The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-09 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE HEBB LE BflooK.—Vice-Chancellor Malins on
Thursday gave judgment in the case of " The Attorney-
General v. the Mayor and Corporation of Halifax."
The information was filed at the relation of
Messrs. Holdsworth, worsted manufacturers, to re-
strain the corporation from pouring the sewage of the
borough into the Hebble brook, to the injury of the
public health. The main sewer discharges itself into the
Hebble about 160 yards above Messrs. Holdsworth's mills,
and it was stated that the brook had become a public
nuisance besides injuring the property of the plaintiffs. For
the defence it was- argued that the poisonous state of the
river was mainly due to manufacturing refuse. The
Vice• Chancellor held that the plaintiffs were entitled to
an injunction against any new communications with
the existing outfalls, and an injunction from and
after June 1870 against pouring out sewage by
the present outfalls in an unpurified state. The plaintiffs
must have the costs of the suit and the information. His
Honour said that he believed the corporation would in
time be able to remedy the c•ii!s complained of, so as to
prevent the Hebble from being a nuisance, though it
might never be a potable stream.

A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.—In the Court of Common.
Pleas, on Thursday, Messrs. Tait, the eminent army
contractors, of London, sued Messrs Laing and Twine,
cloth manufacturers, of Hawick and Peebles, for breach
of a contract to supply the plaintiffs with a large quantity
of black tartan cloth, to enable them to' complete a con-
tract with the War Office. It was agreed that the verdict,
if found for the plaintiffs, should be entered for £3OO
damages. Verdict for the plaintiffs.
BREACH or PROMISE. —At Guildhall, on Wednesday, an
inquiry was held before Mr. Secondary Potter and a special
jury to assess the damages in an action brought in one of
the superior courts for a breach of promise of marriage. The
plaintiff is MissWoodley, daughter of an English merchant,
Consul at Patras, in Greece; the defendant, Mr. Pickburn,
a surgeon, a son of the proprietor of the Clerkenwell News..
The engagement was made in Greece during the defen-
dant's travels ; but some time after his return home he
broke off the engagement, on the ground that his income-
was insufficient. Defendant had left England for Australia.
His counsel addressed._ the jury, pleading his youth, and
the Secondary, having summed up, the jury assessed the
damages at £650.

Colonel Forester's moion relative to the options.
selling races has been postponed to tie Second October
Meeting of tLe Jockey Club.

DRIVING.—A witness who had been cautioned
to give a precise answer to every question, and not talk
about what he might think the question meant, was
interrogated as follows :—" You drive a waggon ?" "No,
sir, I do not." —" Why, sir, did you not tell my learned
friend so this moment ?" "No, sir, I did not."—" Now,
sir, I put it to yon on your oath, do you not drive a
waggon?" " No, sir."— " What is your occupation,
then r " I drive a horse, sir."

The English Independent says:—" It is no longer
the special duty of Nonconformists or of the Liberation
Society to oppose the Peers' amendments. The result of
those amendment is simply to display the greed of the
Church, and to perpetuate the favouritism which it was
the very object of the bill to remove, and if possiYe to efface
its very remembrance. It now rests with the Liberal party
generally to raise afresh the cry of justice and equality for
Ireland, and we shall be disappointed if that cry is not raised
loudly during the next week. We already hear of prepara-
tions for meetings in the metropolis."

A curious case of threatened ejectment of a
Presbyterian minister has occurred at Ramsbottom, in
Lancashire. Forty years ago Mr. William Grant—one of the
" Brothers Cheeryble," of " Nicholas Nickleby"— built
and permanently endowed a church, of which Dr. Maclean
has been for many years minister. The nephew and heir
of Mr. Grant now intimates to Dr. Maclean that it is his
intention, as owner of the church, to terminate the doctor's
"emi loyment as pastor," and to withdraw the stipend of
which be has been in receipt "in respect of said employ-
ment." This trea' ment of Dr. Maclean as "a tame Levite,"
who can bo dismissed at three months' notice, is warmly
resented by the Lancashire Presbytery, and steps aro about
to be taken to resist the threat of ejectment.

LIE GREENLAND LADIES.—Women are here in
the trader's shop in abundance, most of them trying to ob-
tain goods on credit. Greenland women, as a rule, are
excessively bad housewives. Before marriage they aro
clean in their persons and attire, and everything that an
Arctic lover of right constituted mind could desire. But
once married, they sink into slatterns— careless of person,
house, and family, and negligent of the duties ex-
pected from every Greenlander's wife. There was a
great seal-hunter at Claushavn, called Timotheus David,
known, in one day, to have killed twenty-three seals and
one white whale. I saw him once bring some skins to
trade which were refuied on account of their being half
rotten. "What can I do?" the poor man man replied.
" She" (looking cautiously around)—" She won't look
after them." This man's wife, before marriage, was
the best tailoress in the settlement. Now she is a
dirty slattern, and will do nothing, not even make her
husLand's and children's clothes, nor even dress the skins,
as every Greenland wife is expected to-do. He is camped
on an island just off shore, and leas come for a woman to
dress the skins, fur which service he must of course pay
her, while his lazy wire looks on. Yet the tin.
fortunate wight cannot, as in the old times of Tournour-
soak and the heathen Angekoks, send his worthless wife
about her business, because the Lutheran Church, which
he has adopted, does not allow of such a proceeding ; and
if he gives her a good caning (as she richly deserves),
or even speaks crossly to her, then she will inform the
" proester" when he comes round, and the poor man will
be read a long lecture upon the iniquity of his ways, and
for ever there will settle upon him the priestly scowl, as
he is pointed out as a vicious creature, an example unto
all refractory seal-catchers.—From "Friends ixtl4
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