The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-28 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

FOREIGN COMPANIES.—An appeal has been made is
Lord Justice Giffard, from a decision of Vice-Chancellor
Malin, whereby he refused to grant an order for the
winding up of the General Credit Company, for
the promotion of Land Credit. The ground for the
Vice-Chancellor's decision was that although the
company had a registered office in London ; all its
business was carried on in Belgium, and the Winding-up
A:t did not apply to foreign countries. The Lord Justice
discharged the order of the Vice-Chancellor, and directed
that the company should be wound up. He could not see
why foreigners who signed the memorandum of associa-
tion of a company registered in this country should not he
held to have contemplated the liability of their company
being wound up under the Act. The company in question
had creditors for £1,000,000 in this country, and it was
but right that, as it was insolvent, it should be wound up.
SINGULAR CHARGE.—Zid Bey, proprietor of the Hurri-
yette, a Turkish newspaper, has been charged at Bow-
street Police-court, with publishing a libel on the Turkish
Prime Minister, and inciting to his assassination. A
translation of the libel was read in court, setting forth
that the Minister was an oppressor, and should be
slaughtered by the laws of Islam. The prisoner was
remanded.
SELLING BEER AND SPIRITS IN THE PARK.—TWO men
named Carter and Grimwood, have been fined respec-
ti 'rely £5O and £25, for selling beer and spirits in St.
James's Park, without a license. They were sold to the
drivers and footmen of the carriages waiting there.
RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASES.—A clothier in Glas-
gow, named Wingate, has sued the Glasgow and South-
Western Railway Company for damages for injuries
received in a collision with the Ayrshire express. He laid
the damages at £2,000, but the jury awarded him £250.
Before the trial he was offered £4OO by the railway com-
pany, and refused it.
FALSE WEIGHTS.—A man at Newington has been fined
23 for using unjust weights and scales, by which he
defrauded the lads in his employ, who were paid by weight
for the night light floats they made.
TWELVE YEARS.—Newnham, who was convicted of
burglary at Rochester in company with a man who fell
dead in the house, has been sentenced to twelve years'
penal servitude.
CHARGE AGAINST A LADY.—Mrs. Northcote, a middle-
aged lady of respectable position, has been committed for
trial by the Exeter magistrates on a charge of stealing a
coal scuttle and some meat.
THE ROBBERY AT PRESTON.—The two persons charged
with stealing a£loo note in Preston have been sentenced to
six months' imprisonment. The Rev. M. Johnstone again
declined to tell from whom he got the note. The chair-
min said that if his evidence were necessary to
the prosecution the Bench would endeavour to enforce
it, but the case was proved without him.
• AN ATTORNEY'S CLERK.—An attorney's clerk, named
Adams, has been committed for trial on a charge of forg-
ing three letters in the name of the Rev. G. Herbert, of
8.-dford, with the object of obtaining three dozen bottles
of wine.

WHOLESALE SACRILEGE.—Two men, named Webster
and Robinson' having each anal/as, were charged before the
mtgistrates, at
Keswick, Cumberland, with breaking into
several churches and schools in the Lake district.
Oa the night of the 17th the parish church of
Ceosthwaite was broken into and several articles stolen.
grammar school was also entered. Statements made

by the prisoners after their ..i;;;iienai;;"Vei;to—il;
effect that they had broken into all the churches and
sc:iools in Cumberland and Westmoreland charged against
them, viz. :—Crosthwaite, Newlands, Windermere,
Helsington, Watermillock, Buttermere, and Long-
m Irton. They stated that their object in com-
mitting the robberies was to raise money wherewith to go
to Australia, and that in cases where they found no money
they committed wanton mischief—for example, at Long-
marton they broke the harmonium in pieces with a pick-
axe, and burnt a number of Bibles and surplices. Tin
prisoners were committed for trial.

BURGLARY BY A SON.—Robert Ward Smith, aged 18,
was charged at the St. Neot's sessions with burglariously
breaking into his father's house at Eynesbury, and steal-
ing 35. in money, a quantity of provisions, a coat, a pair
of waterproof boots, three sacks, two feather beds, &c.,
the property of his father. The evidence shewed that
the prisoner, instead of attending to the business of his
father, who had educated him, would absent himself for
days and nights in order to amuse himself, and even
when at home would not work. The father was
at length obliged to turn him out of his house in
consequence of his bad conduct. The father complained
bitterly of his son, saying that he had done all he could to
reform him, and worked hard to make him comfortable,
but without avail. Prisoner made no defence, and wag
committed for triaL

NEEDLESSLY STOPPING A TRAIN.—John Usher, an
auctioneer at Canterbury, was prosecuted by the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for unnecessarily
stopping a train by means of the new apparatus for
communicating with the guard. The accused was a few
days before a passenger between Cailterburyand Rochester,
and having missed the latter station, he communicated
with the guard when near Farningham-road station, and
the train was instantly stopped. Fined 40s. and costs.
This is the first action that has been brought in connectiOD
with this apparatus.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A STATION-MASTER.—AIfred Barker,
29, late station-master and goods agent at the Milvertoa
station, was indicted at the Norwich assizes for embezzling
£33ls. Bd. and 17s. 5d., the moneys of the London and
North-Western Railway Company. The prisoner received
the larger sum from Lord Willoughby de Broke's agent,
but never accounted for it, and for some months repre-
sented that the account was still unpaid. He received the
17s. sd. from a Mr. Bromwich, who saw him sign the
receipt for the money. Prisoner had married two women,
whom he kept within a mile of each other, and for more
than half a year managed to live with each of them.
, and sentenced to twelve
mFoounnthad ofonin both charges

ARREST OF A JURY3IAN.--SOlllO little time since
the judge of the Norfolk County Court (Mr. W. H. Cooke)
ordered' the foreman of a jury in his court to be tempo-
rarily arrested. The Norwich town council has been dis-
cussing the case, and has pronounced the act of the judge
an unwarrantable one, and an " unconstitutional excess of
authority which ought to be reported to the Lord Chan-
cellor." -

Mr. CARLYLE COnnECTING HIMSELF.—A gentle-
man, says the Edinburgh Daily Review, once stumbled on
a-book entitled " The Prophet Politician, or a Full View
of the Life and actions
_Military and Civil) of 0. Crom-
well. With a portrait. London. 1660." Perceiving it to be
a work of merit, the gentlemaajcommunicated his'discovery
to Mr. Carlyle, who asked to see the book, a request
which was readily granted. Mr. Carlyle returned it with
the following remarks written upon the title page :
" No guess by whom this book was written ; nor of the
date when, except that it was before May 1660 and after
3d September 1658. Author not without talent, fair-
ness ; worth attending to on one or two points which are
peculiar to him, so far as I have noticed--e.g. (p. 2),
Oliver in Lincon's Inn ! (but his name is not in any Inn),
item on " Campaign in Ireland "—some glimmerings of
new light afforded, &c., &. Were the little book very
skilfully annnotated here and there, dates, supplied &0.,
by some thoroughly instructed person and do. competent
person (of which there is mighty little chance !) it might
be worth reprinting some time or other. Lent me from
Aberdeen by Mr. John Morgan there and now returned
with thanks.—T. CARLYLE. Chelsea, 3 Feb., 1870,"
The following letter from Thaddeus Stevens is
published by the Harrisburg correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Press: —"January `23,1867. Dear Sir, —I received
your letter. lam not surprised nor much moved at any
scandal which may be publicly or privately uttered about
myself. Ido not usually contradict them. To your per-
sonal suggestion, however, I willingly reply. All the
statements which you said were made are false, as the
author well knew, if he had any knowledge on the sub-
ject. I have always been a firm believer in the Bible. He
is a fool who disbelieves the existence of a God, as you say
is charged on me, I also believe in the existence of a Hell
for the special benefit of this slanderer. I have said that
I never deny any charges, however gross. I make an ex-
eeption when my religious belief is brought in question.
I make no pretension to piety (the more pity), but I
would not be thought an infidel. I was raised a Baptist,
and adhere to their beIief.—THADDEUS STEVENS. J. T.
Keagy, Eq."
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