The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-26 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

SINGULAR CHARGE.—At the Middlesex Sessions, on
Wednesday, the extraordinary charge against a medical
galvanist, named Brooke, was investigated. It will Le
remembered that the defendant was accused of violently
beating his little daughter, two Sears old, and galvanising
her. The principal witness against the doctor was Lydia
Dawes, a young woman who had been in his service, but
who left on bad terms with her master and mistress. The
testimony of persons living in the house was, however,
in the prisoner's favour, and a physician who gave
evidence explained that tl.e galvanising apparatus a (add
produce marks like bruises. Persons who had been gal-
vanised by Mr. Brooke for various complaints gave Similar
evidence, and said they Lad experienced great relief from
his treatment. The judge held that there was no ease
against the prisoner, but said he had nut interfered eavlkr
to allow the defendant the opportunity of vindicating his
character. A verdict of not guilty was recorded, ane, in
answ.m to a question front the counsel for the prosecution,
the judge (Mr. Serjeant Cox) said he did not think the
case was one which should have been prosecuted.
THE EMBEZZLEMENT OF £l,soo.—At the Middlesex
Sessions, on Wednesday, Arthur Johnson, who was charged
with embezzlement at the last July sessions, and remanded
in order that he might give information to the prosecutor,
was brought up for judgment. The prosecutor is a wax
chandler at the West-end, and the prisoner, who had been
in his service about seven years, had embezzled sums
amounting to nearly .£1,500. He expressed great regret,
and said he had given all the - information in his power,
but restitution was impossible, as he had spent all the
money. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude
and appeared to feel his position acutely.

AN HABITUAL CanitNAL.7-At the Thames Police-court,
a woman named Hannah San Sauter was charged with
breaking four panes of glass, with being drunk, and with
attempting to commit suicide. It seems the prisoner has
been in custody upwards of 200 times during the last ten
:rears, but cannot be brought within the provisions of the
Habitual Criminals Act. A constable said she had been
in custody twenty-one times since August 1867, and in
the last two years she had received 219 days' imprison-
ment and bard labour ou twenty summary convic-
tions. She had so often attempted to commit
suicide that they could not leave her alone
a moment, and the attendances of the doctors
upon her figured heavily in the police expenses. The
magistrates committed her for trial.

MISS RIVERS AGAIN. —On Wednesday, Miss Louisa
Rivers, daughter of the late Sir H. Rivers, Bart., was
charged at the Winchester Petty Sessions with knocking
down a little girl. Miss Rivers, who is a middle•aged
lady, has previously been charged with similar assaults on
the highway. The bench decided upon remanding her
in order that further inquiry might be made.

SERIOUS .CHARGE OF ARSON.—Jobn Downes, a draper,
at Sonthsea, was charged on Wednesday, at the Ports-
mouth Borough Police-court, with setting fire to the pre-
mises in his occupation that morning. A policeman saw
the prisoner in his shop when the alarm of fire was raised,
about•five a.m., and found fire in a drawer in the counter
containing paper. Several articles about the shop were on
tire, with nothing to account for it. The prisoner was
remanded, and bail refused.

THE ROYAL IRISH AGRICULTURAL Snow.—The
Royal Agricultural Society's Show was opened at Tralee
on Wednesday. The exhibition of stock was rather
limited in extent. The Challenge Cup for short-horned
bulls- was won by Mr. Challoner, of Meath ; for heifers,
by Mr. Bolton, of Wexford ; for sheep, by Mr. Maria, of
Inceby, Lincolnshire. The Lord-Lieutenant and Countess
Spencer visited the show at one o'clock, and were received
with great enthusiasm by the people. An address Ira
presented on behalf of the Town Commissioners.

DE. VAUGHAN. For some years past Dr.
Vaughan has allowed those reading fur orders to work
under him at Doncaster, in order chiefly that they might
gab, some insight into the practical work of a parish
Ty.evious to ordination. Ile wished, before leaving Don-
caster, once more to assemble around hint those who
bad availed themselves of this privilege. For this
epose be invited them to a farewell meeting on
Tuefelay and Wednesday, and, on t of 120, 103 availed them-
selvea of his invitation. There were clergy front almost
every diocese in England, including even the distant one of
Exeter. The proceedings commenced on Tuesday with a
dinner given by the Vicar in his new national schools, to
the erection of which he had largely contributed out of the
proceeds of some of his writings. At eight o'clock the clergy
proceeded in their surplices, headed by the choir and the
churchwardens, to the parish church, where an impressive
Hermon was preached to a large congregation by Dr.
-Vaughan, f rom 1 Peter, v.l: "The elders that are among you
I exhort, who am also an elder." In the course of his sermon
he touchingly alluded to the close of his nine years' work at
Doncaster and to the affectionate sympathy which his
approaching departure had called forth from all classes.
The following morning the llolY Communion was ad-
ministered at three o'clock. At nine there was breakfast
in the National Schools, and at noon Dr. Vaughau
delivered a farewell address to the assembled clergy, ex-
porting them to be simple, sensible, persevering, devout,
and afireotionate to their fellowabourers.