The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICt.

Ssutcvs RESULTS OF BORROWING Mom —An ex-
traordinary spit, illustrating the results of the money
lending system, was decided by Vice-Chancellor Stuart.
It was instituted by Mr. Payne, a young gentleman who,
under the will of his grandfather, had a reversionary
interest in a laige estate near Southampton. O.i attain-
ing his majority, he had borrowed £OO of a well-known
money-lender named Dicker, of the Haymarket, who, it
was alleged, induced him to sign a memorandum, which,
' he said, he understood to be security for the money
actually advanced, but was, as he subsequently discovered,
security for the larger sum of £l,OOO, the document also
containing the written undertaking thatin the event of the
money not being repaid within a given period, the plaintiff
would execute a mortgage of the property In which he
had a reversionary interest. The plaintiff afterwardsr
becanrie indebted to Dicker to the extent of £2,500, upon
a portion of which 60 per cent. interest was charged. The
defendant thereupon asserted that £6,600 had become due
under the mortgage he had improperly obtained, and on
the plaintiff refusing to acknowledge his indebtedness to
that extent, Dicker, it was alleged, caused his hunters,
carriages, and carriage-horses to be seized. When in these
difficulties plaintiff left London, and in his absence he
was adjudicated bankrupt ; and' he now brought this
action with the view of precluding the money-lender from
realising the securities to a greater extent than the money
actually advanced-22,500 instead of £6,600, with interest
at 5 per cent. Dicker now demurred to the whole bill,
alleging that the bankruptcy proceedings prevented the
plaintiff from seeking for relief in equity. His Honour,
however, overruled the demurrer, and ordered that an
account should be taken of what had been actually ad-
vanced by the defendant, and that it should bear interest
at 5 per cent.
IMPORTANT DECISION WITH RESPECT TO CARRIERS.—
The Court of Common Plet ga.vo judg ineut, in 41.0 oaoo
Palmer v. the London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way Company. Mr. Palmer is a carrier, having a number
of carts engaged in the collection of parcels for despatch
by rail, and the company in question refuse to receive his
parcels after half-past six in the evening. As, however,
they admit their own vans for a hour after that time, and
despatch the parcels they bring in the same evening, Mr.
Palmer applied for an injunction to prevent the company
acting thus to his prejudice.—The court granted the in-
junction.

THE BURGLARY AT STRATPORD.—CAPTIIRE ON SUSPI-
CION.-At the Stratford Police-court, Essex, a man,
who gives the name of John Baker, was brought up
before the magistrates, charged with loitering about the
premises of Mr. Crompton, a gentleman residing in the
Upton-lane, Romford-road, Stratford, for the purpose
of commisting a felony. The house is situated only a
few hundred yards from the residence of the late
Mr. Samuel Galloway, who, a few days since, died
from the murderous wound inflicted on him while en-
deavouring to capture a burglar who had entered his
house. From the evidence given it appears that Mr.
Crompton's attention was attracted about nine
o.'clock on Sunday night by hearing a dog
bark, and on going to his garden door he
saw a man leaving the premises. On examining the
windows he found marks of jemmies having been used.
Shortly afterwards police constable K, 377, who was on
duty in plain clothes, had his attention attracted by a
man coming across the ground adjoining Emmanuel
Church, and from the direction of Mr. Crompton's house,
and as he could give no satisfactory reason for being there
he took him into custody. On searching
him a candle and matches, and pawn duplicates
were found on him, and on Mr. Crompton's
garden wall, wrapped up in a rag, housebreaking imple-
ments were found by K. 317. The prisoner first stated
that he resided in Shoreditch, but afterwards said he had
left there eight years, and that since then he had been
living sometimes in London and sometimes in Portsmouth,
but refused to name any houses. He was remanded for
further inquiries, the police being of opinion that the man
may be connected with the gang of burglars who recently
have been committing so many depredations in and about
Stratford.

The result of the University of Cambridge Local
Examinations has just been published. From the summary

it appears that of junior boys there passed 1,004 ; failed
555 ; absent, 75—total, 1,1334. Senior boys.—Passed, 174 ;
failed, 112 ; absent, 15—t,,, ~ 301.
FATAL GIIN ACCIDENT.— Mr. John fluxtable, a
respectable farmer of Swiinbridge, in North Devon. was
on Thursday evening loading a double-barrelled gun when
the weapon accidentally exploded. The charge entered
his head, and he died after lingering for a few hours in
great agony. Deceased was in the prime of life.
; and
THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF MILITARY RE-
FORM.-Mr. Cardwell's plan will be satisfactory to the
the
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this
senpgotililiet nthe Government
there
were grave
doubts
as to its competancy. Mr. Cardwell has proved that,
though not a military man, and with no first-hand know-
ledge of military matters, he knows how to choose skilled
councillors who have such knowledge, and knows also how
to explain clearly and precisely the plans which they have
suggested to him.—Economist.
HOSPITALITY.—A story is told in Washington of
a well-known senator, who is notorious for taking two
cocktails in succession before breakfast. One morning,
while the senator was practising at the " Metropolitan
Bar," a friend put to him the pertinent question, " Sena-
tor, why do you take two cocktails as a custom ? Won't
one tone you ?" The senator drew himself up : " I will
tell you why I take two cocktails. When I have taken
one it makes me feel like another man. Well, you see I'm
bound by common courtesy to treat that man, so I take a
second."

THE PRIZE ESSAY OF THE PRUSSIAN NATIONAL
SOCIEEY FOR AID TO SICK AND WOUNDED.—On the
occasion of the International Conference of the Societies
for Aid to Sick and Wounded in Time of War, held at
Berlin in 1869, a prize of one hundred frederic d'or was
offered for the best essay on the possibility of applying
the principles of the Convention of Geneva to maritime
warfare. The International bulletin, just published at
Geneva, announces that the prize has been awarded to an
essay, written in English, bearing the motto, " Cast thy
bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many
days." The sealed packet bearing the same device was
opened, as agreed upon, on the anniversary of the birthday
of the Queen of Prussia, the 30th of last September, and the
signature of the writer was found to be T. H• Ferguson,
of Arouba, Guiana.—British Medical Joarocq.