The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, JAINUARY 16, 1866.

HER MAJESTY.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

MARRIAGE, OF LORD CHARLES INNES KER AND
MISS BLANCHE WILLIAMS.
Yesterday morning the marriage of Lord Charles
Innes Ker, second and youngest son of the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe, with Miss Blanche
Williams, third daughter of Colonel Thomas Peers
Williams, M.P., was solemnised at St. George's
Church, Hanover-square. The noble bridegroom,
accompanied by his brother the Marquis of Bow-
mont, who acted as groomsman, arrived at the
church early, and was Ahortly afterwards followed
by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Mr. and
Lady Charlotte Russell, Mr. and Lady Susan Grant
Suttie, Viscount Dangan, Sir John E. and Lady
Wilmot, Colonel Knox, Colonel Brownlow Knox,
Mr. Bulkeley, and a host of friends. The church was
nearly filled with visitors. The bride arrived about
half-past 11 o'clock, ins company with her gallant
father and mother. She was received at the entrance
to the church by her friends ; and followed by her
sister, Miss Bronwen Williams, and Miss Dalton,
as bridesmaids, proceeded direct to the communion
table. The wedding party having taken their
places the religious rite commenced. The Rev.
James Pelham Pitcairn, vicar of Eccles, and do-
mestic chaplain to the Duke of Roxburghe, assisted
by the Rev. Henry Howarth (the rector of St.
George's), officiated. After the ceremony the bridal
party adjourned to the vestry, where the marriage
was duly registered. The newly-married couple on
leaving the church went in the Duke of Roxburghe's
carriage to Colonel Williams's house in Berkeley-
square. They were afterwards joined by their
friends, Colonel and Mrs. Williams giving a hand-
some breakfast to the relatives and friends of both

families.
In the afternoon the happy couple left town for
Temple-house, Colonel Thomas Peers Williams's
seat in Buckinghamshire.
The bridal presents were numerous, and some of
a costly description. The toilet of the bride was
elegant and particularly novel, designed and made
by Madame Levilly. It was composed of a rich
white satin skirt, trimmed with Brussels lace
Ilounces, introducingfor the first time a train of new
shape, also satin, trimmed with a waved flounce of
fine Brussels lace and ruching. The bride's necklace
and earrings were of magnificent pearls and dia-
monds. The veil was Brussels lace.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are enter-
taining a select circle at their seat, Kimbolton Castle,
Hunts.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland is some-
what better than when she arrived at Stafford House, St.
James's, from Scotland. Her grace is not so unwell as to
occasion any alarm to her family.
The Duchess of Inverness entertained a select
circle at dinner yesterday evening at Kensington Palace.
The Marchioness of Abercorn and the Ladies
Hamilton will leave Chesterfield House to-day for Paris,
on their way to join the Earl and Countess of Mount-
Edgcumbe at Cannes.

Proposed Enfranchisement of Chelsea and
Kensington.

MR. TORRENS, M.P.. ON THE RATING
FRANCHISE.

Last night a crowded meeting was held at the Vestry
Hall, King's-road, Chelsea, to take steps for the enfran-
chisement of that district, and the adjoining district of
Kensington.
Mr. B. W. JONES occupied the chair, and briefly opened
the proceedings.
Letters of apology for non-attendance were read from
Lord Enfield, M.P., Mr. Hanbury, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P.,
Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P., Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., Mr.
Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. P. A. Taylor,
M.P., Captain Grosvenor, Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Alderman
Lusk, M.P., Mr. T. Chambers, M.P., and Sir C. Went-
worth Dilke.
Mr. E. H. RABBITS moved the first resolution :—" That
the parishes of Chelsea and Kensington, containing a
population of 135,000 persons, contributing upon an assess-
ment upwards of a million yearly in public taxation, and
abounding in education, intelligence, and wealth, have
an incontestable right to a direct representation in Parlia-
ment."

Lord W. LENNOX, in seconding the resolution, drew at-
tention to the vast number of boroughs with small popula-
tions and limited numbers of electors, which at present had
members, and expressed his thorough sympathy with the
movement.
Mr. W. M. PIGUETT briefly supported the resolution
which was put and carried.
Mr. FINCH moved a resolution to the effect that it was
desirable that suitable measures should be taken to ascertain
the intentions of her Majesty's Government with respect to
the enfranchisement of that district in the forthcoming
session of Parliament.

Mr. T. J. Whams, one of the churchwardens of Ken
sington, seconded the motion.

Mr. TORRENS, M.P., who was received with much ap-
plause, said that it was now some five years ago since they
first met to agitate the claims of that district 'to direct repre-
sentation in Parliament. (Cheers.) He did not, for his own
part, believe that there was a single metropolitan borough,
or in fact any large constituency in the country, which
would grudge Chelsea and Kensington what they asked.
He was sure, at any rate, that there was not a man in Fins-
bury who was worth his salt who would not rejoice in their
emancipation. (Cheers.) They had all heard a good dea
about the new Reform Bill, and the general opinion seemed
to bo that it was not to affect the redistribution of seats so
much as the question of voting. (Hear, hear.) What
then was to be done ? If Lancashire was to be at the

head of the Government, and act as its dictator, then they
would have a rating franchise of £6, and nothing else : so
that Chelsea and Kensington would not have much to do

with that. But this they might depend on—a rating fran-
chise might suit Lancashire, but it would not suit London
(Hear, hear.) But London had a right, by its intelligence,
its numbers, its forbearance, its loyalty, and by the shame-
ful paucity of its representatives in the House of Commons
—and not only a right, but a prominent right over all
places in the United Kingdom—to insist on the Govern-
ment having in their bill such a franchise as would do its

population justice equally with the rest of the people.
(Cheers.) He, for his own part, protested against any
measure which, under the form of law, should shut out
any great portion of the industrial classes of London.

(Loud cheers.) London, to a large extent, contained a
peculiar class of the population to which no rating scheme,
as the basis of voting, coull ever be made to apply satis-
factorily. It was inhabited in flats, and story by story--
each house divided. Hundreds of such people paid far
more rent and no rates than the inhabitants of a miserable
country town. (Hear, and cheers.) Thus it was obvious
that a rating franchise would shut out London to a very
great extent, so that its population of three millions must
now speak out with a voice which should make itself
heard. (Cheers.) He himself knew forty men of letters
and intelligence who could teach him most things, and
there were scores of skilled workmen well learned in the
applied sciences, whose houses were full of objects of
beauty and research, but who under the present metropo-
litan system had no votes as part occupiers of houses.
(Loud cheers.) Now such a state of things must be reme-
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died. (Hear, hear.) The man who for a certain value
lived in possession of a portion of a tenement, and conti-
nued to do so for a given time, and who paid the same
amount for his portion of a house in rent as was paid by a
man holding a cottage for himself—that man ought in the
future to have the benefit of a vote. (Loud cheers.)
The motion was then put and carried.

A resolution appointing a deputation to Earl Russell
was also agreed to, and the proceedings terminated with a

yote of thanks to thQ chairman.

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OSBORNE, Monday.
The Queen and royal family drove out this
morning.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, accompanied by Lieutenant-General
Knollys, Major G. H. Grey, and the Countess of
Morton, attended Divine service at Sandringham
Church on Sunday. The Rev. G. B. Moxon, 8.A.,
rector, officiated and preached the sermon.
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On Monday morning their Royal ilighuesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by Major
Grey and the Countess of Morton, drove to Gayton
Thorpe Gate, and attended the " meet" of the West
Norfolk hounds.

His royal highness, attended by Major G. H.
Grey, left Wolverton for Cambridge in the after-
noon, and proceeded on the Newmarket and Bury
line to Six-mile-Bottom, for a couple of days' shoot-
ing with General Hall at Weston Colville. A dis-
tinguished party of sportsmen is invited.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales and suit will honour the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland with a visit to their country seat at
Trentham, Stoke-upon-Trent, during next week.

name.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

BENNETT V. DORSET AND ANOTHER.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Before Chief Justice Erie, and Justices Keating an,

Willes.)

THOMAS V. WELCH.

CAVENDISH BENTINCK.

This bankrupt was described as of Green-street, Caven-
dish-square, and to-day she came up for the order of dis-
charge. The debts are £2,198, and the assets—property
realised by the assignees—£l,23B 10s., leaving a deficiency
of £959. Bankrupt's expenditure has been £BOO per an-
num. The cause of the bankruptcy is the loss of a sum of
money lent to the late Dowager Lady Rivers, and insuffi-
ciency of income to maintain Miss Bentinck's position.
Upon the last occasion his Honour ordered a cash account

from August, 1864, to be furnished, and this has been done.
Mr. Sargood, who appeared for an opposing creditor,
said he now desired to examine the bankrupt. He had
desired to do so on the last occasion, but hoped to have

found full information in the accounts ordered to be filed.
Those accounts did not furnish such information as the
creditors were entitled to, The cash accouut was all

lumped together, and unless proper acknowledgment was
made a regular examination must take place in public,
however painful. It would be seen that large quantities
of jewellery had been parted with, evidently for the pur-
pose of livelihood.
Mr. C. E. Lewis, for the bankrupt, said that his client
was quite ready to answer any questions put to her in
court. She had given all the information in her power,
and could not possibly give any further particulars.

Mr. Sargood said there was a sum of £l5O set down as
" presents from friends," and the creditors had a right to
inquire into that.
His Honour was not so sure about that.

Mr. Sargood suggested that the amount might have
been £1,500. There were certain noble names in the
cash account, and they spoke for themselves. The lady
was of good family, and as regarded the £l5O a question
must be asked.

Mr. Lewis said he should not submit to allow this lady
to be questioned as to the names of those who had given
her the £l5O. It was a scandalous thing that whenever a
lady was connected with families in a high position, it was
sought to drag in other names for the purpose of putting
on the screw.

Miss Bentinck was then asked what became of the
1 wellery ?

Miss Bentinck—lt was parted with by a friend of mine
under the strictest promise of secrecy as regarded his

Mr. Sargood then proceeded to question Miss Bentinck
as to the other items, after which the case was adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

KICKING A MAN DOWN STAIRS.—Walter Walters, a
butcher, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on remand with
kicking Mr. Daniel Lewis, undertaker, Little St. Andrew-
street, down a flight of stairs.

Mr. E. D. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared
for the iefendant:

On the last occasion the prosecutor, who, for some time
past has been suffering from bronchitis, was unable to
attend. lie was in attendance to-day, and stated that,
while going up the stairs of his house, the prisoner first
struck him and then kicked him down a flight of stairs.
He had no recollection of what afterwards occurred, hav-
ing become insensible. When he recovered his senses, ho
found himself lying on a sofa in great pain.
In answer to Mr. Lewis, the prosecutor said he had done
nothing to the prisoner to cause him to act in such a way
towards him. The prisoner was a lodger in his house,
and was coming down the stairs while he (prosecutor) was
going up. He did not seize the prisoner by the leg, neither
had ho insulted persons going to the prisoner's wife, who
was an artificial flower maker.

Mr. Lewis having addressed the magistrate, and called
witnesses on the prisoner's behalf,

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 21s. or 14 days.
CHARGE OF STABBING.—Ann Walters, of 77, Charlotte-
street, Fitzroy-square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with stabbing Mr. Ryan in the arm with a knife. '

The prosecutor refused to attend, and Mr. Tyrwhitt told
the prisoner that she had been rather fortunate, and dis-
charged her.

THAMES.

A DESPERATE RUFFIAN.—WiIIiam Hannay, an Irish
labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
assaulting William Crook, 135 K, and William Heath, 405
K, in a very brutal manner.

Crook said the prisoner was very drunk, disorderly, and
quarrelling with his brother in 131ack-boy-alley, Wapping.
He remonstrated with the prisoner, who immediately
seized him and tried to throw him. The dangerous and
disgusting manner in which he was seized hurt him very
much. He got the prisoner away, and he was again seized
in a similar disgraceful manner. He called assistance, and
conveyed the prisoner to the station house. On the way
there he was exceedingly violent.
William Heath, 405 K, was called to assist the last wit-
ness, and the prisoner threw himself down and caught the
leg of his trousers, at the same time time seizing him as he
had seized the other police constable. He shook the pri-
soner off with the loss of a portion of his trousers, which
were torn from the middle downwards. They got the pri-
soner a little further, and he threw them both. After
much trouble the prisoner was lodged in the station-house.
The prisoner was very sorry for what he had done. It
was all owing to the drop taken yesterday afternoon.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said he had known the pri-
soner many years as a waterside labourer, and that he
knew him always to be a steady, industrious, and sober
man. He was surprised to see the prisoner in the dock,
and he was still more surprised to hear that he had acted
as he had done.

Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had acted in a singularly
disgusting manner towards the police-constables. He
fined him 405., or one month in default, for the assault on
Crook; to pay Bs. for the damage done to Heath's
trousers ; and to pay a fine of 325. for wilful damage, or be
further imprisoned for another month.

NEW THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE FOR LIVERPOOL.
—On Saturday morning Mdlle. Titiens performed the cere-
mony of laying the foundation-stone of the Alexandra
Theatre and Opera-house, Lime-street, Liverpool. The
new theatre is being built by a company, with a capital of
£50,000, from designs by. Mr. Salomons, of Manchester,
and will afford accommodation for 1,800 persons. It is to
be finished by the Ist October next.

FATAL SHIPWRECK.--The brig St. George, Lales
master, from Shields, bound for Guernsey, with a cargo of
coals, was driven ashore during the gale of last week, and
totally wrecked off Wimereux, with; unhappily, the loss of
all on board.

BISMARCK ON PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S MESSAGE.—
The Neue Deutche Allgenzeine Gazette, official organ of
Von Bismarck, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prussia
(says the Anglo-American Times), contains a vulgar
attack upon President Johnson's Message, which is be-
lieved to have been inspired by the Autocrat himself. The
article referred to having previously alluded to the Message
in contemptuous terms, says, " The same is bald, worthy
of the puffery of Barnum, and is better suited to the lan-
guage of an emigration agent than the chief of a great
state." This senseless and unjust article has been read
throughout Germany with surprise and indignation. We
tract that the worthy American Minister at Berlin,
Governor Wright, may before long have an opportunity
of teaching Von Bismarck a little of much-needed cour-
tesy and consideration for the Chief Magistrate of the great
Republic, and that ho may learn from him that, in dealing
with the United States, he has a nation stronger than
any Power he would like to quarrel with. In a
very different spirit the non-official portion of the
Stoats Anzeiger of Wednesday contained an article upon
the United States, in which it characterised President
JOHNSON'S Message as eminently conservative, and laid
stress upon the continued friendly relations between
Prussia and the United States. It then continues :
"Institutions often called into question, and which would
not be suitable for Europe, have proved their stability in
America. Notwithstanding an unprecedented expenditure
and the interruption of labour and trade, the American
Government, which in four years placed two millions and
a half of men in the field, has in about as many months
been able to reduce its army to one-fifth of its former
strength. Some of the journals friendly to the Govern-
ment, but improperly regarded as Government organs,
have not failed to express precipitate and unjust opinions
upon- President Johnson's Nossap?"

(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Black•
burn, Mellor, and Lush.)

This was an action tried before the Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn at Guildhall, in which a verdict was returned for
the defendant. The action was brought to recover
damages for the alleged breach of charter party, with
option to purchase within 12 months, for £1,200, the
steamer Donxzu.

Mr. M. Chambers now moved for a rule to show cause
why !the verdict should not be set aside, and a now
trial had, on the ground that the verdict was against
the weight of evidence.

Their lordships delivered their opinions at some length,
and considered there Was evidence to go to the jury to
justify the finding, and refused the rule. •

This case involved the question of an infringement of a
patent granted foi a sewing machine. The arguments, in
moving the Court in the first instance, occupied the
Court many days, and the present proceedings seem
very likely to occupy the same space of time.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RE THE HON. GEORGLNA AUGUSTA FREDERICA HENRIETTA

ship.

The Alleged Piracy on Board the Ship
Scotland.

FURTHER REMAND OF THE PRISONERS.

This morning James Liffin, Thomas Carr,
Thomas Dickson, Philip Pillage, Charles Tuffer,
and Joseph Matthews, six seamen, and lately a por-
tion of the crew of the ship Scotland from Calcutta
to London, were again placed before Sir Thomas
Henry at Bow-street police-court for further exami-
nation.

Mr. Pollard, for the office of the Solicitor to the
Treasury, said—l have, Sir Thomas, to apply for
another remand in consequence of the non-arrival of
the Scotland in London. I have received a letter
from the Messrs. Montgomery and Greenhorn,
stating that the vessel left Vintry Bay in tow on
Friday last, and even with fine weather the passage
from thence to London would occupy about six
days. Taking into consideration the severe weather
that has prevailed, it is therefore not at all likely
that she could arrive before Friday next, and,
under these circumstances, I have to ask for a further
remand.

Sir Thomas Henry—Under the circumstances
you had better make it for eight days, say to-
morrow week.

Mr. Pollard—l also, Sir Thomas, apply for sum-
monses for the attendance of the necessary wit-

nesses.

Sir Thomas—You can have summonses for each
one of the crew now on board.

Mr. Pollard—An officer can then go to Graves-
end, and on the arrival of the ship there, serve them
on the crew, and thus prevent any one leaving the

Sir Thomas—You will see that done, Mr. Evans.

Inspector Evans—One of the prisoners on the
last occasion asked for the attendance of one of the
passengers named Hou;h, who, he said, was a pen-
sioner of Greenwich Hospital. I have made every
inquiry, and I cannot find such a name on the roil
of pensioners.

Liffin—He was one of three Government passen-
gers. We should like all three to attend.
Sir Thomas Henry—Then he will be on board ;
therefore he and the other two passengers men-
tioned can, if it is thought material, be summoned
to attend.

Liffin—We should like them all to be present al
;he examination.

Sir Thomas Henry—Very well, the summons
will issue for their attendance.

The prisoners were then formally remanded unti:
to-morrow week.

[The ship Scotland, in which the alleged piracy
occurred, has a most valuable cargo, amounting to
no less than about 1,600 tons of indigo and silk.
She is only about lour years old, and cost over
£26,000. The captain is now on board, but the
greatest danger will be encountered in bringing her
round from Vintry Bay. She would next arrive at
Queenstown, and then have to encounter the rough
weather in the Channel, which, in her disabled state,
would be attended with much peril. In ordinary
weather the run home under most favourable cir-
cumstances occupies 72 hours.]

AQTTATICS.

SCULLERS' RACE FOR £6O.

The first scullers' race for the present year took place
yesterday, when again Manchester was represented on the
London river in the person of one of its most unknown
scullers, although, judging from his performance on this
occasion, he will ere long be matched against much better
men than him against whom he made his debut. The young
man in question is Mark Addy, who has never hitherto
rowed a scullers' race save in regattas ; but as a prominent
member of the celebrated Colleen Bawn crew, who hail
from the inky Irwell, he has obtained no small amount of
credit. Edward May, of Lambeth, his oppftent on this
occasion, is, like him, an amateur, and has contended in no
less than 20 scullers' races, against for the most part infe-
rior talent. Success, however, has rarely rewarded his
efforts, and the inclination to back Addy at any odds—not-
withstanding he had laboured under great disadvantages
during training in consequence of family bereavement—
showed that it was generally imagined that May's usual bad
fortune would attend him. Addy trained at home until a
few days since, when he arrived in town and went to the
me tropolitanquirters of the Manchester division, viz., Harry
Kelley's, the Bells, Putney. May put up at Mr. Wilcox's, the
White Hart, Barnes, and from the causes mentioned above
was in somewhat better trim than his adversary, and pos-
sessed an advantage over him in weight and length of reach.
The men had engaged Citizen B (Capt. Turner) to accom-
pany the race, and the fineness of the weather brought to-
gether a large concourse of spectators, amongst whom 9 to
4 was the price laid, and still greater odds were wanted.
On board the boat were Messrs. Wilcox and F. G. Barratt,
umpires respectively for May and Addy; while Mr. John
Ireland, of the London Rowing Club, officiated as re-
feree. May, who won the toss for choice of stations,
was waited upon by George Drewitt, and the cham-
pion pioneered Addy, the stake being £3O a side, and
the distance Putney to Barnes. Despite the brightness
of the atmosphere, a strong wind was blowing off the
Putney bank, which was nearly dead against the men
through the next reach, and, owing to the recent fall of
snow, the quantity of land-water out was so great as to
successfully check the natural upward tendency of the
tide. This was supposed to be in favour of the Manchester
man, as resembling in some degree the water upon which
be is accustomed to row. However, be that as it may, they
were no sooner fairly under way than, with a fine long
stroke—even longer than May's (although the latter stands
seven inches taller), Addy went to the front, and, in 20
strokes, had cleared his man and taken his water. May's
forte being starting and not staying it was even thus early
apparent that he was out of the race. The difference in
the steerage adopted by the men induced a belief at one
time that May was making up again to his man, but, as
they rounded the point, and made the shoot over to the
Soapworks, there were six or eight lengths between them.
May at times limited, but was never able to reduce the
lead. Stemming the downward rush of the land water,
and making headway against the dead noser in Corney-
reach, Addy rowed on without faltering, and finally suc-
ceeded in winning by 100 yards. The severity of the
struggle through the rough water may be judged from the
fact that the winner was 31 minutes rowing the distance