The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

AN ANGLo-INDIAN OFFICIAL—Thomas Nash Turnbull,
an overseer in the Forest Department at Wynad, in the
Presidency of Madras, has been brought up at Bow-street
on the remanded charge of embezzling various sums
amounting to £3,431, the property of the Indian Govern-
ment. Mr. Vaughan said he had read over the depositions,
and had come to the conclusion:that the prima facie case
was completely established. He should, therefore, commit
the prisoner for trial, and he must remain in prison until
be could be sent to that part of her Majesty's dominions
where the offence was committed.

A THOROUGH DRAUGHT.-A young man, named Ayres,
was charged with refusing to work in St. Luke's Work-
house, Chelsea. He came into the casual ward, rccoiving
his supper, bed, and breakfast, and was set the
usual task of oakum-picking. He picked a little,
Ind then began smoking, and refused to do more.
Defendant said that he had picked part of his oakum
when
_the superintendent threw open the doors of the
shed, and exposed him to a thorough draught. The magis-
trate said that was to let the smoke out, whereupon the
%mused indignantly asked if a " free-born Englishman was
lot to smoke tobacco which he had bought himself, in a
workhouse yard?" If so, he thought the sooner he was
)ut of the country the better. He was committed for
seven days.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN A

FARMER.

C. Gargory, M.R.C.S., writes to the Lancet:—"l was
Sent for one day last week to see a farmer, who has had a
large amount of foot and mouth disease among his cattle,
and has himself constantly administered remedies to them,
and in drenching them has had to hold their tongues. I
found him suffering from an eruption on the hands, having
the appearance of small blisters similar to those caused by
rowing or other hard work; his tongue was swollen, and
there were three slightly raised white patches on it, about
the size of a small horse-bean, surrounded by a • narrow
margin of red ; on the roof of the mouth there was a similar
oatch. He complained of lowness of spirits, and described
himself as feeling altogether out of sorts; he also said that
his feet felt tender and sore. I think this a case of foot
tnd mouth disease, produced by his hands coming in contact
with the tongues of the animals."

An Oxford correspondent telegraphs :--A telegram
las been received at St. John's College announcing the dis-
•overy of the dead body of Mr. 11. R. Band, 8.A., and scholar
A that society, on the railway near Newark. Ono of his
:ollege friends immediately proceeded there, but particulars
Are rot 3 et known at Oxford.

An important discovery has been ma& in Kansas.
4 vein of excellent coal, extending northward, has been
struck on the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, east of
)enver. This chews that the workable coal-beds of the
Cocky Mountain base extend miles eastward in the great
Aldus.

Some perplexity has been occasioned by the appli-
mtion of the term Valid to one of the Sultanas at Con-
stantinople, on the occasion of the Empress Eugenie's visit.
the wife who first gives birth a to son is proclaimed Grand
sultana or Azachi Sultana, and is solemnly crowned with
small gold diadem enriched with precious stones. lithe
prince thus born ascends the throne, then his mother takes
the title of Sultana Valide.

THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.—We are in a
Josition to state that the payment of the £300,000 by
Ilana.da to the Ruction's Bay Company will be made on or
*iefore the Ist of December next, as on that day the north-
.rest territory will be included by proclamation as part of
the Dominion. The money will probably be immediately
•wised by a loan on the market under the Imperial
guarantee, or, failing this, the hon. "Mr. Rose is authorised
~o make other arrangements, so that the money under
my circumstances may be handed over to the Company
before the Ist of December next.--Canadian News.

A. story is told of the late storm in Maine, which
sffords an amusing instance of the relative value which
an old "gent " set upon his wife, pig, and colt. He waded
through the flood which surrounded his house, and
lamented his situation in this wise :--" Oh! if I only had
my wife here I wouldn't valley giving five dollars! And
there's the pig ! I'd give ten dollars this minnit if he was
only safe ! The spotted colt's gone too ! I'd go two dollars
more if she was ashore!' The old lady was safely carried
to dry land by some neighbours, but her husband's grief
for the loss of the colt and pig was too great to be as-
suaged,and he passed the remainder of the night lamenting
`heir loss.

A. LADY UPON LAWYERS.—The Montgomery
( Uabania) Advertiser says :—" One day last week a novel
^ase was tried in the court-house at Greenville. Judge
M. C. Lane brought a suit against Miss Josephine Hutton
for a fee. The lady appeared in court, pleaded her own
lase, examined witnesses, and made a long speech to the
jury. Her reason for appearing was that she did not
believe an honest lawyer was to be found in the country.
She said, among other things, that if an earthquake was to
come, and the clouds were to fall, she believed the first
thing thought of by the lawyers would be the collection of
their fees, preparatory to entering upon that long journey
in search of a future home, deep down in the dominions of
his Satanic Majesty, whither they were all slowly but sir'
tending."

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUN 'CATION . e understand,
• ays a contemporary, that at the commencement of the
year, on the Government taking over the telegraph;
the public is to be benefittod by the choice of having
their messages transmitted in cypher. This will be a
very great boon to the commercial public, as in the present
and the past complaints have been numerous against the
publicity given to telegrams. The system which the Post-
master-General has already sanctioned for public use consists
in a numerical code applied to and embracing the entire
English language. In order to transmit a message by
this code it is necessary only as far as the telegraph
employer is concerned to telegraph a number of groups of
figures. Oftentimes in one of these groups a whole mes-
sage is contained, and in body they never exceed more than
five figures, which, taking each figure as a letter, represents
the meaning of the words in the English language.

LIVINGSTONE.—A letter was on Tuesday
October 5, received in Bombay by Government from Dr
Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, dated September
7, 1860, in which he states that he has received a letter
from Dr. Livingstone, o.ated Bangweloo, July 8, 1863
In that letter Dr. Livingstone says:—" I may say I
:lave found what I believe to be the sources of the
Nile, between 10 degrees and 12 degrees south, or
nearly the position assigned to them by Ptolemy." The
sources of the river appear from the letter to consist
of a number of largo lakes, and Dr. Kirk, in writing of
these lakes, says they are "probably ten days' march in
length, and, like the Nyassa Tanganyika and the Albert
Nyanza, overhung by high mountain slopes, which open
out in bays and valleys." This description of the appear
ance of the lakes and mountains appears to have been
obtained from the Arab traders who brought the Doctoi's
letter to Zanzibar: - Dr. Livingtone was in good health
and spirits when le wrote_ this letter from Is,pgvreloo.
Bombau Gazette.