The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-26 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

SEIWRE OF SHEEP.—Mr. John Clarke, ofEstcot, DEM*.
sex, was summoned before the Brentford magistrates for
sending diseased sheep to Southall market. The inspectors
seized forty sheep, believing them to be affected with a;
contagious disease, but some veterinary surgeons of con:
sidcrable experience gave evidence to a contrary effect.
The chairman said the Bench could not convict after such
evidence, and the summons Was dismissed. Mr. Clarke
complained that his sheep were not worth so much by £2O
as they were before they were seized.

FORGERY ON A SAVINGS BANK.—Joseph Addleton and
Sarah Wood, charged at Birmingham with having obtained
£27 from the Post-office Savings Bank by means of a
forged order, have been committed for trial.

LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIES.—A case of some
interest to travellers has been heard at the Liverpool
County. Court. A solicitor, named Christian, brought an
action against the Lancashire and Ycrkshire Railway
Company to recover L 25, the value of articles lost on
the line. His wife and daughter returned by rail
from an evening party in Liverpool, bringing their
dresses and ornaments in a box. The porter would not
allow them to take the box in the carriage but said it must
be put in the goods' van. Mrs. Christain objected, as it
was insecurely fastened, but the porter undertook to cord
it, and it was removed. When they arrived at Southpors
the box was missing, and had not since been heard of. The.
defence was that the plaintiff could not claim more than
£l3 as no special declaration had been made to the com-
pany. His Honcur ruled that he could only allow tho
plaintiff to recover for such articles as were really neces-
saries for passengers, and a verdict was given for £2 125.6 d.
The judgment will be appealed against.
ANOTHER POACLIDTO AFFRAY.—A curious affray with
poachers has occurred at Stoughton, near Leicester, is
which two men employed to watch the preserves of Mr.
Powys were seriously injured. The two ringleaders of the
poaching party were secured and brought before a magi-
strate at Leicester. They were remanded. As it is the
third case of the kind in the district within three weeks, it
is expected that they will be committed for trial on the
more serious charge.
TUB SOrTII-WESTEILN RAILWAY.—At the Hampton
Petty Sessions Percy Dando was charged with a series of
frauds on the London and South-Western Railway Com-
pany, He had travelled first-class from Waterloo io
Twickenham, and second-class to Staines, without paying
his fare, and also from Ashford to Richmond on another
occasion. He was fined 40s. on each of the three cases,
and costs amounting to 38s. in all. The magistrate com-
mented severely on his conduct. He was taken back to
the police station, as there were other charges of fraud
against him.

The Indians in Dakota are said to be so demoralised
by the introduction of whisky that more troops have been
asked for to keep them in order.

A large meeting of Mormons was held at the
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City on Saturday, at which a
memorial to Congress was adopted asking to be admitted
into the Union as a State. Utah now claims a population
of 15 ),000.

DEANERY OF DURHAM.—TIie letters patent pre-
Golfing the Rev. W. C. Lake, D.D. (the new dean), passed
the Great Seal of England on the ith September last. Dr.
Lake has since been instituted by the Bishop of Durham
and formerly installed in the decanal chair by the Chapter
of Durham. The new dean preached his first sermon in the
cathedral, and before the University of Durham on Sun-
day last. He went into residence before the commenec-
ment of the :October Term. He is, by virtue of his office,
Warden of the University.

SHOCKING DEATH AT NEwcAsTLE.—On Monday
morning a shocking accident happened at the Trafalgar
Goods Station of the North-Eastern Railway Company,
Newcastle, by which a man named James Drummond
was killed instantly. The deceased was employed as a
ch •ck-taker, on the benches inside the goods station. About
twenty-five minutes past eleven o'clock on Monday morning
while some men were engaged in turning a loaded waggon
on the turn-tables outside the Central Station,the deceased,
by some means or other, was crushed between two wag
gons, and killed on the spot. The deceased was about 40
years of age. He was a widower, and on Sunday last buried
his eldest daughter.

A 11,031 ANTIC STORY.—SOIIIO time ago a young
man was received, by the express order of his Majesty the
King of Prussia, as candidate for an ensign's commission
into the 2nd company of the Ist Battalion of the 9th Regi
ment, in Stargard, the same company in which his grand
mother had served as a subaltern officer during the war of
liberation against the French, and bravely won the Iror
Cress and the Russian Order of St. George. This lady
who was called Augusta Frederiea KrUger, was a native
of Friedland, in Mecklenburg ; and nut content witl
°tiding, like many ether of her cc•untrywomen, he]
trinkets and hay fluwing locks on the altar of patriotism,
sly.; entor;:d the ranks as a volunt-er, under the name
cf " Liibeck," and distini;lied. herself by her in-
trepi,lity on many a hard-f„ught field. On the are
of October, 1315, she received her discharge, and he]
services were mentioned in this document in the mos'
flettering terms. In January, 1316, being present
in the garments cf her sex, at the festival of the Orde,
of the Iron Cross, held at Berlin, she attracted the
attention of an under officer of Lancers, called Carl Kohler
to whom she was married in the garrison church of BeAir
on the sth of March of the same year. The church on thi
occasion was densely packed with spectat, all anxious
to witness the marriage. v: ere on her breas
the orders she had so hcnourably won, which, with he.
ital.., still rather short for a woman, wore the only indica,
tic= of her former military CAITOI'.

THE .REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH WARK.

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A good deal of excitement prevailed in Southwark on
Monday morning in consequence of the announcement that
Mr Layard is about to retire from the representation of
the borough. Meetings of the leading members of the
Liberal party will be immediately held, and
arrangements made, if possible, for sending a
powerful requisition to some gentleman to be
named, so that the interest may not be divided.
Already, however, there are active preparations amongst
various sections of electors on behalf of special candi-
dates, and amongst those whose names are most
prof—inently announced are Mr. Stuart Mill, Mr
Beales, Sir F. Lycett, and Mr. Bernal Osborne.
The " Liberal-Conservative" party, it is said, will
start Mr. Alderman Cotton, who was a candidate at
the last general election, when the numbers stood as fol-
lows :—Mr. Locke, 6,027; Right Hon. H. A. Layard,s,9oB;
Alderman Cotton, 2,495.