The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE EARL OF WESTMORELAND. —Another application
was made in Judges' Chambers on Tuesday in the case of
the Earl of Westmoreland. The present application had
reference to the executions for £12,000, levied at the suit of
Messrs. Beyfus on the Earl's town residence, in
Green-street, Grosvenor-square. Mr. Ouvry, solicitor
for the Dowager Countess, had made an affidavit claiming
the property for her ladyship. An issue was agreed to,
the Countess to be plaintiff, the property at the town
residence to be sold with the exception of some family
plate, and the money to be paid into court to abide the
event of the feigned issue.
RAILWAY TICKETS.—Dr. Armstrong, of Peckham, was
summoned before Mr. Patteson, at Greenwich, with
travelling on the South-Eastern Railway line and
alighting at a station other than that stated on his ticket.
The conditions on the ticket specified that it would be
concelled if used for any other station than that marked
on it. The defendant admitted that he bad alighted at
New Cross station in order to reach home
earlier ; but he contended that Now Cross was
within the metropolitan district, and the ticket bore the
words " Gravesend to London." He had refused to pay
the excess fare demanded of him on principle, in order to
obtain a legal decision. Mr. Patteson said the case was
one of great importance both to the railway company and
to the public, and he should take time to give his de-
THE LONDON, CHATHA', AND DOVER RAILWAY.—In
Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court, on Tuesday, in the suits
of " Waterlow v. Sharp," and " Gardner v. Sharp," the
right of the London and County Bank to prove
against the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway for the
amount which the directors had overdrawn in their
dealings with the bank, was discussed. On a previous
occasion the Vice-Chancellor gave the bank leave to prove
for any balance that might be due. An appeal was taken
to the Lords Justices, who refused to hear the ease, as no
specific sum was named, The balance had since been
ascertained to be £67,769, and the Vice-Chancellor was
of opinion that the bank was entitled to prove for the
balance.

THE VICEIIO Y.— Arrangemeuts are in progress
for celebrating the Viceroy of Egypt's visit to IVoolwich
by a grand review and sham fight iu which 10,000 troops
will be engaged.

TIIE NEW PEERS.—Lordllo, in the peerage
of Scotland, is gazetted a Baron of the United Kingdom,
taking his title from Dunning and Pitcairns, in the
county of Perth. His lordship was a Scotch representa-
tive peer in the last Parliament, but through his support
of the Suspcnscry Bill he was opposed in December last
by the Earl of Kellie, and failed to secure re-election.

PETO AND CO.—ln the Court of Bankruptcy an
application was made to expunge as proof for k:),SOC
made by Stuckey's Banking Company against the joint
estate of Peto and Betts, upon a promissory note, signed
by Sir S. M. Peto and Messrs. Betts and Crampton. The
signataries promised to pay the amount named,
" jointly and severally, and any two of us jointly."
The Commissioner held that " any " must be con•
strued as being synonymous with "every," and there-
fore declined to expunge the proof made against the joint

CASH DEPOSITS.

The necessity of caution in dealing with advertiser;
who require cash deposits is strikingly 'hewn by
some extraordinary disclosures which have been
made in a case before the Bristol Bankruptcy Court.
The bankrupt, John Walker, carried on business as a
dyer, and towards the close of 1867 he inserted adver-
tisements in the Christian World and other newspapers
for " a manager for a branch establishment in a fashionable
watering place." The appointment was to be permanent,
one condition only was imposed— the applicant was required
to deposit £75 with " the firm." Of course, there were
numerous applicants ; and this fact seems to have led
"the firm" to increase the deposit until it reached £l5O.
In September last two applicants, named Cross and
Webber, paid £1.5" each as deposit, and were thereupon
appointed " managers " at Exeter. When they arrived in
that city they discovered that the firm had no business
premises there. In March last, Mr. Thomas Stott, of
Manchester, was tempted to reply to one of the bankrupt's
advertisements, and, being " accepted," he paid a deposit
of £l5O, and was appointed manager at Penzance. Mr.
Stott proceeded to that town with his wife and family,
and when he arrived there he found himself in the same
predicament as Messrs. Cross and Webber. The bank-
rupt seems to have received several hundred pounds as
" security," none of Which he has returned.

AN IMPORTANT .1)I FORCE DECISION.

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In the Court of Divorce, on Tuesday, the
!earned judge gave his decision in the case of " Buck-
master v. Buckmaster," which involved the impor-
tant point, whether the fact of a wife receiving money to
renounce cohabitation was a bar to her subsequently
proceeding to obtain a divorce on the ground
of desertion. The petitioner was formerly a servant in
the respondent's father's service, and they were married.
The respondent's parents objected to the marriage, and
there was no cohabitation. The petitioner filed a petition
for a restitution of conjugal rights, but subsequently
received £lOO not to " molest" her husband. He sub-
sequently lived with another woman.
Lord Penzance said the principle he had laid down on a
former occasion when a somewhat similar, though in some
points different, case was before him, was that the fact of the
wife taking money, and cohabitation not having been
resumed, prevented her from alleging with foundation that
her husband had deserted her. In the present case coha-
bitation had not been resumed ; but as there had been
adultery on the part of the respondent, the wife could
have a judicial separation, but not a divorce.
The counsel for the petitioner said he would consult his
client as to whether a decree for a judicial separation
should be accepted.

ASCENT OF A BALLOON 121, THE
CHAMP DE MARS.

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Advices from Paris say that the Champ-de-Mars was on
Monday the scene of an interesting spectacle. An im-
mense concourse of pople assembled to witness
the ascent of the " Pole Nord," which is said
to be the largest balloon ever inflated. It is double
the volumno of the famous "Geant" in which Mr. Nader
performed his peri!ons voyage, and will contain 10,000 cubic
metres of gas. The diameter of the balloon is 27 metres,
and its total weight 36 metres. IL weighs 1,600 kilogrammes.
The filling process commenced at 5 a.m. The crowd
assembled early in the day, and went on increasing until at
half-past six p.m. the impatience of the spectators broke the
barriers, and they poured like a torrent into the enceinte
of the Champ de Mars. At a quarter to seven o'clock
the balloon ascended in splendid style. The enormous
balloon went up majestically, and the wind carried it
rapidly towards the west. The "Pole Nord" has been styled
the Great Eastern of the air, and, in fact, it dis-
places quite as much air as the Leviathan displaces
water. Eight persons ascended with the balloon under the
superintendence of M. Yon. They aro all scientific men,
provided with instruments for making observations.

AN AMERICAN PRISONER AT PARIS.

A complaint has been made to the American Legation
at Paris which is likely to give rise to some diplomatic
correspondence. The complainant, Mr. Warren,
an American citizen,- was arrested - during the
recent imattes. He states that he is a botanist,
and has spent some months in Paris for purely scientific
purposes, never troubling himself about French politics.
He was seized and roughly handled by the police agents
while he was walking quietly along the Boulevard
lee Italiens on the evening of June 10. His
papers and money were taken from him, and he
was locked up in a cell in the Conciergerie all night,
though he was suffering severely from his wounds.
The next morning he found means to send a message to
the American Legation. After remaining all day at
the Conciergerie he was tal,..en to Fort Bidtre,
and shut up with 100 other prisoners in case-
mates. The day after he was released, in consequence
of the interference of Mr. Washburne, the United States
Minister. Among other grievances, the police failed to
return 400 f. which they took from him. A young Ger-
man cavant was also arrested without reason, and dis-
charged after being incarcerated in the Conciergerie and
Bicare without apology. M. Louis Jerdain, the veteran
writer of the Siecle, has been sentenced to a month's impri-
sonment, besides the inevitable fine.

In the Probate Court on Tuesday Miss Shedder:
applied for a rehearing of her application fora new trial: Lord
Penzance said he could not hear her, but sho might appeal
against his decision to the Court.
The re-organisation of the Admiralty departments
will most probably take place on the Ist proximo, and the
services of the clerics whose names aro down for retirement
in most cases will in all probatility be retained until the
end of the ensuing quarter. We believe this is brought.
about to some extent in consequence of the Treasury with-
holding the authority from the Admiralty, without tho sanc-
tion of which Mr. Childers' Board at Whitehall aro unable
to move.

IcOyEL QUESTION.-A novel question in appren-
tice law came up for settlement last week, in the Glasgow
Sheriff's Court. An apprentice, sent by his employers to
Greenock, refused to travel by the third-class " stand-up "
carriages, and was dismissed for disobeying orders. He
brought an action for wrongful dismissal. Evidence was
given to the effect that apprentices in similar establishments
in Glasgow enjoyed third-class "with seats." The defen-
dants also brought forward evidence to shew that their
practice had invariably been to send the boys in the
"stand-up." The Sheriff decided in favour of the defendants.
VICTOR HUGO'S NoVtL.—The readers of
" L'Homme qui Rit " cannot fail to be surprised at the
apparent caprice which prompted its illustrious author to
give the name of Homo to a wolf, and the name of tirsus
to a man. A friend of M. Victor Hugo's, however,
attempts to explain the puzzle by tracing it to its probable
origin—namely, to a quotation from Hobbes's " Homo
homini lupus." M. Hugo's fancy played with this saying,
and twisted it about. It did not suit the purpose of his
story to imagine a man as a wolf to his fellow-man—it was
enough to imagine him simply a bear. On the other hand,
he imagined the reverse of Hobbes's suggestion—a wolf
that would be as man to man.

MURDER IN LONDONDERRY. —A shocking murder
has been committed at a farm-house in Londonderry.
A farmer, named M'Erlane, residing between the
villages of Bellaghy and Castle Dawson, county
Derry, accompanied by his wife, left home on
Sunday morning to attend chapel, leaving a servant
girl, Elizabeth Nogher, in charge of the house. Upon
their return, about halff-paSt one o'clock, they found
the door shut and the girl Nogher lying on the
kitchen floor insensible, a part of her skull blown away
and the brain protruding. She never spoke, and died at
seven o'clock the same night. It appears some person
had entered the house, took down a gun from above the fire-
place, put on a cap, and discharged the gun at the head of
the poor defenceless girl, and then put up the gun where
it had been taken from. One man has been arrested on
suspicion.

How CUCKOOS CARRY THEIR Etas.--A corre-
spondent of Land and -Water contributes the following
item of observation on this subject :—" Having observed
in a magazine of last year the mention of a cuckoo having
been shot on the wing, and having on being picked up
slipped an entire egg out of its mouth, I resolved to
inquire if there were any natural provision for securing the
egg in the throat while the bird is seeking a proper place
in which to deposit it. I fortunately found a bird-stuffer
in the very act of preparing a specimen of this eccentric
creature with the throat laid open. At my request he put
his knife to the skin of the part immediately below ti
mouth, and exposed just such a sac as I was looking for,
empty, but large enough to hold an egg. He afterwards
put a bradawl down the throat, and, with little care,
found an orifice distinct from the gullet, justa behind the
tongue, leading into a cavity closed at the lower end.
This was evidently the same sac which he had previously
pierced from within, a little above the base. It would be
well if some clever anatomist would carefully extract the
internal membrane of the throat of the bird, and give an
accurate description or drawing of it, including the
larynx, which must have a peculiarity of its own. If I
have not been mistaken, I think the existence of this sac,
coupled with the incident before mentioned, proves that
the method of this bird is first to lay the egg on the
ground, and then to swallow it into the special receptacle
and carry it away to place it in the first convenient nest
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 29.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and.
Prince Leopold, arrived at Windsor Castle shortly
after 11 o'clock this morning from Buckingham
Palace.

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