Another case which likewise caused great excitement has ended since last I wrote and Lord William Nevill has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The particulars of the case I mentioned in a previous letter. Mr. Justice Lawrence was most seathing in his summing-up and left. no doubt as to his opinion of the crime for which the prisoner had been tried. Justice," he said, "is no respecter of persons, a member of an aristocratic family who commits a crime must pay the penalty as well as the wretched city clerk with a family of seven children who has no one to speak on his behalf." Lord William is 37 years old and is the fourth son of the Marquis of Abergavenny. In 1889 he married the eldest daughter of the Marquis de Santnrce, who died about three weeks ago, and hix sister Lady Alice Mor-land, Lord Abergavenny's second daughter died last Saturday at Brighton, so he will have much food for sad reflection in prison, Last Thureday week all England was horrified to learn that an American warship had been blown up whilst lying in the port of Havana and that 270 lives had been lost. At first there were rumours of foul play. One heard that searching enquiries were to be made, but luckily, so far, although no definite conclusion as to the cause of the disaster has been arrived at, everything points to the fact that it was caused by un accident of some kind. A Court of Enquiry is being held, but so far if any clue has been arrived at ithas not been divulged.
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