The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-22 00:00:00

THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROSECUTIONS.

The case of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, M.A., vicar of
Frome, charged with heresy on the subject of the Holy
Eucharist, will come before the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council, on an appeal from a decision of Sir
Robert Phillimore, the Dean of Arches, in June. At
the same time the appeal izf"the case of Elphinstone v.
the Rev. J. Purchas, incumbent of St. James's
Chapel, Brighton, will be heard by the Judicial
committee, also on appeal from the decision of the Dean
of Arches. In the event of the Archbishop of Canterbury
being sufficiently recovered to take his seat at the Council
in June, the case of Noble (Secretary to the Archbishop
of York) against the Rev. C. Voysey, Vicar of Healaugh,
on an appeal from a decision of the Worshipful Granville
Harcourt Vernon, Chancellor of York, will be heard.
The Act of Parliament provides that one of the Arch-
bishops or the Bishop of London (wITo alone of the Episcopal
Bench are Privy Councillors) must sit in such and such a
case, and as the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of
London have acted as quasi-prosecutors in previous stages
of the case, they are precluded from hearing the appeal.
It seems at present uncertain what will be done in the
case of Mr. Mackonochie, the Vicar of St. Alban's,
Holborn.

8i: James Elphinstone and Sir John Hay, a con-
temporary is informed, propose to bring before the House
the desirability of converting Greenwich Hospital into
residences for the relatives of naval officers, to be con-
ducted on a similar basis as Hampton Court Palace.

A meeting in opposition to the Contagious
Diseases Acts has been held in Birmingham. The mayor
presided, and the meeting was addressed at great length
by Mrs. Butler, of Liverpool, and by several clergymen
and others in favour of petitioning against the Acts.

The death is announced of the Rev. Prebendary
Havergal, who has for many years been a prominent
member of the Evangelical party in the Church of Eng-
land. He was the author of many musical works, and
above fifty of his coranoaitiims have been published by
No vello.
AN UNSEAWORTHY VESSEL.—The Judicial Committe-
of the Privy Council, has heard an appeal from a judge
ment of the Court of Queen's Bench, for the Province of
Quebec. The Commercial Bank of Canada, brought an
action to recover 6,000 dollars, under a policy of insurance
an the propeller " West," for a voyage from Montreal to
Halifax, in which the vessel was lost. The question was
whether she was seaworthy at the time of leaving
Montreal, and it was decided in favour of the owners, by
the court below. After hearing evidence, however, the
Judicial Committee decided that the boiler was defective
at the commencement of the voyage, and that the defect
was aggravated by the incompetency of thc,engineer. The
judgment was therefore reserved, with costs.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND TIIE METROPOLITAN BOARD OP
WoaKs.—An action has been brought by Sir Robert
Peel in the Court of Exchequer against the Me-
tropolitan Board of Works. Sir Robert contends
that injury has been clone to his residence in Whitehall
Gardens by the works of the Thames Embankment. The
case was heard during the last sittings in Guildhall, when
a verdict was entered for the plaintiff, leave being given
to the defendants to move that it be set aside. A rule has
now been granted, the judges suggesting that the parties
should agree upon a special case. The Duke of Buccleuch
has a similar case now pending in the Court of Exchequer
Chamber.

MARKET Tor,Ls,—The right of the Duke of Manchester
to claim tolls in the market of St. Ives has been tried.
in the Court of Exchequer. The Duke claims a toll of
one penny per head on beasts sold in the market. A
verdict had previously been given in his favour, but a rule
was obtained to set it aside. The defendants, however,
concluded not to go on with the case, as they considered
the Duke had established his title.
THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL COMPANY.—The Master
of the Rolls has delivered judgment in the case of the
Grand Junction Canal Company v. Shugar.
The company sought an injunction to restrain
the defendants from diverting a stream iii
Herefordshire from flowing into their canal. The,
stream formerly flowed at high level into the canal, but"
the defendants, under the Public Health Act, diverted'
it to a low level, to cleanse the sewers of the neighbour.
hood. The Master of the Rolls held that tho defendants
were perfectly justified, in their corporate character, in'
diverting the stream for the public benefit. The bill must
therefore be dismissed, with costs, but the plaintiffs could
sue the defendants for compensation if they thourht fit.
THE CASE OF DECOYING YOUNG WOMEN.—William
Leaver, alias Love, aged 38, and Amy Lowe, aged 17,
have been brought up at the Clerkenwell Police Court on
remand, for stealing a box and other articles from
Miss Mary Ann Fanny Williams. The circumstances
of this case have already appeared. There was another
charge of obtaining some gold rings, a gold watch, and'
over £5OO in money from Mrs. Mary Redfern, of
Preston. She met the prisoner at a public-house
in Preston, and the same evening he seduced her
Under promise of marriage, She came to town with him,
and she met the female prisoner. She let them have £20,,
£3O, and £49 at a time. Eventually he sent her off to
Leeds, promising to send her boxes, but never did so. The
prisoners were committed on both charges.
SELLING DISEASED MEAT.—A butcher named Haynes,
has been charged at Derby for exposing for sale four
quarters of beef unfit for human food. The
sanitary officers having proved the state of the
meat, the defendant pleaded that it was his first
offence, and he hoped the magistrates would be lenient to
Lim as he was very poor. The magistrates under these
circumstances inflicted a penalty of £1 for each piece, £2O
being the maximum penalty.
MURDER AT STOURBRID6E.—John Pearson has been
charged at Stourbridge with the wilful murder of John
Brettle. Deceased and his sweetheart were walking down
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A PECULIAR BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.—In the Court
of Exchequer Mr. Powell, Q.C., moved for a new trial in
the case of "Frost v. Knight," which was tried at the last
Stafford Assizes before Mr. Baron Martin. The plaintTff,
who is a young woman about 25 years of age, had
been some time in the service of Mr. Knight, a
tenant farmer, and in 1808 his son promised to
marry her on the death of his father ; and several years
having elapsed, plaintiff got tired of her celibate state,
and applied to defendant to carry out his promise. He
aid his father had not died yet. She, however, brought
an action against him at the assizes, and the jury
awarded her a verdict for £2OO damages. It was now
alleged that the fact of the father boing still alive exone-
rated the defendant. The court granted a rule for a new
trial to determine this ciukstiou,

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