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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1708, 11 August 1879, Page 3

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Mr F. W. Wilson, proprietor oE the “ East Anglian! Dailyl Times,” was presented witha cheque for £9OO, being the costa incurred in defending the action for libel arising out of the Akenham burial case. This amount was aupplemented fay the presentation of a vo./ handsome timepiece and two bronze figures. A large and influential meeting of the constituents of the Marquis of Hartington was held at Knighton to sign a requisition asking him to continue to represent the Radnorshire Boroughs in the next Parliament, and assuring him of their cordial rote and interest, whether he was opposed or not. A merchant was charged at the Marlborough street police-court with assaulting a domestic servant by kissing her. The complainant was in a public-house purchasing bear; the defendant, who was also there, insisted upon kissing her, on which she gave him into custody. He was fined a sovereign. The great Council of the Canton Vaud has just considered the long-expected report on the proposed railway via Mount Simplon. The total cost of the line is estimated at 130.000. of francs. Of this sum it is hoped that the Italian Government will contribute 28,000,000, France, 50,000,000; and the Swiss Cantons and railways chiefly interested 22,000,000, thus making together 100.000. and leaving 30,000,000 to be subscribed by private capitalists. Another of the Waterloo veterans has passed away. The Her. William Leeke, who was interred on the 11th June in the churchyard of Holbrooke, Derbyshire, joint d the 52nd Light Infantry in the year 1815, and carried the regimental color on the memorable 18th of June in that year, and took part in the gallant charge which the S2ad Eegimont (led by Sir John Colborr.c, afterwards Lord Seaton) made on the French Imperial Guard, and which finally decided the fortunes of the day. He was afterwards with his regiment in the Army of Occupation in Paris and the North of France, and was for some time in New Brunswick. In 1828 he left the army, and, after graduating at Queen’s College, Cambridge, took Holy orders. He was successively curate in charge of Weetham, Sussex, and Bvailsford, Derbyshire, and in 1840 was appointed to the living of Holbrooke, in tho same county, which he resigned two years ago, owing to the infirmities of age. He was for many years rural dean, and besides being an earnest parish clergyman, he in his younger days took an active part in several public questions, especially the abolition of pluralities and the due observance of the Lord’s day. Ho was bom at Havant on the 27th November, 1797, and died at Holbrooke Hall on the 6th Ju 'o in his eighty - second year. A law suit is pending in Paris between Madame Adelina Patti, tho famous prima donna of the Italian opera, and her husband, the Marquis de Caux. The latter, according to the correspondent of the "Telegraph,” determined to prevent, if possible, the appearance of his wife on the Paris stage, has directed his legal adviser to write to M. Merelli to the effect that he had seen advertisements in divers papers announcing that operatic representations were to be given next winter, at which Madame Adelina Patti (Marquise de Caux) would appear. Not having given her hia authorisation for this purpose, he protested any engagement she might enter into without his consent, as her husband. To this legal document M. Merelli immediately replied by an equally formal document, in which the Marquis was informed that his statement, to the effect that Madame Adelina Patti, “ Marquise do Caux,” was to appear, was contrary to truth. The words “Marquise de Caux” had never been used. Besides this, Madame Adelina Patti had sung in ‘Paris in 1876 without any protest being raised against her engagement. The action taken by the Marquis, continued the letter, seemed to be dictated by no other motive than that of bringing discredit and ruin upon the contemplated artistic and commercial enterprise ; for it did not lie in his power to prevent Madame Adelina Patti from singing. At the same time, M. Merelli has summoned tho “ Gauloia 11 newspaper before a Court of Justice, for the "publication of an article which concluded with the words, “It is our conviction that she will not sing.” As, according to M. Merelli, the consequence of this article was the withdrawal of all chance of subscription for his theatre, and the discredit of his commercial enterprise, he claimed damages to the amount of 200,000 francs. Under these circumstances, the question which the tribunal will have to decide is, whether or no the authorisation of her husband is necessary for Madame Adelina Patti to sing in Paris. She was separated from the Marquis in 1877, and the judgment given on that occasion declared “Les 6poux de corps et de biens.” The Marquis de Caux contends that this separation does not entitle Madame Adelina Patti to appear in public in the city in which he resides

Mr Arthur James Lange was charged on remand at the Westminster Police Court with making a false declaration that he was over age on his marriage, at the office of the registrar for St. Luke’s, Chelsea. The proceedings were instituted by Mr Lempriere, a barrister. It was shown that the declaration ■was not true, and the contention on the part of tho defendant was—first, that a registrar’s office was not within the Aot; and, next, that the informant was animated by personal feeling. Mr Woolrych said that, whatever opinion might be formed ns to tho prosecution, a public offence had been disclosed, and he could not withdraw it from a jury. The defendant was therefore committed for trial, but bail was accepted.