The Sun. — 1870-07-20 (London, England)

LOWE. 8, Charter-house-buildings, Aldersgate-street, London, July 19, 1870.  M. de Girardin has given ten thousand francs to the Paris Association for Succouring the Wounded on the Field of Battle. Subscriptions are pouring in.  Sir R. Phillimore is to pronounce judgment on Saturday next in the case of " Sheppard v. Bennett," in which the defendant, who is vicar of Frome, is accused of heresy.  The Liverpool Mercury says that a movement on foot in Liverpool for holding lay services in private houses, halls, &c., in connection with the Established Church has met with much encouragement.  It was reported on Sunday at Portsmouth that one of the Royal yachts would proceed at once to a Continental port, to convey to this country the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal of England) on a visit to her Majesty the Queen at Osborne. . _  An Admiralty order has been received directing the immediate entry of a number of extra hands at the Royal William Victualling Yard, at Plymouth, which has of late been worked at quarter power, with a view to the doubling of the make of ship-biscuit and bread. Information was on Monday received at the Board of Trade from the Foreign Office that a notice has been issued by the North German Government stating that on the northern coast of Germany orders have been given to take up the sea-marks, to withdraw the lightships, and to extinguish the fixed lights.  The presentation of the freedom of the City to M. de Lesseps is to take place on Saturday, the 30th inst. The ceremony will be performed in the Guildhall, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor,and the address conveying the freedom will be enclosed in a handsome gold box of the value of 100 guineas. ,  The report that the Government do not intend at present to fill up the vacancy in the Court of Appeal in Chancery, caused by the death of Lord Justice Giffard, will form the subject of a question to be put to the Attorney-General on Thursday, by Mr. George Gregory, who will inquire as to the truth of the report.  At the Tipperary Assizes on Monday Patrick Curran was convicted of the wilful murder of Patrick Gorman, near Clonmel, and was sentenced to death. The cause of the murder, which was committed in March last, appeared to be jealousy. Curran waylaid the deceased, and struck him with a stone, which killed him instantaneously. A short time ago a publican at Liverpool was fined one hundred pounds for using his- house for the purposes of betting. He appealed against the conviction, and it was on Monday quashed by the Recorder, who held that it was not sufficient merely to show that betting took place in the house, but that the defendant took part in it. -- • - - -  ----Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, K.C.8., has hoisted his flag at °Portsmouth, on board the St. Vincent, as commander-in-chief of he Channel squadron, under the customary salutes from that ship as well as the Duke of Wellington. Admiral Yelverton's flag was afterwards shifted to his own flag-ship the Minotaur, Captain J. G Goodenough.  Several roughs were on Monday brought up an the Clerkenwell Police-court, on a charge of havint violently assaulted the police while conveying to prisog some of the Sunday gamblers who carry on their gamblers who carry on their operations in the north of London. The magistrate refused to inflict a fine' and sent each of the defendants to prison for a month with hard labour.  The First Lord of the Admiralty will be asked on Thursday, by Mr. Laird, whether, in order to test by actual experiment at sea the many novelties in the construction, and also in the mode of arranging and placing the armament of the four new ironclad ships of the Vanguard class, viz., Vanguard, Invincible, Audacious, and Iron Duke, it is his intention to send any of these vessels to sea on a trial cruise, or on the next cruise of the Channel Fleet.