The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION.—(This Day.)

Kate Franks, alias Kate Hamilton, appealed against a
conviction of A. A. Knox,
Esq., magistrate, sitting at
Marlborough-street Police Court, for an offence under the
Refreshment Houses and Wino Licences Act, on her pre
liaises No. 4, Jermyn-street, Haymarket.
Mr. Meadows White (instructed by the Commissioners
of Police to appear in support of the conviction) said this
was the third conviction of the applicant, who was the
keeper of one of the notorious houses in the neighbourhood
of the Haymarket.

Mr. Inspector Pay said he visited the house kept by the
appellant on the 28th of November last, at half-past 12
o'clock. He found six men and seven females, whom he
knew to be prostitutes. He found some sitting in the bar
and others in front. The shutters were all up, and there
was a little pane in one of them, a sort of bull's-eye,
six inches by three inches. This house, usually opens at
20 minutes to 12 at night and keeps open until 1 o'clock.
He was outside the house about nine minutes altogether.
He saw no one kayo the house. He visited it again at 55
minutes past 12. He found nine men and eleven women,
n'ne of whom he know to ba prostitutes. Two of the
women he did not know.

The Assistant Judge said the police had done their
duty in this case very negligently, for they ought to
have watched and seen if prostitutes had gone in and out
with men, and that had would have given us grounds to
confirm the conviction. The conviction must, therefore,
be quashed.

CAVENDISH WIJJST MARKERS. A chainaing
pocket-companion for the whist-player bas just
been cnntrived by Me authority on that. kind of games,
"Cavendish." It is so simple in itself that one wonders
it was never thought of bafure. It is a set of sliding card
counters, grooved in a thickish double-card, beautifully
enamelled, and is altogether exquisitely got up by Delarue
and Co., the manufaCturers. The same house also issues
from the press a dainty little Guide-book to the game of
Bezique, by Cavendish. Both this Pookia:Guide and the
Whist-Markers should ba in the hands of every card-
klayer. •

THE .PROTOCOL OF THE PAJZIS

CONFERENCII

The Levant Herald publishes the full text of the protocol
agreed to at the Paris Conference. The following
is the more important part. "After careful con-
sideration of the documents exchanged between
the two Governments, the plenipotentiaries have
agreed to regret that, yielding to impulses by which
its patriotism has misled it, Greece has given
ground for the complaints preferred by the Porte in its
ultimatum addressed on December 11,1868, to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the King of the
liellenes. It is, in fact, beyond doubt that the
principles of the law of nations require of Greece, as
of all 'other nations, not ,to permit the recruitment of
bands on its territory, - nor that ships should be
armed in its ports, for the purpose of attacking a
neighbouring State. Persuaded, besides, that the
Cabinet of Athens cannot misunderstand the thought
which inspires this appreciation on the part of the Pro-
tecting Powers of Greece, as on that of the other Powers
who signed the Treaty of 185‘3, the Conference declares
that it is incumbent on the Hellenic Government to
observe for the future in its relations with Turkay
the rules of conduct which are common to all
Governments, and thus to comply with the demands
preferred by the Porte as regards the past by at the same
time reassuring it for the future. Greece should therefore
for the future abstain from favouring or tolerating the
formation within its territory of all bands meant
to act against Turkey, and should take the
necessary measures to prevent the armament in its
ports of vessels intended to aid, in whatever manner,
any attempt at insurrection within the possessions of
his Majesty the Sultan. As regards the private damage
incurred by Ottoman subjects, the Cabinet of Athens in
no way contests the right of Turkey to recover judicially
whatever compensation may be due ; and Turkey, on its
side, having accepted the jurisdiction of the Hellenic
tribunals, the plenipotentiaries do not consider
themselves called on to investigate crimes nor
to discuss complaints preferred on this point. As to the
demand of the Sublime Porte which concerns the return
home of the Turkish subjects who have taken refuge on
Greek territory, the Conference takes note of the declara-
tions made by the Cabinet of Athens in its note of Decem-
ber 9, and is convinced that it will, so far as depends upon
it, facilitate the departure of such of the Cretan families
as may wish to return to their country."