The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-12 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A CABMAN IN TROUBLE.-At the Westminster Polico
court, on Thursday, the driver of a hansom cab was sum•
moned by the Lord Mayor of Dublin for misbehaviour.
His lordship hired the cab in the Strand, telling- the drivel
to go by a particular route to Brompton. The cabman
went by a different road, and when near Buckinghan
Palace, where there was a great crowd, the horse bolted.
overturned the cab, and threw his lordship out. The
defence was, that the noise of the traffic in the Strand pre.
vented the cabman from hearing Sir William Carroll't
directions, and and the accident was due to a failure of the
springs. The case was adjojirned.
THE " LONG FIRM."—At the Manchester Assizes, on
Wednesday, Lee and Little, the members of the " Long
Firm," received sentence. Lee was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment, and little to twelve months'.
TWENTY YEARS.-At Northampton, on the 10th, a
respectable man, tamed Bridgewater, was sentenced to
twenty years' penal servitude for shooting a police-
constable, who died in consequence. No motive existed
for the murder, but the prisoner was suffering under
delirium tremens.

CRUELTY TO ANIDIALS.-At Portsmouth, Robert Stride,
a cowkeeper, was charged with cruelly ill-treating four
cows and a calf by keepeing them without sufficient food.
The case was one of great cruelty, the animals being
found literally starving to death. The defendant was
sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

ATTACK ON A BAILIFF.--At Bishop Auckland, a day or
two since, two women were charged with assaulting Mr.
Pigg, a county-court bailiff and auctioneer. He went to,
levy an execution at the house of a man named Cavanagh,
when his wife and her sister attacked him with a poker,
and recovered some of the goods taken. They were fined
£2 each.

The liamsphirc Telegraph states that a detach-•
ment of the Royal Artillery are engaged in dismantling
the castle at Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, previous to
being sold.

The New York papers announce that the
British and American Joint Commission, which has been
deliberating for some years past on the claims of the
Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies
against the United States, is again sitting, in Wash
ington.
The Eecrt tary of a burial society at Lancaster has
absconded, after having defrauded the .members of a largo
amount by returning persons as dead who were still alive,
and thu, obtaining the funeral donation paid on the death of
a member. The society, which met at a public-house, with
the landlady es treasurer, had 4,000 or 5,000 memberJ, and
during the last fifteen months the defaulting secretary has,
Fo far as is at present known, r,caived £137 by his fraudu-
lent o-pros-ntation.z.
A COOL HAND.—A lady, who advertised one
day this week, in a morning newspaper, for a housemaid,
states that the first letter she opened was to the following
effect :—" Mrs. C. D. presents her compliments to A. 8.,
end will thank her, when she has obtained a suitable ser-
vant, to forward the other letters to the enclosed address,
Mrs. C. D. being in want of a servant."
DEATH or SIR JOHN P. BOILEAU.—WC have to
record the death of Sir John Peter Boileau, at Torquay.
Ile was born on the 2nd of September, 1794, and married,
on the 14th of November, 1825, Lady Catherine -Sarah
Elliot, third daughter of Gilbert, first Earl of Minto. He
was created a baronet in July, 18;l8, and filled the office
of high sheriff of Norfolk in 1&14. Sir John had been
a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1543, and was vice.
President of the Society of Antiquaries. He is succeeded
ill the baronetcy by his eldest surviving son, Fraud
Geo= Manninaharo.