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JULY 28, ig96i PALL MALL GAZETTE. 8 3all iKali tttte mtitt, THE "DRUMMOND CASTLE" INQUIRY. THE NAVAL A CE RES. IS, Charing Cross Ro FINDING OF THE COURT. We are permitted to 'state that the Queen feels very nmcli, fr0m A GUNBOAT AGROUND.

personal point ol view, me auocui-c ujcajciujcui emperor irom Covvi year. The Emperor's annual visic was aiways regarded, since the firJ official- visit, as a family affair, and had no other significance to her Maiestv. It is just possible that the Emperor, later on in the year. m3 The finding of the court of inquiry held to investigate the circumstances attending the loss of the Drwnmond Castle was delivered yesterday The court finds "that the casualty was pnmanly caused by sufficien allowance not being made for the easterly current, the effect of which would have been averted had the captain made sufficient use of the lead. 1 he court adds that the vessel was kept going at too great a speed, considering the thick weather that prevailed and the dangerous locality.

Under these circumstances it cannot hold that the Dmmmond Castle was navigated with proper and seamaulike care. THE ACCIDENT. ON. H.M.S. "BLAKE." VERDICT OF THE CORONER'S JURY.

At the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, yesterday, the coroner's iuquiry was resumed "into the cause of the death of George Evill, of H.M.S Blake, who was killed on board that vessel on Juiie 24 by the explosion of a- boiler. Mr. Butler, inspector irom the Admiralty, stated that iu his opinion the collapse of the plateof the combustion chamber was due to overheating, arising from shortness of water boilers, but he was not prepared to say that the lack ot water was due to want of attention in regulating the feeding apparatus. The water-gauge glasses of the damaged boiler were not in an efficient condition, and might lead to a falsa idea of the amount of water in the boiler. With proper supervision this defect could have been detected.

Ultimately 'the jury found that the explosion was due to-culpable; negligence through the failure to secure sufficiency of water in the the coroner' then committed Fleet-Engineer Burner' of the Blake for trial on the' charge of manslaughter, but admitted him to bail. The jury aiso expressed the opinion that the Admiralty ought to provide for Evilfs widow for life and the orphans uii til they were.able to secure a livelihood. SThey also commended' stoker Bryan for his attempt to rescue the deceased. A SCO TC II APPEAL CASE. MAINTENANCE OF A BARONET'S HEIR.

Judgment was 'delivered in the House of Lords Yesterday in the curious Scotch "appeal case, in which Dame Rebecca Sophia Ross, widow of. Sir Charles Augustus Ross, of Bahiagowan Castle, Ross-shire, was -the appellant, and her son, Sir Augustus Lockhart Ross, the present baronet, was the respondent Lady Ross was left a widow when her son was about twelve years of age, and she was appelated settle- -ment tutor and curator to hereon, who attained his. majority on April 4, 1893. The present appeal was taken -in. an- 'actidil raised in the Court of Session at the instance of the respondent agairfst the The questions in.

the appeal relate to certain In the first place that the appellant was' entitled to take her accounts for sums for the upkeep of the establishment and the maintenance of the heir at 2,000 a year from July, 1883, to July, 1886 at 2,500 from that date to July, 1891 and 2,000 a year from July, 1891, to April ,4, 1893, besides certain other allowances, making iu the whole 25,500 for the. ten years, or an average of 2,550 a -year. The Lord Chancellor, in delivering the decision of the court, stated- that a great deal of the expenditure had been most appropriate, and was what a prudent guardian would have advised. The appellant had, howeves, been. not keeping proper accounts, although she had been advised to do so.

But her'conduct other -respects had been most kind and he-; could; not help thinking -that the court below had been too niggardly in regard to the sumsl.lowed for the upkeep of the establishment and the maintenance of the heir, and so far the judgments should be reversed and varied. He proposed that the appellant be allowed 3,000 a year, such allowance to be in addition to-the 2,205 advanced by her. to her sou, and that each party should pay their own costs in the courts below, the respondent payiug the costs of the present appeal. and Shand having expressed their concurrence, judgment was, given accordingly. The torpedo gunboat Hussar, attached to the channel squadron, engaged in the manoeuvres, put into Queenstown this morniug.

owing Slight derangement to -her machinery, which is expected tobe put rint iu about twenty-four hours. On entering the harbour the Hussar tool. Me ground off the Spit Bank Lighthouse. The tide was flowing at die tunc and she floated in two hours. The place where she grounded, is bottom, and it is not believed that she has received any injury, ine gunboat Sv and six torpedo-boats left Falmouth this, morning.

naval craft are now in the harbour. ANOTHER BREAKDOWN OF THE OPOSSUM." The torpedo-boat destrover Opossum is giving the dockyard officials at Devouport considerable trouble. A few weeks since she ran on some rocks off the Scilly. Islands, and slistaiued serious damage, including the crioplingof all her propeller blades. Whileshe was under repair bouerdetects we're discovered, and the period allowed for her refit to be Last week she failed to undergo the necessary boiler tests in consequence ot leaky joints, and mechanics were employed night and day to make good the defects: Yesterday the vessel was taken into the Channel for a three hours' trial, but after steaming for about an hour at high pressure the trial had to be abandoned in consequence of the smashing of some oi the main fittings of the port high pressure cylinder.

The vessel has returned, to Devoiiport, and new fittings will have to be made at Reynam. Even it overtime is resorted to, the work cannot be completed in less than a week. A GLASGOW SHIP ABANDONED. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF THE CREW. Mr.

Puxley, master of the barque Goiuaitbank, 2,205 tons, owned by Mr. Andrew Weir, Glasgow, and Mr. Woodfiekl, chief officer of the vessel, arrived at Plvmouth last evening in the steamship Qrissa, The Gowan-bank left Barry late in January with a cargo of coals for Iquique, and was accompanied on the voyage southward by the Cedarbank, which; sailed about the same time from SwanseaTor San Francisco. The weather was very-bad. They were fourteen days fruitlessly endeavouring- to weather, Cape Horn.

On the morning of April 21 a gale blew from the north-north?" east, gradually increasing to hurricane strength every thread of canvas on the Gowanbank was blown away, and high seas swept the decks and smashed the boats and bulwarks. At this time the Cedarbank parted company, and fears were entertained for her fate. As the wind veered round to vest-north-west its strength increased until, on the morning of the 22nd, amid a storm of snow and rain, the masts of the Goivanbanh went oyer the ship's side, ripping open the deck and placing the crew in. a terrible plight. Woru out with the labours of the previous fourteen days, and with their sleeping and living quarters flooded, the crew had to keep entirely on deck, while the ship drifted at the mercy of wind and waves.

The gale still prevailed on April 23 when the barque La thorn, of Liverpool, bore down on the distressed ship, and with much, difficulty took off the crew and, after a further rough passage, landed them at Valparaiso. The Goivanbank was still afloat when abandoned, but was not-expected to remain above water very long. On reaching Plymouth Mr. Puxley received a letter informing him that the Cedarbank had. arrived at San Francisco after a voyage of 194 days from Swansea.

THE BUILDING ACCIDENT IN GOWER-STREET. INQUEST AND VERDICT. Along inquiry was held last evening by Dr. G. Danford Thomas, at St.

Pancras, with reference to the death of William Cook, aged forty-three, a labourer, who was in the employ of Messrs. Scrivener arid buildiug contractors, and was killed on the.previdus Thursday morning by the fall of an iron girder atthe new premises ih of erection for Messrs. Maple and Co. in Gower-street. Several other workmen were at the same time moreorless injured.

Mr. K. H. Garvie, her Majesty's inspector, was present irom the Home Office. The deceased and' her workmen were.it appeared, working beneath iron girders fixed, which were-intended to carry a concrete roadway.

The end of one of the girders rested on a bed of old brickwork, five inches by four a half. While the men were cutting this away in the immediate vicinity of the girder the bed gave way, and it fell, bringing with it a quantity of debris, iu which Cook was buried. The other labourers were not very seriously injured, save one who had two of his fingers cut off. Mr. Woodzall, architect of the building, said a strut, should have been' fixed-under the girder in question before the cutting was begun.

In the result-the jury found a verdict of accidental death, adding that in their opinion" the bearing by which it was sought to keep the girder in its place was insufficient for the weight. THE EAST END WATER SCARCITY. WASHING IN THE CANAL. The renewed hot weather yesterday had a very depressing effect on the. Inhabitants of the East End.

The rainfall on Sunday enabled the East Loudon Waterworks Company slightly to the supply, while, the, demand was not so noticeable as on the previous day, owing to the fact ot the residents having been able to increase their stock from the rain as it For some nights now.ilthough not generally known, the poorer classes have been taking water from, the -Thames, the Lea, and the Regent's Canal, under cover of the darkness, although not without the' knowledge of the police, to flush the drains and to cleanse their houses, while men and boys, iu many cases father and sous, have nightly gone to the river steps and canal towpaths and washed themselves, a necessity, which the scarcity of water prevented them doing at home. The great difficulty experienced by the very poorer classes is that although the water when turned on at the standpipes would supply a sufficient quantity for the day iu all probability, they have not the means of storing it, as many homes" a two-gallon can or pail is the only article available. AN OLD INN AT HIGHGATE. INTERESTING REMINISCENCE OF THE QUEEN. The Royal coat of arms presented by her Majesty the Queen in the year of her accession to the then proprietor of the Fox and Crown, West-hill, HMigate; which is about To be demolished, has been removed to the Hihgate' Literary and Scientific Institution, where it is to be preserved as auinterestiug local relic.

The old-fashioned red-tiled inn, which was formerly known as the Fox-imder-the-HiU, was recently purchased. by Mr. Walter Scrimgeour, who intends to demolish it and add the space which it occupies to the grounds of his residence. He has had the Roy-al arms carefully taken down, and has presented them to the institution, together with the board which huug beneath bearing the following inscription "July 6, 1837. This coat of arms is a grant from Queen Victoria for services rendered to her Majesty while iu danger travelling down this hill." The circumstances of the occurrence show that the Queen was being driven with the Duchess of Kent down the hill in a carriage which was without a drag chain.

The horses became restive and plunged violently, and an accident was only avoided by the prompt assistance of Mr. Turner, landlord of the Fox, who affixed a chain to one of the wheels of the carriage when it was near his house. Her Majesty alighted for. a short time, and, after thanking Mr. Turner, for his prompt assistance, took her departure for Kensington Palace.

i THE SUNDAY OPENING OF MUSEUMS. Sunday was the closing day of the Guildhall Loan Exhibition of Pictures, and there was an attendance of 266 persons. This makes a grand total of 10,771 attendances since the exhibition was opened on Easter Sunday through the instrumentality of the National Sunday League. Dunn that season 12,057 persons have visited the British Museum, 15,508 theNatural History Museum, South Kensington, 68,907 the Indian and Patent Museum 25 772 Bethnal Green Museum and Art Galleries, 20,753 the and 5,246 the National Portrait Gallery or a total for the eight institutions of 161,595 persons. Other galleries have been opened this month in connection with the league, at which the otal attendance has exceeded 3,000.

to meet her Majesty, who thinks a great deal of these periodica! visits of members of her ta'mily. The Queen is to hold a Council next Saturday at Osborne, and Minister attending will leave Victoria Station by special train at 9.30 the same morning, crossing the Solent in one of the Royal yachts and returning the same atternoon to London; The Queen will, as we have already announced hold-the Prorogation Council on August 14. The first prorogation will be to a date iu November, when there will be a further prorogation to an early date in January for business." The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark's departure from this.country may be delayed until Thursday next. They still occupy the rooms placed at their disposal by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, but practically live with the 'Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. The Duke and Duchess of Sparta and'Prince Nicholas of Greece have been specially invited to proceed to Osborne to-day on a visit to the Queen.

They will remain only a couple of days, and returning to Athens, join the Prince of Wales's party at -Goodwood. Princess Frederica of Hanover, Barouess von Pa vvel Rammingen, left London yesterday for Germany after only a brief stay for the Royal wedding. Although she has a suite of rooms at Hampton Court, Princess Frederica seldom uses them now, and spends most of her time abroad. The Queen and the Queen-Regent of the Netherlands, who are now established at the Chateau de Soestdijk for the summer, received a visit from Prince a few days ago. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden are now at Scheveningen, and, the Prince and Princess zu Wied and their daughters are expected later.

The Duke of Norfolk has, it is announced, felt' unable to resist the unanimous requisition presented to him by the city of Sheffield, and has consented to accept the Mayoralty lor the ensuing year, in view of the anticipated visit of the Queen. The Marquis and Marchioness of, Zetland leave this week for Kerse House, their place in Stirlingshire. Earl and Countess Cadogan "are expected at the Viceregal Lodge this week, and there will be a good deal of gaiety there prior to the horse show. Later on Lord Cadogan will visit Cork and Waterford, and open the new court-house at the former place. The Earl of Morton is, cruising in his steam yacht Cressida along the west coast of Scotland.

He will spend the shooting season at Conaglen, his place in Argyleshire. We learn that the late' Earl of Clonmeil's will has been challenged by his four sisters and the present holder of the title, on the score of undue influence. Lord Powerscourt has returned home very much improved in health, after spending a month at Homburg. His game prospects iu the Couuty Wicklow are very good. Lord Oranmore and Browne has completely got over the effects of his accident.

He has left off crutches, and could be backed for a walking match against, the majority of his contemporary peers. Lord Frankfort de Montmorency has left Ireland for Carlsbad. He will dine with the Fishmongers' Company on his way through town. For the- completion of his convalescence, Mr, M. Stanley, M.P., has taken Mossknow, Greyshott, Hindhead.

Sir Charles and Lady Mary Shelley have left town for Avington Park, their seat near Winchester, for the season. The Bishop of Winchester has issued invitations for garden parties at Farnham Castle to-morrow and -on Saturday next. Mr. R. I.

Tidswell has consented to act as Master of the Berkeley Hunt for the ensuing season. A meeting of members and subscribers was held at Gloucester yesterday, when great regret was expressed at the loss the hunt had sustained by the death of Lord Fitzhardinge, and a vote of condolence and sympathy with Lady Fitzhardinge was passed. The Archdukes Otto and Eugene have returned to Vienna from Stockerau. The death is announced from Switzerland of the Comte de Grancey, at the early age of thirty-two. His father, the Viconite de Grancey, was killed at Champigny whilst leading, as their colonel, the mobiles of the C6te d'Or.

His mother was a daughter of the late Due de Riviere. Baron von Pasetti, the Austrian Ambassador to the Italian Court, has arrived in Austria, on a short leave of absence. Baron Joseph Miske, Austrian Consul in Turn-Severin, has left Vienna for Szarwaskend. The Hon. Francis Hyde who has been appointed to be an Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was appointed to a clerkship in the Foreign Office in June, 1870, and was first attached to her Majesty's agency at Geneva, with reference to the Alabama claims, from July to September, 1872.

He was private secretary to the Earl ot Rosebery, and again to Sir J. Pauncefote, in 1886 was acting private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury in 1887 again private secretary to Sir -J. Pauncefote in, July the same year was private secretary to Sir P. Currie from 1889 to 1892, when he became private secretary to the Earl of Rosebery. He was promoted Assistant Clerk in 1894, and made a C.B-on March -13, 1894.

The Bishop of Coventry told the Grammar School boys in that city yesterday that at his school there was a holiday for every bishop present on prize-day, and consequently men's calves were carefully looked after, and disappointment reigned if the legs proved to be those of only a dean or' an archdeacon. One of the top scholars to -whom the bishop gave a prize was J. E. M. Hannington, a Brighton lad, and son of the first Bishop of Uganda.

The Rev. John Robertson, who has accepted the vicarage of Bradford in succession to the late Archdeacon Bardsley, was educated at Queen College, Oxford, graduating in 1875, and afterthree years' curacy at Holloway and Paddington became London Diocesan Home Missionary secretary, then vicar of Holy Trinity, Stroud Green, and since 1885 he has been vicar of St. Mary's, Kilburth The vicarage of Bradford is in the gift of the Simeon trustees, and it is therefore hardly necessary to add that Mr-Robinson belongs to the straitest sort of Evangelicals. Major-General William R. Farmar, who died at Southampton on -Sunday last, served in the Sutlej campaign of 1845-6 with the 50th Regi; ment, and was severely wounded at the battle of Aliwal, and he served through the mutiny and was at the battle of Cawnpur.

On his return honie he became captain of cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was afterwards assistant commandant at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, for twelve years. The sad intelligence of the death from cholera in the Soudan of Surgeon-Captain John Ernest was received with the deepest sorrow in Bath and its vicinity, where the deceased was well known and held in affectionate regard. Educated at Somerset College, Bath, and at Bristol Medical School, he entered the rmy Medical Staff in-1887. Aftej; a stay of two years at Aldershot he went to India for four and a half years, and as captain of the Gymkhana cricket eleven at Poonah he had a large share in instituting the inter -Presidency matches. He returned home in June last year, and left England again in the ensuing August to take up the appointment in the Egyptian arniy.

He was thirty-four years of age. On September 16, Dr. John Kerr, her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools and Inspector of Training Colleges, will retire on a pension after thirty-six years' service. His place at Edinburgh will be taken by Dr. Ogilvie, now Chief Inspector at Glasgow, who will succeeded by Dr.

Stewart, now Chief Inspector at Aberdeen. The vacant Chief Inspectorship has been conferred upon Mr. Alexander Walker, her Majesty's Inspector a Perth, who will be transferred to Aberdeen in succession to Dr. Stewarts BIG DISCOVERY OF FORGED NOTES. A number of persons have' been arrested in Naples in connection with a great forging case.

Three different houses were raided simultaneously by the police, who discovered the largest quantityof false banknotes ever discovered, besides the most complete engraving plant. A hundred thousand completed 100 lira notes were seized, the total, iabe value'jbeing, something like 400,000 besides a large stock of bank-note paper. The engraving of the false notes was. so at the different banks whose paper was imitated the employees could not, tell them from real notes. INQUEST ON THE LADY PARACHUTIST.

An inquest on the body of Albettina, the lady parachutist, was held at Nash, near Newport, yesterday." It 'transpired that her real name was Louisa Maud Evans, aad that she was only fourteen years old in December, and that she had never made a parachute descent before the night of the fatality. Dr. Hurley, who made a post-mortem examination, -said he believed the girl Was unconscious, when, she fell with the parachute into the Bristol Channel. Gaudron, under whose directions the ascent aiid descent were made, admitted that he told the girl to keep secret that it was her first attempt at parachuting. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence of accidentally drowned, but added that Gaudron displayed great carelessness and want of judgment in allowing so young and inexperienced a person to make a descent in such weather.

THIS MORNING'S WEATHER, REPORT. -At 9 A.m. Brighton, N.E., lovely, smooth, 60 Eastbourne, lovely, 67 i Hastings, N.E., fine, calm, 68 Worthing, N.E., smooth, 62; -Barrow, N.W., calm, blue sky; Sheerness, Heme- Bay, fine Ramsgate, N.W., fine; Dover, fine, sea smooth, probable passage good Llandudno, Na, sea calm, blue sky, fresh breeze; Aberystwyth, fine, pleasant breeze, sea calm Bournemouth, fine: Devonport, fine; Iltracombe, bright sunshine; Lidford, fine, bright; Portsmouth, S.E., light, Plymouth, Southampton, fine; Norwich, N.W., cloudy; CrOmer, N.W., Lowestoft, N.N.W., light breeze, clear Aldeburgh, hot, bright, and dry -Ipswich, Colchester, Southend, Bury, Newmarket, Cambridge, Ely, Lynn, Peterborough, fine. At 9.30. Zermatt, cloudy, 55; Les Avanrs (above Montfeux), cloudy, 59 Glion, 'cloudy, 61 Interlaken, showery, fine, 64 Bierme, showery, fine, 63; Chateau d'ffix, shower', fine, 52; Sierre; M.oritaha, showery, fine, 61; Geneva, 66; Vevey, showery; Berne, showery, 64; Lausanne, showery, fine, 68; Lucerne, cloudy, 64.

TO-MORROW'S MAILS AND SHIP LETTERS. Mails' to be Despatched. Morning: To West Indies; and Pacific via Southampton to United States, via; Southampton; to. Egypt, by French packet; to Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Beyroutj Egypt, Aden, India, Ceylon, Seychelles, China, Straits Settlements, Siam, North Borneo, and Sarawak, and to West Indies (parcel mails). Evening IVUnited State's, Canada (except Nova Scotia), Bahamas, Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, via; Queenstown to Lisbon, Cape Verd Islands, Brazil, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru, via Liverpool to Canada and Portugal via Liverpool (parcel mails).

Mails Due. from United States, via-Sou'fliamptbn; Private Ship Letters. The from Liverpool for Philadelphia the Minister Tak, Seagull, Swift, or Professor Buys, from Hull for Rotterdam the Zaanstroom ox European, from Hull, for Amsterdam; the Bruno, Marietta, Corso, -or Esperanza, from Hull for Hamburg the Norway or Scotland, from Grangemouth for Christiansand Arendal, and Christiahia the from Southampton for Havre. Inquirers at Palace Gate this morning were informed that Sir John Millais was neither better nor Avorse." Listening to an orchestra of.6Iite executing the prettiest works of the great composers, dancing every night with the freedom of small dancing fatties or. with the' dress (if great are' the agreements which are found at Ostend, the charming watering of Belgium (situated at three hours from Dover).

If on the programme of the concert appears a piece, of music by an author not' much' cared for, or if on the ball notebook is a dance which is not Hkedj.riotbinjr is-easier than to withdraw, by passing in the saloons of the 11 Club Privd du are fonna those of -Monte Carlo, amongst a society always elegant and fashionable. The Club Prive du Kursaal is the only dub placed under the high superintendence of the town of Ostend, Advt.J..