The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

The PAWNBROKERS' Acr.—Mrs. Emma Barker, a pawn-
broker of High-street, Aldgate, was on Friday summoned at
Guildhall for unlawfully detaining a diamond pin worth
£l5, belonging to Mr. Henry Samuels, a jeweller. The pin
had been stolen from Mr. Samuels, and he afterwards saw
it for sale in Storr's auction rooms. He found it had
been sent for sale by Mrs. Barker, who refused to give it
up unless she was repaid the £4 she had advanced upon it.
It was urged on Mr. Samuel's behalf that: Mrs. Barker
had failed to comply with the conditions of the Pawn-
brokers'Act, by entering the name, address, and position of
the pawner; but Sir Sydney Watorlow said that ho did not
think the civil law applied to that court, and unless some
improper motive could be proved against Mrs. Barker he
could not make an order against her. Eventually a com-
promise, was agreed upon, the pin being given up by Mrs.
Parker on payment of £2 by Mr. Samuel.

CHARGE OF FRAun.—At Westminster Police-court, on
Friday, an accountant, named Dunham, was charged with
obtaining £l2 on false pretences. It seems that he had
been the agent for the sale of a fish shop to two young
women, who had saved a little money and wished to em.
bark in trade. He represented that the business had
realised £9 in one week, and that the fixtures were his. They
paid £l2 on account, and afterwards discovered the business
to be worthless, while the fixtures were the property of the
landlord. Defendant produced a receipt for £lO which he
had paid for the fixtures, and the magistrate said the best
thing to be done would be for the defendant to return the
young women £2 as he had paid the £lO. This case was
adjourned for a week with a view to an arrangement.

CAUTION TO AGRICULTURISTS.—At the Ducks Petty
sessions, two cases of great importance to agriculturists
using steam power were brought forward. Mr. Boswell, a
farmer, of Iver, was summoned for erecting a threshin;
machine and engine withing twenty-five yards of the high
road, being dangerous to cattle travelling on the road. Mr.
Hall, the owner of the machine and engine, was summoned fo-
a similar offence. The bench fined Mr. Hall £2 and 17s. Gd
costs, and dismissed the case against Mr. Doswell. Mr.
Hall said he was not aware that he had acted illegally, but
the magistrates told him the Act had been in opera-
tion some thirty years. The other case was against
Mr. Richardson, who had caused a steam ploughing
machine to be erected near the highway, the machine
being unconcealed from passers by, and consequently
dangerous to cattle. Mr. Richardson contended that he
was within the law so long as he stationed a person on the
highway to warn passers by. The bench admitted the de-
fence: and dismissed the case, refusing costs.

TRADE UNION ASSAULTS.—A nail cutter, named Bostock,
was on Friday summoned at Birmingham for assaulting a
fellow workman. The quarrel arose out of a trades union
dispute, though both plaintiff and defendant were non-
unionists. In a similar case several workmen waited in
the street till another left work, when they met him and
beat him, The magistrates sentenced the first defendant
to six weeks' imprisonment and the other to a month,
refusing to impose fines in either case.

CCIIIOLTS LIBEL CASE.—At the Sheriff's Court, Glasgow,
M. Marianski, a Polish gentleman, brought :In action against
the Glasgow Herald, for damages for a libellous advertise-
ment. The prosecutor had taken home with him aNe sv-
fotmdlaal dog, which he bun 1 at the railway station, not
being able to find an owner for it. Ile afterwards advertised
for the owner, who was never forthcoming. The advertise-
ment complained of appeared in the Glasgow Herald, with-
out an address, to the effect that if the Pole who took away
a Newfoundland dog at such ak date did not return it
Withiiiihree days he wolireile pi673ecuted. The a—cTver Imo=
meat was apparently inserted from malice, and as the
conductors of the Glasgow Herald was unable to discover
who inserted it (the name given being a false ono)theywere
ordered to pay the n 2 claimed with costs.

The velocipede mania has broken out in Melbourne.
On the principal cricket ground, and at Croxteth Park,
there have been velocipede races. Tho corporation are
about to pass a bye law, specifying the conditions on which
they aro to pass along the streets.

Of Edmund Dean's performance of Luke, in "%fag-
singer's City Madan?, it is recorded that an old lady, who
had intended leaving him a large sum of money, was so
appalled at the cold-blooded villany ho displayed that she
transferred the legacy to a distantrrelation.
An Irishman lost his hat in a well, and was let
down by a rope to recover it ; but the well being deep and
extremely dark withal, his courage failed him before he
had reached the water. In vain did he call out to those
above to pull him up ; they leant a deaf ear to all he said,
till at last, quite in despair, he bellowed out, "By St.
Patrick, if ye don't draw me up, sure I'll cut the rope."
We learn from Belfast that the remains of Dr.
Kieran, the Roman Catholic Primate of all Ireland, are to
be laid out in state in Dundalk Cathedral on Sunday. The
interment will take place on Monday. Since his death all
the shops and public schools in Dundalk have been closed,
and will remain so until after the funeral.

LETTER OF THE COMTE DE PAms.—Le Figart
publishes the following letter from the Comte de Paris :
"Twickenham, 25th August, 1369.—MY dear Friend,—l
am pleased to send the photograph for which you have
asked me. Every time that one of such portraits takes the
road to France I try to fancy that I am in its place ; that
I go with it to the friends who are pleased to accept it,
and that from the frame which surrounds it I can glance
upon our country.—Yours, Lows PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS."
A common councilman's wife, who had been his
servant, paying her daughter a visit at school, and inquir-
ing what progress she had made in her education, the
governess answered, " Pretty good, madam. Miss is very
attentive; if she wants anything, it is a capacity; but for
that deficiency, you know, we must not blame her." "No,
madam," replied the mother ; " but I blame you for not
having mentioned it before, for her father, thank heaven !
can afford his daughter a capacity; and I beg she may have
one immediately, cost what it may."

Acerbi, one of Garibaldi's former chiefs, has just
died at Florence. He was the commander of the bands in
Viterbo, but his exploits were chiefly confined to plunder-
' 'ng the villages, and annexing the military chest. He fell
Into discredit with his party, and retired into private life.
Another Garibaldian, who is highly respected by all parties,
Giovanni Cavioli, is reported by the Florentine papers to
be dying, in consequence of an old wound received at the
time of the invasion of Sicily, when his brother Enrico was
killed. Giovanni and Benedetto, the deputy, are the last
of the seven brothers Cavioli, five of whom have sacrificed
their lives in the cause of Italian unity.
AN OLD BLIND WOMAN RECEIVING lIEIt
A strange story has got abroad in Edinburgh recently in
regard to an aged female pauper in the St. Cuthbert's
Poorhouse. The woman has been an inmate of the
poorhouse for a good many years, and in addi-
tion to her other misfortunes, she had that c f
being afflicted with blindness. Not long ago she was
attacked with a very violent pain, such as the medical
officers could not understand, much less relieve.
It lasted for the whole of the night and part of the
following day, and was described as of such a nature that
it threatened to " tear her eyes out." At last it
reached a height; the poor woman for a time was left in a
state of semi-prostration ; but, to her delight, as soon as
the pain had passed off, she found that her eyesight had
been restored: One can imagine the astonishment of ono
of the officers when, shaking him heartily by the hand, she
said, " I have often shaken hands with you before ; I have
sften heard your voice and spoken to you ; but never have
I seen your face till this morning !" This ease, I believe,
has caused some astonishment among the members of the
medical profession in tho city.—Edidurgh Corresponded
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