The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-10 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE KING OF HANOVER AND THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—
On Saturday, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, the case of
the King of Hanover was heard. A bill was filed by his
Majesty and the Crown Prince against the Bank of
England and the Dukes of Cambridge and Brunswick,
praying that the governor and company of the Bank of
England may be directed to transfer the sum of £600,000
Three per Cent. Consols standing to the credit of "his Ma-
jesty's Royal Regency of Hanover" into the names of the
plaintiffs, the King and Crown Prince, and of the defend-
ants, the Dukes of Cambridge and Brunswick, to be held
by them in trust for the persons entitled thereto. In 1867
the Governor of the Bank of England received a protest
from the Prussian Ambassador with respect to the deli-
vering up of this fund, and finally a convention was made
between the King of Hanover and the King of Prussia,
whereby it was provided amongst other things that his
Majesty King George I. was to retain possession of
the sum of £600,000, and all the interest due thereon.
The counsel for the bank said that all that the bank
desired was to have the security which this court alone
could confer in transferring this large fund. Hesuggested
that two trustees should be appointed by the court, who
should be empowered and directed by the court to transfer
the fund to the four personages above named under the
Trustee Relief Act. The Vice-Chancellor observed that
the proper course would be for these royal personages to
name two persons to act as their formal trustees in the
matter, and the order for transferring the fund might
then be made in the way proposed by the learned counsel
for the Bank of England.

THE REV. G. M. IRVINE.—On Saturday, a clergyman,
resident in Wandsworth, was summoned at Bow-street
for having received an insane person into his house without
the necessary certificate. The alleged lunatic, a lady, had
lived with the defendant eleven years, when, early in
September last, she threw herself from an upper
window and received very severe injuries. It was
admitted that she was then insane, but denied by the
defendant that she had previously shewn symptoms of
madness. The magistrate committed Mr. Irvine for trial,
and accepted his own recognizances to appear.
BETTING-HOITSES.—A licensed victualler of South-street,
Grosvenor-square, was on Saturday charged, with four
other persons, at Marlborough-street, with having used his
house for betting purposes. The hearing was adjourned.
A NOBLEMAN FINED. —At Brentford Police-court, Lord
George Ker was summoned to answer a charge of
assault by John Sickamore, a toll-keeper at Kew
Bridge. On the 2nd of May Lord and Lady Ker
were returning with some friends from Richmond, Lady
Ker driving the landau. The party passed through the
Kew-bridge Gate, when the complainant ran after them,
seized hold of the reins, and demanded the toll. Lord
Ker, being irritated, struck the toll-keeper. A
great deal of evidence was given, in the course of which
it appeared that the complainant was not sober. The
bench were of opinion that a deliberate blow was struck
and they convicted his lordship of the assault, fining hip;
10s.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES. —The delivery et
mackerel for the season has commenced at Great Yar-
mouth. Prices have ranged from 525. to 70s. per 120.
The spring herring fishery has been prosecuted with
increased success by the Lowestoft boats during the past
week.

KILLED BY KINDNESS. —An old soldier of the
First Empire has just fallen a victim to the Emperor's
generosity. Sabras Parfait, aged seventy-nine, went to
pay his taxes, when the collector asked him if he had heard
of the extra pension of £lO a year which was to be given
to the veterans of Napoleon's wars. The news had such
an effect on poor Sabras Parfait that he let fall a glass of
wine he was about to drink and expired on the spot.
CABINET COUNCIL.—At the Cabinet Council held
in Downing-street on Saturday, the Ministers present
were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley,
the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl
Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of
Argyll, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon.
J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of
Hartingtun, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue.
THE TOMB OF MENKEN.—At the time of
her death it was understood that it was the wish of
Adah Isaacs Menken that her remains should rest with
a single inscription, the Hebrew legend " Thou knowest."
It seems, however, that these wishes have been disre-
garded; that a number of well-meaning friends, headed
by the editor of the New York Clipper, and an English
actress, named Rita Percy, have procured the exhumation
of the body from Pere la Chaise, where it had been lying
since August last, and its reinterment in the cemetery
Mont Parnasse, south of Paris, where a splendid obelisk
surmounted with an urn, nearly ninety feet in height, and
covered with flowers, immortelles, wreaths, &c., has been
erected, at a cost of 2,000 f.
PREJUDICES OF THE SERVICES.—When the
late Captain Moorsom, of live-shell fame, appeared
on one occasion at the Admiralty with a profu-
sion of whisker, beard, and moustache, he was ironically
told that he had made a mistake, and that his visit was
intended for the Horse Guards. He was accordingly
bowed out of the room, took the hint much to his personal
inconvenience, and returned with a clean-shaved chin. We
believe that, even at the present advanced board, there are
inividuals who think that a man with a hairy face is only
fit to be a bear-leader, and would as soon think of going
to sea without provisions as without a set of well-ground
razors. The first Lord of the Admiralty is a very Esau ;
and we understand that, wishing to do by others as he
would be done by himself, he has sanctioned the prepara-
tion of an order to the effect that all officers, seamen, and
others serving in her Majesty's fleet may be allowed to
dispense with the aid of the barber. We hail with
pleasure this, another proof of Mr. Childers's common
sense.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—At an early hour on Sun-
day morning the paper mills at Ilford, the property of
Messrs. Simpson and Co., were discovered to be on fire.
mounted policeman first observed a light in the bleaching
warehouses, and on examining the premises, he speedily
discovered them to be in a blaze. There were no engines
in the town apparently, and the engines of the metro-
politan brigade being out of the radius, the entire
de]truction of the mills appeared to be inevitable. A
powerful manual engine was, however, despatched as soon
as possible from the Flomford Brewery, and subsequently
another arrived from West Elam. A strong body of the
London Salvage Corps was also speedily on the spot.
Owing to the want of water in the first instance the fire
spread rapidly, and a large crowd speedily collected.
Through the exertions of the Salvage Corps a great amount
of valuable property was saved, and all the men present
worked zealously throughout the day. The damage done
may thus be described : The bleaching rooms were burnt
out, the boiling rooms nearly destroyed, and the stores,
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