The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-07 00:00:00

GAZE i`TE NOTICES.

The QUeen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William
Frederick Collier as vice-consul at Plymonth for his
Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Enrique
Fox as consul at Plymouth for the Republic of Chile.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Antonio Corsi as consul at Gibraltar for the Oriental
Republic of the Uruguay.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right
Honourable Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart., C.B. ;
Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bart. ; Sir Sydney
Hedley Waterlow, Knt., one of the Aldermen of the
City of London ; John Bonham Carter, Esq. ; Evan
Matthew Richards, Esq. ; Charles Saville Roundell, Esq.;
Francis Thomas Bircham, Esq. ; and William Pollard
Pattison, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissioners to in-
quire into the existing state of the law relating to Friendly
Societies, and also to inquire into and report up 3n the
operation of the Acts relating to Friendly Societies and
Benefit Building Societies, and the organisation and gene-
ral condition of societies established under such acts
respectively, and upon the office and duties of the regis-
trar of Friendly Societies, with power to suggest any im-
provements to be made in the law with respect to the
matters aforesaid.

The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent
to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity
of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto Edward Kenny, Esq., late President of the
Privy Council of the Dominion of Canada.

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE STAGE.

The Athenceum, has the following :—We hear that the
two concluding volumes of Mr. W. H. Dixon's History
of the Tower may be looked' for in a few months.—
The sale of the library of the late Professor Conington
will take place at Oxford, on Tuesday next. It consists
of about 3,000 volumes of classical and modern literature.—
M. Ivan Tourgudnief, the great Russian novelist, comes
to England in a few days for a six weeks' stay. He will
find in London many Russian men of letters driven from
Paris by the siege ; for example, M. Nicholas Tourgu6nief,
the political writer, and M. Khanikof, the ethnologist
and philologian. Messrs. Bell and Daldy have in
the press a new -verse translation of Asop's Fables.—
An exhibition for the benefit of the distressed peasantry
of France, will be formed in December next, at the
French Gallery, Pall Mall, and will probably contain
pictures by MM. Gerome, Elmore, Calderon, Daubigny,
Boyce, Heilbuth, Yvon, Schreyer, and others.
" Lyulph," the author of " Snow, Something Like a
Nugget," &c., has on the stocks another Christmas story,
which will be shortly launched. • It is callrd "An
Ancient Mariner." The present story is an attempt, by
extracting the padding, to condense a three volume novel
into an hour's reading to meet the requirements of this
fast age, its little leisure or its unwillingness to give much
time to light literature.
The second session of the Victoria Discussion Society
opens on Monday, at the Cavendish Rooms, with a paper
by Mr. Roscoe on the nature and cause of the opposition to
movements on behalf of women. Miss Faithful will take
the chair at eight o'clock and a brisk debate is expected.

THE TICHBORNE BARONETCY CASE.—This case, which
is fixed to come on in the Court of Common Pleas on the
18th inst., is expected to last over three weeks, and
promises to be of the most romantic description. For the
defence it will be sought to be proved that the claimant of
the estates is of low birth, and his alleged parents will be
produced. The importance attached to the claim may be
estimated from the fact that the Solicitor-General has
received a retainer of £l,OOO guineas for the defence, and
that other counsel receive from 500 to 850 guineas each.
A BOON FOR LADIES.—Highly as sewing machines are
prized, there is one great fault to which they are addicted—they
make a great noise while doing the work ; a noise so great that
for a worker herself to talk at the same time is out of the ques-
tion. We need not say how trying this must be to a lady. To
be not only prevented from talking, but also from listening to
the gossip of those around her—the very thought of such a
thing is unendurable. Well, an inventor has come to their
rescue with a SILINT SEWING MACHINE ; and as it comprises
all the appliances sad devices for varied work with which all the
best sewing machines are provided, and several in addition, and
exercises them all so 5015sna88LY that the ladies may gossip
even In whispers, and the infant or invalid sleep on in peace we
expect that most of the old machines will ere long be heard, or
heard of, no more, and that "LA SILENCIEUSE," the Silent
Sewing Machine (at Messrs. POLLACK, SCHMIDT, and Co.'s,
210 A, REGENT-STREET, LoNnoN, W.), will quietly take their
place, as the universal domestic helper.—"lnvestment Circular
and Financial Record," September 7, 1870.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Artificers and labourers formerly employed under the
War Department, and drawing their pensions at Wool•
wich, have been informed that if they wish to conk
mute their pensions for the purpose of emigration theY
may do so on application to the Secretary of State for
War.

The Rupert, ironclad ram, 3,159 tons, 700-horse power,
building in Chatham yard, now having a considerable
number of men employed upon her, is progressing favour'
ably. A great part of the inner plating of the hull of the
vessel is completed, and the teak backings will shortly be
commenced ; to this baking the armour-plates will b
fixed. The breastwork of the turret is also being. pro-
ceeded with and, like the sides of the vessel, the inner
plates are being arranged. The armour of the turret, the
breastwork, and broadside of the vessel will be of the
heaviest description.
We learn that.there will be a competitive examination
for the medical service in the British Army next February*,
when it is expected that there will be about twenty or
thirty vacancies.
After considering for six weeks a letterfrom the Mersa
Docks and Harbour Board, the Home Secretary Ina
informed them that the defence of the port of Livererl
is " engaging the serious iutention of both the War Pe.
partment and the Admiralty."
A'number of brass howitzer guns-70 or 80 in all—were
shipped from the Chatham Glin Wharf, on Thursdays
for Woolwich, for the purpose of re-manufacture.
These guns have been lying at the Gun Wharf in store
for years.
The turret-ship Monarch arrived in Portland harbour
on Thursday morning, from Portsmouth. The war ves-
sels now at anchor at Portland are the Agincourt, North-
umberland, Achilles, Warrior, and Inconstant. The
Achilles was outside on Thursday morning, practising
with her heavy guns.
The Nimble, 5, screw gun vessel, is in dock at ICe37-
ham, preparing for service in the Persian Gulf. She
will proceed thither, via the Suez Canal, about the 10th
instant.

At Keyham Dockyard, Mr. Barnes, Assistant-Cou•
strutter of the Navy, from the Controller's Office, White.
hall, has been on board the Invincible to test her power of
inclination. Sixty tons of iron ballast was used, all bel
put first on one side then on the othsr. The ship heele
about six degrees each way. This was with 300 tons of
water ballast in the double bottom, the boilers beibg empty
at the time. Mr. Barnes was to return to the Admiralty
on Tuesday night, when it was expected that something
would be known as to the destination of the ship. The
Invincible is now in the basin waiting orders.
It is stated that the post of Assistant Adjutant•Generxl
in Scotland, vacant by the retirement of Colonel E. G.
Bulwer, C. 8., consequent upon the completion of his terse
of Staff Service, will not be filled.

It is affirmed that the suggestion of removing the Alla
Clothing Establishment from Pimlico to Woolwich will be
carried out.
The Army and Navy Gazette says :—Major-General
Douglas, C.B. , late of the 11th Hussars, succeeds Maier.
General H. D. White, C. 8., in the command of the
Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot.—lt is anticipated
that the moves of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dr
goons from England to Ireland, and the 2nd
Dragoons (Scots Greys) from Ireland to England
will take place at the end of March or early in April next'
The Greys, it will be remembered, were ordered suddenlY
from Manchester to Newbridge in October, 1865. The
Inniskillings have been in England since April, 1867.
We have reason to believe the First Lord will, on or about
Wednesday next proceed toPortsmouth and also toPortland-
The Ist battalion 7th Fusiliers, upon arrival home from
India in February, will be stationed in Portsmouth Gar'
rison, relieving the Ist battalion 25th Regiment ; the
Ist battalion 15th, upon arrival from Bermuda,
will be quartered in Ireland ; the 84th, upon
arrival from Nova Scotia, in January, also in Ire-
land ; and the 103rd Fusiliers, upon arrival from India in
February, at Parkhurst, replacing the 99th Regiment.
All the assistant-surgeons of the Royal Navy who
presented themselves on Monday for examination were
deemed qualified to be promoted to the rank of surgeon.
The Broad Arrow bays :—The promulgation of the neW
establishment of the War Office will shortly be ramie-
We understand that it has only awaited Mr. Cardwelle
return to town. —Maj or-General Dickson, C. 8., Inspector-
General of the Royal Artillery, is at present making bi
annual inspection of the artillery forts and towers in the
North of Ireland.

The United Service Gazette says the General Depot Bat'
talion at Chatham will shortly cease to exist. The whole
of the depots comprising it, with the exception of two,
have already received orders to proceed to other destins'
tions.

WILLS AND •BEQUESTS.
The will of Don Lorenzo Moratinas Sanz, Viscount of
Villandrando, of Valencia, Spain, was administered to in
' London on the 22nd ultimo, under £12,000 personalty
in England, by the lawful attorney of the executors
Don Servando de Zulueta Puga, to wheat
he leaves 20,000 reals, and Don Zuan Mondero, hlB
cousin, whom he appoints his heir trustee, and leaves
him an annuity of 1,200 reals. The viscount died
in 1869, at Madrid, aged 60. The will is in the
Spanish language. He directs that his body shall be
enveloped in his Calatrabo mantle and placed in his chapel
of San Fructuoso, of Villado ; if not at once, then after
five years ; that 500 masses be said for his soul, and
gifts made to the clergy and poor present at his
funeral. He directs that gifts also be made to the nuns
and sisterhoods of several institutions, and that his three
ruby crosses, with 4,000 reals, be given to the nuns of
Calatrabus, Order of Burgos, from which he took his badge
of knighthood. He has made liberal bequests to his groove
in waiting, steward, bailiff, and servants ; there are ale°
many pensions, and liberal bequests to charitable
institutions for the poor of Valencia and Madrid. 0°
requests that, with permission of the proper authorities, e
public fountain be erected at the expense of his estate in
the market-square, " Plaza del Mercado," to which
his name shall be given. He orders that his property
be applied to establishing a bank for agricultural pur-
poses, with a capital of 1,000,000 ~reals, with the object of
assisting farmers in the places from which he drew his
rents, charging 1 per cent. over the rate quoted at the
Bank of San Fernando, but not to exceed 6 per cent., and
no advance beyond 3,000 reals, nor for more than three
years consecutively. The interest and profits are to be
applied to relieve field labourers who have reached 50
years and worked hard all their lives, for sick persons*
widows, and orphans, disabled soldiers not having pensions,
neighbourhoods in the province invaded by epidemic in•
fections, giving a dowry to the daughters of labourers ;
and, further, to provide a suitable endowment for any
lady of noble birth desirious to enter a convent. —The
wills of the undermentioned were recently proved.—Mr.
John Ennis Vivian, of Truro, Cornwall, under £70,000
personalty ; Mr. James Augustus Elmslie, £BO,OOO ;
Mr. John Martin, £70,000: Mr. George Stokes,
£45,000; Mr. George Edward Thomsom, £20,000; and
Mr. Percival Wright (at Lloyd's), £2o,ooo.—lllustrated
London News.

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AND LADY BURGOYNE•
—Lady Burgoyne has received from the Empress a costly
gold locket, in which her Majesty's photograph is to be
enclosed, as a souvenir of her memorable voyage to Eng'
land in Sir John Burgoyne's yacht, the Gazelle, from
which she landed at Ryde.—Hants Advertiser.
BREACH OP PROMISE CASE.—The case of Dainty T.
Brown was again before the Court of Common Pleas. it
was an action for breach of promise of marriage against a
farmer who was sixty years old, and the jury had awarded
the plaintiff £2,000 damages. A rule was asked for a nog
trial, upon the ground that the damages were excessive.
The Lord Chief Justice now said that they had consulted
Mr. Baron Channell who tried the cause, and though both
he and they thought that the amount was large, still he
could not report that he was dissatisfied with the verdict.
It was a matter which was entirely for the jury—they had
determined it, and the Court could not interfere with theit
decision. The rule was refused.

PROPOSED FOREIGN MEAT MARKET FOR 11:11‘
METROPOLIS.—A proposition which seems to meet with
the approval of the meat salesmen and butchers of Lon-
don generelly, will be submitted to the consideration of
the Common Council to-day, (Monday) by the Markets
Committee. A desirable site for the new emporium has
already been fixed upon, viz., a
.portion of Deptford
Dockyard which the owner, Mr. Austin, is prepared to
sell for £90,000, that gentleman undertaking to erect qae
works for the purposes of the victualling yard. 1 he,
expense will, it is projected, be met by the imposition of
a local rate, and the promoters of the scheme promise it
will be not only a capital speculation in a monetary sense
but a decided boon to the public of London.
IMPERIAL LAND COMPANY OF MARSEILLES.—In the
Court of Vice - Chancellor Sir R. Manus, an
portant summons was investigated with reference to
the liquidation of the above company. It was a represen-
tative case, and applied to 1,200 out of 1,700 shareholders.
It was issued by the Rev. C. B. Jeaffreson, the holder of
64 original shares. The company being a failure, it was
re-constituted, and christened " The Consolidated Land
Company of France." Both concerns were ultimately
ordered to be wound up under the supervision a
the Court of Chancery, and a call of £lO per
share was made upon the contributories. Mr. Jeaffreson
was included on the list, but he now disputed his liability,
on the ground that his shares had been transferred front
the old to the new company without his consent. The
Vice-Chancellor held that Mr. Jeaffreson was liable to
the call, inasmuch as he had never done anything to dis-
charge his liability as a shareholder, intimating; however,
that the shareholders who were parties to the transfer
might be expected to exonerate Mr. Jeaffreson from his
responsibility.

NOTICE. —KINAHAN'S LL. Whisky Depot. Kinahan
and Co. have removed to their new and spacious premises,
No. 6a, Great Titchfield-street, Oxford-street, leading
from Margaret-street, Regent-street, and Market-street,
Oxford-street. Kinahan's LL. Whisky.—This famous
and most delicious old mellow spirit is the very cream of
Irish whiskies, in quality unrivalled, perfectly pure,
and more wholesome than the finest cognac brandy".
Can be obtained all over the kingdom, in the well-known
sealed and labelled bottles, or in bond for exportation at
the London Docks. Wholesale Agents to Messrs. Bass,
Guinness, and Younger, and Dealers in Foreign Wines
and Spirits,

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