The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-23 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE Pim= Mans.—ln the Court of Chancery, on
Tuesday, the Lords Justices heard an appeal from Vice-
Chancellor-James, relative to the Phcenix Mills, near
Wakefield. The company of Joseph Horner and
Sons (Limited), purchased the business of Messm
josepli Horner and Sons in March 1E66, by a contract
with Mr. Richard Horner, the vendor, the property being
valued at £25,000. Mr. Richard Horner was to receive
part of the purchase money in 500 shares. The company
was wound up, and after some litigation between the par-
ties, the Vice-Chancellor ordered the purchase to be set
aside, and declared the 500 shares subscribed for by
Mr. Horner to be contributory shares, on which be was
liable for £5,000. Mr. Horner appealed. The Lords
Justices, after deciding that the contract of purchase
could not stand, the valuation having been only super-
fcially made, held that as the contract was void, so it
must be reckoned that- nothing had been paid on the
shares for which Mr. Horner bad subscribed the memo-
randum of association, and he must, therefore, be held
liable as contributory. The appeal was refused, with
costs.

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. —ln the Court of
Common Pleas, on Tuesday, an action was brought by a
master plasterer to recover compensation for injuries
received on the Metropolitan Railway. The injuries
*ere not denied, and the counsel agreed to submit the
question of damages. to the decision of his lordship.—
Damages £l5O.
SHARP PRACTICE.—At Marlborough-street Police-court,
on Tuesday, a broker was summoned fur neglecting to
account for the proceeds of a distress. The complainant
owed Ils. 3d., and the defendant seized goods to the value
of £l5: He sent a claim for expenses also, which came to
three times the sum for which the dibtraillt had been put
ALL. Ale WaS Lin amount that the sale had
realised, minus the rent, with costs.
THE STRIKE AT WEARMOUTH COLLIERY.—At the Sun-
derland Police:court, on Tuesday, the case of the workmen
at Wearmouth Colliery came en for hearing. The court
was crowded to excess. The charge 'against one of the
defendants was gone into, and it havinz been shown
tnat ne had signed a contract, and broken it by absenting
himself from work, the magistrates ordered him to com-
ply with the bond, or, in default, One month's imprison-
ment. An application for appeal laving been made Le
magistrates look a furtnii,Lt to considerit

Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council,
to be held at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, Downing-street, on Saturday.

The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has
subscribed £lO to the memorial church which is about to
be erected at Cowley, near Oxford, to the memory of
Archbishop Longley ; the Bishop of St. Asaph gives
£250, and the present Archbishop gives £lO to the same
object. The incumbent of the parish is treasurer to the
fund, and donations may be paid into the Old Bank at
Oxford.

AGRARIAN OUTRAGE NEAR MuLLIN —Two
men have been arrested in Mullingar on suspicion
of being of the party who on Sunday afternoon, the 13th
inst., armed with heavy bludgeons, crossed Lough Owel
in a small boat, and, landing near the village of Ballinatid,
proceeded to a public-house kept by alfrs. M'Cormaclr,
where they entered and called for drink. After a little
time, and having ascertained that a servant man of Mrs.
M'Cormack's, named Wm. Russell, was at the neigh-
bouring village of Bunbruera, a couple of miles distant,
two of the party, strangers, left the house, and watched
their unfortunate victim until he got. some few hundred
yards from the village, when they suddenly pounced upon
him and beat him in a savage manner, inflicting severe
wounds on his head and other parts of his body. The
origin of the murderous outrage is that Russell assisted,
as far as in .his power, to describe the party who fired at
a man, named Cassidy, in October last, and whose life
was attempted for holding possession of a small portion of
land at Walshestown.

EXTRAORDINARY CONTRACTING FOR WORK.-
The system of contracting for work has just been pushed
to an extraordinary length in Leeds. A small society.
required some letterpress printing fOr an entertainment
about so be got up. Tenders for the work were asked for,
and several printers sent in their estimates. One, who
appeared determined to have the job, no matter at what
price, saved himself the trouble of calculating the cost by
offering to execute the required work at " 10 per cent. below
the lowest estimate!" The committee, to their honour lie
it said, declined to accept'this generous offer. They wrote
to the person who made the offer, and told him that he
must send in a given amount for the work. He did so.
His estimate was found ten per cent. higher than the
lowest of the other estimates! The inference is obvious.
The committee, by their very proper conduct, prevented
the printer from undertaking work by which he would
have lost, according to his own spewing, twenty percent. !
Leeds Eliciting Express.

SERIOD S VELOCIPEDE ACCIDENT. —A serious
accident has happened at Armathwaite, about twelve
miles south of Carlisle, to Mr. Whitehead, of Beechill,
Saddlewortb, near Oldham. In the afternoon Mr. White-
head arrived at Armathwaite Castle. After tea he went
out to practise a bicycle, in the use of which he was quite
a novice. He was in the act of propelling the machine
when his foot slipped off the crank and became entangled
with the lever by which the wheels are worked. The con-
sequences were very serious. Mr. Whitehead's leg was
violently doubled up, his ancle was dislocated, and some
broken bones protruded_ through the tie:b. Mr. White
head was removed to the Castle, and surgical assistance
was fetched from Carlisle. Accoi dirs. to the latest ac-
counts- the unfortunate gentleman is progressing favour.
ably.

Tug PC.BLIC HEALTH, —The rate of mortality in
London was 20 per 1,00 last week, rs compared with a
rate of 23 in 13 other lar;.;c towns of the United Kingdom.
in the metropolis 1,784 births and 1,236 deaths were
registered, the latter having been "less by ;':G than the
estimated nemher. The dtaths from zymotiO diseases
were 230, the corrected average number being
318. Three persons died from smallpox,

from measles, GO from scarlet fever, G 'rot/.
diphtheria, 93 from whooping - cough, 19 iom
typhus fever, 19 from enteric fever, 9 from simple
tinned fever, and 17 from diarrhoea. One hundred and
seventy-one deaths occurred from phthisis, (..;9 from bron-
chitis, and 59 from pneumonia. The correct average
number of deaths from phthisis is IGS, from bronchitis 77,
and from pneumonia 61. The mean temperature during
the week was 51'3, or more than seven degrees below
the average. Between the- highest day and the lowest
night temperature there was a rangiexceecling 33 degrees.