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London, England, 1870-08-01 00:00:00

N°. 24,385.

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S C H•W EPPE'S MINERAL WATERS.

The Army and Navy Gazette sayS :—Lieutenant-General
Sir George Buller, G.C.8., on Monday gives over the
command of the Southern (Portsmouth) District to Lieu-
tenant-General Lord Templetown, K.C.8., and retires
from active military service, carrying with him the
respect of all those who, during the many years
he has served his country so honourably and
so well, have had the good fortune to serve
with and under him. We have reason to believe that
although Captain Sherard Osborn, C. 8., did not spew a
disposition to serve in peaceable times, there is every
probability he will, now that the political horizon is
darkened over, be both ready and willing to place his ser-
vices at the disposal of his country ; and there is au equal
probability that the First Lord of the Admiralty will not
fail to avail himself of them in case of need.
—Captain J. W. Hozier, Scots Greys, is to have the
coveted appointment of Brigade-Major of Cavalry at
Aldershot, about to be vacated by Captain and Brevet-
Major W. Arbuthnot, 14th Hussars, who has pur-
chased his regimental majority. Captain Hozier (elder
brother of the writer) is known not only as an excel-
lent regimental officer, and a very distinguished Staff
College • student, but for his late exertions as secretary
to the Royal Commission on Military Education, and
en3ecially for the valuable report •made to that body,
since published, on the military schools of France and
Prussia. Rear-Admiral Hornby's flying squadron left
Honolulu for Tahiti on the 23rd of June, and will soon
make its way with all possible 'speed to Valparaiso.
The ships will, no doubt, be hurried home in conse-
quence of the critical state of affairs in Europe, and
will probably arrive in England some weeks before
they were originally expected. The health of Mr. Childers
is completely restored, and he is now capable of
giving his undivided attention to business. We under-
stand that from conscientious motives Captain
Charles Stirling, R.N. (1863), has ,resigned the
commission he held in her Majesty's service.
Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield, G.C.8.,
G. C. S. 1., takes over the command of the troops in Ire-
land, vice General Lord Strathnairn, G.C.8.,
from Major-General Sir A. A. T. Cunynghame,
K.C.8., on Monday, and will assume the command
of an army in the highest state of efficiency.
The two divisions of the Channel Squadron will
shortly rendezvous off Plymouth, and will proceed to
sea to meet Sir Alexander Milne, who will assume the
command of the combined fleet, and retain it for a
certain period, returning afterwards, as we have previously
said, to England in H.M.S. Bellerophon.— The chief
clerk at the Admiralty, Mr. Thomas Wolley, and Mr.
Robert Bell, one of the senior clerks, have been recom-
mended by their lordships to the Lord-Chancellor
to be placed on the commission of the peace.—Colonel R.
Carey, C. 8., half-pay, late 40th Regiment, succeeds
Colonel C. G. Mein, as Deputy Judge-Advocate at Man,
chester on Monday.—Major R. Harbord, half-pay, late
7th Fusiliers, recently promoted to a half-pay majo-
ity, has been oppointed Garrison Instructor at Oork.—
Major-General L. S. O'Connor, C. 8., lately in command
of the forces in the West Indies, arrived home from
Jamaica on Wednesday.—Colonel C. Nugent, Deputy
Judge Advocate at Dublin, will we are informed, remain
in his present position.—ln future the consolidated pay and
allowances of the Military Secretary to the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in-Chief will be £1,500, instead of £2,300 a
year as heretofore.—Colonel J. H. Laye, Deputy Judge-
Advocate, will not be succeeded for the present. It is, in
fact, probable that he will retain his appointment
until his promotion to the rank of Major-general.—
We have it upon excellent authority that as yet,
although the present condition of our army has received
the serious attention, of both the Secretary fox War and
the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, nothing has
been done to prepare us for taking any steps towards the
protection of Belgium, should our services be required.
The United Service Gazette is able to state on the most
undoubted authority that orders have been given for a
large number of troops to be held in readiness for active
service.—The Gazette also says that recruiting at
the various stations is being carried on with
dmsiderable activity. It is confidently rumoured
that the scheme for the unification of the Army ,
Medical Department has been abandoned.—lt has been
elicited from Mr. Cardwell in the House of Commons
that 53,859 Snider rifles have been supplied to the Militia,
and 7,330 to the Yeomanry Cavalry. On the other hand,
there are several regiments of the Line in India who are
not yet in possession of breech-loading arms.—There is
every probability of the Admiralty adopting Mr. Hen-
wood's system for cutting down, armour-plating, and
making available for defence some of our old " wooden
walls." Better late than never. The appointments to the
Control Department will, we believe, not be gazetted until
after the dissolution of Parliament, the reason being
obviously to prevent any disagreeable questions relative
to the dreadful muddle that must ensue, from the amal-
gamation of the officers of the different departments
under the control system, and the favouritism which has
been shewn in the acting appointments already made.—
The following are the names of the Committee of Con-
struction at the Admiralty : Messrs. Frederic K. Barnes,
Nathaniel Barnaby, and B. Crossland. Mr. Mor-
gan, the present professional secretary, is secretary to the
committee.

ALLEGED FORGERY:—At the Mansion House, Alfred
Chui•ch, eighteen years of 'age, described as a tea
taster, was charged before . the Lord Mayor with
forgino• and uttering a cheque for £4B 125., with intent
to defraud the governor and directors of the
Alliance Bank, in Bartholomew-lane. The charge
was preferred by Mr. Richard Mullens, solicitor to the
Lotrdon Bankers' Protection Association. The prisoner
had been in the service of Messrs. Nathan and Wood, tea
brokers, in Philpot-lane, but had left in February last.
On the 16th of July the Cheque in question for £4B 12s.
was presented at the Alliance Bank, where they kept an.
account, and cashed acros§ 'the counter. It purported
to be signed by Messrs. Nathan and Wood, as
did also an order for a cheque-book which had
been obtained at the bank a day or two before.
The prisoner was known at the bank as having
been accustomed to go there on the business of the firm,
but he was not identified as the person who had presented
either the order or the check. Both'menabcra of sthe firm,
however, were called as witnesses, and they spoke to both
being in the prisoner's handwriting to the 'best of their
belief. The cheque was presented on July 16, as soon as
the doors of the bank were opened. At the request of
the .solicitor for the prosecution, the case being incom-
plete, the Lord Mayor remanded the prisoner until
Monday week.
A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.—At Mayl-
borough-street, Mr. James Unett Lofts, of Wellington-
place, Dulwich, a gentleman, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with being drunk and assaulting Arthur Pole, a
groom, living in eangley-court, Long Acre. The com-
plainant said he was standing outside a public-house in
Piccadilly on Friday night, when the prisoner gave him,
without the least provocation, a back-handed blow on the
face, tore his coat, and seized him by the throat, and pushed
him violently against a lamp-post. Several persons advised
him to give the prisoner into custody, and he did so.—ln
reply to the prisoner, the complainant said he did not
tread on his toes in the public house.—Daniel Cooper
proved that the prisoner " flew at the complainant like ft
lion " and struck him. —The prisoner said he did, and NA ould
do so again if he were offended by any one.—Mr.
Tyrwhitt said a man of the prisoner's appearance ought
to be ashamed to act as the prisoner had done. The
prisoner would have to pay £5, or two months. The
complainant asked to be compensated for the damage
to his coat.—Mr. Tyrwhitt then ordered the prisoner to
pay a fine of £4 108., ai.d 10s. as compensation to the
complainant.
CONVICTION OF BETTING MEN.—George Lock, 97,
Star-street, Paddington, tobacconist,. Thomas Baker, 19,
Stanley-street, Paddington, cab-driver, badge numbers
594, and Daniel Landon, 5, South-wharf-road, Padding-
ton, carpenter, were charged at the Maryebone Police-
court, with unlawfully assembling together in London.
street, Paddington, for the purpose of, betting, thereby
causing an obstruction, contrary to the 30th and 31st Vic.
chap. 34, sec. 22, under the Metropolitan Streets Act.
Samuel Doble, detective of the .X division, said on the
previous day he was in London-street, and saw the pri-
soner Lock with a betting list in his hand. Baker asked
him the price of the odds upon a horse that they men-
tioned for the Chester Cup. Lock said, four to one.
Baker said that was not good enough. They then went round
the corner into a mews, where Lock took out a piece of
paper and wrote something on it after Baker had given
him two half-crowns. Baker went away, and Lock
entered something on a piece of paper . Landon then
asked Lock the price of the odds against Formosa.
Baker came back and said to Lock, book me another at
the same price. Lock took some money from him and put
it in his pocket. Lock put something down on a piece of paper.
Witness went up, and Lock tried to tear up the
papers. He now produced a portion of it. Cross-examined :
London-street is a great thoroughfare. He was close to
the prisoners. Hobbs, police-constable 178 X, said he
went to the spot and saw Baker pass some money to Lock
who placed it in his pocket. After a short time Baker
came hack and passed some more money to Lock. He
then went into a public hquse. In answer to Mr.
Sampson this witness said that he did see money
pass. Mr. Sampson addressed the magistrate at
length, and argued that under the Betting Act the
police had done a wrong in apprehending* the prisoners.
Mr. Mansfield said the prisoners were properly charged
under the Metropolitan Streets Act, which had these
words—" Where three or more persons assemble together
in a public thoroughfare they shall be deemed guilty of
causing an obstruction in the street." He thought the
prisoners had so infringed the law. If they wished to
carry on their avocation as racing men, they had better
become respectable members of Tattersall's. The penalty
the law allowed him to award in cases of this kind was
£5. The prisoners would each have to pay £5 The fine
was paid.
A Row IN AN EATING-HOUSE--Matthew Graham, a
tall, determined, strong fellow, aged 30 years, and de-
scribed as a labourer, was brought up before Mr. Lush-
ington, charged with a variety of offences, which included
charges of being disorderly in the eating-house of
Mi. G. Parkiss, Whitehapel, .refusing to leave
when requested, making a disturbance, and assault-
ing Mr. Parkiss. The prisoner was also
charged with assaulting Mr. John Hyett, eating-
house keeper, of No. 22, Hoxton-street, Shoreditch, and
Robert Hill, a police-constable, No. 101 H. In addition
to this, he was charged with damaging several choice
dishes which the chef de cuisine of Mr. Parkiss's
establishment had prepared for the hungry liege
subjects of her Majesty. It appeared that
the prisoner visited the eating.house of Mr.
Patkess last night. He was full of appetite
and full of drink, and after he, had treated himself with
soups, meat, and plenty of vegetables and bread, lie paid
his score and took his departure. He returned in a few
minutes, and complained that Mr. Parkiss had not given
him his right change. He demanded 5d., which Mr.
Parkiss ref Used to give him. He then made a great
disturbance, and capsized all the dishes of meat and
soupl in the place. Mr. Parkiss attempted to put him
out, but was unable to do so, and the prisoner tore his
shirt to ribbons, and bit two of Mr. Parkiss's fingers
severely. Mr. Hyett, another eating-house keeper,
came to the rescue, and was severely kicked and
disabled by the prisoner, who carried all before
him, and would have made a complete wreck of the shop,
had not two constables of the H Division, named Eldred
and Hill, arrived on the scene of action, and seized the
prisoner, who fiercely attacked both officers. Eldred was
rendered hors de combat in an instant, and Hill, who
gallantly seized the prisoner, was kicked a severe blow on
the leg. He struggled desperately with the prisoner, who
threw the policeman, and then kicked him again on the
side. A reinforcement arrived, and the prisoner was
secured. He pleaded it was the drop taken that did all
the mischief.—Mr. Lushington said the priioner had
acted like a madman, and sentenced him to six months'
imprisonment and hard labour for three assaults on Mr.
Perkiss, Mr. Hyatt, and Hill the constable.

Wart HORSES.—On Saturday morning another
extensive batch of English horses, of first class description
were taken to the Waterloo-road terminus of the South
Western Railway, for conveyance, it was believed to
Portsmouth, and from thence to be transferred to France
and Prussia. This is the third draft from the same railway
station during the last few days.
A HARD CASE.—Mr. 'Baxter admits that he is
the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, and is, there-
fore, responsible for all the acts carried out in his name.
We are informed that a naval officer has been pensioned
off on a particular sum per diem which should produce a
certain annual amount, but the counting-house system
which the hon. member for Montrose has introduced into
Whitehall has proved itself in fault in this case, for in
no way can it make the two sums agree simply from the
fact that leap year has not been taken into consideration.
In the meantime the luckless officer cannot draw any por-
tion. of the pay due to him. Surely it would be in keep-
ing with ordinary commercial practice if, pending a settle-
ment, a sum were paid to this suffering creditor on
account.—Army and Navy Gazette.
THE LATE FENIAN RAID.—A despatch from
Earl Granville to Sir John Young, Governor-General of
Canada, has been published. His lordship praises the
conduct of the volunteers and militia in repelling the late
Fenian raid and says :—The discredit and ridicule attach.
ing to these marauders on account of their signal over-
throw when they had scarcely crossed the frontier must
cripple, if not utterly destroy, the means of re-organising
expeditions as wicked and unjustifiable in their
conception as they 'have proved to be feeble
and unsuccessful in their execution. • The geniuine
admiration of the spirit and behaviour of the
Canadian levies which pervades the reports of Colonel
Smith and Colonel Bagot is the best evidence that their
easy success is not so much due to the character of their
opponents as to the intrinsic qualities of the Canadians,
the promptitude, courage, and intelligence which make
individuals distinguished and a nation great."
A PARIS HALFPENNY PAPER.—I have before me
a little halfpenny paper. You might hide half a dozen
copies of it, undetected by the Post-office authorities, in a
single copy of the Figaro. It is called L'Armee. Bear
in mind that it is not a journal of yesterday. It
has not been just thrust into the boulevard kiosks
to effect a little official chantage. It is not to be
ranked with the Lutte. It has reached the respectable
age of thirteen years. Its file includes all the military
exploits of France which date since the Crimean
war. In its columns, the French soldier comes
upon a military record of Magenta and Solferino.
By its light the hesitating youngster warms to the point
of volunteering. Upon its front page is a bold • portrait
of Marshal Mac-Mahon, Commander of the Ist Corps
d'Armde of the Rhine. Its leading romance of the pre-
sent is " The Revenge of Waterloo." This
_sou organ 'of
military France reflects the general feeling—is a feathe-
that shews truly the direction of the wind; and it is moi,
important to watch its progress, now that it has become a
daily paper. than it is to follow the Journal Officie/.
Daily News Correspondent.

In the Court of Vice-Chancellor MalinS, on Saturday,
Sir Roundell Palmer applied for the discharge of the
recent order of the Court as far as the Turkish Ambas-
sador was concerned. Sir Roundell Palmer stated that
the Turkish Government had given an order for the con-
struction of an iron steamer, the contract price (1:92,000)
being arranged to be paid in periodical instalments. The
vessel was ready for sea on Wednesday last, and it
was alleged by the company that on the following day
the men in charge were overpowered by the representa-
tives of the Turkish Government, and that the vessel was
seized and immediately taken to sea. The same afternoon
an injunction was obtained in that court, and on the fol-
lowing morning the vessel, under the powers of the injunc-
tion, was forcibly retained. The allegation was that the
Government had done all this for the purpose of escaping
the payment of the last instalment of £22,000, but he
was in a position to prove that the whole thing was a
mere pretext on the part of the company with the view
of escaping certain penalties which they had incurred.
But with that he had nothing- to do at present, the object
of his application being to have the fact of the order
which related to the Turkish Ambassador discharged,
inasmuch as the official had had nothing whatever to do
with the transaction, and had not, in fact, been served
with a notice of the injunction.
The Vice-Chancellor, after consulting some authorities
on the question, acceded to the application.

THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF

HASTINGS.

In the Rolls Court on Saturday Sir Richard Baggallay,
Q.C., M.P., presented a petition in the case of Bubb v.
Yelverton, which is a suit for the administration of the
estate of the late Marquis of Hastings, filed
at the instance of a creditor. Sir Richard
stated that a fund had been deposited in court
I for the purpose of discharging the debts of the
deceased. At one time it was thought that the estate was
quite insolvent ; but subsequent inquiries had shewn that
it was solvent, and that to a very considerable extent.
The Marchioness and some members of the deceased's
family were the residuary legatees of the estate.
It appeared from a certificate of the Chief
Clerk, dated June last, that the debts proved
amounted 'altogether to £92,916, and that there
were other claims still under consideration to the extent
of £42,793 ss. 4d. The object of the present petition was
for the benefit of those interested in the estate,
by the payment of the certified debts out of the
fund in Court. Amongst those debts were over two
hundred for sums under £lO, some being as small as 55.,
and it was proposed that the aggregate amount of those
debts should be paid to Mr. Blake, solicitor to the trustee,
upon his undertaking to pay the several parties, In addi-
tion to the sums he had already mentioned, it was
the desire of all parties that 1:20,000 should be
paid Mr. Padwick, and as that would substantially pay
off the whole of the debts in the suit, he asked that the
costs of all the parties should be taxed up to the present
time. Lord Romilly assented to the application, remark-
ing that he had no objection to the proposal of paying off
the small creditors, inasmuch as he had the utmost
confidence in the gentleman who had been named ; and
every difficulty would be met by the insertion of adver-
tisements in the public newspapers indicating that the
small claims would be settled in this particular manner.

Mr. Greenhow and Mr. Bellamy, the manager and
cashier of the Hereford branch of the West of England
Bank, have been committed for trial on a charge of
having embezzled the sum of £4,611, the moneys of the
bank.

Mr. Mellish, Q.C., is to be the new Lord
Justice. Mr. Mellish is not a member of the
equity bar. He was called in 1848, and has since
practised exclusively at common law. He is still in the
prime of life, and has attained the highest position
as counsel at the common law bar, having been engaged
for years in almost every case of importance. The new
Lord Justice refused a puisne judgeship two or three
years ago when a vacancy occurred on the bench.

The Cork, Examiner says that the Lord Chief
Justice was the object of an extraordinary demonstration
while_proceeding to Belfast on Monday to open the assizes.
At Sainthill an Orange band from IN ewtownwards
entered one of the carriages of the train in which his
lordship was travelling and accompanied him to Comber,
playing "The Protestant Boys." At Comber they got
out and stood on the platform, waving Orange pocket-
handkerchiefs and cheering as the train moved on.

THE IRISH RIOTS AND THE POLICE.—At the Cork
assizes on Friday a policeman named Crowley was charged
with firing on the people during the riots at Ballyheegan,
County Kerry. A man named O'Hara, who was wounded
stated that the police attacked them with bayonets with-
out cause, and the prisoner, with other policemen, fired
on them. Judge Keogh summed up in favour of the
prisoner, who was acquitted. In the other cases a nolle
prosequi was entered.

SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT AT HEREFORD.—On
Friday, a youth named Hook, employed in the office of
Mr. Chick, architect, Hereford, purchased a revolver.,
with cartridges, and took it to the office charged, and
allowed a junior clerk to play with it. Just at the moment
a youth named Frank 'funks was entering the office, when
Hook pointed the revolver at him and shot him, breaking
his left jaw and knocking out his teeth. The ball has not
been extracted, and the unfortunafe sufferer lies in a
dangerous state.

FRANCE, BELGIUM, AND IRELAND.—The London
correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette writes :—" Our
Government is said to be so disconcerted at the revelations
of the last day or two, as to be on the point of entering
into negotiations with Russia and Austria, the two great
Powers who remain neutral with us, to send an army of
occupation to Belgium, to fall upon whatever Power
ventures to violate its territory, and to provide against
any such contingency as we have intimated. Should
further advices from Berlin prove that the docu-
ment published in the Times was recently sub-
mitted to the King of Prusssia as an ulti-
matum, a course like this need n)t excite much
surprise. There is a whisper going round that the curious
disturbances and demonstrations in Ireland in favour of
the French have not sprung up of themselves, but have
been originated and fomented by. French influence and
French gold. What our Gallic neighbours have to gain,
though, by the senseless ravings of a Fenian mob is, we
must confess, beyond our apprehension, and it is quite in
keeping with the national character for the quondam
Mayor of Cork and other agitators to hail the French
Emperor as the champion of liberty and the deliverer of
Europe. Still it is just worth while ascertaining whether
the report has any foundation or no,