Lloyds Weekly Newspaper (Newspaper) - August 22, 1880, London, Middlesex EDITED BY REGISTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AS A LONDON ONE VISCOUNT STRATFORD It has been remarked of the Cannings that it is not every Irish or every English family that can start out of the middle rank of mer chants in a country and in a less than a century see three of its members raised to the and one of its sons Prime Such a family must be specially either intellectually or Its sons must he made of stuff to breast the blows of and to grapple with their evil star or they must be of brilliant We have races of and races through which genius shines as a silver The less than a century were obscure dealers OT in a country in Their fortunes suddenly all round the The Garvagh Stratford had three the became a barrister of the Middle and begat the illustrious George Prime Minister ef The who remained in had born to him a who was raised to the Peerage as Lord The third became a thriving merchant in the City of and had four One became Consul general at Hamburg one lived to be a Canon of Windsor one fell at as camp to the Duke of Wellington while the youngest the subject of this who was born on the 6th of was taken early under the wing of the most illus Member of his house was sent to Eton and te and in his year was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Swit The race to whom all these honours fell so swiftly was gifted with various qualities con to success in The genius of George Canning is familiar te the political The classic Canning is an image of which Englishmen are If Stratford Canning had not the dazzling endowments ef his cousin and he had qualities which early commanded the great maps affectionate and which ensured his protection te the end of his SPECIAL SUNDAY CONTAINING ALL YESTERDAYS LLOYDS WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFICE SUNDAY YESTERDAYS THROUGH THE AFGHAN GENERAL STEWART AT PROJECTED UPON Stewart has established his headquarters at All The country in the is According to information brought by General Roberts has passed Mahomed Jan and Hashim Khan were hovering on his It is stated the tribesmen being Khan has resolved to make an assault upon before relief can reach the General accompanied by his has started for to make arrangements for an early THE DUCHESS OF Edin burgh Grand Duke left here today for where they will be met by the Duke of WRECK OF A RUSSIAN TORPEDO Russian torpedo boat which recently crossed the Atlantic on a trial has been completely wrecked off near the mouth of the in All her crew were SURRENDER OF NEW One thousand Sioux Indians have surrendered to the United States mili tary authorities at Fort and the submission of more is The remainder of the tribe continue their Young Stratford Canning was entrusted important state negotiations at an age whea most young men ef fashion are sowing their wild At twentyfive he helped te frame the treaty by which the Swiss Cantons were joined to the Helvetic Confederation at twentysix he took part in the Congress of and four years later we find him sent on a special mission In 1823 he was Plenipotentiary in London for some important negotiations with the United States and in the following year he was sent to to ascertain the views of the Czar in regard to the Greek as troubling in in his he repaired for the first time to the scene on which he was destined to play a great Stratford Canning in Constantinople as British with instructions to influence the Sultan in favour of the Greek He was unsuccess and returned to attend the London confe the upshot of which was that battle of sat in Parliament for Old and for two famous rotten boroughs which have long since gone the way of rotten In the chancery ef the diplomat and not in the lobby of George Cannings kinsman and protege found In 1S31 he returned to Constantinope as special en a mission closely resembling that on which is now Sir Stratford was occupied in Constantinople to with Greek and having signed the treaty of this he returned to In the following year we find him Ambassador at Petersburg the Czar declining to receive him he returned to Parliament as a and remained a firm supporter of Sir Robert until he was appointed to represent the Queen at the rable diplomatic on which his He was a great diplomatist a negotiator at once subtle and severe an upholder of the honour of ROBBERIES AT COOPERATIVE at the Mansion a welldressed young man named John Anderson was charged with stealing a quantity of property belonging to the his without fear and without His was the iron the cool baulked the aggressive policy of who had declined to receive him at Peters had cause afterwards to feel his power at the ether end of For nearly twenty years he was a formidable It has been said that ora ably no Englishman will ever again attain to a like pinnacle of power in or command a like measure of in his splendid error called The Invasion of the sums up the character and the powers of Stratford Canning hi a few pregnant sentences How to negotiate with a never degenerating into how to form such a scheme of policy that his country might be brought to adopt it without and how to pursue this always promoting it steadily and gradually forcing Mie Home Government to go all lengths in its gup this he knew and he so gifted by that whether men studied his despatches or whether they listened to his spoken or whether they were only bystanders caught and fascinated by the grace of his could scarcely help thinking that if the English nation was to maintained in peace or draws into war by the will of single there was no man who looked BO worthy to fix its destiny as Sir Stratford This stern like all the statesmen of his and with a grace which marked him as a kinsman of George cultivated letters in the intervals of public business and letters were the comfort of his latter even when he was a His was the old age Horace dreamed Not unsolaced by the His and that the other famous men of his may be held up to our to show that in England all all all places are open te the humblest domestic circle which can send forth sons worthy of New Civil Service Cooperative Stores in Queen Vic and his Maria and another named Caroline with felo receiving a portion of the know ing it to have been It appeared from the evi dence of a detective that in conse quence of instructions he received on Friday after he watched the and saw the male pri soner come and he went over and met his and after talking some time Anderson went back to the where he was employed as a and the woman went to where she was joined by the other and both proceeded to the and purchased of which was paid and a ticket was given Both women then went up to the male who was serving in the same and a large parcel was which was handed to and left the Hiscock carrying the large and the other woman the of When they had gone some distance the constable stopped and asked Hiscock what the large parcel con She and she had bought it from the new Civil and had paid for but she could not state the amount she had paid or produce any It turned out that Hiscock was the landlady of the house in which the two Andersons had apartments in and in a cupboard on the first floor he found a which contained six pounds of He also found two boxes of scented and on the male prisoner being asked to ac count for the possession of this he said that the goods all came from the but they had all been paid reply to questions put by the male the officer said that he saw Anderson go to the cashier at the Stores and pay some but he could not say what amount she He also stated that the male THE WIMBLEDON MARKING YESTERDAYS The courtmartial on Sergeant Marshman was re yesterday morning at Sergeant Hum of the Cambridge University recalled said he was not squadded so far as he was to fire with He knew no thing about fortunate but con 46 out of a possible 50 a good Judging from he thought the score must have been returned the prisoner Such a score as with one was reported this year in precisely the same circumstances as Runtz fired By the prosecution The score of 43 was made by Sergeant of a Cheshire when firing for the Snider Wimbledon Witness entertained some and requested the executive to have the targets but they would not do The circumstances which aroused his suspicions that Sergeant Stokes got 43 by his first nine and when the gentleman with whom Stokes was firing retired from the the sergeants next shot was returned as a miss on again Grins in what would have been his own was sig and the next which would have been fired by the gentleman if he had not was also a The score Sergeant Edward 4th said he was register keeper of 14 target at Wimble don this He kept the register on the 23rd of while Runtz and Humphreys were firing for the witness said that as Runtz and Humphrey were going to the firing point the former seemed to him to be in a great so he put his ticket The tickets were signed after the scores were He did not recollect fifth but remembered hearing him say to the I think somebody has struck my Runtz fired iust before the danger disc had been Had he fired a little later it would have been duty to report him to the officer at the He took upon himself to record an although the competitor thought that somebody else had struck his inner was It was either the or seventh He was not certain which was the shot at which Runtz shouted and did not notice at any time that the mark on the spotting disc manifestly disagreed with that on the dummy Had he seen such a disagreement he should have reported it to the officer of the When he signed his name to Humphrey and tickets he did so believing them to be His attention was called to suspicious circumstances by seeing Runtz and Humphrey going down the range and looking at the They did not ask him to The signal prisoner told and receipts him for he all would find the goods the that bills were found at his but he could not find any such The it was a respectable married occupying the house in with her When she was taken into custody she denied all knowledge of anything and said she had merely accom Anderson to the City and carried the parcel for her male prisoner also entirely exonerated Hiscock from any share in the general manager of ment said there were grounds for believing that ex tensive plunder had been going and asked for a Lusk discharged Hiscock and re manded the other two at the Westminster Francis an in the drug department of the Army and Navy Cooperative waa charged with stealing an ounce bottle of value the property of the ap from the evidence that on the afternoon of the 20th the prisoner was seen by an assistant in the drug department to place something in his inside breast and on the establishment being closed he was searched as In the left breast pocket an empty bottle was but during the very short space of time in which the searcher had turned from the prisoner to examine another an ounce bottle of quinine had been substituted for the empty and the prisoner attempted to account for it by saying that it was his and that he had forgotten to take it from his pocket when he left Dutton did not dis pute it was a very difficult matter to and the electing to be tried by a was com mitted for bail being pay particular attention to the ling was not unusually George 3rd Hants a competitor at Wimbledon during the present said I met the prisoner on the evening of the 20th July The second stage of the Queens prize was beine shot for that He Are you Sergeant of How are on I very but not the Prisoner then said I had not prisoner I have seen my commanding and I am now going to proceed against him for as he has charged me with falsifying the scores at the prisoner spoke to you at did he lead to suppose that he was going to increase your had finished my Do you believe honestly made your Woodman when firing make good scores at two hundred and five but signally fail at six and was much at Henry 3rd Hants referring to the shooting at Wimbledon this said I was in company with Privates Darcy and Dudley on the first Tuesday of the when we met the who enquired as to how we were getting and I am a Hampshire and shall be pleased to see some of the Hampshire men get a He ascertained the time of firing and target and when he was told number 18 he I am on that target if you make 91 you will get and Ill see you Duddey told the pri soner that he would fire whereas he ought to have fired third or because he found out after wards that we was not going to fire examined For the Queens I made a score of and received a prize of I believe I made the score The court adjourned till DEATH THROUGH Yesterday Hull concluded an inquest at the Clarence on the body of Hubert Henry aged of formerly a of Considerable excitement had been caused in the neighbourhood from reports that deceased had died from sugar of administered by his to whom he had only been married about two and with whom it was stated he was continually and a large crowd surrounded the house where the inquest was At the first hearing Matilda Sophia wife of deposed that he was very and had been in good health up to the loth when he was attacked with and She gave him some milk and He was then lying on the In the afternoon he went down and sat on a stool in the She sent for a but before he arrived deceased had He had been drinking heavily for some days new deposed that since the adjournment he had wade a post mortem and found the internal organs diseased from excessive had analysed the contents of the and found no trace of The cause of death was from heart Oram deposed that he was called to in his had died of brought on by The result of the postmortem which he had made in company with last confirmed this opi jury returned a verdict in with the medical THE QUEEN has appointed the Duke of Albans to be Lieutenant and Custos of the county of in the room of Lord THE TOWER OP Times states that m consequence of the many complaints which were received of the delays in admission to the Tower which visitors have hitherto been subjected it been decided to abandon the system of visiting ny batches of and to throw the rooms open as m other The beefeaters will no longer act as but as custodians and sentries at various places throughout the HORRIBLE MURDER AND A horrible tragedy was enacted at Carlisle yes A man named James Barn aged tailor and cut his wifes throat with a and afterwards committed suicide by inflicting on himself a similar Some of the members of his who are all young men and heard Barnfather call James James and one of the sons saw his father pass his own bedroom to that of his to whom the young man gave the The family warned that in his present state of mind Barnfather might do them some his son judged it expedient to open a window and call for On entering the room in which and Barnfather had the latter was found lying dead by the side of the bed in her and with her throat In the daughters bedroom was found also in his and with a frightful wound in his He ex in a few giving an explana tion of what had A FISHERMAN on Friday morn ing the body of Richard was found near the Nayland Thede ceased is supposed to have fallen from the mast of his boat while reefing He leaves a widow and two Yesterday shortly before one a tire the cause of which is occurred at Arcade on the premises of Hull and The front part of the shop damaged bj and the rest of the premises by smoke ani Two small fires subsequently occurred owing to sparks falling from the One broke out ic Lloyds and the other at Cheap Prime Minister arrived at his residence in yesterday morn ing shortly before 11 having travelled from the station of the SouthEastern railway by ordinary leaving there at The right gentlemans carriage was in waiting for him at who was looking much preferred to walk home his Henry who accompanied driving to The Premier attended a Ca binet Council at and returned to the residence of in the He is expected to take a sea trip next DESTRUCTION OF A THEATRE Thurs day about seven it was discovered that the Lyceum waa on Although there was a plentiful supply of water and assistance the fire gradually gained In a short time the roof fell and by nine oclock the whole of the building was the damage REGISTRY OFFICE Henry the keeper of a registry office at was brought up at on the charge of fraudulently obtaining from a man named Henry and other John Simpson Jack aged of Sefton of no was also placed m the with the prisoner charged with by false to obtain the sum of from a on the 20th at with intent to defraud and of conspiring with the said Henry and obtaining various sums of from Edward and from Henry false pretences at in opening the prosecution on behalf of the said since the last prisoner Jackson had been It would be re collected that the address given by Pipe when the applicants came to him was Provi The reason which led to Jackson being arrested was that a coachman named out of was informed by some one that of the above would give him a place as manager of a coach and a He gave him the and Emmerson then wrote a letter to the and he duly received a letter purporting to come from Jackson with reference to the posi tion on the and also asking for A correspondence took but Jackson insisted upon and he had given up the consulted with his and also spoke to the and under their guidance he wrote a letter ta and had an interview with He arranged to meet him and The appointment was and a was He would be able to show that these two prisoners were acting and he proposed to charge them with obtaining and also to charge Jackson with attempting to obtain and with conspiring to defraud Weldon and other Charles Edward Weldin said I live at Belve On the of August I gaw an advertisement in the a respectable man to take charge of a coach and I went to the I saw the prisoner Pipe and a The prisoner What business are you after and I replied I called to see about the coach He said if I was after the managership it was a very good I asked him about the and he said he did not know but it was a commission on the tickets sold to He said he coald not give me any as he had not seen Jackson was in town for a few days and wished to get home and take the servants with I then asked for the and gave Pipe a half as he said it was usual to pay in such A woman in the room then gave ma the Pipe also said that if I got the situation the commission would be one I then left with two other whom I had met outside the After searching in different places I found Providence but I did not see but a I saw an account afterwards in the William Bradford was then He said I live at Ken I have lived there 18 During that time Jackson had not lived there neither do I know anyone at this address of the name of I have had persons inquiring at my house for I have also had post letters sent to The letters I sent Iam a detective of belonging to the T divi My wife may have seen I cannot say if Pipe was trying to find She called at my William Emmerton said August 7th gave me an and I wrote to Mr aud enclosed a piece of paper with the address on I received the following letter Re Stage reply to yours of the let me have full and whether you can cash If you write by return I will make an appointment to see you in I then wrote again on and went to Putney and saw the prisoner The house is a small one with two Other letters passed between and I subsequently went to the and then I called at the address I saw the and saw Jackson He Walk up to the We walked up to the top of the and I I have not brought the with but I have got He said I was iust the man that would suit I asked liim what my salary would He and if you suit me I dont mind a little He also said he had engaged a guard for the coach who had been in the 17tli I asked him what livery the guard was going to and he said scarlet coat and white hat He said mine would be a drab coat and a white plush I said Whois your tailor he said A near He said the late coachman had presented to him by the gentleman when he I then asked him what I was to be security and he a quantity of oil paintings at my office at These I was to have under my He was going to He then I must as I have to speak to the foreman about the We then arranged to meet at Kings at the house of a solicitor named I was then to sign an agreement with reference to the the and the situa I was to pay on the for solicitors and the rest on the I went and Jackson was standing on the I walked in and Good I asked if the solicitor was and he said I then I will go and have a glass of Inspector Morgan then took the prisoner into A discussion took place as to the attendance of the witness when De Rutzen said he would issue a summons for his pri soners were then remanded for a few DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRALIAN THE AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN EIGHTEEN OF BOROUGH Colonials were met by Eighteen of Scarborough on and the latter set them 170 in their first The Australians wen all cleared out for the naties of Scar borough made 90 in the second At the call ol time the Australians had made out of 171 runs to Yesterday morning continued innings for the Frank bowled the first and Bannerman refused to stand up to the on the ground that Frank The game was stopped for about 10 mi and then Frank was allowed to From his third ball Bannerman was caught at Murdoch came and at 22 Frank sent middle stump clean out of the Two runs later Mosley shot down leg With the score at Palmer was cleaned and making a was easily caught at third Bonner joined and hit for two when the total had reached was easily caught at deep was clean bowled after scoring and Boyle succumbed to the second ball he Moule and were together at luncheon the score being 59 for eight leaving 112 tuns to get to with only two wickets to Moule and took the score up to when the former was caught at shert leg for Jarvis was run out after scoring a and innings closed for Thus the match ended in a victory for the Scarborough 18 by 90 This is tha first defeat sustained by during their tour in the United We are sorry to have to stata that Spofforth received a severe blow on the right hand while which will probably prevent him from playing for some little AND GROUND NOTTINGHAM match was played at Lords on Friday and yesterday in charming The club played a very weak but were nevertheless equal to beating the after an exciting by 19 runs The Marylebone made 134 and against Nottingham Castles 144 and For the winners Hotham made 25 in the and a splendid 78 in the Marshall 45 was the top scorer for the MARYLEBONE SOUTH played at Cardiff ended in a victory for the former on the Marylebone in the first scored 228 first 112 CHELTENHAM CRICKET the Chel tenham cricket week Was brought to a conclusion by tha defeat of Surrey by The match was commenced on and on Friday night it was expected that a draw would be the how did not prove to be the and Gloucestershire won by ten WEST LONDON ROWING following is tha result of tha three races rowed by members of the above club yesterday from to Heat 1 2 Fours G Preston 1 Glasson 2 Wf Huntley Fours Ellis 1 j Alfred 2 Meyer 3 Arthur Brown LAMBETH WATERMANS PARK steamboat accompanied the race between the above two societies yester the course selected being from Putney to The stake at and new value The Lambeth boat manned by Strat and Odell while Battersea was formed of Eatwell and Newman From tha Surrey side Lambeth soon held the being half a length to the fore off the clearing Batter sea about At two lengths lengths separated Lambeth winning by upwards of three SWIMMING Both banks of the River at the werff thronged by close upon a thousand persons to witness the captaincy races of the North and Dalston swimming Two only started for the which was won by Danels secured the North London race in whilst won the Alliance in after a splendid race with last years Tha distances were PRINCE OF WALESS grounds were extensively patronised when the ing events were England 130 Yards Han dicap final 18 yards 1 Hatch 2 Won by a yard between second and Yards All England Doe of 54 entries the following dogs won their respective heats Ravens 6yds start Walkers 23 walked over Ceats 20 Jenkins 26 Graves 33 32 10 Coats 18 Gregorys 13 26 Clarks Robert the 23 25 A 170 Yards Dog Match Phipps 1 Spring Won by twe Mile Handicap In con sequence of darkness setting one heat was 1 Won by two yards a bai CONNAUGHT RANGERS BICYCLE first race meeting of this club was at tne Surbiton being estimated at destroyed by A previous erection was FUNERAL OF LORD STRATFORD DE The funeral of this distinguished diplomatist took place yesterday at near Tunbridge The was strictly and the attendance not very About one oclock the funeral procession started from Trant the coffin being carried to the churchyard by the village The in the west corner of the was an ordinary brick one lined with moss and The assisted by the the and the while the chief mourners were the Miss Catherine Miss Mary Miss Miss and Mias Her the Queen was represented by Lord and there were also in attendance Turkish Marquis of Lord grave Gerald Captain Philip Miss and Wreaths were sent by the Duchess of Miss Lady Marion Miss and Miss A named of Oxford was fined and costs at on for delivering bread without Miles Handicap 600 yds 1 won by two Mile Race Wan derers first The best on record f ALEXANDRA PARK 5 8st 3 6st lOlb Flyaway 4 8s6 Mile 5 8st 3 Sst 61b Regent 3 8st 21b Selling 8st Sst lib 2 8st 4lb Forest Plate Handi 4 8st lOlb 4 Sat 71b County Gold 4 7st 71b 5 7st 71b Lively S 7s6 131b Municipal Royalist 8st 121b Sst 121b Houri Sst Selling Handicap 3 7st 31b 31 Miss 3 Corpora tion Hilda Hoed Caen Catherine t Pantaloon BETTING IN GREAT EBOR to 1 Robbie Burns ft to 1 Novice to 1 to 14 Stockmar te 1 oft 10 to 1 Fernandez to 8 Lindrick 100 to 8 Coromandel 7 Test Q to 7 White Poppy to I Res nard to 40 Bend Or PROPHECIES FOR THE EBOR Sportsman Lindrick or Life Robbie Burns or Gazette Lindrick or or Robbie Robbie Land and Water Stockmar or Ellan gowan Sporting Life Robbie Burns or Sunday Times Robbie Burns or VOLUNTEER YESTERDAY The volunteers who have been encamped witk the regulars at and the company which has been under canvas at during fki returned to town having undergone a week s training in very fine The South Mid Rifles competition took place at Ranges and the Regimental meeting of the 2nd London at the City 2nd and lery and Royal Arsenal Rifles on all the regiments mustering in good Yesterday Maria aged of while crossing the road slipped on some vege table refuse and broke her ana She was treated at the London
