The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-23 00:00:00

A MAD IVOLF.

An extraordinary story of a mad wolf in Lithuania was
published in a recent number of the Cologne Gazette. The
wolf was first seen ono evening last month in a field near
a village called Pocie. He sprang, so runs the story, into
the field out of an adjoining wood, and in an instant tore
to pieces a woman who was working there at the time.
Her companions fled to the village for assistance, but when
they returned with their husbands and brothers the wolf
had disappeared, leaving on the ground the bleeding body
of his victim. A guard of six well-armed peasants was
then set over the corpse. These lit a fire, and seated them-
selves round it, one of them only marching to and fro as
a sentinel. In a few hours the wolf again made
his appearance, and fiercely attacked the peasants,
killing two of them and putting the rest to flight. He next
ran into the villages of Pocie and Ptorani, broke into the
houses, wounded the people in them, and then entered a farm
where there was a number of horses, ten of which he killed.
Some of the stablemen now rushed forward to seize him,
but he broke through them, severely wounding three of
their number, and, after committing similar ravages in two
other villages, disappeared in the nearest wood. The peasants
who saw the animal declare that he must have been mad, as
ho foamed at the mouth, and did not euck the blood or eat
the flesh of his victims. Next morning all the able-bodied
men in the district turned out to hunt the wolf. He was
caught iu the wood where ho had taken refuge by a peasant,
who seized him by the throat while his companions beat him
to death with their sticks.

THE TAMWORTH ELECTION PETITIOA.

In the Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. Giffard, Q.C..
showed cause against a rule which had been obtained
in the case of " Regina v. The Mayor and Corpora-
tion of Tamworth." In the month of January a petition
against the return of one of the members for Tamworth
(Sir Robert Peel, Bart.), having been presented,
the mayor was required by the Commissioners of the
Treasury to make a proper arrangement for the reception
of the Judge who went down to hold a Court
of Inquiry as to alleged improper practices prevalent
at the parliamentary election of Sir Robert Peel, the
borough constituent. It appears that there was no
adequate building for the purposes of the court, the
building being in a most dilapidated state, and
that it would take a largo amount to put
it in order. An official from the Treasury
attended to ask if £25 would be a sufficient sum for the
necessary repairs, and the reply was "No." His Worship
VMS then informed by the said official that if he did
not provide suitable and proper accommodation
in the way of a court-house for her Majesty's
judges on the occasion of their coming to Tam-
worth to hold the court in question, he (his Worship)
would be liable to fine and imprisonment. (A laugh) On
receiving this intimation, his worship counselled with his
neighbour, the Mayor of Lichfield, as to the proper expenses
to be incurred in giving the judge a proper reception on
his arrival in the town. Mr. B. Clarkson, a builder, of Tam-
worth, was employed to put the Town Hall into what was
considered the necessary repair, providing extra poles, &c.
and the expenses incurred (f.,250) now formed the subject in
dispute. After hearing the arguments at considerable length,
at the suggestion of the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. M`Namara
consented to the withdrawal of certain items of expenses
charged by the Mayor for furnishing the Town Hall for
the reception of the judge, which would reduce this sum
by £64 as charged to the borough fund. On that
condition, his lordship said, the rule would be discharged.
Otherwise it would be made absolute to bring up the
certi,rari applied for.—Mr. Hill, for the rule, applied for
costs, which the Lord Chief Justice refused, observing that
the action against the mayor was a shabby proceeding.