The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-11 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 10.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Leopold
and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service at
Whippingham Church this morning.

Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor arrived at
Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the Royal Family.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—TIas Day.

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT AT CHURCH DOORS.—
William a boy, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct at the doors of
St. Luke's Church, Berwick-street, St. James's.
The Rev. Harry Jones, the rector of St. Luke's
Church, Berwick-street, said he was about entering
his church last night, when he heard a great dis-
turbance in the church directly afterwards followed
by the rush of four or five boys halloaing out
and apparently trying to trip up persons entering
the church, aud as the prisoner rushed into his
arms, he transferred him to a constable who took
him into custody.
In reply to Mr. Tyrwhitt,

The Rev. Harry Jones said that he had suffered
from the nuisance before and let the boys off, but
he thought he would not the present one.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—The complainant only pressing
the case as a caution to the unruly boys of the
neighbourhood, ordered the prisoner to be put
back and discharged at the rising of the Court.
John Macarthy, a rough-looking fellow, was
charged with playing at pitch-and-toss near the
doors of St. Luke's Church yesterday afternoon,
during divine service.

Richard Kent, 191 C, specially employed for the
purpose in plain clothes, proved seeing the prisoner
and others playing at pitch-and-toss, and he took
bim into custody.
The Rev. Harry Jones spoke of the nuisance of
lads gambling near his church on Sundays.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 10s., or eight
days.

Dennis Keefe, Francis Toole, and John White
were charged with a similar offence near the doors
of St. Patrick's Chapel, Sutton-street, Soho, and
after hearing the evidence of Kent, who said that
Toole had been at the court before, Mr. Tyrwhitt
tined Toole 205., or 14 days, and the others 10s., or
seven days each.
A CAB PROPRIETOR COMMITTED FOR CRUELTY.—
James Hart, a cab proprietor, was charged with
cruelty to a horse, by working it in an unfit state.
An officer of the Royal Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals watched the case, the
prisoner having been twice before committed for
cruelty.
Sergeant Leech, 17 C, saw the prisoner driving a
horse attached to a cab, the horse being very lame,
and having an open wound on one of its legs, from
which a discharge was issuing, and he took the pri-
soner (who was convincted of cruelly beating a
horse on the Haymarket rank in March last and
fined £3 or two months) into custody.
Mr. Cherry, veterinary surgeon, said the horse
had broken knees, both sore, and it was entirely
lame, and unfit for work of any kind.
The magistrate having made some very strong
remarks on the prisoner's conduct, committed him
for two months with hard labour.

Patrick Carrol, a costermonger, was charged
with cruelty to a donkey.
The prisoner was seen drivinga donkey attached to
a barrow laden with vegetables, the donkey having
a large wound on its shoulder, and although the
collar had been hollowed out so as to ease it, it
merely had the effect of aggravating the wound.
Otherwise the donkey appeared to be well
cared for.

The prisoner was fined 10s. or seven da:

T IIAMES

AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—William Brown, a
labourer, was charged with stealing, a coat, hat,
and scarf, the property of Johann Urquhart.
The prosecutor was employed in the West India
Dock on Friday, and in the course of the day he
put away his coat in what he thought was a place
of safety. On looking for it again it was gone.
There was a scarf in one pocket and a knife in the
other. On Saturday afternoon the prisoner, who
had been at work in the dock and was suspected,
was stopped by a constable, named Joseph Cleaver,
as he was about to leave the dock, and charged
with stealing the coat. He stoutly denied it, on
which Cleaver said you are the thief, and I will
search you. The prosecutor's knife was found upon
him, and on inquiry being made the missing coat
was discovered at the pawn-office of Mr. James
Nathan, a pawnbroker in Poplar, whose assistant,
Benjamin Poole, said that he received it of the
prisoner on Friday afternoon, and lent him 10s.
upon it.

Haine, an officer, said the prisoner had been in
custody before for stealing a quadrant from a ship,
and after being two days in custody, escaped in
consequence of the owner going to sea.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

ACCIDENT TO THE DUC DE GUISE.—On Thursday
morning last the .Ouc de Guise, only son of the Duo
d'Aumale, of Orleans House, Twickenham, was thrown
from his horse while hunting, and unfortunately broke his
log. The illustrious sufferer was at once conveyed to
Orleans House, and surgical aid was immediately forth-
coming. The duke is progressing favourably.
THE SOMERSET PROVINCE OF FREEMASONS. —To-
morrow the installation of the Right Hon. tho Earl of
Carnarvon as Grand Master of Freemasons for the Pro-
vince of Somerset will take place at Bath, and the cere-
mony is to be followed by a banquet. Invitations have
been sent out to a large number of lodges, and the event
is ono that excites much interest among the fraternity.
HOURLY COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDECE WITH
PARlS.—Although much importance is attached to the
construction of Boutet's Anglo-French railway bridge,
from the immense facilities it will afford for the
transport of passengers and merchandise between
England and the Continent, it seems that there is
another purpose to which the bridge can
.bo turned,
which will confer even greater benefits, commercially
speaking, upon the two countries. A friend of Mr. Boutet
suggests that a light steel tube, a metre in diameter,
might be affixed to each side of the bridge, either outside,
or forming part of, the balustrade. These tubes could be
continued along the existing lines of railway (or a single
tube would suffice, except on the bridge), and might
be used for the conveyance, by atmospheric pres-
sure, of letters, &c., in a specially constructed car-
riage which the inventor has designed. The tubes
would add comparatively nothing to the cost of the
bridge, and would add materially to its rigidity. By
this means a letter posted in Loader; if addressed to the
Place de la Bourse, could be delivered almost as quickly as
as if addressed to a suburb of London, and there would be
nothing to prevent the establishment of ten deliveries
daily of Paris letters in London, and of an equal number
of deliveries of London letters iniParis--Afining Journal.
On Saturday morning, the Liverpool police found
the body of a very respectably-dressed middle-aged
woman half imbedded in the mud of a road which runs
through some brickfields at the east end of the town.
From marks of violence upon the face, it is thought the
deceased did not come to her death by fair means. The
police are investigating the matter.
A serious accident has occurred to two workmen,
named 31‘Gowan and Conway, employed at the West
Cumberland Ironworks, at Workington. One of the men,
it appears, had incautiously thrown some cold water into
a furnace where there was some molten iron at the bot-
tom. The consequence was an explosion, and both
11Gowan and Conway were somewhat severely burned
about the face.

WINTER WEATFIER.—There have been years in
which no frost and snow whatever were seen. In 1172
so mild was the season that the trees were covered with
leaves ; and the birds built their nests and hatched their
young in the month of February. In 1289 there was no
winter, and in 1421 white blossoms were to be seen on the
ordinary trees in March, and on the vine in April ; cher-
ries ripened in the latter month, and the grape in May
In 1538 the gardens were bright with flowers in January ;
1572 was like 1172 ; and 1607, 1612 and 1617 were re-
markable for their genial temperature. Neither ice nor
snow was visible in 1659 ; no stoves were lit in Germany
in 1692; and the softness of the weather in J 791, 1807, an
1822 rendered those year quite phenonionsl.