English and foreign Items.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 786, 12 May 1870, Page 3

English and foreign Items.

The men of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, lately landed from India, it is reported, have brought home savings to the amount of many thousand pounds, the largest amount ever brought Jiome by a regiment. At the Worship-street police-court, on February 12, John Lovey, about fortyfive years of age, described as a solicitor, and living at 31 Dalston Terrace, Hackney, was charged before Mr Partrilge with having been found in the unlawful posses sion of four electroplated spoons, the property of Messrs Spiers & Pond, and not giving a satisfactory account of the same. The evidence showed that the prosecutors received certain information in consequence of which they communicated with inspector Shore, of the detective police at Scotland Yard. Action was taken in t'.e matter, and on February 7 William Henry Bailey, a lodging-house keeper, of Warwick-street, Eegent-street, took apartments in the prisoner's bouse. He then found that at his meal-times some spoons bearing the names of "Spiers and Pond" were sent up for his use. This fact having been communicated to Inspector Shore, it was arranged that that officer should go to tea with Bailey at the house. When the tea was brought up, four spoons each bearing the name of " Spiers & Pond," accompanied the service. The prisoner was requested to account for their possession. He at first made no reply, but said his wife picked them up. The wife, having been called up, denied this statement, but said that her little boy had found them. Prisoner was then taken into custody, and on the way to the station he said he knew he was wrong in not giving thein up, but it was only recently that he had known of the existence of the firm of Spiers and Pond. He added that he would rather have given £2OO that it should have happened, as it would ruin him. Mr Abbott said he would call a witness on behalf of the prisoner to prove how possession of the spoons was obtained. He called the prisoner's eon, au intelligent boy, who stated

>| that about the spring of last year he wessi ( with his mother to the choral festival of i 5,000 voices in Kensington Gardens. Eeturning home about tea time through the gardens, he saw a packet lying beneath a tree, and on picking it up discovered it to be the spoons. Since that time the spoons had been in general use throughout the house. Mr Partridge fully committed the prisoner for trial, and agreed to accept bail of two sureties in £IOO each, and the prisoner in double that amount. —This should be a caution to iiuders. Baron Nathaniel de Rothsehild, one of the partners in the great mercantile house of that name, died in Paris on Friday, February 18, in his 58th year. He was the third son of the late Baron Nathan Meyer Bothschild (whose death occurred in 1836) by Hannah, daughter of the late Mr Levi B. Cohen, and was born in 1812; he was consequently a brother of Baron Lionel de Bothschild, M.P., for the City of London, of Sir Anthony de Bothschild, Bart., and elder brother of Baron Meyer, ftf.P. for Hythe, and grandson of Meyer Amschel Bothschild, the original founder of the fortunes of the family. From early life he took an active part in those great monetary transactions with which the house of Bothschild has so long been identified, but for upwards of eighteen years he had suffered from an affection of the spine, which, after inflicting upon him prolonged tortures, had produced almost complete paralysis, and culminated in the loss of sight. In this deplorable condition, however, the late Baron maintained a cheerfulness which surprised all who had access to him, and in no respect abated his active interest in affairs. A French and an English secretary read to him all the journals and periodical literature of the day; his memory was singularly re* tentive, and his judgment, especially in matters of politics and finance, seemed to be become more acute from his deprivation. He was frequently consulted on such subjects by men of all parties, and had become, moreover, a kind of social arbiter, whose opinion was sought on every difficult question. In spite of his residence iu Paris, he was an enthusiastic Englishman, devoted to English literature and the study of English politics. His magnificent house in the Bue Faubourg St Honore was a constant resort of tho political and literary celebrities of France and Germany. His loss will be much felt in the society of Paris, where he was universally known and esteemed, as well for his great ability and social qualities as for the widespread charity for which his family is everywhere distinguished. The deceased Baron married in 1842 his cousin Charlotte, daughter of the late Baron James de Bothschild, of Paris—whose death oceurred about a year ago—by whom he has two sons, JamesEdward and Albert, the elder of whom has already acquired distinction as an advocate at the Paris Bar.