The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-30 00:00:00

THE. NEW LORD CHAMBERLAIN.

The new Lord Great Chamberlain, in the room of the
late Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, will be Mr. Burrell, who,
on the meeting of Parliament, will take his seat at; Lord
Gwydyr, to which title he has succeeded. Lord Wil-
loughby d'Eresby died without issue, but Lord Gwydyr,
being his nephew, will succeed to the office. The Wil-
loughby d'Eresby family hold the office during the reign
of her present Majesty, on whose death it will fall into
the Cholmondeley family, the two families heing heredi-
tary Great Chamberlains.

MEDICAL th.i IN WAR. •
.At a meeting of the Social Science Association on
Monday evening, Mr. Ernest Hart read a paper on the
organisation of medical aid in war. Colonel Loyd-
Lindsay presided, and, in commenting on the paper, he
asserted that our medical service, which had been severely
criticised, was no less efficient than the transport and
commissariat services. He also vindicated the credit of
the medical staff officers during the Crimean War, who
had been described by one of the speakers as laving
passed their time in idleness and pleasures.

LAW AND POLICE.

DESPERATE ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—Thos. Welsh
33, a deserter from the Royal Naval Reserve, was charged,
at the Westminster Police-court, with assaulting the
police and resisting his lawful apprehension, and James
Marney, 19, a labourer, was charged with attempting to
rescue the prisoner and assaulting the police also. The
facts were not disputed. Detectives Watts and Clough,
of the 13 Division, went to Exeter-street, Chelsea, and
apprehended Welsh on the charge of desertion ; after he
had gone a few yards he called on the crowd
to rescue him, and Marney was the first to
volunteer for that purpose ; he knocked Watts
down and kicked him, enabling Welsh to get free,
and, after escaping, they with a vast crowd made a vio-
lent attack ,upon the police, and grievously assaulted
Watts, Clough, Parish, 339 B, and Ross, 206 B, the
whole of !them being smothered with blood and bruises.
Prisoners only pleaded drunkenness in excuse, and Mr.
Woolrych, after describing their conduct as cowardly and
ruffianly, sentenced them to three terms of, six weeks'
hard labour, making four months' and a half in all.
AR 'UNFORTUNATE PROSECUTOR.—Edward Murrell and
Henry Jones, two young men in the employ of Mr.
Thompson, draper, Regent-street, were brought :before
Mr. Benson, at the Marlborough Police-court, charged
with embezzling money received on account of
their employer. The cases were heard separately,
but the evidence in each case was nearly the same.
The prisoners, who were in the employ of the prosecutor
as porters at a weekly salary of 16s. each, had goods
given them to deliver, for which they were to receive
payment ; they received the money, and then absented
themselves from their employ, and on being taken into
custody by Detective Shrives, of the C Division, they
each made a similar statement. Mr. Benson sentenced
Murrell to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour ;
and committed Jones for trial.
A HEAVY FINE.— A young man, named Edward
Webb, who on Saturday evening went to the Alhambra
in a state of intoxication, and in the midst of a " lark "
committed two assaults upon the attendants, was brought
up at Marlborough-street, and fined £8 in all, with the
alternative of three months' imprisonment.
THE BABY PERSONATION CASE.—Mary Hall, the
woman committed to take her trial for attempting to foist
a child upon Mr. Loe, of Peckham, was brought up at
Lambeth for the purpose of allowing several witnesses to
be bound over to prosecute. Being herself unable to pro-
duce the necessary bail, the prisoner was again removed to
Horsemonger-lane Gaol.
DECREES NISI AND ABSOLUTE.—A judgment, which
decided a novel point, was given by Lord Penzance in the
Divorce Court, in the cause of Patterson v. Patterson and
Graham. The petitioner, a major in the army, asked for
a dissolution of his marriage with the respondent, on the
ground of her adultery with the co-respondent. The case
was tried, and the petitioner obtained a decree nisi, and
also £5OO damages. He now sought to obtain the
decree absolute. His Proctor, however, objected to
his doing so till his bill of costs was paid. The learned
Judge said he had studied the case, and had come to the
conclusion that the petitioner was entitled to his decree
absolute. The fact that in the ccmmon law courts a
plaintiff could not receive till he had paid his costs ought
not to be taken as a guide for what a petitioner in the
Divorce Court should do, for if that were made the rule,
the petitioner's decree might be suspendei indefinitely.
THE GODERICH DIVORCE CASE.—In the Divorce Court
Mrs. Goderich applied for a new trial in the case in which
her husband was the petitioner. It was stated on her
behalf that the witness who swore to her adultery with
Forder had been convicted of perjury, and she had ob-
tained warrants for the apprehension of those witnesses
who swore to her adultery with Mr. Lara ; but the war-
rant officer had been unable to find them. Dr. Deane,
for Mr. Goderich, opposed the application ; but
Lord Penzance said that doubtless the evidence
of the witnesses who had been convicted of per-
jury had influenced the jury in their decision as to other
acts of adultery. They very likely came to the conclusion
that if Mrs. Goderich had been guilty of adultery with
two persons, she probably had been with others. His
Lordship thought that Mrs. Goderich ought to have a
new trial of the allegations against her, and would advise
that the suit of herself and that of her husband should be
consolidated, so that the Court would not be troubled by
having to go through the same facts twice.

DEATH of A GERMAN POET.—The German poet,
Adolphe Boettcher, has just died at Leipsic, his native
city. He was born on the 21st of May, 1815, and at the
age of 21 entered the University of Leipsic, devoting ,
self to philological pursuits, and to the study of German
and English poets. Among his numerous poetical produc-
tions, his translations of the English poets occupy a con-
spicuous place. In addition to the works of-Shakespeare
and Byron, he translated the poems of Goldsmith, Pope,
Milton, and Ossian. Among his original works ate
" Agnes Bernauer," a drama ; " Songs of Midsummer,"
"On the Watch Tower," " A Tale of Spring," " Till
Eulenspiegel," " Pilgrimage of the Flower," " Spirits,"
" Shadows," and a collection of smaller lyrics.
A DOG Snow.—The babies and the barmaids
having had their field-days recently, the time has again
come round when the dogs should have an opportunity of
competing for popular favour. The faithful animal—
some say the dog is the most faithful of all companions
of men, when due allowance is made for his deficient
intelligence—is well represented this year at Birmingham.
No less than 865 members of the canine species, collected
from all breeds and from every part of the British Isles,
occupy stalls at the National Show. Sportsmen and other
authorities on the subject of dogs who have already paid the
quadrupeds a visit assert that the animals produced at the
Curzon Hall, Birmingham, are " as fine a race of noble
beings as ever delighted the eyes, and won the affections of
the squire or knight of the olden time." At the present
show the " Bedlington Terriers," hardy dogs, who are
known in the mining villages of Northumberland as the
" Colliers' friend," and who, as occasion requires, will
slaughter at a moment's notice, rats, rabbits, or any
small game not bigger than themselves ; Deerhounds, of
which twenty-one specimens are exhibited, and Irish
Setters, and St. Bernards, one of which latter, as visitors
inform us, strikes every beholder with fear, his head pre-
senting almost the fac-simile of a lion's : and Spaniels are
the moat noticeable entries, and render the. show, by
reason of their numbers, and generally magnificent vn-
dition, one of the best ever known in the United
Kingdom