The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, March 2.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Easterly ; strong breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

FALMOUTH, March I.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Victor,
fr,nl London for Kurrachee ; the crew refusing to do
duty.

PLYMOUTH, March I.—Wind S.W.—Sailed--Suffolk,
'or Melbourne.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March I.—Lion, steamer, from Cleestemunde ;
May Queen, from New York.
Arrived, March 2.—Moselle, steamer, and Taurus,
steamer, from Antwerp; Rhine, steamer, from Boulogne;
Albion, steamer, from Ostend ; Cosmopolitan, steamer,
from Hamburg; Alford, steamer, from Charente.
Sailed, March 2.—Susan Pardew, for Cape of Good Hope.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed, March L—Heli, and Freman Denis, from Lon-
don, for Boston ; Red, White, and Blue, from London, for
Havre ; Latona, steamer, from Palmermo, for London.

LINCOLN'S-INN.--The Warburtonian Lecture will
be reeumed to-morrow morning by the Rev. Morgan Cowie.
The afternoon sermons will be preached during the illness
of the chaplain by the Rev. Henry White, chaplain of the
Chapel Royal, Savoy.
STEANISHIP BUILDING ON THE CLYDE.—Messrs.
Barc'ay, Curl; and Co. havo launched an iron screw
e earner of 2,500 tons register, named the Austrian, and in-
tended for the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's line
of Transatlantic steamers. The Austrian is an exactly
similar vessel to the Nestorian, constructed by the same
firm for the same company at the close of last year. The
Austrian will be propelled by a pair of direct-acting en-
gines of 350 horse power, which will be supplied by
Messrs. Barclay, Curle, and Company. It is exp,!cted that
the Austrian will be placed on the mail service between
Liverpool and Montreal at an early date. The Wcmyss
Bay Steamboat Company is about to build on, if not two
❑ew steamers, to be ready for service at midsummer, and
int.:mded to aeoommodato an increasimr passenger trade.
Messrs. R. Napier and Son have launched from their
Govan yard a screw of 15,000 tons, built for Messrs. Jar-
dine and Co., of London, and intended to be devoted to
the Indian trade.

The experiment of universal suffrage is at length
to be tried in one American state. Both branches of the
legislature of Kansas have adopted amendments to the state
constitution, granting the right to vote to all persons,
male or female, white or black. This is the first success
the agitators for female suffrage have yet achieved In
Washington a negro has been made a clerk in the Treasury
department. _ _

;.rHE POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFlCERS.—Yesterday a
large number of the metropolitan Poor-law medical officers
met at the Freemasons' Tavern to consider the provisions
of the Metropolitan Poor Bill. Dr. Rogers, of the Strand
Union, presided, and there were present many gentlemen in-
terested in Poor-law questions as visitors, among whom were
Dr. Carr, Mr. Ernest Hart, Rev. Mr. M'Gill, Dr. Goddard,
Dr. Atstie, and Mr. J. C. Parkinson. Letters of apology
were read from Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., Mr. Devonport
Bromley, M.P., and others; and the hon. secretary, Dr.
Dudfield, read a very able report upon the bill, which was
generally approved, and it said, "No part of this statesman-
like scheme has excited more lively pleasure than the clauses
which propose toput the treatment of the outdoor sick poor
upon a proper footing. Efficient medical attendance, to-
gether with adequate relief, would keep many a family out
of the workhouse, and so largely tend to diminish pau-
perism. For it is too true that the first plunge is all that
is dreaded in this case as in many others; and the honest
poor man who shrinks from the thought of entering the
workhouse for the first time, after he has taken that fatal
step is too prone ever after to regard the house as an easy
resource in time of difficulty, and as a comfortable home,
so pernicioul is the loss of a proper sense of independence."
The chairman moved the adoption of the report, and in
doing so detailed the struggles the Poor Law medical of-
ficers had for a period extending over 11 years maintained
against the guardians in the endeavour to maintain rights
for themselves and the proper necessaries for the sick under
their charge. He then referred to the establishment of the
Association for assisting the Sick Poor in the London
Workhouses, and dwelt upon the vast good which that as-
sociation, by the assistance of the press, had been able to
accomplish in a very short time. He also referred to the
labours of Dr. Anstie, Dr. Carr, and Mr. Ernest Hart, in
visiting and reporting upon the London workhouse in-
firmaries, and said the value of those reports was to be seen in
the great exposures which had followed as to the manage-
ment of those workhouses. He expressed himself as greatly
pleased with Mr, Hardy's bill, but urged that there wore
points which would have to be considered in committee. Dr.
Welsh seconded the adoption of the report, which was carried
unanimously. Di'. Midfield then moved the following re-,
solution: That this meeting is of opinion that Mrp,
Hardy's Metropolitan Poor Bill will effect considerable im-
provement in the medical care and treatment of the sick
poor; and they recognise with great satisfaction that it
embodies nearly all the recommendations suggested by
this association." Mr. Eugene Goddard seconded the
motion, which, with, an addendum proposed by Dr. Fow-
ler, seconded by Dr. Carr, that all the charges of the in-
door sick poor should be defrayed out of the common fund,
was carried unanimously. Resolutions were also carried
that the bill should be watched and endeavours made to
obtain life appointments for medical officers and for other
purposes, and the proceedings closed in the usual manner.

According to the Registrar's-General's report for
1866 we find that during last year the births in
London were 107,992, while the deaths were only
80,129, the annual rate of mortality being 2.647
per cent., showing an average length of life of about
38 years. The usual weekly return shows 2,342
births and 1,337 deaths. Whooping- cough appears
to be prevalent.
On Monday the steamer Africa arrived in Liver-
pool, and reported recent severe weather in the
Atlantic. The American ship Resolute, on her out-
ward passage to New York, found the emigrant
ship Bavaria, from Havre to New York, dismasted
and in great distress in lat. 39.30 N., long. 68.10
W., on Friday, January 25. The Resolute took 170
persons from the wreck and some bedding. Nu- ,
merous other shipping disasters are reported.

PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.--Photo-
graphic Albums, a choice of 3,000; despatch-boxes, writ-
ing-cases, dressing-cases, travelling-bags, envelope-cases,
blotting-books, ink-stands, desks, book-slides, work-boxes,
tea-caddies, hand-bags, and reticules, card-cases, purses,
stationery-cabinets, scent-bottles, albums for postage
stamps, crests, &c. ; cigar-cases, card-baskets, pocket-
books, electro-gilt and elegantly-mounted articles. Bibles,
Prayer-books, and Church Services, in every type. Par-
kins and (lotto, 25, Oxford-street The public supplied
at wholesale prices from the largest stock in 14014911,

rILICFEILENIIN
North Eastern, York, H. and Selby:purchase, 10
I'IMPERENCE SUARES AND STOCKS.
London Brighton, dm., 4i per cent. it 64, 8i
London, Chatham, Atc., Aletrop. Ext. B, 6 per cent.. 36

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAIA.
London and Chatham, 41 per Cent., 65
Nottingham and Grantham It. and C, 91

• teoHNJUS /CALL WA. re.
• Dutch Rhenish, 181
Ditto, new, 23
South Austrian and tOmbardo Venetian, 161
Southern of France, 221
FOREIGN MINIM
St. Sohn del Rey. Urn-
United Mexican, lim., 2 3k

ZANIES..

Alliance, Um.. ICI 1
A.u9.30 Austrian, 7
•
• onsolidated Bang, lim., 41 1
linperiaLOttounan, lim.,
IL,ganotlourhtlargice.reßdantskanotri lontdAiau,sltira, 2
mati242l 2
London and County, 5i
London Joint Stock, 44
London and South- Western, lim., 181
London and eatminster, 93k
Midland Bank, lira.. 184
Union of Loudon, 451 5
MISCELLANNOUB:
Anglo-American Telegraph, 151 1
Atantic Telegraph,
Dit o, 8 per cent., 531
Ceylon Company, 104
Credit teoncier ut England, 11w . 31
Ebbw Vale, 9
E. glish and Australian Copper
Gm.. Credit and Disooanto in... 4
Imperial Land Company or Marseilles, lim. 10 d
Lqnclou Cienerai Omnibus ComPanYZlign,
r.tional Discount Lompany, 13
Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem.. of whioh 21 is to pay, 1(1
Nerbalda Coat and Iron, lim.,
Ocean .narine insurance), 191
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, C 6
Royal Mill Steam. tOG 4
Te e raph Cons rue. and Maintop., Urn.,
Ditto, diLto, i2i 13
Thames and Mersey Marine,-Tnsnranoe, lim., 51
Viceroy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan, 72

COURSING.

COURSING MEETINGS TO COME.
MARCH.
Judge. Days of Running

Name.
Irish Grand National (Open),

county Loutn
Ardrossan, Sharphill
South Lancashire (South-
port) Champion Mr. Westropp l4, 15, dr
Leinster (Open) Courtown... Mr. 11. Springall l9, 20
Scottish Open, Lanarkshire - 26, 440.
SEPTEMBER.

a,7
-

Brampton, Cumberland Mr. Warwick

OCTOBER.
Ancaster and Willoughby,
Lincolnshire Mr. Bpafford

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.)
MAXWELL V. MAXWELL AND WESTCAR.

The petitioner in this suit was George Shirley Maxwell,
who prayed to be divorced from his wife, Adelaide Frances
Maxwell, on the ground of her adultery with the co-re-
spondent, Henry Emerson Westcar. He laid the damages
at £lO,OOO. The respondent and co-respondent appeared
and denied the charge.

The petitioner, who was formerly an officer in till army
is now the adjutant of the East Keut regiment of
militia, awl he married the respondent at St. Magdalen's
Church, Hastings, on the 21st May, 18G3. On the mar-
riage, in addition to ..E6OO a year of her own, the petitioner
also settled upon her 176 acres of laud which;bolonged to
himself. They lived at Broad Oak, near Surrey, in Kent.
and in the season came- up for a few mouths to London.
They appeared to be much attached, being seldom out of
each other's company ; but owing to the effects of a brain
fever from which Mrs. Maxwell had suffered, she was pe-
culiarly irritable and passionate, and was allowed by her
husband to have to a great extent her own way. She had
for some time been acquainted with the co-respondent, who
is an officer in the Royal Horse Guards (Blue.) The ac-
quaintanceship ripened into intimacy. Mr. Westcar con-
stantly visited them when they came to London ; the peti-
tioner frequently dined with him at his mess, and the
intercourse was also continued in the country, Mr. Westcar's
house, Heron Park, being within a few miles of Broad Park.
On theloccasion of a return visit by Mr. and Mrs. Max-
well to the co-respondent circumstances occurred which
occasioned the petitioner to return home alone in the most
distracted state; of mind, and after that Mrs. Maxwell re-
mained at Heron Park, and when she sent for her ward-
robe and jewels they were forwarded to her from Broad
Oak.

The evidence adduced by the petitioner were certain
attendants of the Grosvenor Hotel and others.

The Queen's Advocate, for the respondent, said he had
but very few words to address to them. His client, more
than any other person in this instance, felt the hardship of
the law in not being able to state to the jury her version
of the matter. His client had pleaded denial of adultery ;
but, after the witnesses that had been examined, he was
bound to say that the denial had not balm supported. His
duty as an advocate prevented him from struggling
against the evidence, but he could not refrain from saying
that the conduct of Capt. Maxwell, in permitting his wife's
visits, whom ho had married at the age of 19, and who
was now only 23, was highly reprehensible. He could not
deny the adultery, but the law would not allow him to say
what the circumstances wore that palliated the offence.

Sergeant Ballantine, for the co-respondent, commented
upon tho carelessness of the petitioner permitting his
wife, a young creature of 23, in visiting a gentleman
but two or three years older than herself, and between
whom there had been, according to the address of the
1 earned counsel for the petitioner, " slight shocks of love."
The jury, without leaving the box, found that the adul-
tery charged had been committed, and assessed the
damages at £lO,OOO.

POLICE INTELLIGESCE.—This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
COWARDLY ASSAULT.—J. W. Waters, cab-driver, was
charged with assaulting Louisa Smith, a young woman.
The complainant (an "unfortunate") said that early this
morning she was in Little Windmill-street, and because
she declined the prist.,ner's company, he knocked her down,
and ran away, leaving her lying bleeding on the pave-
ment. She said the prisoner was quite a stranger to her.
W. Wallis, 86 C, said that, hearing a cry of " Police !"

ho went to Little Windmill-street, and saw the prisoner
strike the complainant twice, and then run away as fast as
he could. Ho went after the prisoner and took him into
custody.

In answer to the prisoner, the constable stated that the
prisoner did not stop when ho called to him.
The constable, in reply to Mr. Arnold, said that both the
complainant and the prisoner were sober. 'l'ho blows given
by the prisoner were very severe ones.

The prisoner said that he had given the complainant
some money, and she refused to give it him back.
Mr. Arnold said that whatever might have taken place
between, the prisoner was not justified in assaulting the
complainant. Women of the complainant's class were en-
titled by law to as much protection as any one else. Us
should commit the prisoner for 14 days with hard labour.

Lifeboat Service.

ABERDOVEY, N. WALES, Friday.

The schooner Gratitude, of Aberystwith, bound
to this port from Liverpool, with coals, was crossing
the bar yesterday in a heavy ground sea, when she
strack on the edge of the north bank (reports Mr.
David Williams, of the Customs). It was blowing
strongly at the time from the- S.E. A pilot boat
had gone out to meet the vessel, and she at 01.1C3 re-
turned for the Royal Berkshire lifeboat of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution, stationed at this place.
Ihe schooner, which had now hoisted a sign d of
distress, had been drifted right on to the bank, and
was in the mid 110 of the breakers, which cou►d
be seen sweeping over her. The lifeboat was at
once taken out in tow of the steamer Elizabeth, to
the edge of the hank, and was then pulled to the
distressed vessel. A hawser was taken from the
steamer to the vessel, in order to tow her off if pos-
sible, but thi 3 was found quite impracticable. The
sea continued very heavy, making a complete breach
ovor the schooner, each wave threatening to wash
the crew of three men and a boy overboard. her
deck too was opening, so we determined .to take the
crew off, and making another dash, we fortunately
succeeded in getting the crew off, and making
another dash we fortunately succeeded in getting
them on board, on which our men gave a
hearty cheer. Though under the lee of the vessel
the lifeboat was several times half-filled with water
and shipped several seas in getting alougsid and in
leaving. The lifeboat was taken back in tow of the
steamer, and safely landed the shipwrecked crew.
The vessel has become a total wreck. The cost
this valuable lifeboat was collected in Berk-
shire about two years since by Capt. Stephens,
of the Reading Bank, and she has been already in-
strumental in rescuing two shipwrecked crews.

The Defence .of Dockyards and Arsenals,

Yesterday morning the lirar-office sent forth a
report of Lieut.-Colonel Jervois, Deputy Director of
Fortifications, with reference to the progress made
in the construction of the fortifications for the de-
fence of the dockyards and naval arsenals, &c., of
the United Kingdom. The document includes a
short notice with reference to the object and nature
of each work included in the schedule of the fortifi-
cation Act of 1865, the expenditure or liabilities in-
curred thereon, and the probable sum for which it
can be completed. With regard to the Horse Sand
and No Man's Forts, designed for the defence of the
anchorage of Spithead, and of the eastern approach
both to Spithead and the waters of the Solent be-
tween the Isle of Wight and the mainland, and also
to protect Portsmouth Dockyard from distant born-

bardment from the eastward, it is stated that the
construction of the casements will be such as to ren-
der their stability independent of a breach in the
basement wall, should one be effected. Their in-
terior will consist of a wall of iron Thin. thick, and
they will be capable of receiving guns of about 18
tons in weight. The part of the work immediately

behind the gun casemates is designed in such a man-
ner that four revolving iron turrets, each to contain
two of the most powerful guns which can be worked,
may be placed on the top. The centre of the turrets
will be 54ft. from the exterior line of the work.
The total number of guns for which space will be
found in each of these forts will be 55 in casemates,
besides eight in turrets, and 20 guns in each
fort can be concentrated on one point. The works
at Hyde Sand and Spit Bank, and that at Gilkicker
on the inner line of sea defences, bear upon the
anchorage in the event of an enemy passing the
above referred to works. At Puckpool, on the
shore of the Isle of Wight, is a mortar battery bear-
ing on the anchorage, and the fort at St. Helen's
commands the anchorage there, and in conjunction
with the other works the adjacent shore of the
Isle of Wight. The total estimated cost of the
Spithead and sea defences of the outer line, as
detailed in the schedule of 1865, is £947,000, and
excepting the turrets, the works, if of a granite con-
struction with iron shields at the embrasures, may
be completed for about that sum. Au additional
£254,000 will, however, be required to make the
works of an iron-plated construction. The ex-
p2nditure up to 31st December last was £267,207 ;
the liabilities, inclusive of the sum already ex-
pended, are £410,000. The estimate in 1865 for
the inner sea defences, consisting of Gilkicker
Battery, Southsea Batteries, and Lumps and East-
ney Batteries, was £105,000, and, excepting the
iron shields and works connected therewith,
£llB,OOO will probably suffice. The cost of the
latter is estimated at £60,000. The total estimate
for the defences of the Needles Passage, consisting
of Hurst Castle and Batteries, Cliff-end Batteries,
Needles Batteries, and Hatherwood and Warden
Point Batteries, was in 1865 £lBB,OOO. £200,000
will suffice to meet all payments included in the
works. The iron shields will cost about £61,000
extra, and a further sum of £40,000 will be required
if turrets are added. The estimates for the land
defences are not likely, it appears, to be much
exceeded.

As regards Plymouth, the outer line of sea de-
fences consists of the works at Staddon Point,
Picklecombe, and behind the breakwater, bearing
respectively on the passages at either end of the
breakwater, defending the anchorage in the Sound,
and protecting the dockyard from bombardment
from seaward. The total estimated cost was
£298,000, and it is expected that this sum will
be sufficient, except that the iron shields will cost
£64,000 additional, and a further sum of
£20,000 will be required if turrets are added on the
Breakwater Fort. The inner line of sea defences at
Plymouth, including Drake's Island Batteries and
Mount Edgcumbe Battery, will, with the exception
of £29,000 for iron shields, be completed for about
the sum of £47,000. The land defences at Ply-
mouth will, it is expected, be completed within the
estimates.

The report includes similar statements with re-
gard to the defences of Pembroke, Milford Haven,
and Portland.

The new works for the defence of the Thames are
about three miles below Gravesend, at Coalhouse
Point, on the left bank of the river ; and Shornmead
and Cliffe Creek, on the right bank The expendi-
•ture upon thesis defences up to Dec. 31 last was
£140,000, the liabilities, £143,000.
The estimate for the Medway works was £329,000,
but it ie not probable that they will be completed'
for less than £395,000. The cost of iron shields will
be about £BO,OOO ; and if turrets are hereafter added
on GarrisoniPoint Fort and at Cheney and Queen
borough Toivers, a further sum of -£40,000 will hafe:
to be provided-in-future estimates. No money Ithe
yet bees Voted for the Chatham eastern defence, the
estimate for which is £500,000.
The works at Dover recommended by the Defence
Commission are approaching completion. The es-
timate for them was £278,000, and they will pro-
bably be completed for £285,000.

The works for the defence of Cork Harbour and
the naval establishment at Haulbowline were esti-
mated to cost £159,000 ; and, provided convict la-
our be not withdrawn or diminished in strength,
they will, irrespective of £30,000 for iron shields, be
completed for that sum.
A bum of £150,000 was included in the schedule
of 1861, and in previous acts, for the " purchase of
a site for a central arsenal." The proposal was to
acquire a tract of land for this purpose at Cannock
Chase, but the purchase has not been effected, and
it is suggested that the item may be omitted from
future schedules.

The estimate in 1865 for lands was £1,080,000,
and it is expected that all expenses under this head
will be defrayed for £1,115,000.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT OF
THE NOTTINGHAM WATERWORKS COMPANY.—At the Not-

tingham Police-court on Thursday, Mr. Thos. Palethorpo,
chief accountant to the Nottingham Waterworks Com-
pany, was charged before the sitting magistrates with
having embezzled £32 12e. 9d. belonging to his employers.
The prisoner, it was alleged, had embezzled other monies,
but this was the only charge entered into. Mr. S. Robin-
son (in the employ of the company) stated that the defen-
dant had been the chief accountant of the Waterworks
Company. Witness had examined the accounts, and had
discovered the above defalcation. Detective Longford
apprehended the prisoner on the previous evening, and
having read the warrant over to him, he replied, " Is that
all ?" Defalcations to the amount of £l2O have been dis-
covered, The bench remanded the case until to-day.

Lord Grosvenor and the Liberal Party.

Lord Grosvenor has addressed the following let
to the Times on the present state of parties :

" Some inconvenience arises from. the unautho-
rised publication of speeches at private political
meetings, from which reporters are excluded, and
where the proceedings are liable to be misreported
and misrepresented.

" As I find that some misapprehension exists as to
what I said at the meeting of the Liberal party at
Mr. Gladstoues's on Tuesday last, I must beg leave
through your columns to state shortly what I be-
lieve I did say on that occasion. I expressed my
regret that the Government had not •availed them-
selves of the opportuninity they had of proposing
a comprehensive scheme of Reform, fur, although
in a minority in the hou-e, they were strengthened
by the general wish on both sides to effcct a sonic-
'tient ; and they hid the a•zsurance of the leader of the
Opposition that he and his friends would not only
Put no dAiculties in the way, but xould loyally as-
sist them. They also knew that there was no Co-
hesion in the great body of the Liberal party, which
was conscquqntly powerless to oppose effectively,
even if there was a wish to do so.

"I stated that I had strong objections to the bill
of the late Government for this, among other reasons
—that it was based on no sound principle, and so
could effect no settlement. For the same reason I
objected to the proposed scheme of the present Go-
vernment, and I remarked that if I accepted it I
should be acknowledging that all I and my friends
had dOne last year was wrong ; and, judging from
the feeling of the present meeting, I expressed my
opinion that such scheme was doomed.
" While I approved Mr. Glidstone's motion con-
demnatory of the resolutions before the house, I ex-
pressed a hope that the Government would embody
their scheme in the form of resolutions rather tha❑
directly in a bill, because such a course would afford
a better opportunity to the house to come to au
agreement as to the principles on which to found a
bill.

" After paying my humble tribute to the dignity
and moderation both of the views and the language
of Mr. Gladstone in dealing with the measure of his
opponents, and which tended to reunite the Liberal
party, I assured him of the cordial support of those
with whom I acted last year to bring this great ques-
tion to a satisfactory issue, but on the express con-
ditions that such issue should proceed on sound con-
stitutional principles, giving to each class a full equal
share of representation, and, above all, giving pre-
ponderance to none. I added, that we who last
year found it necessary to separate from our friends
did not consider ourselves, in the ordinary sense, a
party ; that our difference with the Liberal party
was only on the question of Refor►n, and I sincerely
hoped that difference might be of no long con-
tinuance."