NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3923, 20 September 1875, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The impostor who gave himself out some time ago as Nana Sahib has been sentenced by the Maharajah Scindiah to four years’ imprisonment. At Littlehampton, Henry Bramlcy, a laborer, was sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment with bard labor for having assaulted his wife in a most brutal manner and fracturing her jaw. The prisoner admitted tho • dlk-neo, and said his wife would not now bn '.lilt; to jaw ” him so much.

At a Court of Aldermen holden at Guildhall, at which Alderman Sir B. Lawrence presided, the Town Clerk read the names of several gentleme • who had applied to be admitted as brokers of the City of London, and among them was Lord Walter Campbell, one of the sons of the Duke of Argyll, A match between Galopin, the Derby winner, and Lowlander, which had had been talked about for some time, has been at last definitely arranged on the following terms: The course is to he the Bowley Mile, the stakes 000 bovs. ; Lowlander to cany 9st to Galopiu’s Sat 21b., to bo run at Newmarket the day alter the Cmsarewitch. The increase of Mr Beecher’s salary from id,(oo to ! 20,000 was not, it appears, a permanent advance, but for one year only. It was, in fact, a present cf L16,00l) to Mr Beecher to defiav the expenses of the trial; but as there would have been legal difficulties in the way of the congregation voting money for that purpose, the expedient of increasing their pastor’s salary was adopted. The interesting ceremony of the installation cf the Constable of the Tower took place on the 16fch July within the walls of her Maj ist’sy Palace, the Tower. General .Sir Charles Yorke, G.C. 8., was then and there duly installed as Constable of the Tower of Loudon in the place of the late Field Marshall Sir William M. Gomm. The present Constable is one of the vieux dc la '*’• r ! *, a Pen Similar hero, and a wearer of aterloo medal, a ;d joined the anny in

The ib ath of the wid-'-w of Mows. Jubicu, conductor of promenade concerts for ;o many year?, took p’ace *udd«.-niy*ou the 13th July, at hr r r< sidooce, 12 A runde. 1 -square, Madame Jullien had such good judgment of the merits ov artists, that the'ate Mr Lum’ey. Mr Maples on, aud Mr CLattertoa availed themselves of her services, hebh at Her Majesty’s Theatre and at Drury Lane Theatre. It war, Madame Jullien wlio, after bearing Mdlie, Tietjens in Vienna, suggested her engagement for London to. ; Mr T lio.dev who went to the Austrian cap tad, and the German pr'ana donna was engaged and made her dvhvt a* Valent ma, in the “ Huguenots,” April 13 ! 858 At a mo ting of the Newcastle Society of

’ ntiqua-i-8, the Rev. • r Bruc • stated, B.ys the ‘ Builder,’that a fine altar o> Neptune had been found in the river near the new Tyne Bridge It bad been broken in three parta but each part had been brought up by the dredger. It was peculiar in its appearance ; on the capital they had the dedication to • eptuue, by the Sixth Legion, “ Nontuno, Legio Sexta victrix pia file!?*;” and the face of the altar was occupied by a trident, on the ban le of which was a spirited and extremely handsome representation of a dolphin. The altar was unlike anything he had ever seen. Only two or three traces of the god Neptune had been found m the north of England. One of those was a figure ef

> eptuho found at Carrawburgh ; and the other was a small altar inscribed “ Neptuno '-arabo Sino,” found at Chesterholra. The present altar was a much finer p’cc-o of sculpture than either of these. lie did not know that there was antht r altar to Neptuno found on the whole line of the wall ; but the one coming from Pons E’.ii was exceedingly interesting. It was a pity that instead of the name of the Sixth Legion, whoso headquarters were at York, the altar bad not contained the name of the cohort located in the Homan garrison of Newcastle. The first cohort of the Corncvii is stated to have had then 1 head-quarters at Pons Elii, hut no inscriptions have been found stating tho fact The altar svou'd have been very precious if ;t bad given the name of the cohort which was located in this garrison.