The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-09 00:00:00

THE CASE OF PRINCE PIERRE
BONAPAR TE.

CHARGE AGAINST A LocAt, Vicg-Chancellor
Malins has delivered judgmenton aninformati4on preferred
by a mill-owner against the Local Board of Bishop Stort'
ford, calling upon the Court of Chancery to restrain the
B )ard from permitting the sewage of the town to flow int°
th. 3 river Stort, so as to create a nuisance. The plaintiff's
witnesses complained that the river was in such a state
th.lt fish could not live in it, animals could not drink the
water, and that it had been converted from a pure and
pleasing stream into a foul and filthy sewer. The local
board tendered evidence contradicting every mate-
rial allegation made by the plaintiff. The
Vice-Chancellor said it was of the highest joy
portance that the Court of Chancery should in;
terfcre where a nuisance had been created ; but it was 01
equal importance that it should exercise its jurisdiction to
stip those who came into court with a trivial charge. He
was satisfied that the allegations of the plaintiff were
utterly untrue and grossly exaggerated, and he therefore
dismissed the bill, with costs, against the plaintiff, wh°
had set the Attorney-General in motion.
THE KELLY DIVORCE CASE.—The public have heard
the last of the Kelly divorce case. A few weeks ago Mrs-,
Kelly asked for an allotent of permanent alimony
when the case came before Lord Penzance it transpiral
that the rev. respondent had been " incapacitated " from
rending at Liverpool, and had, therefore, to employ
a curate in his place at St. George's Church. Yesterday, in
making the petitioner an allowance the Judge of the Divorce
Court allowed the sum paid to the curate to be deducted
from the income ; but he said that seeing that Mr. Kelly's
income was principally derived from his wife, he thouglA,
that she should be allowed one-half of what her husband
possessed, especially as some of his money had been spent
in " needless, and in some respects wasteful expenditure,
in useless litigation." Mrs. Kelly will, therefore, receive
£164 per annum.
BARKED'S BANK.—In the Rolls Chambers an application
has been made in the winding-up case of Barned's Bank-
ing Company with regard to a clahn. of £40,000
on a shareholder who had left the country on.
account of the proceedings, and now offered £7,500 in
discharge of the debt. • The Chief Clerk asked whether
the compromise was offered on account of inabililty to
pay, and being answered' in the negative, he doubted
whether he could sanction it. The only cases in Which
compromises had been taken was where there were legal
difficulties, and where the parties could not pay. Thls
was the first case of the kind, and must be further con-
sidered.

A BANKRUPT ADMlRAL.—Yesterday was fixed for the
examination and order of discharge sitting under the
bankruptcy of James Thorne' an admiral in the royal
navy. The preliminary list of debts filed by the bankrupt
showed a total of £226 2s. id., and his statement of ac-
counts £253 9s. Bd., with no assets. He stated his expendi-
ture fbr two years had been £773, and he was entitled to
£156 per annum (less income tax), as an admiral in the
royal navy. His Honour said that, as the bankrupt did
not appear the sitting must be adjourned sine die, and at
the end of the day he would be proclaimed if he did not
appear before them. Order accordingly. •
SENTENCE OP DEATIL—At the High Court of Justiciary,
Edinburgh,
William Cunningham Cunningham of Glasgow, has been
sentenced to be hung at Glasgow, on the 28th instant, for
the murder of Julia M'Leod, a woman who passed as his
wife. The jury recommended him to mercy.
THE KENSAL GREEN TRAGEDY.—James Cankin, wno 13
charged with the manslaughter of his stepfather, Philip
R ,lpli, at Kensal Creel', has been examined at Hammer-
smith. Police-court, and committed for trial.
THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A LOVER. Walter
Wells, the young_ farmer who was charged at Worcester
with shooting his cousin, Miss Emma Wells, owing t°
anger at her refusing to 'receive his addresses, has been
found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
Miss Wells was seriously hurt.
CHARGE OF LIBEL—A horse-clothing manufacturer,
named Hargraves, has been charged with libel at the
Carlisle petty-sessions. The libel complained of was pub-
lished in
,a local publication called the Democrat, and
accused the complainant, a merchant, named Irving,
of giving working men short weight and similar
devices. The defendant was admitted to bail.--
William Slates., biscuit manufacturer and banker of Car-
lisle, who was the Democratic candidate at the last Car-
lisle election, was also summoned as the publisher of the
Paper, but as he did not appear a warrant was issued for
his apprehension. Hargraves was his nominator at the
election.
BAD BUTTER.—A provision dealer, named Fielding, has
been summoned, at Sheffield, for having in his possession
about 3501 b. of butter which was nearly putrid. The
defendant, who has a large business, did not deny that
the butter was bad, but said he sold it to confectioners
for fancy bread, &c., at 9d. per lb., and had done so for
seventeen years. He had sometimes 200 firkins (or nearly
17,000 lbs.) of the butter; which was Canadian butter, on
his premises. The Bench ordered the butter to be
destroyed, and fined him 205., the extreme penalty under
the bye law.
FORTUNE TELLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A Mrs. Ann
Morgan, a Welshwoman, has just given proof, before the
Birkenhead magistrates that all the ladies from
the Principality are not so wise as they ought to
be. Mrs. Morgan, who is between 50 and 60 years of wan
has lived in Birkenhead seven years, an apprenticeship in
a large town, which, one would have imagined, would
hive taught her better. As a proof of her confiding dis-
position, it turned out that a strange man called at her
house one evening, engaged lodginge, slept there
the night, and next morning decamped with a
vest and pair of trousers belonging to another lodger.
Instead of going to the police, Mrs. Morgan
went to a Mrs. Steer, who was supposed to
know a thing or two through the medium of
the evil eye. That good lady applied her
weird optic to a magic looking-glass, and saw the thief,
who as is usual in such cases was " a stout man with dark
complexion." Having drawn a "silver shilling " from
Mrs. Morgan, and given her the address of the
house where she could find the thief, that inno-
cent person went away rejoicing. On calling at the place
indicated, however, she became alive to the swindle, and
gave information to the police. Mrs. Steer has gone for
a month to exercise the evil eye through a prison windoar
grating.

A MAIL-CART DRIVER FINED FOR BLOWING HIS
HoRN.—A mail-cart driver, named Harris, has been fined.
158. and 10s. costs for blowing his horn unnecessarily and
annoying the inhabitants of Newbury by disturbing them
from their slee p. The Bench thought the nuisance Was
intentional, and fined him accordi

The writer of "Talk in the Town," in the Globe,
mentions that it is authoritatively asserted that the office
of Master of the Rolls is to be abolished, and that Lora
Romilly will be transferred to the vacant Lord Justiceship•
The days of the Home Circuit are, it is positively asserted
in circles where the best information should be obtained,
numbered, and after the summer assizes its members wilt
be at liberty either to remain in town through the whole
year, or to direct their attention to fresh fields and pas'
tures new.

The Dublin correspondent of the (Robe has received
private information from several parts of Tipperary, stating
that the people are is the wildest state of excitement at the
return of Mr. Heron, and, that subscriptions have been
raised, to which the very poorest havo contributed, to en-
deavour to unseat him. At be Tipperary mooting, yester-
day, resolutions were passed protesting against Mr. Heron'e
return. Mr. Gill said there were thirty eases of personation,
and charge d the Government with suppressing and misdeli-

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vering dm telegrams.
BIBLICAL REVISION.—It is pleasant tO tiee the
ultra Low Church Rock arguing earnestly in favour of
Biblical revision. In this week's issue it has the follow-
ing :—" If we are not to adjust and re-adjust the
language of a translation to the necessary changes
of the vernacular tongue of England, we shall in
time drift clean away from the sense of Scripture
as understood by its original writers, and by our
translators. To make no readjustment is, therefore, as
foolish in itself and as fatal in its effect to the interests of
Scripture as it would be to keep our clocks and watches
unregulated by any readjustment, in consideration of
the loss and gain incidental, and necessarily incidental,
to the most perfect timepiece, made by the hands
of man ; and surely it is of as much importance
to have the tame piece of eternity (if we may be allowed the
expression) regulated from time to time in accordance
with the truest utterance, as fully ascertained as possible,
of the sacred oracles themselves, as it is to regulate the
time-piece which helps to mark the daily round of our
earthly toil, and directs our temporal labours in the orbit
of Punctuality. —The Rork.
A QUESTION FOR DOCTORS OF DIVINITY.—The
Queen of the sth of March contains the following query :
—" Can any lady recommend any Sunday toys, for very
young children—fourteen months old? 1 find the Noah's
Ark is not safe, as they break off the limbs from the
figures and put them in their mouths." It is, indeed, a
little difficult to know what theological toys can lie
recommended to persons of such tender years that they.
put all they possess into their mouths ; perhaps thirty-n 44
tirgcles of the nature of ninepins p:ght suit

The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends over the
text of the acte d' accusation against Prince Pierre Bona-
parte for the murder of Victor Noir. The Procureur-
Gdndral declares that the following facts have been elicited:
—On the 10th of January last MM. Yvan Salmon, eomm only
called Victor Noir, and Ulric de Fonvielle, editors of the
Marscillaise newspaper, proceeded to Auteuil to deliver a
challenge to Prince Pierre Bonaparte from M. Paschal
Grousset on the occasion of a letter inserted by the prince
in the Arenir de.la Corse newspaper on the 30th of De-
cember. M. Grousset pretended that he was insulted in
that letter though he was not named therein, and re-
quired a reparation by means of a duel. He had accom-
panied his two seconds to Auteuil. On his side, Princo
Pierre had on a previous clay, January 8. sent a challenge_
to M. Rochefort, editor of the Marseillaise, on account of
an article wherein he was insulted. After recounting
the fact of Victor Noir's death, and the conflicting aCC°l'l`tB
of the catastrophe given ')3, Prince Pierre and M.
Ulrio
de Fonvielle, the Procureur says :—" The information has
elicited the following particulars. Several persons hase_
noticed on the face of the accused the unequivocal marl.
of a blow. Dr. Morel, who saw the Prince at about
half-past two, declares that he had a very roil
trk on the left cheek, with an appearance 0'
swelling and ecchymosis. The same observation
was made by Dr. Pinel, and several other witnesso..
Besides, utterances which were noticed as having
fallen from M. de Fonvielle tend to shew that NI. Victor
Noir really struck the Prince in the face. The Procurer
cites several witnesses who reported having heard M. d°
Fonvielle say, in describing the scene, that M. Victor Noir
had struck the Prince on the face. At the police-station,
whither he was taken to make his deposition, M. Fonvielle,
in relating the circumstances, said that his friend, " feel;
ing himself affronted, advanced, and then, you understand.'
—And in saying these words Fonvielle raised his hand
as if to strike. On the other hand three persons who saw
Victor Noir's death relate that the accused had struck
Victor Noir in the face before shooting him. " However
that may be," adds the Procureur, " and even were the
version of the accused to be accepted, it is nevertheless
established that lie wilfully caused the death of Victor Noir;
justice cannot admit that a crime is justified by the act of
violence which the victim may have allowed himself to be
dragged into committing. It is equally certain that the_
accused fired his pistol at M. de Fonvielle. The Prince is
therefore accused of committing the crime of volun-
tary homicide on the person of Yvan Salmon.
With this circumstance that that crime was
followed by that which is specified hereunder
Secondly, of having committed on the same hour, da),
and place, on the person of M. Ulric de Fonvielle, an
attempt at voluntary homicide, which attempt failed
through circumstances independent of the perpetrator's
will. Crimes foreseen and punished by Articles 2, 295,
and 304 of the Penal Code: Done this 28th February,
1870.—(Signed) The Procureur-G6n6ral, GRAND FERRET.