The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-29 00:00:00

L.4JV AND POLICE.

ENFORCING CHURCH RATES.—In the Court of Arches,
on Wednesday, an application was made to Sir R. Phi E-
lmore to accept letters of request to enforce payment of a
church rate at St. Mary Brodin, Canterbury. The letters
were accepted, and several witnesses called in support of the
rate. The amount was 4s. 2d. The Queen's Advocate,
for the defendants, raised several I, gal ol,j.•ctions, and his
lordship, at the conclusion ef the case, said he should re-
serve his judgment.—Another church-rate case was
tried, the plaintiffs being the churchwardens of
Whitchurch, Hants, and the principal objection being
that the lay rector had not been assessed, and that the
chancel had been repaired. The question was whether
the holder 'of the tithe rent-charge was not bound to repair
the chancel. One of the churchwardens was examined,
and said that a loan bad been obtained from the Public
Loan Commissioners, and the rate was to pay off the first
instalment. The Queen's Advocate, for the defendant,
raised several objections. Judgment reserved.
THE OUTRAGE AT DOVER.—At Maidstone, Tracy
Clayton, a private in the 97th Regiment, was charged
with assaulting Emma Wade with intent to murder
her. The little girl identified the prisoner as the man
who had assaulted her and thrown her over the cliff at
Dover. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr.
Justice Mellor said that it was one of the very worst
cases that had ever come before him. He felt it his
duty to sentence him to penal servitude for life.
THE DOVER MURDZR.—At Maidstone Charles Waldrick,
a private in the Royal Engineers, was charged with the
murder of William Barnes. The prisoner Lad deliberately
shot the deceased, who was a corrorai in the same regi-
ment. It was believed that the prisoner's mind was
unsound, and the jury returned a verdict .to that effect.
He was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's
pleasure.
THE GRAVESEND ELECTION. —At the Maidstone
Assizes, on Wednesday, several persons were charged
with rioting in Gravesend in last November. The riot
occurred at the time of the parliamentary election, the first
election that has ever taken place in that borough. The
defendants, who supported the Liberal candidate, were so
much incensed at finding the Conservative in a majority, that
they assembled with a number of other persons and broke
a thousand panes of glass in the houses of the opposite
side. One of the polling-booths was entirely demolished.
The Lord Chief Baron suggested that the defendants
should pay for the damage and costs, but they would not
agree to do so, and the case was adjourned.

THE VOLUNTEER CAMP AT SHOEBURYNESS.-
Preparations have been commenced at Shoeburyness for
the camp in which the volunteer artillerymen from all
parts of the kingdom will be located during the ensu-
ing week. The formation of the camp has been en-
trusted to men of the Royal Artillery, aided by the staff
employed by the association, and already great progress
has been made. Consequent upon the large number of
entries, greater space has had to be taken up than that
used last year for the camp. It is anticipated that by
Saturday next the camp will be ready for occupation,
but the volunteers will not arrive till Monday, when it
opens.

SELLING BABIES BY AUCTION.—A California
manager has adopted the expedient with regard to babies
at the theatre which the manager of the Royal Alfred, in
London, was compelled to abandon. All mothers bringing
infants in arms are required to leave them in a side room
next the box office, where they are checked or tagged in
such manner as not to get "mixed," and to escape the ac-
cident of mistaken identity. This was done at the Alfred,
but the mothers did not come for their babies, and the
theatre was thus made a sort of foundling hospital; but at
Gold-hill, in California, the door-keeper of Piper's Opera
House is subject to no embarrassment whatever about the
uncalled-for babies. He simply sends them to an auction
store. There they are sold for the benefit of the manage.
ment. At Gold-hill a baby is a wellspring of happiness
worth many ounces of the precious metal ; in the New
Cut, Lambeth, a baby is oftentimes a little Ft-palling
incubus to be shaken off. The world has its contrasts.—
Philadelphia Ledger.

WHOLESALE APPREIIENSION OF ENGLISH MC'S-
rOCKETS IN GERMANY.—ror some time past the principal
watering-places in Germany have been infested by an
organised 'gang of English Pivkpot;kets, who have carried
on their depredations to an alarming extent, particularly
at Ems, Homburg, and Frankfort-on-the-Maine. Grown
bold by success, one of them, a luau named Henry Keen,
bad the audacity to attempt to rob Fazil Pasha, the
brother to the Viceroy of Egypt, of .£2,100 while lie was
at Homburg ; but the delinquent was detected, and
intmediately apprehended. For that affair he was
sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard
labour. The police, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, under
the able direction of Dr. riumpiT, have been most ener-
getic in their efforts to catch these depredators on the
public, and have succeeded in taking no less than sixteen
of them. Amongst the prisoners are two women, and
they are all now lodged in the gaoll4•Frankfort to await
their trials.