The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A JURY DISCHARGED.=In the Second Court of Queen's
Bench, an action has been brought for alleged misrepre-
presentation of the value of a corn chandler's business in
Kennington. The defendant called no witnesses, but
relied upon a deficiency in the proof of the allegation,
and urged that the statement that the business was
good did not amount to a warranty. The jury
were unable to agree, and after a long absence were dis-

charged

A QUESTION OF SOLVENCY.—A silk merchant in
Austin-friars, named Wood, has brought an ac-
tion against a silk manufacturer at Derby, named
Smith, for having falsely represented that the firm of
Hopley, Gouvain, and Co. were solvent. Messrs. Hopley
and Co. applied to the plaintiff for some China silk, and
gave the defendant as reference. The plaintiff wrote to
him, and on receiving a letter in reply that the defendant
had trusted them to the amount of four or five hundred
pounds and would do so again if required the goods were sent.
Hopley and Company afterwards became 'bank.
rupt, and on the plaintiff discovering that his goods
were in the defendant's possession, he demanded their
restoration, and receiving no reply, he brought an action.
The defendant swore that the letter complained of was in
the handwriting of his son. The jury, however, took a
different view of the case, and found a verdict for the
plaintiff. Damages £2B.
JUVENILE MONEY LENDER.—At Swansea a little girl
named Emily Williams has been sent to prison for two
months for embezzling the sum of £l2 and other moneys, the
property of her master. It appeared that she was in
the service of Mr. Smith. grocer and dairyman, and
received the money for milk at various times. The girl
admitted the offence, and mentioned the names of several
grown up persons to whom she had been in the habit of
lending money to be repaid by instalments.
- A YOUNG SCOUNDREL.—Evan Morley, a lad, has been
committed for trial, at Neath, for placing an iron bar on
the Carnaruon Railway, with the intention of throwing
the train off the line.

THE FEVER DENS.—Thomas Wheatley, of No. 20,
Brooke-street. Holborn the keeper of a common lodging-
house, was summoned to the Clerkenwell Police-court for
unlawfully receiving lodgers into his house, the same not
being approved and registered according to law. Police
Sergeant James Hughesman visited the house,
and found therein 36 lodgers, some of them pay-
ing 2s. per week, whilst others were paying 4d. per night.
The defendant, although frequently requested to place his
house in a fit state for registration neglected to do so.
The house was dirty and untidy. The magistrate ordered
the defendant to pay a fine of 40s. and costs, or, in de-
fault, be imprisoned in the House of Correction
for one calendar month. The defendant, not having
the money, was removed to the cells. Louigi Bathelgo,
of 15, Summers-street, Back-hill, was also summoned
for committing a like offence. The house kept by the
defendant was occupied principally by Italian organ-
grinders. On the 29th ult. seventeen men were lodging
and sleeping in three small rooms, one paying 2d. per
night, the rest ls. per week. The rooms were very dirty
and offensive. The defendant was ordered to pay a fine
of 20s. and costs, or in default fourteen days' imprison-
ment, Two other lodging-house keepers in the same
neighbourhood were also sled.
" ICONOCLAST " IN THE COURT OF ERROR.—The case of
" Bradlaugh v. Dekin " was resumed in the Court of
Error,-when the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas
was reversed, on the ground that the French law would
not prevent the plaintiff sueing. The verdict now stands
for Mr. Bradlaugh. The question of the plaintiff's be-
lief was not raised.
SERVICES TO SHIPS IN DISTRESS. —ln the Court of Ad-
miralty, in a cause of salvage brought by the barque
Wave against the derelict ship Duke, to procure a reward
for services rendered to her off Cape Finisterre in
January last, the learned Judge pronounced for the
tender of £930, and left each party to pay their own
costs, the value of the property salved being £2,795 ; and
allotted £lOO to the owners of the Wave, £BO to the cap-
tain, £2OO to the men on board her, and £550 to the men
cm board the Duke, giving the mate a double share.

COURT OP BANKRUPTCY.—An examination and dis-
charge meeting was held at the Court of Bankruptcy
under the failure of Hesketh Davis Wells, of Lower-road,
Deptford, timber merchant and firewood dealer. The
bankrupt, who is a very aged man, nearly ninety years of
age, appeared before the court with debts of £38,670
lOs. 3d., against assets of £2,665. It was stated that the
bankrupt had realised a large fortune, but he was after-
wards induced to become a sleeping partner in another
concern, and he had been ruineu. The Registrar passed
the examination and granted the discharge. .

THE 13nAco MURDER.—A: man named George
Chalmers has been arrested by the Dundee police on sus-
picion of the murder of the toll-keeper at Braco, Perth-
shire, on the 29th of December last.

A very interesting sale is going to take place at
Saragossa on the 30th inst. The sp'endid and valuable
jewels of Nuestra Senora del Pilar are to be sold by
auction. They are very remarkable on account both of
their artistic merits and the historical associations con-
nected with them, most of them representinq the pious
offerings of kings and princes, from remote times to the
Virgin. The object of this sale is to raise funds to im-
prove the cathedral.