The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-03 00:00:00

THE. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY' EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1870.

LAW AND POLICE,

TEE VOYSEY CASE.—According to the printed list of
sittings, the appeal of the Rev. Charles Voysey from the
Chancery Court of York, for alleged heresy, was to be
heard yesterday, but it has been postponed sine die,
and, from the peculiar circumstances of the position of
the bishops who are Privy Councillors, there will be a
difficulty in forming a court, as one of the right reverend
prelates must be on the committee. The Archbishop of
Canterbury is unable to attend, the Archbishop of York
cannot sit on appeal from his own court, and the Bisho
of London issued the commission of inquiry. The case
therefore stands over for some time.

LIABILITY OF RAILWAYS WITH " RUNNING " POWERS.—
In the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday the case of
"Thomas v. the Rhymney Railway Company" raised a
novel point with respect to the liability of a company
which has "running " powers over another company's
line. The plaintiff, it appears, took a ticket on the
Rhymney line to go to Cardiff, and when the
train was on the Taff Vale Company's line, over
which the Rhymey had running powers, a collision
occurred between it and a Taff Vale mineral train. The
occasion of the accident it was admitted, was negligence
on the part of the latter company in not displaying proper
lights, and a jury at Swansea found a verdict to that
effect. A rule was obtained; and the question came on
now, as to which company should be liable for damages.
The Court held that though they thought the Taff Vale
Company ought to bear the cost, yet they were bound by
,a former decision, which held that the company issuing
the ticket was responsible for the safety of its passengers.

JUDICIAL CENSURE OF A COMMISSION AGENT.—
On Wednesday in the Court of Queen's Bench the case of
" Turner v. Thomas " was hdard, The defendant had been
engaged as a commission agent at Cardiff by the plaintiffs,
a firm of greese and oil merchants at Millwall. He grossly
misused the trust placed in him by taking large orders for his
employers goods in different parts of South Wales, and
accounting for them at a much lower figure than the sums
he received. He thus pocketed the difference, which in
the casts leyis of the present action was very considerable.
Mr. Justice Blackburn, in directing the jury to find a verdict
for the plaintiffs said that the defendant had laid himself
open to a criminal indictment for embezzlement. Courts
of equity had a hundred times over decided that an
agent was bound to recoup to his principals
every farthing he received in any transaction. If such
conduct as that of the defendant was not punished, it
would be impossible to carry on the trade of the country,
as between agents and the firms they represented. The
judgment would be for the plaintiffs, the defendant repay-
ing the amount of loss sustained by them.
THE CASE OF Ex-GOVERNun EYRE.—The action brought
by Mr. Phillips, of Jamaica, against Ex-Governor Eyre for
assault and imprisonment at the time of the Jamaica rebel-
lion, is now under consideration by the Court of
Exchequer Chamber. The Court of Queen's Bench
when the case was before them, decided in favour of Mr.
Eyre, on the ground that he had been indemnified by the
Colonial Legislature, and also by an Act of the Imperial
Parliament. The judges of the Common Pleas and Ex-
chequer are now called upon to review this decision, and
the case is proceeding.

DEFRARDING INSURANCE COMPANIES.—FIIIIICiS Brown,
the fishmonger at Gravesend, who stands charged with
forgeries and frauds upon various marine insurance
offices, has been convicted at the Central Criminal
Court and sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.
It was stated that in the course of 1869 he had effected
five fictitious insuranoes with different offices, amounting
to £1,350. A youth of 17 who had assisted in-one of his
frauds, was sentenced to six months' hard labour. Both
pleaded guilty.
ATTEUPTED MURDER AT SEA.—At the Central Criminal
Court a sailor named Smith was charged with brandishing
a knife, and threatening to kill the captain of the ship.
The captain drew his revolver and fired two shots. The
captain had been charged before the Consul at San
Salvador with feloniously shooting. The sailor was
acquitted.
THE " DEPTFORD SPEC."—Alexander Morris and Thomas
Morris surrendered at the Central Criminal Court to re-
ceive judgment. They pleaded guilty last year to the
charge of carrying on an illegal lottery, known as the
'_Deptford Spec." They were allowed to go at large upon
their undertaking not to repeat the offence. Having
broken that eugagemert, they have been called up for
judgment, and fined £lOO each, and to be imprisoned until
the fine was paid.
TILE SILK ROBBERY CASE. William Davies, who

pleaded guilty to the great silk robbery at Messrs. Leaf
,nd Co., he being a confidential employi of the firm, has
been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The
young woman Greatham, for whose sake he committed
the clime, was found guilty of pawning the goods,
and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The magis-
trate severely reproved her for the thorough heartlessness
which she had displayed throughout the whole affair; but
she appeared to be indifferent to her sentence. The
prisoner Davies was so much affected through the trial
that he had to be assisted from the dock.

THE " Bow BANDITTI "—Three men, who were said by the
police to belong to what is called the Bow Banditti, have
been found guilty at the Middlesex sessions of stealing
chest of tea. It seems this gang are a terror to the neigh
bourhOod, and several of the sixteen who originally com-
posed it are now undergoing penal servitude. These
worthies were sentenced respectively to eighteen months'
and two years' hard labour, and seven years' penal
servitude.

That was a triumphant appeal of an Irishman
who was a lover of antiquity, who, in arguing the supe-
riority of old architecture over the new, said, " Where
will you find any modern building that has lasted so long
as the ancient ? "

The Liverpool ',Corporation supports several
churches at a cost of some thousands of pounds annually.
At the meeting of the Town Council on Wednesday,
Alderman Wood drew attention to the miserable way in
which the churches were attended, describing it as a dis-
grace both to the churchmen of the town and to the in-
cumbents of the churches.

JOE Goss CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.—At the
Wolverhampton Police-court, on Wednesday, Joe Goss,
the prizefighter, was charged with having committed a
violent assault upon a young man named James Purnell.
The assault was proved, and Goss was fined £3 and costs.

LADY ELPHINSTONE.—The death is announced of
Lady Elphinstone, the mother of Sir James Elphinstone,
Bart., M.P., at the age of 88. Her ladyship was the widow
of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, the first
baronet, who died in 1843, and the daughter of the late
Colonel David Hepburn, of Keith Mareschal, East Lothian.
The death is also announced of the Coti.ntess Antoinette,
only daughter of the late Count John and the Lady
Jemima Bentinck, at the age of 84.

TILE SAME SALARY, BUT A BROADER CHURCH.
—The American papers report two facts of some significance
concerning the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. One is that
he has " decisively declined" an offer of his Church to
raise his salary from 12,000 dollars to 20,000 dollars per
annum, on the ground that he has enough for his needs,
and is satisfied. The other is, that for the sake of " Uni-
versalists and other unorthodox Christians," the old Con-
fession of Faith will not hereafter be offered to now mem-
bers for subscription. The church of Mr. Beecher is
called the Plymouth Church, and when it was built a
small bit of the famous Plymouth rock was placed in it
GOOD ADVICE.—Sir Charles Lyell, when in the
United States, received the following advice from a friend:
—" When you are racing with an opposition steamboat, or
chasing her, and the other passengers are cheering the
captain, who is sitting on the safety-valve to keep it down
with his weight, go as far as you can from the engine, and
lose no time, especially if you hear the captain exclaim,
Fire up, boys—put on the resin !' Should a
servant call out, Those gentlemen who have not
paid their passage will please go to the ladies'
cabin !' obey the summons without a moment's delay, for
then an explosion may be apprehended. 'Why to the
ladies' cabin ?' said I. Because it is the end of tho boat,
and they are getting anxious for the personal security of
those who have not yet paid their dollars, being, of course,
indifferent about the rest. Therefore, never pay in ad-
vance, for should you fall overboard during the race. and
the watch cries out to the captain, 'A passenger over-
board !' he will ask, 'Has ho paid his passage?' and, if he
receives an answer in the affirmative, he will call out, `Go
ahead!'"

THE REDUCTIONS AT CHATIIAII.—The work of
reducing the establishment at Chatham Dockyard goes en
steadily (says the Times), and while a number of hired
men are discharged every Saturday, the superannuation of
men above the new limit of 59 years,or those who arc pro-
nounced medically unfit to do a fair day's work askrequirecl
under the Admiralty order, continues. A number of the
workmen have thus been just discharged with pensions ac-
cording to their positions and length of service, and an
order has arrived for still more to be pensioned. The men
discharged will receive the following sums yearly :
J. H. B. Harris, single station shipwright, £49 lls. id.;
F. Mariner, painter, £3l 195.; T. Tester, storehouseman,
..£27 7s. 9d.; T. Oliff, sawyer, .£2O 9s. Ed. ; W. Camfield,
metal-worker, £29 Cs. 10L; T. Crandlo, joiner, £25; W.
Abbotson, labourer, £l3 19s. 11d.; and H. Rose, caulker,
£ll 14s. 9d. Of course, all these men who receive super-
rinnuations are "established" hands ; the unfortunate
" Wred"--.some of whom ha'o beon for years in the yard
-a4 nothing when dismissed.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

A GOVERNMENT EDUCATION BILL.

The Telegraph makes a sort of semi-official an 4
nouncement that the Government will attempt to
deal with the Education problem this year. A.
Inea,sure will be brought in and will have all the dig-
nity and consequences of a Cabinet piece of policy.
The arrangement was to have been settled, in a tech-
nical sense, at the Cabinet Council yesterday after-
noon. Virtually, however, the mind of the Govern-
ment was previously made up.

or Ton, and until I read yotitWitT did not liiew
that it came from any society, as it was presented, and
not read. The few words which I uttered were meant to
endorse a supposed welcome from the people of York.
If I had been informed of the nature of the address I
should not have been able to take part in the presenta-
tion." This disposition to explain matters is not con-
fined to the York prelate. On the other hand, the
complaints of certain persons who did not receive
the Greek Archbishop are very outspoken. " A
Nonconformist" says that though the visitor
may be an excellent man, he is an
alien, and " a priest of the most corrupt
Church in Christendom." Yet he is allowed to
pronounce the benediction. over the Primate of
England, whilst an English Nonconformist Minister
may not avail himself to the full extent of British
universities, churches, and burial grounds.