Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

1871

Anne Marsh-Caldwell – aged 79/80 – (1791-1874) (Lady Mary’s mother)
Eliza Louisa Marsh-Caldwell – known as Louisa – aged 52/53 of Linley Wood
Georgina Marsh-Caldwell – Gies – aged 50/51 of Linley Wood
Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell – Posy – aged 47/48 of Linley Wood

Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B. – aged 53/54.
Lady Mary Heath – (ne Mary Emma Marsh) – aged 44/45
Arthur Raymond Heath - aged 16/17
Marion Emma Heath – May – aged 14/15
Frederick Heath – (Gen. F.C. Heath-Caldwell) aged 12/13
Cuthbert Eden Heath - aged 11/12
Ada Randolph Heath - aged 10/11
Herbert Leopold Heath - aged 9/10
Gerard Moore Heath - aged 7/8

 

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Wednesday 4 January 1871
Chester Courant

Lawton - The celebration of the coming of age of William Lawton Esq, of Lawton Hall, in this county, and of his taking possession of the estates of his ancient family in the counties of Chester and Stafford, took place on Tuesday, the 27th ult. in true old English style, at Lawton.

The auspicious morning of the 27th was ushered in by a merry peal of the church bells and by the firing of cannon, which were kept up at intervals during the whole day. At twelve o'clock a large number of the tenantry marched in procession, under a series of triumphal arches, from the Lawton Arms to Lawton Hall, to greet the young 'squire on his attaining his majority, when a large deputation was received in the newly-erected billiard room and the library, in order to present him with a very handsome dessert service in silver, together with an appropriate address inscribed on vellum and handsomely mounted, to which Mr Lawton replied in short but suitable terms. The young 'squire was surrounded upon this occasion by his mother and his guardian (Mrs and Dr Renaud), by his sisters and brother, and by a number of friends of the family, consisting of Mrs Marsh-Caldwell and the Misses Marsh-Caldwell, Lord Erskine, Randle Wilbraham Esq., the Rev. C.P. Wilbraham, Major General Wilbraham, 
(William John Percy Lawton of Lawton Hall.  - 1849 - 1883

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Saturday 7 January 1871
Hampshire Telegraph

We understand that Sir Leopold McClintock has applied for his retirement. This will bring Sir Leopold Heath, the late commodore on the East India station, to the top of the captain's list, who will consequently be the officer next for advancement to the flag rank.
 

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Army and Navy Gazette
Saturday 21 January 1871

Captain Relief Fund

Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Relatives of the Officers and Crew who Perished in Her Majesty's Late Ship Captain

Total amount of Subscriptions received at the Portsea Branch of the National Provincial Bank, £43,925 17s. 8d.Acknowledgment of contributions received from Officers and Men of her Majesty's Service to the 19th January 1871, since list of January 7.

- - - -- Second Remittance from India, collected by Rear Admiral Cockburn and Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., present and late Naval Commanders-in-Chief, East Indies. £385 0 0

- - - - -- Collected by Capt. Sir Leopold Heath - £5 0.0.

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Saturday 21 January 1871
Army and Navy Gazette

Bullfinch, 3, double-screw gun-vessel, Com. E.F. Lodder, was a Bombay on the 15th December. Rear-Admiral Cockburn inspected this ship on Tuesday, Dec. 6, and found everything to his satisfaction.  - - This is the third time Commander Lodder has been complimented by the Inspecting Officer, for Commodore Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., on two previous occasions, when he inspected the ship expressed himself well satisfied at the cleanly state and orderly behaviour of his men.  - - -

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Wednesday 8 February 1871
Morning Post

Victoria Philosophical Institure. 
The third meeting of the sesseion was held at 8 Adlephi Terrace, on Monday last. Several new members were announced, as also a large number of books presented to the library.

Mr Saville's paper, "On the evidence of the Egyptian monuments to the sojourn of Isreal," was read by Mr Fraser, the author being unavoidably absent. The Rev. J.H. Titcomb began the discussion by proving that several of the author's arguments were untenable, - - The Rev. C. Graham suppported some of Mr Titcomb's arguments, as also did the Rev.Dunbar Heath. The chairman closed the discussion, and announced that the Rev. E. Henslow would read a paper on "Phyllotaxis; or the arrangement of Leaves, in accordance with mathematical laws," illustrated with diagrams, on Monday, February 20.
 

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Saturday 18 February 1871
Surrey Advertiser.

The Theft of a Cash-Box at Mr.Down's. 
At the Magistrates' Clerk's Office, on Friday, before Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, Alexander Shepherd was charged with breaking into the dwelling house of Mr J.D.Downs, solicitor, of Rose Hill, Dorking, and stealing a cash-box, containing £70.  - - - 

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Saturday 18 February 1871
West Surrey Times

Dorking
The Robbery at Mr Down's. At Messrs Hart's offices on Friday last, Alexander Shepherd, clerk, was brought up in custody, charged with feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of his employer, J.D. Down Esq., solicitor, and stealing therefrom a cash box containing £7. - Mr Down deposed that on Thursday morning he went into his office with his chief clerk. He found the window shut, but the pane of glass under the asp was broken. The lock on Mr Peter's desk had been broken open, and was in the room at the time. The prisoner had been with the witness for four years, and his character during that time had been most exemplary.  - - - - Other witnesses were called to prove that prisoner had spent time between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning in the manner he had described. - The case was dismissed, the worthy magistrate, (Admiral Heath) saying the prisoner left the court without a stain upon his character.
 

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Leamington Spa Courier (repeated in Warwick Advertiser.)

Saturday 4 March 1871  (and 2 March 1871)

Hotel Arrivals

Clarendon Hotel

Mr and Mrs Marsh-Caldwell, Linley Wood, Cheshire (probably should read Mrs and the MIsses M-C)

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Wednesday 22 March 1871
Chester Courant

General Land Drainage & Improvement Company. No.22 Whitehall Place, London S.W.
County of Stafford - Parish of Audley. County of Chester - Parish of Barthomley. NO. 397, Caldwell's Drainage Improvement.

Notice is Hereby Given, that under the powers of "The General Land Drainage and Improvement Company's Act, 1849," a Provisional Contract has been entered into between Anne Marsh Caldwell, of Linley Wood, near Stoke-upon-Trent, in the county of Stafford, widows, and the said Company for the improvement of certain lands situate in the parish of Audley, in the county of Stafford, and in the parish of Barthomley, in the county of Chester, by the execution of drainage works, as mentioned in the said contract.

 And Notice is hereby further given, that application is about to be made by the said Company to the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales for a Provisional Order, under the powers and provisions of the said Company's Act, declaring that it is right and proper, and for the benefit of the parties having any estate or interest in the lands so proposed to be improved, that the moneys paid and to be paid for the execution of such improvements, and for the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred preparatory to, for, or in relation to, and consequent on the contract respectively, or such part of the moneys as the said Commissioners may think reasonable, shall be charged on the inheritance of the said lands, or of some sufficient part thereof. 

Dated the 18th day of March, 1871. 
By Order, ARTHUR MILMAN, Secretary
No. 22, Whitehall Place, London,  

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Wednesday 29 March 1871
London Evening Standard

Her Majesty's Drawing Room 
Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Machioness of Carmarthen, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Lord Harris, the Marquis of Hamilton, General Sir Wm. Knollys, the Hon. C.L. Wood and Lieut. Colonel A. Ellis, and escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) arrived at the garden entrance of the Palace from Marlborough House. - - - -
The following presentations to her Majesty were made (nearly 200 in number), the names having been previously left at the Lord Chamberlain's office and submitted for her Majesty's approval:- - - - -Captain Sir Leopold Heath R.N., on appointment as Naval Aide de Camp to the Queen, by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Lady Heath, by Mrs Charles Buxton.
 

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West Surrey Times

Saturday 8 April 1871

Dorking - County Bench - Saturday.

Before Admiral Sir Leopold Heath (in the chair), F. Pennington Esq., and A. Powell Esq.
Appointment of Overseers and Constables.

This was a special session for making the above appointments. The Bench confirmed the nominations of the respective vestries. In the case of the parish of Ockley the vestry had declined to make out a list of the constables, on the ground that they were not wanted.

The Chairman said the law was imperative that a list should be submitted to the Bench, and this must be done within a month, or a mandamus would issue. 

The overseer must call another vestry for the purpose.

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Saturday 8 April 1872
Dorking District

County Bench - Saturday April 1st. Before Admiral Sir Leopold Heath (Chairman), Mr F. Pennington, and Mr A. Powell.

Overseers and Constables. - This was the day for the appointment of overseers and constables. The names of those selected by the vestries were confirmed by the magistrates. - The vestry of the parish of Ockley had declined to make out a list of constables, as it was not considered they were wanted. The Chairman said the law was imperative that a list should be submitted to the Bench, and he directed that a list should be submitted within a month, or a mandamus  would be issued against the parish. The overseers must call a vestry for the purpose.

Assault - George Mason, a lad, was summoned for assaulting Alfred Grinstead, a lad who resides with his uncle, William Kibblewhite, a schoolmaster, at Capel.  - - -
Non-Compliance with the Vaccination Act - Charles Croucher, of Dorking, grocer, was summoned for neglecting to have his child vaccinated, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament. The case was gone into on a previous occasion, and the defendant was convicted for neglecting to have the child vaccinated. 

(number more cases of people not having their children vaccinated for various reasons.)
Alleged Cruelty to Animals. - The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had three summonses against persons for cruelty to animals. 
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Saturday 8 April 1871
Surrey Advertiser
Charge of Assaulting a Wife. - John Ansell, of Coldharbour, labourer, was apprehended on a warrant, on Wednesday, charged with assaulting his wife, and threatening to do her bodily harm. The warrant was signed by Mr Douglas Heath J.P., and the prisoner, who has before been convicted of a similar offence was remanded until this day (Saturday). 
 

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Saturday 22 April 1871
Hampshire Telegraph

We understand that a full investigation has been made respecting the stated disobedience of orders by Captain J.E. Parish, of her Majesty's ship Cossack, during the time Commodore Sir Leopold Heath held the command of the East India Station, and, from what we can learn, he has cleared himself from the slightest imputation.

By the latest accounts from the East India station we learn that the flag-ship Forte was in a most deplorable condition, and the report of her inefficiency which appeared in the columns of the Army and Navy Gazette of the 21st January last is not very wide of the mark.
 

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Leamington Advertiser and Beck's List of Visitors.

Thursday 27 April 1871  (and 29 April 1871) (and 21 Dec. 1871) (and 23 Dec. 1871) 

Arrivals, Departures &c.

Clarendon Hotel

Mrs and Miss Marsh-Caldwell, Linley Wood.- - 

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Saturday 29 April 1871
Surrey Advertiser.

Esher - Esher Choral Society's Concert.
The members of this society gave, on Friday last, a concert, but the attendance was hardly as great as the attractive programme issued by the secretary, Mr Smith, would have led one to expect. Especial pains were taken in the decoration of the rooms used for the concert, and the trophies from the triumphal arch, and other decorations on the memorable 21st Marsh, gave the choral class plenty of material wherewith to exercise their taste in decorative art. . - - - The programme was divided into two parts; the pieces in the first part were entirely selected from the mighty master of sacred song - Rossini, Curcshmann, Spohr, Handel and Mendelssohn.  Mr C.H. Heppenstall conducted. Taken as a whole, this part of the concert may be said to have passed off well, but in all the choruses there was this radical error of arrangement, that the soprano and alto voices were out of all proportion to the tenor and bass, which were at times scarcely audible. The pieces in the sacred part of the concert were- Overture, harmonium and piano, Messrs Heath and Heppenstall:  - - -There was an interval of ten minutes between the sacred and  secular parts of the concert - - In addition to these songs, and "The Message," sung by Mr Douglas Heath, there were sung the glees, "Sister of the Lea," (Jackson),  - - - The musical skill and attainment manifested by the class must be highly gratifying to their teacher; but we venture to suggest that in the selection of pieces for a future concert, a few light pieces mixed with those of a higher order would tend to make the go of the concert more brisk.

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Monday 1 May 1871
Sun and Central Press

The All England Croquet Club Spring Meeting takes place at Wimbledon this week, commencing on Tuesday. The competitors, as drawn for on Monday, are:- Mr D.J.Heath, Mr J.D. Heath,  - - For gentlemen members' prizes - Mr Douglas Heath,  - - 

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Wednesday 3 May 1871
Birmingham Daily Gazette

All England Croquet Club Prize Meeting. 

The Spring Prize Meeting of the above club commenced today, on the club ground, at Wimbledon. The following is the score of the first round.  - - Mr Davidson ( a bye), Gentlemen members' prizes: Mr Willoughby beat Mr Douglas Heath. - - 

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Thursday 4 May 1871
Morning Advertiser
The New Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty
Captain George Tryon C.B., who has been appointed private secretary to the Right Hon. George J. Goschen M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Chandos S.S. Stanhope, was born in 1831. He entered the navy in 1848, and become mate March 17, 1854 - - - On August 31, 1867, he was appointed additional to the Octavia, 35, flagship of Commodore Leopold G. Heath K.C.B., in the East Indies, and was highly spoken of in the gazetted despatches for his services while employed as director of transports under Commodore Heath in the expedition to Abyssinia.  - - -

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Saturday 6 May 1871
Field

Croquet
All England Croquet Club - Spring Prize Meeting
The spring prize meeting of the All England Croquet Club took place on May 2, 3, 4, and 5, on the Club Ground at Wimbledon. The following prizes were played for:  - - -Gentlemen Members' Prize
Mr Willoughby... beat Mr Douglas Heath  - - - 
- - - Members Champion Cup
Mr Jas. D. Heath beat Mr D.I. Heath.  - - 
Mr Heath  beat Mr Peel - - - 
Mr Heath bet Mr Dalton - - - 
Mr Jas. D. Heath thus secured the silver cup and championship of the club a second time in two consecutive years, winning this time nine games out of ten, all of players of great repute.  -  - 
 - - -In playing off the ties for second and third prizes, Mr Dalton beat Mr Law, and the prize-holders therefore are as follows: Mr Jas. D. Heath, club champion, silver cup engraved with monograme of the club, value £15. 15s., Mr C.F. Dalton, second prize. - -  
On Friday the Handicap Sweepstakes, open to all members of the club, was played - - 
Mr Douglas Heath (receiving 1 bisque) - beat Mr Willoughby.  - - 
Mr Peel (giving 1 bisque and choice) - beat Mr D.I Heath.  - - - 
There was not time to play out the final ties, so Mr Peel and Mr Jas. Heath divided the first and second stakes, and Mr Douglas Heath and Mr H. Jones won the third and fourth.
 

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Monday 8 May 1871
Bell's Weekly Messenger

Cattle Starving.
At the Petty Sessions held on Saturday last at Dorking, before Mr. L. Steere, M.P., Sir Leopold Heath, and a full Bench, Edward Russell, of Wotton, bailiff to the Hon. Peter Scarlett, was charged with having starved 12 head of cattle. Mr Harris, barrister, appeared for the prosecution on behalf of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Mr Young for the defence. After hearing the evidence on both sides, the Bench retired, and, upon their return to court the chairman said, "The case has been fully proved, and it is the wish of the Bench that I should state our opinion that Mr Scarlett, whose name has been mentioned in these cases, is as much to blame as his bailiff, but, as he is not charged with cruelty, we convict the bailiff in 10/ and costs: - in all upwards of 17/.
 

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Oxfordshire Weekly News

Wednesday 10 May 1871

Starving Cattle

At the petty sessions held at Dorking on Saturday, before Mr L. Steere M.P., Sir Leopold Heath, and a full bench, Edward Russel of Wotton, bailiff, to the Hon. Peter Scarlett, was charged by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with having starved 12 head of cattle.  - - 

After a lengthened hearing of police and society's officers, and Mr Cherry V.S., (who was complimented by the Bench), and several witnesses for the defence, the bench retired and on their return to the court the Chairman said, "The case has been fully proved,and it is the wish of the bench that I should state our opinion that Mr Scarlett, whose name has been mentioned in these cases, is as much to blame as his bailiff, but as he is not charged with the cruelty we convict the bailiff in £10 and costs - in all upwards of £17."

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Saturday 13 May 1871
Surrey Advertiser.

Dorking District - Dorkng - County Bench - May 6th.
Before Mr Lee Steere M.P., chairman; Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, Mr Douglas Heath, Dr Gordon, Mr W. Farnell Watson, and Mr Arthur Powell.
Constables. - The constables appointed for the various parishes within the Dorking Petty Sessional Division, were called and sworn.
Serious Charge of Ill-Treating Cattle at Wotton.
Edward Russell, farm bailiff to the Hon. Peter Campbell Scarlett, at Wotton, was summoned at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for cruelly ill-treating three heifers and nine steers, by keeping them without sufficient food.
Mr R. Harris, barrister, of the Midland Circuit, instructed by the solicitor to the Society, appeared for the prosecution; and Mr Heathfield Young, solicitor, for the defendant.
It will be remembered that the case was to have been heard at the last bench, but, in the unavoidable absence of Mr Cherry, veterinary surgeon, who was engaged in another part of the country, and was unable to reach the court in time, the hearing was adjourned until today. The officer of the Society in attendance, then agreed to pay the expense of the adjournment, and Mr Young now applied that the costs should be paid before the case was proceeded with.

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Saturday 20 May 1871
Globe

Is is rather discouraging to find that the reports just presented to Parliament that all the activity of her Majesty's cruisers and the numerous captures of slave cargoes during the last 25 years have been of "no practical use" in the suppression of the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa.

That issue should at length have been taken between the British Government and the Sultan of Zanzibar on the subject is not surprising, for it is notorious that the traffic, despite the reiterated promises of his Highness and his father to our Foreign Office, receives direct countenance, if not support, from the Sultan.

The late Lord Clarendon plainly cast the responsibility of the continuance of the slave trade upon the Sultan. One of the latest despatches which he wrote, as Foreign Minister, was to his Highness of Zanzibar, claiming assistance to drive the slave trade from its last stronghold, and this demand was supplemented by instructions to Mr Consul Churchill to confer with the Sultan as to the means of checking the traffic, and to represent that while the British Government earnestly desired to maintain the friendly relations that had for so long subsisted between the Queen and the Sovereign of Zanzibar, they "cannot sacrifice to this policy their abhorrence of a continued slave trade."

Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar -

from the photograph album of Admiral Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B.

There are only two ways of suppressing this odious traffic. One is the moral effect of a threatened demonstration of force; the other is the submission to some pecuniary sacrifices for the cause of humanity, which measure was so successful at the time of the general emancipation of slaves.

We need not fear the adoption of the latter course under the present Administration. Lord Granville, like his lamented predecessor, is loud in his denunciation of the traffic, but we do not hear that his lordshp has acted upon either of two suggestions by which means it might be very much restricted if not suppressed.

Commodore Heath asserts that to stop the supply of slaves on the East Coast of Africa at least ten vessels, beside the flagship, would be required, unless the more feasible alternative were adopted of purchasing the sovereignty of the island of Zanzibar - where it appears there are already 3,000 or 4,000 Banyans and Hendis, who are the most industrious and well-to-do portion of the population, and under the jurisdiction of the British consul.

It is stated that the Sultan has built a palace at Darra Salaam, possibly with the notion that sooner or later he will have to retire to his dominions on the mainland The sooner the better for humanity. For little disposition has been shown on the part of his Highness to yield, notwithstanding the concessions proffered by the late Foreign Minister, viz., the promotion of the supply of free labour in Zanzibar, and of the prospective remission of the subsidy which the Sultan pays to the ruler in Muscat, and which forms the only excuse for his Highness''s countenance of the abominable traffice of the Arab traders.
 

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Saturday 27 May 1871
Hull Daily News

The Humber Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company. - At a meeting of those shareholders who have paid their calls in full, held at the offices of the official liquidator, No.1, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall St, London, on Tuesday, Mr Henry Charteris (the official liquidator) in the chair, it was unanimously resolved:- "That this meeting is of opinion that, having regard to the present state of affairs of the company, its liquidation may more advantageously be continued as a voluntary one under supervision of the Court of Chancery, Mr Chatteris being continued as liquidator, with a committee of five shareholders to assist him with their advice, he being at liberty to act without the sanction of the Court, in all matters in which the committee shall agree with him; that Sir Leopold Heath, Messrs John Fleming, John Lumsden, Francis Reckitt, and John William Maclure be appointed a committee, with power to add to their number; that the remuneration of the liquidator for the future be by way of commission on money actually returned to the shareholders of the company,  - - - 

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Thursday 8 June 1871
Sutton Journal

County Bench, June 3. - Present: Lee Steere, Esq, M.P. (in the chair), Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, Douglas Heath Esq., A. Gordon Esq., Arthur Powell Esq., W. Farnell Watson Esq., F. Pennington Esq., T. Grissell Esq., and W.J.Evelyn Esq.,
Bastardy.

Emily Tickner v. George Shepherd. - Defendent, a labourer , of Rudgwick, was summoned to show cause why he should not contribute towards the support of Emily's child, which was born on the 11th Nov. 1869. in Horsham Union Hospital. - Ordered to pay 1s.6d. a week and £2 2s. 6d. costs
 

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Saturday 10 June 1871
Surrey Advertiser

County Bench - Saturday June 3
before Mr Lee Steere M.P., (chairman); Admiral Sir Leopold Heath; Mr Douglas Heath; Mr A. Gordon,; Mr A. Powell; Mr W.J.Evelyn; Mr T. Grissell; Mr F. Pennington; and Mr W. Farnell Watson.

Affilliation - George Shepherd, labourer, of Rudgwick, was ordered to pay 1s.6d. a week and costs, towards the support of the child of Emily Tickner,of which he was the putative father.
Charge of Ill-Treatment of a Horse. = Francis Hatton, of Newdigate, farmer, was summoned for ill-treating a horse by causing it to be worked while suffering from sore shoulders. The prosecution was taken up at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr Andrews, the chief constable of the Society, watched the case on their behalf.  - - - 
Vaccination and Mr Beck - Mr Samuel Beck of Dorking, upholsterer, appeared in answer to a summons taken out by Mr George Alloway, vaccination officer to the Board of Guardians, for neglecting to have his child, named Elizabeth Lucy (Beck), and born in 1867, vaccinated in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament  - - - 

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Wednesday 26 July 1871
Morning Post.

Great Western Hotel, Birmingham. - Arrivals:  - - - Admiral Heath - - - 
 

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Heath Family Diary (diary where-abouts now unknown)

15 July 1871
We leave for the abominable Southsea on Monday next. Anstie looks reproachfully lovely - it is one of the few fine days we have had this summer. Goodbye Anstie for three months! May we all return in the same health and happiness as we leave it Bert and Fred are to join us at 'Serpentine Road'! ugh! from Brighton on the 27th. (Lady Mary Heath)

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Wednesday 26 July 1871
Freeman's Journal
Sir Leopold Heath, Dorking, Surrey, has arrived at the Gresham Hotel

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Thursday 27 July 1871
Northern Whig

The East African Slave Trade
Special Telegram

London - Wednesday Night. - I have reason to believe that, when the adjourned meeting of the East African Slave Trade Committee takes place on Monday next, they will proceed with the examination of Mr Dunlop, Consul-General at Havanna. Sir Bartle Frere, Sir Leopold Heath, and other gentlemen of authority and experience have already been examined. A rumour has come to the ears of the committee that for some time past cargoes of slaves have been landed on some remote parts of the Cuban shore; and upon this point they will endeavour to obtain information. Mr.T. Hughes has on the House of Commons notice-paper for Tuesday next a motion relating to slavery in Cuba. 

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Thursday 27 July 1871
Sun & Central Press
 - - -Mr Hughes motion with reference to slavery in Cuba, which has been once postponed, is now down on the order-book for Tuesday night. The interest felt by the Spanish Government in this question, which has been the subject of constant diplomatic representations on the part of England, is well known. We may add that Mr Layard has not yet returned to Madrid. -Daily News.
 

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Heath Family Diary continues . . . (diary where-abouts now unknown)

Saturday 27 July 1871
Celebrate Ada's birthday. Fine in the morning - bathed, as we were dressing, it began to rain.
Wet in the afternoon - read.

Sunday 30th. Went to St.Jude's church - tried to get a pew in the morning, but could not - so we had service at home. In afternoon went to church, found a pew, and stayed all the while, a collection at the end of the service (fine weather but windy).

Monday 31st. Boys went boating in the morning. Arty and Mamma went to a ball on board the Duke of Wellington.

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1871
Extracts from Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Commons
 

Mr Churchill C.B., called in: and examined.

287. "I will ask you whether you are acquainted with the statements of Dr Livingstone with regard to the slave-trade?"

Mr Churchill " Yes; I have read his book, and I do not think them exaggerated at all from what I have heard from Dr Kirk, who accompanied Dr Livingstone. In conversations with the former, I have gleaned that the road between Nyassa and the coast is strewn with the bones of slaves that have been killed or abandoned on the road, and the villages which, on their first visit were flourishing, were on their second visit quite abandoned and destroyed; in fact, the whole place had been reduced to a state of desolation."  - - - continues....
 

Admiral Sir Leopold Heath called in: and examined

684. "Was much trade carried on which you were not able to prevent?"

- Sir L.G.Heath  - "The official custom-house returns at Zanzibar state, that on the average about 20,000 slaves a year are imported into Zanzibar; besides that, there must be a large number or slaves exported from the mainland which do not pass through the custom-house at Zanzibar; Zanzibar cannot want anything like that number, and therefore you must presume that the surplus is carried away for export to foreign countries.

685. "What number in the year did you succeed in capturing?"

- Sir L.G.Heath  - "For the year ending December 1867, eighteen dhows were captured, and 431 slaves were emancipated; those being the cargoes of eighteen dhows. During that year, the squadron were all employed in Annesley Bay in the Expedition against Abyssinia, and the efforts against the slave-trade were comparatively small. In the year ending December, 1868, the total number of vessels captured was 66; the total tonnage of these dhows was 7233; and the total number of slaves liberated was 1097. 

In the year 1869 the total number of dhows captured was 32; the total tonnage of those dhows was was 3431; and the total number of of slaves liberated was 1117. 

During the second year's cruise my ships were distributed principally along the coast of Arabia, from Ras-el-Hadd as far as Maculla, one being stationed near Socotra, and two down in the Zanzibar neighbourhood. 

The vessels boarded during the spring season were upward of 400 dhows; out of those 400 dhows there were but eleven slavers,k and in those eleven slavers there were 958 slaves.
I am exceedingly puzzled to know how it is that the enormous number of slaves exported get along the coast without being found out. I believe that very few dhows could have passed the squadron during those months; and though, comparing the wants of Zanzibar with the known importations at Zanzibar there must have been not many short of 20,000 slaves exported, yet it appears that there were not above 1,000 slaves on board these 400 dhows. This rather shows that naval efforts alone will not put down the trade."

686. "As to those 400, were you satisfied that all except the eleven were perfectly free from any complicity in the slave-trade?"

- Sir L.G.Heath  - "I think it is morally certain that scarcely any guilty dhows escaped amongst that 400."

687 (Sir John Hay.) "Do I rightly understand you to say that scarcely any dhows escaped going north with slaves?" 

- Sir L.G.Heath  - "I cannot understand how they could have passed us, distributed as we were."

689. (Chairman). "According to that it seems to be utterly hopeless by any efforts of the cruisers to put a stop to the trade?" 

- Sir L.G. Heath - "By any efforts of cruisers in numbers such as we have now, I think it is hopeless.

690. "But the number would appear to be sufficient in this case, because you say that you think hardly any guilty dhows escaped?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "I think the cruisers should be near the rivers and places that export, at the same time as they are near the places of import. I had not ships enough to do both."

691. "Then with an increased squadron you think something might be done?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "I can only say I hope something more might be done."

692. "One may collect that you do not anticipate any complete stoppage of the trade by any efforts of the cruisers?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "I think we have gone on for twenty-five years and have done no good whatever."

693. (Sir J. Hay). "Supposing you were appointed again to the East Indian command, and you were told that you might have for three years, or two years, or till the trade was suppressed, an unlimited number of ships, both for the blockade of the Arabian Coast and the Persian Gulf, and the portions of Africa from which the slaves were exported; will you state for the Committee, what number of ships you would conceive to be necessary to enable you to carry out with certainty the total annihilation of the slave-trade?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "I do no think any number would suffice with certainty, but I should ask for ten ships to being with."

696. (Chairman) "Ten instead of seven?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "Yes."

697. "Do you think that would very materially increase the number of captures?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - " I think the number would be increased."

698. "(Sir J. Hay) "I think you have considerable experience on the west coast of Africa?" 

- Sir L.G. Heath - "Yes."

699. "Are you aware of the number of ships that were employed on that length of coast, as compared with the number employed along this length of coast; was not the number of ships employed on the west coast of Africa very much more considerable than that for which you now ask?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "Very much more considerable, and the nature of the sea is far more favourable for blockading operations."

700. "Not looking to the economical question, or to the probability of the number of ships that you might ask for being given you, assuming that the country was determined to put down the slave-trade on the east coast of Africa in the same way as on the west coast; would you say that ten ships, or anything like ten ships, would be sufficient to cover the 4,000 miles to be blockaded on the east coast?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "No matter how many ships you have, there will of course always be some vessels which escape being boarded; it is quite possible, that, though we boarded 400 dhows during the season I have spoken of, there may have been 400 others that passed outside us; but when I said that I thought we must have boarded nearly all dhows that came up, I referred to those that passed along the coast; the Arabs have very good information; I do not think that they knew what I intended to do, but it is quite possible that they did."

701. (Chairman) "Do you think that by having more Consular Agents along the coast, you would have the means of deriving better information upon the subject of the slave-trade?"

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704. "Was there anything in your instructions that in any way impeded your success; any limitation of your power?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "There was nothing whatever in my instructions to limit my action till the issue, by the Admiralty, of a circular dated 6th November, 1869, which appears at page 94 of Class B, East Coast of Africa Correspondence from 1st January to 31st December, 1869.

That circular made an unpleasant impression upon all the officers commanding the ships under my orders. Its manner was accusatory as to the past and threatening as to the future; its matter was, principally the forbidding the capture of dhows for having domestic slaves aboard."

705. "Do you think there were many slaves carried in that way in those dhows which were not chased as guilty dhows?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "There is no doubt that a very large number of slaves must have been carried in that way. At page 75 of the same Blue Book are extracts from letters found in some of the dhows, being inclosures to my letter to Sir Seymour Fitzgerald replying to a complaint of Sir Edward Russell, the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court at Aden, as to dhows being captured for having domestic slaves on board. These show that domestic slaves are frequently carried to sea for sale."

707. "In 1868, 66 dhows were captured, while in 1869 only 32 were captured; but if this order did not come till November 1869, it would not have any bearing upon that decrease?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "No; the larger number of captures in the earlier year was, because the previous year the slave-dealers had been left alone, owing to the Abyssinian War."

708. "There is a large difference between those captured and those who appear from the Custom House returns to have been exported, and which are unaccounted for in any way?"
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- Sir L.G. Heath - "Yes." 

709. (Sir R. Anstruther.) "What means have you of distinguishing domestic slaves on board a dhow from any other slaves?"

- Sir L.G. Heath - "The Admiralty in that circular have laid down as a definition of what are to be considered domestic slaves 'where the slaves are found on board are very few in number, are unconfined, and appear to be on board for the purpose of loading or working the ship, or attending upon the master or the passengers, and there is no other evidence that the vessel is engaged in or equipped for the slave-trade.'"

710. "I may take it as your view that the action of this circular to which you have referred has been more or less to impede the squadron in the capture of slaves?

- Sir L.G.Heath "If you put it in the future tense it will have that effect very largely, I think. I should like to quote, as illustrating my views on that point, a portion of my annual Report of 22nd January, 1870 (it is in the correspondence for the year 1870): On the 6th November, their Lordshps issued "Instructions for the Guidance of Naval Officers employed in the Suppression of the Slave-trade."

Those instructions forbid the detaining of vessels having slaves on board, if there are attendant circumstances showing that the slaves are not being transported for the purpose of being sold as slaves; and there is added, as an example of the nature of these circumstances, "Where the slaves found on board are very few in number, are unconfined, and appear to be on board for the purpose of loading or working the ship, or attending upon the master or the passengers and there is no other evidence that the vessel is engaged in, or equipped for, the slave-trade." 

I believe that, just as it is said a drunkard can be cured by total abstinence, so the slave-trade by sea can only be put down, if at all, by a rigid forbidding of the carrying to sea of any slaves of any description. 

As I have before remarked, even what is called a domestic slave is not only a saleable article, but an article which is very often sold; and the return of those embarked to the port they originally left, depends solely on whether or not a good offer has been made for them at the ports they have visited in the interval.'"

711. (Chairman) "Seeing the fleet your have had under your command is not sufficient to prevent the escape of a very large proportion of the slaves exported has your attention been directed to any measures which might be adopted to prevent the continuance of the slave-trade?"

- Sir L.G.Heath "I observe that it is not unusual to close these reports with an expression of hope that the heavy blows which have been dealt at the trade during the past year, will go far to check it for the future. I can express no such hope. 

The trade is far to profitable, and will not be affected by a risk so small as that incurred by the proceedings of her Majesty's ships. 

It supplies a want which has not been left unsatisfied for many centuries past; a want which, sanctioned by the religion of the country, has grown almost into an instinct. 

To put down this trade, requires far more effort, and far more energy than England has yet shown in the matter. 

Twenty-five years have elapsed since the first treaty with Muscat, and all that time we have been contented with the capture of a very small percentage of the total exports; a percentage large enough to irritate the legal traders, who are harassed and annoyed by the visits of our cruisers, but to small to affect materially the illegitimate trade.

We must do far more than this to insure success. We must double or treble our squadron. We must establish vice-consulates at the ports of export, but above all, we must force the Government of Zanzibar into active acquiescence in our views, and, if necessary, purchase or take possession of that island.' In subsequent letters urging the same view, I have altered this last sentence, and said, 'purchase the sovereignty of the island.'"

712. "Is that the only thing that occurs to you as a means of putting a stop to the trade?"

- Sir L.G.Heath "I think that if a treaty is made in the sense of Lord Clarendon's proposals to Mr Churchill (page 30, Correspondence of 1870), if that part of the existing treaty which is supposed to allow domestic slavery afloat is abrogated, and if the squadron is increased so as to make it difficult to evade that treaty when made, we shall have a chance of success; but I still hold that the only radical cure will be the making Zanzibar a centre from which British civilization can radiate into that part of Africa."

713. "You mean becoming actually possessed of it as being a colony of Great Britain?"

- Sir L.G.Heath "Yes."

714. "Or a protected state?"

- Sir L.G.Heath "That is a matter for the Foreign Office to determine."

715 "Zanzibar isnot a very healthy place, is it?"

- Sir L.G.Heath "Zanzibar is undoubtedly an unhealthy place., but I do not know that it is more so than many other tropical colonies or English settlements."

717 "Are you able to give us any information as to the healthiness of those parts of the coast where it is proposed that vice-consuls should be stationed?"

- Sir L.G.Heath "The only fact I know as to that is, that a Mr Heale, an Englishman, engaged in the purchase of hides at Brava, lived there for some months, and I never heard that he was seriously affected by the climate."
 

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Monday 31 July 1871
Belfast Morning News

Street Tramways for Belfast.
A special meeting of the Belfast Town Council was held on Saturday, pursuant to the Tramways (Ireland) Act 1860, and the Tramways (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1861, for the consideration and approval or disapproval of the undertaking of the Belfast Tramways Company (Limited); and the consideration and approval or disapproval of the undertaking of the Belfast Street Tramways (William Morris and Jorgen Daniel Larsen, promoters).  - - 
The following gentlemen represented the Belfast Tramways Company (Limited): - Mr May Q.C., Mr T.B. Johnson, Mr Hasting C.E., Mr Josiah Harris, Sir Charles Lanvoin and Mr Elias H. Thompson. The Belfast Street Tramways Company was represented by Mr Jackson Q.C., Mr George K. Smith, Mr Telford McNeill C.E., Mr Young C.E., Sir Leopold Heath K.C.B., and Mr Gray C.E.  - - 

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Wednesday 2 August 1871
The Scotsman

The Ulster Railways.
Yesterday, an influential deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor of London, Mr Tipping M.P., Stockport, Mr Sheriff M.P., Worcester; Sir Leopold Heath, Tilford McNeil C.E., Mr Pope C.E., and others, waited on the Belfast Corporation regarding the construction of a central railway in Belfast. They stated that they were ready to complete the system of the railways at present in a forward state, and to connect the several railways leading into Belfast, and erect a central station. All the money necessary for the purpose was ready, and all that was now required was the financial arrangements with the Corporation. A committee of the Council was appointed to confer with the deputation.

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Wednesday 2 August 1871
The Royal Agricultural Society's Show.

The Show-yard was opened to the public at two o'clock but the rain, which fell heavily about that hour, had the effect of lessening the attendance and spoiling the prospect of affairs generally. For nearly an hour it continued to pour down without ceasing, and the gloom grew deeper and deeper. The most interesting part of the day's programme - namely, the showing of the weight-carrying hunters in the ring, was conducted under conditions the most unfavourable - conditions, too, which seemed for a time very unlikely to mend. At length however, the rain and gloom passed away, and the rest of the evening proved cheery and pleasant enough.  - - - Amongst the visitors we noticed on the ground were:-  - - - Sir Leopold Heath - - -

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Saturday 26 August 1871
Surrey Advertiser

Watch Stealing. - At a special Petty Sessions, held at the Red Lion Assembly Room, Dorking, on Saturday 17th, before Mr Douglas Heath J.P., and Mr Arthur Powell J.P., William Buckee, formerly employed with a travelling theatre, was charged on remand with stealing a watch, the property of Henry Dinnage, of Dorking. 

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Letter to Posy Marsh-Caldwell. Scorch marks, could be from fire at Linley Wood.
Linley Wood.
1st September 1871

Dearest Posy,

I must write to you today to put in my claim for one of your charming letters, for though they are looked upon as public property one loves to consider as ones own one in return.

What a delightful hostess and what a charming woman our Annie Bergeron is. You really are fortunate to have such a rare woman next to sister.

And I do heartily congratulate you upon seeing that beautiful Switzerland to such advantage. Under such [answer?] to say nothing of Prince Bergeron. The accomplishment of the [order, wisdom?] added to all just crowns the picture to me.

But our loved Charles Buxton’s [1823-71] loss would sadly cloud the pleasant prospect. As it is a never to be forgotten loss to us all. For myself there are few I have met in life who pleased my taste and feelings[?] as he did. Something I don’t know but pleased me so extremely about him. His absence leaves and will ever leave quite a blank in my short remaining prospects.

Georgy has written so lately that there seems scarcely anything of news to tell you. The Mr [Mrs?] Hutchins are returned and we have reason to hope that charming M. de Valmer has left them something handsome out of what came to him from his wife. All whose money he has left back to her relations. All in character with the man he was. The high honour of that old french noblesse to which he belonged. They drink tea with us tomorrow and I hope to glean a good deal of information as to how France looks and fares at this wretched hopeless unsettled time.

I am happy to tell you as the only piece of domestic news that Rich and Fanny [Richard and Frances Crofton] at last are gone to the sea in Wales. The name of the place I cannot at this moment recall. Dearest Amy I am sure you will rejoice with all your heart at this bit of news.

What a sad grief to you dear girl the loss of Charles Buxton must have been. Louisa has a little letter from Emily [Buxton] this morning. Calm as it was it was sure to be but one can understand how it is with her, poor dear Emily. She seems to take very great comfort in Sybil. Who is certainly no ordinary woman.

The Admiral’s visit was very pleasant. One saw so much more of him when we were alone with the dear Croftons. And now dearest R, I am so tired and good for nothing. I can work no more. This undeserving letter is a poor return for your dear charming one. I marvel at your love and good [luck?] in finding time to write such long and really beautiful and charming ones. All as usual out, Louisa [dressing?] Dear G in the corn field, Such crops.

With dearest love to Amy and kindest regards to M. Bergeron and Annie, my Posy’s tenderly loving Mother. (Ann Marsh-Caldwell)

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Saturday 2 September 1871
Surrey Advertiser

County Bench. - Saturday Sept 2nd.
Before Mr Cubitt M.P., (chairman), Mr A. Powell, Mr Douglas Heath, Mr T. Arbuthnot, and Mr E. Kerrich.
Transfer of Licenses. - The license of the Railway Arms beerhouse, Bear Green, was transferred from Daniel Walker to John Hooker. Mr Kerrich said there was no objection to the applicant, but the general feeling of the neighbourhood was that the house was not required.  - - 
Mr Beck and the Vaccinations Act. - Mr Samuel Beck, of Dorking, upholsterer, again appeared in answer to an adjournment summons for refusing to have his child vaccinated, in accordance with the provisions of the Vaccination Act. The child is now three years old and the case has been repeatedly before the Bench. - - His objection to vaccination was a conscientious one, and he urged upon the Bench that in this case the motto "Vox Populi, vox Dei" should be considered, and the voice of the people should have some weight. - In reply to Mr Douglas Heath, Mr Alloway said the defendant had already been fined three times.  - - - But under the circumstances of the case they should adopt the course taken before, and inflict only a fine of 1s. and costs. - Mr Beck: I am much obliged to you for your consideration. - The fine was, of course, at once paid.

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One of Posys letters from Switzerland (Rosamond Marsh-Caldwell)
Les Plans

Friday September 3rd. [1871]

Dearest Mama and sisters,

Thanks first for [Gs Ps?] letter, it was so good of her to write, dear thing. I am so glad that Adelaides visit was so pleasant: also that Mama has given the gardener notice. One must hope to get something better, if we could, from the Combemere[?] gardens, probably we should.

I had a sweet letter from Emily [ Emily Buxton]. She says her great solace is the joy[?] the expressions of honour and esteem and love for Charles [Buxton] which flood into her from every side. It is very dear of her writing to me and I was so glad to get her letter and know from herself how she was feeling. How awfully sudden it was.

About our coming home I can say nothing positively as I find we have money to take us to [Aucmergau? Oberammergau?] and A and J both long extremely to see the Play and Annie is quite as ready as we are to go. But if Mn Bergeron consents and she joins, we could not go until the Play of the 24th as first there is a marriage of a niece at Lyons to which they are going on the 12th.

Then on the 17th the Opening of the Mt Cenis[?] Tunnel to which Mn Bergeron is, of course, going and goes to Turin. I think, therefore, that it is possible to either Annie may go with him there and give it all up, or that she may go with us. For the 24th and he joins us there or again, that we 3 may agree to go for the 17th or again that if she goes to Turin A and I should then start for the Play of the 17th.

I will let you know as soon as our places are fixed, which will not be until Saturday at soonest when A returns from Lausanne, whither she is gone today to settle about her dress for the wedding, and returns tomorrow. If we go to the Ammergau I shall Cook [travel agency?] it to Munich and Cologne. He has a charming [line, one?] through the Oberland Interlacken Zurich [Puery?] to Munich and Cologne 1st Class 4.18.2d which we think of going cheaper than we shall most probably come from Cologne, Cook again via Antwerp and Harwich and [Swansea?]! but one must pay something for going to the Ammegau[?] to London.

We can do all this barring the extra for Munich to Ammergau for the same price as to Paris and London. Cheaper if we go 2nd Class which, as every one does here, we shall certainly, if alone to Cologne.

Shall we not have had an enchanting journey if we accomplish this. We shall send our heavy luggage by Goods Train to London, viz our two big boxes and big bag and travel light. Our two better dresses can go in the bonnet box and our two small bags will hold all we want as, on our trips A and I have managed with one small bag. It is a grand design and I hope that we may be able to carry it out.

And then A will have seen an immense deal. She is very popular with all at first. I do not think she made much effect but she is so bright, so intelligent and ready to add to the agrements du societe and speaks her French so fluently, that she gets on capitally with every one and all seem fond of the bright young creature.

No one has said to me that she was pretty; nice looking Annie says. And yet to my mind she looks so very handsome now. Her cheeks are as firm and rounded as one always wished them to be and she looks the picture of health and vigour.

We go to Lausanne when they go for the wedding. We shall indeed, be sorry to leave this enchanting spot, which is a true valley of [Rapelas?]. Our present societe is very pleasant. The Marquets are Boulognais, the father was Chef D’Ingenieur then and made all those new bridges. They were there when we were. Why does it seem so odd to meet people one has passed no doubt, scores of times, for they lived at the Port [Autumn?] and to know them now. M. Marquet[?] is the head Professor I make out, of one of the Government Colleges at Lausanne. He is most anxious to introduce into all national schools of all nations, rich or poor, a rule to enforce the teaching of an international language. This to be chosen from an existing language and to be taught with the national language so that two languages would make you free from the world, as far as intercourse goes. It seems an admirable plan.

He though [Nap, Naples?] would chose Anglo-saxon as the language. He would have our spelling system altered and a uniform system of pronunciation taught. Of course there would be difference of accent to a degree in each nation but not enough to prevent all perfectly understanding each other in the International Tongue.

Talking of International, he and Mn Bergeron were saying the most serious and dangerous International is the Roman Church, the best organized and most zealous, which is, alas, true. One learns more and more to abhor the Roman system when one lives with people who know it by experience and its results a fond [fraud?], and who have come out of it because their righteous souls were vexed with all it immoralities and its degrading power.

Alas, they have seen Christianity only under that form and of course, they are prejudiced against it in some degree. Mostly Unitarians, they seem to be not Infidels a bit, though Orthodox people would call them so. More than [ever, after?] I am satisfied Rome is the Mother of Infidelity and of Atheism.

Of course they are intensely bitter against the priests who in their eyes are the teachers and supporters of a degrading superstition, much the feeling Elijah had for the priests of Baal and for some reason one knows they are unjust to individuals. But one does not feel at all so to the system.

Yesterday we had a discussion, A.B , Mn M and I on the personality of the Devil. A.B and MM of course denying it. M.Bergeron, on coming in and hearing it sided with me, but said he was the Earth, which you know he considers a living being. In what form his personality resides does not much matter and St.Paul calls him the Prince of Power of the air.

However, Annie, who always stops mon cousin, when he gets on his Earth hobby, put a stop to our discussion.

On Tuesday we went an excursion to the Mts Javern and Tete di Chatillion. What that view is when after mounting a step mountain side it suddenly burst on your view is not to be described. Thousands of feet below the Valley of the Rhone, opposite the Dents du Midi garlanded with sun and all his attendant [amitin?] spurs and peaks. For to your left Mt Blanc all all snow, brilliant in the sun making an indescribable impression on your mind, of strength and purity which brings tears to your eyes and its sharp peaks, like aisle of some vast unroofed Cathedral stretching far away into the distant distance.

Then on your right, Dents Doche, all made of rugged peaks of every height and forms. Then Lake Leman and in the distant haze, the Juras [turn?] yr back on the Valley, the range of the Tours DAii, green wooded Chamoisere, the grand range of the Hern [Stern?] hard, many peaked Diablent, far below them the peaks of the Argentines. Then massive kind looking Meuron with its younger son and the Dents du Mordes, and all bathed in brightest light. Below us Rey, and the [Rhone?] valley studded with towns, villages, chalets.

We stood on the top of a brow covered with moss and bilberries and few blasted distorted stunted firs making a fore ground. The sight was really marvelous. Very pretty. Says Amy. And my saying Why Amy, this must be as beautiful as your view from the Diablents. That was something overwhelmingly grand. I am glad she saw that though had I known all I know now, if possible, though in the circumstances, improbable dangers I never could have consented, but these Mountain Peak course are over the season is past.

We may perhaps next week make the course to Sim and sleep again at that Chalet Aniendag (Ensindes) I have not quite make up my mind whether I shall go but probably I shall. The weather is perpetual sunshine, which one does so enjoy.

Wednesday we rested. Amy initiated the societe into the mysteries of Croquet. Dear little lame Madm Marquet delighting in being able to play. She is quite a type of gaiete francaise, and so sweet and dear. Of course, she cannot go les courses and so enjoyed her croquet immensely.

We had music in the evening. Mr Pierre has a [jolie?] talent, perhaps more improvises being [prettily?] on the piano and has composed some really extremely graceful and pretty waltzes which I believe we are going to try to get played as an [advertisement?] by the Woolwich R.A. band. Music is to be his profession and composition is his taste. He is only just 20. As singing is much admired and her voice has certainly improved in volume and roundness and she always sung with feeling and taste.

Yesterday I finished the Valley in the morning and A her Chalet in the afternoon. The Marquets, W and I went up about of the Cheville des Argentines just opposite a step ascent indeed but very pretty and the descent, through a ravine charming. We got high enough to see the two peaks of the Dens du Midi rise over the Mt Javerne and the Meurons looked magnificent from there as you see all the attendant peaks clustering round his grand square massive head.

Mn Bergeron says that Mr Pompey has 3 million in the Mt Ceries rail which goes over the [mountain?] They calculated that it would take 15 or 16 years to make the tunnel and that they would in that time recoup themselves. It took 7 years only. Mn. Bergeron advised him strongly to have nothing to do with the first rail however, as, of course, there can be no air holes and that it is 8 miles I think, long. It may be so stuffy people may prefer the outside to the inside rail. 

This morning two [Oberland?] women came with objects in wood carving. One could only speak German. A and I managed to talk with her. There is a great manufactory at Interlachen and they send thousands of francs worth to Africa as well as America. These two ambulants start in June and walk about with their wares until the end of October if it keeps fine. Or middle. She said it was a very pleasant life and so one should think wandering about these lovely valleys and mountains.

I heard from [Clam?] C, they have been in London for three weeks and like it much at this time of the year. I bought a few things for school prizes. I [coupet mu?] on having made so much by your [shop?] dearest Mama and Gies. I do long for you all more and more. We have heard no more of Mr J. Brooke and his Chalet. I have fixed upon a lovely spot for him. A good Chalet costs about 2,000 I find. Certainly, were one free of the world and had the means one would have a Chalet here if it were only for the intense enjoyment one could give ones friends to make it perfect a contract with Cook to carry so many a year there and back. One would send ones Cooks tickets with ones invitation when advisable.

Now I have come to dreams about Chalets I may as well stop. My dear love to you all, including, of course, R and H. I hope they will not disapprove of the Ammergau course if we succeed in carrying it out.
Your loving Posy

The Daily news looks upon the ES Election as a most serious defeat and warns the Government to [look, talk?] to [Mus?] ways had they done as they advised. You know the rest.

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Saturday 14 October 1871
Beehive

Captain Sir Leopold McClintock has been promoted to be a Rear Admiral - leaving Sir Leopold Heath the senior captain.

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Saturday 28 October 1871
Army and Navy Gazette

The post of naval aide-de-camp to her Majesty the Queen, vacant by Sir L. McClintock's promotion, has not yet been filled up, and as another similar honour will be at Mr Goschen's disposal on the 5th of November, on the occasion of Sir Leopold Heath's promotion, it is believed that the two appointments will be similtaneous.

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9 November 1871.  

Letter from Anne Marsh-Caldwell to SG Perceval addressed on writing paper which is embossed Linley Wood, Lawton, Cheshire, and is dated 9 November.  1871 has been added in pencil.  This letter is in the correspondence of Spencer George Perceval in the British Library (41495 f 109).  In addition to the letter is a small picture of Linley Wood.  The letter reads as follows:

My Dear Mr Perceval

I was much pleased to receive a remembrance from you in the Newspaper for which many thanks and the kind letter which accompanied it.  For my share, I was very sorry when I found you had actually left Talke, for I someway hoped to entangle you with helping me to start something in the way of united reading rooms and museum and tea and supper room . . . which I believe a more efficient way of . . . the working Colliers from the Ale house than any other.

I did not intend to have the virtue to surrender all my own profits and er for I do not quite agree with you in to the desirableness of all private collections being merged in public ones.  But I meant to surrender some and petition for contributions and send little sums from time to time by those who were going to . . . to . . . out in what might come to hand as occasion arose.  

I wanted before that day comes which must come soon to open to the eye this wonderous . . . under quite a new aspect to leave the little work begun, but now I have quite given up the thought for the present, for even if you were to offer to do something in and of me I would not accept it, as I am quite sure Louisa is right and . . . is not the right place for you . . .

We had some very pleasant people here last week and I was sorry you were . . . 

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Tuesday 5 December 1871
Epsom Journal

Monthly Petty Sessions - Dec 2. Before Geoge Cubitt Esq., M.P., (in the chair) Douglas Heath Esq., and Arthur Powell Esq.

The Nuisance in Falkland Road.

It will be remembered that at the last bench William Peters, marine-store dealer, of Falkland Rd, Dorking, was summoned for allowing a nuisance to exist on his premises, caused by the uncleanly keeping of a horse,and by accumulations of dung, fat, and other offensive substances; and the bench then ordered the nuisance to be removed, and not to be renewed. Mr Alloway, inspector of nuisance, now said defendant had failed to comply with the order of the bench, and that the nuisance was of a daily recurrence. - Mr Alloway, being cross-examined by the defendant, instead of giving direct answers to the questions, answered them in a rather roundabout way, which induced Mr Douglas Heath to say, "Answer the question, Mr Alloway. If you read the newspapers you had better study what they say to Mr Baigent in the Tichbourne case." (laughter) - In defence, defendant's son was called. He proved that since the order of the bench the stables had been cleaned out every day, and the refuse removed every two or three days.  - - -

George Hills, of Dorking, was summoned by P.C. Field, for leaving a timber carriage and team in the road unattended; but, it not being a bad case, the bench dismissed it.

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Saturday 16 December 1871
Herapath's Railway Journal

From Alpha - Dec.12. 1871
South Devon. - I am the more confident that you will kindly indulge me with a place in your next issue for another letter, forasmuch as having only a few leisure minutes at my command, I am constrained to write briefly, and I can promise not to trouble you again immediately. It appears to me, however, that there is nothing in the last letter of "A South Devon Shareholder" which really calls for anything more than an expression of surprise that he should have understood my response to his former one as the utterance of a "mysterious" or delphic "oracle," indeed I cannot admit that there was  anything  - - -I mean the notice which the Associated and South Western Railways had given of an application to Parliament for powers which, if granted, will, according to a very general expression of public opinion, convey the substance of all that could be expected from a complete amalgamation.  - - - I believe (though I may be wrong) from the election of Sir Thomas Dakin and Sir Leopold Heath to the board of the Devon and Cornwall railway - now so much petted by Exeter and Plymouth - especially the latter place, which, if I may judge from what I hear with my ears, and see with my eyes, has derived more material prosperity and social convenience from the South Devon railway than from any other commercial undertaking whatsoever, either within or without her walls. 

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Wednesday 20 December 1871
Exeter Flying Post

Writing in Herapath's Journal on the directorate of the South Devon Railway, "Alpha" asks the correspondent with whom he has a controversy "to name any one among his brother shareholders who would be so well able, through position and varied qualifications, to support and further the true interests of the South Devon Company in the present stage of affairs and in the coming Session of Parliament as Sir Stafford Northcote."

He adds: "If a meeting of the South Devon Company were convened for the purpose of pronouncing on the recent election of the honourable bart., the shareholders would grant the directors a full indemnity on account of their 'inroad on our powers' - an inroad not differing much from the election of Sir Thomas Dakin and Sir Leopold Heath to the Board of the Devon and Cornwall Railway." 

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The Anti-Vaccinators, whose newspaper organ was permitted to die prematurely the other day from the want of support, have had recourse to a very different system in their endeavour to affect a disbelief in vaccination. Their organ couldn't do it by arguments, and they are now seeking to achieve it by abuse. They have had a confused statement printed on post cards, and these are sent to medical men who are (as the card states) "admirable puffers of vaccination." One or two medical gentlemen of this city have been favoured with one of these postal missives; but the less notice taken of them the better. It is a very weak cause that needs secret and abusive messages for its advocacy; and whenever these anonymous "expostulations " are sent they should be consigned to the grate. Nothing can come of nothing.

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Friday 29 December 1871
London and China Express

Naval and Military. - Several appointments of naval officers to the China station have been posted. Capt. Sir Leopold Heath has been gazetted a Rear-Admiral. 

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Satirday 30 December 1871
Army and Navy Gazette

We last week had the pleasure of announcing the promotion of Sir Leopold Heath to flag rank. This makes the second flag promotion in eighteen months which will be thought unreasonably slow; but it is undeniable that such a stagnation will not again recur, as it was principally due to the reduction of the Admiral's List to its proper number, now happily accomplished. We allude to the matter now in order to point out the ease with which, under the new Regulations, the propects of advancement in the Navy may be foreseen, and, this being so, the Admiralty are forewarned, and we trust that Mr Goschen is armed with a remedy. 
 

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Cambridge Independent Press
Saturday 30 December 1871

Captain Sir Leopold Heath has been created an Admiral by the retirement of the Hon. J.W.S. Spencer from the active list.