her
dock in the East River, New York, and burnt till she
settled at the bottom of the slip. The vessel had arrived
from Liverpool on the 17th of May, and was receiving
cargo for Europe. She had just taken on board about 250
barrels of lard.

A Prussian military detachment having lately
crossed the Bohemian frontier into Austrian territory, the
Eastern Budget says, the Prussian ambassador, General
von Schweinitz, immediately forwarded explanations to
the Austrian Government, which were accepted as per-
fectly satisfactory, especially as that Government bad from
the first looked upon the affair as purely accidental.

The twelfth report of the Commissioners in Lunacy
has just been issued. It gives the total number of insane
as 7,310. This shews a considerable increase on the num-
ber for the previous year, especially in the return of pauper
lunatics, which have increased in ten years from 172 to
195 in every 100,000. The return, however, is based on
the census of 1861. There is a marked tendency to death
among the females in summer and among the males in
winter.

Some further reports are published as to endowed
charities. In Lincolnshire the total gross income of the
endowed charities is £48,294 17s. 2d., which is expended
in the following manner, viz_ :—Education, £20,584105. ;
apprenticing, £1,137 10s. Bd. ; endowments, £2,585 3s.
3d. ; Church purposes, £2,966 4s. 11d. ; maintenance of
Dissenting places of worship and their ministers, £244
12s. ; education of Dissenters, £8 ; public uses, £1,026
18s. sd. ; support of almshouses and their inmates,
£9,924 11s. 9d. ; distribution in kind, £4,016 19s. 9d. ;
distribution of money, £5,510 9s. 3d. ; and general uses of
the poor, £524 13s. 7d. In Cardiganshire the receipts
amount to £553, almost all of which is spent on educa-
tiorial purposes.

PARTY PROCESSIONS IN IRELAND.

Efforts are being made in many parts of Ulster, a cor-
respondent writes, to induce the Orangemen to make no
offensive displays on the approaching Twelfth of July.
In particular the hoisting of flags on church steeples is
objected to, and the exhibition of other emblems
is to be confined, in many places, to the
club-rooms. There will be large gatherings, however,
throughout the provinces, at which the new Processions
Bill will be the chief topic discussed.—At a meet-
ing in Belfast to take into consideration Mr.
Fortescue's Bill to suppress Processions in Ire-
land, an Orange working-man occupied the chair.
and contended that such a bill would not be borne with
for twenty-four hours in England. " The people would
rise en masse against such an interference with personal
liberty." They would (he said) give to the Roman Catho-
lics every right they themselves enjoyed, but from neither
Whig nor Tory would they bear legislation opposed to
individual liberty.

THE REVISION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
One of the " Companies" for the revision of the Bible
commenced business (!) yesterday, the first being assembled
at the Jerusalem Chamber. There are two " Companies "
—one for the revision of the Old Testament,
and the other for the New, and it is the latter
which began its work yesterday. The Com-
pany consists of the Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol (Chairman), the Bishop of Winchester, the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Ven.
Archdeacon Bickersteth, D.D. (Prolocutor of the Lower
House of Convocation), the Dean of Canterbury, the Dean
of Westminster, Canon Blakesley, Dr. Kennedy, Arch-
deacon Lea, the Dean of Rochester, the Master of the
Temple, Professor Moulton, Professor Fairbairn, Pro-
fessor Newth, and other gentlemen. The committee
will direct their attention, in the first instance,
to a revision of the Synoptical Gospels. The Old
Testament " Company " will meet for the first time on
Thursday, the 30th instant. The Bishop of Llandaff
will preside.

THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS AND

MR: PADWICK.

The case of " Bubb v. Yelverton" was heard yesterday
before Mr. Claude, the Chief Clerk at the Rolls Chambers,
It is a suit to administer the estate of the late Marquis
of Hastings, and creditors have sought to prove their
debts, and it is expected that the claims will be
satisfied. On the present occasion an application
was made on summons for the production of
documents by Mr. Padwick, who claimed to be a
creditor. The parties attended before the Chief Clerk,
and, after hearing them, the Chief Clerk made an order
for the production of the documents by Mr. Padwick at
the office of Mr. Tidy, his solicitor.
A question was asked the Chief Clerk whether a per
son who claimed to be a creditor would be asked to make
an affidavit.

The Chief Clerk apprehended that, after a decree, a
person claiming to be a creditor would be asked to make
an affilavit. _ _

The summons for the production of the documents was
granted.

ACTION AGAINST THE MARQUESS
TOWNSHEND.

Mr. Baron Bramwell and a special jury yesterday heard,
in the Court of Exchequer, an action against the Marquess
Townshend for breaking and entering the premises of the
plaintiff, Miss T. Gladstone, who kept a servants' home
in the neighbourhood of Portland-place, and taking away
a child. It was intimated to the learned judge that, if
time were allowed the parties, an arrangement might be
made. After some consultation had taken place, Mr.
Serjeant Parry, who appeared for the plaintiff, said he
was happy to state that the MarquessTownshend admitted
he had violated the law, and consented to a verdict being
entered for the plaintiff for 40s. damages, and
to all certificates being given for costs. The Solicitor-
General said the Marquess had acted on information
which was not trustworthy, and as any gentleman would
do under such circumstances, he expressed his regret for
what he had done, and was very desirous that Miss Glad-
stone should not be out of pocket in consequence of what
had occurred. —Mr. Serjeant Parry expressed the plain-
tiff's readiness to accpt the handsome offer of his
learned friend. He stated that she was the pro-
prietress of a servant's home and a registration
office for servants, which she had conducted for many
years with the greatest respectability, and she felt it
necessary to bring this action, but after the expressions
of regret on the part of the marquess, he had advised her
to proceed no further in the matter. Mr. Baron Bram•
well expressed his opinion that it was a satisfactory
arrangement.—Damages of 40s. were then entered for the
plaintiff.

A. REMARKABLE INVENTION.

We were present at the foundry of Messrs. Barrows,
Savery, and Co., at the corner of Reed and Front streets,
to witness the practical operation of Messrs. Whipple and
Dickerson's new process for converting petroleum to the
production of motive power. A large number of persons
interested in a discovery so pregnant with importance as
affecting the whole question of fuel in the future, were
present, and were perfectly well satisfied of the value and
feasibility of the same. The new process does not bring
the petroleum in contact with the fire at all. By a most
ingenious and exceedingly simple machine, it is first eva-
porated into hydro-carbon gas or vapour, and that gas is
conducted to the fire-box by ordinary pipes, and there
burned as you would burn ordinary gag under a kettle in
a gas stove. The process of evaporation, and its
product, is the secret of this new discovery.
The objection which was urged in 1867 by the
Secretary of the Navy that in all tests of the value of
petroleum as a fuel it had been discovered that carboni-
sation resulted to such an extent as to stop up the tubes
used in a short time, cannot be raised against the present
mode of burning petroleum, as the fire does not come in
contact with the crude petroleum, but merely with its
vapour, as stated. In regard to its perfect safety, also,
there can be no question for the same reason. At the
foundry which we visited, and in which this process is in
operation, there has been a saving of nearly one-half in
coal, with an increased efficiency. The same boiler is in
use as before, and while by the use of coal a pressure of
not higher than forty pounds to a square inch could be
obtained, with a great decline in this pressure when there
was heavy work being done in the foundry, with the use
of petroleum by this process a constant pressure of sixty
pounds is attained, never varying, no matter how great
the call upon the motive power. These engines, aggre-
gating sixty horse-power; are driven by the steam gene-
rated in this way. This will shew the great demand for
a large and invariable supply of steam, and also the
efficiency of the newly-utilized fuel. Of the solid value of
the invention we have no doubt, and believe that the new
process is destined to revolutionise the entire question
of fuel, at least as a generator of steam.—Philadelphia
Press.

AN ART AND SCIENCE MUSEUM FOR ALL
NATIONS.

A meeting has been held in New York at the house of
Professor Dorremus, for the purpose of considering pro-
posals for the establishment in New York of an Art and
Science Museum, of a permanent character, for the exhi-
bition of works of science and art. A number of letters
were received from prominent gentlemen of the city
approving of the scheme, and also from the representa-
tives of foreign governments volunteering their practical
aid in the development of the proposal. It was decided to
issue the proposal in a printed form, so as to give the
scheme a wider publicity. From the influential support
that the scheme has already received there is no doubt
of its ultimate success, and that in New York
will very shortly be formed the nucleus of a
museum worthy of the great continent of America.
Dr. G. Naphegyi read a paper embodying the details of
this proposal, from which we select the following prin-
cipal characteristics :—After obtaining a charter of incor-
poration, it is proposed to make a solicitation, in the name
of the society, to all the resident and accredited foreign
Ministers at Washington, so that through them each of
the foreign Governments may forward objects of interest.
Memberships in the organisation of the executive of this
museum is to be obtained by defined subscriptions in
money and objects for exhibition. It is proposed to make
it a demonstrative and pictorial atlas of the American
continent. For the cultivated mind a source of learning,
for the layman a source of pleasure. The chemist, the
botanist, the mineralogist, the geologist, and the orni-
thologist are to find in it a new field of labour. The pro-
posals were received with considerable enthusiasm, and it
was said that early in the fall the scheme would, in all
probability, assume a practical shape, and would be sub-
mitted to the publie with great confidence of establishing
a museum equal in its nucleus to that of many European
countries.