The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE SERIOUS CHARGE OF STABBING.—DEATH OF THE
INJURED MAN.—Edward Kennock, a shoemaker, of
Saville-street, Marylebone, who was stabbed in the abdo-
men by another shoemaker named Edward Searey, residing
in the same house (a report of the case having appeared
in The Suu on Monday last) expired this morning in the
Middlesex Hospital from the injury he received. Searey
is now under remand in the House of Detention from the
Marlborough-street Police-court.

A DISHONEST BARMAN.—William Hatton, a lad, aged
sixteen years, who has been under remand from time to
time for six weeks in consequence of the illness of a
witness, was brought up for the last time at the Thames
Police-court, before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a
gold watch and gold chain, value £l6, the property of Mr.
Aledrick Wetger, the landlord of the Green Man
public-house, in Jane street, St. George's-in-the-East,
The prisoner was in the prosecutor's service. Oil
the 26th September last he obtained leave of
absence from his master in the latter part of the
day, • and he ought to have returned on or before 10
o'clock the same evening. He never returned at all. On
the same night a watch and chain were missing from the
house. A young man, named Lucas, swore that the pri-
soner gave him the watch and chain, and told him to
pawn them. He gave the property to another man. Mr.
Henry Botiman, manager at the old and respectable pawn-
broking establishment of Mr. John Decker, adjoining
Limehouse Church, said the watch and chain were
offered to him in pawn on Wednesday, the 28th
of September, by a respectable-looking young man,
who in answer to his queries said the watch and
chain were his own, and he bought them on the tally
system, anu gave his address, James Stubbings, 4, North-
street, Poplar. A police-constable named Isaac Pawsey
said that he had made inquiries at 4, North-street, and no
such person as James Stubbings lived there. The father
of the prisoner reminded the magistrate that his son was
in custody in that court on the 28th of September. Mr.
Paget said that was so, and recalled Lucas, who said the
prisoner gave him the watch and chain on Tuesday, the
27th of September. He gave the watch to a dock labourer,
whose clothes were begrimed with dirt and sugar.
Mr. Bodman : The man who pawned the watch for £1
only was a well-dressed man, not at all like a dock
labourer. J had a long conversation with him and should
know him again. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for
trial.

THE BANKRUPTCY OF LORD ALFRED CLINTON.—In
the Court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart the case of Taylor
v. , Yates was heard, it being taken by the creditor's
assignee acting in the bankruptcy of Lord Alfred Clinton,
younger brother of the Duke of Newcastle, with the view
of testing the validity of certain transactions with two
money-lenders, named Yates and Dicker, residing at
Harley-street, Cavendish-court, and Craig's Court,
Charing-cross, respectively. The defendants advertised
that they were willing to advance money to noblemen
and heirs to entailed estates, in consequence of which
the late Lord Arthur Clinton, Lord Alfred being then a
minor, applied to them and became security for advances
amounting to between £2,000 and £4,000, the security
being a charge on the interest of £30,000 in reversion on
the death of his mother. Several bills of exchange were
given by the defendants, who, although it was expressly
understood that they should do so, declined to discount
them. The contention was that no action, either at law
or equity, could be sustained with respect to the security,
and that the debts were merely debts of honour. The
argument is yet unfinished.

RAILWAY LAW CASES. —Judgment was given in the
Court of Common Pleas on an appeal by the Great
Western Railway Company against a county court judg-
ment, by which the company had been held liable for the
loss of certain articles stolen from a passenger's port-
manteau. The passenger (Mr. Talley) left the carriage
in which he was riding Swindon, where the company's
trains stay ten minutes, and got into another carriage to
resume his journey. He thus lost sight of his luggage, and
some articles were stolen. The court held that as his own
negligence contributed to the loss, the company were not
liable ; the decision of the court below was therefore re-
versed. In the Court of Exchequer an action against the
Brighton Company was again on the lists for hearing.
The plaintiff, a Mr. Leishmere, a city merchant,
was descending the steps at the New Forest sta-
tion, when, owing, as it was alleged, to the worn
state of the steps and their general dilapidated condition
his foot slipped, and being precipitated to the ground, he
had several ribs broken and sustained other bodily injuries
for which at a former trial he was awarded a satisfactory
and substantial solatium by the jury. The verdict, Mr.
Lopes, Q.C., M.P., on the part of the company, now
attempted to set aside by a rule for a new trial, which
the court refused to grant, the Lord Chief Baron holding
that the company were bound either to repair or replace
all steps on their railway properly when they became so
worn as to be dangerous.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales again honoured the Opera Comique with their
presence on Wednesday evening, accompanied by his
Royal Highness Prince Arthur, and attended by, a nume-
rous suite.

THE OPERA COMIQUE.—The following distin-
guished visitors honoured the Theatre with their
presence last week : H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales, H.R.H. the Princess of Wales, H.R.H.
Princess 'Peck, and suites. Lord Clonmeh, F. Knollys,
Esq., Dr. Quin, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Hon. Oliver
York, Captain Little, Count Lutterworth, the Prince
Galitzin, Henry Peke, Esq., Lord Hardinge; Colonel
Kennard, Viscount Cartherosse, Earl of Ellesmere,
Colonel Lomline, Princess de Soly Koff, Lady Moles-
worth, Horace Farquhar, Esq., Duchess of Newcastle,
Colonel Greville, Henry Villebois, Esq., Lady Barron,
George Drummond, Esq., Lord Albert Gower, Mrs.
Arabin, Earl of Mabnesbury, Earl of Rosslyn, Hon.
Evelyn Ashley, Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton, Raphael
Sturgis, Esq., Butler Johnson, Esq., Earl of Rosebery,
Marquis Graham, F. J. Walker, Esq., Mrs. D. Williams,
Lady Violett Greville, S. Reynolds,' Esq., Sir A. Slade
Duchess of Montrose, Sir Lionel Dare)], Colonel
Chaloner, Countess of Waldegrave, Hon. F. Bertrie, E.
Cavendish, Esq., R. S. Vivian, Esq., F. C. Howard,
Esq., Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl
of Lucan, Major Qucade, Lady Jenkins, Hon. Mrs.
Abbutt, and Captain Bradley.

THE WAR.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.

DEATH OF COUNT WALDERSEE.

The Prussian Staatsanzeiger repeats the affirmation that
Colonel Count Waldersee was killed by treachery during
the attack on Le Bourget. There was a very bloody fight
in the village, and the Germans only got a footing after
great sacrifices. "A detachment was about to advance
into a house when the colonel, Count Waldersee, ordered
his men to halt, as from the windows white handkerchiefs
were waved in token of surrender. The Count had ten
days previously so far recovered from his wound at Grave-
lotte as to rejoin his regiment. He sprang towards the
'house to speak with its occupants. While so advancing
'a ball from the windows of the house struck him and
killed him on the spot. An officer was hasten-
ing to catch the falling leader in his arms when
he too was shot. When the troops saw this they
were greatly exasperated, and the enemy repulsed at all
points by the vigour of their attack. Over 1,200 un-
wounded prisoners were made, and 30 officers. Our
Augusta and Elizabeth regiments lost 30 officers killed
and wounded, and about 400 men. The whole depot,
which the enemy evidently intended to fortify, as large
quantities of bread had been sent from Paris on the pre-
vious day to the advanced troops south of the Bourget,
fell into our hands. The great number of prisoners
'chews that the French who made the sortie were closely
surrounded."