The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-27 00:00:00

LA \V AND POLICE,

THE LADY CHARGED WITH FRAUD.—A solicitor, re
presenting the family of Mrs. Macgregor, the lady charged
with defrauding drapers by means of false cheques, has
applied to the magistrate at Marlborough-street, for per-
mission that the family doctor should visit her in prison.
It seems Mrs. Macgregor is in a state of great mental
excitement besides bodily illness, and her relatives were
anxious she should have their own adviser. The magis-
trates said the visiting justices must grant the order, but -
he would write a note saying he had no objection.
A PAINFUL STORY.—A man named James Challenger,
fifty-four years of age, has been committed for trial at
Marylebone, on a charge of forging the endorsement of a
cheque. He had been five years in the employ of Mr.
Holdern'ess, pianoforte maker, but had been recently dis-
charged for drunkenness. He fell into great distress,
in consequence, and having called at the house
of one of his former employer's customers received
a cheque offered him in payment of a standing
account, and presented it at the Bank, endorsing it with
the name of the firm, Holderness and Co. The magistrate
commiserating the wretched condition of the prisoner's
family, ordered a guinea to be given from the poor box to
his wife.
ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Frederick Cooper, late butler to
Mr. Cubitt, of Westmister, has been charged at West-
minster Police-court with attempting suicide. He cut his
throat severely, and has been in the Hospital since
February. Mr. Cubitt said there had been something wrong
with the plate, but he would rather not specify what it
was. After a little further inquiry, the prisoner was dis-
charged.
THE UNITED STATES AND THE BLAKELEY ORDNANCE.--
During the American rebellion the Confederate Govern-
ment ordered a number of guns of peculiar construction,
and a large quantity of shot and shell to be manufactured
by the Blakely Ordnance Company. The guns were
paid for by .instalments; but although they were
despatched from the defendants' manufactory,• they never
reached America ; and'on the termination of the war they
together with a considerable amount of other property
which had been used during the rebellion 'were formally
transferred by the Confederacy to the United States
Government. The defendants, however' now claimed a
lieu on the guns, and a bill was filed by the Government for
the purpose of ascertaining to whom the property actually
belonged. The case involved a great many questions of
international law ; but having considered all the facts,
Lord Romilly declared that the guns were the
property of the United States Government, subject to
any lien which the defendants might be enabled to estab-
lish with respect to them.

The minority of 50 that voted against the Clerical
Disabilities Bill is composed of Conservatives. Colonel
Wilson Patten was the only politician of eminence amongst
them.

The Marseilles journals speak of a mutiny in that
roadstead on board the English vessel Robert Morrison.
The captain put back into the port and had the insurgent
sailors arrested.

The Salt Lake Teleyraplx announces the death of
President John Young, an elder brother of Brigham
Young. The deceased had been for many years a
patriarch of the Mormon Church.

The Rev. G. Preston, M.A. of King Edward
Vl.'s Grammar School, Birmingham, late Fellow of
Magdalene College, Cambridge, has. been elected to the
head mastership of the Grammar School at Llanrwst,
North Wales.