The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TOE DUKE of NEWCASTLE'S CASE.—An application in
the Duke of Newcastle's case was made before Mr. Baron
Cleasby, at Chambers, on Friday, on one of the inter-
pleader issues with respect to the property seized at Cham-
ber by Mr. Padwick, and claimed by Mr. Gladstone and
Lord de Tabley as trustees. Mr. Baron Pigott had granted
a joint commission to examine the Duke at Homburg,
where he is now staying, but as soon as it was known that
certain questions would be put to the Duke, Mr. Padwick
withdrew from the commission. It was now sought, on
the part of Mr. Gladstone and Lord de Tabley, to amend
the order as to a joint commission, so that a different com-
mission could be granted to examine the Duke. His
lordship consented, after some discussion, to amend the
order.

THE BANKER'S CLERK.—At the Mansion House, on
Friday, George Dickson, who was lately employed as
clerk by Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., the bankers, of
Lombard-street, was committed for trial, charged with
embezzling upwards of £5OO. The prisoner pleaded guilty.
CRUELTY TO A CHILD.— At Hammersmith, Mr. T. B.
Brooke, a surgeon, of Shepherd's Bush, was charged with
illtreating his child, 2 years old. The principal witness was
his servant, who stated that she found bruises on the child's
face and body. Mr. Caines, a surgeon, of Hammersmith,
said that he had examined the child, and found the
bruises were both old and recent, and must have been occa-
sioned by great violence. The prisoner said that he
had applied galvanism to the child, and the
appearances on her body might have been produced by
the battery. Mr. Caines, in answer to the bench, said he
was not aware of any medical treatment which could
justify the state of the child's body. It appeared that
complaints had been made to the police as to the prisoner
ill-using the child. He was remanded until next week,
on his own recognizances in £lOO, and told to be then pre-
pared to find hail for his appearance at trial.
LAW OF TREASURE-TROC E.-At the East Kent Quarter
Sessiors, Lord Fitzwalter explained the law of treasure-
trove, on the occasion of two laboyring men pleading
guilty to secreting gold bracelets, which they had found
the earth. The chairman, addressing them, said the pre-
sent was a kind of case which did not frequently occur,
: but it was quite right and necessary when they did occur
that notice should be taken of them on the part of the
Crown, otherwise such articles, which were of value as
well as interesting, would be made away with with impu-
nity, and a great loss thereby sustained to the Treasury of
the country. It was important that the public should
know what the law really is in respect to such findings, viz.,
that all gold or silver articles, or gold or silver bullion
which had been hidden in the ground, when dug up,
belonged of right to the Crown. As the prisoners were
ignorant of the law they were only told to come up for
judgment when called upon.

ship.

HEAT BY COMPEESSION.—Every one knows that
if a certain volume of air be compressed, the temperature
is raised in certain proportions. Acting on this fact. Mr.
Be,semer has devised a plan for increasing immensely the
heat of furnaces by condensing the gases.
On Thursday morning a lady named Honeywell,
residing at flallorton, in Devonshire, threw herself on the
rails of the Tivei ton branch railway as a train was passing.
The driver blew his whistle and pulp d up, but not in time
to c her life'. Her Lead was clean cut off. The deceased
was of unsound mind, and had strayed from her friends.

On Thursday, Josiah Hurst, butcher, was charged
before the Dolton ruagis;rates with having in his poss.esEion
a quantity of veal unfit for human food. Inspector James
had seized two calves, ono only twenty-four hours old, and
the other under seven days, dressed as food. In both erica
the meet was two young for human food, and was,besidos
in a state of decomposition. Defendant was fined £4, in-
cluding costs.
Dr. Vaughan announces his acceptance of the office
of Master of the Temple in a letter to the Mayor of Doncas-
ter on Thursday. In thisletterDr.Vaughan says it is an office
of no emolument, but it opens to him the prospect of some
usefulness, with God's blessing, for the latter years of hi■
life. And he says he has felt of late the increasing sense of

A shocking occurrence is reported from Great Yar- the weight of the•
parochial charge which has been laid upon
mouth. On Thursday morning Edward Hastings Forder, a : himand
, although the parting will be bitter to him he
young man very respectably connected, was brought before earnestly
follow him • the borough magistrates, charged with the min der of °hissthat God will raise up the right man to
in the charge of a beloved Church and people.
aunt, Susanna
Hastings.
It seemed that tha prisoner, The inquest concerning the death of William Day,
branchastokero,f whotl3o
who had led a dissolute life, went to the residence ftbtlrieeeMwaledeokne
his relative on Wednesday evening and demanded someeGreatwas Easternkilled iLi
railwayan
money. The demand was refused, whereupon he struck since, in consequence of an engine and train leaving the
Miss Hastings a fearful blow under the right ear with his rails, was concluded on Thursday. The jury found a verdict of
fist, from the effects of which she died afew hoursafterward
The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday. an opinion that the in
the permanent way - • too light for the engines in use, and
THE TOWER SETBWAY.—This ' are
work has now ; a recommendation that the line sheuld Le more carefully'
passed the nearest approach to the bed of the river, spected. They also •
ver, the . . ~
.expressed their regret that the line was
top of the tunnel being 23ft. below the bed, and the repaired immediately after the disaster and before it had
engineer, Mr. Peter W. Barlow,
jun., reports that at the been proleily inspected— a practicewhich,
though general,
present rate of progress the tunnel will reach high-water 'they •
consider highly reprehensible.
mark on the Surrey side in ten weeks. The ground, it •
ate laa The Globe, in discussing the question of concurrent
said, is so dry that the New River Company's
the water
cement t r endowment,ikeßill ; and our conviction that, in doing
.so, we says: --e‘ We opposed the seccnd reading of
on the works has been taken from the shafts for
used in the tunnel. Air is supplied to the men by a steam Government
te were doing what would be best for the in-
engine at the shafts. Communication between the men
at the face of the works and thetop of the shafts is effected are now to resist
by an electric telegraph. secularisation, the only chance of
doing
so effectually, consistently with
the acceptance of the
THE NATIONAL DEBT. —The public debt of the ' bill at all, is to preserve
United Kingdom amounted on the 31st of March, 1869, to the Church we canandwhat
allow Church property
others some share
the close of the last financial year, to £796,861,067—viz., in the surplus; and we are inclined to believel that, taking
funded debt, £740,418,032 ; unfunded, 28,896,100; and the admittedly low ground of expediency,
terminable annuities representing an estimated capital of the Roman Catholics of Ireland of 'e
parochialaccePtance by
endowments
M m
247,546,935. Ten years previously, on the 31st of archt . would be a great blow to Ultraontani• sm in
that country at
1859, the total amount was £823,934,880, so that the deb, any rate."
has been diminished by £27,073,813 in the last ten years. , On Thursday Mr. Enoch IF dir , doubling yarnmanu-
Comparing the two periods we find the funded debt less facturer, but now a bankrupt, was brought before the
1869 by more than 46 millions, and the unfunded by Bolton magistrates, charged, at the instance of Mr. J. B.
above 9 millions, but the estimated capital of terminable Edge,who
a sleeping partner
annuities is more by nearly 27 millions. i with the occused, with obtaining £lOO under false p
SELLING RACES. Another measure of Turf tuxes. It was stated to the Court that at the close
-
reform is about to brought before the Jockey Club. ! of last year, after Mr. Edge had declined to pay an
y
Colonel Forester (whose recent motion respecting the .I more money into the m t
manufacturing concern, prieoer pea
running of two-year-olds before the Ist of May was carried) duced a letter purporting to be front his father, in which tl a
has given notice that on Wednesday next be will propose latter was made to promise that he would bring £lOO
" that optional selling races be discontinued at all meet-
for defendant in a few days. Upon the faith of this, Mr.
lags that are subject to the established rules of racing." , Edge advanced £lOO, end he now alleges that the letter
The races referred to are those where the horses arc
was unauthorised. The prisoner was remanded for a
entered to be sold at various prices, with proportionate week.
allowances in the weights, and the intent of i EMIGRATION. The migration from the
Colonel Forester's motion is obviously to limit Mersey (says the Manchexter Guardian) during
the number of minor meetings by preventing the past six months has been unusually heavy—
race committees from participating in the proceeds of the ; close upon 100,000 persons. For the quarter the
sale of winners by auction. In a selling race, under number was 78,411, or 21,156 in excess of the returns
the Newmarket rules, all the horses are liable ' for the corresponding period of last year. The proportion
to be claimed fur a specific sum, and the owner of the ' which the English emigrants bear to the whole is
second has the first claim of the winner; at the same time, ' very large. This is a circumstance which might
beaten horses may be claimed for the selling price and the seem to be explained by the fact that a considerable
amount of the stake. Selling races by auction were insti- ' number of the Irish and Germans who formerly embarked
tilted with the covert object of preventing " friendly" 1 at Liverpool now take ship at Queenstown, Greencastle,
claims, but there is no doubt they have been very much 1 and Hamburg ; but that there is a marked increase in
abused, and that they form far too prominent a feature at 1 the flow from this country is placed beyond doubt by the
many race meetings. Should Colonel Forester's motion ! New York returns. Some of the American papers have
be carried, the new rule will come *into operation on the ! been noting the phenomenon apparently with no little
satisfaction.
let of October.—Sportinee Life.
a
WILLS AND BEQuEsTs. —The illustrated .Ncu.s., The Italian journal Ta Voce statesthat during
that the , recent visit mr.de by Mr Jelin Jay, the American Minister,
in its "Wills and Bequest=,' mentions
Earl of Glasgow, m hose peas( nal estate was sworn I near_ theliCoint of Vienna, to a relative at nevem" on the
under £170,000, was the el lest member of the , L
i of atllge°lsol'aigzg,:iTpi.ee;ioar,seVl'reaCaidl serenade was
ssgi%c'en hits
by
the band
Jockey Club, and he has bequeathed to Mr. Georg© inn by ,ng an illumination. Tie poirnlft:etidond iint the even-
Jockey
£25,000, in addition to one-half of the horses sembled in honour of tho great Republic, and the.flano-ss-
of 2.nterlett and Italy
,were blended in token of tie friend-
in training, leaving the ether portion to General Peel.
ship of two
,freo peo; lcs, _ . .
He bequeaths to the Hon. James Macdonald, £8,000:
I [ee D VEY. A leEMEeT. Ilollowey i 3 Ointment and Nile.—
to the Hon- Col- If- Forester, £5,( 00 ;to Mr. Cunningham, Modern Science.—T J time is not remote when all skin
who had charge of his stud Paddocks nt Doncaster, £5OO, and I diseases were pronounced to be incurable, but happily for
all such sufferers ,!t the present day the use of Holloway's
also leaves him the stallion Torn Bowline; and to Mr
he leaves, by codicil, made only two days before Innosii),lien r t rflier i ef':ilownlisl sores,
si ityt:utnisott)iest
affections, do-
Aldcroft
tdiriisnccov,ilin•aVinngfiain-his lordship's death, a legacy of £5OO. G. Payne, above mations yield a ready obe. dience to the cooling, rectifying,
noticed, intends running the horses bequeathed to him in and strengthenine: properties of this ointment anti these
his lordship's colours—white body, crimson sleeves and cap purifying pi ' le. i.}l,:r.,!comi,tod
the iectbioensts
advantage.
nt,atb e
Mr. Adam Spieimann, late of Hereford House, West Bromp- eAv''iaino npeo point t applyi favour 'these
eof remediest'si;ig Holloway's' medicamengtes.
ton, whose personalty in England wasproved under £lOO,OOO, in constitutioeal complaints lies in the feet of their power
directs his executors to distribute the sum of £l5O amongst weaken inrify g
the frame. without interfering with established habits or
- - •
Jewish cliaritaDitiziatitlitivno.